Q. Who was Dr Bibek Debroy, who died recently?

Answer: Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister.

Q. When did the government of India set up the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime
Minister?
Answer: 2017

Q. When was the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog was set up by
the government of India?
Answer: 1 Janauary 2015

Q. When was Dr Bibek Debroy awarded Padma Shri?

Answer: 2015

Q. Who has been appointed as the new Defence Secretary for the government of India?
Answer: Rajesh Kumar Singh

Q. India conducts Garud Shakti military exercise with which country’s Army?

Answer: Indonesian Army. The 9th edition of the exercise will be held in Indonesia from 1 to
12 November 2024.

Q.India conducts the Garuda exercise with which country’s armed force?
Answer: French Air Force. From India, the Indian Air Force participates.

Q. Which regiment of the Indian Army is participating in the 9th edition of the
Garud Shakti military exercise?

Answer: The Indian Army’s elite Parachute Regiment (Special Force)

Q. Samudra Shakti naval exercise is conducted by the Indian Navy with which country's
Navy?
Answer: Indonesian Navy. It started in 2018, and the 4th edition was held in Indonesia from
14 to 19 May 2023.

Q. The IND-INDO CORPAT exercise is conducted by the Indian Navy with which country’s
Navy?
Answer: with the Indonesian Navy since 2002.. India-Indonesia Coordinated Patrol (IND-
INDO CORPAT)

Q. According to the International Monetary Fund, India is likely to become the 4th largest
economy in the world by -?
Answer: 2025-26

Q. According to the International Monetary Fund, India will likely become the world’s 4th
largest economy by overtaking which country?
Answer: Japan. It will be the fourth largest after the United States of America, China and
Germany.

Q. Duma Boko, elected as the sixth President of Botswana, belongs to which political
party?
Answer: Umbrella for Democratic Change

Q. What is the term of the President of Botswana?

Answer: Five years and a person can be Presdient for only two terms.

Q. Which country is the second largest producer of diamonds in the world?

Answer: Botswana. Russia is the largest producer

Q. Which country has the largest population of elephants in the world?

Answer: Botswana

Q. What is the capital of Botswana?

Answer: Gaborone

Q. What is the currency of Botswana?

Answer: Pula

Q. What is the name of the Parliament of Botswana?

Answer: The National Assembly and its members are elected for five years.

Q. Who is the youngest-rated FIDE Chess player in the world?

Answer: Anish Sarkar of Kolkata. He got a FIDE rating at the age of three years, eight
months, and 19 days.

Q. FIDE is the world governing body of which sports?

Answer: Chess. FIDE is the French acronym of the International Chess Federation.

Q. Which Indian men’s doubles tennis player won the 2024 Seoul Open Challenger
tournament?
Answer: Saketh Myneni and Ramkumar Ramanathan defeated Vasil Kirkov of the USA and
Bart Stevens of the Netherlands in the final of the Seoul Open.

Q. Karan Singh won the doubles title of the Brazzaville Challenger 2024 tennis
tournament in partnership with which player?
Answer: Florent Brax of France. It was the first ATP Challenger title for Karan Singh.

Q. What is the capital of the Republic of Congo?

Answer: Brazzaville. The Republic of Congo is different from the Democratic Republic of
Congo, whose capital is Kinshasa.

Q. Who has won the World Boxing Federation’s super featherweight world title 2024?
Answer: Mandeep Jangra defeated British boxer Conor McIntosh to win the title. The match
was held in the Cayman Islands.

Q. Where was the 4th World Youth Soft Tennis Championship 2024 held?

Answer: Jingshan, China, from 1-6 November 2024.

Q. Who is Tanushree Pandey, who was in the news recently?

Answer: She won a silver medal in the women’s under 21 event at the 4th World Youth Soft
Tennis Championship 2024.

Q. Wriddhiman Saha, who announced his retirement from all forms of cricket, played for
which state in the Ranji Trophy?

Answer: West Bengal

Q. Where was the seventh session of the International Solar Alliance Assembly held?
Answer: New Delhi from 3-6 November 2024

Q. Who inaugurated the seventh session of the International Solar Alliance Assembly?
Answer: Prahlad Joshi, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy

Q. Which country has been elected as the President of the International Solar Alliance
Assembly for the 2024-26 period?
Answer: India
Q. Which country has been elected as the Co-President of the International Solar Alliance
for 2024-26?
Answer: France

Q. Who has been chosen as the third Director General of the International Solar Alliance?
Answer: Ashish Khanna of India for four years, 2024-28.

Q. Where is the headquarters of the International Solar Alliance?

Answer: Gurugram, Haryana

Q. Who was the 103rd country to join the International Solar Alliance?

Answer: Syria in 2022.

Q. Harmeet Desai, who was in the news recently, belongs to which sport?
Answer: Indian Table tennis player.

Q. Who has won the men’s singles title at the World Table Tennis (WTT) Feeder Caracas
2024 tournament?

Answer: Harmeet Desai of India defeated Joe Seyfried of France in the final.
Q. Krittwika Roy won the mixed doubles title of the WTT Feeder Caracas 2024 title in
partnership with whom?
Answer: Harmeet Desai of India

Q. Who has won the PSA Costa North Coast Open 2024 women’s singles title?

Answer: Anahat Singh of India

Q. Anahat Singh belongs to which sport?

Answer: Indian women's squash player.
Q. Where was the first Asian Buddhist Summit held?
Answer: New Delhi on 5 and 6 November 2024.

Q. Who has organised the first Asian Buddhist Summit?

Answer: Union Ministry of Culture in association with the International Buddhist
Confederation

Q.What was the theme of the first Asian Buddhist Summit?

Answer: Role of Buddha Dhamma in Strengthening Asia

Q. Where is the headquarters of the International Buddhist Confederation?

Answer: New Delhi

Q. Who was the chief guest of the first Asian Buddhist Summit?
Answer: President Droupadi Murmu

Q. Where was the 5th edition of the India-Vietnam bilateral military exercise Vinbax 2024
held?
Answer: Ambala and Chandimandir in Haryana from 4-23 November 2024.

Q. When was the first India-Vietnam bilateral military exercise Vinbax held?
Answer: 2018 in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh

Q. India has gifted an indigenously built missile corvette, INS Kirpan to which country?
Answer: Vietnam

Q. Where is the headquarters of the Western Command of the Indian Army?

Answer: Chandimandir, Haryana

Q. Who is famous as Bihar Kokila?

Answer: Sharda Sinha, a popular folk singer of Bihar who, died recently.

Q. Multiple Myeloma disease affect which part of the human body?

Answer: It is a type of rare blood cancer which affects the bone marrow.

Q. Which god and goddess is worshipped in the Chhath Puja?

Answer: Sun God and his sister Chhathi Maiya (Mother Shashti).

Q. When was Padma Bhushan conferred on Sharda Sinha?

Answer: 2018

Q. What is the name of the indigenously designed and manufactured machine pistol that
was recently inducted into the Indian Army?

Answer: Asmi.

Q. Which company has manufactured the indigenously designed and developed Asmi
machine pistols?
Answer: Hyderabad-based Lokesh Machine Limited company.

Q. Who designed the indigenously developed Asmi machine pistol?

Answer: Indian Army’s Colonel Prasad Bansod with the Defence Research and Development
Organisation (DRDO).

Q. Where is the headquarters of the Northern Command of the Indian Army?

Answer: Udhampur, Jammu and Kashmir.
Q. Which scheme has been launched by the government of India to provide loans to
meritorious students to pursue higher education in India?
Answer: PM Vidyalaxmi Scheme

Q. Which ministry of the government of India will manage the PM Vidyalaxmi portal?

Answer: Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education.

Q.How much interest subvention will be provided for loans up to Rs 10 lakhs under the
PM Vidyalaxmi scheme to eligible students?
Answer: 3 per cent.

Q. How much amount has been allocated by the government of India for the interest
subvention under the PM Vidyalaxmi scheme for the 2024-25 to -2030-31 period?

Answer: Rs 3600 crore.

Q. What is the name of the Indian Navy’s initiative to promote friendly ties with the
Navies/ Maritime agencies of the littoral countries of the Indian Ocean?
Answer: MAHASAGAR

Q. When was the first edition of the MAHASAGAR organised by the Indian Navy?

Answer: 29 November 2023. The Indian Navy holds it virtually twice a year.

Q. How many countries Navy/Maritime agencies head participated in the third edition of
the MAHASAGAR?
Answer: 10 countries - Bangladesh, Comoros, Kenya, Madagascar, Maldives, Mauritius,
Mozambique, Seychelles, Sri Lanka and Tanzania

Q. What was the theme of the third edition of the MAHASAGAR?

Answer: Training Cooperation to Mitigate Common Maritime Security Challenges in
IOR(Indian Ocean Region).”

Q. Who chaired the 3rd edition of the MAHASAGAR, hosted by the Indian Navy in
November 2024?
Answer: Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi

Q. Who has been elected as the 47th President of the United States of America?

Answer: Donald Trump of the Republican Party for the second time. He defeated Vice-
President Kamala Harris of the Democratic Party. Trump was the 45th President of the
United States from 2017-2021.

Q. What is the term of the President /Vice-President of the United States?

Answer: Four Years.

Q. Who is the only person to be the president of the United States for four terms?

Answer: Franklin Roosevelt from 1933-45. Now, a person can be president for only two
terms.

Q4 Which country’s constitution provides that a person born in the country and its citizen
can become the president of the country?
Answer: United States of America

Q. Who has been elected as the Vice-President of the United States?

Answer: James David Vance

Q. What is the symbol of the Democratic party of the United States of America?
Answer: Donkey
Q. Which party in the United States of America is also known as the Grand Old Party of
the country?
Answer: The Republican party and its symbol is the Elephant.

Q. Which ministry of the government of india has launched TULIP e-marketplaces for the
artisans of the marginalised communities?
Answer: Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment:

Q. What is the full form of TULIP recently launched by the Union Ministry of Social Justice
and Empowerment?
Answer: Traditional Artisans' Upliftment Livelihood Programme

Q. Who inaugurated the Shilp Samagam Mela 2024?

Answer: Dr Virendra Kuma, Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment,

Q. Where was the Shilp Samagam Mela 2024 held?

Answer: New Delhi from 5-15 November 2024

Q. Where was the second Indian Military Heritage Festival 2024 held?
Answer: New Delhi

Q. Who inaugurated the second Indian Military Heritage Festival 2024?

Answer: General Anil Chauhan, Chief of Defence Staff

Q. Who organises the Indian Military Heritage Festival?

Answer: United Service Institution of India (USI). New Delhi
Q. Who has launched Project Shaurya Gatha to highlight the glorious tradition and
heritage of the Indian military?
Answer: United Service Institution of India, in collaboration with the Department of Military
Affairs, Union Ministry of Defence

Q. Which state hosted the 3rd AUSTRAHIND joint military exercise?

Answer: Foreign Training Node, Pune, Maharashtra from 8-21 November.

Q. What is the code name of the annual military exercise conducted between the Indian
Army and the Royal Australian Army?
Answer: AUSTRAHIND. It was started in 2022 and is held alternatively in India and Australia.

Q. What is the code name of the bilateral maritime military exercise held between the
Indian Navy and the Royal Australian Navy?
Answer: AUSINDEX

Q. How much loan has been provided by the Asian Development Bank for the Livability
Improvement Project of Uttrakhand?

Answer: $200 million

Q. The recently sanctioned ADB loan will finance projects in which cites of Uttrakhand
under its Livability Improvement Project?
Answer: Haridwar,Champawat, Kichha, Kotdwar, and Vikasnagar

Q. What is the total cost of the Uttrakhand Livability Improvement Project?

Answer: $465.9 million. The state government will provide $74.9 million, the European
Investment Bank $191 million, and the ADB $200 million.

Q.Where is the headquarters of the Asian Development Bank?

Answer: Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines

Q. In which case did the Supreme Court hold that Aligarh Muslim University was not a
minority educational institution?
Answer: Azeez Basha vs Union Of India 1967

Q. In which case the Allahabad High Court declared that Aligarh Muslim University was
not a minority educational institution?

Answer: Malay Shukla Vs Aligarh Muslim University Case 2006,

Q. Under which article of the constitution can a minority in India set up and administer
their educational institutions?
AnswerL: Article 30

Q. The constitution of India defines a minority on what basis?

Answer: Under Article 30, a minority has been defined on the basis of religion and language.

Q. Who releases the World Intellectual Property Indicators Report 2024?

Answer: World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)

Q. What was the rank of India in the filing of patents in the world in 2023, according to
the
World Intellectual Property Indicators Report 2024?
Answer: Sixth rank in the world after China, the United States, Japan, South Korea, Germany
and India.

Q. Where is the headquarters of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)?

Answer: Geneva, Switzerland
Q. When was the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) set up?
Answer: 1967

Q. Who is the Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)?

Answer: Daren Tang

Q. What is the name of the joint military exercise of the Indian Army, Navy, and Air Force
being conducted along the Indian-China border in Eastern India in November 2024?
Answer: Poorvi Prahar

Q. Which wing of the Indian armed forces operates the P8I Poseidon long-range patrol and
reconnaissance aircraft?
Answer: Indian Navy

Q. India has bought M777 Ultra-Light Howitzer artillery from which country?
Answer: United States of America

Q. Who has won the FIH Male Player of the Year Award 2024?

Answer: Harmanpreet Singh of India

Q. Who has won the FIH Male Goalkeeper of the Year Award 2024?
Answer: PR Sreejesh of India

Q. Where was the annual FIH Hockey Star Award 2024 ceremony held?
Answer: Muscat, Oman, on 8 November 2024

Q. How many times has the Indian men’s hockey team captain Harmapreet singh won the
FIH Male Player of the Year Award?
Answer: Three times. 2021.2022 and 2024.

Q. Which Indian institution has been ranked the best by the recently released QS World
University Rankings: Asia (2025)?
Answer: Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi ranked 44th in Asia
Q. How many Indian educational institutions have been included in the top 50 by the
recently released QS World University Rankings: Asia (2025)?
Answer: IIT-Delhi is at 44th rank, and IIT-Bombay is at 48th rank.

Q. Which University has been ranked the best by the recently released QS World
University Rankings: Asia (2025)?
Answer: Peking University of China.

Q. How many educational institutions in India were ranked in the recently released QS
World University Rankings: Asia (2025)?
Answer: 162, the highest among all the countries.

Q. How many countries' educational institutions were ranked in the recently released QS
World University Rankings: Asia (2025)?
Answer: 25 countries in South Asia, Eastern Asia, and South-East Asia.

Q. Where was the 83rd session of the Indian Road Congress held?
Answer: Raipur, Chhattisgarh from 8-11 November 2024.

Q. Who inaugurated the 83rd session of the Indian Road Congress?

Answer: Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways

Q.Where was the third Summit of the European Political Community held?

Answer: Budapest, Hungary, on 7 November 2024.

Q. Where was the International Conference in Support of Lebanon’s People and
Sovereignty held?
Answer: Paris, France, on 24 October 2024.

Q. Who won the 2024 WTA Finals Singles title?

Answer: Coco Gauff of the US won the title by defeating Zheng Qinwen of China.

Q.Who won the 2024 WTA Finals doubles title?

Answer: Gabriela Dabrowaski (Canada) and Erin Routfliffe (New Zealand) defeated the duo
of Katerina Siniakova (Czech Republic)and Taylor Townsend(United States) to win the titles.

Q. Where were the 2024 WTA Finals held?

Answer: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from 2-9 November 2024

Q.How many players participate in the WTA Finals?

Answer: Eight top-ranked women singles and doubles players.

Q. Which trophy is given to the winner of the WTA Finals singles title?
Answer: Billie Jean King Trophy

Q. Who has been sworn in as the 51st Chief Justice of India?

Answer: Justice Sanjiv Khanna. He succeeded CJI D Y Chandrachud.

Q. What is the retirement age of the Chief Justice of India?

Answer: 65 years, all the judges of the Supreme Court retire at 65 years.

Q. Who appoints the Chief Justice of India?

Answer: The President of India, on the advice of the Prime Minister

Q. Who was the longest-serving Chief Justice of India?

Answer: Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud for over 7 years (February 1978 – July 1985).

Q. Who has won the women's singles title of the 2024 NSW Open Squash Tournament?
Answer: Anahat Singh of India

Q. Where was the 2024 NSW Open Squash Tournament held?

Answer: Sydney, Australia, from 6-10 November 2024

Q. Who has been appointed as Neeraj Chopra's new coach?

Answer: Three-time Olympic gold medal winner Jan Zelezny of the Czech Republic

Q. Who has been confirmed as the women's No.1 tennis player for 2024?
Answer: Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus

Q. Who has been confirmed as the men’s No.1 tennis player for 2024?
Answer: Jannik Sinner of Italy

Q. Where was the 8th International Ancient Arts Festival and Symposium held?
Answer: New Delhi from November 8 to 10, 2024.

Q. Who organised the 8th International Ancient Arts Festival and Symposium?

Answer: Indira Gandhi National Center for Arts (IGNCA), Union Ministry of Culture, in
association with Rays of Wisdom Society
Q. Yamini Reddy is a renowned exponent of which classical dance form of India?
Answer: Kuchipudi dance form associated with Andhra Pradesh

Q. Which is the only tribal dance recognised as a classical dance form by the government
of india?
Answer: Chhau, associated with the tribals of Jharkhand and West Bengal

Q. Dr Reela Hota is a renowned exponent of which classical dance form of India?

Answer: Odissi, which originated in Odisha.

Q. Who is Penny Wong who was in the news recently?

Answer: Foreign Minister of Australia

Q. Where was the ‘2nd Raisina Down Under’ dialogue held?

Answer: Canberra, Capital of Australia on 5 November 2024

Q. Who is Winston Peters, who recently met the External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar?
Answer: New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister.

Q. Where was the 6th Session of the India-Zambia Joint Permanent Commission meeting
held recently?
Answer: Lusaka, capital of Zambia

Q. Which country was also earlier known as Northern Rhodesia?

Answer: Zambia
Q. Who is Maris Sangiampongsa, who visited India recently?
Answer: Foreign minister of Thailand.
Q. Where was the 8th Roundtable of ASEAN – India Network of Think Tanks held?
Answer: Singapore on 8 November, attended by External Affairs Minister Dr Jaishankar

Q. In November 2024, India agreed to provide assistance of 2500 metric tonnes of maize
to which country?
Answer: Zambia.

Q. What is Antariksha Abhyas 2024?

Answer: The first space exercise to deal with threats to Indian space assets, held from 11-13
November 2024.

Q. Who inaugurated the Antariksha Abhyas 2024?

Answer: General Anil Chauhan, Chief of Defence Staff

Q. Who organised the Antariksha Abhyas 2024?

Answer: Defence Space Agency of the Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff

Q. When was the Defence Space Agency set up in India?

Answer: 2019

Q. Which committee recommended setting up an Aerospace Command in India to

safeguard Indian space assets?
Answer: The Naresh Chandra committee (2011) was set up by the government of India to
review the recommendation of the Kargil Committee

Q. What is the mission Shakti of the Defence Research and Development Organisation?

Answer: To develop an anti-satellite weapon system.

Q. Who has won the 2024 IBSF Men’s World Billiards Championship?
Answer: Pankaj Advani for the seventh consecutive time.

Q. Who has won the 2024 IBSF Men’s World Snooker Championship?

Answer: Muhammad Asif of Pakistan

Q. Which player has won the IBSF Men’s World Snooker Championship for a record three
times?
Answer: Pankaj Advani of India and Muhammad Asif of Pakistan

Q. Where was the 2024 IBSF World Billiards and Snooker Championship held?

Answer: Doha, Qatar

Q. Where is the headquarters of the International Billiards and Snooker Federation?

Answer: Doha, Qatar.

Q. Which is the world governing body of non-professional billiards and snooker?

Answer: International Billiards and Snooker Federation

Q. The government of India has extended the term of the Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri
till –?
Answer: 14 July 2026. He was to retire on 30 November 2024
Q. President Droupadi Murmu appointed who as the Executive Chairman of the National
Legal Service Authority in November 2024?

Answer: Supreme Court Judge Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai

Q. The National Legal Service Authority has been established in india under which Act?
Answer: Legal Services Authorities Act 1987.
Q. Who is the ex-officio Patron in Chief of the National Legal Service Authority?
Answer: Chief Justice of India.

Q. Which country hosted the joint Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and Arab
League summit meeting?

Answer: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 11 November 2024.

Q. Who is Mohammed bin Salman, who was in the news recently?

Answer: Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia

Q. In which country is the headquarters of the Arab League?

Answer: Cairo, Egypt

Q. In which country is the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) headquarters?

Answer: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Q. Where was the 25th Meeting of the South Asian Telecommunication Regulators'
Council held?
Answer: New Delhi from 11-13 November 2024

Q. Who inaugurated the 25th Meeting of the South Asian Telecommunication Regulators'
Council?
Answer: Union Minister for Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia

Q. Who organised the 25th Meeting of the South Asian Telecommunication Regulators'
Council?
Answer: Organised by Asia Pacific Telecommunity and hosted by the Telecom Regulatory
Authority of India (TRAI).
Q. How many countries telecom regulatory bodies participated in the 25th Meeting of the
South Asian Telecommunication Regulators' Council?
Answer: Nine countries: Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Maldives, Pakistan,
Iran, and Sri Lanka.

Q. Where is the headquarters of the Asia Pacific Telecommunity?

Answer: Bangkok, Thailand

Q. Who is Dennis Dennis Manturov, who visited India recently?

Answer: Russian First Deputy Prime Minister
Q. Where was the India-Russia Business Forum Meeting held in November 2024?
Answer: Mumbai, on 11 November 2024. Dr S Jaishankar and Russian First Deputy Prime
Minister Dennis Manturov co-chaired it.

Q. Who were the organiser of the India-Russia Business Forum meeting in November
2024?

Answer: The Ministry of External Affairs, in partnership with the Federation of Indian
Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).

Q. Which city hosted the 25th Session of the India-Russia Inter-Governmental

Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Cooperation
(IRIGC-TEC)?

Answer: New Delhi on 12 November 2024.

Q. Which country is Russia's second-largest trading partner?
Answer: India. China is Russia's largest trading partners.
Q. Which country is India's fourth largest trading partner in 2023-24?
Answer: Russia. The largest trading partner was China, followed by the US and the UAE.

Q. In November 2024, the central government approved the creation of an exclusive

women's battalion in which Central Armed Police Force?

Answer: Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)

Q. When was the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) founded?
Answer: 10 March 1969, 10 March is also the foundation day of the force
Q. Who is the current Director General of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)?
Answer: R S Bhatti
Q. Who leads the coastal defence Sea Vigil exercise in India?

Answer: The Indian Navy and other Agencies related to coastal security participate in it.
Q. When did the coastal defence exercise Sea Vigil start in India?
Answer: 2018.
Q. The coastal defence exercise Sea Vigil is held after how many years?
Answer: Every two years since 2018

Q. The India Navy conducts its Theatre Level Readiness Operational Exercise (TROPEX)
after how many years?

Answer: Every two years.

Q. Which team has won the 16th Senior Women T-20 Trophy 2024?
Answer: Mumbai. It defeated Bengal in the final
Q. Where was the final of the 16th Senior Women T-20 Trophy held?
Answer: Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

Q. How many teams participated in the 16th Senior Women T-20 Trophy 2024?
Answer: 37 Team
Q. Who was the player of the final of the 16th Senior Women T-20 Trophy 2024?
Answer: Jagravi Pawar of Mumbai
Q. Who was declared as the Player of the Series of the 16th Senior Women T-20 Trophy
2024?
Answer: Mumbai captain Humaira Kazi

Q.Which country has bought the surface to air the Akash missile system from India?
Answer: Armenia
Q. Which country bought the multi-barrel rocket launcher system, Pinaka, from India?
Answer: Armenia
Q. Which country is the largest importer of arms and ammunition from India?
Answer: The United States of America, followed by France
Q, Who manufactures the indigenously developed Akash Missile system?
Answer: Hyderabad-based Bharat Dynamics Limited

Q. What is the capital of Armenia?

Answer: Yerevan

Q. Which country will confer its highest civilian award, the ‘Award of Honour’, to
Narendra Modi?
Answer: Dominican Republic

Q. When did the government of India launch the Vaccine Maitri initiative to provide
COVID-19 vaccine to developing countries?

Answer: February 2021

Q. Where will the second CARICOM-India Summit meeting be held?

Answer: Georgetown, Guyana, in November 2024.

Q. The first foreign leader to receive the Bhutan’s Order of the Druk Gyalpo award
was -?
Answer: Narendra Modi

Q. Where was the second India -Saudi Arabia Political, Security, Social and Cultural
Committee held?

Answer: New Delhi on 13 November 2024

Q. Who is Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, who visited India recently?
Answer: Foreign minister of Saudi Arabia
Q. In which country is the world's largest sand area, Rub al-Khali, located?
Answer: Saudi Arabia

Q. Riyadh is the capital of which country?

Answer: Saudi Arabia

Q. Which country is considered the birthplace of Islam?

Answer: Saudi Arabia

Q. The Union Ministry Of Mines has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with which
agency for collaboration in critical minerals?
Answer: International Energy Agency

Q. Who was the chairman of the committee set up by the Union Ministry of Mines to
identify critical minerals in India?
Answer: Veena Kumari Dermal

Q. How many minerals have been identified as critical minerals by the government of
India?
Answer: 30 minerals

Q. In which city is the headquarters of the International Energy Agency located?

Answer: Paris, France

Q. Navin Ramgoolam, who has been appointed as the prime minister of Mauritius,
belongs to which party?
Answer: Labour Party. He leads a coalition called Alliance du Changement.
Q. What is the name of the Parliament of Mauritius?
Answer: National Assembly

Q. How many seats are there in the Mauritius parliament?

Answer: 70 seats, of which 62 are directly elected by the people.

Q. Which ocean does the island country of Mauritius lie in?

Answer: Indian Ocean

Q. Who is Prithvirajsing Roopun, who was in the news recently?

Answer: President of Mauritius

Q. In which city of Bihar is an integrated industrial cluster being set up along the Amritsar-
Kolkata industrial corridor project?
Answer: Gaya

Q. Which agency is responsible for implementing the ambitious National Industrial

Corridor Development Programme (NICDP)?
Answer: National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation

Q. How many industrial corridors are being developed in India under the National
Industrial Corridor Development Programme (NICDP)?
Answer: 11

Q. Which was the first Industrial Corridor developed under the National Industrial
Corridor Development Programme (NICDP)?
Answer: Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, approved in 2007
Q. Which book won the 2024 Booker Prize?
Answer: Orbital, by Samantha Harvey of Britain

Q. How many Indians have won the Booker Prize?

Answer: Three- Arundhati Roy in 1997 for The God of Small Things, Kiran Desai in 2006 for '
The Inheritance of Loss and Aravind Adiga in 2008 for The White Tiger..

Q. Booker Prize is related to which field?

Answer: Literature

Q. Where was the 2024 FISU World University Championship Shooting held?
Answer: New Delhi from 9-13 November 2024

Q. What was the mascot of the 2024 FISU World University Championship Shooting?
Answer: Trunky, an elephant

Q. Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, who was in the news recently, belongs to which sport?
Answer: Shooting

Q. Where is the headquarters of the International University Sports Federation (FISU)?

Answer: University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Q. How many medals were won by the Indian team in the 2024 FISU World University
Championship Shooting?
Answer: 24 medals - 9 gold, 9 silver and 6 bronze.
Q. Who won India's only individual gold medal at the 2024 FISU World University
Championship Shooting?
Answer: Bhavtegh Singh Gil in Men’s Skeet event

Q. Who is the only indian to be included in the first Fortune 100 Most Powerful Person in
Business List?
Answer: CMD of Reliance Industries Limited, Mukesh Ambani, ranked 12

Q. Who is the highest-ranked woman in the first Fortune 100 Most Powerful Person in
Business List?
Answer: Mary Barry.CEO and Chairman of General Motors,9th place.

Q. Who has been ranked as the most powerful business people in the world by the first
Fortune 100 Most Powerful Person in Business List?
Answer: Elon Musk, CEO and founder of Tesla and Space X.

Q. Fortune militmedia company, which publishes the 100 Most Powerful Person in
Business, is a company of which country?

Answer: United States of America

Q. Which state government has launched the ‘Come and Install Solar Power Projects’
initiative?
Answer: Himachal Pradesh government

Q. Himachal Pradesh Government has set a target to become a clean and green energy
state by –?

Answer: 31 March 2026.

Q. Which state has launched a scheme to offer Rs 20,000 per month to the farmers who
offer 3 bighas of land to the government for setting up solar power plants?
Answer: Himachal Pradesh
Q. Where is the international Renukaji Fair held?
Answer: Sirmaur district of Himachal Pradesh

Q. Himachal Pradesh's largest natural lake, Renuka Lake, is located in which district?
Answer: Sirmaur

Q. Which international Fair is held in Himachal Pradesh to mark trade with Tibet?
Answer: Lavi Fair held in Rampur, Shimla district

Q. Where did Prime Minister Narendra Modi attend the 4th Janjatiya Gaurav Divas 2024
event?
Answer: Jamui, Bihar

Q. When was the first Janjatiya Gaurav Divas observed in India?

Answer: 15 November 2021,

Q. Where did Prime Minister Narendra Modi release a commemorative coin and Stamp on
the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Bhagwan Birsa Munda?
Answer: Jamui, Bihar

Q. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated two tribal research institutes on the
occasion of the Gaurav Janjatiya Divas 2024?
Answer: Srinagar, Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir and Gangtok, Sikkim.

Q. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated two Tribal Freedom Fighters’ Museums on
the occasion of the Gaurav Janjatiya Divas 2024?
Answer: Chhindwara and Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh
Q. Which country has exported electricity to Bangladesh for the first time using
Indian electricity transmission lines?
Answer: Nepal

Q. Nepal exports electricity to which country?

Answer: India and Bangladesh

Q. Which transmission line of India was used by Nepal to export electricity to

Bangladesh?
Answer: 400KV Dhalkebar (Nepal)-Muzaffarpur (Bihar)

Q. How much electricity was exported by Nepal to Bangladesh through the Indian
Transmission line?
Answer: 40 MW

Q. Where was the first Bodoland Mahotsav held?

Answer: New Delhi on 15 &16 November 2024.

Q. Who inaugurated the first Bodoland Mahotsav?

Answer: Prime Minster Narendra Modi

Q. What was the theme of the first Bodoland Mahotsav?

Answer: Peace and Harmony for Prosperous Bharat."

Q. Bodos tribes are mainly found in which state of India?

Answer: Assam

Q. Against which team Ashul Kamboj took 10 wickets in an inning in a Ranji Trophy
match?
Answer: Kerala

Q. Where is the Chaudhary Bansi Lal Stadium?

Answer: Lahli, Haryana. Anshul Kamboj took 10 wickets in an innings against Kerala in
a Ranji
Trophy match played at this stadium.

Q. Who was the first Indian bowler to take 10 wickets in an innings in a first-class
match?
Answer: Subhash Gupte against Pakistan Services and Bahawalpur Cricket Club in
1954.

Q. How many India bowlers have taken 10 wickets in an inning in first-class and
test matches?
Answer: Six- Subhash Gupte, Premangsu Chatterjee, Pradeep Sunderam, Anil
Kumble and Debasishs Mohanty.

Q. Which county has agreed to provide its integrated antenna system ‘UNICORN, to
the Indian Naval Ships?
Answer: Japan

Q. Which Indian company will produce the integrated antenna system ‘UNICORN’
for the Indian Naval Ships?
Answer: Bharat Electronic Limited, with assistance from NEC Corporation of Japan
Q. Where is the headquarters of the Bharat Electronic Corporation?
Answer: Bengaluru, Karnataka

Q. Which former Indian sportsperson has been appointed as the sports

ambassador of the Dubai Sports Council?
Answer: Cricket player Harbhajan Singh and tennis player Sania Mirza. Other sports
ambassadors are Russian Khabib Nurmagomedov and French football player Patrice
Evra.

Q. Who is the only Indian women's tennis player to be ranked No.1 in the WTA
doubles rankings?
Answer: Sania Mirza

Q. Who has won the singles title of the 2024 ATP Finals ?
Answer: World No.1 Italian Jannik Sinner. He defeated American Taylor Fritz in the
finals.

Q. Where was the 2024 ATP Finals held?

Answer: Turin, Italy from 10-17 November 2024

Q. Who won the doubles titles of the 2024 ATP Finals?

Answer: Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz of Germany. They defeated Marcelo Arevalo
of El Salvador and /Mate Pavic of Croatia in the final.

Q. Who is the oldest player to play in the ATP Finals?

Answer: Rohan Boppanna of India at the age of 44 years. He played in the doubles
with Mathhew Ebden of Australia.

Q. How many player participate in the season ending ATP Finals?

Answer: Top 8 ranked singles and doubles players.

Q.Who is the second foreign dignitary to be honoured with the second highest
award -Grand Commander of the Order of Niger?
Answer: Narendra Modi. First was Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom in 1969.

Q. Where is Abuja City located, which was in the news recently?

Answer: Capital of Nigeria

Q. How many memorandums of understanding were signed between India and

Nigeria during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit in November 2024?
Answer: Three: Survey Cooperation, Cultural Exchange Programme and Customs
Cooperation.

Q. Who is Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who was in the news recently?

Answer: President of Nigeria

Q. Which country is India's largest trading partner in Africa?

Answer: Nigeria

Q. What is the currency of Nigeria?

Answer: Naira
Q. Which Tiger Reserve has been notified as the 56th Tiger Reserve of India?
Answer: Chhattisgarh’s Guru Ghasidas-Tamor Pingla Tiger Reserve (2024)

Q. How many Tiger Reserves are in Chhattisgarh?

Answer: Four: Udanti-Sitanadi, Achanakmar, Indravati, and Guru Ghasidas-Tamor
Pingla Tiger Reserve

Q. Which State has the largest Tiger Reserve area wise in India?
Answer: Andhra Pradesh’s Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve (3296.31 square
km) followed by the Manas Tiger Reserve in Assam (2837.10 square km), and Guru
Ghasidas-Tamor Pingla Tiger Reserve(2,829 square km)

Q. Who is the chairperson of the National Tiger Conservation Authority?

Answer: Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupendra
Yadav.

Q. What is a hypersonic missile?

Answer: Ballistic missile with a minimum speed of Mach 5 (about 6,200 kilometres
per hour)

Q. Which is the first country in the world to use the hypersonic missile?
Answer: Russia against Ukraine in 2022, hypersonic missile Kinzhal.

Q. What was the range of the recently tested hypersonic missile of the DRDO?
Answer: 1500 KM

Q. Where did the DRDO test India’s first hypersonic long-range missile?
Answer: Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha on November 16, 2024.

Q. Which country hosted the 31st Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
Economic Leaders Meeting?
Answer: Lima, Capital of Peru, on 15&16 November 2024.

Q. How many countries are members of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
(APEC)?
Answer: 21Peru, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Papua New Guinea, Canada,
Indonesia, Philippines, Chile, People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, China, Thailand,
Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea (South Korea), Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand,
Russia, Singapore, Chinese Taipei(Taiwan), and the United States of America.

Q. Which country will host the 2025 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
Economic Leaders Meeting?
Answer: South Korea

Q. In which country is the permanent secretariat/headquarters of the Asia Pacific

Economic Cooperation (APEC)?
Answer: Singapore
Q. Who is the President of Peru?
Answer: Dina Boluarte

Q. What does E stands for in APEC?

Answer: Economic

Q. Who has been appointed as the next Comptroller and Auditor General of India?
Answer: K. Sanjay Murthy
Q. What is the term of the Comptroller General of India?
Answer: 65 years or 6 years or whichever is earlier.

Q. Which article of the constitution provides for the Comptroller and Auditor
General?
Answer: Article 148

Q. Where was the 2024 Global Soils Conference held?

Answer: New Delhi

Q. Who organised the 2024 Global Soils Conference?

Answer: Indian Society of Soil Science, New Delhi, under the aegis of the
International Union of Soil Sciences, Italy, with the collaboration of the New Delhi-
based Indian Council of Agricultural Research and the National Academy of
Agricultural Science.

Q. What is the theme of the 2024 Global Soils Conference?

Answer: “Caring Soils Beyond Food Security: Climate Change Mitigation and
Ecosystem Services”

Q. Where is the headquarters of the International Union of Soil Sciences?

Answer: Rome, Italy

Q. On the occasion of 2024 World Toilet Day, which ministry of the government of
India has launched the Hamara Shauchalay: Hamara Samman campaign?
Answer: Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation( Union Ministry of Jal Shakti)
Q. When is the World Toilet Day observed?
Answer: 19 November

Q. What is the 2024 World Toilet Day theme?

Answer: ‘Sanitation for Peace’

Q. When did the government of India launch the Swachh Bharat Mission?
Answer: 2 October 2014

Q. Which is the nodal agency for implementing the Swachh Bharat Mission-
Grameen?
Answer:: Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation( Union Ministry of Jal Shakti)

Q. Which is the nodal agency for implementing the Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban?
Answer: Union Ministry for Housing and Urban Affairs

Q. Who organised the 2024 Sanyukt Vimochan Exercise exercise?

Answer: Konark Corps of Southern Command of the Indian Army on 18&19
November 2024

Q. How many countries participated in the 2024 Sanyukt Vimochan Exercise?

Answer: Nine: United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka,
Maldives,
Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam a
Q. Where was the 2024 Sanyukt Vimochan Exercise exercise held?
Answer: Ahmedabad and Porbandar coast, Gujarat.

Q. What was the theme of the 2024 Sanyukt Vimochan Exercise?

Answer: Cyclone in the Coastal Region of Gujarat.

Q. From where was the GSAT-20 or GSAT-N2 satellite of the New Space India
Limited
( NSIL) launched?
Answer: Cape Canaveral, Florida, the United States of India

Q. Which company owns the Falcon 9 space rocket through which NSIL’s GSAT-
20/GSAT-N2 satellite was recently launched?
Answer: Space X company of Elon Musk

Q. Which type of satellite is the recently launched GSAT-20/GSAT-N2?

Answer: Communication satellite

Q. Who has built the recently launched GSAT-20/GSAT-N2?

Answer: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for NSIL.

Q. What is the name of the marketing company of the Indian Space Research
Organisation?
Answer: New Space India Limited (NSIL) was established by the Indian government
on March 6, 2019.
Q. Which country hosted the 19th G20 Heads of State and Government Summit
meeting in 2024?
Answer: Brazil at Rio De Janeiro on 18&19 November 2024

Q. Who represented India at the 19th G20 Heads of State and Government Summit
meeting in 2024?
Answer: Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Q. Which country will host the 20th G20 Heads of State and Government Summit
Meeting 2025?
Answer: South Africa

Q. Where was the 2nd India -Australia Summit meeting held?

Answer: Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, on 19 November 2024, on the sidelines of the G20
Summit meeting.

Q. Who represented Australia at the 2nd India -Australia Summit meeting?

Answer: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Q. How many countries are the members of the G20?

Answer: 19 countries and two regional organisations - African Union and European
Union.
India, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, Canada, Italy, France, South Africa, Germany,
Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Türkiye, the United
Kingdom and the United States of America.

Q. India won the 8th Women’s Asian Champions Trophy by beating which team in
the final?
Answer: China

Q. Apart from India, which team has won the Women’s Asian Champions Trophy
three times?
Answer: South Korea. India won it in 2016,2023,2024

Q. Where was the 8th Women’s Asian Champions Trophy held?

Answer: Rajgir Hockey Stadium, Bihar, from 11-20 November 2024.

Q. Who was the captain of the Indian women's hockey team which won the 8th
Women’s Asian Champions Trophy?
Answer: Salima Tete

Q. Which country hosted the 2nd India-CARICOM Summit meeting?

Answer: Guyana is held in its capital, Georgetown. It is also the headquarters of
CARICOM.

Q. Who is Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali, who was in the news recently?

Answer: President of Guyana

Q. What is the name of the highest national award of Guyana, which was recently
conferred on Prime Minister Narendra Modi?
Answer: The Order of Excellence

Q. How many Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) were signed between India

and Guyana during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit in November 2024?
Answer: Ten

Q. Who co-hosted the 2nd India -CARICOM Summit Meeting?

Answer: Narendra Modi and Dickon Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada.

Q. Who is Sylvanie Burton, who was in the news recently?

Answer: The President of the Dominican Republic. She conferred the country’s
highest award, the Dominica Award of Honour’ on Narendra Modi.

Q. How many countries are the members of CARICOM?

Answer: 15 countries: Guyana, Dominica, Suriname, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados,
Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Jamaica,
Bahamas, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Haiti.

Q. What is the name of the Parliament of Guyana?

Answer: National Assembly. Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently addressed it.

Q. Which city in India hosted the Special Olympics Asia Pacific Bocce & Bowling
Competition 2024?
Answer: New Delhi at the Thyagaraj Sports Complex from 19-22 November 2024.

Q. Who inaugurated the Special Olympics Asia Pacific Bocce & Bowling Competition
2024?
Answer: Vice President of India Jagdeep Dhankhar

Q. Who orgainsed the Special Olympics Asia Pacific Bocce & Bowling Competition
2024?
Answer: Special Bharat Olympics and sponsored by Jindal Steel Company

Q. Where is the headquarters of the Special Bharat Olympics?

Answer: New Delhi

Q. How many countries' athletes with intellectual and developmental disabilities

participated in the Special Olympics Asia Pacific Bocce & Bowling Competition
2024?
Answer: 81 athletes from 12 Asia Pacific countries.

Q. Which country conferred an Honourary rank of General to the Indian Army chief,
General Upendra Dwivedi?
Answer: Nepal

Q. Who is Ramchandra Paudel, who was in the news recently?

Answer: The President of Nepal

Q. The Indian Army conducts Surya Kiran military exercises with which country’s
Army?
Answer: Nepal

Q. Where is the city of Kathmandu, which was in the news recently?

Answer: Capital of Nepal

Q. Where was the 11th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Plus meeting held?
Answer: Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) on 21 November 2024
Q. Which country hosted the 18th ASEAN Defence Ministers meeting?
Answer: Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) on 20 November 2024

Q. Who represented India at the 11th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Plus meeting in
2024?
Answer: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh

Q. How many countries are the members of the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Plus
Forum?
Answer: 18 countries: ASEAN countries—Lao PDR, Brunei, Thailand, Cambodia,
Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Philippines, and Vietnam. Dialogue
partners of ASEAN- India, Japan, South Korea, China, Russia, Australia, New Zealand,
and the United States.

Q. When was the first meeting of the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Plus Forum held?
Answer: 2010, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Q. Where was the 6th Annual Summit of the Leadership Group for Industry
Transition (LeadIT) held?
Answer: Baku, Azerbaijan, on the sidelines of the UN Climate Conference 2024

Q. Which country launched the Leadership Group for Industry Transition (LeadIT) in
2019?
Answer: India and Sweden, supported by the World Economic Forum

Q. Who from India co-chaired the 6th Annual Summit of the Leadership Group for
Industry Transition (LeadIT)?
Answer: Kirti Vardhan Singh, Union Minister of State for Environment, Forest and
Climate Change, and Ms Romina Pourmokhtari, Minister for Climate and
Environment, from Sweden.

Q. Who founded the World Economic Forum?

Answer: Professor Klaus Schwab of Germany.

Q. How many countries are members of the Leadership Group for Industry
Transition (LeadIT) group?
Answer: 41

Q. Who inaugurated the VISION( "Viksit Bharat Initiative for Student Innovation
and Outreach Network") Portal?
Answer: Dr Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State(Independent Charge) for Science
and Technology.

Q. The VISION( "Viksit Bharat Initiative for Student Innovation and Outreach
Network") Portal has been launched by which organisation/institution?
Answer: Gurugram, Haryana-based non-governmental organisation Utsav
Foundation

Q. When did the government of India launch the Startup India programme to
encourage start-up ecosystems in India?
Answer: 16 January 2016

Q. Which institution is the nodal body for implementing the Central Government's
Startup India programme?
Answer: DPIIT( Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade)
Q. On which day is World Fisheries Day observed?
Answer: 21 November

Q. What was the theme of the 2024 World Fisheries Day in India?
Answer: India’s Blue Transformation: Strengthening Small-Scale and Sustainable
Fisheries

Q. Which state was given the Best Marine State award at the 2024 World Fisheries
Day?
Answer: Kerala

Q. Which state was given the Best Himalayan and Northeastern State at the 2024
World Fisheries Day?
Answer: Uttarakhand

Q. Which Union Territory was given the Best Union Territory award at the 2024
World Fisheries Day?
Answer: Jammu and Kashmir

Q. Who has been appointed as the President of the Federation of Indian Chambers
of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) for 2024-25?
Answer: Harsha Vardhan, Managing Director and Vice Chairman of Emami Group

Q. Where is the headquarters of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce

and Industry (FICCI)?
Answer: New Delhi
Q. Who has been appointed as the new President of NASSCOM (National
Association of Software and Service Companies)?
Answer: Rajesh Nambiar

Q. Who is the President of the Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of

India (ASSOCHAM)?
Answer: Sanjay Nayar

Q. Who organised the High-Level Policy Conference of Central Banks from the
Global South in Mumbai?
Answer: The Reserve Bank of India, under its RBI@90 initiative.

Q. What was the theme of the High-Level Policy Conference of Central Banks from
the Global South?
Answer: Building Synergies across the central banking fraternity of the Global South.

Q. Who inaugurated the High-Level Policy Conference of Central Banks from the
Global South?
Answer: RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das

Q. How many countries participated in the high-level Policy Conference of Central

Banks from the Global South?
Answer: 18 countries

Q. How much loan amount has been sanctioned by the Asian Development Bank to
support the Assam Solar Project?
Answer: $434.25 million loan
Q. How much technical assistance grant has the Asian Development Bank provided
to the Assam government to support its Solar Power Project?
Answer: $1 million

Q. The Assam government has set a target to achieve a 3000 MW solar power
capacity by–?
Answer: 2030

Q. In which country is the headquarters of the Asian Development Bank situated?

Answer: Philippines city of Mandaluyong, Metro Manila,

Q. When was the Asian Development Bank established?

Answer: 1966

Q. What is the name of Prasar Bharati's OTT platform?

Answer: WAVES

Q. Who formally launched the WAVES OTT platform?

Answer: Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant in Panaji.

Q. Which ministry of the government of India has launched the Bhu-Neer Portal?
Answer: Union Ministry of Jal Shakti

Q. Who inaugurated the Bhu-Neer portal of the government of India?

Answer: Union Minister for Jal Shakti, C.R. Paatil.
Q. What is the name of the Portal launched by the government of India to provide
information on the status of groundwater in India?
Answer: Bhu-Neer

Q. Who has developed the Bhu Neer portal of the government of India?
Answer: Central Ground Water Authority, in collaboration with the National
Informatics Centre (NIC)

Q. India has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with which country to

settle cross border transactions in local currency?
Answer: Maldives

Q. Who is Dr Ahmed Munawar, who visited India recently?

Answer: Governor of the Maldives Monetary Authority
Q. What is the currency of the Maldives?
Answer: Maldivian Rufiyaa

Q. In November 2024, the election was held to constitute which legislative

assembly of Maharashtra?
Answer: 15th legislative assembly

Q. In November 2024, the election was held to constitute which legislative

assembly of Jharkhand?
Answer: 6th legislative assembly
Q. Which coalition of parties has been voted back to power in Maharashtra in the
legislative assembly election held in November 2024?
Answer: Mahayuti of BJP, Shiv Sena (EknathShinde), Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit
Pawar)

Q. In November 2024, elections were held for how many seats of the Maharashtra
legislative assembly?
Answer: 288 seats

Q.In November 2024, elections were held for how many seats of the Jharkhand
legislative assembly?
Answer: 81

Q. How many seats were won by the INDIA Alliance in the recently held Jharkhand
Legislative Assembly election in November 2024?
Answer: 56 seats.

Q. Who has won the 2024 Formula 1 title?

Answer: Max Vestappen for four consecutive times. He has won in 2021,2022,2023
and 2024

Q. Max Verstappen drives for which team in the 2024 Formula 1 2024 season?
Answer: Red Bull

Q. Who organises the Formula 1 motor car races?

Answer: Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA)
Q.Who has won the 2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix of the Formula 1 race?
Answer: George Russel of Mercedes

Q. Where was the ICA Global Cooperative Conference 2024 held?

Answer: New Delhi from 25-30 November 2024

Q.What was the theme of the 2024 ICA Global Cooperative Conference?
Answer: Cooperatives Build Prosperity for All.

Q. Who kickstarted the year-long United Nations International Year of

Cooperatives celebration in November 2024?
Answer: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 25 November at a conference in New
Delhi

Q.What is the theme of the 2024 United Nations International Year of

Cooperatives?
Answer: "Cooperatives Build a Better World."

Q. In which city is the headquarters of the International Cooperative Alliance?

Answer: Brussels, Belgium

Q. Which team has won the 2024 Davis Cup?

Answer: Italy won by defeating the Netherlands in the final.

Q. Which country has won the 2024 Billie Jean King Cup?
Answer: Italy won by defeating Slovakia in the finals.
Q. Which country hosted the 2024 Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup?
Answer: Spain, it was held in Malaga.

Q. Which sports are the Davis Cup and Billie Jean Cup related to?
Answer: Tennis team event. Davis Cup for men’s tennis and Billie Jean King for
women’s tennis.

Q. Which country/countries have won both the Davis Cup and the Billie Jean King
Cup in the same year?
Answer: Italy in 2024, The US in 1990, the Czech Republic (Czechia) in 2012 and
Russia in
2021.

Q. Which court has issued an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for their
role in Israeli military action in Gaza?
Answer: International Criminal Court

Q. Who is Mohammed Deif, against whom has the International Criminal Court
issued an arrest warrant on charges of crime against humanity?
Answer: leader of the military wing of Hamas, Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades.

Q. In which country is the headquarters of the International Criminal Court?

Answer: Hague, Netherlands

Q. How many countries are the members of the International Criminal Court?
Answer: 124 Countries

Q. Against whom the International Criminal Court can issue warrants for crimes
against humanity, war crimes, genocide and aggression?
Answer: Only against individuals and not against a country

Q. Which Indian city will hold the 2025 Army Parade?

Answer: Pune, Maharashtra

Q. Why is 15 January observed as Army Day?

Answer: on 15 January 1949, General K M Carriappa became the first Indian Army
Chief.

Q. Where was the 2024 annual Air Force Day held?

Answer: Marina Beach, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Q. Where was the 2024 Indian Navy Day held?

Answer: Blue Flag Beach Puri, Odisha

Q. The government of India has extended the duration of the Atal Innovation
Mission till –?
Answer: 31 March 2028

Q. Which institution implements the Atal Innovation Mission?

Answer: NITI (National Institution for Transforming India) Aayog.
Q. What is the total outlay for the Atal Innovation Mission 2.0?
Answer: Rs.2,750 crore.

Q. What are the three aims of the Atal Innovation Mission 2.0?
Answer: Increasing Input, Improving Success Rate or Throughput and Improving the
quality of output.

Q. Which city will host the 11th Men's Hockey Junior Asia Cup?
Answer: Muscat, Oman, from 27 November to 4 December 2024.

Q. Who is the captain of the Indian hockey team participating in the 11th Men's
Hockey Junior Asia Cup?
Answer: Amir Ali

Q. Which team has won the Men's Hockey Junior Asia Cup maximum time?
Answer: India four times in 2004, 2015, 2008 and 2023.

Q. Which team won the U-21 Sultan of Johor Cup hockey tournament?
Answer: Great Britain. India came third.

Q. How many teams are participating in the 11th Men's Hockey Junior Asia Cup?
Answer: Ten

Q. Players of which age can participate in the Men's Hockey Junior Asia Cup?
Answer: Under 21 years.
Q. Who has been elected as the new President of Uruguay?
Answer: Yamandu Orsi

Q. What is the term of the President of Uruguay?

Answer: Five Years

Q. What is the capital of Uruguay?

Answer: Montevideo

Q. Which is the second smallest country in South America after Suriname?

Answer: Uruguay. There are 12 countries in South America

Q. What is the currency of Uruguay?

Answer: Peso Uruguayo

Q. On which day is the Samvidhan Diwas observed in India?

Answer: 26 November, since 2015. On this day, the Indian constitution was adopted
by the Constituent Assembly of India.

Q. What is the name of the year-long campaign launched by the government of

India to mark 75 years since the adoption of the Indian constitution?
Answer: “Hamara Samvidhan, Hamara Swabhimaan

Q. Who presided over the function held in Samvidhan Sadan in New Delhi to
celebrate the 75th year of adopting the Indian constitution?
Answer: President Droupadi Murmu
Q. President Droupadi Murmu released the transition of the Indian constitution in
which languages on the occasion of the 2024 Samvidhan Diwas?
Answer: Sanskrit and Maithili

Q. Who was the chairman of the Translation Committee set up by the Constituent
Assembly of India to translate the Constitution into Hindi?
Answer: Ghansyam Das Gupta

Q. Which ministry of the government of India has launched the

#AbKoiBahanaNahi” campaign?
Answer: Union Ministry of Women and Child Development

Q. Which ministry of the government of India has launched the Nayi Chetna 3.0
campaign on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence
Against Women?
Answer: Union Ministry of Rural Development

Q. Which international organisation is supporting the government of India’s

#AbKoiBahanaNahi” and Nayi Chetna 3.0 campaign?
Answer: UN Women

Q. When is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
observed?
Answer: 25 November 2024

Q. What is the theme of the 2024 International Day for the Elimination of Violence
Against Women?
Answer: “Every 10 Minutes, a woman is killed. #NoExcuse. UNiTE to End Violence
Against Women

Q. Who launched the #AbKoiBahanaNahi” campaign of the government of India?

Answer: Union Minister of Women and Child Development Smt. Annpurna Devi.

Q. Who has won the 2024 Under-8 World Cadets Chess Championship title?
Answer: Eight-year-old Divith Reddy of Hyderabad, Telangana.

Q. Where was the FIDE World Cadet Championships 2024 held?

Answer: Montesilvano, Italy, from 14-27 November 2024.

Q. Where is the FIDE Men’s World Chess Championship 2024 being held?
Answer: Singapore from 27 November to 13 December 2024.

Q. Who is the only Indian chess player to win the FIDE Men’s World Chess
Championship?
Answer: Viswanathan Anand four times - 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2012.

Q. Which ministry of the government of India has launched the ‘Bal Vivah Mukt
Bharat’ campaign to eradicate child marriage in india?
Answer: Union Ministry of Union Minister for Women and Child Development.

Q. Where was the ‘Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat’ campaign launched by the government
of India?
Answer: New Delhi on 27 November 2024. It was launched by Smt: Annpurna Devi,
Union Minister for Women and Child Development.
Q. Which law prohibits Child Marriage in India?
Answer: Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2006

Q. What is the minimum age of marriage in India?

Answer: Male 21 years and female 18 years.

Q. The Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat campaign of the central government will focus on
how many districts of the country where the incidence of child marriage is high?
Answer: 130 districts across the country

Q. Where was the mega auction of the 2025 Indian Premier League season held?
Answer: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on 24&25 November 2024.

Q. Which player is the highest-paid in the history of the Indian Premier League?
Answer: Rishabh Pant bought for Rs 27 crore by the Lucknow Super Giants

Q. Who is the youngest cricket player to be bought in the history of the Indian
Premier League?
Answer: Vaibhav Suryavanshi of Bihar at 13 years and 243 days. Bought by Rajasthan
Royals for Rs 1.1 Crore.

Q. When was the Indian Premier League held outside India?

Answer: In 2009, in South Africa.

Q. Which scheme has been launched by the government of India to provide easy
access to scholarly journals to higher educational institutions in the country?
Answer: One Nation One Subscription Scheme

Q. From which date will the central government's recently approved One Nation
One Subscription Scheme be implemented?
Answer: January 2025. It will continue till 31 December 2027.

Q. What is the allocation for the central government's recently approved One
Nation One Subscription Scheme?
Answer: around Rs 6000 crore

Q. Which educational institutions are eligible for the One Nation One Subscription
Scheme?
Answer: All Higher Educational Institutions under the management of the Central or
State Government and Research & Development Institutions of the Central
Government.

Q. Which Indian organisation has been honoured with the 2024 OPCW The Hague
Award?
Answer: Indian Chemical Council

Q. Where was the 29th Session of the Conference of the States Parties of the
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons held?
Answer: Hague, Netherlands, from 25-29 November 2024.

Q. Which countries in the world have not signed the Chemical Weapons
Conventions and are not members of the Organisation for the Prohibition of
Chemical Weapons?
Answer: Angola, South Sudan, Egypt and North Korea. 193 has signed the
convention.
Q. Where is the headquarters of the Indian Chemical Council?
Answer: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Q. Who is the Director General of the Indian Chemical Council?
Answer: D. Sothi Selvam for 2024-25
Q. What is the score of India in the 2024 Network Readiness Index?
Answer: 53.63

Q. How much has India's rank improved in the recently released 2024 Network
Readiness Index compared to last year?
Answer: 11 rank. In 2023 India was ranked 60, and in 2024, it was ranked 49th.

Q. How many Economies(Countries) have been ranked in the 2024 Network

Readiness Index?
Answer: 133

Q. Who has published the 2024 Network Readiness Index?

Answer: United States-based Portulans Institute and the Saïd Business School at the
University of Oxford

Q. Where will the 10th India International Science Festival 2024 be held?
Answer: Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati from 30 November to 3 December
2024.

Q. Who organises the India International Science Festival?

Answer: Union Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Earth Science in
association with Vijnana Bharti
Q. Where is the headquarters of the Vijnana Bharti, which works for the
development of Swadeshi science in the country?
Answer: New Delhi

Q. What is the theme of the 10th India International Science Festival 2024?
Answer: Transforming India into an S&T-driven Global Manufacturing Hub.

Q. When was the first India International Science Festival held?

Answer: 2015 in IIT Delhi.

Q. Where was the 12th International Tourism Mart held?

Answer: Kaziranga National Park, Assam, from 26-29 November 2024.

Q. Who organises the International Tourism Mart?

Answer: Union Ministry of Tourism focused on promoting the North-East as a
tourism destination

Q. Who inaugurated the 12th International Tourism Mart?

Answer: Union Minister for Tourism and Culture Gajendra Singh Shekhawat.

Q. Which national park in the country is celebrating its 50th year of national park
status in 2024?
Answer: Kaziranga National Park in 1974.

Q. When was the first International Tourism Mart held?

Answer: 2013 in Assam

Q. Where was the 11th edition of the National Maritime Search and Rescue
Exercise and Workshop (SAREX-24)?
Answer: Kochi, Kerala

Q. What is the theme of the 11th edition of the National Maritime Search and
Rescue Exercise and Workshop (SAREX-24)?
Answer: Enhancing Search and Rescue capabilities through Regional Collaboration.

Q. Who inaugurated the 11th edition of the National Maritime Search and Rescue
Exercise and Workshop (SAREX-24)?
Answer: Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh.

Q.Who is the chairman of the National Maritime Search and Rescue Board?
Answer: Director General of the Indian Coast Guard, DG Paramesh Sivamani

Q. Where was the 22nd National National Maritime Search and Rescue Board
Meeting held?
Answer: Kochi, Kerala, on 27 November 2024

Q. Hemant Soren, who was sworn in as the 14th chief minister of Jharkhand,
belongs to which political party?
Answer: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha

Q. Who is the governor of Jharkhand?

Answer: Santosh Kumar Ganagwar
Q. Hemant Soren represents which constituency in the 6th Jharkhand legislative
assembly?
Answer: Barhait constituency

Q. Who is the only person to be appointed as the chief minister of Jharkhand four
times?
Answer: Hemant Soren.

Q. Which type of missile is the K-4 missile, developed by the Defence Research and
Development Organisation?
Answer: Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM)

Q. What is the range of the K-4 missile developed by the Defence Research and
Development Organisation?
Answer: 3500 Km

Q. The K-4 missile developed by the Defence Research and Development

Organisation will be inducted on which Indian-made submarine?
Answer: INS Arighaat

Q. What does S stand for in the SLBM types of missiles?

Answer: Submarine

Q. Who launched the Indian Army’s online training platform, Eklavya?

Answer: Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi in New Delhi
Q. Who has developed the Indian Army’s online training platform, Eklavya?
Answer: Bhaskaracharya National Institute of Space Applications and
Geoinformatics” (BISAG-N), Gandhinagar, Gujarat.

Q. Which Armed Forces of India has launched the Decade of Transformation

initiative?
Answer: Indian Army

Q. Which country has signed a Statement of Intent with India to co-develop the
Electric Propulsion System for the Indian Navy?
Answer: United Kingdom

Q. Where was the third India-United Kingdom Joint Working Group Meeting of the
Electric Propulsion Capability Partnership?
Answer: Portsmouth, England November 2024

Q.Which Indian company will co-develop an Electric Propulsion System for the
Indian Navy in partnership with GE Power Conversion of the United Kingdom?

Q. Which country has passed a law prohibiting the use of social media by minors
below 16 years?
Answer: Australia

Q. Who is the Prime Minister of Australia?

Answer: Anthony Albanese

Q. The 59th All India Conference of Director Generals/ Inspector Generals of Police
was held in which city of India?
Answer: Bhubaneswar, Odisha from 29 November -1 December 2024

Q. Which city hosted the 58th All India Conference of Director Generals/ Inspector
Generals of Police?
Answer: Jaipur, Rajasthan on 6&7 January 2024.

Q. Who inaugurated the 59th All India Conference of Director Generals/ Inspector
Generals of Police?
Answer: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on 29 November 2024

Q. Who organises the All India Conference of Director Generals/ Inspector

Generals of Police?
Answer: Union Ministry of Home Affairs

Q. At which place the government of India will organise the first Asthlakshmi
Mahotsav?
Answer: New Delhi from 6-8 December 2024

Q. What is the mascot of the first Asthlakshmi Mahotsav?

Answer: Purvi- she is a girl.

Q. Which region’s cultural heritage will be displayed during the first Asthlakshmi
Mahotsav?
Answer: Eight states of the North-Eastern Region

Q. When did Sikkim join the North Eastern Council and become a part of the North
Eastern region of India?
Answer” 2022.

Q. What is the capital of Assam?

Answer: Dispur

Q. Who is Jyotiraditya Scindia, who was in the news recently?

Answer: Union Minister for Development of North Eastern Region

Q. What was the theme of the 55th International Film Festival of India (IFFI)?
Answer: Young Filmmakers: The Future is Now.

Q. Who inaugurated the 55th International Film Festival of India (IFFI)?

Answer: Pramod Sawant, Chief Minister of Goa.

Q. Which award was introduced for the first time at the 55th International Film
Festival of India (IFFI)?
Answer: First Best Debut Director of Indian Feature Film. It was won by Navjyot
Bandiwadekar, Director of the Marathi Film Gharat Ganpati.

Q. Which award is given to the best feature film at the International Film Festival of
India (IFFI)?
Answer: The Golden Peacock Award. in 2024, it was given to the film Toxic of
Lithuania, directed by Saulė Bliuvaitė.

Q. Who got the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award of the 55th International
Film Festival of India (IFFI)?
Answer: Australian director Phillip Noyce
Q. Who was conferred with the Indian Film Personality of the Year Award at the
55th International Film Festival of India (IFFI)?
Answer: Vikrant Massey

Q. Who organises the India International Film Festival of India?

Answer: National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), Union Ministry of
Information and Broadcasting, and Entertainment Society of Goa, Government of
Goa.
Q. Who has been elected as the 11th President of the Asian Development Bank?
Answer: Masato Kanda

Q. What is the term of the President of the Asian Development Bank?

Answer: Five Years

Q. Who represents India at the Board of Governors of the Asian Development

Bank?
Answer: Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

Q. Where is the headquarters of the Asian Development Bank?

Answer: Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, Philippines

Q. Which country is the largest shareholder of the Asian Development Bank?

Answer: Japan and the United States of America 16.3 % each.

Q. Where was the 13th edition of the Afni Warrior exercise held?
Answer: Field Firing Ranges, Devlali (Maharashtra), from 28 to 30 November 2024
Q. The Indian Army conducts a joint artillery exercise named Agni Warrior with
which country’s Army?
Answer: Singapore Army

Q. What was the growth rate of the indian economy in the second quarter of 2024-
25?
Answer: 5.4 %

Q. What was the growth rate of the Indian economy in the first six months of the
2024-25 financial year?
Answer: 6.0 %

Q. Which sector of the Indian economy registered negative growth in the second
quarter (July-September) of 2024-25?
Answer: Mining and Quarrying, -0.1%

Q. What was the growth rate of the Agriculture sector of the Indian economy in the
first six month of the 2024-25 financial year?
Answer: 2.7 %

Q. What was the growth rate of the manufacturing sector of the Indian economy in
the first six months of the 2024-25 financial year?
Answer: 4.5%

Q. What was the growth rate of the Service sector of the Indian economy in the
first six months of the 2024-25 financial year?
Answer: 7.1%
Q. Where were the eight Regional Rural Banks of Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and
West Bengal meetings held in November 2024 to review their performance?
Answer: Patna, Bihar, on 29 November 2024.

Q. Who chaired the review meeting of the eight Regional Rural Banks of Bihar,
Jharkhand, Odisha, and West Bengal held in November 2024?
Answer: Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs

Q. Who regulates the Regional Rural Banks in India?

Answer: Reserve Bank of India

Q. How many Regional Rural Banks are in India?

Answer: 43

Q. Who is Samrat Choudhary, who was in the news recently?

Answer: Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar

Q. Which multilateral bank has sanctioned a $98 million loan to the government of
India for its Building India's Clean Plant Programme?
Answer: Asian Development Bank

Q. Which ministry of the government of India will implement the Building India's
Clean Plant Programme?
Answer: Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare through the National
Horticulture Board and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.
Q. What is Pomology?
Answer: The branch of horticulture that deals with cultivating fruits and nuts.

Q. What is Olericulture?
Answer: The branch of horticulture that deals with cultivating herbaceous plants for
cooking purposes.