This set of August Current Affairs MCQ contains 20 multiple choice questions. One mark for each correct answer. No negative marking for incorrect answer.
1. First SAARC Agri Cooperative Business forum was held in:
The theme of this forum was "Organizing and Strengthening Family Farmers’ Cooperatives to attain the Sustainable-Development-Goals-1 and 2 in South Asia"
2. Armed Force (Special Power) Act, 1958 (AFSPA) is extended in Assam for a period of 6 months by:
The decision was taken as a precautionary measure to maintain law & order during ongoing NRC update process.
3. Who has won the gold medal in the women’s Heptathlon Athletics event at the 18th edition of Asian Games?
4. Vostok Military exercise 2018 was conducted by:
5. Who is the chairman of the newly constituted Prime Minister's Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC)?
Union government has constituted this 21 member PM-STIAC under the leadership of the principal scientific advisor to the government K. Vijay Raghavan
6. Which of the following ministry has ordered all states to ban e-cigarettes and other Electronic Nicotine Delivery System (ENDS)
7. Which of the following district will be created in Arunachal as per the recently passed bill in Arunachal Pradesh assembly?
8. What is the name of ISRO's indigenous human space mission?
9. Smart India Hackathon 2019 (SIH-2019) is organized by:
10. National Sports day on 29 August is celebrated to mark birth anniversary of:
11. "Atal Ji Ne Kaha" book is authored and complied by:
12. Prime Minister's Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC) consists of:
The council is headed by principal scientific advisor K. Vijay Raghavan
13. Which of the following tribal language has become India's first tribal language to get own Wikipedia edition?
Santali is a language in the Munda subfamily of Austroasiatic languages.
14. Which of the following country has overtaken India as the poverty capital of the world?
Although India is the sixth largest economy in the world, as per world bank survey 2012, 21.2% of the population still lives in below poverty line and as per Oxfam survey 2018, 1% of the richest Indian has cornered 73% of the wealth generated in the country last year.
15. Bond-i, the world's first blockchain bond has been launched by:Bond-i, the world's first blockchain bond has been launched by:
16. Who is the newly elected president of Zimbabwe?
17. India's first bio-fuel flight is powered by:
The flight will fly from Dehradun to Delhi and the flight operator is SpiceJet
18. Horizon 2020: a research program to develop next-generation influenza vaccine is a joint venture of:
19. Which of the following space agency has launched world's first wind-sensing satellite?
20. Who has been appointed as the chairman of DRDO?
He is also appointed as the secretary of the department of defence R&D, Govt. of India
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