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Awards and Recognition
Last One year Current Affairs MCQs

Q1.किस दे श िे प्रधानमंत्री िो नोबेल शां कि पुरस्कार 2021 िे कलए नाकमि किया गया है ?
(a) जापान
(b) जॉर्ड न
(c) इज़राइल
(d) अल्जीररया

Q1. Which country’s Prime Minister has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2021?
(a) Japan
(b) Jordan
(c) Israel
(d) Algeria

• The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zayed Al
Nahyan have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2021 for their roles in establishing the strategic and
diplomatic ties between the two nations.
• Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Lord David Trimble on November 25, 2020, submitted the candidacy of PM
Benjamin Netanyahu and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince for Nobel Peace Prize 2021.
• The former minister of Northern Ireland, Lord David Trimble had won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998 which
gives him the privilege of nominating others.
• The Nobel Peace Prize Committee will further review the candidacy of Netanyahu and Al Nahayan.
• इज़राइल िे प्रधानमंत्री, बेंजाकमन नेिन्याहू, और अबू धाबी िे क्राउन कप्रंस, मोहम्मद कबन जायद अल नाहयान िो दो दे शों
िे बीच रणनीकिि और राजनकयि संबंधों िी स्थापना में उनिी भूकमिाओं िे कलए नोबेल शां कि पुरस्कार 2021 िे कलए
नाकमि किया गया है।
• नोबेल पुरस्कार किजेिा लॉर्ड र्े किर् करि म्बले ने अबू धाबी िे क्राउन कप्रंस मोहम्मद कबन जायेद िे साथ प्रधानमंत्री बेंजाकमन
नेिन्याहू िी उम्मीदिारी दजड िर दी है ।
• करि म्बले उत्तरी आयरलैंर् िे मंत्री हैं और उन्ोंने दे श में संघर्षों िा शां किपूणड समाधान कनिालने िे कलए किए गए प्रसायों िे
कलए 1998 में नोबेल शां कि पुरस्कार जीिा था। इसिे बाद से उन्ें इस अंिरराष्ट्िीय पुरस्कार िे कलए अन्य उम्मीदिारों िो
चुनने िा किशेर्षाकधिार हाकसल है ।
• नोबेल पुरस्कार सकमकि नेिन्याहू और अल नाहयान िी उम्मीदिारी िी समीक्षा िरे गी।

Q2.UMANG App पर सिाड कधि लेनदे न िे कलए किस संगठन िो प्लेकरनम पारड नर अिार्ड से सम्माकनि किया गया है ?
(a) UIDAI
(b) िमडचारी भकिष्य कनकध संगठन (EPFO)
(c) जीिन बीमा कनगम
(d) इं कर्या पोस्ट

Q2. Which organization has been awarded the Platinum Partner Award for highest transactions on UMANG App?
(a) UIDAI
(b) Employees' Provident Fund Organisation
(c) Life Insurance Corporation
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(d) India Post

• EPFO conferred with Platinum Partner Award for highest transactions on UMANG App.
• On the occasion of completion of 3 years of UMANG App, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad unveiled the
newly instituted UMANG Awards for Partner Departments of Centre and States based on average transactions
in the past six months across all services.
• Employees' Provident Fund Organisation has been conferred with Platinum Partner Award for registering more
than 25 lakh transactions on UMANG App.
• EPFO aimed to harness the potential of UMANG app to enable easy and round-the-clock access to its services,
especially to the subscribers residing in remotest of locations.
• This led to the launch of EPFO services on UMANG

• EPFO िो UMANG ऐप पर उच्चिम लेनदे न िे कलए प्लैकरनम पारड नर अिार्ड से सम्माकनि किया गया|
• UMANG App िे 3 साल पूरे होने िे अिसर पर, िेंद्रीय मंत्री रकिशंिर प्रसाद ने कपछले छह महीनों में सभी सेिाओं में
औसि लेनदे न िे आधार पर िेंद्र और राज्ों िे साझेदार किभागों िे कलए नि स्थाकपि UMANG पुरस्कारों िा अनािरण
किया।
• िमडचारी भकिष्य कनकध संगठन िो UMANG ऐप पर 25 लाख से अकधि लेनदे न दजड िरने िे कलए प्लेकरनम पारड नर अिार्ड
से सम्माकनि किया गया है ।
• ईपीएफओ िे अकधििर अंशधारि सामाकजि-आकथडि रूप से िमजोर िगड िे हैं ।
• इं ररनेर आधाररि उपिरणों िी लोिकप्रयिा और सहज इस्‍िेमाल पर किचार िरिे हुए EPFO ने सहज रूप से अपनी
सेिाओं िो 24 घंरे पहुं च योग्‍य बनाने िे कलए उमंग ऐप िे उपयोग िरने िा लक्ष्य रखा। खासिर दू रदराज क्षेत्रों रहने िाले
उपभोक्‍िाओं िो ध्यान में रखिे हुए उमंग ऐप पर EPFO सेिाएं शुरू िी गयी।

Q3.भारि ने अपना पहला अंिराड ष्ट्िीय एमी पुरस्कार किस िेब श्रंखला िे कलए जीिा है ?
(a) Sacred Games
(b) Delhi Crime
(c) The Family Man
(d) Mirzapur

Q3.India has won its first International Emmy Award for which web series?
(a) Sacred Games
(b) Delhi Crime
(c) The Family Man
(d) Mirzapur

• India has won its first International Emmy Award.


• Netflix web series Delhi Crime has won the Drama Series award at International Emmy Awards 2020.
• The show has won the Best Drama Series award at the 48th International Emmy Awards which was held
virtually this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
• The show is written and directed by Richie Mehta features actress Shefali Shah as the main character.
• भारि ने अपना पहला अंिराड ष्ट्िीय एमी पुरस्कार जीिा है।
• नेरफ्लिक्स िी िेब सीरीज़ कदल्ली क्राइम ने इं ररनेशनल एमी अिार्डड स 2020 में र्ि ामा सीरीज़ अिार्ड जीिा है ।
• 48 िें अंिराड ष्ट्िीय एमी अिार्डड स िोरोनिायरस महामारी िे िारण इस िर्षड िचुडअल आयोकजि किया गया था।
• इस शो िो ररची मेहिा ने कलखा और कनदे कशि किया है कजसमें अकभनेत्री शेफाली शाह मुख्य किरदार में हैं ।

Q4.किस भारिीय राइगर ररजिड ने चार िर्षों में बाघों िी संख्या दोगुनी िरने िे कलए पहला अंिराड ष्ट्िीय पुरस्कार, TX2 जीिा है ?
(a) पीलीभीि राइगर ररजिड
(b) सररस्का राइगर ररजिड
(c) पन्ना राइगर ररजिड

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(d) अन्नामलाई राइगर ररजिड

Q4. Which Indian Tiger Reserve has won the 1st-ever international award, TX2, for doubling the number of tigers in
four years?
(a) Pilibhit Tiger Reserve
(b) Sariska tiger reserve
(c) Panna tiger reserve
(d) Anamalai tiger reserve

• Pilibhit Tiger Reserve have bagged the first-ever international award, TX2 for the conservation and
preservation of the majestic animals.
• Pilibhit Tiger Reserve was the first to receive the award among 13 tiger range countries.
• It achieved this goal in just four years from 2014, when it had 25 tigers which went up to 65 in 2018.
• The award was virtually presented to the principal chief conservator of forest of the state, by the United
Nations Development Program.
• TX2 is the global award which was set up in 2010 in St. Petersburg, Russia by international organizations
working for tiger conservation like WWF, UNDP and IUCN.
• पीलीभीि राइगर ररजिड िो अंिरराष्ट्िीय ग्लोबल अिार्ड TX2 िे पुरस्कार से निाजा गया है ।
• ये पुरस्कार िम समय में बाघों िी दोगुनी िरने िे आधार पर कदया गया है ।
• पीलीभीि राइगर ररजिड और राज् िे िन किभाग ने 10 साल िी जगह चार साल में ही बाघों िी आबादी दोगुनी िरिे
पहली बार अंिरराष्ट्िीय पुरस्कार TX-2 हाकसल किया है ।
• दे श िी 13 राइगर रें ज में ये पुरस्कार पाने िाला पीरीआर पहला राइगर रें ज है।
• पीरीआर िे कर्प्टी र्ायरे क्टर निीन खंर्ेलिाल ने िहा है कि यहां बाघों िा संरक्षण और िरफ्लि संबंकधि अन्य संस्थाओं िे
सहयोग से ही संभि हो सिी है ।
• 2014 में यहां 25 बाघ थे जो कि 2018 में 65 हो गए।
• TX2 िैकिि पुरस्कार है कजसे 2010 में WWF, UNDP और IUCN जैसे बाघ संरक्षण िे कलए िाम िरने िाले अंिरराष्ट्िीय
संगठनों द्वारा सेंर पीरसडबगड, रूस में स्थाकपि किया गया था।

Q5.किि मत्स्य पालन कदिस 2020 िे अिसर पर समुद्री राज्ों में से किस राज् िो सिडश्ेष्ठ प्रदशडन िरने िे कलए सम्माकनि किया
गया है ?
(a) गोिा
(b) ओकर्शा
(c) आं ध्र प्रदे श
(d) िकमलनार्ु

Q5. Which state has been awarded for best-performing state among the Marine states on the occasion of World Fisheries
Day 2020?
(a) Goa
(b) Odisha
(c) Andhra Pradesh
(d) Tamil Nadu

• ‘World Fisheries Day 2020’ was celebrated on 21 November by the Department of Fisheries at NASC Complex
in New Delhi.
• The Minister of State for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying has given different awards to states:Uttar
Pradesh has got the best performing award in the inland fisheries sector.
• Odisha has got the award for best-performing state among the Marine states.
• Assam has been awarded to the best performing state among the Hilly and NE states.
• Tamil Nadu Fisheries Development Corporation Ltd has won the best Organisation award in the marine
category.
• Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh has got the best Marine District of India award.
• Kalahandi district of Odisha has won the award of best Inland District of India.

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• Nagaon, Assam has got the best Hilly and NE District of India award.

• किि मत्स्य पालन कदिस 2020’ 21 निंबर िो नई कदल्ली में NASC िॉम्प्प्लेक्स में मत्स्य पालन किभाग द्वारा मनाया गया।
• इस अिसर पर मत्स्य पालन, पशुपालन और र्े यरी राज् मंत्री ने राज्ों िो किकभन्न पुरस्कार कदए हैं :
• ओकर्शा िो समुद्री राज्ों में सिडश्ेष्ठ प्रदशडन िरने िाले राज् िा पुरस्कार कमला है।
• असम िो पहाडी और पूिोत्तर राज्ों में सिडश्ेष्ठ प्रदशडन िरने िाले राज् से सम्माकनि किया गया है ।
• उत्तर प्रदे श िो अंिदे शीय मत्स्य पालन क्षेत्र में सिडश्ेष्ठ प्रदशडन िरने िाला पुरस्कार कमला है ।
• और िकमलनार्ु मत्स्य कििास कनगम कलकमरे र् ने समुद्री श्ेणी में सिडश्ेष्ठ संगठन िा पुरस्कार जीिा है ।

Q6. 2020 िे कलए व्यफ्लिगि श्ेणी में संयुि राष्ट्ि जनसंख्या पुरस्कार से किसे सम्माकनि किया गया है ?
(a) नरें द्र मोदी
(b) ग्याकलयम संगे चोर्े न िां गचुि
(c) शेख हसीना
(d) र्ोनाल्ड रि म्प

Q6. Who has been awarded the United Nations Population Award in the individual category for 2020?
(a) Narendra Modi
(b) Gyalyum Sangay Choden Wangchuck
(c) Sheikh Hasina
(d) Donald Trump
• Bhutan’s Queen Mother Gyalyum Sangay Choden Wangchuck has been awarded the United Nations Population
Award.
• The award has been presented to her in the individual category for 2020 for her work on sexual health and
ending gender violence.
• The awardee in the organisational category is HelpAge India that works on elder care.
• Only two Indians have been awarded in the past four decades since the award was established in 1981: former
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1983 and industrialist-philanthropist J.R.D.Tata in 1992.
• The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) has announced this award
• She founded a volunteer organisation called ‘Respect, Educate, Nurture and Empower Women’ (RENEW).
• भूरान िी रानी मदर ग्याकलयम संगे चोर्े न िां गचुि िो संयुि राष्ट्ि जनसंख्या पुरस्कार से सम्माकनि किया गया है ।
• यौन स्वास्थ्य पर िाम िरने और लैंकगि कहं सा िो समाप्त िरने िे कलए उन्ें 2020 िे कलए व्यफ्लिगि श्ेणी में यह पुरस्कार
प्रदान किया गया है ।
• संगठनात्मि श्ेणी में यह अिार्ड हे ल्पएज इं कर्या िो कदया गया|
• 1981 में इस पुरस्कार िी स्थापना िे बाद से कपछले चार दशिों में िेिल दो भारिीयों िो सम्माकनि किया गया है : 1983 में
पूिड प्रधानमंत्री इं कदरा गां धी और 1992 में उद्योगपकि-परोपिारी जे आर र्ी रारा।

Q7. परोपिार में उत्करष्ट्िा िे कलए लाल बहादु र शास्त्री राष्ट्िीय पुरस्कार से किसे सम्माकनि किया गया है ?
(a) किरण मजूमदार-शॉ
(b) सुधा मूकिड
(c) रिन रारा
(d) अजीम प्रेमजी

Q7. Who has been awarded the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Philanthropy?
(a) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
(b) Sudha Murty

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(c) Ratan Tata


(d) Azim Premji

• VP Venkaiah Naidu has presented Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award in Excellence to Sudha Murty.
• Venkaiah Naidu presented the 21st Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Philanthropy to
Chairperson of Infosys Foundation Sudha Murty virtually.
• इं फोकसस फाउं र्ेशन िी चेयरपसडन सुधा मूकिड िो भारि िे उप राष्ट्िपकि िेंिैया नायर्ू ने लाल बहादु र शास्त्री राष्ट्िीय
पुरस्कार से सम्माकनि किया।
• समारोह िा आयोजन िचुडअल किया गया था।
• लाल बहादु र शास्त्री प्रबंधन संस्थान द्वारा प्रदान किए जाने िाले इस पुरस्कार में पां च लाख रुपये िी राकश, स्मरकि कचह्न और
प्रशफ्लि पत्र प्रदान किया जािा है ।

Q8.भारि ने किस दे श िे साथ OECD म्यूचुअल एग्रीमेंर प्रकक्रया 2019 पुरस्कार जीिा है ?
(a) कसंगापुर
(b) जापान
(c) चीन
(d) ऑस्टि े कलया

Q8. India along with which country has won the OECD Mutual Agreement Procedure 2019 Award?
(a) Singapore
(b) Japan
(c) China
(d) Australia

• India-Japan cooperation has won the OECD Mutual Agreement Procedure 2019 Award.
• This was announced on the occasion of Second Tax Certainty day by OECD
• India with Japan has won the 2019 Award on Co-operation for highest agreement ratio for a pair of jurisdictions
for transfer pricing cases.
• The Award to India-Japan Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP) Cooperation demonstrates India's commitment
to provide tax certainty and efficacious dispute resolution mechanism for the Japanese companies doing
business in India.
• भारि-जापान िे बीच हुई उच्च िरीय साझेदाररयों िो िर्षड 2019 िा OECD म्यूचुअल एग्रीमेंर प्रकक्रया पुरस्कार से निाजा
गया है ।
• दू सरे िर कनकिििा कदिस पर OECD ने इस पुरस्कार िी घोर्षणा िी।
• यह पुरस्कार रि ां सफर प्राइकजंग मामलों िे कलए िानूनी समझौिों िो लेिर भारि और जापान िे बीच हुए िरारों िे कलए
कदया गया।
• भारि-जापान म्यूचुअल एग्रीमेंर प्रकक्रया (MAP) सहयोग िा पुरस्कार भारि में व्यापार िरने िाली जापानी िंपकनयों िे कलए
िर कनकिििा और प्रभाििारी कििाद समाधान िंत्र प्रदान िरने िे कलए भारि िी प्रकिबििा िो प्रदकशडि िरिा है ।

Q9.किस िेंद्रीय मंत्री िो िािायन लाइफराइम अचीिमेंर अिार्ड 2020 से सम्माकनि किया जाएगा?
(a) पीयूर्ष गोयल
(b) कनकिन गर्िरी
(c) रमेश पोखररयाल कनशंि ’
(d) राजनाथ कसंह

Q9. Which Union Minister will be conferred with the Vatayan Lifetime Achievement Award 2020?
(a) Piyush Goyal
(b) Nitin Gadkari

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(c) Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’


(d) Rajnath Singh

• Union Education Minister Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ will be conferred with the Vatayan Lifetime
Achievement Award at a virtual ceremony on 21st November, 2020.
• Vatayan International Awards given by the Vatayan-UK organization in London, honours poets, writers and
artists for their exemplary work in their respective fields’.
• Before many famous personalities like Prasoon Joshi, Javed Akhtar have been awarded the Vatayan Awards for
their literary contribution.
• This award will be another in the list of many other national and international awards and honours conferred to
the Minister for writing, poetry and other literary works.

• िेंद्रीय कशक्षा मंत्री श्ी रमेश पोखररयाल ‘कनशंि’ िो 21 निंबर, 2020 िो एि िचुडअल माध्यम से आयोकजि एि िायडक्रम
में िािायन लाइफ राइम अचीिमेंर अिॉर्ड से सम्माकनि किया जाएगा।
• श्ी पोखररयाल िो इससे पहले साकहत्य और प्रशासन िे क्षेत्र में किकभन्न पुरस्कारों से सम्माकनि किया जा चुिा है कजसमें
ित्कालीन प्रधानमंत्री श्ी अरल कबहारी िाजपेयी द्वारा प्रदान किया गया साकहत्य भारिी पुरस्कार, पूिड राष्ट्िपकि र्ॉ. एपीजे
अब्दु ल िलाम द्वारा कदया गया साकहत्य गौरि सम्मान से निाजा गया हैं ।
• श्ी कनशंि िो नेपाल ने ‘कहमल गौरि सम्मान’ से सम्माकनि किया है ।
• श्ी कनशंि िे िहानी संग्रह ‘जस्ट ए कर्ज़ायर’ िा जमडन भार्षा में हैम्बगड फ्लस्थि अफ़्रो-एकशयन संस्थान द्वारा अनुिाद और
प्रिाशन किया गया।
• उनिी ‘स्पशड गंगा’ पहल िो मॉरीशस िे स्कूली पाठ्यक्रम में सफ्लम्मकलि किया गया।
• िािायन अंिराड ष्ट्िीय पुरस्कार, लंदन िे िािायन-यूिे संगठन द्वारा कदया जािा है ।
• िकियों, लेखिों और िलािारों िो उनिे क्षेत्र में किए गए उल्लेखनीय िायों िे कलए यह सम्मान प्रदान किया जािा है ।
• िािायन-यूिे सम्मान िायडक्रम िा आयोजन िचुडअल माध्यम से 21 निंबर, 2020 िो किया जाएगा।

Q10. उपन्यास ‘Shuggie Bain’ िे कलए बुिर पुरस्कार 2020 किसने जीिा है?
(a) ब्रैंर्न रे लर
(b) र्गलस स्टु अरड
(c) र्ायने िुि
(d) माज़ा मेंकगस्ट

Q10. Who has won the Booker Prize 2020 for the novel, ‘Shuggie Bain’ ?
(a) Brandon Taylor
(b) Douglas Stuart
(c) Diane Cook
(d) Maaza Mengiste

• Douglas Stuart has won the Booker Prize 2020 for Shuggie Bain, his debut novel
• Stuart presents a tightly-cut portrait of the working class during the 1980s in Glasgow.
• The book is about a boy trying to support his mother as she struggles with addiction and poverty.
• The decision was unanimous and the head of judges is Margaret Busby.
• Douglas Stuart is a Scottish-American writer and fashion designer.

• स्कॉकरश लेखि र्गलस स्टु अरड ने ग्लासगो में अपने पहले उपन्यास “शुगी बैन” िे कलए 2020 बुिर पुरस्कार जीिा।
• स्टु अरड 1980 िे दशि िे दौरान ग्लासगो में मज़दू र िगड िा कचत्र प्रिुि िरिे हैं ।
• यह कििाब ऐसे लडिे िे बारे में है जो अपनी मााँ िो सहारा दे ने िी िोकशश िर रहा है क्ोंकि िह नशे और गरीबी से
जूझ रहे है ।
• र्गलस स्टु अरड स्कॉकरश-अमेररिी लेखि और फैशन कर्जाइनर हैं ।

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Q11.िेंद्रीय कशक्षा मंत्री रमेश पोखररयाल 'कनशंि' ने हाल ही में लीलाििी पुरस्कारों िा उदड घारन किया है। यह पुरस्कार किस किर्षय
पर आधाररि हैं ?
(a) सामाकजि अकधिाररिा
(b) मकहला सशफ्लििरण
(c) COVID िाररयसड
(d) जलिायु पररििडन

Q11. The Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokriyal ‘Nishank’ has recently inaugurated the Lilavati Awards. The
awards are based on which theme?
(a) Social Empowerment
(b) Women Empowerment
(c) COVID Warriors
(d) Climate Change

• The Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokriyal ‘Nishank’ has inaugurated the Lilavati Awards based on the
theme of women empowerment.
• The award is an initiative of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).
• The Lilavati Award aims to recognise the efforts of AICTE affiliated institutions in treating women.
• The award has been named after the 12 century book called “Lilavati”.
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• The book was written by the mathematician Bhaskara II.


• The prize was handed out for the first time at the International Congress of Mathematicians that was held in
2010
• िेंद्रीय कशक्षा मंत्री रमेश पोखररयाल कनशंि ’ने मकहला सशफ्लििरण िी थीम पर आधाररि लीलाििी पुरस्कारों िा
उदड घारन किया है ।
• यह पुरस्कार अफ्लखल भारिीय ििनीिी कशक्षा पररर्षद (AICTE) िी एि पहल है ।
• लीलाििी पुरस्कार िा उद्दे श्य AICTE से संबि संस्थानों िे मकहला उत्थान प्रयासों िो मान्यिा दे ना है।
• इस पुरस्कार िा नाम 12 िीं शिाब्दी िी पुिि "लीलाििी" िे नाम पर रखा गया है ।
• पुिि गकणिज्ञ भास्कर II द्वारा कलखी गई थी।
• यह पुरस्कार पहली बार अंिराडष्ट्िीय िां ग्रेस िे गकणिज्ञों िे कलए कदया गया था जो 2010 में आयोकजि किया गया था

Q12.अंिराड ष्ट्िीय बाल शां कि पुरस्कार 2020 से किसे सम्माकनि किया गया है ?
(a) एम नेथरा
(b) सादाि रहमान
(c) ग्रेरा थुनबगड
(d) कलसेकप्रया िंगुजम

Q12. Who has been awarded the International Children’s Peace Prize 2020?
(a) M Nethra
(b) Sadat Rahman
(c) Greta Thunberg
(d) Licypriya Kangujam

• A Bangladeshi teen Sadat Rahman has been awarded the International Children’s Peace Prize for his work to
stop cyber bullying of teens.
• The award was given away by the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai during a ceremony in the
Netherlands.
• The prize is given away by the international children’s rights organization KidsRights to a child who fights
courageously for children’s rights.

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• Sadat Rahman has created the anti-cyber bullying app ‘Cyber Teens’ to help teenagers who are sufferers of
cyber bullying.
• The app provides information to the young people about internet safety. It also provides them a channel to
safely report the cyberbullying confidentially.
• Sadat also formed an organisation to bring together cyber specialists, social workers and the police.

• बां ग्लादे श िे एि किशोर सादाि रहमान िो साइबर बाल अपराध िो रोिने िी कदशा में िायड िरने िे कलए अंिराड ष्ट्िीय
बाल शां कि पुरस्कार से सम्माकनि किया गया है ।
• यह पुरस्कार नोबेल शांकि पुरस्कार किजेिा मलाला यूसुफजई ने सादाि रहमान िो नीदरलैंर् में एि समारोह िे दौरान
प्रदान किया।
• यह पुरस्कार अंिरराष्ट्िीय बाल अकधिार संगठन- किर्ड स नाइरड स द्वारा ऐसे बच्चे िो कदया जािा है जो बाल अकधिारों िे
कलए संघर्षड िरिा है।
• सादाि रहमान िो 42 दे शों िे 142 आिेदिों में से चुना गया है ।
• सादाि ने साइबर अपराध से पीकडि किशोरों िी मदद िे कलए साइबर अपराध कनरोधी ऐप साइबर रीन्स बनाया है ।
• यह ऐप युिाओं िो इं ररनेर सुरक्षा िे बारे में जानिारी प्रदान िरिा है और उन्ें गोपनीय रूप से साइबर बुकलंग िे बारे में
ररपोरड िरने िे कलए एि मंच भी प्रदान िरिा है ।

Q13. उपन्यास, Moustache िे कलए 2020 िा जेसीबी साकहत्य पुरस्कार किसने जीिा है ?
(a) माधुरी किजय
(b) अकमिाभ बागची
(c) एस हरीश
(d) एनी जैदी

Q13. Who has won the JCB Prize for Literature 2020 for his novel, Moustache?
(a) Madhuri Vijay
(b) Amitabh Bagchi
(c) S Hareesh
(d) Annie Zaidi

• Malayalam author S Hareesh has won the coveted JCB Prize for Literature 2020 for his novel, Moustache.
• The book has been translated in English by Jayasree Kalathil and published by HarperCollins India.
• The novel addresses a wide range of issues plaguing the society at large through the symbol of a moustache,
which withholds connotations of both gender and caste.
• Hareesh’s work is a fine literary example of a modern classic.
• लेखि एस हरीश िी पुिि “Moustache” िो 25 लाख रुपये िा जेसीबी साकहत्य पुरस्कार दे ने िी घोर्षणा िी गई।
• इस पुिि िो जयश्ी िलाकिल ने मलयाली से अंग्रेजी में अनुिाद किया है ।
• हरीश िा यह पहला उपन्यास है जो कमथि, जादू और िल्पनाशीलिा िा सफ्लम्मश्ण है ।
• पुिि िो चार सदस्ों िाले कनणाड यि मंर्ल द्वारा पुरस्कार िे कलए चुना गया।
• कनणाड यि मंर्ल में लेखि और अनुिादि आरुकण िश्यप, लेखि िेजफ्लस्वनी कनरं जना, नारििार और कनदे शि रामू
रामनाथन िथा रारा न्यास में िला और संस्करकि िी अध्यक्ष दीकपिा सोराबजी शाकमल थे।
• हरीश ने इस पठनीय िहानी में िुट्टनार् क्षेत्र िे जािीय और कलंग आधाररि समीिरणों िा गहराई से किश्लेर्षण किया है ।

Q14.किस भारिीय राज् ने िल्डड रि ै िल मारड लंदन द्वारा 'हाइली िॉमेर्ेर्' पुरस्कार जीिा है?
(a) महाराष्ट्ि
(b) गुजराि
(c) िकमलनार्ु
(d) िेरल

Q14. Which Indian state has won the 'Highly Commended' Award by the World Travel Mart London?

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(a) Maharashtra
(b) Gujarat
(c) Tamil Nadu
(d) Kerala

• Kerala Tourism has been bestowed the coveted 'Highly Commended' Award by World Travel
Mart London, as a recognition for its remarkable activities aimed at promoting Responsible
Tourism (RT) during the challenging times of COVID-19 pandemic.
• Kerala's Responsible Tourism (RT) Mission received this recognition in the category of 'Meaningful
Connections.
• The RT Mission received the award for its innovative work on 'Wok at Home Videos' and storytelling audio
and video series produced and presented by various Mission units in the state during the pandemic that has
posed multiple challenges to the tourism sector.

• The Work at Home Videos have been developed by RT Mission entrepreneurs with a message to stay home
safely during the lockdown but not to despair and to adopt measures to effectively prevent the spread of the
COVID-19.
• COVID-19 महामारी िे चुनौिीपूणड समय िे दौरान ररस्पॉफ्लन्सबल रू ररज्म िो बढािा दे ने िे उद्दे श्य से अपनी उल्लेखनीय
गकिकिकधयों िे कलए मान्यिा िे रूप में, िेरल पयडरन िो िल्डड रि ै िल मारड लंदन द्वारा प्रकिकष्ठि 'हाइली िॉमेर्ेर्' पुरस्कार से
सम्माकनि किया गया है ।
• िेरल िे ररस्पॉफ्लन्सबल रू ररज्म (RT) कमशन िो साथडि िनेक्शन ’िी श्ेणी में यह मान्यिा कमली।

Q15.सेना प्रमुख जनरल मनोज मुिुंद नरिणे िो किस दे श िी सेना िे जनरल िे मानद रैं ि से सम्माकनि किया गया है?
(a) नेपाल
(b) श्ीलंिा
(c) पाकििान
(d) बां ग्लादे श

Q15. Army Chief General MM Naravane has been conferred the honorary rank of General of which country’s Army?
(a) Nepal
(b) Sri Lanka
(c) Pakistan
(d) Bangladesh

• Army Chief General MM Naravane has been conferred the honorary rank of General of the Nepali Army by
President Bidya Devi Bhandari in Kathmandu.
• He was honoured at a special ceremony at the President's official residence 'Shital Niwas' in Kathmandu.
• He was also presented with a sword and scroll during the function.
• The ceremony was attended by the Prime Minister of Nepal K.P. Sharma Oli, Indian Ambassador Vinay M.
Kwatra and other senior officials of both the countries.
• During the meeting, General Naravane conveyed his gratitude for the honour bestowed upon him and also
discussed measures to further enhance bilateral cooperation.
• The practice follows a seven decade old tradition of conferring Army Chiefs of each other's country with the
honorary title.
• General Naravane laid a wreath and paid homage to the martyrs at the Bir Smarak Martyr’s Memorial in the
capital.
• भारिीय सेना प्रमुख जनरल एम एम नरिणे िो 'जनरल ऑफ द नेपाल आमी' िी मानद उपाकध से सम्माकनि किया गया.
• नेपाल िी राष्ट्िपकि कबद्या दे िी भंर्ारी ने जनरल नरिणे िो इस मानद सम्मान से निाजा|
• भारिीय सेना िे प्रमुख जनरल मनोज मुिुंद नरिणे 4 निंबर से लेिर 6 नंिबर िि नेपाल िे दौरे पर हैं ।

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• नेपाल सेना मुख्यालय में भारि और नेपाल िे सेना प्रमुखों, जनरल मनोज मुिुंद नरिणे और जनरल पूणड चंद्र थापा िे बीच
कद्वपक्षीय िािाड शुरू हो चुिी है।
• नेपाल िे आमी चीफ जनरल पूणड चंद्र थापा

Q16. "प्रो.ए ऐन. भादु डी मेमोररयल लेक्चर अिार्ड -2020" से किसे सम्माकनि किया गया है ?
(a) नीना मल्होत्रा
(b) र्ॉ सुशां ि िार
(c) र्ॉ प्रदीप श्ीिािि
(d) राजेश खुल्लर

Q16. Who has been honoured with “Prof.A N Bhaduri Memorial Lecture Award-2020"?
(a) Neena Malhotra
(b) Dr Susanta Kar
(c) Dr Pradeep Srivastava
(d) Rajesh Khullar

• CSIR-CDRI Scientist, Dr Susanta Kar, honoured with “Prof.A N Bhaduri Memorial Lecture
Award-2020" by the Society of Biological Chemists (India)
• To recognize the significant contributions towards defining the survival tactics of Leishmania donovani, Society
of Biological Chemists (India) has chosen Dr Susanta Kar,Senior Scientist, Molecular Parasitology and
Immunology, CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow for this year's Prof.A N Bhaduri Memorial Lecture Award.
• Leishmania Donovani is a protozoan parasite that infects macrophages and is a causative agent of visceral
leishmaniasis (Kala Azar), a lethal infectious disease affecting millions worldwide.
• CSIR-CDRI के वैज्ञानिक, डॉ सुशाांत कार को सोसायटी ऑफ बायोलॉनिकल केनिस्ट् स (इां नडया) द्वारा "प्रो.ए
ऐि. भादु डी िेिोररयल लेक्चर अवाडड -2020 से सम्मानित नकया गया है |
• ‘लीशमैकनया र्ोनोिानी” एि प्रोरोजोअन परजीिी है जो मैक्रोफेज िोकशिाओं िो संक्रकमि िरिा है और दु कनया भर में
लाखों लोगों िो प्रभाकिि िरने िाले एि घािि संक्रामि रोग,लीश्मेनीयाकसस (िालाजार) िा मुख्य िारि है ।
• र्ॉ सुशां ि िार िी ररसचड रीम मैक्रोफेज, र्ें र्िाइकरि िोकशिाओं और री िोकशिाओं जैसी किकभन्न प्रकिरक्षा िोकशिाओं
िे साथ लीशमैकनया परजीिी िे पारस्पररि सम्बन्ों िा अध्ययन िर रही है

Q17.किस भारिीय कफल्म िो एकशयाई कफल्म पुरस्कार िे 14िें संस्करण में सिडश्ेष्ठ मूल संगीि िा पुरस्कार कमला है ?
(a) िेसरी
(b) गली बॉय
(c) सुपर 30
(d) पद्मािि

Q17. Which Indian movie has received the award for the Best Original Music at the 14th edition of Asian Film Awards?
(a) Kesari
(b) Gully Boy
(c) Super 30
(d) Padmavat

• Indian Movie Gully Boy received the award for the Best Original Music at the 14th edition of Asian Film
Awards
• The 14th edition of Asian Film Awards was organized by the Asian Film Awards Academy
• The award was given to The Salvage Audio Collective and Karsh Kale.
• Zoya Akhtar has directed Film Gully Boy.
• भारिीय कफल्म गली बॉय िो एकशयाई कफल्म पुरस्कारों िे 14 िें संस्करण में सिडश्ेष्ठ मूल संगीि िा पुरस्कार कमला
• एकशयाई कफल्म पुरस्कार िे 14 िें संस्करण िा आयोजन एकशयाई कफल्म पुरस्कार अिादमी द्वारा किया गया था|

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• यह पुरस्कार द सालिेज ऑकर्यो िलेफ्लक्टि और Karsh kale िो कदया गया ।


• जोया अख्तर ने कफल्म गली बॉय िा कनदे शन किया
• गली बॉय (Gully Boy) िो 2020 में भारि िी ओर से कफल्म िो बेस्ट इं ररनेशनल फीचर कफल्म िी िैरे गरी में ऑस्कर िे
कलए भेजा गया था|

Q18.बोस्टन िे िीसरे भारि अंिराड ष्ट्िीय कफल्म समारोह में लाइफराइम अचीिमेंर अिार्ड से किसे सम्माकनि किया गया है ?
(a) ऋकर्ष िपूर
(b) ओम पुरी
(c) इरफान खान
(d) सुशां ि कसंह राजपूि

Q18. Who has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the third India International Film Festival of
Boston?
(a) Rishi Kapoor
(b) Om Puri
(c) Irrfan Khan
(d) Sushant Singh Rajput

• Late actor Om Puri was honoured at the third India International Film Festival of Boston this year with a
Lifetime Achievement Award.
• The award was received on his behalf by his wife Nandita Puri.
• Other big winners of the night were Malayalam film Kaanthi, which won the Best Feature Film Award.
• The Best Actor Male was won by Victor Bannerjee for playing a priest in Josef: Born In Grace.

• स्वगीय अकभनेिा ओम पुरी िो बोस्टन िे िीसरे भारि अंिराड ष्ट्िीय कफल्म समारोह में इस साल िे लाइफराइम अचीिमेंर
अिार्ड से सम्माकनि किया गया।
• मलयालम कफल्म िान्थी -कजसने सिडश्ेष्ठ फीचर कफल्म िा पुरस्कार जीिा।
• किक्टर बनजी ने Josef: Born In Grace िे कलए सिडश्ेष्ठ अकभनेिा पुरस्कार जीिा।

Q19."I RISE" र्ॉक्ूमेंरिी ने रै गोर इं ररनेशनल कफल्म फेफ्लस्टिल में उत्करष्ट् पुरस्कार जीिा है। यह किस बॉक्सर िे जीिन पर आधाररि
है ?
(a) कनखि ज़रीन
(b) लेशराम सररिा दे िी
(c) लोिकलना बोगोकहन
(d) मैरी िॉम

Q19. The documentary titled, “I RISE” has won an award in the Tagore International Film Festival. It is based on the
life of which boxer?
(a) Nikhat Zareen
(b) Laishram Sarita Devi
(c) Lovlina Borgohain
(d) Mary Kom

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• The documentary titled, “I RISE” based on the life of ace boxer Laishram Sarita Devi, has won the 'Best film
on Woman, outstanding achievement award' in the Tagore International Film Festival, (TIFF) held at West
Bengal.
• The 52-minute documentary is directed by National Award-winning filmmaker and journalist Borun Thokchom.
I RISE, is a Films Division, Mumbai production.
• TIFF is a monthly live screening international event.
In each month, the world film industry specialists announce 20 Officially selected films in various categories
and one of those films receives the 'Best of the Category' award.
In the 10th season of TIFF, 'I RISE' won the 'Best film on Woman, outstanding achievement award.

• पकिम बंगाल में आयोकजि रै गोर इं ररनेशनल कफल्म फेफ्लस्टिल (TIFF) में बॉक्सर लेशराम सररिा दे िी िे जीिन
पर आधाररि र्ॉक्ूमेंरिी, “I Rise” ने बेस्ट कफल्म ऑन िुमन, उत्करष्ट् उपलफ्लि पुरस्कार ’जीिा है ।
• 52 कमनर िी इस र्ॉक्ूमेंरिी िा कनदे शन राष्ट्िीय पुरस्कार किजेिा कफल्म कनमाड िा और पत्रिार Borun Thokchom
ने किया है । आई राइज, कफल्म्स कर्िीजन, मुंबई प्रोर्क्शन है ।
• TIFF एि माकसि लाइि स्क्रीकनंग अंिराड ष्ट्िीय इिेंर है ।
• प्रत्येि महीने में, किि कफल्म उद्योग किशेर्षज्ञ किकभन्न श्ेकणयों में 20 आकधिाररि रूप से चयकनि कफल्मों िी घोर्षणा
िरिे हैं और उन कफल्मों में से एि िो 'बेस्ट ऑफ द िैरे गरी' पुरस्कार कमलिा है ।

Q20.किस राज् सरिार ने "सुनंदा सम्मान’ पुरस्कार िी स्थापना िी है ?


(a) ओकर्शा
(b) महाराष्ट्ि
(c) गुजराि
(d) मध्य प्रदे श

Q20. Which state government has instituted the ‘Sunanda Samman’ Award?
(a) Odisha
(b) Maharashtra
(c) Gujarat
(d) Madhya Pradesh

• The award conferred by the Odisha Sangeet Natak Akademi on eminent personalities of classical music every
year has been renamed as ‘Sunanda Samman’.
• Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has approved the proposal. As per the proposal, the Odisha Sangeet Natak
Akademi will confer ‘Sunanda Samman’ on the personalities who excel in classical music every year.
• The ‘Sunanda Samman’ carries a cash reward of Rs 2.5 lakh and a citation.

• शास्त्रीय संगीि िी प्रख्याि हफ्लियों िो हर सालओकर्शा संगीि नारि अिादमी द्वारा प्रदान किए जाने िाले पुरस्कार िा
नाम बदलिर 'सुनंदा सम्मान' रखा गया है ।
• सुनंदा सम्मान ’में 2.5 लाख रुपये िा निद पुरस्कार और एि प्रशफ्लि पत्र कदया जायेगा।
• प्रकिकष्ठि शास्त्रीय गायि सुनंदा परनायि िे बाद इस पुरस्कार िी स्थापना िी गई है |
• मुख्यमंत्री निीन परनायि ने एि प्रिाि िो मंजूरी दे दी है कजसिे अनुसार, ओकर्शा संगीि नारि अिादमी हर साल
शास्त्रीय संगीि में उत्करष्ट् प्रदशडन िरने िाले व्यफ्लित्ों िो 'सुनंदा सम्मान' प्रदान िरे गी।

Q21.भारि िी सहायिा से कनकमडि मंगदे छु जलकिदड युि पररयोजना किस दे श में प्रकिकष्ठि ब्रूनल पदि से सम्माकनि िी गई है ?
(a) बांग्लादे श

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(b) नेपाल
(c) भूरान
(d) श्ीलंिा

Q21.India-assisted Mangdechhu hydroelectric project in which country has been awarded the prestigious Brunel Medal?
(a) Bangladesh
(b) Nepal
(c) Bhutan
(d) Sri Lanka

• India-assisted Mangdechhu hydroelectric project in Bhutan has been awarded the prestigious Brunel Medal for
excellence in civil engineering by the UK-based Institute of Civil Engineers.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi had inaugurated the 720 MW project on August 17 last year during his visit to
Bhutan.
• The run-of-river power plant, built on the Mangdechhu River in Trongsa Dzongkhag district of central Bhutan
at a cost of Rs 4,500-crore, is seen as a symbol of friendship between the two countries.

• भूरान में भारि िी सहायिा से कनकमडि मंगदे छु जलकिदड युि पररयोजना िो कसकिल इं जीकनयररं ग में उत्करष्ट्िा िे कलए प्रकिकष्ठि
ब्रुनेल मेर्ल से सम्माकनि किया गया है ।
• यह पुरस्कार कब्ररे न िे इं स्टीट्यूर आफ कसकिल इं जीकनयसड ने प्रदान किया है ।
• प्रधानमंत्री नरें द्र मोदी ने कपछले साल 17 अगि िो भूरान िी यात्रा िे दौरान 720 मेगािार िी इस पररयोजना िा उदड घारन
किया था।
• मध्य भूरान िे रि ोंगसा दड ज़ोंगखाग कजले में मंगदे छु नदी पर 4,500 िरोड रुपये िी लागि से कनकमडि यह पररयोजना दोनों
दे शों िे बीच कमत्रिा िे प्रिीि िे रूप में दे खी जािी है ।

Q22. भारिीय मूल िे किस सजडन िो "आउरस्टैं कर्ं ग यंग पसडन ऑफ द िल्डड 2020" नाकमि किया गया है ?
(a) र्ॉ िैलाश चंद
(b) र्ॉ चंद नागपाल
(c) र्ॉ िमलेश खूंरी
(d) र्ॉ जैकजनी िगीस

Q22. Which Indian-origin surgeon has been named an ‘Outstanding Young Person of the World 2020?
(a) Dr Kailash Chand
(b) Dr Chaand Nagpaul
(c) Dr Kamlesh Khunti
(d) Dr Jajini Varghese

• Dr Jajini Varghese, a UK-based Indian-origin surgeon, has been named an ‘Outstanding Young Person of the
World 2020’ by a non-profit NGO for her “incredible” scientific contributions to diagnosing and treating breast
cancer.
• The 39-year-old Consultant in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery at Royal Free Hospital and University College
London is one of 10 nominations from the UK for the international award, which honours outstanding young
people under the age of 40 every year from across 110 countries for extraordinary accomplishments in various
fields.
• कब्ररे न िी रहने िाली भारिीय मूल िी सजडन र्ॉ जैकजनी िगीज िो िन िैंसर िे कनदान और उपचार िे कलए उनिे
“अकििसनीय” िैज्ञाकनि योगदान िे कलए एि गैर-लाभिारी NGO द्वारा ‘आउरस्टैं कर्ं ग यंग पसडन ऑफ द िल्डड 2020’ से
नाकमि किया गया है।
• उनिा नाम अंिराड ष्ट्िीय पुरस्कार िे कलए यूिे से दस नामां िन में से एि था।

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• यह पुरस्कार किकभन्न क्षेत्रों में असाधारण उपलफ्लियों िे कलए 110 दे शों से हर साल 40 िर्षड से िम उम्र िे उत्करष्ट् लोगों िो
सम्माकनि िरिा है ।
• िगीज िो “मेकर्िल इनोिेशन” श्ेणी में मान्यिा दी गई है िाकि िन िैंसर से प्रभाकिि लाखों मकहलाओं िे जीिन िो बहाल
िरने िा उनिा व्यफ्लिगि कमशन बन सिे।
• यह पुरस्कार उन्ें निंबर िी शुरुआि में जापान िे योिोहामा में 2020 जूकनयर चैंबर इं ररनेशनल (JCI) िल्डड िां ग्रेस में
एि समारोह में प्रदान किया जाएगा।

Q23.िाइल्ड लाइफ़ फ़ोरोग्राफ़र ऑफ़ द ईयर 2020 में ''Highly Commended' पुरस्कार से सम्माकनि होने िाली पहली भारिीय
मकहला िौन बनी है ?
(a) लकििा नाथ
(b) ऐियाड श्ीधर
(c) गौरी कगल
(d) िेििी शेठ

Q23. Who has become the first Indian woman to be awarded the 'Highly Commended' award at the Wildlife
Photographer of the year-2020?
(a) Latika Nath
(b) Aishwarya Sridhar
(c) Gauri Gill
(d) Ketaki Sheth

• Aishwarya Sridhar's photo titled 'Lights of Passion' has won the 'Highly Commended' award at the Wildlife
Photographer of the Year 2020.
• The 23-year-old has become the first Indian to win the coveted award.
• Sridhar's photo is a picture of a tree illuminated with fireflies. The fireflies and stars in the sky form a surreal
galaxy around the tree. It won under the Behaviour-Invertebrates category.
• The invertebrate category includes stills revealing the most interesting or memorable behaviour of any of the
multitude of smaller animals without a backbone, whether on land, in the air or in water.
• Sridhar, a wildlife photographer from Panvel, captured the photo during a trek in Bhandardara in June last year.
The photo will be put on display from October 16.
• ऐियाड श्ीधर िी फोरो कजसिा नाम 'लाइरड स ऑफ पैशन' है , ने िाइल्ड लाइफ फ़ोरोग्राफ़र ऑफ़ द ईयर 2020 में 'Highly
Commended' अिार्ड जीिा है।
• 23 िर्षीय, ऐियाड श्ीधर प्रकिकष्ठि पुरस्कार जीिने िाली पहली भारिीय बन गयी हैं ।
• श्ीधर िी िस्वीर फायरिाइज़ से रोशन एि पेड िी िस्वीर है ।
• आसमान में फायरिाइज़ और िारे पेड िे चारों ओर एि आिाशगंगा बनािे हैं ।
पनिेल िी िन्यजीि फोरोग्राफर श्ीधर ने कपछले साल जून में भंर्ारे डा में एि रि े ि िे दौरान फोरो खींची थी। फोरो 16
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Q24.किस बैंि ने सेंरिल बैंि ऑफ द ईयर पुरस्कार -2020 जीिा है ?


(a) कसंगापुर सेंरिल बैंि
(b) भारिीय ररजिड बैंि
(c) बैंि ऑफ घाना
(d) बैंि ऑफ इं ग्लैंर्

Q24. Which bank has won the Central Bank of the year award-2020?
(a) Singapore Central Bank
(b) Reserve Bank of India
(c) Bank of Ghana
(d) Bank of England

• “Bank of Ghana” has won the Central bank of the year award 2020.

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• Apart from this, Mark Carney (Governor of the Bank of England) has won the Governor of the year 2020.
• Central Banking Awards are held annually to recognize excellence in the central banking community.
• This was the 7th edition of the award and the ceremony was held virtually on.
• "बैंि ऑफ घाना" ने सेंरिल बैंि ऑफ द ईयर अिार्ड 2020 जीिा है ।
• इसिे अलािा, मािड िानी (बैंि ऑफ इं ग्लैंर् िे गिनडर) ने सेंरिल बैंि ऑफ़ द ईयर अिार्ड 2020 में गिनडर ऑफ़ द ईयर
जीिा है ।
• सेंरिल बैंकिंग अिार्डड स िेंद्रीय बैंकिंग समुदाय में उत्करष्ट्िा िो पहचानने िे कलए प्रकििर्षड आयोकजि किया जािा है ।
• यह पुरस्कार िा 7 िां संस्करण था और समारोह िो िचुडअली आयोकजि किया गया था।
• बैंि ऑफ घाना मुख्यालय: अक्रा, घाना
• गिनडर: अनेस्ट क्वाकमना येर्ू एकर्सन

Q25. 2020 SASTRA रामानुजन पुरस्कार से किसे सम्माकनि किया जाएगा?


(a) मंजुल भागडि
(b) अक्षय िेंिरे श
(c) एर्म हापडर
(d) शाई एिरा

Q25.Who will be awarded the 2020 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize?


(a) Manjul Bhargava
(b) Akshay Venkatesh
(c) Adam Harper
(d) Shai Evra

• Shai Evra of Princeton University, US, will be awarded the 2020 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize.
• He will be awarded for his outstanding work on high dimensional expanders in combinatorial and geometric
topology and on Golden Gates for 3-D unitary groups.
• SASTRA Ramanujan Prize is given annually for outstanding contributions by individuals of age less than 32
years in mathematics.
• The award is presented at an international conference in Number theory in December at SASTRA University in
Kumbakonam.
• कप्रंसरन कििकिद्यालय, यूएस िे शाई एिरा िो 2020 िे SASTRA रामानुजन पुरस्कार से सम्माकनि किया जाएगा।
• उन्ें िॉम्बीनेरररयल और ज्ाकमिीय रोपोलॉजी में उच्च आयामी कििारिों और 3-र्ी एिात्मि समूहों िे कलए गोल्डन
गेरडस पर उनिे उत्करष्ट् िायड िे कलए सम्माकनि किया जाएगा।
• गकणि में 32 िर्षड से िम आयु िे व्यफ्लियों द्वारा उत्करष्ट् योगदान िे कलए SASTRA रामानुजन पुरस्कार प्रकििर्षड कदया जािा
है ।

Q26. हाल ही में "अथडशॉर पुरस्कार" 2020 किसने लॉन्च किया है ?


(a) कप्रंस है री
(b) कप्रंस किकलयम
(c) र्े किर् एरनबरो
(d) दोनों (b) और (c)

Q26. Who has recently launched the “Earthshot Prize” to save the planet?
(a) Prince Harry
(b) Prince William
(c) David Attenborough
(d) Both (b) and (c)

• Britain’s Prince William and Naturalist David Attenborough have launched an “Earthshot Prize”, with an aim
to encourage change and support to repair the planet.

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• The Earth shot Prize aims to “incentivize change and help to repair our planet over the next 10 years,” and “turn
pessimism and optimism” by rewarding innovative solutions to environmental problems.
• The first five Earthshots will be awarded for projects that focus on protecting and restoring nature and clean air,
reviving oceans, fixing the climate and reducing waste.
• कब्ररे न िे कप्रंस किकलयम और प्रिरकििादी र्े किर् एरनबरो ने प्रिरकि िी रक्षा और पुनस्थाड पना िो प्रोत्साकहि िरने िे उद्दे श्य
से "Earthshot Prize" शुरू िरने िी घोर्षणा िी है ।
• "Earthshot Prize" िा उद्दे श्य "पररििडन िो प्रोत्साकहि िरना और अगले 10 िर्षों में परथ्वी िी मरम्मि िरने में मदद िरना"
है ।
• पहली पां च Earthshot Prize, प्रिरकि िी रक्षा और पुनस्थाड पना, स्वच्छ हिा, महासागरों िो पुनजीकिि िरना, िचरे में िमी
और जलिायु पररििडन िैरे गरी िे अंिगडि कदए जाएं गे।
• अगले 10 िर्षों िि प्रत्येि िर्षड 1 कमकलयन पाउं र् ($ 1.3 कमकलयन) िे पां च पुरस्कार प्रदान किए जाएं गे, कजसिा लक्ष्य 2030
िि दु कनया िी सबसे बडी पयाड िरणीय समस्ाओं िे िम से िम 50 समाधानों िा समथडन िरना है ।

Q27. अथड शास्त्र िे क्षेत्र में साल 2020 िा नोबेल पुरस्कार किसने जीिा है ?
(a) पॉल आर कमलग्रोम
(b) रॉबरड बी किल्सन
(c) जेकनफर र्ूर्ना
(d) दोनों (a) और (b)

Q27. Who has won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences?


(a) Paul R. Milgrom
(b) Robert B. Wilson
(c) Jennifer Doudna
(d) Both (a) and (b)

• The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2020 has been awarded jointly to Paul R.
Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson.
• The two economists were awarded "for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats."
• Their discoveries have benefitted sellers, buyers and taxpayers globally.
• The prize comes with a 10 million Swedish krona cash award and a gold medal.
• The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was established in 1969.
• The 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Indian-American economist Abhijit Banerjee,
Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.

• अथडशास्त्र िे क्षेत्र में साल 2020 िा नोबेल पुरस्कार अमेररिी अथडशास्त्री पॉल आर कमलग्रोम और रॉबरड बी किल्सन िो
संयुि रूप से दे ने िी घोर्षणा िी गई है ।
• स्टॉिहोम फ्लस्थि नोबेल पुरस्कार सकमकि ने छठे और अंकिम पुरस्कार िे िौर पर कमलग्रोम और किल्सन िो ऑक्शन थ्योरी
(नीलामी कसिां ि) में सुधार और नीलामी िे नए स्वरूपों िी खोज िे कलए यह पुरस्कार दे ने िा ऐलान किया है।
• अथडशास्त्र िे नोबेल िे कलए चयकनि कमलग्रोम और किल्सन दोनों अमेररिा िी स्टै नफोर्ड यूकनिकसडरी में िायडरि हैं ।
• उन्ोंने संयुि रूप से अध्ययन किया है और उन चीजों िे कलए नए नीलामी प्रारूपों िी खोज िी है कजन्ें पारं पररि िरीिे
से बेचना मुफ्लिल है , जैसे- रे कर्यो किक्वेंसी आकद।
• उनिी इस खोज से दु कनया भर िी सरिारों किक्रेिाओं, खरीदारों िो लाभ पहुं चा है ।

Q28. भारि में कििने समुद्र िरों िो प्रकिकष्ठि अंिराड ष्ट्िीय ब्लू िैग प्रमाणीिरण से सम्माकनि किया गया है ?
(a) 7
(b) 8
(c) 6
(d) 10

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Q28. How many beaches in India have been awarded the prestigious International Blue Flag certification recently?
(a) 7
(b) 8
(c) 6
(d) 10

• All eight beaches recommended by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change have been awarded
the prestigious Blue Flag certification in a single attempt.The beaches which got International Blue flag
Certification are:
• Shivrajpur beach - Gujarat
• Ghoghla beach - Diu
• Kasarkod and Padubidri - Karnataka
• Kappad - Kerala
• Rushikonda - Andhra Pradesh
• Golden Beach - Odisha
• Radhanagar beach - Andaman and Nicobar Islands

• भारि दु कनया िा पहला दे श बना है , कजसिे आठ समुद्र िरों िो पहले ही प्रयास में ‘ब्ल्यू िैग’ सकरड कफिेर से सम्माकनि
किया गया है |
• दे श िे पां च राज्ों और दो िेंद्र शाकसि प्रदे शों में फ्लस्थि भारि िे 8 समुद्र िरों िो कमले ब्ल्यू िैग प्रमाणपत्र दे ने िा कनणडय
एि अंिराड ष्ट्िीय कनणाड यि सकमकि ने किया, कजसिे प्रकिकष्ठि सदस्ों में UNEP, UNWTO, IUCN शाकमल थे|
ब्ल्यू िैग’ से सम्माकनि समुद्र िर हैं -
• कशिराजपुर (द्वारिा-गुजराि)
• घोघला (दीि)
• िासरिोर् और पादु कबद्री (िनाड रि)
• िप्पड (िेरल)
• रुकशिोंर्ा (आं ध्र प्रदे श)
• गोल्डन (पुरी-ओकर्शा) और राधा नगर (अंर्मान-कनिोबार द्वीपसमूह)
• भारि िो िरीय क्षेत्रों में प्रदू र्षण कनयंत्रण िे कलए ‘अंिराडष्ट्िीय सिडश्ेष्ठ िायड प्रणाकलयों’ िे िहि अंिराड ष्ट्िीय कनणाड यि सकमकि
द्वारा िरिीय पुरस्कार से सम्माकनि किया गया है |

Q29.अपनी पुिि Becoming िे ऑकर्योबुि संस्करण िे कलए ग्रैमी अिार्ड किसने जीिा है ?
(a) कहलेरी फ्ललंरन
(b) कमशेल ओबामा
(c) मेलाकनया रि म्प
(d) लौरा बुश

Q29. Who has won the Grammy Award for the audiobook version of her book Becoming?
(a) Hillary Clinton
(b) Michelle Obama
(c) Melania Trump
(d) Laura Bush
• Former first lady Michelle Obama has snagged her first Grammy win for the audiobook version of her best-
selling memoir "Becoming." It's the third Grammy win for the Obama household.
• Obama's husband won for the audiobook recordings of his memoirs "Dreams of My Father" and "The Audacity
of Hope" in 2006 and 2008.
• The text version of "Becoming" has sold millions of copies, and had the longest streak at No. 1 on Amazon for
any book since "Fifty Shades of Grey" in 2012.
• The memoir traces Michelle Obama's Chicago roots to her time in the White House.
• Hillary Clinton won a Grammy in 2003 for "Living History."

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Q30. नोबेल शां कि पुरस्कार 2020 किसने जीिा है ?


(a) किि आकथडि मंच
(b) खाद्य और िरकर्ष संगठन
(c) किि खाद्य िायडक्रम
(d) किि स्वास्थ्य संगठन

Q30. Who has won the Nobel Peace Prize 2020 ?


(a) World Economic Forum
(b) Food and Agriculture Organization
(c) World Food Programme
(d) World Health Organization

• Nobel Peace Prize 2020 has been won by the World’s largest humanitarian organization, the World Food
Programme.
• The organization has been given the prize for its efforts to combat hunger, for contributions to make conditions
for peace in conflict-affected areas better and for playing the role of driving force to stop use of hunger in the
form of a weapon for war and conflict.
• The Nobel Peace Prize comprises a diploma, a gold medal, and a 10 million Sedewish Kronor cheque.

• िल्डड फूर् प्रोग्राम (WFP) िो इस साल िे नोबेल शां कि पुरस्कार सेसम्माकनि किया गया|
• इस संस्था द्वारा भूख िी समस्ा से कनपरने िे कलए किए गए उल्लेखनीय प्रयासों िे िहि यह सम्मान कदया गया है ।
• महामारी िोकिर्-19 से जूझिे साल 2020 में WFP ने भूख िे िारण मौिों िा आं िडा बढा दे ख अपने प्रयासों िो िेज िर
कदया|
• कपछले साल इकथयोकपया िे प्रधानमंत्री एबी अहमद अली
( Abiy Ahmed Ali) िो इस सम्मान से निाजा गया था।
• इस साल नोबेल शां कि पुरस्कार िा सम्मान पाने िे कलए 300 से भी अकधि व्यफ्लियों और संस्थाओं िो नामां किि किया
गया।

Q31.युि सेिा पदि से सम्माकनि होने िाली पहली मकहला िौन है ?


(a) नुपुर िुलश्ेष्ठ
(b) कमन्टी अग्रिाल
(c) कशिां गी कसंह
(d) रीकि कसंह

Q31. Who is the first woman to have been awarded the Yudh Seva Medal?
(a) Nupur Kulshreshta
(b) Minty Agarwal
(c) Shivangi Singh
(d) Riti Singh

• Three Indian Air Force (IAF) officers who took part in the Balakot operation last year received Yudh Seva
Medal on the occasion of 88th Air Force Day on (8 October).
• The officers who received the Yudh Seva Medal are Squadron Leader Minty Agarwal, Group Captain Hansel
Sequera and Group Captain Hemant Kumar Vadsra.
• Yudh Seva Medal recognises distinguished service of a high order during war, conflict or hostilities.
• Squadron Leader Minty Agarwal is a Fighter Controller with the Indian Air Force. She was part of the team that
guided Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman during the 2019 Balakot airstrike carried out by the IAF.

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• िायु सेिा कदिस िे मौिे पर अंबाला िी कमंरी अग्रिाल ने युि सेिा मेर्ल पािर इकिहास रच कदया।
• यह पुरस्कार हाकसल िरने िाली पहली मकहला है ।
• यह पुरस्कार उन्ें एयर चीफ माशडल रािेश िुमार कसंह भदौररया से कमला।
• बालािोर एयर स्टि ाइि में िायुसेना िे किंग िमां र्र अकभनंदन िधडमान ने पाकििान िे एफ-16 लडािू किमान िो मार
कगराया था।
• उस समय मकहला स्क्वॉर्ि न लीर्र कमंरी अग्रिाल िी भूकमिा अहम रही।
• बालािोर ऑपरे शन में भाग लेने िाले िीन भारिीय िायु सेना (IAF) अकधिाररयों ने 88 िें िायु सेना कदिस (8 अक्टू बर) िे
अिसर पर युि सेिा पदि हाकसल किया है ।
• युि सेिा पदि पाने िाले अकधिारी -स्क्वार्ि न लीर्र कमन्टी अग्रिाल, ग्रुप िैप्टन हें सल सीक्वेरा और ग्रुप िैप्टन हे मंि िुमार
िर्सरा हैं ।

Q32.साकहत्य िे कलए नोबेल पुरस्कार 2020 किसने जीिा है ?


(a) जेकनफर र्ाउर्ना
(b) एं कर्ि या घेज़
(c) लुइस ग्लि
(d) इमैनुएल शारपेंकिए

Q32. Who has won the Nobel Prize for Literature 2020?
(a) Jennifer A. Doudna
(b) Andrea Ghez
(c) Louise Glück
(d) Emmanuelle Charpentier

The Nobel Prize for Literature 2020 has been awarded to American poet Louise Glück
• Glück is a poet and essayist.
• A professor at Yale University, Glück made her debut in 1968 with her collection titled 'Firstborn' that was
lauded by literary critics.
• Gluck has been consistently writing poems, responding to the times we live in with her written word.

अमेररिी ििकयत्री लुइस ग्लि िो िर्षड 2020 िे कलए साकहत्य िे नोबेल पुरस्कार से सम्माकनि किया गया है ।
• 77 िर्षीय लुइस ग्लि येल यूकनिकसडरी में अंग्रेजी िी प्रोफेसर हैं ।
• ग्लि ने 1968 में 'फ‍स्टडबोनड' िे साथ अपनी शुरुआि िी थी और जल्द ही अमेररिी समिालीन साकहत्य में सबसे प्रमुख
िकियों में शाकमल हो गई थीं।
• उन्ोंने बारह िकििाओं िा संग्रह और िुछ कनबंध प्रिाकशि किए हैं । लुइस ग्लि िे सबसे प्रशंकसि संग्रहों में से एि 'द
िाइल्ड आइररस' है , जो कि 1992 में प्रिाकशि हुआ था।

Q33. रसायन किज्ञान में नोबेल पुरस्कार 2020 किसने जीिा है ?


(a) इमैनुएल शारपेंकिए
(b) जेकनफर र्ाउर्ना
(c) एं कर्ि या घेज़
(d) दोनों (a) और (b)

Q33. Who has won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?


(a) Emmanuelle Charpentier
(b) Jennifer A. Doudna
(c) Andrea Ghez
(d) Both (a) and (b)

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• The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the
development of a method for genome editing.
• In a first in Nobel history, Chemistry prize awarded to a women-only team;
• Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna have discovered one of gene technology’s sharpest tools:
Genetic scissors: a tool for rewriting the code of life.
• Using these, researchers can change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with extremely high
precision.
• This technology has had a revolutionary impact on the life sciences, is contributing to new cancer therapies and
may make the dream of curing inherited diseases come true.

• रसायन किज्ञान (िेकमस्टि ी) िे क्षेत्र में िर्षड 2020 िे कलए नोबेल पुरस्कार िां स िी किज्ञानी इमैनुएल शारपेंकिए और अमेररिा
िी जेकनफर र्ाउर्ना िो कदया गया है ।
• इस िर्षड िा पुरस्कार दोनों मकहला किज्ञाकनयों िो 'जीनोम एकर्करं ग' िी एि पिकि कििकसि िरने िे कलए कदया गया है ।
इसे जेनेकरि सीजसड नाम कदया गया है ।
• 'इनिे प्रयोग से शोधििाड जानिरों, पौधों और सूक्ष्मजीिों िे र्ीएनए िो अत्यकधि उच्च पररशुििा िे साथ बदल सििे हैं ।
इस ििनीि िा जीिन किज्ञान पर एि क्रां कििारी प्रभाि पडा है ।
• यह िैंसर उपचार में योगदान िर रहा है |
• इससे पहले अब िि पां च मकहलाओं िो िेकमस्टि ी िे कलए नोबेल पुरस्कार कमल चुिा है ।
• मैरी क्ूरी एिमात्र ऐसी मकहला हैं कजन्ें कफकजक्स और िेकमस्टि ी दोनों िे कलए नोबेल पुरस्कार कमला है।

Q34.मेकर्कसन या कफकजयोलॉजी 2020 िे कलए नोबेल पुरस्कार से किसे सम्माकनि किया गया है ?
(a) हािी जे ऑल्टर
(b) माइिल हडयूरन
(c) चाल्सड एम राइस
(d) इन सभी

Q34. Who has been honoured with the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology 2020?
(a) Harvey J Alter
(b) Michael Houghton
(c) Charles M Rice
(d) All of these

• Three scientists Harvey J Alter, Charles M Rice, and Michael Houghton, have jointly bagged the Nobel Prize
for Medicine or Physiology.
• It has been given for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
• Dr. Alter and Dr. Rice are American medical researchers. Dr. Houghton is a British Professor of virology.
• A gold medal and prize money of 10 million Swedish krona will be given to winners.
• The discovery of the Hepatitis C virus has revealed the cause of the remaining cases of chronic hepatitis.
• Currently, there is no effective vaccine against hepatitis C, and this research work has raised hope for the
development of an effective vaccine.
• The Nobel Prize is awarded in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, economics,
and peace.

• साल 2020 में कचकित्सा िे क्षेत्र में प्रकिकष्ठि नोबेल पुरस्कार - हे पेराइकरस सी िायरस िी खोज िरने िाले हािी जे ऑल्टर,
माइिल हडयूरन और चाल्सड एम राइस िो कदया जाएगा।
• हािी जे ऑल्टर ने रि ां सफ्यूजन संबंधी हे पेराइकरस िा अध्ययन किया, कजससे पिा चला कि क्रॉकनि हे पेराइकरस िा एि
सामान्य िारण एि अज्ञाि िायरस था।
• माइिल हडयूरन ने हे पेराइकरस सी िायरस िे जीनोम िो अलग िरने िे कलए एि नई ििनीि िा इिेमाल किया।
• चाल्सड एम राइस ने कसि किया कि हे पेराइकरस सी िायरस अिेले हे पेराइकरस िा िारण बन सििा है

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• इकिहास में पहली बार अब हे पेराइकरस सी िायरस िा इलाज संभि है ।


• नोबेल किि िा सिोच्च पुरस्कार है जो कचकित्सा िे अलािा शां कि, साकहत्य, भौकििी, रसायन और अथडशास्त्र िे क्षेत्र में कदया
जािा है ।

Q35.किस अमेररिी नागररि अकधिार ििील िो राइर लाइिलीहुर् अिार्ड से सम्माकनि किया गया है , कजसे "िैिफ्लल्पि नोबेल" िे
रूप में भी जाना जािा है ?
(a) पाउला जोन्स
(b) बेरी िरी
(c) ब्रायन स्टीिेंसन
(d) िनोन जॉर्ड न

Q35. Which US Civil Rights Lawyer has been awarded the Right Livelihood Award, also known as “Alternative Nobel"
?
(a) Paula Jones
(b) Betty Currie
(c) Bryan Stevenson
(d) Vernon Jordan

• Activists from Belarus, Iran, Nicaragua and the United States were awarded the Right Livelihood Award,
sometimes referred to as the “Alternative Nobel".
• Nasrin Sotoudeh, an Iranian lawyer, who has defended activists, opposition politicians and women prosecuted
for removing their headscarves, was given the award “for her fearless activism, at great personal risk, to promote
political freedoms and human rights in Iran.”
• Bryan Stevenson, US Civil Rights Lawyer won the award “for his inspiring endeavour to reform the US criminal
justice system and advance racial reconciliation in the face of historic trauma.”

• बेलारूस, ईरान, कनिारागुआ और संयुि राज् अमेररिा िे िायडििाड ओं िो राइर लाइिलीहुर् अिार्ड से सम्माकनि किया
गया, कजसे िैिफ्लल्पि नोबेल" भी िहा जािा है ।
• यूएस कसकिल राइरड स ििील ब्रायन स्टीिेंसन ने "अमेररिी आपराकधि न्याय प्रणाली में सुधार और ऐकिहाकसि आघाि िे
सामने नस्लीय सुलह िे अकग्रम प्रयास िे कलए" पुरस्कार जीिा।
• इनिे अलािा ईरानी ििील, नसरीन सोिौदे ह ने यह अिार्ड किपक्षी राजनेिाओं और मकहलाओं िे बचाि िे कलए जीिा है |
• कनिारागुआ िे पयाड िरण िायडििाड लोट्टी िकनंघम िारे न ने "शोर्षण और लूर से स्वदे शी भूकम और समुदायों िी सुरक्षा िे
कलए यह अिार्ड जीिा।
• बेलारूस िे मानिाकधिार िायडििाड एलेस बाकलयात्स्िी ने यह अिार्ड लोििंत्र और मानि अकधिारों िी प्राफ्लप्त िे कलए
जीिा।

Q36.इं र्ो-अमेररिन चैंबर ऑफ िॉमसड द्वारा लाइफराइम अचीिमेंर अिार्ड से किसे सम्माकनि किया गया है ?
(a) अजीम प्रेमजी
(b) रिन रारा
(c) मुिेश अंबानी
(d) गौिम अर्ानी

Q36. Who has been honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce?
(a) Azim Premji
(b) Ratan Tata
(c) Mukesh Ambani
(d) Gautam Adani

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• The Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) has presented the lifetime achievement award to business
icon Ratan Tata as part of its recent global leadership awards.
• The IACC leadership bestowed the IACC Lifetime and Global Excellence Awards to Tata owing to the ongoing
COVID-19 crisis.
• Tata, who grew the revenues for India's largest conglomerate 'The Tata Group' to nearly USD 100 billion by
2011-12, remains an influential industrialist, philanthropist and humanitarian to this day.
• Tata, who has accepted fewer awards over the last few years, received the honour as he believed that these
awards inspire future global leaders and strengthen bilateral economic ties between India and the US.
• इं र्ो-अमेररिन चैंबर ऑफ िॉमसड (IACC) ने अपने हाकलया िैकिि नेिरत् पुरस्कारों िे कहस्से िे रूप में कबजनेस आइिन
रिन रारा िो आजीिन उपलफ्लि पुरस्कार प्रदान किया है ।
• रारा, कजन्ोंने 2011-12 िि भारि िे सबसे बडे समूह 'द रारा ग्रुप' िा राजस्व 100 कबकलयन अमरीिी र्ॉलर िि बढा
कदया, आज िि एि प्रभािशाली उद्योगपकि, परोपिारी और मानििािादी बना हुआ है ।
• रारा, कजन्ोंने कपछले िुछ िर्षों में बहुि िम पुरस्कार स्वीिार किए हैं , उन्ें यह सम्मान कमला क्ोंकि उनिा मानना था कि
ये पुरस्कार भकिष्य िे िैकिि नेिाओं िो प्रेररि िरिे हैं और भारि और अमेररिा िे बीच कद्वपक्षीय आकथडि संबंधों िो
मजबूि िरिे हैं ।

Q37. किस भारिीय CMO िो फोर्ब्ड िी सूची में दु कनया िे सबसे प्रभािशाली क्मो िी मान्यिा दी गई है ?
(a) आकदत्य पुरी
(b) रकि संथानम
(c) आशा खारगा
(d) जसनीि बाछल

Q37. Which Indian CMO has been recognized in the Forbes list of ‘The World’s Most Influential CMOs?
(a) Aditya Puri
(b) Ravi Santhanam
(c) Asha Kharga
(d) Jasneet Bachal
• Ravi Santhanam, Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), HDFC Bank has been recognized in the Forbes list of ‘The
World’s Most Influential CMOs’.
• Ranked at Number 39, he is the only CMO of an Indian company to be featured in the illustrious list which
includes marketing heads of Apple, BMW, Lego, Adobe, Microsoft, P&G among others.
• This is the eighth edition of this annual list released by Forbes with research partners Sprinklr and LinkedIn.
• This year, 427 global CMOs were eligible for consideration.
• It is generated using data from news reports, websites, and social networks to measure influence.
• HDFC बैंि िे मुख्य किपणन अकधिारी (CMO) रकि संथानम िो 'दु कनया िे सबसे प्रभािशाली सीएमओ' िी फोर्ब्ड सूची
में मान्यिा दी गई है ।
• नंबर 39 पर दजड, िे एि भारिीय िंपनी िे एिमात्र सीएमओ हैं , कजन्ें शानदार सूची में कचकत्रि किया गया है , कजसमें apple,
BMW, और माइक्रोसॉफ्ट िे मािेकरं ग प्रमुख शाकमल हैं ।
• इस साल, 427 िैकिि सीएमओ किचार िे कलए पात्र थे।

Q38.महात्मा गां धी राष्ट्िीय फाउं र्ेशन द्वारा स्थाकपि 'गां धी पुरस्कार' िे कलए किसे नाकमि किया गया है ?
(a िे री एस िुलसी
(b) संजय कसंह
(c) C M रमेश
(d) सुरेश प्रभु

Q38. Who has been named for the 'Gandhi Award' instituted by the Mahatma Gandhi National Foundation?
(a) K T S Tulsi
(b) Sanjay Singh
(c) C M Ramesh

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(d) Suresh Prabhu

• Rajya Sabha MP and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjay Singh has been chosen for the 'Gandhi Award'
instituted by the Mahatma Gandhi National Foundation.
• He was instrumental in India's diplomatic intervention to remove Mahatma Gandhi's images on beer bottles of
a private company in Israel
• The award will be presented to him by Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu at a ceremony in New Delhi in January
2021.
• The AAP National Spokesperson was chosen for the award by a committee Chaired by former Madras High
Court Acting Chief Justice K Narayana Kurup and convened by Senior Journalist and Literary luminary,
Jayashankar Menon.

• आम आदमी पारी (आप) िे राज्सभा सां सद संजय कसंह िो महात्मा गां धी नेशनल फाउं र्ेशन ने ‘गां धी पुरस्कार’ िे कलए
चुना है ।
• संजय कसंह ने इजरायल में एि कनजी िंपनी िी बीयर िी बोिलों पर महात्मा गां धी िे कचत्र िो हराने िे कलए भारि िे
िूरनीकिि हिक्षेप में महत्पूणड भूकमिा कनभाई थी।
• उन्ोंने इस मुद्दे िो संसद में भी उठाया।
• इसिे बाद भारि ने बीयर िी बोिलों पर गां धी जी िे कचत्रों िो हराने िे कलए िूरनीकिि रूप से हिक्षेप किया गया|
• फाउं र्ेशन िे अध्यक्ष ईबी जे जोस

Q39.किस राज् िे मुख्यमंत्री ने छात्रों िो अनंदोराम बोरुहा पुरस्कार 2020 प्रदान किया है ?
(a) पकिम बंगाल
(b) मकणपुर
(c) असम
(d) अरुणाचल प्रदे श

Q39. Which state’s Chief Minister has recently presented the Anundoram Borooah Award 2020 to students?
(a) West Bengal
(b) Manipur
(c) Assam
(d) Arunachal Pradesh

• The Chief Minister of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal presented the Anundoram Borooah Award 2020 to students
who secured 75 percent or above in matriculation.
• In this award, a cash prize of 20 thousand rupees was transferred in the bank accounts of students for purchasing
laptops.
• Anundoram Borooah Award:
o It was launched in 2005 by the Assam government.
o It aims to enhance healthy competition amongst the student community.
o It also helps them to enrich their perception through up-to-date knowledge and information with the
help of IT education.
o Eligibility: More than 75% in matriculation.
• असम िे मुख्यमंत्री सबाड नंद सोनोिाल ने मैकरि िुलेशन में 75 प्रकिशि या उससे अकधि अंि प्राप्त िरने िाले छात्रों िो
अनंदोराम बोरुहा पुरस्कार 2020 प्रदान किया।
• इस पुरस्कार में, लैपरॉप खरीदने िे कलए छात्रों िे बैंि खािों में 20 हजार रुपये िा निद पुरस्कार हिां िररि किया गया।
• अनंदोराम बोरुहा पुरस्कार 2005 में असम सरिार द्वारा लॉन्च किया गया था।
• इसिा उद्दे श्य छात्र समुदाय िे बीच स्वस्थ प्रकिस्पधाड िो बढाना है ।
• यह उन्ें आईरी कशक्षा िी सहायिा से अप-रू -र्े र ज्ञान और सूचना िे माध्यम से अपनी धारणा िो समरि िरने में भी मदद
िरिा है ।

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Q40.UNDP द्वारा किशेर्ष हडयूमेकनरे ररयन एक्शन अिार्ड से किसे सम्माकनि किया गया है ?
(a) आकमर खान
(b) कििास खन्ना
(c) सोनू सूद
(d) आयुष्मान खुराना

Q40. Who has been honoured with the Special Humanitarian Action Award by UNDP ?
(a) Aamir Khan
(b) Vikas Khanna
(c) Sonu Sood
(d) Ayushmann Khurrana

• Actor Sonu Sood has been honoured with the prestigious SDG Special Humanitarian Action Award by the
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), for helping thousands of migrant workers reach home during
lockdown.
• The award was presented to him via a virtual ceremony.
• Apart from arranging transportation facilities for migrant workers to help them reach homes during lockdown,
Sonu also looked after the educational needs of underprivileged students.
• He recently launched an initiative to provide full scholarships for higher education to students facing financial
challenges.
• अकभनेिा सोनू सूद िो संयुि राष्ट्ि कििास िायडक्रम (UNDP) ने प्रकिकष्ठि SDG स्पेशल हडयूमेकनरे ररयन एक्शन अिार्ड से
सम्माकनि किया है ।
• उन्ें िचुडअल िायडक्रम में पुरस्कार से सम्माकनि किया गया।
• सोनू सूद िो यह पुरस्कार लॉिर्ाउन में फंसे प्रिाकसयों िी कन:स्वाथड मदद िरने िे कलए कदया गया।
• लॉिर्ाउन िे दौरान सोनू सूद ने अलग-अलग राज्ों में फंसे लाखों प्रिासी मजदू रों, छात्रों िो अपने पैसे से उनिे घर
पहुं चाया।
• इसिे अलािा िह युिाओं िो कन:शुल्क कशक्षा और स्वास्थ्य सेिाएं दे रहे हैं |
• उन्ोंने हाल ही में कित्तीय चुनौकियों िा सामना िरने िाले छात्रों िो उच्च कशक्षा िे कलए पूणड छात्रिरकत्त प्रदान िरने िे कलए
एि पहल शुरू िी।

Q41.2020-21 िे कलए ‘गानसम्राज्ञी लिा मंगेशिर’ पुरस्कार से किसे सम्माकनि किया जाएगा?
(a) उर्षा मंगेशिर
(b) मीणा खाकदिार
(c) आशा भोसले
(d) हृदयनाथ मंगेशिर

Q41. Who will be honoured with the Gan Samragni Lata Mangeshkar Award for 2020-21?
(a) Usha Mangeshkar
(b) Meena Khadikar
(c) Asha Bhosle
(d) Hridaynath Mangeshkar

• Veteran female playback singer Usha Mangeshkar was conferred Gan Samragni Lata Mangeshkar by the
Maharashtra Government for the year 2020-21.
• She is the sister of famous playback singer Lata Mangeshkar.
• Usha Mangeshkar has sung songs in Marathi, Hindi and several other Indian language films.
• This award is given by the cultural department of the Maharashtra government.

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• महाराष्ट्ि सरिार ने कदग्गज गाकयिा उर्षा मंगेशिर िो िर्षड 2020-21 िे कलए ‘गानसम्राज्ञी लिा मंगेशिर’ पुरस्कार कदया |
• राज् िे संस्करकि मंत्री अकमि दे शमुख िी अध्यक्षिा िाली सकमकि ने अिॉर्ड िे कलए सिडसम्मकि से ऊर्षा मंगेशिर िो चुना।
• महाराष्ट्ि सरिार 1992 से यह अिॉर्ड दे रही है |
• 28 कसिम्बर िो उर्षा िी बडी बहन लिा मंगेशिर िा जन्मकदन था|

Q42.किस भारिीय शहर िो रे कसकलएं स श्ेणी िे िहि यूनेस्को पुरस्कार कमला है?
(a) इं दौर
(b) भोपाल
(c) सूरि
(d) अहमदाबाद

Q42. Which Indian city has bagged the UNESCO award under resilience category?
(a) Indore
(b) Bhopal
(c) Surat
(d) Ahmedabad

• Diamond City Surat has bagged the Netexplo Smart Cities Award with UNESCO in the resilience category.
• Surat’s mayor will receive the award at the UNESCO House in Paris, France in March next year.
• Globally, 10 cities were awarded under the UNESCO-Netexplo Smart Cities Accelerator Programme.
• Surat is the only city from India to have bagged the award in the resilience category.
• This is a proud moment for all of the people in the city who have shown tremendous resilience whenever there
is calamity and emerging victorious.
• यूनेस्को ने सूरि शहर िो रे कसकलएं र कसरी इन द िल्डड श्ेणी में नेरेक्सप्लो(Netexplo) अिार्ड िे कलए चुना है ।
• यह फ्लखिाब हाकसल िरने िाला सूरि दु कनया िा अिेला शहर है ।
• लीन कसरी, ग्रीन कसरी, र्ायमंर् कसरी, रै क्सराइल कसरी, कब्रज कसरी और स्मारड कसरी िे बाद अब शहर िी पहचान
रे कसकलएं र कसरी इन द िल्डड िे रूप में भी दजड हो गई है ।
• सूरि िो यह फ्लखिाब किपरीि पररफ्लस्थकियों में भी उबरने िी क्षमिा िे कलए कमला है।
• रे कसकलएं र कसरी-2020 अिार्ड हाकसल िरने िाला सूरि दु कनयाभर में अिेला शहर है ।

Q43.यमीन हजाररिा पुरस्कार 2020 से किसे सम्माकनि किया गया है ?


(a) राणा सफ़िी
(b) रोकमला थापर
(c) कबकपन चंद्र
(d) रामचंद्र गुहा

Q43. Who has been honoured with the Yamin Hazarika Award 2020?
(a) Rana Safvi
(b) Romila Thapar
(c) Bipin Chandra
(d) Ramachandra Guha

• Historian-Author Rana Safvi has been honoured with the Yamin Hazarika Award.
• Rana Safvi has published several books on the culture, history, and monuments of India.
• She was chosen for her “contribution to the syncretic culture of India”.
• It is given annually by a collective of women professionals since 2015.
• Yamin Hazarika was the first woman from the Northeast to join the central police service.
• इकिहासिार राणा सफिी िो यामीन हजाररिा पुरस्कार से सम्माकनि किया।
• राणा सफ़िी ने भारि िी संस्करकि, इकिहास और स्मारिों पर िई पुििें प्रिाकशि िी हैं ।
• उन्ें "भारि िी समिाकलि संस्करकि में योगदान" िे कलए चुना गया ।

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• याकमन हजाररिा अिार्ड यामीन हजाररिा िी स्मरकि में स्थाकपि किया गया था।
• यह 2015 से सालाना कदया जािा है ।
• याकमन हजाररिा िेंद्रीय पुकलस सेिा में शाकमल होने िाली पूिोत्तर िी पहली मकहला थीं।

Q44.किस भारिीय राज् िे 'Human by Nature’ अकभयान ने प्रकिकष्ठि PATA (प्रशां ि- एकशया रि ै िल एसोकसएशन) ग्रैंर् अिार्ड 2020
जीिा है ?
(a) आं ध्र प्रदे श
(b) िेरल
(c) िकमलनार्ु
(d) ओकर्शा

Q44. Which Indian state’s ‘Human by Nature’ campaign won the prestigious PATA (Pacific- Asia Travel Association)
Grand Award 2020?
(a) Andhra Pradesh
(b) Kerala
(c) Tamil Nadu
(d) Odisha

• Kerala Tourism’s internationally-acclaimed ‘Human by Nature’ campaign won the prestigious PATA (Pacific-
Asia Travel Association) Grand Award 2020 for Marketing.
• This gives a huge stimulus to the tourism industry in the state which has been severely affected due to COVID-
19 pandemic.
• The idea of a new campaign was put forth by Kerala Tourism.
• The campaign showcases the culture and daily life of the people of Kerala.
• The campaign has helped in achieving Kerala’s record growth rate of 17.2 per cent in 2019 which stands to be
the highest growth rate in tourism arrivals in 24 years.
• The campaign also helped in reviving the tourism sector after the Flood in 2018 and outbreak of Nipah virus.
• िेरल पयडरन िे अंिराडष्ट्िीय िर पर Human by Nature’’अकभयान ने मािेकरं ग िे कलए प्रकिकष्ठि PATA (प्रशां ि- एकशया
रि ै िल एसोकसएशन) ग्रैंर् अिार्ड 2020 जीिा है ।
• यह राज् में पयडरन उद्योग िो भारी प्रोत्साहन दे िा है जो COVID-19 महामारी िे िारण गंभीर रूप से प्रभाकिि हुआ है ।
• यह अकभयान िेरल िे लोगों िी संस्करकि और दै कनि जीिन िो दशाड िा है ।
• अकभयान ने 2019 में िेरल िी ररिॉर्ड कििास दर 17.2 प्रकिशि हाकसल िरने में मदद िी है जो 24 िर्षों में पयडरन आगमन
में उच्चिम कििास दर है ।
• इस अकभयान ने 2018 में बाढ िे बाद पयडरन क्षेत्र िो पुनजीकिि िरने में मदद िी है |

Q45. गोल्डन पेन ऑफ़ िीर्म अिार्ड 2020 किसने जीिा है ?


(a) नजम सेठी
(b) कजन्थ बेदोया कलमा
(c) जमाल खशोगी
(d) माररया रे सा

Q45. Who has won the Golden Pen of Freedom award 2020?
(a) Najam Sethi
(b) Jineth Bedoya Lima
(c) Jamal Khashoggi
(d) Maria Ressa
• The Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press award of the World Association of News Publishers, has been
awarded to Colombian journalist Jineth Bedoya Lima for her work in promoting the rights of women affected
by political violence in her country.
• Bedoya Lima, a 2016 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, has reported on the armed conflict in Colombia as well as
drug trafficking and gender issues over two decades.

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• िल्डड एसोकसएशन ऑफ़ न्यूज़ पफ्लब्लशसड िे िाकर्षडि प्रेस अिार्ड , गोल्डन पेन ऑफ़ फ़्रीर्म से िोलंकबयाई पत्रिार जेनेथ
बेदोया कलमा िो सम्माकनि किया गया है ।
• उन्ोंने अपने दे श में राजनीकिि कहं सा से प्रभाकिि मकहलाओं िे अकधिारों िो बढािा दे ने िे कलए ये किया है |
• बेदोया कलमा, 2016 िे नोबेल शां कि पुरस्कार िे कलए नाकमि िी गयी थी |
• जेनेथ बेदोया लीमा ने िोलंकबया में सशस्त्र संघर्षड िे साथ-साथ मादि पदाथों िी िस्करी और दो दशिों में कलंग संबंधी मुद्दों
पर ररपोरड दी है |
• ििडमान COVID-19 प्रकिबंधों िे िारण यह पुरस्कार समारोह virtually आयोकजि किया गया।

Q46.किस भारिीय िो संयुि राष्ट्ि ने सिि कििास लक्ष्य 2020 िे युिा प्रणेिाओं िी सूची में शाकमल किया है ?
(a) सुनील यादि
(b) उकदि कसंघल
(c) कििास खन्ना
(d) नीलिंठ भानु प्रिाश

Q46. Which Indian has been named by the United Nations to the 2020 class of young leaders for the Sustainable
Development Goals?
(a) Sunil Yadav
(b) Udit Singhal
(c) Vikas Khanna
(d) Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash

• Udit Singhal, an 18-year-old youngster from India has been named by the United Nations to the 2020 class of
young leaders for the Sustainable Development Goals,
• Singhal has been named to the 2020 Class of 17 Young Leaders for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
• He is the founder of Glass2Sand, a zero-waste ecosystem that addresses the growing menace of glass waste in
Delhi.
• Through the initiative, empty glass bottles are prevented from being dumped into landfills, where they won't
decompose for a million years, and are crushed into commercially valuable sand.
• भारि िे 18 िर्षीय उकदि कसंघल िो संयुि राष्ट्ि ने सिि कििास लक्ष्य 2020 िे युिा प्रणेिाओं िी सूची में शाकमल किया
है । किि िे समक्ष पेश आ रही प्रमुख चुनौकियों से कनपरने िे प्रयासों में लगे युिाओं िे िायो िो प्रोत्साहन दे ने िाला यह
अहम मंच है ।
• िह Glass2Sand िे संस्थापि हैं , जो एि शून्य-अपकशष्ट् पाररफ्लस्थकििी िंत्र है जो कदल्ली में िां च िे िचरे िे बढिे खिरे
िो संबोकधि िरिा है ।
• इस पहल िे िहि िां च िी बोिलों िो िचरा घरों में फेंिने से रोिा जािा है और इन्ें व्यिसाकयि रूप से मूल्यिान रे ि में
िब्दील किया जािा है।

Q47.किस भारिीय िो प्रकिकष्ठि 2020 एकशया गेम चेंजर अिार्ड से सम्माकनि किया जाएगा?
(a) आकमर खान
(b) कििास खन्ना
(c) राहुल गां धी
(d) सोनू सूद

Q47. Which Indian will be honoured with the prestigious 2020 Asia Game Changer Award ?
(a) Aamir Khan
(b) Vikas Khanna
(c) Rahul Gandhi
(d) Sonu Sood

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• Michelin-star chef Vikas Khanna will be honoured with the prestigious 2020 Asia Game Changer Award for
feeding millions across India amid the COVID-19 pandemic through a massive food distribution drive that he
coordinated from thousands of miles away in his Manhattan home.
• The Asia Game Changer Awards, launched by the Asia Society -- a US-based non-profit organisation -- in 2014,
identify and honour true leaders who make a positive contribution to the future of Asia.
• Khanna is the only Indian among the six honourees named by the leading organisation.
• Preeminent cellist Yo-Yo Ma, tennis champion Naomi Osaka, Korean boy band BTS, producer of Oscar-
winning film 'Parasite' Miky Lee and business leaders and philanthropists Joe and Clara Tsai are the honourees
of the Asia Game Changer Awards "for their responses to the year's twin traumas of COVID-19 and racially
motivated violence".

• कमशेकलन-स्टार शेफ कििास खन्ना िो िोरोना महामारी िे दौरान भारि में लाखों लोगों िि भोजन पहुं चाने िे कलए 2020
िे प्रकिकष्ठि 'एकशया गेम चेंजर अिार्ड ' से सम्माकनि किया जाएगा। इस अकभयान िो उन्ोंने न्यूयॉिड िे मैनहट्टन फ्लस्थि अपने
घर से चलाया।
• पुरस्कार िे कलए कजन छह लोगों िा चयन किया गया है , उनमें कििास खन्ना अिेले भारिीय हैं ।
• एकशया िे भकिष्य िे कलए सिारात्मि योगदान दे ने िाले असली नायिों िी पहचान िर उन्ें यह पुरस्कार कदया जािा है।
• इसिी शुरुआि 2014 में अमेररिा िे एि गैर-लाभिारी संगठन 'एकशया सोसाइरी' ने िी थी। पुरस्कार समारोह अक्टू बर
में ऑनलाइन आयोकजि किया जाएगा।
• िोरोना संक्रमण िे दौरान कििास खन्ना ने भारि में जरूरिमंदों िि भोजन मुहैया िराने िे कलए 'फीर् इं कर्या' नाम से
एि अकभयान शुरू किया था।
• इसिे िहि सैिडों शहरों में जरूरिमंदों िो भोजन िे अलािा मास्क और अन्य जरूरी ििुएं पहुं चाई गईं।

Q48.र्े रन कलररे री पीस प्राइज़ लाइफराइम अचीिमेंर अिार्ड किसने जीिा है ?


(a) जोखा अल्हाथी
(b) मागडरेर एरिुर्
(c) बनाड कर्ड न एिररस्टो
(d) मैरीिे लुिास ररजनेिेल्ड

Q48. Who has won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize’s lifetime achievement award?
(a) Jokha Alharthi
(b) Margaret Atwood
(c) Bernardine Evaristo
(d) Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

• Renowned author Margaret Atwood won this year’s Dayton Literary Peace Prize’s lifetime achievement award.
• The award celebrates literature’s power to foster peace, social justice and global understanding. She receives
$10,000 as prize money.
• The Canadian writer is distinguished for her most notable book, best selling 1985 dystopian novel – The
Handmaid’s Tale.
• Her other notable books are The Testaments, Cat’s Eye (1988), The Blind Assassin (2000), and The
MaddAddam Trilogy (2003-2013).
• प्रख्याि लेखि मागडरेर एरिुर् ने इस साल िा र्े रन कलररे री पीस प्राइज लाइफराइम अचीिमेंर अिार्ड जीिा|
• यह पुरस्कार शां कि, सामाकजि न्याय और िैकिि समझ िो बढािा दे ने िे कलए साकहत्य िी शफ्लि िा जश्न मनािा है ।
• िनार्ाई लेखि िो उनिी सबसे उल्लेखनीय पुिि The Handmaid’s Tale िे कलए इस अिार्ड से निाजा गया|
• उनिी अन्य उल्लेखनीय पुििें हैं - The Testaments, Cat’s Eye (1988), The Blind Assassin (2000), and The
MaddAddam Trilogy (2003-2013).

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Q49.77 िें िेकनस कफल्म फेफ्लस्टिल में किस भारिीय कफल्म ने सिडश्ेष्ठ परिथा िे कलए प्रकिकष्ठि पुरस्कार जीिा है ?
(a) The Stranger
(b) The Disciple
(c) The Ashram
(d) The Master

Q49. Which Indian film has won the prestigious award for Best Screenplay at the 77th Venice Film Festival?
(a) The Stranger
(b) The Disciple
(c) The Ashram
(d) The Master

• The Marathi language feature film ‘The Disciple’ written and directed by Mumbai-based filmmaker Chaitanya
Tamhane, has bagged the prestigious award for Best Screenplay at the 77th Venice Film Festival.
• कफल्म कनदे शि चैिन्य िाम्हणे िी मराठी कफल्म ‘द कर्साइपल’ िो 77िें प्रकिकष्ठि िेकनस कफल्म फेफ्लस्टिल में सिडश्ेष्ठ परिथा
िे कलए प्रकिकष्ठि पुरस्कार जीिा है |
• इससे पहले 'द कर्साइपल' िो इसी फेफ्लस्टिल में इं ररनैशनल फेर्रे शन ऑफ कफल्म कक्रकरक्स द्वारा 'इं ररनैशनल कक्रकरक्स
अिॉर्ड ' से सम्माकनि किया गया था।
• इससे पहले कफल्म 'द कर्साइपल' िो फेफ्लस्टिल में प्रीकमयर िे कलए चुना गया था।
• महोत्सि िे समापन समारोह िे दौरान कनणाड यि मंर्ल द्वारा मुख्य प्रकिस्पधाड िे किजेिाओं िे नामों िी घोर्षणा िी गई।

Q50.किस राज् िी सबुज साथी पररयोजना ने "सूचना समाज पर किि कशखर सम्मेलन (WSIS) पुरस्कार 2020" जीिा है ?
(a) कबहार
(b) राजस्थान
(c) गुजराि
(d) पकिम बंगाल

Q50. Which state’s Sabuj Sathi project has won the “World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prize 2020”?
(a) Bihar
(b) Rajasthan
(c) Gujarat
(d) West Bengal

• After the Kanyashree scheme, another West Bengal government project has received a global prize.
• The World Summit on the Information Society has handed over the winner prize 2020 to the state government
for the Sabuj Sathi project through a virtual ceremony.
• Sabuj Sathi had contested with 800 projects from across the globe to become the “winner” under the e-
government category.
• The project is the brainchild of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
• Started in 2015, bicycles are given to students of state-run, state-sponsored, aided schools and madrasas studying
between classes 9 and 12 in a bid to reduce the issue of dropping out of school, especially in rural Bengal and
also to ensure they continue school education till at least class 12.
• पकिम बंगाल सरिार िी िन्याश्ी योजना िे बाद, एि अन्य पररयोजना िो िैकिि पुरस्कार कमला है ।
• िल्डड सोसाइरी ऑन द इन्फॉमेशन सोसाइरी WSIS ने एि आभासी समारोह िे माध्यम से सबुज साथी पररयोजना
िो किजेिा पुरस्कार 2020 कदया है ।
• सबुज साथी पररयोजना ने ई-गिनडमेंर श्ेणी िे िहि "किजेिा" बनने िे कलए दु कनया भर िी 800 पररयोजनाओं िे साथ चुनाि
लडा था।
• यह पररयोजना मुख्यमंत्री ममिा बनजी द्वारा 2015 में शुरू िी गयी थी
• राज् सरिार िे अनुसार, इसने अभी िि 2,700 िरोड रुपये िी अनुमाकनि लागि पर 85 लाख छात्रों िे बीच साइकिल
कििररि िी है ।

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Q51.िर्षड 2019 िे कलए प्रकिकष्ठि इं कदरा गां धी शां कि पुरस्कार से किसे सम्माकनि किया गया है ?
(a) मलाला यूसुफजई
(b) ग्रेरा थुनबगड
(c) सर र्े किर् एरनबरो
(d) एं जेला मिेल

Q51. Who has been conferred with the prestigious Indira Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2019?
(a) Malala Yousafzai
(b) Greta Thunberg
(c) Sir David Attenborough
(d) Angela Merkel

• Sir David Attenborough has been conferred with the prestigious Indira Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2019.
• David Attenborough is an English broadcaster and a historian.
• He is popular for writing and presenting BBC Natural History units. He worked to make
awareness to preserve and protect biodiversity of the planet.
• The other recipients of the award are Centre for science and Environment in 2018, United Nations High
Commission for Refugees in 2015, ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) in 2014, Kofi Annan in 2003,
UNICEF in 1989, Parliamentarians for Global Action in 1986.
• The Indira Gandhi Peace Prize award is for peace, disarmament and development.

• प्रकसि ब्रॉर्िास्टर ि प्रिरकििादी र्े किर् एरनबरो िो इं कदरा गााँ धी शां कि पुरस्कार 2019 से सम्माकनि किया गया|
• र्े किर् एरनबरो एि अंग्रेजी प्रसारि और इकिहासिार हैं । िह बीबीसी नेचुरल कहस्टि ी यूकनर िो कलखने और प्रिुि िरने
िे कलए लोिकप्रय हैं ।
• उन्ोंने ग्रह िी जैि किकिधिा िो संरकक्षि िरने िे कलए जागरूि िरने िा िाम किया है ।
• पुरस्कार िे अन्य प्राप्तििाड 2018 में किज्ञान और पयाड िरण िेंद्र, 2015 में शरणाकथडयों िे कलए संयुि राष्ट्ि उच्चायोग, 2014
में ISRO (भारिीय अंिररक्ष अनुसंधान संगठन), 2003 में िोफी अन्नान, 1989 में UNICEF हैं ।
• यह पुरस्कार इं कदरा गााँ धी रि स्ट द्वारा 1986 से प्रदान किया जा रहा है ।
• इस पुरस्कार िा नाम दे श िी पूिड प्रधानमंत्री इं कदरा गााँ धी पर रखा गया है ।
• यह पुरस्कार उन लोगों अथिा संगठनों िो कदया जािा है जो अंिराड ष्ट्िीय शां कि ि कििास िो बढािा दे ने िे कलए िायड िरिे
हैं ।

Q52.दादा साहे ब फाल्के अंिराड ष्ट्िीय कफल्म महोत्सि पुरस्कार 2021 में मरणोपरां ि किसे सम्माकनि किया जाएगा?
(a) इरफान खान
(b) सुशां ि कसंह राजपूि
(c) ऋकर्ष िपूर
(d) श्ी दे िी

Q52. Who will be awarded posthumously at the DadaSaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards 2021?
(a) Irfaan Khan
(b) Sushant Singh Rajput
(c) Rishi Kapoor
(d) Sri Devi

• Dada Saheb Phalke Awards has revealed on its official Instagram page that Sushant will be awarded
posthumously at the DadaSaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards 2021.
• The California State Assembly was given a special honor for his contributions to the world and cinema.
• The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting may honor the actor in a special way at this year's National
Awards.

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• दादा साहब फाल्के इं ररनेशनल कफल्म फेफ्लस्टिल अिॉर्डड स 2021 में सुशां ि िो मरणोपरां ि सम्माकनि किया जाएगा।
• िैकलफोकनडया स्टे र असेंबली से किशेर्ष सम्मान कदया गया था।
• 2017 में उन्ें 'एम.एस. धोनी : द अनरोल्ड स्टोरी' िे कलए मेलबनड में इं कर्यन कफल्म फेफ्लस्टिल िे दौरान बेस्ट एक्टर िा
अिॉर्ड कदया गया था।
• सूचना और प्रसारण मंत्रालय इस िर्षड िे राष्ट्िीय पुरस्कारों में सुशां ि िो किशेर्ष रूप से सम्माकनि िर सििा है ।

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Q53.अंिराड ष्ट्िीय बुिर पुरस्कार जीिने िाले सबसे िम उम्र िे लेखि िौन बन गए हैं ?
(a) बनाड कर्ड न एिररस्टो
(b) माररिे लुिास ररजनेिेल्ड
(c) कमशेल हकचसन
(d) कहलेरी मेंरल

Q53. Who has become the youngest author to win the International Booker Prize?
(a) Bernardine Evaristo
(b) Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
(c) Michele Hutchison
(d) Hilary Mantel

• “The Discomfort of Evening”, written by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and translated from Dutch by Michele
Hutchison, has won the 2020 International Booker Prize. The £50,000 prize will be split equally between the
two.
• Rijneveld, 29, is the youngest author to win the International Booker Prize.
• The International Booker Prize is awarded every year to a book of fiction in any language that is translated into
English and published in the U.K. or Ireland.
• The award is separate from the main Booker Prize, and aims to encourage more publishing and reading of
quality fiction from around the world.
• नीदरलैंर् िी 29 िर्षीय माररिे लुिास ररजनेिेल्ड अंिरराष्ट्िीय बुिर पुरस्कार जीिने िाली सबसे िम उम्र िी लेखि बन
गए हैं । यह पुरस्कार मूल बुिर पुरस्कार से अलग है
• ररजनेिेल्ड िी कििाब ‘द कर्स्कम्प्फरड ऑफ इिकनंग’ िो किजेिा घोकर्षि किया गया। यह ग्रामीण नीदरलैंर् िे एि िट्टर
ईसाई समुदाय िे एि किसान पररिार िी िहानी है।
• कनयमों िे अनुसार पुरस्कार िी इनाम राकश 50,000 पाउं र् लेखि माररिे लुिास और अनुिादि कमशेल हकचसन िे बीच
बराबर बंरेगी।
अंिराड ष्ट्िीय बुिर पुरस्कार हर साल किसी भी भार्षा में कलखी कफक्शन कििाब िो कदया जािा है कजसे अंग्रेजी में अनुिाकदि किया गया
हो और यू.िे. या आयरलैंर् में प्रिाकशि किया गया हो |
Q54.Mental Calculations World Cup में भारि िे कलए पहला स्वणड पदि किसने जीिा है ?
(a) मोहम्मद एल मीर
(b) आयडन शुला
(c) अफ्लस्मिा पाल
(d) नीलिंठ भानु प्रिाश

Q54. Who has won the first ever Gold Medal for India in Mental Calculations World Cup ?
(a) Mohammed El Mir
(b) Aryan Shukla
(c) Asmita Pal
(d) Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash

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• Twenty-Year old Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash of Hyderabad has bagged the first ever Gold Medal for India in
Mental Calculations World Cup held on August 15, 2020 by Mind Sports Olympiad (MSO).
• The MSO was held virtually with 30 participants, who were upto 57 years of age.
• The participants were from 13 countries including the UK, Germany, UAE, France, Greece and Lebanon.
• Bhanu Prakash had secured the gold medal with a score of 167, Lebanese contender Mohammed El Mir secured
the Silver Medal with a score 102 and Asmita Pal from the UAE bagged the Bronze medal with a score of 100
points.
• लंदन में आयोकजि हुई माइं र् स्पोरडड स ओलंकपयार् 2020 में नीलिंठ भानु प्रिाश ने ही भारि िे कलए पहला गोल्ड मेर्ल
जीिा है ।
• इस प्रकियोकगिा में 13 दे शों ने भाग कलया था।
• भानु प्रिाश ने 167 िे स्कोर िे साथ स्वणड पदि हाकसल किया था, लेबनान िे दािेदार मोहम्मद एल मीर ने 102 अंि िे
साथ रजि पदि और यूएई िी अफ्लस्मिा पाल ने 100 अंिों िे साथ िांस् पदि हाकसल किया था।
• उन्ोंने एि नया ऑल राइम ररिॉर्ड बनाया है और शिुंिला दे िी िे ररिॉर्ड िो पछाडा है ।
• भारि िे आयडन शुला 96 िे स्कोर िे साथ चौथे स्थान पर रहे ।
• नीलिंठ भानु प्रिाश कदल्ली कििकिद्यालय िे सेंर स्टीफन िॉलेज में गकणि (ऑनसड) िे छात्र हैं और दु कनया में सबसे िेज़
मानि िैलिुलेरर होने िे कलए 4 िल्डड ररिॉर्ड और 50 कलम्प्िा ररिॉर्ड जीि चुिे हैं ।

Q55. किंग िमां र्र गजानंद यादि िो कनम्नकलफ्लखि में से किस पुरस्कार से सम्माकनि किया जायेगा ?
(a) अजुडन पुरस्कार
(b) ध्यानचंद पुरस्कार
(c) िेनकजंग नोगे राष्ट्िीय साहकसि पुरस्कार
(d) द्रोणाचायड पुरस्कार

Q55.Wing Commander Gajanand Yadava will be honored with which of the following Awards?
(a) Arjuna Award
(b) Dhyan Chand Award
(c) Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award
(d) Dronacharya Award

• Wing Commander Gajanand Yadava has won the ‘Tenzing Norgey National Adventure Award ' in the air
adventure category.
• Gajanand Yadava is a Parachute Jump Instructor. He is also a member of IAF's Skydiving Team `Akash Ganga`.
• He has undertaken more than 2900 jumps till date, stated the Indian Air Force in its post.
• The Indian Air Force also congratulated the Air Force Sports Control Board (AFSCB) for being awarded the
'Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar 2020'.
• एयर एर्िेंचर श्ेणी में किंग िमां र्र गजानंद यादि ने ge िेनकजंग नोगेई नेशनल एर्िेंचर अिार्ड ’जीिा है ।
• गजानंद यादि पैराशूर जंप प्रकशक्षि हैं । िह IAF िी स्काइर्ाइकिंग रीम `आिाश गंगा` िे सदस् भी हैं। उन्ोंने अब िि
2900 से अकधि छलां ग लगाई हैं
• िायु सेना िे खेल कनयंत्रण बोर्ड (AFSCB) िो 'राष्ट्िीय खेल प्रोत्साहन पुरस्कार 2020' से सम्माकनि किया जायेगा |
• यह पुरस्कार खेल िे प्रोत्साहन और प्रोत्साहन िी कदशा में कनरं िर प्रयास िरने िे कलए कदया जािा है ।
• िेनकजंग नोगे राष्ट्िीय साहकसि पुरस्कारों िो साहकसि खेलों िे कलए भारि िा सिोच्च राष्ट्िीय पुरस्कार माना जािा है । इन
पुरस्कारों िो अजुडन पुरस्कार िे बराबर माना जािा है ।

Q56.किस स्कूल ने कशक्षा में निाचार िे कलए पहला पल्लीिुट्टम राष्ट्िीय पुरस्कार जीिा है?
(a) संस्कार िैली स्कूल, भोपाल

(b) DAV पफ्लब्लि स्कूल, हररयाणा

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(c) CMI क्राइस्ट स्कूल, िेरल

(d) सेंर कक्रस्टोफर स्कूल, नागालैंर्

Q56. Which school has won the first-ever Pallikkutam National Award for Innovation in Education?

(a) Sanskaar Valley School, Bhopal.

(b) DAV Public School, Haryana


(c) CMI Christ School, Kerala
(d) St Christopher School, Nagaland

• The first-ever Pallikkutam National Award for Innovation in Education, instituted by Rajagiri
Media, has been won by St Christopher School, Chessore Village, Nagaland.
• The silver award was won by DAV Public School, Haryana, and the bronze award by CMI Christ
School, Iritty in Kerala.
• The awards, carrying a cash prize of 1,00,000, Rs.50,000 and Rs.25,000, respectively, are meant
to honour education leadership by way of frugal and disruptive innovations that help them
cross the Covid-19 induced academic lockdown.
• The awards are sponsored under the CSR initiative of Federal Bank.
• The award winners were chosen by an expert jury set up by the Indian Institute of Management,
Kozhikode.

• इनोिेशन इन एजुिेशन िा पहला पल्लीिुट्टम नेशनल अिार्ड सेंर कक्रस्टोफर स्कूल,नागालैंर् द्वारा जीिा गया है।
• रजि पुरस्कार र्ीएिी पफ्लब्लि स्कूल, हररयाणा द्वारा और िां स् पुरस्कार िेरल में CMI क्राइस्ट स्कूल, िेरल द्वारा जीिा
गया।
• पुरस्कार फेर्रल बैंि िी CSR पहल िे िहि प्रायोकजि किए जािे हैं ।
• पुरस्कार किजेिाओं िो भारिीय प्रबंधन संस्थान, िोझीिोर् द्वारा स्थाकपि एि किशेर्षज्ञ जूरी द्वारा चुना गया था।

Q57. WHO िे मुख्य िैज्ञाकनि सौम्या स्वामीनाथन िो किस राज् िे मुख्यमंत्री िे किशेर्ष पुरस्कार से सम्माकनि किया गया है ?
(a) आं ध्र प्रदे श
(b) िेरल
(c) ओकर्शा
(d) िकमलनार्ु

Q57. Which state Chief Minister’s special award has been awarded to Chief Scientist of WHO, Soumya Swaminathan
in recognition of her advisory role?
(a) Andhra Pradesh
(b) Kerala
(c) Odisha
(d) Tamil Nadu

• Chief Scientist of World Health Organisation Soumya Swaminathan was conferred with the Tamil Nadu Chief
Minister’s special award in recognition of her advisory role in combating the COVID-19 pandemic in the state.
• Swaminathan received the award from Chief Minister K Palaniswami on the 74th Independence Day celebration
at Fort St George.
• The WHO representative has been offering suggestions to the state health department to step up measures in
fighting the pandemic.

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• Swaminathan has 30 years of experience in clinical care and research and has worked throughout her career to
translate her research into impactful programmes.
• किि स्वास्थ्य संगठन (WHO) िी मुख्य िैज्ञाकनि सौम्या स्वामीनाथन िो िकमलनार्ु िे मुख्यमंत्री िे किशेर्ष पुरस्कार से
निाजा गया।
• उन्ें यह पुरस्कार राज् में िोकिर्-19 महामारी से लडने संबंधी परामशड दे ने में उनिी भूकमिा िे कलए कदया गया है ।
• स्वामीनाथन ने यहां फोरड सेंर जॉजड में 74िें स्विंत्रिा कदिस िे अिसर पर मुख्यमंत्री िे. पलानीस्वामी से यह पुरस्कार प्राप्त
किया।
• WHO िी प्रकिकनकध महामारी िे फ्लखलाफ लडाई में प्रयासों िो मजबूि िरने िे कलए राज् िे स्वास्थ्य किभाग िो परामशड
दे िी रही हैं ।

Q58.74िें स्विंत्रिा कदिस पर किस आमी पसडनल िो शौयड चक्र से सम्माकनि किया गया है?
(a) ले िनडल िरष्ण कसंह रािि
(b) मेजर अकनल उसड
(c) हिलदार आलोि िुमार दु बे
(d) इन सभी िो

Q58. Which Army Personal has been awarded the Shaurya Chakra on the 74th Independence Day?
(a) Lt.Col. Krishan Singh Rawat
(b) Major Anil Urs
(c) Havildar Alok Kumar Dubey
(d) All of these

• President Ram Nath Kovind approved gallantry awards, including Shaurya Chakra to honour bravehearts of
Indian armed forces on the eve of 74th Independence Day.
• Three Army personnel and one Indian Air Force (IAF) officer were among nine Shaurya Chakra awards
announced on the eve of Independence Day.
• Those from the Army who have been awarded the Shaurya Chakra are Lt.Col. Krishan Singh Rawat, Major
Anil Urs and Havildar Alok Kumar Dubey.
• Wing Commander Vishak Nair from the Indian Air Force was also awarded the Shaurya Chakra.
• The Shaurya Chakra is awarded for gallantry It is the third highest gallantry award in peacetime.
• राष्ट्िपकि राम नाथ िोकिंद ने 74िें स्विंत्रिा कदिस िी पूिड सं ध्या पर भारिीय सशस्त्र बलों िे बहादु रों िो सम्माकनि िरने िे
कलए शौयड चक्र सकहि िीरिा पुरस्कारों िो मंजूरी दी।
• सेना से कजन्ें शौयड चक्र से सम्माकनि किया गया है िे है - ले. िनडल िरष्ण कसंह रािि, मेजर अकनल उसड और हिलदार
आलोि िुमार दु बे।
• भारिीय िायु सेना से किंग िमां र्र किशाख नायर िो भी शौयड चक्र से सम्माकनि किया गया |
• शौयड चक्र िीरिा िे कलए सम्माकनि किया जािा है |यह िीसरा सबसे बडा िीरिा पुरस्कार है ।
• राष्ट्िपकि ने सेना िे 60 जिानों िो सेना मेर्ल (िीरिा), नौसेना िो चार जिानों िो नौ सेना मेर्ल (िीरिा) और िायु सेना
िे कलए पां च जिानों िो िायु सेना पदि (िीरिा) िो मंजूरी दी।

Q59. खोजी पत्रिाररिा िे कलए एकशयन िॉलेज ऑफ़ जनडकलज्म (ACJ) अिार्ड 2019 से किसे सम्माकनि किया गया है ?
(a) रजि शमाड
(b) कनकिन सेठी
(c) रिीश िुमार
(d) सुधीर चौधरी

Q59. Who has been awarded the Asian College of Journalism’s (ACJ) Award 2019 for Investigative Journalism ?
(a) Rajat Sharma
(b) Nitin Sethi
(c) Raveesh Kumar
(d) Sudhir Chaudhary

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• Journalists Nitin Sethi and Shiv Sahay Singh were declared winners of the Asian College of Journalism’s (ACJ)
Award 2019 for Investigative Journalism and K. P. Narayana Kumar Memorial Award for Social Impact
Journalism, respectively.
• The awards were presented in a virtual ceremony by Soumya Swaminathan, chief scientist of the World Health
Organisation(WHO), at the inauguration of the Class of 2021
• Nitin Sethi is a journalist in the Huffington Post. He won this award for his six-part series titled “Paisa Politics”
published by The Huffington Post India.
• पत्रिार कनकिन सेठी और कशि सहाय कसंह िो क्रमशः खोजी पत्रिाररिा िे कलए एकशयन िॉलेज ऑफ़ जनडकलज्म (ACJ)
अिार्ड 2019 और सोशल इम्पैक्ट जनडकलज्म िे कलए िे. पी. नारायण िुमार मेमोररयल अिार्ड िा किजेिा घोकर्षि किया
गया।
• यह पुरस्कार किि स्वास्थ्य संगठन (WHO) िी मुख्य िैज्ञाकनि सौम्या स्वामीनाथन द्वारा 2021 िी लास िे उदड घारन पर
एि िचुडअल समारोह िे दौरान प्रदान किए गए।
• कनकिन सेठी हकफ़ंगरन पोस्ट में पत्रिार हैं । उन्ोंने द हकफंगरन पोस्ट इं कर्या द्वारा प्रिाकशि “Paisa Politics” नामि अपनी
छह-भाग िाली श्रंखला िे कलए यह पुरस्कार जीिा।
• कशि सहाय कसंह द कहं दू में पत्रिार हैं । उन्ें द कहं दू में प्रिाकशि “Death by digital exclusion: On faculty public
distribution system in Jharkhand” नामि िहानी िे कलए पुरस्कार कमला।

Q60.िुिी िे सां सद अली साकहन िो किस दे श िे प्रकिकष्ठि पुरस्कार से सम्माकनि किया जायेगा ?
(a) पाकििान
(b) अफगाकनिान
(c) ईरान
(d) उज्बेकििान

Q60. Which country will confer its prestigious award to a Turkish lawmaker, Ali Sahin?
(a) Pakistan
(b) Afghanistan
(c) Iran
(d) Uzbekistan

• Pakistan will confer the country's prestigious award to a Turkish lawmaker, Ali Sahin, in recognition of his
services to promoting friendship between the two countries.
• President Mr Arif Alvi will honor him with the Sitar-e-Quaid-e-Azam award on Aug. 14 (Pakistan Independence
Day)
• Sahin, who is a member of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party, studied in Pakistan and speaks Urdu.
• He is chairman of the Pakistan-Turkey friendship parliamentary group.

• पाकििान िे साथ कमत्रिा िो बढािा दे ने िे कलए एि िुिी सां सद, अली साकहन िो दे श िे प्रकिकष्ठि पुरस्कार से सम्माकनि
किया जायेगा |
• राष्ट्िपकि श्ी आररफ अल्वी उन्ें 14 अगि (पाकििान स्विंत्रिा कदिस) पर Sitar-e-Quaid-e-Azam पुरस्कार से सम्माकनि
िरें गे।
• साकहन, िुिी िी सत्तारूढ न्याय और कििास पारी िे सदस् है |
• िह पाकििान-िुिी मैत्री संसदीय समूह िे अध्यक्ष हैं ।
• पाकििानी राज् पुरस्कार राजनेिाओं, िलािारों, एथलीरों, किद्वानों और व्यिसायी लोगों िे कलए प्रिुि किया जािा है जो
दे श िे किदे शी संबंधों िे कलए मूल्य जोडिे हैं ।

Q61.नमाकम गंगे पररयोजना िो 'लोि प्रशासन उत्करष्ट्िा िे कलए प्रधानमंत्री पुरस्कार 2020 में ' शाकमल किया गया है । यह पररयोजना
किस साल में शुरू िी गयी थी ?

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(a) 2014
(b) 2016
(c) 2008
(d) 2010

Q61.Namami Gange project has been included in the ‘PM’s Awards for Excellence in Public Administration 2020’. It
was started in which year?
(a) 2014
(b) 2016
(c) 2008
(d) 2010

• This year the Namami Gange project has been included in the prestigious ‘Prime Minister’s Awards for
Excellence in Public Administration 2020’.
• National Mission for Clean Ganga is not limited to the ‘Nirmalta’ and ‘Aviralta’ of the Ganga, it is also working
on Arth Ganga to develop a sustainable socioeconomic zone around the Ganga and its tributaries, which will
give a boost to the ‘Atma Nirbhar Bharat’ campaign.
• The Government of India has restructured the Scheme ‘Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Public
Administration’ to acknowledge, recognize and reward the exemplary work done by Civil Servants across the
country.
• The total number of awards for 2020 are 15. The Awards shall be conferred on Rashtriya Ekta Diwas on October
31, 2020.
• नमाकम गंगे पररयोजना िो प्रकिकष्ठि 'लोि प्रशासन उत्करष्ट्िा िे कलए प्रधानमंत्री पुरस्कार 2020 में ' शाकमल किया गया है।
• यह कमशन गंगा िे 'कनमडलिा' और 'अकिरलिा' िि ही सीकमि नहीं है , यह गंगा और उसिी सहायि नकदयों िे आसपास
एि स्थायी सामाकजि आकथडि क्षेत्र कििकसि िरने िे कलए अथड गंगा पर भी िाम िर रहा है , जो 'आत्म'कनभाड र भारि
अकभयान िो बढािा दे गा।
• भारि सरिार ने दे श भर में कसकिल सेििों द्वारा किए गए अनुिरणीय िायड िो पुरस्करि िरने िे कलए लोि प्रशासन
उत्करष्ट्िा िे कलए प्रधानमंत्री पुरस्कार' योजना िा पुनगडठन किया है ।
• 2020 िे कलए पुरस्कारों िी िुल संख्या 15 होगी पुरस्कार 31 अक्टू बर, 2020 िो राष्ट्िीय एििा कदिस पर प्रदान किए
जाएं गे।
• 'नमाकम गंगे िायडक्रम', जून 2014 में िेंद्र सरिार द्वारा शुरू किया गया एि एिीिरि संरक्षण कमशन है ।

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Q62. किस भारिीय NGO ने किि स्वास्थ्य संगठन (WHO) द्वारा"किि िंबािू कनर्षेध कदिस" अिार्ड 2020 जीिा है ?
(a) Goonj
(b) SEEDS
(c) CRY
(d) Katha

Q62. Which Indian NGO has won the World No Tobacco Day Award 2020 by WHO?
(a) Goonj
(b) SEEDS
(c) CRY
(d) Katha

• The World Health Organization (WHO) has conferred the World No Tobacco Day Award 2020 to the Socio-
Economic and Educational Development Society (SEEDS), an NGO, for its efforts to ban pan masala, gutkha,
e-cigarettes and hookah in Bihar and Jharkhand.
• On the occasion of World No Tobacco Day on May 31, the WHO selects organisations and individuals from its
six regions every year for their exceptional contribution in the field of tobacco control.

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• The SEEDS is among the three awardees selected from the South-East Asia Region.
• The organisation has been working closely with the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on prevention
and control of smokeless tobacco use.
• The ministry has nominated Deepak Mishra, executive director of the SEEDS, as a member of the task force on
the de-addiction campaign.

Q63. मैकथल िीरां गना िी उपाकध से किसे सम्माकनि किया गया है ?


(a) संदीप िुमारी
(b) किरनजीि िौर
(c) ज्ोकि िुमारी
(d) आर श्ीलेखा

Q63. Who has been awarded the title of Maithil Veerangana?


(a) Sandeep Kumari
(b) Kiranjeet Kaur
(c) Jyoti Kumari
(d) R Sreelekha

• Jyoti Kumari has been honored by a delegation from Nirmali Nagar, as she brought her father on a bicycle from
Gurgaon to Sirhulli in Darbhanga district amid the lockdown over the global pandemic Corona.
• She was awarded the title of 'Maithil Veerangana' from the delegation city.
• Those in the delegation gave Kumari Jyoti a letter, citation, and cash prize.

Q64.किस भारिीय ने 2020 राष्ट्िमंर्ल लघु िथा पुरस्कार में में एकशया िे कलए क्षेत्रीय पुरस्कार जीिा है ?
(a) रुकचिा िोमर
(b) िरकििा पांर्े
(c) रघु िनाडर्
(d) जसकबंदर कबलन

Q64. Which Indian has won the regional award for Asia in the 2020 Commonwealth short story prize?
(a) Ruchika Tomar
(b) Kritika Pandey
(c) Raghu Karnad
(d) Jasbinder Bilan

• Kritika Pandey has won the regional award for Asia in 2020 Commonwealth short story prize for her story “The
Great Indian Tee and Snakes”.
• The award is awarded to the five regional winners and the overall winner is selected among them. The overall
winner for the 2020 Commonwealth short story will be announced on June 30.
• The story about a Hindu girl falling in love with a Muslim man.
• Set up in 2012, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction
from the Commonwealth.
• It is administered by the Commonwealth Foundation, through
its cultural initiative Commonwealth Writers.

Q65.साइं स एं र् रे क्नोलॉजी ’श्ेणी में किसे कनक्की एकशया पुरस्कार 2020 से सम्माकनि किया जायेगा?
(a) बॉब बलराम
(b) सुदशडनम बाबू

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(c) प्रोफेसर री प्रदीप


(d) अब्दे लौहाब आइसाऊई

Q65. Who has been awarded the Nikkei Asia Prize 2020 in the ‘Science and Technology’ category?
(a) Bob Balaram
(b) Sudarsanam Babu
(c) Prof. T. Pradeep
(d) Abdelouahab Aissaoui

• Indian Institute of Technology Madras faculty Prof. T. Pradeep has been chosen for the Nikkei Asia Prizes 2020
in ‘Science and Technology’ category for his work in nanotechnology-based water purification.
• Prof T. Pradeep was honoured with the Padma Shri earlier this year and is credited with developing
nanotechnology-enabled water filters.
• They have helped to deliver clean water for at a cost of just 2 paisa per litre in India.
• Prof Pradeep and his team have developed affordable and safe drinking water solutions using nanomaterials,
from bench scale science to commercial products, creating knowledge, technology and wealth for social good,
simultaneously.

Q66.किस भारिीय फोरोग्राफर ने िश्मीर ििरे ज िे कलए पुकलत्जर पुरस्कार-2020 जीिा है ?


(a) यासीन र्ार
(b) मुख्तार खान
(c) चन्नी आनंद
(d) िीनों िो

Q66. Which Indian photographer has won the Pulitzer prize-2020 for Kashmir coverage?
(a) Dar Yasin
(b) Mukhtar Khan
(c) Channi Anand
(d) All of these

• 2020 Pulitzer prizes were announced in New York after a two-week delay.
• The initial Pulitzer ceremony, which was scheduled for April 20, was pushed to give Pulitzer Board members
who were busy covering the pandemic more time to evaluate the finalists.
• The Associated Press Photographers Yasin Dar, Mukhtar Khan and Channi Anand won a Pulitzer in feature
photography for images made during clampdown on Kashmir when Centre scrapped special status and
bifurcated Jammu and Kashmir in two union territories.
• The inaugural award for audio reporting went to the collaboration between the staff of “This American Life,”
Molly O’Toole of the Los Angeles Times, and Emily Green, a freelancer for Vice News.
• They won for “The Out Crowd,” which focuses on the human impact of the “Remain in Mexico” policy on
asylum cases used by the Trump Administration.

Q67. जमडन पर जीि िी 75 िीं िर्षडगां ठ िो कचकह्नि िरने िे कलए रूसी राष्ट्िपकि ने स्मारि युि पदि से किसे सम्माकनि किया है ?
(a) मून जे-इन
(b) किम जोंग-उन
(c) चुंग सय-ियून
(d) कशंजो अबे

Q67. Who has been awarded a commemorative war medal by the Russian President to mark the 75 anniversary of the
th

victory over Nazi German?


(a) Moon Jae-in
(b) Kim Jong-un

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(c) Chung Sye-kyun


(d) Shinzō Abe

• Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un a commemorative war medal
marking the 75 anniversary of the victory over Nazi German
th

• The medal was awarded to the North Korean leader for his role in preserving the memory of Soviet soldiers
who died on North Korean territory.

Q68.िर्षड 2020 िे कलए नैनो किज्ञान और प्रौद्योकगिी में युिा िैररयर पुरस्कार से किसे सम्माकनि किया गया है ?
(a) मुख्तार खान
(b) चन्नी आनंद
(c) यासीन र्ार
(d) सौरभ लोढा

Q68. Who has been awarded the Young Career Award in Nano Science & Technology for the year 2020?
(a) Mukhtar Khan
(b) Channi Anand
(c) Yasin Dar
(d) Saurabh Lodha

• IIT Bombay Professor Saurabh Lodha has been honoured with the Young Career Award in Nano Science &
Technology for the year 2020.
• The Young Career Award in Nano Science & Technology is instituted by the Department of Science and
Technology (DST), Govt. of India.
• He has been honoured with this award for his pioneering contributions in the development of logic transistor
technologies past silicon and nanoelectronic devices based on two-dimensional Van der Waals materials.

Q69.किस भारिीय पत्रिार ने प्रकिकष्ठि र्ॉयचे िेले िीर्म ऑफ स्पीच अिार्ड जीिा है ?
(a) यासीन र्ार
(b) कसिाथड िरदराजन
(c) चन्नी आनंद
(d) मुख्तार खान

Q69. Which Indian journalist has won the prestigious Deutsche Welle Freedom of Speech Award?
(a) Yasin Dar
(b) Siddharth Varadarajan
(c) Channi Anand
(d) Mukhtar Khan

• Indian journalist and the founding editor of ‘The Wire’, Siddharth Varadarajan has been named one of the 17
recipients of the Freedom of Speech Award presented by German public international broadcaster, Deutsche
Welle also called as DW.
• In 2020, in the midst of the Corona crisis, DW has decided to honor 17 journalists from 14 countries.
• The award is conferred on journalists who show outstanding commitment to human rights and freedom of
expression in the media.
• The Freedom of Speech Award 2020 is dedicated to all courageous journalists worldwide who are suffering
repressions because of their reporting on the pandemic.

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Q70.किस दे श िी पहली कसख मकहला पत्रिार; मनमीि िौर िो कब्ररे न में प्रकिकष्ठि पुरस्कार िे कलए नामां किि किया गया है ?
(a) बांग्लादे श
(b) श्ीलंिा
(c) पाकििान
(d) अफगाकनिान

Q70. Which country’s first Sikh female journalist Manmeet Kaur has been nominated for a prestigious award in the
UK?
(a) Bangladesh
(b) Sri Lanka
(c) Pakistan
(d) Afghanistan

• Pakistan’s first Sikh female journalist Manmeet Kaur has been nominated for a prestigious
award in the UK, the media reported.
• Manmeet, 25, has been selected as one of the 100 most influential Sikh personalities under 30
years of age around the world by the UK-based “The Sikh Group”, The Express Tribune

Q71.भारि िे प्रमुख हाइर्ि ोग्राफर िौन है , कजन्ोंने हाल ही में यूिे पुरस्कार जीिा है ?
(a) िाइस एर्कमरल किनय बधिार
(b) िाइस एर्कमरल अिुल िुमार जैन
(c) िाइस एर्कमरल मनोज दत्त
(d) िाइस एर्कमरल कबमल िमाड

Q71. Who is India’s chief Hydrographer ;who has recently won the UK Award?
(a) Vice Admiral Vinay Badhwar
(b) Vice Admiral Atul Kumar Jain
(c) Vice Admiral Manoj Dutt
(d) Vice Admiral Bimal Verma

• India’s chief Hydrographer Vice Admiral Vinay Badhwar, has been honoured with the 2019 Alexander
Dalrymple Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Indian hydrography and across the wider
Indian Ocean region.
• The award, first presented by the UK Ministry of Defence-sponsored UKHO in 2006, is named after the first
Hydrographer of the Admiralty, Alexander Dalrymple.

Q72.यूनेस्को कगलमो िैनो िल्डड प्रेस िीर्म अिॉर्ड 2020 िे किजेिा िे रूप में किसे नाकमि किया गया है ?
(a) कनिोल हन्नाह-जोन्स
(b) जीनेथ बेर्ोया कलमा
(c) िा लोन
(d) क्ाि सो ओ

Q72. Who has been named as the winner of the 2020 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize?
(a) Nikole Hannah-Jones
(b) Jineth Bedoya Lima
(c) ‘Wa Lone’
(d) ‘Kyaw Soe Oo

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• Colombian investigative journalist Jineth Bedoya Lima has been named as the laureate of the 2020
UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize on the recommendation of an independent international
jury of media professionals.
• Jineth Bedoya Lima’s reporting has focused on the armed conflict and peace process in Colombia and on sexual
violence against women.
• The World Press Freedom Prize also known as UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize is
formally conferred every year by the Director-General of UNESCO, on occasion of World Press Freedom Day
observed on 3 May.

Q73.PETA India द्वारा किस मुख्यमंत्री िो "Hero to Animals Award " से सम्माकनि किया गया है ?
(a) निीन परनायि
(b) उिि ठािरे
(c) योगी आकदत्यनाथ
(d) Y S जगनमोहन रे ड्डी

Q73. Which chief minister has been conferred with Hero to Animals Award’ by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals) India?
(a) Naveen Patnaik
(b) Uddhav Thackeray
(c) Yogi Adityanath
(d) Y S Jaganmohan Reddi

• Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has been conferred with an award by animal rights body PETA India for
allocating funds to feed community animals in Odisha during the lockdown over the novel coronavirus
pandemic.
• It comes after the state government sanctioned Rs 54 lakh to feed stray animals in five municipal corporations
and all 48 municipalities as they are struggling to find food during the lockdown.
Recognising his efforts, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India announced the ''Hero to Animals
Award'' for Patnaik. He received a framed certificate and a letter of appreciation.

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Q74.किस भारिीय गैर-लाभिारी संगठन िो सामाकजि उद्यकमिा 2020 िे कलए Skoll पुरस्कार से सम्माकनि किया गया है ?
(a) KHUSHI
(b) ARMMAN
(c) MITRA
(d) SAATHI

Q74. Which Indian non-profit organization has been awarded the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship 2020?
(a) KHUSHI
(b) ARMMAN
(c) MITRA
(d) SAATHI

• ARMMAN, an India-based non-profit organization (NPO), has been awarded the Skoll Award for Social
Entrepreneurship 2020 in recognition of its exceptional work in the maternal and child health space in India.
• ARMMAN is the only organization from Asia and Africa, selected from 700 organizations.
• Its objective is empowerment of mothers and to enable healthy children in India.
• These awards are presented annually by Skoll foundation, established in 1999,to select organizations and social
entrepreneurs who are working towards a change.

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Q75.Midnight in Chernobyl पुिि िे कलए, किकलयम ई िोल्बी पुरस्कार किसने जीिा है ?


(a) मागडरेर एरिुर्
(b) अन्ना बन्सड
(c) पीरर हैंर्िे
(d) एर्म कहकगनबोरम

Q75. Who has won the William E. Colby Award, for his book, Midnight in Chernobyl ?
(a) Margaret Atwood
(b) Anna Burns
(c) Peter Handke
(d) Adam Higginbotham
• Adam Higginbotham's 'Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster' has
won a $5,000 prize.
• Higginbotham has received the William E. Colby Award, given for an outstanding book on military or
intelligence history.
• The Colby award was established in 1999.
• Previous winners include Karl Marlantes' novel 'Matterhorn' and Dexter Filkins' 'The Forever War'
• Earlier this year, 'Midnight in Chernobyl' won the American Library Association's Andrew Carnegie Medal for
Excellence in Nonfiction.

Q76.अपने उपन्यास "द स्पारड न िोरड " िे कलए अरबी कफक्शन अंिराड ष्ट्िीय पुरस्कार किसने जीिा है ?
(a) पीरर हैंर्िे
(b) ओल्गा रोिाचुडि
(c) जोखा अलहरथी
(d) अब्दे लौहाब आइसाऊई

Q76. Who has won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction for his novel “The Spartan Court”?
(a) Peter Handke
(b) Olga Tokarczuk
(c) Jokha Alharthi
(d) Abdelouahab Aissaoui

• Algerian author Abdelouahab Aissaoui has won $50,000 International Prize for Arabic Fiction for his novel
“The Spartan Court”
• Algerian Novelist Abdelouahab Aissaoui won the 13th International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) 2020 for
his novel ‘The Spartan Court’ published by Dar Min in 2018
• Hewill receive USD 50,000 and funding will be provided for the English translation.
• It is a historical novel that relates the power struggle between Ottoman and French colonial powers in Algeria
where it interconnects the lives of 5 characters in Algiers at the beginning of the 19th century
• It is the most prestigious and important literary prize in the Arab world .

Q77.Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award 2020 किसने जीिा है ?


(a) मोहम्मद मोजेद
(b) अमल लूनी
(c) शाकहदु ल आलम
(d) र्ापो ओलरुन्योमी

Q77. Who has won the Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award 2020?
(a) Mohammad Mosaed
(b) Amal Clooney
(c) Shahidul Alam
(d) Dapo Olorunyomi

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• The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) will honour four courageous journalists with the International Press
Freedom Awards 2020
• Britain’s Lawyer Amal Clooney will be honoured with the Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award 2020.
• She is specialised in public international law, international criminal law, and human rights.
• She serves as an advocate for press freedom and has also served as international counsel for several journalists
under threat.
• The Gwen Ifill Award is given annually by CPJ’s board of directors to recognise extraordinary and sustained
commitment to press freedom.

Q78.स्वामी कििेिानंद िमडयोगी पुरस्कार से किसे सम्माकनि किया गया है ?


(a) मनोज दास
(b) प्रिाप चौहान
(c) यूसुफ जमील
(d) जादि पायेंग

Q78. Who has been awarded the Swami Vivekananda Karmayogi Award?
(a) Manoj Das
(b) Pratap Chauhan
(c) Yusuf Jameel
(d) Jadav Payeng

• Padma Shri Jadav Payeng has been conferred with the Swami Vivekananda Karmayogi Award in New Delhi at
a function instituted by My Home India.
• He was awarded the 6th Karmayogi Award for his consistent efforts in creating a real man-made forest through
massive reforestation.
• The award is composed of a trophy, a recitation and a reward of Rs 1 lakh.
• Jadav Payeng is famously known as the Forest Man of India.
• He is an environmental activist and forest worker from Jorhat. In the past several years, he has planted and
tended trees on a sandbar of the river Brahmaputra turning it into a forest reserve.

Q79.आकिडरे क्चर िे शीर्षड पुरस्कार; कप्ररड जिर पुरस्कार 2020 िे कलए किसे चुना गया है ?
(a) अरािा इसोजािी
(b) यिोन फैरे ल
(c) शेली मैिनमारा
(d) दोनों (b) और (c)

Q79. Who has been selected for the Architecture's top prize; Pritzker prize for 2020?
(a) Arata Isozaki
(b) Yvonne Farrell
(c) Shelley McNamara
(d) Both (b) and (c)

• Dublin-based Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara were awarded the Pritzker prize.
• The first time a female duo has scooped architecture's most prestigious award.

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• The pair gained international fame for their blocky, brutalist-inspired structures that include Paris's Institut
Mines Telecom building.
• Just three women have won Pritzkers before them and no Irish citizens have ever picked up the prize.
• Architects since the 1970s, the duo have developed a unique style that is modern while emphasizing craft and
working with site-specific aesthetics.

Q80.किस भारिीय िो 128 िें राष्ट्िमंर्ल पॉइं र ऑफ़ लाइर अिार्ड किजेिा िे रूप में नाकमि किया गया है ?
(a) चंर्ी प्रसाद भट्ट
(b) जादि पायेंग
(c) कलसेकप्रया िंगुजम
(d) अरुण िरष्णमूकिड

Q80. Which Indian has been named as the 128th Commonwealth Points of Light Award winner?
(a) Chandi Prasad Bhatt
(b) Jadav Payeng
(c) Licypriya Kangujam
(d) Arun Krishnamurthy

• Assam’s environmental activist Jadav Payeng has been named as the 128th Commonwealth Points of Light
Award winner.Called the “Forest Man of India”,
• Queen Elizabeth II has honoured Payeng for his exceptional voluntary service to environmental conservation.
• The British Deputy High Commissioner in Kolkata Nick Low would felicitate Payeng on March 11.
• Earlier, Padma Shri Jadav Payeng was conferred with the prestigious Swami Vivekananda Karmayogi Award
on February 29 in New Delhi.
• Padma Shri Jadav 'Molai' Payeng is an environment activist and forest worker from Jorhat. Over the course of
past several years, he planted and tended trees on a sandbar of the river Brahmaputra turning it into a forest
reserve.

Q81.“सामाकजि लाभ िे कलए प्रौद्योकगिी िे माध्यम से उत्करष्ट्िा कदखाने िे कलए राष्ट्िीय पुरस्कार” किसे कदया गया है ?
(a) र्ॉ नीिी िुमार
(b) र्ॉ िेिा रािि
(c) र्ॉ शाकलनी गुप्ता
(d) दोनों (b) और (c)

Q81. Who has been conferred the “National Award for Young Women Showing Excellence through Application of
Technology for Societal Benefits”?
(a) Dr. Niti Kumar
(b) Dr Shweta Rawat
(c) Dr. Shalini Gupta
(d) Both (b) and (c)

• Two Scientists – Dr Shweta Rawat from Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS), DRDO
and Dr. Shalini Gupta, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT-Delhi were recently conferred with the
‘National Award for Young Women Showing Excellence through Application of Technology for Societal
Benefits.
• Dr. Shweta Rawat has developed a special full body protector (Prabla) for the protection of women soldiers
deployed in riot control work.
• This body protector has been developed with the help of the Rapid Action Force.
• This full-body protector has many special qualities. It protects against injury, fire, acid while its upper layer
cannot be pierced easily.

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• It has been developed according to the convenience of female troops deployed at the workplace.

Q82. 2017-2019 िी अिकध िे कलए साििां र्ॉ एम एस स्वामीनाथन पुरस्कार किसने जीिा है ?
(a) पिन सुखदे ि
(b) प्रिाप चौहान
(c) िी प्रिीण राि
(d) यूसुफ जमील

Q82. Who has won the seventh Dr MS Swaminathan Award for the period 2017-2019?
(a) Pavan Sukhdev
(b) Pratap Chauhan
(c) V Praveen Rao
(d) Yusuf Jameel

• V Praveen Rao, Vice-Chancellor of Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, has won
the seventh Dr MS Swaminathan Award for the period 2017-2019.
• “The Selection Committee has decided to select Praveen Rao for the award recognising his contributions in the
fields of agricultural research, teaching, extension and administration,
• The award will be conferred on him in June.
• This biennial national award was constituted by Retired ICAR Employees Association. It carries a prize of ₹2
lakh and a citation.

Q83.किस NRI व्यापारी िो युगां र्ा िे सिोच्च नागररि पुरस्कार से सम्माकनि किया गया है ?
(a) कगरीश पंि
(b) राजेश चपलोि
(c) अकमि िाइिर
(d) रमेश छोराई

Q83. Which Non-Resident Indian businessman has been honoured with the Highest Civilian Award of Uganda?
(a) Girish Pant
(b) Rajesh Chaplot
(c) Amit Waikar
(d) Ramesh Chotai

• Distinguished Non-Resident Indian businessman, Mr. Rajesh Chaplot has been honoured with the Highest
Civilian Award (Golden Jubilee Medal-Civilians) of Uganda.
• The award was presented by none other than His Excellency Hon’ble President of Uganda, Mr Yoweri Museveni
in a ceremony in Kampala recently.
• The accolade was bestowed upon Mr. Chaplot for his excellence in the field of Business & Commerce, Social
Service and for fostering better India – Uganda ties.

Q84.िर्षड 2020 िे कलए McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage से किसे सम्माकनि किया गया है ?
(a) यूसुफ जमील
(b) राणा अय्यूब
(c) रिीश िुमार
(d) अंजू जैन

Q84. Who has been awarded the McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage for the year 2020?
(a) Yusuf Jameel
(b) Rana Ayyub

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(c) Ravish Kumar


(d) Anju Jain

• Indian journalist Rana Ayyub has been awarded the McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage for the year 2020.
• Ayyub is presently associated with The Washington Post as Global Opinions Writer and will collect the award
at The Grady College Of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia on 22 April.
• Ayyub was formerly an investigative reporter with The Tehelka and is best known for her work on the Gujarat
riots of 2002. She wrote a book called Gujarat Files: Anatomy Of A Cover-Up that questions the role of now
Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, and Home Minister Amit Shah in the riots.

Q85. उत्करष्ट् मकहला पत्रिार िे कलए चमेली दे िी जैन पुरस्कार किसने जीिा है ?
(a) राणा अय्यूब
(b) आरफा खानम शेरिानी
(c) रोकहणी मोहन
(d) दोनों (b) और (c)

Q85. Who has won the Chameli Devi Jain Award for outstanding woman journalist?
(a) Rana Ayyub
(b) Arfa Khanum Sherwani
(c) Rohini Mohan
(d) Both (b) and (c)

• Arfa Khanum Sherwani of The Wire and Bengaluru-based freelancer Rohini Mohan have been jointly given
this year's Chameli Devi Jain Award for outstanding woman journalist.
• The annual award which recognises social concern, dedication, courage and compassion received over 40 entries
from all over India. Last year's recipient was Priyanka Dubey of the BBC.
• The jury comprised political scientist Zoya Hasan and journalists Sreenivasan Jain and Manoj Mitta.

Q86.10िें मोगाई ओझा पुरस्कार से किसे सम्माकनि किया गया है ?


(a) िासुदेि िामथ
(b) परमानंद मजुमदार
(c) जादि पायेंग
(d) राजेश चपलोि

Q86. Who has been awarded with the 10th Moghai Ojha Award?
(a) Vasudev Kamath
(b) Paramananda Majumder
(c) Jadav Payeng
(d) Rajesh Chaplot

• Eminent researcher and writer Dr.Paramananda Majumder was presented the 10th Moghai Ojah Award at a
function held at the auditorium of Jorhat Science Centre and Planetarium.
• He was awarded for his significant role in raising issues of public interest and society's betterment.
• Majumder compiled the first book on the life and works of folk musician Moghai Ojah. The award recognized
his invaluable contribution in bringing dhol maestro Moghai Ojah and his magnificent skill of playing the dhol
back to the public domain by compiling a book on him.
• Moghai Ojah award was instituted in 2011 by the Jorhat district unit of the Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra
Parishad (AJYCP). The award is annually presented on 15 March, on the death anniversary of Ojah.

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Q87.किस कब्रकरश-भारिीय िकि ने प्रकिकष्ठि किंर्है म िैंपबेल पुरस्कार 2020 जीिा है ?


(a) रघु िनाडर्
(b) माररया िुम्प्िाररन
(c) भानु िकपल
(d) अलेकशया है ररस

Q87. Which British-Indian poet has won the prestigious Windham Campbell prize 2020?
(a) Raghu Karnad
(b) Maria Tumarkin
(c) Bhanu Kapil
(d) Aleshea Harris

• The Windham Campbell prizes, which is one of the world's richest literary awards, were announced on March
19 by a live stream.
• In its eighth year, the $1.32m award is shared by eight writers in four categories from across the world.
Interestingly, seven out of the eight winners are women!
• For poetry, British-Indian poet Bhanu Kapil, who writes about immigration, trauma and healing, shares the
award with Jonah Mixon-Webster, whose works are about the public health issues in his hometown in Michigan.
• Meanwhile, Chinese-born author Yiyun Li’s writing was praised by judges for its “formal beauty and
imaginative daring.
• The other winners include debut Zambian novelist Namwali Serpell, whose novel The Old Drift was published
last year, and Anne Boyer, the author of a “searingly honest” memoir about her cancer diagnosis, The Undying.

Q88.किस भारिीय-अमेररिी लेखि ने अपने पहले उपन्यास "A Prayer for Travelers" िे कलए 2020 PEN / हे कमंग्वे पुरस्कार
जीिा है ?
(a) मीरा नायर
(b) रुकचिा िोमर
(c) भानु िकपल
(d) झुम्पा लाकहडी

Q88. Which Indian-American author has won the 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award for her debut novel ‘A Prayer for
Travelers’?
(a) Mira Nair
(b) Ruchika Tomar
(c) Bhanu Kapil
(d) Jhumpa Lahiri

• Indian-origin American author Ruchika Tomar wins 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award in US for her debut novel
‘A Prayer for Travelers’.
• She is currently teaching at Stanford University.
• Tomar will receive $25,000 and a month-long residency at the Ucross Foundation writers retreat in Wyoming.
• PEN/Hemingway judges on Monday called Tomar's narrative of the friendship between two women in a small
Nevada town “a remarkable piece of writing, astute in style and structure and also in the story that it tells.”

Q89.अंग्रेजी में अनुिाद िी श्ेणी में 2019 िे कलए साकहत्य अिादमी िे अनुिाद पुरस्कार िे कलए किसे चुना गया है ?
(a) सुसैन र्ै कनयल
(b) दे िनूर महादे िा
(c) शकश थरूर
(d) नंद किशोर आचायड

Q89. Who has been selected for the Sahitya Akademi’s Translation Prize for 2019 in the category of translation into
English?

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(a) Susan Daniel


(b) Devanur Mahadeva
(c) Shashi Tharoor
(d) Nand Kishore Acharya

• Sahitya Akademi’s Translation Prize for 2019 in the category of translation into English has been awarded to
Kannada novel Kusumabale by Padma Shri Devanur Mahadeva, rendered into English by Susan Daniel.
• The akademi announced a total of 23 awards in various Indian languages.
• Kusumabale, published in 1988, is a classic in Kannada literature.
• Written in a dialect typically spoken in Chamarajnagar district in Southern Karnataka, it combines prose and
poetry, mythology and realism to weave a tapestry of Dalit life.
• The translated version of the novel was released by the Oxford University Publication in 2015 and it was
received well.

Q90.गकणि में नोबेल िे कििल्प िे रूप में जाना जाने िाला एबेल पुरस्कार- 2020 किसने जीिा है ?
(a) कहलेल फुस्टे न्बगड
(b) ग्रेगरी मागुडकलस
(c) िरे न उहलेनबेि
(d) दोनों (a) और (b)

Q90. Who has won the Abel prize-2020 which is known as an alternative for the Nobel in Mathematics?
(a) Hillel Furstenberg
(b) Gregory Margulis
(c) Karen Uhlenbeck
(d) Both (a) and (b)
• Mathematicians Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis have jointly won the 2020 Abel prize for their
pioneering use of methods from probability and dynamics in other mathematical fields such as group theory,
number theory and combinatorics.
• Furstenberg, at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, and Margulis, at Yale University, have never formally
collaborated, but both invented similar “random walk” techniques to study various mathematical objects.
• They share a 7.5 million Norwegian kroner (£595,000) prize
• The Abel Prize is equivalent to the Nobel Prize in Mathematics.

Q91.2019 िे कलए PEN गौरी लंिेश पुरस्कार िे कलए किसे चुना गया है ?
(a) इं दु जैन
(b) यूसुफ जमील
(c) पी महमूद
(d) संजय गुप्ता

Q91. Who has been selected for the PEN Gauri Lankesh Award for 2019?
(a) Indu Jain
(b) Yusuf Jameel
(c) P Mahamood
(d) Sanjay Gupta

• Kashmiri reporter Yusuf Jameel has been selected for the second edition of an award set up in the memory of
journalist Gauri Lankesh.
• The inaugural “PEN Gauri Lankesh Award for Democratic Idealism” was given to cartoonist P Mahamood in
September 2018.
• Jameel was given the 2019-2020 award for showing an “exemplary commitment to professional integrity and
the ideals of democracy”.

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• He “pioneered fearless journalism” in Jammu and Kashmir,


• Gauri Lankesh was shot dead at her home in Bengaluru on September 5, 2017.

Q92.किस भारिीय िो यूरोपीय संसद में आयुिेद रिन पुरस्कार से सम्माकनि किया गया है ?
(a) संजना िपूर
(b) पिन सुखदे ि
(c) प्रिाप चौहान
(d) िासदे ि मोकह

Q92. Which Indian has been awarded the Ayurveda Ratan Award at the European Parliament?
(a) Sanjana Kapoor
(b) Pavan Sukhdev
(c) Pratap Chauhan
(d) Vasdev Mohi

• Dr Pratap Chauhan of Jiva Ayurveda wins Ayurveda Ratan Award at the European Parliament in Brussels,
Belgium
• The All Party Parliamentary Group on Traditional Medicines organized a meeting at the European Parliament
in Brussels, Belgium with the objective of devising a roadmap to legalize Ayurveda in Europe and to integrate
it with their healthcare systems.
• As a part of a distinguished group, Dr. Partap Chauhan discussed with his European counterparts the key
strengths of authentic Indian Ayurveda in resolving the world’s need for a holistic healthcare blueprint that
could potentially reduce dependency on synthetic medicines by leveraging the body’s innate ability to heal
itself, which by principle is the definition of Ayurveda.

Q93.प्रथम मािरभूकम बुि ऑफ द ईयर पुरस्कार किसने जीिा है ?


(a) माधुरी किजय
(b) किनोद शुला
(c) ईिर मुरजानी
(d) शकश थरूर

Q93. Who has won the first Mathrubhumi Book of the Year award?
(a) Madhuri Vijay
(b) Vinod Shukla
(c) Ishwar Moorjani
(d) Shashi Tharoor

• Noted Hindi poet-novelist and Sahitya Akademi honouree Vinod Kumar Shukla has bagged the inaugural
Mathrubhumi Book of the Year award for his translated book “Blue Is Like Blue”
• The stories in “Blue Is Like Blue”, translated into English by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Sara Rai, deal with
common people and their daily struggles.
• His book, published under HarperCollins.

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Q94.नकस नफल्म िे सवडश्रेष्ठ नफल्म के नलए BAFTA-2020 पुरस्कार िीता है ?


(a) 1917
(b) िोकर
(c) पैरासाइट
(d) वन्स अपॉि अ टाइि इि हॉलीवुड

Q94. Which Film has won the BAFTA-2020 Award for the best film?
(a) 1917
(b) Joker
(c) Parasite
(d) Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

• British filmmaker Sam Mendes' war drama "1917" ruled the 2020 edition of Baftas with seven wins, including
best film, best British film and best director.
• "1917" also took home the Baftas for cinematography, production design, sound and special visual effects.
• Phoenix was awarded the Bafta for his titular performance in "Joker".
• Actor Renee Zellweger took home the best actress honour for her role as legendary singer-actor Judy Garland
in "Judy".

Q95. व्यफ्लिगि श्ेणी में िुष्ठरोग िे उन्मूलन िे कलए अंिराडष्ट्िीय गां धी पुरस्कार किसने जीिा है ?
(a) िासदे ि मोही
(b) पिन सुखदे ि
(c) र्ॉ एन.एस. धमडशिु
(d) र्ॉ साइमा यूनुस खान

Q95. Who has won the International Gandhi Awards for Leprosy in the individual category?
(a) Vasdev Mohi
(b) Pavan Sukhdev
(c) Dr N.S. Dharmashaktu
(d) Dr. Saima Yunus Khan

• President Ram Nath Kovind has presented the International Gandhi Awards for Leprosy to Dr N.S.
Dharmashaktu (individual category) and the Leprosy Mission Trust (institutional category) in New Delhi.
• Mr Kovind said that the stigma and prejudice against leprosy have reduced considerably due to constant work
of scientists, researchers, organizations and community workers.

Q96.‘कमफ्लस्टि िकलंगा कलररे री अिार्ड ’ 2020 से किसे सम्माकनि किया जाएगा


(a) गोपीनाथ मोहं िी
(b) मनोज दास
(c) अफ्लक्किम अच्युिन नंपूकिरर
(d) अकमिाि घोर्ष

Q96. Who will receive the Mystic Kalinga Literary Award 2020?
(a) Gopinath Mohanty
(b) Manoj Das
(c) Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri
(d) Amitav Ghosh

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• Famous Odia and English writer Manoj Das, 85 years old, will receive Mystic Kalinga Literary award– Indian
and Global languages, during the 4th edition of the 2 day Mystic Kalinga Festival which commences in Swosti
Premium, Odisha, Bhubaneswar on February 8 & 9, 2020.
• Mystic Literary award has been instituted to recognize and celebrate inspiring writers, poets and performers.

Q97.िौन सी कफल्म इकिहास में पहली गैर-अंग्रेजी / किदे शी कफल्म बन गई है कजसने सिडश्ेष्ठ कफल्म िे कलए ऑस्कर पुरस्कार जीिा
है ?
(a) जोिर
(b) दआयररश मैन
(c) फोर्ड िड. फेरारी
(d) पैरासाइर

Q97. Which film has become the first non-English/ foreign film in history to win the Oscars Award for the best picture?
(a) Joker
(b) The Irishman
(c) Ford v. Ferrari
(d) Parasite

• Parasite has won the Oscar award for the Best motion picture of the year.
• The South Korean movie has also won the Oscars in the Best International Feature Film category and Best
Direction categories.
• The South Korean film became the first non-English/ foreign film in history to win the award.
• Best Actor in a Leading Role: Joaquin Phoenix for Joker
• Best Actress in a Leading Role: Renée Zellweger for Judy
• Best Supporting Actress - Laura Dern for Marriage Story
• Best Supporting Actor - Brad Pitt for Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood

Q98.किस भारिीय मूल िे व्यफ्लि िो बायोएकशया 2020 िा जीनोम िैली एफ्लक्सलेंस अिार्ड प्रदान किया जाएगा?
(a) र्ॉ. साइमा यूनुस खान
(b) र्ॉ.िसंि नरकसम्हन
(c) र्ॉ.प्रिाप चौहान
(d) र्ॉ.एन.एस. धमडशिू

Q98. Which Indian origin person will be presented the Genome Valley Excellence Award of BioAsia 2020?
(a) Dr. Saima Yunus Khan
(b) Dr. Vasant Narsimhan
(c) Dr Partap Chauhan
(d) Dr. N.S. Dharmashaktu

• Novartis CEO Dr. Vasant Narsimhan will be presented the Genome Valley Excellence Award of BioAsia 2020.
• The function will be organized by the Telangana government annual global biotechnology & life sciences forum
on February (17 to 19, 2020).
• Dr. Narasimhan has been selected for his new vision in the pharmaceutical business in digital technology and
healthcare.
• American immunologist and oncologist Dr. Carl H June will share this award. Dr. Carl H June will be awarded
for his work in immunotherapy, research in development of CAR-T (Chimeric Antigen Receptor- T cells) for
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Q99.आदशड किधान सभा अध्यक्ष पुरस्कार 2019 से किसे सम्माकनि किया गया है ?
(a) कििेिर हे गडे
(b) पी रामिरष्णन
(c) राजेंद्र कत्रिेदी
(d) री सीिाराम

Q99. Who has been awarded the Ideal Legislative Assembly Speaker Award 2019?
(a) Vishweshwar Hegde
(b) P. Ramakrishnan
(c) Rajendra Trivedi
(d) T. Sitaram

• Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu presented the Ideal Legislative Assembly Speaker/ Ideal
Legislative Council Chairman Award 2019 to the Speaker of the Kerala Legislative Assembly Shri P.
Ramakrishnan, during the inauguration of the 10th edition of the 4 day function “Bharatiya Chhatra Sansad”
(Indian Student Parliament),from february 20 to 23,2020, held at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi, India.
• The Ideal Legislative Assembly Speaker Award-2019 recognises the significant contribution made by the
Hon’ble Speaker in strengthening & safeguarding best legislative practices in the state.
• Ideal Chief Minister Award 2019 will be awarded to Amrinder Singh, CM of Punjab during the 4th day function
on 23rd February 2020.

Q100.Ernst & Young एं ररप्रेन्योर ऑफ द ईयर अिार्ड 2019 किसने जीिा है ?


(a) रिन रारा
(b) अज़ीम प्रेमजी
(c) किरण मजूमदार-शॉ
(d) कशि नार्ार

Q100. Who has won Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the year Award 2019?
(a) Ratan Tata
(b) Azem Premji
(c) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
(d) Shiv Nadar

• Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairperson and Managing Director of Biocon, won Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of
the year 2019 (for his innovation & affordable life saving medicines).
• Mazumdar-Shaw was named as the winner by an 8 member jury panel, led by Uday Kotak, Kotak Mahindra
Bank MD and CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
• Adi Godrej, Godrej Group Chairman was conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Q101.किस भारिीय किद्वान ने प्रकिकष्ठि र्ै न र्े किर् पुरस्कार जीिा है ?


(a) गीिा सेन
(b) साइमा यूनुस खान
(c) संजना िपूर
(d) संजय सुब्रह्मण्यम

Q101. Which Indian scholar has won the prestigious Dan David Prize?
(a) Gita Sen
(b) Saima Yunus Khan
(c) Sanjana Kapoor
(d) Sanjay Subrahmanyam

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• India’s pioneering feminist scholar and activist Gita Sen, has won the prestigious Dan David Prize for her
expansive work in the fields of population policies, reproductive and sexual health, women’s rights, poverty,
labour markets and global governance.
• The internationally renowned Dan David Prize annually awards three prizes of $1 million each to globally
inspiring individuals and organisations, honouring outstanding contributions that expand knowledge of the past,
enrich society in the present, and promise to improve the future of our world.
• The total purse of $3 million makes it one of the highest-value prizes internationally.

Q102. "लोिमान्य किलि राष्ट्िीय पत्रिाररिा पुरस्कार" से किसे सम्माकनि किया जाएगा?
(a) रकि अग्रिाल
(b) अकमिाभ बागची
(c) संजय गुप्ता
(d) आर नागास्वामी

Q102.. Who will be honored with “Lokmanya Tilak National Journalism Award”?
(a) Ravi Agrawal
(b) Amitabha Bagchi
(c) Sanjay Gupta
(d) R. Nagaswamy

• Sanjay Gupta, the editor-in-chief of ‘Jagran’ will be honored with “Lokmanya Tilak National Journalism
Award” for his great contribution in the field of Journalism.
• The award was instituted by the Kesari-Maratha Trust and it will be conferred to Gupta on 4th January 2019
during the 139th foundation ceremony of ‘kesari’ newspaper started by Lokmanya Tilak.
• This was started by Lokmanya Tilak to promote courageous and idealistic journalists.
• The award consists of Rs. 1 lakh cash prize and a memento. Earlier the award was conferred to well-known
journalists such as Vir Sanghvi, N. Ram, H. K. Dua, Vinod Metha and Siddharth Varadarajan.

Q103.संगीिा िलाकनकध पुरस्कार से किसे सम्माकनि किया गया है ?


(a) संजय सुब्रह्मण्यन
(b) ए िन्यािुमारी
(c) एस.सोम्य
(d) कचत्रिीना एन.रकिकिरन

Q103. Who has been conferred with Sangita Kalanidhi Award?


(a) Sanjay Subrahmanyan
(b) A. Kanyakumari
(c) S.Sowmya
(d) Chitravina N. Ravikiran

• Recently, S.Sowmya has been conferred with Sangita Kalanidhi Award. The award is conferred by the Madras
Music Academy.
• It is considered the highest award in the field of Carnatic music.
• The award comprises of a gold medal and a birudu Patra (citation).
• Music Conference held along with All India Congress Session in Madras (1927) laid the idea of a Madras Music
Academy.
• Thus it is an offshoot of INC madras session, 1927.

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Q104."आशा एं र् द फ्लस्पररर बर्ड " िे कलए कब्ररे न िा िोस्टा कचल्डिन बुि अिार्ड किसने जीिा है ?
(a) सारा िोकलन्स
(b) जोनाथन िोए
(c) जसकबंदर कबलान
(d) मेरी जीन चैन

Q104. Who has won the UK’s Costa Children’s Book Award for “Asha & the Spirit Bird”?
(a) Sara Collins
(b) Jonathan Coe
(c) Jasbinder Bilan
(d) Mary Jean Chan

• Indian Jasbinder Bilan has won the Costa Children’s Book Award for Asha & The Spirit Bird, a tale set in the
Himalayan foothills where the author was born and inspired by her late grandmother.
• Jasbinder and the winners of the other four categories – novel, first novel, biography and poetry – who all win
£3,000 will be honored on January 28.

Q105. उत्करष्ट्िा िे कलए प्रथम एम िेंिैया नायर्ू राष्ट्िीय पुरस्कार किसे कमला है ?
(a) र्ॉ संिोर्ष जी होनिर
(b) र्ॉ सुरेश चंद्र शमाड
(c) र्ॉ एम एस स्वामीनाथन
(d) र्ॉ गुट्टा मुकनरत्नम

Q105. Who has received the first M Venkaiah Naidu National Award for Excellence?
(a) Dr. Santosh G Honavar
(b) Dr.Suresh Chandra Sharma
(c) Dr. M S Swaminathan
(d) Dr. Gutta Muniratnam

• Agricultural scientist Dr M S Swaminathan receives the first ‘Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu National Award
for Excellence’ in Hyderabad from Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu
• Social worker Dr. Gutta Muniratnam receives the first ‘Muppavarapu National Award for Social Service’ in
Hyderabad from Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu
• The National Award for Excellence was instituted by the Muppavarapu Foundation, while the one for Social
Service was launched by the Swarna Bharat Trust, in Hyderabad.
• Prof. M.S. Swaminathan was awarded for his distinguished contributions to the field of agriculture while Dr G
Muniratnam, was awarded for his extraordinary contribution in improving the quality of people's lives through
social service.

Q106.29 िें सरस्विी सम्मान िे कलए किसे चुना गया है ?


(a) लीलाधर जगूरी
(b) नाकसरा शमाड
(c) िासदे ि मोही
(d) मनीर्षा िुलश्ेष्ठ

Q106. Who has been selected for the prestigious 29 Saraswati Samman?
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(a) Leeladhar Jagoori


(b) Nasira Sharma
(c) Vasdev Mohi
(d) Manisha Kulshreshtha

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• Eminent Sindhi writer Vasdev Mohi will be conferred with 29 Saraswati Samman. He has been selected for
th

this prestigious literary award for his short stories collection- Chequebook.
• ‘Chequebook’ highlights the life of a domestic helper, facing ill-treatment from her husband and hardships
because of poverty.
• Saraswati Samman carries a cash award of 15 lakh rupees, a citation and a plaque. Mr Mohi has authored 25
books of poetry, stories and translations. He has also received the Sahitya Akademi Award.

Q107.किस पूिड िेंद्रीय मंत्री िो मरणोपरां ि पद्म किभूर्षण से सम्माकनि किया गया है ?
(a) सुर्षमा स्वराज
(b) जॉजड फनाां र्ीस
(c) अरुण जेरली
(d) उपरोि सभी

Q107. Which former Union Minister has been awarded Padma Vibhushan posthumously?
(a) Sushma Swaraj
(b) George Fernandes
(c) Arun Jaitley
(d) All of the above

• The government has announced 141 Padma Awards for this year on the occasion of 71st Republic Day.
• The list comprises 7 Padma Vibhushan, 16 Padma Bhusan and 118 Padma Shri awards. 34 awardees are women
and 18 foreigners. 12 persons are awarded posthumously.
• Former Union Ministers George Fernandes, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley has been awarded Padma
Vibhushan posthumously.
• Pejavara Math seer late Vishwesha Teertha Swamiji has been awarded Padma Vibhushan posthumously.
• Former Prime Minister of Mauritius Anerood Jugnauth, Hindustani classical vocalist Chhannulal Mishra and
Boxer MC Mary Kom will also get Padma Vibhushan.

Q108.सेना िे किस जिान िो मरणोपरां ि शौयड चक्र से सम्माकनि किया गया है ?


(a) नाइि नरे श िुमार
(b) मेजर िोजेनभम कबजेंद्र कसंह
(c) नायब सूबेदार सोमबीर
(d) लेफ्लफ्टनेंर िनडल ज्ोकि लामा

Q108. Which army personnel has been awarded the Shaurya Chakra posthumously?
(a) Naik Naresh Kumar
(b) Maj. Konjenbham Bijendra Singh
(c) Naib Subedar Sombir
(d) Lt. Col Jyoti Lama

• India’s third-highest gallantry medal in peacetime, Shaurya Chakra, has been awarded to six Army personnel
for conspicuous bravery in counter-terror operations.
• Shaurya Chakra is awarded to the armed forces for instances of extraordinary gallantry.
• Naib Subedar Sombir, who died while fighting terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir in February 2019, was one of
them.
• Lt. Col Jyoti Lama, Maj. Konjenbham Bijendra Singh, Naib Subedhar Narender Singh, Naik Naresh Kumar and
Karmdeo Oraon were the other brave men honoured with the Shaurya Chakra.
• Squadron Leaders Ninad Mandavgane and Siddharth Vashisht, the two pilots of the Mi17 V5 helicopter, who
died after the chopper was shot down by friendly fire in February last year during the dogfight between Indian
and Pakistani jets, were among the four awardees of Vayu-Sena Medal.

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• Nineteen top Army officers, including Vice Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral G. Ashok Kumar and Northern
Army Commander Lt Gen Ranbir Singh, have been awarded the Param Vishisht Seva Medal

Q109.Saltwater उपन्यास िे कलए पोकरड िो पुरस्कार िे कलए किसे चुना गया है ?


(a) जे िे रोकलंग
(b) जेर्ी फ्लस्मथ
(c) जेकसिा एं र्ि यूज
(d) माकरड न एकमस

Q109. Who has been selected for the Portico Prize for the novel Saltwater?
(a) J. K. Rowling
(b) Zadie Smith
(c) Jessica Andrews
(d) Martin Amis

• Jessica Andrews has been named as the winner of The Portico Prize for Literature for her
debut novel Saltwater.
• The UK’s only award for outstanding literature takes home the £10,000 prize.
• Saltwater, published by Sceptre, is a story of self-discovery by a girl from Sunderland who
heads to university in London, taking her northern roots with her.
• The Portico Prize, often billed as the "Booker Prize of the north", rewards the book that "best
evokes the spirit of the north of England".

Q110. 2020 िॉन िमडन पुरस्कार से किसे सम्माकनि किया जाएगा?


(a) यू.आर. राि
(b) ए एस किरण िुमार
(c) िे सीिन
(d) िरष्णस्वामी ििूरीरं गन

Q110. Who will be awarded the 2020 Von Karman Award?


(a) U.R. Rao
(b) A S Kiran Kumar
(c) K Sivan
(d) Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan

• The International Academy of Astronautics(IAA) has announced Dr. K Sivan, Chief of Indian Space Research
Organisation(ISRO) as the recipient of the 2020 Von Karman Award, the highest distinction of the IAA.
• The award will be presented to Dr.K.Sivan in March 2021 at Paris.
• The von Karman award was established in 1982 and is the premier award of the Academy. It is given annually
to recognize outstanding lifetime achievements in any branch of science without limit of nationality or gender.
• Prior to K Sivan, two Indians namely - Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan and U.R. Rao - have been recipients of
the award.

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