Railway Current Affairs Part - 6 English

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Q1) Aiming to combat and prevent crimes like molestation, eve-teasing and make public places safer for women, which city’s Police has launched a special all-women patrolling team called “The Winners“ ?

New Delhi
Kolkata
Bhopal
Bhillai

Q2) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the new Headquarters building of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). What is the name of this building ?

Dharohar Bhawan
Virasat Bhawan
Parampara Bhawan
Sanskriti Bhawan

Kolkata mountaineer Satyarup Siddhanta became the world’s youngest person to climb the seven highest peaks and the seven highest volcanic summits across the seven continents of the world in seven years.
Heachieved the feat at the age of 35 years and 262 days, while Australia’s Daniel Bull did it aged 36 years 157 days as per the Guinness Book of World Records.
The highest peak of Africa : Kilimanjaro
The Highest peak of Europe is in Russia : Mount Elbrus
The highest peak in South America is based in Argentina : Aconcagua
Asia’s highest peak is in Nepal : Mount Everest
Australia’s Highest mountain peak : Mount Kosciusko
The highest peak of Antarctica: Mount Vinson Massif
The highest active volcano in the world is Ojos del Salado in South America
Iran : Mount Damavand
Pico de Orizaba is the highest mountain in Mexico and the third highest in North America

Q3) Michael Ondaatje’s which bestselling novel has won the Golden Man Booker Prize ?

The English Patient
Free state
Things Fall Apart
The Book Thief

Q4) Who has become the oldest Indian woman to complete an Ironman Triathlon 2018 ?

Sushma Bhaskar
Anju Khosla
Nisha Ahuja
Vandana Jain

Ironman Triathlon

Major General Vikram Dogra is the first Indian to have completed the Ironman Triathlon in Austria in July 2018
Head constable Shankar Uthale has become the first constable in the country to successfully complete the gruelling Ironman race

Q5) India’s first biofortified sorghum named “what”containing higher iron and zinc than regular sorghum was formally launched ?

Parbhani Shakti
Parbhani Jowar
Prabhal
Sampoorna

Q6) State-run Airports Authority of India (AAI) will set up a state-of-the-art Civil Aviation Research Organization (CARO) in which of the following cities ?

Amravati
Gwalior
Hyderabad
Gurugram

Q7) In which of the following countries the world’s First Digital Art Museum was opened?

Japan
China
Russia
Spain

Q8) Which country would operate Sri Lanka’s loss-making Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport in Hambantot ?

India
China
Japan
Russia

Q9) The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) will set up ‘Design University for Gaming in which state ?

Uttar Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh
Karnataka
Kerala

Q10) Which National Park has become the largest habitat of endangered estuarine crocodiles in the country ?

Bhitarkanika National Park
Nagarhole National Park
Eravikulam National Park
Gorumara National Park

Q11)Cabinet has approved the proposal of renaming the Agartala Airport after which ruler of Tripura ?

Bir Chandra Manikya Bahadur
Maharaja Bir Bikram Manikya Kishore
Kalyan Manikya
Anantha Manikya

The new name of Jharsuguda Airport – ‘Veer Surendra Sai Airport‘
New Name of Solapur Airport – Mahatma Basaveshwar Airport
New Name of Kolhapur Airport – Chhatrapati Rajaram Maharaj Airport
New Name of the Jolly Grant Airport – Atal Bihari Vajpayee Airport
Gannavaram airport near Vijayawada was renamed as Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao-Amaravati Airport after the legendary Telugu film actor and founder of regional Telugu Desam party.
Tirupati Airport has been renamed as Sri Venkateswara Airport after Lord Venkateswara of the temple town.

Q12) Which state has launched the PURNA (Prevention of Under Nutrition and Reduction of Nutritional Anaemia among Adolescent Girls) project to eliminate malnutrition among girls in the age group of 14 to 18 ?