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- Question
Renowned agricultural economist and former PM's Economic Advisory Committee member Professor Vijay Shankar Vyas passes away recently. He was the director of;
Options- A. NIT, Patna
- B. IIT Bombay
- C. IIM, Ahmedabad
- D. FMS, Delhi
- Correct Answer
- IIM, Ahmedabad
ExplanationRenowned agricultural economist and former PM's Economic Advisory Committee member Professor Vijay Shankar Vyas died after a brief illness. He was 87. He was the director of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Jaipur. Vyas was a senior adviser in the World Bank's agriculture and rural development department. He was also a member of the PM's Economic Adviser Committee during the previous Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh governments. He was also associated with the formation of NABARD. - 1. Name of the noted economist who passed away recently.
Options- A. Jayati Ghosh
- B. Viharidas Gopaldas Patel
- C. Jagdish Bhagwati
- D. Abhijit Banerjee Discuss
- 2. Indian politician George Mathew Fernandes was passed away on January 29, 2019. He was a former minister for which of the following department?
Options- A. Finance
- B. Defence
- C. Health
- D. Home Affairs Discuss
- 3. Nabi Tajima, the world's oldest person has passed away. She belongs to which country?
Options- A. China
- B. Japan
- C. South Korea
- D. Taiwan Discuss
- 4. Name the India's longest-serving corporate chief, who was also the founder of ITC pvt limited passed away recently.
Options- A. Bhishma Narain Singh
- B. Chandrasekhar Rath
- C. Yogesh Chander Deveshwar
- D. Kedarnath Singh Discuss
- 5. Former defence minister Manohar Parrikar died at the age of 63 recently. He was the chief minister of which of the following state?
Options- A. Punjab
- B. Goa
- C. Meghalaya
- D. Mizoram Discuss
- 6. Veteran cricket coach Ramakant Achrekar passed away at the age of 87. For whom he trained?
Options- A. Sachin Tendulkar
- B. Rahul Dravid
- C. MS Dhoni
- D. Virender Sehwag Discuss
- 7. Superfan Naotoshi Yamada often called as 'Uncle Olympics' dies at the age of 92. He belongs to which country?
Options- A. Thailand
- B. Myanmar
- C. China
- D. Japan Discuss
- 8. Freedom fighter Goura Chandra Mohapatra passed away recently. He belongs to which state?
Options- A. West Bengal
- B. Haryana
- C. Gujarat
- D. Odisha Discuss
- 9. Negasso Gidada Solon passed away at the age of 75 in Germany. He was the former president of this country.
Options- A. Sudan
- B. Nigeria
- C. Kenya
- D. Ethiopia Discuss
- 10. Somnath Chatterjee who passed away recently was served as a __________.
Options- A. Rajya Sabha Vice Speaker
- B. Rajya Sabha Speaker
- C. Lok Sabha Vice Speaker
- D. Lok Sabha Speaker Discuss
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Correct Answer: Viharidas Gopaldas Patel
Explanation:
Viharidas Gopaldas Patel, noted economist and 'Father of Entrepreneurship Movement' in India, passed away on 4 April after a brief illness. In 2017, the Government of India had decorated him with a Padma Shri for his contribution to the entrepreneurship movement. He had set up the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII) in Ahmedabad in 1983.
Correct Answer: Defence
Explanation:
Former Defence Minister George Fernandes passed away on January 29, 2019 following a prolonged illness. He was 88. Fernandes was suffering from Alzheimer's disease; and recently, he contracted swine flu. Fernandes held the portfolio of the Union Defence Minister from 2001 to 2004 under the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government. He was born in Mangaluru in British India on June 3, 1930.
Correct Answer: Japan
Explanation:
Nabi Tajima (117), the world's oldest Japanese supercentenarian, has passed away in Kikai, Japan on April 21, 2018. She was born on August 4, 1900, and reportedly had more than 160 descendants, including great-great-great grandchildren. She was the last living person certified to have been born in the nineteenth century. Tajima became the world's oldest person 7 months ago after the death of Violet Brown in Jamaica, also at the age of 117.
Correct Answer: Yogesh Chander Deveshwar
Explanation:
Yogesh Chander Deveshwar, who built ITC passed away after a brief illness in a private hospital at Gurugram. He was 72. He was the India's longest-serving corporate chief with over 20 years of experience. He had stepped down as the Chief Executive of ITC in 2017 and served the organization as the non-executive chairman. It was during his term, ITC saw the tremendous transformation from being a tobacco company to a multi-business union. YC Deveshwar was born on February 4, 1947 in Lahore.
Correct Answer: Goa
Explanation:
Manohar Parrikar, Goa Chief Minister and former defence minister, has passed away at the age of 63 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Parrikar was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer in February 2018. He was an IIT Mumbai graduate in metallurgical engineering and among the first members of BJP in Goa.
Correct Answer: Sachin Tendulkar
Explanation:
Veteran cricket coach Ramakant Achrekar, who trained Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli, among others, passed away following a heart attack. He was 87 and breathed his last at his home in Dadar. Achrekar, honoured with Padma Shri in 2010 and Dronacharya Award in 1990, was instrumental in shaping the careers of Tendulkar, Kambli and over a dozen other top cricket stars.
Correct Answer: Japan
Explanation:
Superfan Naotoshi Yamada, famous in Japan for having been to every Summer Games since 1964, has died aged 92 with an unfulfilled dream of watching the Olympics when it returns to Tokyo next year. A Japanese Olympic mega-fan who attended every summer games since Tokyo in 1964 has died, just over a year before his home city was to host its second Olympics.The Tokyo businessman was a national celebrity in his own right with his repeated, gleeful appearances in Olympic stands.
Correct Answer: Odisha
Explanation:
Freedom fighter Goura Chandra Mohapatra passed away following old age related ailments, at a hospital in Bhadrak district, Odisha. Goura Chandra Mohapatra was 104 years old. He was son of nationalist poet Kanta Kabi Laxmikant Mohapatra. He had participated in the Quit India movement and later worked in academics. He worked for social upliftment. He was the youngest prisoner jailed in Berhampur Circle Jail in 1942, during Quit India Movement.
Correct Answer: Ethiopia
Explanation:
Former Ethiopian president Negasso Gidada Solon passed away at the age of 75 in Germany for an unspecified illness. He was born on 8th September 1943 in Dembidolo, Ethiopian Empire. He was the president between 1995 and 2001 and was the first head of state after Ethiopia adopted a new constitution transforming country into a federal state. In 2015, He was elected to parliament as an independent but then joined the opposition three years later.
Correct Answer: Lok Sabha Speaker
Explanation:
Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee passed away. He was 89 years old. Chatterjee was the Speaker of the Lower House from 2004-09 when Manmohan Singh-led UPA- 1 (United Progressive Alliance) was in power.
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