Latest Current Affairs from 2 to 8 August 2023

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Q-1. Which organization has recently launched ‘Jaldost Airboat’?

A) National Aerospace Laboratories
B) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
C) DRDO
D) Garuda Aerospace

Q-2. ‘Naya Savera Yojana’ has been launched by which union ministry?

A) Ministry of Home Affairs
B) Ministry of Minority Affairs
C) Ministry of Education
D) Ministry of Rural Development

Q-3. Who has become India’s number 1 chess player?

A) Viswanathan Anand
B) R. Praggnananda
C) Gukesh D
D) Pantala Harikrishna

Q-4. Who jointly launched the ‘Study in India Portal’?

A) Rajnath Singh and Dharmendra Pradhan
B) Rajnath Singh and S. Jaishankar
C) Amit Shah and Dharmendra Pradhan
D) S. Jaishankar and Dharmendra Pradhan

Q-5. Which Indian cricketer has announced his retirement recently?

A) Manoj Tiwary
B) Rishabh Pant
C) Umesh Yadav
D) Dinesh Karthik

Q-6. Who has launched the mobile application ‘Rajmargyatra’?

A) C-DAC
B) NHAI
C) NIC
D) Niti AAyog

Q-7. Which portal has been launched to monitor child care institutions across the country?

A) Kavach Portal
B) Raksha Portal
C) Masi Portal
D) Bal Surkhsha Portal

Q-8. Recently, which leader’s Lok Sabha membership has been restored by the Lok Sabha Secretariat?

A) Varun Gandhi
B) Chirag Paswan
C) Dimple Yadav
D) Rahul Gandhi

Q-9. Which Indian became the youngest world champion in archery?

A) Aditi Swamy
B) Deepika Kumari
C) Neha Bisht
D) Shreya Sinha

Q-10. When National Handloom Day is celebrated every year?

A) 6th Aug
B) 7th Aug
C) 8th Aug
D) 5th Aug

Q-11. How many railway stations across the country will be modernized under the ‘Amrit Bharat Station’ scheme?

A) 108
B) 600
C) 508
D) 700

Q-12. Folk and Tribal Performing Arts Festival “Utkarsh” and International Literature Festival “Unmesh” are being organized in which state?

A) Jharkhand
B) Odisha
C) Chhattisgarh
D) Madhya Pradesh

Q-13. Which state’s Chedibutta saree was given GI tag recently?

A) Tamil Nadu
B) Kerala
C) Karnataka
D) Maharashtra

Q-14. Amrit Vriksha Andolan is related to which state?

A) Manipur
B) Assam
C) Meghalaya
D) Sikkim

Q-15. Which state has approved the country’s first hydrogen fuel industry?

A) Bihar
B) Gujarat
C) Jharkhand
D) Haryana

Q-16. Vikram Sports Award and Eklavya Sports Award are related to which state?

A) Uttar Pradesh
B) Rajasthan
C) Jharkhand
D) Madhya Pradesh

Q-17. Who won the Deodhar Trophy 2023 title?

A) South Zone
B) North Zone
C) West Zone
D) Central Zone

Q-18. Who is the present Cabinet Secretary of India?

A) Nitin Ghai
B) Rajiv Gauba
C) Rajeev Chandrashekhar
D) Shaktikant Das

Q-19. Who has written the book “How Prime Ministers Decide”?

A) Manoj Kumar
B) Chetan Bhagat
C) Neerja Choudhury
D) Rahul Kumar

Q-20. Oil India Limited (OIL) is which category company?

A) Navratna
B) Miniratna
C) Goldratna
D) Maharatna

Q-21. Who has been appointed as the new chairman of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC)?

A) Sanjay Kumar Agarwal
B) Sunil Gupta
C) Jayant Sisodia
D) Malti Rai

Q-22. Recently Guru Gorakhnath Board has been established by which state government?

A) Uttar Pradesh
B) Rajasthan
C) Bihar
D) Haryana

Q-23. Which state government has started a scheme called ‘Shubhayatra’?

A) Punjab
B) Himachal Pradesh
C) Kerala
D) Karnataka

Q-24. When was project Elephant launched?

A) 1973
B) 1999
C) 2011
D) 1992

Q-25. The book “Kargil: A traveler’s Tongue” has been written by?

A) Rishi Raj
B) Smita Sen
C) Naveen Sharma
D) Mohit Kumar

Q-26. According to the report to Refinitive Icon, which is the most valuable company in the world?

A) Tesla
B) Apple
C) Saudi Aramco
D) Microsoft

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Answers:

1-Ans. A) National Aerospace Laboratories
2-Ans. B) Ministry of Minority Affairs
3-Ans. C) Gukesh D
4-Ans. D) S. Jaishankar and Dharmendra Pradhan
5-Ans. A) Manoj Tiwary
6-Ans. B) NHAI
7-Ans. C) Masi Portal
8-Ans. D) Rahul Gandhi
9-Ans. A) Aditi Swamy
10-Ans. B) 7th Aug
11-Ans. C) 508
12-Ans. D) Madhya Pradesh
13-Ans. A) Tamil Nadu
14-Ans. B) Assam
15-Ans. C) Jharkhand
16-Ans. D) Madhya Pradesh
17-Ans. A) South Zone
18-Ans. B) Rajeev Gauba
19-Ans. C) Neerja Choudhury
20-Ans. D) Maharatna
21-Ans. A) Sanjay Kumar Agarwal
22-Ans. B) Rajasthan
23-Ans. C) Kerala
24-Ans. D) 1992
25-Ans. A) Rishi Raj
26-Ans. B) Apple