Current Affairs Quiz - February, 2021

31. Which Indian bowler becomes the second highest wicket-taker in tests played in India?
[A] Bhuvaneshwar Kumar
[B] Jusprit Bumrah
[C] Ravichandran Ashwin
[D] Munaf Patel

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32. India is to provide over Rs 89 million to which country, for restoration and conservation of cultural heritage sites?
[A] Sri Lanka
[B] Nepal
[C] Bangladesh
[D] Myanmar

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33. Finance Ministry is to infuse a capital of ……………… into the three state-owned general insurance companies.
[A] Rs 1000 crore
[B] Rs 2000 crore
[C] Rs 3000 crore
[D] Rs 5000 crore

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34. Which Indian state/UT has launched the ‘Maa’ scheme, to provide meal at Rs 5 to the poor people?
[A] Tamil Nadu
[B] West Bengal
[C] Odisha
[D] Madhya Pradesh

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35. ‘Abhyudaya’ scheme, which was making news recently, is the initiative of which state?
[A] Madhya Pradesh
[B] Uttar Pradesh
[C] Gujarat
[D] Odisha

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36. Who is the head of the committee formed by the RBI to study the consolidation of urban cooperative banks?
[A] Michael D Patra
[B] N S Vishvanathan
[C] B P Kanungo
[D] Usha Thorat

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37. Which institution is to provide Rs 100 crore to Gurgaon-based hospital chain Medanta, to fight Covid-19 pandemic?
[A] AIIB
[B] ADB
[C] World Bank
[D] IMF

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38. Which institution releases the data on the credit and deposit measures of banks in India?
[A] Finance Ministry
[B] Reserve Bank of India
[C] NITI Aayog
[D] Asian Development Bank

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39. Who has been awarded with the Sanctuary Nature Foundation’s “Sanctuary Lifetime Service Award 2020”?
[A] Greta Thunberg
[B] Vandana Shiva
[C] Theodore Baskaran
[D] Sunita Narain

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40. ‘Heritage corridor project’, which was making news recently, is associated with which state?
[A] Rajasthan
[B] Maharashtra
[C] Uttar Pradesh
[D] Odisha

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