Q1) Name the Portuguese Prime Minister who has said that he is resigning after being involved in a widespread corruption probe?

1. Pedro Passos Coelho
2. José Sócrates
3.  Pedro Santana Lopes
4. António Costa
5. None of These

Q2) Name the African country which has recalled its ambassador and diplomatic mission to Israel in condemnation of the bombardment of the Gaza Strip, calling it a “genocide.”?

1. Nigeria
2. Niger
3. South Africa
4. Ghana
5. None of These

Q3) Name the prominent 22-year-old Palestinian activist who has been arrested by the Israeli army during a raid in the occupied West Bank ?

1. Khaled Al-Hassan
2. Ahed Tamimi
3.  Salman Abu Sitta
4.  Abeer Abu Ghaith
5. None of These

Q4) Name the chairperson of NCW who has demanded strong action from the Bihar assembly speaker against Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over his remarks in the Assembly on the importance of women's education to control the population and demanded his apology

1. Poornima Advani
2. Dr. Girija Vyas
3. Mamta Sharma
4. Rekha Sharma
5. None of These

Q5) Name the former transport minister of Puducherry who was recently removed from her ministerial post by chief minister N Rangasamy and who has filed a divorce petition in Karaikal family court ?

1. Geetha Jeevan
2. Anitha R. Radhakrishnan
3. M.P. Saminathan
4. Chandira Priyanga
5. None of These

Answers

1-------------------------------------4 António Costa

2----------------------------------------3 South Africa

3----------------------------------------2 Ahed Tamimi

4-----------------------------------------4 Rekha Sharma

5-----------------------------------------4 Chandira Priyanga

Q1) Name the former BJP minister and chief of Jammu-based Dogra Swabhiman Sangathan Party (DSSP)  who has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case.

1. Hans Raj Dogra
2. Sham Lal Choudhary
3. Choudhary Lal Singh
4. Ravinder Raina
5. None of These

Q2) Name the state government that has proposed to conduct a dolphin safari in the biodiversity-rich Gulf of Mannar (GoM) Biosphere Reserve as part of conservation efforts to save cetac and under ‘Project Dolphin’.

1. Kerala
2. Puducherry
3. Tamil Nadu
4. Karnataka
5. None of These

Q3) The construction work for the much-awaited 13.79-km-long ropeway in Shimla , which  is  country’s first urban ropeway project and the world’s second longest, after La Paz in Bolivia ,  will begin in September 2024 and is expected to be completed by

1. 2026                                      
2. 2027
3. 2028
4. 2029                
5. None of These

Q4)  Name the Bihar Chief Minister  who has apologised and offered his explanation for his remarks on women education ?

1. Tejaswi Yadav
2. Sushil  Modi
3. Nitish Kumar
4. Jeetan Ram Manjhi
5. None of These

Answers

1----------------------------------3   Choudhary Lal Singh

2-----------------------------------3  Tamil Nadu

3----------------------------------4   2029  

4-------------------------------------3   Nitish Kumar

Q1. Name the year in which last caste census in India was held ?

1. 1977
2. 1956
3. 1948
4. 1932
5. None of These

 Q2. Name the senior bureaucrat  who has been  sworn in as the Chief Information Commissioner by President Droupadi Murmu ?

1. Ranjeet Singh Pankaj
2. Justice M. A. Khan
3. Heeralal Samariya     
4. Jawed Usmani
5. None of These

 Q3. Name the country which has  which  has said  that  it plans to launch its first domestically built spy satellite at the end of  nov 2023 to better monitor rival North Korea, as the North pushes to expand its arsenal of nuclear weapons targeting its adversaries ?

1. Vietnam
2. Taiwan
3. China
4. South Korea
5. None of These

 Q4. Name U.S. Secretary of State  who met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the Biden administration's latest effort to ease civilian suffering in the Gaza Strip and start to sketch out a post-conflict scenario for the territory ?

1. Antony Blinken
2. John Kerry                
3.  Colin Luther Powell
4. Madeleine Korbel Albright
5. None of These

 Q5. Name the Israeli  minister  who has been reprimanded over Gaza nuclear 'option' comment ?

1. Golda Meir
2. Amichay Eliyahu                      
3. Levi Eshkol
4. Moshe Sharett
5. None of These                         

Answers

1-------------------------------- 4  1932

2---------------------------------3    Heeralal Samariya    

3---------------------------------- 4 South Korea

4----------------------------------1 Antony Blinken

5---------------------------------2   Amichay Eliyahu

Senior bureaucrat  Heeralal Samariya was on  Oct 6  sworn in as the Chief Information Commissioner by President Droupadi Murmu.

The top post at the transparency panel, Central Information Commission (CIC) was lying vacant following the completion of Y K Sinha's tenure on October 3.

President Murmu administered the oath of office to the 63-year-old Samairya at a function at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, a communique issued by the president's office said.

The swearing-in ceremony was attended by Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh among others.

Samariya, a former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, had served as Labour and Employment Secretary. He was sworn in as the Information Commissioner of the CIC on November 7, 2020.

The appointment comes after the Supreme Court's October 30 directive to the central and state governments to fill the vacant positions, warning that the 2005 Right to Information Act would become ineffective otherwise.

Taking a serious note of vacancies in the CIC and state information commissions (SICs), a bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra had also asked the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) to collect information from all states on aspects, including the sanctioned strength of information commissioners in the SICs, vacancies at present and the total number of pending cases there.

After Samariya is appointed the Chief Information Commissioner, there exists a vacancy of eight Information Commissioners. At present, there are two Information Commissioners on the Commission.

The Commission is headed by the Chief Information Commissioner and can have a maximum of 10 Information Commissioners. A Chief Information Commissioner and Information Commissioners can hold the office till they attain 65 years of age.

The government has  ordered blocking of 22 betting apps and websites, including Mahadev Book and Reddyannaprestopro. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, in a press note, said that the action follows investigations conducted by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against illegal betting app syndicate and subsequent raids on Mahadev in Chhattisgarh, revealing the app’s unlawful operations.

The ED is investigating the Mahadev Book Online Betting App syndicate and the promoters of this betting syndicate. Earlier, in its investigation ED said that according to fresh evidence following search operation on November 2, it was found regular payments around Rs 508 crore were made to Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Bhagel.

Now, the owners of Mahadev Book are in custody, having been arrested under the money laundering act. According to the government, two are in custody, having been arrested under the prevention of money laundering act.

The BJP in Rajasthan has  expelled a party leader in Alwar, Sandeep Dayma, over his remarks on gurdwaras and mosques at a recent rally in the Tijara assembly constituency.

The decision to expel Dayma was announced by Onkar Singh Lakhawat, the chairman of the Rajasthan BJP's disciplinary committee.

The development comes after widespread criticism of Dayma's remark at the rally in Tijara during the filing of nomination papers by BJP candidate Baba Balaknath for the November 25 Rajasthan assembly polls.

Turkey said  on Nov 4 it was recalling its ambassador to Israel and breaking off contacts with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in protest at the bloodshed in Gaza.

Ankara announced the decisions on the eve of what promises to be a difficult visit to Turkey by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Palestinian ally Turkey had been mending torn relations with Israel until last month's start of the Israel-Hamas war.

But its tone hardened against both Israel and its Western supporters -- particularly the United States -- as the fighting escalated and the death toll among Palestinian civilians soared.

The Turkish foreign ministry said ambassador Sakir Ozkan Torunlar was being recalled for consultations "in view of the unfolding humanitarian tragedy in Gaza caused by the continuing attacks by Israel against civilians, and Israel's refusal (to accept) a ceasefire".

Q1. Name the Turkish ambassador to Israel who has been recalled by the Turkey in protest at the bloodshed in Gaza ?

1. Sakir Ozkan Torunlar
2. A. Oğuz Çelikkol         
3. Doğan Ferhat Işık       
4. Cem Utkan
5. None of These

Q2. Name the veteran media executive who has been named by the The Washington Post to serve as its new CEO and publisher, hoping to turn around a recent slump that has seen job cuts and a declining audience ?

1. Donald E. Graham
2. Will Lewis
3. Patty Stonesifer
4. Jeff Bezos
5. None of These

Q3. Name the player who has  equalled  the  Sachin Tendulkar’s record of 49 hundreds in ODI ?

1. K L Rahul                                                              
2. Rohit Sharma
3. Virat Kohli
4. Hardik Pandya
5. None of These

Q4. Name the India's first Education Minister whose birth anniversary on 11 November celebrated as  National Education Day ?

1. APJ Abdul Kalam.
2. Zakir Husain                                                                                      
3. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
4. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
5. None of These

 Q5. Merdeka Football Tournament is an international friendly football tournament held in

1. Malaysia                                                              
2. Lebanon
3. India
4. Tajikistan
5. None of These

Answers

1-------------------------------- 1   Sakir Ozkan Torunlar

2---------------------------------2  Will Lewis

3---------------------------------- 3   Virat Kohli

4----------------------------------4    Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

5---------------------------------1 Malaysia