India

Q1. Who is slated to acquire Reliance Broadcast , the Anil Ambani co that owns Big FM ?

Ans. Music Broadcast Ltd belonging to Jagran Prakashan

Q2. What is the name of the web-series on an advertising agency directed by N Padmakumar , former National Creative Director of Rediffusion on MX Player ?

Ans. Thinkistan

Q 3. Sunny Deol may be celebrating after his Gurdaspur election victory. But one of the brands that he endorsed that companies MD and top management have been arrested in a fake GST invoice fraud. Name the company and the brand

Ans. Manpasand Beverages, Mangosip

Q 4. RBI in order to regulate the NBFCs better has introduced a new ratio called LCR . Expand and explain LCR

Ans. Liquidity Coverage Ratio LCR demands certain percentage of assets of the Bank/ NBFC have to be invested in high quality liquid instruments which can help depositors in case of liquidity mismatch. LCR was part of Basel -III guidelines.

Q5. Which country’s ambassador to India has literally decided to use Ambassador as his official car ?

Ans. Germany

Q6. Who is behind the Artificial Intelligence startup Vian Systems that raised 50 Million $ ,?

Ans. Vishal Sikka, former CEO of Infosys

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Q7. Niki Lauda the legendary F1 car driver has passed away. In his later part of his life he became an entrepreneur . What did he start ?

Ans. Airline business , Laudamotion

Q8. What is unique or different about the Formula E car racing championship ?

Ans. All participating cars are electric cars

Q9. Which tech billionaire is the second biggest individual shareholder in Tesla , after Elon Musk ? He had invested at a high price last year and is currently staring at a big loss ?

Ans. Larry Ellison of Oracle

Q 10. With US blocking Chinese telecom companies like ZTE and Huawei, analysts are predicting a ‘splinternet’ . What is ‘splinternet’ ?

Ans. Its a split internet stage where the world wide web is split between 2 major nations or regions of the world owing their rivalry over data and electronics norms..

Ans. Huawei

• Compiled by G.Mohan Twitter @go_mohan