200 Best Current Affairs June 2018 in English Set 2 - IBPS PO/SSC CGL/UPSC/KVS/IAS/RBI Grade B 2018 -

1. India successfully conducted final tests for its first indigenous, long-range- artillery gun at Pokhran, Rajasthan. It is named?
A) Dhruv
B) Shaurya
C) Prahar
D) Dhanush
2. RBI has amended Gold Monetisation Scheme (GMS). The deposits can be made
with the designated banks for a short periodof?
A) Upto 5 years
B) 3-5 years
C) 1-3 years
D) 2-7 years
3. How many new non-permanent members were elected to the UN Security Councilrecently?
A) 10
B) 4
C) 5
D) 1
4. Scientists from which country have found a new planet named ‘EPIC’?
A) India
B) US
C) Germany
D) China
5. President Ram Nath Kovind will launch Solar Charkha Mission of MSME ministry. The
mission will cover how many clusters?
A) 10
B) 30
C) 50
D) 80
6. Which city will host the first military exercise of the BIMSTEC group?
A) Jaisalmer
B) Siliguri
C) Pune
D) Amritsar
7. Who has been appointed vigilance commissioner?
A) Sharad Kumar
B) Junaid Ahmed
C) Vinod Pradhan
D) Govind Dhawan
8. RBI has allowed MSMEs to delay their loan repayments by _____ without being classified
as non-performing?
A) 360 days
B) 180 days
C) 90 days
D) 270 days
9. Finance Minister Piyush Goyal has set up a committee on formation of an Asset
Reconstruction Company for faster resolution of stressed accounts. The committee will beheaded by?
A) Rajkiran Rai G
B) Mahesh Kumar Jain
C) Jai Kumar Garg
D) Sunil Mehta
10. India’s first national police museum will be established in which city?
A) Kolkata
B) Hyderabad
C) Delhi
D) Bhopal
1. Which state government has announced tointroduce ‘Sanskar’ awareness programme tackle superstitions?
A) Rajasthan
B) Assam
C) Punjab
D) Tamilnadu

12. As per a report by Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), Indian GDP is expected to
grow over the next couple of years at a rate
of?
A) 6%
B) 9%
C) 7%
D) 8%
13. Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has created a world record of
distributing maximum number of bee-boxes by distributing 2330 bee-boxes to the beneficiaries at?
A) Kishtwar
B) Anantnag
C) Srinagar
D) Kupwara
14. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced to set up a public credit registry of
all loan information. The move is based on the recommendations of which committee?
A) Viral Acharya Committee
B) BN Srikrishna Committee
C) Y.M. Deosthalee Committee
D) Hasmukh Adhia Committee
15. How many places have been added toSwachh Iconic Places (SIP) under phase III of
Swachh Bharat Mission?
A) 10
B) 20
C) 25
D) 15
Place Location
Raghavendra Swamy
Temple Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh
Hazardwari Palace Murshidabad, West Bengal
Brahma Sarovar Temple Kurukshetra, Haryana
Vidur Kuti Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh
Mana village Chamoli, Uttarakhand
Pangong Lake Leh-Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir
Nagvasuki Temple Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
Ima Keithal/market Imphal, Manipur
Sabarimala Temple Kerala
Kanvashram Uttarakhand
16. Who will chair the committee formed by Government to ensure transparency in jobs
data calculation and presentation?
A) Rakesh Srivastava
B) Dinesh Singh
C) Girish Sahni
D) TCA Anant
17. Which state has topped Niti Aayog’s Composite Water Management Index (CWMI)?
A) Karnataka
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Madhya Pradesh
D) Gujarat
18. Which state has become the first to use auto-disable syringes for all clinical purposes?
A) Kerala
B) Madhya Pradesh
C) Andhra Pradesh
D) Punjab
19. Fuego volcano, which erupted recently, is located in which country?
A) Peru
B) Indonesia
C) Haiti
D) Guatemala
Mount Agung – BaliKilauea – Hawaii Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano
20. Which Indian boxer won a gold medal at the Umakhanov Memorial Tournament, held in Kaspiysk, Russia?
A) Pinki Jangra
B) Pavitra
C) Saweety Boora
D) Kavita Singh
21. Union Minister of Steel, Chaudhary Birender Singh inaugurated rebuilt Blast
Furnace-1 of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP). The blast furnace is named?
A) Parvati
B) Durga
C) Saraswati
D) Lakshmi
22. Which state has launched a ‘water literacy’ campaign called ‘Jalasaksharatha’, involving
70,000 students?
A) Karnataka
B) Kerala
C) Tamilnadu
D) Andhra Pradesh
23. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has asked which of the following forces to impart soft skills training to its personnel?
A) NIA
B) ITBP
C) BPR&D
D) SSB
24. Which Indian athlete won a gold medal in men’s 10,000m race at the Gouden Spike meeting in Leiden, Netherlands?
A) Virendra Singh
B) Arokia Rajiv
C) Gavit Murali Kumar
D) Muhammed Anas
25. Which ministry has launched #YogaFor9to5 campaign to raise awareness on benefits of yoga at work?
A) Labour & Employment
B) Health
C) AYUSH
D) Women and Child Development
26. Which city hosted the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit?
A) Tianjin
B) Qingdao
C) Xi’an
D) Dalian
27. Who won the women’s singles title at theFrench Open 2018?
A) Garbiñe Muguruza
B) Simona Halep
C) Jelena Ostapenko
D) Sloane Stephens
28. Which team won the Women’s Asia Cup T20 title, held in Kuala Lumpur?
A) Pakistan
B) India
C) Bangladesh
D) Sri Lanka
29. Which app has been launched by Railway Minister Piyush Goyal to allow passengers to
lodge complaints?
A) Rail RAHAT
B) Rail YATRI
C) Rail MADAD
D) Rail SAATHI
30. ONGC Videsh Ltd has received the first equity cargo of Das blend crude oil from the
Lower Zakum (LZ) oilfield, located in?
A) Saudi Arabia
B) Qatar
C) UAE
D) Kuwait
31. Who has been awarded China’s first friendship medal?
A) Donald Trump
B) Narendra Modi
C) Vladimir Putin
D) Shinzo Abe
32. Haryana government has raised the upper
age limit of entry into government service from40 years to?
A) 48
B) 44
C) 42
D) 45
33. Which Indian farmer has set a Guinness
World Record by distributing the largest
number of curry tree saplings in Sharjah?
A) Sudheesh Guruvayoor
B) Deven Kumar Singh
C) Ketan Pandey
D) Prem Yadav
34. As per SBI’s annual report for 2017-18,
which bank has the largest value share of
mobile banking transactions?
A) Axis Bank
B) HDFC Bank
C) ICICI Bank
D) SBI
35. Which of the following apps has been launched by Indian Railways to help travellers in booking and cancelling unreserved tickets?
A) UTS on Mobile
B) Ticket Online
C) Booking 24×7
D) RailYatra
36. Which team won the Intercontinental
Cup football title?
A) Kenya
B) Taiwan
C) New Zealand
D) India
37. Union Cabinet has approved joint issue of
postage stamp with Vietnam on the theme of?
A) Ancient Architecture
B) Ethnic Ties
C) Music Magic
D) Cultural Exchange
38. U.S., Mexico and Canada have jointly won
the bid to host FIFA world cup in 2026. They defeated the bid of which country?
A) Germany
B) Italy
C) Spain
D) Morocco
39. Which state has topped the National Disaster Risk Index prepared by the Union
home ministry ?
A) Maharashtra
B) West Bengal
C) Uttar Pradesh
D) Madhya Pradesh
40. Spiritual Guru Bhaiyyu Maharaj, who recently passed away, hailed from?
A) Haryana
B) Madhya Pradesh
C) Rajasthan
D) Uttar Pradesh
41. Which state has approved introduction ofe-auction for allotment of petrol pumps, CNG
or PNG sites?
A) Haryana
B) Punjab
C) Telangana
D) Maharashtra
42. Which city hosted the G7 summit recently?
A) Bologna
B) Hamburg
C) Quebec
D) Sapporo
43. Who is going to become the first Indian player to appear in England’s Kia Super T20
League?
A) Jhulan Goswami
B) Smriti Mandhana
C) Mithali Raj
D) Harmanpreet Kaur
44. Who has become the first Indian to score a century before lunch on the first day of a Test
match?
A) Cheteshwar Pujara
B) Virat Kohli
C) Shikhar Dhawan
D) Rohit Sharma
45. Minister of State for AYUSH Shripad Yesso Naik inaugurated ‘Yoga Ambassadors Tour’. It
is the tourism promotion programme of which state government?
A) Odisha
B) Tamilnadu
C) Uttarakhand
D) Kerala
46. Government has proposed to penalise insurance companies for delays in claim
payment, under AB-NHPS, beyond a period of?
A) 45 days
B) 30 days
C) 60 days
D) 15 days
47. Omar Razzaz has sworn in as the Prime Minister of?
A) Jordan
B) Algeria
C) Lebanon
D) Egypt
48. Who will head the committee constituted
by IRDAI chairman Subhash Chandra Khuntia
to review the regulations governing insurance
marketing firms?
A) Kamal Yadav
B) Suresh Mathur
C) Ranu Vohra
D) Cyril Shroff
49. Who has become the highest individual
scorer in women’s ODI by scoring 232 runs?
A) Lizelle Lee
B) Amelia Kerr
C) Meg Lanning
D) Suzie Bates
50. Which of the following was the opening
film at the 23rd European Union Film Festival
(EUFF) inaugurated recently by MoS for I&B
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore in New Delhi?
A) Walk with me
B) Cowboys
C) The Magic of Children
D) Little Harbour
51. Home Minister Rajnath Singh has
announced a compensation package of
_______ per family for West Pakistan refugees
living in Jammu & Kashmir?
A) Rs 1 lakh
B) Rs 5.50 lakh
C) Rs 3.50 lakh
D) Rs 8 lakh
52. Home Ministry has approved to raise two
women battalions in which state’s police?
A) Jharkhand
B) Jammu & Kashmir
C) Madhya Pradesh
D) Chhattisgarh
53. Who has become the first woman fighter
pilot to join Indian Air Force from South India?
A) Shoba Naidu
B) Shruthi Gowda
C) Meghana Shanbough
D) Deepthi Reddy
54. Which country has surpassed India to
become the top destination for greenfield FDI
investment in 2017?
A) China
B) France
C) US
D) UK
55. What is India’s rank among 180 countries
on Global Environment Performance Index
(EPI) rankings?
A) 129
B) 148
C) 152
D) 177
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56. Ministry of Tribal Affairs has proposed to
set up a Tribal Research Institute (TRI) and a
National Tribal Museum in which city?
A) Patna
B) New Delhi
C) Guwahati
D) Raipur
57. Which indigenous rocket system is being
developed by DRDO into a precision-guided
missile?
A) Prithvi
B) Ashwin
C) Pinaka
D) Shaurya
58. Ivan Duque Marquez, has been elected as
the President of which country?
A) Colombia
B) Peru
C) Brazil
D) Chile
59. Which state’s polce has launched a mobile
app named ‘Cop Connect’?
A) Maharashtra
B) Telangana
C) Odisha
D) Uttar Pradesh
60. Which company is setting up India’s first
carbon fibre manufacturing unit?
A) Larsen & Toubro
B) Reliance Industries
C) Hindusthan Unilever
D) Tata Group
61. Which state government has announced to
set up ‘District Child Protection Units (DCPU)’?
A) Kerala
B) Telangana
C) Bihar
D) Uttar Pradesh
62. Which mountain peak has been summited
by an all women Naval mountaineering team
led by Lt Cdr Kokila Sajwan?
A) Mount Indrasan
B) Mount Kamet
C) Mount Deotibba
D) Mount Trisul
63. Which State Government has launched a
mobile app named ‘i-Hariyali’?
A) Goa
B) Bihar
C) Uttarakhand
D) Punjab
64. World’s first International Centre for
Humanitarian Forensics has been launched in
which city?
A) Patna
B) New Raipur
C) Gandhinagar
D) Bhopal
65. Which city has created Guinness World
Record with the largest number of people
performing yoga together?
A) Chandigarh
B) Chennai
C) Dehradun
D) Kota
66. Peter Thomson, who recently passed away,
was associated with which sport?
A) Cricket
B) Football
C) Golf
D) Tennis
67. Sikkim government has announced
appointment of which personality as its Brand
Ambassador?
A) Sachin Tendulkar
B) AR Rahman
C) Amitabh Bachchan
D) Bhaichung Bhutia
68. World’s tallest girder rail bridge is being
built in which Indian state?
A) Manipur
B) Uttarakhand
C) Sikkim
D) Assam
69. Government has announced to set up
India’s biggest data centre in?
A) Ranchi
B) Kochi
C) Bhopal
D) Surat
70. Ambubachi Mela was celebrated in which
north-eastern state?
A) Nagaland
B) Meghalaya
C) Manipur
D) Assam
71. 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
72. 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
73. 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
74. Which country has announced to withdraw
from United Nations Human Rights Council
(UNHRC)?
A) US
B) Congo
C) Myanmar
D) Israel
75. 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
76. 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
77. Who has been crowned Miss India
World 2018?
A) Shreya Rao
B) Meenakshi Chaudhary
C) Kirti Malik
D) Anukreethy Vas
78. 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
79. Which city has been selected as the 100th
and last city under the Smart Cities Mission?
A) Aizawl
B) Kohima
C) Shillong
D) Itanagar
80. World’s oldest known Sumatran orangutan
named ‘Puan’ has died in?
A) US
B) Australia
C) China
D) Japan
81. 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
82. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched
Mohanpura Irrigation Project in which district
in Madhya Pradesh?
A) Dewas
B) Satna
C) Khandwa
D) Rajgarh
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83. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated
an urban transport scheme named “Sutra
Seva” in which city?
A) Surat
B) Varanasi
C) Udaipur
D) Indore
84. India’s first robotic telescope, called
‘GROWTH-India’ has become operational. It is
located in?
A) Kozhikode
B) Panaji
C) Kutch
D) Ladakh
85. Which Indian archer has won gold in the women’s recurve event at the World Cup
(Stage III), held in Salt Lake City?
A) Pranitha Vardhineni
B) Chekrovolu Swuro
C) Bombayala Devi
D) Deepika Kumari
86. Which country has become the biggest borrower from the Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)?
A) China
B) Bangladesh
C) Phillipines
D) India
87. India recently gifted an HAL built Dornier maritime patrol aircraft to which country?
A) Comoros
B) Cape Verde
C) Seychelles
D) Mauritius
88. HRD Ministry has approved to set up an
inter-university yoga centre at?
A) Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar
B) Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana
Samsthana, Bengaluru
C) Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, Tirupati
D) Lakulish Yoga University, Ahmedabad
. Which state government has launched a new scheme ‘Paani Bachao, Paise Kamao’?
A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Maharashtra
C) Punjab
D) Haryana
90. Which panchayat has become the first in India to pass a resolution to marry off girls
only to families that have a toilet in their house?
A) Barola
B) Konkpur
C) Dhurana
D) Godikan
91. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath recently launched a campaign to
clean which river?
A) Ghaghara river
B) Betwa river
C) Gomti river
D) Sharda river
92. Which actress has been conferred with ‘Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters’ by the
Ambassador of France to India H.E. Mr Alexandre Ziegler?
A) Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
B) Deepika Padukone
C) Kalki Koechlin
D) Priyanka Chopra
93. What is the name of the satellite deployed in space to clear out the junk orbiting the Earth?
A) RemoveTRASH
B) RemoveJUNK
C) RemoveDEBRIS
D) RemoveSCRAP
94. Indian Army’s 7 Garhwal Rifles Infantry
Battalion has been awarded the United
Nations Medal for “selfless service” for its
peacekeeping mission in?
A) Chad
B) Burundi
C) Angola
D) South Sudan
95. How much amount has AIIB announced to invest in ‘National Investment & Infrastructure Fund’ set up by India for infrastructure projects?
A) USD 600 million
B) USD 400 million
C) USD 200 million
D) USD 500 million
96. Which state government has launched a solar power scheme for farmers, named
‘Suryashakti Kisan Yojana (SKY)’?
A) Gujarat
B) Kerala
C) Andhra Pradesh
D) Rajasthan
97. Which team has created a new world record in One Day Internationals by scoring
481 runs?
A) Australia
B) India
C) South Africa
D) England
98. Which film was honoured with ‘Best Picture’ award at the 19th IIFA awards, held in
Bangkok?
A) Hindi Medium
B) Tumhari Sulu
C) MOM
D) Secret Superstar
Category Winner
Best Actor in a Leading Role
(Female) Late Sridevi (Mom)
Best Actor in a Leading Role (Male) Irrfan Khan (Hindi Medium)
Best Direction Saket Chaudhary (Hindi Medium)
Outstanding Achievement by an
Actor in Indian Cinema Anupam Kher
99. Which Indian boxers won gold medal at the Chemistry World Cup, held in Halle, Germany?
A) Amit Panghal and Madan Lal
B) Madan Lal and Gaurav Solanki
C) Gaurav Solanki and Mohammed
Hussamuddin
D) Mohammed Hussamuddin and Amit Panghal
100. India has announced to construct a war memorial at Villers-Guislain in which country for its World War I martyrs?
A) France
B) Italy
C) Germany
D) UK