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These are the set of current affairs of August 2021 in the form of Multiple-Choice Questions . Each

Question has four options , out of which only one is the correct answer (option). For the convenient

of the students the answers are marked after every question with a double tick. The option which is

followed by the double tick (✓✓) is the correct answer to that particular question .

Note: The Options marked with double Tick ( ✓✓) are the correct answer. ✓✓

SET 1 : QUESTION NUMBER 1 to 50

Q1. Ebrahim Raisi has become the new

President of which country ?

a. Iran ✓✓

b. Israel

c. Afghanistan

d. Turkmenistan

Q2. Which is the first Indian city that have

completed 100% Vaccination against

COVID-19 ?

a. Bahadurgarh

b. Greater Noida

c. Gurugram

d. Bhubaneswar ✓✓

Q3. Which is the highest mountain of Bhutan

?

a. Gangkhar Punzum ✓✓

b. Kula Kangri

c. Jomalhari

d. Kanphu

Q4. What is the name of the 25th Controller

General of Accounts ?

a. Shri Deepak Das ✓✓

b. Soma Roy Burman

c. G.C. Murmu

d. Karim Khan

Q5. A country has recently finalised a Bill to

award provisional provincial status to

strategically located Gilgit- Baltistan .

Which country is going to do so ?

a. India

b. China

c. Pakistan ✓✓

d. Afghanistan

Q6. For the month of August 2021 , which

Asian Country is the President of the

United Nations Security Council (UNSC)

?

a. Russia

b. France

c. India ✓✓

d. Nepal

Q7. Who has recently been re-appointed as the

Prime Minister of Armenia ?

a. Nicol Pashinyan ✓✓

b. Robert Kocharyan

c. Armen Sarksyan

d. Ilham Aliyev

Q8. Power Grid Corporation of India has

commissioned ____________________

transmission line successfully in Ladakh.

a. 10 km

b. 20 km

c. 30 km

d. 40 km ✓✓

Q9. In which one of the following state, New

central Sector for Industrial Development

will be launched ?

a. Kerala

b. Madhya Pradesh

c. Ladakh

d. Jammu and Kashmir ✓✓

Question Number 1 to 100 .

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Q10. Which bank has signed an MoU with IIT

Bombay for extending exclusive facility

to start-ups and MSMEs ?

a. SBI

b. RBI

c. CBI

d. Indian Bank ✓✓

Q11. E-Rupi Digital Payment Solution has

been launched by whom ?

a. Narendra Modi ✓✓

b. Nitin Gadkari

c. Amit Shah

d. Yogi Adityanath

Q12. Who among the following has won the

Lokmanya Tilak National Award 2021 ?

a. Dr. Cyrus Poonawalla ✓✓

b. S M Joshi

c. Pranab Mukherjee

d. N R Narayana Murthy

Q13. Who is the new Director General of Police

, Rajasthan ?

a. Sh. Ajit Singh

b. Bhupendra Dak ✓✓

c. M. L. Lathar

d. None of the Above

Q14. Which state government of India has

recently decided to create a river

management authority for the Protection

of rivers ?

a. Assam

b. Uttarakhand

c. Himachal Pradesh

d. Kerala ✓✓

Q15. Who is the author of the Book “ The India

Story” ?

a. Ruskin Bond

b. Salman Rushdie

c. Anita Desai

d. Bimal Jalan ✓✓

Q16. Which heritage site of India has recently

been included in UNESCO List ?

a. Taj Mahal

b. Ajanta and Allora Caves

c. Dholavira: A Harappan City ✓✓

d. Jaipur : The Pink City

Q17. LIC Cards Service and which other bank

has launched the credit cards named as

“Lumine” and “Eclat” ?

a. SBI

b. CBI

c. RBI

d. IDBI ✓✓

Q18. Quad navy Malabar Exercise 2021 will be

conducted in which Ocean ?

a. Indian Ocean

b. Pacific Ocean ✓✓

c. Arabian Sea

d. Atlantic Ocean

Q19. Myanmar Military Chief has appointed

himself as interim Prime Minister of

Myanmar . What is his name ?

a. Min Aung Hlaing ✓✓

b. Aung San Suu Kyi

c. Maung Maung Kha

d. Saw Maung

Q20. Kuthiran Tunnel is in which state ?

a. Jammu and Kashmir

b. Uttarakhand

c. Ladakh

d. Kerala ✓✓

Q21. World Bank has released a report on

Remittances in 2020 . According to this

report , which one of the following

countries has received the highest

remittances in 2020 ?

a. Russia

b. Israel

c. Iran

d. India ✓✓

Q22. Who is the 26th Air Chief Air Marshal of

India ?

a. Rakesh Kumar Singh

Bhadauriya ✓✓

b. Arun Raha

c. Birender Singh Dhanoa

d. Fali Homi Major

Q23. TRIFED has celebrated its 34th

establishment day on which date ?

a. 5 August

b. 6 August ✓✓


c. 7 August

d. 8 August

Q24. Ravi Kumar Dahiya has recently won

which medal in the Tokyo Olympics 2020

?

a. Gold Medal

b. Silver Medal ✓✓

c. Bronze Medal

d. Diamond Medal

Q25. What is the name of India’s first

Indigenous aircraft carrier ?

a. INS Vikrant ✓✓

b. INS Vikram Aditya

c. INS Virat

d. INS Chakra

Q26. Which one of the following countries has

received the UK’s 2020 Brunel Medal

Mangdechhu hydroelectric project for

excellence in civil engineering ?

a. India

b. Bhutan ✓✓

c. Sri Lanka

d. Nepal

Q27. Which is the first state in India to launch

the earthquake alert mobile application ?

a. Assam

b. Himachal Pradesh

c. Sikkim

d. Uttarakhand ✓✓

Q28. Which is the fifth country to sign ISA

Framework Agreement ?

a. Russia

b. Australia

c. Nepal

d. Germany ✓✓

Q29. Which one of the following country has

recently banned the sunscreens

comprising of Chemical that damage

coral from all of its marine national parks

?

a. India

b. Myanmar

c. Thailand ✓✓

d. South Africa

Q30. TRIFED was founded in which year ?

a. 1988

b. 1989

c. 1987 ✓✓

d. 2001

Q31. What is the name of the scheme whose

continuation has been approved by the

cabinet for school education from 1st April

2021 to 31st March 2026 ?

a. Samagra Shiksha Scheme ✓✓

b. Education Development

c. Bal shiksha scheme

d. Sarv shiksha abhiyaan

Q32. “Pani Maah” campaign has been launched

in which state ?

a. Goa

b. Jammu and Kashmir

c. Ladakh ✓✓

d. Sikkim

Q33. Lovlina Borhohain (Indian Boxer,

Assam) has recently won which medal in

the Tokyo Olympics 2020 ?

a. GOLD

b. SILVER

c. BRONZE ✓✓

d. DIAMOND

Q34. Which state government has decided to

make beggars job oriented by training

them ?

a. Rajasthan ✓✓

b. Haryana

c. West Bengal

d. Sikkim

Q35. What is the percentage of GDP Growth

rate that has been estimated by RBI for

financial year 2021 ?

a. 9.5 % ✓✓

b. 10 %

c. 15 %

d. 16 %

Q36. India’s first biobank for heart failure

research has been inaugurated at which

institute ?

a. IIT Jammu

b. IIT Delhi

c. AIMS Delhi


d. Sh. Chitra Tirunal Institute ✓✓

Q37. Who is the new brand ambassador for

MotoGP India ?

a. Sachin Tendulkar

b. John Abraham ✓✓

c. Akshay Kumar

d. Rajnikant

Q38. Which is the first Indian player to win a

medal in the IAAF Continental Cup ?

a. Mirabai Chanu

b. Ravi Kumar Dahiya

c. Arpinder Singh ✓✓

d. Sandeep Kumar

Q39. Who is the author of the book “ The

Earthspinner” ?

a. Anuradha Roy ✓✓

b. Salman Rushdie

c. Vikram Seth

d. R K Narayan

Q40. Which country has become a member of

the coalition for disaster resilient

infrastructure ?

a. India

b. Nepal

c. Australia

d. Bangladesh ✓✓

Q41. Who is going to be the new brand

ambassador of Department of Women

Empowerment and Child Development ,

Uttarakhand ?

a. Vandana Kataria ✓✓

b. PV Sindhu

c. Vinesh Phoughat

d. Neeraj Chopra

Q42. Who is the author of the book “The

Dream of Revolution : A Biography of

Jayaprakash Narayan” ?

a. Sundeep Basu

b. Kaushik Basu

c. Ruskin Bond

d. Sujata Prasad ✓✓

Q43. Reserve Bank of India has recently

inposted a penalty of Rs 1 Crore on

which bank ?

a. SBI

b. AXIS Bank

c. IDBI bank

d. Cooperative Robobank UA ✓✓

Q44. Prime Minster Narendra Modi has

recently set a target of becoming an

“energy independent” country by which

year ?

a. 2026

b. 2039

c. 2047 ✓✓

d. 2056

Q45. The first consignment of five varieties of

apples has been exported to Bahrain from

which state of India ?

a. Haryana

b. Himachal Pradesh ✓✓

c. Kerala

d. Jammu and Kashmir

Q46. Recently, Skytrax’s list of top 100

airports has been released. How many

Indian airport have been included in this

list ?

a. 9

b. 6

c. 5

d. 4 ✓✓

Q47. The total number of Ramsar sites in India

have reached to _________ ?

a. 15

b. 16

c. 30

d. 46 ✓✓

Q48. India’s first cattle genomic chip

“IndiGau” has been recently release by

whom ?

a. Narendra Modi

b. Dr Jitendra Singh ✓✓

c. Amit Shah

d. Neeraj Chopra

Q49. “My E Heart” Portal has been launched

to empower artisans . Who launched it ?

a. TCS

b. TATA

c. HCL ✓✓

d. Toyota


SET 2 : Questions Number 50 to 100

Q50. President Ramnath Kovind has approved

how many gallantry awards to the

personnel of armed forces , polices and

paramilitary forces ?

a. 130

b. 123

c. 146

d. 144 ✓✓

Q51. Delta Robot have been made by villagers

of which country ?

a. India

b. Indonesia ✓✓

c. Nepal

d. Myanmar

Q52. Which state has topped in the category of

Northern Eastern states in the quality-of-

Life index for the Elderly ?

a. Haryana

b. Kerala

c. Assam

d. Rajasthan ✓✓

Q53. Which state has made four new districts ?

a. Assam

b. New Delhi

c. Chhattisgarh ✓✓

d. Kerala

Q54. An e-study platform “TAPAS” has been

launched by which ministry ?

a. Ministry of Home Affairs

b. Ministry of External Affair

c. Education Ministry

d. Ministry of Social Justice ✓✓

Q55. Gerd Muller passed away . He was

related to which sport ?

a. Cricket

b. Chess

c. Football ✓✓

d. Tennis

Q56. Who is the first women chief justice of

Pakistan ?

a. Ayesha Malik ✓✓

b. Ayla Malik

c. Maryam Nawaz

d. Hina Pervaiz Butt

Q57. Which orbiter has detected water

molecules on the surface of the moon ?

a. Artemis Mission

b. Chandrayaan -3

c. Chandrayaan -2 ✓✓

d. Chandrayaan -1

Q58. Which PSU has won the highest number

of the “Shram Award” ?

a. ONGC

b. Powergrid

c. SAIL ✓✓

d. GAIL

Q59. In honour of which India’s first woman

Satyagrahi did Google doodle on 16th

August ?

a. Sarojini Naidu

b. Subhadra Kumari Chauhan ✓✓

c. Both of Above

d. None of Above

Q60. Which country has successfully test-fired

a nuclear -capable surface to surface

ballistic missile Ghaznavi ?

a. Iran

b. Iraq

c. Israel

d. Pakistan ✓✓

Q61. Which space agency is building a new

telescope named as “ SuperBIT” ?

a. ISRO

b. JAXA

c. Roscosmos

d. NASA ✓✓

Q62. Indonesia Independence Day is

celebrated on which date in Indonesia ?

a. 15 August

b. 16 August

c. 17 August ✓✓

d. 18 August

Q63. De Jure Transfer Day is observed on

which date in Puducherry ?

a. 15 August

b. 16 August ✓✓

c. 17 August

d. 18 August


Q64. World’s second largest National Gene

Bank at NBPGR , Pusa New Delhi has

been inaugurated by whom ?

a. Piyush Goyal

b. Narendra Modi

c. Yogi Adityanath

d. Narendra Singh Tomar ✓✓

Q65. Who has been crowned the Miss India

USA 2021 ?

a. Vaidehi Dongre ✓✓

b. Manushi Chhillar

c. Sushita Sen

d. PV Sindhu

Q66. Muhyiddin Yasin has resigned from his

post after losing majority in Parliament .

He was PM of which country ?

a. Serbia

b. Afghanistan

c. Iran

d. Malaysia ✓✓

Q67. Cattle Protection bill 2021 has been

passed by which state government of

India ?

a. Assam ✓✓

b. Kerala

c. New Delhi

d. Tamil Nadu

Q68. Who has been appointed as the Vice

Chief Naval staff ?

a. Vice Admiral S. N. Ghormade

✓✓

b. Vice Admiral Ravneet Singh

c. General Bikram Singh

d. General Bipin Rawat

Q69. Which university has been renamed as

Shakambhari University by the UP state

government ?

a. NIT Lucknow

b. Siddhartha University

c. Saharanpur University ✓✓

d. Lucknow University

Q70. E-Emergency X-misc Visa has been

launched by Home Ministry of India to

help the people of which country ?

a. Nepal

b. Afghanistan ✓✓

c. Bhutan

d. Pakistan

Q71. Naftali Bennett is the PM of which

country ?

a. Iran

b. Israel ✓✓

c. Afghanistan

d. Iran

Q72. How many more Handloom Design

Resource Centres are recently proposed

to be setup in India ?

a. 5

b. 6

c. 8

d. 10 ✓✓

Q73. Mahtri Dular Yojana has been launched

in which state ?

a. Haryana

b. Kerala

c. Chhattisgarh ✓✓

d. Tamil Nadu

Q74. Which country has recently imposed a

lockdown in the entire country due to

new case of Covid 19 ?

a. India

b. New Zealand ✓✓

c. Thailand

d. China

Q75. The name of India’s first and world’s

largest cattle genomic chip is ______ ?

a. Indian Cow

b. Indian Cattle

c. Gau mata

d. IndiGau ✓✓

Q76. Which is the first national park in India

to be equipped with satellite phones ?

a. Kaziranga national Park ✓✓

b. Balpakram National Park

c. Hot Spring National Park

d. Valley of Flowers National Park

Q77. National Sports Day is observed on

which date ?

a. 20 August

b. 21 August


c. 22 August

d. 29 August ✓✓

Q78. Union External Affairs Minister Dr S

Jaishankar will be presiding over two

high level UNSC meetings in which city

?

a. New Delhi

b. Moscow

c. New York ✓✓

d. London

Q79. Which ministry has planned to setup

“Van Dhan” producer companies in all

the 27 states in the next five years ?


b. Education Ministry

c. Ministry of Tribal Affairs ✓✓

d. Ministry of Labour and

Employment

Q80. Which bank has signed an MoU with

Paralympics Committee of India to

support athletes ?

a. Axis Bank

b. Canara Bank

c. Indian Bank ✓✓

d. RBI

Q81. Who is the new brand ambassador of

Amway India ?

a. Neeraj Chopra

b. Ruskin Bond

c. Virat Kohli

d. Mirabai Chanu ✓✓

Q82. Who is the President of the JIO MAMI

Film Festival ?

a. Amitabh Bachchan

b. Neeraj Chopra

c. Vidya Balan

d. Priyanka Chopra ✓✓

Q83. Maki Kaji was the Godfather of Sudoku .

He passed away recently . He belonged

to which country ?

a. Australia

b. Singapore

c. Hong Kong

d. Japan ✓✓

Q84. Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Bhumihin

Majdur Nyay Yojana has been launched

by which state government ?

a. Haryana

b. Kerala

c. Tamil Nadu

d. Chhattisgarh ✓✓

Q85. Which Indian Naval Ship took part in the

Exercise name as Konkan 2021 ?

a. INS Vikrant

b. INS Tabar ✓✓

c. INS Betwa

d. INS Trikand

Q86. The United States has approved the sale

of arms and ammunition to which

country for the first time to counter the

rising tensions with China ?

a. Nepal

b. Bhutan

c. Japan

d. Taiwan ✓✓

Q87. INS Kochi is going to take part in the

four-day Maritime Partnership Exercise .

This exercise is to be held in which

country ?

a. Sri Lanka

b. Serbia

c. Bahrain ✓✓

d. South Africa

Q88. Who flagged off the 1993 km long

Independence rally ‘Cyclothon 2021” ?

a. Narendra Modi

b. S.S. Deswal ✓✓

c. Neeraj Chopra

d. Mira Bai Chanu

Q89. UNESCO has recently partnered with

which tech company to celebrate India’s

rich cultural heritage ?

a. Telegram

b. WhatsApp

c. Yahoo

d. Netflix ✓✓

Q90. Which state government has announced

to patronize the Indian Hockey team for

the upcoming 10 years ?


a. Kerala

b. Punjab

c. Odisha ✓✓

d. Chhattisgarh

Q91. “Defence India start-up Challenge 5.0”

has been launched by whom ?

a. Rajnath Singh ✓✓

b. Amitabh Bachchan

c. Narendra Modi

d. Amit Shah

Q92. World Humanitarian Day is Observed on

which date ?

a. 19 August ✓✓

b. 20 August

c. 21 August

d. 22 August

Q93. Which company/organization has test

fired “Hindustan 228” Civil aircraft ?

a. ONGC

b. DRDO

c. Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd . ✓✓

d. ISRO

Q94. Smart Health Cards have been launched

by which state government ?

a. Odisha ✓✓

b. Haryana

c. Assam

d. Manipur

Q95. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has

announced how many new Vande Bharat

Trains will run soon ?

a. 45

b. 47

c. 75 ✓✓

d. 96

Q96. Which organization / Company has

constituted a scientific advisory group

named as “SAGO”?

a. IMF

b. WHO ✓✓

c. UNSC

d. UNESCO

Q97. Who among the following has recently

won the Gold medal in the 16th Edition of

World Archery Youth Championships

2021 ?

a. Neeraj Chopra

b. Komalika Bari ✓✓

c. Pravin Jadhav

d. Deepika Kumari

Q98. According to the House Fresh 50 “Most

Polluted Cities” Report , which Indian

city is ranked as the most polluted city in

the world 2020?

a. Ghaziabad ✓✓

b. Noida

c. Chennai

d. Chandigarh

Q99. National Health Volunteer Campaign has

been launched by which state

government?

a. Assam

b. New Delhi

c. Uttar Pradesh ✓✓

d. Kerala

Q100. World Photography Day is Observed on

which date ?

a. 19 August ✓✓

b. 20 August

c. 21 August

d. 22 August


These are the set of current affairs of August and July 2021 in the form of Multiple-Choice Questions

. Each Question has four options , out of which only one is the correct answer (option). For the

convenient of the students the answers are marked after every question with a double tick. The option

which is followed by the double tick (✓✓) is the correct answer to that particular question .

Note: The Options marked with double Tick ( ✓✓) are the correct answer. ✓✓

SET 1 : QUESTION NUMBER 1 to 50

Q1. Who is the new brand ambassador of

Kauvery Group of Hospitals ?

a. Virat Kohli

b. Neeraj Chopra

c. Mirabai Chanu

d. Mahendra Singh Dhoni ✓✓

Q2. India has undertook a bilateral

Maritime exercise in with which one of

the following country in the South

China Sea ?

a. South Korea

b. Vietnam ✓✓

c. Sri Lanka

d. Australia

Q3. A new Cybersecurity Multi-Donor

Trust Fund has been launched by which

organization ?

a. Union Ministry, India

b. Ministry of Telecommunication,

India

c. World Bank ✓✓

d. International Monetary Fund

Q4. World Photography Day is observed on

which day ?

a. 15 August

b. 16 August

c. 17 August

d. 19 August ✓✓

Q5. Recently, who chaired the 5th meetings

of BRICS Industry Ministers ?

a. Amit Shah

b. Nitin Gadkari

c. Narendra Modi

d. Piyush Goyal ✓✓

Q6. Who is the new President of the

Institute of Economic Growth Society ?

a. N K Singh ✓✓

b. Piyush Goyal

c. Virendra Malhotra

d. Zakir Husain

Q7. World Humanitarian Day is Observed

on Which Date ?

a. 15 August

b. 16 August

c. 18 August

d. 19 August ✓✓

Q8. According to Global Crypto Adoption

Index 2021, what is India’s rank in the

terms of Crypto adoption in the world ?

a. 2nd ✓✓

b. 7th

c. 8th

d. 9th

Q9. Which country has been completely

occupied by the radical organization

Taliban ?

a. Pakistan

b. Tajikistan

c. Afghanistan ✓✓

d. Iran

Question Number 101 to 200 .

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Q10. Recently, who has been honoured with

National Youth Award ?

a. Piyush Goyal

b. Mirabai Chanu

c. Mohammed Azam ✓✓

d. Anurag Thakur

Q11. World Mosquito Day is observed on

which date ?

a. 18 August

b. 19 August

c. 20 August ✓✓

d. 21 August

Q12. What is the theme of the World

Mosquito Day 2021 ?

a. Reaching the Zero Malaria

Target ✓✓

b. Medicine for Malaria Venture

c. Free from Malaria

d. 100% free from Malaria

Q13. Who is the 69th and the newest

Grandmaster in chess for India ?

a. Harshit Raja ✓✓

b. Viswanathan Anand

c. GM Magnus Carlsen

d. Anish Giri

Q14. Ballia Sacrifice Day is observed on

which date ?

a. 15 August

b. 18 August

c. 19 August ✓✓

d. 22 August

Q15. Who is the author of the book “The

Dream of Revolution : A Biography of

Jayaprakash Narayan” ?

a. Bimal Prasad

b. Sujata Prasad

c. Both above ✓✓

d. None of Above

Q16. Fruits Portal has been launched by

which Bank ?

a. Canara Bank

b. KBG Bank ✓✓

c. IDBI Bank

d. RBI

Q17. Who has been appointed as the

ambassador of Kerala Adventure

Tourism by the Kerala Government ?

a. P R Sreejesh ✓✓

b. Piyush Goyal

c. Mohammed Azam

d. Vikram Malhotra

Q18. Who is appointed as the secretary in

Ministry of Information and

Broadcasting ?

a. Anurag Thakur

b. Piyush Goyal

c. Apurva Chandra ✓✓

d. Mohammed Azam

Q19. Who has launched the 2nd Phase of

SAMVAD in Karnataka ?

a. Narendra Modi

b. Yogi Adityanath

c. Smriti Irani ✓✓

d. Dharmendra Pradhan

Q20. Which organization/Bank/Company

has launched the Financial Inclusion

Index ?

a. Central Bank of India

b. International Monetary Fund

c. Reserve Bank of India ✓✓

d. HDFC bank

Q21. Which day is observed on 12 May to

mark the birth anniversary of Florence

Nightingale ?

a. International Nurses Day ✓✓

b. World Humanitarian Day

c. World Athletics Day

d. Sanskrit Day

Q22. Which week is being celebrated from

19th August to 25th August ?

a. Hindi Week

b. Urdu Week

c. Malaria Week

d. Sanskrit Week ✓✓

Q23. Which organization or foundation has

recently launched the portal named as

“My e-haat” for artisans ?

a. Ministry of Telecommunication

b. Education Ministry


c. HCL Foundation ✓✓

d. TCS

Q24. Indian Akshay Urja day is celebrated on

which date ?

a. 19th August

b. 20th August ✓✓

c. 21st August

d. 22nd August

Q25. Country’s first smog tower has been

inaugurated in which state ?

a. Haryana

b. New Delhi ✓✓

c. Kerala

d. Tamil Nadu

Q26. What is the theme of the World

Humanitarian Day 2021 ?

a. The Human Race ✓✓

b. Thank You

c. Women Humanitarian Heroes

d. #NotATarget

Q27. Recently, a new landmass has been

created under which country due to an

underwater Volcanic eruption ?

a. Serbia

b. Sri Lanka

c. Japan ✓✓

d. Australia

Q28. Who has inaugurated the world’s

second largest refurbished state of the

art National Gene Bank in New Delhi ?

a. Arvind Kejriwal

b. Narendra Singh Tomar ✓✓

c. Narendra Modi

d. Piyush Goyal

Q29. “Jan Ashirwad Yatra” has been started

which political party in India ?

a. Bhartiya Janta Party ✓✓

b. Aam Admi Party

c. Indian National Congress

d. Janta dal

Q30. Which state government has signed a

loan agreement for 500 million USD for

funding metro rail project ?

a. New Delhi

b. West Bengal

c. Kerala

d. Karnataka ✓✓

Q31. The usage of the word “Gorakh

Dhanda” has been banned by which

state government ?

a. Haryana ✓✓

b. New Delhi

c. Punjab

d. Assam

Q32. (Harmony Day) Sadbhavana Diwas is

observed on which date ?

a. 19 August

b. 20 August ✓✓

c. 21 August

d. 22 August

Q33. Nitin Chugh has recently resigned from

his post. He was the MD & CEO of

which Bank ?

a. Ujjivan Small Finance Bank ✓✓

b. State Bank of India

c. Reserve bank of India

d. Axis bank

Q34. Which organisation has come up with

the revised guidelines for the hiring of

lockers , recently ?

a. IMF

b. SEBI

c. RBI ✓✓

d. World bank

Q35. At IFFM , who will be awarded with “

Diversity in Cinema Award” ?

a. Pankaj Tripathi ✓✓

b. Ayushman Khurana

c. Salman Khan

d. Akshay Kumar

Q36. ‘Small Business Loans Initiative” has

been launched by whom in India ?

a. TCS

b. Rattan TATA

c. Facebook ✓✓

d. Google

Q37. Who is the author of the book :

“Manavta Ke Pranata Maharishi

Arvind” ?

a. Ruskin Bond


b. Salman Rushdie

c. Jhumpa Lahiri

d. Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’

✓✓

Q38. Which country’s President has recently

refused to let his country become a

Europe’s refugee warehouse ?

a. Serbia

b. Afghanistan

c. Turkey ✓✓

d. Nepal

Q39. Chinmay Chatterjee has passed away

recently . He was the footballer of

which country ?

a. Japan

b. Nepal

c. USA

d. India ✓✓

Q40. Arogya Dhara 2.0 has been launched by

whom to increase reach to Ayushman

Bharat ?

a. Nitin Gadkari

b. Piyush Goyal

c. Ramesh Pokhriyal

d. Mansukh Manaviya ✓✓

Q41. Which one of the following companies

has topped in the list of Hurun Global

500 Most Valuable Companies ?

a. Tesla

b. Google

c. Apple ✓✓

d. Yahoo

Q42. Nitin Gadkari has recently announced

road and highway project in

Uttarakhand. What is the Budget for

this Project ?

a. 1500 Crore

b. 1600 Crore

c. 1400 Crore

d. 1300 Crore ✓✓

Q43. Who is the chairman of the Shree

Somnath Trust ?

a. Piyush Goyal

b. Shri Vijay Rupani

c. Narendra Modi ✓✓

d. Amit Shah

Q44. Who is the new CEO and MD of Indian

Bank ?

a. Shanti Lal Jain ✓✓

b. N K Singh

c. Arun Kumar Singh

d. Sushil Chandra

Q45. Indian Army has organised a Relay

Marathon named as “Jazbaa e-Tranga”

in Jammu and Kashmir . What is the

distance to be covered in this Marathon

?

a. 700 km

b. 600 km

c. 500 km

d. 400 km ✓✓

Q46. World Senior Citizens Day is observed

on which date ?

a. 15 August

b. 16 August

c. 19 August

d. 21 August ✓✓

Q47. Who is the author of the book “ Fateful

Triangle” ?

a. Tanvi Madam ✓✓

b. Chetan Bhagat

c. R K Narayan

d. Khushwant Singh

Q48. Which air pilot has been appointed as a

woman spokesperson in the United

Nations (UN) ?

a. Zoya Aggarwal ✓✓

b. Bhawana Kanth

c. Sarla Thukral

d. Jeannie Leavitt

Q49. Which organization/company has

launched the initiative “DISC 5.0” ?


b. Ministry of Defence ✓✓

c. TATA Motors

d. JIO

SET 2 : Question Number 150 to 200

Q50. Which Space agency is planning to

launch an explorer in 2024 to land on


Phobos (Martian Moon) and collect

10grams of soil ?

a. NASA

b. ISRO

c. Space X

d. JAXA ✓✓

Q51. “UNITE Aware” technology has been

announced by whom for safety and

security of UN Peacekeepers ?

a. Narendra Modi

b. Joe Biden

c. S Jaishankar ✓✓

d. Donald Trump

Q52. What is the name of Afghanistan that

has been given by the Taliban ?

a. United Islamic Afghanistan

b. Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

✓✓

c. Siya Afghanistan

d. Taliban Afghan

Q53. Who is the Author of the Book

“Operation Khutri” ?

a. Damini Punia and Rajpal Punia

✓✓

b. Ruskin Bond

c. NK Singh

d. Sushil Chandra and NK Singh

Q54. Which is the first metro service to

sanitize coaches with ultra-violet rays ?

a. Delhi Metro

b. Kolkata Metro

c. Jaipur Metro

d. Lucknow Metro ✓✓

Q55. 16 Digit Unicode for landholding

identification has been launched by

which state government ?

a. Uttar Pradesh ✓✓

b. Kerala

c. Odisha

d. Gujarat

Q56. Who is the new CEO of BARC

(Broadcast Audience Research Council

) ?

a. Sunil Lulla

b. Nakul Chopra ✓✓

c. Piyush Goyal

d. NK Singh

Q57. Which organization has developed the

Advanced Chaff Technology for Indian

Air Force ?

a. ISRO

b. DRDO ✓✓

c. Space X

d. TATA Motors

Q58. Which state government has decided to

procure 200 electric and 100 CNG

Buses ?

a. New Delhi

b. Assam ✓✓

c. Manipur

d. Meghalaya

Q59. Who is the brand ambassador of

Adventure tourism in Kerala ?

a. PR Sreejesh ✓✓

b. M B Rajesh

c. Chittayam Gopakumar

d. Manjeshwar

Q60. “Ubharte Sitare Fund” has been

launched by whom in Lucknow ?

a. Yogi Adityanath

b. Nirmala Sitharaman ✓✓

c. Nitin Gadkari

d. Narendra Modi

Q61. What is the name of the 17th Governor

of the state “ Manipur” ?

a. La. Ganesan ✓✓

b. Ganga Prasad

c. Najma Heptulla

d. Padmanabha Acharya

Q62. Who has dedicated the ‘Skill

Development Institute, Bhubaneswar”

to that nation ?

a. Narendra Modi

b. Dharmendra Pradhan ✓✓

c. Piyush Goyal

d. Naveen Patnaik

Q63. Naseem Al Bahr Military Exercise has

been started between which countries ?

a. India and America

b. Australia and Iraq


c. Russia and South Korea

d. India and Oman ✓✓

Q64. What is the name of the AI-enabled

chatbot that has been launched by

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited,

recently ?

a. Hercules

b. Smart bot

c. Arya.ai

d. URJA ✓✓

Q65. Who has laid the foundation stone of

the Institute of Chemical Technology ,

recently ?

a. Naveen Patnaik ✓✓

b. Amarinder Singh

c. Pinarayi Vijayan

d. Nitish Kumar

Q66. Who has inaugurated the Webinar

named as “Zero Hunger by 2030” on

the 23rd of August ?

a. Giriraj Singh ✓✓

b. Piyush Goyal

c. Manohar Lal Khattar

d. Sonia Gandhi

Q67. What is the target year (no. of years)

that has been set by the panel formed by

the union government for doubling and

quadrupling exports of handlooms ?

a. 5 years

b. 4 years

c. 3 years ✓✓

d. 2 years

Q68. An international exhibition on Folk and

Tribal Art Paintings “Reetiyon se

Kalakritiyon ka Safar” has been

inaugurated in Delhi by whom ?


b. Ministry of Defence

c. Ministry of Education

d. Ministry of Textiles ✓✓

Q69. India’s Shaili Singh has won which

medal in the long jump event at the

World’s Athletics U20 Championships

?

a. Gold Medal

b. Silver Medal ✓✓

c. Bronze Medal

d. Platinum Medal

Q70. “Iconic Week” , a part of “Azadi ke

Amrit Mahotsav” has been launched on

23rd August till 29th August 2021 . Who

launched this event ?

a. Narendra Modi

b. Piyush Goyal

c. Anurag Thakur ✓✓

d. Navneet Singh

Q71. What is the name of the platform that

has been launched by the Reserve Bank

of India to strengthen compliance by

entities that are supervised by the RBI ?

a. GOD

b. PLANE

c. PRISM ✓✓

d. B2B

Q72. World Senior Citizen Day is observed

on which date ?

a. 19 August

b. 21 August ✓✓

c. 25 August

d. 26 August

Q73. Which city’s municipal corporation has

been declared as the “ Water Plus” City

?

a. Visakhapatnam ✓✓

b. Bahadurgarh

c. Rohtak

d. Noida

Q74. Recently “Sarbhaja and Sarpuriya”

were in news . These two sweets will be

given the GI Tag . These two are the

sweets of which state ?

a. New Delhi

b. West Bengal ✓✓

c. Manipur

d. Assam

Q75. What is the Name of the digital

repayment platform that has been

launched by the Kotak Mahindra Bank

to make repayments for outstanding


loans more convenient for its customers

?

a. Salam Dil Se

b. Salute Customer

c. Neo Collection ✓✓

d. All of the Above

Q76. Which company is setting up solar

based EV charging stations on the Delhi

to Chandigarh Highway ?

a. PowerGrid

b. BHEL ✓✓

c. BEL

d. TATA

Q77. Sh. Kumar Banerjee has passed away

recently . He was the former chairman

of which commission ?

a. 6th pay Commission

b. Atomic Energy Commissions

✓✓

c. University Grants Commission

d. Knowledge Commission

Q78. India’s largest Floating Solar PV

Project Commissioned in which one of

the following state ?

a. New Delhi

b. Tamil Nadu

c. Andhra Pradesh ✓✓

d. Punjab

Q79. Which Indian organization is taking

part in the International Military

Technical Forum “Army 2021” ?

a. ISRO

b. DRDO ✓✓

c. CBI

d. Delhi Police

Q80. Which organization/institute has

developed the India’ first indigenous

motorised wheelchair vehicle “Neo

Bolt” ? This vehicle can been used on

uneven terrains also .

a. IIT Madras ✓✓

b. IISC Bangalore

c. DRDO

d. MIT

Q81. Who among the following has won the

Title British Grand Prix 2021 ?

a. Lewis Hamilton ✓✓

b. Leclerc

c. Bottas

d. Norris

Q82. Recently , first human death is reported

in which country due to Monkey Virus

?

a. India

b. China ✓✓

c. Russia

d. Turkey

Q83. Which countries are included in the

new Quad Group that is being setup to

enhance regional connectivity ?

a. US, Afghanistan, India and

China

b. US , Afghanistan , Pakistan and

China

c. Afghanistan, Pakistan,

Uzbekistan and Russia

d. US , Afghanistan, Pakistan and

Uzbekistan ✓✓

Q84. "FASTER" scheme is launched by

whom ?


b. Supreme court of India ✓✓

c. State government of Haryana

d. Reserve Bank of India

Q85. Who is the new Chairman of Punjab

Congress ?

a. Rahul Gandhi

b. Sonia Gandhi

c. Navjot Singh Sidhu ✓✓

d. Joginder Pal

Q86. Q6) The grant of how much money has

been recommended by 15th Finance

Commission for Online learning and

development of professional courses ?

a. Rs 1050 crore

b. Rs 1650 crore

c. Rs 6143 crore ✓✓

d. Rs 1500 crore


Q87. The name of Jammu and Kashmir High

Court has been changed to "High Court

of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh ".

Who is the present chief justice of High

Court of Jammu and Kashmir and

Ladakh ?

a. Justice Pankaj Mithal ✓✓

b. Vipin Sanghi

c. Siddharth Mridul

d. Manmohan

Q88. Who is the author of the book " Grains

of stardust " ?

a. Vismaya Mohanlal ✓✓

b. Pranav Mohanlal

c. Suresh Balaje

d. Suchitra Mohanlal

Q89. According to a report "The Hunger

Virus Multiplies' released by Oxfam;

how many people die of hunger every

minute in the world ?

a. 10

b. 11 ✓✓

c. 12

Q90. World Brain Day is observed on which

date ?

a. 21 July

b. 22 July ✓✓

c. 27 July

d. 29 July

Q91. Project 75 is related to which field

a. DRDO Missile test

b. New Naval Ship Manufacturing

c. Submarine Construction ✓✓

Q92. Q12) What is the Capital of

Netherlands ?

a. New Delhi

b. Singapore

c. Amsterdam ✓✓

Q93. Who is the Foreign Minister of

Maldives ?

a. Abdulla Shahid ✓✓

b. Zaha Waheed Dr. Hussain

Rasheed Hassan

Q94. Dalit Bandhu ,a project / program for

the Dalit empowerment , has been

recently launched by which state

government ?

a. Haryana

b. Assam

c. Telangana ✓✓

d. Maharashtra

Q95. Which organization has successfully

tested the India's new generation Akash

Missile ?

a. ISRO

b. NASA

c. Roscosmos

d. DRDO✓✓

Q96. What is the new Olympic motto ?

a. Citius , Fortius - Altius

b. Citius, Altius , Fortius -

Communis ✓✓

c. Citius, Altius, Fortius

d. Citius Communis

Q97. Which is the first state to implement

Block Chain-Powered Educational

Documents ?

a. Haryana

b. Maharashtra ✓✓

c. New Delhi

Q98. Which is the 4th country to implement

Block Chain-Powered Educational

Documents ?

a. India ✓✓

b. Sri Lanka

c. China

Q99. First "Book Village" of Kerala is

______________ ?

a. Perumkulam ✓✓

b. Kombanad

c. Marampilly

d. Perumbavoor

Q100. "No-Casting World Masters" event of

the Sparkassen Trophy has been won by

whom ?

a. Viswanathan Anand ✓✓

b. Magnus Carlsen

c. Garry Kasparove

d. Anatoly Karpov


These are the set of current affairs of August and July 2021 in the form of Simple one-line points.

1. The Government of India has announced that it has approved 780 new air traffic routes under

the UDAN regional air Connectivity scheme .

2. The Parliament has passed the Inland Vessels Bill, 2021 .

3. SBI has launched “SIM Binding” feature for YONO .

4. ADB has provided 1.5 billion USD to India to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.

5. HDFC Bank has launched the Dukandar Overdraft Scheme.

6. Adviser Amarjeet Sinha has resigned from Prime Minister’s Office.

7. Author of the Book “ The Inheritance of Loss” : Kiran Desai

8. Haryana state Police has secured the First Position in India under Crime and Criminal

Tracking Network System .

9. Esteban Ocon has won the Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix 2021 .

10. North India’s first Orchid Conservation Center has been inaugurated in Uttarakhand .

11. ISRO announced the launch of an Earth observation satellite “EOS-03” on 12th August.

12. Dr. Virendra Kumar has unveiled a portal and mobile application named as “PM-Daksh”.

13. 79th anniversary of Quit India Movement has been observed on 8 August .

14. Chhattisgarh is the first state to recognize Community Forest Resource Rights in an Urban

area.

15. United Arab Emirates and India has organized a navel exercise names as “Zayed Talwar

2021”.

16. USA Won the most number of medals (113 Medals) in the Tokyo Olympics 2020.

17. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister launched the scheme “ Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvan”.

18. “Balakot Air Strike: How India Avenged Pulwama” is written by Navy veteran Manan Bhatt.

19. Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani has recently launched e-Nagar mobile application and portal.

20. First Orchid Conservation Center has been inaugurated by State government of Uttarakhand.

21. Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs have launched the brand and logo called “

SonChiraiya”.

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22. Theme of the 75th Independence Day of India was “Nation First, Always First” .

23. WHO has created a new advisory group “SAGO”.

24. KVIC had setup UP Khadi Exhibition cum sale stalls at 75 railway stations to celebrated 75

years of Independence .

25. First Drone Forensic and Research Centre has been established in Kerala .

26. World Organ Donation Day is observed on 13 August.

27. “Vibhajan Vibhishika Memorial Day” will be observed on 14 August every year .

28. WHO has partnered with FACEBOOK to provide Covid 19 information to the world’s most

vulnerable people.

29. Neeraj Chopra secured second rank in the World Athletics ranking .

30. Narendra Modi has launched the “National Vehicle Scrappage Policy” .

31. Chhattisgarh has announced 4 new districts(Mohla Manpur, Sarangarh- Bilaigarh, Shakti,

Manendragarh ) and 18 new tehsils on the occasion of the 75th Independence Day .

32. NDMC has launched the “Clean City App” .

33. Twitter discontinued its feature name “Fleets”.

34. Pensilungpa fall in the Zanskar range.

35. Virendra Kumar has flagged off a pioneering world record expedition named “Operation Blue

Freedom” from Dr. Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi on the occasion of 75th

Independence Day .

36. Odisha has announced smart health card under its health welfare scheme.

37. RBI has cancelled the licence of Karnala Nagari Sahakari Bank , Raigarh Maharashtra .

38. Uttar Pradesh has recently become the largest economy of India .

39. Hakainda Hichilema is the new President of the Zambia.

40. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and Anurag Thakur has launched second season of the popular

series “Rag Rag Mein Ganga”.

41. Dharmendra Pradhan has virtually inaugurated the Centre for Research and Innovation in

Artificial Intelligence at IIT Hyderabad .

42. World Athletics under 20 Championship 2021 has been started in Nairobi , Kenya .

43. West Bengal government has approved the formation of an industrial board to facilitate the

establishment of more factories in the state .

44. World Archery Youth Championship 2021 held in Poland .


45. Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has unveiled the mobile application named as ‘PROOF” .

PROOF stands for ‘Photographic Record of On-site Facility”.

46. World’s first museum on wheels has been inaugurated in Kolkata .

47. First Women director of Zoological Survey of India :- Dhriti Banerjee.

48. Rare species of Orchids have been found in Uttarakhand, India .

49. Researchers of Switzerland have calculated a new figure of “Pi”.

50. Rs 100 lakh crore will invested in PM Gatishakti initiative.

51. Hakainde Hichilema is the new president of Zambia .

52. The Delhi-Chandigarh Highway has become the first e-vehicle friendly highway in the

country

53. Amazon has rolled out India’s first celebrity voice feature on Alexa with Amitabh Bachchan.

54. Ministry of Coal has started “Tree Plantation Campaign 2021” on 19th August 2021.

55. “Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Bhumiless Mazdoor Nyay Yojana” has launched by Chhattisgarh

state government .

56. 19th August is the birth anniversary of Shankar Dayal ( former President of India) .

57. The Indian and Australian navies have signed a document that provides for consolidating

shared commitment to promote peace , stability and security in the Indo-Pacific region .

58. Chhattisgarh is the first state to recognise community Forest Resource Rights in Urban areas.

59. Boria Majumdar and Kushan Sarkar are the author of the book : “Mission Domination : An

Unfinished Quest” .

60. TCS is the Indian company to cross the market capitalization of Rs 13 lakh crore.

61. Ismail Sabri Yaakoob has been appointed as the new PM of Malaysia .

62. TATA Motors has partnered with Bank of Maharashtra to offer car loan facilities .

63. Indian and Australian Navy has signed a “Joint guidance for Navy-to-Navy relationship”

document .

64. China has passed the Three Child Policy .

65. Jammu and Kashmir have launched Karkhandar Scheme .

66. “Badlav Humse Hai” is a brand campaign launched by AU Small Finance Bank.

67. New MD and CEO of Indian Bank :- Shanti Lal Jain.

68. Dr Tejendra Mohan Bhasin has been reappointed as the chairman of “Advisory Board for

Banking and Financial Frauds”.

69. N K Singh is appointed as the president of Institute of Economic Growth .


70. Secretary of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting : Apurva Chandra

71. India will host the United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress .

72. Mansukh Mandaviya has launched the “Arogya Dhara 2.0”

73. Brand Ambassador of the Kerala Adventure Tourism : P R Sreejesh

74. BRICS group has signed an agreement for cooperation in remote sensing satellite data

Sharing.

75. New Chairman of National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority : Kamlesh Kumar Pant

76. Brand Ambassador of JK Tyre and Industries Limited : Narian Karthekeyain.

77. Uttar Pradesh is the first country to present a paperless budget in the assembly .

78. Uttar Pradesh has started the “Mati Kala Rojgar Yojana”.

79. World Elephant Day : 12 August

80. New species of Frog “Adi Cascade” has been recently discovered in Arunachal Pradesh .

81. World Sanskrit Day : 2 August

82. Highest Herbal Park of India has been inaugurated in Mana Village of Chamoli, Uttarakhand.

83. Narayan Koti Temple , Uttarakhand has been included in the “Adopt A heritage project”.

84. World First steel has been made by the Sweden Company “Hybrid” without using the Coal .

85. Union Cabinet of Bangladesh given approval for India to partner with in the field of Disaster

Management .

86. New Brand Ambassador of the McDonald’s India :Rashmika mandna .

87. Brand Ambassador of ‘Justdial” : Ranvir Singh

88. Brand Ambassador of Bata India Limited : Kartik Aryan

89. Uttarakhand is the first state to launch Earthquake Alert app .

90. China has passed the Three Child Policy .


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