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Which Indian shuttler has won the women’s singles (Under-19) title at the Israel Junior 2018 held in RishonLeZion?
A) RuchiJangid
B) PurvaBarve
C) SonaliBisht
D) Tara Shah
Which of the following has been certified as the world’s first trusted digital repository by Primary Trustworthy Digital Repository Authorisation Body Ltd. (PTAB)?
A) National State Archive of India
B) National Film Archive of India
C) Archives of Indian Labour
D) National Cultural Audio Visual Archives
Scientists from which country have developed an artificial heart using rocket technology?
A) Japan
B) India
C) US
D) China
Who released a book titled ‘ParamveerParwane’, on Paramveer Chakra Awardees?
A) Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa
B) NirmalaSitharaman
C) NarendraModi
D) General BipinRawat
Which government department recently organized ‘National conference on counterfeiting and role of enforcement agencies’ in New Delhi?
A) DOD
B) DIPP
C) DFS
D) DEA
T R Chandradutt, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Politician
B) Social activist
C) Musician
D) Novelist
Which Indian city has been ranked the fifth cheapest city in the world, as per the “Worldwide cost of living 2018; Which global cities have the highest cost of living” report by The Economist Intelligence Unit?
A) New Delhi
B) Bengaluru
C) Kolkata
D) Chennai
Sunil Sharma, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Advocate
B) Politician
C) Actor
D) Journalist
First G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors was recently held in?
A) Buenos Aires
B) Washington DC
C) Beijing
D) Rome
Africa’s only female head of state, AmeenahGurib-Fakim has resigned as the President of?
A) Tunisia
B) Morocco
C) Cameroon
D) Mauritius
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination was recently observed on the theme “Promoting tolerance, inclusion, unity and respect for diversity in the context of combating racial discrimination”, on?
A) Mar 21
B) Mar 17
C) Mar 20
D) Mar 19
India has signed an agreement to share earth observation data with?
A) US
B) European Union
C) Japan
D) China
Vladimir Putin has won the presidential elections held in Russia for a term of?
A) 6 years
B) 5 years
C) 3 years
D) 4 years
Which team won the 4th edition of Hero Indian Super League (ISL) title?
A) FC Goa
B) Bengaluru FC
C) Aizwal FC
D) Chennaiyin FC
IRCTC has tied up with which cab aggregator to provide cab booking services in its app?
A) Uber
B) Meru
C) Ola
D) Zoomcar
Which union minister inaugurated the International Yoga Fest in New Delhi?
A) Dr Harshvardhan
B) JP Nadda
C) ShripadYessoNaik
D) Dr Jitendra Singh
Indian Navy has begun the bilateral maritime exercise, named ‘Varuna’ with the Navy of?
A) Japan
B) France
C) UK
D) Russia
Who inaugurated the inaugurated the 2018 edition of the Festival of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in New Delhi?
A) Suresh Prabhu
B) ArunJaitley
C) De Harsh Vardhan
D) Ram NathKovind
What was the theme of International Day of Forests, observed on Mar 21?
A) Forests and Sustainable Cities
B) Time to Act
C) Forests and Water
D) Forests and Energy
Kevin Pietersen recently announced his retirement from all forms of cricket. He played for which team?
A) Australia
B) South Africa
C) England
D) New Zealand
Kedarnath Singh, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Journalist
B) Politician
C) Poet
D) Tabla player
Union Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister Ananth Kumar has announced to set up a Plastic Park in?
A) Sambalpur
B) Deoghar
C) Dharwad
D) Bellary
Who has been announced by Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters as the winner of Abel Prize 2018?
A) Robert Langlands
B) Bill Foster
C) Rush Holt
D) Esward Witten
Which cricket team won the Irani Cup?
A) Rest of India
B) Saurashtra
C) Vidarbha
D) Tamilnadu
World’s last Northen white male rhinoceros, named ‘Sudan’, recently died in Laikipia national park in?
A) Sudan
B) Namibia
C) Kenya
D) Tanzania
Who inaugurated 7th Women Science Congress, 2018 at Manipur University, Imphal?
A) NarendraModi
B) Maneka Gandhi
C) KeshariNathTripath
D) N Biren Singh
International Nowruz Day was recently observed on?
A) Mar 20
B) Mar 19
C) Mar 21
D) Mar 18
AtulGotsurve has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to?
A) Japan
B) Mangolia
C) DPRK
D) China
Informal WTO Ministerial Meeting was recently held in?
A) Bejing
B) New York
C) New Delhi
D) Tokyo
Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) has signed four MoUs with which company to boost tourism?
A) Oyo Rooms
B) Airbnb
C) Trivago
D) Tripadvisor
Who has been elected chairman of the Tehreek-e-Hurriyat?
A) Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai
B) RazaRabbani
C) Ishaq Dar
D) Fazal-ur-Rehman
India recently signed a Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement with?
A) Singapore
B) Hong Kong
C) Sri Lanka
D) Taiwan
World Sparrow Day was recently observed on?
A) Mar 18
B) Mar 20
C) Mar 19
D) Mar 21
Which country is conducting a muti-military joint drill ‘Gulf Shield 1’?
A) Bahrain
B) UAE
C) Oman
D) Saudi Arabia
What is the name of the recently launched first of its kind Co-working Space that provides onsite Childcare?
A) Kiddie World
B) Little Brats
C) Monkey Business
D) Tiny Tots
Which state assembly has passed a bill to do away with the AnchalSamiti and set up a two-tier system?
A) Arunachal Pradesh
B) Odisha
C) Jharkhand
D) Assam
LokSabha recently passed an amendment to which of the following acts which exempts political parties from scrutiny of funds received from abroad since 1976?
A) Election Campaign Act 1971
B) Representation of People Act 1951
C) Conduct of Election Rules 1961
D) Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010
Which company has announced its plans to set up a F-16 jet production unit in India?
A) Northrop Grumman
B) Raytheon
C) Lockheed Martin
D) BAE Systems
What is the name of the chatbot launched recently by Bank of America?
A) Susie
B) Erica
C) Mona
D) Katie
Indian Coast Guard recently commissioned its ship C-437 at?
A) Porbandar
B) Vishakhapatnam
C) Mumbai
D) Kochi
Who inaugurated the 1st ‘India-Japan Workshop on Disaster Risk Reduction’ in New Delhi?
A) NarendraModi
B) Rajnath Singh
C) Rajiv Kumar
D) NirmalaSitharaman
Which of the following has received the ‘PtDeendayalUpadhyayKrishiVigyanProtsahan Award-2017’?
A) KrishiVigyan Kendra, Chhattisgarh
B) National Academy of Agricultural Sciences
C) College of Agriculture, Vellayani
D) Institute of Agriculture Science, Kolkata
Who has resigned as the Prime Minister of Slovakia?
A) Robert Fico
B) Richard Sulik
C) Andrej Kiska
D) Ivan Lexa
Which state government has declared Lingayat community to be a minority religion distinct from Hinduism?
A) Karnataka
B) Tamilnadu
C) Andhra Pradesh
D) Kerala
World Down Syndrome Day was recently observed on?
A) Mar 19
B) Mar 17
C) Mar 18
D) Mar 21
Who has been appointed by Vivo as its brand ambassador for India?
A) Ajay Devgn
B) Aamir Khan
C) Salman Khan
D) Amitabh Bachchan
HtinKyaw recently resigned as the President of?
A) Malaysia
B) Thailand
C) Myanmar
D) Cambodia
Which country has prohibited the purchase of Venezuelan cryptocurrency Petro?
A) Brazil
B) Canada
C) US
D) Mexico
India has imposed anti-dumping duty on import of ‘Ofloxacin’ from?
A) China
B) Simgapore
C) Malaysia
D) US
Who has been appointed by Sony India as its first Indian Managing Director?
A) TarangMathur
B) Nitin Gupta
C) YogeshNagpal
D) Sunil Nayyar
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has given its in-principle approval to National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) for the development of which trainer aircraft?
A) Hansa-NG
B) Rudra-DN
C) Tejas-R6
D) Kamov-64
Mar 20 was observed by the UN to celebrate which language?
A) English
B) Russian
C) Arabic
D) French
Which state/UT government has launched a mobile app to search for singing and dancing talent?
A) Puducherry
B) Odisha
C) Delhi
D) Goa
Who has been named the next governor of China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC)?
A) Bo Xilai
B) Yi Gang
C) Jiang Zemin
D) Zhou Xiaochuan
Who has been appointed as the new CEO of Reliance Asset Reconstruction Company (RARC)?
A) BhaskarKhulbe
B) AsokanArumugam
C) DevendraChaudhary
D) RavindraRao
President Ram NathKovind recently released Rs 10 and Rs 1,000 denominations coins to commemorate which festival?
A) Gangaru Festival
B) VaikuntaEkadashi
C) Sravana Festival
D) Nabakalebara festival
Which country has topped the medal tally at the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics 2018?
A) USA
B) France
C) Canada
D) Germany
Amazon has launched its first-ever debit card named ‘Amazon Rechargeable’ in?
A) India
B) Singapore
C) Mexico
D) Germany
World Poetry Day was recently observed on?
A) Mar 17
B) Mar 21
C) Mar 16
D) Mar 18
Who has been re-elected as the Vice-President of Nepal?
A) SherBahadurDeuba
B) BaburamBhattarai
C) Nanda Bahadur Pun
D) GaganThapa
Which state’s chief minister has launched an anti-graft portal?
A) Karnataka
B) Bihar
C) Rajasthan
D) Uttar Pradesh
National workshop on POSHAN Abhiyaan was recently held in?
A) New Delhi
B) Jaipur
C) Bhopal
D) Lucknow
Les Payne, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Musician
B) Journalist
C) Actor
D) Politician
Which country has launched its own space agency, called Hellenic Space Organization?
A) Cyprus
B) Denmark
C) Norway
D) Greece
Which bank has opened a new representative office in Sharjah, UAE?
A) Axis Bank
B) Kotak Mahindra Bank
C) IndusInd Bank
D) Yes Bank
Who has been appointed as an ambassador by ‘Educate Girls’?
A) Katrina Kaif
B) Priyanka Chopra
C) SonamKapoor
D) DeepikaPadukone
Who has been re-elected as the Prime Minister of China?
A) Li Keqiang
B) HoChunhua
C) Wen Jiabao
D) Wang Yang
Global Recycling Day was recently celebrated on?
A) Mar 19
B) Mar 18
C) Mar 17
D) Mar 20
Who is the Foreign Minister of China who has been elevated to the post of State Councilor?
A) Li Zhanshu
B) Liu Qibao
C) Wang Yi
D) Zhou Qiang
Which team won the Nidahas Trophy, in the final held in Colombo, Sri Lanka?
A) Bangladesh
B) India
C) Pakistan
D) Sri Lanka
Which state government has announced to set up aRs 100 crore Apparel Super Hub in Sircilla?
A) Punjab
B) Telangana
C) Jharkhand
D) Gujarat
How much amount of appeal has the UN launched for the Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis?
A) USD 500 million
B) USD 755 million
C) USD 308 million
D) USD 951 million
What was the theme of International Day of Happiness, observed on Mar 20th?
A) Action For Happiness
B) Happiness and Well-being
C) Share Happiness
D) 10 steps to happiness
Which company is going to start its operation in Lloyd’s of London international insurance market?
A) General Insurance Corporation
B) New India Assurance Company
C) Life Insurance Corporation
D) United India Insurance Company
Commerce Ministry has removed the export duty on which of the following product?
A) Milk
B) Pulses
C) Wheat
D) Sugar
3rd National Conclave on Mines and Minerals was recently held in?
A) New Delhi
B) Hyderabad
C) Jamshedpur
D) Pune
Who has been given the additional charge as the Governor of Odisha?
A) Balram Das Tandon
B) Satya Pal Malik
C) Ram Naik
D) KeshariNathTripathi
Who has been appointed as the CEO of Fullerton India Home finance?
A) Ajay Kumar
B) RakeshMakkar
C) Ravi Kant Narain
D) Susheel Kumar
Who has been appointed as a Non-Executive Independent Director with Vedanta Limited?
A) NavinVerma
B) Rajiv Kumar
C) UK Sinha
D) Suresh Chandra
BHEL has commissioned first unit of 110 MW of which hydro-project in Jammu and Kashmir?
A) Mirzapur
B) Subansiri
C) Parbati
D) Kishanganga
Which state assembly has become the third to pass a Bill which provides death penalty to those found guilty of raping girls aged 12 years or less?
A) Himachal Pradesh
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Haryana
D) Uttarakhand
Which of the following Chief Ministers has released a handbook, titled ‘MahilaSuraksha’, on women safety?
A) Jai Ram Thakur
B) Trivendra Singh Rawat
C) CaptAmrendra Singh
D) Raman Singh
Who has been appointed as a Public Interest Director by BSE?
A) Patrick Martin
B) Andrew Brown
C) Jack Bernier
D) David Wright
Which bank has signed anMoU with India Mortgage Guarantee Corporation (IMGC)?
A) State Bank of India
B) Punjab National Bank
C) Canara Bank
D) Bank of Baroda
Who has become the second woman pilot of Indian Air Force to fly solo in a fighter aircraft?
A) AnkitaSwarup
B) BhawanaKanth
C) Seema Panda
D) Preeti Narayan
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