Who has sworn in as the first woman advocate to directly become a Judge of the Supreme Court?
A) Anita Barnwal
B) Vinita Grover
C) Ranjita Bisht
D) Indu Malhotra
When was International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day observed?
A) Apr 27
B) Apr 28
C) Apr 26
D) Apr 30
What is India’s rank on the World Press Freedom
Index, released by Reporters Without Borders (RSF)?
A) 126
B) 138
C) 115
D) 108
Union Cabinet has given its approval for signing of an MoU in the field of Medicinal Plants, Traditional Systems of Medicine and Homeopathy, with which country?
A) Equatorial Guinea
B) Cape Verde
C) São Tomé and Príncipe
D) Comoros
Who has launched his political party named ‘Hamro Sikkim’?
A) Robin Hibu
B) Bhaichung Bhutia
C) Kiren Rijiju
D) Lou Majaw
Which state’s cabinet has approved the proposal to start a free air-ambulance service?
A) Bihar
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Himachal Pradesh
D) Gujarat
As per Randstad Employer Brand Research (REBR) 2018, which company is the most ‘attractive
employer brand’?
A) Amazon India
B) IBM India
C) Samsung India
D) Microsoft India
National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has signed its first toll-operate transfer concession
agreement with?
A) Skanska
B) SMS Limited
C) Royal BAM Group
D) Macquarie Group
Who launched the Van Dhan Scheme of Ministry of Tribal Affairs and TRIFED?
A) M Venkaiah Naidu
B) Jual Oram
C) Ram Nath Kovind
D) Narendra Modi
Who has been appointed by Haryana government as the brand ambassador for Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) & Measles and Rubella (MR) vaccination campaign?
A) Vinesh Phogat
B) Sakshi Malik
C) Deepa Malik
D) Gauri Sheoran
Union Cabinet has given its approval for declaration of Scheduled Areas under the Fifth Schedule in which state?
A) Gujarat
B) Rajasthan
C) Odisha
D) Madhya Pradesh
Scientists have identified a new species of frog named ‘Fejervarya goemchi’ in which state?
A) West Bengal
B) Kerala
C) Chhattisgarh
D) Goa
Who has sworn in as the 70th Secretary of State of USA?
A) John Cornyn
B) Dick Durbin
C) Mike Pompeo
D) Bob Corker
Vesak Day, celebrated on Apr 30th, is associated with which religion?
A) Buddhism
B) Jainism
C) Hinduism
D) Sikhism
Which union ministry has launched the 2nd edition of the Unnat Bharat Abhiyan?
A) Skill Development Ministry
B) HRD Ministry
C) Commerce Ministry
D) Agriculture Ministry
Indian Navy inducted its third ship of LCU MK-IV, the ‘INCLU L53’ at which place?
A) Chennai
B) Vishakhapatnam
C) Port Blair
D) Kolkata
Which of the following has announced to launch the Atal New India Challenge?
A) Skill Development Ministry
B) HRD Ministry
C) NITI Aayog
D) IT Ministry
Which bank has been authorised to issue and encash the third tranche of electoral bonds sale?
A) Punjab National Bank
B) Bank of Baroda
C) Oriental Bank of Commerce
D) State Bank of India
Which company has signed an MoU with Ministry of Tourism and Archaeological Survey of India to adopt Red Fort in New Delhi and Gandikota Fort in Andhra Pradesh under ‘Adopt a Heritage’ project?
A) IOL
B) Dalmia Bharat
C) Yatra
D) SBI
Who led the Indian delegation at the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting, held in Washington D.C.?
A) Hasmukh Adhia
B) Arun Jaitley
C) Subhash Chandra Garg
D) Urjit Patel
Which country has introduced a 72-hour transit visa
for Indian travellers?
A) South Korea
B) Denmark
C) Sweden
D) Kazakhstan
National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) conducted a mock exercise on earthquake
preparedness in the following north-eastern states, except?
A) Tripura
B) Nagaland
C) Manipur
D) Mizoram
Which union minister conferred the National Safety Awards, “Sarvashrestha Suraksha Puraskar” 2017 at a function held in New Delhi?
A) Santosh Kumar Gangwar
B) Nitin Gadkari
C) Suresh Prabhu
D) Piyush Goyal
What was the theme of 2018 World Intellectual Property Day, observed on Apr 26th?
A) Visionary Innovators
B) Innovation — Improving Lives
C) Movies – A Global Passion
D) Powering change: Women in innovation and
creativity.
India is going to tie up with which countries to develop a pollution-forecast system?
1. Finland 2. US
3. Germany 4. UK
A) 1 & 2
B) 2 & 3
C) 3 & 4
D) 1 & 4
Who launched a Mobile App ‘m-Awas’ for allotment of Government accommodations in General Pool Residential Accommodation (GPRA)?
A) Rajnath Singh
B) Hardeep Singh Puri
C) Dr Jitendra Singh
D) Arun Jaitley
How much amount of loan is World Bank going to
provide India for National Biopharma Mission?
A) Rs 2,500 crore
B) Rs 3,800 crore
C) Rs 4,700 crore
D) Rs 1,600 crore
World’s smallest land fern, named ‘Ophioglossum
malviae’, has been discovered in?
A) Ahwa forests
B) Kankai forests
C) Banej forests
D) Ghodavadi forests
As per the data released by Commerce Department, India’s global trade increased by ____ in 2017-18 to USD 767.9 billion?
A) 9.14%
B) 22.73%
C) 16.32%
D) 31.86%
Nomura has projected India’s GDP growth to be ______ in H1 2018?
A) 7.8%
B) 7.4%
C) 7.5%
D) 7.6%
Which of the following has launched a Nifty equity savings index?
A) BSE
B) MCX
C) IISL
D) SEBI
What was the theme of 2018 World Day for Safety and Health at Work, observed on Apr 28th?
A) Optimize the collection and use of OSH data
B) Join in building a culture of prevention on OSH
C) Occupational safety health (OSH) vulnerability of
young workers
D) Workplace Stress: A collective challenge.
Who has won this year’s Martha Farrell Award for Excellence in Women’s Empowerment?
A) Anu Mishra
B) Radhika Dasgupta
C) Nadiya Shafi
D) Shilpa Mehta
Which document has been made mandatory by the RBI as part of the updated ‘KYC’ guidelines for bank accounts?
A) Birth certificate
B) Driver’s license
C) Passport
D) Aadhaar
How much amount did NABARD provide as assistance to Uttar Pradesh during 2017-18 to
facilitate overall development?
A) Rs 5,957 crore
B) Rs 31,846 crore
C) Rs 10,012 crore
D) Rs 23,846 crore
Which institute has signed an MoU with Indian Culinary Institute (ICI) for imparting collaborative
degree programmes in the field of culinary arts?
A) SMU, Gangtok
B) IGNTU, Amarkantak
C) RGU, Itanagar
D) IHM, Aurangabad
Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) has approved
Capital Acquisition Proposals of the Services, worth?
A) Rs 1,248 crore
B) Rs 2,946 crore
C) Rs 3,687 crore
D) Rs 4,621 crore
President Ram Nath Kovind conferred how many Shaurya Chakras at the Defence Investiture
Ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan?
A) 13
B) 18
C) 7
D) 3
Tony Daniel, who recently passed away, was associated with?
A) Journalism
B) Politics
C) Film industry
D) Sports
Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has granted the first licence for Liquid Chlorine on All India basis, to which company?
A) Hindustan Insecticides Ltd
B) Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Ltd
C) Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Ltd
D) Hindustan Organic Chemicals Ltd
Which Indian weightlifter won two medals at the Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championship held in Urgench, Uzbekistan?
A) Sathish Sivalingam
B) Rustam Sarang
C) Vikas Thakur
D) Jeremy Lalrinnunga
Who chaired the 23rd meeting of the Western Zonal Council, held at Gandhinagar?
A) Nirmala Sitharaman
B) Rajnath Singh
C) Sushma Swaraj
D) Kiren Rijiju
Which of the following Indian entrepreneurs has been named in the 2018 TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world?
A) Ritesh Agarwal
B) Bhavish Aggarwal
C) Vijay Shekhar Sharma
D) Sachin Bansal
Who has taken over as Senior Col Commandant of the Army Medical Corps?
A) Lt Gen Amit Prakash
B) Lt Gen Bipin Puri
C) Lt Gen Naman Rastogi
D) Lt Gen Ashish Singla
Which company has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with ISKCON Food Relief Foundation (IFRF), Haryana for Midday meal?
A) Indian Oil Corporation
B) State Bank of India
C) Bharat Heavy Electricals
D) Larsen & Toubro
Which state government has launched ‘Mission Lakadong’ to boost production of Lakadong
turmeric?
A) Meghalaya
B) Assam
C) Manipur
D) Nagaland
Entomologists in which country have found a giant
mosquito with a wing span of 11.15 centimetres?
A) China
B) Indonesia
C) Brazil
D) India
Which of the following institute has signed an MoU with DoT for establishing a Time Stamping & Time Synchronization network?
A) CSIR-MMACS
B) CSIR-CBRI
C) CSIR-AMPRI
D) CSIR-NPL
Which state hosted the first edition of Cancer Screening Mela?
A) Assam
B) Nagaland
C) Mizoram
D) Arunachal Pradesh
127th Khongjom Day was recently celebrated on 23rd April in which state?
A) Manipur
B) Arunachal Pradesh
C) Sikkim
D) Meghalaya
Which exercise did Indian Navy conduct recently off the coast of Kerala, Mahe, and Lakshadweep and Minicoy islands?
A) Shatru Raksha
B) Shakti Darshan
C) Shaurya Pratigya
D) Sagar Kavach
Who has recently released three books based on
Mahatma Gandhi’s Champaran movement of 1917?
A) Nitish Kumar
B) Ram Nath Kovind
C) Narendra Modi
D) Sushil Modi
How many countries have announced to suspend their participation in Union of South American Nations (UNASUR)?
A) Ten
B) Six
C) Two
D) Four
Who launched a portal to facilitate export-import of seeds and planting material?
A) Ramvilas Paswan
B) Suresh Prabhu
C) Radha Mohan Singh
D) Harsimrat Kaur
Which institute has developed lighter bullet proof jackets, christened ‘Bhabha Kavach’?
A) BARC
B) BEL
C) DRDO
D) HAL
Balantrapu Rajanikantha Rao, who recently passed away, was associated with which field?
A) Music
B) Sports
C) Law
D) Politics
Shirui Lily Festival was held in which state?
A) Sikkim
B) Meghalaya
C) Tripura
D) Manipur
Mario Abdo Benítez, has been elected as the
President of?
A) Nicaragua
B) Peru
C) Paraguay
D) Brazil
Union Cabinet has approved signing of an MoU with medicine regulatory agencies of ________ nations on cooperation in the field of regulation of medical products for human use?
A) G20
B) ASEAN
C) SCO
D) BRICS
Which company has signed an MoU with AAI for UDAN flights to Burnpur, Rourkela and Bokaro?
A) SAIL
B) NALCO
C) BHEL
D) GAIL
Which state government has launched a Pravasi pension scheme?
A) Kerala
B) Gujarat
C) West Bengal
D) Telangana
Which company has partnered with Ministry of Tourism to bring a series of 360-degree virtual reality videos for the Incredible India Tourism campaign?
A) Microsoft
B) Google
C) Facebook
D) Tripadvisor
In a first, which design house has won the National Intellectual Property (IP) Award?
A) Ritu Kumar
B) Sabyasachi Couture
C) Anamika Khanna
D) Manish Malhotra
National Kharif Conference 2018 was recently held in?
A) New Delhi
B) Bhopal
C) Lucknow
D) Nagpur
Which of the following is going to maintain a national database and profile of sexual offenders?
A) CAPF
B) NCRB
C) CPO
D) IB
India is conducting a joint military exercise named’ Harimau Shakti’, in collaboration with which
country?
A) Malaysia
B) Thailand
C) Singapore
D) Indonesia
Who led the Indian delegation at the 6th Joint Committee for Cooperation with Mongolia, held in Ulaanbaatar?
A) MJ Akbar
B) Raveesh Kumar
C) VK Singh
D) Sushma Swaraj
What was the theme of World Malaria Day 2018, celebrated on Apr 25th?
A) End malaria for good
B) Ready to beat malaria
C) Invest in the future: Defeat malaria
D) A push for prevention
Union Home Ministry has removed the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) from all the
areas of which state?
A) Mizoram
B) Arunachal Pradesh
C) Meghalaya
D) Tripura
Union Cabinet has approved a long-term agreement for export of iron ore through MMTC to which countries?
A) Japan and South Korea
B) Singapore and Malaysia
C) USA and Canada
D) Australia and New Zealand
How much amount of loan agreement has the World Bank signed to fund ‘Innovate in India for
Inclusiveness’ project?
A) $250 million
B) $75 million
C) $300 million
D) $125 million
International Jazz Day, was celebrated on which day?
A) Apr 28
B) Apr 30
C) Apr 29
D) Apr 25
Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently released a commemorative postage stamp on Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna. He was the former Chief Minister of which state?
A) Maharashtra
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Madhya Pradesh
D) Haryana
Telecom Commission has approved a comprehensive strategy to implement BharatNet in the North Eastern states at a cost of?
A) Rs 733 crore
B) Rs 880 crore
C) Rs 512 crore
D) Rs 650 crore
Which exchange has announced the launch of its “e –
Gsec” platform?
A) India INX
B) NSE
C) MSE
D) MCX
CCEA has approved under the National Bamboo Mission (NBM) under National Mission for
Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) at an outlay of?
A) Rs 4,720 crore
B) Rs 3,450 crore
C) Rs 1,290 crore
D) Rs 2,360 crore
Who released a Handbook on Prevention of Accidents and Awareness of First Aid?
A) Anupriya Patel
B) JP Nadda
C) Ashwini Kumar Choubey
D) Rajnath Singh
Which state government has announced to launch ‘Startup Week 2018’ in June 2018?
A) Maharashtra
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Odisha
D) Haryana
Who chaired the high level review meeting on control of vector borne diseases?
A) Anupriya Patel
B) Dr. Harsh Vardhan
C) Ashwini Kumar Choubey
D) JP Nadda
Passive telecom infrastructure provider Indus Towers has announced its merger with which
company?
A) Essar Telecom
B) Bharti Infratel
C) Aster Infra
D) ATC
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