300 Best Current Affair Part 2 December 2019

Important Days
 GST Stakeholder Feedback Diwas : December 7
 International Anti-Corruption Day 2019 : December 9
 Theme of the day is, ‘united against corruption
 World Human Rights Day : December 10
 Theme: Youth Standing Up for Human Rights
 35th SAARC Charter Day : 8 December
 International Mountain Day is observed : December 11 The theme of the
International Mountain Day this year is 'Mountains Matter for Youth'
 International Universal Health Coverage Day : December 12
 Theme of the event is ‘Keep The Promise”
 International Day of Neutrality : December 12
 National Energy Conservation Day 2019 : December 14

Obituaries
 Former Odisha Minister Bhagabat Prasad Mohanty passed away
 Chicago Rapper Juice WRLD passed away
 Former India table tennis head coach Bhawani Mukherji passed away
 Chairman of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), B B Kumar,
passed away
  The former US Federal Reserve chief Paul Volcker passed away
 Veteran Telugu actor and writer Gollapudi Maruti Rao passed away

Q)The joint tri-services exercise “Indra 2019” will be conducted between India and
which country?

1. France
2. Japan
3. Russia
4. Australia

Q)According to the Global Climate Risk Index 2020, India was the ______th most
climate-affected country in 2018?

1. Fifth
2. Seventh
3. Second
4. Eight

Q)2019 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Summit was held in which
country?

1. United States
2. United Kingdom
3. Spain
4. Denmark

Q)Avantee Mega Food Park was inaugurated in which city of Madhya Pradesh?

1. Indore
2. Bhopal
3. Dewas
4. Jabalpur

Q)Which among the following languages made its debut in Rajya Sabha on December 6,
2019?

1. Sindhi
2. Bodo
3. Santhali
4. Konkani
Q)Who is the author of the book ‘The Vault of Vishnu’?

1. Vikram Seth
2. Ashwin Sanghi
3. Amit Varma
4. Kunal Basu

Q)Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the National Stock Exchange (NSE)?

1. Girish Chandra Chaturvedi

2. Ashok Chawla
3. Dhirendra Swarup
4. Sethurathnam Ravi

Q)Which new subject has been introduced in classes VIII, IX and X in CBSE schools?

1. Moral Education
2. Yoga
3. Artificial Intelligence
4. Digital Marketing

Q)Sarai Sewage Treatment Plant was inaugurated in which state?

1. Himachal Pradesh
2. Uttarakhand
3. Manipur
4. Arunachal Pradesh

 ‘Mukhya Mantri Dal Poshit Yojana’ awareness campaign -- Urjagiri -- aims at

stopping power theft and saving world's first Muslim yoga camp
 Asia’s First Six Sigma Institute of Mountain Medicines & High Altitude Rescue
 Most Film-Friendly State at 66th National Film Awards

Q) Which state won the National Award of Excellence for rehabilitation of persons with
disabilities?

1. Tamil Nadu
2. Gujarat
3. Uttar Pradesh
4. Rajasthan

Q) The Operation Clean Art has been launched to protect which species in India?

1. Otter
2. Mongoose
3. Tahr
4. Antelope

Q) RBI has approved ‘on-tap' licensing of Small Finance Banks (SFBs). What is the
minimum paid-up voting equity capital requirement for opening SFB?
 1. 100 crore
2. 200 crore
3. 300 crore
4. 400 crore

Q)Which of the following governments has launched a booklet on the life and teachings
of Dr. BR Ambedkar for students of class 6-8 in government schools?

1. Uttar Pradesh
2. Delhi
3. Gujarat
4. Madhya Pradesh

Q) India has provided USD 500 million line of credit to which country for defence-
related procurement?

1. Bangladesh
2. Bhutan
3. Nepal
4. Sri Lanka

Q) Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has allowed 24x7 National Electronic Funds Transfer
(NEFT) transactions from which date?

1. 26 December
2. 20 December
3. 16 December
4. 31 December

Q) Which railway station has become the 5,500th station to get the free WiFi facility?

1. Badwasi
2. Mahuamilan
3. Eravipuram
4. Damoh

Q) The First Pashu Kisan credit cards in India were distributed to 101 animal farmers
in which state?

1. Punjab
2. Bihar
3. Rajasthan
 4. Haryana

Q) Which state government has changed the name of Naugarh railway station to
Siddhartha Nagar railway station?

1. Madhya Pradesh
2. Rajasthan
3. Uttar Pradesh
4. Jharkhand

Q) Who among the following has won Miss Universe 2019 Title?

1. Zozibini Tunzi
2. Madison Anderson
3. Vartika Singh
4. Sofia Aragon

Q) Mongla and Chattogram declared as Ports of Call under the “Coastal Shipping
Agreement” between India and which country?

1. Sri Lanka
2. Bhutan
3. Bangladesh
4. Myanmar

Q) ISRO has set-up a new Space Technology Incubation Centre at which institute?

1. NIT Durgapur
2. NIT Calicut
3. NIT Delhi
4. NIT Tiruchirappalli

Q) Who has become the world’s youngest serving Prime Minister and the third female
Prime Minister of Finland

1. Antti Rinne
2. Katri Kulmuni
3. Maria Ohisalo
4. Sanna Marin

Q) The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched country’s latest spy
satellite named what?

1. RISAT-2BR1
2. RISAT- 4SR1
3. RISAT- GBR1
4. RISAT- HBR1
 Tourism
 IRCTC has signed an MoU with Karnataka to operate Golden Chariot train
 Andhra Pradesh bagged the Best State Award for overall growth in tourism
category.
 Goa and Madhya Pradesh - Adventure Tourism Uttarakhand - Most Film-Friendly
State 8th International Tourism Mart (ITM-2019) was held in Imphal Tamil Nadu –
Most visits by Foreign tourists in 2018

Q) What is the rank of India in the 2019 Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI)?

1. 9th
2. 12th
3. 15th
4. 5th

Q) Who among the following was presented the Golden Target award by the
International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF)?

1. Elavenil Valarivan
2. Saurabh Chaudhary
3. Divyansh Singh Panwar
4. All of the above

Q) What is the rank of the India in the 2019 Human Development Index?

1. 130th
2. 125th
3. 129th
4. 112th

Q) Indian Air Force has decided to put tail numbers in 30 Rafale jets with ‘______’
initials?

1. AR
2. BS
3. RKS
4. PV

Q) Which state has distributed laptops to meritorious students under 'Biju

Sashaktikaran Yojana’?
 1. Karnataka
2. Odisha
3. Kerala
4. Andhra Pradesh

Q) Draj Bridge for all-weather connectivity was recently inaugurated at which place?

1. Bomdila
2. Rajouri
3. Mandi
4. Leh

Q) Who has been appointed as the brand ambassador of National Anti Doping Agency?

1. Ranveer Singh
2. Varun Dhawan
3. Suniel Shetty
4. John Abraham

Q) Recently, in which country, the White Island volcano exploded?

1. Australia
2. Canada
3. Spain
4. New Zealand

Q) 54th All India conference of Director Generals /Inspector Generals of Police was
held in which city?

1. Bhopal
2. Raipur
3. Pune
4. New Delhi

Q) The satellite Duchifat 3 belongs to which country?

1. Russia
2. Japan
3. Spain
4. Israel

Q) Who has been appointed as Chief Design Consultant for TRIFED?

1. Ritu Beri
2. Tarun Tahiliani
3. Masaba Gupta
4. Manish Malhotra

Q) C. Sugandh Rajaram has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to
which country?
 1. Ghana
2. Cuba
3. Italy
4. Germany

India Ambassadors
 Nepal – Manjeev Singh Puri
 USA - Harsh Vardhan Shringla
 Pakistan – Ajay Bisaria
 China – Vikram Misri
 Sri Lanka - Taranjit Singh Sandhu
 Bangladesh - Riva Ganguly Das
 Bhutan - Ruchira Kamboj
 United Arab Emirates - Pavan Kapoor
 United Kingdom - Ruchi Ghanashyam

Q) Which is the partner country for the 17th edition of BioAsia 2020?

1. Germany
2. Sweden
3. France
4. Switzerland

Q) Which company has been awarded with the United Nations Global Climate Action
Award in the ‘Climate Neutral Now’ category?

1. Infosys
2. Wipro
3. Tech Mahindra
4. TCS

Q) Which of the following companies has formally launched its lending platform “Mi
Credit” in India?

1. Samsung
2. Apple
3. OPPO
4. Xiaomi

Q) Who has been appointed as the new Brand Ambassador of the Pepsi?
 1. Ayushmann Khurrana
2. Salman Khan
3. Ranveer Singh
4. Shahid Kapoor

Q) Who has become the Brand Ambassador of PUMA?

1. Sunil Chhetri
2. Varun Dhawan
3. Rohit Sharma
4. Somdev Devvarman

Q) The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has identified how many monuments as
‘Must See Monuments’?

1. 121
2. 138
3. 112
4. 123

Q) The world's first-ever fully electric commercial aircraft took its inaugural test flight
from which country?

1. United States
2. France
3. Germany
4. Canada

Q) President Ram Nath Kovind laid the foundation stone for Paika Rebellion memorial
in which of the following ?

1. West Bengal
2. Assam
3. Odisha
4. Nagaland

Q) Who has been named as the Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2019?

1. Payal Jangid
2. Malala Yousafzai
3. Gavin Grimm
4. Greta Thunberg

Q) Where is Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan University located?

1. Tirupati
2. New Delhi
3. Indore
4. Raipur
  An MoU was signed between Maharashtra's Savitribai Phule Pune University (STPU)
and Qatar enabling the University to set up its campus there Asia’s best university in
the (QS) Rankings 2020?
 National University of Singapore Devi Ahilya University of Madhya Pradesh – 1st
varsity to be accorded A-plus grade by the National Assessment and Accreditation
Council (NAAC)
 The researchers of University of Gothenburg, Sweden have developed a potential
Diarrhea vaccine candidate, named as ‘ETVAX’?
 Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri inaugurated a new Guru Nanak Chair University
of Birmingham
 Scientists of Cambridge university have developed an ‘artificial leaf’ that uses
sunlight to produce the gas -- called syngas
 UAE - first graduate-level, research-based AI university in the world

Q) How many countries have joined the Climate Ambition Alliance (CAA) at the
COP25?

1. 65
2. 73
3. 59
4. 81

Q) Which among the following states has approved the Disha Bill 2019?

1. Telangana
2. Karnataka
3. Andhra Pradesh
4. Uttar Pradesh

Q) Who among the following has won the Sports Person of the Year award at the
FICCI India Sports Awards 2019?

1. Mary Kom
2. Rani Rampal
3. Hima Das
4. PV Sindhu

Q) Who has been has been appointed as the brand ambassador of La Liga in India?

1. Virat Kohli
2. Sunil Chetri
3. Rohit Sharma
 4. Bhaichung Bhutia

Q) National Tribal Dance Festival will be held in which city from December 27 to 29?

1. Ranchi
2. Bhopal
3. Raipur
4. Patna

Q) Which state has received the ‘World Habitat Award' for Jaga Mission?

1. Andhra Pradesh
2. Odisha
3. Bihar
4. West Bengal

Q) Who was named the WTA Player of the Year for 2019?

1. Karolina Pliskova
2. Naomi Osaka
3. Simona Halep
4. Ashleigh Barty

 Jamaica's Toni-Ann Singh crowned 69th Miss World 2019

Q) Recently Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy inaugurated the Virtual Police
Station at which University?

1. Dravidian University
2. Andhra University
3. Rayalaseema University
4. Vignan University

Q) Which of the following companies has launched a new app “Audible Suno” in India?

1. Flipkart
2. Google
3. Amazon
4. Facebook

Q) Boris Johnson has won the majority in recent UK elections, he belongs to which
party?

1. Conservative party
2. Scottish National Party
3. Labour Party
4. Liberal Democrats

Q) The Inner Line Permit (ILP) regime has been extended by President Ram Nath
Kovind in which state?
 1. Nagaland
2. Assam
3. Mizoram
4. Manipur

Q) Which of the following space agencies will launch rover ‘MARS 2020’?

1. JAXA
2. NASA
3. CNSA
4. Roscosmos

Q) According to the seventh edition of the India Skills Report 2020, which state has the
highest employable talent in the country?

1. Tamil Nadu
2. Uttar Pradesh
3. Maharashtra
4. Karnataka

Q) Mumbai-Nagpur expressway will be renamed after whom?

1. Balasaheb Thackeray
2. B R Ambedkar
3. Subash Chandra Bose
4. Pandit Nehru

Q) Which country will host the 36th International Geological Congress in March 2020?

1. China
2. United States
3. Russia
4. India

Q) Which state has recently launched two social welfare schemes - ‘Vijayamritham’ and
‘Sahachari’?

1. Odisha
2. Kerala
3. Haryana
4. Rajasthan
Q) The Police Department of which state has adopted a unique barcoding software
“Trakea”?

1. Punjab
2. Gujarat
3. Telangana
4. Haryana

Q) What is the new deadline for the government’s Accessible India Campaign (AIC)?

1. January 2020
2. February 2020
3. March 2020
4. April 2020

Q) Who has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) And Managing
Director (MD) of the Ashok Leyland Ltd?

1. Vipin Sondhi
2. Anurag Goyal
3. Pankaj Jha
4. Suraj Kohli

Q) Which city is hosting the Military Literature Festival 2019?

1. New Delhi
2. Dehradun
3. Chandigarh
4. Pune

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