Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently laid the foundation stone for the 2400 MW Patratu Super
Thermal Power Project in which state?
A) Jharkhand
B) Odisha
C) Bihar
D) Chhattisgarh
Which of the following has signed an agreement with Common Services Centre SPV (CSC SPV) for
providing financial support to Village Leve Entrepreneurs (VLEs)?
A) NABARD
B) NITI Aayog
C) SIDBI
D) SBI
Who chaired the panel discussion on ‘Future of Governance’, in New Delhi?
A) B N Srikrishna
B) Amitabh Kant
C) J Satyanarayana
D) Rajiv Kumar
Who has become the first female president of New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)?
A) Carol Braun
B) Stacey Cunningham
C) Tammy Warren
D) Elizabeth Baldwin
Alan Bean, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Writer
B) Astronaut
C) Social Activist
D) Politician
Which city will host 5th Kalinga Literary Festival
(KLF)?
A) Bhubaneswar
B) Cuttack
C) Sambalpur
D) Puri
Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology (CSTT) has announced to adopt which acronym as a
word, both in the English and Hindi languages?
A) AADHAAR
B) UDAY
C) AYUSH
D) AMRUT
Who won the 3rd Kolkata Open International
Grandmasters Chess Tournament?
A) Erigaisi Arjun
B) Deep Sengupta
C) Rohan Bhati
D) Srinath Narayanan
As per the RSA Quarterly Fraud Report, India is the _____ most targeted country for Phishing and
malware-based attacks?
A) 5th
B) 4th
C) 1st
D) 3rd
Western Railway (WR) recently launched the ecatering facility at how many stations on its
network?
A) 23
B) 17
C) 31
D) 46
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) chairman S Christopher has announced that
Rustom-2 drone would be ready by?
A) 2021
B) 2019
C) 2020
D) 2022
Reliance Industries (RIL) has received environment clearance for the expansion of its petrochemical
complex, at an estimated cost of Rs 2,338 crore, at?
A) Haldia
B) Jamnagar
C) Bongaigaon
D) Nagothane
Geeta Kapoor, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Actor
B) Novelist
C) Singer
D) Dancer
Which country is going to become the first Latin American ‘global partner’ of North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO)?
A) Guatemala
B) Costa RIca
C) Colombia
D) Nicaragua
Which of the following ships are on a visit to Tien SaPort, Danang in Vietnam?
A) INS Sahyadri
B) INS Kamorta
C) INS Shakti
D) All of the Above
Which city hosted an emergency summit of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) over
violence at Gaza border?
A) Islamabad
B) Riyadh
C) Istanbul
D) Dhaka
Which company has begun the commercial operation in the Nagayalanka block of KG Basin?
A) HPCL
B) IOL
C) ONGC
D) RIL
Zorawar Chand Bakshi, who recently passed away, was related with which armed force?
A) Air Force
B) Army
C) Navy
D) Indian Coast Guard
Who has won the girls’ singles title of the All India Junior U-19 tournament?
A) Aakarshi Kashyap
B) K Preethi
C) Sristhi Jupudi
D) Simran Singhi
Who headed the Supreme Court bench whic approved the central government’s draft Cauvery
Management Scheme?
A) Justice DY. Chandrachud
B) Justice Uday U. Lalit
C) Justice Dipak Misra
D) Justice AK Sikri
Which space agency launched twin Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO)
satellites into space?
A) JAXA
B) ESA
C) NASA
D) SpaceX
Union Health Minister JP Nadda led the Indian delegation to the 71st World Health Assembly, being
held in?
A) Paris
B) New York
C) Geneva
D) Rome
Which film won the Palme d’Or prize at the 71st annual Cannes Film Festival?
A) Shoplifters
B) Dogman
C) BlacKkKlansman
D) Cold War
Which state’s Chief Minister launched a portal in ‘Ham Chhu Lenge Asman’ Mukhyamantri Career
Counselling programme ‘Pahal’?
A) Uttar Pradesh
B) Gujarat
C) Madhya Pradesh
D) Rajasthan
Who launched the ASEAN India Film Festival in New Delhi?
A) Ramnath Kovind
B) Smriti Irani
C) M Venkaiah Naidu
D) Rajyavardhana Rathore
Which F1 driver has won Monaco Grand Prix?
A) Valtteri Bottas
B) Lewis Hamilton
C) Daniel Ricciardo
D) Sebastian Vettel
India successfully test-fired which missile from ITR Chandipur, to validate its “life extension”
technologies?
A) Agni
B) Nirbhay
C) Akash
D) BrahMos
Which city hosted the South Asia Wildlife Enforcement Network (SAWEN) meet?
A) Bangkok
B) Dhaka
C) Colombo
D) Kolkata
Railway Ministry has announced to have installed specially-designed aerators in the basin-taps for
water conservation in which train?
A) Antyodaya Express
B) Tejas Express
C) Mahamana Express
D) Gatiman Express
Which company has bought Apax Partners’ entire stake in the firm GlobalLogic?
A) Blackstone Group
B) CVC Capital Partners
C) TPG Capital
D) Partners Group
Scientists from which country have constructed the”world’s smallest house”?
A) Germany
B) Sweden
C) USA
D) France
Which of the following has signed a pact with Aussie company ECT to invest USD 26 million for setting up
an R&D facility in iron and steel making?
1. NMDC 2. NLC India
3. SAIL 4. BHEL
A) 1 & 2
B) 2 & 3
C) 3 & 4
D) 1 & 4
Which Indian company has become the first to cross Rs 7 lakh crore in the market capitalisation?
A) TCS
B) HDFC Bank
C) Reliance Industries
D) ITC
Who has been appointed as non executive chairperson of Central Bank of India?
A) Tapan Ray
B) Ravi Kaushik
C) Mayank Bagga
D) Vikram Ghosal
Finance Ministry has recently tied up with how many big job creators for identifying people to extend
loans under the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY)?
A) 70
B) 100
C) 20
D) 40
Who has become the first turbaned Sikh woman to join the New York Police Department (NYPD)?
A) Manjit Gill
B) Preet Kaur
C) Gursoch Kaur
D) Jasprit Grewal
Union Minister of Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal inaugurated Incubation centre
and Food Testing Laboratory at?
A) IIFNS, New Delhi
B) NIFTEM, Sonipat
C) IICA, New Delhi
D) IFPRI, New Delhi
Which team won the UEFA Champions League final, held in Kiev, Ukraine?
A) Liverpool
B) Barcelona
C) Real Madrid
D) Manchester United
EPFO has notified interest rate of _____ on the holdings of subscribers for 2017-18?
A) 8.12%
B) 8.87%
C) 8.34%
D) 8.55%
When was ‘International Missing Children’s Day observed?
A) May 25
B) May 27
C) May 29
D) May 31
Which Indian sports body has signed an agreement with UN Environment to reduce its environmental
impact by greening operations?
A) BAI
B) HI
C) AIFF
D) BCCI
Who attended the conference themed ‘air superiority as a bridge to regional stability’, held in
Israel?
A) Suresh Prabhu
B) ACM BS Dhanoa
C) Nirmala Sitharaman
D) Sushma Swaraj
Mark Rutte launched the ‘Clean Air India Initiative’ in New Delhi. He is the Prime Minister of which
country?
A) Netherlands
B) Switzerland
C) Denmark
D) Sweden
Scientists have found the first “interstellar immigrant” to our solar system. The asteroid known
as 2015 BZ509, has been discovered around which planet’s co-orbital region?
A) Jupiter
B) Saturn
C) Neptune
D) Venus
Who chaired 26th interaction through PRAGATI?
A) Ravi Shankar Prasad
B) Suresh Prabhu
C) Narendra Modi
D) Piyush Goyal
Which football player bagged the Top Scorer and Players’ Player of The Year honour at Bengaluru FC’s
Annual Awards night?
A) Sunil Chhetri
B) Gurpreet Singh Sandhu
C) Biswa Darjee
D) Bekey Oram
World Thyroid Awareness Day was recently observe on?
A) May 29
B) May 31
C) May 28
D) May 25
When was ‘World Turtle Day’ observed?
A) May 31
B) May 26
C) May 23
D) May 29
Which state celebrated its 31st Statehood Day on
May 30th?
A) Goa
B) Nagaland
C) Meghalaya
D) Sikkim
As per AfrAsia Bank Global Wealth Migration Review, what is India’s rank on the list of wealthiest country
in the world?
A) 3rd
B) 9th
C) 14th
D) 6th
Indian Navy recently commissioned IN LCU L54 at?
A) Mumbai
B) Port Blair
C) Vishakhapatnam
D) Porbandar
Which team won the Indian Premier League Final 2018?
A) Rajasthan Royals
B) Chennai Super Kings
C) Mumbai Indians
D) Sunrisers Hyderabad
Union Minister for PNG Dharmendra Pradhan recently laid the foundation stone of a Rs 103 crore
LPG bottling plant of BPCL in which district in Odisha?
A) Khordha
B) Nuapada
C) Bolangir
D) Ganjam
Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) has approved “various measures” to simplify the Defence
Procurement Procedure (DPP)-2016. Who chairs the DAC?
A) Rajnath Singh
B) Gen Bipin Rawat
C) Nirmala Sitharaman
D) Ajit Doval
Dr. Hemu Adhikari, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Nephrologist
B) Actor
C) Historian
D) Politician
Which organisation has tied up with the government to help in development initiatives in 8 worst Naxalaffected
districts in Chhattisgarh?
A) Infosys Foundation
B) Tata Trusts
C) Azim Premji Foundation
D) Tech Mahindra Foundation
Govind Lal Vora, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Journalist
B) Economist
C) Singer
D) Politician
Which of the following has announced to launch a multi-lingual mobile app for people to help them
share evidence of malpractices?
A) Income Tax Department
B) Transport Authority
C) Election Commission
D) Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
Which state has become the first in the Northeast and the third in India to have solar toilets?
A) Arunachal Pradesh
B) Meghalaya
C) Assam
D) Manipur
As per a recent study, which ozone depleting gas is on an unexpected rise?
A) Trichlorofluoromethane (CFC-11)
B) Dichlorotetrafluoroethane (CFC-114)
C) Dichlorodifluoromethane (CFC-12)
D) Pentachlorofluoroethane (CFC-111)
Which bank has consolidated all its operational activities at a shared service center (SSC) at GIFT
City, Gujarat?
A) IDBI Bank
B) Bank of Baroda
C) Punjab National Bank
D) State Bank of India
Who has been given the additional charge of Haryana Staff Selection Commission (HSSC)
chairperson?
A) Latha Naidu
B) Deepti Umashankar
C) Preeti Bahuguna
D) Seema Narayan
Which institute has signed a MoU to develop prototypes for self-piloted vertical take-off and
landing (VTOL) aircraft?
A) IIT Roorkee
B) IIT Kanpur
C) IISc Bengaluru
D) IIT Madras
How much amount of farm loan waiver has National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC)
sanctioned to Rajasthan?
A) Rs 7,000 crore
B) Rs 3,000 crore
C) Rs 5,000 crore
D) Rs 2,000 crore
Madala Ranga Rao, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Writer
B) Biologist
C) Actor
D) Cricketer
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat recently inaugurated 9th ‘Rashtriya Sanskriti
Mahotsav’ in?
A) Tehri
B) Udham Singh Nagar
C) Uttarkashi
D) Chamoli
Union Cabinet has cleared amendments to th Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) through an
ordinance based on suggestions of a Insolvency Law Committee. The committee is headed by?
A) Pradeep Kumar Sinha
B) Injeti Srinivas
C) A.K. Dhasmana
D) Bhaskar Khulbe
Which city will host the inaugural National Para Games to be held under the Khelo India Scheme?
A) Bengaluru
B) Gurugram
C) Bhubaneswar
D) Bhopal
Saad al-Hariri has been elected as the Prime Minister of?
A) Bahrain
B) Egypt
C) Lebanon
D) Algeria
Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently unveiled projects worth Rs 27,000 crore in which state?
A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Jharkhand
D) West Bengal
Which bank has been empanelled by NSE as ‘Settlement Bank’ for National Securities Clearing
Corporation (NSCCL)?
A) IndusInd Bank
B) Yes Bank
C) Axis Bank
D) Kotak Mahindra Bank
Which e-wallet has launched UPI on its platform via its own virtual payment address (VPA) handle?
A) Oxigen
B) MobiKwik
C) Citrus Pay
D) Freecharge
State Bank of India recorded its biggest-eve quarterly loss in Q4 FY 2017-18. The standalone net
loss was reported at?
A) Rs 5,580 crore
B) Rs 6,273 crore
C) Rs 7,718 crore
D) Rs 8,252 crore
Who launched an ad campaign to promote the twin pit toilet technology for the Swachh Bharat Mission
(Grameen)?
A) Anupam Kher
B) Amitabh Bachchan
C) Akshay Kumar
D) Vidya Balan
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has announced that the family of each paramilitary jawan who dies
in action will be given a compensation not less than?
A) Rs 1 crore
B) Rs 2 crore
C) Rs 1.5 crore
D) Rs 50 lakh
Which state’s Cabinet has approved a life insurance scheme with cover of Rs 5 lakh for farmers through
LIC?
A) Bihar
B) Telangana
C) Maharashtra
D) Kerala
Which of the following has become the first Indian football club to expand operations to Europe, by
acquiring C.D Olimpic de Xativa?
A) Sudeva
B) Salgaocar
C) Clube de Goa
D) Dempo
India recently received the first cargo of 2 million barrels UAE crude oil at the Strategic Petroleum
Reserve (SPR) caverns built at Mangalore. India had signed an agreement with ADNOC to store how
much quantity of crude oil at its SPR facilities?
A) 5.86 million barrels
B) 3.22 million barrels
C) 6.75 million barrels
D) 4.42 million barrels
Which of the following has been made mandatory by revenue department for persons seeking a customs
broker licence?
A) PAN and TIN
B) Aadhaar and PAN
C) TIN, Aadhaar and PAN
D) LEI, TIN and Aadhaar
Who has been given one-year extension as the Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes
(CBDT)?
A) Sushil Chandra
B) Subhash Chandra Garg
C) Ajay Narayan Jha
D) Neeraj Kumar Gupta
Who has been elected as the Chairperson of Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of
India Ltd. (TRIFED)?
A) Ramesh Chand Meena
B) Anant Srivastava
C) Pratibha Brahma
D) Rakesh Malik
Who has been nominated by US President Donald Trump as the ambassador to South Korea?
A) John Lippert
B) Harry Harris
C) Mark Smith
D) Will Bolton
Which Indian e-logistics company has announced t establish the world’s first digital freight corridor?
A) Freightlink
B) Cogoport
C) AMI India
D) Falcon
Who has been nominated as the Chancellor of Maulana Azad National Urdu University?
A) Shujaat Memon
B) Firoz Bakht Ahmed
C) Salmaan Hussain
D) Nisar Ali Khan
National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) has established a Digital
Collaborative Opportunities Plaza (SIDCOP) platform in?
A) China
B) Singapore
C) Australia
D) Nepal
Who has created a world record by becoming the only woman to scale three highest mountains in a
single climbing season?
A) Dawa Yangzum
B) Lhakpa Sherpa
C) Nima Jangmu
D) Pasang Lhamu
Which ministry has signed an MoU with ALIMCO for the FY 2018-19?
A) Ministry of Commerce and Industry
B) Ministry of Corporate Affairs
C) Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
D) Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment
Which country’s women badminton team won the Uber Cup, held in Bangkok?
A) Thailand
B) India
C) China
D) Japan
Union IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad inaugurated National Informatics Centre (NIC)’s fourth National
Data Centre in?
A) Indore
B) Kochi
C) Bhubaneswar
D) Hyderabad
United States has disinvited which country from participating in multinational ‘Rim of the Pacific’
(‘RIMPAC’) maritime exercise?
A) India
B) Pakistan
C) China
D) South Korea
Mia Amor Mottley has been elected as the first female Prime Minister of?
A) Aruba
B) Barbados
C) Saint Lucia
D) Bahamas
Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar has launched ‘Samagra Shiksha’ programme. It has subsumed
which of the following schemes?
A) Rashtriya Madhyamik Shikskha Abhiyan (RMSA)
B) Teacher Education (TE)
C) Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)
D) All of the Above
15th Finance Commission has constituted a high level group to give recommendations for a balanced
expansion of the health sector. The panel is headed by?
A) Deelip Govind Mhaisekar
B) K. Srinath Reddy
C) Devi Shetty
D) Randeep Guleria
At which position did Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra finish in the Eugene leg of Diamond League
Series?
A) 2nd
B) 3rd
C) 6th
D) 4th
Which institute has launched a mobile app to help artisans and weavers in Varanasi?
A) Indian Institute Of Art and Design
B) Uttar Pradesh Institute of Design
C) National Institute of Design
D) Maharashtra University Of Design
Who presented the Nari Shakti Puraskar 2017 to the members of the INSV Tarini team?
A) Nirmala SItharaman
B) Ram Nath Kovind
C) Narendra Modi
D) Maneka Gandhi
Mansoor Ahmed, who recently passed away, was a hockey player from?
A) Bangladesh
B) Nepal
C) Pakistan
D) India
Bernard Lewis, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Actor
B) Politician
C) Filmmaker
D) Historian
Kalasala Babu, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Politician
B) Actor
C) Sculptor
D) Writer
Indian Railways and RailTel Corporation of India Limited (RCIL) signed an MoU laying targets for FY
2018-19. How much amount has been projected as revenue from operations?
A) Rs 3,100 crore
B) Rs 1,200 crore
C) Rs 2,300 crore
D) Rs 500 crore
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Eastern Peripheral Expressway, which is India’s first smart
and green highway at?
A) Gaya
B) Varanasi
C) Jhansi
D) Baghpat
Who has been appointed as the women’s cricket representative to the ICC Cricket Committee?
A) Belinda Clark
B) Cathryn Fitzpatrick
C) Debbie Hockley
D) Stafanie Taylor
Researchers at which university have found a drug, named PLX5622, which could prevent the brain
damage caused by exposure to cosmic radiation?
A) University of Maryland
B) University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
C) Cornell University
D) University of Pennsylvania
Which bank has set up up innovation labs to conceive digital solutions?
A) Yes Bank
B) ICICI Bank
C) Axis Bank
D) HDFC Bank
Who inaugurated a Photo exhibition on Dynamic Schemes and Projects titled, “Pragati Ke Path par” in
New Delhi?
A) Vijay Goel
B) Ravi Shankar Prasad
C) Dharmendra Pradhan
D) Narendra Singh Tomar
Jivya Soma Mashe, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Writer
B) Diplomat
C) Politician
D) Artist
Who has been appointed the Governor of Odisha?
A) Kummanam Rajasekharan
B) Ganeshi Lal
C) Narayana Raju
D) Ajay Luikham
Which Indian charity won an award at the Asia Voice Charity Awards, held in London?
A) Aashayein foundation
B) Jagriti Yatra
C) Manav Utthan
D) Parivartan
Union minister of state for Defence, Subhash Bhamre has offered which country transportation
vehicles worth USD 706,000?
A) Vanuatu
B) Fiji
C) Tuvalu
D) Nauru
At which position did Indian Women compound team finish at the Archery World Cup Stage II, being
held in Antalya, Turkey?
A) 3rd
B) 1st
C) 4th
D) 2nd
Which of the following has won the India Biodiversity Award 2018 in the “Conservation of
wildlife species” category?
A) Umsum Pitcher Community Reserve
B) Resu Haluapra Community Reserve
C) Keshopur Chhamb Community Reserve
D) Singchung Bugun Community Reserve
Which state government has introduced ‘Prakritik Kheti Khushhaal Kisaan Yojana’ to promote Zero
Budget Natural Farming System (ZBNF)?
A) Gujarat
B) Punjab
C) Uttar Pradesh
D) Himachal Pradesh
Who has been appointed the interim prime minister of Pakistan until General Elections are held?
A) Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah
B) Shehbaz Sharif
C) Nasir-ul-Mulk
D) Altaf Hussain
CBDT has activated all the Income Tax Return (ITR) forms for AY 2018-19 for e-filing by taxpayers. How
many such forms are there?
A) 7
B) 5
C) 9
D) 11
Who has been promoted to the FIH Promising List (Outdoor Hockey) umpires by International Hockey
Federation (FIH)?
A) Deepak Joshi
B) Ramesh Solanki
C) Kavit Bhatia
D) Arun Sharma
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