•Which team won the 2018 Uber Cup, the Women’s World Badminton Championship?
a)Japan
b)Thailand
c)Bangladesh
d)Indonesia
•Nima Jangmu Sherpa made a world record by scaling three highest mountains in a single climbing season. She belongs to which country?
a)Bhutan
b)Nepal
c)Bangladesh
d)Indonesia
•The software launched in Rajasthan for presumptive diagnosis and monitoring of seasonal and non-communicable diseases is:
a)Nidaan
b)Mendel
c)Pop Health
d)THIRRA
•15th Finance Commission constitutes panel for which sector?
a)Textile sector
b)Agriculture sector
c)Education sector
d)Health sector
•Which country has conducted the world’s longest surface to air missile test?
a)Russia
b)France
c)USA
d)India
•Which is the world’s first fully solar energy powered airport: UNEP?
a)Chhatrapati Shivaji International airport
b)Bengaluru International airport
c)Visakhapatnam International airport
d)Cochin International airport
•With reference to Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY), consider the following statements?
1.HRIDAY is a central sector scheme, where 100% funding will be provided by Government of India.
2.All capital cities and towns with population greater than 1 lakh are included in this scheme.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
a)1 only
b)2 only
c)Both 1 and 2
d)Neither 1 nor 2
•Which among the following pollutants is not covered under the National Ambient Air Quality Standards notified by the Central Pollution Control Board?
a)Benzene
b)Lead
c)Ammonia
d)Carbon dioxide
•With reference to the Ujjawala scheme of the government, consider the following statements?
1.It aims to empower and instill confidence and develop leadership among minority women.
2.It is an initiative of the Ministry of Women and Child Development.
Which of the statements given above is correct?
a)1 only
b)2 only
c)Both 1 and 2
d)Neither 1 nor 2
•What is the theme of the 2018 World Health Day (WHD)?
a)Ageing and Health
b)Good Health Adds life to years
c)Move for health
d)Universal Health Coverage: Everyone, Everywhere
•Which organization releases the Global Competitiveness Index?
a)International Monetary Fund
b)World Economic Forum
c)World Bank
d)United Nations
•Who won the India’s first medal in Athletics at the Youth Olympics Games 2018?
a)Saurabh Singh
b)Lakshya Sen
c)Tababi Devi
d)Suraj Panwar
•Which islands were freed by Indian National Army?
a)Parcel Islands
b)Andaman & Nicobar Islands
c)British Virgin Islands
d)Laccadive Islands
•The Museum on Prime Minister of India will be set up in which state ?
a)Uttar Pradesh
b)Gujarat
c)Delhi
d)Maharashtra
•Who won the Fukuoka Arts and Culture Prize 2018?
a)Nooran Sisters
b)Teejan Bai
c)Wadali Brothers
d)Malini Awasthi
•Which of the following are not the committees related to inquiry regarding Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s death ?
a)Shah Nawaj Committee
b)Khosla Commission
c)Mukherjee Commission
d)Durga das Commission
•Which country’s Parliament has passed a law to compensate victims of its 30 – year long civil war ?
a)Syria
b)Tunisia
c)Sri Lanka
d)Myanmar
•JIMEX 18, a joint maritime exercise was conducted between India and which country?
a)Jordan
b)Russia
c)Japan
d)Indonesia
•Which state was awarded as the best state under the swachh survekshan Grameen Awards 2018?
a)Telangana
b)Haryana
c)Karnataka
d)Gujarat
•Which two countries have reached a deal to replace NAFTA ?
a)USA and Canada
b)Canada and Mexico
c)UK and USA
d)Russia and China
•Which decommissioned carrier will be converted into India’s first ever maritime museum-cum-marine adventure centre?
a)INS Vahan
b)INS Vikram
c)INS Virat
d)INS Vikrant
•The joint military exercise ‘Dharma Guardian 2018’ began between India and which country?
a)France
b)Indonesia
c)Russia
d)Japan
•Which branch of IIT has developed India’s first microprocessor ‘Shakti’
a)IIT Delhi
b)IIT Kharagpur
c)IIT Roorkee
d)IIT Madras
•The iconic Signature Bridge has been inaugurated in which Indian city?
a)Kolkata
b)Pune
c)New Delhi
d)Mumbai
•What was India’s rank in the Ease of Doing Business Index 2018?
a)104th
b)96th
c)77th
d)59th
•What is the name of India’s first made in India engineless train?
a)Fastrack 18
b)Train 18
c)Quix 18
d)Bullet 18
•Who became the 14th recipient of the 2018 Seoul Peace Prize?
a)Donald Trump
b)Vladimir Putin
c)Narendra Modi
d)Ban-ki-Moon
•Which country is planning to launch own artificial moon by 2020?
a)Russia
b)China
c)USA
d)North Korea
•India’s first cruise service was launched for which route?
a)Mumbai to Goa
b)Goa to Cochin
c)Cochin to Thrissur
d)Thrissur to Kottyam
•Which state is about to become India’s first smoke free state?
a)Karnataka
b)Pondicherry
c)Meghalaya
d)Kerala
•Who won the man booker prize 2018?
a)Esi Edugyan
b)Rachel kushner
c)Anna Burns
d)Daisy Johnso
•In 2018, World Habitat Day was celebrated in-
a)5 October
b)1 October
c)5 September
d)1 September
•India’s rank in Global Hunger Index in 2018 is –
a)91
b)93
c)101
d)103
•Show the wrong match
a)Undernourishment -- Insufficient calorie intake
b)Wasting -- Low weight for height
c)Stunting -- Low height for weight
d)Stunting -- Low height for age
•Second time zone for India is proposed at –
a)82°52’
b)84°52’
c)87°52’
d)89°52’
•Which high court directs state to provide reservation to transgenders in educational institutions?
a)Maharashtra high court
b)Madras high court
c)Uttarakhand high court
d)Guwahati high court
•Niwari is the 52nd new district of MP, it got separated from which district ?
a)Chatarpur
b)Datia
c)Tikamgarh
d)Sagar
•Which defence agreement was signed by India and the United states recently?
a)COMCASA
b)CISMOA
c)GSOMIA
d)BECA
•The 4th BIMSTEC Summit held on August 30, 2018 in which city?
a)Colombo
b)Kathmandu
c)Delhi
d)Bangkok
•ISRO will launch the Human Spaceflight Mission ‘Gaganyaan’ by which year?
a)2019
b)2020
c)2021
d)2022
•Which airline conducted India’s first ever test flight powered by biojet fuel?
a)Lufthansa
b)Vistara
c)Indigo
d)SpiceJet
•Which nation won gold in the women’s Kabaddi final at Asian Games 2018?
a)Iran
b)Afghanistan
c)India
d)South Korea
•Who has been elected as the new deputy chairman of Rajya Sabha?
a)B K Hari Prasad
b)Harivansh Narayan Singh
c)Ravi shankar prasad
d)Harshvardhan Singh
•Which Indian biosphere reserve has become the 11th one to be added to UNSESCO’s WNBR list ?
a)Agasthyamalai
b)Great Rann of Kutch
c)Khangchendzonga
d)Seshchalam hills
•What is the tagline for Geographical Indication (GI) certified products?
a)Invaluable treasure of incredible India
b)Inaccessible Treasure of Incredible India
c)Incredible treasures of Incredible India
d)Involatile Treasure of Incredible India
•Name the Indians who won the 2018 Raman Magsaysay award?
a)Nileema Mishra and Arvind Kejriwal
b)Sanjiv Chaturvedi and Deep joshi
c)Bharat Vatwani and Sonam Wangchuk
d)Harish Hande and Kulandei Francis
•Name the Hockey player who has been selected for the Ekalabya Puraskar 2018?
a)Lilima Minz
b)Akash Sharma
c)Pavithra Ranjan
d)Sindhu Turadi
•‘Mission Satyanishtha’, a programme on ethics in public governance, was launched recently by the
a)Indian Railways
b)Central Bureau of Investigation
c)Supreme Court
d)Enforcement Directorate
•The Economic historian, who has used the data collected by Buchanan-Hamilton to support the thesis of deindustrialization in the 19th century India, is
a)Tirthankar Roy
b)Amiya Kumar Bagchi
c)Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
d)Irfan Habib
•Ace athlete Neeraj Chopra is an accomplished player in
a)Hammer throw
b)Javelin throw
c)Shot put throw
d)Discus throw
•According to the updated World Bank data for 2017, India is the sixth biggest economy of the world (in terms of GDP). Which one of the following is not ahead of India?
a)Japan
b)UK
c)France
d)Germany
•Which one of the following is correct about ‘Aaykar Setu’?
a)It is a mechanism for achieving excellence in public sector delivery related to GST.
b)With the use of a mobile app, it facilitates online payment of taxes.
c)It is a communication strategy designed to collect information and build a database to tax defaulters.
d)It enables electronic filing and processing of import and export declarations.
•SWAYAM is
a)A network that aims to tap the talent pool of scientists and entrepreneurs towards global excellence
b)A Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) initiative on a national platform
c)An empowerment scheme for advancing the participation of girls in education
d)A scheme that supports differently abled children to pursue technical education
•Under the PRASAD Tourism Scheme, which one of the following has not been identified as a religious site for development?
a)Ajmer (Rajasthan)
b)Haridwar (Uttarakhand)
c)Somnath (Gujarat)
d)Velankanni (Tamil Nadu)
•Name the Indian cicketer who is not inducted to the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame (till July 2018)
a)Rahul Dravid
b)Sunil Gavaskar
c)Sachin Tendulkar
d)Anil Kumble
•The Central Water Commission has recently entered into a collaborative agreement with which one of the following entities for flood forecasting ?
a)Skymet
b)Google
c)MetService
d)AccuWeather
•The tagline ‘Invaluable Treasures of Incredible India’ is associated with the logo for
a)Archeological Survey of India
b)India Tourism Development Corporation
c)Geological Survey of India
d)Geographical Indication (GI) of India
•‘Tejas’ is the name of which of the following ?
a)Main battle tank
b)Nuclear submarine
c)Light combat aircraft
Aircraft carrier
•As per the extent policy, FDI is permitted in the defence sector under the automatic route up to which one of the following limits?
a)26 %
b)74 %
c)51 %
d)49 %
•The policy on strategic partnerships in defence was approved by the Ministry of Defence in May 2017. which of the following is not among the four segments identified by the Ministry for acquisition through the strategic partnership route?
a)Artillery gun
b)Fighter aircraft and helicopters
c)Submarines
d)Armoured fighting vehicles and main battle tanks
•The acronym CAATSA refers to a piece of legislation enacted by which one of the following countries?
a)United kingdom
b)United states of America
c)Russia
d)India
•Who among the following is the convener of the ‘Task Force’ set up in November 2017 by the government of India to review the Income-tax Act and draft a new direct tax law?
a)Girish Ahuja
b)Mukesh Patel
c)Arbind Modi
d)Mansi kedia
•With regard to the cabinet decision in July 2018, the percentage increase in Minimum Support Price (MSP) is maximum in which one of the following crops?
a)Jowar (Hybrid)
b)Bajra
c)Maize
d)Soyabean
•In which of the following states was ‘DEFEXPO 2018’ held in April 2018?
a)Goa
b)Karnataka
c)Tamil Nadu
d)Andhra Pradesh
•The two defence industrial corridors announced by the Finance Minister in his 2018 Budget speech are coming up in which of the following states?
a)Odisha and West Bengal
b)Punjab and Haryana
c)Gujarat and Maharashtra
d)Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu
•What is India’s first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) called?
a)Vikrant
b)Virat
c)Vaibhav
d)Varaha
•Which one of the following is the official mascot of Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games?
a)Soohorang
b)Vinicius de Moraes
c)The Hare, the Polar Bear and the Leopard
d)Miraitowa
•Which one of the following is the correct ascending sequence of states in terms of their population density as per Census 2011?
a)Arunachal pradesh – Sikkim – Mizoram – Himachal pradesh
b)Arunachal pradesh – Mizoram – Sikkim – Himachal pradesh
c)Mizoram – Arunachal pradesh – Himachal pradesh – Sikkim
d)Arunachal pradesh – Himachal pradesh – Sikkim – Mizoram
•The rate of population growth during 2001-2011 decade declined over the previous decade 1991-2001 in all of the following states, except
a)Tamil Nadu
b)Kerala
c)Goa
d)Andhra Pradesh
•Which one of the following is the correct ascending sequence of states with regard to percentage of urban population 2011?
a)Tamil Nadu – Mizoram – Goa – Maharashtra
b)Goa – Mizoram – Maharashtra – Kerala
c)Maharashtra – Kerala – Mizoram – Goa
d)Mizoram – Goa – Maharashtra – Kerala
•Khasi language is included in
a)Munda branch of Austro – Asiatic sub family
b)Mon-khymer branch of Austro – Asiatic sub family
c)North Assam branch of Sino-Tibetan family
d)Assam – Myanmari branch of Sino-Tibetan family
•Which one among the following passes link Lhasa with Ladakh?
a)Lanak La
b)Burzil
c)Babusar
d)Khyber
•According to the latest Reserve Bank of India study on State finances, capital spending is maximum on
a)Rural development
b)Water supply and sanitation
c)Urban development
d)Education
•According to the world Bank’s Doing Business Report, 2018, India’s ranking has improved in 2018 as compared to 2017 in which of the following areas?
1.Paying taxes
2.Resolving insolvency
3.Starting a business
4.Getting electricity
Select the correct answer using the code given below.
a)1 only
b)1 and 2 only
c)1, 2 and 3
d)2, 3 and 4
•The fourteenth finance commission assigned different weights to the following parameters for distribution of tax proceeds to the states :
1.Income distance
2.Population
3.Demographic changes
4.Area
Arrange the aforesaid parameters in descending order in terms of their weights.
a)1 – 2 – 3 – 4
b)1 – 2 – 4 – 3
c)1 – 3 – 2 – 4
d)4 – 3 – 2 – 1
•The natural rate of unemployment hypothesis was advocated by
a)Milton Friedman
b)A. W. Phillips
c)J. M. Keynes
d)R. G. Lipsey
•The 2+2 Bilateral Dialogue was held in September 2018 between
a)External Affairs and Defence Ministers of India with their US counterparts
b)Finance and Defence Ministers of India with their Russian counterparts
c)Home and Defence Ministers of India and their counterparts in Pakistan
d)External Affairs and Defence Ministers of India with their counterparts in Pakistan.
•Who is the Chairman of the Defence Planning Committee set up in April 2018?
a)The Prime Minister
b)The National Security Adviser
c)The Defence Minister
d)The Chief of the Army Staff
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