17. GOI has given approval to rename Delhi’s Aurangzeb Road
a) Sardar Vallabhai Patel Road
b) Abdul Kalam Road
c) AB Vajpayee Road
d) Sunitha Williams Road
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Answer b) Abdul Kalam Road. The decision has been made by New Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC).
18. India has gifted its former Indian Coast Guard (ICG) Ship Varaha to
a) Bangladesh
b) Indonesia
c) Sri Lanka
d) Seychelles
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Answer c) Sri Lanka.
19. Name the open source web based tool launched by NITI Aayog?
a) IESS 2043
b) IESS 2045
c) IESS 2047
d) IESS 2049
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Answer c) IESS 2047. National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog has launched the second version of an open source web based tool India Energy Security Scenarios 2047 calculator (IESS 2047). It aims to explore wide range of potential future energy scenarios for India including for its diverse energy supply and demand sectors leading up to 2047.
20. Who has been chosen for the inaugural Sunhak Peace Prize?
a) Vinayak Mahadevan
b) Sathyadev
c) Modadugu Vijay Gupta
d) Saravana Kumar
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Answer c) Modadugu Vijay Gupta. Sunhak Peace Prize was founded earlier in 2015 by South Korean religious leader Dr Hak Ja Han Moon.
21. GOI has declared the names of how many cities for its ambitious Smart Cities Project?
a) 90
b) 93
c) 98
d) 95
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Answer c) 98 Cities. Of the total 98 cities, 13 were selected from Uttar Pradesh, 12 from Tamil Nadu, 10 from Maharashtra, 7 from Madhya Pradesh, 3 each from Bihar and Andhra Pradesh.
22. Sanjay Kapoor, the Chairman of ________ has stepped down recently.
a) Samsung
b) Airtel
c) Micormax
d) Snapdeal
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Answer c) Micormax.
23. The International Day against Nuclear Tests in observed on
a) August 28
b) August 29
c) August 30
d) August 31
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Answer b) August 29. Theme – “Towards Zero: Resolving the Contradictions”.
