01 August 2025 Daily Current Affairs Notes And MCQs Test

Key Facts

– Ladakh declared August 12 as a Safai Andolan Day.
– The initiative is focused on the Indu River.

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

1. a. Jhelum River
2. b. Ganga River
3. c. Yamuna River
4. d. Indu River

Key Facts

– Lt Gen Pushpendra Singh is appointed as the next Vice Chief of Army Staff, succeeding Lt Gen NS Raja Subramani.
– Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan is appointed as the next Vice Chief of Naval Staff.
– Medha Roopam became the first-ever woman District Magistrate of Gautam Buddh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh.

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

1. a. Lt Gen NS Raja Subramani
2. b. Lt Gen Pushpendra Singh
3. c. Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan
4. d. Medha Roopam

Key Facts

– The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite was successfully launched.
– It was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
– The mission life of the NISAR satellite is 5 years.

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

1. a. 3 years
2. b. 5 years
3. c. 7 years
4. d. 10 years

Key Facts

– Indian Railways has commissioned the indigenous railway safety system Kavach 4.0.
– It has been commissioned on the Mathura-Kota section of the high-density Delhi-Mumbai route.

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

1. a. Delhi-Agra section
2. b. Mathura-Kota section
3. c. Mumbai-Ahmedabad section
4. d. Howrah-Puri section

Key Facts

– The sacred Piprahwa relics of Lord Buddha have been brought back to India after 127 long years.
– They were discovered in 1898 by British civil engineer William Claxton Peppé in Piprahwa, Uttar Pradesh.

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

1. a. Alexander Cunningham
2. b. John Marshall
3. c. William Claxton Peppé
4. d. Robert Bruce Foote

Key Facts

– The Ministry of Tourism has released operational guidelines for the SASCI scheme.
– The scheme aims to develop iconic tourist sites into globally benchmarked destinations by 2026.

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

1. a. 2024
2. b. 2025
3. c. 2026
4. d. 2030

Key Facts

– BITS Pilani announced it will build India’s first AI Plus Campus.
– The campus will be located in Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh.
– Admissions for this campus are scheduled to start in 2027.

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

1. a. Hyderabad, Telangana
2. b. Bengaluru, Karnataka
3. c. Chennai, Tamil Nadu
4. d. Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh

Key Facts

– The Kaziranga National Park in Assam conducted India’s first-ever Grassland Bird Census.
– The census was carried out during March-May 2025.

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

1. a. Ranthambore National Park
2. b. Jim Corbett National Park
3. c. Kaziranga National Park
4. d. Sunderbans National Park

Key Facts

– The Dorjilung Hydropower Project is a 1,125 MW run-of-river hydroelectric initiative.
– It is under development in eastern Bhutan.
– It is a collaboration between Druk Green Power Corporation (DGPC) and Tata Power under a PPP model.

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

1. a. Nepal
2. b. Bangladesh
3. c. Bhutan
4. d. Myanmar

Key Facts

– Turkey recently unveiled its first hypersonic ballistic missile.
– The missile is named Tayfun Block-4.
– It was unveiled in Istanbul.

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

1. a. Iran
2. b. Turkey
3. c. Saudi Arabia
4. d. Israel

Key Facts

– Shreyasi Joshi became the first Indian to win gold in Classic Slalom.
– This achievement occurred at the Asian Roller Skating Championships 2025, held in South Korea.

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

1. a. Hima Das
2. b. Mirabai Chanu
3. c. Shreyasi Joshi
4. d. PV Sindhu