Economic Affairs | Hubble | World Press Freedom Day

1. Who has been appointed as India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations?

TS Tirumurti

2. Which state has become the first in the northeastern region to develop a mobile COVID-19 sample collection kiosk?

Tripura

3. According to the GRID 2020 report, how many people were displaced in 2019?

5 Million (Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID 2020))

4. Which state has imposed a COVID-19 cess on diesel and petrol?

Nagaland 

5. Who has been named as the new Economic Affairs Secretary?

Tarun Bajaj

6. Who has been appointed as India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations?

TS Tirumurti

7. Which  space telescopes celebrated 30 years of its launch on April 24, 2020?

Hubble  

8. US President Donald Trump has nominated which Indian American as US envoy to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development?

Manisha Singh 

9. The BRICS nations have agreed to allocate how much amount to the New Development Bank (NDB)?

$ 15 billion

10. India ranks at which position in a scientific publication?

3rd

11. When was the World Press Freedom Day observed?

May 3rd