1. Which airline has become the first airline in the country to land aircraft using the indigenous navigation system GPS-aided geo-augmented navigation (GAGAN)?
(a) Air India
(b) IndiGo
(c) Go First
(d) SpiceJet
2. Who has been appointed as the Chairperson of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC)?
(a) Atul Kumar Goel
(b) Navrang Saini
(c) Arun Kumar Mishra
(d) Vijay Sampla
3. “Special 301 Report”, which was seen in the news recently, is released by which country?
[A] Russia
[B] China
[C] USA
[D] Germany
4. The Union Cabinet approved an additional funding of Rs 820 crore for which bank, to expand its services?
[A] India Post Payments Bank
[B] Unity Small Finance Bank
[C] NSDL Payment Bank
[D] AU Small Finance Bank
5. Recently, which of the following nation has hosted the world’s largest cyber exercise Locked Shields 2022?
(a) Moldovia
(b) Croatia
(c) Ukraine
(d) Estonia
6. Name the winner of the Indian Pharma Innovation of the Year award.
(a) Poly Medicure Ltd
(b) Zydus Lifesciences Ltd
(c) Micro Labs Ltd
(d) Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd
7. Which among the following projects has been awarded the Indian Building Congress (IBC) ‘Best Infrastructure Project’ award?
a) Atal Tunnel
b) Koteshwar Diversion Tunnel
c) Chenani Tunnel
d) Head Race Tunnel
8. Which city is hosting Global Patidar Business Summit 2022?
a) Surat
b) Ahmedabad
c) Rajkot
d) Jamnagar
9. PM Narendra Modi has inaugurated Semicon India Conference 2022 at __________.
(a) New Delhi
(b) Vadodara
(c) Bengaluru
(d) Surat
10. Union Cabinet has recently approved additional funding of Rs.__________ for India Post Payments Bank (IPPB).
(a) Rs 820 crores
(b) Rs 1000 crores
(c) Rs 1095 crores
(d) Rs 1435 crores
11. Who among the following has been appointed as the Vice Chief of the Army Staff?
(a) V R Chaudhari
(b) BS Raju
(c) Manoj Kumar Mago
(d) P K Purwar
12. Salim Ghouse passed away recently. He was a/an ____________.
(a) Musician
(b) Poet
(c) Kathak dancer
(d) Actor
13. Atal Tunnel has received the Indian Building Congress (IBC) ‘Best Infrastructure Project’ award. It was built by the Border Roads Organisation in which state/UT?
(a) Jammu & Kashmir
(b) Arunachal Pradesh
(c) Himachal Pradesh
(d) Assam
14. Ardeshir B K Dubash has been conferred highest diplomatic award by which of the following country’s government?
(a) Chile
(b) Equador
(c) Venezuela
(d) Peru
15. Devendra Fadnavis has released a Marathi book on Amit Shah, titled “Amit Shah Ani Bhajapachi Vatchal”, a Marathi version of the book “Amit Shah and The March of BJP”. It has been translated into Marathi by __________.
(a) Shantanu Gupta
(b) Jyostna Kolhatkar
(c) Shiwanand Dwivedi
(d) Jayanta Ghosal