Who has sworn in as the first woman advocate to
directly become a Judge of the Supreme Court?
A) Anita Barnwal
B) Vinita Grover
C) Ranjita Bisht
D) Indu Malhotra
When was International Chernobyl Disaster
Remembrance Day observed?
A) Apr 27
B) Apr 28
C) Apr 26
D) Apr 30
What is India’s rank on the World Press Freedom
Index, released by Reporters Without Borders (RSF)?
A) 126
B) 138
C) 115
D) 108
Union Cabinet has given its approval for signing of an
MoU in the field of Medicinal Plants, Traditional
Systems of Medicine and Homoeopathy, with which
country?
A) Equatorial Guinea
B) Cape Verde
C) São Tomé and Príncipe
D) Comoros
Who has launched his political party named ‘Hamro
Sikkim’?
A) Robin Hibu
B) Bhaichung Bhutia
C) Kiren Rijiju
D) Lou Majaw
Which state’s cabinet has approved the proposal to
start a free air-ambulance service?
A) Bihar
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Himachal Pradesh
D) Gujarat
Who launched the Van Dhan Scheme of Ministry of
Tribal Affairs and TRIFED?
A) M Venkaiah Naidu
B) Jual Oram
C) Ram Nath Kovind
D) Narendra Modi
Who has been appointed by Haryana government as
the brand ambassador for Rashtriya Bal Swasthya
Karyakram (RBSK) & Measles and Rubella (MR)
vaccination campaign?
A) Vinesh Phogat
B) Sakshi Malik
C) Deepa Malik
D) Gauri Sheoran
Union Cabinet has given its approval for declaration
of Scheduled Areas under the Fifth Schedule in which
state?
A) Gujarat
B) Rajasthan
C) Odisha
D) Madhya Pradesh
Scientists have identified a new species of frog
named ‘Fejervarya goemchi’ in which state?
A) West Bengal
B) Kerala
C) Chhattisgarh
D) Goa
Who has sworn in as the 70th Secretary of State of
USA?
A) John Cornyn
B) Dick Durbin
C) Mike Pompeo
D) Bob Corker
Which union ministry has launched the 2nd edition
of the Unnat Bharat Abhiyan?
A) Skill Development Ministry
B) HRD Ministry
C) Commerce Ministry
D) Agriculture Ministry
Which of the following has announced to launch the
Atal New India Challenge?
A) Skill Development Ministry
B) HRD Ministry
C) NITI Aayog
D) IT Ministry
Which company has signed an MoU with Ministry of
Tourism and Archaeological Survey of India to adopt
Red Fort in New Delhi and Gandikota Fort in Andhra
Pradesh under ‘Adopt a Heritage’ project?
A) IOL
B) Dalmia Bharat
C) Yatra
D) SBI
Which union minister conferred the National Safety
Awards, “Sarvashrestha Suraksha Puraskar” 2017 at
a function held in New Delhi?
A) Santosh Kumar Gangwar
B) Nitin Gadkari
C) Suresh Prabhu
D) Piyush Goyal
India is going to tie up with which countries to
develop a pollution-forecast system?
1. Finland 2. US
3. Germany 4. UK
A) 1 & 2
B) 2 & 3
C) 3 & 4
D) 1 & 4
Who launched a Mobile App ‘m-Awas’ for allotment
of Government accommodations in General Pool
Residential Accommodation (GPRA)?
A) Rajnath Singh
B) Hardeep Singh Puri
C) Dr Jitendra Singh
D) Arun Jaitley
Who has won this year’s Martha Farrell Award for
Excellence in Women’s Empowerment?
A) Anu Mishra
B) Radhika Dasgupta
C) Nadiya Shafi
D) Shilpa Mehta
Tony Daniel, who recently passed away, was
associated with?
A) Journalism
B) Politics
C) Film industry
D) Sports
Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has granted the first
licence for Liquid Chlorine on All India basis, to which
company?
A) Hindustan Insecticides Ltd
B) Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Ltd
C) Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Ltd
D) Hindustan Organic Chemicals Ltd
Which Indian weightlifter won two medals at the
Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championship
held in Urgench, Uzbekistan?
A) Sathish Sivalingam
B) Rustam Sarang
C) Vikas Thakur
D) Jeremy Lalrinnunga
Which of the following Indian entreprenuers has
been named in the 2018 TIME magazine’s 100 most
influential people in the world?
A) Ritesh Agarwal
B) Bhavish Aggarwal
C) Vijay Shekhar Sharma
D) Sachin Bansal
Which state government has launched ‘Mission
Lakadong’ to boost production of Lakadong
turmeric?
A) Meghalaya
B) Assam
C) Manipur
D) Nagaland
127th Khongjom Day was recently celebrated on
23rd April in which state?
A) Manipur
B) Arunachal Pradesh
C) Sikkim
D) Meghalaya
Which exercise did Indian Navy conduct recently off
the coast of Kerala, Mahe, and Lakshadweep and
Minicoy islands?
A) Shatru Raksha
B) Shakti Darshan
C) Shaurya Pratigya
D) Sagar Kavach
Which institute has developed lighter bullet proof
jackets, christened ‘Bhabha Kavach’?
A) BARC
B) BEL
C) DRDO
D) HAL
Shirui Lily Festival was held in which state?
A) Sikkim
B) Meghalaya
C) Tripura
D) Manipur
Mario Abdo Benítez, has been elected as the
President of?
A) Nicaragua
B) Peru
C) Paraguay
D) Brazil
Which state government has launched a Pravasi
pension scheme?
A) Kerala
B) Gujarat
C) West Bengal
D) Telangana
Which company has partnered with Ministry of
Tourism to bring a series of 360-degree virtual reality
videos for the Incredible India Tourism campaign?
A) Microsoft
B) Google
C) Facebook
D) Tripadvisor
India is conducting a joint military exercise named
‘Harimau Shakti’, in collaboration with which
country?
A) Malaysia
B) Thailand
C) Singapore
D) Indonesia
Union Home Ministry has removed the Armed
Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) from all the
areas of which state?
A) Mizoram
B) Arunachal Pradesh
C) Meghalaya
D) Tripura
How much amount of loan agreement has the World
Bank signed to fund ‘Innovate in India for
Inclusiveness’ project?
A) $250 million
B) $75 million
C) $300 million
D) $125 million
Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently released a
commemorative postage stamp on Hemvati Nandan
Bahuguna. He was the former Chief Minister of
which state?
A) Maharashtra
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Madhya Pradesh
D) Haryana
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
Which state government has initiated a new project
called ‘Bhu Seva’?
A) West Bengal
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Rajasthan
D) Punjab
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
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 government has announced to set up ‘Rogi
Kalyan Samitis’ in each Assembly constituency?
A) Uttar Pradesh
B) Haryana
C) Bihar
D) Delhi
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
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
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
ABB has commissioned India’s first industrial solar
microgrid in which city?
A) Jodhpur
B) Vadodara
C) Warangal
D) Cuttack
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
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
Which F1 driver won the Azerbaijan Grand Prix?
A) Lewis Hamilton
B) Valtteri Bottas
C) Sebastian Vettel
D) Sergio Perez
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
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
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
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
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
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
Maharashtra government has announced to rename
which university after the Bahinabai Chaudhari?
A) North Maharashtra University
B) Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences
University
C) University of Mumbai
D) Maharashtra
University of Health Sciences
Which Nobel Prize for 2018 has been postponed by
the Swedish Academy?
A) Literature
B) Chemistry
C) Medicine
D) Physics
Pakyong airport is going to become the 100th
operational airport in India. It is located in which
state?
A) Meghalaya
B) Mizoram
C) Nagaland
D) Sikkim
Which state’s Chief Minister launched ‘Go to Village’
(Khungang Chatsi) mission in the state?
A) Manipur
B) Nagaland
C) Meghalaya
D) Assam
Which state has become the first to provide
digitally-signed land record receipts?
A) Gujarat
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Tamilnadu
D) Maharashtra
Indian Army’s South Western Command is
conducting the exercise “Vijay Prahar”, in which
state?
A) Karnataka
B) Gujarat
C) Rajasthan
D) Maharashtra
Which of the following items have recently been
banned by the Environment Ministry?
A) Confetti
B) Balloons
C) Party Poppers
D) Candles
Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has
allowed pensioners to view their pension passbook
via which app?
A) Armaan
B) GARV
C) MyGov
D) Umang
Which spacecraft has been launched by NASA to
study ‘Marsquakes’ from Vandenberg Air Force Base
in California?
A) InSight
B) Juno
C) Cassini-Huygens
D) Ulysses
Union Cabinet has given its approval for acceding to
the protocol under the WHO Framework Convention
on?
A) Tuberculosis eradication
B) Air pollution
C) Tobacco control
D) HIV/AIDS
Who chaired the first meeting of the National
Committee for Commemoration of 150th Birth
Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi?
A) Mahesh Sharma
B) Ram Nath Kovind
C) Narendra Modi
D) KJ Alphons
Who has been appointed as the Chairman of
Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of
India (IRDAI)?
A) Rajnish Kumar Singla
B) Pankaj Anand Sharma
C) Ram Singh Jajodia
D) Subhash Chandra Khuntia
As per a study, Tapanuli orangutans are facing
survival threats due to human activities. The species
was recently discovered in which country?
A) Peru
B) Indonesia
C) Brazil
D) India
A Dakota DC-3 VP 905 aircraft gifted by Rajya Sabha
member Rajeev Chandrasekhar, was recently
inducted in the IAF again. The aircraft has been
rechristened as?
A) Matsya
B) Narsimha
C) Vamana
D) Parashuram
As per Stockholm International Peace Research
Institute (SIPRI), India has surpassed which country
to become the world’s fifth biggest military spender?
A) Germany
B) France
C) Japan
D) UK
Who has been appointed as interim judge to the civil
court of New York City?
A) Pankaja Mittal
B) Deepa Ambekar
C) Rita Barman
D) Monika Rao
Which railway stations have been adjudged “Most
Beautiful Station” on Indian Railways?
A) Indore station
B) Secundrabad station
C) Chandrapur and Ballarshah stations
D) Vishakhapatnam station
Which state government along with WWF-India is
conducting the first organised census of Indus
dolphins?
A) Punjab
B) Jammu & Kashmir
C) Haryana
D) Himachal Pradesh
How many Indian cities have featured in a WHO list
of 20 most polluted cities in the world in terms of
PM2.5 levels in 2016?
A) 14
B) 18
C) 6
D) 10
Union Cabinet has approved extending the
investment limit for Senior Citizens under Pradhan
Mantri Vaya Vandan Yojana (PMVVY) from Rs 7.5
lakh to?
A) Rs 30 lakh
B) Rs 20 lakh
C) Rs 15 lakh
D) Rs 25 lakh
Who has become the first African to be named
footballer of the year by Football Writers’
Association?
A) Sadio Mane
B) Mohamed Salah
C) Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
D) Victor Moses
CCEA has approved renaming of Multi-sectoral
Development Programme (MsDP) as?
A) PMJPV
B) PMKNK
C) PMJVK
D) PMJVV
What is Indian PM Narendra Modi’s rank on the
World’s Most Powerful People, released by Forbes?
A) 7th
B) 2nd
C) 5th
D) 9th
President Ram Nath Kovind has approved which
state/UT government’s bill to amend the Minimum
Wages Act under which employers violating labour
rules, will face fine ranging from Rupees 20,000-
50,000?
A) Puducherry
B) Bihar
C) Kerala
D) Delhi
Who inaugurated the ‘Cochlear Implant Awareness
Programme’ titled ‘Swar Swagtam’, in Faridabad?
A) JP Nadda
B) Viren Kumar Roy
C) Anupriya Patel
D) Krishan Pal Gurjar
Which state government has announced to provide
Rs 3 subsidy for every litre of milk to the cooperative
and private producers to manufacture milk
powder?
A) Uttar Pradesh
B) Maharashtra
C) Gujarat
D) Punjab
Which state government has launched India’s first
Integrated Control and Command Centre (ICCC) for
all seven smart cities of the state?
A) Telangana
B) Gujarat
C) Madhya Pradesh
D) Kerala
What is the name of the mineral recently found by
scientists, which could point to the abundant hidden
reserves of water ice under the surface of the
Moon?
A) Kuiper
B) Mafalda
C) Iggiteor
D) Moganite
Which country has agreed with India to support each
other’s candidature for the non-permanent
membership of the United Nations Security Council
(UNSC)?
A) El Salvador
B) Guatemala
C) Mexico
D) Venezuela
Which state’s Chief Minister has launched ‘NCBN’
app, to provide citizens a platform to interact with
the government?
A) Rajasthan
B) Madhya Pradesh
C) Karnataka
D) Andhra Pradesh
Who has become the world’s oldest leader, after
winning the Prime Ministerial election of Malaysia?
A) Anwar Ibrahim
B) Ahmad Zahid Hamidi
C) Mahathir Mohamad
D) Khairy Jamaluddin
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is
going to set up a skill development centre at
‘Bharosa’, in?
A) Jaipur
B) Hyderabad
C) Bhopal
D) New Delhi
President Ram Nath Kovind became the second
president to visit Siachen base camp, the world’s
highest battle field. Who was the first President to
visit the camp?
A) Pratibha Patil
B) Pranab Mukherjee
C) KR Narayanan
D) APJ Abdul Kalam
Geologists have discovered world’s second oldest
rock in which state in India?
A) Andhra Pradesh
B) Odisha
C) Karnataka
D) Uttarakhand
Which company was awarded National Technology
Award for its rotavirus vaccine?
A) Biocon
B) Panacea Biotec
C) Bharat Biotech
D) Wockhardt
Researchers have concluded which of the following
as the cause of ‘Noctiluca algae’ present in the
Northern Arabian Sea?
A) Predation
B) Industrial Pollution
C) Disease
D) Global Warming
Which country’s Prime Minister has announced to
host the 2018 Bay of Bengal Initiative for MultiSectoral
Technical and Economic Cooperation
(BIMSTEC) summit?
A) Sri Lanka
B) Myanmar
C) India
D) Nepal
Which state government has become the first to sign
an MoU with MNRE’s Green Rating for Integrated
Habitat Assessment (GRIHA) Council to train state
PWD officials to rate government buildings?
A) Chhattisgarh
B) Telangana
C) Maharashtra
D) Tamilnadu
Which state’s Chief Minister has launched Rythu
Bandhu scheme (farmers’ investment support
scheme)?
A) Kerala
B) Tamilnadu
C) Karnataka
D) Telangana
Government has approved a new type of license
plates for e-vehicles. The license plates will follow
which colour code?
A) Orange
B) Purple
C) Gold
D) Green
Supreme Court has approved a scheme for
mandatory grant of compensation to poor victims of
sexual assault and acid attack. How much minimum
amount of compensation will be given to an acid
attack victim for total disfigurement?
A) Rs 2 lakh
B) Rs 10 lakh
C) Rs 7 lakh
D) Rs 5 lakh
Indian Navy has sent INS Sumedha to undertake joint
surveillance and patrol of Exclusive Economic Zone
(EEZ) of?
A) Maldives
B) Seychelles
C) Bangladesh
D) Mauritius
Which state government has signed a pact with the
UK for setting up of bio-gas and bio-CNG plants?
A) Punjab
B) Gujarat
C) Rajasthan
D) Maharashtra
NITI Aayog has announced to set up how many Atal
Tinkering Labs (ATLs) by March 2019?
A) 5,000
B) 1,000
C) 2,000
D) 3,000
Indian and French navies recently conducted the
final phase of the Varuna naval exercise near which
island in Indian Ocean region?
A) Reunion Island
B) Praslin Island
C) Bajuni Island
D) Nias Island
Who will be the head of parliamentary panel set up
to study the recovery of black money and
performance of PSBs?
A) Murali Manohar Joshi
B) LK Advani
C) Amit Shah
D) Kalyan Singh
Which of the following has launched a group
messaging app named ‘Squirrel’?
A) Yahoo
B) Bing
C) Rediff
D) Outlook
Which bridge built on river Brahmaputra has become
India’s longest rail-cum-road bridge?
A) Naranarayan bridge
B) Bogibeel bridge
C) Saraighat Bridge
D) Kolia Bhomora Bridge
Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh has
announced to set up a frozen semen station under
the Rashtriya Gokul Mission in?
A) Bihar
B) Haryana
C) Uttar Pradesh
D) Madhya Pradesh
Who has been appointed to head the committee set
up by Rajya Sabha chairman M Venkaiah Naidu, to
revise the rules and procedure of conduct of
business in Rajya Sabha?
A) S.R. Dhaleta
B) P.S. Jha
C) V.K. Agnihotri
D) N.T. Panda
Who unfurled the world’s largest Indian national flag
in Hyderabad?
A) Anand Kumar
B) Dinesh Singh
C) K Chandrashekar Rao
D) Pawan Kalyan
Which state government is going to be co-organisers
for “generations to generations” programme to mark
the centenary celebrations of independence of
Poland?
A) Himachal Pradesh
B) Odisha
C) Gujarat
D) Assam
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nepalese PM KP
Oli, jointly flagged off Indo-Nepal bus service under
‘Ramayana Circuit’ at?
A) Kishkindha
B) Lepakshi
C) Dandakaranya
D) Janakpur
Who has been nominated by Sikkim government as
the Green Ambassador of the state?
A) Mohit Chauhan
B) Arijit Singh
C) Sonu Nigam
D) Amit Trivedi
Which campaign has been launched by World Health
Organization to eliminate artificial trans fats from
the global food supply by 2023?
A) REPLACE
B) WELLNESS
C) PROTECT
D) CHANGE
Union Cabinet has approved the establishment of
National Institute of Mental Health Rehabilitation
(NIMHR) at?
A) Gandhinagar
B) Lucknow
C) Bhopal
D) Nagpur
Which ministry organized a meeting of stakeholders
to take feedback on capacity building and skilling
scheme ‘Samarth’?
A) Skill Development
B) Coal
C) Agriculture
D) Textiles
Who won ‘Scientist of the Year Award – 2017’ at the
DRDO awards, presented by defence minister
Nirmala Sitharaman, held in New Delhi?
A) VK Saraswat
B) S Pazhanikumar
C) Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre
D) YST Raju
MoRTH minister Nitin Gadkari recently inaugurated
two highways NH-7 and NH-54, in?
A) Varanasi
B) Nagpur
C) Jaipur
D) Bathinda
A mountaineering expedition by the Indian Army
women officers was flagged off to which mountain?
A) Nanda Devi
B) Chaukhamba
C) Mt Bhagirathi-II
D) Trisul
CCEA has approved the development of trunk
infrastructure components for the integrated multimodal
logistics hub known as ‘Freight Village’ at?
A) Duliana
B) Nahawani
C) Nangal Chaudhary
D) Malakpur
Who has authored the book “Hidden India”?
A) Latika Nath
B) Smriti Gupta
C) Radhika Verma
D) Nishi Mishra
Which of the following has been unveiled as the IP
mascot by Minister of Commerce Suresh Prabhu, at
the conference on National Intellectual Property
Rights Policy, held in New Delhi?
A) IP Dadi
B) IP Amma
C) IP Nani
D) IP Didi
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Union Cabinet has approved a provision of funds
worth Rs 1,103 crore for setting up of a new AIIMS
in?
A) Bellary
B) Sambalpur
C) Jamshedpur
D) Deoghar
Which of the following football associations is going
to launch a Pro League?
A) Football Goa
B) Football Bengal
C) Football Assam
D) Football Delhi
Which company has completed acquisition of
72.65% stake in Bhushan Steel Ltd?
A) Reliance Steel
B) Tata Steel
C) Jindal Steel
D) Essar Steel
Which bank has launched ‘Agenda 25×25’ for
budding women entrepreneurs in India?
A) IndusInd Bank
B) Axis Bank
C) Yes Bank
D) ICICI Bank
Environment minister Harsh Vardhan launched
Green Skill Development Programme(GSDP). It aims
to train over 5.5 lakh workers in environment and
forest sectors through 30 courses by?
A) 2020
B) 2019
C) 2022
D) 2021
Which of the following has become India’s first
railway station fully powered by solar power?
A) Puri
B) Nagpur
C) Guwahati
D) Surat
Army Chief General Bipin Rawat inaugurated a
communication laboratory set up by Indian Army at
School of Signals in which country?
A) Bangladesh
B) Sri Lanka
C) Nepal
D) Myanmar
Who has been elected as the independent chairman
of ICC for a second two-year term?
A) Anurag Thakur
B) Zaheer Abbas
C) Shashank Manohar
D) Kapil Dev
Who has been honoured with the Lifetime
Achievement Award at the Red Ink Awards in
Mumbai?
A) Arun Shourie
B) Karan Thapar
C) Vikram Chandra
D) Mark Tully
India’s first all-women run Post Office Passport Seva
Kendra (POPSK) has been opened in?
A) Phagwara
B) Cuttack
C) Bhavnagar
D) Ajmer
NTPC has signed MoU to acquire three power plants,
with a cumulative capacity of 3,470 MW, located in
which state?
A) Punjab
B) Bihar
C) Gujarat
D) Tamilnadu
Which country has become the second to open its
new embassy in Jerusalem?
A) Peru
B) Nicaragua
C) Colombia
D) Guatemala
Which city has emerged as India’s cleanest in the
Swachh Survekshan 2018, released by Hardeep Singh
Puri, Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs?
A) Indore
B) Mysuru
C) Bhopal
D) Chandigarh
Which Chief Minister flagged off the ‘Krishi
Mahabhiyan-cum-Beej Vikas Vahan Rath’ to educate
farmers about government schemes during Kharif
season?
A) Raman Singh
B) Nitish Kumar
C) Raghubar Das
D) Naveen Pattnaik
Which state government has announced to bear
medical expenses of up to Rs 50,000 for each road
accident victim for the first 48 hours?
A) West Bengal
B) Gujarat
C) Odisha
D) Punjab
Who has been appointed as the CMD of Coal India
Limited?
A) Naresh Sinha
B) Anil Kumar Jha
C) Ravi Sethi
D) Vimal Swaroop
National Centre for Disease Control has issued high
alert across India on outbreak of Nipah virus (NiV).
Which of the following is the natural host of the
virus?
A) Mosquitos
B) Poultry
C) Fruit bats
D) Pigeons
Which country has agreed to give India economic
and military access to Sabang port?
A) Madagascar
B) Indonesia
C) Nauru
D) Fiji
Which state government has announced to give 10%
reservation for women in police forces?
A) Odisha
B) Rajasthan
C) Bihar
D) Tripura
What will be the length of Zojila tunnel project
inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi in Leh?
A) 33.5 km
B) 14.2 km
C) 9.3 km
D) 21.7 km
Who has become the first South Asian to be elected
in Oregon?
A) Susheela Jayapal
B) Sunita Patel
C) Ritu Awasthi
D) Abhinaya Reddy
Himachal Pradesh state government has sanctioned
Rs 25 crore for renovating the historic British Raj
‘Bantony Castle Estate’, located in?
A) Kangra
B) Manali
C) Dharamsala
D) Shimla
As per a study by NASA, which country in South Asia
is among the hotspots where overuse of water
resources has caused a sharp decline in freshwater
availability?
A) India
B) Bangladesh
C) Pakistan
D) Myanmar
India Meteorological Department (IMD) recently
issued an advisory to 5 states and 1 UT over cyclonic
storm named?
A) Sagar
B) Salil
C) Samudra
D) Tarang
Who has sworn-in as the new Chief Minister of
Karnataka?
A) HD Deve Gowda
B) G Parameshwara
C) K C Venugopal
D) H.D. Kumaraswamy
Which state’s Chief Minister has launched the first
phase of a tree plantation drive along Rispana river?
A) Telangana
B) Uttarakhand
C) Jharkhand
D) Himachal Pradesh
Which country has launched world’s first floating
nuclear power plant, named ‘Akademik Lomonosov’?
A) Japan
B) China
C) Georgia
D) Russia
Which team won the UEFA Europa League in the
final held in Lyon, France?
A) Paris Saint-Germain
B) Marseille
C) Atletico Madrid
D) Arsenal
Which institute has developed a ‘Arsenic Sensor and
Removal Media’, called ADO Muktadhara?
A) IIT, Kharagpur
B) IISc, Bangalore
C) IIT, Roorkee
D) IISER, Kolkata
Who laid the foundation stone of National Institute
of Disaster Management at Kondapavuluru village,
Andhra Pradesh?
A) M Venkaiah Naidu
B) Rajnath Singh
C) Narendra Modi
D) Ramnath Kovind
Which singer has been honoured with West Bengal’s
highest civilian award Banga Bibhushan?
A) Shreya Ghosal
B) Shaan
C) Asha Bhosle
D) Arijit Singh
The first ‘Bastariya’ battalion has been commissioned
into service to curb Naxalism. The battalion created
with 543 tribal youth comes under?
A) CISF
B) BSF
C) SSB
D) CRPF
Indian Army recently concluded its ‘Gandiv Vijay’
exercise in?
A) Uttar Pradesh
B) Manipur
C) Telangana
D) Rajasthan
Which state government has launched ‘Nidaan’
software for monitoring of seasonal and noncommunicable
diseases?
A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Haryana
D) Rajasthan
When was ‘Anti-Terrorism Day’ observed, to
commemorate the 27th death anniversary of former
PM Rajiv Gandhi?
A) May 21
B) May 25
C) May 26
D) May 23
Which country has become the first in south-east
Asia to eliminate trachoma?
A) Nepal
B) Myanmar
C) Sri Lanka
D) India
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the
Kishanganga hydro power project in J&K. What is the
capacity of the project?
A) 330 MW
B) 650 MW
C) 100 MW
D) 250 MW
Who has become the youngest Indian woman to
climb Mount Everest?
A) Manisha Khatri
B) Shivangi Pathak
C) Kavita Singh
D) Preeti Sehrawat
Who has become the first Sikh to be appointed as a
cabinet minister in Malaysia?
A) Jagmeet Singh
B) Ravinder Bhalla
C) Sant Singh Chatwal
D) Gobind Singh Deo
New Development Bank has announced to launch its
Americas Regional Office in?
A) Mexico
B) Canada
C) Brazil
D) South Africa
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has announced
to set up a specialised anti-Naxal combat force called
the “Black Panther”, in which state?
A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Jharkhand
C) Chhattisgarh
D) Odisha
13th India-Nepal Joint Military Exercise ‘Surya Kiran’
is being conducted in which state?
A) Sikkim
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Rajasthan
D) Uttarakhand
Who has been roped in by NITI Aayog to promote
BHIM app and women entrepreneurship platform
(WEP)?
A) Sushant Singh Rajput
B) Siddharth Malhotra
C) Varun Dhawan
D) Ayushmann Khurana
As per Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL), how
many LED bulbs have been distributed under the
UJALA scheme?
A) 20 crore
B) 30 crore
C) 60 crore
D) 50 crore
Who has been awarded the Man Booker
International Prize for 2018, for her book titled
‘Flights’?
A) Antonio Munoz Molina
B) Laszlo Krasznahorkai
C) Olga Tokarczuk
D) Han Kang
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman recently
received the all-women crew of INSV Tarini, who
returned after circumnavigating around the globe,
at?
A) Kochi
B) Vishakhapatnam
C) Mumbai
D) Panaji
Which state’s Chief Minister has announced to
launch ‘Chatra Parivahan Suraksha Yojana’, for the
safety of girl students ?
A) Uttar Pradesh
B) Odisha
C) Haryana
D) Bihar
Which city hosted the first informal Summit between
India and Russia?
A) Hyderabad
B) St. Petersburg
C) India
D) Sochi
Arunachal Pradesh’s first commercial flight recently
landed at which airport?
A) Pasighat airport
B) Ziro airport
C) Itanagar airport
D) Tuting airport
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Union Cabinet has approved an ordinance to set up
the India’s first National Sports University in?
A) Meghalaya
B) Tripura
C) Manipur
D) Assam
Which country is going to conduct a joint operation
with India to control wildlife poaching and trafficking
of animal parts?
A) Nepal
B) Sri Lanka
C) Bangladesh
D) Bhutan