Current Affairs Capsules & Free GK Quiz PDF Download : 1st Week Mar 2018 P1

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India-Korea Business Summit was recently held, on the theme “India-Korea: Scaling up the Special Strategic Relationship through Trade and Investments”, in?
A) Seoul
B) Mumbai
C) Busan
D) New Delhi
Who has been appointed as the new director general of police (DGP) of Bihar?
A) Arvind Pravin Suresh
B) Chandra Mohan Singh
C) Krishna Swaroop Dwivedi
D) Anand Kumar Tripathi
Indian Railways recently inducted the first fully digitally enabled locomotive, in collaboration with?
A) General Electric
B) Ovis Equipment
C) Atmos
D) Schnieder Electric
As per the data released by Government, combined index of the eight core industries grew in Jan 2018, at the rate of?
A) 7.5%
B) 4.3%
C) 5.2%
D) 6.7%
S. Ratnavel Pandian, who recently passed away, was associated with?
A) Law
B) Film Industry
C) Journalism
D) Politics
Which state’s cabinet has approved death penalty for rapists of girls below the age of 12 years?
A) Gujarat
B) Haryana
C) Uttar Pradesh
D) Maharashtra
Who released ‘Bharat 2018’, an annual government publication on policies and development programmes?
A) Nirmala Sitharaman
B) Sushma Swaraj
C) Maneka Gandhi
D) Smriti Irani
7th meeting of Eminent Persons Group (EPG) on Nepal-India relations was recently held in?
A) Lucknow
B) New Delhi
C) Kathmandu
D) Chandigarh
Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi, who recently passed away, was the 69th pontiff of?
A) Kalahasthi Mutt
B) Trichy Mutt
C) Kanchi Mutt
D) Chidambaram Mutt
CCEA has approved continuation of Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP), at an outlay of Rs 5,500 crore, for 3 years till?
A) 2017-18
B) 2020-21
C) 2019-20
D) 2018-19
As per NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant, Centre has cleared a scheme to tackle Delhi’s pollution, worth?
A) Rs 3,600 crore
B) Rs 1,200 crore
C) Rs 600 crore
D) Rs 2,400 crore
Arabinda Muduli, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Scriptwriter
B) Cinematographer
C) Director
D) Singer
Which company has launched ‘Balong 5G01’ chip at Mobile World Congress bring held in Barcelona?
A) Huawei
B) AMD
C) Nvidia
D) Qualcomm
Which team won the Vijay Hazare Trophy?
A) Maharashtra
B) Karnataka
C) Haryana
D) Saurashtra
Which Indian para-swimmer has been suspended for three years by the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI)?
A) Prasanta Karmakar
B) Sharath Gayakwad
C) Niranjan Mukundan
D) Murlikant Petkar
Who has been appointed by Punjab National Bank as the Group Chief Risk Officer?
A) S P Chaudhary
B) A K Pradhan
C) M N Khurana
D) P K Pandey
How many NBFCs have been put under high-risk category by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU)?
A) 6835
B) 7536
C) 9491
D) 8542
EPFO has introduced UAN-Aadhaar linking facility in which app?
A) Kavach
B) MyGov
C) Garv
D) Umang
Which company has announced to buy video doorbell maker ‘Ring’, in a deal valued about $1 billion?
A) Google
B) Microsoft
C) Amazon
D) Facebook
Three companies are working on enabling the first mobile phone network on moon. Which of the following is not one of them?
A) Vodafone Germany
B) Audi
C) Nokia
D) Amazon
Which bank has partnered with enterprise Blockchain solution Ripple to facilitate cross-border payments?
A) Yes Bank
B) IndusInd Bank
C) Kotak Mahindra Bank
D) Axis Bank
International Tennis Federation has proposed to transform which of the following tournaments into a 18-nation World Cup of Tennis?
A) Davis Cup
B) Grand Slam
C) Hopman Cup
D) Fed Cup
Which country’s membership has been reinstated by International Olympic Committee (IOC)?
A) Italy
B) Russia
C) Pakistan
D) Ukraine
Shipping minister Nitin Gadkari recently laid the foundation stone for setting up of a National Technology Centre for Ports, Waterways and Coasts (NTCPWC) at?
A) IIT Delhi
B) IIT Chennai
C) IIT Bombay
D) IIT Palakkad
Which state government has announced to set up a State Sanskrit Education Council?
A) Telangana
B) Madhya Pradesh
C) Tamilnadu
D) Delhi
Which space agency has announced to set up a lunar habitat on moon by sending robots and 3D printers?
A) JAXA
B) ISRO
C) SpaceX
D) NASA
Who has been honoured with Sportsman of the Year at the Laureus World Sports Awards 2018?
A) Lionel Messi
B) Roger Federer
C) Cristiano Ronaldo
D) Rafael Nadal
Which institute has developed a website and app, named “marinefishsales”, to help fishermen sell fish directly to customers?
A) Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture
B) Central Institute of Fisheries Technology
C) Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute
D) Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
Kanakalata Mohanty, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Lawyer
B) Author
C) Politician
D) Actor
India successfully conducted the test of which Anti Tank Guided Missile (ATGM), in Pokhran, Rajasthan?
A) Shaurya
B) Akash
C) Nag
D) Agni
Who has been appointed the National Goodwill Ambassador for Pakistan by UNDP?
A) Mohsina Abbas
B) Simi Mariam
C) Nazma Ahmad
D) Samina Baig
Which state is going to host the 13th edition of annual India-Nepal joint military exercise ‘Surya Kiran’?
A) Uttar Pradesh
B) Himachal Pradesh
C) Uttarakhand
D) Punjab
Who is going to become the youngest captain in the history of international cricket?
A) Rashid Khan
B) JE Taylor
C) Hasan Raza
D) Salman Butt
Vinay Kumar has been appointed as India’s ambassador to?
A) Nepal
B) Sri Lanka
C) Kazakhstan
D) Afghanistan
Which of the following is planning to set up “India corners” at educational institutes abroad?
A) Home Ministry
B) NITI Aayog
C) MEA
D) I&B Ministry
Who launched ‘Viral load testing for all People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV)’?
A) Anupriya Patel
B) Narendra Modi
C) JP Nadda
D) Ramnath Kovind
Union Cabinet was recently apprised of the MoU on Renewable Energy with?
A) Fiji
B) Vanuatu
C) Samao
D) Tuvalu
What is India’s rank out of 86 countries on the “Inclusive Internet Index” by Facebook?
A) 34
B) 47
C) 51
D) 23
Penny Vincenzi, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Politician
B) Writer
C) Actor
D) Lawyer
Which lake’s ‘Annual Monitoring’ report has revealed that it is the single largest habitat of Irrawaddy dolphins in the world?
A) Vembanad
B) Loktak
C) Chilika
D) Wular
The ceremony for kicking off work in Afghan section of TAPI pipeline project was held recently.Which gas field in Turkmenistan will feed the pipeline?
A) Urengoy
B) Galkynysh
C) Shtokman
D) Dauletabad
National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has identified how many cities for setting up Intermodal Stations?
A) 15
B) 25
C) 20
D) 10
Avaada Power has announced to invest Rs 3,500 crore to develop 500 MW utility-scale solar projects in?
A) Rajasthan
B) Karnataka
C) Andhra Pradesh
D) Odisha
How much amount has been allocated to IITs out of the Rs 1,00,000 crore corpus under the Revitalising Infrastructure and Systems in Education (RISE) scheme?
A) Rs 60,000 crore
B) Rs 10,000 crore
C) Rs 45,000 crore
D) Rs 25,000 crore
The founding conference of International Solar Alliance (ISA) is going to be held in?
A) Canberra
B) Capetown
C) Paris
D) New Delhi
Which country has declined India’s invitation to join the multilateral exercise MILAN, to be hosted in Andaman & Nicobar?
A) Australia
B) Maldives
C) Thailand
D) Oman
Which state government has announced a Rs 5 lakh health-cum-life insurance scheme for farmers?
A) Telangana
B) Assam
C) Punjab
D) Jharkhand
Who has been appointed as the new chief secretary of Jharkhand?
A) Sudhir Tripathy
B) Amit Mittal
C) Rajbala Verma
D) Mohit Bains
Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation Uma Bharti, recently launched the Swajal pilot project in?
A) Rajasthan
B) Odisha
C) Telangana
D) Maharashtra
Which ministry has launched an idea competition, named ‘SRIJAN’?
A) Railways
B) Skill Development
C) Human Resources
D) Power
Tata Boeing Aerospace Ltd (TBAL) inaugurated its fuselages production facility for the AH-64 Apache helicopter in?
A) New Delhi
B) Hyderabad
C) Bengaluru
D) Bhubaneswar
World Rare Disease Day was recently observed on?
A) Mar 3
B) Mar 1
C) Feb 28
D) Mar 2
Which of the following has rolled out a new feature, named ‘Symptom Search’?
A) Paytm
B) Microsoft
C) Facebook
D) Google
How much amount of loan has Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) recently approved to India for infrastructure-related projects in 2018?
A) $1 billion
B) $1.5 billion
C) $2.5 billion
D) $2 billion
Railway Ministry has announced to install sanitary napkin dispensers and incinerators at how many railway stations by International Women’s Day on March 8?
A) 100
B) 500
C) 1000
D) 200
When was National Science Day celebrated on the 2018 theme “Science and Technology for a sustainable future”?
A) Feb 28
B) Mar 2
C) Mar 1
D) Feb 27
Moody’s Investors Service has forecasted India’s GDP to grow in 2018 at?
A) 7.2%
B) 7.8%
C) 7.4%
D) 7.6%
Union Cabinet has approved a Rs 5000-crore action plan for how many ‘champion’ services sectors?
A) 12
B) 43
C) 31
D) 26
Which institute has entered into an MoU with RCSTT of Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) for designating Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Lucknow as Coordinating Center on Medicinal Plants?
A) CSIR
B) IISc
C) IIT Kanpur
D) IIT Roorkee
Which bank has tied up with Celebrus Capital Ltd to offer its customers online trading and demat services?
A) South Indian Bank
B) Lakshmi Vilas Bank
C) Catholic Syrian Bank
D) Dhanlaxmi Bank
Reserve Bank of India has raised the exposure limit under exchange traded currency derivatives (ETCD) trading to?
A) $200 million
B) $500 million
C) $800 million
D) $100 million
Prabodh Panda, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Politician
B) Actor
C) Singer
D) Journalist
Union Cabinet recently approved signing of an MoU on Economic and Trade Cooperation, with?
A) Thailand
B) Taiwan
C) Myanmar
D) Vietnam
Civil Aviation Minister P Ashok Gajapathi Raju recently inaugurated India’s first Aviation Multi Skill Development Centre at?
A) Mangalore
B) Bhubaneswar
C) Jodhpur
D) Chandigarh
Who has won the Aravindan Puraskaram for the best debutant director of 2017?
A) Shashank Kumar Sawan
B) Kranthi Kumar Shukla
C) Sagar Chaya Vanchari
D) Raja Gopal Sankara
EPFO has made it mandatory to make PF claims online for withdrawals of more than?
A) Rs 15 lakh
B) Rs 20 lakh
C) Rs 10 lakh
D) Rs 25 lakh
Who has been appointed as the secretary of Higher Education?
A) R Subrahmanyam
B) Tarun Sridhar
C) Anil Gopishankar Mukim
D) K K Sharma
Which country is going to be put in the ‘grey list’ of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in June 2018?
A) Pakistan
B) Qatar
C) Myanmar
D) Bangladesh
UNAIDS recently observed Zero Discrimination Day on?
A) Mar 2
B) Feb 28
C) Mar 1
D) Mar 3
Which country has recently allowed women to join military for the first time?
A) Qatar
B) Saudi Arabia
C) Kuwait
D) Oman
CCEA has approved a proposal to double the guarantee to NAFED to help it obtain higher credit from banks, to?
A) Rs 27,000 crore
B) Rs 8,000 crore
C) Rs 32,000 crore
D) Rs 19,000 crore
Which state government has launched an m-Governance mobile app called ‘T App Folio’?
A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Bihar
C) Telangana
D) Tamilnadu
Who led the Indian delegation to the 20th Conference of the Commonwealth Education Ministers (20CCEM) held in Nadi, Fiji?
A) MJ Akbar
B) Prakash Javdekar
C) Smriti Irani
D) Dr. Satya Pal Singh
Union Cabinet recently approved signing of an MoU in the field of Health, with?
A) Croatia
B) Macedonia
C) Georgia
D) Serbia
How much amount of central assistance was recently approved by a high level committee headed by Home Minister Rajnath Singh, for natural calamities hit nine states?
A) Rs 6,000 crore
B) Rs 4,000 crore
C) Rs 8,000 crore
D) Rs 2,000 crore
Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) has recently approved the procurement of hardware worth?
A) Rs 5,373 crore
B) Rs 9,435 crore
C) Rs 6,947 crore
D) Rs 10,220 crore
Ministry of Defence has begun the process to set up India’s first defence industrial corridor in?
A) Andhra Pradesh
B) Karnataka
C) Tamilnadu
D) Kerala
Which institute has recently discovered methane gas in the Krishna–Godavari basin?
A) National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula
B) Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Dhanbad
C) National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad
D) Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar
Union Cabinet has approved a Bill to allow which agency to probe human trafficking cases?
A) CBI
B) NIA
C) NCB
D) IB
Union Cabinet recently approved signing of an MoU in the field of Manpower?
A) Lebanon
B) Egypt
C) Jordan
D) Algeria