Current Affairs Quiz - April, 2020

41. Who is the head of the recently reconstituted National Shipping Board?

[A] Malini Shankar
[B] Abdulgani Serang
[C] Amar Singh Thakur
[D] Anil Devli

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42. Which UN agency released a report, which says that the repayments of developing countries on their public external debt will create a great economic stress

[A] UNIDO
[B] UNCTAD
[C] IMF
[D] ILO

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43. Which country has named its Mars exploration mission, proposed to be launched this year, as ‘Tianwen-1’?

[A] South Korea
[B] China
[C] Israel
[D] Japan

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44. Which is the first academic institute to get ICMR approval for a real-time diagnostic test?
[A] Indian Institute of Science
[B] IIT Delhi
[C] All India Institute of Medical Science
[D] IIT Ropar

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45. Who has been appointed as the Central Vigilance Commissioner of India?

[A] Nripendra Mishra
[B] Sanjay Kothari
[C] P K Mishra
[D] Y V Reddy

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46. Which country abolished the prevalent corporal punishment of flogging (beating with whips)?
[A] Oman
[B] Saudi Arabia
[C] Iran
[D] Kuwait

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47. ‘From the Great Lockdown to the Great Meltdown’ is the report released by which global organisation?

[A] World Bank
[B] International Monetary Fund
[C] World Economic Forum
[D] United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

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48. Which state promulgated an ordinance to make blocking burial or cremation of victims of notified disease, a criminal offence?

[A] Kerala
[B] Tamil Nadu
[C] Karnataka
[D] Punjab

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49. As per the annual report of SIPRI, which country is the highest military spender in the world?

[A] China
[B] India
[C] United States
[D] Russia

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50. Where is the headquarters of Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) located?

[A] United Kingdom
[B] United States
[C] France
[D] Germany

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