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important understandings which guided us to prepare this.
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we have mentioned them along wherever they have come for easy reference.
- Similarly, we’ve mentioned headquarters of banks and important organisations
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question generally asked in exams.
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questions.
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Q. 7 Novak Djokovic (from Serbia Capital: Belgrade, Currency: Dinar) defeated whom to win Wimbledon 2018
title recently?
Answer: Kevin Anderson of South Africa (Capital: Pretoria (administrative capital) Currency: Rand)
Explanation: This was Novak’s fourth Wimbledon and 13th overall grand slam. In women’s category Angelique
Kerber of Germany won the title. She defeated Serena Williams.
Q. 115 Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister, Shri Radha Mohan Singh announced the “National
Policy on Marine Fisheries, 2017” on “Marine Fisheries-Mariculture in India” at?
Answer: Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu
Explanation: Shri Radha Mohan Singh is the MP (Lok Sabha) from Purvi Champaran, Bihar.
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Q. 1 Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) recently held their 28th Plenary meeting at?
Answer: Jurmala, Latvia (Capital: Riga, Currency: Euro)
Q. 2 According to a report by online speed testing platform Ookla, India with 9.12 Mbps 4G speed is at what
rank in the world in Internet Speed?
Answer: 109th position
Explanation: According to a report by online speed testing platform Ookla, India with 9.12 Mbps in the 4G
speed category stands at 109th position in the world and is behind neighbors Pakistan (14.03 Mbps) and Sri
Lanka (16.98). Qatar stood first in the list.
Q. 3 The Finance Ministry has recently approved capital infusion of Rs 11,336 crores in how many PSBs?
Answer: Five
Explanation: The Finance Ministry has approved capital infusion of Rs 11,336 crore in 5 public sector banks.
The 5 banks are: Punjab National Bank (PNB), Andhra Bank, Corporation Bank, Indian Overseas Bank and
Allahabad Bank. This infusion is a part of the remaining Rs.65000 crore of infusion under government’s
announcement of Rs.2.11 lakh crore of credit infusion in banks in 2017.
Q. 4 With which company national Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) have announced to jointly train
youth and entrepreneurs in the country on digital skills?
Answer: Facebook
Q. 5 Recently Walmart has partnered with which company to compete with Amazon in both technology and
retail?
Answer: Microsoft
Q. 6 Recently seven members took oath as member of Rajya Sabha one of which is Sonal Mansingh. She is
associated with which field?
Answer: Indian Classical Dancer
Explanation: The seven members are:
Rakesh Sinha, Sonal Mansingh, Raghunath Mohapatra, Ram Shakal, Elamaram Kareem, Binoy Viswam, Jose K
Mani
Rakesh Sinha of RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) is the founder and honorary director of India Policy
Foundation.
Sonal Mansingh is a popular Indian classical dancer. He performs Bharatanatyam and Odissi. He took oath in
Hindi.
Raghunath Mohapatra is an internationally renowned sculptor and architect. He took oath in Odia.
Ram Shakal is a former BJP lawmaker. He took oath in Hindi.
Q. 7 Novak Djokovic (Serbia) defeated whom to win Wimbledon 2018 title recently?
Answer: Kevin Anderson of South Africa
Explanation: This was Novak’s fourth Wimbledon and 13th overall grand slam. In women’s category Angelique
Kerber of Germany won the title. She defeated Serena Williams.
Q. 8 Seventh World Junior Wushu championship was recently held in?
Answer: Brasilia capital of Brazil (currency: Real)

Explanation: India bagged 9 medals – 4 Silver and 5 Bronze in the 7th World Junior Wushu championships held
in Brasilia, Brazil.
Q. 9 Which state has approved Rs 39 crores for ‘Seema Darshan’ Project for infra development in state?
Answer: Gujarat
Q. 10 Developed at the cost of Rs 160 crore National Skill Training Institute (NSTI) has been recently launched
at?
Answer: Barang, in Bhubaneswar
Q. 11 India’s first Defense Incubator will come up in?

Answer: T-Hub, Hyderabad
Q. 12 Recently where did Rajnath Singh inaugurate largest Indian visa centre in the world?
Answer: Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Q. 13 Which bank recently announced that it would unveil the 7th edition of ‘Transformation Series
Challenge’?
Answer: Yes Bank
Explanation: Yes Bank announced that it would unveil the 7th edition of ‘Transformation Series Challenge’.
For it the bank has partnered with 12 global leaders like Microsoft, Cisco, IBM and Adobe for the collaboration.
The theme is ‘Tech for Urban Development’.
Q. 14 In its updated World Economic Outlook (WEO) report, IMF has cut India’s growth projection by 0.1% for
2018-19. It now predicts the GDP growth to be _______.
Answer: 7.3% for 2018-19
Explanation: Moody's Investors Service report has also estimated India’s GDP for this fiscal to be 7.3%.
Q. 15 Defense manufacturer Bharat Electronic Limited (BEL) signed an MoU with SAAB to market air-
surveillance radar. SAAB is a firm from?
Answer: Sweden (Capital: Stockholm, Currency: Krone)
Q. 16 Who has been announced as the Chef de Mission of the Asian Games-bound Indian contingent?
Answer: Brij Bhushan Saran Singh
Explanation: Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Saran Singh would be named the Chef de
Mission of the Asian Games-bound Indian contingent. Asian games 2018 will be held at Indonesian cities of
Jakarta and Palembang.
Q. 17 Which IIT recently launched world’s first remotely operable LEAP microscope?
Answer: Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M)

Q. 18 Which country is planning to launch of 300 low-orbit satellites to provide worldwide communication
services?
Answer: China
Q. 19 Prime Minister recently laid the Foundation Stone of the Poorvanchal Expressway in Azamgarh, UP. The
340-kilometre-long expressway will connect Delhi to?
Answer: Ghazipur
Q. 20 Which bank recently launched Kisan Mela outreach program for 10 lakh farmers in 14000 rural and semi
urban branches to help in imparting financial literacy to the farmers?
Answer: State Bank of India (SBI)
Q. 21 Chairman & Managing Director of which airline received the USISPF Leadership Award at the first Annual
Leadership Summit?
Answer: Ajay Singh (Spice Jet)
Q. 22 Life Insurance Corporation of India’s (LIC’s) board has approved acquiring up to 51% stake in which
bank?
Answer: IDBI Bank
Q.23 Who won the Golden Boot and Golden Glove award in the recently concluded FIFA 2018 football World
Cup in Russia?
Answer: Golden Boot: Harry Kane from England (6 Goals) Golden Glove: Thibaut Courtois (Belgium)
Explanation: France won the world cup by defeating Croatia (capital: Zagreb, currency: Kuna) in the Final.
Mascot: Zabivaka – “the one who scores” (in Russian)

Golden Ball: Luka Modrić
FIFA fair play was given to Spain (capital: Madrid)
2026 World Cup will be jointly held in the United States, Mexico and Canada.
Q. 24 Who is the head of ten Member Committee, formed by Ministry of Corporate affairs to review
Companies Act 2013?
Answer: Injeti Srinivas (Secretary of Ministry of Corporate Affairs)
Q. 25 Which country will head the Asia Pacific Region of World Customs Organisation (WCO) for two years as
its Vice Chair from July, 2018 to June, 2020?
Answer: India
World Customs Organisation (WCO) headquarters: Brussels capital of Belgium (Currency: Franc)
Q. 26 Education Department of which state recently launched ‘I am not afraid of English’ initiative from Class
1 in the state’s primary schools?
Answer: Haryana
Explanation: Haryana government in addition to ‘I am not afraid of English’ initiative has also announced
“Chhatra Parivahan Suraksha scheme” for girl students to provide them free transportation to their
educational institutions.
Q. 27 National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development have joined hands which bank to provide
collateral-free credit to tenant farmers of Telangana?
Answer: State Bank of India (SBI)

Q.28 What is Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)’s, prediction of India’s
economic growth for 2018?
Answer: 7.4%
Q. 29 Who has been named the “British Indian of the Year” for his achievements in Yoga?
Answer: Ishwar Sharma (He is an Indian-origin school kid)

Q. 30 Which cricketer recently became the fourth Indian to achieve the mark of 10,000 runs in ODIs?
Answer: MS Dhoni
Q. 31 According to the progress figures of Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) in rural India, total how many
toilets have been built in rural India?
Answer: Over 7.7 crores
Explanation: Toilet usage is over 93% as per an independent third-party survey conducted in 2017-18 across
all States/UTs.
Q. 32 Which Indian has been named as the executive director of the panel on digital cooperation aimed to
deal with the “dark side” of digital innovation set up by UN Chief (Antonio Guterres)?
Answer: Amandeep Singh Gill
Q. 33 As per Bloomberg Billionaires Index, who is the richest Asian?
Answer: Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) Chairman Mukesh Ambani he overtook China’s Jack Ma
Q.34 First-ever 3-D, color X-ray on a human was recently done by the scientists of which country?
Answer: New Zealand (Phil and Anthony Butler, father and son)
Q. 35 Which state recently announced the constitution of a ‘Heritage Cabinet to protect ancient monuments,
temples and archaeological sites and preservation of culture?
Answer: Odisha
Q. 36 Which state government recently released the State Credit Plan (banking) 2018-19, with an aim to
improve banking services in the state?
Answer: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister (N Chandrababu Naidu).

Q. 37 Which ship of the Indian Navy has embarked on to #Lokayan-18 voyage to participate in the prestigious
‘tall ship races – 2018’?
Answer: INS Tarangini

Q. 38 Railways recently launched its first consolidated Bridge Management System (IR-BMS), a web-enabled
IT application to store data for how many bridges?
Answer: 1.5 lakh
Q. 39 Which Indian project has bagged World Bank’s internal award for exceptional performance in achieving
many development goals?
Answer: India’s Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)
Q. 40 Vice President has appointed whom as the Director General of ICWA (Indian Council of World Affairs)?
Answer: T.C.A. Raghavan

Q. 41 Name the campaign launched by The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) to improve
public health and combat lifestyle disease?
Answer: The Eat Right Movement
Q. 42 Which bank has approved Lining Project of Son canal in Shahabad-Bhojpur region of Bihar?
Answer: Asian Development Bank (Headquarter: Manila, Philippines (Currency: Peso))

Explanation: The estimated cost of this project is US $503 million (Rs 3272.49 crore) out of which US $352
million is being provided by ADB.
Q. 43 Sixth edition of World Cities Summit was recently held at?
Answer: Singapore. Its theme was “Livable & Sustainable Cities: Embracing the Future through Innovation and
Collaboration”
Q. 44 Recently India became the 69th shareholder of which bank?
Answer: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
Q. 45 With which bank Indian Army signed an MoU on the Defense Salary Package?
Answer: SBI (State Bank of India)
Q. 46 What is India’s rank in the Global Innovation Index (GII) developed by Cornell University, Insead and the
World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO headquartered at Geneva)?
Answer: 57th
Q. 47 Recently 15-point action plan named “Breathe India” for combating air pollution in ten most polluted
cities in the country was released by?
Answer: NITI Aayog
Q. 48 Name the President of South Korea who recently visited New Delhi and inaugurated ‘world’s largest
mobile factory’ of Samsung in Noida?
Answer: Moon Jae-in. India and South Korea have also decided to join forces to work towards Industrial 4.0.
Q. 49 Which bank partnered with Carlyle Group for selling of at least 51 per cent stake in its mortgage lender?
Answer: Punjab National Bank (PNB). The bank announced to sell the stake in its PNB Housing Finance, a
mortgage lender.
Q. 50 Which company announced launch of Mutual Funds transactional capabilities on Facebook Messenger
through their virtual assistant, Arya?
Answer: HDFC securities
Q. 51 According to report of which institute India has become the world’s sixth largest economy overtaking
France?
Answer: World Bank (Headquarters: Washington DC). India is $2.597 trillion economy.
Q. 52 Which Indian naval ship became the first-ever warship to enter port of Sabang in Indonesia?
Answer: INS Sumitra.

Q. 53 Which organization adopted Resolution 2427 aimed at formulating a framework for protection, rights,
well-being and empowerment of children?
Answer: UN Security Council
Q. 54 Which state emerged as the best state in Ease of Doing Report of DIPP and World Bank?
Answer: Andhra Pradesh

Explanation: DIPP, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, in collaboration with the World Bank conducted an
annual reform exercise for all States and UTs under the Business Reform Action Plan (BRAP) considering Ease
of Doing Business. Andhra Pradesh has emerged as the top state in the report.
Q. 55 The book “Winning Like Sourav: Think & Succeed Like Ganguly” has been written by-
Answer: Abhirup Bhattacharya
Q. 56 Who has become the second Indian mountaineer after Malli Mastan Babu to climb Mt Ojos del Salado
(in the Andes on the Argentina–Chile border), the highest volcano in the world?
Answer: Satyarup Siddhanta

Q. 57 Rajasthan Government has signed MoU with which company to provide free digital training to 9,500
college students for one year?
Answer: Microsoft
Q. 58 Which state recently has given religious minority status to its Jewish Community?
Answer: Gujarat
Q. 59 Which state will launch the scheme called “one farmer one transformer” to reduce electricity losses?
Answer: Maharashtra
Q. 60 Who won the special one-off Golden Man Booker Prize to mark the 50th anniversary of the literary
award?
Answer: Michael Ondaatje for his book ‘The English Patient’
Q. 61 Who was appointed chairperson of the Empowered Expert committee (EEC) to select the six (3 public
and 3 private) Institutes of eminence (IoE)?
Answer: N Gopalaswami
Explanation: Institutes of eminence (IoE) selected are: IIT-Delhi, IIT-Bombay and the Bengaluru-based Indian
Institute of Science (IISc) in the public sector, and Manipal Academy of Higher Education, BITS Pillani and Jio
Institute by Reliance Foundation in the private sector.
Q. 62 MM Jacob died due to age-related ailments recently. He was a-
Answer: Senior Congress leader and former Meghalaya Governor
Q. 63 Name the Indian who bagged gold medal in FIG Atistic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup at Mersin,
Turkey?
Answer: Dipa Karmakar
Q. 64 Which Indian athlete was appointed Asia’s representative in the Athletes Advisory Commission of the
Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF)?
Answer: Dipika Pallikal (Squash Player)

Q. 65 RBI recently announced the cancellation of license of which cooperative bank due to its bad position to
pay its depositors in full?
Answer: Alwar Urban Co-operative Bank in Alwar, Rajasthan
Q. 66 17th World Sanskrit Conference was inaugurated and attended by Human Resource Development
Minister Shri Prakash Javdekar at?
Answer: Vancouver, Canada
Q. 67 Which state government has announced Five-year jackfruit mission?
Answer: Meghalaya (Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma)

Q. 68 Kabutari Devi died following a heart attack. She was a-
Answer: Kumaoni folk singer
Q. 69 Who has been appointed the chairperson of National Green Tribunal?
Answer: Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel
Q. 70 International Conference on Non-Ferrous Minerals and Metals 2018 was recently held at-
Answer: Ranchi, Jharkhand
Explanation: In this conference Dr. Tapan Kumar Chand, CMD, NALCO, received Knowledge Excellence Award
for Outstanding Contribution in Aluminum Knowledge domain.
Q. 71 Who is the head of the task force set up to recommend the framework for a national policy on e-
commerce?
Answer: Rita Teaotia
Q. 72 Name the mobile app developed by Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) to protect
interest of consumers?
Answer: GST Verify. (Between April 01-June 30, Haryana was the top stat in GST collection).
Q. 73 PM addressed the 8th International Convention of Saurashtra Patel Cultural Samaj through video
conference which was held in-
Answer: California, US
Q. 74 Who won the gold medal in the 65kg category at the Tbilisi Grand Prix in Georgia?
Answer: Bajrang Poonia (Wrestler)
Q. 75 Which Indian bank has gone past Russia's Sberbank to become the most valuable bank in the emerging
market outside China?
Answer: HDFC Bank
Explanation: The bank has also launched Digital Loans against Mutual Funds in partnership with transfer agent
CAMS.
Q. 76 What is the name of the indigenously manufactured semi high-speed metro like engine less train
announced by Integral Coach Factory (ICF) of Chennai?
Answer: Train 18
Q. 77 What is the name of the “World’s emptiest airport” that India has agreed to develop since it was loss-
making?
Answer: Mattala International Airport in Airport
Q. 78 Airport authority of India has allocated Rs.1200 crores, for the establishment of Civil Aviation Research
Organization (CARO) at-
Answer: Begumpet Airport, Hyderabad
Q. 79 UNESCO entered into an agreement with Andhra Pradesh Economic Development Board (APEDB) for
setting up a ‘Design University for Gaming’ in-
Answer: Visakhapatnam
Q. 80 International Centre for Automotive Technology (ICAT) has issued the first BS-VI certification for a heavy-
duty engine model for-
Answer: M/s Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicle Limited
Q. 81 Which bank has received SEBI approval to start mutual fund business named Yes Asset Management
(India) Limited (YAMIL)?
Answer: Yes Bank

Q. 82 Name the virtual assistant that SBI Card, the country’s second largest credit card issuer recently
announced?
Answer: Electronic Live Assistant (ELA)

Q. 83 Global banks acting as custodians for foreign funds including HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Citi, Standard
Chartered and JP Morgan shared a list of 25 countries that were tagged as “high-risk jurisdictions” with-
Answer: SEBI
Q. 84 Recently which state government announced new Defense Manufacturing policy?

Answer: Uttar Pradesh. The policy is named ‘UP Defense Aerospace Unit and Employment Generating Policy,
2018’.
Q. 85 Who launched the Coal Mine Surveillance & Management System (CMSMS) and Mobile Application
‘Khan Prahari’ on Swami Vivekananda’s death anniversary in New Delhi?
Answer: Union Minister of Coal. Piyush Goyal (He is Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) from Maharashtra.
Q. 86 Jose Eladio Alcain has been appointed as the chief military observer of the UN Military Observer Group
in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP). He is an Army General from which country?
Answer: Uruguay (Capital: Montevideo, Currency: Peso)
Q. 87 Who was recently appointed as the Chairman of Payments Council of India?

Answer: Vishwas Patel
Q. 88 Name the fisherman from Maharashtra who has been selected for 2018 National Maritime Search and
Rescue Award?
Answer: Milan Shankar Tare

Q. 89 Which state government announced Mukhyamantri Jan Kalyan (Sambal) Yojana 2018 to provide
subsidized power for laborer and poor families?
Answer: Madhya Pradesh
Q. 90 Which state government allocated Rs 15 crore for the implementation of a pension scheme for senior
journalists, called “Acharya Balshastri Jambhekar Sanman Yojana”?
Answer: Maharashtra
Q. 91 Name the mobile app launched by Chief Election Commissioner Shri. O.P. Rawat to report on violation
of election code of conduct?
Answer: cVIGIL
Q. 92 International Finance Corporation (IFC) a constituent of World Bank group invested $100 million in
__________ to give financial assistance to small and medium enterprises.
Answer: Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Ltd. (M&M)

Q. 93 Recently which state celebrated four-day long annual cultural festival, “Behdienkhlam”?
Answer: Meghalaya
Q. 94 Recently Union Cabinet gave its approval to rename the Agartala Airport in Tripura as-
Answer: Maharaja Bir Bikram Manikya Kishore Airport

Q. 95 The Union Cabinet has approved the extension of the scheme of recapitalization of Regional Rural Banks
(RRBs) till-
Answer: 2019-20
Explanation: This extension has been done so as to enable the RRBs to maintain the minimum prescribed
Capital to Risk Weighted Assets Ratio (CRAR) of 9 per cent.
Q. 96 JG Nadkarni died recently. He was a-
Answer: Former Chief of Naval Staff
Q. 97 Non-banking financial company Manappuram Finance has entered into an agreement to acquire 85.39
per cent stake in-
Answer: Indian School Finance Corporation (ISFC)
Q. 98 Which Indian cricketer was recently inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame for his achievements in
international cricket?
Answer: Rahul Dravid

Explanation: Along with Rahul, Australian Ricky Ponting and retired England woman wicketkeeper-batter Claire
Taylor was also inducted.
Q. 99 As per report of Prime Database Investment Bankers League table for FY 2017-18, which is India’s top
investment bank for equity issuance by private sector companies?
Answer: IIFL (India Infoline Financial services company)
Q. 100 5th Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Intersessional Ministerial Meeting was held
at?
Answer: Tokyo, Japan

Q. 101 Which state recently launched “Happiness Curriculum” for students of nursery to Class 8 in government
schools?
Answer: New Delhi (Arvind Kejriwal launched it in the presence of Dalai Lama)
Q. 102 Who won the Austrian Grand Prix in Austria?
Answer: Max Verstappen

Explanation: Austria (Currency: Euro, Capital: Vienna)
Q. 103 Who won the six-nation Kabaddi Masters Dubai tournament held in Dubai?
Answer: India (Defeated Iran in the finals)
Q. 104 Who was recently chosen by Delhi & District Cricket Association (DDCA) as its president?
Answer: Rajat Sharma
Q. 105 Who was recently appointed as the Director General and chairman of the Ordnance Factory Board?
Answer: P K Shrivastava
Q. 106 Recently which Indian refinery has become the first oil public sector undertaking (PSU) to adopt an
online legal compliance system by introducing ‘Legatrix’?
Answer: Numaligarh Refinery Ltd (NRL) in Assam
Q. 107 As per the decision of GST Council, e-Way Bill system for all inter-State movement of goods has been
rolled-out from ___________?
Answer: April 01, 2018
Q. 108 Who was appointed the new chairman and managing director (CMD) of SAIL (Steel Authority of India
Limited)?
Answer: Saraswati Prasad
Q. 109 As of May 2018 which is the latest Payments bank to commence its operations?
Answer: Jio Payments Bank (commenced operations in April)
Explanation: Aditya Birla Idea Payments Bank commenced operations in February. NSDL Payments Bank had
to commence operations from June first-second week but hasn’t yet.
Q. 110 LIC has hiked its stake to 51 per cent from 10.8 per cent in which bank?
Answer: IDBI Bank
Q. 111 Government has set up a 13-member committee headed by whom, to upgrade the norms for
computation of economic data at states and districts level to revise the base year for National Accounts or
GDP calculation?
Answer: Ravindra H Dholakia
Q. 112 Which state has bagged the top award in the country by enrolling 68.26 per cent women for ante natal
check-up by a doctor under the Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA)?
Answer: Himachal Pradesh

Q. 113 Who has been recently appointed as the Director and General Manager of the United India Insurance
Company?
Answer: K B Vijay Srinivas
Q. 114 Who has been selected as the new President of Mexico?
Answer: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Explanation: Mexico Capital: Mexico City, Currency: Peso)
Q. 115 Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister, Shri Radha Mohan Singh announced the “National
Policy on Marine Fisheries, 2017” on “Marine Fisheries-Mariculture in India” at?
Answer: Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu

Explanation: Shri Radha Mohan Singh is the MP (Lok Sabha) from Purvi Champaran, Bihar.
Q. 116 58th National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships (NISSAC) was recently held at?
Answer: Guwahati, Assam.
Explanation: Dutee Chand (representing Odisha) broke her 100m national record to become the fastest
woman of the meet.
Q. 117 Which Indian airport performed best and secured a world rank of 261 in the OTP (On Time Punctuality)
rating conducted by OAG?
Answer: Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi Int’l airport

Explanation: Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai, performed worst and has been
ranked as the fifth least punctual airport in the world of the total 513 airports Mumbai was ranked 509.
Q. 118 Which National Park has become the largest habitat of the endangered estuarine crocodiles in the
country?
Answer: Bhitarkanika National Park (in Odisha)

Q. 119 “Agri Vikas 2018”, a conclave on agriculture and allied sectors was held at?
Answer: Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
Q. 120 Which state government recently laid foundation stone for Gattu irrigation project?
Answer: Telangana (Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar)

Q. 121 Madhya Pradesh state government has conferred prestigious National Kalidas Samman to which noted
artist?
Answer: Anjolie Ela Menon
Q. 122 Which state Government has signed MoU with India’s largest commodities exchange platform, Multi
Commodity Exchange of India Limited (MCX) to launch Cotton Mission to empower cotton farmers in the
state?
Answer: Maharashtra
Q. 123 3rd Annual Meeting of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) was recently held in-
Answer: Mumbai
Q. 124 Who has been recently appointed as whole-time member of the Securities and Exchange Board of
India?
Answer: Anant Barua

Q. 125 With which neighboring country India agreed to institute Coordinated Patrol (CORPAT) as an annual
exercise between navies?
Answer: Bangladesh
Explanation: India also conducts similar CORPAT with Indonesia (31st such CORPAT was recently held at
Belawan, Indonesia)
Q. 126 India recently signed an MoU with which country to enhance cooperation in biotechnology and
traditional medicine?
Answer: Cuba (Currency: Peso, Capital: Havana)

Q. 127 Government recently released a commemorative coin of Rs 125 and circulation coin of Rs 5
denomination to mark the 125th Birth Anniversary of-
Answer: Professor P. C. Mahalanobis
Explanation: India’s second 5-year plan (1956-51) which focused on rapid industrialization was also known as
Mahalanobis plan.
Q. 128 On account of failing to curb anti-terror financing Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has placed which
country on the ‘grey list’-
Answer: Pakistan
Q. 129 What is India’s rank in the Global Real Estate Transparency Index 2018 released by Jones Lang LaSalle
Inc. (JLL)-
Answer: 35
Q. 130 Cabinet has approved the capital infusion of what amount for strengthening of Export Credit Guarantee
Corporation (ECGC)?
Answer: Rs.2000 crores
Q. 131 India has pledged to increase its contribution for the next four years to Global Environment Facility
(GEF) to what amount-
Answer: $15 million

Q. 132 Which country has gifted a pair of giant Aldabra tortoise to India?
Answer: Seychelles (Capital: Victoria, Currency: Rupee)
Explanation: India gifted Dornier aircraft to Seychelles. Its President Danny Faure recently visited India and has
said that Seychelles will not allow India to develop naval base at Assumption Island.
Q. 133 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has come out with draft guidelines on constituting a board of
management (BoM) in addition to the board of directors, for which cooperative banks?
Answer: Urban cooperative banks (UCBs)
Q. 134 Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has approved construction of how many more houses under the
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna (Urban) with an investment of Rs 8,692 crore?
Answer: 3,18,900
Q. 135 Which bank has approved $200 million investment in the National Infrastructure and Investment Fund
(NIIF)?
Answer: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) (Headquarter: Beijing, China)
Q. 136 Who declared the Victorian and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai as the World Heritage Property?
Answer: World Heritage Committee of UNESCO
Q. 136 What is the name of the mobile application launched by Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and
Civil Aviation (Suresh Prabhu) to track and trace missing and abandoned children in India?
Answer: ReUnite
Q. 137 Who launched the ‘Solar Charkha Mission’ on the occasion of the UN MSME Day (June 27) to mark the
important economic role played by Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)?
Answer: President Ram Nath Kovind
Q. 138 Which district performed best in the NITI Aayog’s first Delta Ranking (Incremental Progress) of the
Aspirational Districts?
Answer: Dahod district of Gujarat improved 19.8 points to rank 1st in the Delta ranking
Explanation: The data considered was on five developmental areas- Health and Nutrition, Education,
Agriculture and Water Resources, Financial Inclusion and Skill Development, and Basic Infrastructure.
Q. 139 Who will head the committee set up to lay down standards for metro rail systems in the country?
Answer: E. Sreedharan, also known as Metro Man of India.
Q. 140 B Sujatha Devi died at a private hospital recently. She was a -
Answer: Poetess
Q. 141 Who won the gold medal in men’s 50-meter breaststroke event at the Singapore National Swimming
Championships in Singapore?
Answer: Sandeep Sejwal
Q. 142 WWF-India has launched its first-ever comic book named-
Answer: The Great Indian Nature Trail with Uncle Bikky

Q. 143 What is the name of the India’s first robotic telescope located at the Indian Astronomical Observatory
(IAO) at Hanle in Ladakh?
Answer: GROWTH-India
Q. 144 Which state Government announced the launch of the Rs 870-crore pilot project of Suryashakti Kisan
Yojana (SKY)?
Answer: Gujarat
Q. 145 Veteran Prabhakar Choubey passed away after a prolonged illness in Raipur recently. He was a?
Answer: Journalist and litterateur
Q. 146 Who has been appointed as the new Managing Director of State Bank of India?
Answer: Arijit Basu
Q. 147 Which Indian city created Guinness World Record when more than 1.05 lakh people performed yoga
to mark International Yoga Day (June 21)?
Answer: Kota (Rajasthan)

Q. 148 PM recently inaugurated which state’s urban transport scheme named ‘Sutra Seva’?
Answer: Madhya Pradesh
Q. 149: Which sportsperson was honored as the Sportsperson of the Year for 2017 by the Sports Illustrated
India magazine?
Answer: Kidambi Srikanth
Q. 150 Who will succeed Sunil Mittal as ICC chairman (International Chamber of Commerce)?
Answer: Paul Polman
Q. 151 Which Indian bank has featured at 60th rank in the BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands
ranking?
Answer: HDFC Bank
Q. 152 Where did Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a nature centre called ‘YO1 Nature Cure
Center’?
Answer: New York City

Explanation: This year’s International Yoga Day’s (21 June) main event was held in Dehradun.
Q. 153 Which state recently launched Muttathe Mulla scheme which involves the disbursement of loans
between Rs 1,000 and Rs 25,000 at low rates of interests to rural households?
Answer: Kerala
Q. 154 The Conference on “International Decade for Action: Water for Sustainable Development 2018-2028”
was recently held in?
Answer: Dushanbe, Tajikistan (Currency: Both Somoni and Ruble)
Q. 155 One97 Communications, which runs Paytm, has appointed which former RBI Deputy Governor as an
advisor?
Answer: Rama Subramaniam Gandhi
Q. 156 Which small finance bank will raise Rs. 1,000 crores from Temasek, a global investment company
headquartered in Singapore?
Answer: AU Small Finance Bank (Headquarter: Jaipur, Rajasthan)

Q. 157 Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation announced which city as the 100th Smart City?
Answer: Shillong, capital city of Meghalaya
Q. 158 Name the world’s most powerful and smartest scientific supercomputer developed by US scientists?
Answer: Summit
Q. 159 Who has been elected as the new president of Columbia?
Answer: Ivan Duque
Explanation: Columbia Capital: Bogota, Currency: Peso
Q. 160 The Finance Ministry recently launched the second tranche of Bharat-22 exchange traded fund (ETF)
with an aim to raise up to what amount?
Answer: Rs. 8,400 crores
Q. 161: Where was International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) recently
held?
Answer: Kathmandu, Nepal. The Theme of two-day conference was “Sustainable Development Goals for Smart
Society”
Q. 162 Which country has launched construction of its first strategically important oil refinery funded by India
($ 1 billion aid) in its southern Dornogovi province?
Answer: Mongolia
Explanation: (Capital: Ulaanbaatar, Currency: Togrog)
Q. 163 The world’s first International Centre for Humanitarian Forensics was launched in
Answer: Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
Q. 164 Which smart city from Gujarat was selected for ‘City Award’ for showing great momentum in
implementation of projects under India Smart Cities Awards 2018.
Answer: Surat, Gujarat
Q. 165 Which state government launched ‘i-Hariyali’ mobile application aimed at increasing the state’s green
cover?
Answer: Punjab
Explanation: The app has been launched under ‘Mission Tandarust Punjab’.
Q. 166 Which state has launched 7-Star Gram Panchayat Rainbow scheme to give star rankings to its
panchayats on the basis of seven social parameters?
Answer: Haryana
Q. 167 Which Union Ministry launched National Digital Library of India (NDLI) on the occasion of National
Reading Day (June 17)?
Answer: Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD)

Q. 168 Name the program launched by NASSCOM to increase the number of women in senior levels in IT
industry?
Answer: Women Wizards Rule Tech
Q. 169 RBI tightens norms for Liberalized Remittance Scheme (LRS) by making quoting of PAN mandatory even
for transactions below __________.
Answer: USD 25,000
Q. 170 Who will head (convener) the government constituted chief ministers' sub-group to coordinate policy
approaches for agriculture and MGNREGS?
Answer: Madhya Pradesh CM Shiv Raj Singh Chauhan
Q. 171 What is the name of the Tri-service jointly conducted by Russia-India military exercise to be conducted
in India in 2nd half of 2018?
Answer: Indra-2018
Q. 172 Who will head the 10-member panel set up by IRDAI to review norms related to insurance marketing
firm (IMF) with an aim to increase insurance penetration in the country?
Answer: Suresh Mathur
Q. 173 Jiten Chakraborty passed away in Guwahati recently. He was a-
Answer: Social activist

Q. 174 Which organization has declared the obsessive gaming phenomenon as a legit disorder- “Gaming
Disorder”?
Answer: World Health Organisation (WHO)
Q. 175 Which state police has launched a mobile-based messenger application ‘COP Connect’ dedicated to
provide real time information to over 60,000 police officers across the State?
Answer: Telangana
Q. 176 Who is the new Prime Minister of Jordan?
Answer: Omar-al-Razzaz
Q. 177 Which country has surpassed India to become the top destination for greenfield FDI investment in
2017, according to FDI Report 2018 compiled by FDI Intelligence?
Answer: US
Q. 178 Marg ERP limited, has partnered with which Bank, to offer an integrated payments platform to Micro,
Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) customers?
Answer: ICICI Bank (Headquarter: Mumbai)
Q. 179 Adiraju Venkateswara Rao passed away in Hyderabad recently he was a-

Answer: Veteran journalist and author
Q. 180 Which Indian cricketer became the first Indian to score a test century before Lunch of Day 1? He
achieved the feat against Afghanistan?
Answer: Shikhar Dhawan (This test match was played in M. Chinnaswamy Bangalore stadium)
Q. 181 General Motors recently announced which Indian origin person as Chief Financial Officer?
Answer: Dhivya Suryadevara

Q. 182 Flipkart-owned PhonePe has partnered with which cab aggregator that will allow riders to book rides
using the payment platform.?
Answer: Ola
Q. 183 Mulubha Jadeja passed away recently, he was a-

Answer: Former cricketer from Saurashtra
Q. 184 Who won Gold in the 20th International Umakhanov boxing Tournament held in Kaspiysk, Russian
Federation?
Answer: Saweety Bora. Brijesh Yadav and Virender Kumar won silver.
Q. 185 Which company is the highest ranked Indian firm (ranked 83) in Forbes magazine's 'Global 2000' list
this year?
Answer: Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries (RIL)
Q. 186 In which country did Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman recently inaugurate the first Representative
Office of Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL)?
Answer: Vietnam (Capital: Hanoi, Currency: Dong)
Q. 187 Which bank will raise Rs 24,000 crores in foreign direct investment (FDI) to fund its business growth?
Answer: HDFC Bank
Explanation: Private banks have FDI limit of 74 percent. With this raise HDFC will hit the ceiling of 74%.
Q. 188 With what theme Department of Posts and Viet Nam Post have jointly issued passport?
Answer: Ancient Architecture
Q. 189 Which stock exchange has introduced a ‘tri-party repo market’ platform, a mechanism to deepen the
corporate bond market liquidity?
Answer: National Stock Exchange (NSE)

Q. 190 Motif of which monument is on the reverse side of new lavender colored Mahatma Gandhi series Rs.
100 notes released by RBI?
Answer: Rani Ki Vav - a heritage site located in Gujarat
Explanation: The new Rs. 100 banknote, will be of the dimension of 66 mmx142. Earlier, RBI had issued fresh
Rs. 50 notes in fluorescent blue color with motif of Hampi with chariot (Karnataka), Rs. 200 notes in bright
yellow color with a motif of the Sanchi Stupa (Madhya Pradesh) and Rs. 10 banknotes in chocolate brown color
with motif of Konark Sun Temple (Odisha).
Q. 191 Name the mobile application developed by Centre for Railway Information System (CRIS) that enables
booking and cancellation of unreserved tickets, issue and renewal of season and platform tickets and other
facilities?
Answer: utsonmobile
Q. 192: Maharashtra government has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with which province of
Canada to increase economic cooperation and welfare of tribal community in the state?
Answer: Quebec, Canada (Currency: Dollar, Capital: Ottawa)
Explanation: 44th G-7 Summit 2018 was held in Quebec, Canada only. Justin Trudeau is the PM of Canada, he
also recently visited India.
Q. 193 Which state emerged on top in NITI Aayog’s Composite Water Management Index which is a useful
tool to assess and improve the performance in efficient management of water resources?
Answer: Gujarat
Q. 194 ISRO’s rocket sciences arm Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) has decided to transfer its which
technology to successful Indian industries and start-ups on non-exclusive basis in automobiles for Rs. 1 crore?
Answer: lithium ion (Li ion) cell technology
Q. 195 At 17.2%, share of mobile banking transactions which bank is at the top if largest value of transactions
is concerned according to State Bank of India’s (SBI) annual report for 2017-18?
Answer: Axis Bank (Headquarter: Mumbai)
Q. 196 First national police museum will come up at?
Answer: New Delhi

Q. 197 Who heads the union government formed committee which aims to bring more transparency in
employment related data releases?
Answer: Former Chief Statistician Prof. T.C.A Anant
Q. 198 YouTube has invested how much money to counter the spread of fake news on its platform?
Answer: $25 million

Q. 199 Who won the French Open singles title in men’s category?
Answer: Rafael Nadal, he defeated Dominic Thiem in the finals. In women’s category Simona Halep defeated
Sloane Stephens to lift the title. Nadal has also won Barcelona and Monte Carlo Tennis tournament as well.
Q. 200 The 2018 Asian Junior Athletics Championships (18th edition) took place at?
Answer: Gifu, Japan. India finished third with 17 medals (5 Golds)
Q. 201 Bangladesh women’s team beat Indian women’s cricket team to win their maiden Asia Cup trophy. The
event was held in
Answer: Kula lumpur (Capital), Malaysia. (Mahathir bin Mohamad is the new PM of Malaysia). Currency:
Ringgit
Q. 202 What is the name of the India’s first indigenous long-range artillery gun-
Answer: Dhanush
Q. 203 Who has taken over as the executive director in the EEPC India, the apex organization of engineering
exporters?
Answer: Suranjan Gupta
Q. 204 Private sector Karur Vysya Bank has entered into a bancassurance partnership with which company?
Answer: Aditya Birla Health
Q. 205 Which state has been put on top in a national disaster risk index prepared by the Union home ministry
with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) mapping hazards and vulnerabilities
across 640 districts?
Answer: Maharashtra. Among UTs Delhi is most vulnerable.

Q. 206 Who has been appointed as the vigilance commissioner in Central Vigilance Commission?
Answer: Sharad Kumar
Q. 207 India recently extended a financial aid of Rs 99 million to Nepal for the construction of 2,700 shallow
tube well irrigation systems under which project?
Answer: Nepal-Bharat Maitri Irrigation Project
Q. 208 BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) 2018 summit
was held at?
Answer: Nepal
Explanation: India will host first military exercise of the BIMSTEC Countries in September 2018 in Pune,
Maharashtra.
Q. 209 India defeated which country to win the Intercontinental Cup in football?
Answer: Kenya (Capital: Nairobi, Currency: Shilling)

Explanation: In this match Sunil Chhetri became joint second highest international goal scorer among active
players along with Argentine superstar footballer Lionel Messi.
Q. 210 Laxman Patil-Bhosle also known as ‘Lokyukta’ passed away recently he was a-
Answer: Socialist leader
Q. 211 Which bank appointed former RBI deputy governor Harun Rashid Khan as non- executive part time
chairman?
Answer: Bandhan Bank (Headquarter at Kolkata)
Q. 212 Zakum oilfield is in which country from where ONGC Videsh Ltd. received its first equity oil to New
Mangalore port?
Answer: Abu Dhabi

Explanation: Similarly, GAIL, India’s biggest gas utility, received its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo from
Russia’s GAZPROM at western city of Dahej (Gujarat).
Q. 213 Which Bank launched a deposit scheme, which could fetch up to 8 per cent for a tenure of little over
18 months, through this the bank is eyeing Rs 1,000 crores and the scheme is named 'Green Future: Deposit'?
Answer: Yes Bank (Headquarter: Mumbai)
Q. 214 Sarita Nayyar has been inducted as a member of Managing board of-
Answer: World Economic Forum (Headquartered at Cologny, Geneva, Switzerland)
Q. 215 Who has been elected as new Director General of UN migration agency?
Answer: Antonio Vitorino
Q. 216 As per DIPP Foreign direct investment in India increased to ________ in 2017-18.
Answer: USD 61.96 billion
Q. 217 RBI has made changes in the Gold Monetization Scheme (GMS) to make it more attractive. These
deposits will be for a short period of-
Answer: 1-3 years Deposits can also be allowed for broken periods (e.g. 1 year 3 months; 2 years 4 months 5
days; etc.)
Explanation: The Medium-Term Government Deposit (MTGD) can be made for 5-7 years and Long-Term
Government Deposit (LTGD) for 12-15 years or for such period as may be decided by the Central Government
from time to time. Deposits can also be allowed for broken periods (e.g. 5 years 7 months; 13 years 4 months
15 days; etc.).
Q. 218 Which state recently launched a ‘Business First Portal’ to give a big push towards the ease of doing
business in the state?
Answer: Punjab
Q. 219 Minister of State for Defence, Dr. Subhash Bhamre inaugurated 578 m long Theng tunnel built by BRO
(Border Road Organisation)?
Answer: Sikkim. It is Sikkim’s longest tunnel

Q. 220 Which Indian became the first Indian women cricketer to score 2000 runs in Twenty20 Internationals?
Answer: Mithali Raj

Q. 221 Which Indian cricketer was presented the Polly Umrigar Award for the best international cricketer
(2016-17 and 2017-18) by the BCCI?
Answer: Virat Kohli

Explanation: According to CEAT Cricket ratings awards Virat Kohli is also the International Cricketer of the year,
Shikhar Dhawan and Trent Boult are International Batsman and bowler of the year respectively.
Q. 222 As per new RBI directive the NPA recognition for all MSMEs (both registered and non-GST entities) will
be within how many days?
Answer: 180 days – for dues up to December 31, 2018.
Q. 223 As per fifteenth edition of the QS World University Rankings which Indian institute has been ranked as
the highest ranked Indian institution?
Answer: IIT Bombay has improved 17 ranks and has been placed in 162 nd spot
Q. 224 Under which Operation Indian Navy brings back 38 Indians from cyclone-hit Socotra islands in Yemen
(Capital: Sana, Currency: Real) under which was in the wake of the devastation caused by Cyclonic storm –
Mekunu?
Answer: Operation Nistar
Q. 225 To whom did China awarded its first highest state honor Friendship Medal?
Answer: Russian President Vladimir Putin
Q. 226 What was India’s rank among 163 countries in Global Peace Index 2018 that was released by Sydney-
based think tank Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP)?
Answer: 136th. Iceland was ranked most peaceful country.

Q. 227 Who will be the next chairman of Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC)?
Answer: S Ramesh
Q. 228 The 18th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit was held at-
Answer: Qingdao, China (19th SCO summit will be held at Kyrgyzstan)

Explanation: Total there are eight SCO members China, Russia, Kazakhstan (capital: Astana), Kyrgyzstan
(capital: Bishkek), Tajikistan (Dushanbe), Uzbekistan (Tashkent), India and Pakistan. This was the first time
Indian and Pakistan attended SCO summit.
The Second edition of SCO- Afghanistan contact group meeting was held in Beijing.
Q. 229 Which country will be hosting the 11th World Hindi Congress in August?
Answer: Mauritius (capital: Port Louis, Currency: Rupee)
Explanation: The theme of the Conference will be “Vaishvik Hindi Aur Bharatiya Sanskriti “.
Q. 230 Which are the new non-permanent members of UN Security Council (UNSC)?
Answer: South Africa, Indonesia, Dominican Republic (capital: Santo Domingo), Germany and Belgium
(Brussels)
Q. 231 Who has been appointed as next Ambassador of India to ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian
Nations)?
Answer: Rudrendra Tondon

Q. 232 World Bank’s ‘Global Economic Prospect’ report has estimated India’s GDP to grow at what percent?
Answer: 7.3% in this fiscal year, thus giving India the tag of “Fastest Growing Economy”.
Explanation: The World Bank has also approved Atal Bhujal Yojana (ABHY), a Rs.6000 crore Central Sector
Scheme.
Q. 233 Government of India has constituted a group of eminent persons to study the Special Economic Zones
(SEZ) Policy of India, this study group would be headed by-
Answer: Baba Kalyani
Q. 234 Which bank has acquired to acquire Micro-lender Bharat Financial Inclusion Ltd (BFIL) through an all-
stock transaction?
Answer: IndusInd Bank (Headquarter: Mumbai)
Q. 235 Which lawyer of Indian ethnicity was appointed as the new Attorney general of Malaysia by the King
Sultan Muhammad V?
Answer: Tommy Thomas

Q. 236 Name the child who has been named 'Youngest Author of India’ for his book 'Honeycomb'?
Answer: Four-Year-Old Boy Ayan Gogoi Gohain from Assam
Q. 237 Which bank recently became the first corporate bank to enroll with the UK Open Banking Directory as
a Payment Initiation Service Provider (PISP)?
Answer: Citi Bank (Headquarter: Mumbai)
Q. 238 The government recently launched which scheme under the Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi
Pariyojana (PMBJP) for women?
Answer: ‘JANAUSHADHI SUVIDHA’, the Oxo-biodegradable Sanitary Napkin.

Q. 239 Name the, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of IDBI Bank who was recently appointed as
a deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India?
Answer: Mahesh Kumar Jain
Q. 240 According to a recently released ‘Status of Environment Report, India 2015’, India’s forest cover was
_______ in 2015.
Answer: 21.34 %. Mizoram with 89 % has the highest forest cover compared to other states and UTs.
Q. 241 Environment friendly, clean and equipped with amenities of international standards for tourists, 13
Indian beaches will soon get___________
Answer: Blue Flag certification. Chandrabhaga Beach in Odisha got the first such certificate.
Q. 242. Under Swachh Bharat Mission rural sanitation coverage of India has risen to 85%. Recent survey has
found usage of toilets in rural India is around?
Answer: 93.4%.
Q. 243 The President has declared queen variety of pineapple as state fruit of which state?
Answer: Tripura
Q. 244 The Union Cabinet has approved The Union Cabinet has approved what amount bailout package for
the ailing sugar industry in the country?
Answer: Rs. 8500 Crores
Q. 245 Government (Union Finance Ministry) has signed loan agreement of what amount with World Bank to
provide additional financing for Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) rural road projects?
Answer: US $500 million (Rs 3,371 crore)
Q. 246: Name the players awarded with the 'Most Valuable Player' (MVP) in the Basketball Without Borders
Asia, event held in Noida?
Answer: Sanjana Ramesh compatriot Vaishnavi Yadav won the 'Girls Grit Award'.
Q. 247 Name the Indian who works on satellite navigation for French major Safran and has been appointed
ambassador for an initiative in France to encourage girls to follow scientific careers and take it to higher
education levels?
Answer: Priyanka Das from Assam

Q. 248 According to a Morgan Stanley report India is expected to be a leader in shared mobility by-
Answer: 2030
Q. 249 To emphasize the importance of financial literacy, RBI observed the week June 5-9, 2017 as Financial
Literacy Week across the country. The literacy week focused on how many themes?
Answer: Four broad themes, viz. KYC, Exercising Credit Discipline, Grievance Redressal and Going Digital (UPI
and *99#).
Q. 250 Like Dalmia Bharat Group adopted Red Fort under “Adopt a Heritage scheme”, which organisation
adopted Charminar of Hyderabad?
Answer: NTPC Ltd
Q. 251 Who has been sworn in as the Spain’s (capital: Madrid, Currency: Euro) new Prime Minister by King
Felipe?
Answer: Pedro Sánchez

Q. 252 PM recently visited three ASEAN (Headquarter: Jakarta, Indonesia) countries Indonesia, Malaysia and
Singapore, in which country he addressed Shangri-La dialogue?
Answer: Singapore (capital: Singapore, Currency: Dollar)

Explanation: He also launched three Indian payment apps in Singapore. These apps were RuPay Card, BHIM
app and SBI app. Modi also gave Padma Shri award to former Singaporean Diplomat Mr. Tommy koh.
Dendrobrium Narendra Modi - an orchid named after PM on the occasion of his visit to the National Orchid
Garden in Singapore
Q. 253 Which state recently launched a Zero Based Natural Farming (ZBNF) scale-out scheme, aimed at
benefitting around six million farmers by 2024?
Answer: Andhra Pradesh
Explanation: Andhra Pradesh also became the first state to use disposable syringes recently the state
government also decided to give Rs. 1000 monthly to the unemployed graduates.
Q. 254 Making a breakthrough in missile technology, which country successfully carried out the flight test of
Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet (SFDR) propulsion-based missile recently?
Answer: India
Q. 255 Which company recently became India’s first "one app, one minute" service that offers members
wealth creation, automated savings, and expense management through an award-winning user-interface?
Answer: Cube Wealth

Q. 256 What was India’s rank in Save the Children’s "End of Childhood Index 2018” which ranked 175
countries this year?
Answer: 113
Q. 257 Which state recently launched "Gopabandhu Sambadika Swasthya Bima Yojana" for working
journalists?
Answer: Odisha
Q. 258 Which ministry introduced a new scheme called ‘Seva Bhoj Yojna’ to reimburse the central share of
CGST and IGST on items for food/prasad/langar/Bhandara with a total outlay of Rs. 325.00 crores?
Answer: Union Ministry of Culture (Mahesh Sharma is the minister of Culture he is MP (Lok Sabha) from
Gautam Buddha Nagar, UP)
Q. 259 Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi (MP (Lok Sabha) from Pilibhit,
UP) recently laid the foundation stone of an advanced DNA forensic laboratory at?
Answer: Chandigarh. The lab is also called ‘Sakhi Suraksha' lab
Q. 260 Which bank has once again been recognized with the Champion Security Award at the 14th Visa Asia
Pacific Security Summit?
Answer: HDFC Bank
Q. 261 Who has been awarded the most inspiring icon of the year for Social Welfare award by the Dadasaheb
Phalke International Film Festival (DPIFF) for his exemplary contribution in the field of social welfare?
Answer: Yuvraj Singh
Q. 262 Which two personalities were awarded ‘Santokbaa Humanitarian Award'?
Answer: Child rights activist and Noble Laureate Kailash Satyarthi and space scientist A S Kiran Kumar.
Q. 263 Urmila Singh passed away recently, she was a former governor of?
Answer: Himachal Pradesh
Q. 264 Name the India’s CWG gold medalist Discus thrower who recently retired?
Answer: Vikas Gowda
Q. 265 Name the Kerala based cartoonist who has won top award in the best caricature category at the 13th
edition of the World Press Cartoon awards?
Answer: Thomas Antony

Q. 266 Name the Indian botanist who received the prestigious Linnean Medal in Botany from the Linnean
Society of London?
Answer: Kamaljit S. Bawa
Q. 267 22nd edition of trilateral Naval Exercise Malabar 2018 between India, Japan and United States was held
off the coast of?
Answer: Guam in Philippine Sea
Q. 268 Which country to host the multi-nation counter-terrorism exercise “Peace Mission 2018”?
Answer: Russia (All SCO members will participate)
Q. 269 “Harimau Shakti 2018” a joint military exercise was between India and which country?
Answer: Malyasia
Q. 270 United States has renamed its oldest and largest stragically important military command US Pacific
Command (PACOM) as?
Answer: Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM).

Q. 271 Recently who was appointed as the Deputy National Security Advisor (NSA)?
Answer: Pankaj Saran
Q. 272 The 71st World Health Assembly held in Geneva, Switzerland has adopted resolution on
Answer: Digital Health

Q. 273 Name the web portal and app launched by Power Ministry for better administration and transparency?
Answer: web portal: www.praapti.in app: PRAAPTI (Payment Ratification and Analysis in Power procurement
for bringing Transparency in Invoicing of generators)
Q. 274 Which country’s women clinched the Uber Cup (Badminton) recently by beating Thailand in Bangkok?
Answer: Japan
Q. 275 Recently who was elected as the Chairperson of Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation
of India Ltd. (TRIFED)?
Answer: Shri Ramesh Chand Meena
Q. 276 Who has been appointed as the President of National Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission
(NCDRC)?
Answer: Justice R K Agrawal

Q. 277 Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has appointed whom as the first Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of RBI?
Answer: Sudha Balakrishnan

Q. 278 Patanjali has tied up with which telecom regulator to launch Swadeshi Samriddhi SIM cards?
Answer: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL)
Q. 279 The first edition of Global Wind Summit will be held in ______ from September 25 to 28, 2018.
Answer: Hamburg, Germany

Q. 280 The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has recognized which Indian Airport as the
world’s first fully solar energy-powered airport?
Answer: Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL) in Kerala
Q. 281 Which company has signed MoU with Government to provide development support in eight worst
Naxal-affected districts in Chhattisgarh.
Answer: Tata Trusts
Q. 282 Zorawar Chand Bakshi passed away recently he was a -
Answer: Army General
Q. 283 Which Indian football club became the first club in the history of the Indian football to acquire a
European club.?
Answer: Sudeva FC. The Delhi-based club announced the acquisition of Spain's C.D Olimpic de Xativa
Q. 284 Ganeshi Lal and Kummanam Rajasekharan were recently appointed as Governors of-
Answer: Odisha and Mizoram respectively

Q. 285 Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has announced what percent interest rate for 2017-
18?
Answer: 8.55%
Q. 286 Which country recently formally joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
Answer: Colombia (Capital: Bogota, Currency: Peso) NATO is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium
Q. 287 NITI Aayog has signed Statement of Intent (SoI) with which film personality to collaborate and support
its flagship Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) initiative?
Answer: Sushant Singh Rajput. He will also promote Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) digital payments app
for cashless economy.
Q. 288 ASEAN- India film festival was held in which city?

Answer: New Delhi
Q. 289 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina inaugurated
Bangladesh Bhawan at-
Answer: Vishwa Bharti University in Shanti Niketan, West Bengal.
Q. 290 The Fifteenth Finance Commission has constituted high level group under whose chairmanship to
explore and give recommendations for a balanced expansion of the health sector?
Answer: Dr. Randeep Guleria, Director, AIIMS, New Delhi
Q. 291 Name the 28-year-old mountaineer who has become only woman in the world to climb three highest
peaks in Nepal above 8,000 meters in one season within 25 days?
Answer: Nima Jangmu

Q. 292 Which NGO won the India Biodiversity Award 2018 in the “Conservation of wildlife species” category.
Answer: Arunachal Pradesh-based NGO Singchung Bugun Community Reserve (SBVCR).
Q. 293 Which Indian bank has received approval from National Stock Exchange (NSE), to be empaneled as
‘Settlement Bank’ for National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCCL), a wholly owned subsidiary of NSE?
Answer: Yes Bank

Q. 294 3 -day long diversified cultural festival ‘Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav’ festival was held at?
Answer: Uttarakhand
Q. 295 Prime Minister Modi recently laid foundation stones for the revival of Sindri urea plant in which state?
Answer: Jharkhand
Explanation: PM also laid the foundation stone for a 750-bed All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)
and an airport in Deoghar district. Modi also laid online the foundation stone for 800mwx5 super thermal
power plants in Patratu of Ramgarh district.
Q. 296 Name the Netherlands Prime Minister who was recently on a two-day visit to India?
Answer: Mark Rutte. He launched the ‘Clean Air India Initiative’ in New Delhi. Also new Dutch Consulate will
be opened in Bengaluru and Netherlands also became the 64th to join ISA.
Explanation: Governments of India, Netherlands and Sweden launched first-of-its-kind collaborative research
Programme on HIV/AIDS.
Q. 297 The Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javdekar (MP (Rajya Sabha) from
Maharashtra) launched Samagra Shiksha scheme for school education from pre-school to senior secondary
levels. The scheme is an integration of three already existing schemes. Name the schemes?
Answer: Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) and Teacher Education
(TE).
Q. 298 Which Indian recently bagged the gold in the Grand Prix in Munich?
Answer: Tejaswini Sawant (Shooter)

Q. 299 Name the non-executive chairperson of various banks appointed by government on recommendation
of Banks Board Bureau (BBB)?
Answer: Charan Singh: Punjab & Sind Bank, Anjali Bansal: Dena Bank, and Tapan Ray of Central Bank of India.
Q. 300 Who was appointed as the Managing Director and CEO of Airtel Payments Bank?
Answer: Anubrata Biswas
Q. 301 According to World Health Statistics 2018 released by World Health Organisation (WHO), India saw
estimated how many cases of TB per 1,00,000 people in 2016?
Answer: 211 cases of tuberculosis (TB). India has pledged to eradicate tuberculosis by 2025, five years ahead
of global target set by WHO.
Q. 302 26th BASIC Ministerial Meeting of Environment Ministers was recently held in-
Answer: Durban. Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan (MP (Lok Sabha) from Chandini Chowk) represented
India at the event.
Explanation: He also led Indian delegation in Mission Innovation (MI) Ministerial at Malmo, Sweden. India
launches an international incubator for clean energy innovators in MI.
Q. 303 World Bank through its arm IBRD has approved assistance of what amount to help scale up India’s
energy efficiency program to be implemented by the Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL)?
Answer: Rs 2,040 crore (US $300 million)
Q. 304 Recently which legendary singer was conferred the Banga Bibhushan award of the West Bengal
government?
Answer: Asha Bhosle. She has also been awarded 26th P C Chandra Puraskaar 2018.
Q. 305 Which country defeated India to lift the 5th Women’s Asian Champions Trophy in hockey?
Answer: South Korea. The tournament was played in South Korea
Q. 306 Recently Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited (MCX) launched country’s first _____ options
contracts.
Answer: Copper
Q. 307 Arunachal Pradesh recently found a place on the aviation map of the country as the state's first
commercial flight with Chief Minister Pema Khandu landed at-
Answer: Pasighat Advance Landing Ground in East Siang district
Q. 308 Which bank has consolidated most of its operational activities at a shared service Center (SSC), in
Gujarat's GIFT City making it the first India bank to actually move a lot of operation to the smart city?
Answer: Bank of Baroda (Baroda)
Q. 309 NITI Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar announced that Indian economy will achieve 9 per cent growth
rate on sustained basis by-
Answer: 2022
Q. 310 Name the Indian-origin Sikh politician in Malaysia who has become a Cabinet minister, the first member
of the minority community in the country's history?
Answer: Gobind Singh Deo

Q. 311 Bansidhar Panda passed away recently he was a-
Answer: Well-known industrialist from Odisha and founder of Indian Metals and Ferro Alloys Ltd (IMFA),
Q. 312 Name the new software launched in Rajasthan for presumptive diagnosis and monitoring of seasonal
and non-communicable diseases as well as the trends of ailments found in specific areas?
Answer: ‘Nidaan’
Q. 313 Election Commission of India (ECI) is launching multi-lingual mobile application called _______ ahead
of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Answer: Model Code of Conduct Violation Reporting App

Q. 314 What is India’s rank among 195 countries in terms of quality and accessibility of healthcare, according
to a Lancet study?
Answer: 145th. India is behind its neighbors like China, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan,
Q. 315 The 4th Smart Cities India 2018 expo, co-locating five major verticals that make up our smart city
framework - Buildings, Solar, Smart Cities, Transport and Water, was recently held in-
Answer: New Delhi
Q. 316 Name the novelist from Poland (capital: Warsaw, Currency: Zloty) who won the prestigious Man Booker
International Prize for fiction “For Flights”?
Answer: Olga Tokarczuk

Q. 317 Who was posthumously given the BRICS Business Forum Leadership Award for Lifetime Achievement
in Indian cinema?
Answer: Sridevi
Q. 318 Vinod Bhatt passed away, he was a-

Answer: Gujarati writer and humorist
Q. 319 Indian and Nepali armies conducted the 13th edition of the Surya Kiran joint exercise in-
Answer: Uttarakhand
Q. 320 Where will be country's first national sports university be set up?
Answer: Imphal
Q. 321 Union Cabinet has approved additional changes to Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code through an
ordinance. Now the home buyers will be considered as?
Answer: Financial creditors. Additionally, promoters of micro, small and medium enterprises would be able to
bid for their companies.
Q. 323 Which Indian neighbor has eliminated trachoma as a public health problem according to a recent
announcement by the World Health Organization (WHO)?
Answer: Nepal has become the first country in the South East Asia to have eliminated Trachoma.
Q. 324 What was India’s rank in terms of competitiveness, in the annual rankings compiled by International
Institute for Management Development (IMD)?
Answer: 44th
Q. 325 Which country recently submitted its instrument of accession thereby becoming the part of
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) (Headquarter: Hague, Netherlands)?
Answer: Palestine (Capital: Jerusalem, Currency: Egyptian Pound)
Q. 326 Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure Legal Experts (RATS) an anti-terrorism meeting under the banner of
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
Answer: Pakistan
Q. 327 The six members of the Indian Navy Sailing Vessel (INSV) Tarini team who circumnavigated the globe
were presented with the Nari Shakti Puraskar 2017. The team was led by-
Answer: Lt Commander Vartika Joshi
Q. 328 Who was appointed as Chairman of Press Council of India (PCI) for second term?
Answer: Former Supreme Court Judge CK Prasad

Q. 329 Union Cabinet has approved Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Institute of
Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and Institute of Banking and Finance of which country?
Answer: Bahrain (Capital: Manama, Currency: Dinar)
Explanation: Union Cabinet has approved Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Institute of
Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance (BIBF), Bahrain to work
together to strengthen the accounting, financial and audit knowledge base within Bahrain a similar MoU was
approved between ICAI and National Board of Accountants and Auditors (NBAA), Tanzania.
Q. 330 7th Defence Technology and Trade Initiative (DTTI) meeting was recently held between India and ____?
Answer: USA
Q. 331 What was India’s rank in the latest Commonwealth Innovation Index (CII- 2018)?
Answer: Tenth
Q. 332 Which actor won the best actor award in the 2018 Dadasaheb Phalke Awards?
Answer: Akshay Kumar
Explanation: Akshay Kumar has bagged the best actor award at the 2018 Dadasaheb Phalke awards for his role
in ‘Padman (Jury)’ and for ‘Toilet: Ek Prem Katha’.
Q. 333 15th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBS-2019) will be hosted by which city?
Answer: Varanasi
Q. 334 P.P Lakshaman, passed away recently, he was associated with which sports?
Answer: Football
Q. 335 Who became the first Transgender Lawyer of India?
Answer: Sathyasri Sharmila from Tamil Nadu.

Q. 336 Recently who was appointed as the principal Director General of the Press Information Bureau (PIB)?
Answer: Sitanshu Kar
Q. 337 Where did the PM recently inaugurated the RASHTRIYA GRAM SWARAJ ABHIYAN (RGSA)?
Answer: Ramnagar, MP, MP will also host the 106th edition of Indian Science Congress (ISC-2019).
Explanation: RASHTRIYA GRAM SWARAJ ABHIYAN Scheme will be implemented during the period from April
01, 2018 to March 31, 2022 at the total cost of Rs. 7255.50 crore with the Central Share of Rs. 4500 crore and
that of State Share of Rs. 2755.50. The Central Component will be fully funded by the Government of India.
However, Centre: State funding pattern for State Component will be 60:40 for all States, except North East
and Hill States where Centre: State funding pattern will be 90:10. For all Union Territories (UTs) (with and
without legislatures), the Central share will be 100%.
Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan (RGSA) aims at "Incentivization of Panchayats"
and Capacity Building of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs). PM launched the Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan
at Ramnagar in this tribal-dominated district of Madhya Pradesh on the occasion of National Panchayati Raj
Day. The government also conducted Kisan Kalyan Karyashala under RGSA.
Q. 338 To promote energy from waste the GOBAR-DHAN scheme was launched from which state?
Answer: Haryana
Explanation: Union Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation, Uma Bharti launched the GOBAR (Galvanizing
Organic Bio-Agro Resources) – DHAN scheme at Karnal, Haryana.
Q. 339 Ashok Mitra, a noted scholar recently passed away. He was also once the finance minister of which
state?
Answer: West Bengal

Explanation: He also worked with the Central Government as the Chief Economic Adviser from 1970-72. He
was a teacher of economics.
Q. 339 As per latest report of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), what was India’s rank in the doping
violations?
Answer: Sixth
Explanation: India has been ranked joint-sixth in the list of doping violations with 69 cases, same as that of
Russia, according to World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) (SBI PO MAINS)
Q. 340 Who was recently appointed as the new Chairman of Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority
of India (IRDAI)?
Answer: Subhash Chandra Khuntia
Q. 341 Which state has become the first Indian state to provide digitally-signed land record receipts?
Answer: Maharashtra
Q. 342 Who is the winner of 2018 Azerbaijan Formula 1 Grand Prix tournament?
Answer: Lewis Hamilton, He has also won the 2018 Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix tournament.
Chinese Grand Prix Winner: Daniel Ricciardo

Australian GP: Sebastian Vettel
Q. 343 Idris Hassan Latif, who passed away recently, was the former chief of which Indian Armed Forces?
Answer: Indian Air Force
Q. 344 Name the Indian boxer who was recently conferred WBC Asia Boxer of the Year Award?
Answer: Neeraj Goyat
Q. 345 Football Writers’ Association (FWA) awarded whom the Footballer of the Year for 2017-18 award?
Answer: Mohamed Salah (from Egypt). He also won Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) Player of the
Year for the 2017-18
Q. 346 Keyur Bhushan recently has passed away. He was a well-known_________.

Answer: Gandhian & Freedom fighter. He was from Chattisgarh.
Q. 347 Which state government has launched ‘Go To Village’ Mission?
Answer: Manipur, Also, hosting the 7th edition of the Women Science Congress (WSC-2018).
Q. 348 Arun Date recently passed away, he was a popular_____

Answer: Marathi Singer
Q. 349 Recently 12th informal meeting of SAARC finance Ministers was held in?
Answer: Philippines
Q. 350 15th Asia Media Summit (AMS-2018) was hosted by?

Answer: India
Q. 351 What was India’s rank at the 2018 A.T. Kearney Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index?
Answer: Eleventh
Q. 352 As per Asian Development Bank (ADB) estimates what would be India’s GDP growth rate for 2018-19?
Answer: 7.3%
Explanation: For2019-20 the growth rate is projected at 7.6%.

Q. 353 International Children’s Theatre Festival 2018 was recently held in which state?
Answer: Kerala
Q. 354 Who has been appointed as the new Director-General of the National Testing Agency (NTA)?
Answer: Vineet Joshi

Q. 355 The first organized census of Indus Dolphins will be carried out in which state of India?
Answer: Punjab
Q. 356 Which city hosted the first apex conference for the CEOs of Smart Cities?
Answer: Bhopal
Explanation: Madhya Pradesh government has also launched India’s first Integrated Control and Command
Centre (ICCC) for its smart cities at the Bhopal Smart City Development Corporation Ltd. (BSCDCL) facility.
Q. 357 Who has been re-appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India?
Answer: Pradeep Kumar Sinha
Q. 358 Indian government has signed what amount of loan deal with World Bank for National Nutrition
Mission (POSHAN Abhiyaan)?
Answer: $ 200 million
Explanation: World Bank has also sanctioned $ 210 million for rural connectivity in Madhya Pradesh and IBRD
(World Bank’s arm) has also sanctioned $125 million for nurturing innovation.
Q. 359 Who was recently elected as the new PM of Armenia (Capital: Yerevan, Currency: Dram)?
Answer: Nikol Pashinian
Q. 360 What is the India’s rank in the Lowy Institute Asia-Pacific Power Index?
Answer: Fourth
Q. 361 Who was recently elected as the new President of Costa Rica (Capital: San Jose, Currency: Colon)?
Answer: Carlos Alvarado
Q. 362 Rajinder Pal, passed away recently, he was associated with which sports?
Answer: Cricket
Explanation: He played just one test match for India.
Q. 363 Recently in the Women Economic Forum (WEF) 2018, who was conferred with the ‘Excellent Woman
of Excellence’ award?
Answer: Nisha Bhalla
Q. 364 In which country would be the 2018 World Robotic Conference be held?
Answer: China
Q. 365 Which state government launched Rythu Bandhu scheme for farmers?
Answer: Telangana
Q. 366 As per latest Grant Thornton’s International Business Report (IBR). What is the India’s rank on the
Global Optimism Index (GOI) in the first quarter of 2018?
Answer: Sixth
Q. 368 Who will head the Parliamentary panel to study the recovery of black money and performance of public
sector banks for 2018-19?
Answer: Murali Manohar Joshi
Q. 369 Who was nominated as the Green Ambassador of the state by Sikkim Government?
Answer: Mohit Chauhan
Q. 370 As per ‘RemitSCOPE – Remittance markets and opportunities – Asia and the Pacific’, which country was
the largest remittance receiving country in 2017?
Answer: India
Explanation: As per World Bank (WB)’s latest report “Migration and Development Brief also India is the highest
remittance receiving country.
Q. 371 According to the Fitch’s second-quarter Sovereign Credit Overview for Asia Pacific region, India’s
growth rate in FY 19 is_______.
Answer: 7.3%
Q. 372 “Across the Bench – Insight into the Indian Military Judicial System” is written by whom?
Answer: Gyan Bhushan
Q. 373 Who is the winner of 11th KISS Humanitarian Award 2018?
Answer: Mohammad Yunus

Q. 374 Who recently won the Swara Mauli Award?
Answer: Lata Mangeshkar
Q. 375 In which India city the UNDP has proposed to set up skill development to empower vulnerable and
marginalized women?
Answer: Hyderabad
Q. 376 Nandram Das Bairagi, recently passed away he was a _______
Answer: Film Lyricist. He was from Madhya Pradesh
Q. 378 2018 RedInk award for lifetime achievement in journalism was given to?
Answer: Mark Tully
Q. 379 Who has been honored with the 2018 Nikkei Asia Prize in Japan?
Answer: Bindeshwar Pathak
Q. 380 Xavier Rusta, Surendra Nihal and Govind Lal Vohra recently passed away, they were from which field?
Answer: Journalism
Q. 381 The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched which comprehensive plan” to eliminate
industrially-produced artificial trans fats from the global food supply by 2023?
Answer: REPLACE
Q. 382 First-ever executive committee meeting of South Asia Wildlife Enforcement Network (SAWEN) was
held in which city?
Answer: Kolkata
Q. 383 Yamunabai Waikar passed away, she was a _______

Answer: Lavani Singer. She belonged to Maharashtra.
Q. 384 Who has been appointed as ’eminent jurist’ in the high-profile Lokpal selection committee?
Answer: Mukul Rohatgi
Q. 385 Name the Intellectual Property (IP) mascot which has been launched at the conference on National
Intellectual Property Rights Policy in New Delhi?
Answer: IP Nani
Q. 386 Who is the new independent chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC)?
Answer: Shashank Manohar
Q. 387 Which Indian city has been ranked cleanest city, as per latest survey report “Swachh Survekshan-
2018”?
Answer: Indore
Explanation: Bhopal has been ranked second and Chandigarh third in the survey at the national level.
Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh is ‘Fastest Mover’ big city.
Q. 388 As per latest UN World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) report 2018, India’s GDP in 2018-19
is projected at?
Answer: 7.6%
Q. 389 Which former hockey player has been appointed as the new chairman of Odisha Tourism Development
Corporation (OTDC)?
Answer: Dilip Tirkey

Q. 390 Who has become the India’s youngest women to scale Mt Everest from Nepal side?
Answer: Shivangi Pathak
Q. 391 Who has been sworn-in as new Chief Justice of Manipur High Court?
Answer: Justice Ramalingam Sudhakar
Q. 392 Who is appointed as the new Vice-President of Badminton Asia Confederation (BAC)?
Answer: Himanta Biswa Sarma (He is also the chief of Badminton Association of India)
Q. 393 Which movie has won the best film award “Palme d’Or” at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival?
Answer: Shoplifters.
Explanation: The director of the movie is Japanese Hirokazu Kore-eda. Marcello Fonte has won the best actor
award for his movie Dogman.
Q. 394 Who is the new President of Hockey India (HI)?

Answer: Rajinder Singh
Q. 395 The 2018 BRICS Ministerial on Environment has agreed to include which Indian scheme in its official
agenda?
Answer: Green Good Deeds
Q. 396 Who has been appointed as the new Chairman of Lalit Kala Akademi?
Answer: Uttam Pacharne
Q. 397 Which country has launched the world’s first floating nuclear power station?
Answer: Russia
Q. 398 Who is the new Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Coal India Limited?
Answer: Anil Kumar Jha
Q. 399 Recently which Indian city became the first to switch from BS-IV grade fuels to BS-VI?
Answer: New Delhi
Q. 400 Ram Kumar, who passed recently, was associated with which field?
Answer: Painting
Q. 401 29th Arab League Summit 2018 was hosted by which country?
Answer: Saudi Arabia
Q. 402 Which country defeated Indian Hockey team to with the 2018 Champions Trophy held in Breda,
Netherlands?
Answer: Australia. For their performance entire Indian hockey team was inducted in the TOPS scheme of the
government.
Q. 403 Bisket Jatra festival 2018 has started in which country?
Answer: Nepal (Kathmandu)
Q. 404 Who will be conferred with the prestigious V Shantaram Lifetime Achievement award at the 55th
Maharashtra State Marathi Film Festival?
Answer: Vijay Chavhan

Q. 405 India-Wiesbaden Conference 2018 was hosted by which country?
Answer: India
Q. 406 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service was won by?
Answer: The New York Times and The New Yorker

Explanation: Pulitzer Prize in the music category: Kendrick Lamar (USA)
Q. 407 Which country hosted the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM 2018)?
Answer: United Kingdom
Additional: Global Malaria Summit was hosted along the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of
Government Meeting (CHOGM).
Q. 408 World Bank has agreed what amount to revitalize natural resources in Meghalaya?
Answer: $48 million
Q. 409 As per World Bank’s latest “South Asia Economic Focus report” what is India’s projected growth rate
for 2020?
Answer: 7.5%
Q. 410 Pocket Cop Project for police force has been started by which state?
Answer: Gujarat
Q. 411 Bhimsain, who passed away recently was from which field?
Answer: Film Director
Q. 412 Who has been elected the new president of the Indian Women’s Press Corps (IWPC)?
Answer: TK Rajalakshmi
Q. 413 River bridge ‘Ib Setu’ (on Ib river) was opened to public in which state?
Answer: Odisha
Q. 414 Which bank has allowed depositors to withdraw cash from its Point of Sale (PoS) devices?
Answer: SBI
Explanation: SBI has also signed pact with India Mortgage Guarantee Corporation (IMGC) to offer mortgage
guarantee backed home loan.
Q. 415 Rajinder Sachhar passed away recently, he was a_____?
Answer: Judge
Q. 416 Who represented India in the first meeting of the BRICS Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors?
Answer: Subhash Chandra Garg
Q. 417 Nabi Tajima, the world’s oldest person has passed away. She belonged to which country?
Answer: Japan
Q. 418 FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 will be held in which country?
Answer: China (Mascot of the event is: Son of Dreams)
Q. 419 Who has been conferred with the All India Management Association’s (AIMA’s) annual award for
lifetime contribution to media?
Answer: Indu Jain

Q. 420 Khongjom Day a day to pay tributes to the great warriors was observed by which state?
Answer: Manipur, Shirui Lily Festival 2018 was also celebrated in Manipur.
Q. 421 Which company has become the first listed Indian IT firm to hit $100 billion market capitalization?
Answer: TCS
Q. 422 Located in West Bengal which gram panchayat has recently been declared as the India’s best
panchayat?
Answer: Digambarpur Panchayat
Q. 423 Who has been elected as the President of International Kabaddi Federation (formed in 2004)?
Answer: Janardan Singh Gehlot

Q. 424 Asian Development Bank (ADB) has sanctioned what amount for infrastructure development in
Uttarakhand?
Answer: Rs. 1700 crores
Explanation: ADB has also sanctioned $80 million to boost youth employability in Himachal Pradesh.
Q. 425 India will tie up with which of the following countries to develop a pollution-forecast system?
Answer: Finland and USA
Q. 426 World’s First-ever female foreign ministers’ meeting was hosted by which country?
Answer: Canada
Q. 427 What was India’s rank in the 2018 World Press Freedom Index (WPFI)?
Answer: 138
Q. 428 Who has been elected as the new President of Paraguay (Capital: Asuncion, Currency: Guarani)?
Answer: Mario Abdo Benitez

Q. 429 Which Indian carrier has recently become the member of the International Air Transport Association
(IATA)?
Answer: Vistara
Q. 430 Who has become the first woman lawyer to be directly promoted as a judge of the Supreme Court
(SC)?
Answer: Indu Malhotra
Q. 431 Which Indian shooters were made brand ambassador for Haryana’s Measles and Rubella (MR)
vaccination campaign?
Answer: Gauri Sheoran and Manu Bhakar
Q. 432 Who has become the India’s longest serving Chief Minister of India?
Answer: Pawan Chamling

Q. 433 2017 Saraswati Samman was given to?
Answer: Sitanshu Yashaschandra
Q. 434 Who became the first serving Indian Army officer to complete Ironman competition 2018 held in
Austria?
Answer: Major General Vikram Dogra.

Q. 435 Which city hosted the 2018 International Buddhist Conference?
Answer: Lumbini
Q. 436 “My Journey from Marxism-Leninism to Nehruvian Socialism” has been authored by whom?
Answer: C H Hanumantha Rao (He is former Planning Commission and Finance Commission member).
Manmohan Singh inaugurated his book.
Indian Sportsmen associated with Sports
SPORT PLAYERS SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT (IF ANY)
Badminton PV Sindhu Flag bearer of opening ceremony CWG 2018
Shooting Elavenil Valarivan Won gold in ISSF Junior World Cup in Sydney.
Manu Bhakar
Muskaan
Pooja Ghatkar
Shreyasi Singh
Ankur Mittal
Om Mitharwal
Anish Bhanwala Youngest Indian to win gold in CWG ever
Shazar Rizvi
Boxing Mary kom Flag Bearer in closing ceremony of CWG 2018

also first ever Indian women to win gold in boxing
in CWG.
Wrestling Sanjita Chanu Won gold in the 53 kg category respectively at

the 2018 CWG.
Mirabai Chanu Won gold for India in the 48 kg category

respectively at the 2018 CWG.
Bajrang Punia
Rahul Aware
Javelin Throw Neeraj Chopra Won gold medal at Sotteville Athletics Meet in
France
Hammer Throw Ashish Jakhar Gold medal in the men's hammer throw event in
the 2018 Asian Junior Championship in Japan
Table Tennis Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Joined German Bundesliga’s top division club ASV
Grunwettersbach Tischtennis for 2018/19
season.
Manika Batra
Lawn Tennis Prajnesh Gunneswaran Won the prestigious T.K. Ramanathan award for
the year 2017-18
Ankita Raina She has been included in the in the Government

of India (GoI)’s Target Olympic Podium Scheme
(TOPS).
Yuki Bhambri Won the 2018 Santaizi ATP Challenger
tournament in Taipei
Bhavani Devi Fencing Won a silver medal in the sabre event of the
Tournoi World Cup Satellite Fencing
Championship in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Squash Ramit Tondon He has recently won the 2018 Abu Dhabi Open
squash title.
Billiards Pankaj Advani Asian Billiards Championship

Athletics Hima Das Won a Gold Medal in World U20 Championships
held in Tampere Stadium, Finland in 400m race.
Gavit Murli Kumar (long Gold medal in the Gouden Spike meet at Leiden,
distance runner) Netherlands
IMPORTANT DAYS and EVENTS
EVENT DATE THEME
Nelson Mandela International July 18

Day
International Malala Day July 12

World Youth Skills Day July 15
World Population Day July 11 Family Planning is a Human right
National Doctor’s Day, GST July 01 Doctor Day theme: Zero tolerance to
Day violence against doctors and clinical
establishment.
United Nations Public Service June 23
Day
World Elder Abuse Awareness June 15
Day (WEAAD)
World Ocean Day and the June 08
World Tumour Day
World Environment Day June 05 Beat the Plastic
International Day of Innocent June 04
Children Victims of Aggression
World No Tobacco Day May 31 Tobacco and heart disease
Commonwealth Day May 24
(India)
International Bio-diversity Day May 22 Celebrating 25 Years of Action for
Biodiversity
National Anti- Terrorism Day May 21
International Labour Day May 01 Uniting Workers for Social and
Economic Advancement
World Press Freedom Day May 03 Keeping Power in Check: Media,

Justice and The Rule of Law
World Red Cross Red Crescent May 08 Memorable smiles from around the
Day world
World Telecommunication and May 17 Enabling the positive use of Artificial

Information Society Day Intelligence for All
International Firefighters’ Day May 04
World Athletics Day May 07
National Technology Day May 11
International Nurses Day May 12 Nurses A Voice to Lead – Health is a

Human right
World Thalassaemia Day May 08 Thalassaemia past, present and

future: Documenting progress and
patients’ needs worldwide
International Day of Families May 15 Families and inclusive societies
National Panchayati Raj Day April 24 This day marks the passing of the
Constitution (73rd Amendment) Act,
1992.
National Maritime Day April 05 Indian Shipping – An Ocean of

opportunity
World Health Day April 07 Universal Health Coverage: Health

for All
National Safe Motherhood Day April 11 Respectful Maternity Care
World Heritage Day April 18 Heritage for Generations
World Liver Day April 19 Riding New Waves in Liver Diagnosis,

Staging & Treatment
World Earth Day April 22 End Plastic Pollution
World Malaria Day April 25 Ready to beat Malaria
World Intellectual Property April 26

Day
National Civil Service Day April 21
World Book and Copyright Day April 23
International Dance day April 29
International Day of Forests March 21 Forests and Sustainable Cities
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Q. 11 India’s first Defense Incubator will come up in?

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Answer: Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD)

Answer: Social activist

Q. 179 Adiraju Venkateswara Rao passed away in Hyderabad recently he was a-

Answer: Dhivya Suryadevara

Q. 183 Mulubha Jadeja passed away recently, he was a-

Answer: National Stock Exchange (NSE)

Answer: New Delhi

Answer: $25 million

Answer: Maharashtra. Among UTs Delhi is most vulnerable.

Answer: Kenya (Capital: Nairobi, Currency: Shilling)

Answer: Abu Dhabi

Answer: Sikkim. It is Sikkim’s longest tunnel

Answer: Mithali Raj

Answer: Virat Kohli

Answer: 136th. Iceland was ranked most peaceful country.

Answer: Qingdao, China (19th SCO summit will be held at Kyrgyzstan)

Answer: Rudrendra Tondon

Answer: Tommy Thomas

Answer: ‘JANAUSHADHI SUVIDHA’, the Oxo-biodegradable Sanitary Napkin.

Answer: Priyanka Das from Assam

Answer: Pedro Sánchez