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DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ : 30 MARCH 2021 1. What Is the Total DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ : 30 MARCH 2021 1. What is the total capital.12.2018 allocated for a) Japan setting up the National.2018 Bank for b) Indonesia Financing Infrastructure and c) Vietnam Development (NBFID),.11.2018 an institution that d) Malaysia provides long-term loans for e) South Korea infrastructure development projects? 6. Which group of students are covered a) 1 lakh crore under CBSE‟s new competence based b) 10,000 crore assessment framework? c) 83,000 crore a) Class 6-10 d) 50,000 crore b) Class 1-5 e) 10 lakh crore c) Class 5-12 2. Name the military hero who led an d) Class 1-10 infantry division to a legendary victory in e) Class 6-12 the 1971 India-Pakistan War has passed 7. Which type of banking institutions were away recently. covered under the RBI‟s recent guidelines a) Walter Anthony Gustavo Pinto for mergers/amalgamation to evolve as a b) R.N. Kao strong group of financial providers? c) Kuldip Singh Chandpuri a) Small Finance Banks d) Ian Cardozo b) Regional Rural Banks e) Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon c) Cooperative Banks 3. As per the recently amended, “The d) Payments Banks Government of National Capital Territory e) Local Area Banks of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2021”, the 8. Who received the IUCN‟s New term “Government” means referred to in International Ranger Award in March any law made by the Legislative 2021? Assembly will imply _____. a) Sanjiv Chaturvedi a) Chief Minister b) Hari Singh b) CM & State‟s Council of Ministers c) Sanjay Kumar c) Lieutenant Governor d) Mahinder Giri d) Chief Minister & Lieutenant Governor e) Maharaj Muthoo e) State Legislature 9. Which book received the National Book 4. According to Global Wind Report 2021 Critics Circle (NBCC)‟s award 2020 published by the Global Wind Energy under Fiction Category? Council (GWEC), how much wind a) Minor Feelings: An Asian American energy capacity has been installed in Reckoning 2020 which was the best year in history b) Hamnet for the global wind industry? c) Island on Fire a) 43 gigawatt (GW) d) Stranger in the Shogun‟s City b) 55 gigawatt (GW) e) Here Is the Sweet Hand c) 65 gigawatt (GW) 10. What is the theme of the 7th Annual d) 93 gigawatt (GW) Summit of „NATHEALTH‟ organized by e) 80 gigawatt (GW) NATHEALTH – Healthcare Federation 5. Suh Wook, Defence Minister of of India? ________ on his visit to India a) „Indian Health System Expansion in inaugurated India‟s 1st Friendship Park Post-COVID Era‟ with the country in Delhi. 1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRPF Square, Bhubaneswar-750015 1 Ph. : 8093556677, 9040556677. Web :www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ : 30 MARCH 2021 b) Health Sector .12.2018Growth for an a) Indian Oil Corporation Limited Innovative Future .2018 b) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation c) Collaboration for Health System Limited Growth and Shared Prosperity.11.2018 c) Hindustan Petroleum Corporation d) Stronger Partnership for Brighter Limited Future d) Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited e) Mobilizing Health Resources for e) Oil India Limited Innovation in India 11. Who has been appointed as the ANSWER KEYS Chairperson of the Standing Conference 1 a 9 b of Public Enterprises (SCOPE)? 2 a 10 a a) Zubair Iqbal 3 c 11 e b) Manoj Ahuja 4 d 12 a c) V. Vidyavathi 5 e 13 c d) Shekhar C. Mande 6 a 14 b e) Soma Mondal 12. Which of the following Nation recently 7 c 15 c passed miscarriages bereavement leave 8 d law? a) New Zealand b) Australia c) China d) Pakistan e) Nepal 13. Which of the following state recently organised a „Banana Festival‟ in the state? a) Himachal Pradesh b) Uttarakhand c) Uttar Pradesh d) Bihar e) Madhya Pradesh 14. Which Public Sector Undertaking has been conferred with the „Role Model‟ Award at the 11th Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) National HR Excellence Award 2020-21? a) Coal India Limited b) National Thermal Power Corporation Limited c) Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited d) GAIL e) Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited 15. With which petroleum company the Union Bank of India has launched a co- branded contactless RuPay credit card? 1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRPF Square, Bhubaneswar-750015 2 Ph. : 8093556677, 9040556677. Web :www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] .
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