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| Government has announced National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS), which seeks to provide health insurance cover to over 10 crore economically vulnerable families, worth? A) Rs 15 lakh B) Rs 2 lakh C) Rs 5 lakh D) Rs 10 lakh |
| India and Pakistan have agreed to extend the Thar Link Express till Jan, 2021. It connects which cities? A) Jaipur – Lahore B) Jodhpur – Karachi C) Jaisalmer – Quetta D) Barmer – Hyderabad |
| Who inaugurated the first ever International Kala Mela in New Delhi? A) Dr. Mahesh Sharma B) SmritiIrani C) M. Venkaiah Naidu D) KJ Alphons |
| Government has announced to create a dedicated “Affordable Housing Fund” under? A) NABARD B) NHB C) RBI D) SIDBI |
| Data Privacy Day was recently held on? A) Jan 28 B) Feb 1 C) Feb 2 D) Feb 5 |
| Who has been conferred with V Shantaram Lifetime achievement award at the 15th Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short and Animation Films? A) Ravi Jhankal B) GirishKarnad C) ShyamBenegal D) Ketan Mehta |
| Which company has launched a public initiative “#SecurityCheckKiya”? A) Google B) Facebook C) Amazon D) Microsoft |
| Global investors summit ‘Advantage Assam’, saw investment commitments to the tune of? A) Rs 25,000 crore B) Rs 150,000 crore C) Rs 50,000 crore D) Rs 100,000 crore |
| Department of Telecom has announced to set up a development centre for 5G technologies in partnership with? A) IIT Kanpur B) IIT Chennai C) IIT Kharagpur D) IIT Bombay |
| Government announced a new scheme, called “Revitalising of Infrastructure and Systems in Education (RISE)”, with a total outlay over the next 4 years of? A) Rs 1 lakh crore B) Rs 5 lakh crore C) Rs 2 lakh crore D) Rs 3 lakh crore |
| Uttar Pradesh’s first butterfly park was recently inaugurated in? A) Gorakhpur B) Allahabad C) Varanasi D) Kanpur |
| Which regiment of Indian Army celebrated its 250th raising day on Feb 4th? A) Maratha Light Infantry B) Rajputana Rifles C) Dogra Regiment D) Sikh Light Infantry |
| What is the name of the Rs 1.4 lakh-crore scheme launched for promoting solar farming? A) SURYA B) ANMOL C) KUSUM D) SASHAKT |
| Defence minister NirmalaSitharaman announced to develop the first defence industrial production corridors between? A) Ahmedabad and Mumbai B) Chennai and Bengaluru C) Hyderabad and Bengaluru D) Chennai and Mumbai |
| As per Mercom India, India has achieved the solar capacity target of? A) 10 GW B) 50 GW C) 20 GW D) 5 GW |
| Juan Orlando Hernandez recently swore-in as the President of? A) Guatemala B) Nicaragua C) Colombia D) Honduras |
| Which of the following has signed anMoU with Russia’s United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC)? A) Vishakhapatnam Shipyard Ltd B) Mormugao Shipyard Ltd C) Cochin Shipyard Ltd D) Kolkata Shipyard Ltd |
| India’s largest floating treatment wetland (FTW) was recently launched in? A) Saroornagar Lake B) Neknampur Lake C) Safilguda Lake D) HimayatSagar |
| As per a report by BMI Research, India’s fiscal deficit in 2018-19 will be at? A) 3.4% B) 3.3% C) 3.5% D) 3.2% |
| Which company has signed anMoU with Assam government for river taxi service in Guwahati? A) Easy B) Ola C) Meru D) Uber |
| Who has written the book ‘HisaabKitaab’ on household budgeting? A) Chitrangada Singh B) AnjanaSukhani C) Neetu Chandra D) Amrita Arora |
| How much amount has Finance Minister ArunJaitley announced for the Restructured National Bamboo Mission? A) Rs 3,170 crore B) Rs 2,560 crore C) Rs 1,290 crore D) Rs 1,850 crore |
| How much amount of loan agreement has China and UNDP launched for Pakistan’s FATA and Balochistan? A) $12 million B) $4 million C) $1 million D) $10 million |
| Which state government has launched four schemes to promote entrepreneurship in agriculture and allied sectors among the economically backward segments? A) Maharashtra B) Haryana C) Andhra Pradesh D) Chhattisgarh |
| When World Cancer Day was observed with the 2016-2018 tagline ‘We can. I can’? A) Feb 2 B) Feb 4 C) Feb 3 D) Feb 1 |
| Who has taken over as Chief Executive of the Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC)? A) AnupamSinha B) PankajVerma C) SandeepRaut D) Dinesh Srivastava |
| Who won the women’s singles in the India Open Super 500 badminton tournament after defeating PV Sindhu in the final? A) Beiwen Zhang B) GreysiaPolii C) ApriyaniRahayu D) Christinna Pedersen |
| Centre sanctioned a new Rs 62 crore project to control pollution in River Sal located in? A) Uttarakhand B) Chhattisgarh C) Telangana D) Goa |
| Which space agency recently launched the world’s smallest satellite-carrying rocket? A) CNSA B) JAXA C) NASA D) ISRO |
| Which union ministry recently launched the ‘Green Good Deeds’ campaign? A) Environment, Forest and Climate Change B) Agriculture and Farmer’s Welfare C) Health and Family Welfare D) Science and Technology |
| NicosAnastasiades has been re-elected as the President of? A) Lithuania B) Bulgaria C) Greece D) Cyprus |
| Which Indian golfer won the TheMaybank Championship, Malaysia? A) Shubhankar Sharma B) Shiv Chawrasia C) JeevMilkha Singh D) AnirbanLahiri |
| Which union minister launched the Rapid Detection Kits for Adulterants in Fresh Fish? A) Ravi Shankar Prasad B) Dr Harsh Vardhan C) JP Nadda D) Radha Mohan Singh |
| Hukum Singh, who recently passed away, was a? A) Journalist B) Scientist C) Economist D) Politician |
| Which of the following companies conducted the first flight of a Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) using an indigenously developed Automatic Flight Control System (AFCS)? A) Mahindra Aerospace B) Reliance Defence and Engineering C) L&T Heavy Engineering D) Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd |
| Which team won the Under-19 cricket World Cup held in New Zealand? A) Australia B) India C) South Africa D) Pakistan |
| What is the name of the new initiative to be launched to expand airport capacity by more than five times? A) NABH Nirman B) GAGAN Nirman C) AKASH Nirman D) ABHRA Nirman |
| Which documentary won the US Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, held in Utah? A) Sachin: A Billion Dreams B) Kaagaz Ki Kashti C) Kailash D) On Yoga: The Architecture of Peace |
| Regulators in which country have recently approved a mitochondrial donation therapy to create its first ‘three-person baby’? A) US B) Canada C) UK D) Japan |
| Which of the following has been launched by the Government with the allocation of Rs 500 crore, to promote production of tomato, onion and potatoes? A) Operation Yellow B) Operation Green C) Operation Blue D) Operation Red |
| Commerce ministry has recently launched Government e Marketplace (GeM) 3.0. Who is the CEO of GeM? A) Rita Teaotia B) Ajay P Sawhney C) Radha S. Chauhan D) Anita Praveen |
| Who has been appointed as the Odisha State Election Commissioner (SEC)? A) DevendraMohapatra B) AnantSihag C) Naba Kumar Nayak D) Susheel Nanda |
| Who inaugurated the 32nd Surajkund international crafts mela in Haryana? A) Yogi Adityanath B) ShivrajPatil C) ManoharlalKhattar D) VasundharaRaje |
| Which country won the Gold trophy at 4th International Young Chef Olympiad 2018, held in India? A) Malaysia B) China C) India D) Singapore |
| Which country has launched its first seismo-electromagnetic satellite to study seismic precursors? A) Japan B) India C) China D) Germany |
| An International Conference on ‘DemetriosGalanos and His Legacy’ was recently held in? A) Kolkata B) New Delhi C) Bengaluru D) Mumbai |
| Anu Kumar, who won the first gold medal at the Khelo India School Games, is associated with which sport? A) Shooting B) Race C) Weightlifting D) Wrestling |
| SudhaKarmarkar, who recently passed away, was a? A) Actor B) Journalist C) Politician D) Athlete |
| Government has announced to make PAN mandatory from April 1, for any entity entering into a financial transaction of more than? A) Rs 2.5 lakh B) Rs 10 lakh C) Rs 7.5 lakh D) Rs 5 lakh |
| Who has taken charge as the new foreign secretary of India? A) Sanjay Kothari B) Vijay KeshavGokhale C) NripendraMisra D) A.K. Dhasmana |
| Who has been appointed as the new chief justice of Bangladesh? A) Tariq ul Hakim B) Muhammad Abdul Hafiz C) Md. Ashfaqul Islam D) Syed Mahmud Hossain |
| Which union minister launched CriSidEx, India’s first sentiment index for micro and small enterprises (MSEs) developed jointly by credit rating body CRISIL and SIDBI? A) NarendraModi B) M Venkaiah Naidu C) ArunJaitley D) Rajnath Singh |
| Which country’s President Abdulla Yameen has declared “state of emergency”? A) Mongolia B) Mauritius C) Maldives D) Malaysia |
| Ministry of external affairs has increased the budget allocation of which country by 75% to Rs 650 crore? A) Bangladesh B) Myanmar C) Bhutan D) Nepal |
| How much additional amount has India pledged towards the UN partnership fund? A) USD 400 million B) USD 100 million C) USD 300 million D) USD 200 million |
| Finance Minister ArunJaitley has proposed a law for automatic revision of salaries of MPs every? A) 10 years B) 7 years C) 5 years D) 3 years |
| Which country celebrated its 70th Independence Day on Feb 4th? A) Myanmar B) Nepal C) Bangladesh D) Sri Lanka |
| Which team won the 8th Hockey India Senior Women National Championship 2018 (B Division), held in Ranchi? A) Maharashtra B) Punjab C) Kerala D) CRPF |
| 20th edition of the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival was recently held in? A) Jaipur B) New Delhi C) Lucknow D) Mumbai |
| Finance Minister ArunJaitley recently announced the plans to build a tunnel through the Sela Pass in? A) Assam B) Arunachal Pradesh C) Jammu & Kashmir D) Meghalaya |
| Which state government, in collaboration with UNICEF, inaugurated the “Dastak Campaign” against Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES)? A) Uttar Pradesh B) Maharashtra C) Jharkhand D) Bihar |
| How much amount was allocated to Ministry of Defence by Finance Minister ArunJaitley for FY 2018-19? A) Rs 4.12 lakh crore B) Rs 2.95 lakh crore C) Rs 3.56 lakh crore D) Rs 1.48 lakh crore |
| Filmmaker DharmasenaPathiraja, who recently passed away, hailed from? A) Myanmar B) Bangladesh C) Sri Lanka D) Nepal |
| Which pharmaceutical company has partnered with Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to set up a centre in New Delhi, to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR)? A) Pfizer B) Sanofi C) Novartis D) GSK |
| Which country has signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement committing $370 million to United Nations World Food Programme during 2018-2021? A) Norway B) Sweden C) Switzerland D) Denmark |
| Which country recently inaugurated the world’s longest zip line? A) China B) Switzerland C) US D) UAE |
| Which airport has become the world’s busiest single-runway airport, with handling 980 arrivals and take-offs in 24 hours? A) Bengaluru B) Delhi C) Hyderabad D) Mumbai |
| Pelican festival was recently held on Kolleru Lake at Atapakabirds sanctuary in? A) Odisha B) Tamilnadu C) Kerala D) Andhra Pradesh |
| Economic Survey 2018 has pegged FY19 GDP growth at? A) 7-7.5% B) 7.2-7.7% C) 6.8-7.3% D) 6.5-7% |
| Who will head the task force constituted by Department of Defence Production to study use of artificial intelligence in military? A) Rajiv Gauba B) GulshanRai C) HansrajAhir D) N Chandrasekaran |
| Who has become the first service air chief of a foreign country to fly on India’s indigenously built Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas? A) Joseph Dunford B) David L Goldfein C) Mark A. Milley D) Martin E. Dempsey |
| Louis Zorich, who recently passed away, was a? A) Actor B) Politician C) Poet D) Neurosurgeon |
| Book titled ‘Exam Warriors’ has been authored by? A) PrakashJavdekar B) Sri SriRavishankar C) NarendraModi D) JaggiVasudev |
| Which state government has signed an agreement with the National Building Construction Corporation (NBCC) for setting up a 65-storey twin tower trade centre? A) Assam B) Odisha C) Uttar Pradesh D) Jharkhand |
| Government has announced to levy corporate tax of 25% on companies with turnover upto? A) Rs 200 crore B) Rs 500 crore C) Rs 100 crore D) Rs 250 crore |
| Which of the following has signed a project agreement with Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) for a $375 million loan for JalMargVikas Project (JMVP)? A) World Bank B) ADB C) AIIB D) NDB |
| Finance Minister, ArunJaitley has announced to merge three public sector general insurance companies. Which of the following is not one of them? A) United India Assurance Co. Ltd B) New India Assurance Co. Ltd C) Oriental India insurance Co. Ltd D) National Insurance Co. Ltd |
| Which state government is soon going to set up a Transgender Welfare Board (TWB)? A) Maharashtra B) Bihar C) Haryana D) Assam |
| What is the name of the series of residential schools to be set up by the Government in every block with at least 50% ST population and 20,000 tribal persons, by 2022? A) Vivekananda Schools B) Shivaji Schools C) Chanakya Schools D) Eklavya Schools |
| Which country has recently been admitted to the Agreement on the Establishment of an International Transit Corridor between Iran, Oman, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan (Ashgabat Agreement)? A) Afghanistan B) Pakistan C) India D) Nepal |
| Which state government has approved Ghodazari in Chandrapur district as a new wildlife sanctuary? A) Gujarat B) Odisha C) Maharashtra D) Madhya Pradesh |
| Lakshmi Devi Kanakala, who recently passed away, was a veteran? A) Writer B) Politician C) Actor D) Dancer |
| How much amount of standard deduction has been announced by Finance Minister for salaried taxpayers in lieu of transport allowance and medical expense reimbursement? A) Rs 40,000 B) Rs 100,000 C) Rs 50,000 D) Rs 10,000 |
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