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General Awareness-139
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Name: ________________________________________ Roll No.: ________________
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1. The International Day of Cooperatives is observed every year on
1) 01 Jul 2) 07 Jul 3) 17 Jul 4) 27 Jul 5) 31 Jul
2. The UN member states recently approved a USD 6.69-bn budget for 13 peacekeeping operations for the year 2018-19.
The biggest contributor to the UN is
1) China 2) France 3) UK 4) US 5) Germany
3. ________ and India have decided to jointly promote historically and culturally important tourism circuits like the
Ramayana and Buddhist Circuit and adventure tourism.
1) Nepal 2) Sri Lanka 3) Bhutan 4) Afghanistan 5) Myanmar
4. Sberbank is based in which of the following countries?
5.
6.
7.
1) China
1) Kenya
4) Kurian Joseph
2) South Korea
2) Chile
2) Jawad Rahim
5) Uday Lalit
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3) Russia
3) Colombia
4) South Africa
4) Chad
________ is India’s largest payer of Goods and Services Tax (GST), Excise and Customs Duty, and Income Tax in the
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private sector.
1) TCS 2) Wipro 3) Bharti Airtel 4) Vedanta 5) RIL
8. Which of the following has become the most valuable bank in the emerging market outside China (with current market
capitalisation of $78.4 bn)?
1) ICICI Bank 2) Axis Bank 3) Bank of Baroda
4) HDFC Bank 5) Kotak Mahindra Bank
9. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) will set up a Civil Aviation Research Organisation (CARO) at Begumpet Airport in
1) Hyderabad 2) Bengaluru 3) Gurugram 4) Pune 5) Mumbai
10. India would operate the loss-making Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport in Hambantota, in which of the following
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countries?
1) Bangladesh 2) Sri Lanka 3) Myanmar 4) Maldives 5) Afghanistan
11. Interest rates on small savings schemes for the quarter ending Sep 2018 have been kept unchanged. The interest rate on
National Savings for the quarter ending Sep 2018 is fixed at
1) 7.3 per cent 2) 7.6 per cent 3) 7.8 per cent 4) 8.1 per cent 5) 8.3 per cent
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12. The transfer of funds through IMPS crossed a whopping Rs 3.23 lakh cr in the Apr-Jun quarter of 2018-19. IMPS means
1) Indian Payment Service 2) International Payment Service 3) Intermediate Payment Service
4) Immediate Payment Service 5) None of these
13. Brett Kavanaugh was appointed as Supreme Court Judge in which of the following countries recently?
1) US 2) UK 3) Australia 4) Canada 5) France
14. The Human Resource Development Ministry granted Institution of eminence status to which of the following institutions
recently?
1) IISc Bangalore 2) IIT Bombay 3) IIT Delhi 4) All the above 5) Only 1) and 2)
15. Rythu Bandhu scheme is being implemented in which of the following states at present?
1) Tamil Nadu 2) West Bengal 3) Telangana 4) Jharkhand 5) Madhya Pradesh
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17. ________ has topped the ease of doing business rankings as per the State Business Reform Assessment 2018 released
recently by the DIPP.
1) Haryana 2) Andhra Pradesh 3) Telangana 4) Karnataka 5) Gujarat
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18. The Human Resource Development Ministry granted Institution of eminence status to which of the following private
institutions recently?
1) Jio Institute 2) BITS Pillani 3) Manipal Academy of Higher Education
4) All the above 5) None of these
19. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved USD 503-mn lining project of the Son canal in Shahabad-Bhojpur
region of
1) Uttar Pradesh 2) Madhya Pradesh 3) Bihar 4) Jharkhand 5) Uttarakhand
20. India and South Korea have set a target of increasing bilateral trade to $50 bn by
1) 2020 2) 2022 3) 2025 4) 2028 5) 2030
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22.
23.
1) Uttar Pradesh 2) Andhra Pradesh
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Which state has topped the ease of doing business rankings as per the State Business Reform Assessment 2018
released recently by the DIPP in terms of obtaining utility permit?
3) Uttarakhand 4) West Bengal 5) Karnataka
The interest rate on Senior Citizen Savings Schemes for the quarter ending Sep 2018 is fixed at
1) 7.8 per cent 2) 8.1 per cent 3) 8.3 per cent 4) 8.4 per cent 5) 8.6 per cent
The Govt has approved the Idea Cellular and Vodafone India merger. The combined entity will create the country’s
largest telecom operator unseating
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1) BSNL 2) MTNL 3) Reliance Jio
4) Bharti Airtel 5) Reliance Communication
24. TOPS scheme is being implemented by which of the following Union Ministries?
1) Home Ministry 2) Sports Ministry 3) HRD Ministry 4) Commerce Ministry 5) Finance Ministry
25. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit was held recently in Brussels which is the capital city of
1) Bulgaria 2) Sweden 3) Greece 4) Finland 5) Belgium
26. According to the World Bank figures for 2017, India has become the world’s ________-biggest economy with its GDP
touching 2.597 tn dollars in 2017.
1) third 2) fourth 3) fifth 4) sixth 5) seventh
27. ________ has announced it will invest $25 mn to fight fake news - especially for the urgent coverage of breaking news
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- on its platform.
1) YouTube 2) Twitter 3) Facebook 4) Whatsapp 5) Hike
28. The data protection watchdog of which country is planning to slap a fine of $662,501 on Facebook over the Cambridge
Analytica data leak scandal?
1) Germany 2) France 3) UK 4) Canada 5) Australia
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29. The former PNB executive T Latha has been appointed as the new MD and CEO of which of the following private sector
banks?
1) IndusInd Bank 2) Federal Bank 3) Axis Bank
4) Kotak Mahindra Bank 5) Dhanlaxmi Bank
30. ________ has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with KB Financial Group Inc. (KBFG), Korea, for
comprehensive business cooperation.
1) SBI 2) Bank of Baroda 3) PNB 4) Corporation Bank 5) Indian Bank
31. A recent study by Azim Premji University (APU) and Lokniti has revealed that ________ enjoys the highest level of
“effective trust” in the country.
1) Political parties 2) High Courts 3) Supreme Court 4) Indian Army 5) Tata Group
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1) hockey team 2) volleyball team 3) cricket team 4) basketball team 5) kabaddi team
34. India jumped three places to reach ________ spot on the 2018 Global Innovation Index (GII) rankings.
1) 102nd 2) 92nd 3) 81st 4) 60th 5) 57th
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35. ________ has unveiled the country’s first internet telephony service that will allow users to dial any telephone number
in India through its mobile app “Wings” without using SIM.
1) MTNL 2) BSNL 3) Airtel 4) Vodafone 5) Reliance Jio
36. India’s first private sector unit for manufacturing unmanned air vehicles (UAV) and light bullet proof vehicles (LBPV) will
be set up by DCM Shriram Industries in
1) Pune 2) Kota 3) Mumbai 4) Gurugram 5) Ahmedabad
37. Satyarup Siddhanta has become the second Indian mountaineer to climb Mt Ojos del Salado, the highest volcano in the
world located in/on
1) Italy 2) Indonesia 3) South Africa
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4) Argentina-Chile border
44. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman recently said that the S-400 Triumf air defence missile deal will go ahead. India is
purchasing this system from
1) France 2) Germany 3) Sweden 4) US 5) Russia
45. The Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh visited Bangladesh recently. The currency of Bangladesh is
1) Baht 2) Rupee 3) Taka 4) Rufiyaa 5) Rupiah
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46. PM Narendra Modi recently greeted people on the occasion of Rath Yatra. The festival of Rath Yatra or Chariot Festival
is celebrated every year in
1) Puri, Odisha 2) Nasik, Maharashtra 3) Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh
4) Mysore, Karnataka 5) Kochi, Kerala
47. Which of the following countries has topped 2018 Global Innovation Index (GII)?
1) Singapore 2) UK 3) Sweden 4) Netherlands 5) Switzerland
48. The Nelson Mandela International Day is observed every year on
1) 05 Jul 2) 08 Jul 3) 18 Jul 4) 28 Jul 5) 31 Jul
49. The interest rates on Sukanya Samriddhi Account for the quarter ending Sep 2018 have been fixed at
1) 7.3 per cent 2) 7.6 per cent 3) 7.9 per cent 4) 8.1 per cent 5) 8.3 per cent
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1) Muscat 2) Manama 3) Baku 4) Bogota 5) Riyadh
87. The new book “Lethal White” has been authored by who among the following under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith?
1) Kazuo Ishiguro 2) Salman Rushdie 3) Stephen King 4) Margaret Atwood 5) JK Rowling
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88. Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar recently launched the ‘Paudhagiri’ campaign in which of the following states?
1) Madhya Pradesh 2) Uttarakhand 3) Assam 4) Haryana 5) Punjab
89. Who among the following recently became the richest man in modern history with a net worth of $150 bn?
1) Bill Gates 2) Warren Buffett 3) Mark Zuckerberg 4) Jeff Bezos 5) Tim Cook
90. ________ has topped the 2018 ‘Soft Power 30’ index which is a list of 30 countries.
1) UK 2) US 3) France 4) Germany 5) China
91. Which of the following is the world’s biggest single market?
1) US 2) Japan 3) China 4) EU 5) BRICS
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93.
94.
Cooperation. The host of 2018 BRICS Summit is
1) China
1) Assam
2) India
2) West Bengal
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The Union Cabinet has approved the signing of an MoU amongst BRICS Nations on Regional Aviation Partnership
3) South Africa
3) Jharkhand
Rita Bhaduri passed away recently. She was a veteran
1) singer 2) actor 3) cartoonist
4) Russia
4) Sikkim
4) author
5) Brazil
President Ram Nath Kovind recently approved the Witch Hunting (Prohibition, Prevention and Protection) Bill, 2015 of
which of the following states converting it to an Act?
5) Maharashtra
5) surgeon
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95. The TRAI Chairman has said that apps should collect minimal data from people. The present chairman of TRAI is
1) Aruna Sundararajan 2) TCA Anant 3) Harsh Kumar Bhanwala
4) Aftab Alam 5) RS Sharma
96. The Finance Ministry recently gave its nod for capital infusion of what amount in five weak public sector banks to help
them meet regulatory capital requirements?
1) Rs 9,339 cr 2) Rs 10,225 cr 3) Rs 11,336 cr 4) Rs 12,545 cr 5) Rs 13,333 cr
97. Vinesh Phogat is associated with which of the following games? She won a gold medal at Spanish Grand Prix recently.
1) Shooting 2) Boxing 3) Weightlifting 4) Archery 5) Wrestling
98. Who among the following won the 2018 German MotoGP championship?
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1) Alvaro Bautista 2) Danilo Petrucci 3) Maverick Vinales 4) Marc Marquez 5) Valentino Rossi
99. The NELP is a policy adopted by Govt of India in 1997 indicating the new contractual and fiscal model in petroleum
industry. In the term NELP, letter ‘E’ stands for
1) Extraction 2) Exploration 3) Export 4) Evaluation 5) Extension
100. The govt recently increased fair and remunerative price (FRP) of sugarcane by Rs 20 per quintal to ________ for the
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105. The govt increased the FRP for sugarcane for the forthcoming sugar season. The term FRP means
1) Fair and Referred Price 2) Fair and Remunerative Price 3) Fair and Reducing Price
4) Fair and Representative Price 5) None of these
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106. Which country has passed a law to declare that only Jews have the right of self-determination in the country?
1) Germany 2) Chile 3) Colombia 4) Israel 5) Jordan
107. The Centre has sanctioned what amount as financial assistance to the Three Municipal Corporations of Delhi for
effective solid waste management and dust control?
1) Rs 200 cr 2) Rs 300 cr 3) Rs 500 cr 4) Rs 700 cr 5) Rs 900 cr
108. As said by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in a new report, India will grow at what per cent in 2018-19 and will remain
the fastest growing economy in Asia?
1) 7.3% 2) 7.4% 3) 7.6% 4) 7.9% 5) 8.1%
2) Odia
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109. The geologists have classified the last 4,200 years as being a distinct Earth age and are calling it a new chapter — the
3) Meghalayan Age
3) Finland
111. Gopal Das Neeraj passed away recently. He was a famous ________ poet.
1) Hindi 3) Bengali
4) Indian Age
110. Knesset is the name of the parliament of which of the following countries?
1) Canada 2) France 4) New Zealand
4) Marathi
5) Gujarati Age
5) Israel
5) Bhojpuri
112. Which of the following banks was established by the Govt of India in 1969 to improve financial needs of repatriates from
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Sri Lanka and Burma?
1) ICICI Bank 2) RBL Bank 3) Federal Bank 4) Repco Bank 5) UCO Bank
113. Chief Minister Raman Singh announced an online pension management app called “Abhar aapki sewa ka” in which state
recently?
1) Madhya Pradesh 2) Chhattisgarh 3) Jharkhand 4) Himachal Pradesh 5) Uttarakhand
114. Myanmar has joined the India-initiated International Solar Alliance (ISA) as 68th member. The ISA was launched by PM
Narendra Modi and then French President Francois Hollande at the Paris climate summit in
1) 2014 2) 2015 3) 2016 4) 2017 5) 2018
115. Brij Bhushan was officially named as India’s Chef de Mission for Asian Games recently. He is the present president of
1) Badminton Association of India 2) All India Tennis Association 3) Indian Boxing Federation
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123. Shubhankar Sharma has become the youngest Indian to make cut in a Major in the game of
1) Snooker 2) Chess 3) Golf 4) Squash 5) Polo
124. Which of the following small finance banks officially launched its commercial banking operations recently? Ajay Kanwal
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is its MD and CEO.
1) Equitas Small Finance Bank 2) Jana Small Finance Bank 3) ESAF Small Finance
Bank 4) Utakarsh Small Finance Bank 5) Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
125. Which of the following firms has confirmed working on launching ‘Athena’, its own Internet satellite, early in 2019?
1) Space X 2) Google 3) Twitter 4) Facebook 5) Amazon
126. The 4th BIMSTEC Summit will be held on 30-31 Aug in
1) Bangkok 2) Kathmandu 3) Colombo 4) Thimphu 5) Dhaka
127. The 8th BRICS Health Ministers’ Meeting was held recently in
1) New Delhi 2) Beijing 3) Moscow 4) Durban 5) Sao Paulo
4) traffic violations
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128. The govt is going to launch a new standard called MicroDots to check
1) vehicle thefts 2) lynching incidents
5) school dropouts
3) poaching in national parks
129. Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu recently launched ‘e-Pragati core platform’ to connect the citizen to 34 departments
in the state of
1) Telangana 2) Tamil Nadu 3) Maharashtra 4) Karnataka 5) Andhra Pradesh
130. As per the decision taken at the 28th meeting of the GST Council, recently, traders with what turnover will deposit GST
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on monthly basis but will not have to file the quarterly returns?
1) Any turnover 2) Rs 10 cr 3) Rs 5 cr 4) Rs 7 cr 5) Rs 20 cr
131. The RBI will soon issue new Rs 100 denomination banknotes in the Mahatma Gandhi (new) series in
1) lavender colour 2) bright yellow colour 3) magenta colour
4) fluorescent blue colour 5) dark grey colour
132. The 2018 Women’s hockey World Cup is being played in which of the following countries?
1) Australia 2) England 3) South Korea 4) Spain 5) Argentina
133. Who among the following won the gold medal at the Badminton Asian Junior Championships 2018 in Jakarta recently?
1) Kunlavut Vitidsarn 2) Li Shifeng 3) Sameer Verma
4) Lakshya Sen 5) Ikhsan Leonardo Imanuel Rumbay
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134. ‘Miraitowa’ and ‘Someity’ are the names of the mascots of 2020 Olympic and Paralympic games to be held in
1) Beijing 2) Jakarta 3) Tokyo 4) Los Angeles 5) Manila
135. Which of the following items was recently freed from attracting Goods & Service Tax (GST)?
1) Ethanol 2) Bamboo flooring 3) Handloom dari 4) Hand nags 5) Sanitary napkin
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136. The Goods & Service Tax (GST) rate on which of the following items was reduced from 28 per cent to 18 per cent recently?
1) Lithium-ion batteries 2) Mixer and grinders 3) Vacuum cleaners
4) Washing machines 5) All of these
137. Which of the following is NOT a member country of the BIMSTEC grouping?
1) Thailand 2) Myanmar 3) Afghanistan 4) Bhutan 5) Bangladesh
138. Birdies is a term related to which of the following games?
1) Football 2) Golf 3) Polo 4) Billiards 5) Squash
139. The govt has approved an infusion of Rs 11,336 cr in five state-owned lenders. What amount has been approved for the
Allahabad Bank?
1) Rs 2,816 cr 2) Rs 2,555 cr 3) Rs 2,157 cr 4) Rs 2,019 cr 5) Rs 1,790 cr
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141. The RBI will soon bring new Rs 100 denomination banknotes in the Mahatma Gandhi (new) series. The size of the new
note is
1) 73mm X 157 mm 2) 66 mm × 142 mm 3) 66 mm X 150 mm 4) 66 mm X 146 mm 5) 66 mm X 166 mm
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142. The govt has approved an infusion of Rs 11,336 cr in five state-owned lenders. What amount has been approved for the
Corporation Bank?
1) Rs 2,555 cr 2) Rs 2,157 cr 3) Rs 2,019 cr 4) Rs 1,790 cr 5) Rs 2,816 cr
143. Which of the following automakers crossed the production of 20 million vehicles at its Gurugram and Manesar facilities
recently?
1) Tata Motors 2) Mahindra & Mahindra 3) Renault
4) Ashok Leyland 5) Maruti Suzuki
144. The revenue generated by which IIT in the last three years through research, inventions, consultancy and patents was
the highest among the premier engineering institutes, according to HRD ministry data?
1) IIT-Delhi 2) IIT-Madras 3) IIT-Kanpur 4) IIT-Bombay 5) IIT-Kharagpur
2) Reliance Jio
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145. Which telecom firms aims to sale 10,000 satellite phones by Mar 2019?
1) Bharti Airtel 3) BSNL 4) Vodafone 5) Idea
146. Insurance services under the Centrally-sponsored Ayushman Bharat scheme will be exempt from GST. The present CEO
of Ayushman Bharat scheme is
1) CK Mishra 2) Indu Bhushan 3) Randhir Sud 4) Naresh Trehan 5) Ashok Seth
147. The Fifteenth Finance Commission visited Gujarat on a 4-day tour to the state. The chairman of the 15th Finance
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Commission is
1) NK Singh 2) Bibek Debroy 3) Y Venugopal Reddy 4) RK Singh 5) Arvind Subramanian
148. Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for Rwanda recently. The capital of Rwanda is
1) Accra 2) Maputo 3) Kigali 4) Lome 5) Porto-Novo
149. Abdul Rashid Dostum survived a suicide bomb attack at an airport recently. He is the Vice-President of
1) Bangladesh 2) Pakistan 3) Malaysia 4) Indonesia 5) Afghanistan
150. Typhoon Ampil hit which of the following countries recently?
1) Japan 2) Russia 3) Mexico 4) China 5) US
151. The govt has set up a four-member committee to suggest measures to effectively deal with incidents of lynching. The
Committee is headed by
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Singapore?
1) RBL Bank 2) IndusInd Bank 3) Federal Bank
4) YES Bank 5) Kotak Mahindra Bank
154. India recently extended $200-mn lines of credit to Rwanda for its economic development. The currency of Rwanda is
1) Peso 2) Franc 3) Pound 4) Dollar 5) Rand
155. Fakhar Zaman has become the fastest player to reach 1000 runs in one-day internationals. He plays for
1) Afghanistan 2) Bangladesh 3) UAE 4) Pakistan 5) South Africa
156. Who among the following won the 2018 German Grand Prix F1 championship?
1) Lewis Hamilton 2) Valtteri Bottas 3) Kimi Räikkönen 4) Fernando Alonso 5) Nico Rosberg
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158. What is the name of the state-of-the-art Air Quality and Weather Forecast System launched by the govt at Chandni
Chowk in Delhi recently?
1) NAZAR 2) ASAR 3) SUBAH 4) SAFAR 5) SWACHH
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159. Idea and Vodafone recently settled their dues with the Department of Telecom (DoT). The total amount of settlement was
1) Rs 3,322 cr 2) Rs 3,926 cr 3) Rs 4,335 cr 4) Rs 5,938 cr 5) Rs 7,248 cr
160. Which of the following is the host city of the WSF-World Junior Squash Championship 2018?
1) Bengaluru 2) Gurugram 3) Chennai 4) New Delhi 5) Hyderabad
161. Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited South Africa recently to attend the BRICS Summit which is the
1) 8th edition 2) 9th edition 3) 10th edition 4) 11th edition 5) 12th edition
162. Nitin Gadkari launched development projects worth over Rs 5000 cr in Guna district in which state recently?
1) Madhya Pradesh 2) Rajasthan 3) Gujarat 4) Maharashtra 5) Uttar Pradesh
163. Justice Tahira Safdar has been named as the first-ever woman Chief Justice of a high court in which country?
1) Maldives
awards?
2) Bangladesh
3) archer
4) Pakistan
4) weightlifter
5) Kamala Devi
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1) Kampala 2) Kigali 3) Bujumbura 4) Minsk 5) Accra
167. The govt has claimed that money held by Indians in Swiss banks has reduced in 2017 by
1) 24.5 per cent 2) 30.5 per cent 3) 34.5 per cent 4) 44.5 per cent 5) 54.5 per cent
168. Paul Kagame is the present President of which of the following countries?
1) Uganda 2) Ghana 3) Burundi 4) South Africa 5) Rwanda
169. The govt has lowered the minimum annual deposit requirement for Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana accounts to
1) Rs 100 2) Rs 250 3) Rs 500 4) Rs 750 5) Rs 1,000
170. Among smaller states (with population less than two crore), which state has topped the ‘Public Affairs Index 2018’?
1) Tripura 2) Sikkim 3) Mizoram 4) Himachal Pradesh 5) Goa
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171. Name the Canadian author who has again made it to the Man Booker Prize list with his latest novel Warlight?
1) Michael Ondaatje 2) Yann Martel 3) Peter Carey 4) Jane Urquhart 5) Margaret Atwood
172. The World Day against Trafficking in Persons is observed every year on
1) 03 Jul 2) 13 Jul 3) 23 Jul 4) 30 Jul 5) 31 Jul
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173. Which of the following planets will make the closest approach to Earth in the last fifteen years on 31 Jul?
1) Saturn 2) Mars 3) Jupiter 4) Mercury 5) Venus
174. The Indian Air Force recently participated in the multinational air exercise ‘Pitch Black-18’ in which country?
1) Canada 2) Mexico 3) UK 4) US 5) Australia
175. The Antigua Govt has said to consider request from India to send back Mehul Choksi, who has taken citizenship of the
country. The capital of Antigua is
1) Kingston 2) Port-au-Prince 3) St. John’s 4) Castries 5) Roseau
176. The market value of which of the following technology firms plunged USD 119 bn recently in biggest loss in stock market
history?
1) Google 2) Apple 3) Intel 4) Facebook 5) HP
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1) Fiat Chrysler 2) General Motors 3) Ford Motor Co 4) Nissan Motors 5) Hyundai Motors
179. The Committee constituted to deliberate on a data protection framework submitted its report recently. The Committee
was headed by
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1) KG Balakrishnan 2) HL Dattu 3) BN Srikrishna 4) SH Kapadia 5) P Sathasivam
180. The Kargil Vijay Diwas is observed every year on which date?
1) 06 Jul 2) 16 Jul 3) 26 Jul 4) 30 Jul 5) 31 Jul
181. India’s milk production is estimated to have increased by what per cent to 176.35 mn tonnes during 2017-18?
1) 3.5 per cent 2) 4.6 per cent 3) 5.5 per cent 4) 6.6 per cent 5) 7.5 per cent
182. India’s forex reserves increased by $67.7 mn to $405.143 bn for the week ended Jul 20. Which of the following is NOT a
component of India’s forex reserves?
1) Foreign currency assets 2) Gold reserves
3) Special Drawing Rights with the IMF 4) India’s reserve position with the IMF
5) None of these
quarter of FY19?
1) ICICI Bank
3) Axis Bank
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1) sports journalist 2) cartoonist 3) poet 4) singer 5) composer
195. A total of two crore saplings will be planted on the banks of the Mahanadi, Tel and Ib rivers under the Green Mahanadi
Mission in which state?
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1) Jharkhand 2) West Bengal 3) Uttar Pradesh 4) Bihar 5) Odisha
196. Which of the following firms reported a record Rs 9,459-cr net profit in Apr-Jun quarter of the FY19 recently?
1) TCS 2) Infosys 3) Wipro 4) Maruti Suzuki 5) Reliance Industries
197. The AIM and citizen engagement platform MyGov have launched an online portal ‘Innovate India Platform’. Here, the
term AIM means
1) Atal India Mission 2) Atal Internet Mission 3) Atal Infrastructure Mission
4) Atal Information Mission 5) Atal Innovation Mission
198. The World Hepatitis Day is observed every year on which date?
1) 02 Jul 2) 08 Jul 3) 18 Jul 4) 28 Jul 5) 31 Jul
205. A powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck island of Lombok in which country recently?
1) Indonesia 2) Malaysia 3) Thailand 4) Philippines 5) Vietnam
206. Which of the following payments banks is expected to go live with 650 branches in Aug 2018?
1) India Post Payments Bank 2) Fino Post Payments Bank 3) Paytm Post Payments Bank
4) Airtel Post Payments Bank 5) M-Pesa Post Payments Bank
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207. India is considering buying National Advanced Surface to Air Missile System (NASAMS)-II to bolster missile shield in
its major cities. NASAMS belongs to
1) Russia 2) US 3) Sweden 4) Japan 5) France
208. PM Narendra Modi launched 81 investment projects worth over Rs 600 bn in which of the following states recently?
1) Madhya Pradesh 2) Rajasthan 3) Tamil Nadu 4) Uttar Pradesh 5) Bihar
209. Shivangi Pathak from Haryana scaled Mount Kilimanjaro recently. This highest peak of Africa is located in
1) South Africa 2) Ghana 3) Tanzania 4) Kenya 5) Zambia
210. World’s oldest person, Chiyo Miyako, died recently. She was a resident of
1) Thailand 2) South Korea 3) Philippines 4) Vietnam 5) Japan
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212. Jehan Daruvala is associated with which of the following games?
1) Motor racing 2) Chess 3) Shooting 4) Luge 5) Wushu
213. A national programme was launched recently by the govt to eliminate which of the following diseases by 2030?
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1) Tuberculosis 2) AIDS 3) Viral Hepatitis 4) Swine flu 5) Dengue
214. Mount Rinjani, a popular trekking destination, is situated in which of the following countries?
1) Cambodia 2) Venezuela 3) Lebanon 4) Indonesia 5) Fiji
215. The govt recently proposed to make an equity infusion of what amount in state-owned Air India under a turnaround
plan?
1) Rs 880 cr 2) Rs 980 cr 3) Rs 1020 cr 4) Rs 1250 cr 5) Rs 1410 cr
216. P Radhakrishnan and Shiv Pratap Shukla are Ministers of State in which of the following ministries in the present govt?
1) Finance 2) Commerce 3) Civil Aviation 4) HRD 5) Home
217. Which of the following Indian states published the Natiunal Register of Citizens (NRC) recently?
1) Delhi 2) West Bengal
2) Japan
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3) Assam
218. The International Army Games 2018 started recently in which city?
1) London 2) New York 3) Beijing
3) France
4) Tripura
4) Moscow
4) England
5) Maharashtra
5) Egypt
5) Paris
219. Which of the following teams won the boy’s title at the WSF-World Junior Squash team championship in Chennai
recently?
1) India
220. The eight core sector industries registered a seven-month high growth of what per cent in Jun 2018?
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1) 6.3 per cent 2) 6.7 per cent 3) 6.9 per cent 4) 7.1 per cent 5) 7.3 per cent
221. The former Union Minister Bhishma Narain Singh passed away recently. He had also served as the Governor of
1) Tamil Nadu 2) Assam 3) Arunachal Pradesh 4) All the above 5) Only 1) and 2)
222. Arjun Ram Meghwal is holding which of the following ministries in the present Union Cabinet? He is Minister of State
for
1) Parliamentary Affairs 2) Home 3) Finance
4) Civil Aviation 5) Commerce
223. Which country has launched a three-month visa amnesty programme which will benefit hundreds of illegal foreign
workers?
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1) 5.50 per cent 2) 6.25 per cent 3) 6.75 per cent 4) 7 per cent 5) 7.50 per cent
226. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) recently approved the proposal for opening of how many new
Kendriya Vidyalayas in seven States?
1) 10 2) 13 3) 14 4) 15 5) 18
227. India and which country recently signed agreements on financial and technical cooperation worth Rs 5,250 cr?
1) France 2) Italy 3) Spain 4) Germany 5) UK
228. Renowned industrialists Kumar Mangalam Birla and YC Deveshwar have been appointed as non-official independent
directors in
1) Balmer Lawrie and Co 2) Bharat Earth Movers 3) Air India
4) National Seeds Corporation 5) Indian Oil
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230. The Nikkei India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) remained at what number in Jul 2018?
1) 52.3 2) 52.9 3) 53.5 4) 54.3 5) 54.6
231. Neeraj Chopra is assocaited with which of the following games? He won a gold medal at the Savo Games in Lapinlahti,
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Finland recently.
1) Javelin throw 2) Discuss throw 3) Wushu 4) Luge 5) Fencing
232. The Constitution (123rd Amendment) Bill was passed by the Lok Sabha recently. The bill grants constitutional status to
the
1) National Commission on Women 2) National Commission on Minorities
3) National Commission on Refugees 4) National Commission on Backward Classes
5) None of these
233. Who among the following has been chosen for the 24th Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award for his outstanding
contribution towards promotion of communal harmony?
1) Sumitra Mahajan 2) Farooq Abdullah 3) Gopalkrishna Gandhi
4) Ghulam Nabi Azad
1) 138th
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1) e-Saksham
2) 122nd
2) e-Aksharayan
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234. What is India’s position on the United Nation’s biennial E-Government Index 2018?
3) 118th
3) e-Adhyayan
4) 98th
4) e-Ankitam
5) 96th
235. The IT ministry has launched a desktop software to enable editing of text printed on scanned documents. The software
5) e-Sudharam
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236. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the RBI issued its third bi-monthly monetary policy review of 2018-19.
Now, the Marginal Standing Facility rate and the Bank Rate stand adjusted at
1) 6.25 per cent 2) 6.50 per cent 3) 6.75 per cent 4) 7 per cent 5) 7.25 per cent
237. Emmerson Mnangagwa won the recent Presidential elections in which of the following countries?
1) Kenya 2) Zimbabwe 3) South Africa 4) Chad 5) Ghana
238. Which country beat India 3-1 in the quarterfinal of the women’s Hockey World Cup in London recently?
1) Ireland 2) England 3) Australia 4) Canada 5) Malaysia
239. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the RBI issued its third bi-monthly monetary policy review of 2018-19.
The RBI retained the GDP forecast for the current fiscal at
1) 6.9 per cent 2) 7.1 per cent 3) 7.2 per cent 4) 7.4 per cent 5) 7.6 per cent
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240. Which country has topped the 2018 edition of the United Nation’s biennial E-Government Index?
1) Singapore 2) Switzerland 3) Sweden 4) Norway 5) Denmark
241. The CBI filed a charge sheet against Avinash Chander Mahajan and Sunder Rajan Raman recently. The two are the
former chairman cum managing directors of
1) Canara Bank 2) PNB 3) Dena 4) Allahabad Bank 5) Indian Bank
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1) Patna High Court 2) Uttarakhand High Court 3) Uttarakhand High Court
4) Allahabad High Court 5) Madras High Court
248. Who among the following has authored the book Kashmir: Glimpses of History and the Story of Struggle?
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1) Saifuddin Soz 2) Mehbooba Mufti 3) Omar Abdullah
4) Ghulam Nabi Azad 5) Syed Ali Shah Geelani
249. The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is observed every year on which date?
1) 01 Aug 2) 09 Aug 3) 19 Aug 4) 29 Aug 5) 31 Aug
250. The US provided the Strategic Trade Authorization-1 (STA- 1) status to which of the following Asian
countries recently?
1) Malaysia 2) Indonesia 3) India 4) Pakistan 5) China
251. NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant has launched an initiative to help find solutions to challenges in public and private
transport and road safety. The initiative has been named
1) Move Forward 2) Move Easy
2) Belarus
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3) Move Free
3) Kazakhstan
4) Move Hack
252. The host state for the 2018 International Film Festival of India (IFFI) is
1) Goa 2) Maharashtra 3) Gujarat 4) Tamil Nadu
4) Kyrgyzstan
5) Move Save
5) Puducherry
253. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj recently paid floral tributes to Lal Bahadur Shastri at his memorial in Tashkent,
the capital of
1) Ukraine 5) Uzbekistan
254. Nicolas Maduro recently survived an assassination attempt involving explosive drones. He is the present President of
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1) Colombia 2) Venezuela 3) Cambodia 4) Vietnam 5) Suriname
255. The GST Council has set up a six-member committee to look into the problems of micro, small and medium enterprises
(MSMEs). The Committee is headed by
1) Manpreet Singh Badal 2) Thomas Isaac 3) Shiv Pratap Shukla
4) Himanta Biswa Sarma 5) Sushil Modi
256. Which of the following oil companies is planning to invest Rs 1.75 lakh cr to nearly double refinery capacity by 2030?
1) Tata Petrodyne 2) RIL 3) BPCL 4) HPCL 5) IOC
257. Bishkek is the capital city of which of the following countries? Sushma Swaraj visited the country recently.
1) Kyrgyzstan 2) Kazakhstan 3) Turkmenistan 4) Tajikistan 5) Belarus
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258. Justice Indira Banerjee has been elevated as the Supreme Court judge. She is the present Chief Justice of
1) Calcutta High Court 2) Madras High Court 3) Allahabad High Court
4) Patna High Court 5) Delhi High Court
259. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is getting an unsecured loan of Rs 25,000 cr from which of the
following banks?
1) PNB 2) ICICI Bank 3) SBI 4) Canara Bank 5) Axis Bank
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260. The Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan handed over 5 croreth LPG connection under Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana
(PMUY) recently. The PMUY was launched in
1) 2014 2) 2015 3) 2016 4) 2017 5) 2018
261. Justice Geeta Mittal has become the first woman judge to head which of the following High Courts?
1) Patna High Court 2) Gauhati High Court 3) Allahabad High Court
4) Calcutta High Court 5) Jammu and Kashmir High Court
262. South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and rebel opposition leader Riek Machar signed a peace deal recently. The capital of
South Sudan is
1) Khartoum 2) Djibouti 3) Kampala 4) Juba 5) Nairobi
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1) Squash 2) Snooker 3) Golf 4) Table tennis 5) Cycling
265. Japan marked the 73rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima recently. An atom bomb was dropped by the US
in the city on which date in 1945?
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1) 01 Aug 2) 06 Aug 3) 16 Jul 4) 26 Jul 5) 31 Jul
266. Saudi Arabia recently freezed trade ties with which country over its interference in Gulf Kingdom’s internal affairs?
1) Canada 2) US 3) France 4) China 5) Iran
267. A 6.9 magnitude quake struck the island of Lombok in which country recently?
1) Italy 2) Japan 3) Cambodia 4) Malaysia 5) Indonesia
268. The govt has approved research projects worth over Rs 100 cr under ‘IMPRINT-2’ scheme. The initiative aims to
advance research in the high education institutions in
1) healthcare 2) security 3) energy 4) All the above 5) Only1) and 3)
269. President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated the ‘Festival on Democracy’ in which state recently to mark the diamond jubilee
celebrations its Legislative Assembly?
1) Karnataka
1) Third
2) Andhra Pradesh
2) Telangana
2) Fourth
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3) Kerala
3) West Bengal
3) Fifth
4) Sikkim
4) Bihar
271. What was India’s position at the 2018 Women’s Hockey World Cup played in London recently?
4) Eighth
5) Tamil Nadu
270. The International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) will study the impact of ‘Mission Kakatiya’
launched by which state to restore irrigation tanks?
1) Maharashtra 5) Uttar Pradesh
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272. Rajan Nanda passed away recently. He was the chairman and managing director of tractor and construction equipment
maker
1) Mahindra & Mahindra 2) Escorts 3) HMT 4) JCB 5) Deere &
Company
273. Indra Nooyi recently announced to step down as the chief executive officer (CEO) of which of the following firms?
Ramon Laguarta will be the next CEO of the firm.
1) PepsiCo 2) Coca Cola 3) Parle 4) Nestle 5) Unilever
274. Every year a week-long picnic is arranged for elephants at the Kanha National Park. The park is situated in
1) Odisha 2) West Bengal 3) Jharkhand 4) Uttar Pradesh 5) Madhya Pradesh
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275. Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Rathore recently flagged off mountaineering expedition to Mount Manirang. Manirang is
one of the biggest mountains in
1) Sikkim 2) Tripura 3) Himachal Pradesh 4) Jammu and Kashmir 5) Uttarakhand
276. President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated the centenary celebrations of St Thomas College recently. The college is
situated in
1) Thrissur (Kerala) 2) Panaji (Goa) 3) Bhopal (MP)
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financial year 2017-18?
1) Rs 32,048 cr 2) Rs 29,246 cr 3) Rs 23,930 cr 4) Rs 19,529 cr 5) Rs 15,952 cr
282. The committee led by PNB chairman Sunil Mehta has recommended that capital worth about Rs 500 bn will be required
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for PSBs to invest in AIFs or
1) Advance Investment Funds 2) Alternative Investment Funds 3) Allowed Investment Funds
4) Advance Innovation Funds 5) Alternative Innovation Funds
283. The International Youth Day is observed every year on which date?
1) 02 Aug 2) 12 Aug 3) 22 Aug 4) 28 Aug 5) 31 Aug
284. The Walmart-Flipkart deal worth $16 bn has got the Competition Commission of India nod. The CCI, which regulates
mergers and acquisitions, was established in
1) 2001 2) 2003 3) 2005 4) 2007 5) 2010
285. The RBI recently announced to pay dividend of what amount to the Union govt for the year ending Jun 30, 2018? The
RBI follows Jul-Jun financial year.
1) Rs 300 billion 2) Rs 350 billion
2) Swaminathan Gurumurthy
5) Only
4) Rs 450 billion
286. The govt has appointed who among the following as non-official director(s) on the RBI board?
5) Rs 500 billion
293. Ram Sewak Sharma was given two-year extension as the chief of which of the following regulators recently?
1) IRDAI 2) PFRDA 3) NABARD 4) TRAI 5) SEBI
294. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has constituted a committee for monitoring the rejuvenation project of Ganga from
Haridwar to Unnao in Uttar Pradesh. The present chairman of the NGT is
1) AK Goel 2) J Chelameswar 3) Swatanter Kumar
4) Jagdish Singh Khehar 5) Balbir Singh Chauhan
295. Who among the following has been elected as the new Deputy Chairman of the upper house of the Parliament Rajya
Sabha?
1) Ram Shakal 2) Sonal Mansingh 3) Raghunath Mohapatra
4) BK Hariprasad 5) Harivansh Narayan Singh
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297. Under the RBI Act, 1934, the RBI is required to pay the govt its surplus after making provisions for
1) bad and doubtful debts 2) depreciation in assets
3) contribution to staff and superannuation fund 4) All the above
5) Only 1) and 2)
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298. The present chairman of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) is
1) Subhash Chandra Khuntia 2) RS Sharma 3) Harsh Kumar Bhanwala
4) Hemant Contractor 5) Devender Kumar Sikri
299. Justice Rajendra Menon was sworn in as Chief Justice of which of the following High Courts recently?
1) Madras High Court 2) Patna High Court 3) Delhi High Court
4) Allahabad High Court 5) Jammu and Kashmir High Court
300. The World Biofuel Day is observed every year on which date?
1) 01 Aug 2) 10 Aug 3) 11 Aug 4) 21 Aug 5) 31 Aug
1) Afghanistan 2) Pakistan
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301. The Assam govt is going conduct door to door survey under PMAY-G. Here the term PMAY means
1) Pradhan Mantri Anna Yojana 2) Pradhan Mantri Antyodaya Yojana 3) Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana
5) Pradhan Mantri Aadhar Yojana
302. Ajay Bisaria is the Indian envoy to which of the following countries at present?
3) Bangladesh 4) Myanmar 5) Nepal
303. Lira is the currency of which of the following countries? It tumbled to new record lows against the dollar recently amid
strain in relations with the US.
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1) Greece 2) Iran 3) North Korea 4) Venezuela 5) Turkey
304. Michelle Bachelet has been appointed as the next UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. She is the former President
of which country?
1) Chile 2) Peru 3) Mexico 4) Ghana 5) Jordan
305. Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces has been elected as the President of the 73rd UN General Assembly. She is a diplomat
from
1) Eretria 2) Zambia 3) Spain 4) Ecuador 5) Netherlands
306. Which of the following banks recently reported a net loss of Rs 4,876 cr in the first quarter ended Jun 30, 2018? It had
reported Rs 7,718-cr loss in the preceding quarter.
1) PNB 2) Bank of Baroda 3) SBI 4) Canara Bank 5) ICICI Bank
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307. Ajay Jayaram and Mithun Manjunath are associated with which of the following games?
1) Tennis 2) Table tennis 3) Squash 4) Snooker 5) Badminton
308. The factory production, measured by the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), remained at what percent in Jun 2018?
1) 6 per cent 2) 6.5 per cent 3) 7 per cent 4) 7.5 per cent 5) 8 per cent
309. Exim Bank of India has signed a pact related to blockchain technology with member development banks of BRICS. The
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1) Gujarat High Court 2) Madras High Court 3) Gauhati High Court
4) Allahabad High Court 5) Patna High Court
315. The Civil Aviation Ministry has approved a proposal for setting up of water aerodromes initially in Chilika Lake in Odisha
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and Sardar Sarovar Dam and Sabarmati River Front in
1) Gujarat 2) Maharashtra 3) Himachal Pradesh 4) Punjab 5) Haryana
316. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath launched a defence industrial
corridor recently in
1) Gorakhpur 2) Varanasi 3) Aligarh 4) Ghaziabad 5) Lucknow
317. Bajaj Allianz has entered into a bancassurance deal with Vijaya Bank. The public sector bank Vijaya Bank is headquartered
in
1) Bengaluru 2) Chennai 3) Manipal 4) Hyderabad 5) Kochi
318. ________ has become the first bank in the country to introduce Iris Scan Authentication feature for Aadhaar-based
transactions through its micro ATM tablets.
1) ICICI Bank
4) YES Bank
2) Axis Bank
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3) HDFC Bank
319. The biennial SCO Peace Mission Exercise for the year 2018 will be conducted from 22 to 29 Aug 2018 at Chebarkul,
Chelyabinsk in
1) China 2) Kazakhstan 3) Uzbekistan
320. The World Humanitarian Day is observed every year on which date?
4) Russia 5) Kyrgyzstan
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1) 01 Aug 2) 09 Aug 3) 19 Aug 4) 29 Aug 5) 31 Aug
321. The National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (NIAB) is an Indian autonomous research establishment which is
situated in
1) Bengaluru 2) Chennai 3) Hyderabad 4) Gurugram 5) Mumbai
322. James Anderson recently became the first man to take 100 Test wickets at Lord’s when he dismissed India’s Murali Vijay.
Anderson plays for
1) Australia 2) England 3) West Indies 4) South Africa 5) New Zealand
323. The Parliament has passed the National Sports University Bill. The Bill seeks to establish a first-of-its-kind National
Sports University in which state for the promotion of sports?
1) Manipur 2) Assam 3) Haryana 4) Punjab 5) Bihar
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324. The powerful recent earthquake lifted the Lombok island by as much as 25 centimetres (10 inches). The island is situated
in
1) Japan 2) China 3) Thailand 4) Italy 5) Indonesia
325. NASA launched USD 1.5-bn unmanned probe ‘Parker’ recently to unlock the mysteries of
1) Jupiter 2) Saturn 3) Pluto 4) Sun 5) Mars
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326. Satya Nadella recently netted over USD 35 mn after selling shares of which company? He is the CEO of the company.
1) IBM 2) Lenovo 3) Alphabet 4) Oracle 5) Microsoft
327. Who among the following won the 2018 Vietnam Open Badminton tournament recently?
1) Sourabh Verma 2) Shesar Hiren Rhustavito 3) Ajay Jayaram
4) Wahyu Nayaka 5) Lin Dan
328. The World Elephant Day is observed every year on which date?
1) 02 Aug 2) 12 Aug 3) 22 Aug 4) 25 Aug 5) 31 Aug
329. China is building a deep sea port in Kyaukpyu which is situated in
1) Sri Lanka 2) Thailand 3) Myanmar 4) Bangladesh 5) Maldives
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331. Kenneth I Juster is the present ambassador of which of the following countries to India?
1) US 2) UK 3) Australia 4) Canada 5) France
332. ________ is the cleanest railway station in A-1 category stations. This was announced by Railway Minister Piyush
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Goyal in New Delhi recently.
1) Tirupati 2) Chennai 3) Hyderabad 4) Jodhpur 5) Jaipur
333. ________ has been appointed the new Chairperson of the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL) under the Ministry
of Power.
1) MR Shah 2) Gita Mittal 3) Vineet Saran 4) Indira Banerjee 5) Manjula Chellur
334. The retail inflation, measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), for the month of Jul (2018) remained at what per cent?
1) 2.36 per cent 2) 3.23 percent 3) 4.17 per cent 4) 4.92 per cent 5) 5.12 per cent
335. Somnath Chaterjee passed away recently. He was a 10-time Lok Sabha MP and the former
1) Vice President 2) Lok Sabha Speaker 3) Deputy Chairman Rajya Sabha
2) Triputi
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336. Which city has been ranked first in the Ease of Living Index launched by Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry?
1) Chandigarh 3) Greater Mumbai 4) Delhi 5) Pune
337. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has to decided to digitally encrypt question papers for the Class X
and Class XII examinations and has tied up with
1) TCS 2) Infosys 3) Microsoft 4) Wipro 5) IBM
338. As per the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) scheme, an overdraft of up to what amount is available to one
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account holder (preferably the woman) per household after six months of satisfactory conduct of account?
1) Rs 500 2) Rs 1,000 3) Rs 2,000 4) Rs 5,000 5) Rs 10,000
339. Usha Ananthasubramanian was dismissed by the govt recently as MD and CEO of which of the following banks? Her
powers were seized earlier.
1) Dena Bank 2) Allahabad Bank 3) Canara Bank 4) Bank of India 5) Corporation Bank
340. The Supreme Court recently approved coloured stickers on vehicles to indicate nature of fuel. Now, the hologram-based
sticker of light-blue colour will be used on vehicles run by
1) petrol and CNG 2) diesel 3) hydrogen fuel 4) battery 5) methanol
341. Balram Das Tandon passed away recently. He was the present governor of which of the following states?
1) Chhattisgarh 2) Jharkhand 3) Himachal Pradesh 4) Uttarakhand 5) Telangana
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342. Which of the following has become the first Indian tribal language to get a Wikipedia edition in its own script?
1) Manipuri 2) Bodo 3) Dogri 4) Santhali 5) Meitei
343. Who among the following won the 2018 Rogers Cup tennis championships recently?
1) Stefanos Tsitsipas 2) Rafael Nadal 3) Thomas Fabbiano 4) John Isner 5) Roger Federer
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344. ISRO has announced that India will launch its second lunar mission on Jan 3, 2019 to land on the moon with a lander and
rover. The present chairman of ISRO is
1) Koppillil Radhakrishnan 2) Mylswamy Annadurai 3) BN Suresh
4) Roddam Narasimha 5) Kailasavadivoo Sivan
345. Which country recently returned a 12th century Buddha statue to India stolen nearly 60 years ago?
1) UK 2) US 3) Germany 4) France 5) China
346. Who among the following is the Minister for Electronics & Information Technology in the present Union Cabinet? He
released the document ‘Digital North East Vision 2022’ in Guwahati recently.
1) Manoj Sinha 2) DV Sadananda Gowda 3) Dharmendra Pradhan
4) Ravi Shankar Prasad 5) Ananth Kumar
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is NOT a member of the grouping?
1) Thailand 2) Myanmar 3) Philippines 4) Bhutan 5) Nepal
349. Who among the following has topped ‘Women who Changed the World’ list prepared by BBC?
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1) Jane Austen 2) Florence Nightingale 3) Marie Curie
4) Margaret Thatcher 5) Mother Teresa
350. The report on station cleanliness, conducted by Quality Council of India (QCI), was released recently. Which station in
‘A’ category has topped in the country?
1) Warangal 2) Marwar 3) Phulera 4) Jaipur 5) Tirupati
351. The wholesale inflation remained at what per cent in Jul 2018 as per the data released by the govt?
1) 8.12 per cent 2) 5.77 per cent 3) 5.09 per cent 4) 4.17 per cent 5) 3.87 per cent
352. Ramesh Powar has been named head coach of the national women’s cricket team till the ICC World T20 scheduled to be
held in Nov 2018 in
1) West Indies 2) England
2) 2020 3) 2021
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3) Australia
353. The Davis Cup is a premier international team event in men’s
1) badminton 2) hockey 3) squash
4) South Africa
4) billiards
4) 2022
355. Which of the following firms has announced to formally launch its messaging app ‘Kimbho’?
5) New Zealand
5) tennis
354. PM Narendra Modi recently announced a manned space mission taking Indian astronauts to space on board ‘Gaganyaan’
by
1) 2019 5) 2023
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1) Paytm 2) Patanjali 3) Bharti Airtel 4) Reliance Jio 5) Infosys
356. As announced by PM Narendra Modi recently, the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Abhiyaan (Ayushman Bharat) will be
launched on Sep 25 on the birth anniversary of
1) Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay 2) Keshav Baliram Hedgewar 3) MS Golwalkar
4) Nanaji Deshmukh 5) Syama Prasad Mukherjee
357. The public sector bank Corporation Bank is running ‘halla bol’ recovery campaign for NPAs. The bank, headed by Jai
Kumar Garg, is headquartered in
1) Chennai 2) Bengaluru 3) Hyderabad 4) Mangalore 5) Mumbai
358. Which country recently imposed up to 140 per cent tax on rice, alcohol and cars imported from the US?
1) UK 2) Iran 3) Turkey 4) North Korea 5) China
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359. The Mullaperiyar Dam is a masonry gravity dam on the Periyar River in the Indian state of
1) Karnataka 2) Kerala 3) Andhra Pradesh 4) Telangana 5) Odisha
360. A cyber fraud of more than Rs 900 mn took place at Cosmos Bank due to a malware-based attack on the bank’s IT system
recently. The bank is based in
1) New Delhi 2) Kolkata 3) Manipal 4) Bhopal 5) Pune
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361. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has launched Unified Payments Interface (UPI) 2.0, which allows
customers to link to UPI their
1) loan account 2) NRE account 3) NRO account 4) overdraft account 5) All the above
362. The former Prime Minister and Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee passed away recently. The three time Prime Minister of
India was first sworn in for the post in May
1) 1996 2) 1998 3) 1999 4) 2001 5) 2004
363. The navies of ________ and India are going to conduct joint exercises to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the
maritime bilateral relations between the two countries.
1) Japan 2) Sri Lanka 3) Indonesia 4) South Korea 5) Singapore
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1) Uruguay 2) Ghana 3) Paraguay 4) Colombia 5) Peru
366. India’s Nihal Sarin is associated with which of the following games? The 14-year-old was in news recently.
1) Polo 2) Golf 3) Shooting 4) Archery 5) Chess
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367. Which of the following telecom firms has launched ‘WINGS’, a VOIP based service?
1) BSNL 2) MTNL 3) Bharti Airtel 4) Idea 5) Reliance Jio
368. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has launched ‘RUCO’ initiative for collection and conversion
of used cooking oil to bio-diesel. Letter ‘R’ in RUCO means
1) Recreate 2) Restoration 3) Refining 4) Repurpose 5) Reprocess
369. The Indian Govt recently released additional fund for the Postal Highway being constructed in Southern Plains of
1) Sri Lanka 2) Myanmar 3) Nepal 4) Bangladesh 5) Afghanistan
370. The 24th World Congress of Philosophy (WCP) was held recently in which of the following cities?
1) New Delhi 2) Beijing 3) Tokyo 4) Manila 5) Rome
372. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) recently launched Unified Payments Interface (UPI) 2.0. The first
376. Who among the following has/have been awarded the annual Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical
Research for the cancer therapy?
1) Steven Rosenberg 2) Carl June 3) James Allison 4) All the above 5) Only1) and 3)
377. Ibrahim Boubacar Keita was re-elected as president in which of the following countries recently?
1) Peru 2) Mali 3) Chile 4) Colombia 5) Ghana
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378. Which of the following is the world’s most liveable city in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Liveability Index,
2018?
1) Vancouver 2) Sydney 3) Calgary 4) Melbourne 5) Vienna
379. Who among the following has been ranked first (India’s wealthiest women) in the Kotak Wealth Hurun-Leading Wealthy
Women 2018 list?
1) Ms Smitha 2) Sangita Jindal 3) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
4) Indu Jain 5) Roshni Nadar
380. Which of the following countries has announced to invest $15 bn in Turkey? Turkey is grappling with a collapsing
currency.
1) UAE 2) Saudi Arabia 3) Qatar 4) Iraq 5) Iran
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382. Esow Alben recently created history by claiming India’s first ever medal (a silver) at the UCI Junior World Championships
in Aigle, Switzerland. He is a
1) Shooter 2) Shuttler 3) Archer 4) Motorist 5) Cyclist
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383. The 18th edition of the Asian Games is being hosted by the Indonesian cities of Jakarta and Palembang. The Asian
Games first began in 1951 in
1) New Delhi 2) Tokyo 3) Manila 4) Kuala Lumpur 5) Beijing
384. Aretha Franklin passed away recently. She was a legendary
1) dancer 2) actor 3) singer 4) boxer 5) astronaut
385. Who won the women’s singles title of the 2018 Vietnam Open badminton tournament?
1) Han Yue 2) Yeo Jia Min 3) Misato Aratama 4) Akane Watanabe 5) Chiharu Shida
386. Viraj Madappa has become the youngest Indian to win Asian Tour title. He is a
1) chess player 2) golfer 3) table tennis player 4) squash player 5) professional boxer
393. Which of the following teams won the final of the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Under-15 Women’s
Championship in Thimpu, Bhutan recently?
1) Bangladesh 2) Nepal 3) Pakistan 4) India 5) Sri Lanka
394. India successfully flight tested the indigenously developed helicopter launched anti-tank guided missile named
1) RUSTAM 2) PRAHAR 3) HELINA 4) VAJRA 5) TRISHUL
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395. The External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj inaugurated “Panini Language Laboratory” at Mahatma Gandhi Institute
(MGI) in which country recently?
1) Mauritius 2) Suriname 3) South Africa
4) Trinidad and Tobago 5) Fiji
396. Bajrang Punia won the first gold medal for India at the 18th Asian Games in Indonesia. He plays
1) Wrestling 2) Weightlifting 3) Boxing 4) Javelin throw 5) Discuss throw
397. Jose Graziano da Silva is the present Director-General of which of the following organisations of the United Nations?
1) International Telecommunication Union 2) International Maritime Organization
3) International Labour Organization 4) International Civil Aviation Organization
5) Food and Agriculture Organization
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399. Which of the following firms has introduced a new social media app called ‘Cameos’ especially for celebrities?
1) Google 2) Twitter 3) Facebook 4) Microsoft 5) Reddit
401. The govt has accepted the resignation of Sriram Kalyanaraman. He was the Managing Director of
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1) Allahabad Bank 2) National Housing Bank 3) SIDBI
4) NABARD 5) Corporation Bank
401. Aadhaar-issuing body UIDAI has finally announced a phased rollout of face recognition feature. The present CEO of
the UIDAI is
1) Ajay Bhushan Pandey 2) Indu Bhushan 3) Prakash Kumar
4) Yaduvendra Mathur 5) David Rasquinha
402. ________ has announced to invest $2.3 bn towards capex on its oil and gas activities in India in the ‘near-term’ to
increase the reserve base by around 375 mn barrels.
1) IOC 2) HPCL 3) RIL 4) Essar 5) Vedanta
1) Maldives
1) New Delhi
2) Kenya
2) Kuala Lumpur
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403. Bamako is the capital city of which of the following countries?
3) Mali
3) Tajikistan
3) Manila
4) Ghana
4) Iran
4) Bangkok
5) Myanmar
404. The Taliban insurgents kidnapped over hundred bus passengers in Kunduz province in which country recently?
1) Pakistan 2) Afghanistan 5) Uzbekistan
405. The secretariat of the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) is located in which of the following
cities?
5) Colombo
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406. During his recent visit to which country, PM Narendra Modi announced to build a Mahatma Gandhi Heritage Centre in
Jinja town where a statue of the Father of the nation stands?
1) Mauritius 2) Suriname 3) Uruguay 4) Uganda 5) Fiji
407. Who among the following recently created history by becoming the first Indian woman wrestler to bag a gold medal at
Asian Games?
1) Ritu Phogat 2) Sakshi Malik 3) Babita Kumari 4) Vinesh Phogat 5) Geeta Phogat
408. Which firm has been ranked as the top company globally on Fortune’s ‘Change The World’ list that ranked companies
using the profit motive to help the planet and tackle social problems?
1) Kroger 2) Alibaba 3) Bank of America 4) Merck 5) Reliance Jio
409. SS Mundra has been appointed as an independent director on the board of which of the following firms?
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415. Saurabh Chaudhary won a gold medal at the Asian Games in which of the following games?
1) Shooting 2) Boxing 3) Weightlifting
4) Archery 5) Wrestling
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416. Itsunori Onodera visited New Delhi recently. He is the present Defence Minister of which of the following countries?
1) South Korea 2) Japan 3) Vietnam
4) Myanmar 5) Philippines
417. Chris Daniels met Minister for Electronics and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad, in New Delhi recently. He is the present Chief
Executive Officer of which of the following firms?
1) Hike 2) Reddit 3) Twitter 4) WhatsApp 5) Uber
418. The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (Bimstec) army exercises are
scheduled to be held in Sep 2018 in
1) Pune 2) Jaipur 3) Agartala 4) Chennai 5) Vishakhapatnam
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419. Who among the following has been appointed as the new governor of Jammu & Kashmir?
3) Bihar
3) Ganga Prasad
420. Lalji Tandon has been appointed as the new governor of which of the following states?
4) Haryana
421. Satyadev Narayan Arya has been appointed as the new governor of which of the following states?
1) Haryana 2) Punjab 3) Bihar
5) Madhya Pradesh
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4) Uttar Pradesh 5) Jharkhand
422. The digital savings bank accounts that can be opened online instantly have become a hit with youngsters. YONO is
such an account launched by
1) Kotak Mahindra Bank 2) RBL Bank 3) Axis Bank
4) ICICI Bank 5) SBI
423. As per the Moody’s Investors Service, the Indian economy is expected to grow by (around) what per cent in 2018 and
2019?
1) 7 per cent 2) 7.1 per cent 3) 7.3 per cent
4) 7.5 per cent 5) 8 per cent
424. Scott Morrison is set to become the new Prime Minister in which of the following countries? He won a Liberal party
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426. Sanjeev Rajput clinched a silver medal at the 18th Asian Games recently. He is an Indian
1) boxer 2) shooter 3) archer
4) triple jumper 5) javelin thrower
427. The Receivables Exchange of India (RXIL) recently announced that the first public sector enterprise to make a transaction
on the “TReDS platform” is
1) BEL 2) EIL 3) IOC 4) HAL 5) ONGC
428. The Kempegowda International Airport has emerged as the second fastest growing airport in the world in the first half
of 2018. It is situated in
1) Bengaluru 2) Chennai 3) Hyderabad
4) Kochi 5) Vishakhapatnam
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430. Who among the following has been appointed as the new governor of Uttarakhand?
1) Baby Rani Maurya 2) Kaptan Singh Solanki 3) Tathagata Roy
4) Ganga Prasad 5) Satya Pal Malik
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431. A panel set up by the Department of Telecom to prepare a roadmap for rollout of 5G telephony in India expects the service
to be operational by 2020. The panel was headed by
1) Aruna Sundararajan 2) Sunil Bharti Mittal 3) AJ Paulraj
4) Nandan Nilekani 5) Sam Pitroda
432. The host city for the fourth Summit of Heads of Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic
Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is
1) Colombo 2) Thailand 3) New Delhi
4) Dhaka 5) Kathmandu
433. Who among the following is the present Chief Election Commissioner (CEC)?
1) Om Prakash Rawat 2) Sunil Arora 3) Ashok Lavasa
4) Sharad Kumar 5) KV Chowdary
435. Rahi Sarnobat has become the first Indian female to win a gold medal at the Asian Games in the game of
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1) archery 2) shooting 3) wrestling
4) weightlifting 5) tennis
436. Which of the following firms recently became the first company to cross Rs 8 trillion in terms of market capitalization?
1) Tata Motors 2) RIL 3) TCS
4) Infosys 5) Wipro
437. The International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism is observed every year on which date?
1) 02 Aug 2) 11 Aug 3) 21 Aug
4) 25 Aug 5) 31 Aug
438. GC Chaturvedi is the present chairman of which of the following banks?
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440. Ganga Prasad has been appointed as the new governor of which of the following states?
1) Tripura 2) Mizoram 3) Assam
4) West Bengal 5) Sikkim
441. Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan won gold medal in men’s doubles event of which of the following games at the 18th
Asian Games 2018 in Jakarta?
1) Badminton 2) Squash 3) Snooker
4) Table tennis 5) Tennis
442. India won silver medal in women’s Kabaddi final after losing to which country in the final at the Asian Games 2018?
1) Iran 2) Pakistan 3) Bangladesh
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4) Sri Lanka 5) Indonesia
444. A powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck along Peru’s border with Brazil recently. The capital of Peru is
1) Bamako 2) Maputo 3) Lima
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4) Baku 5) Manama
445. _____ has been appointed the head of the group of ministers set up to advise PM Narendra Modi on whether to
continue with or withdraw from the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) negotiations.
1) Nirmala Sitharaman 2) Suresh Prabhu 3) Nitin Gadkari
4) Arun Jaitley 5) Ananth Kumar
446. The state cabinet in which state recently gave its approval to waiving Rs 301.63 bn farm loans in respect of nationalised
or commercial banks?
1) Kerala 2) Karnataka 3) Tamil Nadu
4) Odisha 5) Rajasthan
4) New Delhi
2) Lucknow
5) Shimla
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447. Which of the following cities hosted the sixth edition of International Buddhist Conclave 2018?
1) Patna 3) Rajgir
448. Who among the following has been appointed as the brand ambassador of the Mumbai-based Sanjay Gandhi National
Park?
1) Priyanka Chopra
4) Madhuri Dixit
2) Sonam Kapoor
5) Raveena Tandon
3) Sonali Bendre
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449. The six northern states and the Union Territory of Chandigarh have decided to set up a centralised secretariat to fight
drug menace in which city?
1) Panchkula (Haryana) 2) Patiala (Punjab) 3) Patna (Bihar)
4) Lucknow (UP) 5) Bhopal (MP)
450. Which country recently announced that it has successfully tested hypersonic aircraft which Xingkong-2?
1) Russia 2) North Korea 3) China 4) Iran 5) South Korea
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