Current Affairs, GK, News, Quiz Free PDF : 3rd Week June'18 P2 -

Which State Government has launched a mobile app
named ‘i-Hariyali’?
A) Goa
B) Bihar
C) Uttarakhand
D) Punjab
World’s first International Centre for Humanitarian
Forensics has been launched in which city?
A) Patna
B) New Raipur
C) Gandhinagar
D) Bhopal
Who has been appointed as the President of Uber’s
India and South Asia operations?
A) Anupam Sandhu
B) Pradeep Parameswaran
C) Rajiv Puri
D) Prakash Roy
How many MoUs have been signed under ‘Adopt a
Heritage’ Scheme?
A) 8
B) 5
C) 3
D) 10
Who has been appointed as an advisor by Paytm?
A) SS Mundra
B) HR Khan
C) R Gandhi
D) Anand Sinha
Who won the men’s singles at the Stuttgart Open?
A) Milos Raonic
B) Rafael Nadal
C) Nick Kyrgios
D) Roger Federer
Which city has created Guinness World Record with
the largest number of people performing yoga
together?
A) Chandigarh
B) Chennai
C) Dehradun
D) Kota
Mehbooba Mufti recently resigned as the Chief
Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. Who is now
administering the state after being put under the
Governor’s rule?
A) DK Joshi
B) NN Vohra
C) OP Kohli
D) BD Mishra
Who has been appointed as the new Army Chief of
Bangladesh?
A) Tarique Rehman
B) Aziz Ahmed
C) Abdul Hamid
D) Moudud Ahmed
Which state government has launched the GPS and
wireless-based 24×7 mobile policing service?
A) Sikkim
B) Nagaland
C) Tripura
D) Meghalaya
As per Commerce Ministry, India has trade deficit
with how many of the 16 Regional Comprehensive
Economic Partnership (RCEP) nations?
A) 8
B) 14
C) 4
D) 10
How many candidates have been selected by the
Banks Board Bureau (BBB) for the posts of executive
directors in PSBs?
A) 10
B) 14
C) 22
D) 18
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) organised the
5th National Standards Conclave in which city?
A) Kolkata
B) Hyderabad
C) New Delhi
D) Mumbai
Peter Thomson, who recently passed away, was
associated with which sport?
A) Cricket
B) Football
C) Golf
D) Tennis
Arvind Subramanian recently resigned as the Chief
Economic Advisor of India. He was initially appointed
for a term of?
A) 3 years
B) 4 years
C) 5 years
D) 2 years
India will play its first match against which team in
the inaugural ICC World Test Championship to be
held in July 2019?
A) Bangladesh
B) West Indies
C) South Africa
D) Australia
Sikkim government has announced appointment of
which personality as its Brand Ambassador?
A) Sachin Tendulkar
B) AR Rahman
C) Amitabh Bachchan
D) Bhaichung Bhutia
Fast Patrol Vehicle ‘Rani Rashmoni’ was recently
inducted into the Indian Coast Guard at?
A) Porbandar
B) Chennai
C) Vishakhapatnam
D) Mumbai
World’s tallest girder rail bridge is being built in
which Indian state?
A) Manipur
B) Uttarakhand
C) Sikkim
D) Assam
Which state government has approved the merger of
‘shikshakarmi’ with the state school education
department?
A) Chhattisgarh
B) Karnataka
C) Punjab
D) Rajasthan
Government has announced to set up India’s biggest
data centre in?
A) Ranchi
B) Kochi
C) Bhopal
D) Surat
Who launched a ‘handbook on legal processes for
police in respect of crime against children’?
A) Rajnath Singh
B) Piyush Goyal
C) Kiren Rijiju
D) Maneka Gandhi
When was ‘World Music Day’ celebrated?
A) June 22
B) June 21
C) June 20
D) June 19
Ambubachi Mela was celebrated in which northeastern
state?
A) Nagaland
B) Meghalaya
C) Manipur
D) Assam
Who has been appointed as the member of the
National Wetland Committee?
A) Pawan Narang
B) Vinay Punia
C) Kapil Malhotra
D) Uday Vora
Which of the following is the world’s most powerful
and smartest scientific supercomputer unveiled by
US’ Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)?
A) Jumbo
B) Titan
C) Apollo
D) Summit
When was ‘International Picnic Day’ celebrated?
A) June 18
B) June 19
C) June 20
D) June 21
Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi, who recently passed away,
was a?
A) Sketch artist
B) Musician
C) Humourist
D) Journalist
RBI has made PAN mandatory under Liberalised
Remittance Scheme (LRS), even for the transactions
below?
A) USD 25,000
B) USD 75,000
C) USD 50,000
D) USD 10,000
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman recently
inaugurated a Workshop on Cyber Security
Framework for Department of Defence, in which
city?
A) Hyderabad
B) Gurugram
C) Bengaluru
D) New Delhi
Who has become the world’s richest man with a net
wealth of $141.9 billion, as per the Forbes World’s
Billionaires list?
A) Jeff Bezos
B) Bernard Arnault
C) Bill Gates
D) Warren Buffet
Which state’s police has bagged Gold medal for its
web portal at 52nd SKOCH Summit-2018?
A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Odisha
D) Maharashtra
Which country has passed a bill to legalize the
recreational use of marijuana?
A) France
B) Canada
C) Germany
D) Norway
Which of the following terrorist organisations have
recently been banned by Home Ministry under
Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA)?
1. Khalistan Commando Force
2. Kanglei Yaol Kanba Lup
3. Al Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS)
4. Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP)
A) 1 & 2
B) 2 & 3
C) 3 & 4
D) 1 & 4
Scientists have discovered the world’s first known
natural manta ray nursery in which marine sanctuary
of US?
A) Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
B) Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
C) Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary
D) Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary
RBI increased the FPIs cap on investment in
government securities from 20% of the outstanding
stock to?
A) 30%
B) 40%
C) 25%
D) 35%
When was ‘International Integration Day’
celebrated?
A) June 16
B) June 20
C) June 18
D) June 17
Which of the following has launched ‘Women
Wizards Rule Tech’ programme for women techies?
A) ASSOCHAM
B) CII
C) FICCI
D) NASSCOM
Which city hosted the 3rd annual meeting of Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)?
A) Gandhinagar
B) Hyderabad
C) New Delhi
D) Mumbai
Which institute has received the Prime Minister’s
Award for Outstanding Contribution to Promotion
and Development of Yoga in 2018?
A) Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute, Mysuru
B) Parmarth Niketan, Dehradun
C) Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, Chennai
D) The Yoga Institute, Mumbai
Which state government has announced to give star
rankings to its panchayats under the state’s 7-Star
Gram Panchayat Rainbow scheme?
A) Haryana
B) Rajasthan
C) Jharkhand
D) Andhra Pradesh
Which country has decided to exclude India from the
revised list of countries eligible for easier student
visas?
A) US
B) Australia
C) UK
D) Canada
As per the 11th report of Common Review Mission
of National Health Mission, how much percent of
women account for sterilisations?
A) 81%
B) 89%
C) 98%
D) 93%
Which city has been ranked first out of 100 smart
cities across India for the execution of Smart City
projects under various categories?
A) Bhopal
B) Nagpur
C) Vadodara
D) Ahmedabad
Which country has announced to withdraw from
United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)?
A) US
B) Congo
C) Myanmar
D) Israel
RBI has revised the housing loan limits for eligibility
under priority sector lending. For metropolitan
centres the limit has been revised from Rs 28 lakh
to?
A) Rs 38 lakh
B) Rs 32 lakh
C) Rs 40 lakh
D) Rs 35 lakh
Second tranche of Bharat 22 ETF which was launched
recently has been subscribed for an amount worth?
A) Rs 8,000 crore
B) Rs 22,000 crore
C) Rs 19,000 crore
D) Rs 14,000 crore
As per UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey, how many
banks and post offices have opened Aadhaar
enrolment and updation centres on their premises?
A) 35,000
B) 18,000
C) 43,000
D) 10,000
Government has constituted a chief ministers’ subgroup
to coordinate policy approaches for
agriculture and MGNREGS. Who will be the convener
of the sub-group?
A) Shivraj Singh Chauhan
B) Devendra Fadnavis
C) Vijay Rupani
D) Nitish Kumar
Who is the author of book ‘Vedvigyan Alok’ received
by Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu?
A) Dr. Shankar Acharya
B) Acharya Bhargava
C) Acharya Agnivarat Naishthik
D) Santanu Kumar Acharya
How much loan amount has the World Bank
approved to improve the primary education in
Bangladesh?
A) $900 million
B) $700 million
C) $500 million
D) $200 million
Which of the following is the tri-service joint military
exercise that India will conduct with Russia in the
second half of 2018?
A) Varuna
B) Indra
C) Yudh Abhyas
D) Maitree
Which village in Delhi has been adopted by Khadi
and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) for its
Swachhata Abhiyaan?
A) Samaypur village
B) Chandrawali village
C) Karala village
D) Jagatpur village
Which bank has received approval from SEBI for
acting as custodian of securities?
A) Yes Bank
B) HDFC Bank
C) ICICI Bank
D) Axis Bank
Who has been crowned Miss India World 2018?
A) Shreya Rao
B) Meenakshi Chaudhary
C) Kirti Malik
D) Anukreethy Vas
Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar launched the
National Digital Library. It has been developed by
which institute?
A) IIT Bombay
B) IIT Kharagpur
C) IIT Delhi
D) IIT Chennai
Which city hosted the ‘National Consultation on
Making Agriculture Sustainable and Profitable’?
A) Lucknow
B) Bhopal
C) Pune
D) Karnal
KisanKraft has announced to launch ‘aerobic rice’
technology in how many states during the kharif
season?
A) 7
B) 9
C) 3
D) 5
Union Health Minister J P Nadda released the
National Health Profile 2018 on health infrastructure
in India. The report has been prepared by?
A) National Academy of Medical Sciences
B) Central Bureau of Health Intelligence
C) Indian Council of Medical Research
D) Medical Council Of india
Temasek has acquired 4.8% stake in which small
finance bank with an investment of Rs 1000 crore?
A) Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
B) Equitas Small Finance Bank
C) AU Small Finance Bank
D) Janalakshmi Small Finance Bank
Which country hosted the 28th plenary meeting of
Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG)?
A) Lithuania
B) Latvia
C) Russia
D) Estonia
Which city has been selected as the 100th and last
city under the Smart Cities Mission?
A) Aizawl
B) Kohima
C) Shillong
D) Itanagar
When was ‘International Day for the Elimination of
Sexual Violence in Conflict’ observed on the theme
“The Plight and Rights of Children Born of War”?
A) June 18
B) June 21
C) June 19
D) June 20
Which company has acquired video-based social
learning platform ‘Flipgrid’?
A) TCS
B) Google
C) Facebook
D) Microsoft
Prabhakar Choubey, who recently passed away, was
a?
A) Journalist
B) Painter
C) Politician
D) Biologist
Mimicry artiste Nerella Venumadhav, who recently
passed away, hailed from?
A) Telangana
B) Kerala
C) Andhra Pradesh
D) Tamilnadu
Which Sri Lankan player has been banned by ICC for
one Test match due to alleged ball tampering?
A) Dinesh Chandimal
B) Angelo Mathews
C) Dimuth Karunaratne
D) Upul Tharanga
When was ‘World Refugee Day’ observed?
A) June 21
B) June 20
C) June 19
D) June 18
What was the 2018 theme for ‘International Day of
Yoga’ celebrated on June 21st?
A) Yoga for Peace
B) Connect the Youth
C) Yoga for Health
D) Yoga for Unity
Which company has acquired cookware brand Nirlep
Appliances?
A) Bajaj Electricals
B) Orient Electric
C) Crompton Greaves
D) Havells
Who has been appointed as the new COO of ICICI
Bank?
A) Sandeep Bakhshi
B) Deep Kalra
C) Suresh Singh
D) Rajinder Singh
Who has been appointed as the CEO of Genesys
International?
A) Manish Chandela
B) Ashwin Das
C) Kuldeep Moholkar
D) Shiva Kumar
Who has been awarded the ‘Sportsperson of the
Year for 2017’ by the Sports Illustrated India?
A) Kidambi Srikanth
B) Neeraj Chopra
C) Jitu Rai
D) Virat Kohli
Who inaugurated the 19th All India Conference of
Directors of Finger Prints Bureau in Hyderabad?
A) Manoj Sinha
B) Hansraj Gangaram Ahir
C) Subash Bhamre
D) Kiren Rijiju
Charles Krauthammer, who recently passed away,
was a?
A) Cardiologist
B) Writer
C) Physicist
D) Athlete
World’s oldest known Sumatran orangutan named
‘Puan’ has died in?
A) US
B) Australia
C) China
D) Japan
Which state government has approved a scheme to
provide monthly financial assistance of Rs 8,000 to
female acid victims?
A) Tamilnadu
B) Haryana
C) Telangana
D) Odisha
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Mohanpura
Irrigation Project in which district in Madhya
Pradesh?
A) Dewas
B) Satna
C) Khandwa
D) Rajgarh
Which city hosted the 7th India Minerals and Metals
Forum?
A) New Delhi
B) Kolkata
C) Bhubaneswar
D) Jamshedpur
Which university has received a Rs 5 crore central
grant for setting up ‘Yoga Gram’?
A) Jadavpur University
B) Visva-Bharati University
C) University of Burdwan
D) Vidyasagar University