1. Who heads the National Committee on Trade Facilitation, constituted by the Government of India?
Ans: Pradeep Kumar Sinha
2. Where was the first Bio-CNG plant set up in India?
Ans: Pune
3. Justice Manjula Chellur has been appointed Chief Justice of which High Court?
Ans: Bombay
4. Name the Indian who won the PSA Australian Open Squash championship.
Ans: Dipika Pallikal
5. Which is the first state to ratify the GST Bill?
Ans: Assam
6. The Supreme Court of India has lifted the ban on registration of diesel cars and SUVs having engine capacity of 2000 cc and above, in _____.
Ans: Delhi
7. International Youth Day was observed on:
Ans: August 12
8. Who heads the committee, set up by the Union Government to review e-commerce rules?
Ans: Amitabh Kant
9. Who is the new Chairman of the Central Silk Board?
Ans: K.M. Hanumantharayappa
10. Irom Chanu Sharmila had been on hunger strike for 16 years for repealing of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) of 1958 from which state?
Ans: Manipur
11. Who is the new Managing Director of the State Bank of India?
Ans: Dinesh Kumar Khara
12. International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples observed on:
Ans: August 9
13. Who are the two billionaires from India who entered the Forbes list of the world's 100 richest people in technology?
Ans: Azim Premji (Chairman of Wipro) and Shiv Nadar (co-founder of HCL)
14. Where in Kerala was the first touch and feel garden for the visually impaired, inaugurated?
Ans: Calicut University Campus
15. Who became the first swimmer to win four consecutive gold medals in the same event in Olympics?
Ans: Michael Phelps (200 m individual medley)
16. Name the Pakistani cricket legend, termed as the original 'little master' who passed away recently.
Ans: Hanif Mohammad
17. Name the snake boat which won this year's Nehru Trophy Boat Race.
Ans: Karichal Chundan
18. Who won gold with world record in the 10,000 metre run for women in the Rio Olympics?
Ans: Almaz Ayana
19. Who was selected for this year's Ashok Chakra, the highest peacetime military honour?
Ans: Havildar Hangpan Dada
20. World Bio-fuel Day was observed on:
Ans: August 10
· On this day in 1893, Sir Rudalph Diesel (inventor of the diesel engine) for the first time successfully ran a mechanical engine with Peanut Oil
GK Plus:-
· Karichal. Chundan, the snake boat powered by the oarsmen of Kumarakom Vembanad Boat Club, won the 64th edition of the Nehru Trophy held at the Punnamada Lake. Gabriel chundan of the United Boat Club came second. Nadubhagom of the Village boat Club and Mahadevikad of the Mahadevikad Boat Club came third and fourth.
· Havildar Hangopan Dada, was posthumously honoured with Ashok Chakra for laying down his life for the country on May 27 this year. He valiantly fought and eliminated four heavily-armed terrorists who had infiltrated into North Kashmir from Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK).
