Current Affairs, GK, News, Quiz Free PDF : 2nd Week June'18 P2 -

Government has announced to unveil a credit
enhancement fund to facilitate infrastructure
investments, with the initial corpus of?
A) Rs 700 crore
B) Rs 200 crore
C) Rs 1,000 crore
D) Rs 500 crore
NITI Aayog has selected how many schools to
establish additional Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs)?
A) 2,500
B) 2,000
C) 5,000
D) 3,000
Which country is planning to create an informal
group of WTO members to work on the future
agenda?
A) Argentina
B) US
C) Russia
D) India
India successfully conducted final tests for its first
indigenous, long-range- artillery gun at Pokhran,
Rajasthan. It is named?
A) Dhruv
B) Shaurya
C) Prahar
D) Dhanush
When was Green Mizoram Day observed?
A) June 13
B) June 11
C) June 14
D) June 12
RBI has amended Gold Monetisation Scheme (GMS).
The deposits can be made with the designated banks
for a short period of?
A) Upto 5 years
B) 3-5 years
C) 1-3 years
D) 2-7 years
How many new non-permanent members were
elected to the UN Security Council recently?
A) 10
B) 4
C) 5
D) 1
Scientists from which country have found a new
planet named ‘EPIC’?
A) India
B) US
C) Germany
D) China
Mike Hesson recently quit as the cricket coach of?
A) Australia
B) South Africa
C) New Zealand
D) England
India has agreed to enhance bilateral cooperation in
military-industrial sphere, with which country?
A) Kazakhstan
B) Uzbekistan
C) Tajikistan
D) Mongolia
As per Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, the
rural sanitation coverage of India has risen to?
A) 60%
B) 90%
C) 75%
D) 85%
Which north-eastern state launched a campaign to
make people in remote areas aware of the
government initiatives?
A) Manipur
B) Arunachal Pradesh
C) Nagaland
D) Mizoram

President Ram Nath Kovind will launch Solar Charkha
Mission of MSME ministry. The mission will cover
how many clusters?
A) 10
B) 30
C) 50
D) 80
LP Shahi, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Writer
B) Politician
C) Economist
D) Actor
Which city will host the first military exercise of the
BIMSTEC group?
A) Jaisalmer
B) Siliguri
C) Pune
D) Amritsar
Who has been appointed as the MD & CEO of Yes
Bank?
A) Rentala Chandrashekhar
B) Subhash Chander Kalia
C) Ajai Kumar
D) Rana Kapoor
How much amount of financial assistance has India
given to Nepal for the Nepal-Bharat Maitri Irrigation
Project?
A) Rs 61.93 million
B) Rs 61.93 million
C) Rs 61.93 million
D) Rs 61.93 million
Who has been appointed vigilance commissioner?
A) Sharad Kumar
B) Junaid Ahmed
C) Vinod Pradhan
D) Govind Dhawan
Railways Ministry and IRCTC have introduced
bagasse-based food packaging in how many trains to
conduct a trial run?
A) 40
B) 4
C) 15
D) 8
Xavier Rutsa, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Politician
B) Scientist
C) Journalist
D) Cricketer
RBI has allowed MSMEs to delay their loan
repayments by _____ without being classified as
non-performing?
A) 360 days
B) 180 days
C) 90 days
D) 270 days
What was the 2018 theme for ‘World Blood Donor
Day’ observed on June 14th?
A) Give the gift of life : donate blood
B) Be there for someone else. Give blood. Share life.
C) Give Blood. Give Now. Give Often
D) Safe blood for saving mothers
Finance Minister Piyush Goyal has set up a
committee on formation of an Asset Reconstruction
Company for faster resolution of stressed accounts.
The committee will be headed by?
A) Rajkiran Rai G
B) Mahesh Kumar Jain
C) Jai Kumar Garg
D) Sunil Mehta
Union Cabinet has approved repositioning of North
Eastern Council. Who will be the ex-officio Chairman
of the Council?
A) Prime Minister
B) Home Minister
C) Urban Development Minister
D) Minister of DoNER
India’s first national police museum will be
established in which city?
A) Kolkata
B) Hyderabad
C) Delhi
D) Bhopal

Which state government has announced to
introduce ‘Sanskar’ awareness programme to tackle
superstitions?
A) Rajasthan
B) Assam
C) Punjab
D) Tamilnadu
Who has been appointed as the acting chairman of
Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)?
A) Atul Bansal
B) Arvind Saxena
C) Jagdish Shankar
D) Rajiv Kumar
Which bank has entered into a bancassurance
partnership with Aditya Birla Health?
A) Karur Vysya Bank
B) Karnataka Bank
C) Federal Bank
D) South Indian Bank
As per a report by Confederation of Indian Industries
(CII), Indian GDP is expected to grow over the next
couple of years at a rate of?
A) 6%
B) 9%
C) 7%
D) 8%
Sapan Kumar Murmu, who recently passed away,
was a renowned?
A) Cardiologist
B) Paediatrician
C) Ophthalmologist
D) Nephrologist
Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has
created a world record of distributing maximum
number of bee-boxes by distributing 2330 bee-boxes
to the beneficiaries at?
A) Kishtwar
B) Anantnag
C) Srinagar
D) Kupwara
Union PNG Minister Dharmendra Pradhan recently
inaugurated two Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)
stations in which district in Odisha?
A) Balasore
B) Koraput
C) Ganjam
D) Cuttack
Which state is going to organise awareness
campaign for farmers?
A) Karnataka
B) Madhya Pradesh
C) Haryana
D) Maharashtra
How much amount of loan has the Overseas Private
Investment Corporation (OPIC) given to Grameen
Impact Investments to support domestic MSMEs?
A) USD 20 million
B) USD 25 million
C) USD 5 million
D) USD 10 million
Union Cabinet has approved signing of an MoU for
cooperation between ICMR and INSERM of?
A) Germany
B) UK
C) France
D) Russia
Union Health Minister JP Nadda gave GAELF awards
to how many countries at the 10th meeting of Global
Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GAELF),
held in New Delhi?
A) 4
B) 11
C) 23
D) 18
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced to set up
a public credit registry of all loan information. The
move is based on the recommendations of which
committee?
A) Viral Acharya Committee
B) BN Srikrishna Committee
C) Y.M. Deosthalee Committee
D) Hasmukh Adhia Committee

How many places have been added to Swachh Iconic
Places (SIP) under phase III of Swachh Bharat
Mission?
A) 10
B) 20
C) 25
D) 15
Who inaugurated ‘National Consultation on
Accelerating Implementation of Tobacco Control
Measures for the achievement of Goals under
National Health Policy’ in New Delhi?
A) Ashwini Kumar Choubey
B) JP Nadda
C) Soumya Swaminathan
D) JP Nadda
Laxman Patil–Bhosle, who recently passed away,
was a?
A) Politician
B) Actor
C) Writer
D) Photographer
Who will chair the committee formed by
Government to ensure transparency in jobs data
calculation and presentation?
A) Rakesh Srivastava
B) Dinesh Singh
C) Girish Sahni
D) TCA Anant
Anthony Bourdain, who recently passed away, was
a?
A) Actor
B) Journalist
C) Photographer
D) Chef
Who has been announced as the winner of Lumiere
Award in Lyon, France?
A) Lily Tomlin
B) Candice Bergen
C) Diane Keaton
D) Jane Fonda
2nd ‘India-US colloquium on Earth Observations and
Sciences for Society and Economy’ was held in which
city?
A) Kochi
B) Vishakhapatnam
C) Chennai
D) Panaji
Which state has topped Niti Aayog’s Composite
Water Management Index (CWMI)?
A) Karnataka
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Madhya Pradesh
D) Gujarat
Which state has become the first to use auto-disable
syringes for all clinical purposes?
A) Kerala
B) Madhya Pradesh
C) Andhra Pradesh
D) Punjab
Maria Fernanda Espinosa, who has been elected
president of the 73rd United Nations General
Assembly, is the foreign minister of?
A) Italy
B) Ecuador
C) Spain
D) Argentina
How many Wi-Fi Choupals have recently been
launched by Electronics and IT Minister Ravi Shankar
Prasad?
A) 5,000
B) 15,000
C) 10,000
D) 1,000
8th Thematic Seminar on ‘Private Sector
Participation and Innovation in Resource
Mobilization’, was held in?
A) Chennai
B) Mumbai
C) Hyderabad
D) New Delhi
Fuego volcano, which erupted recently, is located in
which country?
A) Peru
B) Indonesia
C) Haiti
D) Guatemala

Which city hosted the Asia-Pacific Regional
Conference on Early Childhood Development (ECD)?
A) New Delhi
B) Dhaka
C) Kathmandu
D) Naypyidaw
Writer Shahzahan Bachchu, who recently passed
away, hailed from?
A) Bangladesh
B) India
C) Sri Lanka
D) Pakistan
Which of the following has recently launched its
online RTI Portal?
A) Election Commission
B) Central Vigilance Commission
C) Information Bureau
D) Enforcement Directorate
Vijai Kumar has been appointed as the next High
Commissioner of India to?
A) Seychelles
B) Papua New Guinea
C) Djibouti
D) Lesotho
When was ‘International Albinism Awareness Day’
observed?
A) June 13
B) June 14
C) June 11
D) June 12
IMD has announced to use flash flood guidance
system to forecast floods, for the first time.
Currently, which of the following issues flood
warnings?
A) National Water Development Agency
B) Central Water Commission
C) NATMO, Calcutta
D) ISRO
Which Indian boxer won a gold medal at the
Umakhanov Memorial Tournament, held in Kaspiysk,
Russia?
A) Pinki Jangra
B) Pavitra
C) Saweety Boora
D) Kavita Singh
Union Minister of Steel, Chaudhary Birender Singh
inaugurated rebuilt Blast Furnace-1 of Rourkela Steel
Plant (RSP). The blast furnace is named?
A) Parvati
B) Durga
C) Saraswati
D) Lakshmi
Which state has launched a ‘water literacy’ campaign
called ‘Jalasaksharatha’, involving 70,000 students?
A) Karnataka
B) Kerala
C) Tamilnadu
D) Andhra Pradesh
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has asked which
of the following forces to impart soft skills training to
its personnel?
A) NIA
B) ITBP
C) BPR&D
D) SSB
Which Indian athlete won a gold medal in men’s
10,000m race at the Gouden Spike meeting in
Leiden, Netherlands?
A) Virendra Singh
B) Arokia Rajiv
C) Gavit Murali Kumar
D) Muhammed Anas
Who has been appointed as chairman of Central
Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC)?
A) Yudhvir Malik
B) S Ramesh
C) Krishna Bhatnagar
D) Amarendra Dubey
Which payments bank has been denied permission
to use Aadhaar-linked Know Your Customer
authentication?
A) Fino Payments Bank
B) Airtel Payments Bank
C) Paytm Payments Bank
D) Jio Payments Bank
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Which ministry has launched #YogaFor9to5″
campaign to raise awareness on benefits of yoga at
work?
A) Labour & Employment
B) Health
C) AYUSH
D) Women and Child Development
Which country hosted the International Conference
on Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
2018?
A) Philippines
B) India
C) Myanmar
D) Nepal
Which institute has signed an agreement with RAASI
Solar Power Pvt Ltd for transfer of technology for
lithium-ion batteries?
A) Advanced Materials and Processes Research
Institute (AMPRI)
B) Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute
(CMERI)
C) Central Electro Chemical Research Institute
(CECRI)
D) National Chemical Laboratory (NCL)
Which city hosted the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization summit?
A) Tianjin
B) Qingdao
C) Xi’an
D) Dalian
Who won the women’s singles title at the French
Open 2018?
A) Garbiñe Muguruza
B) Simona Halep
C) Jelena Ostapenko
D) Sloane Stephens
Who has been appointed as the coal secretary?
A) Navin Verma
B) Jai Priye Prakash
C) Inder Jit Singh
D) Prabhas Kumar Jha
United States government has approved a deal to
sell the Indian military six AH-64E Apache attack
helicopters, worth?
A) $930 million
B) $580 million
C) $460 million
D) $750 million
Which team won the Women’s Asia Cup T20 title,
held in Kuala Lumpur?
A) Pakistan
B) India
C) Bangladesh
D) Sri Lanka
Which app has been launched by Railway Minister
Piyush Goyal to allow passengers to lodge
complaints?
A) Rail RAHAT
B) Rail YATRI
C) Rail MADAD
D) Rail SAATHI
Which state has launched the compilation of all state
budgets since the first in 1936?
A) Uttar Pradesh
B) Tamilnadu
C) West Bengal
D) Odisha
As per Union Steel Minister Chaudhary Birender
Singh, which state has the potential to produce 100
million tonnes of steel out of 300 million tonne
envisaged in National Steel Policy by 2030-31?
A) Odisha
B) Jharkhand
C) West Bengal
D) Chhattisgarh
ONGC Videsh Ltd has received the first equity cargo
of Das blend crude oil from the Lower Zakum (LZ)
oilfield, located in?
A) Saudi Arabia
B) Qatar
C) UAE
D) Kuwait

Who has been awarded China’s first friendship
medal?
A) Donald Trump
B) Narendra Modi
C) Vladimir Putin
D) Shinzo Abe
Haryana government has raised the upper age limit
of entry into government service from 40 years to?
A) 48
B) 44
C) 42
D) 45
Which Indian farmer has set a Guinness World
Record by distributing the largest number of curry
tree saplings in Sharjah?
A) Sudheesh Guruvayoor
B) Deven Kumar Singh
C) Ketan Pandey
D) Prem Yadav
Pappu Karki, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Politician
B) Singer
C) Scriptwriter
D) Classical Dancer
National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA)
conducted a flood preparedness mock exercise in
which state?
A) Bihar
B) West Bengal
C) Uttar Pradesh
D) Odisha
As per SBI’s annual report for 2017-18, which bank
has the largest value share of mobile banking
transactions?
A) Axis Bank
B) HDFC Bank
C) ICICI Bank
D) SBI
Union Cabinet has approved an agreement to
strengthen bilateral cooperation, with which
country?
A) Egypt
B) Mongolia
C) Ukraine
D) Peru
Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Rathore has approved
the upward revision of pension to meritorious
sportspersons. Now, the medallist at the
Olympic/Para-Olympic Games will get?
A) Rs 10,000
B) Rs 50,000
C) Rs 40,000
D) Rs 20,000
Which country is going to repair two ‘Friendship
Bridges’ in Nepal’s Tatopani and Rasuwa districts?
A) China
B) Japan
C) India
D) Bangladesh
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar inaugurated or laid
foundation stones of 122 schemes of state bridge
construction corporation, worth?
A) Rs 985 crore
B) Rs 875 crore
C) Rs 500 crore
D) Rs 625 crore
Which of the following apps has been launched by
Indian Railways to help travellers in booking and
cancelling unreserved tickets?
A) UTS on Mobile
B) Ticket Online
C) Booking 24×7
D) RailYatra
How many states and UTs have signed MoUs with
the Union Health Ministry to implement Ayushman
Bharat?
A) 8, 4
B) 12, 3
C) 6, 2
D) 14, 5

Which team won the Intercontinental Cup title?
A) Kenya
B) Taiwan
C) New Zealand
D) India
Mulubha Jadeja, who recently passed away, was
associated with which sport?
A) Cricket
B) Hockey
C) Shooting
D) Football
Narayan Prasad Singh, who recently passed away,
was a?
A) Journalist
B) Lyricist
C) Politician
D) Hockey player
Ramchandra Bainda, who recently passed away,
belonged to which political party?
A) INC
B) BJP
C) SP
D) RJD
Who chaired the “3rd Meeting of National Council of
Senior Citizens (NCSrC)”, held in New Delhi?
A) JP Nadda
B) Thaawarchand Gehlot
C) Piyush Goyal
D) Maneka Gandhi
Government has sanctioned grants-in-aid worth Rs
14.30 crore under the ‘Khelo India’ scheme for blocklevel
sports in which state?
A) Haryana
B) Bihar
C) Maharashtra
D) Jammu & Kashmir
Union Cabinet has approved joint issue of postage
stamp with Vietnam on the theme of?
A) Ancient Architecture
B) Ethnic Ties
C) Music Magic
D) Cultural Exchange
U.S., Mexico and Canada have jointly won the bid to
host FIFA world cup in 2026. They defeated the bid
of which country?
A) Germany
B) Italy
C) Spain
D) Morocco
Who has been appointed as a non-executive director
on the board of Wipro Enterprises?
A) Utsav Vittal
B) Puneet Ganguly
C) Rishav Neemuchwala
D) Tariq Premji
Who has taken over as the chairman of Arohan
Financial Services?
A) DK Mittal
B) LN Yadav
C) PM Gupta
D) BS Panwar
Kandaala Subrahmanya Tilak, who recently passed
away, was a?
A) Freedom fighter
B) Journalist
C) Filmmaker
D) Biologist
Which state has topped the National Disaster Risk
Index?
A) Maharashtra
B) West Bengal
C) Uttar Pradesh
D) Madhya Pradesh
Spiritual Guru Bhaiyyu Maharaj, who recently passed
away, hailed from?
A) Haryana
B) Madhya Pradesh
C) Rajasthan
D) Uttar Pradesh
Which exchange has introduced a ‘tri-party repo
market’ platform?
A) NCDEX
B) NSE
C) MCX
D) BSE

Health Ministry has launched a national media
campaign titled ‘What Damage Will This
Cigarette/Bidi Do’. Which organisation has provided
technical support for the campaign?
A) Vital Strategies
B) QuitNet
C) ACOSH
D) Truth Initiative
Which city hosted the Mandela-Gandhi Youth
Conference?
A) Bloemfontein
B) Johannesburg
C) Pietermaritzburg
D) Durban
Who has taken over as the Executive Director of
EEPC India?
A) Anil Swarup
B) Alok Shrivastava
C) Suranjan Gupta
D) Gopal Krishna
Which state has approved introduction of e-auction
for allotment of petrol pumps, CNG or PNG sites?
A) Haryana
B) Punjab
C) Telangana
D) Maharashtra
Which city hosted the G7 summit recently?
A) Bologna
B) Hamburg
C) Quebec
D) Sapporo
How much amount is RBI expected to raise through
NRI bonds to support the rupee?
A) $30-35 billion
B) $50-55 billion
C) $40-45 billion
D) $20-25 billion