Monthly Current Affairs | March 2018 Best MCQ Questions Free PDF

S. RatnavelPandian, who recently passed away, was associated with?
A) Law
B) Film Industry
C) Journalism
D) Politics
Which state’s cabinet has approved death penalty for rapists of girls below the age of 12 years?
A) Gujarat
B) Haryana
C) Uttar Pradesh
D) Maharashtra
ShankaracharyaJayendraSaraswathi, who recently passed away, was the 69th pontiff of?
A) Kalahasthi Mutt
B) Trichy Mutt
C) Kanchi Mutt
D) Chidambaram Mutt
CCEA has approved continuation of Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP), at an outlay of Rs 5,500 crore, for 3 years till?
A) 2017-18
B) 2020-21
C) 2019-20
D) 2018-19
Which team won the Vijay Hazare Trophy?
A) Maharashtra
B) Karnataka
C) Haryana
D) Saurashtra
Which Indian para-swimmer has been suspended for three years by the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI)?
A) PrasantaKarmakar
B) SharathGayakwad
C) NiranjanMukundan
D) MurlikantPetkar
EPFO has introduced UAN-Aadhaar linking facility in which app?
A) Kavach
B) MyGov
C) Garv
D) Umang
Which company has announced to buy video doorbell maker ‘Ring’, in a deal valued about $1 billion?
A) Google
B) Microsoft
C) Amazon
D) Facebook
International Tennis Federation has proposed to transform which of the following tournaments into a 18-nation World Cup of Tennis?
A) Davis Cup
B) Grand Slam
C) Hopman Cup
D) Fed Cup
Which country’s membership has been reinstated by International Olympic Committee (IOC)?
A) Italy
B) Russia
C) Pakistan
D) Ukraine
Shipping minister NitinGadkari recently laid the foundation stone for setting up of a National Technology Centre for Ports, Waterways and Coasts (NTCPWC) at?
A) IIT Delhi
B) IIT Chennai
C) IIT Bombay
D) IIT Palakkad
Which state government has announced to set up a State Sanskrit Education Council?
A) Telangana
B) Madhya Pradesh
C) Tamilnadu
D) Delhi
Which space agency has announced to set up a lunar habitat on moon by sending robots and 3D printers?
A) JAXA
B) ISRO
C) SpaceX
D) NASA
Who has been honoured with Sportsman of the Year at the Laureus World Sports Awards 2018?
A) Lionel Messi
B) Roger Federer
C) Cristiano Ronaldo
D) Rafael Nadal
Which institute has developed a website and app, named “marinefishsales”, to help fishermen sell fish directly to customers?
A) Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture
B) Central Institute of Fisheries Technology
C) Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute
D) Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
India successfully conducted the test of which Anti Tank Guided Missile (ATGM), in Pokhran, Rajasthan?
A) Shaurya
B) Akash
C) Nag
D) Agni
Who has been appointed the National Goodwill Ambassador for Pakistan by UNDP?
A) Mohsina Abbas
B) Simi Mariam
C) Nazma Ahmad
D) SaminaBaig
Which state is going to host the 13th edition of annual India-Nepal joint military exercise ‘Surya Kiran’?
A) Uttar Pradesh
B) Himachal Pradesh
C) Uttarakhand
D) Punjab
Who is going to become the youngest captain in the history of international cricket?
A) Rashid Khan
B) JE Taylor
C) HasanRaza
D) Salman Butt
Vinay Kumar has been appointed as India’s ambassador to?
A) Nepal
B) Sri Lanka
C) Kazakhstan
D) Afghanistan
Who launched ‘Viral load testing for all People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV)’?
A) Anupriya Patel
B) NarendraModi
C) JP Nadda
D) RamnathKovind
Union Cabinet was recently apprised of the MoU on Renewable Energy with?
A) Fiji
B) Vanuatu
C) Samao
D) Tuvalu
What is India’s rank out of 86 countries on the “Inclusive Internet Index” by Facebook?
A) 34
B) 47
C) 51
D) 23
Which lake’s ‘Annual Monitoring’ report has revealed that it is the single largest habitat of Irrawaddy dolphins in the world?
A) Vembanad
B) Loktak
C) Chilika
D) Wular
The ceremony for kicking off work in Afghan section of TAPI pipeline project was held recently.Which gas field in Turkmenistan will feed the pipeline?
A) Urengoy
B) Galkynysh
C) Shtokman
D) Dauletabad
How much amount has been allocated to IITs out of the Rs 1,00,000crore corpus under the Revitalising Infrastructure and Systems in Education (RISE) scheme?
A) Rs 60,000 crore
B) Rs 10,000 crore
C) Rs 45,000 crore
D) Rs 25,000 crore
The founding conference of International Solar Alliance (ISA) is going to be held in?
A) Canberra
B) Capetown
C) Paris
D) New Delhi
Which country has declined India’s invitation to join the multilateral exercise MILAN, to be hosted in Andaman & Nicobar?
A) Australia
B) Maldives
C) Thailand
D) Oman
Which state government has announced aRs 5 lakh health-cum-life insurance scheme for farmers?
A) Telangana
B) Assam
C) Punjab
D) Jharkhand
Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation Uma Bharti, recently launched the Swajal pilot project in?
A) Rajasthan
B) Odisha
C) Telangana
D) Maharashtra
Which ministry has launched an idea competition, named ‘SRIJAN’?
A) Railways
B) Skill Development
C) Human Resources
D) Power
World Rare Disease Day was recently observed on?
A) Mar 3
B) Mar 1
C) Feb 28
D) Mar 2
How much amount of loan has Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) recently approved to India for infrastructure-related projects in 2018?
A) $1 billion
B) $1.5 billion
C) $2.5 billion
D) $2 billion
Railway Ministry has announced to install sanitary napkin dispensers and incinerators at how many railway stations by International Women’s Day on March 8?
A) 100
B) 500
C) 1000
D) 200
Which institute has entered into anMoU with RCSTT of Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) for designating Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Lucknow as Coordinating Center on Medicinal Plants?
A) CSIR
B) IISc
C) IIT Kanpur
D) IIT Roorkee
Civil Aviation Minister P Ashok GajapathiRaju recently inaugurated India’s first Aviation Multi Skill Development Centre at?
A) Mangalore
B) Bhubaneswar
C) Jodhpur
D) Chandigarh
Who has won the AravindanPuraskaram for the best debutant director of 2017?
A) Shashank Kumar Sawan
B) Kranthi Kumar Shukla
C) SagarChayaVanchari
D) Raja GopalSankara
EPFO has made it mandatory to make PF claims online for withdrawals of more than?
A) Rs 15 lakh
B) Rs 20 lakh
C) Rs 10 lakh
D) Rs 25 lakh
Which country is going to be put in the ‘grey list’ of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in June 2018?
A) Pakistan
B) Qatar
C) Myanmar
D) Bangladesh
Which country has recently allowed women to join military for the first time?
A) Qatar
B) Saudi Arabia
C) Kuwait
D) Oman
CCEA has approved a proposal to double the guarantee to NAFED to help it obtain higher credit from banks, to?
A) Rs 27,000 crore
B) Rs 8,000 crore
C) Rs 32,000 crore
D) Rs 19,000 crore
Which state government has launched an m-Governance mobile app called ‘T App Folio’?
A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Bihar
C) Telangana
D) Tamilnadu
Who led the Indian delegation to the 20th Conference of the Commonwealth Education Ministers (20CCEM) held in Nadi, Fiji?
A) MJ Akbar
B) PrakashJavdekar
C) SmritiIrani
D) Dr.Satya Pal Singh
Ministry of Defence has begun the process to set up India’s first defence industrial corridor in?
A) Andhra Pradesh
B) Karnataka
C) Tamilnadu
D) Kerala
Which institute has recently discovered methane gas in the Krishna–Godavari basin?
A) National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula
B) Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Dhanbad
C) National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad
D) Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar
Union Cabinet has approved a Bill to allow which agency to probe human trafficking cases?
A) CBI
B) NIA
C) NCB
D) IB
Who is going to take oath as the next Chief Minister of Tripura?
A) Hemochandra Singh
B) KaramShyam
C) LetpaoHaokip
D) Biplab Kumar Deb
ArmenSarkisian has recently been elected as the president of?
A) Egypt
B) Cyprus
C) Armenia
D) Greece
World’s largest solar park named ‘Shakti Sthala’ was recently launched in?
A) Karnataka
B) Odisha
C) Tamilnadu
D) Andhra Pradesh
RBI has announced to remove the per borrower loan limits for classification under priority sector lending for?
A) Agriculture
B) Education
C) MSME
D) Housing
Who won the Tal Memorial rapid chess title held in Moscow?
A) ViswanathanAnand
B) PentalaHarikrishna
C) Krishnan Sasikiran
D) BaskaranAdhiban
Which team won the IBSF Snooker Team World Cup held in Doha?
A) India
B) Bangladesh
C) Sri Lanka
D) Pakistan
Which state government has launched ‘KHUSHI’ scheme to provide free sanitary napkins to school girls?
A) Goa
B) Odisha
C) Assam
D) Bihar
Who has been awarded lifetime achievement honour at London’s House of Commons?
A) Dharmendra
B) Amitabh Bachchan
C) Jitendra
D) ShatrughanSinha
Which union minister launched the social media of “Namaste Shalom”, the magazine on India-Israel relations?
A) Dr Harsh Vardhan
B) SmritiIrani
C) Dr Jitendra Singh
D) SushmaSwaraj
Who is going to swear in as the next Chief Minister of Nagaland?
A) Neiphu Rio
B) James K Sangma
C) PrestoneTynsong
D) ComingoneYmbon
The silver jubilee of which festival was recently celebrated in Itanagar?
A) Losar
B) Hornbill
C) Bihu
D) Dree
Which film won the ‘Best Picture’ award at the 90th Academy Awards?
A) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
B) The Shape of Water
C) Call Me By Your Name
D) Darkest Hour
Which state government has launched mobile video vans under ‘AmaGaon, AmaVikas’ programme?
A) Andhra Pradesh
B) Telangana
C) Chhattisgarh
D) Odisha
Which space agency recently launched world’s most advanced weather satellite, named ‘GOES-S’?
A) CNSA
B) NASA
C) JAXA
D) ISRO
Who has become the first Indian woman to win gold at the Senior Asian Wrestling Championships?
A) VineshPhogat
B) BabitaKumari
C) NavjotKaur
D) Sakshi Malik
Researchers from which city have developed a compound, silver copper telluride (AgCuTe), which can turn waste heat into electricity?
A) Chennai
B) Delhi
C) Bengaluru
D) Ahmedabad
Which space agency has signed an agreement with China on lunar exploration?
A) ESA
B) NASA
C) Roscosmos
D) ISRO
A book reading event held at which place, recently broke the Guinness world record?
A) Gadchiroli
B) Ramtek
C) Baramati
D) Panchgani
As per Conservation Assured | Tiger Standards (CA|TS) survey, how much percent of the tiger conservation areas met the global standards of an accreditation system?
A) 13%
B) 25%
C) 47%
D) 33%
Which state’s local bodies department has signed anMoU with e-Governance Foundation for managing e-governance of Urban Local Bodies (ULBs)?
A) Karnataka
B) Bihar
C) Punjab
D) Rajasthan
Which Indian shooter won the gold medal with a world record score in the 10m air pistol in ISSF World Cup held in Guadalajara, Mexico?
A) Om PrakashMitharval
B) ShahzarRizvi
C) MehulGhosh
D) JituRai
Union Cabinet has approved establishment of NFRA, an oversight body for auditors. NFRA stands for?
A) National Financial Reporting Authority
B) National Fair Reporting Agency
C) National Financial Risk Agency
D) National Fair Regulatory Authority
Government has constituted a Steering Committee on Fintech related issues, under the Chairmanship of?
A) HasmukhAdhia
B) Subhash Chandra Garg
C) Rajiv Kumar
D) Rajiv Gauba
Which country is going to launch world’s first legal tender cryptocurrency?
A) Marshall Islands
B) Vanuatu
C) Soloman Islands
D) Fiji
India has again become the fastest growing major economy in the world, by marking a growth rate of ____ in Q3?
A) 7.5%
B) 7.6%
C) 7.2%
D) 7.3%
Which Indian-origin Scotland Yard officer has been appointed as the counter-terrorism chief?
A) Vikram Patel
B) Neil Basu
C) Rahul Bakshi
D) Ajay Verma
Who broke the world record for 50-metres long-course freestyle in 100 to 104 years men’s masters category?
A) Briton John
B) Peter Evans
C) George Corones
D) Kevin Berry
As per the data released by National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which company accounted for almost 40% of the total UPI transactions?
A) Whatsapp
B) Paytm
C) Google Tez
D) BHIM
Minister of Food Processing Industries HarsimratKaurBadal recently inaugurated Maharashtra’s first Mega Food Park in?
A) Kolkapur
B) Satara
C) Nashik
D) Sangli
As per Global Firepower (GFP) List 2017, at what rank has Indian military prowess been ranked among 133 countries?
A) 7th
B) 2nd
C) 4th
D) 9th
KirshnaKumariKolhi has become the first-ever Hindu Dalit woman Senator in?
A) Pakistan
B) Bangladesh
C) Afghanistan
D) Malaysia
Which state government has launched aRs 2,000 crore universal health scheme?
A) Karnataka
B) Telangana
C) West Bengal
D) Kerala
What is the name of new malware detected by cybersecurity agencies, which can take over electronic devices and use them as bots?
A) Trappy
B) Bugat
C) Saposhi
D) Zeus
Which institute is going to conduct a National Sizing Survey to come up with a standardised “India size chart” for the garment industry?
A) Symbiosis Institute of Design
B) Northern India Institute of Fashion Technology
C) National Institute of Fashion Technology
D) Pearl Academy of Fashion
Mascots for which of the following games were released recently?
A) Paris Summer Olympics 2024
B) Tokyo Summer Olympics 2020
C) Beijing Winter Olympics 2020
D) Los Angeles Summer Olympics 2028
Who has resigned recently from his post of the Chairman of BCCI junior selection committee?
A) Venkatesh Prasad
B) Sunil Gavaskar
C) Kiran More
D) Anil Kumble
Shigmotsav festival was recently celebrated in?
A) Sikkim
B) Himachal Pradesh
C) Goa
D) Meghalaya
India recently signed a tripartite agreement with which countries for civil nuclear cooperation?
1. USA 2. Bangladesh
3. Russia 4. Nepal
A) 1 & 2
B) 2 & 3
C) 3 & 4
D) 1 & 4
As per Hurun Global Rich List 2018, what is India’s rank in terms of highest number of billionaires in the world?
A) 5th
B) 4th
C) 3rd
D) 2nd
Which team won the interstate national tennis championship 2018, held in Chhattisgarh?
A) Andhra Pradesh
B) Haryana
C) Maharashtra
D) Gujarat
Which space agency is going to launch Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)?
A) Roscosmos
B) ISRO
C) ESA
D) SpaceX
Who has taken oath as the 12th chief minister of Meghalaya in Shillong?
A) P. Paiwang
B) Conrad Sangma
C) VikhehoSwu
D) P. Longon
Which state/UT has recently joined UjwalDiscom Assurance Yojana (UDAY) scheme?
A) Lakshwadeep
B) Odisha
C) West Bengal
D) Delhi
How much amount has the Union Government sanctioned for 2nd phase of Impacting Research Innovation and Technology (IMPRINT) India programme?
A) Rs 7,000 crore
B) Rs 1,000 crore
C) Rs 3,000 crore
D) Rs 5,000 crore
What is the name of the association of all Indian Metro Rail companies launched recently to create a knowledge pool?
A) O – Metro
B) I – Metro
C) N – Metro
D) D – Metro
Who has become the first woman to be inducted as a direct-entry combat officer by ITBP?
A) Anjana
B) Vaishali
C) Prakriti
D) Sonali
Which state’s power utility has started a “Pink Electricity Zone’ to be managed by women staffers?
A) Madhya Pradesh
B) West Bengal
C) Rajasthan
D) Telangana
Which state government recently unveiled the State flag (nada dhwaja)?
A) Telangana
B) Kerala
C) Andhra Pradesh
D) Karnataka
Haryana’s first cyber police station recently opened in?
A) Panipat
B) Gurugram
C) Faridabad
D) Rohtak
Which Indian-origin man has been selected for ‘Pride of Birmingham’ award?
A) AmitBakshi
B) Harry Athwal
C) Bobby Patel
D) Robin Arora
Which ministry has launched ‘SukhadYatra’ app?
A) Electronics and IT
B) Railways
C) Civil Aviation
D) Road Transport & Highways
Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) has shifted its headquarters from Chennai to?
A) Dehradun
B) Bhubaneswar
C) Ballabhgarh
D) Mysuru
Which state government has approved the proposal for home delivery of rations under Public Distribution System (PDS)?
A) Delhi
B) Bihar
C) Uttar Pradesh
D) Haryana
Who has been appointed by Uber (India) as its first ambassador?
A) Amitabh Bachchan
B) MS Dhoni
C) ViratKohli
D) Shah Rukh Khan
What is the name of ‘Biodegradable Sanitary Napkins’ launched by Union Chemicals & Fertilizers Minister Ananth Kumar?
A) Suvidha
B) Samarth
C) Sneh
D) Sampoorna
Which union minister has been given the additional charge of the Civil Aviation Ministry?
A) PiyushGoyal
B) NirmalaSitharaman
C) Suresh Prabhu
D) NitinGadkari
Which state government has approved setting up of a centre of National Medicinal Plants Board?
A) Himachal Pradesh
B) Assam
C) Sikkim
D) Uttarakhand
Union Cabinet has approved continuation of SwatantraSainikSammanYojana (SSSY) till?
A) 2022
B) 2025
C) 2020
D) 2023
Which team won the title of I-League?
A) Churchill Brothers FC
B) MohunBagan FC
C) ShillongLajong FC
D) Minerva Punjab FC
Who has been recognised by Queen Elizabeth II as the 26th Commonwealth Point of Light?
A) HimaniGoel
B) Neeta Chauhan
C) Gauri Bajaj
D) SrishtiBakshi
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently announced a project for women’s economic empowerment in India, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, worth?
A) USD 90 million
B) USD 310 million
C) USD 170 million
D) USD 230 million
Finance Ministry has directed banks to collect passport details of customers who seek loans above?
A) Rs 20 crore
B) Rs 100 crore
C) Rs 150 crore
D) Rs 50 crore
Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Laboratory (IBSD), Imphal has set up a floating laboratory on?
A) Mirik Lake
B) Lake Tsomgo
C) Loktak Lake
D) Chandubi Lake
Who has been appointed as the new director general of Press Information Bureau (PIB)?
A) AlokShrivastava
B) SitanshuKar
C) PrabhatJha
D) Rajiv Kumar
Prime Minister NarendraModi recently launched National Nutrition Mission and expansion of ‘BetiBachao, BetiPadhao’ campaign in?
A) Kota
B) Jhunjhunu
C) Dausa
D) Nagaur
US recently conducted joint military exercise ‘Operation Juniper Cobra’ with?
A) Israel
B) Germany
C) India
D) UK
Who has resigned as the chief economic advisor to US President Donald Trump?
A) Gary Cohn
B) Ryan Zinke
C) Steve Mnuchin
D) Matt Turner
Who has become the first Indian architect to win the prestigious 45th Pritzker Prize?
A) BalkrishnaDoshi
B) AmarjeetSinha
C) Dinesh Singh
D) Ajay Bhatia
Union Cabinet has increased the dearness allowance (DA) for Central Government employees from 5% to?
A) 7%
B) 9%
C) 6%
D) 8%
Who has become the first person with more than $100 billion fortune to top Forbes’ annual rankings of the world’s richest people?
A) Bill Gates
B) Warren Buffett
C) Mark Zuckerberg
D) Jeff Bezos
RBI has recently imposed a penalty of Rs 5 crore on which payments bank?
A) Aditya Birla Idea Payments Bank
B) Paytm Payments Bank
C) Airtel Payments Bank
D) Fino Payments Bank
Which union minister flagged off the National E-Mobility Programme?
A) PiyushGoyal
B) NitinGadkari
C) DharmendraPradhan
D) RK Singh
Which airport has been rated as the best among airports handling more than 40 million passengers per annum in Airports Council International (ACI) survey?
A) Indira Gandhi International Airport
B) ChhatrapatiShivaji International Airport
C) Rajiv Gandhi International Airport
D) NetajiSubhas Chandra Bose International Airport
GAIL India has signed a 3.5 million tonnes per annum LNG agreement with?
A) Afghanistan
B) Japan
C) US
D) China
What is the name of a new state of matter created by scientists by filling a giant atom with ordinary atoms?
A) Angstrom polarons
B) Rydberg polarons
C) Wien polarons
D) Balmerpolarons
Which of the following organizations has approved India’s membership as its 69th member?
A) European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
B) East African Development Bank (EADB)
C) Economic Cooperation Organization Trade and Development Bank (ETDB)
D) International Investment Bank (IIB)
Which state has become the first in the U.S. to pass legislation mandating net neutrality?
A) Colorado
B) Washington
C) Louisiana
D) California
How much amount of penalty has Competition Commission of India (CCI) imposed on Jet Airways, InterGlobe Aviation, and SpiceJet?
A) Rs 79 crore
B) Rs 43 crore
C) Rs 54 crore
D) Rs 67 crore
How many gold medals did India win at the Archery Asia Cup, held in Bangkok?
A) 3
B) 5
C) 1
D) 9
Which of the following has signed anMoU with CSC e-governance Services (CSCeGS) for its UdyamiMitra portal?
A) SEBI
B) RBI
C) NABARD
D) SIDBI
ONGC Videsh has recently signed an agreement with IDRO Oil for developing Susangerd oilfield in?
A) Iraq
B) Oman
C) Qatar
D) Iran
Which portal has been launched by MSME ministry for women entrepreneurs?
A) Udyam Meet
B) UdyamSakhi
C) UdyamSaheli
D) UdyamSathi
Which country recently declared a state of emergency due to clashes between Muslim and Buddist communities?
A) Sri Lanka
B) Bhutan
C) Bangladesh
D) Cambodia
Programme ‘Vision for Future’ was recently held in New Delhi to commemorate 70 years of India’s ties with?
A) Russia
B) France
C) Nepal
D) Japan
What is the name of exercise recently conducted by Eastern Naval Command?
A) Iron Fist
B) Shatrujeet
C) ENCORE
D) Warrior
Which state has been awarded Nari Shakti Puraskar 2017 by MoWCD?
A) Telangana
B) West Bengal
C) Rajasthan
D) Punjab
Who has been named as the chairman of ‘Mahanadi Water Disputes Tribunal’ constituted to adjudicate the dispute between Odisha and Chhattisgarh?
A) IndermeetKaurKochhar
B) Rajesh Kotecha
C) Ravi Ranjan
D) A M Khanwilkar
Government has approved a proposal to institute “Union Home Ministers Medal for Excellence in Police Investigation”, to be given out based on a review every?
A) 3 years
B) 1 year
C) 5 years
D) 10 years
Who headed the Executive Committee meeting held under the ‘POSHAN Abhiyaan’?
A) A.K. Dhasmana
B) RakeshSrivastava
C) BhaskarKhulbe
D) Inderjit Singh
How many countries recently signed Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), in Santiago, Chile?
A) 49
B) 11
C) 32
D) 26
Which institute won the 2017 Kochon Prize for its work in TB research and development?
A) IIT Kharagpur
B) IISc Bangalore
C) ICMR
D) TERI
Which country won the best exhibitor award at International Tourism Festival ITB-Berlin?
A) Indonesia
B) China
C) Japan
D) India
Which state has been announced to host the 80th edition of Senior Nationals Table Tennis championships after a gap of 12 years, by TTFI ?
A) Odisha
B) Haryana
C) Gujarat
D) Kerala
Which bank has launched the scheme ‘Vikas She Plus’ for women entrepreneurs?
A) Karnataka VikasGrameena Bank
B) TamilnaduGrameenaVikas Bank
C) Andhra Pradesh GrameenaVikas Bank
D) Kerala VikasGrameena Bank
India’s tallest national flag was recently unfurled in?
A) Belagavi
B) Gulbarga
C) Dharwad
D) Karwar
How much amount of line of credit has been announced by India for 27 solar projects in 15 countries?
A) $2.3 billion
B) $1.4 billion
C) $3.5 billion
D) $4.8 billion
Who has become the first Indian woman to be conferred the “Academy Award for Nobel Peace”?
A) Dr Anandi Narayan Nanda
B) Dr BharatiSihag
C) Dr Ketzia David Prakasam
D) Dr Jai PriyePrakash
Which country topped the medal tally at the ISSF World Cup shooting in Guadalajara, Mexico?
A) Germany
B) India
C) China
D) US
Who has been announced to be the ‘FMSCI National MotorSports Person of the Year 2017?
A) Aditya Patel
B) ArjunMaini
C) JehanDaruvala
D) Anindith Reddy
In a first, a stretch on India’s border with which country has become a ‘crime-free zone’?
A) Bangladesh
B) Myanmar
C) Nepal
D) Pakistan
What is the name of the first Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) exercise conducted by IAF in association with South Asian Region nations, off the coast of Kerala?
A) Sugam
B) Sahaj
C) Samvedna
D) Suraksha
Which country recently launched a hypersonic missile named ‘Kinzhal’?
A) Russia
B) Israel
C) China
D) India
President Ram NathKovind inaugurated the World Hindi Secretariat building in?
A) Sri Lanka
B) Mauritius
C) Nepal
D) Thailand
Who has been honoured with the ‘Godavari Gaurav’ award by ‘KusumagrajPrathishthan’?
A) Raj Babbar
B) Naseeruddin Shah
C) AmolPalekar
D) Asrani
Haryana government has constituted a committee on the issue of supply of untreated water to Yamuna, under the chairmanship of?
A) O P Dhankar
B) Susheel Kumar
C) R.N. Choubey
D) DevendraChaudhary
European investment bank (EIB) has signed a long-term loan with IREDA to finance clean energy projects in India, worth?
A) EUR 200 million
B) EUR 450 million
C) EUR 150 million
D) EUR 300 million
Who won the women’s category senior National triathlon championship, held in Vishakhapatnam?
A) Samira Abraham
B) N Meher
C) Pragna Mohan
D) Monika Nagpure
Which cricket team won the Deodhar Trophy title, held at Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh?
A) Karnataka
B) Haryana
C) India B
D) Maharashtra
As per World Bank’s ‘India Development Update’, India’s economy will grow in 2018-19 at?
A) 7.1%
B) 7.5%
C) 7.3%
D) 7.6%
Spicejet recently made a successful landing of a commercial flight at the Pakyong Airport in?
A) Nagaland
B) Sikkim
C) Meghalaya
D) Manpur
What is the name of India’s biggest Media and Entertainment Services Market, inaugurated by Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu?
A) e-Mart
B) MeMart
C) enTTech
D) EMarket
Union home ministry has sanctioned to set up India’s first National Academy of Coastal Policing (NACP) at?
A) Maharashtra
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Karnataka
D) Gujarat
Which UT has become the first in India to be 100% solar energy efficient?
A) Chandigarh
B) Diu
C) Delhi
D) Puducherry
A new species of Himalayan moth, named “Eucyclodesgavissima”, has been discovered in?
A) Periyar National Park
B) Simlipal National Park
C) Indravati National Park
D) Papikonda National Park
Which country has approved a plan to abolish presidential term limits, allowing its President to stay in power indefinitely?
A) Japan
B) China
C) Maldives
D) Venezuela
Which of the following recently celebrated its 33rd Inception Day and launched a mobile app named “Citizen Services”?
A) Railway Board
B) National Crime Records Bureau
C) National Highway Authority of India
D) Central Bureau of Investigation
Which state’s forest department has launched an app to track and fight forest fires?
A) Tripura
B) Odisha
C) Assam
D) Jharkhand
What was the theme of 9th Women’s Film Festival, organised by National Film Archives of India (NFAI), Pune?
A) Exploring Women
B) Influencing Women
C) Travelling Women
D) Daring Women
Which country has unfurled the ‘world’s biggest flag’?
A) Bolivia
B) Ecaudor
C) Argentina
D) Paraguay
Which team won the 10th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup title held in Ipoh, Malaysia?
A) Netherlands
B) Australia
C) England
D) India
Which state government has set up a fund, called “MukhyamantriMahilaKosh”, to provide pension to unmarried women above 50 years?
A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Gujarat
C) Andhra Pradesh
D) Uttar Pradesh
What is India’s rank out of 156 countries on the World Happiness Report, released by U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network?
A) 124
B) 133
C) 148
D) 117
International Air Transport Association (IATA) has signed anMoU with Civil Aviation Ministry and National Aviation University. The Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University is located in?
A) Telangana
B) Madhya Pradesh
C) Uttar Pradesh
D) Rajasthan
Which Indian film has won the ‘Grand Prix de Montreal’ honour at the 21st Festival International du Film Pour Enfants de Montréal Film (FIFEM)?
A) Poorna
B) MuktiBhawan
C) RaagDesh
D) Halkaa
LokSabha has passed the Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) bill. The bill raises the ceiling of tax-free gratuity from Rs 10 lakh to?
A) Rs 30 lakh
B) Rs 20 lakh
C) Rs 15 lakh
D) Rs 25 lakh
Which state government has proposed an insurance scheme for journalists and their families?
A) Bihar
B) Gujarat
C) Punjab
D) Assam
LokSabha recently passed the Finance Bill 2018 with how many amendments?
A) 29
B) 6
C) 15
D) 21
Which short film has won the best film award at Best of India Short Film Festival held in Los Angeles, US?
A) Unmute
B) Tara
C) Shunyata
D) Cakewalk
RBI has announced to disallow banks to use which of the following instruments as trade credit for imports?
1. Letters of Credit 2. Bank Guarantees
3. Letters of Undertaking 4. Letters of Comfort
A) 1 & 2
B) 2 & 3
C) 3 & 4
D) 1 & 4
Who won a bronze medal in women’s 8km cross country race in 14th Asian Cross Country Championship, held in Guiyang, China?
A) Neha Kumar
B) Priti Singh
C) SanjivaniJadhav
D) AnupamaBhati
Which state cabinet has approved to impose a ban on plastic carry bags and certain plastic items?
A) Tamilnadu
B) Punjab
C) Maharashtra
D) Uttar Pradesh
As per Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), which country is the world’s biggest importer of weapons, accounting for 12% of global purchases during the past 5 years?
A) India
B) Pakistan
C) Russia
D) China
Which cricket board recently launched a book, titled “A Tribute to Jagu”, in a tribute to former BCCI President JagmohanDalmiya?
A) Sri Lanka Cricket
B) Board of Control for Cricket in India
C) Bangladesh Cricket Board
D) Cricket Australia
World’s largest theatre festival, the 8th Theatre Olympics is going to conclude in?
A) Delhi
B) Mumbai
C) Hyderabad
D) Kolkata
15th Finance Commission recently held its first meeting with the Members of Parliament. Who is the chairman of 15th Finance Commission?
A) HasmukhAdhia
B) Shaktikanta Das
C) NK Singh
D) SC Garg
NITI Aayog has released roadmaps for ‘Sustainable Action for Transforming Human Capital in Education (SATH-E)’. Which of the following states is not covered under the initiative?
A) Jharkhand
B) Madhya Pradesh
C) Odisha
D) Bihar
United Nations Committee for Development Policy (CDP) has recommended for graduation of how many countries from the least developed country (LDC) category?
A) 11
B) 7
C) 4
D) 9
As per the World Bank’s ‘India Development Update’, what is the rank of India among 115 nations using GST in terms of the highest tax
rates?
A) 10th
B) 2nd
C) 8th
D) 17th
What is the name of the programme launched by Health Ministry, to improve quality of care in labour room and maternity operation
theatre?
A) LaQshya
B) Suraksha
C) Maatru
D) Jeevan
Which country has announced to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC)?
A) Cambodia
B) Philippines
C) Myanmar
D) Indonesia
CCEA has recently approved to continue the Urea Subsidy Scheme, at an estimated cost of Rs 1,64,935crore, upto?
A) 2019-20
B) 2021-22
C) 2020-21
D) 2018-19
Union Minister for Water Resources NitinGadkari recently inaugurated the 5th ‘NadiMahotsava’ in?
A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) New Delhi
D) Maharashtra
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has announced to set up a multi-skill centre in?
A) Dehradun
B) Mandi
C) Darjeeling
D) Guwahati
Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has given clearance to Indian Neutrino Observatory (INO) project to be set up in?
A) Bodi West Hills
B) Kalrayan Hills
C) Palani Hills
D) Kolli Hills
Who has been felicitated with “UK Golden Flame Award” at the annual Tongues of Fire UK Asian Film Festival held in London?
A) WaheedaRehman
B) HemaMalini
C) Asha Parekh
D) Simi Garewal
Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a loan agreement to improve rail infrastructure, worth?
A) $340 million
B) $270 million
C) $460 million
D) $120 million
Scientists from which institute have, for the first time, cloned a Assamese buffalo male calf?
A) ICAR-CIFE
B) ICAR-CIRB
C) ICAR-NDRI
D) ICAR-IARI
Which of the following has launched its lost and found mobile app, named ‘UMANG’, for passengers at 59 airports across India?
A) CRPF
B) NIA
C) CISF
D) BSF
Which state has become the best performing State both in terms of allotting jobs and utilising funds under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)?
A) Andhra Pradesh
B) West Bengal
C) Maharashtra
D) Tamilnadu
PM NarendraModi recently inaugurated the 105th Indian Science Congress, on the focal theme “Reaching the Unreached through Science and Technology”, in?
A) Itanagar
B) Dispur
C) Shillong
D) Imphal
Who has been removed as the Chief Justice of Nepal over faking the date of birth?
A) Khil Raj Regmi
B) GopalParajuli
C) Ram BaranYadav
D) BaburamBhattarai
Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) scientists have discovered a new species of water strider, named ‘PtilomeranagalandaJehamalar and Chandra’ from?
A) Bugai River
B) Intanki River
C) Jinari River
D) Kopili River
Which country’s Supreme Court has barred the foreign firms and lawyers from practicing law in the country on a permanent basis?
A) Singapore
B) India
C) Russia
D) China
What is India’s rank among 114 countries on the WEF’s Energy Transition Index?
A) 52nd
B) 64th
C) 78th
D) 83rd
Which of the following has become the latest nation to achieve the one-day international status for the first time?
A) Papua New Guinea
B) Philippines
C) Hong Kong
D) Nepal
FIFA has lifted its three-decade ban on hosting international football from which country ?
A) Iraq
B) Nigeria
C) Pakistan
D) Sudan
Which Indian Chess player has won the 33rd Reykjavik Open?
A) Abhijeet Gupta
B) ViswanathanAnand
C) BaskaranAdhiban
D) PentalaHarikrishna
Which Indian para-athlete won gold in the F53/54 Javelin event at the World Para Athletics Grand Prix in Dubai?
A) Deepa Malik
B) DevendraJhajharia
C) Sundar Singh Gurjar
D) RinkuHooda
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
Africa’s only female head of state, AmeenahGurib-Fakim has resigned as the President of?
A) Tunisia
B) Morocco
C) Cameroon
D) Mauritius
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
Indian Navy has begun the bilateral maritime exercise, named ‘Varuna’ with the Navy of?
A) Japan
B) France
C) UK
D) Russia
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
Indian Coast Guard recently commissioned its ship C-437 at?
A) Porbandar
B) Vishakhapatnam
C) Mumbai
D) Kochi
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
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
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
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
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
Which country has launched its own space agency, called Hellenic Space Organization?
A) Cyprus
B) Denmark
C) Norway
D) Greece
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
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
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 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 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
Telangana Legislative Assembly has passed a bill to make Telugu as a compulsory subject upto Class?
A) 5th
B) 10th
C) 8th
D) 12th
Which of the following has partnered with NITI Aayog to work for transformation of 115 ‘aspirational districts’?
A) Infosys Foundation
B) Tech Mahindra Foundation
C) Tata Trusts
D) Piramal Foundation
Who has won the G.K. Reddy Memorial National Award for journalism?
A) VinodDua
B) Rajat Sharma
C) Karan Thapar
D) Vikram Chandra
World’s longest sandstone cave measuring 24.5 km, named KremPuri, was recently discovered in?
A) Mizoram
B) Nagaland
C) Meghalaya
D) Sikkim
India Post recently released a special postal cover to pay tribute to?
A) ShankaracharyaJayendraSaraswati
B) Sridevi
C) ShashiKapoor
D) Stephen Hawking
Which of the following minesweepers were recently decommissioned by the Indian Navy recently?
A) INS Konkan
B) INS Cannanore
C) INS Cuddalore
D) All of the Above
Which city has become the first in North India to install Automatic Speed Gun Cameras with digital displays for traffic management?
A) New Delhi
B) Gurgaon
C) Chandigarh
D) Dehradun
CCEA recently approved continuation of RashtriyaUchchatarShikshaAbhiyan (RUSA) till?
A) Apr 2019
B) Dec 2018
C) Dec 2019
D) Mar 2020
IRCTC has launched billing through POS hand-held machines in which train on a pilot basis?
A) Mandovi Express
B) Himalayan Queen
C) Karnataka Express
D) NizamuddinDuronto Express
Which state celebrated its 106th foundation day on Mar 22nd?
A) Jammu & Kashmir
B) Bihar
C) Haryana
D) Assam
Who has flagged off a multi-utility vehicle, named ‘NaipunyaRatham’?
A) K ChandrasekarRao
B) PinarayiVijayan
C) Chandrababu Naidu
D) Edappadi K. Palaniswami
Which state’s Animal Husbandry Department has signed anMoU with Bharat Financial Inclusion to roll out an animal healthcare programme, ‘PashuDhanSanjeevani – 1962’?
A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Haryana
C) Uttar Pradesh
D) Jharkhand
Which exchange has launched world’s first futures trading in brass?
A) ICEX
B) NCDEX
C) NMCE
D) MCX
Who has sworn in as the president of Peru?
A) Mario Vargas
B) Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
C) OllantaHumala
D) Martin Vizcarra
Union Cabinet has approved the continuation of the National Health Mission, with a budgetary support of Rs 85,217 crore, from Apr 2017 to?
A) Apr 2019
B) Dec 2018
C) Dec 2019
D) Mar 2020
Union Cabinet has approved inclusion of ‘Parivara and Talawara’ communities for granting ST status in the state of?
A) Karnataka
B) Telangana
C) Tamilnadu
D) Kerala
Which airport has been named as the world’s best airport at the Skytrax World Airport Awards held in Stockholm, Sweden?
A) Hamad International Airport
B) Haneda International Airport
C) Changi International Airport
D) Incheon International Airport
Who inaugurated the first Indian Sign Language Dictionary of 3000 words?
A) Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
B) ThaawarchandGehlot
C) D. V. SadanandaGowda
D) Narendra Singh Tomar
Which state government recently signed anMoU with British Council to strengthen educational and cultural cooperation?
A) West Bengal
B) Odisha
C) Telangana
D) Jharkhand
Who has become the first woman Leader of the Opposition in Pakistan Senate?
A) MarviMemon
B) Sherry Rehman
C) Maryam Nawaz
D) Sumaira Malik
India has handed over the 18th and the last diesel railway locomotive engine to?
A) Bangladesh
B) Sri Lanka
C) Nepal
D) Myanmar
Which city topped the Mercer’s 20th annual Quality of Living survey?
A) London
B) Rome
C) New York
D) Vienna
Which of the following has developed an instrument, named “Fluorimeter”, to measure traces of uranium in water?
A) Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore
B) Institute of Advanced Study in Science & Technology, Guwahati
C) Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore
D) Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences, Bangalore
India recently test-fired which supersonic cruise missile with an indigenous ‘seeker’ at the Pokhran test range?
A) BrahMos
B) Prithvi
C) Akash
D) Nirbhay
Which Indian shooter won gold medal in the women’s 10m air rifle at the ISSF Junior World Cup held in Sydney?
A) C. Ganapathy
B) LinganathaAdisesh
C) AratiJagannath
D) ElavenilValarivan
Which company has acquired Saavn and merged it with its own digital music service to create a combined entity valued at over $1 billion?
A) Reliance Industries
B) BhartiAirtel
C) Amazon.in
D) Paytm
Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) has approved construction of a new frontline airbase for the IAF in Gujarat at?
A) Bhania
B) Ajnala
C) Patti
D) Deesa
Union Cabinet has approved the launch of Ayushman Bharat -National Health Protection Mission (AB-NHPM). It will subsume which of the following schemes?
1. RSBY 2. SCHIS
3. PMJJBY 4. PMBJK
A) 1 & 2
B) 2 & 3
C) 3 & 4
D) 1 & 4
As per the World Prison Brief data, published by Institute for Criminal Policy Research, India has a lower imprisonment rate among major economies. How many Indians per one lakh are imprisoned?
A) 77
B) 95
C) 33
D) 45
Which indigenously built frigate of the Indian Navy has been decommissioned in Mumbai recently?
A) INS Gomati
B) INS Beas
C) INS Betwa
D) INS Ganga
Which state government has imposed a permanent ban on hookah bars?
A) Punjab
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Goa
D) Telangana
Which airline flew the first commercial flight to Israel through Saudi Arabia’s airspace?
A) Jet Airways
B) IndiGo
C) Air India
D) SpiceJet
Which of the following has been declared as Kerala’s official fruit?
A) Coconut
B) Jackfruit
C) Banana
D) Tapioca
Union Cabinet has approved the extension of the term of the Commission set up to examine Sub-categorization of OBC in the Central List, upto June 2018. The Commission is headed by?
A) G. Rohini
B) SobhanaMohapatra
C) BhartiSinha
D) ArunaSrinivas
External Publicity and Public Diplomacy Division under MEA, has launched the initiative ‘VideshAaya Pradesh keDwaar’ in?
A) New Delhi
B) Chennai
C) Hyderabad
D) Ahmedabad
Union cabinet has approved amendments to National Medical Commission Bill. As per the amendments, the final MBBS examination, to be held as a common exam, will be called?
A) NEIT
B) NEET
C) NRTE
D) NEXT
As per the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, which state has the highest number of tribal habitations fully covered by Drinking Water supply?
A) Odisha
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Jharkhand
D) Madhya Pradesh
Who won the 17th Asian Billiards Championships title, held in Yangon?
A) Aditya Mehta
B) PankajAdvani
C) GeetSethi
D) Manan Chandra
Which team has won the 8th Hockey India Senior Men National Championship (A Division) 2018, at the final held in Lucknow?
A) Air India
B) Hockey Haryana
C) Railways
D) Hockey Punjab
A first of its kind Insect Museum has been inaugurated in?
A) Guwahati
B) Coimbatore
C) Nashik
D) Kanpur
Airport Authority of India (AAI) has signed anMoU with which state government for sustainable development of human settlements at villages in Kamrup district?
A) Sikkim
B) Manipur
C) Nagaland
D) Assam
What is the name of the LTTE ship which has been sunk by the Sri Lankan Navy?
A) Sagarawardena
B) We Ling
C) Gajabahu
D) Jayasagara
Which state government has launched the scheme ‘Mission Sambavh’ to install one lakh toilets?
A) Assam
B) Bihar
C) Chhattisgarh
D) Manipur
At which position on medal tally did India finish at the ISSF Junior World Cup, held in Sydney?
A) 2nd
B) 3rd
C) 1st
D) 4th
Which state bagged the National ‘Water Digest Award’ for Water Conservation-Diversion and increasing the irrigation capacity?
A) Punjab
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Chhattisgarh
D) Maharashtra
MadhavpurMela recently began at MadhavpurGhed, in the state of?
A) Gujarat
B) Rajasthan
C) Jharkhand
D) Uttarakhand
Indian Navy’s INS Tarkash recently carried out a “greeting and training” exercise with which country’s Navy?
A) US
B) Russia
C) Japan
D) UK
Dr BR Ambedkar’s birth anniversary has been announced to be celebrated every year as ‘National Social Justice Day’, on?
A) May 2
B) Apr 14
C) Mar 31
D) Apr 9
Which state has set up a seawater desalination plant of 100 million litre per day (mld) capacity?
A) Andhra Pradesh
B) Maharashtra
C) Gujarat
D) Kerala
Which of the following communication satellite has been launched by ISRO aboard GSLV-F08 rocket from SatishDhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota?
A) GSAT-7D
B) GSAT-8C
C) GSAT-2B
D) GSAT-6A
India has overtaken which country to become the fourth largest automobile market in the world?
A) China
B) Germany
C) Japan
D) US
Which of the following countries have signed Brazzaville declaration, to protect the world’s largest tropical peatlands?
1. Democratic Republic of Congo 2. Indonesia
3. Republic of Congo 4. India
A) 2, 3 & 4
B) 2 & 3
C) 1 & 4
D) 1, 2 & 3
Which organisation has received the Frederick Pincott Award for 2017?
A) Academy of Arts & Sciences
B) Film Heritage Foundation
C) Hartley Film Foundation
D) South Asian Cinema Foundation
Who has been appointed as the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India?
A) S.N.Joshi
B) RakeshAggarwal
C) K Vijay Raghavan
D) Vinod Kumar
Who has been chosen as the flag-bearer of the Indian contingent for the opening ceremony of the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia?
A) DeepaKarmakar
B) Sakshi Malik
C) Mary Kom
D) P.V. Sindhu
As per the data released by Union ministry of Social Justice, which state has the highest number of beggars in India?
A) Uttar Pradesh
B) Maharashtra
C) West Bengal
D) Bihar
CCEA has approved formulation of a new Integrated Scheme for School Education. The new scheme subsumes which of the following schemes?
A) RashtriyaMadhyamikShikshaAbhiyan (RMSA)
B) SarvaShikshaAbhiyan (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) KimiRaikkonen
Minister of Food Processing HarsimratKaurBadal 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 SantoshKapoor
C) Justice Anil Kumar
D) Justice Jawad Rahim
Who has been appointed as the first CEO of merged entity of Vodafone-Idea?
A) Pramod Kumar
B) Balesh Sharma
C) Yatender Singh
D) Prakash Chand
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
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
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

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