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1. New Director of CBI is......?
1) Rajnath Singh
3) Anil Kumar Dhasmana
2) Rajiv Jain
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1) Jean Claude Junker 2) Donald Tusk
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Who was elected as the new President of the European Parliament on 17th January 2017?

3) Antonio Tajani
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4) Jens Stoltenberg

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5) Mario Draghi
Who was elected as the new President of Haiti?
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1) Jacob Zuma 2) Edger Lungu
3) Jovenel Moise 4) Omaral-Bashir
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4. Haiti capital is.....
1) Johannesburg 2) Lusaka 3) Port-au-Prince 4) Khartoum

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Which Bollywood actress won the Favourite Dramatic TV Actress Award in the 2017 People's Choice
Awards?

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1) Deepika Padukone
3) Priyanka Chopra
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2) Kangana Ranaut
4) Katrina Kaif
5) Anushka Sharma

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Priyanka Chopra won People's Choice Award for Favourite Dramatic TV Actress for her role as CIA
agent in which TV series?
1) Quantico
3) The Jungle Book
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4) Zootopia
5) How To Be Single

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The Best FIFA Men's Player 2016 conferred on....?

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1) Claudio Ranieri 2) Manuel Neuer 3) Lionel Messi 4) Toni Kroos
5) Cristiano Ronaldo
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wT.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry conferred on....
1) Salman Rushdie 2) Marianne Wiggins
3) Adam.R.Dell 4) Theodore Joseph "Ted" Forstmann
5) Jacob Polley

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10. For which book, T. S. Eliot prize for Poetry conferred on Jacob Polley, the cash award for the prize is
20,000?
1) Jackself 2) The Half and Full
3) Instinct Pose
5) Hint and Fall
4) Dream of the Next Gen

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11. The 62nd Filmfare awards winner list given. The incorrect combination is....

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1) Best Film - Dangal
2) Best Actor (Male) - Aamir Khan for Dangal
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3) Best Actor (Female) - Alia Bhatt for 'Udta Punjab'

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4) Life time Achievement Award - Shatrughan Sinha
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Union Government established which committee to suggest and recommend formation of National
Sports Development Code (NSDC)?
1) Injeti Srinivas
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3) B.N. Sri Krishna

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Who heads the committee to review the institutionalization of Arbitration Mechanism?

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1) Arvind Pangariya
3) B.N. Srikrishna
2) S.S. Mundra
4) Ratan P. Watal
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Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) constituted a working group as part of its efforts to

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fight online piracy. Who among the following is the chairman of the committee?
1) Rajiv Mohan
5) Tromy Paske
2) Kranthi Desai
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4) Ajit Mohan

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Which Committee on Digital Payments recommended appropriate measures for encouraging Digital

1) S.S. Mundra
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Payments submitted its report to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on 9th December 2016?
2) Amitab Kanth

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3) Ratan P. Watal 4) Ashok Lavasa

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5) Shakthikanth Das

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Committee of Chief Ministers headed by ....... constituted to promote digital payment systems to

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3) Chandrababu Naidu 4) V. Naryana Swamy

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5) Devendra Fadnavis
Which state declared Dharamsala as its second capital on 19th January 2017?
1) Haryana 2) Punjab
3) Himachal Pradesh 4) Arunachal Pradesh
5) Bihar

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18. Himachal Pradesh Capital is Shimla. Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh is....
1) Manohar Lal Khattar 2) Prakash Singh Badal
3) Virbhadra Singh 4) Pema Khandu
5) Nitesh Kumar

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Which state announced setting up a special panel to stop child trafficking under the chairmanship of
Partha Chatterjee?

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2) Goa 3) West Bengal

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4) Bihar

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Union Government recently decided to set up new Sewage Treatment Plant under new Ganga Cleaning

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Projects at Haridwar and .....?
1) Varanasi 2) Tirupathi 3) Ujjain 4) Mumbai
5) Kolkata

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Which nation agreed to help in developing Chennai, Ahmedabad and Varanasi as smart cities?

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2) Netherlands 3) Japan 4) United Kingdom
5) Germany

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Union Government allocated Rs.200.78 crore to set up Indian Agricultural Research Institute (lARI)

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in.....?
1) Jharkhand 2) Haryana 3) Telangana 4) Punjab

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5) Assam
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government employees to Rs.......per person
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On 12th January 2017, Union Government announced to increase the minimum pension for the central

1) Rs.11000 2) Rs.14000 3) Rs.7500

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Union Minister of state for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions is....?
1) Jitendra Singh

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2) Dharmendra Pradhan
3) V.K. Singh
5) Maneka Gandhi
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29th meeting of the Standing Committee of Voluntary Agencies (Scova) held at.....
1) Mumbai
5) Nainital
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2) New Delhi 3) Kanpur 4) Chennai

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Ex-gratia amount for Central Government employees increased from Rs.10 - 15 lakh to ......
1) Rs.15 - 25 lakh 2) Rs.35 - 45 lakh

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3) Rs.15 - 45 lakh
5) Rs.25 - 35 lakh
4) Rs.18 - 30 lakh

As per the central government statement, there are about ........ pensioners in the country and almost
88% of pension accounts have been seeded to Aadhaar.
1) 50 - 55 lakh 2) 70 - 80 lakh 3) 90 - 95 lakh 4) 50 - 75 lakh
5) 40 - 55 lakh

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28. Second Edition of Raisina Dialogue held on 17th - 19th January 2017 at ....?
1) Mumbai 2) Kanpur 3) Pune 4) New Delhi
5) Bhopal
29. Theme of the 2017 Raisina Dialogue is....

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2) India and Asia both connection to the Technology world
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4) Asia: Regional and Global Connectivity for the knowledge
5) The New Normal: Multilateralism in a Multi-polarity
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1) Pranab Mukherjee 2) Sushma Swaraj
3) Narendra Modi 4) Jai Shankar
5) Hamid Ansari

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58th India International Garment Fair (IIGF) 2017 organized at....

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1) Gurgram 2) Coimbatore 3) Ahmedabad 4) Kochi

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Which nation on 16th January 2017 became the associate member of the European Organization for
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1) Pakistan 2) South Korea 3) India
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4) Afghanistan
5) Sri Lanka
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European Organization for Nuclear Research known as CERN (Conseil Europen pour la Recherche
Nucleaire ) founded on 29th September...?
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1) 1951 2) 1947 3) 2005

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5) 1954
Where is the Headquarters of CERN?
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1) Lyon 2) Washington D C

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5) Tokyo

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How many nations have membership in CERN?
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Present Director General of CERN is...?

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1) Fabiola Gianotti
3) Suma Chakravarti
5) Antonia Christon
2) A.S. Kiran Kumar
4) Alex Michlel

37. 20th National Conference on e-Governance organized from 9th - 10th January 2017 in the state of......
1) Telangana 2) Andhra Pradesh 3) Kerala 4) West Bengal
5) Rajasthan

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38. First edition of the Nobel Prize Series Exhibition organized in..?
1) Gujarat 2) Madhya Pradesh 3) Uttar Pradesh 4) Haryana
5) Jharkhand
39. National Youth Day observed On...

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40. National Youth Day celebrated to commemorate the birth anniversary of ....

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2) Mokshagundam Visweswarayya
4) Swami Vivekananda
5) B.C. Roy

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1) 60 2) 100
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On 12th January 2017, India celebrating ...... th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.
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In which year, Swami Vivekananda given historical speech in ''World's Parliament of Religion'' ?

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Narendra Modi addressed the 21st National Youth Festival in .............. via Video conference.

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Theme for the National Youth festival 2017 is ......?
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45. Mascot of the National Youth festival 2017 is ..............?
1) Gori 2) Saathi 3) Lado 4) Mobile
5) Aadhar

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India and .............. signed in the field of Youth Affairs on 18th January 2017
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1) UK
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Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Youth Affairs and Sports is..?
1) Vijay Goel 2) Rao Indrejith Singh

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3) Rajiv Prathap Rudy
5) Dharmendra Pradhan
World Hindi day celebrated on...?
4) Shripad Yasso Naik

1) 23rd April 2) 7th August 3) 10th January 4) 21st February

5) 14th September

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49. New captain of Indian Cricket Team for all three formats of the game is....?
1) Rishabh Pant 2) Ashish Nehra
3) Yuvraj Singh 4) Virat Kohli
5) Ajinkya Rahane

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50. World Hindi Day was first observed in....?
1) 1994 2) 2000 3) 2006
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20-1; 21-3; 22-1; 23-5; 24-1; 25-2; 26-5; 27-1; 28-4; 29-5; 30-3; 31-5; 32-3; 33-5; 34-3; 35-3; 36-1; 37-2;

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