Awards, Honours & Persons in News Current Affairs MCQs

51. Which municipal corporation won the 4th Gender Equality Mobilisation (GEM) Award?
[A] Chennai Municipal Corporation
[B] Guntur Municipal Corporation
[C] Lucknow Municipal Corporation
[D] Pune Municipal Corporation

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52. Raghu Rai, who recently passed away, was associated with which field?
[A] Literature
[B] Photography
[C] Sports
[D] Politics

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53. Who has won the 2026 Whitley Award for protecting the endangered Indian skimmer?
[A] Kanchan Sinha
[B] Parveen Shaikh
[C] Sheetal Devi
[D] Aakrati Bhandari

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54. Which Indian journalists won the Pulitzer Prize 2026 in the Illustrated Reporting and Commentary category?
[A] Anand RK and Suparna Sharma
[B] Ravish Kumar and Arnab Goswami
[C] Shekhar Gupta and Barkha Dutt
[D] Nidhi Razdan and Sankarshan Thakur

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55. Who has been appointed as the Chairman of Prasar Bharati?
[A] Shekhar Kapur
[B] Prasoon Joshi
[C] Vikas Kumar
[D] Neelesh Ranjan

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56. Which Indian has been named the South Asia regional winner of the Cambridge Dedicated Teacher Awards 2026?
[A] Roshni Sharma
[B] Soma Mandal
[C] Meera Nair
[D] Anjali Verma

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57. Who has been appointed as the new Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) in May 2026?
[A] NS Raja Subramani
[B] Anil Chauhan
[C] Manoj Pande
[D] Upendra Dwivedi

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58. The National Florence Nightingale Award is instituted by which ministry?
[A] Ministry of Women and Child Development
[B] Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
[C] Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
[D] Ministry of Labour and Employment

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59. Which honour was recently conferred on Prime Minister Narendra Modi by Norway?
[A] Order of St. Andrew
[B] Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit
[C] Royal Order of the Polar Star
[D] Legion of Honour

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60. Which book won the 2026 International Booker Prize?
[A] Taiwan Travelogue
[B] The Things We Never Say
[C] Not a River
[D] A Little Life

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