43. The highest civilian award of India ‘Bharat Ratna’ has been awarded to only two foreigners so far. One of them is Nelson Mandela. The other is

A. Abdul Ghaffar khan
B. Mikhail Gorbachev
C. Marshal Tito
D. Abdul Wali Khan
✅ The correct answer is option A.
The highest civilian award of India ‘Bharat Ratna’ has been awarded to only two foreigners so far. One of them is Nelson Mandela. The other is Abdul Ghaffar Khan.

44. Who among the following won the Magsaysay Award, 2018?

A. Bharat Vatwani
B. Sonam Wangchuk
C. Both A and B
D. None of the above
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Two Indians have been declared the winners of 2018 Ramon Magsaysay Award. Bharat Vatwani and Sonam Wangchuk are among six individuals who were declared winners of the award. Magsaysay Awards are regarded as the Asian version of the Nobel Prize.

47. The first Indian Economist who won the Nobel Prize was –

A. Rajachellaiah
B. Rangarajan
C. Amartya Sen
D. K. N. Raj
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Amartya Sen is the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics for the year 1998, becoming the first Asian to have been honoured with the award. The Santiniketan born economist who is a pioneer in Welfare Economics has to his credit several books and papers on aspects of welfare and development.

49. The only Indian to win the Nobel prize in physics is –

A. Dr. J. C. Bose
B. Dr. C. V. Raman
C. Dr. Vikram Sarabhai
D. Dr. H. J. Bhabha
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Dr. C. V. Raman is India’s first and only physicist to win a Nobel Physics Prize in 1930 “for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him.