27 August 2022 Current Affairs In English
Q1. Which portal has been launched by the union government to bring together all the awards of the various Ministries of the government under one platform?
(a) Rashtriya Puruskar Portal
(b) Rashtriya Awards Portal
(c) National Awards Portal
(d) Gallantry Awards Portal
Ans.(a)
Sol. Union Government has launched the ‘Rashtriya Puruskar Portal’ to bring together all the awards of the various Ministries of the government under one platform.
Q2. Which company has partnered with SIDBI to launch 1,000 green energy enterprises established throughout the country?
(a) JSW Energy
(b) ReNew Power
(c) TP renewable Microgrid
(d) NTPC Limited
Ans.(c)
Sol. TP Renewable Microgrid (TPRMG), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Power and Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), have partnered with to launch an innovative program that will see 1,000 green energy enterprises established throughout the nation.
Q3. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre at which city?
(a) Mohali
(b) New Delhi
(c) Bhubaneswar
(d) Ahmedabad
Ans.(a)
Sol. Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre at Mullanpur, Mohali. The hospital has been built at a cost of over 660 crore rupees by Tata Memorial Centre, an aided institute under the Department of Atomic Energy.
Q4. Which of the following company has signed MoUs with Assam, Manipur, and Tripura governments for the development and promotion of oil palm cultivation under a central scheme?
(a) Vinsol Oil Company
(b) Godrej Agrovet
(c) Patanjali Ayurved
(d) Mahajain Oil Company
Ans.(c)
Sol. Godrej Agrovet has signed MoUs with Assam, Manipur, and Tripura governments for the development and promotion of oil palm cultivation under a central scheme.
Q5. Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga has been elected as interim PM of which country?
(a) Zimbabwe
(b) Maldives
(c) Mali
(d) Mauritius
Ans.(c)
Sol. In Mali, the military has appointed Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga as interim Prime Minister after the country’s civilian PM Choguel Kokalla Maiga was admitted to hospital.
Q6. At which Indian Navy Ship (INS), a first-of-its-kind, Composite Indoor Shooting Range (CISR) was inaugurated in August 2022?
(a) INS Sahyadri
(b) INS Suvarna
(c) INS Talwar
(d) INS Karna
Ans.(d)
Sol. A first-of-its-kind, Composite Indoor Shooting Range (CISR) was inaugurated by Vice Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta at INS Karna.
Q7. Fahmida Azim working for the Insider online magazine of the US has been selected for the Pulitzer Prize 2022. She is from which country?
(a) Bangladesh
(b) Maldives
(c) Bhutan
(d) Pakistan
Ans.(a)
Sol. Bangladesh-born Fahmida Azim working for the Insider online magazine of the US has been selected for the Pulitzer Prize 2022.
Q8. Internaut Day is celebrated every year on which day?
(a) 20 August
(b) 21 August
(c) 22 August
(d) 23 August
Ans.(d)
Sol. ‘Internaut Day’ is celebrated on 23 August every year to mark the invention of the World Wide Web.
Q9. ICRA has projected India’s GDP growth as ____________________ for the Q1 (April-June) FY23.
(a) 10%
(b) 13%
(c) 12%
(d) 11%
Ans.(b)
Sol. India’s GDP growth is projected to spike to a four-quarter high 13 per cent in Q1 (April-June) FY23 due to low base of Covid 2.0 and robust recovery in contact-intensive services, according to ICRA.
Q10. The 2022 Liberty Medal by US Government will be awarded to who among the following?
(a) Joe Biden
(b) Emmanuel Macron
(c) Narendra Modi
(d) Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Ans.(d)
Sol. The 2022 Liberty Medal will be awarded this fall to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The National Constitution Center announced that Zelenskyy will be honored in a ceremony in October for what it called “his heroic defense of liberty in the face of Russian tyranny.”