What is the name of India’s fastest and first “multipetaflops” supercomputer, recently inaugurated by Minister of S&T Dr. Harsh Vardhan?
A) Pratyush
B) Ravi
C) Surya
D) Aditya
Who has been appointed as the chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)?
A) P Sathashivam
B) K Sivan
C) N Venkitachalam
D) P Verma
Which state has topped the Logistics Ease Across Different States (LEADS) index developed by Commerce Ministry and Deloitte?
A) Andhra Pradesh
B) Punjab
C) Gujarat
D) Maharashtra
Which is the only state in India that has rolled out eRaktkosh in all 45 government blood banks?
A) Karnataka
B) Himachal Pradesh
C) Punjab
D) Assam
UIDAI has introduced the concept of a ‘Virtual ID’ (VID) to safeguard Aadhaar data. It is a temporary, random number consisting of ___ digits?
A) 16
B) 12
C) 10
D) 15
Name of Code No of Characters Nature of Characters Aadhaar 12 Numeric PAN Card 10 Alpha-numeric Legal Entity Identifier 20 Alpha-numeric IFSC Code 11 Alpha-numeric MICR Code 9 Numeric MMID 7 Numeric
Who has been appointed as the official brand ambassador of Sikkim?
A) AR Rahman
B) Aamir Khan
C) Akshay Kumar
D) Amitabh Bachchan
Who has become the first Indian to win an international medal in skiing after winning Bronze at the Alpine Ejder 3200 Cup, held in Turkey?
A) Aparna Vashisht
B) Shrishti Chawla
C) Aanchal Thakur
D) Smriti Rai
World Hindi Day was recently observed on?
A) Jan 8
B) Jan 10
C) Jan 9
D) Jan 11
Which station in Mumbai has entered the Limca Book of Records 2018, for being India’s first ever all-women staff railway suburban station?
A) Dombivli
B) Borivali
C) Churchgate
D) Matunga
Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG)
‘Mankidia’ has been denied habitat rights in which tiger reserve by Odisha Forest Department?
A) Satkosia Tiger Reserve
B) Sunabeda Tiger Reserve
C) Simlipal Tiger Reserve
D) Satapada Tiger Reserve
A Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) subcommittee will recommend free and compulsory education for girls up to post-graduate level across India. The sub-committee was headed by?
A) Himanta Biswa Sharma
B) Kadiam Srihari
C) Meenakshi Garg
D) Neera Yadav
Which country recently signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia to revive the option of sending Hajj devotees to Jeddah via sea route?
A) Pakistan
B) India
C) Bangladesh
D) Malaysia
Who has been appointed to head the inter-ministerial committee set up to take a final call on the playing of the national anthem in cinema halls?
A) B.R. Sharma
B) Suresh Kumar
C) PK Tripathi
D) Arun Mehta
Which of the following police stations in Tamilnadu has been awarded India’s ‘Best Police Station’ in the SMART Police Stations category?
A) Koyambedu
B) RS Puram
C) Pammal
D) Anna Nagar
Which city has become second major city to be declared open defecation free (ODF)?
A) Bengaluru
B) Hyderabad
C) Kolkata
D) Chennai
Which state government has formally launched an award scheme named ‘Chah Bagichar Dhan Puraskar’, in which it will give Rs 2,500 to tea plantation labourers who have opened bank accounts for the first time?
A) West Bengal
B) Assam
C) Sikkim
D) Meghalaya
Which state government has launched a price deficit compensation scheme, named ‘Bhavantar Bharpayee Yojana’?
A) Haryana
B) Madhya Pradesh
C) Bihar
D) Rajasthan
Which company’s Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine named ‘Typbar’ has received pre-qualification from WHO?
A) Panacea Biotec
B) Wockhardt
C) Serum Institute of India
D) Bharat Biotech
IAF recently bade farewell to the last MiG-27 ML aircraft at the Hasimara Air Force base. The aircraft was codenamed as?
A) Nirbhay
B) Shastra
C) Bahadur
D) Shaurya
Which state has signed the host city contract with the Indian Olympic Association for hosting the 39th National Games in 2022?
A) Odisha
B) Tripura
C) Meghalaya
D) Assam
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has commissioned the world’s largest Refinery Off-Gas Cracker (ROGC) complex, of 1.5 mtpa capacity, in?
A) Numaligarh
B) Jamnagar
C) Digboi
D) Barauni
India’s first ‘Robocop’, named after the martyr Hemant Karkare, has been launched in which city?
A) Mumbai
B) Bengaluru
C) Gurugram
D) Hyderabad
Startup named Genrobotics developed ‘Bandicoot’ robot to clean up sewer holes in Kerala
Which country’s “bird language” of Black Sea villagers has been added to the Unesco’s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage?
A) Bulgaria
B) Romania
C) Georgia
D) Turkey
Who has become the first batsman to score three hundreds in T20 internationals?
A) Rohit Sharma
B) Colin Munro
C) Kane Williamson
D) Virat Kohli
Which state’s police has recently gone digital with Criminal Tracking and Networking System (CCTNS)?
A) Bihar
B) Chhattisgarh
C) Jharkhand
D) Odisha
Which state government has announced to set up a 24×7 ‘Guddia’ helpline for safety of women?
A) Andhra Pradesh
B) Madhya Pradesh
C) Himachal Pradesh
D) Uttar Pradesh
Suraksha – Karnataka government HIMMAT – Delhi Police Wsafety – Madhya Pradesh R MITRA- Eastern railways ‘Eyewatch Railways’ – Western Railways Hawk EYE – Telangana
Who has been appointed as the Deputy National Security Advisor?
A) Pravesh Kumar
B) Susheel Ranade
C) Rajinder Khanna
D) Vineet Chandok
Who is the director of the film ‘Kashmir Daily’, which is the first Kashmiri feature film in 45 years to be released in India?
A) Raja Bilal
B) Mir Sarwar
C) Sanam Ziya
D) Hussein Khan
Lok Sabha has passed the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains (Amendment) Bill, 2017. It now allows civil construction around the monument within a distance of?
A) 100 metres
B) 500 metres
C) 250 metres
D) 200 metres
Union Minister Jitendra Singh has announced that government will set up the second Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in?
A) Assam
B) Sikkim
C) Manipur
D) Arunachal Pradesh
Indian-origin Ravi Menon has been named as the best central bank governor in Asia-Pacific for 2018 by ‘The Banker’. He is the governor of which central bank?
A) State Bank of Vietnam
B) Central Bank of Sri Lanka
C) Nepal Rastra Bank
D) Monetary Authority of Singapore
Which movie has won the ‘Best motion picture, drama’ at the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards held at Beverly Hills, California?
A) Darkest Hour
B) The Disaster Artist
C) The Shape of Water
D) Three Billboards
Outside Ebbing, Missouri Category Winner Best motion picture, musical or comedy Lady Bird Best actress in a motion picture, drama Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” Best actor in a motion picture, drama Gary Oldman, “Darkest Hour” Best director Guillermo del Toro, “The Shape of Water” Best television series, drama The Handmaid’s Tale Cecil B. DeMille award Oprah Winfrey
Which state government has recently launched its State symbol?
A) Gujarat
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Haryana
D) West Bengal
Central bank has announced to release Rs 10 note in a chocolate brown colour with the motif of?
A) Tajmahal
B) Hampi with Chariot
C) Qutub Minar
D) Sun Temple, Konark
Bhanakpur has become the second village in India to put into practice the system of singing national anthem everyday. It is located in?
A) Rajasthan
B) Haryana
C) Madhya Pradesh
D) Uttar Pradesh
Lok Sabha has passed a bill to hike the salaries of judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts. The monthly salary of Chief Justice of India has been hiked from Rs 1 lakh to?
A) Rs 1.5 lakh
B) Rs 3.2 lakh
C) Rs 2.8 lakh
D) Rs 2.1 lakh
Which state government has inaugurated India’s first National Park for people with special needs?
A) Gujarat
B) Telangana
C) Assam
D) Tamilnad
Who has been appointed as head of the SIT that will reinvestigate 186 cases related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots?
A) Avishek Dullar
B) Vinod Yadav
C) Shiv Narayan Dhingra
D) Rajdeep Singh
Which railway station has become the first to install a sanitary napkin vending machine, named ‘Happy Nari’?
A) New Delhi
B) Bhopal
C) CST
D) Secundrabad
What is India’s rank on Global Manufacturing Index, released by World Economic Forum (WEF)?
A) 30
B) 24
C) 45
D) 51
Who won the best boxer trophy at the National Women’s Boxing Championships held in Rohtak?
A) L Sarita Devi
B) Sarjubala Devi
C) Sonia Lather
D) Meena Kumari
Which satellite was recently launched by ISRO as its 100th?
A) RISAT-1
B) IRNSS-1H
C) Cartosat-2
D) INSAT-6C
Teen Murti Chowk has been renamed after which Israeli City ?
A) Ashdod
B) Haifa
C) Eilat
D) Nazareth
Who has recently launched his autobiography titled “Imperfect”?
A) Sunil Gavaskar
B) Harsha Bhogale
C) Sanjay Manjrekar
D) Ravi Shastri
Who has become the first woman lawyer to be directly appointed as a Supreme Court?
A) Shweta Agarwal
B) Geetanjali Bhoumik
C) Indu Malhotra
D) Deepthi R
Which bank has recently announced its merger with Capital First?
A) IndusInd Bank
B) Fedral Bank
C) IDFC Bank
D) Karnataka Bank
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EC has set up a committee to suggest changes to Section 126 of the Representation of the People (RP) Act, which prohibits poll campaign in the last 48 hours to voting. It is headed by?
A) Umesh Sinha
B) Ravjot Pandey
C) Navneet Singh
D) Deepak Bansal
In a first, which state government has granted permission to prisoners to donate their organs to immediate family members?
A) Telangana
B) Odisha
C) Haryana
D) Kerala
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has been granted citizenship by which country?
A) Colombia
B) Chile
C) Peru
D) Ecuador
Which states have signed an MoU with the Water Resources Ministry for completion of balance works of North Koel reservoir project at a cost of Rs 1,622 crore?
1. Bihar
2. Uttar Pradesh
3. Madhya Pradesh
4. Jharkhand
A) 1 & 2
B) 2 & 3
C) 3 & 4
D) 1 & 4
Which state government has announced ‘Mukhyamantri Kalakar Sahayata Yojana’ to provide pension of Rs 1200 per month to 50,000 artists?
A) Jharkhand
B) Odisha
C) Rajasthan
D) Uttarakhand
Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently laid the foundation stone of Rs 43,129 crore refinery project in?
A) Barauni
B) Numaligarh
C) Digboi
D) Barmer
Which state government has allowed people to forge a fraternal relationship with trees, through a practice locally known as Mith/Mit or Mitini?
A) Arunachal Pradesh
B) Sikkim
C) Assam
D) Mizoram
Who has been named the ICC Cricketer of the Year at the ICC Awards 2017?
A) R Ashwin
B) Virat Kohli
C) Rohit Sharma
D) Jasprit Bumrah
Which team won the third edition of the Premier Badminton League championship held in Hyderabad?
A) Hyderabad Hunters
B) Bengaluru Blasters
C) Chennai Smashers
D) Delhi Dashers
Indian peacekeepers from the UN mission have rebuilt the Akoka bridge in the record time of 10 days. It is located in?
A) Congo
B) Mali
C) Haiti
D) South Sudan
Which state cabinet has approved 1% reservation for orphans in government jobs and education?
A) Rajasthan
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Chhattisgarh
D) Maharashtra
World’s fifth largest diamond, weighing 182 grams, has recently been discovered in?
A) Malawi
B) Lesotho
C) Botswana
D) Swaziland
What is the name of the second bus service launched from Agartala to Kolkata via Dhaka?
A) Sahyog-2
B) Maitre-2
C) Saath-2
D) Parijan-2
Which country has decided to declare 2018 as the ‘national year of millets’?
A) China
B) Nepal
C) Sri Lanka
D) India
Who was awarded by President Ram Nath Kovind as part of MoWCD’s ‘First Ladies’ celebration, for being the first actor to be recognised as a Global Icon from India?
A) Priyanka Chopra
B) Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
C) Deepika Padukone
D) Konkona Sen
NGT has ordered “intensive survey” of Kali, Krishna and the Hindon rivers in?
A) Uttar Pradesh
B) Karnataka
C) Telangana
D) Madhyra Pradesh
Which state government has approved a Rs 4,000 crore project, named Nanaji Deshmukh Krishi Sanjivani Yojna?
A) Kerala
B) Maharashtra
C) Madhya Pradesh
D) Goa
Which indigenously-developed weapon system integrated helicopter is going to make its maiden appearance in the Republic Day parade?
A) Cheetah
B) Dhruv
C) Chetak
D) Rudra
Which team won the 2018 Blind Cricket World Cup, held in Sharjah?
A) UAE
B) Pakistan
C) Bangladesh
D) India
India has announced to set up a solar development fund to support financing of solar projects, worth?
A) $200 million
B) $350 million
C) $700 million
D) $550 million
Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has launched a liveability index of _____ cities?
A) 124
B) 116
C) 109
D) 131
Who won the Best Actor in a Leading Role (Male) at the 63rd Jio Filmfare Awards 2018?
A) Irrfan Khan
B) Rajkummar Rao
C) Salman Khan
D) Akshay Kumar
Award Winner Best Film Hindi Medium Best Film (Critics) Newton Best Director Ashwini Iyer Tiwari for Bareilly Ki Barfi Best Actor in a Leading Role (Female) Vidya Balan for Tumhari Sulu Best Actor Critics (Male) Rajkummar Rao for Trapped Best Actor Critics (Female) Zaira Wasim for Secret Superstar Best Debut Director Konkona Sen Sharma for A Death In The Gunj Lifetime Achievement Award Mala Sinha & Bappi Lahiri Best Music Album Jagga Jasoos Best Lyrics Amitabh Bhattacharya for Ullu Ka Patha Best Playback Singer (Male) Arijit Singh for Roke Na Ruke Naina Best Playback Singer (female) Meghna Mishra for Nachdi Phira Best Original Story
Amit Masurkar for Newton
India has joined the Australia Group (AG) as its ____ member?
A) 51st
B) 39th
C) 43rd
D) 27th
‘Sur Festival’ organized every year by Sublime Urge to Rejoice (SUR), has been renamed in tribute to?
A) S Janaki
B) MS Subbulakshmi
C) Kesarbai Kerkar
D) Girija Devi
Which of the following forces celebrated its 13th Raising Day on Jan 19th?
A) NDRF
B) ITBP
C) BSF
D) SSB
Which state government recently launched an eHospital Management Information System?
A) Bihar
B) Odisha
C) Assam
D) Haryana
Nirmala Sitharaman became the first Indian woman defence minister to fly on a?
A) Sukhoi-30 MKI
B) Tejas
C) Rafale
D) MiG-21
Who has taken charge as the new Chief Election Commissioner of India?
A) Ashok Lavasa
B) Om Prakash Rawat
C) Sunil Arora
D) Achal Kumar Joti
What is India’s rank out of 180 countries on the Environmental Performance Index 2018, released by Yale and Columbia Universities along with the World Economic Forum?
A) 158
B) 185
C) 177
D) 163
What is India’s rank among emerging economies on the Inclusive Development Index by WEF?
A) 83
B) 78
C) 57
D) 62
Who has taken charge as the new director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC)?
A) S Somnath
B) H Gandhi
C) V Balasubramanian
D) N Venkatesh
MoS for AYUSH Shripad Yesso Naik laid the foundation stone for Central Research Institute of Homeopathy (CRIH) in?
A) Kanpur
B) Jaipur
C) Raipur
D) Patna
Which state’s cabinet has approved ‘one district, one product’ scheme to promote products indigenous to every district?
A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Uttar Pradesh
D) Himachal Pradesh
Which Indian personality has received the 24th Crystal Award at the Annual Crystal Awards ceremony held in Davos?
A) Amitabh Bachchan
B) Shah Rukh Khan
C) Akshay Kumar
D) Aamir Khan
What is India’s rank on the global index of talent competitiveness?
A) 81
B) 73
C) 69
D) 94
World Bank has signed a $120 million loan agreement to help improve water supply services in peri-urban areas in?
A) Assam
B) Jharkhand
C) Uttarakhand
D) Telangana
Which of the following is not one of the personalities, who has been conferred Padma Vibhushan award for the year 2018?
A) R. Nagaswamy
B) Ghulam Mustafa Khan
C) Illaiyaraja
D) P. Parameswaran
Which nation has signed an agreement with India to build military infrastructure on its Assumption Island?
A) Seychelles
B) Madagascar
C) Tuvalu
D) Nauru
World Health Organisation (WHO) has awarded prequalification to India’s first rotavirus diarrhoea vaccine, ROTAVAC. It has been developed by?
A) Sanofi
B) Bharat Biotech
C) Cipla
D) Lupin
Who was posthumously awarded Ashok Chakra on the occasion of 69th Republic Day at Rajpath?
A) Corporal Vikram Kumar
B) Corporal Ajeya Sarkar
C) Corporal Shaurya Malik
D) Corporal Jyoti Prakash Nirala
Who has won the 5th ‘Yash Chopra Memorial Award’?
A) Madhuri Dixit
B) Saroj Khan
C) Alka Yagnik
D) Asha Bhosle
India has signed a pact with UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to raise incomes and food security for tribal farming households in Mizoram and Nagaland, worth?
A) $279 million
B) $168 million
C) $102 million
D) $234 million
The bus driver who saved 52 Amarnath pilgrims from terror attack last year, has been awarded the “Uttam Jeevan Raksha Padak”. What is his name?
A) Ashraf Ali
B) Sheikh Salim
C) Mustafa Khan
D) Abdul Hassan
Which state government has launched `Mahatama Gandhi Sarbat Vikas Yojana’?
A) Himachal Pradesh
B) Karnataka
C) Uttar Pradesh
D) Punjab
Who has become the first Nepalese player to be part of any IPL franchise?
A) Sandeep Lamichhane
B) Gyanendra Malla
C) Binod Bhandari
D) Sharad Vesawkar
Who has become the first woman chairman of the Indian Banks’ Association?
A) Shikha Sharma
B) Chanda Kochhar
C) Arundhati Bhattacharya
D) Usha Ananthasubramanian
Which state government has recently issued a detailed helipad policy?
A) Telangana
B) Uttarakhand
C) Maharashtra
D) Assam
Which of the following has been chosen as the firstever Hindi Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries for 2017?
A) Gau Rakshak
B) Mitron
C) Aadhaar
D) Baahubali
In a first, scientists from which country have successfully cloned monkeys?
A) Japan
B) US
C) China
D) India
Who won the men’s singles title at the Australian Open?
A) Rafael Nadal
B) Marin Cilic
C) Grigor Dimitrov
D) Roger Federer
MHRD has approved setting up of a new Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in?
A) Belgaum
B) Bijapur
C) Raichur
D) Hubli
Which chief minister recently received the Unesco Award of Merit awarded to the Ranganathaswamy temple?
A) Siddaramaiah
B) K. Chandrashekar Rao
C) Edappady K. Palaniswami
D) N. Chandrababu Naidu
As per a recent order by DoPT, the quota in central government jobs for people with benchmark disabilities has been increased from 3% to?
A) 5%
B) 7%
C) 4%
D) 6%
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