16th February 2020 Current Affairs

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Q1. India celebrates ___________ birthday as National Women’s Day every year on February 13.
(a) Jijabai Shahaji Bhosale
(b) Indira Gandhi
(c) Aruna Asaf Ali
(d) Sarojini Naidu

Q2. What is the name of Nobel Prize awardee and former chairman and Director-General of The Energy Resources Institute (TERI) who has passed away recently?
(a) Kalidas Karmakar
(b) N. Venkatachala
(c) K B Siddaiah
(d) Rajindra Kumar Pachauri

Q3. Name the Novartis CEO, who recently won Genome Valley Excellence Award announced by BioAsia 2020.
(a) S.D. Mohile
(b) Vasant Narsimhan
(c) Sukumar Shankar
(d) B.R. Reddy

Q4. Which of the following country central bank recently gives license to General Insurance Corporation of India for reinsurance business?
(a) Japan
(b) USA
(c) Russia
(d) China

Q5. Which of the following State/UT’s will host inaugural Khelo India winter games 2020?
(a) Uttarakhand
(b) Ladakh
(c) Himachal Pradesh
(d) Delhi

Q6. Name the Veteran space scientist of ISRO, who has been appointed as chairman of New Space India Ltd (NSIL) recently.
(a) K. Radhakrishnan
(b) G Narayanan
(c) P. Radhakrishnan
(d) K Kasturirangan

Q7. Who has been appointed as new chairman and Managing Director of national carrier Air India?
(a) Anil Kumar Sondhi
(b) Amod Sharma
(c) Rajiv Bansal
(d) Ashwani Lohani

Q8. Who among the following appointed as Secretary of Consumer Affairs?
(a) Satyajit Tripathy
(b) Pawan Kumar Agarwal
(c) Madhulika Bhaskar
(d) Shashikant More

Q9. Who has been appointed as the new Secretary of Youth Affairs?
(a) Uttam Kumar Sharma
(b) Usha Sharma
(c) Manisha.P.G
(d) Blessy Sequeira

Q10. Where is the headquarters of General Insurance Corporation of India?
(a) Bengaluru
(b) Kolkata
(c) Chennai
(d) Mumbai

Q11. Who has been appointed as the new Secretary of Fisheries?
(a) Rajni Sekhri Sibal
(b) Rajiv Ranjan
(c) Dakshita Das
(d) Reena Bhatnagar

Q12. Name the Indian feminist scholar, who recently won the prestigious Dan David Prize 2020 under “present” category.
(a) Savitribai Phule
(b) Gita Sen
(c) Tarabai Shinde
(d) Vina Mazumdar

Q13. Who among the following is the present Chairman and MD of General Insurance Corporation of India?
(a) G. B. Pande
(b) Devesh Srivastava
(c) A. K. Das
(d) V. Ramasamy

Q14. Who among the following American immunologist and oncologist won the Genome Valley Excellence Award recenlty announced by BioAsia 2020?
(a) Carl H June
(b) Wendy L. Havran
(c) Jeremy M. Boss
(d) Jenny P. Ting

Q15. The Ghaziabad police launched ______________under which the identity of all auto-rickshaw drivers will be verified and a unique four-digit number will be allotted to them.
(a) Operation Pakkad
(b) Operation Auto-rickshaw
(c) Operation Nakail
(d) Operation Security