Current Affairs 8th August 2022 : Daily GK Update in English

1. ‘Yudh Abhyas’ is a military exercise held between India and which country?
A. Japan                
B. USA
C. Australia         
D. France
Answer [B] Australia  
2. Which organisation test-fired indigenously developed laser-guided ATGMs?
A. HAL                
B. DRDO
C. BEL                
D. BHEL
Answer [B] DRDO
3. What is the name of the satellite developed by 750 girls across 75 rural schools to be launched by ISRO?
A. BharatSAT             
B. AzaadiSAT
C. GramSAT                 
D. CommuniSAT
Answer [B] AzaadiSAT
4. What is the repo rate after the August 2022 Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) Meeting?
A. 5.0%                
B. 5.2%
C. 5.4%                
D. 5.75%
Answer [C] 5.4%     
5. Which country conducted its largest-ever military exercises around Taiwan?
A. USA            
B. China
C. Israel         
D. Russia
Answer [B] China
6. Union Government has approved a ……….. extension in service for Union cabinet secretary Rajiv Gauba in August 2022.
A. One year                 
B. Two year    
C. Three year              
D. Five year    
Answer [A] One year    
7. Which of the following wrestler player has NOT won the Gold Medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Birmingham?
A. Bajrang Punia                   
B. Sakshi Malik
C. Deepak Punia                    
D. Anshu Malik
Answer [D] Anshu Malik
8. In which state/UT, Indian Army has organised the first ever Machhal Women’s Cricket League in August 2022?
A. Himachal Pradesh                  
B. Nagaland
C. Jammu and Kashmir              
D. Chandigarh
Answer [C] Jammu and Kashmir             
9. Which company has signed an MOU with the Gujarat govt to set up an IT-enabled Services (ITes) Park in Vadodara in August 2022?
A. Aditya Birla Group                      
B. Reliance Industries Ltd.
C. Larsen & Turbo (L&T) Ltd          
D. None of these
Answer [C] Larsen & Turbo (L&T) Ltd         
10. Which bank has become India’s first bank to list its Payment Gateway Platform on the TIN 2.0 Platform of the Income Tax Department in August 2022?
A. PNB                    
B. Axis Bank
C. ICICI Bank          
D. Federal Bank
Answer [D] Federal Bank
11. Sangeet Natak Akademi Awardee and Renowned Sattriya dancer …….. passed away on 5 July 2022.
A. Anjana Moyee Saikia               
B. Ruparani Das
C. Ranjumoni                                  
D. Garima Hazarika
Answer [D] Garima Hazarika
12. Who has been appointed as the managing director and chief executive officer of Unity Small Finance Bank in August 2022?
A. Inderjit Camorta                    
B. Leena Nair
C. Arvind Krishna                       
D. Sanjay Mehrotra
Answer [A] Inderjit Camorta    
13. Who has become the first Indian athlete to win two medals at the World U20 Athletics Championship 2022?
A. Priya Mohan          
B. Rupal Chaudhary
C. Hima Das                 
D. Dutee Chand
Answer [B] Rupal Chaudhary
14. Who has won a silver medal in the Women’s Freestyle 57kg category final at the Commonwealth Games 2022?
A. Anshu Malik                         
B. Odunayo Folasade Adekuoroye
C. Irene Symeonidis                
D. Sakshi Malik
Answer [A] Anshu Malik        
15. ISRO’s Space Applications Centre (SAC) has signed an MOU with the ……… on data sharing and cooperation in August 2022.
A. Indian Air Force          
B. Indian Navy
C. Indian Army                 
D. Indian Coast Guard
Answer [B] Indian Navy
16. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change announced that India added 10 more wetlands as Ramsar sites. At present how many Ramsar sites are in India (as of 5th Aug’22)?
A. 64           
B. 49
C. 62           
D. 74
Answer [A] 64
17. Which company recently signed an MOU with the Bangladesh Roads and Highways department for the emergency supply of petroleum goods?
A. Indian Oil Corporation Limited          
B. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
C. Bharat Petroleum Limited                  
D. Oil India Limited
Answer [A] Indian Oil Corporation Limited      
18. The Data Protection Bill,2021, has been withdrawn from the Lok Sabha by Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw after 4 years of deliberations. The bill was 1st proposed in 2017 and drafted by a committee under the chairperson of whom?
A. Rajendra Mal Lodha               
B. BN Srikrishna
C. P. Sathasivam                          
D. K.G. Balakrishnan
Answer [B] BN Srikrishna
19. The World’s largest floating solar plant is set to be built on Omkareshwar Dam in Narmada River at ………
A. Jodhpur, Rajasthan                          
B. Khandwa, MP
C. Ramagundam, Telangana              
D. Patan, Gujarat
Answer [B] Khandwa, MP
10. Which bank recently partnered with Yubi for co-leading with the Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs)?
A. Karnataka Bank                   
B. Axis Bank
C. ICICI Bank                             
D. Federal Bank
Answer [A] Karnataka Bank