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Q.
Which country will host the 2023 Men’s Hockey World Cup?
Australia
India
South Korea
Argentina
Correct
Answer: India
International Hockey Federation,
Lausanne (Switzerland) has recently selected India to host the 2023 Men’s
Hockey World Cup. India will become the first country to host the Men’s Hockey
World Cup four times (1982, 2010, 2018, 2023).
Q.
Where will be the 58th Indian Society of Aerospace Medicine (ISAM)
Annual conference held?
New Delhi
Mumbai
Hyderabad
Bangalore
Correct
Answer: Bangalore
Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria will
inaugurate the 58th ISAM , annual conference which aims to address
contemporary issues and applications in the subject of aerospace medicine. The
event will take place at the Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Indian Air Force,
Bangalore from November 14th to 16th.
In News: Around thousand birds were found dead under mysterious circumstance around the Sambhar Lake in District Jaipur, Rajasthan. The authorities believe that the deaths were caused due to water contamination. Sambhar lake is India’s largest inland salt lake.
Q. In which
Indian state Boita Bandana or Boat festival is celebrated?
Assam
Tripura
Kerala
Odisha
Correct
Answer: Odisha
Kartik Purnima is celebrated as the
Boita Bandana or Boat festival in Odisha. Men, Women & Children celebrate
the festival by setting afloat miniature boats. It is believed that ancestors
used to take boats to Indonesia to bring items for the state.
Q.
Which country has become the first South Asian country to criminalise offences
related to match fixing & corruption in sports?
Bangladesh
India
Sri Lanka
Nepal
Correct
Answer: Sri-Lanka
Sri-Lanka has become the first South
Asian nation to criminalise several offences related to match fixing and sports
corruption as its parliament passed all three readings of a bill labeled
“Prevention of offences Related to sports”.
Q.
Which state CM has announced an annual award ‘Suraj’ to promote organ donation?
Kerala
Delhi
Odisha
Bihar
Correct
Answer: Odisha
In a bid to promote organ donation,
Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik has announced an annual award in the
name of ‘Suraj’ who’s parents donated six vital organs of their brain dead son
to save lives of others.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit
Brazil on November 13 to attend 11th BRICS summit. The Prime
Minister will take part in BRICS business forum closing ceremony and the closed
and plenary session of the BRICS summit.
Capital of Brazil is Brasilia and
currency of Brazil is Brazilian Real.
Q.
Which bank is set to lay out a plan to help peach and walnut farmers in Jammu
and Kashmir to get increased yields and good prices.
World Bank
IMF
NABARD
SBI
Correct
Answer: NABARD
National Bank for Agriculture and
Rural Development (NABARD) is set to lay out a plan to help Peach and Walnut
farmers in Jammu and Kashmir to get increased yields and good prices. NABARD
Chairman Harsh Kumar Bhanwala said the bank will lay out a plan to help the
farmers as per Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman’s instructions.
Q.
Who is awarded with Prime Minister Police Medal 2018?
Srijesh Kumar
Nageshwar Pal
G. Siva Kumar
Yogesh Dutt
Correct Answer:
G. Shiva Kumar
Police Constable G. Shiva Kumar has been awarded Prime
Minister Police Medal 2018 for saving the life of drowning person without
caring for his own life.
Q. Who is
the Union Minister of Heavy Industries and Public enterprises?
Arvind Sawant
Smriti Irani
Prakash Javadekar
Menka Gandhi
Correct
Answer: Prakash Javadekar
Union Minister of Environment,
Forest and Climate change and Minister of Information and Broadcasting Prakash
Javadekar has been assigned additional charge of Ministry of Heavy Industries
and Public enterprises after President Ram Nath Kovind has accepted the
resignation of Union Minister of Heavy Industries and Public enterprises Arvind
Sawant (Shiv Sena).
Q. In which Indian state President rule has been imposed under article 356 of the Indian Constitution?
West Bengal
Maharashtra
Madhya Pradesh
Tripura
Correct
Answer: Maharashtra
Maharashtra
came under the President’s rule on Tuesday after President Ram Nath Kovind gave
his approval to the requisite notification. The President signed the
notification following the recommendation of the Union Cabinet which acted on
the report from the state Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari.
Q.
What is the name of the maiden India-US joint tri-services Humanitarian
Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) exercise scheduled to begin at
Vishakhapatnam?
Yudh Abhyas
Tiger Triumph
Sampriti
LAMITYE
Correct
Answer: Tiger Triumph
The maiden India-US joint
tri-services (HADR) exercise named ‘Tiger Triumph’ is scheduled to begin at
Vishakhapatnam from November 13. Indian Naval Ships Jalashwa, Airavat and
Sandhayak would be participating in the exercise.
Q.
Which state government has launched official website APCOS for transparent
recruitment and eliminating middlemen?
Arunachal Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh
Assam
Karnataka
Correct
Answer: Andhra Pradesh
Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy launched the official website of Andhra Pradesh Corporation for Outsource Services (APCOS). He stated that the Corporation there will be transparent in the recruitment and payments giving no room for middlemen or corruption.
Q.
Where will the 50th International Film Festival of India (IFFI)
start in November?
Mumbai
New Delhi
Goa
Pune
Correct
Answer: Goa
The Golden Jubilee of International Film Festival Of India (IFFI) will start on 20 November. IFFI was started in 1952. Russia is the country of focus for the year 2019. Eight Movies from Russia will showcase in IFFI 2019.
Q.
The 550th birth anniversary of which Sikh Guru was celebrated on 12th
November 2019?
Guru Ram Das
Guru Angad
Guru Nanak Dev
Guru Arjun Dev
Correct
Answer: Guru Nanak Dev
The 550th birth
anniversary of first Sikh Guru and founder of Sikhism Guru Nanak Dev is
celebrated on 12th November 2019 as Prakash Parv. He was born in
year 1469 A.D. in the village Talwandi near Lahore, Pakistan.