100 Current Affairs Question: September 2020

1. Which state assembly has passed a resolution to bring the state under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution?
2. Who is the chairman of the new forum on Artificial Intelligence launched by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)?
3. CSIR has claimed to have devolved the world’s largest solar tree. It was installed in:
4. Which bank has decided to invest 650 million euros into the construction of Kanpur metro line?
5. Name the remote-controlled medical trolley developed by the Indian Railway to help deliver food and medicine to COVID 19 patients.
6. Which state government has announced 100 projects in the state that will be completed in the next 100 days? 
7. Prime minister Narendra Modi has announced that September will be observe as:
8. Who is the former Indian president who has died due to a lung infection, weeks after he was diagnosed with COVID-19?
9. Name India’s first female cardiologist who has died due to COVID 19.
10. Which state is going to host its first ever Dragonfly festival called ‘Thumbi Mahatsavam 2020’?
11. Which countries were declared joint winners of the Online FIDE Chess Olympiad?
12. Who was designated as the new Prime Minister of Lebanon?
13. Who was appointed as the new secretary in Lok Sabha?
14. Name the state that is going to set up India’s first Women’s Trade Centre, in consonance with the United Nations sustainable development goals?
15. Name Kerala’s first marine ambulance?
16. Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has won the 2020 International Booker Prize for her debut Novel:
17. Name the longest serving Prime Minister of Japan, who announced his resignation owing to his worsening health condition due to ulcerative colitis.
18. Which team has won Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Champions League 2019-20?
19. Name the Black Panther actor, who was passed away after a four-year battle with colon cancer.
20. The 6th edition of International Military-Technical Forum “Army-2020” was held at:
21. Which country plans to unveil the bronze statue of Indian Doctor Dr. Dwarkanath Kotnis?
22. Which country had proposed to designate two Indian nationals as global terrorists under the UN Security Council?
23. Which state has banned online gambling games like Poker and Rummy?
24. Name the country that assured that it will follow a policy of ‘no arms supply to Pakistan’ following a request from India?
25. Which Union Territory has set up a biodiversity council to document its biodiversity?
26. Under which section of IT Act, Ministry of Electronics and Information & Technology banned 118 Chinese Mobile Application?
27. Name the festival in Sikkim that commemorates the blessing of Mount Khangchendzonga as the guardian deity of Sikkim.
28. Name the mission launched Union cabinet that enable government officers and employees get the opportunity to improve their performance.
29. How many women and girls will be pushed towards extreme poverty in 2021 as per the report released by United Nations (UN) Women and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)?
30. Who has been appointed as the new chairman of Press Trust of India (PTI)?
31. Who has been appointed as the MD & CEO of South Indian Bank?
32. Who was appointed as the first ever CEO of Indian Railway?
33. Which state received the first inland shipping cargo from Bangladesh under Protocol for Inland Water Trade & Transit (PIWTT)?
34. ‘The Young Minds’ the children’s newspaper was launched in:
35. Name the organization which released the publication named “The Little Book of Green Nudges”, to inspire students around the globe to adopt environmentally friendly habits and greener lifestyles.
36. Who is the author of the book titled “Invertonomics”?
37. How many starlink satellites was launched by SpaceX (12th batch) in September 2020 to provide faster internet?
38. Which country has launched a reusable experimental spacecraft on a Long March-2F carrier rocket recently?
39. Bhaichung Bhutia is set to become the first Indian footballer to have a stadium named after him. The stadium is situated in:
40. Prof Govind Swarup who died recently was consider as the Father of India’s
41. Which country collaborated with CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine to set up 1st ever cannabis medicine project in Jammu?
42. Which is the first metro service in the country to integrate water transport as feeder service to the metro?
43. Which state emerged as the most literate state in India as per 75th round of National Sample Survey conducted by National Statistical Office from July 2017 to June 2018?
44. Which organization will be leading the procurement and supply of COVID-19 Vaccines?
45. Who inaugurated the first World Solar Technology Summit organized by the International Solar Alliance (ISA)?
46. Name the historic case in which the 13- member Constitution bench of Supreme court had pronounced that Parliament cannot alter the basic structure of the Constitution.
47. India’s largest piggery mission was launched at:
48. Name the city in which a flyover named after Veer Savarker was opened recently?
49. Who was announced as the celebrity advocate of UNICEF’s children’s rights campaign ‘For Every Child’?
50. Name the scheme launched by India Post to ensure universal coverage of flagship postal schemes in rural areas.
51. Name the innovation challenge initiative of NITI Aayog aimed to encourage girls to create, tinker, sustain and innovate.
52. By which year WHO has set to achieve a world free of industrially produced trans fats?
53. Name the city in which India’s first integrated air ambulance service was launched?
54. What is the rank of India in the Global Economic Freedom Index as per the Economic Freedom of the World: 2020 Annual Report?
55. Which state was ranked as the best performer in second edition of States’ Startup Ranking 2019’?
56. Who has named as ‘top thinker 2020’for COVID – 19 by the British magazine Prospect?
57. Who was the founder of Arya Sabha, a political party based on the principles of Arya Samaj?
58. A recent study has found that the tree has 168 a chromosome. Name it.
59. From which multinational tri-services exercise, India has withdrawn its participation citing Covid-19 as the official reason?
60. Lok Sabha has recently passed the Rashtriya Raksha University Bill 2020. The University is going to be established on:
61. Who has been awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for Medical Education?
62. Name the country to which India provides a soft loan of 250 million US Dollar to mitigate the economic impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
63. Name India’s First Paper strip COVID 19 test developed in CSIR- IGIB?
64. What was the Theme of 2020 International Day of Peace observed around the world on 21 September?
65. Name the memoir of former US President Barack Obama.
66. Who is the head of expert committee appointed by the Union Government to study about the monitoring of 10,000 Indian individuals by China?
67. Who has won the 2020 Dayton Literary Peace Prize’s lifetime achievement award?
68. Name the first Made in India signaling system launched by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.
69. Who penned the book titled ‘Azadi: Freedom, Fascism, Fiction’?
70. Which country has recently banned download of Chinese app Tiktok and WeChat?
71. What is the name of the special week organised across the country, to mark the birthday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi?
72. What is the theme of ‘International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer’ (World Ozone Day) 2020?
73. Name bill passed in Rajya Sabha that seeks to convert aviation agencies like DGCA, BCAS and AAIB into statutory bodies?
74. Which country has banned Chinese goods after naming them products of “Forced Labour’?
75. Name the short video platform launched by YouTube in India?
76. Name the country that has signed a Defence Cooperation agreement with U.S.A. for peace in Indo-Pacific region.
77. Which Indian personality has been named as the first Indian celebrity voice of Amazon’s Alexa?
78. Name the bill passed by Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha that create a framework for contract farming between farmers and buyers before the production?
79. Name the functional commission of United Nations Economic and Social Council in which India was elected as a member?
80. Which aviation company is going to launch World’s First Commercial Hydrogen aircraft by 2035?
81. Name the country to which India launched its first direct Cargo Ferry Service.
82. Name the scheme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Bihar that aims to provide optical fibre enabled internet connections to every home in the country.
83. Who won the Men’s Singles title in the Italian Open?
84. Which court has observed that the right to protest is not an absolute right and it comes with certain restrictions?
85. Name the state in which central government is planning to set up an India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO).
86. Who is the first woman fighter pilot to fly Rafale aircraft?
87. Name the singer who holds the Guinness World Record for being the only singer who recorded 40,000 songs.
88. Which Indian state had received an award from the United Nations for its “outstanding contribution” towards preventing and controlling the spread of non-communicable diseases?
89. Name the contactless debit card-based payment facility, will be launched by IDFC First Bank.
90. Which country is going to co-host the global climate summit along with United Nations on December 12 to mark the fifth anniversary of the signing of Paris Climate Agreement?
91. Which city will host the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 26) in 2021?
92. Who was appointed as new Prime Minister of Somalia?
93. Name the five-pillared strategic approach suggested by RBI to prevent Urban Co-operative Banks from cyber attacks?
94. Name the Author of book titled “Voices of Dissent”.
95. Name the high-speed expendable aerial target which was successfully tested by DRDO recently?
96. What is the theme of the 2020 edition of World Tourism Day?
97. Name the author of the book ‘Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence’.
98. Name the breakaway region inside Azerbaijan that is run by ethnic Armenians, in which Azerbaijan has carried out an air and artillery attack?
99. Name the bacterial disease whose return has created a serious threat to India’s sandalwood trees?
100. After Hagia Sophia, which Byzantine Greek Orthodox Church was going to re-convert into a mosque by Turkish authorities?

Answers

1. Arunachal Pradesh
2. Sandeep Patil
3. Durgapur, West Bengal
4. European Investment Bank
5. MEDBOT
6. Kerala
7. Nutrition Month
8. Pranab Mukherjee
9. Dr. Padmavati
10. Kerala
11. India & Russia
12. Mustapha Adip
13. Utpal Kumar
14. Kerala
15. Pradeeksha
16. The Discomfort of Evening
17. Shinzo Abe
18. Bayern Munich
19. Chadwick Boseman
20. Moscow
21. China
22. Pakistan
23.  Andhra Pradesh
24. Russia
25. Jammu and Kashmir
26. 69A
27. Pang Lhabsol
28. Mission Karmayogi
29. 47 million
30. Aveek Sarkar
31. Murali Ramakrishnan
32. V.K.  Yadav
33. Tripura
34. Assam
35. UNEP
36. Goonmeet Singh Chauhan
37. 60
38. China
39. Namchi, Sikkim
40. Radio Astronomy
41. Canada
42. Kochi
43. Kerala
44. UNICEF
45. Narendra Modi
46. Kesavanadha Bharati v/s State of Kerala
47. Meghalaya
48. Bengaluru
49. Ayushmann Khurrana
50. Five Star Villages
51. She Codes
52. 2023
53. Bengaluru
54. 79
55. Gujarat
56. K.K. Shylaja
57. Swami Agivesh
58. ‘African Baobab’
59. Kavkaz 2020
60. Gujarat
61. Narendra Modi
62. Maldives 
63. Feluda
64. Shaping Peace Together
65. A Promised Land
66. Rajesh Pant
67. Margaret Atwood
68. i- ATS
69. Arundhati Roy
70. USA
71. Seva Saptah
72. Ozone for Life 
73. Aircraft (Amenment Bill), 2020
74. U.S.A.
75. Shorts
76. Maldives
77. Amithab Bachchan
78. Farmers Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Service bill
79. UN’s Commission on Status of  Women  
80. Airbus
81. Maldives
82. Ghar tak fibre
83. Novak Djokovic
84. Supreme Court
85. Tamil Nadu
86. Shivangi Singh   
87. S.P. Balasubrahmanyam
88. Kerala
89. SafePay
90. United Kingdom
91. Glasgow
92. Mohamed Hussein Roble
93. GUARD
94. Romila Thapper
95. ABHYAS
96. Tourism and Rural Development
97. Jaswant Singh
98. Nagorno-Karabakh
99. Sandalwood Spike Disease
100. Chora Church