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The correct answer is Markandey Katju.

Key Points

• Markandey Katju is an Indian jurist and former Supreme Court judge of India who also served as the chairman of the Press Council of India
• The Press Council of India was formed in 1966.
• It is a statutory, adjudicating organization.
• It is the self regulatory watchdog of the press, for the press and by the press.
• It operates under the Press Council Act of 1978.

Important Points

• JS Verma
• Jagdish Sharan Verma was an Indian jurist who served as the 27^th Chief Justice of India from 25 March 1997 to 18 January 1998.
• He was also the chairman of National Human Rights Commission from 1999 to 2003 and the chairman of the Justice Verma Committee Report on Amendments to Criminal Law.
• Swatantra Kumar
• Justice Swatanter Kumar is a retired justice of the Supreme Court of India and former Chairperson of the National Green Tribunal.
• He is also former Chief Justice of Bombay High Court and Judge of Delhi High Court and Punjab and Haryana High Court.
• Manu Singhvi
• Abhishek Manu Singhvi is an Indian lawyer and politician.
• He is a member and spokesperson of the Indian National Congress.
• Currently, he is a Member of the Parliament of India representing West Bengal in the Rajya Sabha.

The correct answer is IB & RAW.

Key Points

• IB stands for Intelligence Bureau.
• RAW stands for Research and Analysis Wing of India.
• Both agencies are the internal and external intelligence agencies of our country respectively.

Important Points

• Raw operates operations in India's neighbouring countries for the Indian government.
• IB operates within the country.
• Also, IB shares intelligence with the other intelligence agencies and the police.

Additional Information

• IB director- Arvind Kumar (Oct 2021)
• RAW Chief -  Samant Goel

The correct answer is Social Website.

Key Points

• Facebook is an America based multinational technology company.
• It was founded in 2004 by the students of Harvard College namely Mark Zuckerberg, Andrew McCollum, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.
• Its headquarters is in Menlo Park, California, USA.

Important Points

• It is a social site used to connect with friends, family, and other people by sharing videos, pictures, etc.

The correct answer is Pakistan.

Key Points

• Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani/Gilani is a Pakistani politician.
• He served as 18^th prime minister of Pakistan from 25 March 2008 until his retroactive disqualification and ouster by the Supreme Court of Pakistan on 26 April 2012.

Important Points

• He belongs to Pakistan Peoples Party.

The correct answer is Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav.

Key Points

• Lalu Prasad Yadav is an Indian politician, a former Union Minister of Railways.
• He is the president of the political party Rashtriya Janata Dal, a former Chief Minister of Bihar, and a former Member of Parliament of the Lok Sabha.

Additional Information 

• Mamta Banarjee
• Mamata Banerjee is an Indian politician who belongs to the All India Trinamool Congress.
• She is serving as the ninth and current chief minister of West Bengal since 2011.
• Dinesh Trivedi
• Dinesh Trivedi is an Indian politician from Bhartiya Janta Party.
• He was a Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha from West Bengal for two separate terms.
• Mukul Roy
• Mukul Roy is an Indian politician who belongs to the All India Trinamool Congress.
• He has also served as a Minister of State in the Shipping Ministry and later Ministry of Railways during the UPA 2 government.
• He was formerly associated with the Indian National Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party as well.

The correct answer is Pakistan.

Key Points

• The memogate controversy is also known as the Mullen memo controversy.
• This controversy revolves around a memorandum seeking the help of the Obama administration in the wake of the Osama bin Laden raid to prevent a military takeover of the civilian government in Pakistan.

Important Points

• This scandal had occurred around eight years back and brought a terrible political storm in the country.
• The allegation was on the then President, Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan for treason.
• It had triggered a serious civil-military rift in Pakistan.
• And had been taken to the Supreme Court in 2011 by Nawaz Sharif, the then leader of the opposition.
• A day after it forced the resignation of Hussain Haqqani, Pakistan’s ambassador to the US of that time.

The correct answer is 52 seconds. 

Key Points

• Our National Anthem is Jana Gana Mana, it approximately takes 52 seconds for the full version.
• It was composed originally in Bengali by Rabindranath Tagore.
• It was adopted in its Hindi version by the Constituent Assembly as the National Anthem of our country on 24 January 1950.

Important Points

• It was sung for the first time in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress on 27 December 1911.
• It comprises of 5 Stanzas.

The correct answer is Mr. D Subha Rao.

Key Point

• Mr. D Subbarao was the 22^nd RBI Governor with the tenure from 5 September 2008- 4 September 2013.
• The Governor of the RBI acts as the chief executive officer of India's central bank and the ex-officio chair of its Central Board of Directors.

Important Points 

• The Governor is responsible for maintaining the monetary stability in an economy.
• The constituting instrument comes under RBI Act, 1934.
• Sir Osborne Smith was the first governor of RBI.
• Shaktikanta Das is the current governor of RBI.(Oct 2021)​

The correct answer is Mr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia.

Key Points

• The Planning Commission was an institution in the Government of India, which formulated India's Five-Year Plans.
• This institution got dissolved on 17 August 2014 under the care of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and was superseded by a new agency; NITI Aayog.

Important Points 

• The Planning Commission was formed on 15 March 1950.
• It takes the Central Ministries and the State Governments into consideration for formulating all annual plans / five year plans.
• It functions as an advisory body of the apex level.

Additional Information

• NITI Aayog
• It is a public policy think tank of the Government of India.
• It was established with the goal to achieve sustainable development goals with cooperative federalism for promoting growth along with the involvement of State Governments of India in the economic policies.

The correct answer is 5.

Key Points

• The United Nations Security Council (UNSC)is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, which aims to assure International Peace and Security.
• It has the authority to establish peacekeeping operations, enact international sanctions, and authorize military action.
• It is the only UN body with the authority to issue binding resolutions on its member states.

Important Points

• UNSC Permanent Members also known as the Permanent Five, Big Five, or P5.
• Its 5 Permanent Members are China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
• It comprises 15 members all total permanent and non-permanent members inclusive.