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AUGUST 2021

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Question Number 1 to 100 . 1

These are the set of current affairs of August 2021 in the form of Multiple-Choice Questions . Each Question has four options , out of which only one is the correct answer (option). For the convenient of the students the answers are marked after every question with a double tick. The option which is followed by the double tick (✓✓) is the correct answer to that particular question . Note: The Options marked with double Tick ( ✓✓) are the correct answer. ✓✓ SET 1 : QUESTION NUMBER 1 to 50 b. China c. Pakistan ✓✓ Q1. Ebrahim Raisi has become the new d. Afghanistan President of which country ? Q6. For the month of August 2021 , which a. Iran ✓✓ Asian Country is the President of the b. Israel United Nations Security Council (UNSC) c. Afghanistan ? d. Turkmenistan a. Russia Q2. Which is the first Indian city that have b. France completed 100% Vaccination against c. India ✓✓ COVID-19 ? d. Nepal a. Bahadurgarh Q7. Who has recently been re-appointed as the b. Greater Noida Prime Minister of Armenia ? c. Gurugram a. Nicol Pashinyan ✓✓ d. Bhubaneswar ✓✓ b. Robert Kocharyan Q3. Which is the highest mountain of Bhutan c. Armen Sarksyan ? d. Ilham Aliyev a. Gangkhar Punzum ✓✓ Q8. Power Grid Corporation of India has b. Kula Kangri commissioned ______c. Jomalhari transmission line successfully in Ladakh. d. Kanphu a. 10 km Q4. What is the name of the 25th Controller b. 20 km General of Accounts ? c. 30 km a. Shri Deepak Das ✓✓ d. 40 km ✓✓ b. Soma Roy Burman Q9. In which one of the following state, New c. G.C. Murmu central Sector for Industrial Development d. Karim Khan will be launched ? Q5. A country has recently finalised a Bill to a. Kerala award provisional provincial status to b. Madhya Pradesh strategically located Gilgit- Baltistan . c. Ladakh Which country is going to do so ? d. Jammu and Kashmir ✓✓ a. India

© Copyright alljobs.co.in Monthly Current Affairs 5 Q10. Which bank has signed an MoU with IIT Q17. LIC Cards Service and which other bank Bombay for extending exclusive facility has launched the credit cards named as to start-ups and MSMEs ? “Lumine” and “Eclat” ? a. SBI a. SBI b. RBI b. CBI c. CBI c. RBI d. Indian Bank ✓✓ d. IDBI ✓✓ Q11. E-Rupi Digital Payment Solution has Q18. Quad navy Malabar Exercise 2021 will be been launched by whom ? conducted in which Ocean ? a. Narendra Modi ✓✓ a. Indian Ocean b. Nitin Gadkari b. Pacific Ocean ✓✓ c. Amit Shah c. Arabian Sea d. Yogi Adityanath d. Atlantic Ocean Q12. Who among the following has won the Q19. Myanmar Military Chief has appointed Lokmanya Tilak National Award 2021 ? himself as interim Prime Minister of a. Dr. Cyrus Poonawalla ✓✓ Myanmar . What is his name ? b. S M Joshi a. Min Aung Hlaing ✓✓ c. Pranab Mukherjee b. Aung San Suu Kyi d. N R Narayana Murthy c. Maung Maung Kha Q13. Who is the new Director General of Police d. Saw Maung , Rajasthan ? Q20. Kuthiran Tunnel is in which state ? a. Sh. Ajit Singh a. Jammu and Kashmir b. Bhupendra Dak ✓✓ b. Uttarakhand c. M. L. Lathar c. Ladakh d. None of the Above d. Kerala ✓✓ Q14. Which state government of India has Q21. World Bank has released a report on recently decided to create a river Remittances in 2020 . According to this management authority for the Protection report , which one of the following of rivers ? countries has received the highest a. Assam remittances in 2020 ? b. Uttarakhand a. Russia c. Himachal Pradesh b. Israel d. Kerala ✓✓ c. Iran Q15. Who is the author of the Book “ The India d. India ✓✓ Story” ? Q22. Who is the 26th Air Chief Air Marshal of a. Ruskin Bond India ? b. Salman Rushdie a. Rakesh Kumar Singh c. Anita Desai Bhadauriya ✓✓ d. Bimal Jalan ✓✓ b. Arun Raha Q16. Which heritage site of India has recently c. Birender Singh Dhanoa been included in UNESCO List ? d. Fali Homi Major a. Taj Mahal Q23. TRIFED has celebrated its 34th b. Ajanta and Allora Caves establishment day on which date ? c. Dholavira: A Harappan City ✓✓ a. 5 August d. Jaipur : The Pink City b. 6 August ✓✓

© Copyright alljobs.co.in Monthly Current Affairs 6 c. 7 August a. 1988 d. 8 August b. 1989 Q24. Ravi Kumar Dahiya has recently won c. 1987 ✓✓ which medal in the Tokyo Olympics 2020 d. 2001 ? Q31. What is the name of the scheme whose a. Gold Medal continuation has been approved by the b. Silver Medal ✓✓ cabinet for school education from 1st April c. Bronze Medal 2021 to 31st March 2026 ? d. Diamond Medal a. Samagra Shiksha Scheme ✓✓ Q25. What is the name of India’s first b. Education Development Indigenous aircraft carrier ? c. Bal shiksha scheme a. INS Vikrant ✓✓ d. Sarv shiksha abhiyaan b. INS Vikram Aditya Q32. “Pani Maah” campaign has been launched c. INS Virat in which state ? d. INS Chakra a. Goa Q26. Which one of the following countries has b. Jammu and Kashmir received the UK’s 2020 Brunel Medal c. Ladakh ✓✓ Mangdechhu hydroelectric project for d. Sikkim excellence in civil engineering ? Q33. Lovlina Borhohain (Indian Boxer, a. India Assam) has recently won which medal in b. Bhutan ✓✓ the Tokyo Olympics 2020 ? c. Sri Lanka a. GOLD d. Nepal b. SILVER Q27. Which is the first state in India to launch c. BRONZE ✓✓ the earthquake alert mobile application ? d. DIAMOND a. Assam Q34. Which state government has decided to b. Himachal Pradesh make beggars job oriented by training c. Sikkim them ? d. Uttarakhand ✓✓ a. Rajasthan ✓✓ Q28. Which is the fifth country to sign ISA b. Haryana Framework Agreement ? c. West Bengal a. Russia d. Sikkim b. Australia Q35. What is the percentage of GDP Growth c. Nepal rate that has been estimated by RBI for d. Germany ✓✓ financial year 2021 ? Q29. Which one of the following country has a. 9.5 % ✓✓ recently banned the sunscreens b. 10 % comprising of Chemical that damage c. 15 % coral from all of its marine national parks d. 16 % ? Q36. India’s first biobank for heart failure a. India research has been inaugurated at which b. Myanmar institute ? c. Thailand ✓✓ a. IIT Jammu d. South Africa b. IIT Delhi Q30. TRIFED was founded in which year ? c. AIMS Delhi

© Copyright alljobs.co.in Monthly Current Affairs 7 d. Sh. Chitra Tirunal Institute ✓✓ b. AXIS Bank Q37. Who is the new brand ambassador for c. IDBI bank MotoGP India ? d. Cooperative Robobank UA ✓✓ a. Sachin Tendulkar Q44. Prime Minster Narendra Modi has b. John Abraham ✓✓ recently set a target of becoming an c. Akshay Kumar “energy independent” country by which d. Rajnikant year ? Q38. Which is the first Indian player to win a a. 2026 medal in the IAAF Continental Cup ? b. 2039 a. Mirabai Chanu c. 2047 ✓✓ b. Ravi Kumar Dahiya d. 2056 c. Arpinder Singh ✓✓ Q45. The first consignment of five varieties of d. Sandeep Kumar apples has been exported to Bahrain from Q39. Who is the author of the book “ The which state of India ? Earthspinner” ? a. Haryana a. Anuradha Roy ✓✓ b. Himachal Pradesh ✓✓ b. Salman Rushdie c. Kerala c. Vikram Seth d. Jammu and Kashmir d. R K Narayan Q46. Recently, Skytrax’s list of top 100 Q40. Which country has become a member of airports has been released. How many the coalition for disaster resilient Indian airport have been included in this infrastructure ? list ? a. India a. 9 b. Nepal b. 6 c. Australia c. 5 d. Bangladesh ✓✓ d. 4 ✓✓ Q41. Who is going to be the new brand Q47. The total number of Ramsar sites in India ambassador of Department of Women have reached to ______? Empowerment and Child Development , a. 15 Uttarakhand ? b. 16 a. Vandana Kataria ✓✓ c. 30 b. PV Sindhu d. 46 ✓✓ c. Vinesh Phoughat Q48. India’s first cattle genomic chip d. Neeraj Chopra “IndiGau” has been recently release by Q42. Who is the author of the book “The whom ? Dream of Revolution : A Biography of a. Narendra Modi Jayaprakash Narayan” ? b. Dr Jitendra Singh ✓✓ a. Sundeep Basu c. Amit Shah b. Kaushik Basu d. Neeraj Chopra c. Ruskin Bond Q49. “My E Heart” Portal has been launched d. Sujata Prasad ✓✓ to empower artisans . Who launched it ? Q43. Reserve Bank of India has recently a. TCS inposted a penalty of Rs 1 Crore on b. TATA which bank ? c. HCL ✓✓ a. SBI d. Toyota

© Copyright alljobs.co.in Monthly Current Affairs 8 SET 2 : Questions Number 50 to 100 d. Hina Pervaiz Butt Q57. Which orbiter has detected water Q50. President Ramnath Kovind has approved molecules on the surface of the moon ? how many gallantry awards to the a. Artemis Mission personnel of armed forces , polices and b. Chandrayaan -3 paramilitary forces ? c. Chandrayaan -2 ✓✓ a. 130 d. Chandrayaan -1 b. 123 Q58. Which PSU has won the highest number c. 146 of the “Shram Award” ? d. 144 ✓✓ a. ONGC Q51. Delta Robot have been made by villagers b. Powergrid of which country ? c. SAIL ✓✓ a. India d. GAIL b. Indonesia ✓✓ Q59. In honour of which India’s first woman c. Nepal Satyagrahi did Google doodle on 16th d. Myanmar August ? Q52. Which state has topped in the category of a. Sarojini Naidu Northern Eastern states in the quality-of- b. Subhadra Kumari Chauhan ✓✓ Life index for the Elderly ? c. Both of Above a. Haryana d. None of Above b. Kerala Q60. Which country has successfully test-fired c. Assam a nuclear -capable surface to surface d. Rajasthan ✓✓ ballistic missile Ghaznavi ? Q53. Which state has made four new districts ? a. Iran a. Assam b. Iraq b. New Delhi c. Israel c. Chhattisgarh ✓✓ d. Pakistan ✓✓ d. Kerala Q61. Which space agency is building a new Q54. An e-study platform “TAPAS” has been telescope named as “ SuperBIT” ? launched by which ministry ? a. ISRO a. Ministry of Home Affairs b. JAXA b. Ministry of External Affair c. Roscosmos c. Education Ministry d. NASA ✓✓ d. Ministry of Social Justice ✓✓ Q62. Indonesia Independence Day is Q55. Gerd Muller passed away . He was celebrated on which date in Indonesia ? related to which sport ? a. 15 August a. Cricket b. 16 August b. Chess c. 17 August ✓✓ c. Football ✓✓ d. 18 August d. Tennis Q63. De Jure Transfer Day is observed on Q56. Who is the first women chief justice of which date in Puducherry ? Pakistan ? a. 15 August a. Ayesha Malik ✓✓ b. 16 August ✓✓ b. Ayla Malik c. 17 August c. Maryam Nawaz d. 18 August

© Copyright alljobs.co.in Monthly Current Affairs 9 Q64. World’s second largest National Gene b. Afghanistan ✓✓ Bank at NBPGR , Pusa New Delhi has c. Bhutan been inaugurated by whom ? d. Pakistan a. Piyush Goyal Q71. Naftali Bennett is the PM of which b. Narendra Modi country ? c. Yogi Adityanath a. Iran d. Narendra Singh Tomar ✓✓ b. Israel ✓✓ Q65. Who has been crowned the Miss India c. Afghanistan USA 2021 ? d. Iran a. Vaidehi Dongre ✓✓ Q72. How many more Handloom Design b. Manushi Chhillar Resource Centres are recently proposed c. Sushita Sen to be setup in India ? d. PV Sindhu a. 5 Q66. Muhyiddin Yasin has resigned from his b. 6 post after losing majority in Parliament . c. 8 He was PM of which country ? d. 10 ✓✓ a. Serbia Q73. Mahtri Dular Yojana has been launched b. Afghanistan in which state ? c. Iran a. Haryana d. Malaysia ✓✓ b. Kerala Q67. Cattle Protection bill 2021 has been c. Chhattisgarh ✓✓ passed by which state government of d. Tamil Nadu India ? Q74. Which country has recently imposed a a. Assam ✓✓ lockdown in the entire country due to b. Kerala new case of Covid 19 ? c. New Delhi a. India d. Tamil Nadu b. New Zealand ✓✓ Q68. Who has been appointed as the Vice c. Thailand Chief Naval staff ? d. China a. Vice Admiral S. N. Ghormade Q75. The name of India’s first and world’s ✓✓ largest cattle genomic chip is ______? b. Vice Admiral Ravneet Singh a. Indian Cow c. General Bikram Singh b. Indian Cattle d. General Bipin Rawat c. Gau mata Q69. Which university has been renamed as d. IndiGau ✓✓ Shakambhari University by the UP state Q76. Which is the first national park in India government ? to be equipped with satellite phones ? a. NIT Lucknow a. Kaziranga national Park ✓✓ b. Siddhartha University b. Balpakram National Park c. Saharanpur University ✓✓ c. Hot Spring National Park d. Lucknow University d. Valley of Flowers National Park Q70. E-Emergency X-misc Visa has been Q77. National Sports Day is observed on launched by Home Ministry of India to which date ? help the people of which country ? a. 20 August a. Nepal b. 21 August

© Copyright alljobs.co.in Monthly Current Affairs 10 c. 22 August Q84. Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Bhumihin d. 29 August ✓✓ Majdur Nyay Yojana has been launched Q78. Union External Affairs Minister Dr S by which state government ? Jaishankar will be presiding over two a. Haryana high level UNSC meetings in which city b. Kerala ? c. Tamil Nadu a. New Delhi d. Chhattisgarh ✓✓ b. Moscow Q85. Which Indian Naval Ship took part in the c. New York ✓✓ Exercise name as Konkan 2021 ? d. London a. INS Vikrant Q79. Which ministry has planned to setup b. INS Tabar ✓✓ “Van Dhan” producer companies in all c. INS Betwa the 27 states in the next five years ? d. INS Trikand a. Ministry of Home Affairs Q86. The United States has approved the sale b. Education Ministry of arms and ammunition to which c. Ministry of Tribal Affairs ✓✓ country for the first time to counter the d. Ministry of Labour and rising tensions with China ? Employment a. Nepal Q80. Which bank has signed an MoU with b. Bhutan Paralympics Committee of India to c. Japan support athletes ? d. Taiwan ✓✓ a. Axis Bank Q87. INS Kochi is going to take part in the b. Canara Bank four-day Maritime Partnership Exercise . c. Indian Bank ✓✓ This exercise is to be held in which d. RBI country ? Q81. Who is the new brand ambassador of a. Sri Lanka Amway India ? b. Serbia a. Neeraj Chopra c. Bahrain ✓✓ b. Ruskin Bond d. South Africa c. Virat Kohli Q88. Who flagged off the 1993 km long d. Mirabai Chanu ✓✓ Independence rally ‘Cyclothon 2021” ? Q82. Who is the President of the JIO MAMI a. Narendra Modi Film Festival ? b. S.S. Deswal ✓✓ a. Amitabh Bachchan c. Neeraj Chopra b. Neeraj Chopra d. Mira Bai Chanu c. Vidya Balan Q89. UNESCO has recently partnered with d. Priyanka Chopra ✓✓ which tech company to celebrate India’s Q83. Maki Kaji was the Godfather of Sudoku . rich cultural heritage ? He passed away recently . He belonged a. Telegram to which country ? b. WhatsApp a. Australia c. Yahoo b. Singapore d. Netflix ✓✓ c. Hong Kong Q90. Which state government has announced d. Japan ✓✓ to patronize the Indian Hockey team for the upcoming 10 years ?

© Copyright alljobs.co.in Monthly Current Affairs 11 a. Kerala World Archery Youth Championships b. Punjab 2021 ? c. Odisha ✓✓ a. Neeraj Chopra d. Chhattisgarh b. Komalika Bari ✓✓ Q91. “Defence India start-up Challenge 5.0” c. Pravin Jadhav has been launched by whom ? d. Deepika Kumari a. Rajnath Singh ✓✓ Q98. According to the House Fresh 50 “Most b. Amitabh Bachchan Polluted Cities” Report , which Indian c. Narendra Modi city is ranked as the most polluted city in d. Amit Shah the world 2020? Q92. World Humanitarian Day is Observed on a. Ghaziabad ✓✓ which date ? b. Noida a. 19 August ✓✓ c. Chennai b. 20 August d. Chandigarh c. 21 August Q99. National Health Volunteer Campaign has d. 22 August been launched by which state Q93. Which company/organization has test government? fired “Hindustan 228” Civil aircraft ? a. Assam a. ONGC b. New Delhi b. DRDO c. Uttar Pradesh ✓✓ c. Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd . ✓✓ d. Kerala d. ISRO Q100. World Photography Day is Observed on Q94. Smart Health Cards have been launched which date ? by which state government ? a. 19 August ✓✓ a. Odisha ✓✓ b. 20 August b. Haryana c. 21 August c. Assam d. 22 August d. Manipur

Q95. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced how many new Vande Bharat Trains will run soon ?

a. 45 b. 47 c. 75 ✓✓

d. 96 Q96. Which organization / Company has constituted a scientific advisory group

named as “SAGO”? a. IMF b. WHO ✓✓

c. UNSC d. UNESCO Q97. Who among the following has recently

won the Gold medal in the 16th Edition of

Question Number 101 to 200 . 2

These are the set of current affairs of August and July 2021 in the form of Multiple-Choice Questions . Each Question has four options , out of which only one is the correct answer (option). For the convenient of the students the answers are marked after every question with a double tick. The option which is followed by the double tick (✓✓) is the correct answer to that particular question . Note: The Options marked with double Tick ( ✓✓) are the correct answer. ✓✓

SET 1 : QUESTION NUMBER 1 to 50 a. Amit Shah b. Nitin Gadkari Q1. Who is the new brand ambassador of c. Narendra Modi Kauvery Group of Hospitals ? d. Piyush Goyal ✓✓ a. Virat Kohli Q6. Who is the new President of the b. Neeraj Chopra Institute of Economic Growth Society ? c. Mirabai Chanu a. N K Singh ✓✓ d. Mahendra Singh Dhoni ✓✓ b. Piyush Goyal Q2. India has undertook a bilateral c. Virendra Malhotra Maritime exercise in with which one of d. Zakir Husain the following country in the South Q7. World Humanitarian Day is Observed China Sea ? on Which Date ? a. South Korea a. 15 August b. Vietnam ✓✓ b. 16 August c. Sri Lanka c. 18 August d. Australia d. 19 August ✓✓ Q3. A new Cybersecurity Multi-Donor Q8. According to Global Crypto Adoption Trust Fund has been launched by which Index 2021, what is India’s rank in the organization ? terms of Crypto adoption in the world ? a. Union Ministry, India a. 2nd ✓✓ b. Ministry of Telecommunication, b. 7th India c. 8th c. World Bank ✓✓ d. 9th d. International Monetary Fund Q9. Which country has been completely Q4. World Photography Day is observed on occupied by the radical organization which day ? Taliban ? a. 15 August a. Pakistan b. 16 August b. Tajikistan c. 17 August c. Afghanistan ✓✓ d. 19 August ✓✓ d. Iran Q5. Recently, who chaired the 5th meetings of BRICS Industry Ministers ?

© Copyright alljobs.co.in Monthly Current Affairs 13 Q10. Recently, who has been honoured with Q17. Who has been appointed as the National Youth Award ? ambassador of Kerala Adventure a. Piyush Goyal Tourism by the Kerala Government ? b. Mirabai Chanu a. P R Sreejesh ✓✓ c. Mohammed Azam ✓✓ b. Piyush Goyal d. Anurag Thakur c. Mohammed Azam Q11. World Mosquito Day is observed on d. Vikram Malhotra which date ? Q18. Who is appointed as the secretary in a. 18 August Ministry of Information and b. 19 August Broadcasting ? c. 20 August ✓✓ a. Anurag Thakur d. 21 August b. Piyush Goyal Q12. What is the theme of the World c. Apurva Chandra ✓✓ Mosquito Day 2021 ? d. Mohammed Azam a. Reaching the Zero Malaria Q19. Who has launched the 2nd Phase of Target ✓✓ SAMVAD in Karnataka ? b. Medicine for Malaria Venture a. Narendra Modi c. Free from Malaria b. Yogi Adityanath d. 100% free from Malaria c. Smriti Irani ✓✓ Q13. Who is the 69th and the newest d. Dharmendra Pradhan Grandmaster in chess for India ? Q20. Which organization/Bank/Company a. Harshit Raja ✓✓ has launched the Financial Inclusion b. Viswanathan Anand Index ? c. GM Magnus Carlsen a. Central Bank of India d. Anish Giri b. International Monetary Fund Q14. Ballia Sacrifice Day is observed on c. Reserve Bank of India ✓✓ which date ? d. HDFC bank a. 15 August Q21. Which day is observed on 12 May to b. 18 August mark the birth anniversary of Florence c. 19 August ✓✓ Nightingale ? d. 22 August a. International Nurses Day ✓✓ Q15. Who is the author of the book “The b. World Humanitarian Day Dream of Revolution : A Biography of c. World Athletics Day Jayaprakash Narayan” ? d. Sanskrit Day a. Bimal Prasad Q22. Which week is being celebrated from b. Sujata Prasad 19th August to 25th August ? c. Both above ✓✓ a. Hindi Week d. None of Above b. Urdu Week Q16. Fruits Portal has been launched by c. Malaria Week which Bank ? d. Sanskrit Week ✓✓ a. Canara Bank Q23. Which organization or foundation has b. KBG Bank ✓✓ recently launched the portal named as c. IDBI Bank “My e-haat” for artisans ? d. RBI a. Ministry of Telecommunication b. Education Ministry

© Copyright alljobs.co.in Monthly Current Affairs 14 c. HCL Foundation ✓✓ c. Kerala d. TCS d. Karnataka ✓✓ Q24. Indian Akshay Urja day is celebrated on Q31. The usage of the word “Gorakh which date ? Dhanda” has been banned by which a. 19th August state government ? b. 20th August ✓✓ a. Haryana ✓✓ c. 21st August b. New Delhi d. 22nd August c. Punjab Q25. Country’s first smog tower has been d. Assam inaugurated in which state ? Q32. (Harmony Day) Sadbhavana Diwas is a. Haryana observed on which date ? b. New Delhi ✓✓ a. 19 August c. Kerala b. 20 August ✓✓ d. Tamil Nadu c. 21 August Q26. What is the theme of the World d. 22 August Humanitarian Day 2021 ? Q33. Nitin Chugh has recently resigned from a. The Human Race ✓✓ his post. He was the MD & CEO of b. Thank You which Bank ? c. Women Humanitarian Heroes a. Ujjivan Small Finance Bank ✓✓ d. #NotATarget b. State Bank of India Q27. Recently, a new landmass has been c. Reserve bank of India created under which country due to an d. Axis bank underwater Volcanic eruption ? Q34. Which organisation has come up with a. Serbia the revised guidelines for the hiring of b. Sri Lanka lockers , recently ? c. Japan ✓✓ a. IMF d. Australia b. SEBI Q28. Who has inaugurated the world’s c. RBI ✓✓ second largest refurbished state of the d. World bank art National Gene Bank in New Delhi ? Q35. At IFFM , who will be awarded with “ a. Arvind Kejriwal Diversity in Cinema Award” ? b. Narendra Singh Tomar ✓✓ a. Pankaj Tripathi ✓✓ c. Narendra Modi b. Ayushman Khurana d. Piyush Goyal c. Salman Khan Q29. “Jan Ashirwad Yatra” has been started d. Akshay Kumar which political party in India ? Q36. ‘Small Business Loans Initiative” has a. Bhartiya Janta Party ✓✓ been launched by whom in India ? b. Aam Admi Party a. TCS c. Indian National Congress b. Rattan TATA d. Janta dal c. Facebook ✓✓ Q30. Which state government has signed a d. Google loan agreement for 500 million USD for Q37. Who is the author of the book : funding metro rail project ? “Manavta Ke Pranata Maharishi a. New Delhi Arvind” ? b. West Bengal a. Ruskin Bond

© Copyright alljobs.co.in Monthly Current Affairs 15 b. Salman Rushdie d. Amit Shah c. Jhumpa Lahiri Q44. Who is the new CEO and MD of Indian d. Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ Bank ? ✓✓ a. Shanti Lal Jain ✓✓ Q38. Which country’s President has recently b. N K Singh refused to let his country become a c. Arun Kumar Singh Europe’s refugee warehouse ? d. Sushil Chandra a. Serbia Q45. Indian Army has organised a Relay b. Afghanistan Marathon named as “Jazbaa e-Tranga” c. Turkey ✓✓ in Jammu and Kashmir . What is the d. Nepal distance to be covered in this Marathon Q39. Chinmay Chatterjee has passed away ? recently . He was the footballer of a. 700 km which country ? b. 600 km a. Japan c. 500 km b. Nepal d. 400 km ✓✓ c. USA Q46. World Senior Citizens Day is observed d. India ✓✓ on which date ? Q40. Arogya Dhara 2.0 has been launched by a. 15 August whom to increase reach to Ayushman b. 16 August Bharat ? c. 19 August a. Nitin Gadkari d. 21 August ✓✓ b. Piyush Goyal Q47. Who is the author of the book “ Fateful c. Ramesh Pokhriyal Triangle” ? d. Mansukh Manaviya ✓✓ a. Tanvi Madam ✓✓ Q41. Which one of the following companies b. Chetan Bhagat has topped in the list of Hurun Global c. R K Narayan 500 Most Valuable Companies ? d. Khushwant Singh a. Tesla Q48. Which air pilot has been appointed as a b. Google woman spokesperson in the United c. Apple ✓✓ Nations (UN) ? d. Yahoo a. Zoya Aggarwal ✓✓ Q42. Nitin Gadkari has recently announced b. Bhawana Kanth road and highway project in c. Sarla Thukral Uttarakhand. What is the Budget for d. Jeannie Leavitt this Project ? Q49. Which organization/company has a. 1500 Crore launched the initiative “DISC 5.0” ? b. 1600 Crore a. Ministry of Home Affairs c. 1400 Crore b. Ministry of Defence ✓✓ d. 1300 Crore ✓✓ c. TATA Motors Q43. Who is the chairman of the Shree d. JIO Somnath Trust ? SET 2 : Question Number 150 to 200 a. Piyush Goyal b. Shri Vijay Rupani Q50. Which Space agency is planning to c. Narendra Modi ✓✓ launch an explorer in 2024 to land on

© Copyright alljobs.co.in Monthly Current Affairs 16 Phobos (Martian Moon) and collect c. Piyush Goyal 10grams of soil ? d. NK Singh a. NASA Q57. Which organization has developed the b. ISRO Advanced Chaff Technology for Indian c. Space X Air Force ? d. JAXA ✓✓ a. ISRO Q51. “UNITE Aware” technology has been b. DRDO ✓✓ announced by whom for safety and c. Space X security of UN Peacekeepers ? d. TATA Motors a. Narendra Modi Q58. Which state government has decided to b. Joe Biden procure 200 electric and 100 CNG c. S Jaishankar ✓✓ Buses ? d. Donald Trump a. New Delhi Q52. What is the name of Afghanistan that b. Assam ✓✓ has been given by the Taliban ? c. Manipur a. United Islamic Afghanistan d. Meghalaya b. Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Q59. Who is the brand ambassador of ✓✓ Adventure tourism in Kerala ? c. Siya Afghanistan a. PR Sreejesh ✓✓ d. Taliban Afghan b. M B Rajesh Q53. Who is the Author of the Book c. Chittayam Gopakumar “Operation Khutri” ? d. Manjeshwar a. Damini Punia and Rajpal Punia Q60. “Ubharte Sitare Fund” has been ✓✓ launched by whom in Lucknow ? b. Ruskin Bond a. Yogi Adityanath c. NK Singh b. Nirmala Sitharaman ✓✓ d. Sushil Chandra and NK Singh c. Nitin Gadkari Q54. Which is the first metro service to d. Narendra Modi sanitize coaches with ultra-violet rays ? Q61. What is the name of the 17th Governor a. Delhi Metro of the state “ Manipur” ? b. Kolkata Metro a. La. Ganesan ✓✓ c. Jaipur Metro b. Ganga Prasad d. Lucknow Metro ✓✓ c. Najma Heptulla Q55. 16 Digit Unicode for landholding d. Padmanabha Acharya identification has been launched by Q62. Who has dedicated the ‘Skill which state government ? Development Institute, Bhubaneswar” a. Uttar Pradesh ✓✓ to that nation ? b. Kerala a. Narendra Modi c. Odisha b. Dharmendra Pradhan ✓✓ d. Gujarat c. Piyush Goyal Q56. Who is the new CEO of BARC d. Naveen Patnaik (Broadcast Audience Research Council Q63. Naseem Al Bahr Military Exercise has ) ? been started between which countries ? a. Sunil Lulla a. India and America b. Nakul Chopra ✓✓ b. Australia and Iraq

© Copyright alljobs.co.in Monthly Current Affairs 17 c. Russia and South Korea b. Silver Medal ✓✓ d. India and Oman ✓✓ c. Bronze Medal Q64. What is the name of the AI-enabled d. Platinum Medal chatbot that has been launched by Q70. “Iconic Week” , a part of “Azadi ke Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, Amrit Mahotsav” has been launched on recently ? 23rd August till 29th August 2021 . Who a. Hercules launched this event ? b. Smart bot a. Narendra Modi c. Arya.ai b. Piyush Goyal d. URJA ✓✓ c. Anurag Thakur ✓✓ Q65. Who has laid the foundation stone of d. Navneet Singh the Institute of Chemical Technology , Q71. What is the name of the platform that recently ? has been launched by the Reserve Bank a. Naveen Patnaik ✓✓ of India to strengthen compliance by b. Amarinder Singh entities that are supervised by the RBI ? c. Pinarayi Vijayan a. GOD d. Nitish Kumar b. PLANE Q66. Who has inaugurated the Webinar c. PRISM ✓✓ named as “Zero Hunger by 2030” on d. B2B the 23rd of August ? Q72. World Senior Citizen Day is observed a. Giriraj Singh ✓✓ on which date ? b. Piyush Goyal a. 19 August c. Manohar Lal Khattar b. 21 August ✓✓ d. Sonia Gandhi c. 25 August Q67. What is the target year (no. of years) d. 26 August that has been set by the panel formed by Q73. Which city’s municipal corporation has the union government for doubling and been declared as the “ Water Plus” City quadrupling exports of handlooms ? ? a. 5 years a. Visakhapatnam ✓✓ b. 4 years b. Bahadurgarh c. 3 years ✓✓ c. Rohtak d. 2 years d. Noida Q68. An international exhibition on Folk and Q74. Recently “Sarbhaja and Sarpuriya” Tribal Art Paintings “Reetiyon se were in news . These two sweets will be Kalakritiyon ka Safar” has been given the GI Tag . These two are the inaugurated in Delhi by whom ? sweets of which state ? a. Ministry of Home Affairs a. New Delhi b. Ministry of Defence b. West Bengal ✓✓ c. Ministry of Education c. Manipur d. Ministry of Textiles ✓✓ d. Assam Q69. India’s Shaili Singh has won which Q75. What is the Name of the digital medal in the long jump event at the repayment platform that has been World’s Athletics U20 Championships launched by the Kotak Mahindra Bank ? to make repayments for outstanding a. Gold Medal

© Copyright alljobs.co.in Monthly Current Affairs 18 loans more convenient for its customers Q81. Who among the following has won the ? Title British Grand Prix 2021 ? a. Salam Dil Se a. Lewis Hamilton ✓✓ b. Salute Customer b. Leclerc c. Neo Collection ✓✓ c. Bottas d. All of the Above d. Norris Q76. Which company is setting up solar Q82. Recently , first human death is reported based EV charging stations on the Delhi in which country due to Monkey Virus to Chandigarh Highway ? ? a. PowerGrid a. India b. BHEL ✓✓ b. China ✓✓ c. BEL c. Russia d. TATA d. Turkey Q77. Sh. Kumar Banerjee has passed away Q83. Which countries are included in the recently . He was the former chairman new Quad Group that is being setup to of which commission ? enhance regional connectivity ? a. 6th pay Commission a. US, Afghanistan, India and b. Atomic Energy Commissions China ✓✓ b. US , Afghanistan , Pakistan and c. University Grants Commission China d. Knowledge Commission c. Afghanistan, Pakistan, Q78. India’s largest Floating Solar PV Uzbekistan and Russia Project Commissioned in which one of d. US , Afghanistan, Pakistan and the following state ? Uzbekistan ✓✓ a. New Delhi Q84. "FASTER" scheme is launched by b. Tamil Nadu whom ? c. Andhra Pradesh ✓✓ a. Ministry of Home Affairs d. Punjab b. Supreme court of India ✓✓ Q79. Which Indian organization is taking c. State government of Haryana part in the International Military d. Reserve Bank of India Technical Forum “Army 2021” ? Q85. Who is the new Chairman of Punjab a. ISRO Congress ? b. DRDO ✓✓ a. Rahul Gandhi c. CBI b. Sonia Gandhi d. Delhi Police c. Navjot Singh Sidhu ✓✓ Q80. Which organization/institute has d. Joginder Pal developed the India’ first indigenous Q86. Q6) The grant of how much money has motorised wheelchair vehicle “Neo been recommended by 15th Finance Bolt” ? This vehicle can been used on Commission for Online learning and uneven terrains also . development of professional courses ? a. IIT Madras ✓✓ a. Rs 1050 crore b. IISC Bangalore b. Rs 1650 crore c. DRDO c. Rs 6143 crore ✓✓ d. MIT d. Rs 1500 crore

© Copyright alljobs.co.in Monthly Current Affairs 19 Q87. The name of Jammu and Kashmir High recently launched by which state Court has been changed to "High Court government ? of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh ". a. Haryana Who is the present chief justice of High b. Assam Court of Jammu and Kashmir and c. Telangana ✓✓ Ladakh ? d. Maharashtra a. Justice Pankaj Mithal ✓✓ Q95. Which organization has successfully b. Vipin Sanghi tested the India's new generation Akash c. Siddharth Mridul Missile ? d. Manmohan a. ISRO Q88. Who is the author of the book " Grains b. NASA of stardust " ? c. Roscosmos a. Vismaya Mohanlal ✓✓ d. DRDO✓✓ b. Pranav Mohanlal Q96. What is the new Olympic motto ? c. Suresh Balaje a. Citius , Fortius - Altius d. Suchitra Mohanlal b. Citius, Altius , Fortius - Q89. According to a report "The Hunger Communis ✓✓ Virus Multiplies' released by Oxfam; c. Citius, Altius, Fortius how many people die of hunger every d. Citius Communis minute in the world ? Q97. Which is the first state to implement a. 10 Block Chain-Powered Educational b. 11 ✓✓ Documents ? c. 12 a. Haryana Q90. World Brain Day is observed on which b. Maharashtra ✓✓ date ? c. New Delhi a. 21 July Q98. Which is the 4th country to implement b. 22 July ✓✓ Block Chain-Powered Educational c. 27 July Documents ? d. 29 July a. India ✓✓ Q91. Project 75 is related to which field b. Sri Lanka a. DRDO Missile test c. China b. New Naval Ship Manufacturing Q99. First "Book Village" of Kerala is c. Submarine Construction ✓✓ ______? Q92. Q12) What is the Capital of a. Perumkulam ✓✓ Netherlands ? b. Kombanad a. New Delhi c. Marampilly b. Singapore d. Perumbavoor c. Amsterdam ✓✓ Q100. "No-Casting World Masters" event of Q93. Who is the Foreign Minister of the Sparkassen Trophy has been won by Maldives ? whom ? a. Abdulla Shahid ✓✓ a. Viswanathan Anand ✓✓ b. Zaha Waheed Dr. Hussain b. Magnus Carlsen Rasheed Hassan c. Garry Kasparove Q94. Dalit Bandhu ,a project / program for d. Anatoly Karpov the Dalit empowerment , has been

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These are the set of current affairs of August and July 2021 in the form of Simple one-line points.

1. The Government of India has announced that it has approved 780 new air traffic routes under the UDAN regional air Connectivity scheme . 2. The Parliament has passed the Inland Vessels Bill, 2021 . 3. SBI has launched “SIM Binding” feature for YONO . 4. ADB has provided 1.5 billion USD to India to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. 5. HDFC Bank has launched the Dukandar Overdraft Scheme. 6. Adviser Amarjeet Sinha has resigned from Prime Minister’s Office. 7. Author of the Book “ The Inheritance of Loss” : Kiran Desai 8. Haryana state Police has secured the First Position in India under Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System . 9. Esteban Ocon has won the Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix 2021 . 10. North India’s first Orchid Conservation Center has been inaugurated in Uttarakhand . 11. ISRO announced the launch of an Earth observation satellite “EOS-03” on 12th August. 12. Dr. Virendra Kumar has unveiled a portal and mobile application named as “PM-Daksh”. 13. 79th anniversary of Quit India Movement has been observed on 8 August . 14. Chhattisgarh is the first state to recognize Community Forest Resource Rights in an Urban area. 15. United Arab Emirates and India has organized a navel exercise names as “Zayed Talwar 2021”. 16. USA Won the most number of medals (113 Medals) in the Tokyo Olympics 2020. 17. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister launched the scheme “ Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvan”. 18. “Balakot Air Strike: How India Avenged Pulwama” is written by Navy veteran Manan Bhatt. 19. Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani has recently launched e-Nagar mobile application and portal. 20. First Orchid Conservation Center has been inaugurated by State government of Uttarakhand. 21. Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs have launched the brand and logo called “ SonChiraiya”.

© Copyright alljobs.co.in Monthly Current Affairs 21 22. Theme of the 75th Independence Day of India was “Nation First, Always First” . 23. WHO has created a new advisory group “SAGO”. 24. KVIC had setup UP Khadi Exhibition cum sale stalls at 75 railway stations to celebrated 75 years of Independence . 25. First Drone Forensic and Research Centre has been established in Kerala . 26. World Organ Donation Day is observed on 13 August. 27. “Vibhajan Vibhishika Memorial Day” will be observed on 14 August every year . 28. WHO has partnered with FACEBOOK to provide Covid 19 information to the world’s most vulnerable people. 29. Neeraj Chopra secured second rank in the World Athletics ranking . 30. Narendra Modi has launched the “National Vehicle Scrappage Policy” . 31. Chhattisgarh has announced 4 new districts(Mohla Manpur, Sarangarh- Bilaigarh, Shakti, Manendragarh ) and 18 new tehsils on the occasion of the 75th Independence Day . 32. NDMC has launched the “Clean City App” . 33. Twitter discontinued its feature name “Fleets”. 34. Pensilungpa fall in the Zanskar range. 35. Virendra Kumar has flagged off a pioneering world record expedition named “Operation Blue Freedom” from Dr. Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi on the occasion of 75th Independence Day . 36. Odisha has announced smart health card under its health welfare scheme. 37. RBI has cancelled the licence of Karnala Nagari Sahakari Bank , Raigarh Maharashtra . 38. Uttar Pradesh has recently become the largest economy of India . 39. Hakainda Hichilema is the new President of the Zambia. 40. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and Anurag Thakur has launched second season of the popular series “Rag Rag Mein Ganga”. 41. Dharmendra Pradhan has virtually inaugurated the Centre for Research and Innovation in Artificial Intelligence at IIT Hyderabad . 42. World Athletics under 20 Championship 2021 has been started in Nairobi , Kenya . 43. West Bengal government has approved the formation of an industrial board to facilitate the establishment of more factories in the state . 44. World Archery Youth Championship 2021 held in Poland .

© Copyright alljobs.co.in Monthly Current Affairs 22 45. Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has unveiled the mobile application named as ‘PROOF” . PROOF stands for ‘Photographic Record of On-site Facility”. 46. World’s first museum on wheels has been inaugurated in Kolkata . 47. First Women director of Zoological Survey of India :- Dhriti Banerjee. 48. Rare species of Orchids have been found in Uttarakhand, India . 49. Researchers of Switzerland have calculated a new figure of “Pi”. 50. Rs 100 lakh crore will invested in PM Gatishakti initiative. 51. Hakainde Hichilema is the new president of Zambia . 52. The Delhi-Chandigarh Highway has become the first e-vehicle friendly highway in the country 53. Amazon has rolled out India’s first celebrity voice feature on Alexa with Amitabh Bachchan. 54. Ministry of Coal has started “Tree Plantation Campaign 2021” on 19th August 2021. 55. “Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Bhumiless Mazdoor Nyay Yojana” has launched by Chhattisgarh state government . 56. 19th August is the birth anniversary of Shankar Dayal ( former President of India) . 57. The Indian and Australian navies have signed a document that provides for consolidating shared commitment to promote peace , stability and security in the Indo-Pacific region . 58. Chhattisgarh is the first state to recognise community Forest Resource Rights in Urban areas. 59. Boria Majumdar and Kushan Sarkar are the author of the book : “Mission Domination : An Unfinished Quest” . 60. TCS is the Indian company to cross the market capitalization of Rs 13 lakh crore. 61. Ismail Sabri Yaakoob has been appointed as the new PM of Malaysia . 62. TATA Motors has partnered with Bank of Maharashtra to offer car loan facilities . 63. Indian and Australian Navy has signed a “Joint guidance for Navy-to-Navy relationship” document . 64. China has passed the Three Child Policy . 65. Jammu and Kashmir have launched Karkhandar Scheme . 66. “Badlav Humse Hai” is a brand campaign launched by AU Small Finance Bank. 67. New MD and CEO of Indian Bank :- Shanti Lal Jain. 68. Dr Tejendra Mohan Bhasin has been reappointed as the chairman of “Advisory Board for Banking and Financial Frauds”. 69. N K Singh is appointed as the president of Institute of Economic Growth .

© Copyright alljobs.co.in Monthly Current Affairs 23 70. Secretary of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting : Apurva Chandra 71. India will host the United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress . 72. Mansukh Mandaviya has launched the “Arogya Dhara 2.0” 73. Brand Ambassador of the Kerala Adventure Tourism : P R Sreejesh 74. BRICS group has signed an agreement for cooperation in remote sensing satellite data Sharing. 75. New Chairman of National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority : Kamlesh Kumar Pant 76. Brand Ambassador of JK Tyre and Industries Limited : Narian Karthekeyain. 77. Uttar Pradesh is the first country to present a paperless budget in the assembly . 78. Uttar Pradesh has started the “Mati Kala Rojgar Yojana”. 79. World Elephant Day : 12 August 80. New species of Frog “Adi Cascade” has been recently discovered in Arunachal Pradesh . 81. World Sanskrit Day : 2 August 82. Highest Herbal Park of India has been inaugurated in Mana Village of Chamoli, Uttarakhand. 83. Narayan Koti Temple , Uttarakhand has been included in the “Adopt A heritage project”. 84. World First steel has been made by the Sweden Company “Hybrid” without using the Coal . 85. Union Cabinet of Bangladesh given approval for India to partner with in the field of Disaster Management . 86. New Brand Ambassador of the McDonald’s India :Rashmika mandna . 87. Brand Ambassador of ‘Justdial” : Ranvir Singh 88. Brand Ambassador of Bata India Limited : Kartik Aryan 89. Uttarakhand is the first state to launch Earthquake Alert app . 90. China has passed the Three Child Policy .

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