TIRELESSSOUL

The Insurance Regulatory and Development

Authority has constituted a committee to review the
third party motor cover cost, who will head this
committee?

A. S.P Chakravarti
B. Nitin G Dosa
C. D.R. Dharmaraj Bala
D. PJ Joseph
 1. Injeti Srinivas Committee – To review the penal
provisions of the companies act 2013

2. Justice B N Srikrishna Committee - Data Protection

3. Rajiv Gauba Committee – To stop Mob Lynching

4. Sunil Mehta Committee – Project Sashakt, Resolution of

NPA issues with banks
 N Gopalaswami
Committee constituted by UGC, to
shortlist 20 Institutions of Eminence
(IoE)

Defence Planning Committee (DPC)

- Ajit Doval
 Rajesh Bindal committee
- to advise on legal issues
related to inter-country removal and
retention
of children due to parental disputes

V.K. Agnihotri committee

to revise the rules
and procedure of conduct of business in
Rajya Sabha
 Jayant Sinha committee
to prepare a road map for the
implementation of unmanned aerial
vehicle technology

Manmohan Juneja committee

to review the enforcement of CSR
provisions under the Companies Act
2013
Public credit registry of all loan
Information -
recommendations of
Y.M. Deosthalee Committee
Which state recently has signed an MoU
for making its first cow sanctuary ?

A.Haryana
B.Rajasthan
C.Punjab
D.Gujarat
 Union Petroleum and Natural Gas and Skill
Development Minister Dharmendra Pradhan laid the
foundation for the permanent campus of National Skill
Training Institute (NSTI) which is first for women in
India in which city ?

1. Mohali
2. Ludhiana
3. Pune
4. Delhi
 Who will head the High-Level Empowered
Committee that is formed To Address Issues of
Stressed Thermal Power Projects ?

A.Rajnath Singh
B.R K Singh
C.Piyush Goyal
D.Pradeep Kumar Sinha
 Employees PRANAM Act would be implemented in
which state? The Act will deduct 10% of an
employee’s pay and transfer it to the account of the
relatives concerned.

A.Himachal Pradesh
B.Assam
C.Tripura
D.Mizoram
Which Assamese film has won 3 top awards at the
3rd Love International Film Festival in United
States?

A.Ishu
B.Xhoihobote Dhemalite
C.Tumi Ahibane
D.Durjon
Who won the title of Tour de France
2018?

A.Chris Froome
B.Geraint Thomas
C.Alexander Kristoff
D.Tom Dumoulin
Which state government will waive off one crop
loan per family? The maximum cap of loans is
fixed at ₹2 lakh per family

A.Odisha
B.Madhya Pradesh
C.Karnataka
D.Jharkhand
 Almaty Dam
Tungabhadra Dam
Krishna Raj Sagar Dam
The Central Road and Infrastructure Fund (CRIF) has
been removed from the ambit of Ministry of Road
Transport and Highways and has brought under the
domain of which ministry?

1. Ministry of External Affairs

2. Ministry of Finance
3. Ministry of Home Affairs
4. Ministry of Defence
Finance Secretary – Hasmukh Adhia
Defence Secretary - Sanjay Mitra
Foreign Secretary - Vijay Gokhle
Cabinet Secretary – P K Sinha
Home Secretary - Rajeev Gauba
In which country was the third BRICS Film
Festival organized?

A.Russia
B.China
C.India
D.South Africa
Best Film - Newton (Directed by
Amit Masurkar)
Best Actress - Bhanita Das (Village
Rockstars)
 Command HQs

1. Western Naval Command Mumbai

2. Eastern Naval Command Vishakhapatnam

3. Southern Naval Command Cochin

Which famous Bengali writer passed away recently? The
Hindi film ”Ek Doctor Ki Maut" was made on the story
"Abhimanyu" written by him.

A.Ikram Ali
B.Ramapad Chowdhury
C.Joy Goswami
D.Subodh Sarkaar
Who will be honoured with Rajiv Gandhi
Sadbhavna Award for this year?

A.Gopalakrishna Gandhi
B.Kesari Nath Tripathi
C.Satya Pal Malik
D.Jagdish Mukhi
 20 August – Sadhbhavna Diwas/National Harmony
Day – Rajeev Gandhi

31 October–National Unity Day-Vallabhbhai Patel

19 November–National Integration Day–Indira Gandhi

Which desktop software is launched by the Central
IT Ministry, with the help of it, one can edit the
scanned documents?

A.E-Lekh
B.E- Aksharayana
C.E-Sampadan
D.E-Lafz
 Which Indian – American has taken over the
position of CEO of the Democratic National Party
of USA?

A.Bobby Jindal
B.Seema Nanda
C.Richer Sharma
D.Vivi Cherry
 President Ram Nath Kovind launched
the 'Sanchar Kranti Yojna‘ in which state and
under this there is a smartphone distribution
scheme called 'Mobile Tihar?

A.Madhya Pradesh
B. Chhattisgarh
C. Uttar Pradesh
D.Gujarat
 Scientists have discovered a new shape
from human cells, what is the name of this
shape ?

A.Scutoid
B.Rhompent
C.Rectoid
D.Octoid
The government of Odisha will built a riverine port
in the Kendrapara district, on which river it will be
built?

A.Brahmani River
B.Subarnarekha River
C.Godavari River
D.Mahanadi
What is the rank of India in
UN E-Government Index ?

A.111
B.96
C.23
D.8
 Denmark – 1

UNICEF – Henrietta Fore

UNESCO – Audrey Azoulay

UN – Antonio Guterres

WHO – Tedros Adhanom

India’s permanent representative to UN – Syed

Akbaruddin
India’s permanent deputy representative to UN – Tanmay
Lal
What was the name of the filmmaker and former
director of Film and Television Institute of India
(FTII), who passed away recently?

A.Adoor Gopalakrishnan
B.Girish Karnad
C.John Sankaramangalam
D.Saeed Akhtar Mirza
Indian table tennis players

Manika Batra
Mouma Das
Suthirta Mukherjee

Madhurika Patkar
Pooja Shehastrabuddhe
Sharath Achanta

G Sathiyan
Which nation has become the first nation to play
1000 Tests Matches ?

A.India
B.England
C.West Indies
D.New Zealand
Recently, the United Nations has recognized
which club as the first Certified Carbon
Neutral Football Club?

A.Real Madrid
B.Juventus FC
C.Forest green rovers
D.Manchester United
Which state government is in the process of setting
up 'iHub' (the intelligent hub), a first-of-its kind
global research centre for scientific learning ?

1. Himachal Pradesh
2. Telangana
3. Tamil Nadu
4. Andhra Pradesh
Mission Bhagirath, Mission Kakatiya –
Telangana

Sulabh Jal Scheme - Bihar

Jal Swavlamban Scheme - Rajasthan

Nal Jal Scheme – Madhya Pradesh

Atal BhuJal Yojana – 7 States

115 aspirational districts
Swajal Scheme

Ministry of Drinking Water

and Sanitation
 The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, has cleared the purchase of what
per cent of controlling stake in IDBI bank by state-
run insurer Life Insurance Corporation (LIC)?

A.50 %
B.51 %
C.49 %
D.40 %
 B Sriram - IDBI MD & CEO

V K Sharma – Chairman, LIC

IDFC Bank – Capital First

IndusInd Bank – Bharat Financial

NTPC - NHPC

ONGC - HPCL
 Who won Men’s Individual event in World
Junior Squash Championships 2018 held in
Chennai ?

A.Mostafa Asal
B.Marwan Tarek
C.Paul Coll
D.Jahangir Khan
18th to 29 July 2018
Chennai

Egypt

Mostafa Asal - Men

Rowan Elaraby - Women
SQUASH
Which state has become the first State to
implement Centre’s ‘Biofuel Policy’ ?

A.Jharkhand
B.Haryana
C.Madhya Pradesh
D.Rajasthan
 What is the name of a dedicated portal, to connect
cargo owners and shippers, launched by The Inland
Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) ?

A. FOCUS
B. STRENGTH
C. FOCAL
D. HEAT
(Forum of Cargo-Owners and
Logistics-Operators (FOCAL)
Shri Shripad Yesso Naik laid the foundation stone
of the 2nd Phase of Construction of North East
Institute of Ayurveda & Homeopathy (NEIAH) in
which city ?

A.Dispur
B.Shillong
C.Imphal
D.Gangtok
 Q22) Which Indian-Australian mathematician,
received mathematics’ prestigious Fields medal,
known as the Nobel prize for maths?

A.Paul KS
B.Vijay Bagdi
C.Manoj Sinha
D.Akshay Venkatesh
India and Thailand will do a military exercise in the
2nd week of August 2018, what is its name ?

1. Harimau Shakti
2. Hand in Hand
3. Ajeya Warrior
4. Maitree
 INDIA + BIMSTEC –
1st ever exercise – Pune
September 2018
Who has got Outstanding Parliamentarian
award for the year 2017?

A.Hukum Dev Narayan

B. Ghulam Nabi Azad
C. Dinesh Trivedi
D.Bhartruhari Mahtab
The award was instituted in 1992 by Shivraj Patil (Speaker of
Lok Sabha from 1991 to 1996)

2016 - Lok Sabha MP Dinesh Trivedi

(Trinamool Congress)

2015 - Rajya Sabha MP Ghulam Nabi Azad (INC)

2014 - Lok Sabha MP Hukum Dev Narayan Yadav

2013 - Rajya Sabha MP Nazma Heptulla (BJP)

 Bhartruhari Mahtab - Cuttack

Hukum Dev Narayan Yadav – Madhubani

Dinesh Trivedi - Barrackpore

What is the name of the World's 1st
Hindi-Speaking Robot ?

A.Rashmi
B.Reshma
C.Drishti
D.Veena
Software Developer from Ranchi

Ranjeeth Srivastava

Rs 50,000
Where is the 'Krishna Kutir‘ being built,
the biggest shelter for the elderly
widowed women?

A.Ahmedabad
B.Vrindavan
C.Delhi
D.Ludhiana
 Which Ministry has launched Mission Solar
Charkha for implementation of 50 Solar Charkha
Clusters throughout India ?

A.Ministry of New and Renewable Energy

B.Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
C.Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
D.Ministry of Rural Development
 The Ministry of Culture, Government of India
has launched which new scheme worth Rs.325
crore?

1. Athiti Seva Yojana

2. Ann Hi Devta Yojana
3. Seva Bhoj Yojana
4. Nirdhan Bhoj Yojana
 Which state government has made Yoga
mandatory for all colleges and universities in
the State ?

A.Madhya Pradesh
B.Karnataka
C.Uttar Pradesh
D.Bihar
 Virat Kohli completed 7000 runs in international
cricket as captain, becoming the fastest player to
do so. Whose record did he break ?

a) Stephen Fleming
b) Brain Lara
c) Sachin Tendulkar
d) Saurav Ganguly
Who has been declared winner of the
Presidential election of Zimbabwe ?

A.Robert Mugabe
B.Emmerson Mnangagwa
C.Nelson Chamsa
D. Hudson Trady
 Which state Government has launched
'Mukhya Mantri-Yuva Nestham', a scheme
through which an allowance of Rs 1000 per
month will be provided to unemployed youth in
the state?

A.Bihar
B.Andhra Pradesh
C.Punjab
D.Jharkhand
 The Supreme Court will have how many
serving women judges for the first time ?

A.Four
B.Three
C.Two
D.Five
 1. Indira Banerjee
2. R Bhanumati
3. Indu Malhotra (First woman lawyer to be
appointed as judge in the Supreme Court)

22 male judge

Vinit Saran – Odisha High Court

Indira Banerjee - Madras High Court
K L Joseph - Uttarakhand High Court
Indira Banerjee – 8th female judge in Supreme
court since independence

1. Fathima Beevi
2. Sujata Manohar
3. Ruma Pal
4. Gyaan Sudha Mishra
5. Ranjana Prakash Desai
6. R Bhanumati
7. Indu Malhotra
 The Lok Sabha has passed the National
Sports University Bill, 2018. The Bill is to
establish a National Sports University in
which state?

A.Haryana
B.Assam
C.Manipur
D.Punjab
 To grant constitutional status to whom, the
Constitution (123rd amendment) Bill was passed in
Lok Sabha?

A.National Commission for Backward Classes

B.National Commission for Minorities
C.National Commission for Scheduled Castes
D.National Commission for Scheduled Tribes
 National commission for backward classes -
Vangala Eshwaraiah

National commission for Minorities – Syed Ghayorul

Hasan Rizvi

National commission for Scheduled Castes

Ram Shankar Katheria

National commission for Scheduled Tribes

Nand Kumar Sai
 Who has recently started the SAATHI
initiative?

A.Ministry of Defense and Ministry of

Finance
B.Ministry of Home Affairs and Education
C.Ministry of Textiles and Ministry of Power
D.Ministry of Sports and Ministry of Finance
 SAATHI
(Sustainable and Accelerated Adoption of
efficient Textile technologies to Help Small
Industries)
Lockheed Martin

Boeing

Raytheon
 The famous Kadaknath chicken meat of
which district of Madhya Pradesh received
the Geographical Sign (GI) tag?

A.Raisen
B.Jhabua
C.Jabalpur
D.Sehore
Who won the BWF Badminton World
Championship Finals?

A.PV Sindhu
B.Carolina Marin
C.Nozomi Okuhara
D.Akkan Yamaguchi
Which railway station of UP was renamed
as Deen Dayal Upadhyaya station?

A.Robertsganj
B.Azamgarh
C.Mughalsarai
D.Faizabad junction
Which Chinese city was recently being hit
by the Tropical storm Jongdari?

A.Beijing
B.Guangzhou
C.Shanghai
D.Wuhan
 INDIA IS A MEMBER OF

1. Non-Aligned
1. SAARC Movement
2. BRICS
3. Commonwealth of 2. IBSA
Nations 3. East Asia Summit
4. G-20
4. SCO
5. BIMSTEC
6. Mekong–Ganga 5. Australia Group
Cooperation 6. MTCR
7. Indian-Ocean Rim
Association 7. Wassenaar
Arrangement
Who won the Women's Hockey World
Cup 2018?

A.Spain
B.Ireland
C.Netherlands
D.India
Which state will soon become the first state to issue
identity cards to Gau Rakshaks (protectors of cows)
who will now be known as Gau Sanrakshaks
(guardians of cows)?

A.Himachal Pradesh
B.Uttar Pradesh
C.Uttarakhand
D.Madhya Pradesh
Who is at the top of the list of 21 States and
Union Territories in the State Investment
Potential Index?

A.Gujarat
B.Delhi
C.Assam
D.Jharkhand
Which state has launched ‘Mukhyamantri
Kanya Utthan Yojana’, ?

A.Jharkhand
B.Bihar
C.Madhya Pradesh
D.Uttar Pradesh
 ü Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyaan
Ramnagar, Madhya Pradesh

ü Ayushmaan Bharat
Bijapur, Chhattisgarh

ü Purvanchal Expressway
Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh

ü POSHAN Abhiyaan, National Nutrition Mission

Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan

ü Bansagar Canal Project

Mirzapur
Which state government has launched
a “Horn Not OK" awareness campaign
and launched “Shor Nahi” (No Noise)
Mobile App

A.Uttarakhand
B.Himachal Pradesh
C.Gujarat
D.Madhya Pradesh
 1. Pin Valley National Park
2. Great Himalayan National Park
3. Khirganga National Park
4. Simbalbara National Park
 “GUDIA” helpline
Shakti Mobile App
Pushp Kranti Yojana
Shravati Valley - Karnataka
Lakhari Valley - Odisha

Pin Valley
Talley Valley
Neora Valley
Silent Valley
Kanger Valley
Valley of Flowers
What is the name of ISRO's heaviest
satellite, which will be launched on
November 30?

A.GSAT-10
B.GSAT-11
C.RISAT - I
D.RISAT - II
 Which state’s High Court has banned the
commercial use of elephants in Tiger Reserve ?

A.Allahabad High Court

B.Uttarakhand High Court
C.Patna High Court
D.Delhi High Court
ü Construction of 4.531 km long Silkyara
Bend - Barkot Tunnel
ü It will reduce the travel distance from
Dharasu to Yamunotri by about 20 km

• 60 MW Naitwar Mori Hydro Electric

Project

• Rispana River – Tree Plantation

Which state has unveiled the world's first-
ever thermal battery plant ?

A.Telangana
B.Tamil Nadu
C.Andhra Pradesh
D.Karnataka
Google officially launched Android 9.0
under which name?

A.Gigi
B.PIE
C.DICE
D.Play
Caroline Wojniacki - Denmark – Australian Open
Simona Halep - Romania – French Open
Angelique Kerber - Germany - Wimbledon
Goa Tourism Development Corporation’s app-
based taxi service was launched by Goa
government under which name ?

A.Goamiles
B.Goa Service
C.Go goa
D.Love Goa
 World's largest bird sculpture Jatayu
sculpture will be inaugurated in which state?

A.Uttarakhand
B.Kerala
C.Sikkim
D.Jharkhand
 Q8) United Nations Secretary-General
Antonio Gutterres has appointed whom as the
new UN High Commissioner for human
rights?

A.Michelle Bachellet
B.Zied Raad Al Hussain
C.Fang Liu
D.Yukiya Amano
Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and
Aviation Suresh Prabhu has launched which
mobile App in order to provide information
related to exports ?

A.Niryat Saathi
B.Niryat
C.Niryat Sakha
D.Niryat Mitra
 Q2) The government has appointed whom as
Chairman of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
(TRAI) till September 2020 ?

A.Ashok Kumar Mathur

B.Ram Sewak Sharma
C.Subhash Chandra Khuntiya
D.Ajay Tyagi
Q6) Who was elected as the Rajya Sabha's
Deputy Chairman post?

A.Harivansh Narayan Singh

B.BK Hariprasad
C.PJ Kurien
D.Ananth Kumar
 Which Biosphere reserve has become the 11th Biosphere
Reserve from India that has been included in the UNESCO
designated World Network of Biosphere Reserves
(WNBR)?

A.Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve

B.Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve
C.Panna Biosphere Reserve
D.Khangchenzonga Biosphere Reserve
Which High Court has removed “begging”
from the category of crime?

A.Mumbai High Court

B.Delhi High Court
C.Patna High Court
D.Allahabad High Court
Which 400m world champion of Kenya
died in a car crash?

A.Nancy langat
B.Asbel keyprope
C.Nicolas Bett
D.Edwin Soi
Q16) Who has become the youngest one to
took an oath as the 60th President of
Colombia?

A.Ivan Duque
B.Gustavo Petro
C.Peter Thomas
D.Juan Manual Santos
 The Communications exercise “Pacific
Endeavor” 2018 (PE-18) has been started
in which country?

A.India
B.Nepal
C.Japan
D.Cambodia
”Boka Saul" rice has got the Geographical
indicator-GI tag, it belongs to which state ?

1. West Bengal
2. Assam
3. Uttar Pradesh
4. Sikkim
Who was the India’s flag-bearer for Asian Games
opening ceremony ?

1. Neeraj Chopra
2. Manu Bhaker
3. P V Sindhu
4. Mary Kom
Tibetan spiritual leader his holiness Dalai Lama has
gifted “Dharam Chakra” to the chief minister of
which state ?

1. Tamil Nadu
2. Telangana
3. Andhra Pradesh
4. Karnataka
Which language has become 1st Indian
tribal language to get its own Wikipedia
edition?

A.Santhali
B.Bodo
C.Maithili
D.Gharo
 President of India inaugurated ‘One
District one Product’ Summit in which
state ?

A.Madhya Pradesh
B.Chhattisgarh
C.Maharashtra
D.Uttar Pradesh
 On the occasion of World Biofuel Day ,
Prime Minister launched which web portal a
single window for environmental, wildlife,
forest and Coastal Regulation Zone
clearances ?

A.UTTAM
B.PARIVESH
C.Vriksh
D.Paudhikam
 Argentina Won the COTIF
Cup(under-20) Tournament by defeating
which country ?

A.India
B.Spain
C.Brazil
D.Russia
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
has launched a defence industrial
corridor in which state?

A.Madhya Pradesh
B.Tamil Nadu
C.Uttar Pradesh
D.Haryana
6 nodal points for Defence Corridor
1. Agra
2. Aligarh
3. Lucknow
4. Kanpur
5. Chitrakoot
6. Jhansi
Q6) The Parker Solar Probe is the first NASA
mission to be named after which living
individual?

A.Dr. Eugene Parker

B.Dr. Thomas Parker
C.Dr. Antony Parker
D.Dr. Steve Parker
Nobel laureate who was known for his novels,
'A House for Mr. Biswas' and 'A Bend in the
River', has died recently, what was his name?

A.Harold Pinter
B.Bob Dylan
C.William Golding
D.V S Naipaul
Q9) Who has been appointed as Chairperson
of the National Commission for
Women (NCW) ?

A.Khayati Mishra
B.Rekha Sharma
C.Konkana Rai
D.Vishakha Verma
 Indian Army has launched an Operation
to rescue people in flood-hit Kerala. What
is the name of the operation?

A.Aashraya
B.Sahyog
C.Saath
D.Upkaar
Indian Navy

Madad
 According to the UN, China has kept one
million people captive. They belong to which
ethnic group ?

A.Uighurs
B.Ambundu
C.Dinka
D.Hausa