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1. (c)
Former Union minister Jairam Ramesh’s new book will uncover and narrate the story of phenomenal
poem The Light of Asia that has shaped people’s thinking of the Buddha and his teachings. The book,
titled “The Light of Asia: The Poem that Defined the Buddha”, will be published under Penguin’s
‘Viking’ imprint in May 2021.
The book endeavors to describe the life and time of Prince Gautama Siddhartha, who after attaining
enlightenment became the Buddha. It presents his life, character, and philosophy, in a series of
verses.
2. (d)
Cristiano Ronaldo received the 2020 Golden Foot award in Monaco in recognition of his lifetime
achievement in the sport.
The Golden Foot award is an international football award, given to players who stand out for their
athletic achievements and for their personality. The award is only given to active players of at least
28 years of age, and can only be won once.
3. (b)
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and NITI Aayog organized a Global Virtual
Summit on Artificial Intelligence (AI), RAISE 2020- ‘Responsible AI for Social Empowerment 2020.
The event witnessed participation from global industry leaders, key opinion makers, Government
representatives and academia.
RAISE 2020 (Responsible AI for Social Empowerment): A global meeting of minds to exchange ideas
and chart a course for using AI for social transformation, inclusion and empowerment in areas like
Healthcare, Agriculture, Education and Smart Mobility, among other sectors.
4. (d)
The second edition of Indian Navy (IN) – Bangladesh Navy (BN) Bilateral Exercise Bongosagar was
held in oct 2020 in Northern Bay of Bengal.
Exercise Bongosagar, whose first edition was held in 2019, is aimed at developing interoperability
and joint operational skills through conduct of a wide spectrum of maritime exercises and operations.
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SAMPRITI series of joint exercise is a very important military engagement between Armies of India
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and Bangladesh. The 9th edition of the joint Exercise SAMPRITI was held in February 2020.
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5. (a)
The recently inaugurated 9.02 Km long Atal tunnel connects Manali to Lahaul-Spiti valley
throughout the year. Earlier the valley was cut off for about 6 months each year owing to heavy
snowfall. It is horse shoe shaped, single tube double lane highway tunnel (not railway).
The Tunnel is built with ultra-modern specifications in the Pir Panjal range of Himalayas at an
altitude of 3000 Mtrs (10,000 Feet) from the Mean Sea Level (MSL).
6. (a)
The Eighth Schedule to the Constitution consists of the following 22 languages:

(1) Assamese, (2) Bengali, (3) Gujarati, (4) Hindi, (5) Kannada, (6) Kashmiri, (7) Konkani, (8)
Malayalam, (9) Manipuri, (10) Marathi, (11) Nepali, (12) Oriya, (13) Punjabi, (14) Sanskrit, (15)
Sindhi, (16) Tamil, (17) Telugu, (18) Urdu (19) Bodo, (20) Santhali, (21) Maithili and (22) Dogri.
Of these languages, 14 were initially included in the Constitution. Sindhi language was added in 1967.
Thereafter three more languages viz., Konkani, Manipuri and Nepali were included in 1992.
Subsequently Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santhali were added in 2004.
7. (b)
As per the RBI Act 1934 (amended 2016), the Central Government shall, in consultation with the
Bank, determine the inflation target in terms of the Consumer Price Index, once in every five years.
Accordingly, the Central Government has notified 4 per cent Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation as
the target for the period from August 5, 2016 to March 31, 2021 with the upper tolerance limit of 6
per cent and the lower tolerance limit of 2 per cent.
As per the Act, the CPI Combined published by the National Statistical Office (NSO), Ministry of
Statistics and Programme Implementation is used as inflation targeting index.
8. (d)
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 has been awarded jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer
A. Doudna "for the development of a method for genome editing."
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna have discovered one of gene technology’s sharpest
tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors. Using these, researchers can change the DNA of animals,
plants and microorganisms with extremely high precision.
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• The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019: John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira
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Yoshino “for the development of lithium-ion batteries”.

• The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018: Frances H. Arnold “for the directed evolution of
enzymes”, George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter “for the phage display of peptides and
antibodies”.
• The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017: Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson
“for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of
biomolecules in solution”.
• The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016: Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard
L. Feringa “for the design and synthesis of molecular machines”
9. (a)
Ministry of Textiles has launched the 1st ever Brand & Logo for Indian Cotton on 2nd World Cotton
Day on 7th October, 2020. Now India’s premium Cotton would be known as ‘Kasturi Cotton’ in the
world cotton Trade.
Cotton is one of the principal commercial crops of India: It provides livelihood to about 6.00 million
cotton farmers. India is the 2nd largest cotton producer and the largest consumer of cotton in the
world. India produces about 6.00 Million tons of cotton every year which is about 23% of the world
cotton. India produces about 51% of the total organic cotton production of the world.
10. (c)
The New York Stock Exchange is an American stock exchange at 11 Wall Street in the Financial
District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is by far the world's largest stock exchange by market
capitalization of its listed companies at US$30.1 trillion as of February 2018.
11. (d)
The winners of the prestigious ICC Awards of the Decade including the Rachel Heyhoe-Flint for Best
Female Player and Sir Garfield Sobers for Best Male Player, were announced simultaneously across
all ICC Digital channels, as well as the Star Sports Network, Recently.
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I. Virat Kohli wins the Sir Garfield Sobers Award for ICC Male Cricketer of the Decade
II. Ellyse Perry wins the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for ICC Female Cricketer of the Decade
III. Steve Smith is ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Decade
IV. Virat Kohli is ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Decade
V. Ellyse Perry is ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Decade
VI. Rashid Khan is ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Decade
VII. Ellyse Perry is ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Decade
VIII. Kyle Coetzer is ICC Men’s Associate Cricketer of the Decade
IX. Kathryn Bryce is ICC Women’s Associate Cricketer of the Decade
X. MS Dhoni wins ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade
12. (c)
The first-ever FLYX Filmfare OTT Awards were given out on December 19, 2020. Amazon Prime
Video won 18 awards in various categories and Paatal Lok was declared the best original series.
The awards recognized and rewarded the best of content and performances from web series/
shows/films that were aired through the year on different OTT platforms. Shows that have been
released between August 01, 2019 and July 31, 2020 were considered for the awards for this year.
The Filmfare black lady trophy has always been the most coveted reward for main stream cinema
artists for their exemplary work in the field of entertainment. The Filmfare awards history dates back
to 1954 when the first awards function was held at the Metro Theatre of Mumbai, and only 5 awards
were presented. Over the years, the fanfare has grown tremendously and more and more categories
have been added, however, what has not changed is the charm of the black lady.
13. (a)
Mumbai Port Trust is a port which lies midway on the West coast of India, on the natural deep-
water harbour of Mumbai in Maharashtra.The harbour spread over 400 square kilometres is
protected by the mainland of Konkan to its east and north and by the island city of Mumbai to its
west.
Kandla, officially Deendayal Port Trust is a seaport in Kutch District of Gujarat state in Western India,
near the city of Gandhidham. Located on the Gulf of Kutch, it is one of major ports on the west coast.
Kandla was constructed in the 1950s as the chief seaport serving Western India, due to the partition
of India leaving the port of Karachi in Pakistan.
Chennai Port, formerly known as Madras Port, is the second largest container port of India, behind
Mumbai's Nhava Sheva. The port is the largest one in the Bay of Bengal. It is the third-oldest port
among the 13 major ports of India with official port operations beginning in 1881, although maritime
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trade started much earlier in 1639 on the undeveloped shore. It is an artificial and all-weather port
with wet docks.
Jawaharlal Nehru Port [JNPT], also known as Nhava Sheva Port, is the largest container port in India.
Located east of Mumbai in Raigad district, this port on the Arabian Sea is accessed via Thane Creek.
Its common name derives from the names of Nhava and Sheva villages that were situated here. This
port is also the terminal of Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (under construction).
14. (a)
Country's largest power producer, NTPC ltd has been conferred "Excellence" in the prestigious CII-
ITC Sustainability Awards 2020 in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Domain.
The CII-ITC Sustainability Awards recognize and reward excellence in businesses that are seeking
ways to be more sustainable and inclusive in their activities. Winners of the Awards are role models
that inspire others to follow suit.
15. (a)
The Poverty and Shared Prosperity biennial series published by the World Bank provides a global
audience with the latest and most accurate estimates on trends in global poverty and shared
prosperity.
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020: Reversals of Fortune report presents new estimates of COVID-
19’s impacts on global poverty and inequality. Harnessing fresh data from frontline surveys and
economic simulations, it shows that pandemic-related job losses and deprivation worldwide are
hitting already-poor and vulnerable people hard, while also partly changing the profile of global
poverty by creating millions of “new poor.”
Global extreme poverty is expected to rise for the first time in 20 years because of the disruption
caused by COVID-19. Around 9.1% to 9.4% of the world will be affected by extreme poverty in 2020.
16. (d)
The country’s first pollinator park with over 40 species of butterflies, honeybees, birds and insects
has been developed over four acres at Haldwani, Uttarakhand.
The objective behind developing the park is to conserve various pollinator species, create awareness
among people in general about the importance of conservation of these species and to promote
further research on various aspects of pollination, including a threat to habitat and impact of
pollution on pollinators.
About Pollinator: Pollinators provide pollination services to over 180,000 different plant species.
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Without them, existing populations of plants would decline, even if soil, air, nutrients, and other life-
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sustaining elements were available.

The importance of pollinators was recognized long back in the west and to conserve pollinators,
parks, gardens, strips and pathways were created on a large scale in countries like the USA.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister: Trivendra Singh Rawat. Governor of Uttarakhand: Baby Rani Maurya.
17. (b)
Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs launched a scheme PM Street Vendor's AtmaNirbhar Nidhi
(PM SVANidhi) to empower Street Vendors by not only extending loans to them, but also for their
holistic development and economic upliftment.
The scheme intends to facilitate collateral free working capital loans of up to INR10,000/- of one-
year tenure to street vendors, to help resume their businesses in the urban areas, including
surrounding peri-urban/rural areas.
The PM SVANidhi scheme offers incentives in the form of:
• interest subsidy at seven percent per annum on regular repayment of loan

• cashback on undertaking prescribed digital transactions
• eligibility for enhanced next tranche of loans
18. (d)
Capital goods are physical assets that a company uses in the production process to manufacture
products and services that consumers will later use. Capital goods include buildings, machinery,
equipment, vehicles, and tools. Capital goods are not finished goods instead; they are used to make
finished goods.
Capital goods are one of the four factors of production. The other three are: Natural resources, such
as land, oil, and water; Labor, such as workers; and Entrepreneurship.
19. (b)
The Fifteenth Finance Commission (XVFC) led by Chairman Sh N K Singh have submitted its Report
for the period 2021-22 to 2025-26 to the President.
Finance Commission is a constitutional body for the purpose of allocation of certain revenue
resources between the Union and the State Governments. It is established under Article 280 of the
Indian Constitution by the Indian President. It is created to define the financial relations between the
Centre and the states.
Article 280 of the Indian Constitution: President after two years of the commencement of Indian
Constitution and thereafter every 5 years, has to constitute a Finance Commission of India.
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20. (a)
President of India in exercise of the power conferred by clause (1) of Article 217 of the Constitution
of India appoints the Judges of High Courts in India.
The provisions relating the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) has been struck down
by the Supreme Court vide its order dated the 16th October, 2015 in the Supreme Court Advocates-
on-Record Association and Another Vs. Union of India.
21. (d)
Alcohol for human consumption has been kept outside the purview of GST in India at present. These
goods are subject to existing State levies.
Petroleum Products such as petroleum crude, motor spirit (petrol), high speed diesel, natural gas
and aviation turbine fuel etc. are also kept outside the purview of GST in India.
At present, electricity is not subject to GST and power companies pay multiple taxes on capital goods
and other inputs like excise duty, customs duty etc.
22. (c)
Ratan Naval Tata is an Indian industrialist, philanthropist, and a former chairman of Tata Sons. He
was also chairman of Tata Group, from 1990 to 2012, and again, as interim chairman, from October
2016 through February 2017, and continues to head its charitable trusts. He is the recipient of two
of the highest civilian awards of India, the Padma Vibhushan (2008) and Padma Bhushan (2000).
He is well known for his business ethics and philanthropy.
Born in 1937, he is a scion of the Tata family, and great-grandson of Jamsetji Tata, the founder of
Tata Group. He is an alumnus of the Cornell University College of Architecture and Harvard Business
School through the Advanced Management Program that he completed in 1975. He joined his
company in 1961 when he used to work on the shop floor of Tata Steel, and was the apparent
successor to J. R. D. Tata upon the latter's retirement in 1991. He got Tata Tea to acquire Tetley, Tata
Motors to acquire Jaguar Land Rover, and Tata Steel to acquire Corus, in an attempt to turn Tata
from a largely India-centrist group into a global business.
23. (b)
A disease is said to be in Community transmission stage when there is no clear source of origin of
the infection in a new person/community. It can no longer be identified who became infected after
being exposed to someone, who interacted with infected people. The source and chain of infections
can no longer be established. Therefore, contact tracing becomes difficult and has limited use in
arresting the spread of disease.
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• Herd immunity occurs when a large portion of a community becomes immune to a disease,
making the spread of disease from person to person unlikely. This can happen in two ways:
Many people contract the disease and in time build up an immune response to it (natural
immunity) or many people are vaccinated against the disease to achieve immunity.
24. (a)
Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Ltd. has launched an electronic spot platform, “BSE E-Agricultural
Markets Ltd (BEAM)”, for agricultural commodities through its subsidiary BSE Investments Ltd. The
platform aims to boost the competitiveness of the Indian agricultural market by enhancing the
strength of the BSE in financial markets, market technology and its vibrant ecosystem.
• BSE is Asia’s first & world’s fastest Stock Exchange with a speed of 6 microseconds. It is one
of India’s leading exchange groups
• BSE Established: 1875.
• BSE Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra.
• MD and CEO of BSE: Ashish Kumar Chauhan.
25. (d)
Union Cabinet has approved the merger of capital-starved Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB) with DBS Bank
India. The Reserve Bank of India on 17 November proposed the merger of the lender with the Indian
arm of Singapore’s DBS Bank.
The 94-year-old LVB will now cease to exist and its equity completely wiped out. Its deposits will now
be on the books of DBS India. Lakshmi Vilas is the second bank to need a rescue this year, and the
third collapse of a major deposit-taking institution in 15 months and the first since the onset of the
coronavirus pandemic.
About DBS Bank: DBS was the first foreign bank to receive a banking license after the central bank
allowed foreign banks to set up a wholly-owned subsidiary in 2014. “With DBS likely to use digital
capabilities to enhance its physical footprint in India, the proposed deal could lead to a 30-40%
increase in Indian assets of DBS.
• Managing Director & CEO of DBS Bank India Ltd: Surojit Shome.
• DBS Bank India Limited Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra.
• DBS Bank India Limited Established: 2014.
• Lakshmi Vilas Bank Headquarters: Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
• Lakshmi Vilas Bank Founded: 1926.
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The Eighth Schedule to the Constitution consists of the following 22 languages:

Yoshino “for the development of lithium-ion batteries”.

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• interest subsidy at seven percent per annum on regular repayment of loan

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