What is the name of the virtual assistant launched
by SIDBI on its foundation day?
A) Pragati
B) Samridhi
C) Unnati
D) Vriddhi
Minister of State for Power, RK Singh, laid the
foundation stone of the 60 MW Naitwar Mori
Hydro Electric Project (NMHEP) in?
A) Himachal Pradesh
B) Jammu & Kashmir
C) Uttarakhand
D) Sikkim
What is the name of the ‘new organ’ discovered by
researchers recently?
A) Gallarium
B) Photophore
C) Interstitium
D) Irisin
Which football team has won Santosh Trophy title
at the Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata?
A) Kerala
B) Punjab
C) Bengal
D) Maharashtra
NITI Aayog has launched the baseline ranking for
115 aspirational districts. It is based on how many
parameters?
A) 27
B) 51
C) 33
D) 49
Who has been appointed as the new CMD of
Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL)?
A) K Raghavan
B) PK Rath
C) NV Yadav
D) G Narayan
Finance Ministry has announced to release a
commemorative coin of ______ denomination to
mark 350th birth anniversary of Guru Gobind
Singh?
A) Rs 100
B) Rs 500
C) Rs 350
D) Rs 350
Haryana state education department has renamed
the senior secondary girls school as ‘Shaheed Major
Vikas Yadav Senior Secondary School’. It is located
in which district?
A) Panipat
B) Rewari
C) Hisar
D) Rohtak
As per Indian Cellular Association, India has
overtaken which country to become the second
largest producer of mobile phones in 2017?
A) Japan
B) China
C) US
D) Vietnam
Which country has successfully tested a nuclear
capable intercontinental ballistic missile, named
‘Sarmat’?
A) Russia
B) India
C) China
D) Israel
Which country’s opposition has refused to allow
ratification of India’s agreement to build military
infrastructure on Assumption Island?
A) Seychelles
B) Myanmar
C) Oman
D) Malaysia
How many Kirti Chakras did President Ram Nath
Kovind recently confer at the Defence Investiture
Ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan?
A) 5
B) 3
C) 1
D) 6
4
CBDT has extended the deadline for the PANAadhaar
linking to?
A) Apr 30
B) Sept 30
C) Jun 30
D) Dec 31
NHAI has joined hands with AAI for developing a
green corridor in?
A) Coimbatore
B) Mangalore
C) Jaisalmer
D) Varanasi
Who has been appointed as the new President of
Nasscom?
A) Aruna Kotecha
B) Shobhana Khulbe
C) Bharati Sinha
D) Debjani Ghosh
India and Pakistan have agreed to mutually resolve
all issues about the treatment of diplomats. Who is
India’s High Commissioner to Pakistan?
A) Taranjit Singh Sandhu
B) Gautam Bambawale
C) Ajay Bisaria
D) Manjeev Singh Puri
Which sports personality’s wax statue is going to be
added at Madame Tussauds Delhi?
A) Pullela Gopichand
B) PV Sindhu
C) Kidambi Srikanth
D) Virat Kohli
V. Sriharsha, who recently passed away, was a?
A) Journalist
B) Politician
C) Jurist
D) Diplomat
Which company has launched a new forum called
‘WomenInTech’?
A) Facebook India
B) Microsoft India
C) RBS India
D) TCS
Which satellite did China recently launch aboard its
Long March-3B rocket for its satellite navigation
system?
A) Tiangong-2
B) BeiDou-3
C) Ziyuan-III
D) Chang’e 2
Which state government has launched ‘181-Sakhi’
toll-free helpline number for women?
A) Bihar
B) Jharkhand
C) Assam
D) Odisha
Which small finance bank has recently started it
operations?
A) North East Small Finance Bank
B) Jana Small Finance Bank
C) Suryoday Small Finance Bank
D) Capital Small Finance Bank
What is the 2018 theme of ‘World Autism
Awareness Day’ observed on Apr 2nd?
A) Autism and the 2030 Agenda: Inclusion and
Neurodiversity
B) Employment: The Autism Advantage
C) Empowering Women and Girls with Autism
D) Toward Autonomy and Self-Determination
Which state government has approved a proposal
to set up a crime branch under the state police to
deal with unlawful activities?
A) Sikkim
B) Manipur
C) Assam
D) Tripura
Which indigenously built Submarine Launched
Cruise Missile (SLMC) has been successfully tested
by Pakistan?
A) Ghazi
B) Shaheen
C) Ghori
D) Babur
Which state’s Chief Minister has announced raising
the retirement age of State government employees
from 60 years to 62 years?
A) West Bengal
B) Telangana
C) Madhya Pradesh
D) Rajasthan
Which space agency has announced to launch
‘Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment FollowOn’
(GRACE-FO)?
A) ISRO
B) CNSA
C) NASA
D) ESA
Kotak Mahindra Bank has launched India’s first
artificial intelligence-powered voicebot in the
banking sector, named?
A) Cara
B) Tara
C) Nell
D) Keya
Who has won the men’s singles title in the Miami
Open, held in Florida, USA?
A) Grigor Dimitrov
B) Alexander Zverev
C) John Isner
D) Bob Bryan
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath
inaugurated India’s longest elevated road, named
‘Hindon Elevated Road’, in?
A) Ghaziabad
B) Varanasi
C) Gorakhpur
D) Kanpur
Who has been appointed to become the first
woman to head UN political affairs?
A) Rosemary DiCarlo
B) Barbara Sison
C) Ruth Davis
D) Roberta Jacobson
Which airport has been adjudged the cleanest
airport in India at the 23rd annual day of the
Airports Authority of India (AAI) in New Delhi?
A) Udaipur
B) Begumpet
C) Mangalore
D) Chandigarh
Who are the two Indian activists who have been
named among 20 finalists for the Commonwealth
Youth Awards 2018?
1. Mirnalini Dayal 2. Sakshi Nair
3. Atul Bhatti 4. Yogesh Kumar
A) 1 & 2
B) 2 & 3
C) 3 & 4
D) 1 & 4
Which sports federation has launched a mobile app
‘Scout-Me’ to find talent?
A) BCCI
B) AIFF
C) IBF
D) WFI
Which space agency is going to send its first-ever
mission, named ‘Interior Exploration using Seismic
Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport
(InSight)’, to study deep interiors of Mars?
A) CNSA
B) ISRO
C) NASA
D) JAXA
Who has been adjudged ‘Sportsperson of the Year’
at the Telangana Sports Journalists Association
awards 2017?
A) Mithali Raj
B) Saina Nehwal
C) PV Sindhu
D) Sania Mirza
Which state has won the Geographical Indication
(GI) tag for Kadaknath chicken?
A) Odisha
B) Chhattiagarh
C) Jharkhand
D) Madhya Pradesh
As per National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey
(NARSS), what percent of rural households that
have access to toilets use them?
A) 93%
B) 85%
C) 72%
D) 68%
Who has been re-elected as the President of
Egypt?
A) Mohamed Morsi
B) Moussa Mostafa Moussa
C) Ahmed Shafik
D) Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
Which hot, metallic, Earth-sized planet has recently
been discovered by the scientists orbiting a dwarf
star?
A) K2-110d
B) K2-846c
C) K2-229b
D) K2-553a
Union Cabinet has approved signing an MoU with
United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, for
cooperation in?
A) Organised Crime
B) Sustainable Development
C) IPR
D) Student Exchange
CCEA has approved formulation of a new
Integrated Scheme for School Education. The new
scheme subsumes which of the following schemes?
A) Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA)
B) Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)
C) Teacher Education (TE)
D) All of the Above
Which F1 racer has won the season opening
Australian Grand Prix title?
A) Max Verstappen
B) Lewis Hamilton
C) Sebastian Vettel
D) Kimi Raikkonen
Minister of Food Processing Harsimrat Kaur Badal
inaugurated Rajasthan’s first mega food park in
which district?
A) Ajmer
B) Bikaner
C) Jodhpur
D) Udaipur
Who has been appointed as the new acting
Chairperson of the National Green Tribunal (NGT)?
A) Justice Kuldeep Singh
B) Justice Santosh Kapoor
C) Justice Anil Kumar
D) Justice Jawad Rahim
What is the name of world’s largest cruise ship
which is going to make its maiden voyage from
Barcelona?
A) Symphony of the Seas
B) Allure of the Seas
C) Oasis of the Seas
D) Anthem of the Seas
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who recently visited
India, is the President of?
A) Switzerland
B) Germany
C) Italy
D) Netherlands
As per the Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash
Chandra Garg, India will become a $5 trillion
economy by?
A) 2025
B) 2022
C) 2030
D) 2020
Which of the following has become the first district
in India to have 100% solar powered Primary
Health Centers (PHC)?
A) Kannur
B) Surat
C) Nagpur
D) Kannauj
Which airport has received the award for the ‘Most
Improved Airport’ in the APAC region, in Airport
Service Quality awards 2017?
A) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport
B) Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport
C) Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport
D) Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport
Asia’s largest tulip garden has been opened for
tourists in?
A) Srinagar
B) Darjeeling
C) Gangtok
D) Manali
How much amount of loan agreement has Asian
Development Bank signed to boost youth
employability in Himachal Pradesh?
A) $80 million
B) $50 million
C) $120 million
D) $100 million
Which company conducted the integrated power
development scheme (IPDS) project in Varanasi,
transforming it into a wireless city?
A) NTPC
B) Powergrid
C) BHEL
D) Tata Power
As per a report by India Brand Equity Foundation
(IBEF), India has become the _____ largest
electricity producer in the world?
A) 4th
B) 2nd
C) 3rd
D) 5th
A Multi Modal Logistics Park was recently
inaugurated at Balli Station in?
A) Karnataka
B) Tamilnadu
C) Goa
D) Gujarat
Which country is going to inaugurate world’s
longest sea bridge?
A) US
B) China
C) Canada
D) Australia
Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the
farthest individual star ever seen, named?
A) Denea
B) Innis
C) Icarus
D) Vega
Union Cabinet has approved Protection of Human
Rights (Amendments) Bill, 2018. Who is the
chairperson of NHRC?
A) Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose
B) Justice D. Murugesan
C) Justice HL Dattu
D) Justice Sharad Chandra Sinha
The trial run of the first container train between
India and Bangladesh was flagged off from?
A) Bhubaneswar
B) Ranchi
C) Patna
D) Kolkata
Who was adjudged ‘Sportsperson of the Year –
Female’ at the ESPN Multi-Sport Awards?
A) Mithali Raj
B) Sakshi Malik
C) Dipka Karmakar
D) PV Sindhu
As per the first bimonthly policy of FY 2018-19, RBI
has kept the Reverse Repo Rate at?
A) 6.25%
B) 6%
C) 5.75%
D) 6.5%
What was the subscriber base of Atal Pension
Yojana (APY) at the end of FY 2017-18?
A) 99 lakh
B) 90 lakh
C) 97 lakh
D) 85 lakh
Which of the following is the mascot of
Commonwealth Games 2018, which began in Gold
Coast recently?
A) Cobi
B) Borobi
C) Hodori
D) Amik
Union Cabinet has approved downsizing of
Competition Commission of India (CCI) from 7
members to?
A) 5
B) 4
C) 6
D) 3
Which experimental space lab of China ended its
journey by crashing into the Pacific Ocean?
A) BeiDou-1
B) Tiangong-1
C) Ziyuan-III
D) Shenzhou-2
Who has become the youngest Indian weightlifter
to win a Commonwealth Games medal?
A) P Gururaja
B) Sathish Sivalingam
C) Parvesh Sharma
D) Deepak Lather
Subrata Bhattacharjee, has been appointed as the
next Ambassador of India to?
A) Croatia
B) Serbia
C) Croatia
D) Belarus
India recently conducted the joint exercise
‘Sahyog–Hyeoblyeog 2018’ in Chennai with?
A) Sri Lanka
B) US
C) Singapore
D) South Korea
Union Cabinet has approved the closure of which
CPSE?
A) HLL Biotech Ltd.
B) Donyi Polo Ashok Hotel Ltd.
C) Kanti Bijlee Utpadan Nigam Ltd.
D) Burn Standard Company Ltd.
Which institute has topped the list in university
rankings in the National Institutional Ranking
Framework (NIRF) 2018?
A) Anna University
B) JNU
C) IISc Bangalore
D) BHU
Which state government has rolled out ‘Rupashree’
scheme which provides one time financial support
to the marriages of poor women?
A) West Bengal
B) Odisha
C) Bihar
D) Jharkhand
Researchers have discovered new species of grasslike
plant, named ‘Fimbristylis agasthyamalaensis’,
in?
A) Ponmudi hills
B) Kolli Hills
C) Velliangiri Hills
D) Idukki Hills
How many Padma Bhushan awards did President
Ram Nath Kovind confer recently at the civil
investiture ceremony held at the Durbar Hall of the
Rashtrapati Bhavan?
A) 7
B) 3
C) 5
D) 9
Utkala Dibasa’ was recently celebrated on?
A) Apr 1
B) Apr 2
C) Apr 3
D) Apr 5
Who has been elected as the president of
Badminton Association of India for the next four
years?
A) P Gopichand
B) Babul Supriyo
C) Sambit Patra
D) Himanta Biswa Sarma
How many castes/communities have been notified
in the Central List of OBC in the last three years?
A) 100
B) 120
C) 180
D) 150
Which country has started building its first-ever
nuclear power plant in Akkuyu?
A) Qatar
B) Turkey
C) Saudi Arabia
D) Bahrain
Which state government has launched Mothers
Absolute Affection (MAA) programme?
A) Himachal Pradesh
B) Karnataka
C) Haryana
D) Uttar Pradesh
A world-class interpretation centre and modern
tourist facilities were recently unveiled by
Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan at?
A) Ajanta Caves
B) Konark Sun Temple
C) Khajuraho
D) Hampi
ISRO has announced that it has lost contact with
which of its satellite?
A) GSAT-6A
B) INSAT-3D
C) Astrosat
D) Cartosat-2
Trishul Special Olympics & Paralympic Games for
Special Children were recently held in?
A) New Delhi
B) Lucknow
C) Gandhinagar
D) Chandigarh
How many Indians have featured in the Bloomberg
Billionaires Index 2018 of the world’s 500 richest
people?
A) 24
B) 16
C) 38
D) 41
Which of the following is not one of the categories
in which heritage sites have been classified into
under “Adopt a Heritage Project” launched by
Ministry of Culture and Tourism and ASI?
A) Green
B) White
C) Orange
D) Blue
Who will chair the 7 member High Powered
Committee constituted by HRD Ministry to
examine the process of conduct of CBSE exam?
A) JS Rajput
B) Pavnesh Kumar
C) V S Oberoi
D) Vasudha Kamat
Which app has been launched by Union Minister of
Coal Piyush Goyal for Coal Quality Monitoring?
A) Uttam
B) Sahaj
C) Sugam
D) Suvidha
Which of the following has mooted a model of a
public Wi-Fi grid that aims to slash internet access
cost by 90% and boost broadband in India?
A) DoT
B) TRAI
C) BSNL
D) Meity
Which country has introduced national service for
women for the first time?
A) Saudi Arabia
B) UAE
C) Egypt
D) Qatar
The import of which hormone has been banned by
the government to stop its misuse in the livestock
industry?
A) Trenbolone
B) Zeranol
C) Estradiol
D) Oxytocin
Which of the following is planning to develop the
National Data & Analytics Platform (NDAP)?
A) NITI Aayog
B) I&B Ministry
C) MeiTY
D) Statistics Ministry
CBDT has constituted a working group to examine
the taxation aspects related to HNIs migrating
abroad, under the chairpersonship of?
A) Pragya Sahay Saksena
B) Vanaja N. Sarna
C) Sushil Chandra
D) Vinay Mittal
Which union minister has launched a mobile app
for locating 4,000 Khadi stores?
A) Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
B) Smriti Irani
C) Giriraj Singh
D) Jual Oram
Which space agency has launched RH300 sounding
rocket to study atmospheric data?
A) NASA
B) CNSA
C) ESA
D) ISRO
Which state government has launched ‘Ganga
Hariteema Yojana’ in 27 districts?
A) Uttar Pradesh
B) Jharkhand
C) Uttarakhand
D) Bihar
From which city will the Central government launch
its ‘Gobardhan Yojna’ nationally?
A) Sambalpur
B) Vidisha
C) Karnal
D) Varanasi
Which state has won the ‘State of the Year’ Award
under the ‘business leader’ category at India
Business Leader Awards (IBLA) held in New Delhi?
A) Assam
B) Chhattisgarh
C) Karnataka
D) Haryana
Reserve Bank of India has announced to use which
of the following measurements instead of GVA to
measure economic activity?
A) NNP
B) FDI
C) GDP
D) GNP
Information and Broadcasting Ministry has
constituted a committee to frame rules to regulate
news portals. Who will be convener of the
committee?
A) Narendra Kumar Sinha
B) Ajay Mittal
C) Ramesh Abhishek
D) Ajay Sawhney
Who was awarded the FLO Gender Parity Index
Award at the 34th annual session of FICCI Ladies
Organisation (FLO) was recently held in New Delhi?
A) Sunil Bijlani
B) Rajat Naik
C) Piyush Bhardwaj
D) Vimal Reddy
Which Indian player with his 43rd win has become
the most successful doubles player in the history of
Davis Cup?
A) Rohan Bopanna
B) Leander Paes
C) Ramkumar Ramanathan
D) Mahesh Bhupathi
Which airline has launched operations from Delhi
to Pathankot under the Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik
(UDAN) scheme?
A) Turbo Megha
B) Alliance Air
C) Air Deccan
D) SpiceJet
What was the theme of 8th Theatre Olympics
which concluded in Mumbai?
A) Together in Joy
B) Flag of Friendship
C) March for Peace
D) Celebration of Unity
Four new species of kingfisher have been
discovered in which wildlife sanctuary in Andhra
Pradesh?
A) Papikonda Wildlife Sanctuary
B) Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary
C) Rollapadu Wildlife Sanctuary
D) Krishna Wildlife Sanctuary
Linguistic professor at the University of Hyderabad
has discovered two endangered languages, namely
‘Walmiki’ and ‘Malhar’, primarily spoken in?
A) Odisha
B) Jharkhand
C) Assam
D) Telangana
Which state’s Chief Minister has launched the
‘Uzhavan’ (farmer) app?
A) Tamilnadu
B) Karnataka
C) Telangana
D) Kerala
In a first, which state government is going to
launch a ‘community radio’ to connect with the
farming community?
A) Maharashtra
B) Haryana
C) Madhya Pradesh
D) Kerala
Ministry of Tribal Affairs has approved
establishment of the first “Van Dhan Vikas Kendra”
on the pilot basis in?
A) Jharkhand
B) Chhattisgarh
C) Bihar
D) Odisha
India has overtaken which country to become the
world’s second largest producer of crude steel?
A) Vietnam
B) US
C) Philippines
D) Japan
Which Indian-origin scientist has launched the
world’s first microfactory to transform e-waste into
valuable items?
A) Rekha Pritam
B) Veena Sahajwalla
C) Gyan Misra
D) Janaki Rawal
Which railway station in Bihar has been
transformed by Mithila artists?
A) Bhagalpur
B) Gaya
C) Madhubani
D) Saharsa
In a first, which state government has issued
protocols to confirm brain death cases?
A) Telangana
B) Chhattisgarh
C) Kerala
D) Punjab
Health Ministry has banned the over-the-counter
sale of how many steroid-based creams?
A) 8
B) 14
C) 23
D) 28
The first meeting of newly constituted NITI Forum
for North East was held, under the chairmanship of
Rajeev Kumar, in?
A) Guwahati
B) Shillong
C) Agartala
D) Kohima
President Ram Nath Kovind was conferred with the
Condecoracion, the highest honour accorded to a
non-citizen by?
A) Liberia
B) Sierra Leone
C) Equatorial Guinea
D) Senegal
Which state government has announced free
chemotherapy treatment for cancer patients at 10
district hospitals?
A) Odisha
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Himachal Pradesh
D) Maharashtra
Which of the following has tied up with
Maharashtra government to finance state’s first
poultry company run by tribal women?
A) Mahindra Rise
B) Infosys Foundation
C) Wipro Foundation
D) Tata Trusts
Which state government has announced to launch
its own app-based taxi service to some key tourist
destinations?
A) Goa
B) Puducherry
C) Uttar Pradesh
D) Rajasthan
Assam Spring Festival recently began at which
national park?
A) Kaziranga National Park
B) Orang National Park
C) Dibru-Saikhowa National Park
D) Manas National Park
First Tulip Garden of Jammu region has come up
in?
A) Bhadrawah
B) Akhnoor
C) Basholi
D) Sanasar
Union Minister for Food Processing Industries
Harsimrat Kaur Badal, has inaugurated the second
mega food park in Uttarakhand in which district?
A) Pithoragarh
B) Udham Singh Nagar
C) Pauri Garhwal
D) Dehradun
Who has been appointed as the Director General
(DG) of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)?
A) Vineet Chandra
B) Piyush Bhagat
C) Anand Bajaj
D) Rajesh Ranjan
Which state’s cabinet has approved the Slum-InSitu
Rehabilitation Policy to provide housing facility
to the slum dwellers without relocating them?
A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Haryana
C) Goa
D) Odisha
Who is going to head the task force set up by the
government to prepare a road map for the
implementation of unmanned aerial vehicle
technology?
A) Sanjay Mitra
B) Rajiv Gauba
C) RN Choubey
D) Jayant Sinha
Union Cabinet has approved revision of pay of
Lieutenant Governors (LG) of UTs from Rs 80,000
to?
A) Rs 2,25,000
B) Rs 1,50,000
C) Rs 3,00,000
D) Rs 1,00,000
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the
National Convention of Swachhagrahis at?
A) Muzaffarpur
B) Sagauli
C) Valmikinagar
D) Motihari
Who has been appointed as the brand ambassador
of Haryana’s Measles and Rubella (MR) vaccination
campaign?
A) Manu Bhaker
B) Sakshi Malik
C) Neeraj Chopra
D) Kapil Dev
Which state government has prepared a Water
ATM Policy to provide clean drinking water?
A) Haryana
B) Madhya Pradesh
C) Gujarat
D) Maharashtra
India has announced to build a strategic railway
link from _____ in Bihar to Kathmandu in Nepal?
A) Tinkoni
B) Raxaul
C) Sirisiya
D) Bhelahi
What is the name of the smart speakers launched
by Google in India?
A) Google Home
B) Google Assist
C) Google Speak
D) Google Direct
Which country has banned future exploration of
offshore oil and gas?
A) New Zealand
B) China
C) Singapore
D) South Africa
India observed the _____ anniversary of
Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre on Apr 13th?
A) 100th
B) 99th
C) 95th
D) 90th
Which city is going to host 11th World Hindi
Conference?
A) Kathmandu
B) Kuala Lumpur
C) Varanasi
D) Port Louis
As per ‘Asian Development Outlook 2018’ by ADB,
India’s GDP is likely to grow in FY 2018-19 at?
A) 7.1%
B) 6.8%
C) 7.3%
D) 7.5%
Uttar Pradesh Cabinet has approved developing an
integrated sugar complex in?
A) Pilibhit
B) Varanasi
C) Raebareli
D) Amethi
Which satellite has been launched by ISRO to aid its
NAVIC programme?
A) IRNSS 1K
B) IRNSS 1I
C) IRNSS 1G
D) IRNSS 1H
Who is going to head the panel set up by the
Corporate Affairs Ministry to review the
enforcement of CSR provisions under the
Companies Act 2013?
A) Sanjay Shorey
B) N K Dua
C) Manmohan Juneja
D) Seema Rath
What is Indira Gandhi International Airport’s rank
among the busiest airports in the world in 2017, as
per rankings released by Airports Council
International?
A) 20th
B) 10th
C) 16th
D) 18th
Which institute has inaugurated a first-of-its-kind
5G radio laboratory on campus?
A) IIT Madras
B) IIT Kharagpur
C) IISc Bengaluru
D) IIT Delhi
What is the name of the project launched by FSSAI,
to address rising deficiencies of Vitamin D in
schoolchildren?
A) Kiran
B) Sooraj
C) Surya
D) Dhoop
Which state’s chief minister has approved setting
up of World’s largest solar park, of 5,000 MW
capacity?
A) Odisha
B) Tamilnadu
C) Gujarat
D) Andhra Pradesh
Indian consortium consisting of IOCL, BPCL and
HPCL, has signed an MoU with Saudi Aramco for
development of which oil refinery?
A) Jamnagar Refinery
B) Tatipaka Refinery
C) Numaligarh Refinery
D) Ratnagiri Mega Refinery
World Homoeopathy Day is observed on?
A) Apr 14
B) Apr 16
C) Apr 10
D) Apr 12
Who has been honoured with Dada Saheb Phalke
Award 2018 at the 65th National Film Awards?
A) Vinod Khanna
B) Shashi Kapoor
C) Sridevi
D) Amitabh Bachchan
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the
first health centre under the Ayushman Bharat
Scheme in?
A) Chhattisgarh
B) Tripura
C) Karnataka
D) Rajasthan
Which state celebrated its 71st foundation day on
April 15th?
A) Punjab
B) Bihar
C) Himachal Pradesh
D) Kerala
Which state government has approved Rs 50.67
crore to set up an Indian Institute of Information
Technology (IIIT) at Bodhjungnagar?
A) Arunachal Pradesh
B) Assam
C) Meghalaya
D) Tripura
Who has become the first rapper to win a Pulitzer
Prize for music?
A) Kendrick Lamar
B) The Weeknd
C) Drake
D) Kanye West
Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu has
announced to develop which airport as the cargo
hub of India?
A) Jewar Airport, Uttar Pradesh
B) Bijapur Airport, Karnataka
C) Mopa Airport, Goa
D) Dholera Airport, Gujarat
Who has become the first man to cross Bangla
Channel twice in a day?
A) Nitish Raj
B) Prateek Anand
C) Vineet Ghose
D) Sampanna Shelar
Which state government has decided to introduce
choice-based credit system (CBCS) at the undergraduation
level?
A) Haryana
B) Maharashtra
C) Madhya Pradesh
D) Tamilnadu
Government has announced to extend the phase-1
of FAME scheme up to?
A) Dec 31st, 2018
B) Sept 30th, 2018
C) Mar 31st, 2019
D) June 30th, 2018
NSDC has signed an MoU with the NPCIL to provide
skill training to 500 youth at which nuclear power
plant?
A) Kakrapar
B) Kudankulam
C) Tarapur
D) Narora
Which of the following countries have launched
airstrikes in Syria over suspected chemical attacks?
A) US, France, Turkey
B) Turkey, Russia, France
C) Russia, Britain, Iraq
D) US, Britain, France
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has opened Odisha’s
second longest bridge over which river?
A) Baitarani River
B) Nagavali River
C) Rushikulya River
D) Ib River
Which Indian cricketer has been named as the
standout female player by Wisden?
A) Smriti Mandhana
B) Jhulan Goswami
C) Harmanpreet Kaur
D) Mithali Raj
The festival of Bisket Jatra recently began in?
A) Bangladesh
B) India
C) Nepal
D) Bhutan
Which country will launch Fengyun-II 09 satellite to
help weather forecast?
A) US
B) Japan
C) China
D) Russia
Which bank has become India’s second most
valuable bank for the first time, by overtaking State
Bank of India?
A) Punjab National Bank
B) Kotak Mahindra Bank
C) ICICI Bank
D) Axis Bank
Who is going to be honoured with Raj Kapoor
Lifetime Achievement by Maharashtra
government?
A) Dharmendra
B) Jitendra
C) Dilip Kumar
D) Shatrughan Sinha
Which state government has set up QUEST, a
centre for tribal development?
A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Jharkhand
C) Maharashtra
D) Odisha
Which country has ended the reservation system in
government services?
A) Sri Lanka
B) Pakistan
C) Nepal
D) Bangladesh
Who has been honoured with the Shorenstein
Journalism Award 2017 by Stanford University’s
Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research
Center?
A) Siddharth Varadarajan
B) Ravish Kumar
C) Karan Thapar
D) Arun Shourie
Which country has become the 62nd signatory
member of the International Solar Alliance (ISA)?
A) Netherlands
B) Sweden
C) Germany
D) UK
What was India’s rank on the Commonwealth
Innovation Index?
A) 15th
B) 10th
C) 20th
D) 25th
Government has launched Sovereign Gold Bond
2018-19-Series-I scheme. The bonds are offered at
an issue price of Rs 3,114 per gram and carry an
interest rate of?
A) 4.3%
B) 3.9%
C) 2.5%
D) 5.5%
Which union minister launched DARPAN-Postal Life
Insurance App?
A) Arun Jaitley
B) Manoj Sinha
C) JP Nadda
D) Kiren Rijiju
United Nations Chinese Day was observed on?
A) Apr 21
B) Apr 20
C) Apr 22
D) Apr 18
Which space agency has launched CHESS 4 mission
to study the interstellar medium?
A) Roscosmos
B) DLR
C) ESA
D) NASA
Which country launched its first commercial movie
theatre after a nearly 40-year ban?
A) Qatar
B) Oman
C) Saudi Arabia
D) Nigeria
Which state’s Chief Minister has recently
announced the state to be open-defecation free
(ODF)?
A) Maharashtra
B) Jharkhand
C) Bihar
D) Uttar Pradesh
Which state government has announced to
distribute free smartphones to over 50 lakh people
under the Sanchar Kranti Yojana (SKY)?
A) Rajasthan
B) Telangana
C) Jharkhand
D) Chhattisgarh
The king of Swaziland, King Mswati III has changed
the name of the country from Swaziland to?
A) Swazi
B) eSwatini
C) Swahili
D) Swatiland
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu launched ‘Atal
Amrit Abhiyan’, the cashless health scheme of
which state government?
A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Tripura
C) Haryana
D) Assam
Which state has reported the highest rate of crimes
against Schedule Caste/Schedule Tribe population,
as per the data released by National Crime Records
Bureau (NCRB)?
A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Rajasthan
D) Bihar
Who has been appointed as the President of Cuba?
A) Ramiro Valdés
B) José Ramón Machado
C) Miguel Díaz-Canel
D) Esteban Lazo
Who will head the Defence Planning Committee
(DPC) set up by the government to facilitate
planning for the defence forces and security
challenges?
A) Ajit Doval
B) Sanjay Mitra
C) Dr. S. Christopher
D) Nirmala Sitharaman
The target date for completion of Pradhan Mantri
Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY-1) has been advanced
from 2022 to?
A) 2020
B) 2019
C) 2018
D) 2021
Which state has been honoured with the Most Film
Friendly Award by the central government?
A) Gujarat
B) Karnataka
C) Punjab
D) Madhya Pradesh
Which state’s police has launched ‘Pocket Cop’
project?
A) Gujarat
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Haryana
D) Tamilnadu
Which of the following has been unveiled as official
Mascot of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019, to
be held in China?
A) Miga, Giant Panda
B) Fuwa, Fish
C) Son of Dreams, Dragon
D) Mukmuk, Tibetan Antelope
Who was awarded the lifetime contribution to
media by All India Management Association’s
(AIMA)?
A) Indu Jain
B) Sukumar Ranganathan
C) Mukund Padmanabhan
D) Vidyanath Saran
Who has been appointed as the Director General of
the National Cadet Corps (NCC)?
A) V Chandrsekaran
B) PP Malhotra
C) CK Prasad
D) Alok Bahuguna
Which state’s assembly speaker launched
‘Haemophilia Jagruti’, a magazine to spread
awareness about haemophilia?
A) Maharashtra
B) Gujarat
C) Goa
D) Karnataka
Which hospital was awarded the first prize under
Central Government Hospitals A category, under
the Kayakalp awards scheme by the Health
Minister JP Nadda?
A) NEIGRIHMS, Shillong
B) PGIMER Chandigarh
C) NIMHANS, Bengaluru
D) AIIMS Delhi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi conferred Awards
for Excellence in Public Administration on the Civil
Services Day . How many priority programs have
been identified for the award?
A) 4
B) 3
C) 6
D) 5
Which state’s CM has announced 2% reservation in
state government jobs for sportspersons?
A) Odisha
B) Bihar
C) Kerala
D) Telangana
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the
Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan in which village in
Madhya Pradesh?
A) Ramnagar
B) Handia
C) Bilaspur
D) Sirali
Who headed the group of ministers (GoM)
constituted by MoRTH, which recommended a
uniform structure of road tax for vehicles across
states?
A) Vikas Yadav
B) Yoonus Khan
C) Bimal Ram
D) Ravi Dudi
Researchers at which institute have developed a
small molecule to treat chikungunya?
A) IIT Roorkee
B) IIT Chennai
C) IIT Kharagpur
D) IIT Delhi
Which state launched the “Saubhagya, Sahaj Bijli
Har Ghar Yojana” which targets to electrify over
90,000 household in the state by 31st March 2019?
A) Tripura
B) Manipur
C) Nagaland
D) Arunachal Pradesh
Who is going to be awarded the Guillermo Cano
Press Freedom Prize by UNESCO?
A) Steve McCurry
B) Mahmoud Abu Zeid
C) Raymond Depardon
D) Andreas Gursky
Which company has become the first Indian IT
company to cross $100 billion dollar in market
capitalisation?
A) HCL
B) Infosys
C) TCS
D) Wipro
English Language Day was observed on Apr 23rd. It
is the birthday and date of death of which famous
writer?
A) Oscar Wilde
B) Charles Dickens
C) William Shakespeare
D) John Milton
Which place in Manipur has been declared as the
first cashless island of India?
A) Ambu
B) Pamban
C) Salsette
D) Karang
Which country has topped as the highest recipient
of remittances globally in 2017, with its diaspora
sending back $69 billion?
A) India
B) Philippines
C) China
D) Mexico
Who won the Lifetime achievement award at the
Dadasaheb Phalke Excellence Awards 2018?
A) Simi Garewal
B) Shatrughan Sinha
C) Dharmendra
D) Jitendra
World’s oldest person Nabi Tajima passed away
recently. She hailed from?
A) Indonesia
B) China
C) Japan
D) Nigeria
EDM artist Tim Bergling aka Avicii, who recently
passed away, hailed from?
A) Germany
B) UK
C) USA
D) Sweden
Who has become the first Egyptian to win the
English Professional Footballers’ Association Player
of the Year award?
A) Mohamed Salah
B) Yacine Brahimi
C) Arda Turan
D) Islam Slimani
A committee set up to advise on legal issues
related to inter-country removal and retention of
children due to parental disputes, has submitted its
report to MoWCD. Who headed the committee?
A) Vishal Saksena
B) Rajesh Bindal
C) Suneet Chandel
D) Prakash Sinha
Who has been appointed by Airports Authority of
India (AAI) as its first ever woman firefighter?
A) Chhavi Verma
B) Taniya Sanyal
C) Shrishti Gupta
D) Reena Sethi
Which GP has won the best Gram Panchayat award
in India?
A) Vivekanandpur
B) Janakpur
C) Digambarpur
D) Parangara
As per World Bank Global Findex Report, how
much percent of new bank accounts opened
globally during 2014-17, were from India?
A) 40%
B) 55%
C) 65%
D) 30%
Which of the following Indians have been named
by Fortune magazine in the top 50 World’s
Greatest Leaders of 2018?
1. Indira Jaising 2. Mukesh Ambani 3. Ratan
Tata 4. Balkrishna Doshi
A) 1, 2 & 3
B) 1 & 3
C) 2 & 4
D) 1, 2 & 4
Which city has become the first in India to have a
policy to compensate consumers for unscheduled
outages?
A) Lucknow
B) Chandigarh
C) Ahmedabad
D) Delhi
Which smart city has become the first city in India
that runs on 100 per cent renewable energy during
the daytime?
A) Ludhiana
B) Raipur
C) Diu
D) Pune
Adilabad Dokra has been issued the Geographical
Indication (GI) Registration Certificate by the GI
Registry, Chennai. The artisans of the craft belong
to which state?
A) Maharashtra
B) Telangana
C) Karnataka
D) Andhra Pradesh