Current Affairs Quiz - May, 2020

11. As per the recent judgement of the Supreme Court, which category of banks may also be included under SARFAESI Act?

[A] Regional Rural Banks
[B] Cooperative Banks
[C] Small Finance Banks
[D] Local Area Banks

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12. What is the name of the application launched by the AYUSH Ministry as a part of the launch of clinical research on Ayurveda interventions?

[A] AYUSH Raksha
[B] AYUSH Sanjivani
[C] AYUSH Suraksha
[D] AYUSH Shakti

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13. Which chess player won the recently held $250,000 online chess tournament, considered to be the richest so far?

[A] Hikaru Nakamura
[B] Viswanathan Anand
[C] Magnus Carlsen
[D] Alireza Firouzja

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14. Jharkhand banned the manufacture, sale and storage of 11 brands of pan masala for a year, to curb which harmful chemical present in them?
[A] Magnesium carbonate
[B] Magnesium chloride
[C] Magnesium oxide
[D] Sodium carbonate

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15. The Union Defence Ministry has signed a contract with which power firm of India for infrastructure modernisation of airfields?

[A] PowerGrid corporation
[B] Tata Power
[C] JSW Energy
[D] Adani Power

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16. The provisions of which act is relaxed by the states to increase the working hours of labourers?

[A] Companies Act
[B] Factories Act
[C] Epidemic Diseases Act
[D] Trade Unions Act

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17. Where is the headquarters of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) located?

[A] Paris
[B] Madrid
[C] New York
[D] Geneva

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18. What is ‘HR 6819’, that has been discovered by the European Southern Observatory (ESO)?

[A] Galaxy
[B] Black hole
[C] Star
[D] Exo-planet

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19. As per the new guidelines issued regarding the Aarogya Setu app, what is the maximum number of days the data can be stored?

[A] 120
[B] 150
[C] 180
[D] 200

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20. Which Indian sportsperson is set to take charge as the President of the Paralympic Committee of India?

[A] Devendra Jhajharia
[B] Deepa Malik
[C] Mariyappan Thangavelu
[D] Varun Singh Bhati

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