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UIDAI has announced to introduce Aadhaar
authentication using face recognition from?
A) July 1, 2018
B) Mar 31, 2018
C) Dec 31, 2018
D) Oct 1, 2018
Which bank has become the first Indian Bank to
cross Rs 5 trillion market cap?
A) ICICI Bank
B) Axis Bank
C) HDFC Bank
D) IndusInd Bank
India successfully test-fired which nuclear-capable
intercontinental ballistic missile, from Dr Abdul
Kalam Island in Odisha?
A) Akash-IV
B) Prithvi-III
C) Agni-V
D) Nirbhay-II
Raghunath Jha, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Scientist
B) Politician
C) Journalist
D) Advocate
As per Ministry of Statistics, in December, India’s
consumer price inflation rose to?
A) 5.21%
B) 4.64%
C) 5.79%
D) 6.13%
MoS in Ministry of Agriculture Gajendra Singh
Shekhawat recently attended 10th ‘Global Forum for
Food and Agriculture’ in?
A) Beijing
B) New York
C) Geneva
D) Berlin
Which telecom company has unveiled ‘Cloud and
Fiber’ Initiative for 2018?
A) Vodafone
B) RCom
C) Bharti Airtel
D) Reliance Jio
Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) has cleared a
proposal for procurement of 72,400 assault rifles
and 93,895 carbines, worth?
A) Rs 3,547 crore
B) Rs 5,374 crore
C) Rs 2,926 crore
D) Rs 4,132 crore
With which country did India recently sign MoU for
collaboration in IT field?
A) Bangladesh
B) Nepal
C) Sri Lanka
D) Myanmar
When was Indian Army Day celebrated?
A) Jan 15
B) Jan 16
C) Jan 14
D) Jan 17
Which state government is going to hold a
‘Blockchain Hackathon for Governance’?
A) Maharashtra
B) Haryana
C) Andhra Pradesh
D) Karnataka
MoS for Power and New & Renewable Energy, Raj
Kumar Singh recently attended the ministerial
plenary session of the International Solar Alliance at?
A) Abu Dhabi
B) Chennai
C) Paris
D) Colombo
India-Israel Business Summit was recently held in?
A) Agra
B) Ahmedabad
C) New Delhi
D) Mumbai
India recently participated in its first military
cooperation meeting of SCO in?
A) Astana
B) Beijing
C) Moscow
D) Dushanbe
How many agreements did India sign with Israel to
boost cooperation?
A) 14
B) 5
C) 9
D) 17
Centre has announced to end subsidies for the
annual Haj pilgrimage. Who is the Union Minister for
Minority Affairs?
A) KJ Alphons
B) Maneka Gandhi
C) Kiren RIjiju
D) Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
Mihai Tudose recently resigned from his position as
the Prime Minister of?
A) Austria
B) Spain
C) Romania
D) Peru
Which state has recently unveiled a public cloud
policy?
A) Tamilnadu
B) Karnataka
C) Maharashtra
D) Gujarat
Which state government has decided to form a new
NBFC for better management of surplus funds?
A) Rajasthan
B) Kerala
C) Haryana
D) Telangana
Which of the following has partnered with M&G
Prudential to deliver enhanced service for its UK
savings and retirement customers?
A) Infosys
B) HCL
C) TCS
D) Wipro
Three countries have given their approval to
operating procedures for movement of passenger
vehicles under BBIN motor vehicles agreement.
Which of the following is not one of them?
A) Nepal
B) India
C) Bangladesh
D) Bhutan
Which bank has entered into a partnership with
Hedge Equities for providing Portfolio Investment
Scheme (PIS) services to NRIs?
A) Citi Bank
B) Yes Bank
C) Axis Bank
D) Federal Bank
Which state recently celebrated the ‘Opinion Poll’
day on Jan 16th?
A) Telangana
B) Karnataka
C) Goa
D) Gujarat
Footballer Ronaldinho recently announced his
retirement. He hailed from?
A) Brazil
B) Spain
C) Argentina
D) Portugal
Which oil company has signed letters of intent (LoI)
with two Israeli companies – Phinergy and YEDA?
A) HPCL
B) IOCL
C) BPCL
D) ONGC
Government has reduced its additional market
borrowing programme from Rs 50,000 to?
A) Rs 20,000 crore
B) Rs 30,000 crore
C) Rs 10,000 crore
D) Rs 40,000 crore
Which country’s securities regulator has prohibited
local investment funds from investing in
cryptocurrencies?
A) Russia
B) Brazil
C) India
D) South Africa
Who presented Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards
(Akademi Puraskar) to 43 artists for the year 2016?
A) Narendra Modi
B) Ram Nath Kovind
C) Smriti Irani
D) Venkaiah Naidu
Which state government has announced
‘Mukhyamantri Kalakar Sahayata Yojana’ to provide
pension of Rs 1200 per month to 50,000 artists?
A) Jharkhand
B) Odisha
C) Rajasthan
D) Uttarakhand
Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently laid the
foundation stone of Rs 43,129 crore refinery project
in?
A) Barauni
B) Numaligarh
C) Digboi
D) Barmer
Which state government has signed a MoU with IOC
to set up bio-gas and bio-CNG plants?
A) Punjab
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Bihar
D) West Bengal
65th Meeting of the Central Advisory Board of
Education (CABE) was recently held in?
A) New Delhi
B) Bengaluru
C) Hyderabad
D) Mumbai
Who will head the newly-constituted 5-judge
constitution bench of SC, which will hear a range of
crucial cases?
A) AK Sikri
B) Dipak Misra
C) AM Khanwilkar
D) DY Chandrachud
Charu Rohatgi, who recently passed away, was a
famous?
A) Singer
B) Politician
C) Actor
D) Journalist
Which state government has allowed people to forge
a fraternal relationship with trees, through a practice
locally known as Mith/Mit or Mitini?
A) Arunachal Pradesh
B) Sikkim
C) Assam
D) Mizoram
Who has been named the ICC Cricketer of the Year at
the ICC Awards 2017?
A) R Ashwin
B) Virat Kohli
C) Rohit Sharma
D) Jasprit Bumrah
With which country did Indian Coast Guard conduct
the 8th edition of ‘National Maritime Search and
Rescue Workshop and Exercise’ in the Bay of Bengal?
A) France
B) Japan
C) Sri Lanka
D) US
As per Health Minister J P Nadda, antenatal checkups
under Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva
Abhiyan (PMSMA) has crossed the mark of?
A) 3 crore
B) 1 crore
C) 5 crore
D) 2 crore
Principal Adviser of NITI Aayog, Ratan P. Watal
recently inaugurated the first GIAN course on
sustainable urban planning at?
A) IIT Kharagpur
B) IIT Lucknow
C) IIT Kanpur
D) IIT Guwahati
Which of the following has released its ‘Global Risk
Report 2018’?
A) World Economic Forum
B) UNISDR
C) UN Peacekeeping
D) World Bank
Election Commission of India has announced to
conduct assembly elections in three north-eastern
states. Which of the following is not one of them?
A) Nagaland
B) Meghalaya
C) Tripura
D) Mizoram
Bar Council of India (BCI) has formed a 7-member
panel to resolve the differences between Supreme
Court judges. Who is the chairperson of BCI?
A) Vijay Narayan
B) S. Prabhakaran
C) Manan Kumar Misra
D) Umesh S N
Scientists at which space agency have spotted the
farthest known galaxy in the universe, named
SPT0615-JD?
A) CNSA
B) ISRO
C) NASA
D) ESA
N S Pharande, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Sportsperson
B) Journalist
C) Advocate
D) Politician
Centre signed a MoU with Confederation of Indian
Industry (CII) in which sector?
A) Transport
B) Agriculture
C) Logistics
D) Infrastructure
Which team won the third edition of the Premier
Badminton League championship held in
Hyderabad?
A) Hyderabad Hunters
B) Bengaluru Blasters
C) Chennai Smashers
D) Delhi Dashers
Which team won the 8th Hockey India Sub Junior
Men National Championship 2018, held in Hojai,
Assam?
A) Haryana
B) Assam
C) Tamilnadu
D) Punjab
Indian peacekeepers from the UN mission have
rebuilt the Akoka bridge in the record time of 10
days. It is located in?
A) Congo
B) Mali
C) Haiti
D) South Sudan
Who has been inducted in the WWE Hall of Fame
Class of 2018?
A) Seth Rollins
B) Bill Goldberg
C) Jason Jordan
D) Brock Lesnar
Pandit Buddhadev Dasgupta, who recently passed
away, was associated with?
A) Literature
B) Law
C) Music
D) Politics
As per the data released by the commerce ministry,
exports grew at what percent in December 2017 on
YoY basis?
A) 10.78%
B) 27.92%
C) 12.36%
D) 19.83%
Which state’s HC has made it mandatory to obtain
Aadhaar Cards of accused persons and sureties for
granting bail?
A) Gujarat
B) Chhattisgarh
C) Kerala
D) Karnataka
Which of the following have been unveiled as the
mascots of the ‘Khelo India’ intiative by Union Sports
Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore?
1. Vijay the tiger 2. Jaya the black buck
3. Rani the peakock 4. Heera the elephant
A) 1 & 2
B) 2 & 3
C) 3 & 4
D) 1 & 4
Who has been been appointed as the CMD of
Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India
Ltd (SPMCIL)?
A) Laxminath Naidu
B) Saikanth Uppal
C) R Sunkara
D) S Selvakumar
Which of the following has launched an Intellectual
Property Competition named “IPrism”?
A) NITI Aayog
B) CIPAM
C) ECGC
D) DGFT
Which country has built the world’s largest air
purifier?
A) China
B) India
C) Japan
D) US
India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) has projected
India’s economic growth in 2018-19 to improve to?
A) 7.3%
B) 6.9%
C) 7.5%
D) 7.1%
Which of the following has topped the “Top 100
Global Technology Leaders” list published by
Thomson Reuters?
A) Alphabet
B) IBM
C) Apple
D) Microsoft
How much amount of investment has the DoT
announced for improving the telecommunication
network in the northeastern states?
A) Rs 10,743 crore
B) Rs 31,859 crore
C) Rs 22,462 crore
D) Rs 19,374 crore
Which state cabinet has approved 1% reservation for
orphans in government jobs and education?
A) Rajasthan
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Chhattisgarh
D) Maharashtra
Which bank has tied up with Amplus Energy
Solutions to co-finance projects in the solar energy
sector?
A) Axis Bank
B) Yes Bank
C) Kotak Mahindra Bank
D) IndusInd Bank
With which bank has Invoicemart tied-up to discount
invoices for MSMEs?
A) Bank of Baroda
B) Vijaya Bank
C) Punjab National Bank
D) State Bank of India
Three states have opted out of the Centre’s
Transformation of Aspirational Districts scheme.
Which of the following is not one of them?
A) Punjab
B) West Bengal
C) Kerala
D) Odisha
Who was recently conferred the Honorary
Fellowship of Institute of Company Secretaries of
India (ICSI)?
A) PP Chaudhary
B) Upendra Kushwaha
C) Kiren Rijiju
D) Mahendra Nath Pandey
Supreme Court has declared attack by khap
panchayats against an adult man and woman opting
for inter-caste marriage to be “absolutely illegal”.
The SC bench was led by?
A) D Y Chandrachud
B) Dipak Misra
C) A M Khanwilkar
D) AK Sikri
World’s fifth largest diamond, weighing 182 grams,
has recently been discovered in?
A) Malawi
B) Lesotho
C) Botswana
D) Swaziland
Who has been appointed as UK’s first-ever minister
in charge of combating loneliness and social
isolation?
A) Tracey Crouch
B) Nicola Sturgeon
C) Diane Abbott
D) Yvette Cooper
Who recently took over as the new Chief of Staff,
Western Naval Command?
A) Anant Saini
B) Ravneet Singh
C) Satish Reddy
D) AB Singh
Which nation has lifted all restrictions on the use of
the Internet?
A) China
B) Pakistan
C) Iran
D) Bangladesh
Jo Jo White, who recently passed away, was
associated with which sport?
A) Basketball
B) Cricket
C) Football
D) Boxing
Which country has launched a new guided- missile
frigate called ‘Wuhai’?
A) Russia
B) Pakistan
C) China
D) Japan
W B Rao, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Politician
B) Journalist
C) Cyclist
D) Cinematographer
India recently began the joint military exercise ‘Vajra
Prahar’ with?
A) US
B) Russia
C) France
D) UK
Kashinath, who recently passed away, was
associated with?
A) Sports
B) Film industry
C) Politician
D) Journalism
Which state government has signed an MoU with
the Centre titled, ‘School Education Transformation
Roadmap’?
A) Jammu and Kashmir
B) Tamilnadu
C) Goa
D) Assam
Indian PM Narendra Modi and Israeli PM Benjamin
Netanyahu recently inaugurated the iCreate centre
in?
A) Agra
B) New Delhi
C) Ahmedabad
D) Mumbai
RBI has announced that all the designs of Rs 10 coin
are valid and legal tender for transactions. How
many designs of Rs 10 coins are in circulation?
A) 21
B) 18
C) 9
D) 14
NV Sankaran, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Politician
B) Actor
C) Cricketer
D) Journalist
Which state/UT government has signed a friendship
agreement for cooperation in various fields with
Fukuoka Prefecture in Japan?
A) Maharashtra
B) Delhi
C) Gujarat
D) Puducherry
Who inaugurated a Central Government Health
Services Wellness Centre in Bambolim, Goa?
A) Anupriya Patel
B) Manohar Parrikar
C) Shripad Naik
D) JP Nadda
Who has been appointed as the MD & CEO of
NCDEX?
A) Hemant Jain
B) Samir Shah
C) Deepak Mittal
D) Vijay Kumar
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