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1. Life Insurance Corporation of India announced the launch of the PMVVY Scheme for those over and above 60 years. What will be interest rate in PMVVY account?

6.40% per annum
7.40% per annum
8.40% per annum
9.40% per annum

2. Who wrote the song titled 'Jayatu Jayatu Bharatam - Vasudev Kutumbakkam' to increase the nation's will power and evoke the spirit of self-reliance in COVID-19 pandemic?

Amitabh Bhattacharya
Gulzar
Javed Akhtar
Prasoon Joshi

3. Which Institute has found an innovative route to fabricate precisely controlled nanostructure of the required geometry and location on two dimensional materials using one-step low power laser writing process?

International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials
Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali
Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences
The Agharkar Research Institute, Pune

4. ICMR has approved a total of how many laboratories across India to conduct the tests for COVID-19?

324 laboratories
424 laboratories
524 laboratoriesn
624 laboratories

5. ICAR-National Rice Research Institute has identified a region in the genome of a rice, which seems to have the potential for improving productivity. Where is ICAR-NRRI located?

Almora
Bengaluru
Cuttack
Hyderabad

6. Who inaugurated first of it's kind Infectious Disease Block facility at Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences at Soura in Srinagar, J&K.?

Baseer Ahmad Khan
Farooq Abdullah
Ghulam Ahmad Mir
Girish Chandra Murmu

7. Shyamala G. Bhave, who passed away at the age of 79 on May 23, 2020, in Bengaluru, Karnataka was a famous?

Actor
Classical musician
Painter
Politician

8. Sports Authority of India has deposited how much Rs. each to 2,749 Khelo India athletes as out of pocket allowance amid the COVID-19 lockdown?

Rs.10,000
Rs.20,000
Rs.30,000
Rs.35,000

9. Which state government started the preliminary works on implementing the Solar Fence Farmland Protection Programme, under the Central Agriculture Improvement Scheme to protect agricultural lands of the districts?

Andhra Pradesh
Karnataka
Kerala
Tamil Nadu

10. The European Union Commission has proposed a how much recovery fund "European breakthrough" to help the bloc's economy through the deep recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic?

$325 billion
$525 billion
$825 billion
$925 billion

11. What is the name of voicebot launched by Tata Capital, Private Non-Banking Financial Company , for its customers looking for a new loan or getting queries resolved etc?

BIA
KIA
TIA
VIA

12. The proto-type test samples of Personal protective equipment Coveralls in India are tested by how many laboratories as per the technical specifications prescribed by the Ministry of Health?

4 laboratories
6 laboratories
9 laboratories
12 laboratories

13. According to the State Bank of India's Ecowrap report India's GDP is estimated to grow at what percent in the last quarter of FY20?

1.2%
1.8%
2.8%
3.2%

14. Who won the New York Intellectual Property Law Association 2020 Inventor of the Year Award?

Madhuri Kanitkar
Dr. Madhu Sudan
Dr. Rajiv Joshi
Shiva Ayyadurai

15. Which of the following startups has developed world's 1st contactless Visitor Management Software that checks body temperature, scans faces with mask compliance & monitors social distancing on the premise?

AS Technolutions Pvt Ltd
Benevo
Purple Squirrel
VAMS Global

16. Who has been selected for the prestigious United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award-2019?

Madhuri Kanitkar
Mitali Madhumita
Priya Jhingan
Suman Gawani

17. Uttarakhand Chief Minister presented the surplus annual budget of Rs 53,526.97 crore for FY20-21. Who is the CM of Uttarakhand?

Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri
Harish Rawat
Trivendra Singh Rawat
Vijay Bahuguna

18. Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling announced that she is to release which book very soon?

Fantastic Beasts 3
Harry Potter 9
Ice and Fire
The Ickabog

19. Which University jointly with the University of Connecticut in the US have discovered two bacterial secreted proteins that can effectively inactivate a series of viruses, including the novel coronavirus, dengue, and the HIV?

Peking University, China
The Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tsinghua University, China
Zhejiang University, China

20. In a big boost to "Char Dham" project to connect holy towns of Gangotri, Kedarnath, Yamunotri and Badrinath, the BRO has constructed a 440-meter-long tunnel in which town in Uttarakhand?

Almora town
Chamba town
Dehradun town
Pithoragarh town

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