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Q1) Which state has brought the The Parents Responsibility and Norms for Accountability and Monitoring (PRANAM) bill ?

1. Himachal Pradesh
2. Assam
3. Tripura
4. Mizoram

PRANAM Commission

• Assam has launched the PRANAM Commission, a panel set up to look after the issues concerning a Bill brought in for protection of parents of state government employees.
• The Parents Responsibility and Norms for Accountability and Monitoring (PRANAM) Bill, stated to be the first-of its-kind Bill in the country.
• Objective of the bill: To ensure that no state government employee ignores their elderly parents and unmarried differently-abled siblings.

Q2) Who has won the  Tour de France 2018?

1. Chris Froome
2. Tom Dumoulin
3. Geraint Thomas
4. Alexander Christopher

• Marc Márquez (Spain) – MOTO GP 2018 World Champion
• Lewis Hamilton – Britain – F1 2018 World Champion

Q3) Which two Indians have won the 2018 Ramon Magsaysay Award ?

1. Sonam Wangchuk and Kailash Satyarthi
2. Bharat Vatwani and Amartya Sen
3. Sonam Wangchuk and Bharat Vatwani
4. Bharat Vatwani and Anand Kumar

Ramon Magsaysay Award

• Often referred to as Asian version of the Nobel Prize.
•  In the memory of Philippines’ third President Ramon Magsaysay who had died in air disaster in March 1957
•  Bharat Vatwani: He is a psychiatrist who works for mentally-ill people living on the streets in Mumbai…
•  Sonam Wangchuk: He is educational reformer from Ladakh.

Q4) Andhra Pradesh  government  has launched which project under which government will choose students aged between 10-16 years and offer them international level facilities with an aim to secure medals in Olympic Games in a period of 10 years ?

1. Gandiva Project
2. Dronacharya Project
3. Eklavya Project
4. Arjuna Project

Q5) The United Nations has honoured which International Airport with ‘Champion of Earth’ award for being the first airport in the world to be completely powered by solar energy  ?

1. Kannur International Airport
2. Indira Gandhi International Airport
3. Kishangarh Airport
4. Cochin International Airport

New airports

• Andhra Pradesh – Kurnool
• Kerala – Kannur
• Odisha – Jharsuguda
• Arunachal Pradesh – Hollongi, Itanagar
• Gujarat – Hirasar, Rajkot
• Maharashtra – Sindhudurg
• Sikkim – Pakyong
• Uttar Pradesh – Jewar, Uttar Pradesh
• Goa – Mopa, North Goa

Q6) Indian Railways has signed an MoU with which company to provide infrastructure facilities for supply of Natural Gas to Indian Railways Workshops, Production Units and Depots ?

1. Bharat Petroleum
2. GAIL (India) Limited
3. ONGC
4. Hindustan Petroleum

Q7) Which state has recently inaugurated the Gurupriya Setu ?

• Karnataka
• Haryana
• Punjab
• Odisha

Gurupriya Setu

• District Malkangiri :  Odisha
• River name – Sileuru river
• Dhola Sadiya Setu – Assam,
• Bhupen Hazarika Setu

Q8) The 10th  edition of BRICS Summit was held in ?

1. Cape Town
2. Johannesburg
3. Durban
4. Pretoria

• 32 / 33rd   ASEAN ASEAN Summit 2018 = Singapore
• 34 / 35th  ASEAN ASEAN Summit 2019 = Thailand
• 11th  Bricks Summit 2019 – Brazil
• 30th  APEC Summit 2018 – Moresby, Papua New Guinea
• 31st APEC Summit 2019 – Chile
• 32nd  APEC Summit 2020 – Malaysia
• 13th East Asia Summit 2018 = Singapore
• 14th East Asia Summit 2019 = Thailand
• 13th G20 Summit 2018 = Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 14th G20 Summit 2019 = Osaka, Japan
• 44th  G7 Summit 2018 – Quebec, Canada
• 45th G7 Summit 2019 – Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
• 3rd BIMSTEC Summit 2018 – Kathmandu, Nepal
• 4th BIMSTEC Summit 2019 – Colombo, Sri Lanka

Q9) Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan has unveiled a state-of-the-art Air Quality and Weather Forecast System, named what ?

1. SAFAR
2. VAYU VANI
3. SAMIKSHA
4. VAYU VIGYAN

• SAFAR (System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting)
• Developed by : Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM)

Q10) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has gifted 200 cows to which nationa under the “Girinka” programme ?

1. Rwanda
2. South Africa
3. Uganda
4. Qatar

Q11) Scientists from International Union of Geological Science (IUGS) have classified as a new chapter in Earth’s history, this chapter has been named as ?

1. Meghalayan Era
2. Tripura Era
3. Human Era
4. Mizoram Era

International Union of Geological Science (IUGS):

• Headquarters: Beijing, China.
• This contains 4200 years of history and climatic events suggesting a drought of 200 years that ruined civilizations from Egypt to China.

Q12) Which company has confirmed it is working on a new satellite project, named Athena, that will provide broadband internet connections to rural and underserved areas ?

1. Google
2. SpaceX
3. NASA
4. Facebook

Q13) Which neighbour of India  has joined the India-initiated International Solar Alliance (ISA), becoming the 68th member of the group ?

1. Bangladesh
2. Myanmar
3. Pakistan
4. Sri Lanka

International Solar Alliance Member

• 72nd  member – Argentina
• 73rd  member – Saudi Arabia

Q14) Which country has declared itself a Jewish state, after 70 years?

1. France
2. Israel
3. Belarus
4. Argentina

Q15) Which state has launched the e-Pragati core platform ?

1. Andhra Pradesh
2. Tamil Nadu
3. Karnataka
4. Odisha

Q16) The Government of India has given ‘In-Principle’ approval for Construction and Operation of Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Laboratory – India (LIGO) in which district of Maharashtra ?

1. Nagpur
2. Ahmadnagar
3. Aurangabad
4. Hingoli

Q17) Nelson Mandela International Day 2018 was observed on? This year marks 100 years since the birth of Nelson Mandela.

1. July 16
2. July 17
3. July 18
4. July 15

Q18) Which state has got the country’s first National Skill Training Institute (NSTI) ?

1. Odisha
2. Madhya Pradesh
3. Gujarat
4. Manipur

Q19) Which country has for the first time been elected to the Human Rights Council, filling the seat vacated by the US, which withdrew from the body ?

1. New Zealand
2. South Africa
3. Iceland
4. Norway

20) Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has bought the 51% stake  of which Bank ?

1. IDBI Bank
2. Karnataka Bank
3. Punjab National Bank
4. Karur Vyasa Bank

Q21) The Education Department of which state has launched a campaign named “I am not afraid of English”  ?

1. Bihar
2. Punjab
3. Haryana
4. Uttar Pradesh

Q22) Who has become the third  transgender judge  of the country ?

1. Jyoti Mondal
2. Swati Bidhan Baruah
3. Vidya Kamble
4. Geeta Tripathi

• Joyita Mondal of West Bengal is India’s first transgender judge.
• The next transgender to be appointed as a judge was Vidya Kamble of Maharashtra.

Q23) Bansagar canal project  is a joint venture of ?

1. Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh
2. Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh
3. Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar
4. Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar

Q24) Which  state has constituted the Heritage Cabinet to preserve the history and culture of the state ?

1. Punjab
2. Rajasthan
3. Karnataka
4. Odisha

Q25) Which country has become the 69th  shareholder of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)?

1. Spain
2. Brazil
3. India
4. Netherlands

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