Current Affairs Quiz - August, 2021

1. In which state / union territory, Karaikal Port is located?
[A] Tamil Nadu
[B] Puducherry
[C] Kerala
[D] Karnataka

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2. Who has been elected as the leader of a Palestinian Islamist group ‘Hamas’ in August, 2021?
[A] Mahmoud al- Mabhouh
[B] Khaled Meshaal
[C] Ismail Haniyeh
[D] Mahmoud Abbas

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3. In which state, “Ek Mask-Anek Zindagi” public awareness campaign has been started in August, 2021?
[A] Haryana
[B] Bihar
[C] Madhya Pradesh
[D] Odisha

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4. Isuru Udana, a sportsperson who retired recently, belongs to which country?
[A] Sri Lanka
[B] West Indies
[C] India
[D] South Africa

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5. Who holds the world record in the women’s 400-metre hurdles?
[A] Femke Bol
[B] Dalilah Muhammad
[C] Sydney McLaughlin
[D] Allyson Felix

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6. Which organization has undertaken the installation of Agro-Automatic Weather Stations?
[A] Indian Meteorological Department
[B] Indian Council of Agricultural Research
[C] Ministry of Earth Sciences
[D] Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology

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7. Who is current (August, 2021) Union Minister of Law & Justice?
[A] Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
[B] Kiren Rijiju
[C] Piyush Goyal
[D] Dr. Virendra Kumar

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8. With which international agency, Government of India has signed a $250 million project for long-term dam safety program?
[A] Asian Development Banks
[B] European Central Bank
[C] International Monetary Fund
[D] World Bank

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9. Which Indian state government will present its first ever paperless budget on 13th August?
[A] Uttar Pradesh
[B] Kerala
[C] Tamil Nadu
[D] West Bengal

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10. Which state’s Animal Birth Control (ABC) Centre has become operational again?
[A] West Bengal
[B] Telangana
[C] Tamil Nadu
[D] Maharashtra

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