Scientists from CCRAS have formulated world’s first
Ayurvedic drug to cure dengue. It is made up of how
many herbal ingredients?
A) Seven
B) Nine
C) Five
D) Three
What was India’s rank on the Commonwealth Innovation Index?
A) 15th
B) 10th
C) 20th
D) 25th
World Heritage Day, also called ‘International Day
For Monuments and Sites’, was observed on?
A) Apr 18
B) Apr 19
C) Apr 20
D) Apr 21
Who has been recognized by AAAI as an Outstanding
Contributor to the Media and Communication Industry and Indian Brand Builder at the 13th edition of Goa fest 2018?
A) Aditya Puri
B) Romesh Sobti
C) Rana Kapoor
D) Uday Kotak
India has signed an MoU with which country on Foreign Office Consultations?
A) Burundi
B) Eritrea
C) Comoros
D) Chad
Which country has returned France the prestigious Legion d’honneur, which was bestowed on its President in 2001?
A) Syria
B) Iran
C) Iraq
D) Qatar
How much amount of credit support has been extended by NABARD to Rajasthan for 2017-18?
A) Rs 8,360 crore
B) Rs 31,370 crore
C) Rs 14,690 crore
D) Rs 23,820 crore
Sanjay Bhattacharya has been appointed as the new
Ambassador of India to?
A) Saudi Arabia
B) Kuwait
C) Turkey
D) Qatar
Who has been appointed as the new NASA administrator by the US Senate?
A) Timothy Johnson
B) Henry Lightman
C) Eric Greenfield
D) Jim Bridenstine
Government has launched Sovereign Gold Bond 2018-19-Series-I scheme. The bonds are offered at an issue price of Rs 3,114 per gram and carry an interest rate of?
A) 4.3%
B) 3.9%
C) 2.5%
D) 5.5%
Environment ministry has notified the Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules, 2018. It has prescribed a central registration system for the registration of producers/importers. The system will be evolved by?
A) CPCB
B) Environment Ministry
C) NGT
D) Commerce Ministry
Which union minister launched DARPAN-Postal Life Insurance App?
A) Arun Jaitley
B) Manoj Sinha
C) JP Nadda
D) Kiren Rijiju
United Nations Chinese Day was observed on?
A) Apr 21
B) Apr 20
C) Apr 22
D) Apr 18
Which space agency has launched CHESS 4 mission
to study the interstellar medium?
A) Roscosmos
B) DLR
C) ESA
D) NASA
Which city hosted the Malaria Summit?
A) New Delhi
B) Abuja
C) London
D) Kigali
Which bank has introduced a ‘digital form’ to help
open current accounts?
A) HDFC Bank
B) ICICI Bank
C) Yes Bank
D) Axis Bank
Which country launched its first commercial movie
theatre after a nearly 40-year ban?
A) Qatar
B) Oman
C) Saudi Arabia
D) Nigeria
UN launched a road safety trust fund to help save lives in road accidents. Which organisation will be the secretariat for the trust fund?
A) UNECE
B) UNDP
C) UNDSS
D) UNISDR
Which state’s Chief Minister has recently announced the state to be open-defecation free (ODF)?
A) Maharashtra
B) Jharkhand
C) Bihar
D) Uttar Pradesh
Which state government has announced to distribute free smartphones to over 50 lakh people
under the Sanchar Kranti Yojana (SKY)?
A) Rajasthan
B) Telangana
C) Jharkhand
D) Chhattisgarh
In which city in India has the Taipei World Trade Center (TWTC) launched its office?
A) Hyderabad
B) Kolkata
C) Mumbai
D) New Delhi
India has been elected to which of the following committees of the UN Economic and Social Council (Ecosoc)?
A) Committee for Programme and Coordination
B) Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations
C) Committee on Negotiations with
Intergovernmental Agencies
D) Committee for Development Policy
Bhimsain Khurana, who recently passed away, was a famous?
A) Journalist
B) Animator
C) Advocate
D) Classical Singer
Union Minister Smriti Irani launched the Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited’s (GNFC) Neem Project in?
A) Uttar Pradesh
B) Rajasthan
C) Haryana
D) Madhya Pradesh
The king of Swaziland, King Mswati III has changed the name of the country from Swaziland to?
A) Swazi
B) eSwatini
C) Swahili
D) Swaziland
Who represented India at the BRICS Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting held in Washington DC?
A) Hasmukh Adhia
B) Subhash Chandra Garg
C) Urijit Patel
D) Arun Jaitley
As per Trust Research Advisory’s Brand Trust Report 2018, which bank has topped as the most trusted bank in India?
A) State Bank of India
B) Bank of Baroda
C) HDFC Bank
D) ICICI Bank
Which minister jointly launched the Study in India programme along with EAM Sushma Swaraj?
A) Prakash Javdekar
B) Upendra Kushwaha
C) Dr. Satya Pal Singh
D) Rajnath Singh
World Liver Day was observed, on the theme “Riding new waves in liver diagnosis, staging and treatment”, on?
A) Apr 19
B) Apr 18
C) Apr 20
D) Apr 21
Which union minister launched the integration of eSANAD portal and NAD – National Academic
Depository?
A) Sushma Swaraj
B) Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
C) Arun Jaitley
D) Ravi Shankar Prasad
Which place has been announced as the venue of the inaugural edition of Intercontinental Cup?
A) Chandigarh
B) Mumbai
C) Chennai
D) Kolkata
Who has become the first Indian filmmaker to have a wax statue at the Madame Tussauds?
A) Anurag Kashyap
B) Mani Ratnam
C) Karan Johar
D) Vishal Bhardwaj
Which city will host the India Skills Kerala 2018?
A) Thiruvanathapuram
B) Thrissur
C) Kochi
D) Kozhikode
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu launched ‘Atal Amrit Abhiyan’, the cashless health scheme of which state government?
A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Tripura
C) Haryana
D) Assam
NASA recently launched its satellite TESS aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. For which purpose has the TESS satellite been launched?
A) Exoplanet Survey
B) Study Titan
C) Communication
D) Weather Forecasting
Which state has reported the highest rate of crimes
against Schedule Caste/Schedule Tribe population,
as per the data released by National Crime Records
Bureau (NCRB)?
A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Rajasthan
D) Bihar
Which city hosted the the first-ever international
SME convention?
A) Dhaka
B) Kathmandu
C) Colombo
D) New Delhi
Scientists at which university have found that
stimulating a receptor called CD40, found on the
surface of immune cells, can help antibodies fight
cancer?
A) Purdue University
B) Cornell University
C) Brown University
D) University of Southampton
Mukhammedkaliy Abylgaziyev has been named the
new prime minister of which country, following the
fall of the previous government due to a no-trust
vote?
A) Uzbekistan
B) Kazakhstan
C) Kyrgyzstan
D) Tajikistan
National Civil Service Day was observed on?
A) Apr 22
B) Apr 20
C) Apr 21
D) Apr 23
India-Nordic Summit was held in?
A) Stockholm
B) Copenhagen
C) Helsinki
D) Reykjavik
India along with other Asian countries has
announced to raise voice against the “Asian
Premium” charged by OPEC. Who has been
nominated to represent India at the meetings?
A) Nishi Vasudeva
B) D Rajkumar
C) Sanjiv Singh
D) B Ashok
Who has been elected as the new president of the
Indian Women’s Press Corps (IWPC)?
A) Jyoti Malhotra
B) Shobhna Jain
C) TK Rajalakshmi
D) Preeti Mehra
Which bank has developed a crowdfunding app
named ‘Kamao’?
A) Fincare Small Finance Bank
B) ESAF Small Finance Bank
C) AU Small Finance Bank
D) Equitas Small Finance Bank
IMF in its ‘World Economic Outlook’ report, has
projected Indian economy to grow in FY 2017-18 at?
A) 7.6%
B) 7.4%
C) 7.3%
D) 7.2%
Who has been appointed as the President of Cuba?
A) Ramiro Valdés
B) José Ramón Machado
C) Miguel Díaz-Canel
D) Esteban Lazo
The first official ‘World Creativity and Innovation
Day’ was celebrated on?
A) Apr 17
B) Apr 19
C) Apr 21
D) Apr 18
TVR Shenoy, who passed away recently, was a?
A) Journalist
B) Actor
C) Politician
D) Diplomat
India has signed a Joint Declaration on Innovation
Partnership for a Sustainable Future, with which
country?
A) Denmark
B) Iceland
C) Sweden
D) Finland
Who will head the Defence Planning Committee
(DPC) set up by the government to facilitate planning
for the defence forces and security challenges?
A) Ajit Doval
B) Sanjay Mitra
C) Dr. S. Christopher
D) Nirmala Sitharaman
Office of US trade representative (USTR) has
announced to review the eligibility of which of the
following countries under the Generalized System of
Preferences (GSP)?
A) Indonesia
B) India
C) Kazakhstan
D) All of the Above
Which of the following has won the Banco Award for
best performing cooperative bank at the ceremony
held in Hyderabad?
A) Akola Urban Co-operative Bank
B) Bhuj Mercantile Cooperative Bank
C) Mapusa Urban Co-operative Bank of Goa
D) Shamrao Vithal Co-operative Bank
TV Channel Zoom has announced its partnership
with which online fashion retailer?
A) Myntra
B) Ajio
C) Koovs
D) Amazon
Which Indian tennis player broke into the top 100
ranks in the ATP men’s singles after two years?
A) Divij Sharan
B) Ramkumar Ramanathan
C) Yuki Bhambri
D) Leander Paes
Scientists at which institute have demonstrated that
Indian mosquitoes are easily susceptible to the zika
virus?
A) IISc, Bangalore
B) NIV, Pune
C) AIIMS, Delhi
D) PGIMER, Chandigarh
Shakuntala Mahawal, who passed away recently,
was a?
A) Filmmaker
B) Advocate
C) Singer
D) Journalist
Which of the following unveiled beta version of a
portal which enables consumers to compare tariffs
of different TSPs at a single place?
A) Meity
B) DoT
C) mygov.in
D) TRAI
The target date for completion of Pradhan Mantri
Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY-1) has been advanced
from 2022 to?
A) 2020
B) 2019
C) 2018
D) 2021
As per a report by OpenSignal, which telecom
company has topped in 3G and 4G download
speeds?
A) Vodafone
B) Bharti Airtel
C) Idea
D) Reliance Jio
Which state has been honoured with the Most Film
Friendly Award by the central government?
A) Gujarat
B) Karnataka
C) Punjab
D) Madhya Pradesh
Which bank has been restricted by RBI from issuing
or renewing loans or accepting fresh deposits?
A) Janalaxmi Co-operative Bank
B) Bharat Co-operative Bank
C) New India Co-operative Bank
D) City Co-operative Bank
Which state’s police has launched ‘Pocket Cop’
project?
A) Gujarat
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Haryana
D) Tamilnadu
Regional Conference on “Úrban Development –
Technological Solutions and Governance Challenges”
was held in?
A) New Delhi
B) Bhopal
C) Ahmedabad
D) Raipur
Commonwealth countries have announced to work
on the cybersecurity frameworks by?
A) 2019
B) 2022
C) 2021
D) 2020
All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) has signed an
MoU for setting up a centre of excellence in
traditional Indian medicine, with which country?
A) Germany
B) Sweden
C) Netherlands
D) UK
Which of the following has taken up the task of
making Uttar Pradesh Open Defecation Free?
A) Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation
B) Ministry of Skill Development and
Entrepreneurship
C) National Skill Development Corporation
D) All of the Above
Which of the following has been unveiled as official
Mascot of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019, to be
held in China?
A) Miga, Giant Panda
B) Fuwa, Fish
C) Son of Dreams, Dragon
D) Mukmuk, Tibetan Antelope
Who was awarded the lifetime contribution to media
by All India Management Association’s (AIMA)?
A) Indu Jain
B) Sukumar Ranganathan
C) Mukund Padmanabhan
D) Vidyanath Saran
Who has been appointed as the Director General of
the National Cadet Corps (NCC)?
A) V Chandrsekaran
B) PP Malhotra
C) CK Prasad
D) Alok Bahuguna
Which Indian para-athlete won a bronze medal at
the Asian Armwrestling Championship held in
Kazakhstan?
A) Shrimant Jha
B) Raman Dash
C) Vikas Kesharwani
D) Priyesh Raut
Which state’s assembly speaker launched
‘Haemophilia Jagruti’, a magazine to spread
awareness about haemophilia?
A) Maharashtra
B) Gujarat
C) Goa
D) Karnataka
How much amount has the government finalised for
National Clean Air Programme?
A) Rs 637 crore
B) Rs 512 crore
C) Rs 479 crore
D) Rs 352 crore
Who has been appointed as the new Secretary
General of Federation of Indian Chambers of
Commerce and Industry (Ficci)?
A) Dilip Chenoy
B) Rajeev Kapoor
C) Sanjaya Baru
D) Anant Nanda
Which hospital was awarded the first prize under
Central Government Hospitals A category, under the
Kayakalp awards scheme by the Health Minister JP
Nadda?
A) NEIGRIHMS, Shillong
B) PGIMER Chandigarh
C) NIMHANS, Bengaluru
D) AIIMS Delhi
Scientists have accidentally engineered a mutant
enzyme which eats plastic. The bacterium, known as
Ideonella sakaiensis from which the enzyme has
been taken, was discovered in?
A) India
B) Japan
C) UK
D) Peru
Which country has announced to launch a Gas
Trading Hub / Exchange (GTHE) by Oct 2018?
A) South Africa
B) India
C) Brazil
D) Japan
Ravi Thapar has been appointed as the new
Ambassador of India to?
A) Honduras
B) Nicaragua
C) Guatemala
D) Costa Rica
M.S. Ravi, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Politician
B) Actor
C) Filmmaker
D) Journalist
Rahul Kulshreshth has been appointed as the new
Ambassador of India to?
A) Bahrain
B) Oman
C) UAE
D) Egypt
Which bank has received RBI’s approval to open two
representative offices in London and Singapore?
A) Yes Bank
B) Kotak Mahindra Bank
C) Federal Bank
D) IndusInd Bank
Which of the following is going to rank states on the
nutrition parameter under the Poshan Abhiyaan?
A) National Institute of Nutrition
B) Health Ministry
C) MoWCD
D) NITI Aayog
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