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1. MAJOR APPOINTMENTS. 11. MAJOR FESTIVAL IN YEAR 2019-21

2. AWARDS & HONOURS. 12. Tokyo 2020 Olympics
3. SPORTS CURRENT AFFAIRS.
13. INDIA’ S VARIOUS RANKING IN VARIOUS INDEX
4. SPORTS RELATED AWARDS. 14. MAJOR GOVERNMENT SCHEMES
5. MAJOR SUMMITS. 15. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

6. BRAND AMBASSADORS
16. BUDGET 2021 HIGHLIGHTS
7. JOINT MILITARY EXERCISES 2018-21
17. 2020 OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, JANUARY,
8. BOOKS AND AUTHORS FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL, MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST,
SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER 2021 CURRENT AFFAIRS.
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INDIA GOVRNMENT PORTFOLIO 2021

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President Ram nath kovind (14th).
Vice-president Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu(13th).
Prime minister Narendra damodardas modi (14th ).
Union cabinet minister
Lok sabha
Portfolio Minister costituency
Prime Minister
Department of Atomic Energy.
Varanasi
Department of Space. Narendra Modi
All important policy issues and all other portfolios (U.P.)
not allocated to any Minister.
Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh Lucknow ( U.P.)
Minister of Home Affairs

Amit Shah Gandhi Nagar
Ministry of Cooperation
Minister of Finance
Nirmala Sitharaman RAJYA SABHA
Minister of Corporate Affairs.
Minister of External Affairs. S. Jaishankar (RAJYA SABHA)

Lok sabha
Minister of Road Transport and Highways
Nitin Gadkari Nagpur
Minister of Women and Child AMETHI

Smriti Irani
Development. (UTTARPRADESH)
Minister of Railways.
Minister of Communication Ashwini Vaishnav --
Minister of Electronics and IT
Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers. Rajya Sabha

Mansukh L. Mandaviya
Minister of Health and Family Welfare (Gujarat)
Minister of Tribal Affairs. KHUNTI

Arjun Munda (JHARKUAND)
Minister of Food Processing Industries. Pashupati Kumar

Paras
Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and
RAJYASABHA
Public Distribution, Piyush Goyal (Maharashtra)
Minister of Textiles
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Lok SIRJEE
sabhaCLASSES
Minister of Law and Justice Kiren Rijiju
Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas. Hardeep Singh Puri
Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh MORENA

Tomar (MADHYA PRADESH)
Minister of Social Justice and

Dr. Virendra Kumar
Empowerment
Minister of Education. Dharmendra Pradhan
Minister of Health and Family Welfare. Mansukh L. Mandaviya
Minister of Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia
Minister of Information and Broadcasting

Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports
Anurag Thakur

Lok sabha
Portfolio Minister
costituency
Minister of Environment,
Bhupender Yadav
Forest and Climate Change
Minister of Minority Affairs RAJYA SABHA

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi (Jharkhand)
Minister of Skill Development
and Entrepreneurship Dharmendra Pradhan
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs.

DHARWAD
Minister of Coal. Pralhad Joshi (KARNATAKA)
Minister of Mines.
Minister of Jal Shakti Gajendra Singh Jodhpur

Shekhawat (Rajasthan)
Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and
Fisheries Parshottam Rupala
Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Mahendra Nath Pandey

Enterprises
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PARLIAMENTARY HEAD
RAJYA SABHA Lok Sabha SIRJEE CLASSES
Type Upper house House of the People

of the Parliament of India
17th Lok Sabha
Term limits 6 years
Type Lower house of
Leadership the Parliament
Term limits 5 years
Chairman
(Vice President) M. Venkaiah Naidu
Leadership
Harivansh Narayan Speaker Om Birla, BJP
Deputy Chairman Singh, (JDU)
Secretary Utpal Kumar Singh
Secretary Dr. Parasaram General
General Pattabhi Kesava
Ramacharyulu Leader of the Narendra Modi, BJP
House
Leader of the Piyush Goyal
House (BJP) Leader of the ------------
Opposition
Leader of the Mallikarjun Kharge Structure
Opposition
Seats 545 (543 Elected)
GOVERNORS OF STATES
State Governor State Governor

Shri Biswa Bhusan 15. Manipur Shri La. Ganesan
1. Andhra Pradesh
Harichandan
16. Meghalaya Shri Satya Pal Malik
2. Arunachal Pradesh Brig. (Dr.) B. D. Mishra (Retd.)
17. Mizoram Dr. Hari Babu Kambhampati
3. Assam Prof. Jagdish Mukhi
18. Nagaland Prof. Jagdish Mukhi
4. Bihar Shri Phagu Chauhan
19. Odisha Prof. Ganeshi Lal
5. Chhattisgarh Sushri Anusuiya Uikey
20. Punjab Shri Banwarilal Purohit
6. Goa Shri P.S. Sreedharan Pillai
21. Rajasthan Shri Kalraj Mishra
7. Gujarat Shri Acharya Dev Vrat
22. Sikkim Shri Ganga Prasad
8. Haryana Shri Bandaru Dattatraya
23. Tamil Nadu Shri R. N. Ravi
9. Himachal Pradesh Shri Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar
24. Telangana Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan
10. Jharkhand Shri Ramesh Bais
25. Tripura Shri Satyadeo Narain Arya
11. Karnataka Shri Thaawarchand Gehlot
26. Uttar Pradesh Smt. Anandiben Patel
12. Kerala Shri Arif Mohammed Khan
27. Uttarakhand Lt. Gen. Gurmit Singh
13. Madhya Pradesh Shri Mangubhai Chhaganbhai Patel
14. Maharashtra Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari 28. West Bengal Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar
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UNION TERRITORIES OF INDIA

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Union Territory Lt. Governor & Administrator
Andaman and Nicobar Island (UT) Admiral D K Joshi (Lieutenant Governor)
Shri Banwarilal Purohit

Chandigarh (UT)
(Administrator)
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Praful Patel

Diu (UT) (Administrator)
Anil Baijal
Delhi (NCT)
(Lieutenant Governor)
Jammu and Kashmir (UT) Shri Manoj Sinha (Lieutenant Governor)
Praful Patel
Lakshadweep (UT)
(Administrator)
Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan, (Addl. charge)
Puducherry (UT)
(Lieutenant Governor)
Ladakh (UT) Radha Krishna Mathur (Lieutenant Governor)
CHIEF MINISTER OF ALL STATES
State Chief Minister State Chief Minister

Andhra Pradesh YS Jagan Mohan Reddy Manipur N. Biren Singh
Arunachal Pradesh Pema Khandu Meghalaya Conrad Kongkal Sangma
Assam Shri Himanta Biswa Sarma Mizoram Pu Zoramthanga
Bihar Nitish Kumar Nagaland Neiphiu Rio
Chhattisgarh Bhupesh Baghel Odisha Naveen Patnaik
Delhi (NCT) Arvind Kejriwal Puducherry (UT) Shri N. Rangaswamy
Goa Pramod Sawant Punjab Shri. Charanjit Singh Channi
Gujarat Shri Bhupendra Patel Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot
Haryana Manohar Lal Sikkim PS Golay
Himachal Pradesh Jairam Thakur Tamil Nadu Shri M. K. Stalin
Jharkhand Hemant Soren Telangana K Chandrasekhar Rao

Tripura Biplab Kumar Deb
Karnataka Basavaraj Bommai
Uttar Pradesh Yogi Aditya Nath
Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan
Uttarakhand Shri Pushkar Singh Dhami
Madhya Pradesh shiv raj singh chohan
West Bengal Mamata Banerjee
Maharashtra Uddhav Thackeray
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Chiefs of armed forces india

Designation Name SIRJEE CLASSES
Chief of the Army Staff General Manoj Mukund Naravane
Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh
Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari

st
1 Chief of defence staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat
chief of Intelligence and Investigation Organization
Designation Name
Central Vigilance Commissioner Suresh N Patel
Director of CBI Subodh Kumar Jaiswal
Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha

Head, Intelligence Bureau (IB) Arvind Kumar
Secretary and Advisor

Designation Name
Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba
Foreign Secretary Harshvardhan Shrigla
Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla
Finance Secretary T. V Somanathan
Defense Secretary Ajay Kumar
Revenue Secretary Tarun Bajaj
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval
Chief Economic Advisor , Central Government Krishnamurthy Subramanian
Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) ……. Girish Chandra Murmu
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Chief of the Paramilitary Forces

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Designation Name
Director General, Sashastra Seema Bal Kumar Rajesh Chandra

(SSB)
Director General, Border Security Force Pankaj Kumar Singh
(BSF)
Director General of, Central Reserve Police Force Kuldiep Singh
(CRPF)
Director General, Indo-Tibetan Border Police Sanjay Arora

(ITBP)
Election Commission
Chief Election Commissioner ---- Sushil Chandra (24rd)

Election Commissioner --------- 1. Rajiv Kumar
2. Anup Chandra Pandey
Chairman and Secretary of major Commissions

SIRJEE CLASSES
Designation Name
Chairman, NITI Aayog P.M. Narendra Modi
Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog Dr. Rajiv Kumar
CEO, NITI Aayog Amitabh Kant
Chairman, UPSC Pradeep Kumar Joshi

st
Chairman, 21 Law Commission Balveer Singh Chauhan
Chairman, National Women's Commission Rekha Sharma
th
Chairman, 14 Finance Y. V. Reddy
th
Chairman, 15 Finance N. K. Singh
Chairman, National Human Rights Commission Arun Kumar Mishra
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Chief /Chairman of Scientific and Research Organizations

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Chairman, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) -------- K. Sivan

Chairman, DRDO -------------------------------------------------- G. Satheesh Reddy
Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Center --------------------- S. Somanath

Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) ------------- Kamlesh Neelkanth
Vyas
Head of Sports Organizations
President International Cricket Council (ICC) --------------------- Greg Barclay

CEO, International Cricket Council (ICC) ---------------------------- Manu Sahni
President, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) -------- Sourav Ganguly
First Independent Women's Director, ICC ---------------------------- Indira Nooy
Chief Coach, Indian Cricket Team ----------------------------------------- Ravi Shastri
Coach Indian Women's Cricket Team ------------------------------------- W.V. Raman
President, Indian Table Tennis Association --------------------------- Dushyant Chautala
President, All India Football Confederation (AIFF) ---------------- Praful Patel
Head of Sports Organizations
Head Coach, Indian Hockey Team --------------------- Graham Reid (Australia) SIRJEE CLASSES
President, Indian Olympic Association -------------- Narinder Batra
President, International Olympic Committee --------------Thomas Bach (Germany)
Interim President, Badminton Association of India ---------- Himanta Biswa Sharma

President, FIFA -------------------------------------------------------------- Gianni Infantino
President, International Hockey Federation (FIH) -------- Dr Narinder Dhruv Batra
President, International Kabaddi Federation ------------------ Janardan Singh Gehlot
CHAIRMAN OF VARIOUS BOARDS

Chairman, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) ------------ Ajay Tyagi
Chairman, Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) ------------------ Prasoon Joshi
Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) ------------------ --------Pramod Chandra
Mody
Chairman, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) ------------ PD Vaghela
Chairman, Public Accounts Committee (PAC) ----------------------- Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary
Chairman, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) ---- Manoj Ahuja
Chairman, Press Trust Of India (PTI) ------------------------------------ Aveek Sarkar
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CHAIRMAN OF VARIOUS BOARDS

SIRJEE CLASSES
Chairman, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority

of India (IRDA) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subhash
Chandra Khuntia
Chairman, Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) --------------- M R Kumar

Director General, Press Information Bureau (PIB) ------------------- Jaideep Bhatnagar
Heads of Economic / Commercial Institutions / Organizations
Secretary General, FICCI ---------------------------- Arun Chawla

President, ASSOCHAM ------------------------------- Vineet Agarwal
Chairman, NASSCOM --------------------------------- Rekha M. Menon
President, NASSCOM --------------------------------- Debjani Ghosh
FULL FORM
FICCI:--------------- Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry.

ASSOCHAM:------ Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India.
NASSCOM:-------- National Association of Software and Services Companies.
Chief officer of banks

Governor, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) --------------------- Shaktikanta Das SIRJEE CLASSES
Deputy Governor, RBI --------------------------------- 1. Mahesh kumar jain

2. michael patra 3. T Rabi Shankar
4. M. Rajeshwar Rao
Chief Financial Officer, (RBI) ----------------------------------- Sudha Balakrishnan

Chairman , State Bank of India (SBI) ------------------------ Dinesh Kumar Khara
Chief Financial Officer, State Bank of India ------------- Charanjit Surinder Singh Attra
Heads of International Institutions / Organizations

Secretary-General, United nation
organisation (UNO) -------------------------------------- Antonio Guterres (Portugal)
President, World Bank (IBRD) --------------------- David Malpass (USA)

Managing Director, IMF ------------------------------ Cristalina Georgieva (Bulgaria)
Director General, UNESCO ------------------------- Audrey Azoulay (France)
Secretary General, SAARC -------------------------- Esala Weerakoon
UNESCO:- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
SAARC:- South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation.
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Chief officer of banks

SIRJEE CLASSES
MD, Punjab National Bank ------------------------- S. S. Malikarjuna Rao

CEO, ICICI Bank ---------------------------------------- Sandeep Bakshi
CEO, HDFC Bank --------------------------------------- Sashidhar Jagdishan
CEO, Paytm Payment Bank ------------------------- Satish Kumar Gupta
Chairman, NABARD ------------------------------------ Govinda Rajulu Chintala
Heads of International Institutions / Organizations

President, Asian Development Bank (ADB) ------------- Masatsugu Asakawa
President, New Development Bank (NDB) -------------- Marcos Prado Troyjo (Brazil)
General Secretary, Interpol (INTERPOL) --------------- Jürgen Stock (Germany)
High Commissioner, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filippo Grandi (Italy)
Chief, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR)

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michelle Bachelet (Chile)
Chairman of Corporate Companies

SIRJEE CLASSES
Airtel ----------------------------------------------------------- Sunil Bharti Mittal

Reliance Communication ---------------------------- Anil Ambani
Wipro ---------------------------------------------------------- Rishad Premji
Air India ----------------------------------------------------- Rajiv Bansal
(Chairman & MD)
Tata Sons and Tata Global Beverages --------- Natraj Chandrasekaran

Reliance Industry limited --------------------------- Mukesh Ambani
Paytm ------------------------------------------------------- Vijay Shekhar Sharma
Jet Airways ----------------------------------------------- Naresh Goyal
Spice Jet --------------------------------------------------- Ajay Singh
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CEO of world leading companies

Apple ------------------ Team Cook PepsiCo ---------------- Ramon Laguarta
Microsoft ------------ Satya Nadella BSNL -------------------- Pravin Kumar Purwar
Airtel -------------------- Gopal Vittal
Tata Sons ----------- N. Chandrasekaran
Ola Ca ---------------- Bhavish Aggarwal Paytm Payment Bank ------ Satish Kumar
Uber Cab ------------ Dara Khosrowshahi Gupta
Air India ------------ Pradeep Singh Kharola
Hindustan Unilever Limited ------ Sanjiv
Mehta
CEO of world leading companies
Idea-Vodafone ----------- Ravinder Takkar Flipkart ------------ Kalyan Krishnamurthy
TCS -------------------------Rajesh Gopinathan YouTube ----------- Susan wojcicki
Infosys ---------------------- Salil Parekh Alibaba ------------- Daniel Zhang
Walmart -------------------- Doug McMillon Facebook ---------- Mark Zuckerberg
Google ----------------------- Sundar Pichai Twitter ------------- Jack Dorsey
UIDAI ----------------------- Saurabh Garg WhatsApp --------- Jan Koum
Amazon -------------------- Andy Jassy IBM ------------------- Arvind krishna
Dell ------------------ Michael B. Dell
WELCOME
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1. NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS 2021
Prize Winners Purpose SIRJEE CLASSES
1. Benjamin List
• “for the development of asymmetric
Chemistry
2. David W.C. organocatalysis”. Nobel laureates receive
a gold medal together
MacMillan with a diploma and (as
of 2017) 9 million
• “for the physical modelling of Earth’s SEK (roughly US$1.0
1. Syukuro Manabe climate, quantifying variability and million, €0.87 million).
2. Klaus Hasselmann reliably predicting global warming”.
Physics
• “for the discovery of the interplay of
disorder and fluctuations in physical
3. Giorgio Parisi
systems from atomic to planetary scales”.
1. David Julius • “for their discoveries of receptors

Medicine
2. Ardem Patapoutian for temperature and touch”.
1. David Card
• “for his empirical contributions to labour
Economics 2. Joshua D. Angrist economics” (David Card)
3. Guido W. Imbens
1. NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS 2021

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Prize Winners Purpose
“for his uncompromising and

compassionate penetration of the
Literature Abdulrazak Gurnah effects of colonialism and the fate of
the refugee in the gulf between
cultures and continents”
1. Maria Ressa “for their efforts to safeguard

freedom of expression, which is a
Peace
2. Dmitry Andreyevich precondition for democracy and
Muratov lasting peace”
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2. Bharat Ratna 2019

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Mukherjee is an Indian politician who

served as the 13th President of
1. Pranab India from 2012 until 2017. Bharat Ratna
Mukherjee Prior to his election as President, he Type National civilian
was Union Finance Minister from 2009 to Obverse An image of the Sun along
2012. with the words "Bharat
West Bengal Ratna", inscribed
in Devanagari script, on
a peepal (Ficus religiosa)
leaf
2019 Hazarika(8 September 1926 – 5 November
2011) was an Indian playback singer, Statistics
2. Bhupen
lyricist, musician, poet and film-maker Established 1954
Hazarika from Assam, widely known as
Sudhakantha
Assam
3. Nanaji Chandikadas Amritrao Deshmukh also

known as Nanaji Deshmukh (11 October
1916 – 27 February 2010) was a social
Deshmukh activist from India.
Maharashtra
3. Padma Vibhushan awards 2021

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S.NO. Recipient Field

1. Shinzo Abe Public Affairs
S. P. Balasubramaniam#
2. Arts
(Posthumous)
3. Belle Monappa Hegde Medicine
Padma Vibhushan
Narinder Singh Kapany#
4. Science and Engineering
(Posthumous) Type National
Civilian
5. Wahiduddin Khan Others
Established 1954
6. B. B. Lal Others
7. Sudarshan Sahoo Art
Note:-
This year the President has approved conferment of 119 Padma Awards.
7 Padma Vibhushan, 10 Padma Bhushan and 102 Padma Shri Awards.
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4. Padma bhushan 2021

SIRJEE CLASSES
S.NO. NAME FIELD

1. Ms. Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra Art
2. Shri Tarun Gogoi (Posthumous) Public Affairs
Literature and
3. Shri Chandrashekhar Kambara
Education
4. Ms. Sumitra Mahajan Public Affairs

Padma Bhushan
5. Shri Nripendra Misra Civil Service
Country India
6. Shri Ram Vilas Paswan (Posthumous) Public Affairs Type National
Civilian
7. Shri Keshubhai Patel (Posthumous) Public Affairs Established 1954
Previous "Dusra Varg"
8. Shri Kalbe Sadiq (Posthumous) Others-Spiritualism name(s) (Class II)
First 1954
9. Shri Rajnikant Devidas Shroff Trade and Industry awarded
10. Shri Tarlochan Singh Public Affairs
93rd Oscar (Academy) Awards 2021

S. no. Award Category WINNER SIRJEE CLASSES
Academy Awards
1 Best Picture Nomadland Awarded for Excellence in
cinematic
achievements
2 Best Director Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) Country United States
Presented by Academy of Motion
3 Best Actor (Leading Role) Anthony Hopkins (The Father) Picture Arts and
Sciences
Frances McDormand, First awarded May 16, 1929
4 Best Actress (Leading Role)
(Nomadland)
5 Best Supporting Actor Daniel Kaluuya
6 Best Supporting Actress Youn Yuh-jung
7 Best Animated feature Film Soul
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74th BAFTA Awards 2021

SIRJEE CLASSES
Categories Winners
Best Film Nomadland

British Academy Film
Awards
Anthony Hopkins (The Father as
Best Leading Actor
Anthony) Awarded The best in
for film
Frances McDormand (Nomadland as
Best Leading Actress Country United
Fern) Kingdom
Best Director Chloe Zhao (Nomadland) First 29 May 1949

awarded
Best Supporting Actor Daniel Kaluuya
Best Supporting Actress Youn Yuh-Jung
Best Animated Film Soul
Best Outstanding British

Promising Young Woman
Film
67th National Film Awards 2021

SIRJEE CLASSES
Categories Films/Winner National Film Awards

Awarded for Excellence in
cinematic
Marakkar: Lion of the Arabian Sea
Best Feature Film achievements for
(Malayalam) Indian cinema
Location Vigyan Bhavan,
Best Director Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan (72 Hoorain) New Delhi
Presented by Directorate of Film
Festivals
1. Manoj Bajpayee
Best Actor First awarded 10 October 1954
2. Dhanush for Asuran
Kangana Ranaut (Panga and Manikarnika:

Best Actress
The Queen of Jhansi)
Best Hindi Film Chhichhore
Best Film Friendly State Sikkim
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th
66 Filmfare Awards 2021
Categories Films/Winner SIRJEE CLASSES
Best Film Thappad

Om Raut
Best Director
(Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior)
Best Actor Irrfan Khan (Angrezi Medium)
Best Actress Taapsee Pannu (Thappad)
Best Film (Critics) Eeb Allay Ooo! (Prateek Vats)
Best Music Album Pritam
74th BAFTA Awards 2021
Categories Winners
Best Film Nomadland
Best Leading Actor Anthony Hopkins (The Father as Anthony)
British Academy Film
Best Leading Actress Frances McDormand (Nomadland as Fern) Awards
Best Director Chloe Zhao (Nomadland) Awarded The best in
Best Supporting Actor Daniel Kaluuya for film
Best Supporting Actress Youn Yuh-Jung Country United
Kingdom
Best Animated Film Soul
First 29 May 1949
Best Outstanding British Film Promising Young Woman awarded
Ramon Magsaysay Award 2021

SIRJEE CLASSES
Ramon Magsaysay Award

Year
Year Name
Name Country
Country
2021 WatchDoc Indonesia

2019 Ravish Kumar India Awarded for Outstanding contributions in Government
Service, Public Service, Community
Muhammad Pakistan
Leadership, Journalism, literature
2021 Amjad Saqib Country All nations in Asia
2020 Ramon Magsaysay Award
Presented by Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation
2021 cancelled due to Covid-19
Firdausi Qadri Bangladesh
First awarded 1958
69th Miss World 2019 69th Miss Universe 2020
Winner winner
• Jamaica – Toni-Ann Andrea Meza (Mexico)
Singh
Venue:- London, U.K. Venue:- Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino,
Hollywood, Florida, U.S.
2020 award will be given in 2021 due to covid-19
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Gyanpeeth / 55th Jnanpith Award 2019

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Jnanpith Award
Year Name Award for individual contribution to
Literature
Akkitham Achuthan
2019 Awarded for Literary award in India
Namboothiri Reward(s) ₹11 lakh
First awarded 1965 (G. sankara kurup)
The Jnanpith Award is the highest award given by the Indian Jnanpith Trust for Indian
literature.
Any citizen of India who writes in any of the 22 languages mentioned in the Eighth
Schedule is eligible for this award.
The award carries an amount of 11 lakh rupees, a citation and a bronze statue of Vagdevi.
Vyas Samman 2020 The Vyas Samman is a literary award in India.

Year Name First awarded in 1991.
2020 prof. Sharad Pagare To be eligible for the award, the literary work
(“Patliputra ki Samragi”) must be in the Hindi language and have been
published in the past 10 years.
30th Saraswati Samman 2020

Year Name SIRJEE CLASSES
Saraswati Samman
2020 Sharankumar Limbale (Novel ------ "Sanatan") Sponsored K. K. Birla
by Foundation
Date 1991
Saraswati samman is a literary award given by the Harivansh Rai
K.K. Birla Foundation. Bachchan
This honor is awarded annually to a masterpiece work in literature published in

22 languages recorded in the 8th schedule of the constitution.
Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2019
Dadasaheb Phalke Award
Year Name National award for contributions to Indian
Cinema
2019 (67th) Rajinikanth Awarded for "outstanding contribution to the
growth and development of
Indian cinema"
The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is an annual award Reward(s) •Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus)
•₹10 lakh
given by the Government of India to a person for his
lifetime contribution to Indian cinema. First 1969 ( Devika Rani )
awarded
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Man Booker Prize 2021

SIRJEE CLASSES
The Booker Prizes

Awarded Best original novel,
Year Author Novel (Title) for written in the English
language, and
published in the UK
2021 Damon Galgut The Promise and Ireland
Location Guildhall, London,
England
First awarded 1969
Man booker International Booker Prize 2021

International Booker Prize
Year Author Novel
Awarded for Best book in
At Night All Blood Is Black English
2021 David Diop (Frère d'âme) translation
Country United Kingdom
First awarded 2005
Other Important prizes (2019-21)

Abel Prize (Maths) 2021 ------------------------------- 1. László Lovász (Hungary) SIRJEE CLASSES
--------- 2. Avi Wigderson (Israel)

Indira Gandhi Peace Prize 2019 -------------------------- David Attenborough (U.K.)
Gandhi peace prize 2019 --------------------------- Qaboos bin Said Al Said (Oman)
Gandhi peace prize 2020 --------------------------- Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (Bangladesh)
Japan's Order of the Rising Sun Award 2020 ------- Thangjam Dhabali Singh
United Nations medal 2019 ----------------------------- Jitendra Kumar (posthumously)
PETA India’s person of the year 2020 ------------- John Abraham
Other Important prizes (2019-20)
Dinanath Mangeshkar Award 2019 ------------------ 1. Madhur Bhandarkar, -----------

--------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Salim Khan, 3. Helen
Lata Mangeshkar Award 2019-20 ---------------------- Usha Khanna (Music Director)

Crystal Award 2020 ------------------------------------------ Deepika Padukone
APJ Abdul Kalam Award 2019 -------------------------- K. Sivan (ISRO chief)
Global Leadership Award 2020 ----------------- 1. N Chandrasekaran 2. Jim Taiclet
Femina Miss India 2020 ------------------------------------ Manasa Varanasi (Telangana)
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Swachh Survekshan Awards 2020
Category Place (Winner) State

India's Cleanest City Indore Madhya Pradesh
Cleanest Big City Ahmedabad Gujarat
Cleanest Small City Ambikapur Chhattisgarh
Cleanest Capital New Delhi ----

(Union Territory of New Delhi) and the NDMC.
Best Performing State Chhattisgarh Chhattisgarh
Swachh Survekshan Gramin Award 2019
Top Ranked State ------------ Tamil Nadu

Top District --------------------- Peddapalli
-------------------------------------(Telangana)
WELCOME
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IMPORTANT SPORTS CURRENT AFFAIRS 2021

14th Indian premier league SIRJEE CLASSES
Sponsor ------------------------ Dream11

Final match ----------------– Dubai International Stadium, UAE
Total team ----------------------- 8 (total match played 60)
1. Winner ----------------- Chennai Super Kings (Captain –------------- M. S. Dhoni)

2. Runner up ------------ Kolkata Knight Riders (captain ------------- Eoin Morgan)
3. Man of the match final ---------------------------------------------------- Faf du Plessis
4. Max. IPL winner -----------------------------------– Mumbai Indians (5 times)
6. Orange Cup (most runs) –----------------------- Ruturaj Gaikwad (CSK) (635 Runs)
7. Purple Cap (most wicket) --------------------– Harshal Patel (RCB) (32 wicket)
8. Imerging player ------------------------------------- Ruturaj Gaikwad (CSK)
List of IPL Team owners

SIRJEE CLASSES
Team Current Owner(s) in 2021
N. Srinivasan
Chennai Super Kings
(Chennai Super Kings Cricket Limited)
Delhi Capitals GMR Group and JSW Group
Mohit Burman, Ness Wadia,

Kings XI Punjab
Preity Zinta and Karan Paul
Shahrukh Khan (Red Chillies Entertainment)

Kolkata Knight Riders
and Jay Mehta and Juhi Chawla (Mehta Group)
Mumbai Indians Neeta Ambani (Reliance Industries)
Amisha Hathiramani, Manoj Badale,

Rajasthan Royals
Lachlan Murdoch, Ryan Tkalcevic,
Royal Challengers Bangalore United Spirits
Sunrisers Hyderabad Kalanithi Maran (Sun TV Network)
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IMPORTANT SPORTS CURRENT AFFAIRS 2019

ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 SIRJEE CLASSES
Winner England (1st Time)

Runner-Up New Zealand
Golden Bat (Most Runs) Rohit Sharma (India), 648 Runs
Golden Ball (Most Wickets) Mitchel Stark (Australia), 27 Wickets
Man of the Match Ben Stokes (England)
Man of the Tournament Kane Williamson (New Zealand), 578 runs
Hosts England and Wales
Most Sixes Eoin Morgan (England), 22 sixes
2nd Khelo india youth games 2019

Venue ----------------------------– pune maharashtra
1st position ----------------------– Maharashtra

2nd position ---------------------– Haryana
Theme ------------------------– 5 minutes more
Khelo india youth games 2020

SIRJEE CLASSES
Venue ------------------------– Guwahati, Assam

1st position -----------------------– Maharashtra (78 gold, total 256 medal
2nd position ---------------------– Haryana (68 gold)
khelo India Youth Games
Abbreviation KIYG
First event 2018 (New Delhi)
Occur every Annual
Last event 2020
Purpose Grassroot talent hunt
Headquarters New Delhi
Jaya the black buck and Vijay the tiger are the
mascots for Khelo India Youth Games 2020.
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IMPORTANT SPORTS CURRENT AFFAIRS

SIRJEE CLASSES
Cups & Trophy Related to Cricket 2019 -21

1. Ranji trophy 2020-21 ---------- winner / runner --------- Saurashtra / Bengal.
2. Asia cup 2018 ----------------- winner / runner -------- India / Bangladesh.
3. Inter. womens T-20 world cup 2020 ---- winner / runner ---- Australia / india.
4. womens asia cup 2018 ----- winner/runner ------- Bangladesh / INDIA
cups & trophy Related to Badminton 2019-2021
Cups & trophy Winner Runner

83rd national badminton championship 2019 Saina nehwal P.V. Sindhu
Premier badminton league 2020 Bengaluru Raptors Northeastern Warriors
Thomas cup 2021 Indonesia China
Uber cup 2021 China Japan
IMPORTANT SPORTS CURRENT AFFAIRS

cups & trophy related to football 2018-21 SIRJEE CLASSES
Cups & trophy Winner

santosh trophy 2019 SERVICES
Fifa under 20 womens world cup 2018 JAPAN
Indian super league 2020-21 Mumbai city
SAFF WOMEN’S FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP 2019 INDIA
CUPS & TROPHY related to Hockey 2018-19

Cups & trophy Winner
Sultan ajlan shah cup 2019 south korea
men’s hockey world cup 2018 Belgium
women’s hockey world cup 2018 Netherland
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CUPS & TROPHY related to TENNIS 2021

Men’s singles SIRJEE CLASSES
Year Tournament Winner Runner-up

2021 US Open (hard court) Daniil Medvedev (Russia) Novak Djokovic (serbia)
2021 Wimbledon (grass) Novak Djokovic (serbia) Matteo Berrettini

(2020 tournament was cancelled due to covid-19)
2021 French Open (clay) Novak Djokovic (serbia) Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greece)
2021 Australian open (hard court) Novak Djokovic (serbia) Daniil Medvedev (Russia)
women’s singles
Year Tournament Winner Runner-up
2021 US Open Emma Raducanu (England) Leylah Annie Fernandez (Canada)
2021 Wimbledon Ashleigh Barty (Australia) Karolína Plíšková
Barbora Krejčíková Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
2021 French Open
(Czech Republic) (Russia)
2021 Australian Open Naomi Osaka (Japan) Jennifer Brady (America)
(Forthcoming Sports events organized

year and their place) SIRJEE CLASSES
1. Olympics Games Events

Year summer olympics Place Theme/motto
2016 31st summer olympics Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) A new world
2021* 32nd summer olympics Discover

*Posponed Tokyo (Japan)
to 2021 due Tomorrow
to covid-19
2024 33rd summer olympics Paris (france) Made for sharing
Year winter olympics Place Theme/motto
23rd winter olympics Passion.

2018 Pyeong Chang (S. korea)
Connected
Joyful Rendezvous Upon
2022 24th winter olympics Beijing (China)
Pure Ice and Snow
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Note:-
Summer paralympic held at same place where summer olympics are held. SIRJEE CLASSES
Winter paralympic held at same place where winter olympics are held.
winter paralympic games 2018 : South korea (2018)
(Forthcoming Sports events organized year and their place)

2. Summer Youth Olympic Games
Edition Year Host City Host Nation
1st 2010 Singapore Singapore
3rd 2018 Buenos Aires Argentina

4th 2026 Dakar Senegal
3. Winter Youth Olympic Games )
Edition Year Host City Host Nation

3rd 2020 Lausanne Switzerland

4. Commonwealth Games
Edition Year Host City Host Nation Theme/motto
21st 2018 Gold coast Australia Share the Dream
22nd 2022 Birmingham England Are you Game?
5. Asian Games Events

Edition Year Host City Host Nation Theme/motto
18th 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Indonesia Energy of Asia[

19th 2022 Hangzhou China Heart to Heart, @Future
20th 2026 Nagoya Japan Imagine One Asia
Note:-
asian para games 2018 : Jakarta (Indonesia)
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6. FIFA world cup

Edition Year Hosts Champions
21st 2018 Russia France
22nd 2022 Qatar
23rd 2026 Canada, Mexico, United States
7. FIFA Women's World Cup FIFA Women's World Cup

Founded 1991
Edition Year Hosts Champions Current USA
champions (4th title)
8th 2019 France USA
Most successful USA
team(s) (4 titles)
8. FIFA U-17 men’s World Cup
18th 2019 Brazil ( HOST ) Brazil ( WINNER 4th times) FIFA U-17 Women’s
19th 2023 Peru ( HOST ) World Cup 2022- India
Forthcoming Sports events organized year and their place

SIRJEE CLASSES
9. ICC Cricket world cup

12th 2019 England wales England

The World Cup Trophy
13th 2023 India Administrator (ICC)
First edition 1975, England
10. ICC womens cricket world cup
11th 2017 England wales England ICC Women's Cricket World Cup
First edition 1973 England
12th 2022 New zealand
Current England (4th title)
champion
11. ICC T-20 womens Cricket world cup Most successful Australia (6 titles)

7th 2020 Australia Australia ICC Mens T-20 world cup
2021 - India
8th 2023 South Africa --------- 2022 - Australia
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WELCOME
1. National Sports Awards

1. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna 2021 SIRJEE CLASSES
Name of the Sportsperson Discipline

Neeraj Chopra Athletics
Lovlina Borgohain Boxing Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award
P. R. Sreejesh Hockey Civilian award for contributions to
Sports (Individual/Team)
Avani Lekhara Paralympic shooting
Sumit Antil Para-athletics
Awarded for Highest sports honour in
Krishna Nagar Para-badminton India
Mithali Raj Cricket Reward(s) ₹ 25 lakh
Sunil Chhetri Football First 1991–92

awarded
Manpreet Singh Hockey
The Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna is the largest sporting award given in India.
In this award, a medal, a citation and ₹ 25 lakh rupees are given to the awardee.
Free pass facility of railways is provided by the Government of India to the honored persons
under which Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award and Dhyanchand Award winners can travel
free in first and second class air-conditioned coaches in Rajdhani or Shatabdi trains.
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2. Arjun Award 2021 SIRJEE CLASSES
Name of the sportsperson Discipline

Shikhar Dhawan Cricket Arjuna Award
Vandana Katariya Civilian award for outstanding

Hockey
individual achievements in National
Harman Preet Singh Hockey Sports
Birendra Lakra Hockey

Sponsored by Govt. of India
Nishad Kumar Para Athletics
Praveen Kumar Para Athletics Reward(s) ₹15,00,000
Bhavina Patel Para Table Tennis First 1961
awarded
Harvinder Singh Para Archery
Total 35 have been awarded in 2021

The Arjuna Award is an award given to sportspersons for outstanding
performance in the field of sports by the Government of India.
The award started in 1961.
An award of 15 lakh rupees, a bronze statue of Arjun and a citation is given.

3. Dronacharya Award 2021 SIRJEE CLASSES
Name of the Coach Discipline Dronacharya award
T. P. Ouseph Athletics Civilian award for Outstanding Coaches

in Sports and Games
Sarkar Talwar Cricket

Awarded for Sports coaching honour in
Sarpal Singh Hockey India
Reward(s) ₹15 lakh
Ashan Kumar Kabaddi
First 1985
awarded
Tapan Kumar Panigrahi Swimming
The Dronacharya Award, officially known as the Dronacharya Award is the Sports Coaching
Honor of the Republic of India given for Outstanding Coaches in Sports.
The award includes a bronze statue of Dronacharya, a certificate, formal dress, and a cash
prize of 15 lakhs .
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The ICC Awards of the Decade winners 2020

SIRJEE CLASSES
• Virat Kohli ---- wins the Sir Garfield Sobers Award for ICC Male Cricketer of the Decade.
• Ellyse Perry -- wins the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for ICC Female Cricketer of the Decade.
• Steve Smith ---- ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Decade.
• Virat Kohli ------ ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Decade.
• Ellyse Perry ----- ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Decade.
• Rashid Khan ---- ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Decade.
• Ellyse Perry ----- ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Decade.
• MS Dhoni ------- ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade.
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IMPORTANT INTERNATIONAL SUMMITS

SIRJEE CLASSES
1. G-20
2. G-7
1. G-20, Group of Twenty 2. G 7, Group of Seven and

Formation 26 September 1999 the European Union
Membership 20 members Formation 1975
It is an association of finance ministers and The G7 is a group of Canada, France, Germany,

central bank governors of the world's 20 major Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the
economies, which includes 19 countries and United States.
the European Union.
These countries, with the world's seven largest
14th 28–29 June 2019 Japan advanced economies, represent more than 62%
of global net worth.
15th 2020 Saudi Arabia
16th 2021 Italy 47th 2021 United Kingdom
17th 2022 Indonesia 48th 2022 Germany
18th 2023 India 49th 2023 Japan
3. BRICS SUMMIT
SIRJEE CLASSES
4. ASEAN Summit
BRICS is the group of a consortium of emerging
national economies.
Inaugaration 1976
Its constituent nations are Brazil, Russia, India,
China and South Africa. The ASEAN summit is a semi-annual
It was founded in 2009, and has 5 member meeting organized by the
countries. Organization of South East Asian
Nations in which economic, political,
Originally, it was known as "BRIC“, before
security and cultural issues of South
South Africa was incorporated in 2010.
East Asia countries are discussed.
2020 Theme:-
“BRICS Partnership for Global
Stability, Shared Security and 36th April/May 2020
Innovative Growth” Vietnam
37th Oct./Nov. 2020
2020
12th (posponed due to covid-19 Russia 38th April 2021 Brunei
But virtual summit will be held)
13th 2021 India 39th November 2021 Brunei

14th 2022 China
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SIRJEE CLASSES
5. BIMSTEC 6. Shanghai Cooperation

Organisation (SCO)
Bay of Bengal Initiative for
Multi-Sectoral Technical and Headquarters Beijing, China
EconomicCooperation (BIMSTEC)
SCO or SCO; is a Eurasia political,
Establishment 6 June 1997 economic, and military organization
founded in Shanghai in 2001 by leaders
It is an international organisation of seven from China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
nations of South Asia and South East Asia. Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
The BIMSTEC member states Bangladesh, India, India and Pakistan joined the SCO as a
Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand , Nepal and full member at a summit in Astana,
Bhutan are among the countries dependent on Kazakhstan on 9 June 2017.
the Bay of Bengal.
20th 2020 Russia (रूस)
Pakistan is not a member of it.
21th 2021 Tajikistan (ताजिजिस्तान)
4th 2018 Nepal
22th 2022 Uzbekistan (उज़्बेजिस्तान)
5th 2022 Sri Lanka
Head of government summit 2020 - India

SIRJEE CLASSES
7. International Solar Alliance (ISA)

8. Commonwealth Heads of
Founded at Paris, Government Meeting (CHOGM)
France
It is a biennial summit meeting of
Gurugram the de facto leaders from
Headquarter (haryana) all Commonwealth nations.
The International Solar Alliance (ISA) is an Headquarter London

alliance of countries initiated by India, most of
them being sunshine countries, which lie either Every two years the meeting is held
completely or partly between the Tropic of
Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. in a different member state and is
chaired by that nation's respective
Objective: - To bring together a group of Prime Minister or President.
nations to support clean energy, sustainable
environment, public transport and climate. 25th 2018 United kingdom (london)
26th 2020 Rwanda* (posponed due to covid-19)
1st 2018 India, New Delhi
2nd 2019 India, New Delhi 27th 2022 Samoa
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SIRJEE CLASSES
10. World economic forum

9. Non-Aligned Movement
The World Economic Forum is a NGO based
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is non-profit organization in Switzerland.
an international body of nations, Its mission is to set global, regional and
which have decided that they will industrial directions by bringing together
not be in favor of or against any leading people in the world's business,
power block in the world. politics, educational and other fields.
Headquarter Cologny, established 1971

Switzerland
It was established in
1961. Annual meeting in Davos
Globalization 4.0: shaping a

22–25
1st 1961 Yugoslavia Belgrade 2019 global architecture in the age of
January
the fourth industrial revolution
8th 2019 Azerbaijan Baku 20–24 Stakeholders for a cohesive and
2020
January sustainable world.
IMPORTANT INTERNATIONAL SUMMITS 2019

11. United Nations Climate Change conference SIRJEE CLASSES
The United Nations Climate Change

Conference is held annually in the
framework of the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCC).
They serve as a formal meeting of UNFCCC

parties (Conference of Parties, COP) to assess
progress to combat climate change.
The first United Nations Climate Change Conference

was held in 1995 in Berlin.
2018: COP Katowice, Poland

2019: COP Madrid, Spain
2021: Glasgow, United Kingdom
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SIRJEE CLASSES
summit YEAR venue
(108th indian science congress) 2021 Pune (maharashtra)
(1st global aviation summit) mumbai (maharashtra)

2019
(17th pravashi bhartiya diwas) new delhi
January, 2020
(14th organisation of islamic Mecca saudi arabia

cooperation) 2019
Note:-
(107th indian science congress 2020 ---- 3-7 january (Bangalore, karnataka)
WELCOME
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Brand Ambassadors List of Govt. Schemes
Person Brand Name Person Brand Name

Amitabh Bachchan City Compost Campaign Piruz Khambatta Make In India
Arunachal Pradesh
John Abraham West Bengal Brand
Tourism Ambassador Shah Rukh Khan
Ambassador
Narendra Modi Incredible India
Steffi Graf Kerala’s Ayurveda
UP farmers’ scheme Samajwadi
Nawazuddin Siddiqui Brand Ambassador of yoga
Kisan Beema Yojna Baba Ramdev
and Ayurveda in Haryana
Central Reserve Police Force Ankit Fadia Digital India
PV Sindhu
(CRPF)
Anti-liquor and anti-drug Amitabh Bachchan Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
Sachin Tendulkar
campaign of Kerala
Amitabh Bachchan Pulse Polio
Beti Bachao, Beti Padao
Sakshi Malik Dia Mirza Swachh Saathi
campaign” in Haryana
MAA- Mother’s Absolute
Virat Kohli Punjab National Bank Madhuri Dixit
Affection’
Vidya Balan Samajwadi Pension Yojna Deepika Padukone Indian Psychiatric Society
List of Brand Ambassadors in India

Name of the Brands Name of the Brands SIRJEE CLASSES
Person Person
& Campaigns & Campaigns
Mobile Premier League Tamannaah Bhatia Goodwill ambassador for
Jaya Prada
Nepal tourism
PUMA Mary Kom, Sunil Chhetri
Health-related programmes
Gauri Sheoran
Kurkure Akshay Kumar of Haryana
PNB MetLife PV Sindhu BSNL Mary Kom
Swasth Immunised India Kareena Kapoor Khan India’s Ambassador to US Taranjit Singh Sandhu
Indian Ambassadors to Vistara Deepika Padukone

Ruchira Kamboj
Bhutan
Gulf Oil Hardik Pandya
Bharat Scouts And Guides Shreya Chopra
Diva Ritabhari
Dabur Honey
Chakraborty
Nissan Global Ambassador Rohit Sharma
Britania Sachin Tendulkar
Clean India Mission Shilpa Shetty Samsung, Vivo mobile,
Aamir Khan
Phone Pe, Ceat Tyres
Brand Ambassador of TATA
India’s Ambassador to UN Indra Mani Pandey
Group for its all-new stylish Hrithik Roshan
Varun Dhawan and sedan, the Tata Tiger.
Skill India Campaign
Anushka Sharma Dettol India Amitabh Bachchan
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List of Brand Ambassadors in India

SIRJEE CLASSES
Name of the Brands Name of the Brands
Person Person
& Campaigns & Campaigns
Mastercard Mahendra Singh Dhoni BATA Kriti Sanon
Syska group Rajkummar Rao Tata Sons( for global
S Jaishankar
corporate affairs)
Nokia Alia Bhatt
Vivo Virat Kohli
Maruti Varun Dhawan
Uber Virat Kohli
Bharat Matrimony M.S Dhoni
Gaming platform
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Uber eats Alia Bhatt Dream11
Apollo Tyres Sachin Tendulkar UN Covid-19 Group Tanishqa Anand
Datsun India Aamir Khan Sikkim AR Rahman

Ranbir Kapoor and Swachh Bharat Mission in
Flipkart Suresh Raina
Shraddha Kapoor Ghaziabad City (Uttar Pradesh)
Assam ( state’s brand
Hima Das Hyundai (Continues for
ambassador) Shahrukh Khan
Indigo Paints MS Dhoni 2 more years)
Road safety awareness
Aarogya Setu Ajay Devgan Akshay Kumar
campaign.
WELCOME
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Joint Military Exercises: 2018-2021

SIRJEE CLASSES
PARTICIPATING BETWEEN PARTICIPATING BETWEEN
EXERCISE NAME EXERCISE NAME
NATION FORCES NATION FORCES
Malabar military India, Japan and Konkan - 2019 India & UK Navy
Navy
Exercise America
KAZIND - 2019 India & Kazakhstan Army Cobra Gold 2019 USA & it’s members Army
Maitree - 2019 India & Thailand Army IMBEX - 2018-19 India & Myanmar Army
SLINEX - 2019 India & Sri-Lanka Navy Maldives, India and

DOSTI - 14 Navy
Sri Lanka
Yudh Abhyas -2021 India & US Army
Shaheen - 8 China & Pakistan Air Force Dharma Guardian India & Japan Army
Garuda - 6 India & France Air Force

JIMEX - 2018 India & Japan Navy
SIMBEX - 2019 India & Singapore Navy
Varun - 2019 India & France Navy Harimau Shakti
India & Malaysia Army
- 2018
Bold Kurukshetra
India & Singapore Army
- 2019
Lamitye - 2018 India & Seychelles Army
AUSINDEX - 2019 India & Australia Navy
Gagan Shakti Indian Air Force
Air Force
Al nagah-III- 2019 India & Oman Army - 2018 exercises
VINBAX - 2019 India & vietnam Army

Sampriti-IX India & Bangladesh Army
WELCOME
2020-21 MOST IMPORTANT
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MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS & AUTHORS 2021

SIRJEE CLASSES
(1). Home In The

World’ Book’
(2). Believe – What Life
and Cricket Taught
Me’
Author:- Amartya Sen’s Author:- Suresh Raina
(3). “Nehru, Tibet (4). India and Asian

and China” Geopolitics: The
Past, Present’
Author:- Avtar Singh Bhasin Author:- Shivshankar

Menon

SIRJEE CLASSES
(5). “7 Lessons from (6). “Advantage India:

Everest. The Story of Indian
Tennis”
Author:- Aditya Gupta

Author:- Anindya Dutta
(7). By Many a Happy (8). “Platform Scale: For

Accident: Recollections a Post-Pandemic
of a Life’ World”
Author:- M Hamid Ansari Author:- Sangeet Paul

Choudhary
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SIRJEE CLASSES
(9). ‘The Little Book of (10). “Dynasty to

Encouragement’ Democracy: The Untold
Story of Smriti Irani’s
Triumph”
Author:- Dalai Lama

Author:- Anant Vijay’s
(11). ‘Manohar Parrikar: (12). ‘The Christmas Pig’

Brilliant Mind, Simple
Life’
Author:- Nitin Gokhale Author:- JK Rowling

SIRJEE CLASSES
(1). Dreams of a Billion:

India and the Olympic
(2). A Child of Destiny
Games
Author:-
Author:- Boria Majumdar Prof. K. Ramakrishna Rao
(3). 'An Extraordinary Life: (4). How the Onion Got

A Biography of Manohar its Layers”
Parrikar
Author:-
a. Sadhguru Patil Author:- Sudha Murty
b. Mayabhushan Nagvekar
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SIRJEE CLASSES
(5). Shuttling to the Top: (6). Vijyant at Kargil:

The Story of PV Sindhu The Life of a Kargil
Hero called
Author:- V. Krishnaswamy Author:- V.N. Thapar
(7). Fear of God (8). 'Wuhan Diary:

dispatches from a
Quarantined City
Author:- Bommadevara
Sai Chandravadhan
Author:- fang fang

SIRJEE CLASSES
(9). #MeToo (10). Legend of Suheldev:

The King Who Saved
India
Author:- Karan Puri

Author:- Amish Tripathi
(11). A Burning (12). 'Overdraft: Saving

the Indian Saver
Author:- Megha Majumdar

Author:- Urjit Patel
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Complete List of Obituaries 2021 Complete List of Obituaries 2020

Name of Person Field SIRJEE CLASSES
Name of Person Field
Rohit Sardana TV Journalist and News Anchor
Najeeb Tarakai Afghanistan’s Cricket player
V Kalyanam Personal Secretary to Mahatma Gandhi Union Minister for Consumer
Ram Vilas Paswan Affairs,
Shesh Narayan Singh Senior Journalist Food and Public Distribution
Shobha Naidu Kuchipudi Dancer
Ravinder Pal Singh Olympic Medalist Hockey Player
Bhanu Athaiya First Indian to win Oscar
Former Union Minister and
Chaman Lal Gupta Akkitham Achuthan
Senior BJP Leader Malayalam Poet
Namboothiri
Sunderlal Bahuguna Environmentalist and Gandhian
Kapila Vatsyayan Indian Classical Dancer
Sankha Ghosh Bengali Poet
Swami Ahnivesh Social Activist
Rajiv Kapoor Actor Former shortest-serving RBI
Amitabha Ghosh
Governor
Former governor of
Justice M Rama Jois John Turner Former Prime Minister of Canada
Bihar and Jharkhand
Ved Mehta Indian-American Writer Dean Jones Former Australian Cricketer
Padmashri awardee, veteran
Ustad Ghulam atomic
Indian Classical Musician Sekhar Basu
Mustafa Khan scientist and former chairman of
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
Narendra Chanchal Indian Bhajan Singer Jaswant Singh Former Union Minister
Major Cyclones in 2019-21

SIRJEE CLASSES
Name Country / State
Tauktae Gujarat
Yaas West Bengal and Odisha Coast
Faxai Japan
Dorian Northern Bahamas (U.S.)
Vayu Gujarat
Fani Odisha
Usman Manila (Philippines)
Pabuk Gulf of Thailand
Nisarga Maharashtra and south Gujarat
Amphan West Bengal
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Major Festivals in year 2019-21

Celebration/ festival State/union territory
Sangam Yuva Mahotsav Jammu & Kashmir
Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav Jabalpur (MP)
Shirui Lily Manipur
Nuakhai festival Odisha
Bonalu and Bathukamma Telangana
Aadi Mahotsav Leh (Ladakh)
Sindhu Darshan Festival Leh (Ladakh)
Losar Ladakh
Hornbill Festival Nagaland
Mandu festival Madhya Pradesh
Jati janjatiya mahotsav New Delhi
Bali Yatra mahotsav Odisha

International Cherry Blossom
Shillong (Meghalaya)
Festival
Tokyo 2020 Olympics

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics was an international sports event that
held from 23 July to 8 August 2021, in the city of Tokyo, Japan.
Medal summary
2020 Summer Olympics medal table
Rank Team Gold Silver Bronze Total Host city Tokyo, Japan
Motto United by Emotion

United States
1 39 41 33 113
(USA) Nations 205 (+ EOR team)
Events 339 in 33 sports

2 China (CHN) 38 32 18 88 (50 disciplines)
Opening 23 July 2021

3 Japan (JPN)* 27 14 17 58
Closing 8 August 2021
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India (IND) 1 2 4 7
Mascot: Miraitowa; created by Ryo Taniguchi
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Tokyo 2020 Olympics

India Medals Tally at Olympics 2020
Players Game Medal
MIRABAI Chanu Saikhom Weight Lifting Silver
PUSARLA V. Sindhu (PV Sindhu) Badminton Bronze
BORGOHAIN Lovlina Boxing Bronze
Men’s Hockey Team Hockey Bronze
Ravi Kumar Dahiya Wrestling Silver
Bajrang Punia Wrestling Bronze
Neeraj Chopra Athletics (Javelin Throw) Gold
Boxer M C Mary Kom and men's hockey team skipper Manpreet Singh ------ India's flag
bearers at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics.
Wrestler Bajrang Punia ------ the flag bearer at the closing ceremony.
Tokyo 2020 Paralympics

The Tokyo 2020 Paralympics was an international sports
event that held from 24 August to 5 September 2021, in the
city of Tokyo, Japan.
Medal summary
2020 Summer Olympics medal table

Host city Tokyo, Japan
Rank Team Gold Silver Bronze Total
Motto United by Emotion
1 China (CHN) 96 60 51 207 Nations 162
Events 539 in 22 sports
2 Great Britain 41 38 45 124 Opening 24 August 2021
United States Closing 5 September 2021

3 37 36 31 104
(USA)
24
India (IND) 5 8 6 19
Mascot: Someity
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Tokyo 2020 Paralympics

India Medals Tally at Paralympics 2020
Name Sport Medal Name Sport Medal
Avani Lekhara Shooting Gold Praveen Kumar Athletics Silver
Sumit Antil Athletics Gold Singhraj Adhana Shooting Silver

Manish Narwal Shooting Gold
Suhas Lalinakere Badminton Silver
Pramod Bhagat Badminton Gold Yathiraj
Sundar Singh Gurjar Athletics Bronze
Krishna Nagar Badminton Gold
Singhraj Adhana Shooting Bronze
Bhavina Patel Table tennis Silver
Sharad Kumar Athletics Bronze
Nishad Kumar Athletics Silver
Yoges Kathuniya Athletics Silver Avani Lekhara Shooting Bronze
Devendra Jhajharia Athletics Silver Harvinder Singh Archery Bronze
Mariyappan Athletics Silver Manoj Sarkar Badminton Bronze

Thangavelu
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India's Rankings in Different Indices – 2019-21

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Index Index released by India's Rank 1st Rank

Good Governance Index Ministry of Personnel, Public
--- Tamil Nadu
2019 Grievances and Pensions
Human Development UNDP (United Nations
131th Norway
Index 2020 Development Programme)
Global Climate Risk Index
Germanwatch 7th Japan
2021
International Intellectual US Chamber Of Commerce’s
40 USA
Property Index 2020 Global Innovation Policy Center
Index Index released by India's Rank 1stRank

172th Massachusetts
QS University Rankings 2021 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Institute of
(IIT Bombay) Technology (MIT)
IMD (institute for Management 62th
World Talent Ranking 2020 Switzerland
Development)
--
School Education Quality Index NITI Aayog Kerala
63rd
Ease of doing business 2020 World bank Newzealand

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Global Gender Gap Index 2021 World Economic Forum 140th Iceland
Irish aid agency Concern in

Global Hunger Index 2021 101th
partnership with Welt hunger hilfe
Global Competitiveness Index 2019 World Economic Forum (WEF) 68th Singapore
The Economist Intelligence Auckland

Global Liveability Index 2021
Unit (EIU) (New Zealand)

Delhi- 48th
Safe Cities Index 2021 The Economist Intelligence Unit Copenhagen
Mumbai- 50th
Composite Water Management NITI Aayog --
Gujarat
Index 2.0
World Inequalty Index 2020 Oxfam 129th Denmark
Inclusive Internet Index 2021 EIU (Economist Intelligence Unit) 49th Sweden
World Happiness Report 2021 Sustainable Development Solutions Network 139th Finland
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Health Index of India NITI Aayog Kerala
International Air Transport

Henley Passport Index 2021 90th Japan
Association (IATA)
Institute for Economics and Peace
Global Peace Index 2021 135th Iceland
(IEP)
World Press Freedom Index 2021 Reporters Without Borders 142nd Norway

Cornell University, INSEAD, and
Global Innovation Index 2020 the World Intellectual Property 48th Switzerland
Organization
86th Denmark &
Corruption Perception Index 2020 Transparency International
new zealand
Business school INSEAD in
Global Talent Competitive Index
collaboration with Addeco and 72nd Switzerland
(GTCI) 2020
Google.
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List of Major Government Schemes in India

Scheme Full-Form Date of Launch Government Ministry
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PMJDY Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana August 28, 2014 Ministry of Finance
PMMY Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana April 8, 2015 Ministry of Finance
PMJJBY Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana May 9, 2015 Ministry of Finance
PMSBY Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana May 9, 2015 Ministry of Finance
APY Atal Pension Yojana May 9, 2015 Ministry of Finance

KVP Kisan Vikas Patra March 3, 2015 Ministry of Finance
GMS Gold Monetisation Schemes November 4, 2015 Ministry of Finance
PMFBY Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana October 11, 2014 Ministry of Agriculture
PMGKY Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana July 1, 2015 Ministry of Agriculture
DDUGJY Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana July 25, 2015 Ministry of Power
RGM Rashtriya Gokul Mission December 16, 2014 Ministry of Agriculture and
Farmers Welfare
DI Digital India July 1, 2015 Ministry of Electronics and
Information Technology
SI Skill India July 16, 2015 Ministry of Skill Development
and Entrepreneurs
Important Schemes launched in India related to

Employment and Poverty Alleviation SIRJEE CLASSES
Scheme Full-form Date of Launch Government Ministry

MI Make in India Sep 25, 2014 Ministry of Commerce
and Industry
Startup India, Standup India Government of India
PMGKY Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana Dec 16, 2016 Ministry of Finance
Important Schemes related to Health and Sanitation

Scheme Full-Form Date of Launch Government Ministry
SBA Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Oct 2nd, 2014 Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
NG Namami Gange July 10, 2014 Ministry of Water Resources
AB Ayushman Bharat 2018 Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
(PM-JAY) (Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya
Yojana (PM-JAY)
Pradhan Mantri Jan March, 2016 Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
(PMJAY) Aushadhi Yojana
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Government Schemes launched by the Government

1. Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojna: SIRJEE CLASSES
(Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare)
The Government of India launched this scheme on 24th

February 2019.
This scheme is designed to help farmers who have a piece
of land less than 2 hectares.
This scheme has a provision that allows the transfer of
Rs. 6000 to the bank accounts of the farmers in need.
This scheme will also provide aid to farmers who are unable
to finance the expenditures related to agriculture.
2. Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-Dhan yojna (Ministry of Labour and Employment)
This is also a scheme which is aimed at helping the workers

of the unorganized sector like auto drivers, rag pickers, etc.
Assured Pension of Rs. 3000/- month will be given.
Eligibility
✓ For Unorganized Workers (UW)
✓ Entry Age between 18 to 40 years
✓ Monthly Income up to Rs 15000/-
3. PM CARES Fund
The Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in
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Emergency Situations Fund (PM CARES Fund) was

created on 28 March 2020, following the COVID-19
pandemic in India.
The fund will be used for combating, and containment
and relief efforts against the coronavirus outbreak and
similar pandemic like situations in the future.
The fund will also enable micro-donations.
The minimum donation accepted for the PM
CARES Fund is Rs. 10.
The donations will be tax exempt
and fall under corporate social
responsibility (CSR). Formation 28 March 2020
Members 1. Amit Shah (Minister of Home Affairs),

The fund was set up and will be
2. Nirmala Sitharaman (Minister of Finance),
used for disaster management 3. Rajnath Singh (Minister of Defence)
and research.
Chairman (PM) Narendra Modi (ex-officio chariman)
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4. Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY)

The Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY) was launched in the SIRJEE CLASSES
year 2016 by PM Narendra Modi on lines of income declaration scheme.

The PMGKY provided an opportunity to declare the
unaccounted wealth and black money in a confidential
manner and avoid prosecution after paying a fine of 50%
on the undisclosed income.
2020 coronavirus pandemic
Due to the outbreak of Covid-19 in India, the Finance Minister, had announced a
Rs. 1.7 lakh crore Gareeb Kalyan package under PM garib kalyan yojna to mitigate
the loss faced by the poor due to the coronavirus lockdown.
1. To provide an insurance cover of Rs 50 lakhs per health worker affected by COVID-19.
2. To provide free 5 kg wheat or rice and 1 kg of pulses for 80 crore poor people.
3. There will be an increase in MNREGA wage to Rs 202 per day to benefit 13.62 crore families.
extension
PM Modi in his speech on 30th June 2020 mentioned the extension of the PM Garib
Kalyan Yojana till the end of November 2020.
Over 80 crore poor people are to be provided free food grains till November 2020
5 kg of wheat/rice and 1 Kg of pulses per family.
5. Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan (PMGKRA)

The Government of India launched a rural public works SIRJEE CLASSES
scheme ‘Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan’ through video-

conferencing from village Telihar in Khagaria district
of Bihar on 20th June 2020.
Key Points
Beneficiaries: The scheme will empower and provide
livelihood opportunities to the return migrant workers
and rural citizens who have returned to their home
states due to the Covid-19 induced lockdown.
Duration and Outlay: This campaign will work in mission mode for 125 days with
an outlay of Rs. 50,000 crore.
Coverage: A total of 116 districts across 6 states, namely Bihar, Uttar Pradesh,
Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Odisha (where maximum migrant
workers have returned) have been chosen for the campaign.
The workers will help build gram panchayat bhawans and anganwadi centres,
national highway works, railway works and water conservation projects,
among others across 6 states.
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Scheme Launched in/on Objective
Jal Jeevan Mission To provide Piped Drinking water to
August 2019
(Ministry of Jal Shakti) every household.
•This Campaign will run into two phases:

Jal Shakti Abhiyaan •Focus on five aspects:
1. Water conservation, 2. Rain-water harvesting,
July 2019
(Ministry of Jal Shakti) 3. Renovation of Traditional and other water bodies,
4. Reuse of water and recharging of structure,
5. Watershed development and Intensive afforestation.
SHe-Box portal •To report complaints of Sexual Harassment at Workplace.
•For prompt disposal of complaints on SHe-Box, each case goes
(Ministry of Women and 2018
Child Development)
directly to the central/ state authority concerned having
jurisdiction to take action in the matter.
• To provide insurance coverage and financial support to the

farmers in the event of failure of any of the notified crop as a
Pradhan Mantri Fasal
result of natural calamities, pests & diseases.
Bima Yojana
13 Jan, 2016
• To encourage farmers to adopt innovative and modern
(Ministry of Agriculture agricultural practices.
and Farmers Welfare)
• A uniform premium of only 2% for all Kharif crops and 1.5% for
all Rabi crops; 5%. horticultural crops to be paid by farmers.

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• To provide free electricity connections to all households
SAUBHAGYA or PM Sahaj
September 2017 (both APL and poor families) in rural areas and poor
Bijli Har Ghar Yojana
families.
• To facilitate 24x7 supply of power.
Deen Dayal Upadhyaya • Feeder separation to ensure sufficient power to farmers
25 July 2015
Gram Jyoti Yojana and regular supply to other consumers.
• Metering to reduce the losses
PM Jeevan Jyoti Bima • It is available to people in the age group of 18 to 50 years.

9 May 2015
Yojana • The life cover of Rs. 2 lakh is for the one year period.
• The Scheme is available to people in the age group 18 to 70

years.
PM Suraksha Bima
9 May 2015 •The risk coverage under the scheme is Rs. 2 lakh for
Yojana accidental death and full disability and Rs. 1 lakh for partial
disability.
• It is open to all saving bank/post office saving bank account

holders in the age group of 18 to 40 years
Atal Pension Yojana 9 May 2015 • Subscribers would receive the guaranteed minimum
monthly pension of Rs. 1,000 or Rs. 2,000 or Rs. 3,000 or Rs.
4,000 or Rs. 5,000 at the age of 60 years.
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• A loan of upto Rs. 50,000 is given under sub-scheme ‘Shishu’

• A loan of between Rs. 50,000 to 5.0 Lakhs under sub-scheme ‘Kishore’;
PM Mudra Yojana 8 April, 2015
• A loan of between 5.0 Lakhs to 10.0 Lakhs under sub-scheme ‘Tarun’
• Loans taken do not require collaterals.
• To provide social security during old age and to protect elderly

persons aged 60 and above.
PM Vaya Vandana
21st July, 2017
Yojana • The scheme provides an assured return of 8% per annum for 10 years.
• It is implemented by LIC
• Making air travel affordable and widespread, to boost inclusive

UDAN (Ude Desh ka
27 April, 2017 national economic development, job growth and air transport
Aam Naagrik)
infrastructure development of all regions and states of India.
• To recharge groundwater and create sufficient water storage for

agricultural purposes.
Atal Bhujal Yojana 7 Feb, 2019
• The revival of surface water bodies so that the groundwater level
can be increased.
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(Science and technology)

1. Mission Chandrayaan - 2
Chandrayaan-2 is the second lunar exploration mission developed by
the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), after Chandrayaan-1.
As of September 2019, it consists of a lunar orbiter, and also included
the Vikram lander, and the Pragyan lunar rover, all of which were
developed in India.
The main scientific objective is to map and study the variations in Launch date 22 July 2019
lunar surface composition, as well as the location and abundance
Rocket GSLV Mark III
of lunar water.
Launch site Satish Dhawan
Chandrayaan Mission-1 was launched by PSLV-CII on October 22, 2008. Space Centre
Second Launch Pad
women project M. Vanita and
2. first driverless bullet train directors Ritu Karidhal.
The world's first driverless bullet train started operating in China on

January 6, 2019. The name of this train is named Fuxing Bullet Train and
has a speed of 350 kilometers per hour and its length is 439 meters.
On January 6, 2019, for the first time, this automated train run on Beijing-
Shanghai railway line.
3. Inauguration of ISRO's commercial arm

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The new commercial arm of the Indian Space Research

Organization(ISRO) was inaugurated on May 23, 2019 in
Bengaluru (Karnataka).
It is named New Space India Limited (NSIL).
4. Successful test of RISAT-2B

The RISAT-2B satellite was successfully launched by India's
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C46 from Satish Dhawan
Space Center (Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh) on 22 May 2019.
It is a radar imaging earth observation satellite weighing

around 615 kg. .
It aims to provide services in the fields of agro-forestry and

disaster management.
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5. 83 black hole discovered in the universe
At the center of the galaxy, 83 super-massive black holes were

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discovered by astronomers which is 13 billion light years from Earth.
This black hole belongs to a time when the universe was 10%
younger than its present age.
6. Nepal's first satellite launched
The first satellite Nepali Sat-1 of the Himalayan country 'Nepal',

was launched from Virginia (USA) on 18 April 2019.
It is a cube satellite weighing 1.3 kg.
7. Sri Lanka's first satellite Ravana-1
Sri Lanka's first satellite Ravana-1 was launched

successfully on 18 April 2019 with the NASA Valps
flight facility located in Virginia (USA).
8. The oldest human footprint discovered in Chile

The 15600 year-old human footprint, discovered from the
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southern region of the South American country 'Chile', is

considered the oldest human footprint ever. Information
was given in this regard on 27 April 2019.
9. Astrobee robot' prepared by NASA

Some robots will be sent along with astronauts for a new
invention in space.
These robots will be bee-shaped, named 'Astrobi robots'.
10. ISRO's successful test of Mission Shakti
On March 27, 2019, Indian scientists shot down a satellite in the
Earth's lower orbit in space.
A-SAT missile was used to shot down this satellite.
11. 'Gaganyaan' mission 2021

Gaganyaan is India's manned space mission which the ISRO
aims to launch by December 2021.
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Budget 2021 Highlights

The Union Budget 2021-22 was presented by the Hon’ble Finance Minister
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Nirmala Sitharaman on 1st February 2021 in the Parliament.

It is the first-ever digital Union Budget of India.
Union Budget 2021 Important Highlights
1. Health and Well-being
Rs. 2,23,846 crore outlay for Health and Wellbeing in 2021-22 as against Rs.
94,452 crore in 2020-21 – an increase of 137%
Rs. 35,000 crores for COVID-19 vaccine in 2021-22.
Rs. 2,87,000 crore over 5 years for Jal Jeevan Mission (Urban).
2. Physical and Financial Capital and Infrastructure
Rs. 1,10,055 crore for Railways of which Rs. 1,07,100 crore is for capital expenditure.
National Rail Plan for India (2030): to create a future-ready Railway system by 2030.
100% electrification of Broad-Gauge routes to be completed by December 2023.
Extention of Ujjwala Scheme to cover 1 crore more beneficiaries.
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3. Inclusive Development for Aspirational India SIRJEE CLASSES
One Nation One Ration Card scheme for beneficiaries to claim rations anywhere
in the country – migrant workers to benefit the most.
Rs. 15,700 crore budget allocation to MSME Sector, more than double of this year‟s.
4. Reinvigorating Human Capital
Central University to come up in Leh for accessibility of higher education in Ladakh.
750 Eklavya model residential schools in tribal areas.
5. Innovation and R&D
PSLV-CS51 to be launched by New Space India Limited (NSIL) carrying Brazil‟s
Amazonia Satellite and some Indian satellites.
As part of the Gaganyaan mission activities: 4 Indian astronauts being trained on
Generic Space Flight aspects, in Russia.
The first unmanned launch is slated for December 2021.
4,000 crore over five years for Deep Ocean Mission survey exploration and
conservation of deep-sea biodiversity.

6. Minimum Government, Maximum Governance SIRJEE CLASSES
3,768 crore allocated for the first digital census in the history of India.
300 crore grant to the Government of Goa for the diamond jubilee celebrations
of the state’s liberation from the Portuguese.
1,000 crore for the welfare of Tea workers especially women and their children
in Assam and West Bengal through a special scheme.
7. Tax Proposals In Budget 2021
1. Direct Taxes
Relief to Senior Citizens:- Exemption from filing tax returns for senior citizens
over 75 years of age and having only pension and interest income; tax to be
deducted by paying bank.
Tax holiday for Affordable Housing projects extended till March 2022.
2. Indirect Taxes
An Agricultural Infrastructure and Development CESS of Rs 2.5 per litre on
petrol and Rs 4 on diesel.
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8. Achievements and Milestones during the COVID-19 pandemic SIRJEE CLASSES
➢ Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY): Valued at 2.76 lakh crore.
➢ Free food grain to 80 crore people.
➢ Free cooking gas for 8 crore families.
➢ Direct cash to over 40 crore farmers, women, elderly, the poor and the needy.
9. Clean Air
2,217 crore to tackle air pollution, for 42 urban centers with a million-plus
population.
10. Vehicle Scrapping Policy
Voluntary vehicle scrapping policy to phase out old and unfit vehicles 1′ Fitness
tests in automated fitness centres:
➢ After 20 years in case of personal vehicles.
➢ After 15 years in case of commercial vehicles.
11. Production Linked Incentive scheme (PLI)
➢ 1.97 lakh crore in next 5 years for PLI schemes in 13 Sectors.
➢ To create and nurture manufacturing global champions for an AatmaNirbhar Bharat.

12. Increasing FDI in Insurance Sector SIRJEE CLASSES
To increase the permissible FDI limit from 49% to 74% and allow foreign
ownership and control with safeguards.
13. Disinvestment and Strategic Sale
1,75,000 crore estimated receipts from disinvestment in 2020-21.
Strategic disinvestment of BPCL, Air India, Shipping Corporation of India,
Container Corporation of India, IDBI Bank, BEML, Pawan Hans, Neelachal Ispat
Nigam limited, etc. to be completed in 2021-22.
Other than IDBI Bank, two Public Sector Banks and one General Insurance
company to be privatized.
IPO of LIC in 2021-22.
14. Agriculture
Ensured MSP at minimum 1.5 times the cost of production across all commodities.
‘Operation Green Scheme’ to be extended to 22 perishable products, to boost value
addition in agriculture and allied products.
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Fiscal Position SIRJEE CLASSES
Item Original BE 2020-21 RE 2020-21 BE 2021-22
Expenditure Rs. 30.42 lakh crore Rs. 34.50 lakh crore Rs. 34.83 lakh crore
Capital Expenditure Rs. 4.12 lakh crore Rs. 4.39 lakh crore Rs. 5.5 lakh crore
Fiscal Deficit (as % of GDP) – 9.5% 6.8%
The fiscal deficit in 2021-2022 is estimated to be 8% of GDP.
The fiscal deficit in 2020-21 is pegged at 9.5% of GDP – funded through

Government borrowings, multilateral borrowings, Small Saving Funds,
and short term borrowings.
Govt. Plan to continue on the path of fiscal consolidation, achieving a
fiscal deficit level below 4.5% of GDP by 2025-2026 with a fairly steady
decline over the period
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MOST IMPORTANT CURRENT AFFAIRS

(OCTOBER 2020) SIRJEE CLASSES
1. Which day is observed as world food day?
a. 16 October
b. 15 October
c. 15 September
d. 16 November
2. What is the theme (2020) for Global Handwashing Day that is observed
on 15 October every year?
a. Clean Hands for All

b. Hath Dhona Roke Corona
c. Hygiene for All
d. Hand Hygiene for All

3. Which of the following countries has been elected as the President

of the International Solar Alliance (ISA)?
a. USA
b. India
c. Germany
d. Spain
4. Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson have been awarded the 2020 Nobel
Prize in which field?
a. Physics
b. Chemistry
c. Peace
d. Economics
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5. Which state will feature on country's aviation map with a greenfield

airport at Hollongi?
a. Manipur
b. Arunachal Pradesh
c. Mizoram
d. Nagaland
6. Who has written the book titled ‘The Khalistan Conspiracy’?
a. Ruskin Bond
b. Aravind Adiga
c. Rohinton Mistry
d. G.B.S. Sidhu

7. In Tennis, who won his 13th French Open men’s singles

in October 2020?
a. Roger Federer Women's Singles

b. Rafael Nadal Iga Świątek (Poland)
c. Novak Djokovic
d. Alexander Zverev
8. Which multinational technology company has announced the plan to

give its employees an option to work from home permanently?
a. Microsoft
b. Google
c. IBM
d. Yahoo
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9. Which state has become the 1st Har Ghar Jal State in the country by
providing tap water connection to every rural household?
a. Kerala
b. Goa
c. Odisha
d. Punjab
10. When is World Post Day observed?
a. 6 October
b. 7 October
c. 8 October
d. 9 October

11. CM of which state has launched a forest and wildlife helpline

number 1926?
a. Uttarakhand
b. Kerala
c. Madhya Pradesh
d. Odisha
12. Union Minister Piyush Goyal has been assigned the additional charge of
which of the following ministries?
a. Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs

b. Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
c. Ministry of Home Affairs
d. Ministry of Women and Child Development
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13. According to a World Bank report, coronavirus pandemic could push

how many million people into extreme poverty by the end of 2021?
a. 50
b. 100
c. 150
d. 200
14. Who has won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2020?
a. Louise Glück
b. Peter Handke
c. Abiy Ahmed Ali
d. John B. Goodenough

15. Who has been appointed as the deputy governor of the Reserve
Bank of India?
a. Arun Kumar
b. M Rajeshwar Rao
c. I. G. Patel
d. Raghunath Singh
16. In order to provide a safe city to the women, the UP govt is setting up a 'Data
Analytical Centre' under which of the following women power lines?
a. 1020
b. 1050
c. 1090
d. 1100
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17. Who has launched a campaign 'Jan Andolan’ for COVID-19 Appropriate
Behaviour?
a. Narendra Modi
b. Amit Shah
c. Rajnath Singh
d. Uddhav Thackeray
18. Which country has formally joined COVAX, the global initiative for COVID-19
vaccine by signing an agreement with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance?
a. China
b. Indonesia
c. Afghanistan
d. Singapore

19. Dinesh Kumar Khara has been appointed as the Chairman of which of
the following banks for a period of three years?
a. State Bank of India

b. HDFC Bank
c. PNB
d. ICICI Bank
20. What is the theme of the 12th BRICS Summit to be held in November 2020?
a. BRICS: Economic Growth for an Innovative Future

b. BRICS in Africa: Collaboration for Inclusive Growth and Shared Prosperity in
the 4th Industrial Revolution
c. Stronger Partnership for brighter Future
d. BRICS Partnership for Global Stability, Shared Security and Innovative Growth
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21. India has agreed to work towards the operationalisation of the Sittwe
port with which country in the first quarter of 2021?
a. Myanmar
b. Bhutan
c. Bangladesh
d. Sri Lanka
22. Which state is set to establish India's first vulture breeding and
conservation centre?
a. Bihar
b. Madhya Pradesh
c. Uttar Pradesh
d. Rajasthan

23. Which state received India Today's award for the best state combating
COVID-19?
a. Punjab
b. Kerala
c. Odisha
d. Bihar
24. Who gave Swachh Bharat Awards – 2020 to States, Districts, Blocks and
Village Panchayats? Under the Swachh Sundar Samudayik Shouchalaya category Gujarat bagged
the first position at state level .
a. Amit Shah whereas Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu got the Award for cleanliness at District
b. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat Level.
c. Parshottam Rupala Khachrod block in Ujjain district in Madhya Pradesh was awarded the first
d. Narendra Modi position.
Chinnanur Village in Tamil Nadu bagged the top slot at Gram Panchayat level.
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25. According to NCRB data, "Crimes in India 2019", which state reported the highest
number of crimes in both categories (crimes against women and crimes against
Schedule Caste)?
a. Haryana
b. Assam
c. Uttar Pradesh
d. Madhya Pradesh
26. In Swachh Bharat Awards 2020, under the Samudayik Shouchalaya Abhiyan,
which state/states was/were awarded best performing states?
a. Punjab
b. Uttar Pradesh Prayagraj and Bareilly got it for being
the best performing districts.
c. Gujarat
d. Only b and c

27. Which of the following has officially renamed one of its stations as
"Pride Station“ dedicated to the transgender community?
a. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation

b. Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation
c. Noida Metro Rail Corporation
d. Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation Ltd.
Sector-50 station ------ 'Pride Station'
28. The South Eastern Railway has launched a project to boost the security of
women passengers in trains during their entire journey. What is the name
of the project?
a. Rail Sathi
b. Humsafar
c. Madad
d. My Saheli
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29. ISRO is scheduled to launch its Venus mission in 2025 and which country
will participate in it?
a. Japan
b. France
c. USA
d. Russia
30. Which country has removed Pakistan- occupied Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan
from Pakistan's map?
a. Russia
b. China
c. Oman
d. Saudi Arabia

31. Which state is all set to have India's first sand dune park?
a. Andhra Pradesh
b. Goa
c. Telangana
d. Gujarat
32. In which state, 64th Dhammachakra Pravartan Day was celebrated at

Dikshabhoomi in October 2020?
a. Karnataka
b. Telangana
c. Kerala
d. Maharashtra
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33. In which country online government services can now be accessed by facial
recognition, being the 1st in the world?
a. Singapore
b. China
c. Indonesia
d. Japan
34. What is the name of the autobiography of NK Singh, released in October 2020?
a. The Test of My Life

b. Matters of Discretion
c. Portraits of Power
d. My Country My Life

35. According to the Sydney-based Lowy Institute's Asia Power Index for 2020,
which country topped the most powerful country influencing the Asia-Pacific?
a. China
b. USA
c. Japan
d. Russia
36. In which state, a fine of 500 rupees will be imposed on the people who spit
in the railway premises?
a. Madhya Pradesh
b. Bihar
c. Haryana
d. Uttar Pradesh
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37. According to the Global Hunger Index 2020, how much per cent of
India's population was undernourished?
a. 12
b. 14 India ranked 94th out of 107
c. 16
d. 18
38. which country has knocked off Japan for the strongest passport in the
world according to the latest Global Passport Index?
a. Germany
b. New Zealand
c. Japan India --- 58
d. France
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(NOVEMBER 2020) SIRJEE CLASSES
1. China successfully launched its first unmanned space mission in November

2020 to collect samples from the moon's surface and return to earth. It successfully
launched which of the following probes from the southern province of Hainan?
a. ExoMars
b. Artemis 2
c. Chang'e-5
d. Luna 24
2. What is the rank of Mumbai in the Prime Global Cities Index released
by Knight Frank?
a. 27
b. 29 New delhi:------ 27th
c. 31 Mumbai -------– 33th
d. 33 Bengaluru ----- 34th

3. What is the theme of the International Day for the Elimination

of Violence 2020?
a. Orange the World: Fund, Respond, Prevent, Collect

b. Orange the World: #Hear Me Too
c. Orange the World: Generation Equality Stands Against Rape
d. Leave No One Behind
4. Who is the author of the book "The Battle of Belonging”?
a. Shashi Tharoor
b. Jai Ratan
c. Kapil Sibal
d. Jairam Ramesh
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5. Which of the following states/UTs has launched 'Him Suraksha Abhiyan’?
a. Himachal Pradesh
b. Jammu and Kashmir
c. Sikkim
d. Ladakh
6. Which of the following has bagged the best drama series honour at the 48th
International Emmy Awards?
a. She
b. Delhi Crime
c. Mirzapur
d. Crime Patrol

7. Which country is set to host the G-20 summit in 2023?
a. China
b. India
c. Russia
d. Japan
8. In Tennis, who won the ATP Tour Finals in November 2020?
a. Rafael Nadal
b. Dominic Thiem
c. Wesley Koolhof
d. Daniil Medvedev
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9. India International Cherry Blossom Festival has been cancelled for 2020 in the
wake of COVID-19 pandemic. It is the calendar event of which state?
a. Meghalaya
b. West Bengal
c. Telangana
d. Gujarat
10. India's first moss garden has been developed in which state?
a. Jharkhand
b. Uttarakhand
c. Bihar
d. Punjab

11. Which is the only country among G-20 nations which is on track to meet
what it had promised in 2015 under the Paris Agreement on climate change?
a. India
b. Germany
c. Canada
d. Argentina
12. New York-based Scottish writer Douglas Stuart has won the 2020
Booker Prize for which of the following novels?
a. The New Wilderness

b. Shuggie Bain
c. Redhead by the side of the Road
d. A Burning
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13. According to the ICC, the next Women's T20 World Cup will
now be held in which year?
a. 2021
b. 2022
c. 2023
d. 2024
14. What is the score of India in a global list that measures

business bribery risks of 2020?
a. 35
b. 40
c. 45
d. 50

15. Which day is observed as National Press Day?
a. 15 November
b. 16 November
c. 11 November
d. 18 November
16. Who has been appointed as state icon of Punjab by the Election Commission
of India (ECI)?
a. Virat Kohli
b. Akshay Kumar
c. Harbhajan Singh
d. Sonu Sood
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17. Who among the following took oath as the Deputy chief ministers
of Bihar?
a. Tarkishore Prasad
b. Vijay Kumar Chaudhary
c. Renu Devi
d. Both 1 and 3
18. Soumitra Chatterjee passed away in November 2020. He was

related to which of the following fields?
a. Acting
b. Politics
c. Journalism
d. Cricket

19. What is the theme of World Diabetes Day 2020?
a. The Family and Diabetes

b. Diabetes concerns every family
c. The Nurse And Diabetes
d. Our right to a healthy future
20. At what age has Abhijita Gupta been recognized as the world’s
youngest author by the International Book of Records?
a. 6
b. 7
c. 8
d. 9
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21. Who won the IPL 2020 Orange Cap?
a. Rishabh Pant
b. Virat Kohli
c. AB de Villiers
d. KL Rahul
22. Who was conferred the honorary rank of General of the Nepali Army by
Nepal’s President Bidhya Devi Bhandari at a special ceremony in Kathmandu?
a. M.M. Naravane
b. Bipin Rawat
c. Ranbir Singh
d. Birender Singh Dhanoa

23. Which country has become the first country to formally exit the Paris
climate agreement?
a. Japan
b. China
c. UK
d. United States of america
24. Who is the author of the book, titled "Till We Win"?
a. Chandrakant Lahariya
b. Gagandeep Kang
c. Om Prakash Gupta
d. Both 1 and 2
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25. Malayalam author S Hareesh has won the coveted JCB Prize for Literature
2020 for which novel?
a. Moustache
b. Undertow
c. Chosen Spirits
d. A Burning
26. Who is the author of the novel 'Rasaathi: The Other Side of a
Transgender’?
a. Salman Rushdie
b. Sasindran Kallinkeel
c. Aravind Adiga
d. Vikram Chandra

27. Which of the following has declared 'lockdown' as its Word of the Year
2020 after it was used frequently due to the COVID pandemic?
a. Oxford English Dictionary

b. Collins Dictionary
c. Webster's New World Dictionary
d. Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners
28. Who emerged from the IPL 2020 tournament as the highest wicket-taker
taking home the Purple Cap?
a. Jofra Archer
b. Kagiso Rabada
c. Mohammed Shami
d. Shimron Hetmyer
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29. Who has broken the record for the most ODIs as an on-field umpire
after standing in his 210th match?
a. Steve Bucknor
b. Billy Bowden
c. Aleem Dar
d. Rod Tucker
30. The inspiring story of 'Forest man of India’ has reached the pages of US
schools books. Who is the 'Forest man of India’?
a. Chewang Norphel
b. Jadav Payeng
c. Rajendra Singh
d. Dashrath Manjhi

31. Which of the following Indian women cricketers was Awarded

ekalavya award by karnataka govt?
a. Shaifali Verma
b. Veda Krishnamurthy
c. Smriti Mandhana
d. Rajeshwari Gayakwad
32. In which state COVID-19 test Laboratory has been set up at Rajiv
Gandhi International Airport?
a. Karnataka
b. Telangana
c. Maharashtra
d. Gujarat
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33. Which of the following word has been named as Word of the Year
2020 by cambridge dictionary?
a. Quarantine
b. Lockdown
c. Pandemic
d. Social Distancing
34. The Chief Minister of which state expanded the state-run "Swasthya
Sathi” health scheme to cover the entire population of the state?
a. West Bengal
b. Jharkhand
c. Chhattisgarh
d. Punjab

35. The Chief Minister of which state inaugurated the "Organ

Donor Memorial"?
a. Gujarat
b. Punjab
c. Rajasthan
d. Bihar
36. In which state did Cyclone Nivar causes heavy destruction?
a. Maharashtra
Damage ------------- $54.2 million (2020 USD)
b. Kerala
c. Tamil Nadu Areas affected ---- Sri Lanka, Andhra Pradesh,
d. Goa Tamil Nadu, Puducherry
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37. Which of the following films has been selected as India's official entry to
the Academy Awards, or the Oscars for this year?
a. Jallikattu
b. Kappela
c. Neram
d. Premam
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(DECEMBER 2020) SIRJEE CLASSES
1. Who bagged the top spot to be named the People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals (PETA) India's hottest star?
a. Sonu Sood
b. Shradha Kapoor
c. Akshay Kumar
d. Both 1 and 2
2. Which country bagged the first spot in the Human Freedom Index 2020?
a. New Zealand
b. Finland
c. Denmark
d. Sweden
India was placed at the 111th spot out of 162 countries.

3. The US Treasury Department (USDT) has put which country back on

its currency manipulation watchlist?
a. Bhutan
b. India
c. Bangladesh
d. Sri Lanka
4. What is the theme of the India International Science Festival (IISF) 2020?
a. Science for Self-reliant India and Global Welfare

b. RISEN India - Research, Innovation, and Science Empowering the Nation
c. Science and Technology – Building Partnerships
d Science for the masses
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5. The inaugural ceremony of International Film Festival of India (IFFI)

will be held in January 2021 in which state?
a. Maharashtra
b. Goa
c. Kerala
d. Tamil Nadu
6. Which country passed a bill to boost nuclear activity, after the

assassination of its nuclear physicist?
a. Iran
b. North Korea
c. Libya
d. Chile It aims to uplift the country’s nuclear activities, following the assassination of
Iranian nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

7. Which of the following has/have unveiled a new digital payment

app 'DakPay’?
a. Department of Posts
b. India Post Payments Bank
c. Paytm
d. Both 1 and 2
8. Who has been awarded the 2020 Ramanujan Prize for

Young Mathematicians?
a. Dr David Hilbert
b. Dr. Carolina Araujo
c. Dr Alan Turing
d. Dr Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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9. Who has announced a new non-fiction book Dharma: Decoding the

Epics for a Meaningful Life?
a. Chetan Bhagat
b. Jhumpa Lahiri
c. Amish
d. Shashi Tharoor
10. Which of the following NGOs received the "2020 UN Population Award" in the
institutional category for its contribution towards serving disadvantaged elderly
people and raising awareness on their cause?
a. Smile Foundation
b. World Vision India
c. HelpAge India
d. GiveIndia

11. Who has been named 'Businessperson of the Year' by TIME,

in December 2020?
a. Eric Yuan
b. Andrew Yang
c. Mark Zuckerberg
d. Jack Dorsey
12. In December 2020, who among the following was named Athlete of the
Year by Time magazine?
a. Kobe Bryant
b. Chris Paul
c. LeBron James
d. Dwight Howard
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13. Who has topped the world's 100 most powerful women list by Forbes, in
December 2020?
a. Nirmala Sitharaman
b. Kamala Harris
c. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
d. Angela Merkel
14. Who among the following has been named the female World Athletes
of the Year at the World Athletics Awards 2020?
a. Yuri Alvear
b. Yulimar Rojas
c. Mariana Pajón
d. Ana Peleteiro

15. Nepal and China have jointly announced the revised height of the
world’s highest peak, Mount Everest, as to how many metres?
a. 8848.42m
b. 8848.86m
c. 8849.18m
d. 884.34m
16. Journalist-author Raj Kamal Jha has won the 3rd Rabindranath Tagore
Literary Prize for which novel?
a. The Empty Room

b. A Patchwork Family
c. The City and The Sea
d. There's Gunpowder in the Air
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17. Which district has topped the rankings of aspirational districts

by Niti Aayog for October 2020?
a. Guna
b. Mamit
c. Dhenkanal
d. Pakur
18. Which country has become the second nation to plant flag
on the Moon?
a. China
b. Russia
c. Italy
d. Japan

19. In December 2020, who has been named as "Asians of the Year" by
Singapore's The Straits Times?
a. Adar Poonawalla
b. Zhang Yongzhen
c. Ryuichi Morishita
d. All 1, 2 and 3
20. Who has virtually released the book, '40 Years with Abdul
Kalam-Untold Stories' authored by Dr Sivathang Pillai?
a. Venkaiah Naidu
b. Ram Nath Kovind
c. Rajnath Singh
d. Narendra Modi
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21.Who among the following has/have been named by Fortune among the
Businessperson of the Year 2020?
a. Shantanu Narayen
b. Ajay Banga
c. Rajeev Suri
d. Both 1 and 2
22. Who has been named as TIME magazine’s first-ever Kid of the Year?
a. Banita Sandhu
b. Gitanjali Rao
c. Shilpa Ranade
d. Anukriti Mishra

23. When is Indian Navy Day celebrated?
a. 1 December
b. 2 December
c. 3 December
d. 4 December
24. Who has been named the Person of the Year for 2020 by the People
for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)?
a. Salman Khan
b. John Abraham
c. Hrithik Roshan
d. Shahrukh Khan
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25. Which police station has been selected as the best police station in India
by the Ministry of Home Affairs in its fresh rankings for 2020?
a. Kharsang
b. Jhilmili
c. Nongpok Sekmai
d. Kalighat
26. Which state launched its massive outreach campaign "Duare Sarkar"
(government at doorsteps)?
a. Odisha
b. West Bengal
c. Jharkhand
d. Bihar

27. Utpal Kumar Singh has been appointed as Secretary-General of the

Lok Sabha. Whom will he succeed?
a. Usha Sangwan
b. Rajiv Lall
c. Kishor Kharat
d. Snehlata Shrivastava
28. A child-friendly police station was launched in Pune. Pune police have
worked with which of the following to set up this?
a. Genesis Foundation
b. Child Rights and You
c. Childline India Foundation
d. Hope for Children Foundation
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29. The World Health Organisation has launched which of the following apps
for disbursing official numbers, news and information in terms of
symptoms to users?
a) WHO Covid-19 Fight

b) WHO Covid-19 Updates
c) WHO Covid Watch
d) WHO Trace Together
30. Vineet Agarwal has taken over as the new President

of which of the following?
a) FICCI
b) CII
c) NASSCOM
d) ASSOCHAM

31. What is the name of India's first digital asset management platform,
launched in December 2020?
a) SafeBoxx
b) DigiBoxx
c) TransBoxx
d) DropBoxx
32. who among the following received the Stefan Edberg

Sportsmanship Award 2020?
a) Novak Djokovic
b) Rafael Nadal
c) Roger Federer
d) Frances Tiafoe
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33. The Chang'e-5 probe of which country successfully touched down on Earth in
December 2020, bringing home the first samples of the moon in over 40 years?
a) USA
b) Japan
c) UK
d) China
34. India's first pollinator park was inaugurated in which state?
a. Punjab
b. Haryana
c. Uttar Pradesh
d. Uttarakhand

35. Who won the International Cricket Council Spirit of Cricket

Award of The Decade?
a. Virat Kohli
b. Ian Bell
c. Rashid Khan
d. MS Dhoni
36. Who among the following cricketers won the Sir Garfield Sobers Award
for the ICC Female Cricketer of the Decade?
a. Smriti Mandhana
b. Ellyse Perry
c. Sophie Devine
d. Suzie Bates
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The ICC Awards of the Decade winners 2020

SIRJEE CLASSES
• Virat Kohli ---- wins the Sir Garfield Sobers Award for ICC Male Cricketer of the Decade.
• Ellyse Perry -- wins the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for ICC Female Cricketer of the Decade.
• Steve Smith ---- ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Decade.
• Virat Kohli ------ ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Decade.
• Ellyse Perry ----- ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Decade.
• Rashid Khan ---- ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Decade.
• Ellyse Perry ----- ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Decade.
• MS Dhoni ------- ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade.

37. Who will be posthumously honoured with the Grammy's Lifetime

Achievement Award 2021?
a. Bill Withers
b. Millie Small
c. Selena Quintanilla Perez
d. Bob Andy
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WELCOME

(JANUARY 2021) SIRJEE CLASSES
1. The Sir M Visvesvaraya Railway Terminal in which city is all set to become
the country’s first largest air-conditioned rail concourse, which will give
passengers an airport kind of experience?
a. Pune
b. Chennai
c. Bengaluru
d. Patna
2. Which state government has launched its own packaged drinking water
under the brand name of 'Mission Bhagiratha’?
a. Karnataka
b. Tamil Nadu
c. Telangana
d. Kerala
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3. What is the rank of Maharashtra in the second edition of the India

Justice Report (IJR) 2020?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
4. Which country topped the coronavirus performance index

out of 98 countries?
a. Vietnam
b. New Zealand
c. Japan India ranked 86th in the Covid-19
d. China Performance Index out of 98 countries.

5. Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano on which island erupted in

January 2021?
a. Baffin Island
b. Java island
c. Ellesmere Island
d. Vancouver Island
6. According to the Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index,

what is the rank of India in the Corruption Perception Index 2020?
a. 64
b. 78
c. 86 The top ranked countries are New Zealand
d. 92 and Denmark, with scores of 87 each.
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7. The Kerala government's three-tower Gender Park in which city will

become functional from 11 February 2021?
a. Thiruvananthapuram
b. Kollam
c. Kottayam
d. Kozhikode
8. What was the theme of tableau that takes place at Rajpath on

26 January 2021?
a. Swach raho swast raho:COVID.

b. Recover with Integrity :COVID
c. Atma-Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan: COVID.
d. Together We can: COVID

9. International Monetary Fund has projected how much per cent

growth rate for India in 2021?
a. 8.5
b. 9.5
c. 10.5
d. 11.5
10. On the eve of 72nd Republic Day, the government announced the Padma
Awards. how many people Will get Padma Vibhushan award?
a. 3
b. 5
c. 7
d. 9
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11. Which of the following has surpassed Reliance Industries Ltd to become
the country's most valued firm by market capitalization?
a. Infosys
b. Reliance Industries
c. Tata Consultancy Services
d. HDFC Bank
12. Which of the following films won the Golden Peacock award at the
51st edition of the International Film Festival of India, IFFI?
a. Playback
b. Into the Darkness
c. Children Of The Corn
d. Black Swan

13. Space-X created a new world record by launching how many satellites
on a single rocket?
a. 125
b. 134
c. 143
d. 152
14. When is the National Voters' Day (NVD) celebrated across the country?
a. 23 January
b. 24 January
c. 25 January
d. 26 January
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15. India's largest multi-modal logistic park will come up at Virochan

Nagar near Sanand in which district of Gujarat?
a. Anand
b. Gandhinagar
c. Kutch
d. Ahmedabad
16. Who became the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand for one day on 24
January 2021, on the National Girl Child Day?
a. Anukriti Mishra
b. Konika Gayan
c. Sanvi Joshi
d. Shristi Goswami

17. Who launched the 'Union Budget mobile app’ for hassle-free access of
Budget documents by MPs and the general public ?
a. Rajnath Singh
b. Piyush Goyal
c. Nirmala Sitharaman
d. Anurag Thakur
18. What is the rank of India in the ‘Global Firepower defense review?
a. 1st
b. 2nd
c. 3rd
d. 4th
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19. Which state has renamed Gorewada International Zoo as

Balasaheb Thackeray Zoological Park?
a. Maharashtra
b. Rajasthan
c. Gujarat
d. Haryana
20. Unnikrishnan Namboothiri passed away. He was related to which

of the following fields?
a. Acting
b. Politics
c. Cricket
d. Journalism

21. An Electric Vehicle battery that can be charged in five minutes has been
produced for the first time in a factory in which country?
a. Germany
b. USA
c. UK
d. China
22. Indian Railways has renamed which of the following trains as 'Netaji Express’
ahead of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's 125th birth anniversary celebrations?
a. Darjeeling Mail
b. Arunachal Express
c. Howrah-Kalka Mail
d. Azad Hind Express
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23. What is the rank ok Karnataka in the second edition of the India
Innovation Index-2020, released in January 2021?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
24. Who will become the first woman fighter pilot to take part in the
Republic Day parade?
a. Gunjan Saxena
b. Bhawana kanth
c. Avani Chaturvedi
d. Shaliza Dhami

25. The country's first ‘Labour Movement Museum’ would be

launched in which city?
a. Wayanad
b. Alappuzha
c. Patna
d. Delhi
26. Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan passed away recently. He was awarded
the Padma Vibhushan in which year?
a. 2015
b. 2016
c. 2017
d. 2018
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27. Which country won the presidency of the UN Human Rights

Council in January 2021?
a. Samoa
b. Tonga
c. Uzbekistan
d. Fiji
28. Who has earned the name of 'Bat Woman’ for her passionate
research into bats and viruses?
a. Hao Haidong
b. Wang Yanyi
c. Shi Zhengli
d. Li-Meng Yan

29. In which state, people celebrated kanuma, the festival of cattle, on

the third day of the Sankranti festival?
a. Kerala
b. Gujarat
c. Tamil Nadu
d. Telangana
30. The Trump administration has re-designated Cuba as a "state

sponsor of terrorism". What is the capital of Cuba?
a. Santiago
b. Havana
c. Santo Domingo
d. Quito
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31. According to the latest report by the Henley Passport Index, what is
the rank of India in the list of being the most powerful passport in the
world for the year 2021?
a. 58 1. Japan (191 destinations)

b. 62 2. Singapore (190)
c. 73
d. 85
32. Who has become the joint-highest goalscorer of all time in the
history of football?
a. Cristiano Ronaldo
b. Lionel Messi
c. Neymar
d. Karim Benzema

33. Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik has inaugurated the 'Fire Park' in which
of the following cities to bring awareness on fire safety measures?
a. Cuttack
b. Rourkela
c. Puri
d. Bhubaneswar
34. In January 2021, which state government had declared ‘bird flu’
as a state disaster?
a. Odisha
b. Kerala
c. Tamil Nadu
d. Karnataka
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35. The Japanese government is set to join the 'Five Eyes' intelligence-sharing
alliance. Five Eyes is a network of which of the following nations?
a. Australia
Five Eyes is a network of five nations –
b. Britain
1. Australia 2. Britain 3. Canada,
c. Canada 4. New Zealand 5. US
d. All a, b and c who collaborated to better respond to
increasing threats by North Korea and
China.
36. Who won the Player of the Year award at the Globe Soccer Awards?
a. Mohamed Salah
b. Robert Lewandowski
c. Cristiano Ronaldo
d. Lionel Messi
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(FEBRUARY 2021) SIRJEE CLASSES
1.Who bagged Dadasaheb Phalke Awards for 'Best Actor'?
a. Akshay Kumar
b. Salman Khan
c. Hrithik Roshan
d. Amitabh Bachchan
2. who released a book "Rashtra Pratham - 82 Varshon ki Swarnim Gatha’

in New Delhi?
a. Narendra Modi
b. Amit Shah
c. Nitin Jairam Gadkari
d. Raj Nath Singh

3. which of the following has received the Asia Environmental Enforcement

Award-2020 awarded by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)?
a. International Fund for Animal Welfare

b. Wildlife Crime Control Bureau
c. Wildlife Alliance
d. World Society for the Protection of Animals
4. Facebook has barred users from sharing or reading news from

publishers of which country on its platform?
a. Japan
b. Australia
c. USA
d. Canada
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5. The Perseverance rover of which of the following successfully touched

down the surface of Mars, after its 292.5 million-mile journey from Earth?
a. NASA
b. ISRO
c. Roscosmos
d. JAXA
6. Who has been honoured with the award for 'Most Versatile Actor' at
Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival 2021?
a. Neeraj Pandey
b. Karan Tacker
c. Manoj Bajpayee
d. Kay Kay Menon

7. Who presented the Best Marching Contingent award of Republic

Day Parade 2021?
a. Amit Shah
b. Prakash Javadekar
c. Piyush Goyal
d. Rajnath Singh
8. The CM of which state has launched a scheme, 'Maa', to provide a

meal to the poor for Rs 5?
a. Odisha
b. West Bengal
c. Gujarat
d. Punjab
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9.Who has become the first woman and first African Director-General of
the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
a. Yoo Myung-hee
b. Amina Mohamed
c. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
d. Kamene Okonjo
10. The CM of which state inaugurated the 'Abhyudaya' scheme and

interacted with registered candidates under the scheme?
a. Madhya Pradesh
b. Bihar
c. Uttar Pradesh
d. Gujarat

11. Who among the following is/are selected for the SERB Women
Excellence Award 2021?
a. Dr Shobhna Kapoor
b. Dr Antara Banerjee
c. Dr Sonu Gandhi
d. All 1, 2 and 3
12. The Union Culture Ministry's flagship festival, the Rashtriya Sanskriti
Mahotsav 2021 is going to held in which state?
a. Odisha
b. Jharkhand
c. West Bengal
d. Gujarat
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13. Which of the following cities will soon become India's first dolphin
research centre?
a. Pune
b. Patna
c. Bangalore
d. Delhi
14. The US is rejoining the United Nations Human Rights Council. Former President
Donald Trump pulled the US out of the international body in which year?
a. 2020
b. 2019
c. 2018
d. 2017

15.What is the theme of the International Day of Women and Girls in

Science 2021?
a. Investment in Women and Girls in Science for Inclusive Green Growth

b. Beyond the Borders: Equality in Science for Society
c. Women Scientists at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19
d. Gender Equality and Parity in Science for Peace and Developmen
16. Under the Arab world's first interplanetary mission, the probe of which
country successfully entered Mars' orbit?
a. UAE
b. Yemen
c. Oman
d. Saudi Arabia
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17. An avalanche/Glacier burst occurred near Rishiganga Power Project

at Raini village in which state?
a. Uttar Pradesh
b. Bihar
c. Uttarakhand
d. Himachal Pradesh
18. Which city of Odisha will get the country's first thunderstorm
research testbed?
a. Bhubaneswar
b. Cuttack
c. Rourkela
d. Balasore

19. Which state has become the first state in the country to make the end to end
processing of the cabinet paperless by implementing the e-cabinet application?
a. Bihar
b. Himachal Pradesh
c. Maharashtra
d. Assam
20. A campaign for 'beggar-free' Rajasthan has been started in which city?
a. Jodhpur
b. Jaisalmer
c. Jaipur
d. Bikaner
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21.Who has been appointed as the Interim Chief of CBI?
a. Praveen Sinha
b. R.K Shukla
c. Om Prakash Gupta
d. Arun Goel
22. New Zealand has become the first team to reach the final of the inaugural
World Test Championship. The WTC final is scheduled to be held from June
18 at which of the following stadiums?
a. The Oval
b. Eden Gardens
c. Lord's
d. Melbourne Cricket Ground

23. According to The Economist Intelligence Unit, which country

topped the 2020 Democracy Index's global ranking?
a. Sweden
b. Finland
c. Norway India slipped to 53rd position
d. Canada
24. What is the theme of the World Cancer Day 2021?
a. I Am and I will
b. Not Beyond Us
c. Debunk the Myths
d. We can. I can
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25. Dalai Lama has come up with his new book "The Little Book of
Encouragement“. Which of the following published it?
a. Random House India

b. S. Chand Publishing
c. Harper Collins Publishers
d. Penguin Random House
26. Former fast bowler Merv Hughes was inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame.
In which year did Hugh become a selector for the Australian cricket team?
a. 2001
b. 2003
c. 2005
d. 2007

27. Aatmanirbharta' implying self-reliance has been named by Oxford Languages

as its Hindi word of the year 2020. The word was chosen by whom?
a. Kritika Agrawal
b. Poonam Nigam Sahay
c. Imogen Foxell
d. All 1, 2 and 3
28. The CM of which state has virtually launched the 'Har Ghar Pani, Har Ghar Safai'
mission as part of the government's campaign to accomplish the goal of 100 per cent
potable piped water supply in all rural households by March 2022?
a. Punjab
b. Haryana
c. Madhya Pradesh
d. Bihar
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29. In Cricket, which state lifted the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy after
defeating Baroda by seven wickets in the final at the Sardar Patel
Stadium in Ahmedabad?
a. Kerala
b. Telangana
c. Tamil Nadu
d. Maharashtra
30. The fiscal deficit for the financial year 2021-22 has been pegged at
how much per cent?
a. 6.5
b. 6.4
c. 6.8
d. 7.0

31. The licence of Shivam Sahakari Bank has been cancelled as it does not
have adequate capital and earning prospects. The bank is based in
which state?
a. Kerala
b. Karnataka
c. Tamil Nadu
d. Maharashtra
32. India's first unmanned space flight as part of the 'Gaganyaan' mission
is listed to be launched in which month?
a. June 2021
b. August 2021
c. October 2021
d. December 2021
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33. What is the name of the autobiography written by former Vice President
Hamid Ansari?
a. Backstage: The Story Behind India's High Growth Years

b. By Many a Happy Accident
c. How I Became a Hindu
d. The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
34. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced the voluntary vehicle
scrappage policy to phase out unfit, pollution-causing vehicles. Age of the
vehicles will be how many years in case of commercial vehicles?
a. 10
b. 12
c. 15
d. 18

35. The Finance Ministry will notify which of the following as the
regulator for gold exchanges?
a. NABARD
b. RBI
c. SIDBI
d. SEBI
36. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has decided to keep which
country on its terrorism financing Grey list?
a. India
b. Indonesia
c. Malaysia
d. Pakistan
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37. Who is the author of the book titled 'Yuva Bharat: The Heroes of Today'?
a. Amitav Ghosh
b. Ramachandra Guha
c. Devdutt Pattanaik
d. Devir Singh Bhandari
38. Which district of Andhra Pradesh has been chosen for the Prime
Minister Kisan National Award?
a. Karimnagar
b. Kolar
c. Mandya
d. Anantapuramu
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(MARCH 2021) SIRJEE CLASSES
1. The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) members will hold a

joint anti-terrorism exercise in 2021. What is the name of exercise?
a. Yudh Abhyas
b. Pabbi-Antiterror-2021
c. Shakti Exercise
d. Hand in Hand Exercise
2. The Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2020 will be conferred to whom?
a. Kazi Nazrul Islam

b. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
c. Tajuddin Ahmad 2019 ------- Qaboos bin Said Al Said (Oman)
d. Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir

3. Which of the following will be awarded the Best Feature Film Award
at the 67th National Film Awards for the year 2019?
a. Marakkar: Lion of the Arabian Sea

b. Loham
c. Chithram
d. Anjaam Pathiraa
4. According to a study released by the defence website Military Direct, which

country is the strongest military force in the world with a score of 82?
a. China
b. France India -------- 4
c. Russia
d. Germany
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5. The Jharkhand government has announced how much per cent reservation
in private sector jobs with a salary of up to Rs 30,000 for locals?
a. 65
b. 70
c. 75
d. 80
6. Who will become the first transgender man to star on the front
cover of TIME magazine?
a. Elliot Page
b. Aidan Gallagher
c. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
d. David Castañeda

7. As per a report released by the Stockholm International Peace Research

Institute, India accounted for how much per cent of the share of global arms
exports during 2016-20?
a. 0.1
b. 0.2
c. 0.3 India's import of arms decreases by 33%
d. 0.4
8. Who broke Australian spin legend Shane Warne's mega record as he bowled
the most number of overs in a single Test in the 21st century?
a. Trent Boult
b. Mujeeb Ur Rahman
c. Kagiso Rabada
d. Rashid Khan
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9. Which state of India fulfills doctor-population ratio of WHO?
a. Bihar
b. Chhattisgarh
c. Madhya Pradesh
d. Uttar Pradesh 1,19,000 doctors in the state with a population of 12 crore.
10. Which city is set to become the electric vehicle(EV) capital of India?
a. Delhi
b. Mumbai, (Maharashtra)
c. Bengaluru, (Karnataka)
d. Nagpur, (Maharashtra)

11. The world's largest floating solar energy project is coming up in

which of these states of India?
a. Uttar Pradesh
b. Gujarat
c. Madhya Pradesh
d. Assam
12. Voters in which country have backed a proposal to ban full-face coverings
like burqa and niqab in public places, except sites of worship?
a. Sweden
b. Switzerland
c. Germany
d. Italy
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13. Who has been appointed as the new CM of Uttarakhand?
a. Narayan Datt Tiwari

b. Tirath Singh Rawat
c. Vijay Bahuguna
d. Dhan Singh Negi
14. With which country has China signed an MoU in March 2021 for the joint
construction of a lunar space station?
a. Turkey
b. Iran
c. Russia
d. Germany

15. What is the rank of India as per Washington-based Freedom House?
a. 64
b. 77
c. 88
d. 97
16. How many Indian Institutions secured a position in top 100 in QS World
University Rankings by Subject 2021?
a. 8
b. 10
c. 12
d. 14
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17. What is rank of Bengaluru in the Ease of Living Index-2020?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
18. The 30th Bihari Puraskar for 2020 will be given to Mohankrishna
Bohara for which of the following books?
a. Taslima: Sangharsh aur Sahitya

b. Madhushala
c. Raag Darbari
d. Ashadh Ka Ek Din

19. The entire rail network in the country will be fully electrified
by which year?
a. 2022
b. 2023
c. 2024
d. 2025
20. Who has taken over as Principal Director General of Press

Information Bureau (PIB)?
a. M. P. Tripathi
b. Jaideep Bhatnagar
c. Vineet S. Nair
d. Vikash Kumar
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21. Which of the following launched the Brazilian satellite Amazonia-1?
a. ISRO
b. Roscosmos
c. JAXA
d. ESA
22. When is National Science Day celebrated every year?
a. 25 February
b. 26 February
c. 27 February
d. 28 February

23. Real GDP growth of how much per cent in the third quarter of 2020-21
has returned the economy to the pre-pandemic times of positive growth
rates?
a. 0.2
b. 0.3
c. 0.4
d. 0.5
24. Which of the following won the Best Motion Picture (Drama) at the 78th
Golden Globes Awards ceremony?
a. Nomadland Highlights
b. Minari Best Film: Drama Nomadland
c. Mank Best Drama Series The Crown
d. News of the World Most awards The Crown (4)
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25. ISRO launched the 'Sindhu Netra’ satellite using PSLV-C51.The satellite
has been developed by which of the following?
a. HAL
b. Ordnance Factory Board
c. DRDO
d. ECIL
26. US President Joe Biden has invited how many world leaders for a virtual
leaders summit on climate scheduled for April 2021?
a. 30
b. 35
c. 40
d. 45

27. PM Modi announced the Swarna Jayanti scholarship for youths of

which country?
a. Nepal
b. Bhutan
c. Myanmar
d. Bangladesh
28. Which state will soon be the state with maximum number of
international airports in the country?
a. Gujarat
b. Uttar Pradesh
c. Madhya Pradesh
d. Andhra Pradesh
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29. The Chiefs of all 3 branches of armed forces of which country

jointly resigned in March 2021?
a. Turkey
b. Brazil
c. Iran
d. Argentina
30. With which country did Iran sign a 25-year cooperation agreement?
a. China
b. Pakistan
c. Yemen
d. Oman

31. Prof. Sharad Pagare will be conferred with the prestigious Vyas
Samman -2020 for which of the following novels?
a. Patliputru Ki Samagri
b. Nirmala
c. Ashadh Ka Ek Din
d. A Fine Balance
32. Who has been announced as the latest inductee into the 2021 WWE
Hall of Fame?
a. The Great Khali

b. Hulk Hogan
c. Braun Strowman
d. Vince McMahon
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33. Who will be honoured with the prestigious Maharashtra Bhushan

Award for the year 2020?
a. Alka Yagnik
b. Asha Bhosle
c. Anuradha Paudwa
d. Varsha Bhosle
34. The National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amend) Bill, 2021 seeks to amend
the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi Act of which year?
a. 1983
b. 1987
c. 1991
d. 1995
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(APRIL 2021) SIRJEE CLASSES
1. Who has been designated as the Finance Secretary?
a. P K Mishra
b. T V Somanathan
c. Kapil Dev Tripathi
d. I.V. Subba Rao
2. Which country topped in the latest military expenditure database published

by the ‘Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’ ?
a. USA Military spending in billion U.S. dollars.

b. China
1. USA ------------732
c. India
2. China* ------- 261
d. Germany 3. India --------- 71.1
4. Russia ------- 65.1

3. In which state, the government has launched the ‘Corona Warriors’

Scheme, in April 2021?
a. Maharashtra
b. Madhya Pradesh
c. Chhattisgarh
d. Uttar Pradesh
4. What is the name of the first Mars rover announced by China

in April 2021?
a. Tiangong-2
b. Apstar 7
c. Zhurong
d. TanSat
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5. When is the ‘World Intellectual Property’ Day observed?
a. 25 April
b. 26 April
c. 27 April
d. 28 April
6. Who has become the second woman in the history of the Oscars to be named
as Best Director at 2021 Academy Awards in Los Angeles?
a. Niki Caro
b. Chloé Zhao
c. Patty Jenkins
d. Claire Denis

7. Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana took oath as which Chief Justice

of India in April 2021?
a. 46th
b. 47th
c. 48th
d. 49th
8. The first 'Oxygen Express’ carrying liquid medical oxygen departed

for which state from Visakhapatnam in April 2021?
a. Maharashtra
b. Karnataka
c. Gujarat
d. Rajasthan
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9. In April 2021, which of the following released the Energy Transition

Index (ETI)?
a. World Bank
b. World Economic Forum (WEF)
c. UNICEF
Out of 115 countries, India has been ranked at 87th
d. UNESCO position in the Energy Transition Index- ETI.
10. Which of the following has appointed Rekha M. Menon as its

Chairperson for 2021-22?
a. ICAR
b. Nasscom
c. CDAC
d. FICCI

11. Who has scrapped the controversial Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
deal between China and the state of Victoria?
a. Rumen Radev
b. Scott Morrison
c. Emmanuel Macron
d. Vladimir Putin
12. Which country continues to be the world’s "biggest jailer of press freedom
defenders", as per the press freedom index?
a. Iran
b. China
c. North Korea
d. Iraq
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13. In April 2021, an out-of-control fire broke out inside which of the following
National Parks of South Africa?
a. Namaqua National Park

b. Addo Elephant National Park
c. Karoo National Park
d. Table Mountain National Park
14. Earth Day is observed on April 22 every year. It was first organized
in which year?
a. 1965
b. 1970
c. 1975
d. 1980

15. What is the rank of India on the ‘World Press Freedom Index’?
a. 128
b. 130
c. 138
d. 142
16. Where was the India Open Badminton Tournament 2021 scheduled
to be held?
a. Mumbai
b. New Delhi
c. Jaipur
d. Jammu
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17. In April 2021, whose Mars helicopter has made history with successful
flight on Mars?
a. NASA
b. JAXA
c. Roscosmos
d. ESA
18. When is ‘World liver day’ observed every year?
a. 16 April
b. 17 April
c. 18 April
d. 19 April

19. The cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the

country has crossed 12 crore within how many days of the world's largest
vaccination drive?
a. 78
b. 87
c. 92
d. 100
20. Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp, has won whose contract
to develop a system for landing astronauts on the moon?
a. ISRO
b. NASA
c. Roscosmos
d. ESA
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21. Space agencies of India and which country signed an agreement for
cooperation over India's ‘Gaganyaan space mission’ in April 2021?
a. Spain
b. France
c. Germany
d. Finland
22. Who set a new world record in Clean and Jerk by lifting 119 kg
at ‘Asian Weightlifting Championships’?
a. Jhili Dalabehera
b. Mirabai Chanu
c. P Anuradha
d. Achinta Sheuli

23. Lunar exploration firm iSpace will transport a United Arab Emirates
unmanned rover to the Moon in which year?
a. 2022
b. 2023
c. 2024
d. 2025
24. Egypt has announced the discovery of the most important find since the
unearthing of King Tutankhamun's tomb almost how many years ago?
a. 100
b. 150
c. 200
d. 250
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25. Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal inaugurated

e-SANTA for which of the following?
a. Silviculture
b. Aquaculture
c. Viticulture
d. Floriculture
26. The 10 days long multinational military exercise named 'Shantir Ogrosena’
culminated in April 2021 in which country?
a. Bhutan
b. Sri Lanka
c. Laos
d. Bangladesh

27. Sputnik V, another vaccine against Covid has got approval from the subject
expert committee for Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) in India. The
vaccine was developed by which of the following?
a. Texas Biomedical Research Institute

b. Scripps Research
c. Southwest Research Institute
d. Gamaleya Research Institute
28. Which country would not be participating in the upcoming Tokyo

Olympics due to concerns over Covid-19?
a. South Korea
b. North Korea
c. China
d. Japan
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29. Who clinched her second Miami Open title in April 2021?
a. Simona Halep
b. Sofia Kenin
c. Jennifer Brady
d. Ashleigh Barty
30. In April 2021, who has been appointed as the new Economic
Affairs Secretary?
a. Ajay Seth
b. Rakesh Tirkey
c. Ravi Arora
d. K Abdulla Syed

31. The Indian Army will participate in Multinational Military Exercise

namely Shantir Ogroshena -2021 in which country?
a. Bhutan
b. Pakistan
c. Bangladesh
d. Myanmar
32. India's biggest floating solar power plant with a capacity of 100 MW will
be set up in which state?
a. Gujarat
b. Haryana
c. Telangana
d. Karnataka
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33. Which of the following lakes in Jammu and Kashmir would be declared
protected wetlands?
a. Dal Lake
b. Purmandal Lake
c. Wular
d. All a, b and c
34. Dr. Sharan Kumar Limbale has bagged the Saraswati Samman for the year
2020 for which of the following novels?
a. Kosala
b. Mrityunjaya
c. Sanaatan
d. Teen Hajar Take

35. Who will be honoured with the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke
Award for the year 2019?
a. Amitabh Bachchan
b. Kamal Haasan
c. Rajnikanth
d. Shahrukh Khan
36. Who has been appointed as the new leader of Amnesty

International?
a. Agnes Callamard
b. Hatice Cengiz
c. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
d. Asma Jahangir
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(MAY 2021) SIRJEE CLASSES
1. Which state has announced the ‘Chief Minister's Sishu Sewa Scheme’ for the
welfare of those children who lost parents due to COVID-19?
a. Sikkim
b. West Bengal
c. Assam
d. Meghalaya
2. Who has been granted a golden visa by the United Arab Emirates
(UAE) government?
a. Amitabh Bachchan
b. Shah Rukh Khan
c. Salman Khan
d. Sanjay Dutt
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3. When is Amnesty International Day observed?
a. 27 May
b. 28 May
c. 29 May
d. 30 May
4. Who has authored a new book titled ‘7 Lessons from Everest’?
a. Udit Singhal
b. Aditya Gupta
c. Sarthak Saxena
d. Atul Goel

5. Cyclone Yaas pounded the beach towns in north Odisha and neighbouring West
Bengal as it hit the coast in May 2021 with a wind speed of 130-140 kmph. Which
country gave the name 'Yaas' to the cyclone?
a. Yemen
b. Iran
The word 'Yass' has its origin in the Persian
c. Oman language and means Jasmin in English.
d. Bhutan
6. 'Ankur' scheme is launched by the Madhya Pradesh government

for which purpose?
a. Education
b. Tree plantation
c. Skill Development
d. Construction of Roads
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7. Which space agency is planning to send its first ‘mobile robot’ to the Moon in
2023 in search of ice and other resources on and below the lunar surface?
a. SpaceX
b. NASA
c. Blue Origin
d. Roscosmos
8. In May 2021, who has been appointed as the Central Bureau

of Investigation’s (CBI) new Director?
a. Param Bir Singh

b. Rakesh Maria
c. Anil Deshmukh
d. Subodh Kumar Jaiswal

9. Who has authored the new book titled 'India and Asian Geopolitics:
The Past, Present’?
a. Shivshankar Menon
b. M. K. Narayanan
c. Jyotindra Nath Dixit
d. Kanwal Sibal
10. According to a report, what is the ‘per capita income’ of India

in the financial year 2020-21?
a. $ 1,947
b. $ 2,227
India has fallen behind its neighbour Bangladesh in terms of per capita
c. $ 3,313 income with the latter reporting its per capita income at $2,227 in the
d. $ 4415 financial year 2020-21, according to reports.
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11. Which of the following were crowned La Liga 2020-21 champions

of Spain in May 2021?
a. Levante
b. Real Betis
c. Valladolid
d. Atletico Madrid
12. Countrywide Ayush COVID-19 counselling helpline has been

operationalized. What is the toll-free number?
a. 12678
b. 13330
c. 14443
d. 15430

13. The 2022 FIFA under-17 Women's World Cup will be held in which
country in October 2022?
a. India
b. Japan
c. UK
d. UAE
14. Noted environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna died of Covid-19.

In which year was he conferred with the Padma Vibhushan?
a. 2003
b. 2005
c. 2007
d. 2009
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15. Which of the following Indian sites has/have been added to the tentative
list of UNESCO’s world heritage sites, in May 2021?
a. Satpura Tiger Reserve 1. Ganga Ghats of Varanasi,

b. Megalithic site of Hire Benkal 2. Temples of Kancheepuram in Tamil Nadu,
c. Temples of Kanchipuram 3. Satpura Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh,
4. Maharashtra Military Architecture
d. All a, b and c 5. Hire Benkal Megalithic site,
6. Bhedaghat Lametaghat of Narmada Valley in Madhya Pradesh
16. In May 2021, PM Narendra Modi announced financial assistance of 1000 crore for immediate
relief activities in Gujarat after reviewing the situation caused by Cyclone Tauktae. Which
country has named this cyclone 'Tauktae’?
a. Bhutan
b. Bangladesh
c. Sri Lanka
d. Myanmar

17. What is the name of the super computer unveiled by Iran in May 2021?
a. Bantam
b. Simorgh
c. Cobalt
d. Cortland
18. India has lost the ONGC Videsh Ltd-discovered Farzad-B gas field in which
country after it awarded a contract for developing the giant gas field to a
local company?
a. Afghanistan
b. Iran
c. Turkey
d. Saudi Arabia
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19. Which of the following will be constructing the largest international

submarine cable system centred on India?
a. Bharti Airtel
b. Atria Convergence Technologies
c. Reliance Jio Infocomm
d. BSNL
20. 'Doomsday Scrolling' term recently is in news is related

to which of the following?
a. Video Game Addiction

b. Bad News
c. Filmmaking
d. All India Radio

21. Andrea Meza of which of the following countries was crowned

Miss Universe in May 2021 in Florida?
a. Brazil
b. Mexico
c. Canada
d. Colombia
22. As per the statement by the Asian Football Confederation, which country has
pulled out of the qualifying tournament for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar?
a. Indonesia
b. North Korea
c. Singapore
d. Malaysia
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23. Who has created a world record by scaling Mt. Everest, the world’s
highest peak, twice in the shortest span of 4 days?
a. Mingma Tenji Sherpa

b. Nirmal Purja
c. Pem Dorjee Sherpa
d. Lakpa Gelu
24. Scientists now have the most precise information on the deepest points in
each of Earth's 5 oceans. In the Southern Ocean, which of the following can be
considered the deepest point with 7,432m depth?
a. Meteor Deep
b. Hubble Deep Field
c. Factorian Deep
d. Chandra Deep

25. With which of the following has Axiom Space signed an order to start the
first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS)?
a. SpaceX
b. NASA
c. JAXA
d. ESA
26. According to a World Bank report, which country received

highest remittances in 2020?
a. India
b. China
c. Philippines
d. Egypt
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27. Who has won the prestigious 2021 World Food Prize?
a. Dr Farah Pandith
b. Dr Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted
c. Sendhil Mullainathan
d. Radhika Govindrajan
28. What is the name of ventilators developed by ISRO's Vikram Sarabhai

Space Centre (VSSC)?
a. Prana
b. VaU
c. Svasta
d. All a, b and c

29. What is the theme of National Technology Day 2021?
a. "Science for People and People for Science"

b. "Technology Enablers of Startup India"
c. "Science and Technology for a Sustainable Future"
d. "Technology for inclusive and sustainable growth"
30. Who scaled Mount Everest for the 25th time in May 2021?
a. Simon moro
b. Kami Rita
c. Ali Sadpara
d. Nirmal Purja
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31. Which of the following will carry a commercial payload to the moon on its
rocket falcon 9 and be paid entirely in the cryptocurrency Dogecoin?
a. Boeing
b. Space-X
c. Blue Origin
d. ISRO
32. Who was named the 2021 Laureus Sportsman of the year?
a. Stan Wawrinka
b. Roger Federer
c. Rafael Nadal
d. Daniil Medvedev

33. When is the World Press Freedom Day observed every year?
a. 1 May
b. 2 May
c. 3 May
d. 4 May
34. The world's longest pedestrian suspension bridge has been

opened in Portugal. What is its length?
a. 210 meters
b. 312 meters
c. 414 meters
d. 516 meters
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(JUNE 2021) SIRJEE CLASSES
1. ISRO will launch the first uncrewed mission in December 2021, as part of the
human spaceflight programme 'Gaganyaan! Which of the following launchers
has been identified for the mission?
a. GSLV Mark III

b. PSLV-XL
c. ASLV
d. SLV-3
2. Who among the following has been nominated by Hockey India for
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award for 2021?
a. PR Sreejesh
b. Deepika
c. Jwala Gutta
d. Both 1 and 2
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3. Which of the following is the first Indian Indigenous Aircraft Carrier

(IAC) to be commissioned in 2022?
a. INS Shivalik
b. INS Vikrant
c. INS Satpura
d. INS Viraat
4. Which country has become ICC World Test Champion after

beating India?
a. United Kingdom
b. West Indies
c. New Zealand
d. Bangladesh

5. Which country has become the first country to ratify International Solar
Alliance Framework Agreement (ISAFA) after amendments to it entered
into force in January 2021?
a. Denmark
b. Sweden
c. Greenland
d. Germany
6. Karnam Malleswari has been appointed as the first Vice Chancellor of

which of the following?
a. University of Calcutta
b. Delhi Sports University
c. Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Education and Sports Sciences
d. Bharathiar University
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7. The International Yoga Day has been celebrated annually on 21 June

since 2015, What is the theme for International Yoga Day 2021?
a. 'Yoga at home and Yoga with family’

b. 'Yoga for well-being’
c. 'Yoga for Peace’
d. 'Yoga health
8. Who has become the first non-white person to be nominated

to the Supreme Court of Canada?
a. Justice Nawaf Salam

b. Justice Mahmud Jamal
c. Justice Dalveer Bhandari
d. Justice Arun Goel

9. Jnanpith awardee, author Amitav Ghosh is all set to release which of the
following books in October 2021?
a. To Kill a Mockingbird
b. Midnight's Children
c. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
d. The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
10. Indian sprint legend Milkha Singh passed away in June 2021.
He was honoured with the Padma Shri in which year?
a. 1949
b. 1959
c. 1969
d. 1979
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11. D. Gukesh is related to which sport?
a. Football
b. Chess
c. Badminton
d. Tennis
12. What is the rank of India in the Global Peace Index 2021?
a. 120
b. 125
c. 130
d. 135

13. According to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Year

Book 2021 released in June 2021, which of the following countries together
possess over 90 percent of the estimated 13,080 global nuclear weapons ?
a. Russia and USA

b. USA and China
c. China and Russia
d. India and USA
14. Which country will set up an international institute for vaccine

production including for COVID-19?
a. Myanmar
b. Bangladesh
c. Vietnam
d. Indonesia
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15. Who has penned his memoir 'Home in the World’?
a. John Rawls
b. Abhijit Banerjee
c. Mahbub ul Haq
d. Amartya Sen
16. In June 2021, Naftali Bennett was sworn in as the new Prime
Minister of which country?
a. Turkey
b. Israel
c. Syria
d. Iraq

17. In June 2021,Who won the second French Open men's singles tennis
title by defeating world number 5 Stefanos Sitsipas?
a. Roger Federer
b. Novak Djokovic
c. Dominic Thiem
d. Rafael Nadal
18. The leaders of which of the following have launched a new global infrastructure
initiative Build Back Better World (B3W) to help developing nations counter
China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)?
a. ASEAN
b. G-7
c. SAARC
d. BIMSTEC
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19. In June 2021, who has won her maiden grand slam women's singles title, beating
Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the French Open final in Tennis?
a. Kateřina Siniaková
b. Barbora Krejcikova
c. Sofia Kenin
d. Ashleigh Barty
20. What is the rank of India in Knight Frank’s Global House Price
Index, released in June 2021?
a. 25
b. 35
c. 45
d. 55

21. Which state has declared ‘Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary’

as the state's seventh National Park?
a. Assam
b. Sikkim
c. Meghalaya
d. Arunachal Pradesh
22. How many Indian universities have found a place among the best 400
globally, according to the QS World University Rankings 2022?
a. 6
b. 7
c. 8
d. 9
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23. Which country has become the first country in the world to formally
adopt bitcoin as legal tender?
a. Honduras
b. El Salvador
c. Guatemala
d. Nicaragua
24. Soon after the first Test between England and New Zealand ended in a draw,
the England Cricket Board (ECB) has suspended whom for his racist and
sexist tweets that he made back in 2012-2013?
a. Moeen Ali
b. Alex Hales
c. Ollie Robinson
d. Eoin Morgan

25. In June 2021, which state has launched a doorstep delivery

service for oxygen concentrators?
a. Chhattisgarh
b. Odisha
c. Karnataka
d. Gujarat
26. The CM of which state on the occasion of World Environment Day announced
that Raimona has been added to the latest addition to the state's existing
National Parks?
a. Arunachal Pradesh
b. Assam
c. Nagaland
d. Manipur
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27. In June 2021, the United Nations suspended General Assembly voting
rights for which of the following countries?
a. Central Africa
b. Somalia
c. Iran
d. a,b, and c
28. David Diop has won the International Booker Prize for
which of the following novels?
a. The Man Who Planted Trees

b. At Night All Blood is Black
c. The Swallows of Kabul
d. Waiting for Godot

29. Which state has been adjudged as the worst performer in

Niti Aayog's SDG India Index 2020-21?
a. Uttar Pradesh
b. Bihar
c. Telangana
d. Goa
30. China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), which

mimics the energy generation process of the sun, set a new record after it ran
at 216 mn degrees Fahrenheit (120 mn degrees Celsius) for how many seconds?
a. 71
b. 81
c. 91
d. 101
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31. Which state has announced 'corona-free village' competitions, where three
villages in each revenue district will be awarded prizes up to 50 lakh?
a. Bihar
b. Maharashtra
c. Odisha
d. Karnataka
32. In June 2021, who took over as the Chairman of the National Human
Rights Commission (NHRC)?
a. Jagdish Singh Khehar

b. Arun Kumar Mishra
c. Ranjan Gogoi
d. Deepak Gupta

33. Which of the following announced the India’s first NFT

marketplace?
a. WazirX
b. UnoCoin
c. Coin Switch
d. CoinDCX
34. Who has penned a book titled 'Stargazing: The Players in My Life’?
a. Sunil Gavaskar
b. Ravi Shastri
c. Anil Kumble
d. Kapil Dev
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35. Who has become the first blind man in Asia and the third in the
world to climb Mount Everest?
a. Zhang Hong
b. Liu Lianman
c. Xu Jing
d. Huang Nubo
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(JULY 2021) SIRJEE CLASSES
1. Former RBI Governor Bimal Jalan has come up with

which of the following books?
a. Good Economics for Hard Times

b. The India Story
c. Beyond the Invisible Hand
d. The Psychology of Money
2. Brisbane has been formally awarded hosting rights for the

Olympic Games of which year?
a. 2028
b. 2030
c. 2032
d. 2034

3. In Madhya Pradesh, which of the following cities have been selected

by UNESCO under 'Historic Urban Landscape Project?
a. Gwalior
b. Orchha
c. Indore
d. Both 1 and 2
4. which country has unveiled a high-speed maglev train with a

designed top speed of 600 kms per hour?
a. Russia
b. China
c. USA
d. France
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5. Who won by 117 votes to become the first sarpanch of the Balika
Panchayat in the Kunariya village of Bhuj taluka?
a. Bharti Garva
b. Vidhi Rajgor
c. Mamta Gupta
d. Rohini Singh
6. Who has been adjudged as the Best Footballer of 2020-21

by the Mohun Bagan?
a. David Joel Williams

b. Manvir Singh
c. Prabir Das
d. Roy Krishna

7. Which of the following festivals, commemorating the new harvest in the

Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, was celebrated in several areas in July 2021?
a. Vaikunta Ekadashi
b. Harela
c. Minjar Mela
d. Ugadi
8. Haryana government has set up India’s first-ever 'Grain ATM' as a pilot

project in which city?
a. Thanesar
b. Ambala
c. Rewari
d. Gurugram
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9. The report, titled, A future for all - the need for human-wildlife
coexistence, was released by which of the following?
a. WWF
b. UNEP
c. UNDP
d. Both a and b
10. Who became the third Indian-American woman to fly into space?
a. Nikki Haley
b. Kiran Desai
c. Sirisha Bandla
d. Anoushka Shankar

11. Who has clinched his sixth Wimbledon Tennis title after beating
Matteo Berrettini of Italy?
a. Rafael Nadal
b. Novak Djokovic
c. Alexander Zverev
d. Roger Federer
12. Who has become the first Australian woman to win a single’s
Wimbledon title in 41 years?
a. Ashleigh Barty
b. Daria Gavrilova
c. Ajla Tomljanovic
d. Daniela Di Toro
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13. As per a report titled "The Hunger Virus Multiplies" released by

Oxfam, how many people die of hunger each minute?
a. 11
b. 15
c. 19
d. 23
14. Virbhadra Singh passed away in July 2021. He was the former CM of
which state?
a. Gujarat
b. Himachal Pradesh
c. Kerala
d. Bihar

15. A book titled 'The Fourth Lion: Essays for Gopalkrishna Gandhi' has
been released. It has been authored by whom?
a. Venu Madhav Govindu

b. Srinath Raghavan
c. Arundhati Roy
d. Both a and b
16. Who among the following will be flag bearers at the closing
ceremony of Tokyo Olympics 2021?
a. M.C. Mary Kom

b. Manpreet Singh
c. Bajrang Punia Opening ceremony:- Boxer M C Mary Kom
d. Yogeshwar Dutt & Manpreet Singh
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17. Who was sworn in as the 11th Chief Minister of Uttarakhand

in July 2021?
a. Pushkar Singh Dhami

b. Mahendra Bhatt
c. Kedar Singh Rawat
d. Bharat Singh Chaudhary
18. Who is the author of the book "Nathuram Godse: The True Story of
Gandhi's Assassin"?
a. Rahul Kanwal
b. Dhaval Kulkarni
c. Palagummi Sainath
d. Shiv Aroor

19. Who has been named the flag-bearer of the Indian contingent in the Tokyo
Paralympics, which begins on August 24, 2021?
a. Varun Singh Bhati

b. Mariyappan Thangavelu
c. Devendra Jhajharia
d. Sundar Singh Gurjar
20. Which state is planning to establish Health ATMs to provide better

health facilities to the people in the state?
a. Andhra Pradesh
b. Bihar
c. Uttar Pradesh
d. Madhya Pradesh
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21. The UN World Meteorological Organization has confirmed a new maximum

temperature record for the Antarctic of 18.3 degrees Celsius. The previous
record verified by the WMO for the Antarctic continent was how many
degrees Celsius?
a. 17.5
b. 17.0
c. 16.5
d. 16.0
22. Sri Lanka has proposed holding the BIMSTEC summit in early December
2021. Which of the following countries are members of BIMSTEC?
a. Nepal
b. Myanmar BIMSTEC or Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral
c. Pakistan Technical and Economic Cooperation has 7 members-
India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand,
d. Both a and b and Sri Lanka.

23. What is the theme of ‘World Hepatitis Day’ 2021?
a. "Hepatitis-free future"
b. "Hepatitis Can't Wait"
c. "Invest in eliminating Hepatitis"
d. "Prevent hepatitis. Act now"
24. Hidilyn Diaz became the first-ever Olympic gold medallist from which
country, winning the women's 55-kilogram category?
a. Malaysia
b. Philippines
c. Indonesia
d. Singapore
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25. What is the rank of India as per a report by World Trade Organisation
(WTO) on trends in world agricultural trade in recent 25 years?
a. 6
b. 7
c. 8
d. 9
26. Sunseap Group plans to build the world’s largest floating solar
farm near the city of Batam in which country?
a. Laos
b. Indonesia
c. Malaysia
d. Singapore

27. Who has come up with a new book titled 'An Ordinary Life:
Portrait of an Indian Generation’?
a. Sunil Arora
b. Sushil Chandra
c. T. N. Seshan
d. Ashok Lavasa
28. In July 2021, which country has ratified the framework agreement
for the International Solar Alliance (ISA)?
a. Germany
b. Sweden
c. France
d. Italy
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29. The Kakatiya Rudreshwara (Ramappa) Temple of which city

has been inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
a. Gujarat
b. Telangana
c. Karnataka
d. Kerala
30. Nigeria plans to launch its own cryptocurrency in October 2021.

What is its name?
a. Polkadot
b. e-naira
c. Uniswap
d. Solana

31. Which state has initiated a process to accord revenue village

status to 4,000 hamlets across the state?
a. Odisha
b. Bihar
c. Gujarat
d. Kerala
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(AUGUST 2021) SIRJEE CLASSES
1. Which of these national parks has become the first national park
in India to be equipped with satellite phones.
a. Bandhavgarh National Park

b. Dachigam National Park
c. Kaziranga National Park
d. Gir Forest National Park
2. Who amongst these will become the first Singapore international

cricketer to play in IPL?
a. Janak Prakash
b. Tim David
c. Navin Param
d. Selladore Vijayakumar
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3. Which of these former CMs of Uttar Pradesh passed away

in August 2021?
a. Narayan Dutt Tiwari

b. Kalyan Singh
c. Ram Prakash Gupta
d. Vir bahadur singh
4. Gerd Mueller passed away in August 2021. He was related to

which of the following sports?
a. Cricket
b. Basketball
c. Badminton
d. Football

5. The book titled "Balakot Air Strike: How India Avenged Pulwama",
has been written by whom?
a. Manan Bhatt
b. Raj Shukla
c. Ajay Singh
d. Amardeep Singh Bhinder
6. In August 2021, with which country has India conducted their first-
ever naval exercise named 'Al-Mohed Al-Hind 2021’?
a. UAE
b. Saudi Arabia
c. Oman
d. Jordan
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7. The Indian Air Force (IAF) has built one of the world's highest mobile air
traffic control (ATC) towers at the Advanced Landing Ground in which
state/UT?
b. Ladakh
c. Sikkim
d. Jammu and Kashmir
8. Which of the following airports has emerged among the world's top-50 best
airports in the 2021 Skytrax World Airport Award ranking?
a. Chandigarh International Airport

b. Navi Mumbai International Airport
c. Indira Gandhi International Airport
d. Chennai International Airport

9. Which of the following cities has now been declared the first water
plus city of India under the Swachh Survekshan 2021?
a. Indore
b. Ahmedabad
c. Pune
d. Bangalore
10. Which of the following launched its earth observation satellite

GISAT-1 in August 2021?
a. ISRO
b. NASA
c. JAXA
d. Roscosmos
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11. Every year, International Youth Day is observed on which day?
a. 10 August
b. 11 August
c. 12 August
d. 13 August
12. Who has come out with a new book titled "How the Earth Got
Its Beauty"?
a. R.H. Kulkarni
b. Sudha Murty
c. Lakshmi Venu
d. Sudha Chandran

13. Who is the author of the book 'The Great Hindu Civilisation:
Achievement, Neglect, Bias and the Way Forward"?
a. Balmiki Prasad Singh

b. Pavan K Varma
c. Prashant Kishor
d. Suvendu Adhikari
14. The Sports Authority of India (SAI) felicitated India's Tokyo 2020
medal winners on 9 August 2021. India ended at which spot in
Olympic 2021?
a. 42nd
b. 44th
c. 46th
d. 48th
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15. Indian Navy undertook bilateral exercise Zayed Talwar 2021’

with which country?
a. Qatar
b. UAE
c. Oman
d. Saudi Arabia
16. In August 2021, who won the bronze medal in men's freestyle 65kg
wrestling at Tokyo Olympics?
a. Jeet Rama
b. Gurjit Singh Hans
c. Bajrang Punia
d. Jordan Burroughs

17. In August 2021, who has won gold in men’s javelin throw
at Olympic Games?
a. Neeraj Chopra
b. Davinder Singh Kang
c. Muhammed Anas
d. Harinder Pal Sandhu
18. According to the QS Quacquarelli Symonds 2022 ranking, which city has
emerged as the best city for international for the third time in a row?
a. London
b. Munich
c. Seoul
d. Tokyo
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19. Who won a bronze medal in Boxing in 69 kg category in the

Olympic Games 2021?
a. Laishram Sarita Devi

b. Pinki Jangra
c. Lovlina Borgohain
d. Pooja Rani
20. Who has beaten Russian Karen Khachanov 6-3, 6-1 to win the men’s
singles tennis gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics?
a. Boris Becker
b. Alexander Zverev
c. Jimmy Connors
d. Novak Djokovic

21. Who has come up with a new work of fiction, 'In An Ideal World’?
a. Kunal Basu
b. Amitav Ghosh
c. Pankaj Kapur
d. Kunal Deshmukh
22. Which of the following has become the first city in India to
achieve 100% vaccination of its people against Covid-19?
a. Bhubaneswar
b. Patna
c. Mumbai
d. Jaipur
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23. Who became the world fastest man alive, winning men's 100m
gold with a time of 9.80s?
a. Donovan Bailey
b. Lamont Marcell Jacobs
c. Nesta Carter
d. Marvin Bracy
24. Who took charge as the new Controller General of Accounts in

August 2021?
a. Om Prakash Gupta
b. Deepak Das
c. Rajiv Gupta
d. Abhinav Kumar

25. Indian star shuttler PV Sindhu has secured a bronze medal at the
Tokyo Olympics, defeating whom in Women's Singles?
a. Tai Tzu-ying
b. He Bing Jiao
c. Nozomi Okuhara
d. An Se-young
26. "Operation Devi Shakti" launched by the Indian government, is

related to the evacuation of its citizens from which country?
a. Afghanistan
b. Turkey
c. Syria
d. Israel
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27. Who among the following was appointed as Director-General of the

Border Security Force (BSF)?
a. Amit Kumar Singh

b. Pankaj Kumar Singh
c. Raghuram Gupta
d. Abhijit Sharma
28. The world's largest and tallest observation wheel will open in
which city on October 21, 2021?
a. Abu dhabi
b. Dubai
c. Riyadh
d. Istanbul

29. As per a new report released by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
in August 2021, which city is now the world's safest city?
a. Copenhagen
b. Helsinki
c. Oslo
d. Amsterdam
30. Bhavina Patel won silver medal at the Tokyo Paralympics Games in
August 2021. She is related to which of the following games?
a. Shot Put
b. Table Tennis
c. Discus Throw
d. high jump
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31. CJI N.V. Ramana administered oath of office to how many

new judges on 31 August 2021?
a. 5 1. Abhay Shreeniwas Oka, 2. Vikram Nath,

b. 7 3. Jitendra Kumar Maheshwari, 4. Hima Kohli,
5. BV Nagarathna, 6. Chudalayil Thevan Ravikumar,
c. 9 7. MM Sundresh, 8. Bela Madhurya Trivedi,
d. 13 9. Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha.
32. In August 2021, who has won a gold medal in women's 10 metre air
rifle shooting at Tokyo Paralympics?
a. Heena Sidhu
b. Avani Lekhara
c. Apurvi Chandela
d. Annu Raj Singh
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(SEPTEMBER 2021) SIRJEE CLASSES
1. World Environmental Health Day is observed annually on September 26.

What is the theme for 2021?
a. Beat Plastic Pollution

b. Prioritising Environmental Health for healthier communities in the global recovery
c. Air pollution
d. Connecting People to Nature in the city and on the land, from the
poles to the equator
2. Which of the following railway stations has become the first to be fully
powered by solar energy?
a. Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai

b. Howrah Station, West Bengal
c. New Delhi Railway Station
d. Chennai central railway station
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3. In September 2021, who has been appointed by UN Secretary-General Antonio

Guterres as a Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Advocate?
a. Abhijit Banerjee
b. Kailash Satyarthi
c. C. V. Raman
d. Har Gobind Banerjee
4. According to Digital Quality of Life Index 2021, what is the rank of

India on e-government?
a. 11th
b. 25th
c. 33rd
d. 47th

5. Fuego volcano began a strong eruptive phase on 23 September 2021.

It is located in which country?
a. Honduras
b. El Salvador
c. Guatemala
d. Mexico
6. India celebrates Antyodaya Diwas every year on which day?
a. 22nd September
b. 23rd September
c. 24th September
d. 25th September
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7. Who is the author of the book "400 Days"?
a. Salman Rushdie
b. Aravind Adiga
c. Chetan Bhagat
d. Fareed Zakaria
8. Which of the following companies has become the first Indian SaaS
startup to be listed on Nasdaq?
a. BYJU’S
b. Unacademy
c. ThoughtSpot
d. Freshworks

9. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)

foreign ministers’ meeting has been cancelled. It was slated to be
held in which city in September 2021?
a. Chicago
b. New York
c. Miami
d. Dhaka
10. In September 2021, who has been named as the next

Chief of Air Staff?
a. Birender Singh Dhanoa

b. RKS Bhadauria
c. Vivek Ram Chaudhari
d. Arup Raha
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11. The Global Trade Outlook Report is released by which of the

following organizations?
a. World Bank
b. World Trade Organisation
c. International Monetary Fund
d. Department of International Trade, United Kingdom
12. In September 2021, the World Bank group discontinued its one of the key
reports. The name of the report is:-
a. World Development Report

b. Human Capital Index
c. Ease of Doing Business Report
d. Learning Poverty Report

13. When is International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone

Layer observed every year?
a. 14 September
b. 15 September
c. 16 September
d. 17 September
14. Which of the following launched a report titled 'A multi-billion-dollar

opportunity: Repurposing agricultural support to transform food systems’?
a. UN Development Programme
b. Food and Agriculture Organisation
c. UN Environment Programme
d. All a, b and c
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15. In September 2021, who has come out with a book 'Human
Rights and Terrorism in India’?
a. Subramanian Swamy
b. Sitaram Yechury
c. Dinesh Trivedi
d. Subhasish Chakraborty
16. When is Hindi Diwas celebrated across the country?
a. 11 September
b. 12 September
c. 13 September
d. 14 September

17. In September 2021, which of the following has become the first private
company to formally enter into an agreement with ISRO?
a. Skyroot Aerospace
b. Bellatrix Aerospace
c. Firefly Aerospace
d. Bharat Dynamics Ltd.
18. Who was crowned champion of the 2021 US Open?
a. Novak Djokovic
b. Daniil Medvedev
c. Rafael Nadal
d. Roger Federer
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19. Which country has successfully launched a new satellite, Gaofen-5-02,

into space to improve the country's observation capacity of the
atmosphere, water, and land?
a. China
b. Japan
c. USA
d. Russia
20. Who is the author of the book titled 'Back To The Roots’?
a. Anushka Shetty
b. Tamannaah Bhatia
c. Shruti Haasan
d. Kajal Aggarwal

21. In September 2021, the CM of which state launched an outreach

Programme "Go To Hills 2.0"?
a. Sikkim
b. Manipur
c. Nagaland
d. Mizoram
22. By 6 September 2021, Chandrayaan-2 has completed more than

how many orbits around the Moon?
a. 9,000
b. 8,000
c. 7000
d. 6,000
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23. Who led India's contingent at the closing ceremony of Tokyo Paralympics
as the flag-bearer?
a. Avani Lekhara
b. Mariyappan Thangavelu
c. Pramod Bhagat
d. Varun Singh Bhati
24. Who is the author of the book titled, 'Know Your Rights and Claim
Them: A Guide for Youth’?
a. Angelina Jolie
b. Jenny Shimizu
c. Tone Skye
d. Michele Hicks

25. Indian contingent won how many medals at the Tokyo Paralympic
Games 2020?
a. 16
b. 17
c. 18
d. 19
26. When is ‘International Literacy Day’ observed every year?
a. 7 September
b. 8 September
c. 9 September
d. 10 September
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27. In September 2021, which country has become the first country in the
world to accept bitcoin as legal tender?
a. Honduras
b. El Salvador
c. Nicaragua
d. Ecuador
28. Who won gold in the mixed 50 metre pistol event at the Tokyo
Paralympics in September 2021?
a. Singhraj Adhana
b. Manish Narwal
c. Jaspal Rana
d. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

29. In September 2021, the NDB established by the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India,
China and South Africa) countries in 2015 has approved which country as its
new member?
a. Bangladesh
b. Myanmar
c. Indonesia
d. Philippines
30. The President of which country has declared an economic emergency to

contain soaring inflation after a steep fall in the value of the country’s
currency caused a spike in food prices?
a. Bhutan
b. Sri Lanka
c. Bangladesh
d. Laos
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31. Who among the following is among the five recipients of the Ramon
Magsaysay Award 2021?
a. Sudi Devanesen 1. Dr. Firdausi Qadri ------------- Vaccine scientist from Bangladesh
2. Roberto Ballon ------------------- Filipino fisher and community environmentalist
b. Dr. Firdausi Qadri 3. Muhammad Amjad Saqib ----Microfinance pioneer from Pakistan
c. Muhamed Haneef 4. Steven Muncy -------------------- Humanitarian worker from the United States
5. Watchdoc -------------------------- Indonesian torch bearer for investigative
d. Anil Aggrawal journalism
32. Which of the following is India's best-ranked institution as per the World
University Rankings 2022, released by the Times Higher Education?
a. IIT Delhi
b. IISc Bangalore
c. IIT Kanpur
d. IIT Bombay

33. Who has been honoured with the prestigious Times Excellence
Award 2021?
a. A. K. Ramanujan
b. Amitav Ghosh
c. Sabarna Roy
d. Chandrashekhara Kambara
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1. Which of the following countries has built 'Shinincheon Bitdream Fuel Cell
Power Plant' which is also the world's largest hydrogen fuel cell power plant?
a. China
b. Japan
c. South Korea
d. Indonesia
2. Indian Railways started running India's first full Economy AC-3 tier train
from 29 October 2021. What is the name of the train?
a. Suvidha Superfast Express

b. Gati Shakti Express
c. Tejas Express
d. Vande Bharat Express
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3. which of the following companies has decided to change its

name to "Meta"?
a. Snap Inc.
b. Bytedance
c. Baidu
d. Facebook Inc.
4. Which state launched a unique academic scheme, Education at your

doorstep, in October 2021?
a. Uttarakhand
b. Tamil Nadu
c. Haryana
d. Telangana

5. In October 2021, who has won the prestigious German

Peace Prize?
a. Petina Gappah
b. Tsitsi Dangarembga
c. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
d. Sefi Atta
6. India successfully test-fired which of the following “surface-to-surface

ballistic missiles”, in October 2021?
a. Agni-V
b. Nirbhay
c. Prithvi III
d. Shaurya
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7. In October 2021, which state has decided to set up 34 “children-friendly

police stations” in the state?
b. Odisha
c. Karnataka
d. Punjab
8. Which state was awarded the 'Most Film Friendly State' of the
country at the 67th National Film Awards?
a. West Bengal
b. Mizoram
c. Sikkim
d. Assam

9. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) unveiled which of the
following cities as the two new teams for the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022?
a. Indore and Kolkata

b. Surat and Chennai
c. Bengaluru and Hyderabad
d. Ahmedabad and Lucknow
10. Rajinikanth launched India’s first “voice-based social media platform”.

What is the name of the platform?
a. TRUTH Social
b. Kuaishou
c. Douyin
d. Hoote
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11. Which of the following neighbouring countries of India has passed

a new border law on the protection of the land border areas?
a. Nepal
b. Myanmar
c. China
d. Bangladesh
12. In October 2021, which of the following films has been selected as
India's official entry to Oscars 2022 under the International Feature
Film category?
a. Jallikattu
b. Koozhangal
c. Nayattu
d. Mandela

13. Which of the following nations has won the Thomas Cup 2021?
a. Denmark
b. Indonesia
c. China
d. Vietnam
14. Who among the following is the author of the book 'Stars In My Sky’?
a. Divya Dutta
b. Vir Sanghvi
c. Dr. Utpal K Banerjee
d. Subramanian Swamy
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15. Which team won the Indian Premier League 2021 title?
a. Chennai Super Kings

b. Mumbai Indians
c. Punjab Kings
d. Kolkata Knight Riders
16. Directorate General of Civil Aviation has temporarily suspended whose

licence for the transportation of 'dangerous goods' for alleged violations?
a. Indigo
b. Vistara
c. Go First
d. SpiceJet

17. When is World Food Day celebrated across the globe every year?
a. 13 October
b. 14 October
c. 15 October
d. 16 October
18. What is the rank of India in the Global Hunger Index 2021?
a. 94th
b. 100th
c. 101st
d. 102nd
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19. Which of the following countries sent its first solar exploration
satellite into space?
a. United States
b. Japan
c. China
d. Russia
20. Who among the following has/have awarded with the 2021 Nobel Prize
for Economic Sciences?
a. David Card
b. Joshua D Angrist
c. Guido W. Imbens
d. All 1, 2 and 3

21. The central government has started a campaign named 'Mission

100 Days’ to control the spread of which disease?
a. Malaria
b. Tuberculosis
c. Swine Flu
d. Covid-19
22. Which of the following became the first state/ states in the
country to introduce mobile court units?
a. Telangana
b. Uttarakhand
c. Bihar
d. Both a and b
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23. In October 2021, who set the Guinness record by singing in

120 languages?
a. Abhishek Singh
b. Suchetha Sathish
c. Vartika Srivastava
d. Menal Kumari
24. who won the nobel Peace prize 2021?
a. Maria Ressa
b. David Julius
c. Dmitry Muratov
d. Both a and c

25. India's rank has slipped by six places to which place on the Henley
Passport Index, which lists the world's most travel-friendly passports?
a. 75
b. 80
c. 85
d. 90
26. In October 2021, the Nobel Prize for literature has been
awarded to whom?
a. Louis de Bernières
b. Abdulrazak Gurnah
c. Alex Garland
d. Anne Enright
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27. In October 2021, who won the nobel prize in chemistry?
a. Benjamin List
b. David WC MacMillan
c. David Julius
d. Both a and b
28. Which team won the Durand Cup trophy in October 2021?
a. Kerala Blasters
b. Goa FC
c. Hyderabad
d. Jamshedpur

29. Karnataka CM inaugurated the 31st district of Karnataka.

What is the name of this new district?
a. Bagalkot
b. Belagavi
c. Chikballapur
d. Vijaynagar
30. Which state government launched twin campaign 'Prashasan-

Shahron Ke Sang' and 'Prashasan - Gaon Ke Sang’ ?
a. Odisha
b. West Bengal
c. Rajasthan
d. Maharashtra
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31. Which of the following has received the 2021 Right Livelihood Award?
a. Indian Environmental Society

b. Himalayas Conservation and Environmental Society
c. Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment
d. M.C. Mehta Environmental Foundation
32. In October 2021, which of the following has been declared

as the mascot of the Namami Gange Programme?
a. Chacha Chaudhary
b. Bhima
c. Krishna
d. Saabu
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CONTENTS SIRJEE CLASSES

1. MAJOR APPOINTMENTS. 11. MAJOR FESTIVAL IN YEAR 2019-21

5. MAJOR SUMMITS. 15. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

10. MAJOR CYCLONES IN 2020-21

INDIA GOVRNMENT PORTFOLIO 2021

Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh Lucknow ( U.P.)

Minister of Home Affairs

INDIA GOVRNMENT PORTFOLIO 2021

Minister of Women and Child AMETHI

Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers. Rajya Sabha

Minister of Tribal Affairs. KHUNTI

Minister of Food Processing Industries. Pashupati Kumar

INDIA GOVRNMENT PORTFOLIO 2021

Minister of Law and Justice Kiren Rijiju

Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas. Hardeep Singh Puri

Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh MORENA

Minister of Social Justice and

Minister of Health and Family Welfare. Mansukh L. Mandaviya

Minister of Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia

Minister of Information and Broadcasting

INDIA GOVRNMENT PORTFOLIO 2021

Minister of Minority Affairs RAJYA SABHA

Minister of Parliamentary Affairs.

Minister of Jal Shakti Gajendra Singh Jodhpur

Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Mahendra Nath Pandey

Type Upper house House of the People

State Governor State Governor

UNION TERRITORIES OF INDIA

Andaman and Nicobar Island (UT) Admiral D K Joshi (Lieutenant Governor)

Shri Banwarilal Purohit

Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Praful Patel

Jammu and Kashmir (UT) Shri Manoj Sinha (Lieutenant Governor)

CHIEF MINISTER OF ALL STATES

State Chief Minister State Chief Minister

Arunachal Pradesh Pema Khandu Meghalaya Conrad Kongkal Sangma

Assam Shri Himanta Biswa Sarma Mizoram Pu Zoramthanga

Bihar Nitish Kumar Nagaland Neiphiu Rio

Chhattisgarh Bhupesh Baghel Odisha Naveen Patnaik

Delhi (NCT) Arvind Kejriwal Puducherry (UT) Shri N. Rangaswamy

Goa Pramod Sawant Punjab Shri. Charanjit Singh Channi

Gujarat Shri Bhupendra Patel Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot

Haryana Manohar Lal Sikkim PS Golay

Himachal Pradesh Jairam Thakur Tamil Nadu Shri M. K. Stalin

Jharkhand Hemant Soren Telangana K Chandrasekhar Rao

Chiefs of armed forces india

Chief of the Army Staff General Manoj Mukund Naravane

Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh

Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari

chief of Intelligence and Investigation Organization

Central Vigilance Commissioner Suresh N Patel

Director of CBI Subodh Kumar Jaiswal

Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha

Secretary and Advisor

Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba

Foreign Secretary Harshvardhan Shrigla

Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla

Finance Secretary T. V Somanathan

Defense Secretary Ajay Kumar

Revenue Secretary Tarun Bajaj

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval