Top Trending Personality | Tagore Literary Prize - NTPC Exam Current Affairs

 1. What was India's top most-searched word on Google in 2020?

Indian Premier League

2. Who was the top trending personality in India in the year 2020?

Joe Biden

3. Who won the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2020?

Raj Kamal Jha 

4. Who has become the first Indian to win a Formula 2 race?

Jehan Daruvala

5. Who has been named Time magazine’s 2020 Person of the Year?

Joe Biden 

6. India was ranked at which position on the Climate Change Performance Index 2021?

10th

7. Which nation has successfully activated its ‘Artificial Sun’?

China 

(China successfully activated its nuclear-powered ‘Artificial Sun’-HL-2M Tokamak reactor- for the first time on December 4, 2020. )

8. Which three nations held the first trilateral working group meeting on December 14 on the use of Chabahar port?

India, Iran, Uzbekistan 

9. Which Indian telecommunications company launched the world’s first satellite-based Narrowband IoT (Internet of Things) Network?

BSNL

10 .UNESCO has decided to launch an international prize that will be named after which late political figure?

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

(the 'UNESCO-Bangladesh Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman International prize'. The prize will be launched in the field of ‘creative economy’ starting from November 2021. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was a Bangladesh politician and was also called the ‘Father of the Nation’.)

11. Who won the Ramanujan Prize for Mathematicians for the year 2020?

Dr Carolina Arajuo

12. Swadhinata Sarak will be opened between India and which nation?

Bangladesh

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