TALENT HUNT ANSWERS 12/03/2020

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1. Recently which Indian badminton player has won the first BBC India ‘Sports Woman of the Year’ award?
a. PV Indus
b. Rituparna Das
c. Lalita Dahiya
d. Jwala Gutta

ANSWER: a. PV Sindhu
Indian badminton player PV Sindhu has been voted BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year 2019 through voting. PV Sindhu won the badminton world championship in Switzerland last year. She became the first Indian woman player to do so. PV Sindhu has five medals in the World Championship. She is also the first player to win a silver medal in badminton in the Olympics. She has been in the top 10 players continuously for the last four years.

2. Which state government has demanded ‘pilot development projects’ from the central government to prevent migration of population from the areas bordering the international border to urban centers?
a. Bihar
b. Arunachal Pradesh
c. Jharkhand
d. Punjab

ANSWER: b. Arunachal Pradesh
Government of Arunachal Pradesh has recommended the selection of 10 census cities as pilot projects for the development of infrastructure along the India-China border. The state of Arunachal Pradesh in India shares a border of 1,080 km with China, 440 km with Myanmar and 160 km with Bhutan. The state government has also proposed a special package of Rs 4.60 crore to the Union Home Ministry for the development of infrastructure in the border areas.

3. In which of the following cities ‘Women Entrepreneurs Empowerment Conference-2020’ was organized by the Union Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises?
a. Jaipur
b. Hyderabad
c. New Delhi
d. Lucknow

ANSWER: c. New Delhi
The theme of this conference is ‘Creating an Empowering Friendly Business Ecosystem for Empowering Women Entrepreneurs’. The three-day conference has been organized in collaboration with various industry associations like MSME Ministry, Fikit-Flow, CII and India SME Forum. More than 6000 women have been trained for manufacturing and packaging incense sticks by the MSME Ministry. During the last 5 years, a total of 3.13 lakh women were benefited under various schemes run by the MSME Ministry.

4. Ashraf Ghani was recently sworn in as the President of which country?
a. Iran
b. Iraq
c. Bhutan
d. Afghanistan

ANSWER: d. Afghanistan
President Ashraf Ghani recently took the oath of office for a second term. The counting of votes for the presidential election held in September 2019 was completed in February. In this count, the Election Commission had also announced the victory of Ashraf Ghani. Ashraf Ghani has got 50.64 percent votes in the election. While his rival Abdullah Abdullah received 39.52 percent of the votes.

5. Recently which Indian woman player became the only Indian to make a place in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup XI?
a. Poonam Yadav
b. Memorize
c. Harmanpreet Kaur
d. Jhulan Goswami

ANSWER: a. Poonam Yadav
Poonam played a total of 10 wickets in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, playing five matches, in which 4 wickets for 19 runs was her best performance. Apart from Poonam Yadav, young Indian star Shefali Verma has got a place in this team as the 12th player. The top 5 players of the Australian team that won the World Cup after defeating India in the final are in the ICC team. Australia defeated India by 85 runs in the final and won this title for the 5th time.