11. Daniele De Rossi, who announced his retirement recently, is a world-cup winning footballer of which country?
[A] Brazil
[B] Italy
[C] Germany
[D] France
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Correct Answer: B [Italy]
Notes:
The ace footballer of the Italy team, Daniele De Rossi recently announced his retirement from professional football. He was associated with the Roma football club and played Serie A league matches for nearly 18 years.
Daniele represented Italy in the 2004 Olympics and he was also a part of the FIFA world cup winning Italy team in 2006. The fourth highest capped player of Italy, retired from the national team in 2017. Recently, he was playing for Argentina’s Boca Juniors club.
12. Which Indian cricketer is selected for the ‘C K Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award’ of BCCI?
[A] Kapil Dev
[B] K Srikkanth
[C] Sunil Gavaskar
[D] Dilip Vengsarkar
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Correct Answer: B [K Srikkanth]
Notes:
Former Indian Cricketer Krishnamachari Srikkanth is selected for the prestigious ‘C K Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award’, presented by the National Cricket Board of India, BCCI. The famous cricketer from Tamil Nadu represented India from 1981 to 1992.
The other cricketer who is also to be presented with the award is Anjum Chopra, former Captain of Indian women’s cricket team. The awards will be presented at the BCCI Annual awards function, to be held in Mumbai, on January 12, 2020.
13. Recently, Supreme Court of India has asked the centre to consider deployment of which force to guard various courts of India?
[A] Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)
[B] Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)
[C] National Security Guard (NSG)
[D] Indian Army
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Correct Answer: B [ Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) ]
Notes:
Supreme Court recently asked the Centre to consider the deployment of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) to guard the various courts in India — taking over the job of securing the courts from the local police forces.
14. For how many times, India has emerged as winner in the Malaysia Masters badminton tournament since it began in 2009?
[A] One
[B] Two
[C] Three
[D] Four
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Correct Answer: C [ Three ]
Notes:
India has emerged winner in the Malaysia Masters badminton tournament for three times since it began in 2009. P.V. Sindhu won it in 2013 and 2016, and Saina Nehwal in 2017. This year, B. Sai Praneeth has been already knocked out.
15. Recently, the Government of India has issued revised guidelines for mutual legal assistance in criminal matters with other nations. At present (January, 2020) India has Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties with how many countries?
[A] 32
[B] 40
[C] 42
[D] 48
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Correct Answer: C [ 42 ]
Notes:
India has Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties with 42 countries and is signatory to various International Conventions for cooperation in criminal matters. The Home Ministry is the designated central authority for this. The recently revised guidelines have incorporated various legal and technological developments in recent years and aim to make documentation more compliant with international requirements. The revised guidelines provide step-by-step guidance to the investigation agencies for drafting and processing letters rogatory or mutual legal assistance requests and service of summons, notices and other judicial documents. The guidelines have taken into account the concerns raised by various courts for prompt and timely responses in service of documents to person residing abroad. These revised guidelines have provision for service of documents to authorities of foreign country preferably within ten days of receipt of request in respect of offences committed against women and children.
16. Which state has recently launched the scheme called ‘Amma vodi’, to provide a financial assistance to mothers of school-going children?
[A] Tamil Nadu
[B] Andhra Pradesh
[C] Karnataka
[D] Kerala
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Correct Answer: B [Andhra Pradesh]
Notes:
The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Y S R Jagan Mohan Reddy recently launched a welfare scheme called ‘Amma vodi’. Under the scheme, financial assistance of Rs.15000 to mothers/ guardians of school going children to educate them.
The Chief Minister released Rs.6318 Crores for the scheme, which is to benefit 82 lakh children of the state. Recently the state government announced that English will be the medium of instruction of government schools for class 1 to class 6.
17. DRDO’s Naval variant of Light Combat Aircraft made its first successful landing on which aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy?
[A] INS Vikramaditya
[B] INS Vikrant
[C] INS Viraat
[D] INS Vishal
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Correct Answer: A [INS Vikramaditya]
Notes:
After completion of extensive trials on the Shore Based Test Facility, the naval variant of indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) made its first successful landing on the aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya. The Light Combat aircraft is developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation, DRDO.
INS Vikramaditya was formally inducted into the Indian Navy on June 2014. It is a flagship air-craft carrier of the Indian Navy. Prior to this commission, it served with the Russian Navy.
18. An international Film Festival with the theme of ‘Better Film, Better Audience and Better Society’, was recently inaugurated in which city?
[A] Tokyo
[B] Dubai
[C] Dhaka
[D] Colombo
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Correct Answer: C [Dhaka]
Notes:
The 18th edition of the famous Dhaka International Film Festival was recently inaugurated at Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. The festival will be organised from January 11 to 19, 2020 with the theme of ‘Better Film, Better Audience and Better Society’.
During the eight-day-long festival, which is to be held at various venues in Dhaka, more than 200 films from 74 countries are to be screened. A conference on the theme of ‘Women in cinema’ will also be conducted during the film festival.
19. The Australian Government recently announced that which animal could be declared as an endangered species?
[A] Kangaroo
[B] Koala
Koala
Koala
[C] Emu
[D] Lyrebird
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Correct Answer: B [Koala
Koala
Koala]
Notes:
The Australian Government recently announced that it could place ‘Koala’ in the endangered species category. This announcement is made after the devastating bush fires witnessed by Australia, which killed nearly 25 people and nearly 1.25 billion animals.
Koalas of northern New South Wales and south-east Queensland are being observed by the Scientific committee. Another species called ‘Wallaby’ is also greatly affected. Recently the Government committed an emergency wild life recovery fund worth 50 million Australian Dollars.
20. Tsai Ing-wen was recently re-elected as the President of which country?
[A] Vietnam
[B] Taiwan
[C] Thailand
[D] North Korea
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Correct Answer: B [Taiwan]
Notes:
In the recently held presidential election of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen was re-elected as the country’s President. With more than 57% of the votes, Tsai won her second presidential term. Her victory in the election has gained significance as she vowed to protect the sovereignty of Taiwan amidst of the threats posed by China.
China has announced that Taiwan must be united with China at any cost and it would use power if necessary. There were several protests across the country against China’s Authoritarian behaviour.