The song "Amar Sonar Bangla", written during the Swadeshi movement of India, inspired Bangladesh in its freedom struggle and was adopted as the national anthem of Bangladesh. Who wrote this song?
(A) Rajinikanth Sen
(B) Dwijendralal Roy
(C) Mukund Das
(D) Rabindranath Tagore
1. Rabindranath Tagore wrote "Amar Sonar Bangla" to inspire the liberation struggle.
2. The song was written in 1905 during the first partition of Bengal by Lord Curzon.
3. This song was meant to rekindle the unified spirit of Bengal, to raise public consciousness against the communal political divide. 4. The first ten lines of this song constitute Bangladesh's national anthem, adopted in 1971 during its liberation war.
5. Rabindranath Tagore was a Nobel laureate for literature and wrote the words and music to India‘s national anthem.
Which of the following famous cartoonist, who was honored with Padma Shri award, has passed away at the age of 97?
(A) Barun Roy
(B) S Jitesh
(C) Narayan Debnath
(D) none of these
Famous Bengali cartoonist Narayan Debnath passed away at 97 on Tuesday morning at a South Kolkata nursing home after a prolonged illness.
In which year did the British government revoke the partition of Bengal?
(A) 1919
(B) 1927
(C) 1938
(D) 1945
The partition of Bengal was revoked in 1911. A new scheme of partition of Bengal was implemented on linguistic rather than religious grounds.
Charaka and Nagarjuna were the court of whose court?
(A) Ashoka
(B) Kumaragupta
(C) Kanishka
(D) Chandragupta Maurya
Some of the scholars in the Court of Kanishka were Parsva, Vasumitra, Asvaghosa, Nagarjuna, Charaka and Mathara.
India and the government of which country has recently finalized an air bubble agreement to allow all eligible passengers to travel between the two countries?
(A) Pakistan
(B) Bangladesh
(C) China
(D) Saudi Arab
The Indian government has finalised an air bubble agreement with Saudi Arabia, which will allow all eligible travellers to travel between the two countries. The flights between the two countries will begin on January 1, 2022.
Which country has introduced the world's first dual-mode vehicle (DMV) that looks like a minibus that can run on roads and tracks?
(A) Vietnam
(B) China
(C) Malaysia
(D) Japan
The correct answer is Japan. Japan has introduced a minibus lookalike world's first dual-mode vehicle (DMV) in its town of Kaiyo in December 2021. It is said that the vehicle can run on roads as well as rail tracks. The vehicle runs on normal rubber tyres on the road and on steel wheels on rail tracks.
Pradeep Shah, the former advisor of the World Bank, has been appointed as the chairman of which of the following in 2022?
(A) Wipro
(B) Infosys
(C) pfizer india
(D) cognizant
Pfizer India appointed Pradip Shah(As of Feb 2022) as the chairman of its board following the resignation of R A Shah. Pradip Shah is the ex-managing director and a founding member of Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited (CRISIL).
________ has achieved the milestone of taking 100 wickets in 22 Test matches away from home.
(A) Bhuvneshwar Kumar
(B) Mohammed Shami
(C) Jasprit Bumrah
(D) Ravichandran Ashwin
Who is the author of the book 'Dr V L Dutt: Glimpses of a Pioneer's Life Journey'?
(A) Rahul Rawail
(B) SS Oberoi
(C) Shantanu Gupta
(D) VL Indira Dutt
Vice President of India M Venkaiah Naidu has launched the book titled ‘Dr V L Dutt: Glimpses of a Pioneer’s Life Journey’ authored by Dr V L Indira Dutt, Chairperson and Managing Director of KCP Group, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The book is based on the life of Late Velagapudi Lakshmana Dutt (V.L. Dutt), the former Chairman of KCP Group.
Who among the following has been appointed as MD & CEO of UCO Bank in 2022?
(A) M Venugopal
(B) Ramalingam Sudhakar
(C) Ashwani Kumar
(D) Arun Kumar Mishra
Ashwani Kumar has been appointed as the new MD and CEO of the city-based public sector UCO Bank with effect from June 1. Prior to this, he was the executive director of the state-owned Indian Bank.
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