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What is India’s rank out of 156 countries on the World Happiness Report, released by U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network?
A) 124
B) 133
C) 148
D) 117
International Air Transport Association (IATA) has signed an MoU with Civil Aviation Ministry and National Aviation University. The Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University is located in?
A) Telangana
B) Madhya Pradesh
C) Uttar Pradesh
D) Rajasthan
Which Indian film has won the ‘Grand Prix de Montreal’ honour at the 21st Festival International du Film Pour Enfants de Montréal Film (FIFEM)?
A) Poorna
B) Mukti Bhawan
C) Raag Desh
D) Halkaa
Lok Sabha has passed the Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) bill. The bill raises the ceiling of tax-free gratuity from Rs 10 lakh to?
A) Rs 30 lakh
B) Rs 20 lakh
C) Rs 15 lakh
D) Rs 25 lakh
Which state government has proposed an insurance scheme for journalists and their families?
A) Bihar
B) Gujarat
C) Punjab
D) Assam
Lok Sabha recently passed the Finance Bill 2018 with how many amendments?
A) 29
B) 6
C) 15
D) 21
Which of the following has released “W-Power Trailblazers”, featuring 25 rising businesswomen?
A) Forbes India
B) Business Insider
C) Fortune
D) Bloomberg
News18 Rising India Summit was recently held in?
A) New Delhi
B) Kolkata
C) Mumbai
D) Bengaluru
Krishi Unnati Mela recently began in?
A) Hisar
B) Lucknow
C) New Delhi
D) Patiala
How much amount of Line of Credit has India offered Madagascar for agriculture and mechanization?
A) USD 160 million
B) USD 50 million
C) USD 80 million
D) USD 120 million
Which short film has won the best film award at Best of India Short Film Festival held in Los Angeles, US?
A) Unmute
B) Tara
C) Shunyata
D) Cakewalk
RBI has announced to disallow banks to use which of the following instruments as trade credit for imports?
1. Letters of Credit 2. Bank Guarantees
3. Letters of Undertaking 4. Letters of Comfort
A) 1 & 2
B) 2 & 3
C) 3 & 4
D) 1 & 4
Author Emily Nasrallah, who recently passed away, hailed from?
A) Iran
B) Lebanon
C) UAE
D) Algeria
Sangeeta Bahadur has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to?
A) Ukraine
B) Belarus
C) Russia
D) Croatia
Who won a bronze medal in women’s 8km cross country race in 14th Asian Cross Country Championship, held in Guiyang, China?
A) Neha Kumar
B) Priti Singh
C) Sanjivani Jadhav
D) Anupama Bhati
Which state cabinet has approved to impose a ban on plastic carry bags and certain plastic items?
A) Tamilnadu
B) Punjab
C) Maharashtra
D) Uttar Pradesh
Which Indian state has stood at a rank equivalent to 51st globally in Multidimensional Poverty Index?
A) Rajasthan
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Punjab
D) Maharashtra
As per Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), which country is the world’s biggest importer of weapons, accounting for 12% of global purchases during the past 5 years?
A) India
B) Pakistan
C) Russia
D) China
Union Cabinet has approved signing of an MoU with which country, in the field of Traditional Systems of Medicine?
A) Cyprus
B) Iran
C) Austria
D) Malaysia
Which cricket board recently launched a book, titled “A Tribute to Jagu”, in a tribute to former BCCI President Jagmohan Dalmiya?
A) Sri Lanka Cricket
B) Board of Control for Cricket in India
C) Bangladesh Cricket Board
D) Cricket Australia
Who has been appointed by US President Donald Trump as his Chief Economic Advisor?
A) Larry Kudlow
B) Mitt Romney
C) Marco Rubio
D) Chuck Schumer
Who inaugurated Bihar’s first “startup hub” in Patna?
A) Nitish Kumar
B) Narendra Modi
C) Sushil Modi
D) Ravi Shankar Prasad
World’s largest theatre festival, the 8th Theatre Olympics is going to conclude in?
A) Delhi
B) Mumbai
C) Hyderabad
D) Kolkata
Home Minister Rajnath Singh recently inaugurated Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) in?
A) Mumbai
B) New Delhi
C) Hyderabad
D) Lucknow
15th Finance Commission recently held its first meeting with the Members of Parliament. Who is the chairman of 15th Finance Commission?
A) Hasmukh Adhia
B) Shaktikanta Das
C) NK Singh
D) SC Garg
NITI Aayog has released roadmaps for ‘Sustainable Action for Transforming Human Capital in Education (SATH-E)’. Which of the following states is not covered under the initiative?
A) Jharkhand
B) Madhya Pradesh
C) Odisha
D) Bihar
United Nations Committee for Development Policy (CDP) has recommended for graduation of how many countries from the least developed country (LDC) category?
A) 11
B) 7
C) 4
D) 9
Indian Air Force recently landed its largest transport aircraft, C-17 Globemaster in Arunachal Pradesh at?
A) Tawang Advanced Landing Ground
B) Fukche Advanced Landing Ground
C) Ziro Advanced Landing Ground
D) Tuting Advanced Landing Ground
Which airline manufacturer has signed a contract with TAL Manufacturing Solutions (TAL) to manufacture beams for its 787-9/10 Dreamliners in Nagpur?
A) Boeing
B) Airbus
C) Dassault
D) Embraer
As per the World Bank’s ‘India Development Update’, what is the rank of India among 115 nations using GST in terms of the highest tax rates?
A) 10th
B) 2nd
C) 8th
D) 17th
What is the name of the programme launched by Health Ministry, to improve quality of care in labour room and maternity operation theatre?
A) LaQshya
B) Suraksha
C) Maatru
D) Jeevan
Which country has announced a $50 million donation to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)?
A) Qatar
B) Oman
C) Saudi Arabia
D) UAE
Who has been appointed by HSBC as its head of corporates for South-east Asia?
A) Ajay Patel
B) Rohit Suri
C) Sunil Prakash
D) Pradeep Rao
Lok Sabha recently passed an amendment bill to which of the following acts, to propose granting a party the right to seek damages from the other side in case of a breach of a business contract?
A) Specific Relief Act, 1963
B) Specific Relief Act, 1982
C) Specific Relief Act, 1959
D) Specific Relief Act, 1978
Which country has announced to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC)?
A) Cambodia
B) Philippines
C) Myanmar
D) Indonesia
Which company has signed an MoU with Odisha government for implementing land rights settlement for slum dwellers in urban areas?
A) Larsen & Toubro
B) Tata Sons
C) Aditya Birla Group
D) Reliance Industries
Department of Biotechnology has constituted a Field Inspection and Scientific Evaluation Committee (FISEC) to investigate into illegal cultivation of HT cotton in how many states?
A) 4
B) 7
C) 2
D) 9
Which company has tied up with Global IME Bank to expand its money remittance services between Indo Nepal Corridor?
A) Muthoot Finance
B) Sundaram Finance
C) Manappuram Finance
D) Power Finance
Exhibition “India Through People and Places” by photographer Khaled Gawdat was recently held in?
A) Egypt
B) Indonesia
C) Nepal
D) Malaysia
Who has been named ‘Cricketer of the Year’ in the sixth edition of Wisden India Almanack?
A) Rishabh Pant
B) Shardul Thakur
C) Yuzvendra Chahal
D) KL Rahul
CCEA has recently approved to continue the Urea Subsidy Scheme, at an estimated cost of Rs 1,64,935 crore, upto?
A) 2019-20
B) 2021-22
C) 2020-21
D) 2018-19
Who has taken charge as the 22nd Chief of Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force?
A) Altaf Hussain
B) Ishaq Dar
C) Mujahid Anwar Khan
D) Rehman Malik
Who heads the Working Group set up to make India a USD 5 trillion economy?
A) Ravi Shankar Prasad
B) Nirmala Sitharaman
C) Arun Jaitley
D) Suresh Prabhu
26th GST Council meeting has approved the roll-out of the E-way Bill for the interstate transportation of goods from?
A) June 30
B) Dec 31
C) Apr 1
D) Oct 1
Who inaugurated the first edition of Delhi Energy Dialogue 2018 in New Delhi, organised by Ashden India Collective (AIC) and Climate Parliament?
A) Piyush Goyal
B) RK Singh
C) Nitin Gadkari
D) Dharmendra Pradhan
M Sukumaran, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Scientist
B) Politician
C) Writer
D) Actor
Union Minister for Water Resources Nitin Gadkari recently inaugurated the 5th ‘Nadi Mahotsava’ in?
A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) New Delhi
D) Maharashtra
Which of the following has introduced an innovative approach to optimize the deployment of electric and diesel locomotives run passenger trains?
A) Bharat Electronics Limited
B) Delhi Metro Rail Corporation
C) Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
D) Indian Railways
Which city has topped the 5th Annual Survey of India’s City-Systems (ASICS) released by Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy?
A) Pune
B) Kolkata
C) Thiruvananthapuram
D) Bhubaneswar
Which company has signed an MoU with Indian Army and National Integrity and Educational Development Organisation (NIEDO) for training the Kashmiri youth?
A) SAIL
B) HPCL
C) NTPC
D) BHEL
Union Cabinet has approved Commercial Courts, Commercial Division and Commercial Appellate Division of High Courts (Amendment) Bill 2018. It seeks to bring down the specified value of a commercial dispute from Rs 1 crore to?
A) Rs 10 lakh
B) Rs 3 lakh
C) Rs 20 lakh
D) Rs 50 lakh
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has announced to set up a multi-skill centre in?
A) Dehradun
B) Mandi
C) Darjeeling
D) Guwahati
Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has given clearance to Indian Neutrino Observatory (INO) project to be set up in?
A) Bodi West Hills
B) Kalrayan Hills
C) Palani Hills
D) Kolli Hills
Countries of WHOs South East Asia Region recently pledged to end tuberculosis by?
A) 2022
B) 2027
C) 2025
D) 2030
Which country has challenged India’s export programmes, in a complaint filed at the WTO?
A) China
B) Japan
C) US
D) Russia
Who has been felicitated with “UK Golden Flame Award” at the annual Tongues of Fire UK Asian Film Festival held in London?
A) Waheeda Rehman
B) Hema Malini
C) Asha Parekh
D) Simi Garewal
Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a loan agreement to improve rail infrastructure, worth?
A) $340 million
B) $270 million
C) $460 million
D) $120 million
Union Cabinet was recently apprised of an MoU with Sri Lanka in the field of?
A) Agriculture
B) Space
C) IT&E
D) Sports
Scientists from which institute have, for the first time, cloned a Assamese buffalo male calf?
A) ICAR-CIFE
B) ICAR-CIRB
C) ICAR-NDRI
D) ICAR-IARI
Which of the following has launched its lost and found mobile app, named ‘UMANG’, for passengers at 59 airports across India?
A) CRPF
B) NIA
C) CISF
D) BSF
Which bank has partnered with First Data (FDC) to provide card processing services?
A) RBL Bank
B) IndusInd Bank
C) Federal Bank
D) Yes Bank
Which state has become the best performing State both in terms of allotting jobs and utilising funds under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)?
A) Andhra Pradesh
B) West Bengal
C) Maharashtra
D) Tamilnadu
Union Minister Jitendra Singh recently awarded certificates of appreciation to how many central government ministries for implementing e-office?
A) 18
B) 34
C) 26
D) 42
PM Narendra Modi recently inaugurated the 105th Indian Science Congress, on the focal theme “Reaching the Unreached through Science and Technology”, in?
A) Itanagar
B) Dispur
C) Shillong
D) Imphal
As per the data released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the Retail inflation has fallen in February to?
A) 4.94%
B) 5.15%
C) 4.44%
D) 3.83%
What was the 2018 theme of World Sleep Day recently observed on Mar 16th?
A) When Sleep is Sound, Health and Happiness Abound
B) Sleep Soundly, Nurture Life
C) Good Sleep is a Reachable Dream
D) Join the Sleep World, Preserve Your Rhythms to Enjoy Life
Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (RIMES) will collaborate with which state to strengthen its response capacity?
A) Goa
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Kerala
D) Odisha
Which country has conducted the world’s first ever blockchain-powered presidential elections?
A) Algeria
B) Peru
C) Gabon
D) Sierra Leone
Which of the following has announced to set up an “Innovation Cell” to strengthen innovation efforts in education?
A) CBSE
B) NITI Aayog
C) UGC
D) HRD Ministry
World Consumer Rights Day was recently observed, with the 2018 theme “Making Digital Markets Fairer”, on?
A) Mar 15
B) Mar 18
C) Mar 19
D) Mar 16
Who has been removed as the Chief Justice of Nepal over faking the date of birth?
A) Khil Raj Regmi
B) Gopal Parajuli
C) Ram Baran Yadav
D) Baburam Bhattarai
Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) scientists have discovered a new species of water strider, named ‘Ptilomera nagalanda Jehamalar and Chandra’ from?
A) Bugai River
B) Intanki River
C) Jinari River
D) Kopili River
As per a survey by Ookla, which Indian city has the fastest fixed broadband speed?
A) Bengaluru
B) Mumbai
C) Delhi
D) Chennai
Which country’s Supreme Court has barred the foreign firms and lawyers from practicing law in the country on a permanent basis?
A) Singapore
B) India
C) Russia
D) China
Miro Cerar, recently resigned as the Prime Minister of?
A) Austria
B) Hungary
C) Slovenia
D) Serbia
What is India’s rank among 114 countries on the WEF’s Energy Transition Index?
A) 52nd
B) 64th
C) 78th
D) 83rd
SEBI has raised the exposure limit under exchange-traded currency derivatives trading for residents and FPIs to?
A) USD 200 million
B) USD 100 million
C) USD 300 million
D) USD 500 million
Former world number two player Tommy Haas has announced his retirement from ATP tour. He hails from?
A) Germany
B) Denmark
C) Spain
D) Switzerland
Which of the following has become the latest nation to achieve the one-day international status for the first time?
A) Papua New Guinea
B) Philippines
C) Hong Kong
D) Nepal
FIFA has lifted its three-decade ban on hosting international football from which country ?
A) Iraq
B) Nigeria
C) Pakistan
D) Sudan
Which of the following institutes has undertaken development of a coded drug AYUSH QOL-2C for cancer patients?
A) All India Institute of Ayurveda
B) Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences
C) Rashtriya Ayurveda Vidyapeeth
D) National Institute of Ayurveda
Which Indian Chess player has won the 33rd Reykjavik Open?
A) Abhijeet Gupta
B) Viswanathan Anand
C) Baskaran Adhiban
D) Pentala Harikrishna
Competition Commission of India (CCI) hosted the annual conference of the International Competition Network in?
A) Hyderabad
B) Mumbai
C) Bengaluru
D) New Delhi
Which Indian para-athlete won gold in the F53/54 Javelin event at the World Para Athletics Grand Prix in Dubai?
A) Deepa Malik
B) Devendra Jhajharia
C) Sundar Singh Gurjar
D) Rinku Hooda
Who won the men’s singles title at the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells?
A) David Goffin
B) Juan Martin del Potro
C) Grigor Dimitrov
D) Roger Federer