Railway Current Affairs Part - 15 English

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Q1) Ju Wenjun who won Women’s Chess World Championship 2018 title hails from which country ?

Japan
China
South Korea
Russia

Q2) As per the 6th edition & 2019 version of India Skills Report, which state has topped the list of states with the highest employability ?

Rajasthan
Haryana
Maharashtra
Andhra Pradesh

Q3) Sandeep Michael who passed away recently, was associated with which sports ?

Chess
Hockey
Cricket
Badminton

Q4) Which company has launched an app called “Neighbourly” in India?

Microsoft
Google
Facebook
Twitter

Q5) Who was awarded with the Sayaji Ratna Award ?

Nasiruddin Shah
Amitabh Bachchan
Shahrukh Khan
Irfan Khan

Q6) Name the Popular Indian singer from Assam who has been appointed as the first ‘Youth Advocate’ of the north-eastern region by the UNICEF to fight for child rights ?

Nahid Afrin
Joe Barua
Rupam Bhuyan
Antara Nandy

Q7) Noted Indian classical musician Ustad Imrat Khan passed away recently, he was known to play which musical instrument ?

Sarangi
Sitar
Surbahar
A & B
B & C

Q8) The Maharashtra state Assembly has passed a bill proposing what per cent reservation for Marathas under ‘socially and educationally backward’ category ?

15 %
20 %
16 %
33 %

Q9) On 25th November 2018, National Cadet Corps (NCC) celebrated its ___________ NCC Raising day all over India ?

69th
70th
72nd
71st

Q10) Defence Minister Smt Nirmala Sitharaman had launched which mission in New Delhi for promotion of Intellectual Property Right (IPR) in defence sector ?

Gyan Shakti
Raksha Gyan Shakti
Raksha Gyan
Raksha Gyan Shaurya

Q11) West Bengal Green University will be renamed after whom ?

Rani Rashmoni
Rani Lakshmi Bai
Rani Roopmala
Hemanti Sena

Q12) Who has been appointed as the new chairman of UPSC?

Vinay Mittal
Arvind Saxena
Anand Singh
Amit Paul

Q13) Under Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat initiative, the government has launched which initiative to introduce school students to 22 Indian languages ?

Bhasha aur Bache
Bhasha Sangam
Meethi Boli
Bhasha Parv

Q14) Which state has launched the Badavara Bandhu scheme ?

Odisha
Karnataka
Telangana
Andhra Pradesh

Q15) Who has become the first player in the history of T10 league to pick up a hat-trick of wickets ?

Pravin Tambe
Mohammad Shahjad
Brendon McCullum
Sandeep Lamichane

Q16) Which state has released lexicons of 21 tribal languages for multilingual education (MLE) purposes for elementary schools in tribal-dominated districts ?

West Bengal
Odisha
Madhya Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh

Q17) Which country won the 2018 Davis Cup?

France
Spain
Croatia
Germany

Q18) Which country won the International Hockey Federation (FIH) Women’s Hockey Champions Trophy ?

Australia
Argentina
Netherlands
China

Q19)Who has become the first constable in the country to complete the Ironman race ?

Shankar Uthale
Arun Gokhale
Hemant Mate
Sandeep Deshpande

Q20) Which company was conferred with the status of Miniratna : Category –I by the Union Government ?

CTPC
MECON
HMT
NPCC

Q21) As per the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Andaman & Nicobar Islands is home what per cent of India’s fauna species ?

10 %
15 %
20 %
12 %

Q22) The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will soon launch the country’s first hyperspectral imaging satellite “named what” for advanced Earth observation ?

RysIS
HysIS
SysIS
NysIS

Q23) Which state has unveiled a 70-feet tall statue of Lord Buddha ?

Gujarat
Jharkhand
Bihar
Himachal Pradesh

Q24) Sashastra Seema Bal will patrol which tiger reserve ?

Dudhwa Tiger Reserve
Sunderban Tiger Reserve
Sariska Tiger Reserve
Ranthambore Tiger Reserve

Q25) Which filmmaker was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 49th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2018 ?

Kalpana Lajmi
Nandita Das
Dan Wolman
Adrian Sitaru

49th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2018

Focus Country – Israel
State in Focus – Jharkhand

33rd Surajkund Fair 2019

Partner Country – Thailand
Theme State – Maharashtra

Q26) The Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (RIMES) has termed which cyclone as ‘rarest of rare’?

Bhola
Ella
Gaja
Titli

Q27) Who has been appointed as UNICEF’s latest Goodwill Ambassador ?

Sophie Turner
Millie Bobby Brown
Scarlett Johansson
Jennifer Lawrence

Q28) Joyce Msuya has been appointed to head the United Nations Environment Programe (UNEP), in acting capacity, hails from which country ?

South Sudan
Nigeria
Tanzania
Turkey

Q29) President Ram Nath Kovind has unveiled a bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi in which city of Australia ?

Canberra
Melbourne
Sydney
Perth

Q30) Who has become the first batsman to reach 11,000 runs in Ranji Trophy ?

Faiz Fajal
Amol Majumdar
Mayank Agarwal
Wasim Jaffer

Q31) Interpol has elected whom as its new President ?

Kim Jong-Yang
Meng Hongwei
Jackie Selebi
John Simpson

Q32) Which country has approved the proposal to rejoin the Commonwealth, two years after withdrawing from the 53-nation grouping ?

Thailand
Laos
Maldives
Fiji

Q33) Nari Sashaktikaran Sankalp Abhiyan was started by which state?

Gujarat
Jharkhand
Madhya Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh

Q34) Which state has given the approval to implement Sashakt Mahila Yojna ?

Assam
Tripura
Himachal Pradesh
Sikkim

Q35) As per latest data (2016) by the National Crime Records Bureau which state has ranked number one in terms of atrocities against Scheduled Castes, based on the crime rate ?