CURRENT AFFAIRS(12-05-2024) 1 / 10 In which year did India recognise the State of Palestine? 1974 1996 1988 2003 India was also one of the first countries to recognise the State of Palestine in 1988 Read More 2 / 10 Andrej Plenkovic is the incumbent Prime Minister of which of the following nations? Slovenia Belarus Slovakia Croatia Croatia’s incumbent Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic on Friday was asked to form a new government after securing the backing of a right-wing party following an inconclusive election last month. Read More 3 / 10 Which of the following is Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s home district? Berhampur Koraput Nabarangpur Kalahandi Over the past three months, party heavyweights have held separate public meetings in Berhampur in Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s home district, as the saffron party makes an audacious attempt to breach the fortress of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), the State’s ruling party. Read More 4 / 10 Who among the following is the People’s Democratic Party candidate for Lok Sabha elections in Srinagar? Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra Omar Abdullah Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi Ashraf Mir The NC’s Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi and the PDP’s Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra emerged as the main voices to represent their respective political parties’ ideological opposition to the BJP’s move to end J&K’s special constitutional position in 2019. Read More 5 / 10 Which constituency is Jana Sena president Pawan Kalyan contesting the Lok Sabha elections from? Chittoor Pithapuram Kadapa Kuppam Pithapuram should be a religious and spiritual hub as well as a developmental cluster.” Read More 6 / 10 Who is the Janata Dal (Secular) State President in Karnataka? H.D Deve Gowda H.D. Kumaraswamy Krishna Byre Gowda G. Devaraje Gowda JD(S) State president and Prajwal’s uncle H.D. Kumaraswamy, who initially sought to distance himself and his father Deve Gowda from the controversy, is now accusing Shivakumar of distributing “25,000 pendrives” “to evidently influence elections in Hassan”. Read More 7 / 10 Which of the following countries is not a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)? United States Australia The United Kingdom Japan The least of the surprise is that the United States is a signatory to the Geneva Conventions 1958 and not UNCLOS. Read More 8 / 10 Which company built Alphafold, an AI tool which can predict the shapes into which different proteins could fold? Aleph Alpha DeepMind Irreverent Labs OpenAI In 2018, five decades after it was mooted, a Google subsidiary named DeepMind developed a purpose-built AI tool to predict the shapes into which different proteins could fold, called AlphaFold. Read More 9 / 10 Which Article of the Constitution grants the Election Commission plenary powers in order to ensure a free and fair election? Article 24 Article 42 Article 324 Article 423 Article 324 confers on the Election Commission, plenary powers to enable it to ensure a free and fair election. Read More 10 / 10 Sachin Andure and Sharad Kalaskar were sentenced to life imprisonment and fine for the murder of which noted activist? Narendra Dabholkar M.M. Kalburgi Gauri Lankesh Govind Pansare After nearly three years of trial, a Pune court on Friday convicted two persons and acquitted three in the murder of activist Narendra Achyut Dabholkar. Read More Your score isThe average score is 0% 0% Restart quiz