1. Recently which diplomat
has been appointed by the Government of India as its permanent representative
in the United Nations?
a. TS Tirumurthy
b. Rahul Sachdeva
c. Nirmal Tyagi
d. Mohan Lal
ANSWER: a. TS
Tirumurthy
Permanent Mission is the diplomatic mission in
which each member state of the United Nations appoints its permanent
representative to the United Nations. This permanent representative is
also called the ‘Ambassador of the United Nations’. At present, eight
Indians are appointed to the senior positions of Under Secretary General and
Assistant Secretary General in the United Nations. He is a 1985 batch
Indian Foreign Service officer. TS Tirumurthy has been appointed in place
of Syed Akbaruddin. Currently, he is working as a secretary in the
Ministry of External Affairs.
2. Recently, which
awareness campaign has been called by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers
Welfare through which awareness campaign for integrated soil nutrient
management?
a. Mission Soil
b. Mission Nutrition
c. Mission Mode
d. Mission welfare
ANSWER: c. Mission
Mode The
Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare has
called for launching awareness campaign in mission mode for increasing use of
bio and organic fertilizers and least use of chemical fertilizers. The
guidelines issued for the mission will be determined based on the
recommendations of the soil health card. During the year 2020-21, the main
focus of this program will be on sensitizing farmers of more than 1 lakh villages
covering all the districts of the country.
3. According to the ‘Lost
at Home’ report recently published by which organization, about 33 million
people have been internally displaced in the year 2019?
a. International Labor Organization
b. United Nations Children’s Fund
c. Food and Agriculture Organization
d. world Bank
ANSWER: b. According
to the
‘Lost at Home’ report published by the United
Nations Children’s Fund, about 33 million people have been displaced internally
in the year 2019. There were 12 million children displaced. Of these,
about 3 million children were displaced due to conflict and violence while 2
million were seen due to natural disasters. According to the report, in
the year 2019, more than 5 million people have been internally displaced due to
natural disasters, conflict and violence in India. In the year 2019, India
has had the largest displacement internally. India is followed by
Philippines, Bangladesh and China respectively.
4. Recently American
magazine Forbes has released Forbes India Billionaires List 2020. Who is
first on this list?
a. Cyrus Poonawala
b. Gautam Adani
c. Sunil Mittal
d. Mukesh Ambani
ANSWER: .d. Mukesh
Ambani has
retained the first position in this list with
Reliance India Chairman Mukesh Ambani with assets of $ 36.8 billion and he is
currently the richest person in India. Although Mukesh Ambani’s total
wealth has decreased by $ 13.2 billion compared to the previous year, but still
he remains in the first place. At the same time, despite the decline in
the stock market, Indian businessman Radhakishan Damani has become the second
richest person in India with assets of $ 13.8 billion.
5. The United Nations
Environment Program (UNEP) has extended the term of which actress as National
Goodwill Ambassador by two years?
a. Dia Mirza
b. Shraddha Kapoor
c. Parineeti Chopra
d. Taapsee Pannu
ANSWER: a.
The term of Bollywood actress-producer Dia
Mirza, the goodwill ambassador of Dia
Mirza United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), has been
extended. Dia Mirza will now hold this position till the end of
2022. Dia Mirza is also the special envoy of the United Nations to achieve
the Sustainable Development Goal. He says that increasing the tenure is
like getting an opportunity to work towards changing things for the environment.
