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What is the name of the virtual assistant launched Finance Ministry has announced to release a
by SIDBI on its foundation day? commemorative coin of ______ denomination to
A) Pragati mark 350th birth anniversary of Guru Gobind
B) Samridhi Singh?
C) Unnati A) Rs 100
D) Vriddhi B) Rs 500
C) Rs 350
D) Rs 350
Minister of State for Power, RK Singh, laid the
foundation stone of the 60 MW Naitwar Mori Haryana state education department has renamed
Hydro Electric Project (NMHEP) in? the senior secondary girls school as 'Shaheed Major
A) Himachal Pradesh Vikas Yadav Senior Secondary School'. It is located
B) Jammu & Kashmir in which district?
C) Uttarakhand A) Panipat
D) Sikkim B) Rewari
C) Hisar
What is the name of the 'new organ' discovered by D) Rohtak
researchers recently?
A) Gallarium As per Indian Cellular Association, India has
B) Photophore overtaken which country to become the second
C) Interstitium largest producer of mobile phones in 2017?
D) Irisin A) Japan
Which football team has won Santosh Trophy title B) China
at the Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata? C) US
A) Kerala D) Vietnam
B) Punjab
Which country has successfully tested a nuclear
C) Bengal
capable intercontinental ballistic missile, named
D) Maharashtra
'Sarmat'?
NITI Aayog has launched the baseline ranking for A) Russia
115 aspirational districts. It is based on how many B) India
parameters? C) China
A) 27 D) Israel
B) 51
Which country's opposition has refused to allow
C) 33
D) 49 ratification of India's agreement to build military
infrastructure on Assumption Island?
A) Seychelles
Who has been appointed as the new CMD of B) Myanmar
Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL)? C) Oman
A) K Raghavan D) Malaysia
B) PK Rath
How many Kirti Chakras did President Ram Nath
C) NV Yadav
Kovind recently confer at the Defence Investiture
D) G Narayan
Ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan?
A) 5
B) 3
C) 1
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CBDT has extended the deadline for the PAN- Which satellite did China recently launch aboard its
Aadhaar linking to? Long March-3B rocket for its satellite navigation
A) Apr 30 system?
B) Sept 30 A) Tiangong-2
C) Jun 30 B) BeiDou-3
D) Dec 31 C) Ziyuan-III
D) Chang'e 2
NHAI has joined hands with AAI for developing a
green corridor in? Which state government has launched '181-Sakhi'
A) Coimbatore toll-free helpline number for women?
B) Mangalore A) Bihar
C) Jaisalmer B) Jharkhand
D) Varanasi C) Assam
D) Odisha
Who has been appointed as the new President of
Nasscom?
A) Aruna Kotecha Which small finance bank has recently started it
B) Shobhana Khulbe operations?
C) Bharati Sinha A) North East Small Finance Bank
D) Debjani Ghosh B) Jana Small Finance Bank
C) Suryoday Small Finance Bank
India and Pakistan have agreed to mutually resolve
D) Capital Small Finance Bank
all issues about the treatment of diplomats. Who is
India's High Commissioner to Pakistan? What is the 2018 theme of 'World Autism
A) Taranjit Singh Sandhu Awareness Day' observed on Apr 2nd?
B) Gautam Bambawale A) Autism and the 2030 Agenda: Inclusion and
C) Ajay Bisaria Neurodiversity
D) Manjeev Singh Puri B) Employment: The Autism Advantage
C) Empowering Women and Girls with Autism
Which sports personality's wax statue is going to be
D) Toward Autonomy and Self-Determination
added at Madame Tussauds Delhi?
A) Pullela Gopichand
Which state government has approved a proposal
B) PV Sindhu to set up a crime branch under the state police to
C) Kidambi Srikanth deal with unlawful activities?
D) Virat Kohli A) Sikkim
V. Sriharsha, who recently passed away, was a? B) Manipur
A) Journalist C) Assam
B) Politician D) Tripura
C) Jurist
Which indigenously built Submarine Launched
D) Diplomat
Cruise Missile (SLMC) has been successfully tested
by Pakistan?
Which company has launched a new forum called A) Ghazi
‘WomenInTech’? B) Shaheen
A) Facebook India C) Ghori
B) Microsoft India D) Babur
C) RBS India
D) TCS

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Which state's Chief Minister has announced raising Which airport has been adjudged the cleanest
the retirement age of State government employees airport in India at the 23rd annual day of the
from 60 years to 62 years? Airports Authority of India (AAI) in New Delhi?
A) West Bengal A) Udaipur
B) Telangana B) Begumpet
C) Madhya Pradesh C) Mangalore
D) Rajasthan D) Chandigarh

Which space agency has announced to launch Who are the two Indian activists who have been
'Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow- named among 20 finalists for the Commonwealth
On' (GRACE-FO)? Youth Awards 2018?
A) ISRO 1. Mirnalini Dayal 2. Sakshi Nair
B) CNSA 3. Atul Bhatti 4. Yogesh Kumar
C) NASA A) 1 & 2
D) ESA B) 2 & 3
C) 3 & 4
Kotak Mahindra Bank has launched India's first D) 1 & 4
artificial intelligence-powered voicebot in the
banking sector, named? Which sports federation has launched a mobile app
A) Cara 'Scout-Me' to find talent?
B) Tara A) BCCI
C) Nell B) AIFF
D) Keya C) IBF
D) WFI
Who has won the men's singles title in the Miami
Open, held in Florida, USA? Which space agency is going to send its first-ever
A) Grigor Dimitrov mission, named 'Interior Exploration using Seismic
B) Alexander Zverev Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport
C) John Isner (InSight)', to study deep interiors of Mars?
D) Bob Bryan A) CNSA
B) ISRO
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath
C) NASA
inaugurated India's longest elevated road, named
D) JAXA
'Hindon Elevated Road', in?
A) Ghaziabad Who has been adjudged 'Sportsperson of the Year'
B) Varanasi at the Telangana Sports Journalists Association
C) Gorakhpur awards 2017?
D) Kanpur A) Mithali Raj
B) Saina Nehwal
Who has been appointed to become the first
C) PV Sindhu
woman to head UN political affairs?
D) Sania Mirza
A) Rosemary DiCarlo
B) Barbara Sison Which state has won the Geographical Indication
C) Ruth Davis (GI) tag for Kadaknath chicken?
D) Roberta Jacobson A) Odisha
B) Chhattiagarh
C) Jharkhand
D) Madhya Pradesh

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As per National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey Minister of Food Processing Harsimrat Kaur Badal
(NARSS), what percent of rural households that inaugurated Rajasthan's first mega food park in
have access to toilets use them? which district?
A) 93% A) Ajmer
B) 85% B) Bikaner
C) 72% C) Jodhpur
D) 68% D) Udaipur

Who has been re-elected as the President of Who has been appointed as the new acting
Egypt? Chairperson of the National Green Tribunal (NGT)?
A) Mohamed Morsi A) Justice Kuldeep Singh
B) Moussa Mostafa Moussa B) Justice Santosh Kapoor
C) Ahmed Shafik C) Justice Anil Kumar
D) Abdel Fattah al-Sisi D) Justice Jawad Rahim

Which hot, metallic, Earth-sized planet has recently

been discovered by the scientists orbiting a dwarf What is the name of world's largest cruise ship
star? which is going to make its maiden voyage from
A) K2-110d Barcelona?
B) K2-846c A) Symphony of the Seas
C) K2-229b B) Allure of the Seas
D) K2-553a C) Oasis of the Seas
D) Anthem of the Seas
Union Cabinet has approved signing an MoU with
United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, for Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who recently visited
cooperation in? India, is the President of?
A) Organised Crime A) Switzerland
B) Sustainable Development B) Germany
C) IPR C) Italy
D) Student Exchange D) Netherlands

CCEA has approved formulation of a new As per the Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash
Integrated Scheme for School Education. The new Chandra Garg, India will become a $5 trillion
scheme subsumes which of the following schemes? economy by?
A) Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) A) 2025
B) Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) B) 2022
C) Teacher Education (TE) C) 2030
D) All of the Above D) 2020

Which F1 racer has won the season opening Which of the following has become the first district
Australian Grand Prix title? in India to have 100% solar powered Primary
A) Max Verstappen Health Centers (PHC)?
B) Lewis Hamilton A) Kannur
C) Sebastian Vettel B) Surat
D) Kimi Raikkonen C) Nagpur
D) Kannauj

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Which airport has received the award for the 'Most Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the
Improved Airport' in the APAC region, in Airport farthest individual star ever seen, named?
Service Quality awards 2017? A) Denea
A) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport B) Innis
B) Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport C) Icarus
C) Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport D) Vega
D) Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport

Asia's largest tulip garden has been opened for Union Cabinet has approved Protection of Human
tourists in? Rights (Amendments) Bill, 2018. Who is the
A) Srinagar chairperson of NHRC?
B) Darjeeling A) Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose
C) Gangtok B) Justice D. Murugesan
D) Manali C) Justice HL Dattu
D) Justice Sharad Chandra Sinha
How much amount of loan agreement has Asian
Development Bank signed to boost youth The trial run of the first container train between
employability in Himachal Pradesh? India and Bangladesh was flagged off from?
A) $80 million A) Bhubaneswar
B) $50 million B) Ranchi
C) $120 million C) Patna
D) $100 million D) Kolkata

Which company conducted the integrated power

development scheme (IPDS) project in Varanasi, Who was adjudged 'Sportsperson of the Year -
transforming it into a wireless city? Female' at the ESPN Multi-Sport Awards?
A) NTPC A) Mithali Raj
B) Powergrid B) Sakshi Malik
C) BHEL C) Dipka Karmakar
D) Tata Power D) PV Sindhu

As per a report by India Brand Equity Foundation As per the first bimonthly policy of FY 2018-19, RBI
(IBEF), India has become the _____ largest has kept the Reverse Repo Rate at?
electricity producer in the world? A) 6.25%
A) 4th B) 6%
B) 2nd C) 5.75%
C) 3rd D) 6.5%
D) 5th
What was the subscriber base of Atal Pension
A Multi Modal Logistics Park was recently Yojana (APY) at the end of FY 2017-18?
inaugurated at Balli Station in? A) 99 lakh
A) Karnataka B) 90 lakh
B) Tamilnadu C) 97 lakh
C) Goa D) 85 lakh
D) Gujarat
Which of the following is the mascot of
Which country is going to inaugurate world's Commonwealth Games 2018, which began in Gold
longest sea bridge? Coast recently?
A) US A) Cobi
B) China B) Borobi
C) Canada C) Hodori
D) Australia D) Amik

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Union Cabinet has approved downsizing of Which state government has rolled out 'Rupashree'
Competition Commission of India (CCI) from 7 scheme which provides one time financial support
members to? to the marriages of poor women?
A) 5 A) West Bengal
B) 4 B) Odisha
C) 6 C) Bihar
D) 3 D) Jharkhand

Which experimental space lab of China ended its Researchers have discovered new species of grass-
journey by crashing into the Pacific Ocean? like plant, named 'Fimbristylis agasthyamalaensis',
A) BeiDou-1 in?
B) Tiangong-1 A) Ponmudi hills
C) Ziyuan-III B) Kolli Hills
D) Shenzhou-2 C) Velliangiri Hills
D) Idukki Hills

Who has become the youngest Indian weightlifter How many Padma Bhushan awards did President
to win a Commonwealth Games medal? Ram Nath Kovind confer recently at the civil
A) P Gururaja investiture ceremony held at the Durbar Hall of the
B) Sathish Sivalingam Rashtrapati Bhavan?
C) Parvesh Sharma A) 7
D) Deepak Lather B) 3
C) 5
D) 9
Subrata Bhattacharjee, has been appointed as the
next Ambassador of India to? Utkala Dibasa' was recently celebrated on?
A) Croatia A) Apr 1
B) Serbia B) Apr 2
C) Croatia C) Apr 3
D) Belarus D) Apr 5
India recently conducted the joint exercise
'Sahyog–Hyeoblyeog 2018' in Chennai with? Who has been elected as the president of
A) Sri Lanka Badminton Association of India for the next four
B) US years?
C) Singapore A) P Gopichand
D) South Korea B) Babul Supriyo
C) Sambit Patra
Union Cabinet has approved the closure of which
D) Himanta Biswa Sarma
CPSE?
A) HLL Biotech Ltd. How many castes/communities have been notified
B) Donyi Polo Ashok Hotel Ltd. in the Central List of OBC in the last three years?
C) Kanti Bijlee Utpadan Nigam Ltd. A) 100
D) Burn Standard Company Ltd. B) 120
Which institute has topped the list in university C) 180
rankings in the National Institutional Ranking D) 150
Framework (NIRF) 2018?
A) Anna University
B) JNU
C) IISc Bangalore
D) BHU

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Which country has started building its first-ever Which of the following is not one of the categories
nuclear power plant in Akkuyu? in which heritage sites have been classified into
A) Qatar under “Adopt a Heritage Project” launched by
B) Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism and ASI?
C) Saudi Arabia A) Green
D) Bahrain B) White
C) Orange
Which state government has launched Mothers D) Blue
Absolute Affection (MAA) programme?
A) Himachal Pradesh Who will chair the 7 member High Powered
B) Karnataka Committee constituted by HRD Ministry to
C) Haryana examine the process of conduct of CBSE exam?
D) Uttar Pradesh A) JS Rajput
B) Pavnesh Kumar
A world-class interpretation centre and modern
C) V S Oberoi
tourist facilities were recently unveiled by
D) Vasudha Kamat
Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan at?
A) Ajanta Caves Which app has been launched by Union Minister of
B) Konark Sun Temple Coal Piyush Goyal for Coal Quality Monitoring?
C) Khajuraho A) Uttam
D) Hampi B) Sahaj
C) Sugam
ISRO has announced that it has lost contact with
D) Suvidha
which of its satellite?
A) GSAT-6A
B) INSAT-3D Which of the following has mooted a model of a
C) Astrosat public Wi-Fi grid that aims to slash internet access
D) Cartosat-2 cost by 90% and boost broadband in India?
Trishul Special Olympics & Paralympic Games for A) DoT
Special Children were recently held in? B) TRAI
A) New Delhi C) BSNL
B) Lucknow D) Meity
C) Gandhinagar
Which country has introduced national service for
D) Chandigarh
women for the first time?
A) Saudi Arabia
How many Indians have featured in the Bloomberg B) UAE
Billionaires Index 2018 of the world's 500 richest C) Egypt
people? D) Qatar
A) 24 The import of which hormone has been banned by
B) 16 the government to stop its misuse in the livestock
C) 38 industry?
D) 41 A) Trenbolone
B) Zeranol
C) Estradiol
D) Oxytocin

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Which of the following is planning to develop the Reserve Bank of India has announced to use which
National Data & Analytics Platform (NDAP)? of the following measurements instead of GVA to
A) NITI Aayog measure economic activity?
B) I&B Ministry A) NNP
C) MeiTY B) FDI
D) Statistics Ministry C) GDP
D) GNP

CBDT has constituted a working group to examine Information and Broadcasting Ministry has
the taxation aspects related to HNIs migrating constituted a committee to frame rules to regulate
abroad, under the chairpersonship of? news portals. Who will be convener of the
A) Pragya Sahay Saksena committee?
B) Vanaja N. Sarna A) Narendra Kumar Sinha
C) Sushil Chandra B) Ajay Mittal
D) Vinay Mittal C) Ramesh Abhishek
D) Ajay Sawhney
Which union minister has launched a mobile app
for locating 4,000 Khadi stores? Who was awarded the FLO Gender Parity Index
A) Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Award at the 34th annual session of FICCI Ladies
B) Smriti Irani Organisation (FLO) was recently held in New Delhi?
C) Giriraj Singh A) Sunil Bijlani
D) Jual Oram B) Rajat Naik
C) Piyush Bhardwaj
Which space agency has launched RH300 sounding
D) Vimal Reddy
rocket to study atmospheric data?
A) NASA Which Indian player with his 43rd win has become
B) CNSA the most successful doubles player in the history of
C) ESA Davis Cup?
D) ISRO A) Rohan Bopanna
B) Leander Paes
Which state government has launched 'Ganga
C) Ramkumar Ramanathan
Hariteema Yojana' in 27 districts?
A) Uttar Pradesh D) Mahesh Bhupathi
B) Jharkhand Which airline has launched operations from Delhi
C) Uttarakhand to Pathankot under the Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik
D) Bihar
(UDAN) scheme?
From which city will the Central government launch A) Turbo Megha
its 'Gobardhan Yojna' nationally? B) Alliance Air
A) Sambalpur C) Air Deccan
B) Vidisha D) SpiceJet
C) Karnal
What was the theme of 8th Theatre Olympics
D) Varanasi
which concluded in Mumbai?
Which state has won the 'State of the Year' Award A) Together in Joy
under the 'business leader' category at India B) Flag of Friendship
Business Leader Awards (IBLA) held in New Delhi? C) March for Peace
A) Assam D) Celebration of Unity
B) Chhattisgarh
C) Karnataka
D) Haryana

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Four new species of kingfisher have been Which Indian-origin scientist has launched the
discovered in which wildlife sanctuary in Andhra world’s first microfactory to transform e-waste into
Pradesh? valuable items?
A) Papikonda Wildlife Sanctuary A) Rekha Pritam
B) Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary B) Veena Sahajwalla
C) Rollapadu Wildlife Sanctuary C) Gyan Misra
D) Krishna Wildlife Sanctuary D) Janaki Rawal

Linguistic professor at the University of Hyderabad Which railway station in Bihar has been
has discovered two endangered languages, namely transformed by Mithila artists?
'Walmiki' and 'Malhar', primarily spoken in? A) Bhagalpur
A) Odisha B) Gaya
B) Jharkhand C) Madhubani
C) Assam D) Saharsa
D) Telangana
In a first, which state government has issued
Which state's Chief Minister has launched the protocols to confirm brain death cases?
'Uzhavan' (farmer) app? A) Telangana
A) Tamilnadu B) Chhattisgarh
B) Karnataka C) Kerala
C) Telangana D) Punjab
D) Kerala
Health Ministry has banned the over-the-counter
In a first, which state government is going to sale of how many steroid-based creams?
launch a 'community radio' to connect with the A) 8
farming community? B) 14
A) Maharashtra C) 23
B) Haryana D) 28
C) Madhya Pradesh
D) Kerala
The first meeting of newly constituted NITI Forum
Ministry of Tribal Affairs has approved for North East was held, under the chairmanship of
establishment of the first “Van Dhan Vikas Kendra” Rajeev Kumar, in?
on the pilot basis in? A) Guwahati
A) Jharkhand B) Shillong
B) Chhattisgarh C) Agartala
C) Bihar D) Kohima
D) Odisha
President Ram Nath Kovind was conferred with the
India has overtaken which country to become the Condecoracion, the highest honour accorded to a
world's second largest producer of crude steel? non-citizen by?
A) Vietnam A) Liberia
B) US B) Sierra Leone
C) Philippines C) Equatorial Guinea
D) Japan D) Senegal

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Which state government has announced free Who has been appointed as the Director General
chemotherapy treatment for cancer patients at 10 (DG) of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)?
district hospitals? A) Vineet Chandra
A) Odisha B) Piyush Bhagat
B) Andhra Pradesh C) Anand Bajaj
C) Himachal Pradesh D) Rajesh Ranjan
D) Maharashtra

Which of the following has tied up with Which state's cabinet has approved the Slum-In-
Maharashtra government to finance state’s first Situ Rehabilitation Policy to provide housing facility
poultry company run by tribal women? to the slum dwellers without relocating them?
A) Mahindra Rise A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Infosys Foundation B) Haryana
C) Wipro Foundation C) Goa
D) Tata Trusts D) Odisha

Which state government has announced to launch Who is going to head the task force set up by the
its own app-based taxi service to some key tourist government to prepare a road map for the
destinations? implementation of unmanned aerial vehicle
A) Goa technology?
B) Puducherry A) Sanjay Mitra
C) Uttar Pradesh B) Rajiv Gauba
D) Rajasthan C) RN Choubey
D) Jayant Sinha
Assam Spring Festival recently began at which
national park? Union Cabinet has approved revision of pay of
A) Kaziranga National Park Lieutenant Governors (LG) of UTs from Rs 80,000
B) Orang National Park to?
C) Dibru-Saikhowa National Park A) Rs 2,25,000
D) Manas National Park B) Rs 1,50,000
C) Rs 3,00,000
First Tulip Garden of Jammu region has come up
D) Rs 1,00,000
in?
A) Bhadrawah Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the
B) Akhnoor National Convention of Swachhagrahis at?
C) Basholi A) Muzaffarpur
D) Sanasar B) Sagauli
C) Valmikinagar
Union Minister for Food Processing Industries
D) Motihari
Harsimrat Kaur Badal, has inaugurated the second
mega food park in Uttarakhand in which district? Who has been appointed as the brand ambassador
A) Pithoragarh of Haryana's Measles and Rubella (MR) vaccination
B) Udham Singh Nagar campaign?
C) Pauri Garhwal A) Manu Bhaker
D) Dehradun B) Sakshi Malik
C) Neeraj Chopra
D) Kapil Dev

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Which state government has prepared a Water Uttar Pradesh Cabinet has approved developing an
ATM Policy to provide clean drinking water? integrated sugar complex in?
A) Haryana A) Pilibhit
B) Madhya Pradesh B) Varanasi
C) Gujarat C) Raebareli
D) Maharashtra D) Amethi

Which satellite has been launched by ISRO to aid its

India has announced to build a strategic railway NAVIC programme?
link from _____ in Bihar to Kathmandu in Nepal? A) IRNSS 1K
A) Tinkoni B) IRNSS 1I
B) Raxaul C) IRNSS 1G
C) Sirisiya D) IRNSS 1H
D) Bhelahi
Who is going to head the panel set up by the
Corporate Affairs Ministry to review the
What is the name of the smart speakers launched enforcement of CSR provisions under the
by Google in India? Companies Act 2013?
A) Google Home A) Sanjay Shorey
B) Google Assist B) N K Dua
C) Google Speak C) Manmohan Juneja
D) Google Direct D) Seema Rath

Which country has banned future exploration of What is Indira Gandhi International Airport's rank
offshore oil and gas? among the busiest airports in the world in 2017, as
A) New Zealand per rankings released by Airports Council
B) China International?
C) Singapore A) 20th
D) South Africa B) 10th
C) 16th
India observed the _____ anniversary of D) 18th
Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre on Apr 13th?
A) 100th Which institute has inaugurated a first-of-its-kind
B) 99th 5G radio laboratory on campus?
C) 95th A) IIT Madras
D) 90th B) IIT Kharagpur
C) IISc Bengaluru
D) IIT Delhi
Which city is going to host 11th World Hindi
Conference? What is the name of the project launched by FSSAI,
A) Kathmandu to address rising deficiencies of Vitamin D in
B) Kuala Lumpur schoolchildren?
C) Varanasi A) Kiran
D) Port Louis B) Sooraj
C) Surya
As per 'Asian Development Outlook 2018' by ADB,
D) Dhoop
India's GDP is likely to grow in FY 2018-19 at?
A) 7.1%
B) 6.8%
C) 7.3%
D) 7.5%

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Which state's chief minister has approved setting Which state government has approved Rs 50.67
up of World's largest solar park, of 5,000 MW crore to set up an Indian Institute of Information
capacity? Technology (IIIT) at Bodhjungnagar?
A) Odisha A) Arunachal Pradesh
B) Tamilnadu B) Assam
C) Gujarat C) Meghalaya
D) Andhra Pradesh D) Tripura

Indian consortium consisting of IOCL, BPCL and Who has become the first rapper to win a Pulitzer
HPCL, has signed an MoU with Saudi Aramco for Prize for music?
development of which oil refinery? A) Kendrick Lamar
A) Jamnagar Refinery B) The Weeknd
B) Tatipaka Refinery C) Drake
C) Numaligarh Refinery D) Kanye West
D) Ratnagiri Mega Refinery
Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu has
World Homoeopathy Day is observed on? announced to develop which airport as the cargo
A) Apr 14 hub of India?
B) Apr 16 A) Jewar Airport, Uttar Pradesh
C) Apr 10 B) Bijapur Airport, Karnataka
D) Apr 12 C) Mopa Airport, Goa
D) Dholera Airport, Gujarat

Who has been honoured with Dada Saheb Phalke Who has become the first man to cross Bangla
Award 2018 at the 65th National Film Awards? Channel twice in a day?
A) Vinod Khanna A) Nitish Raj
B) Shashi Kapoor B) Prateek Anand
C) Sridevi C) Vineet Ghose
D) Amitabh Bachchan D) Sampanna Shelar

Which state government has decided to introduce

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the choice-based credit system (CBCS) at the under-
first health centre under the Ayushman Bharat graduation level?
Scheme in? A) Haryana
A) Chhattisgarh B) Maharashtra
B) Tripura C) Madhya Pradesh
C) Karnataka D) Tamilnadu
D) Rajasthan
Government has announced to extend the phase-1
Which state celebrated its 71st foundation day on of FAME scheme up to?
April 15th? A) Dec 31st, 2018
A) Punjab B) Sept 30th, 2018
B) Bihar C) Mar 31st, 2019
C) Himachal Pradesh D) June 30th, 2018
D) Kerala
NSDC has signed an MoU with the NPCIL to provide
skill training to 500 youth at which nuclear power
plant?
A) Kakrapar
B) Kudankulam
C) Tarapur
D) Narora

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Which of the following countries have launched Which state government has set up QUEST, a
airstrikes in Syria over suspected chemical attacks? centre for tribal development?
A) US, France, Turkey A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Turkey, Russia, France B) Jharkhand
C) Russia, Britain, Iraq C) Maharashtra
D) US, Britain, France D) Odisha

Which country has ended the reservation system in

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has opened Odisha's government services?
second longest bridge over which river? A) Sri Lanka
A) Baitarani River B) Pakistan
B) Nagavali River C) Nepal
C) Rushikulya River D) Bangladesh
D) Ib River
Who has been honoured with the Shorenstein
Journalism Award 2017 by Stanford University's
Which Indian cricketer has been named as the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research
standout female player by Wisden? Center?
A) Smriti Mandhana A) Siddharth Varadarajan
B) Jhulan Goswami B) Ravish Kumar
C) Harmanpreet Kaur C) Karan Thapar
D) Mithali Raj D) Arun Shourie

The festival of Bisket Jatra recently began in? Which country has become the 62nd signatory
A) Bangladesh member of the International Solar Alliance (ISA)?
B) India A) Netherlands
C) Nepal B) Sweden
D) Bhutan C) Germany
D) UK

Which country will launch Fengyun-II 09 satellite to

help weather forecast? What was India's rank on the Commonwealth
A) US Innovation Index?
B) Japan A) 15th
C) China B) 10th
D) Russia C) 20th
D) 25th
Which bank has become India's second most
valuable bank for the first time, by overtaking State Government has launched Sovereign Gold Bond
Bank of India? 2018-19-Series-I scheme. The bonds are offered at
A) Punjab National Bank an issue price of Rs 3,114 per gram and carry an
B) Kotak Mahindra Bank interest rate of?
C) ICICI Bank A) 4.3%
D) Axis Bank B) 3.9%
C) 2.5%
Who is going to be honoured with Raj Kapoor D) 5.5%
Lifetime Achievement by Maharashtra Which union minister launched DARPAN-Postal Life
government? Insurance App?
A) Dharmendra A) Arun Jaitley
B) Jitendra B) Manoj Sinha
C) Dilip Kumar C) JP Nadda
D) Shatrughan Sinha D) Kiren Rijiju

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United Nations Chinese Day was observed on? Which state has reported the highest rate of crimes
A) Apr 21 against Schedule Caste/Schedule Tribe population,
B) Apr 20 as per the data released by National Crime Records
C) Apr 22 Bureau (NCRB)?
D) Apr 18 A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Rajasthan
Which space agency has launched CHESS 4 mission D) Bihar
to study the interstellar medium?
A) Roscosmos Who has been appointed as the President of Cuba?
B) DLR A) Ramiro Valdés
C) ESA B) José Ramón Machado
D) NASA C) Miguel Díaz-Canel
Which country launched its first commercial movie D) Esteban Lazo
theatre after a nearly 40-year ban?
A) Qatar Who will head the Defence Planning Committee
B) Oman (DPC) set up by the government to facilitate
C) Saudi Arabia planning for the defence forces and security
D) Nigeria challenges?
Which state's Chief Minister has recently A) Ajit Doval
B) Sanjay Mitra
announced the state to be open-defecation free
C) Dr. S. Christopher
(ODF)?
D) Nirmala Sitharaman
A) Maharashtra
B) Jharkhand
C) Bihar The target date for completion of Pradhan Mantri
D) Uttar Pradesh Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY-1) has been advanced
from 2022 to?
Which state government has announced to A) 2020
distribute free smartphones to over 50 lakh people B) 2019
under the Sanchar Kranti Yojana (SKY)? C) 2018
A) Rajasthan D) 2021
B) Telangana
C) Jharkhand Which state has been honoured with the Most Film
D) Chhattisgarh Friendly Award by the central government?
A) Gujarat
The king of Swaziland, King Mswati III has changed B) Karnataka
the name of the country from Swaziland to? C) Punjab
A) Swazi D) Madhya Pradesh
B) eSwatini
C) Swahili
Which state's police has launched 'Pocket Cop'
D) Swatiland
project?
A) Gujarat
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu launched ‘Atal B) Uttar Pradesh
Amrit Abhiyan’, the cashless health scheme of C) Haryana
which state government? D) Tamilnadu
A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Tripura
C) Haryana
D) Assam

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Which of the following has been unveiled as official Which state's CM has announced 2% reservation in
Mascot of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019, to state government jobs for sportspersons?
be held in China? A) Odisha
A) Miga, Giant Panda B) Bihar
B) Fuwa, Fish C) Kerala
C) Son of Dreams, Dragon D) Telangana
D) Mukmuk, Tibetan Antelope
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the
Who was awarded the lifetime contribution to Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan in which village in
media by All India Management Association’s Madhya Pradesh?
(AIMA)? A) Ramnagar
A) Indu Jain B) Handia
B) Sukumar Ranganathan C) Bilaspur
C) Mukund Padmanabhan D) Sirali
D) Vidyanath Saran
Who headed the group of ministers (GoM)
Who has been appointed as the Director General of constituted by MoRTH, which recommended a
the National Cadet Corps (NCC)? uniform structure of road tax for vehicles across
A) V Chandrsekaran states?
B) PP Malhotra A) Vikas Yadav
C) CK Prasad B) Yoonus Khan
D) Alok Bahuguna C) Bimal Ram
D) Ravi Dudi
Which state's assembly speaker launched
'Haemophilia Jagruti', a magazine to spread Researchers at which institute have developed a
awareness about haemophilia? small molecule to treat chikungunya?
A) Maharashtra A) IIT Roorkee
B) Gujarat B) IIT Chennai
C) Goa C) IIT Kharagpur
D) Karnataka D) IIT Delhi
Which hospital was awarded the first prize under Which state launched the "Saubhagya, Sahaj Bijli
Central Government Hospitals A category, under Har Ghar Yojana" which targets to electrify over
the Kayakalp awards scheme by the Health 90,000 household in the state by 31st March 2019?
Minister JP Nadda? A) Tripura
A) NEIGRIHMS, Shillong B) Manipur
B) PGIMER Chandigarh C) Nagaland
C) NIMHANS, Bengaluru D) Arunachal Pradesh
D) AIIMS Delhi
Who is going to be awarded the Guillermo Cano
Prime Minister Narendra Modi conferred Awards Press Freedom Prize by UNESCO?
for Excellence in Public Administration on the Civil A) Steve McCurry
Services Day . How many priority programs have B) Mahmoud Abu Zeid
been identified for the award? C) Raymond Depardon
A) 4 D) Andreas Gursky
B) 3
C) 6
D) 5

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Which company has become the first Indian IT Who has become the first Egyptian to win the
company to cross $100 billion dollar in market English Professional Footballers' Association Player
capitalisation? of the Year award?
A) HCL A) Mohamed Salah
B) Infosys B) Yacine Brahimi
C) TCS C) Arda Turan
D) Wipro D) Islam Slimani

English Language Day was observed on Apr 23rd. It A committee set up to advise on legal issues
is the birthday and date of death of which famous related to inter-country removal and retention of
writer? children due to parental disputes, has submitted its
A) Oscar Wilde report to MoWCD. Who headed the committee?
B) Charles Dickens A) Vishal Saksena
C) William Shakespeare B) Rajesh Bindal
D) John Milton C) Suneet Chandel
D) Prakash Sinha
Which place in Manipur has been declared as the
first cashless island of India? Who has been appointed by Airports Authority of
A) Ambu India (AAI) as its first ever woman firefighter?
B) Pamban A) Chhavi Verma
C) Salsette B) Taniya Sanyal
D) Karang C) Shrishti Gupta
D) Reena Sethi
Which country has topped as the highest recipient
of remittances globally in 2017, with its diaspora
sending back $69 billion? Which GP has won the best Gram Panchayat award
A) India in India?
B) Philippines A) Vivekanandpur
C) China B) Janakpur
D) Mexico C) Digambarpur
D) Parangara
Who won the Lifetime achievement award at the
Dadasaheb Phalke Excellence Awards 2018? As per World Bank Global Findex Report, how
A) Simi Garewal much percent of new bank accounts opened
B) Shatrughan Sinha globally during 2014-17, were from India?
C) Dharmendra A) 40%
D) Jitendra B) 55%
C) 65%
D) 30%
World's oldest person Nabi Tajima passed away
recently. She hailed from? Which of the following Indians have been named
A) Indonesia by Fortune magazine in the top 50 World's
B) China Greatest Leaders of 2018?
C) Japan 1. Indira Jaising 2. Mukesh Ambani 3. Ratan
D) Nigeria Tata 4. Balkrishna Doshi
A) 1, 2 & 3
EDM artist Tim Bergling aka Avicii, who recently B) 1 & 3
passed away, hailed from?
C) 2 & 4
A) Germany
D) 1, 2 & 4
B) UK
C) USA
D) Sweden

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Which city has become the first in India to have a
policy to compensate consumers for unscheduled
outages?
A) Lucknow
B) Chandigarh
C) Ahmedabad
D) Delhi

Which smart city has become the first city in India

that runs on 100 per cent renewable energy during
the daytime?
A) Ludhiana
B) Raipur
C) Diu
D) Pune

Adilabad Dokra has been issued the Geographical

Indication (GI) Registration Certificate by the GI
Registry, Chennai. The artisans of the craft belong
to which state?
A) Maharashtra
B) Telangana
C) Karnataka
D) Andhra Pradesh

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