1. Who has recently been appointed as CBI joint director?
(A) Pravin Madhukar Pawar
(B) Praveen Sood
(C) Mayank Agarwal
(D) Ravi Sinha
(E) Subodh Kumar Jaiswal
Solution: Option A.)
Ans (A)
Senior IPS officer Pravin Madhukar Pawar has been appointed the joint director in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for five years.
Pawar is a 2003 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Karnataka cadre.
2. Which country has become the new member of the International Solar Alliance?
(A) Canada
(B) Kenya
(C) South Africa
(D) Chile
(E) Taiwan
Solution: Option D.)
Ans (D)
South American country Chile has become the 95th member of the International Solar Alliance.
ISA is an alliance of more than 120 signatory countries.
The International Solar Alliance was established as a joint effort of India and France.
Currently, 116 countries are signatories to the ISA Framework Agreement.
3. Which West Indies player has recently announced his retirement from international cricket?
(A) Shai Hope
(B) Nicholas Pooran
(C) Sunil Narine
(D) Jason Holder
(E) Andre Russell
Solution: Option C.)
Ans (C)
West Indies spinner Sunil Narine has announced his retirement from international cricket.
35-year-old Narine has played 6 Tests, 65 ODIs, and 51 T20 matches.
Sunil Narine has taken 165 international wickets for West Indies.
Narine last played for the West Indies in 2019.
Narine said that he will continue to play franchise-based league.
4. Which team won the title of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy?
(A) Hyderabad
(B) Bihar
(C) Punjab
(D) Baroda
(E) Mumbai
Solution: Option C.)
Ans (C)
Punjab cricket team has won the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy title for the first time by defeating the Baroda team.
Anmolpreet Singh performed brilliantly for Punjab.
Anmolpreet Singh has become the first cricketer to score a century in the final of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy is a domestic T-20 cricket championship in India, which BCCI organizes.
5. Who has become the first cricketer in the world cricket history to be timed out?
(A) David Warner
(B) Angelo Mathews
(C) Shakib Al Hasan
(D) Babar Azam
(E) Mohammad Rizwan
Solution: Option B.)
Ans (B)
Sri Lankan middle-order batsman Angelo Mathews has become the first cricketer in the world to be timed out in the history of international cricket.
He was given time out against Bangladesh in the ODI World Cup 2023.
In the rules, ‘time out’ is also considered a type of out.
According to ICC 40.1.1, the batsman has to come to play the next ball within 3 minutes after the fall of the wicket. It is noteworthy that in this World Cup this time has been fixed at 2 minutes.
6. Where is the second ‘World Local Production Forum’ being organised?
(A) London
(B) Hague
(C) New York
(D) New Delhi
(E) Dubai
Solution: Option B.)
Ans (B)
Recently, the Indian delegation led by the Union Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilizers is participating in the 2nd “World Local Production Forum” in The Hague. This is an initiative of the World Health Organization.
The first World Local Production Forum was organized in the year 2021.
It is being organized from 6th to 8th of this month.
7. With whom has APEDA signed an agreement to promote the export of Indian agricultural products?
(A) Porter
(B) Walmart
(C) Flipkart
(D) Amazon
(E) Lulu Hypermarket
Solution: Option E.)
Ans (E)
Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) has signed an MoU with Lulu Hypermarket to promote the export of Indian agricultural products.
APEDA’s prescribed products will be added to the Lulu Hyper Market retail chain.
APEDA is an Indian apex export trade promotion active government body. It was established in 1986.
8. Who inaugurated the ‘Children’s Science Festival’?
(A) Dr Jitendra Singh
(B) Amit Shah
(C) Rajnath Singh
(D) Anurag Thakur
(E) Narendra Modi
Solution: Option A.)
Ans (A)
Union Minister of State for Science and Technology, Dr. Jitendra Singh inaugurated the Children Science Festival.
Dr Jitendra Singh also visited the stalls in the exhibition organized on this occasion.
It was organized by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Indian Institute of Combined Medicine.
9. Who has won the Brazilian Grand Prix 2023?
(A) Max Verstappen
(B) Lewis Hamilton
(C) Sergio Pérez
(D) Charles Leclerc
(E) Fernando Alonso
Solution: Option A.)
Ans (A)
Three-time champion Max Verstappen has won the Brazilian Grand Prix 2023.
The race was held at the Interlagos Circuit in São Paulo.
Max Verstappen representing Red Bull Racing.
Jehan Daruvala is the first Indian to win a Grand Prix in motorsport at the 2017 New Zealand Grand Prix.
Narain Karthikeyan was the first ever Formula One car racer from India.
Rajani Krishnan is an Indian motorcycle racer who became the first Indian winner of an international road racing event.
10. The Indian Institute of Technology Madras has set up an international campus in which country?
(A) Kenya
(B) Tanzania
(C) Uganda
(D) Ethiopia
(E) Namibia
Solution: Option B.)
Ans (B)
IIT Madras has become the first Indian Institute of Technology to establish an international campus on the picturesque Zanzibar Island in East Africa.
In July 2023, an MoU was signed between IIT Madras and Tanzania.
Founded in 1959 with technical and financial assistance from the former government of West Germany, IIT Madras was the third Indian Institute of Technology established by the Government of India.