Current Affairs Capsules & Free GK Quiz PDF Download : 2nd Week Mar 2018 P2

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PM NarendraModi recently launched multiple projects in Varanasi worth?
A) Rs 1,600 crore
B) Rs 800 crore
C) Rs 400 crore
D) Rs 1,200 crore
Aeroshow ‘Wings India 2018’ was recently held in?
A) Chennai
B) Hyderabad
C) Mumbai
D) Bengaluru
Which state has been awarded Nari Shakti Puraskar 2017 by MoWCD?
A) Telangana
B) West Bengal
C) Rajasthan
D) Punjab
Who has been named as the chairman of ‘Mahanadi Water Disputes Tribunal’ constituted to adjudicate the dispute between Odisha and Chhattisgarh?
A) IndermeetKaurKochhar
B) Rajesh Kotecha
C) Ravi Ranjan
D) A M Khanwilkar
Government has approved a proposal to institute “Union Home Ministers Medal for Excellence in Police Investigation”, to be given out based on a review every?
A) 3 years
B) 1 year
C) 5 years
D) 10 years
Who headed the Executive Committee meeting held under the ‘POSHAN Abhiyaan’?
A) A.K. Dhasmana
B) RakeshSrivastava
C) BhaskarKhulbe
D) Inderjit Singh
Begum HamidaHabibullah, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Actor
B) Painter
C) Politician
D) Musician
Which of the following agency has signed anMoU with RBI for implementation of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code?
A) SEBI
B) IBBI
C) PFRDAI
D) IRDAI
How many countries recently signed Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), in Santiago, Chile?
A) 49
B) 11
C) 32
D) 26
Which institute won the 2017 Kochon Prize for its work in TB research and development?
A) IIT Kharagpur
B) IISc Bangalore
C) ICMR
D) TERI
The Economist recently hosted 5th World Ocean Summit in?
A) India
B) Peru
C) Mexico
D) US
What is the theme of multi-national series of exercise MILAN 2018, hosted by Indian Navy in Andaman Sea?
A) Eliminating Terrorism, Growing Relations
B) Cooperation For Peace
C) Progress and Unity
D) Friendship Across the Seas
Which company has installed India’s largest wind turbine generator ever?
A) Suzlon Group
B) Wind World India
C) RegenPowertech
D) Orient Green Power
Nasscom has launched Design4India studio in Bengaluru, in collaboration with?
A) Microsoft
B) Facebook
C) IBM
D) Google
Which country won the best exhibitor award at International Tourism Festival ITB-Berlin?
A) Indonesia
B) China
C) Japan
D) India
Who inaugurated National Legislators Conference held in New Delhi?
A) M Venkaiah Naidu
B) Ravi Shankar Prasad
C) NarendraModi
D) ArunJaitley
Which state has been announced to host the 80th edition of Senior Nationals Table Tennis championships after a gap of 12 years, by TTFI ?
A) Odisha
B) Haryana
C) Gujarat
D) Kerala
Which bank has launched the scheme ‘Vikas She Plus’ for women entrepreneurs?
A) Karnataka VikasGrameena Bank
B) TamilnaduGrameenaVikas Bank
C) Andhra Pradesh GrameenaVikas Bank
D) Kerala VikasGrameena Bank
JayendraNathChaturvedi, who recently passed away, was the first Commissioner of Police of?
A) Mumbai
B) Puducherry
C) Chandigarh
D) Delhi
India’s tallest national flag was recently unfurled in?
A) Belagavi
B) Gulbarga
C) Dharwad
D) Karwar
First regional conference on ‘Mass Rapid Transport System (MRTS) for Urban Areas – Opportunities and Challenges’ was recently held in?
A) Chennai
B) New Delhi
C) Mumbai
D) Kolkata
How much amount of line of credit has been announced by India for 27 solar projects in 15 countries?
A) $2.3 billion
B) $1.4 billion
C) $3.5 billion
D) $4.8 billion
Who has become the first Indian woman to be conferred the “Academy Award for Nobel Peace”?
A) Dr Anandi Narayan Nanda
B) Dr BharatiSihag
C) Dr Ketzia David Prakasam
D) Dr Jai PriyePrakash
Which bank has launched a remittance service to facilitate customers to send money online globally?
A) IDBI Bank
B) IDFC Bank
C) UCO Bank
D) DCB Bank
Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, who recently passed away, hailed from?
A) US
B) Canada
C) UK
D) Germany
Which country topped the medal tally at the ISSF World Cup shooting in Guadalajara, Mexico?
A) Germany
B) India
C) China
D) US
Pi Day was recently celebrated on?
A) Mar 11
B) Mar 12
C) Mar 14
D) Mar 13
Who has been announced to be the ‘FMSCI National MotorSports Person of the Year 2017?
A) Aditya Patel
B) ArjunMaini
C) JehanDaruvala
D) Anindith Reddy
In a first, a stretch on India’s border with which country has become a ‘crime-free zone’?
A) Bangladesh
B) Myanmar
C) Nepal
D) Pakistan
Which bank has partnered with two broking partners for providing Portfolio Investment Scheme (PIS) services to NRIs?
A) Federal Bank
B) HSBC Bank
C) Citi Bank
D) Axis Bank
What is the name of the first Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) exercise conducted by IAF in association with South Asian Region nations, off the coast of Kerala?
A) Sugam
B) Sahaj
C) Samvedna
D) Suraksha
A team of scientists of which countries have won the Newton-Bhabha Fund for a project on Groundwater Arsenic Research in Ganga Basin ?
A) India-UK
B) India-Sri Lanka
C) India-US
D) India-Germany
Which Indian wrestler has become World No. 2 in the world women’s 65kg weight category rankings released by United World Wrestling?
A) VineshPhogat
B) BabitaKumari
C) Sakshi Malik
D) NavjotKaur
Which country recently launched a hypersonic missile named ‘Kinzhal’?
A) Russia
B) Israel
C) China
D) India
President Ram NathKovind inaugurated the World Hindi Secretariat building in?
A) Sri Lanka
B) Mauritius
C) Nepal
D) Thailand
Who has been honoured with the ‘Godavari Gaurav’ award by ‘KusumagrajPrathishthan’?
A) Raj Babbar
B) Naseeruddin Shah
C) AmolPalekar
D) Asrani
How many MoUs did India recently sign with France?
A) 14
B) 5
C) 23
D) 10
As per Kaspersky Lab, what is India’s rank among the countries facing web-borne threats?
A) 56
B) 33
C) 27
D) 42
Which bank has launched instant overdraft facility, named ‘InstaOD’, for MSME?
A) IndusInd Bank
B) Axis Bank
C) ICICI Bank
D) HDFC Bank
Which city recently observed Less Traffic Day on Mar 11?
A) Bengaluru
B) Gurugram
C) Mumbai
D) Hyderabad
Haryana government has constituted a committee on the issue of supply of untreated water to Yamuna, under the chairmanship of?
A) O P Dhankar
B) Susheel Kumar
C) R.N. Choubey
D) DevendraChaudhary
2-day long ‘Festival of Democracy’ was recently held in?
A) Jaipur
B) Ranchi
C) Lucknow
D) Delhi
European investment bank (EIB) has signed a long-term loan with IREDA to finance clean energy projects in India, worth?
A) EUR 200 million
B) EUR 450 million
C) EUR 150 million
D) EUR 300 million
Who won the women’s category senior National triathlon championship, held in Vishakhapatnam?
A) Samira Abraham
B) N Meher
C) Pragna Mohan
D) Monika Nagpure
Which state government has launched Women Entrepreneurs Hub (WE Hub)?
A) Odisha
B) Assam
C) Punjab
D) Telangana
Which cricket team won the Deodhar Trophy title, held at Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh?
A) Karnataka
B) Haryana
C) India B
D) Maharashtra
As per World Bank’s ‘India Development Update’, India’s economy will grow in 2018-19 at?
A) 7.1%
B) 7.5%
C) 7.3%
D) 7.6%
Which gulf country has recently approved a national policy of the atomic energy program?
A) Kuwait
B) Oman
C) Qatar
D) Saudi Arabia
PM NarendraModi and French President Emmanuel Macron co-hosted the Founding Summit of the International Solar Alliance in?
A) Agra
B) Varanasi
C) Ahmedabad
D) New Delhi
Spicejet recently made a successful landing of a commercial flight at the Pakyong Airport in?
A) Nagaland
B) Sikkim
C) Meghalaya
D) Manpur
What is the name of India’s biggest Media and Entertainment Services Market, inaugurated by Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu?
A) e-Mart
B) MeMart
C) enTTech
D) EMarket
Who has been appointed as Hyderabad City Police Commissioner?
A) NavinVerma
B) Ravi Kant
C) Anjani Kumar
D) Neeraj Kumar
Which country’s Parliament recently approved the Anti-Defection Bill?
A) Myanmar
B) Haiti
C) Maldives
D) China
First edition of India-France Knowledge Summit was recently held in?
A) Lucknow
B) New Delhi
C) Varanasi
D) Agra
Which bank has lowered its charges for non-maintenance of average minimum balance in savings accounts by up to 75%?
A) Oriental Bank of Commerce
B) Bank of Baroda
C) Punjab National Bank
D) State Bank of India
Union home ministry has sanctioned to set up India’s first National Academy of Coastal Policing (NACP) at?
A) Maharashtra
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Karnataka
D) Gujarat
India’s first Soldierathon was recently held in?
A) New Delhi
B) Chandigarh
C) Jaipur
D) Srinagar
Which UT has become the first in India to be 100% solar energy efficient?
A) Chandigarh
B) Diu
C) Delhi
D) Puducherry
A new species of Himalayan moth, named “Eucyclodesgavissima”, has been discovered in?
A) Periyar National Park
B) Simlipal National Park
C) Indravati National Park
D) Papikonda National Park
Which country has approved a plan to abolish presidential term limits, allowing its President to stay in power indefinitely?
A) Japan
B) China
C) Maldives
D) Venezuela
NarendraJha, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Cartoonist
B) Jurist
C) Singer
D) Actor
Who has been nominated by US President Donald Trump as the first woman director of CIA?
A) Tammy Baldwin
B) Gina Haspel
C) Carol Braun
D) Nancy Pelosi
Which of the following recently celebrated its 33rd Inception Day and launched a mobile app named “Citizen Services”?
A) Railway Board
B) National Crime Records Bureau
C) National Highway Authority of India
D) Central Bureau of Investigation
Ranjan Roy, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Journalist
B) Advocate
C) Politician
D) Musician
Which state’s forest department has launched an app to track and fight forest fires?
A) Tripura
B) Odisha
C) Assam
D) Jharkhand
What was the theme of 9th Women’s Film Festival, organised by National Film Archives of India (NFAI), Pune?
A) Exploring Women
B) Influencing Women
C) Travelling Women
D) Daring Women
Which country has unfurled the ‘world’s biggest flag’?
A) Bolivia
B) Ecaudor
C) Argentina
D) Paraguay
As per MoS for Commerce and Industry C.R. Chaudhary, how much amount of FDI inflow has been recorded from April 2014 to December 2017?
A) $354 billion
B) $416 billion
C) $183 billion
D) $209 billion
As per a report titled “Transactions 2025” by ACI Worldwide and AGS Transact Technologies, the digital transactions in India by 2025 will be worth?
A) USD 2.5 trillion
B) USD 2 trillion
C) USD 5 trillion
D) USD 1 trillion
Sir Ken Dodd, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Politician
B) Writer
C) Comedian
D) Footballer
ChKamalamma, who recently passed away, was a freedom fighter from?
A) Tamilnadu
B) Telangana
C) Karnataka
D) Kerala
Which state government has entered into anMoU with Safran Electrical and Power SAS for setting up an aerospace unit?
A) Telangana
B) Karnataka
C) Maharashtra
D) Madhya Pradesh
Which team won the 10th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup title held in Ipoh, Malaysia?
A) Netherlands
B) Australia
C) England
D) India
Which company has been selected as the Official Umpire Partner of Indian Premier League?
A) Paytm
B) Uber
C) Amazon India
D) Star India
How much amount of line of credit has India extended to Mauritius for defence capacity building?
A) $500 million
B) $100 million
C) $300 million
D) $200 million
Which state government has set up a fund, called “MukhyamantriMahilaKosh”, to provide pension to unmarried women above 50 years?
A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Gujarat
C) Andhra Pradesh
D) Uttar Pradesh
Who presented the first copy of the book ‘Fulfilling Bapu’s Dreams – Prime Minister Modi’s Tribute to Gandhiji’ to President Ram NathKovind?
A) Dr BindeshwarPathak
B) Sri SriRavishankar
C) Swami Ramdev
D) SadhguruJaggiVasudev
Who launched a campaign to eradicate tuberculosis from India by 2025, at the Delhi End-TB Summit?
A) RamnathKovind
B) JP Nadda
C) NarendraModi
D) Dr Harsh Vardhan
Who has been re-elected as the President of Nepal?
A) SherBahadurDeuba
B) KumariLaxmiRai
C) Khadga Prasad Oli
D) Bidya Devi Bhandari
Which state assembly has passed a bill which proposes death sentence for rape of girls under 12 years of age?
A) Chhattisgarh
B) Tamilnadu
C) Rajasthan
D) Haryana