Current Affairs Capsules & Free GK Quiz PDF Download : 1st Week Mar 2018 P2

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Who is going to take oath as the next Chief Minister of Tripura?
A) Hemochandra Singh
B) KaramShyam
C) LetpaoHaokip
D) Biplab Kumar Deb
ArmenSarkisian has recently been elected as the president of?
A) Egypt
B) Cyprus
C) Armenia
D) Greece
Government recently approved projects for eight cities under the Nirbhaya fund, worth?
A) Rs 2,900 crore
B) Rs 4,700 crore
C) Rs 1,400 crore
D) Rs 3,500 crore
World’s largest solar park named ‘Shakti Sthala’ was recently launched in?
A) Karnataka
B) Odisha
C) Tamilnadu
D) Andhra Pradesh
Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has signed how many Advance Pricing Agreements (APAs) in Feb 2018?
A) 7
B) 9
C) 3
D) 5
Shammi, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Musician
B) Dancer
C) Lyricist
D) Actor
RBI has announced to remove the per borrower loan limits for classification under priority sector lending for?
A) Agriculture
B) Education
C) MSME
D) Housing
Which bank has partnered with Happay to launch a new prepaid card linked Travel and Entertainment expense management solution?
A) IndusInd Bank
B) ICICI Bank
C) HDFC Bank
D) Axis Bank
Who won the Tal Memorial rapid chess title held in Moscow?
A) ViswanathanAnand
B) PentalaHarikrishna
C) Krishnan Sasikiran
D) BaskaranAdhiban
Which team won the IBSF Snooker Team World Cup held in Doha?
A) India
B) Bangladesh
C) Sri Lanka
D) Pakistan
Which state government has launched ‘KHUSHI’ scheme to provide free sanitary napkins to school girls?
A) Goa
B) Odisha
C) Assam
D) Bihar
Who has been awarded lifetime achievement honour at London’s House of Commons?
A) Dharmendra
B) Amitabh Bachchan
C) Jitendra
D) ShatrughanSinha
Who inaugurated the 29th annual International Yoga Festival at ParmarthNiketan, Rishikesh?
A) JP Nadda
B) RamnathKovind
C) ShripadYessoNaik
D) M Venkaiah Naidu
Which union minister launched the social media of “Namaste Shalom”, the magazine on India-Israel relations?
A) Dr Harsh Vardhan
B) SmritiIrani
C) Dr Jitendra Singh
D) SushmaSwaraj
Who is going to swear in as the next Chief Minister of Nagaland?
A) Neiphu Rio
B) James K Sangma
C) PrestoneTynsong
D) ComingoneYmbon
Which company has partnered with Maharashtra government to propagate the Marathi language?
A) Google
B) Twitter
C) Wikipedia
D) Facebook
RBI has allocated foreign portfolio investors a separate limit of ______ in interest rate futures (IRF)?
A) Rs 5,000 crore
B) Rs 20,000 crore
C) Rs 1,000 crore
D) Rs 10,000 crore
Who has been appointed as the brand ambassador of Luminous Power’s new brand Amaze?
A) ViratKohli
B) Amitabh Bachchan
C) Salman Khan
D) Anushka Sharma
The silver jubilee of which festival was recently celebrated in Itanagar?
A) Losar
B) Hornbill
C) Bihu
D) Dree
Which film won the ‘Best Picture’ award at the 90th Academy Awards?
A) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
B) The Shape of Water
C) Call Me By Your Name
D) Darkest Hour
Which state government has launched mobile video vans under ‘AmaGaon, AmaVikas’ programme?
A) Andhra Pradesh
B) Telangana
C) Chhattisgarh
D) Odisha
All-women crew of INSV Tarini, which is in its last phase of circumnavigation around the Earth, recently reached?
A) Port Stanley
B) Fremantle
C) Lyttleton
D) Cape Town
Which space agency recently launched world’s most advanced weather satellite, named ‘GOES-S’?
A) CNSA
B) NASA
C) JAXA
D) ISRO
Who has become the first Indian woman to win gold at the Senior Asian Wrestling Championships?
A) VineshPhogat
B) BabitaKumari
C) NavjotKaur
D) Sakshi Malik
Which country has overtaken Saudi Arabia to become India’s top crude oil supplier?
A) Iran
B) Qatar
C) Kuwait
D) Iraq
DavideAstori, who recently passed away, was a footballer from?
A) Spain
B) Argentina
C) Germany
D) Italy
Researchers from which city have developed a compound, silver copper telluride (AgCuTe), which can turn waste heat into electricity?
A) Chennai
B) Delhi
C) Bengaluru
D) Ahmedabad
Which space agency has signed an agreement with China on lunar exploration?
A) ESA
B) NASA
C) Roscosmos
D) ISRO
A book reading event held at which place, recently broke the Guinness world record?
A) Gadchiroli
B) Ramtek
C) Baramati
D) Panchgani
As per Conservation Assured | Tiger Standards (CA|TS) survey, how much percent of the tiger conservation areas met the global standards of an accreditation system?
A) 13%
B) 25%
C) 47%
D) 33%
Which state’s local bodies department has signed anMoU with e-Governance Foundation for managing e-governance of Urban Local Bodies (ULBs)?
A) Karnataka
B) Bihar
C) Punjab
D) Rajasthan
Who has been appointed as the brand ambassador of Dream11?
A) Rohit Sharma
B) Yuvraj Singh
C) ViratKohli
D) MS Dhoni
Who has been appointed as the MD of HCL Infosystems?
A) VinayGowda
B) RangarajanRaghavan
C) Deepak Mittal
D) Prabhat Jain
Which Indian shooter won the gold medal with a world record score in the 10m air pistol in ISSF World Cup held in Guadalajara, Mexico?
A) Om PrakashMitharval
B) ShahzarRizvi
C) MehulGhosh
D) JituRai
India has announced to provide Jordan a financial assistance for vaccines and medicines, worth?
A) $20 million
B) $12 million
C) $5 million
D) $1 million
27th Technological Conference of Indian Jute Industries’ Research Association (IJIRA) was recently held on the theme “Shaping the Future of Jute”, in?
A) New Delhi
B) Mumbai
C) Chennai
D) Kolkata
Union Cabinet has approved establishment of NFRA, an oversight body for auditors. NFRA stands for?
A) National Financial Reporting Authority
B) National Fair Reporting Agency
C) National Financial Risk Agency
D) National Fair Regulatory Authority
Government has constituted a Steering Committee on Fintech related issues, under the Chairmanship of?
A) HasmukhAdhia
B) Subhash Chandra Garg
C) Rajiv Kumar
D) Rajiv Gauba
Which country is going to launch world’s first legal tender cryptocurrency?
A) Marshall Islands
B) Vanuatu
C) Soloman Islands
D) Fiji
India has again become the fastest growing major economy in the world, by marking a growth rate of ____ in Q3?
A) 7.5%
B) 7.6%
C) 7.2%
D) 7.3%
Prafulla Das, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Literateur
B) Singer
C) Lawyer
D) Cartoonist
Which Indian-American scientist has been awarded a grant by Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), for his research on cancer?
A) Prashant MN
B) ViditGautham
C) NavinVardarajan
D) Abhijit Reddy
Which Indian-origin Scotland Yard officer has been appointed as the counter-terrorism chief?
A) Vikram Patel
B) Neil Basu
C) Rahul Bakshi
D) Ajay Verma
Who broke the world record for 50-metres long-course freestyle in 100 to 104 years men’s masters category?
A) Briton John
B) Peter Evans
C) George Corones
D) Kevin Berry
In a first, astronomers at which university have detected signals from the first stars in the universe?
A) Michigan State University
B) Ohio State University
C) Pennsylvania State University
D) Arizona State University
As per Financial Services Secretary Rajiv Kumar, PSBs are consolidating how many overseas operations?
A) 21
B) 49
C) 35
D) 54
India recently conducted test-fire of M777 ultra-light howitzers at the Pokhran firing range, with?
A) USA
B) Russia
C) France
D) Sweden
Which country has announced to build its first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Liaoning?
A) South Korea
B) Japan
C) Vietnam
D) China
As per the data released by National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which company accounted for almost 40% of the total UPI transactions?
A) Whatsapp
B) Paytm
C) Google Tez
D) BHIM
Minister of Food Processing Industries HarsimratKaurBadal recently inaugurated Maharashtra’s first Mega Food Park in?
A) Kolkapur
B) Satara
C) Nashik
D) Sangli
As per Global Firepower (GFP) List 2017, at what rank has Indian military prowess been ranked among 133 countries?
A) 7th
B) 2nd
C) 4th
D) 9th
KirshnaKumariKolhi has become the first-ever Hindu Dalit woman Senator in?
A) Pakistan
B) Bangladesh
C) Afghanistan
D) Malaysia
Which state government has launched aRs 2,000 crore universal health scheme?
A) Karnataka
B) Telangana
C) West Bengal
D) Kerala
What is the name of new malware detected by cybersecurity agencies, which can take over electronic devices and use them as bots?
A) Trappy
B) Bugat
C) Saposhi
D) Zeus
Which institute is going to conduct a National Sizing Survey to come up with a standardised “India size chart” for the garment industry?
A) Symbiosis Institute of Design
B) Northern India Institute of Fashion Technology
C) National Institute of Fashion Technology
D) Pearl Academy of Fashion
SaratMohanty, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Physicist
B) Journalist
C) Musician
D) Actor
Mascots for which of the following games were released recently?
A) Paris Summer Olympics 2024
B) Tokyo Summer Olympics 2020
C) Beijing Winter Olympics 2020
D) Los Angeles Summer Olympics 2028
India has raised import tax on crude palm oil from 30% to?
A) 51%
B) 45%
C) 35%
D) 44%
42nd Civil Accounts Day was recently observed on?
A) Mar 2
B) Mar 5
C) Mar 3
D) Mar 1
In a first, which state has launched a 24-hour helpline number for providing information on education and offer guidance to students?
A) Uttar Pradesh
B) Gujarat
C) Madhya Pradesh
D) Tamilnadu
Who has resigned recently from his post of the Chairman of BCCI junior selection committee?
A) Venkatesh Prasad
B) Sunil Gavaskar
C) Kiran More
D) Anil Kumble
Embassy of India in Egypt and Maulana Azad Centre for Indian Culture, are going to organize mega annual cultural festival ‘India by the Nile’. Who is the Indian Ambassador to Egypt?
A) PiyushSinha
B) Sanjay Bhattacharyya
C) VimalAcharya
D) Sandeep Mishra
India recently signed three pacts with Vietnam during the visit of Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang. Which of the following is not one of them?
A) Sports
B) Agriculture
C) Trade
D) Nuclear Energy
Shigmotsav festival was recently celebrated in?
A) Sikkim
B) Himachal Pradesh
C) Goa
D) Meghalaya
KhagendraJamatia, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Lyricist
B) Politician
C) Actor
D) Writer
India recently signed a tripartite agreement with which countries for civil nuclear cooperation?
1. USA 2. Bangladesh
3. Russia 4. Nepal
A) 1 & 2
B) 2 & 3
C) 3 & 4
D) 1 & 4
As per Hurun Global Rich List 2018, what is India’s rank in terms of highest number of billionaires in the world?
A) 5th
B) 4th
C) 3rd
D) 2nd
Which team won the interstate national tennis championship 2018, held in Chhattisgarh?
A) Andhra Pradesh
B) Haryana
C) Maharashtra
D) Gujarat
JavedAbidi, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Politician
B) Rights Activist
C) Journalist
D) Actor
India has announced to achieve the bilateral trade target with Vietnam, by 2020, of?
A) $25 billion
B) $15 billion
C) $30 billion
D) $20 billion
World Wildlife Day was recently observed on?
A) Mar 5
B) Mar 3
C) Mar 4
D) Mar 2
19th edition of the Ficci Frames was recently inaugurated in Mumbai by?
A) Ravi Shankar Prasad
B) SmritiIrani
C) Maneka Gandhi
D) M Venkaiah Naidu
T Thomas, who recently passed away, was a renowned?
A) Bureaucrat
B) Jurist
C) Actor
D) Businessman
Which bank has launched India’s first home loan linked to the 3-month GoI Treasury Bill benchmark rate?
A) Axis Bank
B) Citi India
C) Yes Bank
D) HDFC Bank
Which space agency is going to launch Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)?
A) Roscosmos
B) ISRO
C) ESA
D) SpaceX
As per the data released by US Treasury Department, what is India’s rank in the largest overseas holder of US government securities?
A) 31st
B) 12th
C) 23rd
D) 7th
Who has taken oath as the 12th chief minister of Meghalaya in Shillong?
A) P. Paiwang
B) Conrad Sangma
C) VikhehoSwu
D) P. Longon
27th edition of Sultan Azlan Shah Cup recently began in which city?
A) Kuala Lumpur
B) Malacca
C) Sibu
D) Ipoh
Which state/UT has recently joined UjwalDiscom Assurance Yojana (UDAY) scheme?
A) Lakshwadeep
B) Odisha
C) West Bengal
D) Delhi
Which company has delivered C-162 interceptor boat to Indian Coast Guard recently?
A) Mahindra Defence Land Systems
B) Bharat Electricals Limited
C) L&T Heavy Engineering
D) Bharati Defence and Infrastructure Ltd