Railway Current Affairs Part - 9 English

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Q1) Which High Court has banned the commercial use of elephants in Tiger Reserve besides restricting the number of vehicles entering its ranges in a day to 100 ?

Allahabad High Court
Uttarakhand High Court
Patna High Court
Delhi High Court

Q2) M Karunanidhi who passed away was associated with which political party ?

Dravid Munnetra Kazhagam
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Dravidar Viduthalai Kazhagam
Thanthai Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam

Q3) Which state has become the first state to issue identity cards to gau rakshaks who will now be known as gau sanrakshaks (guardians of cows) ?

Himachal Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
Madhya Pradesh

Q4) Which state has launched the “ Mukhyamantri Kanya Utthan Yojana”?

Jharkhand
Bihar
Madhya Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh

Q5) Which of the following two ministries have jointly started SAATHI initiative?

Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Finance
Ministry of Home Affairs and Education
Ministry of Textiles and Ministry of Energy
Ministry of Sports and Ministry of Finance

SAATHI

(Sustainable and Accelerated Adoption of efficient Textile technologies to Help Small Industries)

Q6) FICCI Ladies Organisation, the women’s wing of Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry has launched a mobile application called _____ ?

WOW
GROW
SHOW
VOW

Q7)The famous Kadaknath chicken meat of which district of Madhya Pradesh has now got a Geographical Indication (GI) tag?

Raisen
Jhabua
Jabalpur
Sehore

Q8) Who has become the 8th woman judge of Supreme Court ?

R Bhanumati
Indu Malhotra
Gyan Sudha Mishra
Indira Banerjee

Q9) Which state has launched the ‘Mukhya Mantri-Yuva Nestham‘ for unemployed youths ?

Bihar
Andhra Pradesh
Punjab
Jharkhand

Q10) Who has been appointed as the Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, becoming the first woman judge in the history to head it ?

Geeta Mittal
Sindhu Sharma
Ranjana Desai
T. Meena Kumari

Q11) The Lok Sabha has passed the National Sports University Bill, 2018. The Bill will o establish a National Sports University in which state ?

Haryana
Assam
Manipur
Punjab

Q12) The Bill was passed superseding the amendments by the Rajya Sabha which seeks to grant constitutional status to which commission ?

National Commission for Backward Classes
National Commission for Minorities
National Commission for Scheduled Castes
National Commission for Scheduled Tribes

National Commission for Backward Classes

123rd constitutional amendment bill 2018
02nd amendment act in constitution
to make it constitutional body
Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Bhagwan Lal Sahni – 1st chairman
National Commission for Minority – Ghayorul Hasan Rizvi
National Commission for Scheduled Castes – Ram Shankar Katheria
National Commission for Scheduled Tribes – Nand Kumar Sai

Q13) Which government has made Yoga mandatory for all colleges and universities in the State ?

Madhya Pradesh
Karnataka
Uttar Pradesh
Bihar

Q14) Who was awarded with the Outstanding Parliamentary award for the year 2017 ?

Hukum Dev Narayan
Ghulam Nabi Azad
Dinesh Trivedi
Bhartruhari Mahtab

Q15) Ranchi-based software developer Ranjit Srivastava has developed the world’s first Hindi-speaking humanoid robot, named what ?

Rashmi
Reshma
Drishti
Veena

Q16) Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu has launched a logo and tagline for Geographical Indications (GI), name the Tagline ?

Incredible Invaluable Treasures
Invaluable Treasuress
Geographical Treasures of India
Invaluable Treasures of Incredible India

Q17) NITI Aayog has launched a global mobility hackathon named what ?

Move hack
Don’t Hack
Stop Hack
Smart Hack

Q18) Name the World’s first trillion dollar company?

Reliance
Google
Apple
Microsoft

Q19) The largest shelter in the country for elderly widows “Krishna Kutir” was built in which city ?

Ahmedabad
Vrindavan
Delhi
Ludhiana

Q20) Which ministry has launched Mission Solar Charkha for implementation of 50 Solar Charkha Clusters throughout India ?

Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
Ministry of Rural Development

Q21) To reimburse the CGST and IGST to Religious / Charitable Institutions who provide Food free of cost without any discrimination to Public/Devotees, the Ministry of Culture has launched which scheme ?

Atithi Seva Yojana
Anna hi Devta Yojana
Seva Bhoj Yojana
Nirdhan Bhoj Yojana

Q22)Which state has become the first state to implement Centre’s ‘Biofuel Policy’ ?

Jharkhand
Haryana
Madhya Pradesh
Rajasthan

Q23) The Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) launched a dedicated portal named ________ to connect cargo owners and shippers with real time data on availability of vessels?

FOCUS
STRENGTH
FOCAL
HEAT

(FOCAL)

Forum of Cargo-Owners and Logistics-Operators

Q24) Shripad Yesso Naik laid the foundation stone of the 2nd Phase of Construction of North East Institute of Ayurveda & Homeopathy (NEIAH) in which city ?

Dispur
Shillong
Imphal
Gangtok

Q25)Which Indian-Australian mathematician has won the prestigious Fields medal, known as the Nobel prize for math ?

Akshay Raman
Akshay Nayyar
Akshay Mangalam
Akshay Venkatesh

Q26) Which country became the first nation to play 1000 Test matches ?

India
England
West Indies
New Zealand

Q27) Which football league team was declared carbon-neutral by the United Nations ?

Real Madrid
Juventus FC
Forest Green Rovers
Manchester United

Q28) India’s first in-phone tourism guide and mobile application “Go whats That” was launched in which city ?

Chandigarh
New Delhi
Pune
Lucknow

Q29) Which state will set up ‘iHub’ (the intelligent hub), a first-of-its kind global research centre for scientific learning ?

Himachal Pradesh
Telangana
Tamil Nadu
Andhra Pradesh

Q30) Central Road and Infrastructure Fund (CRIF) has been taken away from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and brought under the domain of the which Ministry ?