Weekly Current Affairs Question Bank (20th to 26th May 2018)

QUESTION 1 a) Netherlands b) France Which is the first Indian company to achieve c) Australia d) Canada Rs 7 lakh crore market capitalisation? a) Tata Consultancy Services b) HDFC Bank QUESTION 5 c) Reliance Industries Which is the first industry player to offer UPI d) Larsen and Toubro access to a huge base of three million mer- chants on its app? a) Jio Money b) PhonePe QUESTION 2 c) MobiKwik d) None of the above Read the following statements: 1. Financial Stability and Development Coun- cil (FSDC) was set up in 2010 by the then Fi- QUESTION 6 nance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. Which bank has signed an MoU with Com- 2. FSDC has been reconstituted to include mon Service Centres to extend financial sup- secretaries from revenue department and port to Village Level Entrepreneurs? Ministry of IT. a) NABARD b) IDBI 3. FSDC only comprises RBI Governor, Sebi c) SIDBI d) Regional Rural Bank Chairman and finance secretary. (RRB) Which of the above statements is/are correct? a) Only 2 b) Only 3 QUESTION 7 c) 2 and 3 d) 1 and 2 The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is applicable to which of the follow- ing? QUESTION 3 a) USA b) The police of which city are planning to use c) European Union d) Canada Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to en- hance women safety? a) Bengaluru b) Pune QUESTION 8 c) Mumbai d) Hyderabad Who is the chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)? a) Vanaja N. Sarna b) Sushil Chandra QUESTION 4 c) Ananta Narayan Nanda d) Ashim Which of the following is not a signatory to Khurana the International Solar Alliance (ISA)?

QUESTION 9 QUESTION 15 Where will the Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav North Korea has carried out demolition of 2018 be organised by the Ministry of Culture? which nuclear test site? a) b) a) Kumchon b) Punggye-ri c) d) c) Pyonggang d) Sinmak

QUESTION 10 QUESTION 16 Which country has successfully conducted the Which country tested its first drone-carried world’s longest surface-to-air missile test? meteorological data monitor to undertake at- a) Russia b) China mospheric observations? c) India d) North Korea a) Russia b) India c) China d) Taiwan

QUESTION 11 Urja Ganga Natural Gas Pipeline has been ex- QUESTION 17 tended till ______in North-east India. Which bank has launched its Digital Loans a) Itanagar b) Guwahati against Mutual Funds scheme? c) Gangtok d) Imphal a) HDFC Bank b) ICICI Bank QUESTION 12 c) Axis Bank With which travel portal has IRCTC part- d) Kotak Mahindra Bank nered for exclusive hotel bookings? a) Make My Trip b) ixigo c) goibibo d) Yatra QUESTION 18 As per RBI, banks’ credit grew by ______% from May 2017 to May 2018. QUESTION 13 a) 5.09 b) 8.11 What will be the major area/areas of coopera- c) 9.56 d) 12.64 tion between India and Indonesia? a) Space b) Security c) Kite Museum d) All of the Above QUESTION 19 Tapan Ray has been appointed as non execu- tive chairperson of which bank? QUESTION 14 a) Canara Bank b) Central Bank of India Which country hosted the celebrations of c) Dena Bank d) Allahabad Bank World Environment Day 2018? a) France b) Germany c) New Zealand d) India QUESTION 20 India has launched a collaborative research programme on HIV/AIDS with ______and ______.

a) Germany and Netherlands a) Cambodia b) Singapore b) Germany and France c) Nepal d) Australia c) France and Belgium d) Netherlands and Sweden

Question 26 Who has been conferred with the Nari Shakti QUESTION 21 Which of the following is hosting the ASEAN Puraskar 2017? India Film Festival 2018? a) INSV Tarini team a) b) Singapore b) Manika Batra c) New d) Kuala Lumpur c) Indian women's cricket team d) Indian women's CWG shooting team

Question 22 Name the software launched in Rajasthan for Question 27 presumptive diagnosis and monitoring of dis- Who has been appointed as the Chairman of eases. the Press Council of India (PCI)? a) Nidaan b) Pratham a) Justice Markandey Katju c) Aushadhi d) Nivaran b) Justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad c) Justice Gyan Sudha Misra d) Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar Question 23 Where will India's first national sports uni- versity be set up? Question 28 a) Assam b) 'Surya Kiran' is a joint military exercise be- c) d) tween India and ______. a) Bangladesh b) Bhutan c) Vietnam d) Nepal Question 24 Who has won the India Biodiversity Award 2018 in the category of ‘Conservation of wild- Question 29 life species’? Which stock exchange has launched India’s a) Paryavaran Mitra portal first silver options contracts? b) Singchung Bugun Community Reserve a) Inter-connected Stock Exchange of India c) Fauna and Flora international b) Multi Commodity Exchange d) Kalpavriksh Environment Action Group c) India International Exchange d) United Stock Exchange of India

Question 25 Name the 1st country in south-east Asia to eliminate Trachoma.

Question 30 c) Gagan Phadnis Who has been appointed as the new Vice d) Ram Kishan Narang Chief of Army Staff (VCOAS)? a) Balwant Singh Negi b) Devraj Anbu c) Sunil Shrivastava d) Manoj Pande Question 35 India ranks ______in terms of global economy competitiveness. Question 31 a) 30th b) 65th Read the following statements: c) 51st d) 44th 1. Minister for Skill Development and Entre- preneurship has launched the Samagra Shik- sha scheme. Question 36 2. Samagra Shiksha scheme focuses on qual- As per ESPN World Fame 100 list, who is the ity of school education from pre-school to most popular athlete in the world? senior secondary levels. a) Serena Williams 3. The scheme will enhance the use of digital b) Roger Federer technology in education. c) Cristiano Ronaldo Which of the above statements is/are correct? d) Lewis Hamilton a) Only 1 b) 1 and 3 c) 2 and 3 d) 1, 2 and 3 Question 37 What is the name of world's largest interna- Question 32 tional maritime warfare exercise? Which actor will endorse the BHIM app & the a) Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Women Entrepreneurship Platform? b) International Mine Countermeasures Ex- a) Varun Dhawan b) Salman Khan ercise (IMCMEX) c) Sushant Singh Rajput d) Rajkumar Rao c) Exercise Malabar d) International Maritime Exercise (IMX)

Question 33 Question 38 UNICEF has launched a 'data visualisation With which firm has NITI Ayog inked a pact app' to provide a user-friendly visual repre- to spread electric mobility, robotics and AI in sentation of analytics of which sector? India? a) Agriculture b) Education a) Siemens b) ABB India c) Employment d) Energy c) FANUC d) KUKA Question 34 Who has been appointed as MD & CEO of Airtel Payments Bank? Question 39 a) Anubrata Biswas Where will the world's largest bird sculpture b) Shashi Roy soon be inaugurated? a) Rio de Janeiro b) Jaffna

c) Kollam d) Thimpu c) Urban women d) Rural women Question 40 What is the joint US-German space mission to track the global water cycle called? Question 45 a) GRACE-FO Name the Mukhyamantri Career Counselling b) GRAVITAS-FO programme of . c) GUSTAV-FO d) GLOWATER-FO a) Sahara b) Sahayak c) Pahal d) Saarthi

Question 41 Cabinet has given its approval to the MoU be- Question 46 tween India & Denmark regarding coopera- As per Lancet, India ranked ______in tion in ______. healthcare access among 195 countries. a) Wind energy b) Solar energy a) 110th b) 145th c) Food safety d) Defence c) 164th d) 87th

Question 42 Question 47 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation-Regional How many left wing extremism-affected Anti-Terrorist Structure Legal Experts meet- states will receive mobile services through the ing will be held in ______. Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF)? a) Beijing b) New Delhi a) 5 b) 10 c) Islamabad d) Almati c) 12 d) 8

Question 43 Question 48 Under the aegis of which naval command is Which of the following is the subject of MoU the exercise 'Prasthan' conducted every 6 signed between India and France in 2018? months? a) Drug control a) Western Naval Command b) Technical cooperation in railways b) Eastern Naval Command c) Renewable energy c) Southern Naval Command d) Space cooperation d) Andaman and Nicobar Command

Question 49 Question 44 Who has been sworn in as 's 24th Paytm AshaKiran aims at educating which of chief minister? the following about financial services? a) H. D. Kumaraswamy b) G a) Urban youth Parameshwara b) Rural youth c) B. S. Yeddyurappa d) Jagadish Shettar

Question 50 a) Wellington b) Geneva Which city is hosting the 4th Smart Cities In- dia 2018 Expo? c) Bali d) Melbourne a) Bhubaneswar b) New Delhi c) Ahmedabad d) Bengaluru Question 55 Name the new IRCTC scheme for passengers Question 51 in wait-listing to provide berth in another The latest amendment to Insolvency and train. Bankruptcy Code classifies which of the fol- a) VIKALP b) ADHIKAR lowing as "financial creditors"? c) SUVIDHA d) UPCHAR a) Car buyers b) Students c) Corporate houses d) Home buyers Question 56 Which airline has commenced the first com- Question 52 mercial flight in ? Which cricketer holds the records for scoring a) GoAir the fastest fifty, hundred and 150 in ODIs? b) Spicejet a) Ricky Ponting b) AB de Villiers c) Air Asia India c) Chris Gayle d) Virat Kohli d) Alliance Air

Question 53 Question 57 Read the following statements: Which of the following countries have "Major 1. Mission Innovation is a global platform of Defence Partner" status from USA? 23 countries & European Union. a) Philippines b) India 2. It aims to accelerate artificial intelligence c) Japan d) South Korea innovations through government funding and public-private sector partnership. 3. India is one of the founding members of Question 58 Mission Innovation. Who won the Man Booker International Prize Which of the above statements is/are correct? 2018 for works of translated fiction? a) Lydia Davis b) László Krasznahorkai a) Only 2 b) Only 3 c) Olga Tokarczuk c) 1 and 2 d) 1 and 3 d) David Grossman

Question 54 Question 59 The 71st Session of the WHO's World Health Who won the Italian Open 2018 women's ti- Assembly was held from 21 to 26 May 2018 in tle? ______. a) Elina Svitolina

b) Simona Halep Question 64 c) Serena Williams Where is New Development Bank (NDB) d) Svetlana Kuznetsova planning to launch its Americas Regional Of- fice? a) USA b) Argentina Question 60 c) Brazil d) Mexico Who has been appointed as the part-time offi- cial director of BHEL? a) Ranjit Rae Question 65 b) Amitabh Mathur Where is the Bank Note Paper Mill India c) Praveen L Agrawal (BNPM) plant located? d) Surama Padhy a) Bangalore b) Mysore c) Mangalore d) Chennai

Question 61 Who is the Chief of Air Staff in Indian Air Question 66 Force? Which of the following exchanges has a) Subroto Mukherjee b) BS Dhanoa launched country’s first copper options con- c) Shirish Baban Deo d) Dalbir Singh tracts? a) National Stock Exchange b) Multi Commodity Exchange Question 62 c) Inter Connected Stock Exchange Who is the first female president of the New d) Bombay Stock Exchange York Stock Exchange? a) Stacey Cunningham b) Nikki Hailey Question 67 c) Kayla Brownwood According to NITI Ayog, by when will India d) Elizabeth Gordon achieve 9% growth? a) 2020 b) 2022 c) 2025 d) 2028 Question 63 India has dragged US to WTO dispute settle- Question 68 ment mechanism over import duties on Who has become the first Sikh cabinet minis- ______. ter of Malaysia? a) Gurdas Pal Singh b) Harkirat Singh a) Aluminium and copper c) Nimrata Kaul b) Natural or cultured pearls d) Gobind Singh Deo c) Pharmaceuticals d) Steel and aluminium

Question 69 Question 74 Which important environment related day is National Crime Records Bureau is in the pro- observed on 22nd May? cess of creating a national registry of crimes a) World Biodiversity Day against ______. b) World Earth Day a) Women c) World Water Day b) Senior Citizens d) World Wildlife Day c) Children below 12 years d) Physically disabled persons

Question 70 In which Indian wildlife sanctuary will a joint Question 75 operation between India and Nepal be con- Which country will host the 2018 West Asian ducted to control poaching? Football Federation Championship? a) Barda Wildlife Sanctuary a) Kuwait b) Iran b) Nargu Wildlife Sanctuary c) Saudi Arabia d) Iraq c) Krishnapur Wildlife Sanctuary d) Talakaveri Wildlife Sanctuary Question 76 Who heads the committee on framing new Question 71 data protection norms for India? Who will be conferred with the Banga Bibhu- a) Dalveer Bhandari shan award for 2018? b) B. N. Srikrishna a) Asha Bhosle c) Ruma Pal b) Ustad Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan d) K. G. Balakrishnan c) Alka Yagnik d) Soumitra Chatterjee Question 77 Who is the first person to be put on India's Question 72 "National No Fly List"? Where has India's first advisory centre for a) Ashish Kathuria Energy Regulation been set up? b) Milan Luthra a) Mumbai b) Guwahati c) Mohammad Israr c) Kanpur d) Indore d) Birju Salla

Question 73 Question 78 In which city has Bank of Baroda launched its Who has been named RTS Jury chief for the first integrated SME Loan Factory? International Shooting Sports Federation a) Faridabad b) New Delhi World Cup? c) Ghaziabad d) Gurugram a) Pawan Singh b) Jerry Miculek

c) Miroslav Sipek c) Himachal Pradesh d) Arunachal Pra- d) Marcus Raab desh

Question 79 Question 84 Under whose chairmanship has a task force Who has been selected the president of Vene- been set up to include artificial intelligence in zuela? defence forces? a) Leopoldo Lopez a) Cyrus Mistry b) Julio Borges b) Rajesh Gopinath c) Nicolas Maduro c) N. Chandrasekaran d) Delcy Rodriguez d) F. C. Kohli

Question 85 Question 80 Read the following statements: Who is the winner of Rome Masters Tennis 1. The Yamuna River Front Development Tournament 2018? (RFD) project is being implemented by Delhi a) Andy Murray Development Authority. b) Rafael Nadal 2. Yamuna RFD project aims to restore, re- c) Roger Federer vive and rejuvenate the river’s floodplains and d) Juan Martin Del Potro make them accessible to the people of Delhi. 3. The project also aims to revive the river’s biodiversity in the National Capital. Question 81 Which of the above statement/s is/are true Rating agency ICRA expects GDP growth in regarding the Yamuna Riverfront Develop- January-March 2017-18 at ______%. ment? a) 6.5 b) 6.9 c) 7.0 d) 7.4 a) Both (1) and (3) b) Only (3) Question 82 c) Only (2) Which country won the women's Asian d) All of the above Hockey Champions Trophy 2018? a) India b) South Korea c) Pakistan d) Australia Question 86 ______is NASA's search for planets out- side our solar system. Question 83 For which state has NABARD sanctioned LED solar street lighting system? a) Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite a) Assam b) Meghalaya b) Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite

c) Chandra X-ray Observatory a) Nadine Labaki d) Orbiting Carbon Observatory b) Hirokazu Kore-eda c) Sofia Coppola d) Pawel Pawlikowski Question 87 The Central Reserve Police Force has raised 'Bastariya Battalion' to enhance the combat Question 92 capabilities in the Naxal-hit area of How much revenue has the Government of ______. India earned from the highly successful e- a) Jharkhand b) Bihar Visa scheme, since its launch in 2014? c) West Bengal d) a) Rs. 10 billion b) Rs. 14 billion c) Rs. 16 billion Question 88 d) Rs. 18 billion Exercise 'Gandiv Vijay' is taking place in which state? a) Question 93 b) Madhya Pradesh Which of the following options are correct? c) Rajasthan INSV Tarini was set out for sail on September d) 10, 2017 from Goa. It is the first Indian all-women crew to cir- cumnavigate the globe. Question 89 The expedition titled ‘Navika Sagar Who is the only player to have won the Euro- Parikrama’, is aimed at promoting women pean Golden Shoe 5 times? empowerment. a) Cristiano Ronaldo a) Only 1 b) Both 1 & 2 b) Lionel Messi c) Both 2 & 3 d) All are correct c) Ciro Immobile d) Neymar da Silva Question 94 India conducted its first ever joint naval exer- Question 90 cise with which country? World’s first communication satellite operat- a) Philippines b) Taiwan ing from moon belongs to which country? c) Indonesia d) Vietnam a) Russia b) USA c) India d) China Question 95 The Railways will use artificial intelligence to Question 91 control air circulation, to issue emergency Who won the best director award at the 2018 Cannes film festival for his love story “Cold War”?

alerts and also for supervision and mainte- Question 100 nance work in a 10.28-km-long tunnel in Which organisation issues customs broker li- ______. cence? a) Itanagar b) Imphal a) Directorate General of Trade Remedies c) Aizwal d) Guwahati b) Directorate General of Performance Man- agement c) Directorate General of Shipping Question 96 d) Directorate General of Safeguards The network of Common Service Centres (CSCs) is set to be expanded to ______gram panchayats by the end of Question 101 2018. Which country has decided to close Indian a) 1 lakh b) 2 lakh Embassy's field office which was setup by In- c) 2.5 lakh d) 3 lakh dia in 2008? a) Pakistan b) Nepal c) Bangladesh d) Maldives Question 97 Experts in water conservation will deliberate on ways to rejuvenate which river at the Question 102 maiden national convention of the Indian Which among the following agencies recently Water Council (IWC) May 22? received an award for promoting ease of do- a) Ganga b) ing business? c) Godavari d) Yamuna a) e-Governance Agency b) Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency c) Karnataka e-Governance Agency Question 98 d) Maharashtra e-Governance Agency Which state government has decided to launch "Chatra Parivahan Suraksha Yojana" to ensure safety of girl students? Question 103 a) Uttar Pradesh b) Bihar Anti-terrorism day is observed on which day c) Kerala d) Haryana of the year? a) May 1 b) May 21 c) October 2 d) June 5 Question 99 Bernard Lewis, who passed away recently, was a renowned ______. Question 104 a) historian b) politician According to the AfrAsia Bank Global Wealth c) actor d) physicist Migration Review, which country is the wealthiest country in the world? a) India b) China c) USA d) Germany

1. The Northeast Frontier Railway has started operating one lease Parcel Cargo Express Question 105 Train (PCET) on fortnightly basis. Name the Indian charity that won an award at 2. It will connect the Northeastern part of the the Asian Voice Charity Awards 2018? country to the West Coast. a) GetVidya b) Jagriti Yatra 3. The route of this Parcel Cargo Express c) Kalvialaya d) Helpingminds Train is - New Guwahati in Assam to Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh. Which of the above statement/s is/are true Question 106 regarding the Parcel Cargo Express Train? Read the following statements: a) Both (1) and (2) 1. The Green Good Deeds campaign was b) Both (2) and (3) launched by Prime Minister c) Only (2) in Sikkim in 2018. d) Only (1) 2. The movement aims to protect the environ- ment and promote good living in the country. 3. The Green Good Deeds campaign got the Question 109 global recognition when SCO Ministerial on Name the country that has recently unveiled Environment in China agreed to include it in the World's first floating nuclear power sta- its official agenda in the next Ministerial in tion. Russia. a) U.S b) Japan Which of the above statement/s is/are true c) China d) Russia regarding the Green Good Deeds campaign? a) Only (1) b) Only (2) Question 110 c) Both (1) and (2) Which film won the 'Palme d'Or', at the 2018 d) Both (1) and (3) Cannes Film Festival? a) The Shape of Water b) BlacK Klansman Question 107 c) Capernaum The UN Human Rights Council on May 20, d) Shoplifters 2018 voted to send a team of International War Crimes Investigators to ______a) Gaza Question 111 b) Rakhine State Venture Capital Symposium 2018 aims to c) Gilgit-Baltistan deepen the economic relationship between d) Damascus India and which other country? a) U.S. b) UAE c) France d) China Question 108 Read the following statements:

Question 112 Question 116 The 330 MW Kishanganga hydropower pro- Who has been named as the new president of ject, which was recently inaugurated by PM Hockey India? Modi is located in which state? a) Mariamma Koshy b) Narinder Batra a) Uttarakhand b) Jammu and Kash- c) d) Rajinder Singh mir c) Andhra Pradesh d) Sikkim Question 117 What was the theme of 2018 International Question 113 Museum Day? Name the bank that has approved a $220 mil- a) Hyperconnected museums: New ap- lion loan and an $80 million guarantee for proaches, new publics the India Energy Efficiency Scale-Up Pro- b) Museums and contested histories: Saying gram. the unspeakable in museums a) Asian Development Bank c) Museums and Cultural Landscapes b) World Bank d) Museums for a sustainable society c) European Investment Bank d) New Development Bank Question 118 Information Technology Minister of which Question 114 state was recently honoured with the Digital Anil Kumar Jha has been appointed as the Leader of the Year award during the Busi- Chairman-Cum-Managing director of which nessworld Digital India Summit 2018? Maharatna company? a) Telangana b) Tamil Nadu a) Indian Oil Corporation Limited c) Kerala d) Andhra Pradesh b) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation c) Steel Authority of India Limited d) Coal India Limited

Question 115 B B Vyas, who was recently given one-year ex- tension in the service is the Chief Secretary of which state? a) Madhya Pradesh b) Gujarat c) Kerala d) Jammu and Kashmir

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