Which state government has signed an MoU with
British Council to strengthen educational and
cultural cooperation?
A) Odisha
B) West Bengal
C) Gujarat
D) Maharashtra
Which team won the 3rd edition of National Blind
Football Tournament, held in Kochi?
A) Mumbai
B) Bengal
C) Kochi
D) Hyderabad
Which airlines has recently joined the International
Air Transport Association (IATA)?
A) SpiceJet
B) IndiGo
C) Vistara
D) Go Air
Who inaugurated the 48th Foundation Day of
Housing and Urban Development Corporation
(HUDCO)?
A) Santosh Kumar Gangwar
B) Kiren Rijiju
C) Hardeep Singh Puri
D) Narendra Singh Tomar
Which state government has initiated a new project
called ‘Bhu Seva’?
A) West Bengal
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Rajasthan
D) Punjab
Which city will host the next Pravasi Bharatiya Divas
in Jan 2019?
A) Vishakhapatnam
B) Kochi
C) Ahmedabad
D) Varanasi
Indigenously developed Light Combat Aircraft Tejas,
recently test fired which Air-to-Air Beyond Visual
Range (BVR) missile?
A) Astra
B) Nag
C) Derby
D) Amogha
Which institute has set up India’s first Virtual
Bronchoscopy Navigation (VBN)?
A) AIIMS
B) JIPMER
C) PGIMER
D) NEIGRIHMS
Which bank has launched its interactive humanoid,
IRA 2.0, in Bengaluru?
A) ICICI Bank
B) HDFC Bank
C) State Bank of India
D) Axis Bank
Expenditure Finance Committee has accepted the
proposal to provide assistance for irrigation projects
of drought prone areas in which state?
A) Maharashtra
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Tamilnadu
D) Karnataka
Which Chief Minister has surpassed Jyoti Basu’s
record to become the longest-serving chief minister
of any state?
A) Shivraj Singh Chouhan
B) Naveen Patnaik
C) Raman Singh
D) Pawan Chamling
Which company has launched a new payment mode,
Tap Card?
A) Mobikwik
B) Paytm
C) Google Tez
D) Oxigen
Who led the Indian delegation at the India-Nepal
Inter Government Committee (IGC), held in
Kathmandu?
A) Arun Jaitley
B) Suresh Prabhu
C) Shiv Pratap Shukla
D) Rita Teaotia
Which government has announced to set up ‘Rogi
Kalyan Samitis’ in each Assembly constituency?
A) Uttar Pradesh
B) Haryana
C) Bihar
D) Delhi
Which company has signed a Letter of Intent with
NITI Aayog to collaborate in the area of agriculture
and allied sectors?
A) Patanjali
B) Tata
C) ITC
D) Aditya Birla
As per Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar, India’s
economy is likely to grow in 2018-19 at?
A) 7.5%
B) 7.4%
C) 7.6%
D) 7.3%
Who has been conferred the 26th PC Chandra
Puraskaar?
A) Waheeda Rehman
B) Amitabh Bachchan
C) Rishi Kapoor
D) Asha Bhosle
Which Indian tennis player won his maiden singles
title on the ATP Challenger circuit in Kunming Open,
held in Anning, China?
A) Prajnesh Gunneswaran
B) Adil Kalyanpur
C) Siddhant J Banthia
D) Abhimanyu Vannemreddy
Who took over as the 27th director general of the
Press Information Bureau (PIB)?
A) Sitanshu Ranjan Kar
B) Subhash Shah
C) Rakesh Chhillar
D) Anurag Kumar
An International Buddhist Conference was recently
held in which country?
A) Nepal
B) Myanmar
C) India
D) Bhutan
When was Labour Day celebrated?
A) May 2
B) May 3
C) May 1
D) May 4
Which of the following states celebrated their
Statehood Day on May 1st?
1. Gujarat 2. Maharashtra
3. Rajasthan 4. Madhya Pradesh
A) 2, 3 & 4
B) 3 & 4
C) 1, 2 & 3
D) 1 & 2
Which Indian sabre fencer won a silver medal at the
Tournoi World Cup Women’s Satellite Fencing
tournament, held in Reykjavik, Iceland?
A) Mihika Yadav
B) Mahak Jain
C) CA Bhavani Devi
D) Karman Kaur Thandi
Which country has been put on the Priority Watch
List under Special Report 301 by the Office of the
United States Trade Representative (USTR)?
A) Sri Lanka
B) Bangladesh
C) India
D) Myanmar
P P Lakshaman, who recently passed away, was the
former president of which sports body?
A) AIFF
B) BCCI
C) BFI
D) HI
Which of the following associations has signed an
MoU with Indian Yoga Association (IYA) to promote
Yoga and spiritual tourism in the Krishna Circuit in
Uttar Pradesh?
A) ASSOCHAM
B) ICC
C) FICCI
D) PHDCCI
India and China have agreed to work jointly on an
economic project in?
A) Bangladesh
B) Nepal
C) Afghanistan
D) Sri Lanka
Who has been appointed by UN Secretary-General
Antonio Guterres as his special envoy to Myanmar?
A) Heidi Tagliavini
B) Christine Schraner Burgener
C) Wendy Chamberlin
D) Maura Connelly
Who has been appointed as the deputy Chief
Minister of Jammu & Kashmir?
A) Kavinder Gupta
B) Daleep Singh
C) Shakti Raj
D) Ajay Nanda
Which country has been projected to be the fastest
growing country in the world for passenger traffic
between 2017-40, by the Airports Council
International (ACI)?
A) Iran
B) India
C) China
D) Vietnam
ABB has commissioned India’s first industrial solar
microgrid in which city?
A) Jodhpur
B) Vadodara
C) Warangal
D) Cuttack
Which team won their 25th La Liga title?
A) Barcelona
B) Atlético Madrid
C) Real Madrid
D) Valencia
Who is going to chair the second World Hindu
Congress (WHC) to be held in Chicago?
A) Ami Bera
B) Tulsi Gabbard
C) Kamala Harris
D) Pramila Jayapal
Who has been appointed as the new MD & CEO of
SBI Capital Markets?
A) PN Prasad
B) Sanjeev Nautiyal
C) C Venkat Nageswar
D) Ram Kesharwani
Which union minister launched the ‘Gobar Dhan’
scheme, along with Haryana CM Manohar Lal
Khattar, from the National Dairy Research Institute
(NDRI) in Karnal?
A) Narendra Singh Tomar
B) Uma Bharti
C) Thawarchand Gehlot
D) Dharmendra Pradhan
NDMA conducted its first-ever mock exercise on BioDisasters
at which airport?
A) Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport
B) Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee Airport
C) Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport
D) Raja Bhoj Airport
President Ram Nath Kovind attended the 620th
Pragatosav of Satguru Kabir in which state?
A) Rajasthan
B) Madhya Pradesh
C) Haryana
D) Maharashtra
National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) organised an
exhibition ‘To The End Of Land’ in collaboration with
which country’s embassy?
A) Israel
B) Kazakhstan
C) UK
D) Belgium
How much amount of revenue collections has been
made under GST between Aug 2017 and Mar 2018?
A) Rs 8.35 lakh crore
B) Rs 6.93 lakh crore
C) Rs 5.26 lakh crore
D) Rs 7.41 lakh crore
World’s oldest known spider, named ‘Number 16’,
has died at the age of 43 in?
A) US
B) Australia
C) Brazil
D) India
Which F1 driver won the Azerbaijan Grand Prix?
A) Lewis Hamilton
B) Valtteri Bottas
C) Sebastian Vettel
D) Sergio Perez
Ashok Mitra, who recently passed away, was a
veteran?
A) Physicist
B) Economist
C) Advocate
D) Diplomat
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh released a
book titled ‘My Journey from Marxism-Leninism to
Nehruvian Socialism’. The book has been authored
by?
A) C H Hanumantha Rao
B) G L Mehta
C) V T Krishnamachari
D) R K Patil
RBI has liberalised the norms for external
commercial borrowing (ECB). It has stipulated a
uniform all-in-cost ceiling of ____ over the
benchmark rate?
A) 50 bps
B) 100 bps
C) 300 bps
D) 450 bps
Brigadier Francis Regis Campos, who recently passed
away, hailed from?
A) Meghalaya
B) Kerala
C) Goa
D) Telangana
Which country has agreed to initiate a
comprehensive review of bilateral trade treaty with
India by July 2018?
A) Iran
B) Nepal
C) Philippines
D) Malaysia
Who has been selected for the 2017 Saraswati
Samman for his collection of verses titled Vakhar?
A) Sitanshu Yashaschandra
B) Udaya Narayana Singh
C) Ramesh Kuntal
D) Shrikant Deshmukh
Andhra Pradesh government and Mastercard held
the Andhra Pradesh Cybersecurity Summit at?
A) Warangal
B) Vishakhapatnam
C) Amravati
D) Vijaywada
Durg-Ferozpur-Durg Antyodaya Express was recently
flagged off by which Chief Minister?
A) Raghubar Das
B) Raman Singh
C) Naveen Patnaik
D) Nitish Kumar
Who inaugurated ‘Odisha Skills 2018’, organised by
NSDC in Cuttack?
A) Dharmendra Pradhan
B) Prakash Javdekar
C) Naveen Patnaik
D) Dr Jitendra Singh
Krishan Kumar has been appointed as the next
Ambassador of India to?
A) Sweden
B) Norway
C) Denmark
D) Finland
Fitch has affirmed India’s sovereign rating at?
A) BBBB)
AAAC)
BB+
D) AAWhich
tennis player won the Barcelona Open title?
A) Novak Djokovic
B) Roger Federer
C) Alexander Zverev
D) Rafael Nadal
Who has been appointed as the interim CEO of
IndiGo?
A) Rahul Bhatia
B) Tarun Bhardwaj
C) Vishal Tewary
D) Mayank Agarwal
Who has been redesignated as the MD & CEO of
Kotak Mahindra Bank?
A) Shyam Srinivasan
B) Rajiv Lall
C) Uday Kotak
D) Rakesh Sethi
Rajiv Kumar Nagpal has been appointed as the next
Ambassador of India to?
A) Brazil
B) Peru
C) Venezuela
D) Chile
Which railway station is going to be third in India to
get “airport-like” facilities by 2020?
A) Jhansi
B) Patiala
C) Surat
D) Kolhapur
In a first, India and Pakistan will participate in a
multi-nation counter-terror exercise. Which country
will host the military exercise named ‘Peace
Mission’?
A) Russia
B) India
C) Pakistan
D) China
Airports Authority of India (AAI) has signed the
Annual Performance Contract (APC) 2018-19 with
Ministry of civil aviation. How much amount of
capital expenditure on airport infrastructure
development has AAI earmarked for 2018-19?
A) Rs 2,800 crores
B) Rs 4,100 crores
C) Rs 5,200 crores
D) Rs 3,300 crores
India is going to have a national database on
disasters, by?
A) 2021
B) 2019
C) 2022
D) 2020
How many medals did India win at the 56th Belgrade
International Boxing Tournament held in Serbia?
A) 10
B) 13
C) 15
D) 6
As per Deutsche Bank research report, Indian
economy will register GDP growth in 2018-19 at?
A) 7.4%
B) 7.3%
C) 7.5%
D) 7.2%
World Tuna Day was observed by the UN, on?
A) May 3
B) May 1
C) May 5
D) May 2
Maharashtra’s 14th airport is likely to become
operational by September 2018, in?
A) Hingoli
B) Satara
C) Sindhudurg
D) Raigad
Narinder Chauhan has been appointed as the next
Ambassador of India to?
A) Croatia
B) Georgia
C) Romania
D) Czech Republic
Who have been selected as India’s representatives at
the Football For Friendship (F4F) social programme,
to be held in Moscow, Russia?
A) Surya Varikuti and Rudresh Gaudnour
B) Amit Tudu and Mohammad Shafi
C) Subrata Das and Jayananda Singh
D) Sourav Chakraborty and Vinayak Tirkey
United Nations and European Union co-organized a
conference on the future of Syria, in which city?
A) Copenhagen
B) Vienna
C) Berlin
D) Brussels
International Dance Day was celebrated on?
A) May 1
B) Apr 30
C) May 2
D) Apr 29
Which city will host the food archaeology
conference, titled ‘ArchaeoBroma’?
A) Jaipur
B) Mumbai
C) New Delhi
D) Chennai
Which of the following has declared all protected
areas and forest reserves in India as plastic-free
zones?
A) Tourism Ministry
B) Environment Ministry
C) Culture Ministry
D) National Green Tribunal
Who led the Indian side at the 9th India Japan
Energy Dialogue held in New Delhi?
A) Piyush Goyal
B) Dharmendra Pradhan
C) RK Singh
D) Narendra Modi
Jan Koum has resigned from Facebook over data
privacy concerns. He is the co-founder and CEO of?
A) Instagram
B) WhatsApp
C) Watch
D) Oculus
Who has been appointed as the first woman on
Board by Saudi Aramco?
A) Abigail Johnson
B) Lynn Laverty Elsenhans
C) Meg Whitman
D) Ginni Rometty
What is India’s rank in the list of doping violations
published by World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)?
A) 6th
B) 8th
C) 3rd
D) 2nd
Who has been appointed as the coach of the
national men’s team by Hockey India?
A) Bhupendra Chauhan
B) Nirmal Singh
C) Deepak Ruhella
D) Harendra Singh
Which state’s Chief Minister inaugurated a Rs 39.65
cr Kanda Pattan-Sarkaghat Water Supply Scheme at
Cholthara?
A) Himachal Pradesh
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Jammu & Kashmir
D) Uttarakhand
Government has launched a pilot scheme for
Procurement of Aggregate Power of ______, on
competitive basis for 3 years from generators with
commissioned projects but without Power Purchase
Agreement?
A) 2,500 MW
B) 5,000 MW
C) 1,500 MW
D) 3,000 MW
When was Ayushman Bharat Diwas celebrated
across India?
A) Apr 26
B) Apr 28
C) Apr 30
D) May 1
Who has been appointed as the Chief Marketing
Officer (CMO) of Intex Technologies?
A) Sunil Sharma
B) Lal Singh
C) Kuldeep Singh
D) Rajiv Bakshi
As per the TRA Brand Trust Report 2018, which
company is the most trusted Internet brand in India?
A) Facebook
B) Amazon
C) Google
D) Flip kart
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