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NATIONAL financial instruments and technologies for CCEA approves Strategic Sale of PM Narendra Modi inaugurates Inland energy efficiency in India. Government Equity in Dredging Corporation Multi-Modal Terminal Port in Varanasi:  During INSPIRE 2018, EESL and GAIL, a Of India:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi has wholly owned subsidiary of GAIL (India) Limited  The Union Cabinet has approved strategic sale inaugurated an inland port in Varanasi on the signed a MoU to develop natural gas-based of government stake in Dredging Corporation Ganga River. The multi-modal waterways cogeneration and trigeneration projects in of India to consortium of four ports. The terminal will allow the navigation of large vessels Commercial & Industrial Sectors in India. government currently holds 73.44 per cent in starting on the river between the holy city in Dredging Corporation of India Ltd (DCIL). Uttar Pradesh and Haldia in West Bengal. K9 Vajra and M777 Howitzer Guns Inducted  The ports are Visakhapatnam Port Trust,  The Varanasi port will connect with the into Indian Army: Paradip Port Trust, Jawaharlal Nehru Port National Waterway-1 (Haldia-Varanasi  Three new artillery guns and equipment, Trust and Kandla Port Trust. stretch) is being developed by the Inland including the powerful K9 Vajra and M777  The government has budgeted to raise Rs 80, Waterways Authority of India (IWAI). It will howitzers, were inducted into the Indian Army 000 crore from PSU disinvestment. So far this enable commercial navigation of vessels with at the Deolali artillery centre in Nashik. Defence fiscal, the government has mopped up over Rs capacity of 1500-2, 000 tonnes. Minister Nirmala Sitharaman formally inducted 15, 000 crore from PSU stake sale.  The total estimated cost of the project is Rs. the weapons in Nashik. 5, 369.18 crore, which will be shared between  The entire process of inducting 100 K9 Vajra at Union Environment Minister launches the Centre and the World Bank on a 50:50 a cost of Rs 4, 366 crore will be completed Global Cooling Prize: ratio. by November 2020.  The Ministry of science and technology has  It entails construction of three multi-modal instituted a new prize for innovative cooling terminals (Varanasi, Sahibganj and Haldia), IIT Kharagpur, University of Auckland ink technologies that could reduce the climate two inter-modal terminals and five roll-on-roll- pact for research tie-up: impact of Residential Air Conditioning off (Ro-Ro) terminal pairs.  Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) (RAC) at least by five times. Kharagpur and University of Auckland has  Called Global Cooling Prize, the award Power Minister inaugurates INSPIRE 2018 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) carries a total prize money of $3 million and In New Delhi: to foster academic exchange and research this would be given away over two years.  Power Minister Shri R K Singh inaugurates collaboration, faculty exchange and  The winning technology is expected to prevent INSPIRE 2018 and gives away awards to the visiting/adjunct appointments and Student up to 100 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide- winners of the #InnovateToINSPIRE Mobility. equivalent emissions by 2050 and put the challenge.  It is the first strategic partnership of University world on a pathway to mitigate up to 0.5-  This is the second edition of INSPIRE and is of Auckland with a Higher Educational Institute degree Celsius warming by the turn of the being organised by Energy Efficiency Services of India. As per the MoU, the two renowned next century. Limited (EESL) and World Bank. organization will explore opportunities in the  The three-day symposium will focus on field of Healthcare technologies, cyber Government to release Rs 75 enhancing grid management, e-Mobility, security and artificial intelligence. commemorative coin to mark anniversary of Tricolour hoisting by Bose:

 The Ministry of Finance will release a Rs 75 ISRO Launches GSAT-29 Communication for hydro-power transmission projects in coin to commemorate the 75th anniversary Satellite From Andhra Pradesh: Himachal Pradesh. of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose hoisting the  ISRO's heavy-lift rocket GSLV-MkIII-D2 has  The Tranche-3 loan is part of the $350 million Tricolour for the first time at Port Blair. successfully injected into orbit the country's multi-tranche financing facility for Himachal  The commemorative Rs 75 coin will weigh 35 latest communication satellite GSAT-29. It is Pradesh Clean Energy Transmission Investment grams. This coin will bear the portrait of 'Netaji intended to meet the communication needs of Programme approved by the ADB Board in Subhash Chandra Bose' saluting the flag on people in remote areas in the North East and September 2011. the background of Cellular Jail in Port Blair. The Jammu and Kashmir.  India and ADB sign $169 Million Loan to coin will carry an inscription saying 'First Flag Provide Water and Sanitation Services in Hoisting Day' in both Devanagari script and NIPUN: Delhi Police launches e-learning Tamil Nadu. English. portal for training its personnel  On December 30, 1943, Bose, who raised  Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya AYUSH Ministry celebrating first the Indian National Army (INA) to fight against Patnaik launched the force's e-learning Naturopathy Day: the British, had hoisted the Tricolour for the portal NIPUN and training division website  The AYUSH Ministry is celebrating its first first time at Cellular Jail, Port Blair. on November 14. Through the website, Delhi Naturopathy Day across the country on Police will be using advanced technology in November 18, 2018. Government To Divest Stake In Air India imparting in-service training to its personnel.  The Central Council for Research in Yoga and Ground Handling Subsidiary: The Delhi Legal Service Authority has also Naturopathy is organising health camps,  The Central government has decided to go in consented to be partner in developing specific workshops and exhibitions in association with for a strategic disinvestment of Air India’s courses for Delhi Police. local naturopathy centres and hospitals. ground handling subsidiary to partially retire the  The e-learning portal aims to give online  More than 1, 000 Naturopathy specialist national passenger carrier’s accumulated debt. training and information through doctors from all over the country participated in  A ministerial panel led by Finance specialised courses designed by experts in the event, which was organised by Minister Arun Jaitley decided to the field. International Naturopathy Organisation in sell 100% of Air India’s ground handling association with Ministry of Ayush. arm Air India Air Transport Services Government approves 3 new proposals (AIATSL). under Nirbhaya Fund: Government launches upgraded version of  The proceeds will be used to retire a part of Air  The government has approved three new AirSewa digital platform India’s debt. The government also plans to proposals - fast-track special courts,  The government has launched an upgraded transfer a “significant part” of the airline’s debt procurement of forensic kits in sexual version of AirSewa digital platform. to a special purpose vehicle (SPV). assault cases and setting up video Chatbots will now help air travellers in  The approval comes at a time when the surveillance system at 50 railway stations addressing their grievances. government is working on ways to revive the under theNirbhaya Fund.  Besides, passengers can have access to real- fortunes of Air India – estimated to have the  The decision was taken by the Empowered time flight status and schedule for both domestic debt burden of more than Rs 500 billion, Committee of Officers headed by Women and and international flights, according to the Civil including the sale of non-core assets. Child Development Ministry (WCD) Secretary Aviation Ministry. Rakesh Srivastava.  AirSewa 2.0, the upgraded version of the web Government Sets Up State Of-The-Art  Under the fund, the Ministry of Law and Justice portal and mobile app, provides chatbot support National Data Repository: has proposed to set up 1, 023 Fast Track for faster resolution and personalised traveller  The Government has set up a state of -the- Special Courts (FTSCs) to dispose of pending experience. art National Data Repository. It is a database cases of rape and those under the Protection of all the geo-scientific data of hydrocarbon of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Government Hikes FAME-I Outlay To Rs 895 resources in the country. Act across the country. Crore:  National Data Repository is equipped with  With a total financial implication of Rs  The Ministry of Finance has increased the cutting-edge technology and provides 767.25 crore, the project in the first phase may outlay by Rs 100 crore to Rs 895 crore for ready access to interested companies. be set up in nine states with 777 FTSCs while in the first phase of the Faster Adoption and  With the introduction of National Data second phase 246 FTSCs will come up. Manufacturing of (Hybrid) and Electric Repository in Indian E&P regime, India has  Nirbhaya Fund is an Indian rupee 10 billion Vehicles (FAME) India scheme to joined the league of countries like UK and corpus announced by Government of India in its promote mass adoption of electric vehicles, Norway which have a National Data Repository 2013 Union Budget. having extended the scheme four times. for the upstream sector.  This is followed recommendation from Government inks pact with ADB for 3 the Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC) for Agriculture Ministry Launches NCDC’s important projects: an additional outlay of Rs 100 crore, over and ‘YuvaSahakar Scheme’:  The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and above the existing approved outlay.  The National Cooperative Development the Centre have signed a $300-million loan  The first phase was extended four times for Corporation (NCDC) has come up with a agreement to support lending by India six months each. The latest extension is youth-friendly scheme “YuvaSahakar- Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd in effect till March 2019 or till a notification for Cooperative Enterprise Support and (IIFCL). the second phase. Innovation Scheme” for attracting them to  The move is expected to enhance the cooperative business ventures. availability of long-term finance for public- MoRTH Issued Notification For Inclusion Of  The Central Government has been encouraging private partnership projects, improve Quadricycles As Non -Transport Vehicles: ‘Start-Ups’ for ease of doing business, non- operational capacity of IIFCL, and expand the  Ministry of Road Transport and conventional opportunities are emerging and are portfolio of infrastructure financing instruments Highways has notified the insertion of the being encouraged. The newly launched scheme available to the company. item ‘Quadricycle’ as a ‘non-transport’ would encourage cooperatives to venture into  The Centre and ADB also signed a $105- vehicle under the Motor Vehicles Act 1988. new and innovative areas. million loan to support upgrading infrastructure ______

 A Quadricycle is a vehicle of the size of a  She also felicitated some of the scientists,  NPCC, a schedule ‘B’ CPSE under the 3-wheeler but with 4 tyres and fully covered who invented and innovated useful products for administrative control of Ministry of Water like a car. It has an engine like that of a 3- the nation. As part of the ongoing initiatives to Resources RD & GR, has also been awarded ISO wheeler. This makes it a cheap and safe mode of enhance self-reliance in defence, the 9001:2015 Certification. transport for last mile connectivity. Department of Defence Production has instituted  Quadricycles were only allowed for transport a new framework titled ‘Mission Raksha High-End Skill Development Centre usage under the Act, but now has been made GyanShakti’ which aims to provide a boost to Established In Chandigarh: usable for non-transport also. the IPR culture in indigenous defence industry.  India’s premier National Research Laboratory CSIR-Institute of Microbial Delhi government launches portal for Govt Launches ‘Paisa’ Portal: For Affordable Technology (CSIR-IMTECH) announced a new spotting location of cluster buses: Credit & Interest Subvention Access partnership with Merck, a leading German  Delhi bus commuters will now be able to  The government launched a centralised science and technology company, to spot locations of cluster buses at intervals of 10 electronic platform for processing interest establish a ‘High End Skill Development seconds with the help of Open Transit subvention on bank loans to beneficiaries Centre’ in CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh. Data (OTD) which will be shared on a dedicated under DeendayalAntyodaya Yojana –  Equipped with the next generation portal launched by the Delhi government. National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY- technologies, like gene editing & single-  The OTD portal will incorporate multi-modal NULM), called ‘Paisa’. molecule biomarker detection, the centre will transport data feed in future, including those  PAiSA, or `Portal for Affordable Credit help accelerate healthcare research and train of Metro trains and last mile connectivity and Interest Subvention Access’, is a web Indian students and researchers in latest life vehicles. platform designed and developed by Allahabad science technologies and make them industry  Delhi becomes the first city in the Bank, which is the nodal bank. ready. country to open up transit data of city buses,  All 35 states/union territories and  This ‘High End Skill Development Centre’ will that will provide static and real time data all scheduled commercial banks, RRBs and enrich skills by conducting workshops, through the website – www.otd.delhi.gov.in. cooperative banks are expected to be on trainings and seminar series on cutting board the `Paisa’ portal the year-end. edges life science processes, tools and Carpet City Bhadohi Gets ‘Export Govt Approves Construction Of Over 2 Lakh techniques. The centre will facilitate hands-on Excellence’ Tag; To Benefit Artisans, Boost Affordable Houses For Poor: experience tolearning and real time sample Shipments:  Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry has analysis.  Known for its hand-woven carpets around approved the construction of over two lakh more the world, Bhadohi received a major boost as affordable houses for the benefit of urban poor STATES IN NEWS the government has extended the ‘export under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban). ANDHRA PRADESH excellence’ tag to it.  Now the cumulative number of houses Cabinet approves setting up of Central  The status was granted by the Directorate sanctioned under the scheme has gone to over Tribal University in Andhra Pradesh General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), under 65 lakh.  The Union cabinet has approved setting up of the commerce ministry.  The approval was given in the 40th meeting 'Central Tribal Universityof Andhra  Bhadohi, small township situated on the of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Pradesh'. The proposed university will come up banks the river Ganges, will be the 37th town Committee held in New Delhi after necessary amendment in the Central to get this status. Universities Act. Government Launches Bhasha Sangam:  The 'Central Tribal University of Andhra Child Festival ‘HAUSLA-2018’ Inaugurated  A unique initiative called Bhasha Pradesh' will be set up in Relli village of In New Delhi: Sangam launched by government to Vizianagaram District as provided under the  The National Festival for Children of introduce school students to 22 Indian Thirteenth Schedule to the Andhra Pradesh Child Care Institutions (CCIs) - “Hausla languages. Reorganisation Act, 2014. Cabinet has also 2018” of the Ministry of Women and Child  The initiative, under Ek Bharat Shreshtha approved the provision of funds of Rs 4.2 Development (MWCD) was inaugurated by the Bharat, was launched on 22nd of this month billion for the first phase expenditure Secretary, Shri Rakesh Srivastava in New and will continue till the 21st of December. Delhi.The theme for the event is “Child  Bhasha Sangam is a programme for schools World Bank Inks $172 Million Project Safety”. and educational institutions to provide Agreement With Andhra Pradesh  In this festival Children will be participating multilingual exposure to students in Indian  The Central and Andhra Pradesh in various events like Debate, painting languages. governments and the World Bank have competition, athletics meet, football, chess  Another objective of Bhasha Sangam is signed the loan agreement for a $172.20 competition and Safe Neighborhood Day. to enhance linguistic tolerance and respect million project to enhance agricultural and promote national integration. productivity, profitability, and climate resilience Nirmala Sitharaman has formally launched of poor and marginalised farmers in Andhra ‘Mission Raksha Gyan Shakti’: National Projects Construction Corporation Pradesh.  ‘Mission Raksha Gyan Shakti’, has been Limited (NPCC) Has Been Conferred With  The Andhra Pradesh Integrated Irrigation formally launched Raksha Mantri Smt Nirmala The Status Of Miniratna: and Agriculture Transformation Project (APIIATP) will be implemented in rural areas Sitharaman in New Delhi.  National Projects Construction largely dependent upon rain-fed agriculture.  The event showcased salient inventions and Corporation Limited (NPCC) has been

innovations achieved by Defence Research and conferred with the status of Miniratna: Andhra Pradesh Launches ‘Bhudaar’ Portal: Development Organisation (DRDO), Defence Category –I by the Government of India.  Andhra Pradesh has launched a web portal Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs) and  The empowerment of Miniratna Status to which makes land records available to people Ordnance Factories (OFs) which have resulted in NPCC will help the company in taking speedy with unique identification numbers just like successful filing of Intellectual Property Right decisions by enhancing the delegation of powers Aadhar number. (IPR) applications. to the Board. ______

 The “Bhudaar’’ is an 11-digit unique  Governor: Lalji Tandon Kochi signs MoU with Vilnius: identification code assigned to each  As part of the European Union (EU) project agriculture land holding and rural and urban HIMACHAL PRADESH ‘International Urban Cooperation’, Kochi properties in the state. Himachal Pradesh Becomes First State To Corporation and Vilnius, the capital city of  The integration of verified and updated land Launch Single Emergency Number: Lithuania, have signed a memorandum of records will end litigation and corruption in land  Himachal Pradesh became the first Indian understanding. records and prevent tampering. state to launch a single emergency number  The primary focus of the cooperation would be  With this, the land records will be available to “112” which will connect topolice, fire, health urban planning, corporate planning, people on the lines of Aadhar card enabling the and other helplines through an Emergency transport, solid water management and people to carry their land records in their pocket. Response Centre (ERC) in the state. water management.  The Chief Minister also launched Bhudaar  Under the project, one ERC has been  The Vilnius team will visit Kochi in January security policy to provide security to the land established in Shimla along with 12 next year to identify more areas of cooperation records of farmers. District Command Centres covering the entire between the two cities. state. India’s First Justice City To Set Up In  The ERC has been integrated with Kerala launched new open online learning Andhra Pradesh police (100), fire (101), health (108) and programme - ‘KOOL’  Andhra Pradesh is building a world-class and women helpline (1090) services to provide  The Kerala Infrastructure and Technology India's first 'Justice City' within its new emergency services via single emergency for Education (KITE) has rolled out– KOOL, capital Amaravati. number 112. its Online Open Learning training platform.  The vision is to provide a state-of-the-art  In order to ensure safety of women,  The platform can be used to train teachers, ecosystem built on latest technology for a ‘SHOUT’ feature has been introduced in ‘112 students and the general public. KOOL is a supporting the judicial system in the state. India’ mobile app to seek immediate major step by the State of Kerala to become  will comprise integrated judicial hub spread assistance from registered volunteers in the India’s first complete digital state in Education. across 3, 309 acres with an estimated vicinity apart from the immediate assistance  KOOL has been designed in a MOOC (Massive population of 2.5 lacs. The Justice City is from ERC. The SHOUT feature is exclusively Open Online Course) model, which is expected to generate employment for more than available to women. becoming popular worldwide. 1.3 lac people. Himachal Pradesh KERALA Andhra Pradesh  Capital: Shimla  Capital: Thiruvananthapuram  Capitals: Amaravati  Chief Minister: Jai Ram Thakur  Chief minister:Pinarayi Vijayan  Chief minister: N. Chandrababu Naidu  Governor:Acharya Dev Vrat  Governor: P.Sathasivam  Governor: E. S. L. Narasimhan JAMMU & KASHMIR MAHARASHTRA BIHAR J-K Governor Inaugurated ‘Jhiri Mela’ Maharashtra Government Passed Bill To India, ADB Ink $200 Mn Loan Pact To Festival In Jammu: Amend The Anti-Adulteration Law: Improve Bihar’s State Highways:  Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal  Maharashtra government has passed the  The Indian government and the Asian Malik has inaugurated a week long ‘Jhiri bill to amend the anti-adulteration law to Development Bank (ADB) signed a $200- Mela’ at village Jhiri in Jammu district. make it more stringent, prescribing life million loan agreement for improving Bihar’s imprisonment and heavy penalty to curb food  The annual fair is commemorated in the state highways. and milk adulteration. Due to the amendment, memory of the martyrdom of ‘Baba Jittoo’, a the adulteration offence will be cognizable and  Under the agreement, ADB would provide the farmer who gave up his life about 500 years ago non-bailable. loan to finance the widening and upgrading of in protest against the oppressive demands of a Maharashtra about 230 km of state highways in Bihar to all- land lord. weather standards with road safety features. JAMMU & KASHMIR  Capital: Mumbai  The agreement was signed by Additional  Capitals: Jammu (Winter), Srinagar  Chief minister: Devendra Fadnavis Secretary in the Finance Ministry Sameer (Summer)  Governor: C. Vidyasagar Rao Kumar Khare and Officer-in-Charge of ADB’s  Governor: Satya Pal Malik India Resident Mission, Rajeev P. Singh in New MANIPUR Delhi. KERALA Sangai Festival 2018 begins in Manipur:

SMiLE virtual tour guide to give fillip to  The 10-day Manipur Sangai Festival was Bihar CM Nitish Kumar Unveils 70 Ft Tall Malabar tourism: formally started in Imphal. It aims to promote Lord Buddha’s Statue InRajgir  The Kerala TourismDepartment has brought Manipur as a world class tourism destination.  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar out a high-tech digital facility that provides  The formal inaugural function was held at well- unveiled a 70-feet tall statue of Lord Buddha at visitors all details about experiential and service decorated HaftaKangjeibung ground in Rajgir in Nalanda district. packages offered in the region in north Kerala. Imphal as the main venue. The festival will  Mr Kumar unveiled the statue of Lord  A 'SMiLE Virtual Tour Guide' links tourists conclude on November 30, 2018. Buddha, the second tallest statue of Buddha in with their places of attraction and providers of  The 'Festival' is named after the State animal, the country, in the presence of Mahabodhi experiential services. The site has also helpline Sangai, the brow-antlered deer found only in temple’s chief monk BhanteChalinda amid the numbers for women and ambulance service Manipur. Every edition of the festival chanting of hymns.  The package has got its acronym SMiLE from showcases the tourism potential of the state in The statue has been installed above a 16-  Small and Medium Industries Leveraging the field of Arts & Culture, Handloom, metre radius pedestal in the middle of Lake Experiential Tourism. It was conceived and Handicrafts, Indigenous Sports, Cuisine, Music GhoraKatora. It is made of pink sandstone. executed by Bekal Resorts Development and Adventure sports of the state etc. BIHAR Corporation (BRDC). Manipur  Capital: Patna  Capital: Imphal  Chief Minister: Nitish Kumar  Chief minister: N. Biren Singh

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 Governor: Najma Heptulla  Odisha Chief Minister Naveen  President Ram Nath Kovind has inaugurated Patnaik launched a public bicycle sharing the first Gyan Kumbhin Uttarakhand, which is ODISHA project and a mobile app ‘Mo Cycle’ to being jointly organised by the Higher Cabinet Approves Renaming of Jharsuguda reduce traffic congestion, enhance space Education Department of the Uttarakhand Airport, Odisha As “Veer Surendra Sai efficiency, and improve air quality in the city. Government and the University of Patanjali Airport, Jharsuguda”:  About 2000 MO CYCLES will be operated by in Haridwar.  The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime three leading vendors, Hero-Hexi, Yaana, and  The objective of the Gyan Kumbh is to Minister Narendra Modi has approved the Yulu, at about 400 plus Mo Cycle stations around enhance the quality of educationin India. renaming of Jharsuguda Airport, Odisha as the city.  President Kovind also addressed the first “Veer Surendra Sai Airport, Jharsuguda”.  Riders can take the Mo Cycle from any location convocation ceremony at the All IndiaInstitute of  CM Naveen Patnaik had also requested and drop off at any destination of their choice. Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh. restoration of UDAN services at the airport and The operators will coordinate to ensure the exploring opportunities for flight operations from redistribution, and availability of Mo Cycle, at Uttarakhand Cabinet Ratifies Renaming Jharsuguda to other states. locations with high demand, at any given time. Jolly Grant Airport After Vajpayee:  Veer Surendra Sai is a well-known freedom ODISHA  The Uttarakhand cabinet has ratified a fighter of Odisha. It will be a befitting tribute  Capital: Bhubaneswar proposal to rename the Jolly Grant airport in to the contribution of the revered personality  Chief minister: Naveen Patnaik the state capital after late prime minister Atal associated with the State. Bihari Vajpayee.  Governor: Ganeshi Lal The Jolly Grant Airport, which is named after  ‘SouraJalanidhi’ Scheme Launched In the area where it is situated, belongs to TAMILNADU Odisha: the Airport Authority of India (AAI). It was India’s First Indigenous Microprocessor  Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik built in the year 1974. Created By IIT-Madras: has launched ‘SouraJalanidhi’ scheme which UTTARAKHAND  Researchers at Indian Institute of aims at increasing use of solar energy for Technology Madras (IIT-M) have designed  Capital: Dehradun helping farmers in irrigation. and booted up India's first microprocessor,  Chief Minister: Trivendra Singh Rawat  ‘SouraJalanidhi’ is a dug well based solar pump Shakti, which could be used in mobile  Governor: Baby Rani Maurya irrigation system in convergence mode. computing and other devices. The project is  Under the scheme, 5, 000 solar pumps will be funded by Union Ministry of Electronics and UTTAR PRADESH provided to farmers at a subsidy of 90 percent Information Technology. Lucknow Stadium Renamed After Atal to irrigate 2, 500 acres of land. The Chief  According to IIT-M, the Shakti microprocessor Bihari Vajpayee Minister also launched the web portal of this can be used in low-power wireless systems  The newly-built Ekana International scheme on the occasion. and networking systems besides reducing Stadium has been renamed after former  The State Government has allocated 27.18 reliance on imported microprocessors in prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. crore for implementation of the scheme. communication and defence sectors. The  The stadium will now be known as 'Bharat

microprocessor can be used by others as it is on Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee International Air Odisha’s UDAN license cancelled for par with international standards. Cricket Stadium'. The city will host its first poor performance:  The Shakti family of processors was fabricated international match at the stadium when India  The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has at Semi-Conductor Laboratory (SCL), Indian play West Indies in the second T20 International cancelled the UDAN (UdeDesh ka Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in match. AamNagrik) licence of low-cost carrier Air Chandigarh, making it the first 'RISC V Odisha for seven airports for its irregular flight Microprocessor' to be completely designed and Indian Coast Guard launches new Offshore services. made in India. patrol vessel ICGS Varaha:  The AAI has cancelled the agreement with  The Indian Coast Guard has launched a new the air carrier for operating flights from and to Cyclone Gaja crosses Tamil Nadu towards offshore patrol vessel called ICGS Varaha from seven airports –Jharsuguda, Raipur, Raigarh, Arabian Sea: a corporate shipyard near Chennai. Bilaspur, Ambikapur, Jagdalpur and  Cyclonic storm Gaja crossed the Tamil  This is the third in a series of seven similar Visakhapatnam. Nadu and Puducherry coast between ships to be handed over to the Coast Guard. The  From November 20, they will not be Nagapattinamand nearby Vedaranniyam timeline for the delivery of all the vessels is permitted to operate from these seven airports. with wind speeding up to 120 kmph. March 2021. They have failed to operate the minimum 70  Tamil Nadu government has announced  It will also be capable of carrying a twin- per cent of the scheduled flights from these helpline numbers 1070 (state-level) and engine helicopter and four high-speedboats airports within a period of three months. 1077 (districts) for those who may need for Search and Rescue and Maritime Patrol.

assistance. It also carries pollution response equipment to Odisha’s Baliyatra Festival Inaugurated:  During the cyclone's landfall, rains struck contain the oil spill at sea. Odisha Finance and Excise  Nagapattinam, Tiruvarur, and Thanjavur, minister SashiBhusan Behera, in the presence uprooting trees in several regions. Indra 2018: India, Russia joint military of three of his cabinet colleagues, inaugurated Tamil Nadu exercise held in Jhansi, UP the Baliyatra festival in Odisha.  Capital: Chennai  India and Russia will hold joint military  The festival, associated with the maritime  Chief minister:Edappadi K. Palaniswami exercises in Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh from glory of ancient Kalinga, is basically a trade  Governor: Banwarilal Purohit November 18. "Exercise Indra 2018" will begin and cultural fare that attracts revellers not only at the Babina Field Firing Ranges. from state but from outside also.  The aim of the exercise is to practice joint planning and conduct enhance UTTARAKHAND interoperability of the two Armies in CM Naveen Launches Public Bicycle Sharing President Kovind inaugurates Gyan Kumbh: Project & ‘Mo Cycle’ App: ______

peacekeeping and enforcement environment armed with facilities such as wireless digital X-  Capitals: Lucknow, Allahabad (Judiciary) under UN aegis. Ray, thermal imaging, ultrasonography,  Chief minister: Yogi Adityanath tranquilization devices and quarantine facilities.  Governor: Ram Naik UP cabinet approves renaming of Faizabad  The hospital, on the banks of the Yamuna as Ayodhya, Allahabad as Prayagraj: River, is close to an elephant conservation and WEST BENGAL  The Uttar Pradesh government has approved care centre run by Wildlife SOS that is home to Jangalmahal festival to promote tribal art renaming of Faizabad and Allahabad 22 elephants. and culture: divisions as Ayodhya and Prayagraj  The Wildlife SOS established the first  In an effort to promote tribal art and culture, respectively. elephant conservation and care centre in a three-day-long Jangalmahal festival will be  Earlier, the government renamed the 2010 and is currently looking after 20 elephants organised in the Kolkata city of West Bengal. Mughalsarai Railway station, another historic requiring specialised treatment.  According to officials of Jangal Udyog, the spot, as DeenDayal Upadhyaya junction. NGO that has been organising the festival for the  Allahabad's ancient name was 'Prayag’ but UP govt in partnership with Japan to last three years, different folk songs and dances was changed after 16th-century Mughal emperor develop ‘food value chain’: such as Tusu, Bhadu, Ahira and Jhumur will Akbar built a fort near 'Sangam', the holy  Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi be performed by the locals of the Jangalmahal confluence of the Ganga, Yamuna and Adityanath cleared a proposal for the area. Saraswati. development of ‘Food Value Chain’ in the WEST BENGAL state.  Capital: Kolkata India's First Elephant Hospital Opens in  It will be developed by UP government and  Chief minister: Mamata Banerjee Mathura Japan’s agriculture, forestry and fisheries  Governor: Keshari Nath Tripathi  India's first specialized hospital for department. Under the agreement, in the first

elephants was opened by Agra Divisional five years, Japanese companies will invest in Commissioner Anil Kumar at Farah block's agri-related and food-related industries. Churmura village, Mathura. The facility, Uttar Pradesh

NATIONAL SUMMITS

SUMMIT Key Points/ Area/ Themes Held in 38th India International Trade Fair (IITF) Theme: “Rural Enterprises in India”. New Delhi, India In this year’s fair Afghanistan is the Partner Country, while Nepal is the Focus Country. Jharkhand is participating as a Partner State in the event.

14th edition of international children’s Organised by the National School of Drama (NSD). New Delhi, India theatre festival 49th International Film Festival of India The Aspern Papers is the opening film, Sealed Lips will be the closing Panaji, Goa movie. Veteran Israeli filmmaker Dan Wolman – Lifetime Achievement Award. 27th BASIC Ministerial Meeting on Climate To enhance their support to the developing nations in effectively New Delhi, India Change implementing the Paris Agreement to combat climate change. Brazil to host the 28th BASIC Ministerial Meeting in the first half of 2019. First-ever India-US Dialogue on The dialogue was launched by US Chamber of Commerce’s Global New Delhi, India Intellectual Property Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) and FICCI in partnership with the US-India Business Council. ‘Emerging Trends in Aviation Engineering It was organized by the Indian Air Force and Chief of the Air Staff, New Delhi, India and Logistics’ (AVIAMAT-2018) Seminar Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa delivered the key note address. 2nd edition of the Navy Commanders’ Theme: ‘Optimisation’ and ‘Emerging Technologies’. New Delhi, India Conference of 2018 Fourth NITI Aayog- DRC Dialogue It is the second ministerial dialogue between China and India. Mumbai, Maharashtra The Fifth edition of the NITI – DRC Dialogue will be held in Wuhan, China in November 2019. 1st ‘Annual Senior Care Conclave – It was hosted by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in New Delhi, India Igniting Industry for India’s Ageing collaboration with Columbia Pacific Communities as their Premium Sector’ Partner. 13th Indo-Myanmar Regional Border The Indian delegation was headed by Lieutenant General Gopal R, Imphal, Manipur Committee Meet AVSM, SM, GOC Spear Corps and the Myanmar delegation was headed by Maj Gen Phone Myat, Commander, North West Command. 78th Annual Conference of the Indian It was organized by New Delhi, India Society of Agricultural Economics The Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, International Food Policy Research Institute, Delhi; and Tata-Cornell Institute, Ithaca, USA.

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Global IT Challenge for Youth with Leverage IT skills among youth with disabilities and Spread New Delhi, India Disabilities, 2018 awareness about the application of ICT for persons with disabilities especially in Asia-Pacific region. Second edition of INSPIRE(International It was organized by Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) and New Delhi, India Symposium to Promote Innovation & World Bank. Research in Energy Efficiency) Global Cooling Innovation Summit To address the climate threat that comes from the growing demand New Delhi, India from room air conditioners. 4th International Congress on Theme: ‘Future of Geriatric Medicine practice – Are you Ready?’ New Delhi, India Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine. 6th Indian Social Work Congress (ISWC) Theme: “Human Development and Social Inclusion: Imperatives for New Delhi, India Social Work Education and Practice”. 2-day South Asian Regional Conference Theme: “Urban Infrastructure: New Approaches to Public &Private New Delhi, India on Urban Infrastructure Partnerships and Municipal Finance Innovations”. 9th Session of the India – Kyrgyz IGC Both the parties decided to hold the 10thmeeting of the Kyrgyz- New Delhi, India Indian inter-governmental Commission on Trade-Economic and Scientific-Technical Cooperation in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic. 4-day Regional meeting of the World To amend the Kyoto protocol, Digital customs, Jaipur, Rajasthan. Customs Organisation & E-commerce. 8th National Conference of Women in Enabling atmosphere for women to maximize and optimize their Ranchi, Jharkhand Police professional potential. 24th edition of Kolkata International Film Australia was the focus country for KIFF 2018. Kolkata, West Bengal Festival (KIFF 2018) 50th Union World Conference on Lung Theme: “Ending the Emergency: Science, Leadership, Action”. Hyderabad, Telangana Health 7th International Tourism Mart Theme: “Adventure Tourism” Agartala, Tripura

COMMITTEE Indian Navy – Indonesian Navy bilateral  India and United IAMAI formed committee to promote exercise ‘Samudra Shakti’ begins Kingdom Exercise KONKAN-18 held at Goa, Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)  INS Rana of the Eastern Fleet based at which is scheduled till December 2, 2018.  The Internet and Mobile Association of Visakhapatnam under the Eastern Naval  Naval cooperation between India and the India (IAMAI) has formed a new industry Command is on deployment to the South East United Kingdom is based on the long term expert committee, under its Emerging Asia and arrived at the port of Surabaya to strategic relationship between both countries. Technology Council, focused on AR/VR. participate in the inaugural edition of Indian Both Navies have, over the years, undertaken  It has been framed with an aim to promote Navy – Indonesian Navy Bilateral Exercise bilateral activities such as training Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) ‘Samudra Shakti’ scheduled from 12 to 18 Nov exchanges and technical cooperation. technology to drive economic growth, job 18.  The Bilateral KONKAN exercise provides a creation, and skill development in the country,  The aim of the exercise is to strengthen platform for the two Navies to periodically  The committee is chaired bilateral relations, expand maritime co- exercise at sea and in harbour, so as to build byNamritaMahindro, Senior General operation, enhance interoperability and interoperability and share best practices. Manager, - Digital Transformation, exchange best practices.  The Royal Navy will be represented by HMS Mahindra Group and co-chaired by Satyajeet Indonesia Dragon, a Type 45 Class Destroyer equipped Singh, Head –Strategic Product Partnership,  Capital: Jakarta with an integral Wildcat helicopter. The Indian India & South Asia, Facebook.  Currency: Indonesian rupiah Navy will field INS Kolkata, the first ship of latest Kolkata class destroyers, equipped with INTERNATIONAL Vice President inaugurates Indian War integral Seaking and an IN submarine. Memorial in France: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan meets  The exercise is aimed at deriving mutual  Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu has UAE Human Resource Minister in Dubai: benefit from each others’ experiences and is embarked on a three-day visit to France. He will  The Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas indicative of the continuing cooperation be representing India at the Paris Peace Forum Dharmendra Pradhan met UAE Minister for between the two countries. being held to commemorate the centenary of the Human Resource Nasser Bin Thani Juma Al end to the First World War. Hamli in Dubai. Qatar To Host World Corporate Games in  The main ceremony at Arc de Triomphe  He has discussed in areas of cooperation with 2019: monument in Paris will be presided over by UAE in areas of Skill development of Indian  Sports for Life, organisers of the World the French President Emmanuel Macron. people working in UAE. He also discussed the Corporate Games, announced that the 2019  The aim of Paris Peace Forum is to establish a need of synchronization of certification and edition will be held in Qatar under the slogan global platform to reaffirm the importance of standards of the two countries so that people ‘Qatar, where the World comes to compete’. multilateralism, international cooperation and rd skilled in India get easy employment in UAE. The 23 edition is set to be held in November reform of global governance institutions. India  Mr Pradhan will inaugurate the Indian Pavilion and will be the first ever to take place in the was one of the largest contributors of soldiers at the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Middle East. during World War 1. Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC) in Abu  The announcement was made on the side-lines

Dhabi. of the Qatar-Germany Investment and Joint Maritime Exercise Konkan 18 Held In Business Forum held in Berlin. Goa:  The World Corporate Games take place every 1-2 years and the last edition was held in ______

Houston, Texas in 2017. The Qatar edition of the FinTech festival kicks off in Singapore: World Corporate Games is expected to attract 5,  The third edition of the FinTech Festival UNSC lift sanctions against Eritrea after 000 participants. kicks off in Singapore alongside the ASEAN nine years: Qatar summit. It will begin with the three-day Fintech  The UN Security Council has unanimously  Capital: Doha Conference. agreed to lift sanctions against Eritrea after  Currency: Qatari riyal  Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, and nine years. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the  An arms embargo, asset freeze, and travel ban The Kingdom of Netherlands to be the International Monetary Fund, will address the were imposed in 2009 amid claims Eritrea Partner Country 25th DST – CII Technology audience on the third day of the FinTech supported al-Shabab militants in Somalia. Summit 2019 Conference. Eritrea always denied the accusations. The  Union Minister for Science & Technology, resolution, drafted by the UK, was backed by the Earth Sciences, Environment, Forest and Climate Palau Becomes 1st Country In World To Ban US and its allies. Change Dr. Harsh Vardhan hasannounced that Reef-Killing Sunscreen:  Eritrea agreed a peace deal with Ethiopia in the Kingdom of Netherlands will be the  Palau bans reef toxic sunscreen by 2020in June following two decades of animosity, while Partner Country 25th DST – CII Technology an attempt to protect its coral reefs after the the leader of Eritrea and the UN-backed Summit to be organized in 2019. president of the country signed a bill into law. government in Somalia recently signed a joint  This is due to the cooperation between The president of Palau, Tommy Remengesau Jr. cooperation agreement. India and Netherlands in sectors such as has signed “The Responsible Tourism affordable medical devices, urban water Education Act of 2018”. 25th SIMBEX commences in Andaman Sea systems, big data and Internet of Things (IoT).  It is the first country to ban reef toxic and Bay of Bengal: th  The 25th Technology Summit -2019 will be sunscreen by 2020 in an attempt to protect its  The 25 edition of SIMBEX starts from Nov made a global event and the visit of their Prime coral reefs after the president of the country 10-21 off Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal. Minister to India in May 2018 has marked the signed a bill into law.  The initial harbour phase will be held at Port 10th anniversary of Science, Technology &  The main reason sunscreen can be so Blair, the capital of Andaman and Nicobar Innovation collaboration between the two dangerous to reefs is because some of the Islands from 10 to 12 November followed by countries. chemicals that wash off into the water have a Sea Phase from Nov 12-16 in the Andaman Sea. negative impact on coral reproduction, which The second harbour phase from Nov 16-19 will China launches new high-orbit satellite to has consequences for the entire underwater be held at Visakhapatnam – ‘the City of boost its global navigation system: ecosystem. Destiny’.  China has successfully launched a high orbit satellite to boost its home-grown BeiDou France unveils bronze statue International Gita Festival To Be Held In global satellite navigation system being built commemorating role of Indian soldiers in Kurukshetra: to rival United States Global Position System World War I:  The International Gita Festival, 2018, (GPS).  A new statue commemorating the role of will be organised in Kurukshetra in  The satellite was launched from the Xichang Indian soldiers in World War One was Haryana from December 7-23, in which Satellite Launch Centre in the southwestern unveiled in France to mark Armistice Day Mauritius will be the partner country and Sichuan Province. when the war ended in 1918. Gujarat the partner state.  Launched on a Long March-3B carrier  The seven-foot bronze statue in the town of  The Gita festival will also be organised in rocket, it is the 41st of the BeiDou Laventie commemorates over 4, 700 soldiers Mauritius next February.About 200 famous navigation system, and will work with 16 and labourers from British India who lost their painters from across the country would reach other Beidou-3 satellites already in orbit. It is lives on the Western Front during World War I Kurukshetra to draw paintings on the walls of also the first BeiDou-3 satellite in high orbit, and have no known graves. Kurukshetra on the theme of the about 36, 000 km above the Earth.  The site in Laventie was chosen after the Mahabharata under the ‘paint-the-  It will be the fourth global satellite navigation remains of two soldiers were identified as wall’ competition. th system after the US GPS system, Russia’s belonging to the 39 Royal Garhwal Rifles and GLONASS and the European Union’s Galileo. reburied with military honours last year. India, china ink protocol on hygiene China inspection requirements for exports:  Capital: Beijing SpiNNaker: World’s Largest Brain-Like  India and China have signed a protocol  Currency: Renminbi Supercomputer Switched On For First Time on hygiene and inspection requirements for  The world’s largest supercomputer the exports. India re-elected as member of ITU council designed to work in the same way as the human  A protocol on hygiene and till 2022: brain has been switched on for the first time. inspection requirements for the exports was  India has been elected as a member of the  The newly formed million-processor-core signed in New Delhi during the visit of Chinese International Telecommunications Union Spiking Neural Network Architecture Vice Minister, General Administration of Customs Council (ITU) for another 4-year term – (SpiNNaker) machineis capable of completing of China Hu Wei who is leading a six-member from 2019 to 2022. The ITU has 193-member more than 200 million million actions per delegation to India. second, with each of its chips having 100 million states who elect representatives to the council.  The move would enable India to transistors.  The elections to the council were held during commence export of fish meal and fish oil to  The SpiNNaker machine designed and built in the ongoing ITU Plenipotentiary Conference China. “The University of Manchester” in the UK, 2018 at Dubai, UAE. can model more biological neurons in real time  India secured 165 votes and ranked third Nepal Govt Launches Social Security than any other machine on the planet. among the 13 countries elected to the council Scheme:  Biological neurons are basic brain cells present from the Asia-Australasia region, and eighth  Nepal government has launched a Social in the nervous system that communicate among the 48 countries elected to the council Security Scheme in Kathmandu for formal primarily by emitting ‘spikes’ of pure electro- globally. sector workers of the country. chemical energy. ______

 Unveiling the scheme Prime Minister  During the summit, Prime minister will make information. The protocol updated the existing K.P.Sharma Oli said a new era of social the pitch for other countries which are not provisions for information exchange to the latest security has begun in Nepal. between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn to international standards.  The new social security scheme is join the International Solar Alliance. The G-20 is  It also incorporated changes required to contribution based and it will cover health and also expected to discuss reforms of multilateral implement treaty-related minimum standards medical facilities, safe motherhood, trading institutions particularly the WTO. under the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting accident and physical incapacity security, Note: (BEPS) action reports. security to dependent family members and  The 2019 G20 Osaka summit will be security at old age. the fourteenth meeting of Group of Twenty. It Monaco To Host 2019 Laureus Awards On  The scheme will be compulsorily applicable to will be held on 28–29 June 2019 in Osaka. It February 18, 2019: formal sector workers. The scheme will soon be will be the first-ever G20 summit to be  The 19th edition of the prestigious Laureus extended to informal sector workers as well. hosted in Japan. World Sports Awards will be held NEPAL in Monaco on February 18, 2019.  Capital: Kathmandu Ohio Becomes First U.S. State To Accept  Considered as the ‘Oscars of sports’, the  Currency: Nepalese Rupee Bitcoin For Tax Payments: Laureus World Sports Awards celebrate global  President: Bidhya Devi Bhandari  Ohio is now the first U.S. state to accept tax sporting achievements across the calendar year. payments in the form of cryptocurrency. The  Former India cricket captains Kapil Dev, PM Modi To Leave For Buenos Aires To Take state will use BitPay, a cryptocurrency global Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar Part In 13th G-20 Summit 2018: payment system, to complete the process. are members of the Laureus Academy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will leave for  The launch of OhioCrypto.com, which will  Last year, tennis great Roger Federer won Argentinian capital Buenos Aires to take part in allow citizens to pay taxes with Bitcoin. the Laureus Sportsman of the Year award for a the 13th G-20 2018 summit. The theme of Businesses in the US state of Ohio can now pay record fifth time, while Serena Williams won the summit is – Building Consensus for a Fair their taxes using Bitcoin (BTC), marking the Sportswoman of the Year recognition for the and Sustainable Development. the first state within the nation to officially fourth time.  Prime Minister will also attend a trilateral accept cryptocurrencies to pay for such MONACO meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and transactions.  Capital: Monaco Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.  Currency: Euro The Prime Minister will be speaking on  India, China Amend Double Taxation several welfare schemes including Ayushman Avoidance Agreement To Prevent Evasion: Bharat, soil health card, MUDRA  India and China amended their bilateral Yojna among other issues in Putting People Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) First session. to prevent tax evasion through exchange of

LIST OF AGREEMENTS/MOU’S SIGNED BY INDIA WITH VARIOUS COUNTRIES:

Country Prime Minister Agreement Capital/Currency South Korea Lee Nak-yeon To establish a framework to facilitate and promote Seoul/ Won cooperation in sports Russia Vladimir Putin Signed a $950 million contract with for two upgraded Moscow/Ruble (President) Krivak III-class stealth frigates. Malawi Arthur Peter Mutharika Three MoUs on extradition, cooperation in atomic energy Lilongwe/ Malawian kwacha (President) and visa waiver for diplomats Morocco SaadeddineOthmani On Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Rabat/ Moroccan dirham Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa In the field of Mining, Visa waiver, Broadcasting and Harare/Dollar, Rand, Euro, Sterling, (President) Culture Rupee, Renminbi, Yen, Pula United Kingdom Theresa May Both of them have launched a British Pounds 10 million London/ Pound sterling (current value of Rs.93 crore) collaborative research programme. India’s Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and UK’s Cancer Research UK (CRUK) will invest equally at UK Pounds 5 million each. Bahrain Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa On cooperation in space technology Manama/ Bahraini dinar Vietnam NguyễnPhúTrọng (President) To strengthen bilateral strategic cooperation in defence Hanoi/ Vietnamese dong and oil and gas sectors Australia Scott Morrison To boost investments and enhance cooperation in key Canberra/ Dollar sectors like disability, agricultural research and education Japan Shinzō Abe Signed $75 billion currency swap agreement. Tokyo/JapaneseYen Linking of Japan’s Asia Health and Well-being Initiative (AHWIN) with India’s healthcare initiatives such as Ayushman Bharat.

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INTERNATIONAL SUMMITS SUMMIT Key Points/ Area/ Themes Held in 33rd edition of the ASEAN The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a regional Singapore Summit intergovernmental organization comprising ten Southeast Asian countries. World Tolerance Summit Theme: ‘Prospering from Pluralism: Embracing Diversity through Innovation and Dubai, UAE Collaboration’ 2-Day Annual Meeting of WEF To convene the world’s best network of experts to identify new ideas and models Dubai, UAE Global Future Councils that can be applied to critical global challenges. Asia-Pacific Economic Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation is an inter-governmental forum for 21 Pacific Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea Cooperation (APEC) meetings Rim member economies that promotes free trade throughout the Asia-Pacific 2018 region. 13th East Asia Summit It was Prime Minister Modi's 5th East Asia Summit. Singapore India has been participating in the East Asia Summit since its very inception in 2005. The EAS was formed to further the objectives of regional peace, security and prosperity. 13th India-Japan Annual Establishing the “Platform for Japan-India Business Cooperation in Asia-Africa Tokyo, Japan Bilateral Summit Region” for exchanges between Japanese and Indian businesses. India-UAE Partnership Summit The focus sectors for IUPS 2018 were: investments in Education and SME’s, Dubai, UAE (IUPS) 2018 Skill Development and Placements. Focus Indian States were: Delhi, Assam, Punjab and West Bengal. Focus UAE Emirate: Sharjah 18th Indian Ocean Rim Theme: “IORA: Uniting the Peoples of Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Middle East Durban, South Africa Association Council of Ministers through enhanced cooperation for Peace, Stability And Sustainable Development”. Meeting China’s 1st International To reduce the over USD 51 billion trade deficit with the neighbouring nation. Shanghai, China Import Expo (CIIE) UK will be the “Guest of Honour” Fifth World Internet Conference To bring out exchanges, mutual learning, cooperation and sharing in the digital Wuzhen, China. (WIC) fields and stressed on peace and development of the global cyberspace. Trade Ministers of Regional Indian delegation will be headed by: Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Singapore Comprehensive Economic Shri. Suresh Prabhu. Partnership (RCEP) Singapore is the current chair of the ASEAN countries and so it is hosting the summit. 9th Annual Defence and To enhance military exchanges and interactions. Beijing, China. Security Dialogue The next security Dialogue will be held in India in 2019. 4th edition of Intex South Asia It was organized by Worldex India Exhibition and Promotion Pvt. Ltd in partnership Colombo, Sri Lanka. with Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council (TEXPROCIL), Retailers Association of India, Clothing Manufacturers Association of India, Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) etc. 1stSustainable Blue Economy Theme: ‘The Blue Economy and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.’. Nairobi, Kenya Conference

BANKING AND BUSINESS RBI Initiates Process To Set Up Digital infrastructure creation “in consultation with RBI: Public Credit Registry: the Government”. RBI allows banks to provide partial credit  The Reserve Bank has initiated steps to set  The minimum average maturity enhancement to NBFCs: up a wide-based digital Public Credit Registry requirement for ECBs (external commercial  The Reserve Bank of India has permitted (PCR) to capture details of all borrowers, borrowings) in the infrastructure space raised by banks to grant partial credit enhancement including wilful defaulters and also the pending eligible borrowers has been reduced to three (PCE) to bonds issued by non-banking financial legal suits in order to check financial years from earlier five years. companies (NBFCs) and housing finance delinquencies.  Additionally, the average maturity requirement companies, listed with the Reserve Bank of India  The PCR will also include data from entities like for mandatory hedging has been reduced to five (RBI) and the National Housing Bank market regulator SEBI, the corporate affairs years from earlier ten years. respectively. ministry, Goods and Service Tax Network  PCE is expected to assist NBFCs, and housing (GSTN) and the Insolvency and Bankruptcy RBI injected Rs 12, 000 crore liquidity via finance companies raise money from provident Board of India (IBBI) to enable the banks and OMO on November 15: or pension funds investing in highly-rated financial institutions to get 360 degree.  The Reserve Bank has announced that it will instruments and insurance.  The Reserve Bank has invited Expression Of inject Rs 12, 000 crore into the system  The central bank also limited the exposure Interest (EOI) for developing the registry from through purchase of government securities of a bank through PCEs to bonds assigned companies with a turnover of over Rs 100 on November 15. by each NBFC or housing finance company crore in the last three years.  Based on an assessment of prevailing liquidity to one per cent of bank's capital funds within the conditions and also of the durable liquidity needs current borrower exposure limit. RBI Relaxes ECB Norms for Infrastructure going forward, the RBI has decided to conduct Companies: purchase of the following government securities  The Reserve Bank has liberalised the norms under Open Market Operations for an governing foreign borrowings for aggregate amount of Rs 120 billion. ______

 The OMO operation will help ease tight liquidity  This acquisition is the first investment from Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning situation triggered by series of default by group NIIF’s strategic fund. IDFs are investment (ML). companies of IL&FS. The eligible participants vehicles for channelling investment into India's  The partnership will help drive digital should submit their offers in electronic format on infrastructure sector. transformation in a wide array of enterprises the Reserve Bank of India Core Banking  IDFC-IFL, with a loan book of Rs 4500 crore, and industries, addressing vertical markets, Solution (E-Kuber) system. lends to operating infrastructure projects, including transportation, energy and helping original project financiers to recycle their manufacturing, media and entertainment, and RBI to set up expert panel to look into capital following the commencement of education. issues on capital surplus: operations.  This collaboration will couple technology,  The RBI board has decided to set up a high- products and services from Nokia with platform powered committee to examine issues related European Investment Bank and SBI to step solutions, engineering and operations to surplus capital of Rs 9.69 lakh crore with up financing of wind energy projects across management expertise from Infosys. the central bank and advised it to consider a India: scheme for restructuring stressed assets in the  The European Investment Bank (EIB) will Myntra merges with Jabong: MSME sector. increase its support for India's wind energy  Myntra and Jabong, the fashion retail portals  It was also decided that the Board for Financial projects by expanding the existing lending of the country’s top ecommerce firm Flipkart, Supervision (BFS) of the RBI would examine the programmes with SBI. will soon integrate all their functions, and issues concerning the banks that are under the  EIB and SBI have agreed to cooperate on Myntra chief executive Ananth Narayanan will Prompt Corrective Action framework. financing renewable energy and providing continue to lead the team. new support for wind energy projects across  Myntra and Jabong have been integrating key RBI Eases Hedging Norms for External India by expanding the ongoing financing business functions and streamlining processes Commercial Borrowings By Reducing initiative in the field of onshore wind projects. since the former acquired Jabong in 2016, Provision To 70% From Current 100%:  EIB has also approved a new line of credit to helping in revenue growth and improvement in  The Reserve Bank Relaxed Norms Yes Bank to boost private investment in clean the customer experience. for External Commercial Borrowings (ECBs) energy projects. EIB will provide USD 100  The development comes days after US retailer by reducing the mandatory hedging provision million line of credit to the private sector Walmart, which acquired 77% stake in Flipkart to 70% from the current 100%. lender in the coming months. this year, put Myntra and Jabongunder direct  The relaxed norms will apply to the ECBs control of Flipkart CEO Kalyan with a maturity period between 3 and 5 years. TCS buys London-based W12 Studios: Krishnamurthy.  The RBI also clarified that the ECBs raised  Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has prior to this circular will be required to acquired design company W12 Studios for an Karnataka bank launches new SB scheme mandatorily roll over their existing hedge only to undisclosed sum. “KBL SB – TASC”: the extent of 70% of outstanding ECB exposure.  W12 was started in 2012 and is one of the  Karnataka Bank has launched CASA world’s iconic design companies. It has multi- campaign of FY 2018-19 & introduced a RBI launches survey on Indian startup disciplinary capabilities and has won a number of new SB scheme “KBL SB – TASC” a sector: awards. specialized product for  The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has  TCS has planned to expand its interactive Trusts/Associates/Societies/Clubs. introduced a survey on India’s startup sector, in business into a significant revenue stream in the  Under this nationwide campaign starting from order to create a profile of thestartups and next few years. 15th Nov 2018 to 28th Feb 2019, Bank provide dimensions pertaining to their intends to open more than 4.18 lakhs Current & profitability and workforce. RIL & HSBC executes first of its kind Savings accounts by active involvement of its blockchain trade finance transaction: 8000 + work force in all the 823 branches  The survey would also aim at talking about  HSBC India and ING Bank Brussels have across India. the problems being faced by the sector in the successfully executed a blockchain- enabled  Bank offers host of Savings / Current Account country.In a recent NASSCOM-Zinnov report Letter of Credit (LC) transaction between Schemes loaded with multiple add-on facilities / titled “Indian Start-up Ecosystem 2018: Reliance Industries (RIL) and Tricon services to suit the needs of varied segments. Approaching Escape Velocity, ”, India has Energy.  Bank also provides Personal Accident emerged as the third largest startup hub in the  This is an industry-first, as the blockchain Insurance cover of uptoRs.10.00 lakh under world. platform integrates with Bolero’s electronic “KBL Suraksha” to its Savings Bank customers  According to the report, Bangalore, Delhi- Bill of Lading (eBL) platform to issue and with a nominal annual premium of Rs.125.00 + NCR and Mumbai are the top cities which have manage an eBL. GST only. seen a tremendous growth in startups, with  The Letter of Credit (LC) was issued by ING Bangalore becoming one of the fastest growing Bank for Tricon Energy USA (importer) with IndusInd Bank Launches India’s 1st technology startup hubs. HSBC India as the advising and negotiating bank Interactive Credit Card With Buttons: STATIC for RIL, India (exporter).  IndusInd Bank has announced the launch of  Governor: Urjit Patel  This allowed a digital transfer of the title of IndusInd Bank Nexxt Credit Card, which  Headquarters: Mumbai goods from the seller to the buyer in the empowers customers with a choice of payment underlying trade and enabled the underlying options such as EMI, Reward Points or Credit at OTHER IMPORTANT BANKING & BUSINESS trade to be fully digitised. the push of a button, on the card, at the point of NEWS sale (POS). The bank claims it to be the NIIF Acquired IDFC Infrastructure Finance: Nokia inks pact with Infosys to drive nation’s first interactive credit card with  The National Investment and enterprise digital transformation: buttons. Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) has acquired  Finnish mobile telecom network maker Nokia  The card has been created in partnership with IDFC Infrastructure Finance (IDFC-IFL), an and Indian IT services firm Infosys have formed Dynamics Inc, which is headquartered in infrastructure debt fund. an alliance to develop solutions powered by Pittsburgh USA, and designs and manufactures new-age technologies like Artificial intelligent, battery powered payment cards. ______

RANKING / INDEXES TAKEN BY position, while Pune follows in the seventh place. Paytm partners with LIC for insurance VARIOUS ORGANISATION The report was titled ‘Mobility and Congestion premium payments: in Urban India’. India ranks 77 in World Bank’s Ease of  Paytm (One97 Communications Limited)  In another index of traffic speed, Kolkata has Doing Business 2019: and arch rival Mobikwik, have simultaneously been found to be the slowest city, while Pune  India leapfrogged to the 77th rank in the announced entry into online insurance manages to hold down its position to the 20th World Bank's latest Ease of Doing Business payments and purchase of digital insurance place. rankings, jumping 23 notches from last year. on their platforms, respectively.  The researchers studied 154 Indian cities and  The report also recognises India as one of the  Paytm has partnered with the Life Insurance measured trips based on the web-mapping top 10 improvers in this year’s assessment, for Corporation of India (LIC) to offer online service, Google Maps. the second successive time. India is the only insurance premium payments on its platform. large country this year to have achieved such a  Softbank-backed Paytm will provide premium Iceland is the safest country to visit: World significant shift. payment solutions from over 30 insurance Risk Report  In the 'Trading Among Borders' indicator, companies including LIC, ICICI Prudential Life,  According to a new travel safety index, India’s rank improved by 66 positions, moving Reliance Life and Max Life Insurance among Iceland topped the charts with the lowest risk from 146 in 2017 to 80 in 2018. others. of a natural disaster as well as crime rates. UAE  In the World Bank Group’s annual ease of  Mobikwik, which is targeting a 4X growth in which is home to one of the most popular doing business rankings, the top 10 economies the current financial year, will also be providing holiday destinations, Dubai, was ranked second. are New Zealand, Singapore and Denmark, purchase of insurance policies on its mobile  Singapore which stood in third place was also which retain their first, second and third spots, application and website. ranked highly across all categories. The risk of respectively, for a second consecutive year. Zika virus was, however, marked moderate in

SEBI simplifies regulations for reclassifying the country. The fourth safest country was WHO World Malaria Report 2018 promoter as public investor: Spain, followed by Australia, Canada, Japan,  The World malaria report, published  The Securities and Exchange Board of Morocco, Jordan and Barbados. annually, provides a comprehensive update on India (SEBI) has come out with new rules for  On the other hand, South Africa came last global and regional malaria data and trends. re-classification of a promoter as a public owing to a high risk of crime, health and  Data from 2015–2017 highlight that no investor, wherein an outgoing promoter will terrorism. significant progress in reducing global malaria have to relinquish special rights as well as cases was made in this period. There were an control over the affairs of the listed firm and not India To Top U.S. As 2nd-Largest Carbon estimated 219 million cases and 435 000 be allowed to hold over 10% stake. Spewer From Power: IEA Report related deaths in 2017.  The promoter would not be allowed to have  India will overtake the U.S. to become the  The World malaria report 2018 draws on data any representation on the board of directors or world’s second-biggest emitter of carbon from 91 countries and areas with ongoing act as a key managerial person in the listed dioxide from the power sector before 2030 as malaria transmission. The information is entity. the nation’s electricity demand skyrockets. supplemented by data from national household  Further, the promoter seeking re-classification  Carbon dioxide emissions from India’s power surveys and databases held by other must not be a wilful defaulter or a fugitive sector are expected to rise nearly 80 percent organizations. economic offender, the SEBI said in a by 2040 as power use almost triples, driven in

notification dated November 16. These norms part by air conditioning. India ranks 66 in Global Passport Index, will prevent the outgoing promoters from Singapore to India ranked 12 globally in continuing to exercise their control on the India second-fastest growing innovator web-borne threats: Kaspersky Lab company directly or indirectly. among major Asian countries:  Globally, India ranks 12th when it comes to SEBI  According to India Innovation Report, India the dangers associated with surfing the  Headquarters: Mumbai is now the second-fastest growing innovator web, according to a new report from Russia-  Agency executive: Ajay Tyagi after China among major Asian countries. based global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab.  India is fourth among the major Asian About a third of Internet users in the country UN World Food Programme, Alibaba Group countries in terms of overall patent publication were attacked by web-borne threats between form strategic partnership to eliminate volume, and second in terms of growth rate. the July-September period of this year. hunger  The analysis is based on patent data from  The Indian passport was ranked 66th in the  The UN World Food Programmeand Derwent Innovation, a patent research world in the latest ranking of the Global Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group application that provides access to patent Passport Index. The ranking was based on the have formed a strategic partnership to support intelligence and scientific literature. passports’ visa-free score. efforts eliminate hunger globally by 2030.  As per the annual passport index, Singapore  WFP Executive Director David Beasley and India GDP to slow down marginally, but and Germany have the world’s “most powerful” Alibaba Partner and Chairmanof the Alibaba remain strong at 7.5% in 2019 & 2020: passport with access to 165 countries. Foundation Sun Lijun signed an agreement at OECD  Falling in the last place of the list is Alibaba's headquartersin Hangzhou, China.  India ’s economic growth will slow down Afghanistan, ranked 91 with a score of 22,  The map will monitor global hunger and somewhat but remain robust, at close to 7.50% followed by Pakistan and Iraq at 90 with a score operations to end the scourge by 2030 - one in 2019 and 2020, the Organisation for of 26, Syria at 88. of the UN's key Sustainable Development goals - Economic Cooperation and Development

and aims to boost the efficiency of interventions (OECD). Bangalore Ranked India’s Most Congested and shorten emergency response times.  India’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew City: NBER 6.7% in 2017-18.  According to the US-based organisation,  OECD projects GDP at market prices to grow National bureau of economic research 7.3% in 2019 and 7.4% in 2020 from 7.5% (NBER), Bangalore tops the index for most in 2018. congested city, and Mumbai in the second OECD ______

 Headquarters: Paris, France 492.68 crore by public sector banks, their year-  AU Small Finance Bank was the top  Secretary-General: José Ángel Gurría on-year growth was faster. institution among SFBs with a sanction amount  In the financial year 2017-18, overall loans of Rs.4, 614.4 crore to 117, 000 borrowers. NBFC Mudra loans grew faster than banks worth Rs 2.54 lakh crore were classified as  Among state-run banks, State Bank of India in FY18: report by MUDRA Mudra loans. (SBI) with Rs.28, 791 crore sanctions to 1.41  According to the 2017-18 annual report of  PMMY is a scheme launched in April 2015 for million accounts came first. It was followed by Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY), providing loans up to Rs.10 lakh to non- Canara Bank and Punjab National Bank (PNB) though NBFCs sanctioned only over Rs.27, 000 corporate, non-farm small/micro with Rs.7, 665 crore and Rs.6, 838 crore, crore of Mudra loans in FY18 against Rs.92, enterprises. respectively.

APPOINTMENTS

Designation Current Previous 4 New Justice of Supreme Court Justices Hemant Gupta, R Subhash Reddy, M R - Shah and Ajay Rastogi. Managing Director and CEO of UCO Bank Atul Kumar Goel R K Takkar Elected President of AIBA (International Boxing Association) GafurRakhimov CK Wu Chairman of Competition Commission of India (CCI) Ashok Kumar Gupta Sudhir Mital Chief Representative of Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Siddharth Tiwari Eli Remolona for Asia and the Pacific region Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers DV Sadananda Gowda (Additional Charge) Ananth Kumar Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs Narendra Singh Tomar (Additional Charge) Ananth Kumar Next High Commissioner of India to the Federal Republic of Nigeria Abhay Thakur (presently, High Commissioner of India to Mauritius) - Head of Apple’s India Division Ashish Chowdhary - Chief of Bank of Israel Amir Yaron KarnitFlug Head of Google's cloud Division Thomas Kurian - Chairman of the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) Jalaj Srivastava - Managing Director & CEO of State Bank of Mauritius Sidharth Rath - Head of Whatsapp’s India Division Abhijit Bose - Acting Executive Director of United Nations Environment Joyce Msuya Erik Solheim Programme (UNEP) First 'Youth Advocate' of the North-Eastern region by the UNICEF Nahid Afrin (Assam) - India’s Associate Director of PCI Security Standards Council (PCI Nitin Bhatnagar - SSC) Sikkim High Court chief justice Vijay Kumar Bist - Air Officer-in-Charge Administration of IAF Air Marshal Pradeep Padmakar Bapat - 21st General Officer Commander-in-Chief of Shimla-based Army Lieutenant General PC Thimmaya - Training Command (ARTRAC) facility Director General of Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) S. S. Deswal - 12th Chief of Integrated Defence Staff to Chairman, COSC. Lt Gen P S Rajeshwar - Director General (Wks&Cer) of Indian Air Force Air Marshal MSG Menon VSM - Chief Justice of Uttarakhand Justice Ramesh Ranganathan Justice KM Joseph CEO of RBL Bank’s SwadhaarFinserve Vikas Muttoo - Next Ambassador of India to Lao People’s Democratic Republic Dinkar Asthana - New President of India Electronics and Semiconductor Association Rajesh Ram Mishra - (IESA) Next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Congo Nina Tshering La (Presently, Ambassador of India - to the Democratic Republic of Congo) Next Ambassador of India to Japan Sanjay Kumar Verma - Next Ambassador of India to the Islamic Republic of Iran Gaddam Dharmendra - Member of the ITU Council for another 4-year term (2019-2022) India - New chairman of Citigroup John Dugan - New Board Director of Tesla Robyn Denholm Elon Musk First chairperson of Lokayukta in Meghalaya Justice (Retd) of Guwahati High Court, Pranoy - Kumar Musahary First Woman Secretary General of the Lok Sabha for one-year Snehlata Shrivastava - extension till November 30, 2019. 3 IRS officers as the members of CBDT P K Dash, Akhilesh Ranjan and Neena Kumar - Next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Madagascar. Abhay Kumar - 4 new members to the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Ram Bahadur Rai, S. Jaishankar, Arnab Goswami, - (NMML) Society. Vinay Sahasrabuddhe

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Non-Executive Director of Vodafone Group Sanjiv Ahuja - New Chief Justice of Tripura HC Sanjay Karol - Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court Sanjay Kumar Seth - Interim CFO of Infosys VP Jayesh Sanghrajka - New Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay Dominic Raab President of Association of Surgeons of India (ASI) Eminent breast cancer surgeon Raghu Ram - New Secretary in Department of Revenue Ajay Bhushan Pandey Hasmukh Adhia 2ndLokayukta of West Bengal Retired Calcutta High Court judge Asim Kumar Roy Samaresh Banerjee Chief of the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Sanjay Kumar Mishra Karnal Singh New Coal Secretary of India Sumanta Chaudhuri Inder Jit Singh Re-elected Prime Minister of Fiji Voreqe Bainimarama - Next President of Interpol South Korea’s Kim Jong-yang Meng Hongwei CEO of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Rahul Johri - Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of AirAsia India Sanjay Kumar - New Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora OP Rawat Head of Convenor of Task Force by CBDT Akhilesh Ranjan -

RESIGNATION:  Independent director of Yes Bank -R.  UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador - Millie Bobby  Director of debt-laden IL&FS Group - GN Chandrashekhar Brown (Actor of Netflix sci-fi drama ‘Stranger Bajpai Things’)  Flipkart Group Chief Executive Officer - Binny RETIREMENT  Uber Eats - Actress Alia Bhatt Bansal  Former Indian pacer - Munaf Patel  10th AIBA Women’s World Championship -  Non-Executive (Independent) Chairman of Yes  Former England and Chelsea midfielder - Joe Boxer MC Mary Kom Bank - Ashok Chawla Cole  Mahendra Singh Foundation (MSF) -  Chairman of the Film and Television  Australia’s All-rounder -John Hastings Aishwarya Sharma Institute of India (FTII) - Actor Anupam  Former Chelsea striker - Didier Drogba  Maharashtra’s anti-obesity campaign - Dr Kher Jagannath Dixit  United States Attorney General - Jeff BRAND AMBASSADORS:  Adidas - Indian men’s hockey teamcaptain Manpreet Singh Sessions  UNICEF India’s Youth Ambassador - Sprinter  Apollo Tyres - Sachin Tendulkar  CEO and MD of Ashok Leyland - Vinod Dasari Hima Das  External Expert of Search & Selection Committee of Yes Bank - OP Bhatt

AWARDS & HONOURS

AWARDS WINNERS Honoured as a 'Distinguished Fellow' by India Global Summit Anupam Kher World’s first Indian woman amputee to scale Everest gets Arunima Sinha (Indian mountaineer) honourary doctorate in UK in Glasgow, Scotland Honoured with the Chevalier de la Lgiond'Honneur (France's Jawahar Lal Sarin highest civilian honour) MuninBarkotoki Literary Award 2018 Dr Debabhuson Borah (for his book on literary criticism titled 'Nirbochon') "Lifetime Achievement Award" at the 6th Indian Social Work Dr. Martha Farrell Congress in New Delhi. Raja Ram Mohan Roy Award 2018 by the Press Council of N Ram (for his outstanding contribution towards journalism) India First Indian to win European Tour Sir Henry Rookie of the Young golfer Shubhankar Sharma Year award 2018 Asia Environmental Enforcement Award 2018 for combating India’s Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) – Innovation Category trans-boundary environmental crime by United Nations SayajiRatna Award 2018 Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan (for contribution to social causes) Mexican Order of Aztec Eagle Award 2018 Professor S.P. Ganguly

Forbes India Leadership Awards 2018 Azim Premji (Lifetime Achievement) Other Important Awards: Best CEO – Private Sector - Rajeev Jain, MD, Bajaj Finance Best CEO – MNC: Sanjiv Mehta, HUL Best Company – Public Sector - Saurabh Kumar, MD, Energy Efficiency Services Limited Outstanding Startup Award - R Narayan, Founder and CEO, Power2SME 2018 Gleitsman Award by Harvard University Nobel Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai Excellence in FINEXT Award 2018 Sanjoy Gaddipati (CEO of InternationalCryptoXPte. Ltd) ‘Swachhta’ award 2018 Patanjali Food and Herbal Park (P) Ltd. in Haridwar (First Prize) Ezhuthachan award 2018 Malayalam writer Mukundan ______

BBC’s list of 100 best foreign language films Film PatherPanchali(only film from India to feature in the list) directed by Satyajit Ray and released in 1955 – 15th in the list Topped by - Akira Kurosawa’s film Seven Samurai Only Asian Film screened at the 13th Rome Film Festivalin Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s “Mere Pyaare Prime Minister” Rome. IPI (International Press Institute) India Award for excellence Namrata Biji Ahuja of The Week magazine in journalism 2018 ‘Lifetime Achievement Award 2018’ by the Federation of Dr. Ramdas M Pai Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI). International Hockey Federation (FIH) Honorary Awards 2018 Order of Merit: Sue Catton, Alain Renaud, Yoshida Motohito, Peter Wefers- Bettink President’s Award:Dr Thomas Bach (International Olympic Committee (IOC) President) Diploma of Merit: Nii Quay Kumar, Brigadier Mussarat Ullah Khan, Choi-Cho Yoon Pablo Negre Trophy: KoninklijkeNederlandse Hockey Bond Super Fair Play Trophy Rene G. Frank: China Women’s Hockey Team Etienne Glichitch Award: Herman Kruis Sultan Azlan Shah Award: ChaiyapakSiriwat GuustLathouwers Memorial Trophy: Harchan Singh Dillon Theo Ykema Award: Federation Deportiva Peruana de Hockey Won the fourth annual “Breakthrough Junior Challenge” for SamayGodika 2018, Guinness Book of Records for lighting 3, 01, 152 earthen AyodhyaDeepotsav 2018 was organised by Uttar Pradesh lamps Maharashtra government’s Natvarya Prabhakar Panshikar Marathi actor Jayant Sawarkar Lifetime Achievement award 2018 ‘Global Education Award’ in Dubaiby Malabar Gold & Mathematician and Super 30 founder Anand Kumar Diamonds’ Won Union government award for “Good Practices” under the Assam Police Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems (CCTNS), an e-governance project. Won the 2018 London Press Freedom Award for Courage Swati Chaturvedi Withdrawn ‘Ambassador of Conscience’ Award, from Amnesty International (supporting human rights abuses by not taking efforts to stop Myanmar Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi violence against the Rohingya Muslim minority) 7 seven recipients of Presidential Medal of Freedom by the Roger Staubach – football player White House, United States Elvis Presley – Rock and Roll singer Antonin Scalia – one of the greatest Supreme Court justices in American history George Herman “Babe” Ruth – baseball player Orrin Hatch – one of the longest-serving Senators in American history Miriam Adelson – doctor Alan C Page – jurist, athlete, and philanthropist Six eminent professors were selected for the Infosys Prize Humanities - Kavita Singh 2018 across different categories of science and research. Life Sciences - Roop Mallik Mathematical Sciences - Nalini Anantharaman Physical Sciences - SK Satheesh Social Sciences - Sendhil Mullainathan Engineering and Computer Science - Navakanta Bhat La Liga league’s best player of the 2017-18 campaign, by Barcelona football player Lionel Messi Marca Global Education Leaders Award 2018 at the 2nd edition of Dr. Saroj Suman Gulati India-UAE Partnership Summit (IUPS), held at The Atlantis, Dubai. “Sumitra Charat Ram Award for Lifetime Achievement” Sarod Master Ustad Amjad Ali Khan UASG (Universal Acceptance Steering Group) Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje (for providing Rajmail email service for conferred “Universal Acceptance Thought Leader citizens of Rajasthan in local script) award” Fortune Business Person of the Year 2018 list Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen (12th) ; Topped by - Tricia Griffith Won 2018 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) Development Won the French Legion of Honor 100-year-old Retired Col. William Pollard International James Dyson award 2018 Nicolas Orellana of Chile and Yaseen Noorani from Kenya for their innovative design ‘Urban wind turbine’ called O-Wind Turbine. Won silver in the International Green Apple Award for Manipal Academy of Higher Education environmental best practice 2018 12th National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) -Scopus Innovation in Engineering and Physical Sciences - Dr. Ajay S. Karakoti Young Scientist Awards 2018 Women in Science - Dr.Zhumur Ghosh Agriculture, Plant Sciences and Rural ______

Development - Dr. Jitender Giri Biomedical Research and Healthcare - Dr.MaddikaSubba Reddy Environmentally Sound Sustainable Development - Dr. Vimal Chandra Kuncha Kala Tapasvi Award 2018 Senior Artist A. N. Patil (Lifetime Achievement) Won the CII-Exim Bank Business Excellence Award 2018 Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) Set new Guinness World Record with plankathon for 60 Actor Shilpa Shetty Kundra Seconds Won the First UN Global Geospatial Industry Ambassador Sanjay Kumar Awardat the United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress held at Deqing city in China.

Winners of ATP World Tour Awards 2018  The biography of AR Rahman, Notes of a Manu Bhaker, Saurabh Chaudhary set new  Newcomer of the Year - Alex de Minaur Dream: The Authorized Biography of AR Rahman world record to win mixed event gold at  Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award - Tommy was launched. Asian Airgun Championships: Robredo  Written by author Krishna Trilok, the  Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary set  Most Improved Player of the Year - Stefanos biography in association with Landmark and the junior world record by winning the 10m air Tsitsipas Penguin Random House was launched. pistol mixed team gold medal in the 11th Asian  ATP World Tour No. 1 Doubles Team - Oliver  He said the book has been a journey for him Airgun Championships. Marach- Mate Pavic (1st time) and took him to those corners of his life which  India's junior shooting squad thus ended the  ATP World Tour 250 Tournament of the Year - have remained candid for a long time. championship with a tally of 11 medals, Intrum Stockholm Open (2nd time) including four gold.  ATP World Tour 500 Tournament of the Year - “Making Of New India”: The Book Released  Youth Olympic Games champions Manu and Fever-Tree Championships (Queen’s club) By Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Saurabh finished with a score of 485.4 in the (2nd Time)  Shri Jaitley formally released The book, final, well ahead of the Chinese who managed  ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Tournament of ‘Making of New India at a function held at 477.9. the Year - BNP Paribas Open (Indian Rashtrapati Bhavan in New delhi.  A second Chinese team won bronze while Wells Masters) (5th time)  The book, ‘Making of New India's second pair in the finals, Abhidnya Patil  ATP Coach of the Year - Marian Vajda India: Transformation under Modi Government’, and Anmol Jain, finished fourth.  Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award - Rafael contains 51 essays on themes ranging Nadal (2nd time) from economy to diplomacy, education to Bajrang Punia Becomes Number 1 In World  Comeback Player of the Year & also Player of public health. in 65kg: the year - Novak Djokovic  President Ram Nath Kovind received the  Star Indian wrestler Bajrang Punia has  Fans’ Favourite (Singles) - Roger Federer first copy of the book from Jaitley at a function touched a new high in his career by achieving (16th time) in RashtrapatiBhawan.According to the the number one rank in the world in the  Fans’ Favourite (Doubles) - Mike Bryan & introduction to the book, it is an attempt 65kg category. Jack Sock to “present a perspective of the way the  The 24-year-old Bajrang, who has won five  Ron Bookman Media Excellence Award - Sue government, more importantly, the Prime medals this season, including CWG and Asian Barker Minister himself, functions”. Games gold and a silver at the World Championship, was placed atop the ranking UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural SPORTS table with 96 points in the UWW list. Heritage announced for the year 2018:  Cuban Alejandro Enrique VladesTobier is at

 New Design in Heritage Contexts - Kaomai second place and Russia's AkhmedChakaev (62) Pankaj Advani Wins Asian Snooker Tour Estate 1955 (Chiang Mai, Thailand) ; The is in third place Title: Harts Mill (Port Adelaide, Australia). Lewis Hamilton Won Brazilian Grand Prix:  Pankaj Advani has become the first Indian to  Award of Excellence - Renewal of the early  Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) won the win the Asian Snooker Tour title. Pankaj 20th-century Shijo-choOfune-hoko Brazilian Grand Prix after Red Bull’s Max Advani achieved this feat by defeating Chinese FloatMachiya (Japan). Verstappen lost the lead in a collision with player Joe Seati by 6-1 in the second leg of the  Award of Distinction - The LAMO Center backmarker Esteban Ocon (Force India). Asian Snooker Tour held in China. (Ladakh, India).  The Red Bull player Max Verstappen came  Pankaj Advani is a Padma Bhushan awardee  Honourable Mention - Hengdaohezi Town second, and Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari secured and he has won the Asian Billiards (Heilongjiang, China) ; Rajabai Clock the third-place. Championship title in March 2018. Tower&University of Mumbai Library Paris Masters tennis: Khachanov beats Building (Mumbai, India) ; Viswanathan Anand wins Chess India Blitz Djokovic to lift title RuttonseeMuljeeJetha Fountain (Mumbai, Tournament:  Karen Khachanov defeated Novak India).  Viswanathan Anandwon the inaugural Djokovic 7-5, 6-4 to win the Paris Masters  Award of Merit - 5 Martin Place (Sydney, Chess India Blitz Tournament by beating title. Australia) ; 5 Martin Place (Fujian, China) ; overnight leader Hikaru Nakamura in the play-  Djokovic will return to No. 1 in the rankings for Commercial Bank of Honjo Warehouse off in Kolkata. the first time in two years but he will be (Saitama, Japan).  Five-time world champion Anand was on a roll disappointed at missing out on a 73rd career as he secured six wins and three draws in the title. nine rounds to draw level with Nakamura to BOOKS & AUTHORS  Karen AbgarovichKhachanov is a Russian force a play-off. Anand was placed fourth after “Notes of a Dream: The Authorized tennis player of Armenian background. He has the first leg. Biography of A.R. Rahman” By Krishna won four ATP singles titles.

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Pankaj Advani wins third straight IBSF World T20 renamed as T20 World Cup: Winners of Indian Team: billiards crown:  The International Cricket Council (ICC) has Name Event Medal  India's ace cueist Pankaj Advani has won announced that it has renamed the ICC World Mary Kom Women’s Light Gold his third straight IBSF billiards crown in the 150- T20 as the ICC T20 World Cup. This means Fly (45-48 kg) up format, taking his overall tally of world titles next editions of the events in 2020 in Australia Category to 20. Advani overcame Nay ThwayOo of will be known as the ICC Women’s T20 World Sonia’s Chahal Women’s Silver Myanmar in the final. Cup 2020 and the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Feather (57kg)  This win also marks a hat-trick of wins for 2020. Category Advani in the shorter format.  The renaming decision is aligned to the Global Simranjit Kaur Women’s Light Bronze Cricket Strategy which will be launched in early Welter (64kg) Alexander Zverev shocks Novak Djokovic to 2019. Category win ATP Finals: Indian Cricketer Pravin Tambe: First Player LovlinaBorgohain Women’s Bronze  Alexander Zverev claimed the biggest win of in the history of T10 league to pick up a Welterweight his career in London, beating Novak Djokovic hat-trick (64-69kg) in two sets to win the 2018 ATP World Tour  47-year-old Spinner Pravin Tambe has Category Finals. achieved the best figures in the T10 League  The set scores were 6-4, 6-3. Alexander history as he bagged a hat-trick en route Zverev is a German professional tennis player of 5/15 for the Sindhis against Kerala Knights Russian descent. He is currently the youngest held in United Arab Emirates (UAE). player in the ATP top 10. SainaNehwal wins silver at Syed Modi 2018 ICC Women’s World Twenty20 International 2018: Manav Thakkar won bronze in Belarus Highlights:  Olympic medallist SainaNehwal settled open:  The 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 for silver, while Sameer Verma beat China’s  India’s Manav Thakkar settled for a bronze was hosted in the West Indies from 9 to 24 Guangzu Lu to retain the Syed medal in the U-21 singles category in the ITTF November 2018, during the 2018–19 Modi International World Tour Super Challenge Belgosstrakh Belarus Open. international cricket season.It was the sixth 300 tournament in Lucknow.  Manav, who had an impressive run in the edition of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup, and  This was Verma’s third title in the ongoing year tournament, lost to Russia’s Denis Ivonin in the the second hosted by the West Indies (after the following his victories at the Swiss and semi-finals (2-3) to miss out on the gold. 2010 edition). Hyderabad Open. It helped him surpass Kenta  Champions of the year 2018: Australia Nishimoto at World No.8 and seal his spot in the Hong Kong Open men’s 2018 doubles title (4th title) ; Runner: England; Number of year-ending BWF World Tour Finals. won by Marcus and Kevin: country participants in the event: 10  Indonesian men's doubles players Marcus  Player of the series: Australian Alyssa Healy Hockey Men’s World Cup 2018 Kicks Off in Fernaldi Gideon/Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo  Most runs: Australian Alyssa Healy (225) Odisha: won the final match of 2018 Hong Kong Open  Most wickets: West Indies Cricket Board  The Hockey World Cup opening ceremony after trashe Mary Kom Wins Sixth World Deandra Dottin; Australian Ashleigh Gardner; will begin at the Kalinga stadium in Odisha. Championship Title, Creates History Australian Megan Schutt (10)  The top 16 teams in the world will fight it out  MC Mary Kom has created history by becoming  India at the 2018 ICC Women’s World in the 14th edition of the tournament, which the first woman to win six boxing world titles Twenty20 will run from November 28 to December 16. after clinching the 48 kg gold at the 2018 AIBA  Harmanpreet Kaur was the Captain of Indian  India will be hosting the FIH Hockey World Women’s World Boxing Championships in New team in ICC Women’s World T20. Cup for the third time in the history. Mumbai Delhi.  India’s Men Cricket Team captain Virat Kohli hosted the tournament in 1982 while New Delhi  The 35-year-old Indian legend defeated launched “Jersey knows no gender” did the honours in 2010. Ukrainian Hanna Okhota in the summit clash. campaign to support women’s team in the  The Hockey World Cup 2018 opening  Now, Mary overtakes Ireland’s Katie Taylor as event. ceremony conveyed a powerful message the first female boxer to win six gold medals and  India’s quest for a maiden ICC Women’s World of “oneness of humanity”. becomes only the second pugilist ever (male or T20 title ended with an eight-wicket defeat

female) to achieve the feat after Felix Savon. against England in the Semi-Finals of the ICC Croatia Clinch Victory Over France To Win Women’s World T20. Davis Cup: Bangladesh captain fastest to 200 wickets,  Croatia dethroned holders France to win 3, 000 runs Test double: Women’s Boxing World Championship the Davis Cup for the second time as Marin  Bangladesh captain Shakib al Hasan has Highlights: Cilic beat Lucas Pouille in straight sets to seal become the quickest to achieve the double of  International Boxing Association (AIBA) the victory. 3000 runs and 200 wickets in Test cricket when has organized Women’s World Boxing  Cilic won 7-6 (7/3), 6-3, 6-3 to secure the he took the wicket of West Indies opener Kieran Championship 2018 at Indira Gandhi Sport title for Croatia for the first time since 2005. Powell on the first session of the third day in the Complex in New Delhi. Two-Year Ban For Age Frauds: BCCI first Test at Chittagong. He got there in his 54th  China topped the medal tally with 5 medals Announcement Test. including 4 gold, 1 Silver and Chinese Taipei  He broke the record held by legendary England ranked at second position with 2 medals (2  The BCCI announced that from the 2018- all-rounder Ian Botham, who achieved it in his Gold). 19 season cricketer guilty of age fraud will be 55th Test.  India ended the Championship at 3rd position barred from all its recognised tournaments for with 4 medals including 1 gold, 1 silver and 2 two years. bronze.  Earlier in September, a Meghalaya-bound Delhi player Jaskirat Singh Sachdeva faced a ban for one year for producing a fake birth certificate to play in an Under-19 tournament. ______

IMPORTANT DAYS

EVENTS DATE THEME

‘Vigilance Awareness Week’ by Indian Army October 29th – November 3rd “Eradicate Corruption-Build a New India”

World Vegan Day November 1st -

‘Clean Air Week’ by Ministry of Environment, Forest and November 1st – 5th - Climate Change 63rd Foundation Day of Madhya Pradesh November 1st -

33rd Army Aviation Day November 1st -

International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against November 2nd - Journalists 3rd Ayurveda Day November 5th “Ayurveda for Public health”

World Tsunami Awareness Day November 5th -

International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the November 6th - Environment in War and Armed Conflict National Cancer Awareness Day November 7th -

International Day of Radiology November 8th “Cardiac Imaging”

World legal service day November 9th -

18th Foundation Day of Uttarakhand November 9th -

World Science Day for Peace and Development November 10th “Science, a Human Right”

National education day November 11th -

Veterans Day originally known as Armistice Day November 11th -

National Public Service Broadcasting Day November 12th -

Indian Army dedicates 2018 to welfare of Disabled November 12th - Soldiers World Antibiotic Awareness Week November 12th -18th -

World Pneumonia Day November 12th -

World Kindness Day November 13th -

World Diabetes Day November 14th “The Family and Diabetes”

Children’s Day November 14th -

‘Rosogolla Day’ by West Bengal November 14th -

World Philosophy Day November 15th -

International Day for Tolerance November 16th -

National Press Day November 16th -

International Students Day November 17th -

National Epilepsy day November 17th -

World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims November 18th “Roads have stories”

First Naturopathy Day by AYUSH November 18th -

World Toilet Day November 19th “When Nature Calls”

Qaumi Ekta Week November 19th - 25th -

Universal Children’s Day November 20th “Children are taking over and turning the world blue” “Africa Industrialization Day” November 20th “Promoting Regional Value Chains in Africa: A pathway for accelerating Africa’s structural transformation, industrialization and pharmaceutical production”

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World Fisheries Day November 21st -

46th World Hello Day November 21st -

23rd World Television Day November 21st -

World COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) November 21st ‘Never too early, never too late’ Day Communal Harmony Campaign Week & Flag Day by November 19th -25th - National Foundation for Communal Harmony (NFCH) & November 22nd 130th Maulana Azad Day November 22nd -

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against November 25th - Women 70th National Cadet Corps (NCC) Day November 25th -

69th Constitution Day or National Law Day November 26th -

National milk day November 26th -

14th Formation day of National Disaster Management November 27th “Early Warning for Disasters” Authority (NDMA) Indian Organ Donation Day November 27th -

OBITUARY

Name Field Country M.P. Awati Vice-Admiral & Maharashtra, India 1971 War Hero Ananth Kumar Union Fertilizer & Chemicals, and Parliamentary Maharashtra, India Affairs Minister ThirukodikavalNilakanta Srinivasan Economist Andhra Pradesh, India Stan Lee Comics legend USA Roshan Lal Sethi Veteran sports journalist Delhi, India TS Kanaka Asia’s 1st Woman Neurosurgeon Narayan Das Maharaj Padma Shri awardee and revered saint Rajasthan, India Fahmida Riaz Poet and Human Rights Activist Pakistan UstadImrat Khan Noted Classical Musician West Bengal, India Sandeep Michael Former Indian Hockey Player Karnataka, India William Goldman Oscar-winning screenwriter and best-selling USA author Bernardo Bertolucci Italian film-maker Oscar-Winning director Italy Mohammed Aziz Veteran Singer Maharashtra, India Stephen Hillenburg SpongeBob SquarePants creator USA

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ Q.4) How many member states are there in Q.8) The Reserve Bank has invited Expression of Q.1) Which of the following stadium has been International Telecommunications Union Council Interest (EOI) for developing the PC registry renamed as Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee (ITU) ? from companies with a turnover of over how International Cricket Stadium? a) 178 b) 193 much amount in the last three years? a) Chhatrasal Stadium c) 190 d) 188 a) Rs 200 crore b) Rs 400 crore b) IPCL Sports Complex Ground e) 148 c) Rs 300 crore d) Rs 100 crore c) Jadavpur Stadium Q.5) What is the currency of south Korea? e) Rs 500 crore d) Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium a) Yen b) Dinar Q.9) Which state government has signed with e) Ekana International Stadium c) Won d) Manat world bank for the loan agreement of $172.20 Q.2) When does the West Bengal government e) Peso million project to enhance agricultural has decided to observe ‘Rosogolla Day’? Q.6) Bernardo Bertolucci who passed away productivity, profitability, and climate resilience a) November 15 b) November 16 recently, won the Academy Award for Best of poor and marginalised farmers? c) November 12 d) November 10 Director and Best Adapted Screenplay Award for a) Andhra Pradesh b) Maharashtra e) November 14 which Film? c) Kerala d) Karnataka Q.3) Name the new offshore patrol vessel that a) The Conformists b) Little Buddha e) Odisha has been launched from a corporate shipyard c) The Sheltering Sky d) The Dreamers Q.10) Lilongwe is the capital of which of the near Chennai? e) The Last Emperor following country? a) ICGS Jakhau b) ICGS Varaha Q.7) When is the National Milk Day Observed? a) Benin b) Chad c) ICGS Dahanu d) ICGS MurudJanjira a) November 27 b) November 28 c) Eritrea d) Malawi e) ICGS Androth c) November 26 d) November 25 e) Paraguay e) November 29

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Q.11) Which state would get Central Tribal Q.22) India plans to extend Line of credits of a) INS Shivalik b) INS Satpura University under the Thirteenth Schedule to the more than 350 million US Dollars to which c) INS Vikramaditya d) INS Viraat Reorganisation Act, 2014? country for two power projects and a drinking e) INS Tarkash a) Assam b) Mizoram water project? Q.34) The joint military exercise ‘Dharma c) Kerala d) Andhra Pradesh a) Ethiopia b) Malawi Guardian’ is between which two countries? e) Tamil Nadu c) Mongolia d) Botswana a) India and Australia Q.12) Which two countries will hold the navy e) Zimbabwe b) India and Japan exercise named “SIMBEX”? Q.23) The ‘SMiLE Virtual Tour Guide’ was c) India and Singapore a) India and Singapore launched by which of the following state? d) India and Sri Lanka b) India and Malaysia a) Maharashtra b) Kerala e) India and Indonesia c) India and Japan c) Andhra Pradesh d) Madhya Pradesh Q.35) Who won the “2018 Syed Modi d) India and Bangladesh e) Gujarat International Men’s Singles Title”? e) India and Indonesia Q.24) Name the India’s first microprocessor a) FajarAlfian Q.13) The Deolali artillery centre of Indian Army developed by researchers at Indian Institute of b) Muhammad RianArdianto is located at which of the following place? Technology Madras (IIT-M) ? c) Sameer Verma a) Mathura b) Nashik a) Rakhi b) Rothi d) Feng Xueying c) Shimla d) Darjeeling c) Rathi d) Surya e) Zhao Jingh e) Patna e) Shakti Q.36) Who will be replacing O.P Rawat as the Q.14) The Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu will Q.25) Who heads the committee to promote Chief Election Commissioner from December 2, inaugurate Indian War Memorial in which of the Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) ? 2018? following country? a) Suren Chakravarthy a) Nasim Zaidi b) Sunil Arora a) Germany b) France b) Kumaravel Sundar c) Ak Jyoti d) M.S. Gill c) England d) Malawi c) NamritaMahindro e) V.C. Sampath e) India d) Promth Singh Q.37) Which US State has become the 1st state Q.15) The Indian government currently holds e) Mahavir Ranga to accept the BITCOIN for Tax Payments? how much percent in Dredging Corporation of Q.26) Who won the “2018 Syed Modi a) New York b) Ohio India Ltd(DCIL) ? International Women’s Singles Title”? c) Texas d) Florida a) 75.42 b) 72.41 a) SainaNehwal b) Han Yue e) Michigan c) 74.47 d) 76.45 c) P.V. Sindhu d) Sayaka Takahashi Q.38) Who has been named as the brand e) 73.44 e) Zhang Yiman ambassador of the 10th edition of the Women’s Q.16) The Paradip Port Trust is located at which Q.27) What is the abbreviation of “P” in PCE? World Championship? of the following state? a) Patent b) Partial a) Pinki Rani b) Vijender Singh a) Odisha b) Tamil Nadu c) Prime Rate d) Payee c) Mary Kom d) Shiva Thapa c) Kerala d) Maharashtra e) Phishee e) Hawa Singh e) Andhra Pradesh Q.28) According to Russia-based global Q.39) Name the Indian in the following who is Q.17) 4th Sunday of November, every year is cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab, what is the not inducted in the ICC Hall of Fame? observed as? rank of India in web-borne threats? a) Anil Kumble b) Bishan Singh Bedi a) National Egg Day a) 24 b) 6 c) Kapil Dev d) Sunil Gavaskar b) National Senior Persons Day c) 12 d) 42 e) Sachin Tendulkar c) National Evergreen Day e) 18 Q.40) What is the currency of China? d) National Theatre Day Q.29) Who won Paris Masters title 2018? a) Manat b) Dinar e) National NCC Day a) Rafael Nadal b) Karen Khachanov c) Renminbi d) Yen Q.18) Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary won c) Novak Djokovic d) Roger Federer e) Peso gold medal in the 11th Asian Airgun e) Marin Cilic Q.41) Gaborone is the capital of which of the Championships under which category? Q.30) When does the does the National following country? a) 10m air rifle b) 50m air pistol Ayurveda Day observed? a) Brunei b) Armenia c) 10m air pistol d) 50m air rifle a) November 8 b) November 7 c) Bostwana d) Zimbabwe e) None of these c) November 6 d) November 5 e) Malawi Q.19) What is the theme of world science day e) November 4 Q.42) What is the theme of India Mobile for peace and development? Q.31) Who led the Chinese delegation of fourth Congress 2018? a) Utilizing Science 2018 dialogue of the NITI Aayog – Development a) Digitailzed India b) Science and its Right Research Centre (DRC) of the State Council, b) Zonal Digitalisation c) Science, a Human Right People’s Republic of China? c) Knowing the Trending World d) High Tech Science a) Li Weng b) Hu Jintao d) Understanding the Digital Need e) None of these c) Li Wei d) Hu Nero e) New Digital Horizons Q.20) When does the world legal service day e) None of these Q.43) What is the currency of Malawi? observed? Q.32) India and which country has signed a Rs a) Kwacha b) Koruna a) November 12 b) November 9 1, 817 crore loan agreement for the construction c) Lev d) Manat c) November 8 d) November 10 of the Turga pumped storage hydel power e) Peso e) November 11 project at Purulia in West Bengal? Q.44) Name the Italian Prime Minister who Q.21) President Ram Nath Kovind has a) New Zealand b) U.S recently visited India to participate in the 24th inaugurated the first Gyan Kumbh in which of c) Portugal d) Japan edition of India-Italy Technology Summit 2018? the following state? e) China a) Giuseppe Conte a) Maharashtra b) Tamil Nadu Q.33) Which of the following has been converted b) Giancarlo Giorgetti c) Uttarakhand d) Kerala into India’s first-ever moored maritime museum- c) Matteo Salvini e) Rajasthan cum-marine adventure centre? d) Alfanso Bonafede ______

e) Giovanni Tria (DTAA) to prevent tax evasion through the e) Dinar Q.45) Which of the following country has exchange of information? Q.69) What is the theme of the National Festival launched World’s first Sovereign Blue Bond? a) India & Russia b) India & USA for Children of Child Care Institutions (CCIs) – a) Ghana b) Dominica c) India & Singapore d) India & China Hausla 2018” which was inaugurated recently in c) Chile d) Seychelles e) India & Malaysia New Delhi? e) Italy Q.57) What is the capital of Qatar? a) Child Property b) Child Humanely Q.46) The Blue Bond is related to which of the a) Riyadh b) Muscat c) Child Safety d) Child Expectancy following department? c) Abu Dhabi d) Doha e) Child Growth a) Agriculture b) Chemicals e) Manama Q.70) Ashok Chawla has resigned as the Non- c) Horticulture d) Fisheries Q.58) Which IT giant has acquired design Executive (Independent) Chairman from which e) None of these company W12 Studios for an undisclosed sum? of the following bank? Q.47) Which of the following public sector bank a) Apple b) Hewlett-Packard a) HDFC Bank b) Yes Bank plans to issue and encash electoral bonds? c) IBM d) Microsoft c) Axis Bank d) Bandhan Bank a) Bank of Baroda e) Tata Consultancy Services e) Canara Bank b) State Bank of India Q.59) Which country has topped the World Bank Q.71) The e-learning portal NIPUN was launched c) Indian Bank Group’s annual ease of doing business rankings? by which of the following state? d) Syndicate Bank a) Denmark b) New Zealand a) Delhi b) Chhattisgarh e) Canara Bank c) Singapore d) Germany c) Jharkhand d) Odisha Q.48) Who has been honoured with Gleitsman e) Malaysia e) Kerala Award 2018 by Harvard University? Q.60) Who unveiled the 70ft Tall Lord Buddha Q.72) Name the cyclone that crossed Tamil Nadu a) George Smith b) Gerard Mourou Statue in Lake GhoraKatora in Rajgir? and Puducherry coast recently between c) Nadia Murad d) Denis Mukwege a) Naveen Patanaik b) Aravind Kejriwal Nagapattinam and nearby Vedaranniyam? e) Malala Yousafzai c) Mamata Banerjee a) Ockhi b) Nilofar Q.49) Name the chairman of FTII who resigned d) EdapadiPalaniswamy e) Nitish Kumar c) Phyan d) Gaja recently? Q.61) Currently what is the strength of Supreme e) Gonu a) Adeel Akhthar b) Kumail Nanjiani Court Judges of 31? Q.73) Where did the India International Cherry c) AmrishPuri d) Anupam Kher a) 28 b) 29 Blossom Festival 2018 held? e) None of these c) 30 d) 26 a) Assam b) Mizoram Q.50) When does the National Unity Day e) 20 c) Rajasthan d) Meghalaya observed? Q.62) The headquarters of UCO Bank is located e) Nagaland a) October 29 b) October 22 at which of the following city? Q.74) The two-day summit to mark the World c) October 25 d) October 28 a) New Delhi b) Kolkata Tolerance Day was inaugurated in which of the e) October 31 c) Mangalore d) Mumbai following country? Q.51) The Union Cabinet has approved the e) Chennai a) New Delhi b) Dubai Agreement between India and which country on Q.63) Who has been re-appointed as the c) Muscat d) Riyadh Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters? managing director of Private sector HDFC Bank e) Cairo a) Malawi b) Morocco for another two years? Q.75) What is the constituency of Maneka c) Botswana d) Zimbabwe a) Aditya Puri b) Shikha Sharma Gandhi, Minister of Women and Child e) Maldives c) PolaliJayarama Bhat d) Rana Kapoor Development? Q.52) The Veer Surendra Sai Airport is located e) Girish Chandra Chaturvedi a) Rampur b) Pilibhit at which of the following state in India? Q.64) Name the first Indian to win the Asian c) Kairana d) Meerut a) Bihar b) Assam Snooker Tour title 2018? e) Ghaziabad c) Rajasthan d) Chhattisgarh a) Subhash Agarwal Q.76) Who has been recently conferred with e) Odisha b) Omprakesh Agrawal Raja Ram Mohan Roy award 2018? Q.53) The ‘SouraJalanidhi’ scheme launched in c) Pankaj Advani a) V.S. Rajesh b) Ranjit Kumar Odisha is for the welfare of which category of d) Vidya Pillai c) N Ram d) Rajesh Joshte people? e) Brijesh Damani e) Vinodhmehta a) Government employees Q.65) When does the World Vegan Day Q.77) All-rounder John Hastings, who has b) Self Help Groups observed? announced retirement from all forms of cricket c) Farmers a) November 2 b) October 31 belongs to which of the following country? d) Teachers c) November 1 d) October 30 a) South Africa b) Australia e) Young SportsPersons e) October 29 c) New Zealand d) England Q.54) The 23rd edition of World Corporate Q.66) Faizabad, a city in Uttar Pradesh has been e) None of these Games will be held in which of the following renamed as which of the following? Q.78) Who has won the IBSF billiards crown country? a) Maha Nagar b) Ayodhya 2018? a) Qatar b) U.S c) Patel Nagar d) Prayagraj a) Emily Duddy b) Pankaj Advani c) Sweden d) Italy e) None of these c) Jennifer Barretta d) GeetSethi e) Russia Q.67) The UN Security Council has unanimously e) Ashok Shandilya Q.55) The BeiDou global satellite navigation agreed to lift sanctions against Eritrea after how Q.79) When does the World Philosophy Day system belongs to which of the following many years? observed? country? a) 4 years b) 5 years a) November 16 b) November 20 a) Russia b) Japan c) 9 years d) 8 years c) November 19 d) November 18 c) China d) Israel e) 7 years e) November 15 e) U.S Q.68) What is the currency of Nigeria? Q.80) What is a global campaign that aims to Q.56) Which two countries have amended their a) Manat b) Naira reduce negative perceptions and attitudes bilateral Double Taxation AvoidanceAgreement c) Peso d) Lev ______

towards refugees and migrants on International Q.92) Ananth Kumar, who passed away recently a) England b) Russia Day for Tolerance? belongs to which of the following party? c) Sweden d) Germany a) Find Ways b) Together a) All India Trinamool Congress e) France c) Rights 2018 d) Freedom b) Communist Party of India Q.104) Who is the author of the book e) None of these c) Bharatiya Janata Party ‘Nirbochon’? Q.81) Where did the 33rd edition of the ASEAN d) Bahujan Samaj Party a) Debabhuson Borah b) Salman Rushdie Summit held? e) Indian National Congress c) Jhumpa Lahiri d) Vikram Seth a) China b) India Q.93) Who is the author of the book e) Aravind Adiga c) Singapore d) Indonesia “Reintegrating India with World Economy”? Q.105) Who won the Women’s Light Fly (45-48) e) Japan a) Kaushik Basu b) Abhijit Banerjee Kg Category – Gold Medal? Q.82) Where is the headquarters of Association c) Amit Mitra d) TN Srinivasan a) Simranjith Kaur b) Mary Kom of Southeast Asian Nations located? e) Amiya Kumar Bagchi c) Deebit Singh d) Sonia’s Chahal a) Bangkok b) Kathmandu Q.94) When does the Armistice Day observed in e) LovlinaBorgohain c) New Delhi d) Beijing U.S? Q.106) Where did the AIBA Women’s World e) Jakarta a) November 11 b) November 10 Boxing Championship 2018 happen? Q.83) Who is the Managing Director of the c) November 15 d) November 13 a) Kolkata b) Bengaluru International Monetary Fund? e) November 12 c) Gurgaon d) Lucknow a) Takehiko Nakao b) JinLiqun Q.95) What is the currency of Singapore? e) New Delhi c) Christine Lagarde d) Jens Stoltenberg a) Peso b) Dinar Q.107) Who won the Brazilian Grand Prix 2018? e) Li Yong c) Dollar d) Ruble a) Kimi Raikkonen b) Lewis Hamilton Q.84) Syed Modi International World Tour Super e) Ringgit c) Max Verstappen d) Esteban Ocon 300 happened in which of the following City? Q.96) The bilateral navy exercise ‘Samudra e) None of these a) Ahmedabad b) Lucknow Shakti’ is between India and which of the Q.108) Name the comics legend who created c) Chennai d) Bengaluru following country? many comic heroes like Spider-Man, Hulk, Thor, e) Kolkata a) Malaysia b) Indonesia Iron Man etc? Q.85) Which Indian mountaineer has been c) Mauritius d) Yemen a) Gene Ahern b) Scott Adams awarded an honorary doctorate by a prestigious e) Oman c) Jessica Abel d) Stan Lee UK university? Q.97) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has e) Charles Forrest a) Premlata Agarwal b) Arunima Sinha inaugurated an inland port in Varanasi on which Q.109) When does the World Kindness Day c) MalavathPurna d) Santosh Yadav of the following river? observed? e) Gurumayum Anita Devi a) Yamuna b) Brahmaputra a) November 13 b) November 10 Q.86) Who has been conferred with Chevalier de c) Narmada d) Indus c) November 11 d) November 12 la Lgiond’Honneur, France’s highest civilian e) Ganga e) November 14 honour? Q.98) Which of the following ministry has Q.110) Where is the headquarters of Amnesty a) Salah Tahar b) David Morrison launched INSPIRE 2018? International located? c) Jawahar Lal Sarin d) Stephen Brady a) Ministry of Commerce a) Rome b) England e) Wael Abouelmaaty b) Ministry of Law and Justice c) Spain d) France Q.87) Name the winner of the Award of c) Ministry of Shipping e) Switzerland Distinction by UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for d) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Q.111) Where did the 13th East Asia Summit Cultural Heritage Conservation programme? e) Ministry of Power held? a) LAMO Center Q.99) Which of the following ministry has a) Indonesia b) Singapore b) 5 Martin Place launched Global Cooling Prize? c) Malaysia d) India c) Aijing Zhuang a) Ministry of Earth Sciences e) Australia d) Commercial Bank of Honjo Warehouse b) Ministry of Environment Q.112) Who has launched YuvaSahakar- e) Hengdaohezi Town c) Ministry of Road Transport and Highways Cooperative Enterprise Support and Innovation Q.88) When does the National Cancer d) Ministry of Science and Technology Scheme? Awareness Day observed in India? e) Ministry of Culture a) National Sports Development Corporation a) November 9 b) November 10 Q.100) Recently, India and which country have b) Indian Cooperative Corporation c) November 11 d) November 7 signed an agreement on mutual legal assistance c) National Cooperative Development e) November 8 in criminal matters? Corporation Q.89) Which city tops the index for most a) Mauritius b) Australia d) Indian Cooperative Development Corporation congested city by NBER? c) Maldives d) Bangladesh e) National Development Corporation a) Kolkata b) Mumbai e) Morocco Q.113) India has signed with which of the c) Bengaluru d) Pune Q.101) Which organisation has withdrawn a following country for cancer research initiative e) New Delhi prestigious human rights award from Myanmar with a value of 10 million pounds? Q.90) November 27 is being observed as? Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi? a) United Kingdom b) Brazil a) Indian Cycling Day a) UNESCO b) ILO c) Sweden d) Russia b) Indian Constitution Day c) FAO d) UNIDO e) France c) Indian Motorcycle Day e) Amnesty International Q.114) India and Russia will hold joint military d) Indian Organ Donation Day Q.102) What is the capital of Palau? exercises in which of the following place? e) Indian Milk Day a) Chad b) Comoros a) Delhi b) Maharashtra Q.91) What is the rank of Indian wrestler c) Guinea d) Ngerulmud c) Tamil Nadu d) Gujarat Bajrang Punia in the world in the 65kg category? e) Lithuania e) Uttar Pradesh a) 1 b) 2 Q.103) Which of the following country unveiled Q.115) ISRO has launched which of the following c) 3 d) 4 bronze statue commemorating role of Indian communication satellite from Andhra Pradesh for e) 5 soldiers in World War I? ______

communication needs of people in remote areas c) Uttar Pradesh d) Tamil Nadu e) Pravin Tambe in the North East and Jammu and Kashmir? e) Bihar Q.140) Who became the fastest player to a) GSAT-30 b) GSAT-24 Q.128) Which country won the “2018 ICC achieve the double of 3000 runs and 200 wickets c) GSAT-29 d) GSAT-19 Women’s World Twenty 20 Cup”? in Test cricket? e) GSAT-14 a) England b) West Indies a) Kiren Pollard b) Joe Root Q.116) Who is the Padma Shri Awardee, who is c) New Zealand d) India c) Shakib Al Hasan famous for his role as Jinnah in Gandhi died e) Australia d) Ravichandra Ashwin e) Marcus Stoinis recently? Q.129) Who has been named as the First ever Q.141) Who has been appointed as the Governor a) John Briley b) John Gielgul India’s YOUTH Ambassador? of Bank of Israelas of October 2018? c) AlyquePadamsee d) Ben Kingsley a) PV Sindhu b) Hima Das a) KarnitFlug b) Thomas Kurian e) Edward Fox c) SainaNehwal d) DipaKarmakar c) Amir Yaron d) David Horowitz Q.117) Which State Government has announced e) Vedh Krishnamoorthy e) None of these the Robust Biotechnology Policy 2018 recently? Q.130) Where is the Headquarters of UNICEF Q.142) Who has won the 2018 ATP World Tour a) Tamil Nadu b) Karnataka located? Finals? c) Kerala d) Andhra Pradesh a) Charlotn b) Washington D.C a) Rafael Nadal b) Novak Djokovic e) Odisha c) Geneva d) Brussels c) Alexander Zverev d) Roger Federer Q.118) Which Dance Festival was celebrated e) New York e) None of these amid fanfare in Shillong? Q.131) India will sign with which of the following Q.143) What is the theme of World Toilet Day? a) Nongkrem b) Giddha country for cooperation in space tech? a) Nature-based solutions c) Saang d) Kalbalia a) Egypt b) Lebanon b) Tourism and Water: Protecting our Common e) Raaslila c) Bahrain d) Turkey Future Q.119) Who is the Governor of Kerala? e) Jordan c) Equality and Dignity a) Lal Ji Tandon b) Anandiben Patel Q.132) Who is the prime minister of Australia? d) Toilets and Jobs c) Mridula Sinha d) Om Prakash Kohli a) Malcolm Turnbull b) Peter Dutton e) Wastewater e) Sathasivam c) Scott Morrison d) Julie Bishop Q.144) Name the Asia’s first woman Q.120) The 2 day – 9th Session of India-Kyrgyz e) Josh Frydenberg neurosurgeon who has passed away recently? IGC was held in which of the following city? Q.133) What is the abbreviation of “C” in POCSO a) Sundari Devi b) Neela Shankar a) Mumbai b) New Delhi Act? c) T.S. Kanaka d) Hema Govind c) Kolkata d) Hyderabad a) Card b) Children e) None of these e) Nagpur c) Company d) Community Q.145) What is the currency of Bahrain? Q.121) What is the Capital of Kyrgyzstan? e) Child a) Manat b) Peso a) Lira b) Bishek Q.134) Which of the following state has c) Dinar d) Euro c) Almaty d) Dushanbe launched KOOL, a Online Open Learning training e) Rupee e) Istanbul platform? Q.146) AirSewa 2.0 platform was launched by Q.122) What is the constituency of Union a) Karnataka b) Kerala which of the following ministry? Minister of Commerce & Industry & Civil c) Tamil Nadu d) Odisha a) Shipping Ministry Aviation? e) Andhra Pradesh b) Road and Transport Ministry a) Tamil Nadu b) Maharashtra Q.135) Who won the Player of the Series Award c) Civil Aviation Ministry c) Karnataka d) Goa in the recently ended “Women’s World Twenty d) Environment Ministry e) Andhra Pradesh 20 Cup”? e) Water Resources Ministry Q.123) Who inaugurated the 26th Conference of a) Meg Lanning b) Ellysa Perry Q.147) What will be the opening film at the 49th Central & State Organizations? c) Suzie Bates d) Harmanpreet Kaur International Film Festival of India (IFFI) ? a) Piyush Goel b) Ajith Dowal e) Alyssa Healy a) Embrace of the Serpent c) Narendra Modi d) Vijay Goel Q.136) When does the Naturopathy Day b) Aspern Papersc) Daughter e) Sushma Swaraj observed across the country? d) Sealed Lipse) MonerManush Q.124) What is the theme of the 26th a) November 20 b) November 18 Q.148) India’s first specialized hospital for Conference of Central & State Organizations? c) November 17 d) November 16 elephants was opened at which of the following a) Quality in Organizing the State e) November 19 city? b) Quality Assurance in Official Statistics Q.137) Name the 14th edition of international a) New Delhi b) Patna c) Quality in Proper Maintaining of the State children’s theatre festival that was held in New c) Mathura d) Agra d) Quality In Good Governance of the State Delhi? e) None of these e) Quality Assurance in Sports and Development a) Just So b) Techtopia Q.149) Where did the APEC Summit 2018 held? Q.125) Which country has unveiled Africa’s First c) Wild Child d) JashneBachpan a) Qatar b) Papua New Guinea ever high-speed train line? e) Baboro c) China d) Singapore a) Ghana b) Lesotho Q.138) The integration of Myntra and Jabong will e) India c) Swaziland d) Morocco be led by which of the following head? Q.150) Who will be conferred with the Kuncha e) South Africa a) Ram Kumar Mehta Kala Tapasvi Award for his Life Time Q.126) Which WORD is chosen as the WORD OF b) Ananth Narayanan Achievement Award? THE YEAR by Oxford Dictionaries? c) Vinod Mehta a) Shilpi D.V Halbhavi b) S.N Shukla a) Poisonous b) Techlash d) Vinu Chakravarthy c) A.N. Patil d) A.C. Durai c) Gaslighting d) Toxic e) Vinay Bansal e) H.N Shiva Arora e) Gammon Q.139) Which Indian Cricketer has become the Q.151) The Indian Shubhankar is related to Q.127) ADB has provided $200 Million to which First player in the history of T10 League to pick which of the following field? of the following state to upgrade the State up a hat-trick? a) Squash b) Badminton Highways? a) Rashid Khan b) Harbhajan Singh c) Cricket d) Football a) Nagaland b) Rajasthan c) Yuvaraj Singh d) Juan Allen Pope e) Golf ______

Q.152) When does the National Integration Day Q.164) Which Educational Institution has won e) Pakistan observed? the SILVER in the International Green Apple Q.176) Who has hosted the KONNICHIWA PUNE a) November 19 b) November 20 Award for Environmental Best Practice 2018? – a first of its kind business festival in Pune? c) November 20 d) November 21 a) IIT Madras b) IIM Ahmedabad a) Indo-Japan Business Council e) November 22 c) MAHE d) JNU b) Indo-China Business Council Q.153) What is the slogan for World Day of e) NIT Trichy c) Indo-Singapore Business Council Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims 2018? Q.165) Who has been named as the named the d) Indo-U.S Business Council a) Roads in Perfect Diaries newest United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) e) Indo-Israel Business Council b) Perfection in Roads Goodwill Ambassador to mark World’s Children Q.177) Which country has topped the list of c) Towards Rules Day? annual talent ranking globally? d) Roads have stories a) Priyanka Chopra b) Yuna Kim a) Denmark b) Switzerland e) None of these c) Katy Perry d) Lilly Singh c) Norway d) Austria Q.154) Where is the headquarters of IWAI e) Millie Bobby Brown e) Netherlands located? Q.166) ICC has partnered with which global Q.178) What is the Capital of Fiji? a) New Delhi b) Mumbai conglomerate to offer fans a great viewing a) Tirana b) Luanda c) Hyderabad d) Noida experience of the semi-finals & Finals of the ICC c) Yerevan d) Suva e) Chennai Women’s World T20 2018? e) Algiers Q.155) What is the currency of Papua New a) Aliexpress b) Google Q.179) Who is the author of the book ‘Radio Guinea? c) Amazon d) ESPN Kashmir – In Times of Peace & War’? a) Krone b) Peso e) Star Sports (Hotstar) a) Arumugam MV b) Mahindra Patel c) Kina d) Dinar Q.167) Where is the ICC Women’s World T20 c) Ranjeesh Bhat d) Rajesh Bhat e) Koruna 2018 happening? e) None of these Q.156) Which State Government’s Cabinet has a) Canada b) United Kingdom Q.180) Name the UN Environment Chief who approved the SashaktMahila Yojana? c) Pakistan d) India resigned recently? a) Arunachal Pradesh b) Himachal Pradesh e) West Indies a) Peter Maure b) Francis Gurry c) Karnataka d) Bihar Q.168) Which country is stated as the largest c) Erik Solheim d) Koji Sekimizu e) Jammu and Kashmir G20 Investor in India? e) Le Luong Minh Q.157) Who became the first Indian head of a) United States b) United Kingdom Q.181) Where is the headquarters of UNEP state to visit the country, held talks with c) Japan d) Brazil located? Australian Prime Minister in Sydney to step up e) Nepal a) Beijing b) Lausanne bilateral strategic ties? Q.169) Who became the First player to reach 11, c) Nairobi d) Shanghai a) Narendra Modi b) Susham Swaraj 000 runs in the Ranji Trophy? e) Madrid c) Ram Nath Kovind d) Rajnath Singh a) Amol Muzudar b) Wasim Jaffer Q.182) Georgi Petkov, who became the oldest e) Piyush Goyal c) Mohammed kaif d) Yuvaraj Singh European international goalkeeper belongs to Q.158) Who is the Prime Minister of Australia? e) Gautam Gambhir which of the following country? a) Scott Morrison b) Malcolm Turnbull Q.170) Vajra Prahar is the joint military exercise a) Bulgaria b) Portugal c) Tony Abbott d) Kevin Rudd between which of the following two countries? c) Brazil d) France e) Julian Gillard a) India and France e) Spain Q.159) Along with which country India will sign b) India and the United States Q.183) When does the Universal Children’s Day $500 Mn Deal for Constructing two warships for c) India and Vietnam observed? Navy? d) India and Yemen a) November 19 b) November 20 a) France b) America e) India and Indonesia c) November 23 d) November 22 c) Singapore d) Japan Q.171) What is the currency of Vietnam? e) November 21 e) Russia a) Manat b) Lev Q.184) Who is the screen writer of the movie Q.160) In which place the five-day exhibition on c) Dong d) Peso Butch Cassidy? “Our Vote- Our Future” inaugurated? e) Dinar a) George Roy Hill b) William Goldman a) Bengaluru b) Mumbai Q.172) Which of the following state government c) Rob Reiner d) Alan J. Pakula c) Chennai d) Kolkata has inked a MoU with Airbus BizLab India? e) Carl Bernstein e) Hyderabad a) Himachal Pradesh b) Karnataka Q.185) India’s Sangai Festival has been Q.161) Who has been appointed as the c) Kerala d) Assam celebrated in which of the following state? Interpol’s New President? e) None of these a) Assam b) Bihar a) Meng Hongwei b) Norman Inkster Q.173) Which of the following online giant has c) Odisha d) Manipur c) Khoo Boon Hui d) Kim Jong Yang launched a new app named Neighbourly? e) Mizoram e) Jackie Selebi a) Amazon b) Google Q.186) The “Bhudaar’’, which is a unique Q.162) Who has bagged the Indira Gandhi Peace c) Flipkart d) Microsoft identification code assigned to each agriculture Prize? e) None of these land holding and rural and urban properties in a) Centre for Science & Environment Q.174) The 7th International Tourism Mart will the state. How many digits does the code b) UNHCR be organised by which of the following country? contain? c) Indian Space Research Organization a) Bihar b) Mizoram a) 14 b) 11 d) Angela Merkel c) Tripura d) Assam c) 15 d) 18 e) Indian Air Force e) West Bengal e) 21 Q.163) Where is the headquarters of INTERPOL? Q.175) Saudi Arabia and the UAE has announced Q.187) Hanoi is the capital of which of the a) Geneva b) New York USD 500 million aid to which of the following following country? c) Lyon d) Paris country? a) Bahrain b) Comoros e) Rome a) Iraq b) Yemen c) Eritrea d) Vietnam c) Oman d) India e) Namibia ______

Q.188) Which of the following country will host e) November 25 ENGLISH VOCABULARY the 28th BASIC Ministerial Meeting? Q.200) India and which country has signed 1) convicted a) South Africa b) Brazil for for cooperation in the area of disability and Meaning : declare (someone) to be guilty of a c) India d) China to deliver services to the differently-abled? criminal offence by the verdict of a jury or the e) Japan a) Vietnam b) Australia decision of a judge in a court of law.(v) Q.189) Which of the following state is building a c) Sri Lanka d) Bahrain Tamil Meaning : தததததத world-class and India’s first ‘Justice City’? e) Austria Synonyms : confidence a) Andhra Pradesh b) Tamil Nadu Q.201) Which Airline’s UDAN License has been Antonyms : distrust c) Kerala d) Gujarat cancelled for Poor Performance? Example : “her former boyfriend was convicted e) Telangana a) Air Deccan b) TruJet of assaulting her” Q.190) Where did 49th International Film c) Spice Jet d) Jet Airways 2) integrated Festival of India was held? e) Air Odisha Meaning : (of an institution, body, etc.) a) Hyderabad, Telangana Q.202) Who has inaugurated the “Jhir Mela” desegregated, especially racially.(adj) b) Panaji, Goa festival in Jammu? Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததத c) New Delhi, India a) Narendra Modi b) Mehbooba Mufti Synonyms : unified d) Mumbai, Maharashtra c) Satya Pal Malik d) Ram Nath Kovind Example : “integrated education” e) Jaipur, Rajasthan e) Sushma Swaraj 3) extinction Q.191) Who has taken over as the Managing Q.203) Which Government has launched the Meaning : the state or process of being or Director & CEO of State Bank of Mauritius? portal for spotting location of cluster buses? becoming extinct.(n) a) Mahesh Khanna b) Raghav Raj a) Karnataka b) Madhya Pradesh Tamil Meaning : ததததத c) Sidharth Rath d) Ritesh Kumar c) Haryana d) Tamil Nadu Synonyms : elimination e) None of these e) Delhi Antonyms : rescue Q.192) Which country will host the famous “19th Q.204) Ministry of Finance has increased the Example : “the extinction of the great auk” Edition of the Laureus World Sports Award” in outlay of the FAME – I (First Phase of the Faster 4) corroboration February 18, 2019? Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Meaning : evidence which confirms or supports a a) France b) Montenegro Electric vehicles) India Scheme from 795 to how statement, theory, or finding; confirmation. c) Spain d) Russia many crores? Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததததத e) Monaco a) 1000 Crores b) 895 Crores Synonyms : confirmation Q.193) Which Indian department has been c) 950 Crores d) 855Crores Antonyms : denial conferred with UN Environment award for e) 1500 Crores Example : “there is no independent combating transboundary environmental crime? Q.205) Didier Drogba, who announced his corroboration for this” a) WCDB b) WDB retirement played for which of the following 5) venture c) WCCB d) IVB team? Meaning : undertake a risky or daring journey or e) WLCB a) Real Madrid b) Barcelona course of action.(v) Q.194) Who has been awarded the third c) Lyon d) Chelsea Tamil Meaning : தததததத SayajiRatna Award? e) Valencia a) ESL Narasimhan b) Amitabh Bachchan Q.206) Sandeep Michael, who passed away Synonyms : endeavor c) M S Dhoni d) Maya Singh recently belongs to which of the following sport? Antonyms : idleness e) Varun Kumar a) Cricket b) Hockey Example : “she ventured out into the blizzard” Q.195) According to India Innovation Report, c) Football d) Basketball 6) meticulous what is the rank of India in the growth of e) Tennis Meaning : showing great attention to detail; Innovation among Asian countries? Q.207) What is the currency of Australia? very careful and precise(adj). a) 5 b) 1 a) Dollar b) Euro Tamil Meaning : தததததததததத c) 9 d) 2 c) Peso d) Pound Synonyms : accurate e) 4 e) Dinar Antonyms : careless Q.196) UstadImrat Khan, who passed away Q.208) Who has been honoured with Mexican Example : “the designs are hand-glazed with recently is a master in playing which musical Order of Aztec Eagle? meticulous care” instrument? a) Leela Singh b) Narendra Modi 7) assessment a) Guitar b) Sitar c) P. Ganguly d) Suresh Prabhu Meaning : the action of assessing someone or c) Violin d) Flute e) Nita Ambani something. e) None of these Q.209) Which State Government has passed the Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத Q.197) When does the World Hello Day bill to amend the anti-adulteration law? Synonyms : appraisal observed? a) Delhi b) Madhya Pradesh Antonyms : criticism a) November 22 b) November 24 c) Maharashtra d) Haryana Example : “the assessment of educational c) November 25 d) November 23 e) Jammu & Kashmir needs” e) November 21 Q.210) According to the statement issued by the 8) circumnavigation Q.198) Who is the Chairman of SEBI? RBI, it has agreed to extend the transition Meaning : the action or process of sailing or a) Harsh Kumar Bhanwala period for implementing the last tranche of otherwise travelling all the way around b) Ajay Tyagi 0.625% under the Capital Conservation Buffer something, especially the world.(n) c) N. Ravi (CCB), by one year, up to ______. Tamil Meaning : தததததத d) Arvind Subramanian a) January 31, 2020 b) June 30, 2019 Synonyms : route e) None of these c) April 30, 2020 d) March 31, 2020 Antonyms : center Q.199) When does the World Fisheries day e) March 31, 2019 Example : “he completed the fastest solo observed? circumnavigation in a small vessel” a) November 22 b) November 21 9) enforced c) November 23 d) November 24 ______

Meaning : caused by necessity or force; Example : “he acted in ignorance of basic Meaning : do something or have or show compulsory.(adj) procedures” qualities worthy of (a reaction which rewards or Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததததத 18) diversity punishes as appropriate).(v) Synonyms : imposed Meaning : the state of being diverse.(n) Tamil Meaning : ததததத Antonyms : optional Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததததத Synonyms : merit Example : “a period of enforced idleness” Synonyms : assortment Antonyms : loss 10) reclusive Antonyms : agreement Example : “the referee deserves a pat on the Meaning : avoiding the company of other Example : “there was considerable diversity in back” people; solitary.(adj) the style of the reports” 27) accredited Tamil Meaning : ததததததத 19) shed Meaning : give credit to (someone) for Synonyms : cloistered Meaning : a simple roofed structure used for something. Antonyms : gregarious garden storage, to shelter animals, or as a Tamil Meaning : தததததததததத ததததத Example : “he led a reclusive life” workshop. Synonyms : authorized 11) fiercely Tamil Meaning : தததததத Antonyms : denied Meaning : in a savagely violent or aggressive Synonyms : shack Example : “he was accredited with being one manner(adv). Antonyms : acquire of the world’s fastest sprinters” Tamil Meaning : தததததததத Example : “a bicycle shed” 28) strategies Synonyms : angrily 20) famines Meaning : a plan of action designed to achieve a Antonyms : calmly Meaning : extreme scarcity of food.(n) long-term or overall aim(n). Example : “the army clashed fiercely with Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத Tamil Meaning : தததததததததத militants” Synonyms : hungers Synonyms : action 12) controversy Antonyms : feasts Antonyms : honesty Meaning : prolonged public disagreement or Example : “drought resulted in famine Example : “time to develop a coherent economic heated discussion. throughout the region” strategy” Tamil Meaning : ததததததத 21) morbidity 29) reinforce Synonyms : disagreement Meaning : the condition of being diseased.(n) Meaning : strengthen or support (an object or Antonyms : harmony Tamil Meaning : தததததததத ததததத substance) , especially with additional Example : “the design of the building has caused Synonyms : anguish material.(v) controversy” Antonyms : benefit Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததததத 13) facilitating Example : “the therapy can substantially reduce Synonyms : bolster Meaning : make (an action or process) easy or respiratory morbidity in infants” Antonyms : diminish easier. 22) scourge Example : “the helmet has been reinforced with Tamil Meaning : தததததததததத Meaning : a person or thing that causes great a double layer of cork” Synonyms : ease trouble or suffering.(n) 30) attributed Antonyms : block Tamil Meaning : ததத Meaning : regard something as being caused by. Example : “schools were located in the same Synonyms : curse Tamil Meaning : ததததத campus to facilitate the sharing of resources” Antonyms : reward Synonyms : aspect 14) embrace Example : “the scourge of mass unemployment” Antonyms : discredit Meaning : hold (someone) closely in one’s arms, 23) sustained Example : “he attributed the firm’s success to especially as a sign of affection.(v) Meaning : continuing for an extended period or the efforts of the managing director” Tamil Meaning : ததததத without interruption.(adj) 31) complacency Synonyms : grasp Tamil Meaning : ததததததத Meaning : a feeling of smug or uncritical Antonyms : free Synonyms : continued satisfaction with oneself or one’s Example : “Aunt Sophie embraced her warmly” Antonyms : ending achievements.(n) 15) ushered Example : “several years of sustained economic Tamil Meaning : தததததததததத Meaning : show or guide (someone) growth” Synonyms : satisfaction somewhere.(v) 24) epidemic Antonyms : agony Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததத Meaning : a widespread occurrence of an Example : “the figures are better, but there are Synonyms : lead infectious disease in a community at a particular no grounds for complacency” Antonyms : stop time.(n) 32) deployment Example : “a waiter ushered me to a table” Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததத Meaning : the movement of troops or equipment 16) vulnerable Synonyms : contagious to a place or position for military action.(n) Meaning : exposed to the possibility of being Antonyms : limited Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததத attacked or harmed, either physically or Example : “a flu epidemic” Synonyms : distribution emotionally. 25) optimism Antonyms : abate Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததததததததத Meaning : hopefulness and confidence about the Example : “the authorities announced Synonyms : accessible future or the success of something. deployment of extra security forces in towns and Antonyms : guarded Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத cities to prevent violence” Example : “we were in a vulnerable position” Synonyms : certainty 33) resistance 17) ignorance Antonyms : distrust Meaning : the refusal to accept or comply with Meaning : lack of knowledge or information. Example : “the talks had been amicable and something. Tamil Meaning : ததததததத there were grounds for optimism” Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத Synonyms : disregard 26) deserve Synonyms : defiance Antonyms : cognizance Antonyms : aid

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Example : “they displayed a narrow- Meaning : show approval or praise by Example : “a territorial dispute between the two minded resistance to change” clapping.(v) countries” 34) declining Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததத 51) crippling Meaning : (typically of something regarded as Synonyms : praise Meaning : cause (someone) to become unable to good) become smaller, fewer, or less; Antonyms : complain walk or move properly(v). decrease.(V) Example : “the crowd whistled and applauded” Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத Tamil Meaning : தததததததத 43) preside Synonyms : disabling Synonyms : deny Meaning : be in the position of authority in a Antonyms : healthful Antonyms : accept meeting or other gathering. Example : “a young student was crippled for life” Example : “the birth rate continued to decline” Tamil Meaning : ததததத 52) litigants 35) Statistically Synonyms : direct Meaning : a person involved in a lawsuit(n). Meaning :according to or by means of statistics. Antonyms : follow Tamil Meaning : தததததத ததததததததததத Tamil meaning : ததததததததததத Example : “the prime minister will preside at an Synonyms : defendant Synonyms : figure emergency cabinet meeting” Antonyms : complainant Antonyms : part 44) reveal Example : “a litigant in civil proceedings” Example : “all observation data were statistically Meaning : make (previously unknown or secret 53) myth analysed” information) known to others(v). Meaning : a traditional story, especially one 36) parasite Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததத concerning the early history of a people or Meaning : an organism which lives in or on Synonyms : disclose explaining a natural or social phenomenon, and another organism (its host) and benefits by Antonyms : conceal typically involving supernatural beings or events. deriving nutrients at the other’s expense. Example : “Brenda was forced to reveal Robbie’s Tamil Meaning : தததததததததத Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத whereabouts” Synonyms : fable Synonyms : barnacle 45) utter Antonyms : fact Antonyms : blessing Meaning : complete; absolute(adj). Example : “ancient Celtic myths” Example : “the parasite attaches itself to the Tamil Meaning : தததததததததத 54) imminent mouths of fishes” Synonyms : absolute Meaning : about to happen(adj). 37) debilitating Antonyms : uncertain Tamil Meaning : ததததத Meaning : (of a disease or condition) making Example : “Charlotte stared at her in utter Synonyms : approaching someone very weak and infirm.(adj) amazement” Antonyms : distant Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததததத 46) tardiness Example : “they were in imminent danger of Synonyms : attenuate Meaning : the quality or fact of being late; being swept away” Antonyms : aid lateness(n). 55) retrieve Example : “debilitating back pain” Tamil Meaning : தததததத Meaning : get or bring (something) back from 38) efficacious Synonyms : slowness somewhere(v). Meaning : (of something inanimate or abstract) Antonyms : preparedness Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததத successful in producing a desired or intended Example : “forgive my tardiness, I had some Synonyms : recover result; effective. very important business to attend to” Antonyms : lose Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததததததததததத 47) dismantling Example : “I was sent to retrieve the balls from Synonyms : effective Meaning : take (a machine or structure) to his garden” Antonyms : impotent pieces.(v) 56) commenced Example : “this treatment was efficacious in Tamil Meaning : தததததததத Meaning : begin(v). some cases” Synonyms : destroy Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததததத 39) replicated Antonyms : assemble Synonyms : start Meaning : make an exact copy of; reproduce.(v) Example : “the engines were dismantled and the Antonyms : finish Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததததத bits piled into a heap” Example : “his design team commenced work” Synonyms : depict 48) infusion 57) tenure Antonyms : ignore Meaning : a drink, remedy, or extract prepared Meaning : the holding of an office. Example : “it might be impractical to replicate by soaking tea leaves or herbs in liquid. Tamil Meaning : தததத Eastern culture in the west” Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததததத Synonyms : occupation 40) rid Synonyms : extract Antonyms : dignity Meaning : make someone or something free of Antonyms : decompose Example : “his tenure of the premiership would (an unwanted person or thing). Example : “a strong rosemary infusion” be threatened” Tamil Meaning : தததததத 49) autocracy 58) rife Synonyms : eliminate Meaning : a state or society governed by one Meaning : (especially of something undesirable) Antonyms : condemn person with absolute power.(n) of common occurrence; widespread.(adj) Example : “boil the peel to rid it of bitterness” Tamil Meaning : தததததததததத Tamil Meaning : ததததததத 41) burgeoning Synonyms : dictatorship Synonyms : prevalent Meaning : begin to grow or increase rapidly; Antonyms : democracy Antonyms : infrequent flourish(v). Example : “the Grand Duchy of Tuscany was an Example : “male chauvinism was rife in Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத autocracy” medicine” Synonyms : expansion 50) disputes 59) intrusive Antonyms : dropping Meaning : a disagreement or argument. Meaning : causing disruption or annoyance Example : “manufacturers are keen to cash in on Tamil Meaning : தததததத through being unwelcome or uninvited.(adj) the burgeoning demand” Synonyms : conflicts Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத 42) applauded Antonyms : agreements Synonyms : curious ______

Antonyms : protrusive Meaning : corresponding in size or degree; in 76) coercion Example : “that was an intrusive question” proportion(adj). Meaning : the action or practice of persuading 60) obnoxious Tamil Meaning : தததத someone to do something by using force or Meaning : extremely unpleasant.(adj) Synonyms : equivalent threats. Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததத Antonyms : inadequate Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததததததத Synonyms : repulsive Example : “salary will be commensurate Synonyms : force Antonyms : appealing with age and experience” Antonyms : liberty Example : “obnoxious odours” 69) steeply Example : “they didn’t have to use coercion“ 61) carnival Meaning : at a steep angle; sharply(adv). 77) concomitant Meaning : an annual festival, typically during the Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததத Meaning : naturally accompanying or week before Lent in Roman Catholic countries, Synonyms : abruptly associated(adj). involving processions, music, dancing, and the Antonyms : gradually Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததத use of masquerade(n). Example : “the walls of the gorge rise steeply on Synonyms : attendant Tamil Meaning : தததததததத both sides” Antonyms : vintage Synonyms : fair 70) adverse Example : “she loved travel, with all its Antonyms : lamentation Meaning : preventing success or development; concomitant worries” Example : “the culmination of the week-long harmful; unfavourable(adj). 78) regime carnival” Tamil Meaning : ததததததத Meaning : a government, especially an 62) reverberating Synonyms : contrary authoritarian one. Meaning : (of a loud noise) be repeated several Antonyms : favorable Tamil Meaning : ததததத times as an echo(v). Example : “taxes are having an adverse effect Synonyms : reign Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததததத on production” Antonyms : chaos Synonyms : resound 71) Pave Example : “ideological opponents of the regime” Antonyms : yield Meaning : cover (a piece of ground) with flat 79) dealt Example : “her deep booming laugh stones or bricks; lay paving over.(v) Meaning : distribute (cards) in an orderly reverberated around the room” Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத rotation to players for a game or round. 63) unviable Synonyms : cover Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத Meaning : not capable of working successfully; Antonyms : strip Synonyms : rationed not feasible(adj). Example : “the yard at the front was paved Antonyms : agreed Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததத with flagstones” Example : “the cards were dealt for the last Synonyms : unsustainable 72) crunch hand” Antonyms : achievable Meaning : crush (a hard or brittle foodstuff) with 80) renewed Example : “the commission found the plan to be the teeth, making a loud but muffled grinding Meaning : resume (an activity) after an financially unviable” sound(v). interruption(v). 64) contagion Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததததததததத Meaning : the communication of disease from Synonyms : crush Synonyms : fresh one person or organism to another by close Antonyms : opulence Antonyms : drained contact.(V) Example : “she paused to crunch a ginger Example : “the parents renewed their campaign Tamil Meaning : தததததததததத biscuit” to save the school” Synonyms : contamination 73) rigging 81) dissent Antonyms : antidote Meaning : the system of ropes or chains Meaning : the holding or expression of opinions Example : “the rooms held no risk of contagion” employed to support a ship’s masts ( standing at variance with those commonly or officially 65) despite rigging ) and to control or set the yards and sails held(n). Meaning : contemptuous treatment or ( running rigging ). Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத behaviour; outrage(n). Tamil Meaning : தததததத Synonyms : conflict Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத Synonyms : tackle Antonyms : agree Synonyms : regardless Antonyms : strip Example : “there was no dissent from this Antonyms : exalt Example : “I’m listening to the wind in the view” Example : “the despite done by him to the holy rigging” 82) manoeuvred relics” 74) persuade Meaning : move skilfully or carefully(v). 66) render Meaning : induce (someone) to do something Tamil Meaning : ததததததத Meaning : provide or give (a service, help, etc.) through reasoning or argument. Synonyms : stratagem (v). Tamil Meaning : ததததத Antonyms : tautness Tamil Meaning : ததததத Synonyms : convince Example : “the lorry was unable to manoeuvre Synonyms : translate Antonyms : dissuade comfortably in the narrow street” Antonyms : take Example : “it wasn’t easy, but I persuaded him 83) module Example : “money serves as a reward to do the right thing” Meaning : a detachable self-contained unit of a for services rendered“ 75) levies spacecraft. 67) abysmally Meaning : an act of levying a tax, fee, or Tamil Meaning : ததததததத Meaning : in an extremely bad way; appallingly. fine(n). Synonyms : Unit Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததததத Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததத Antonyms : aggregate Synonyms : terribly Synonyms : Charge Example : “Spacelab, an extra module for the Antonyms : superbly Antonyms : removes shuttle, will quadruple the experimental facilities Example : “she treats me abysmally at times” Example : “police forces receive 49 per cent of on board” 68) commensurate their funding via a levy on the rates” 84) regime

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Meaning : a government, especially an 93) insurgency Synonyms : insane authoritarian one(n). Meaning : an active revolt or uprising(n). Antonyms : assisted Tamil Meaning : ததததத Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத Example : “a train was derailed after it collided Synonyms : rule Synonyms : rebellion with a herd of cattle Antonyms : chaos Antonyms : compliance 102) erupted Example : “ideological opponents of the regime” Example : “rebels are waging an armed Meaning : (of a volcano) become active and 85) propellant insurgency to topple the monarchy” eject lava, ash, and gases. Meaning : capable of propelling something. 94) afford Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத Tamil Meaning : ததததத Meaning : have enough money to pay for.(V) Synonyms : exploded Synonyms : stimulus Tamil Meaning : ததததத Antonyms : subsided Antonyms : undynamic Synonyms : furnish Example : “Mount Pinatubo began erupting in Example : “propellant gases” Antonyms : deny June” 86) cryogenic Example : “the best that I could afford was a 103) betrayed Meaning : relating to or involving the branch of first-floor room” Meaning : expose (one’s country, a group, or a physics that deals with the production and 95) persuade person) to danger by treacherously giving effects of very low temperatures.(adj) Meaning : induce (someone) to do something information to an enemy. Tamil Meaning : தததத through reasoning or argument. Tamil Meaning : தததததததத Synonyms : refrigerant Tamil Meaning : ததததத Synonyms : cheated Antonyms : burned Synonyms : convince Antonyms : protected Example : “a powerful cryogenic engine” Antonyms : dissuade Example : “a double agent who betrayed some 87) morale Example : “it wasn’t easy, but I persuaded him 400 British and French agents to the Germans” Meaning : the confidence, enthusiasm, and to do the right thing” 104) accusing discipline of a person or group at a particular 96) surge Meaning : (of an expression, gesture, or tone of time.(n) Meaning : a sudden powerful forward or upward voice) indicating a belief in someone’s guilt or Tamil Meaning : தத ததததததத movement, especially by a crowd or by a natural culpability(adj). Synonyms : spirit force such as the tide. Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததததத Antonyms : aimlessness Tamil Meaning : ததததததத Synonyms : accusatory Example : “the team’s morale was high” Synonyms : rise Antonyms : absolving 88) manifest Antonyms : decline Example : “she stared at him with accusing Meaning : clear or obvious to the eye or Example : “flooding caused by tidal surges” eyes” mind.(Adj) 97) combat 105) detainees Tamil Meaning : தததததததததத Meaning : fighting between armed forces. Meaning : a person held in custody, especially Synonyms : obvious Tamil Meaning : ததததத for political reasons(n). Antonyms : unclear Synonyms : battle Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத Example : “her manifest charm and proven Antonyms : peace Synonyms : captives ability” Example : “five Hurricanes were shot down in Antonyms : independents 89) nudge combat” Example : “all political detainees were freed in Meaning : prod (someone) gently with one’s 98) prolonged August” elbow in order to attract attention. Meaning : continuing for a long time or longer 106) dismounting Tamil Meaning : ததததததத than usual; lengthy. Meaning : get off a horse, bicycle, or anything Synonyms : push Tamil Meaning : ததததத that one is riding. Antonyms : dissuade Synonyms : extended Tamil Meaning : தததததததத Example : “people were nudging each other and Antonyms : short Synonyms : descending pointing at me” Example : “the region suffered a prolonged Antonyms : ascending 90) reconciliation drought” Example : “he rode over and dismounted” Meaning : the restoration of friendly 99) negotiations 107) converging relations(n). Meaning : discussion aimed at reaching an Meaning : (of lines) tend to meet at a point. Tamil Meaning : தததததத agreement. Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத Synonyms : compromise Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததததததததத Synonyms : focus Antonyms : conflict Synonyms : discussions Antonyms : diverge Example : “his reconciliation with your uncle” Antonyms : provocations Example : “a pair of lines of longitude are 91) diplomatic Example : “a worldwide ban is currently under parallel at the equator but converge toward the Meaning : of or concerning diplomacy(adj). negotiation“ poles” Tamil Meaning : ததததத 100) contested 108) persisted Synonyms : politic Meaning : engage in competition to attain (a Meaning : continue in an opinion or course of Antonyms : rude position of power) (v). action in spite of difficulty or opposition(V). Example : “diplomatic relations with Britain were Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததத Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத broken” Synonyms : disputed Synonyms : continued 92) refrained Antonyms : opted Antonyms : abstained Meaning : stop oneself from doing Example : “she declared her intention to contest Example : “the minority of drivers who persist something(v). the presidency” in drinking” Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத 101) derailed 109) depletion Synonyms : stopped Meaning : cause (a train or tram) to leave its Meaning : reduction in the number or quantity of Antonyms : acted tracks accidentally. something(n) Example : “she refrained from comment” Tamil Meaning : தததத தததததததத Tamil Meaning : தததததத ______

Synonyms : exhaustion Example : “he ploughed on, trying to outline his Meaning : very great in amount, scale, or Antonyms : restoration plans and engage Sutton’s attention” intensity(adj). Example : “the depletion of the ozone layer” 118) provinces Tamil Meaning : தததததததததத 110) reluctance Meaning : a principal administrative division of a Synonyms : enormous Meaning : unwillingness or disinclination to do country or empire. Antonyms : small something. Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததத Example : “Penny put in a tremendous amount Tamil Meaning : ததததததத Synonyms : countryside of time” Synonyms : indisposition Antonyms : capital 127) flourish Antonyms : alacrity Example : “Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Meaning : a bold or extravagant gesture or Example : “she sensed his reluctance to province” action, made especially to attract attention(n). continue” 119) treason Tamil Meaning : தததத 111) stalemate Meaning : the crime of betraying one’s country, Synonyms : thrive Meaning : a position counting as a draw, in especially by attempting to kill or overthrow the Antonyms : lose which a player is not in check but cannot move sovereign or government.(n) Example : “with a flourish, she ushered them except into check. Tamil Meaning : தததததததத inside” Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத தததத Synonyms : treachery 128) lucrative Synonyms : deadlock Antonyms : loyalty Meaning : producing a great deal of profit(Adj). Antonyms : progress Example : “they were convicted of treason” Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத Example : “last time I played him it ended up in 120) fewer Synonyms : remunerative stalemate” Meaning : used to emphasize how small a Antonyms : baneful 112) conceding number of people or things is. Example : “a lucrative career as a stand-up Meaning : admit or agree that something is true Tamil Meaning : ததததததத comedian” after first denying or resisting it. Synonyms : few 129) tread Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததததததததத Antonyms : significant Meaning : a person’s manner of walking or the Synonyms : concession Example : “he had few friends” sound made as they walk(n). Antonyms : bickering 121) scrutiny Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததத Example : “I had to concede that I’d Meaning : critical observation or Synonyms : tramp overreacted” examination.(n) Antonyms : encourage 113) leverage Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததததத Example : “I heard the heavy tread of Dad’s Meaning : the exertion of force by means of a Synonyms : investigation boots” lever(n). Antonyms : glance 130) enforce Tamil Meaning : தததததத Example : “every aspect of local government Meaning : compel observance of or compliance Synonyms : influence was placed under scrutiny“ with (a law, rule, or obligation).(v) Antonyms : charter 122) disclosures Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததத Example : “my spade hit something solid that Meaning : the action of making new or secret Synonyms : force wouldn’t respond to leverage” information known(n). Antonyms : disregard 114) recognition Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததததததத Example : “the role of the police is to enforce Meaning : identification of a thing or person Synonyms : revelations the law” from previous encounters or knowledge. Antonyms : denials 131) writ. Tamil Meaning : தததததததததத Example : “a judge ordered the disclosure of the Meaning : a form of written command in the Synonyms : gratitude government documents” name of a court or other legal authority to act, Antonyms : blame 123) credibility or abstain from acting, in a particular way.(n) Example : “she saw him pass by without a sign Meaning : the quality of being trusted and Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததத of recognition” believed in.(n) Synonyms : mandate 115) elusive Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததத Antonyms : reprieve Meaning : difficult to find, catch, or Synonyms : reliability Example : “the two reinstated officers issued a achieve(adj). Antonyms : deceit writ for libel against the applicants” Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத Example : “the government’s loss of credibility” 132) pilgrimage Synonyms : evasive 124) flawed Meaning : a pilgrim’s journey.(n) Antonyms : easy Meaning : having or characterized by a Tamil Meaning : தததததததத Example : “success will become ever more fundamental weakness or imperfection.(Adj) Synonyms : excursion elusive” Tamil Meaning : தததததததததத Antonyms : stay 116) regime Synonyms : imperfect Example : “he wanted to go on a pilgrimage to Meaning : a government, especially an Antonyms : flawless Santiago de Compostela” authoritarian one(n). Example : “a fatally flawed strategy” 133) celibate Tamil Meaning : ததததத 125) conflict Meaning : abstaining from marriage and sexual Synonyms : rule Meaning : a serious disagreement or argument, relations, typically for religious reasons(adj). Antonyms : disorder typically a protracted one(n). Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததத Example : “ideological opponents of the regime” Tamil Meaning : தததததத Synonyms : monk 117) engage Synonyms : dispute Antonyms : slut Meaning : occupy or attract (someone’s interest Antonyms : agreement Example : “a celibate priest” or attention). Example : “the eternal conflict between the 134) relied Tamil Meaning : ததததத sexes” Meaning : depend on with full trust or Synonyms : hire 126) tremendous confidence. Antonyms : dismiss Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததததத

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Synonyms : believed Example : “children have different notions about Example : “a funeral procession” Antonyms : distrusted the roles of their parents” 151) deliberate Example : “I know I can rely on your discretion” 143) dissented Meaning : done consciously and intentionally(n). 135) stipulates Meaning : hold or express opinions that are at Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததத Meaning : demand or specify (a requirement) , variance with those commonly or officially Synonyms : consider typically as part of an agreement. held.(v) Antonyms : random Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததததததத Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத Example : “a deliberate attempt to provoke Synonyms : agrees Synonyms : clashed conflict” Antonyms : requests Antonyms : agreed 152) blasphemy Example : “he stipulated certain conditions Example : “two members dissented from the Meaning : the action or offence of speaking before their marriage” majority” sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; 136) contrary 144) deity profane talk. Meaning : opposite in nature, direction, or Meaning : a god or goddess (in a polytheistic Tamil Meaning : ததததத ததததததத meaning(adj). religion) (n). Synonyms : sacrilege Tamil Meaning : ததததத Tamil Meaning : ததததததத Antonyms : sanctuary Synonyms : opposite Synonyms : goddess Example : “he was detained on charges of Antonyms : similar Antonyms : mortal blasphemy” Example : “he ignored contrary advice and Example : “a deity of ancient Greece” 153) negotiated agreed on the deal” 145) aggrieved Meaning : obtain or bring about by 137) emphasised Meaning : feeling resentment at having been discussion(v). Meaning : special importance, value, or unfairly treated.(Adj) Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததததத prominence given to something. Tamil Meaning : தததததததத Synonyms : intervened Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததததததத Synonyms : upset Antonyms : confronted Synonyms : stress Antonyms : pleased Example : “he negotiated a new contract with Antonyms : weakness Example : “they were aggrieved at the outcome” the sellers” Example : “they placed great emphasis on the 146) instinct 154) rivalled individual’s freedom” Meaning : an innate, typically fixed pattern of Meaning : be or seem to be equal or comparable 138) discrimination behaviour in animals in response to certain to(V). Meaning : the unjust or prejudicial treatment of stimuli(n). Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததததததத different categories of people, especially on the Tamil Meaning : தததததததததத Synonyms : competed grounds of race(n) Synonyms : feeling Antonyms : partnered Tamil Meaning : தததததததத Antonyms : knowledge Example : “the efficiency of the Bavarians rivals Synonyms : discernment Example : “the homing instinct” that of the Viennese” Antonyms : fairness 147) prevail 155) asylum Example : “victims of racial discrimination” Meaning : prove more powerful or superior.(V) Meaning : the protection granted by a state to 139) suffocates Tamil Meaning : ததததததத someone who has left their home country as a Meaning : die or cause to die from lack of air or Synonyms : dominate political refugee(n). inability to breathe.(V) Antonyms : lose Tamil Meaning : தததததததத Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததததததததத Example : “it is hard for logic to prevail Synonyms : refuge Synonyms : strangles over emotion” Antonyms : threat Antonyms : breathes 148) funeral Example : “she applied for asylum and was Example : “ten detainees suffocated in an airless Meaning : a ceremony or service held shortly granted refugee status” police cell” after a person’s death, usually including the 156) exhibited 140) barring person’s burial or cremation(n). Meaning : publicly display (a work of art or item Meaning : except for; if not for. Tamil Meaning : ததததத தததததத of interest) in an art gallery or museum or at a trade fair.(V) Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத Synonyms : inhumation Tamil Meaning : தததததததததத Synonyms : excluding Antonyms : time Synonyms : demonstrated Antonyms : abetting Example : “in the afternoon, he’d attended a Antonyms : concealed Example : “barring accidents, we should win” funeral” Example : “only one sculpture was exhibited in 141) shrine 149) relented the artist’s lifetime” Meaning : a place regarded as holy because of Meaning : abandon or mitigate a severe or harsh 157) Prophet its associations with a divinity or a sacred person attitude, especially by finally yielding to a Meaning : a person regarded as an inspired or relic, marked by a building or other request(v). teacher or proclaimer of the will of God(n) construction(n). Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததத Tamil Meaning : ததததததத Synonyms : relaxed Synonyms : seer Synonyms : chancel Antonyms : resisted Antonyms : atheist Antonyms : secular Example : “she was going to refuse his request, Example : “the Old Testament prophet, Example : “the medieval pilgrim route to the but relented” Jeremiah” shrine of St James” 150) procession 158) defended 142) notions Meaning : a number of people or vehicles Meaning : resist an attack made on (someone or Meaning : a conception of or belief about moving forward in an orderly fashion, especially something) ; protect from harm or danger. something.(n) as part of a ceremony(n). Tamil Meaning : தததததததததத Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததத Tamil Meaning : ததததததத Synonyms : protected Synonyms : thoughts Synonyms : parade Antonyms : betrayed Antonyms : realities Antonyms : retreat

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Example : “we shall defend our island, whatever Meaning : cover (a surface) with streaks(v). Meaning : the action of formally ending or the cost” Tamil Meaning : ததததத dismissing an assembly, partnership, or official 159) acquiesce Synonyms : quality body.(n) Meaning : accept something reluctantly but Antonyms : barrel Tamil Meaning : ததததததத without protest(v). Example : “tears streaking her face, Cynthia Synonyms : end Tamil Meaning : தததததததததத looked up” Antonyms : collaborate Synonyms : agree 168) sustained Example : “the dissolution of their marriage” Antonyms : dissent Meaning : continuing for an extended period or 177) inherent Example : “Sara acquiesced in his decision” without interruption(adj). Meaning : existing in something as a permanent, 160) ubiquitous Tamil Meaning : ததததததத essential, or characteristic attribute.(Adj) Meaning : present, appearing, or found Synonyms : persistent Tamil Meaning : தததததததததத everywhere.(adj) Antonyms : destroyed Synonyms : innate Tamil Meaning : ததததததத Example : “several years of sustained economic Antonyms : acquired Synonyms : universal growth” Example :”any form of mountaineering has its Antonyms : rare 169) negated inherent dangers” Example : “his ubiquitous influence was felt by Meaning : make ineffective; nullify.(v) 178) sedition all the family” Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத Meaning : conduct or speech inciting people to 161) fickle Synonyms : denied rebel against the authority of a state or Meaning : changing frequently, especially as Antonyms : good monarch.(n) regards one’s loyalties or affections.(adj) Example : “alcohol negates the effects of the Tamil Meaning : தததததததத Tamil Meaning : தததததததததத drug” Synonyms : mutiny Synonyms : capricious 170) jittery Antonyms : obedience Antonyms : constant Meaning : nervous or unable to relax(adj). Example : In some nations, the government Example : “celebs trying to appeal to an Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததததததத censors television networks in order to prevent increasingly fickle public” Synonyms : nervous sedition. 162) prompted Antonyms : confident 179) entrenched Meaning : (of an event or fact) cause or bring Example : “caffeine makes me jittery” Meaning : (of an attitude, habit, or belief) firmly about (an action or feeling).(v) 171) bullish established and difficult or unlikely to change; Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத Meaning : aggressively confident and self- ingrained.(adj) Synonyms : arouse assertive.(adj) Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததததத Antonyms : calm Tamil Meaning : ததததததத Synonyms : ingrained Example : “the violence prompted a wave of Synonyms : optimistic Antonyms : vulnerable refugees to flee the country” Antonyms : pessimistic Example : “an entrenched resistance to change” 163) spurious Example : “he has campaigned courageously 180) defamation Meaning : not being what it purports to be; false despite difficulties that would have stopped Meaning : the action of damaging the good or fake.(Adj) many more bullish men” reputation of someone; slander or libel.(n) Tamil Meaning : தததததததத 172) prolonged Tamil Meaning : தததததத Synonyms : counterfeit Meaning : continuing for a long time or longer Synonyms : slander Antonyms : authentic than usual; lengthy.(adj) Antonyms : compliment Example : “separating authentic and spurious Tamil Meaning : ததததத Example : “she sued him for defamation” claims” Synonyms : extended 181) impeachment 164) ramp Antonyms : brief Meaning : the action of calling into question the Meaning : increase the level or amount of Example : “the region suffered a prolonged integrity or validity of something.(n) (something) sharply.(v) drought” Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததததததததததததத Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததததத 173) pace Synonyms : indictment Synonyms : access Meaning : a single step taken when walking or Antonyms : rise Antonyms : hazard running.(n) Example : “the prosecutor’s detailed Example : “the company has moved into new Tamil Meaning : ததததத impeachment of the character witness” quarters in order to ramp up production” Synonyms : step 182) dislodged 165) imposed Antonyms : stay Meaning : knock or force out of position.(v) Meaning : force (an unwelcome decision or Example : “Kirov stepped back a pace” Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததத ruling) on someone(v). 174) escalate Synonyms : displaced Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததததத Meaning : increase rapidly.(v) Antonyms : deposited Synonyms : levied Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததத Example : “the hoofs of their horses dislodged Antonyms : optional Synonyms : intensify loose stones” Example : “the decision was theirs and was Antonyms : diminish 183) frenzy not imposed on them by others” Example : “the price of tickets escalated” Meaning : a state or period of uncontrolled 166) waiver 175) snap excitement or wild behaviour. Meaning : an act or instance of waiving a right Meaning : break suddenly and completely, Tamil Meaning : ததததததத or claim(n). typically with a sharp cracking sound.(v) Synonyms : rage Tamil Meaning : ததததததத Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத Antonyms : calmness Synonyms : renunciation Synonyms : crack Example : “Doreen worked herself into a frenzy Antonyms : accept Antonyms : combine of rage” Example : “their acquiescence could amount to a Example : “guitar strings kept snapping” 184) wrath waiver” 176) dissolution Meaning : extreme anger.(n) 167) streak Tamil Meaning : தததததத

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Synonyms : anger Meaning : lasting for a long time or longer than Meaning : the action of subduing someone or Antonyms : calmness expected or usual(adj). something by force.(n) Example : “he hid his pipe for fear of incurring Tamil Meaning : ததததத Tamil Meaning : தததததததததத his father’s wrath” Synonyms : extended Synonyms : restraint 185) strident Antonyms : abrupt Antonyms : liberty Meaning : (of a sound) loud and harsh; Example : “a protracted and bitter dispute” Example : “students sparked off events that grating.(Adj) 194) blunders ended in brutal repression” Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததததத Meaning : a stupid or careless mistake.(n) 203) peasants Synonyms : harsh Tamil Meaning : தததததததததத Meaning : a poor smallholder or agricultural Antonyms : soft Synonyms : mistakes labourer of low social status (chiefly in historical Example : “his voice had become increasingly Antonyms : corrects use or with reference to subsistence farming in strident” Example : “she stopped, finally aware of the poorer countries). 186) punitive terrible blunder she had made” Tamil Meaning : ததததததத Meaning : inflicting or intended as 195) prevalent Synonyms : rustics punishment.(adj) Meaning : widespread in a particular area or at a Antonyms : great wealth Tamil Meaning : தததததத particular time(adj). Example : “peasant farmers” Synonyms : harsh Tamil Meaning : ததததததத 204) outlawed Antonyms : rewarding Synonyms : prevailing Meaning : ban or make illegal.(v) Example : “he called for punitive measures Antonyms : rare Tamil Meaning : ததத against the Eastern bloc” Example : “the social ills prevalent in society Synonyms : expired 187) debacle today” Antonyms : allowed Meaning : a sudden and ignominious failure; a 196) grumble Example : “secondary picketing has been fiasco.(n) Meaning : complain about something in a bad- outlawed” Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததத tempered way.(v) 205) deprivation Synonyms : fiasco Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததததத Meaning : the damaging lack of material benefits Antonyms : success Synonyms :complain considered to be basic necessities in a Example : “the only man to reach double figures Antonyms : cheer society.(n) in the second-innings debacle” Example : “‘I’m getting old, ’ she grumbled” Tamil Meaning : தததததத 188) confront 197) pave Synonyms : privation Meaning : come face to face with (someone) Meaning : cover (a piece of ground) with flat Antonyms : indulgence with hostile or argumentative intent.(v) stones or bricks; lay paving over. Example : “low wages mean that 3.75 million Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததத Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத people suffer serious deprivation” Synonyms : face Synonyms : cover 206) relied Antonyms : avoid Antonyms : strip Meaning : depend on with full trust or Example : “300 policemen confronted an equal Example : “the yard at the front was paved confidence.(v) number of union supporters” with flagstones” Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததததத 189) pursued 198) crumble Synonyms : believed Meaning : follow or chase (someone or Meaning : break or fall apart into small Antonyms : distrusted something).(v) fragments, especially as part of a process of Example : “I know I can rely on your discretion” Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததத deterioration.(V) 207) repression Synonyms : chased Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத Meaning : the action of subduing someone or Antonyms : avoided Synonyms : decay something by force.(n) Example : “the officer pursued the van” Antonyms : improve Tamil Meaning : தததததததததத 190) pertinent Example : “the plaster started to crumble” Synonyms : restraint Meaning : relevant or applicable to a particular 199) credible Antonyms : liberty matter; apposite.(adj) Meaning : able to be believed; convincing.(adj) Example : “students sparked off events that Tamil Meaning : தததததததத Tamil Meaning : தததததததத ended in brutal repression” Synonyms : relevant Synonyms : believable 208) exploiting Antonyms : extraneous Antonyms : improbable Meaning : make full use of and derive benefit Example : “she asked me a lot of very pertinent Example : “few people found his story credible” from (a resource).(v) questions” 200) controversial Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததத 191) horrendous Meaning : giving rise or likely to give rise to Synonyms : acting Meaning : extremely unpleasant, horrifying, or controversy or public disagreement.(Adj) Antonyms : wasting terrible. Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததததத Example : “500 companies sprang up to exploit Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத Synonyms : disputable this new technology” Synonyms : horrible Antonyms : agreeable 209) relentless Antonyms : appealing Example : “years of wrangling over a Meaning : unceasingly intense.(adj) Example : “she suffered horrendous injuries” controversial bypass” Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத 192) deteriorating 201) devastated Synonyms : inexorable Meaning : become progressively worse.(v) Meaning : destroy or ruin(v). Antonyms : merciful Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததத Tamil Meaning : தததததததத Example : “the relentless heat of the desert” Synonyms : degenerating Synonyms : shattered 210) despite Antonyms : improving Antonyms : intact Meaning : contemptuous treatment or Example : “relations between the countries had Example : “the city was devastated by a huge behaviour; outrage.(n) deteriorated sharply” earthquake” Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத 193) protracted 202) repression Synonyms : in spite of ______

Antonyms : exalt Meaning : very enthusiastically or passionately. Synonyms : reduction Example : “the despite done by him to the holy Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததத Antonyms : extension relics” Synonyms : passionately Example : “the curtailment of human rights” 211) shunned Antonyms : grimly 228) ethnic Meaning : persistently avoid, ignore, or reject Example : “both men ardently supported the Meaning : relating to a population subgroup (someone or something) through antipathy or war” (within a larger or dominant national or cultural caution.(v) 220) contempt group) with a common national or cultural Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததத Meaning : the feeling that a person or a thing is tradition.(adj) Synonyms : rejected worthless or beneath consideration.(n) Tamil Meaning : தத Antonyms : desired Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத Synonyms : cultural Example : “he shunned fashionable society” Synonyms : disdain Antonyms : nonracial 212) prominent Antonyms : respect Example : “ethnic and cultural rights and Meaning : important; famous.(adj) Example : “Pam stared at the girl with total traditions” Tamil Meaning : ததததததத contempt” 229) contention Synonyms : eminent 221) allegations Meaning : heated disagreement. Antonyms : invisible Meaning : the feeling that a person or a thing is Tamil Meaning : ததததததத Example : “she was a prominent member of the worthless or beneath consideration.(n) Synonyms : conflict city council” Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத Antonyms : affection 213) notion Synonyms : scorn Example : “the captured territory was the main Meaning : a conception of or belief about Antonyms : respect area of contention between the two countries” something.(n) Example : “Pam stared at the girl with total 230) propagated Tamil Meaning : ததததததத contempt” Meaning : breed specimens of (a plant or Synonyms : opinion 2222) grooming animal) by natural processes from the parent Antonyms : need Meaning : brush and clean the coat of (a horse, stock.(v) Example : “children have different notions about dog, or other animal).(V) Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததத the roles of their parents” Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததததததத Synonyms : distributed 214) muzzled Synonyms : training Antonyms : eradicated Meaning : prevent (a person or group) from Antonyms : brides Example : “try propagating your own expressing their opinions freely. Example : “the horses were groomed and taken houseplants from cuttings” Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததததத to shows” 231) outrage Synonyms : gagged 223) exacerbating Meaning : an extremely strong reaction of Antonyms : said Meaning : make (a problem, bad situation, or anger, shock, or indignation. Example : “opposition leaders accused him of negative feeling) worse.(n) Tamil Meaning : தததததததத muzzling the news media” Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததததததத Synonyms : fury 215) rigour Synonyms : exasperating Antonyms : delight Meaning : the quality of being extremely Antonyms : moderating Example : “her voice trembled with outrage” thorough and careful(n). Example : “the exorbitant cost of land in urban 232) incendiary Tamil Meaning : ககககக areas only exacerbated the problem” Meaning : (of a device or attack) designed to Synonyms : accuracy , difficulty 224) reluctant cause fires.(adj) Antonyms : calmness Meaning : unwilling and hesitant; Tamil Meaning : தததததததததத Example : “his analysis is lacking in rigour” disinclined.(adj) Synonyms : arsonist 216) garnered Tamil Meaning : ககககககக Antonyms : conciliatory Meaning : gather or collect (something, Synonyms : afraid Example : “incendiary bombs” especially information or approval).(v) Antonyms : bold 233) manifested Tamil Meaning : ததததததத Example : “today, many ordinary people are still Meaning : show (a quality or feeling) by one’s Synonyms : amassed reluctant to talk about politics” acts or appearance; demonstrate. Antonyms : dispelled 225) proclaimed Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததததததததததததததத Example : “the police struggled to garner Meaning : announce officially or publicly.(v) Synonyms : exhibited sufficient evidence” Tamil Meaning : தததததததத Antonyms : secreted 217) bustle Synonyms : announce Example : “Lizzy manifested signs of severe Meaning : move in an energetic and busy Antonyms : conceal depression” manner(v).excited activity and movement.(n) Example : “the government’s chief scientific 234) stifling Tamil Meaning : கககககககககக adviser proclaimed that the epidemic was under Meaning : making one feel constrained or Synonyms : tumult control” oppressed.(Adj) Antonyms : calm 226) portray Tamil Meaning : தததததததத தததத Example : “people clutching clipboards bustled Meaning : depict (someone or something) in a Synonyms : sultry about” work of art or literature.(v) Antonyms : breezy 218) Presumably Tamil Meaning : தததததததததத Example : “the stifling formality of her family Meaning : used to convey that what is asserted Synonyms : depict life” is very likely though not known for certain.(adv) Antonyms : avoid 235) debilitating Tamil Meaning : கககககககககககககககக Example : “the ineffectual Oxbridge dons Meaning : tending to weaken something.(adj) Synonyms : apparently, probably portrayed by Evelyn Waugh” Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததததத Antonyms : improbably 227) curtailment Synonyms : exhausting Example : “it was not yet ten o’clock, so Meaning : the action or fact of reducing or Antonyms : restorative presumably the boys were still at the pub” restricting something. Example : “the debilitating effects of 219) ardently Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததத underinvestment”

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236) spurred Meaning : have a mutual relationship or Meaning : (of a rider or their boots) having a connection, in which one thing affects or

spiked device on the heels for urging a horse depends on another. forward.(Adj) Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததததத Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத Synonyms : related BANKING AWARENESS Synonyms : instigated Antonyms : differed Q.1) What was the rank of Indian Passportin the Antonyms : checked Example : “the study found that success in the world in the latest ranking of the Global Passport Example : “two young men appeared booted educational Index, based on the passports’ visa-free score and spurred“ system correlates highly with class” by citizenship planning firm Henley and 237) perceived 245) Weed Partners? Meaning : become aware or conscious of Meaning : remove unwanted plants from (an a) 56th b) 66th (something) ; come to realize or understand(V). area of ground).(V) c) 77th d) 128th Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத Tamil Meaning : ததத e) 113th Synonyms : sensed Synonyms : dope Q.2) Who has been appointed as the PCI Antonyms : missed Antonyms : necessity Security Standards Council’s India head? Example : “his mouth fell open as he perceived Example : “I was weeding a flower bed” a) Yuvaraj Kumar b) Naresh Singh the truth” 246) claimed c) Nitin Bhatnagar d) Suresh Kalinga 238) confined Meaning : state or assert that something is the e) Samuel Bhatnagar Meaning : (of a space) restricted in area or case, typically without providing evidence or Q.3) Which of the following organisation has volume; cramped.(Adj) proof(V). acquired IDFC Infrastructure Finance (IDFC-IFL), Tamil Meaning :தததததததததததததததத Tamil Meaning : தததததத an infrastructure debt fund, to play a meaningful Synonyms : limited Synonyms : assert role in the private debt space in Indian Antonyms : free Antonyms : disclaim Infrastructure? Example : “her fear of confined spaces” Example : “the Prime Minister claimed that he a) National Bank for Agriculture and Rural 239) bolster was concerned about Third World debt” Development (NABARD) Meaning : support or strengthen.(v) 247) cryptic b) Small Industries Development Bank of India Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததததததததததததத Meaning : having a meaning that is mysterious (SIDBI) Synonyms : support or obscure(Adj). c) Securities and Exchange Board of India Antonyms : undermine Tamil Meaning : ததததத (SEBI) Example : “the fall in interest rates is starting to Synonyms : obscure d) National Investment and Infrastructure Fund bolster confidence” Antonyms : obvious (NIIF) 240) confront Example : “he found his boss’s utterances too e) National Housing Bank (NHB) Meaning : come face to face with (someone) cryptic” Q.4) Which of the following company has with hostile or argumentative intent.(v) 248) encompasses launched the Digital Literacy Library in 6 Indian Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததத Meaning : surround and have or hold within.(v) Languages namely Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Synonyms : defy Tamil Meaning : ததததததததததததததததத Kannada, and Malayalam, recently? Antonyms : avoid Synonyms : encircle a) Apple b) Alibaba Example : “300 policemen confronted an equal Antonyms : banish c) Facebook d) Google number of union supporters” Example : “this area of London encompasses e) Amazon 241) agitation Piccadilly to the north and St James’s Park to the Q.5) HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company, Meaning :a state of anxiety or nervous south” India's third largest non-life insurance provider excitement. 249) revivalism in the private sector launched the 'Cyber Tamil Meaning : ததததததததத Meaning : an improvement in the condition, Security Awareness Week' starting from Synonyms :disturbance strength, or fortunes of someone or ______to ______. Antonyms : serenity something.(n) a) October 23, 2018 & October 29, 2018 Example : “she was wringing her hands in Tamil Meaning : ககககககககககக b) October 21, 2018 & October 27, 2018 agitation” Synonyms : renewal c) October 19, 2018 & October 25, 2018 242) pursuit Antonyms : destruction d) October 15, 2018 & October 21, 2018 Meaning : the action of pursuing someone or Example : “a revival in the fortunes of the party” e) October 10, 2018 & October 16, 2018 250) transpires something. Q.6) Which of the following country has topped Meaning : (of a secret or something unknown) Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததத among the 190 countries surveyed by the World come to be known; be revealed.(v) Synonyms : quest Bank’s Ease of Doing Business 2019, recently? Antonyms : retreat Tamil Meaning : தததததததததததததததத a) Norway b) New Zealand Example : “the cat crouched in the grass in Synonyms : occur c) Singapore d) Denmark pursuit of a bird” Antonyms : vanish e) Georgia 243) evoke Example : “it transpired that millions of dollars Q.7) Which of the following company has of debt had been hidden in a complex web of Meaning : bring or recall (a feeling, memory, or partnered with Accrivis Network Pvt. Ltd., a data transactions” image) to the conscious mind. integration platform provider, to implement

Tamil Meaning : கககககககககக blockchain solutions to enhance customer

Synonyms : arouse centricity through data security and application Antonyms : deaden integration for making the purchase of insurance Example : “the sight evoked pleasant memories a seamless affair, recently? of his childhood” a) Paisabazaar.com b) Amazon 244) correlated c) Flipkart d) Bankbazaar.com

e) Policybazaar.com

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Q.8) Who has been appointed as the India brand e) Mexico making it mandatory for intermediaries to ambassador of Mahendra Singh Foundation Q.16) Who has been appointment as the provide retail investors the option of bidding (MSF), New York based organisation to reinvent Managing Director and CEO of UCO Bank? through the Unified Payments Interface (UPI). the power of survivors of domestic abuse, rape, a) Vikas Muttoo b) G.N. Bajpai a) Two days b) Three days physical harm and acid attack VAW, recently? c) Suresh Kumar d) Atul Kumar Goel c) One day d) Five days a) Anushka Sharma b) Aishwarya Sharma e) R K Takkar e) Four days c) Amitabh Bachchan d) Aamir Khan Q.17) RBI has decided to allow banks to provide Q.25) Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp e) M S Dhoni PCE to bonds issued by the systemically (HSBC) India and _____ have jointly executed a Q.9) As per the annual passport index 2018 by important non-deposit taking non-banking trade transaction using block chain enabling citizenship planning firm Henley and Partners, financial companies (NBFC-ND-SIs) registered cross border payment from a US-based company ______and ______have the world’s “most with the Reserve Bank of India and Housing to India's Reliance Industries in a totally digital powerful” passport with access to 165 countries. Finance Companies (HFCs) registered with form for the first time. a) Germany, Singapore b) Japan, Singapore National Housing Bank. Expand the term PCE. a) JPMorgan Chase & Co b) Bank of China c) Germany, USA d) Germany, Japan a) Product Credit Enhancement c) ING Bank Belgium d) BNP Paribas e) UAE, USA b) Parent Credit Enhancement e) Bank of America Q.10) Which of the following ministry has signed c) Process Credit Enhancement Q.26) The US International Trade Commission a contract with GRSE (Garden Reach d) Partial Credit Enhancement has ruled against putting anti-dumping duty on Shipbuilders & Engineers) for supply of four e) Payment Credit Enhancement the imports of a PTFE resin from India and survey vessels for Indian Navy, recently? Q.18) The Delhi government signed a China, is a key ingredient in non-stick coating a) Ministry of Home Affairs memorandum of understanding with which for pans and other cookware. Expand the term b) Ministry of Finance ministry to cater to pilgrims availing the PTFE. c) Ministry of Defence Mukhyamantri Tirth Yatra Yojana? a) Poly Tetra Ferric chloride Ethylene d) Ministry of Corporate Affairs a) Railway ministry b) Poly Tetra Fluoro Ethylene e) Ministry of Human Resource Development b) Infrastructure ministry c) Poly Tetra Ferrite Ethylene Q.11) Which of the following rating organisation c) Women and Child Development ministry d) Poly Tetra Ferrous Ethylene has affirmed IDBI Bank’s long-term Issuer d) Human Resource Development ministry e) Poly Tetra Formalin Ethylene Default Rating (IDR) at ‘BB+’ and its viability e) None of these Q.27) Who has been appointed as the chief rating (VR) at ‘ccc’, recently? Q.19) Who has been appointed as the chief executive of private sector lender RBL Bank’s a) Credit Analysis & Research Ltd executive of NBFC’s of Kirloskar Capital? subsidiary ‘SwadhaarFinserve’? b) Moody’s a) Irwin Kumar b) YuvarajKathar a) Vikas Muralithar b) Vikas Muttoo c) Fitch Ratings c) Suresh Bandhur d) Vimal Bhandari c) Suresh Kumar d) Atul Kumar Goel d) Standards & Poor e) Mahesh Kumar e) R K Takkar e) Shanghai Far East Credit Rating Co., Ltd. Q.20) According to the report released by Ola Q.28) The Reserve Bank has initiated steps to Q.12) What is the rank of India in the World Mobility Institute, which of the following city has set up a wide-based digital PCR to capture Bank’s Ease of Doing Business 2019 survey topped in the ‘women feel the safest using public details of all borrowers, including wilful among the 190 countries, making it the only transport’ category of Ease of Moving Index defaulters and also the pending legal suits in country to rank among the top 10 improvers for 2018? order to check financial delinquencies, recently. the second consecutive year? a) Patna b) Kolkata Full form of PCR is ______. a) 125th b) 144th c) Hyderabad d) Jabalpur a) Payer Credit Registry c) 77th d) 67th e) Ahmedabad b) Payment Credit Registry e) 87th Q.21) Name the person who resigned from the c) Partial Credit Registry Q.13) As per the study report by Ola's think- newly constituted Board of Directors of d) Private Credit Registry tank, which of the following city has topped in Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Ltd e) Public Credit Registry Ease of Moving Index 2018 with the most (IL&FS), recently. Q.29) ICICI Bank said that it has entered into an affordable public transport category, recently? a) Vikas Muttoo b) G.N. Bajpai exclusive partnership with ‘Amazon Pay’ to a) Jaipur b) Bhubaneswar c) Suresh Kumar d) Atul Kumar Goel launch a co-branded credit card, ‘Amazon Pay c) Kolkata d) Mumbai e) R K Takkar ICICI Bank Credit Card’. Headquarters of e) Bangalore Q.22) According to a new report from Russia- Amazon Pay is located in ______. Q.14) Which of the following company has based global cyber-security firm Kaspersky Lab, a) Paris, France received licence from the Reserve Bank to what is the rank of India in dangers associated b) Geneva, Switzerland launch a Non-Banking Finance Company (NBFC) with surfing the web -borne threats between the c) Seattle, Washington U S with an investment of Rs.1000 crore and will July-September period of this year, recently? d) Moscow, Russia focus on providing growth capital to industry a) 20th b) 12th e) New Delhi, India with an initial focus on small and medium c) 5th d) 8th Q.30) Who is the chairman of Infrastructure enterprises (SMEs), recently? e) 15th Leasing & Financial Services Ltd (IL&FS) ? a) Kirloskar Capital b) Paytm Q.23) Chola MS General Insurance and which of a) Malini Shankar b) Uday Kotak c) Cummins India d) Swaraj Engines the following bank have renewed their c) Vineet Nayyar d) GC Chaturvedi e) Agro Engine bancassurance partnership for a period of five e) Nand Kishore Q.15) The Payment Card Industry Security years, recently? Q.31) Name the nation's largest container port, Standards Council (PCISSC) was originally a) Karnataka Bank b) HDFC Bank is planning to host an edible oil refinery to formed by American Express, Discover Financial c) Axis Bank d) IndusInd Bank maximise revenue and ensure captive cargo, Services, JCB International, MasterCard and Visa e) Yes Bank recently. Inc. on 7 September 2006. Its headquarters is Q.24) The Securities and Exchange Board of a) Kochi Port Trust (KPT) located in ______. India (SEBI) has initiated the process to reduce b) Ennore Port Trust (EPT) a) USA b) Russia the timeline for public issues from the current c) Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) c) UK d) India six days to ______in a phased manner by d) Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) ______

e) Paradip Port Trust (PPT) Q.41) By which year India will have the largest Q.48) The Centre will infuse how much crore as Q.32) The Central and Andhra Pradesh (AP) number of people in the world of college-going capital into state-run Allahabad Bank as an governments and which bank have signed the age – a staggering 140 million, as per the UK investment during the current fiscal? loan agreement for a $172.20 million project to India Business Council released its report named a) Rs.8054 crore b) Rs.2054 crore enhance agricultural productivity, profitability, - ‘Beyond the Top 200-Effective International c) Rs.4054 crore d) Rs.5054 crore and climate resilience of poor and marginalised Collaboration for Indian Higher Education’? e) Rs.3054 crore farmers in Andhra Pradesh? a) 2022 b) 2030 Q.49) Which of the following country has a) World Bank b) IMF c) 2035 d) 2025 exempted India from the imposition of certain c) AIIB d) ADB e) 2020 sanctions for the development of the e) NDB Q.42) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may set- strategically-located Chabahar Port in Iran, Q.33) Who has been chosen for the prestigious up an ombudsman for digital payments by along with the construction of the railway line Raja Ram Mohan Roy Award, presented by the ______to reduce the burden on banking connecting it with Afghanistan, recently? Press Council of India, for his outstanding ombudsman because of a rising number of a) Bangladesh b) China contribution towards journalism? complaints. c) United States d) UAE a) P Narasimha (Nava Telangana) a) January 2019 b) June 2019 e) Russia b) Subhash Paul (Rashtriya Sahara) c) May 2019 d) March 2019 Q.50) Reserve Bank has liberalised the norms c) N Ram (Hindu Group) e) April 2019 governing External Commercial Borrowings d) Ruby Sarkar (Deshbandhu) Q.43) Paytm, one of the largest digital payments (ECBs) for infrastructure creation, the minimum e) VS Rajesh (Kerala Kaumudhi) company has tied up with which two government average maturity required for the ECBs in the Q.34) The United States International Trade departments for seamless payment experience infrastructure space raised by eligible borrowers Commission (USITC) is an independent, in Karnataka, recently? has been reduced to _____ from earlier five quasijudicial Federal agency with broad a) Electronics and Computer Software Export years. investigative responsibilities on matters of trade. Promotion Council (ECSEP) and Department of a) Two years b) One year Who is the chairman of USITC? Personnel and Administrative Service (DPAR) c) Three years d) Four years a) Willian Samsung b) Rhonda Schnare b) Directorate of Electronic Delivery of Citizen e) None of these c) Joseph Wilson d) Irwin Hook Services (EDCS) and Department of Personnel Q.51) According to a recent research published e) David S. Johanson and Administrative Service (DPAR) under the US-based organisation, National Q.35) RBL/Ratnakar Bank Limited is a scheduled c) Electronics and Computer Software Export bureau of economic research (NBER), which of commercial bank, headquartered in ______. Promotion Council (ECSEP) and Telecom the following city tops the index for the “Most a) Hyderabad b) Mumbai Equipment Manufacturers Association of India Congested City” category? c) New Delhi d) Bangalore (TEMA) a) Chennai b) Kolkata e) Greater Noida d) Department of Personnel and Administrative c) Bangalore d) Pune Q.36) India has pledged contributions of how Service (DPAR) and Department of Scientific and e) Mumbai many million dollars for the various UN agencies Industrial Research (DSIR) Q.52) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has and development activities, emphasising that e) Directorate of Electronic Delivery of Citizen flagged to the RBI about alleged dubious the world organisation should have the Services (EDCS) and Telecom Equipment activities of a Karnataka-based firm charging it necessary resources to finance its activities in a Manufacturers Association of India (TEMA) with running a “ponzi scheme” in the name of balanced manner? Q.44) According to the ratings company Islamic banking or halal investment and a) $17.36 million b) $14.36 million Moody’s, India’s economic growth is expected to collecting over how much crore funds from c) $15.36 million d) $13.36 million moderate to ______in 2019 and 2020. gullible investors till now? e) $11.36 million a) 7.6% b) 7.8% a) Rs.750 crore b) Rs.850 crore Q.37) Which of the following country has been c) 7.4% d) 7.3% c) Rs.650 crore d) Rs.550 crore elected as a Member of the International e) 7.5% e) Rs.950 crore Telecommunications Union (ITU) Council for Q.45) The elections to the International Q.53) Infosys and which of the following another 4-year term (2019–2022) ? Telecommunications Union (ITU) Council were company have formed an alliance to develop a) Singapore b) Russia held during the ongoing ITU Plenipotentiary solutions powered by new-age technologies like c) India d) UAE Conference 2018 at ______. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning e) USA a) Paris, France b) Washington, USA (ML), recently? Q.38) Who has been appointed as the new c) Moscow, Russia d) New Delhi, India a) Wipro b) Nokia chairman of Citigroup? e) Dubai, UAE c) TCS d) Apple a) Malini Shankar b) John Dugan Q.46) The United Nations World Food e) Microsoft c) Mike O'Neill d) Willian Samsung Programme (WFP) and which of the following Q.54) Reserve Bank of India has cancelled the e) Rhonda Schnare company have entered into a strategic registration certificate of how many Non-Banking Q.39) According to the Centre for Monitoring partnership to support efforts to achieve the Finance Companies (NBFCs) without giving any Indian Economy (CMIE), Unemployment rate in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 a world reasons. Also it cancelled the certificate of the country rose to ______in October 2018, with zero hunger? registrations of 17 NBFC’s after these companies recently. a) Bigbasket b) Flipkart made a request for the same, recently? a) 8.9% b) 4.9% c) Alibaba d) Amazon a) 51 b) 31 c) 6.9% d) 7.9% e) Paytm c) 41 d) 11 e) 5.9% Q.47) Who will be honoured with ‘Global e) 21 Q.40) Who is the managing director of Chola MS Education Award’ by ‘Malabar Gold & Diamonds’, Q.55) A first contract for exporting how many General Insurance? flagship company of Malabar Group, a leading tonnes of raw sugar has been entered to by the a) Nand Kishore b) Gopalaratnam Indian business conglomerate in Dubai? Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) and c) Atul Kumar Goel d) Malini Shankar a) Harish Ragavan b) Yogesh Mathur Chinese public sector company COFCO, recently? e) GC Chaturvedi c) Anand Kumar d) Aravind Kumar a) 60, 000 tonnes b) 90, 000 tonnes e) Suresh Mathur c) 50, 000 tonnes d) 70, 000 tonnes ______

e) 80, 000 tonnes c) RaguramRajan d) Siddharth Tiwari first interactive Credit Card with buttons, Q.56) Which of the following country has e) Eli Remolona recently? overtaken the US to become the second largest Q.64) Name the Flipkart Group CEO who resigns a) ICICI Bank b) IndusInd Bank smartphone market in the July-September 2018 with immediate effect on allegation of ‘serious c) Axis Bank d) Yes Bank quarter, according to a report by research firm personal misconduct’, recently. e) HDFC Bank Canalys, recently? a) David Markel b) Chandra Sekar Rao Q.73) Which of the following energy source is a) Japan b) China c) Bhuvanesh Choudhry d) Binny Bansal expected to overtake coal as the world’s second c) India d) Finland e) Arun Goel largest energy source after oil by 2030 due to a e) Russia Q.65) Which of the following country will drive to cut air pollution and the rise in liquefied Q.57) Who has been appointed as the chairman overtake the U.S. to become the world’s second- natural gas (LNG) use, according to the of Competition Commission of India (CCI) ? biggest emitter of carbon dioxide from the power International Energy Agency (IEA) ? a) Rishi Gupta sector before 2030 as the nation’s electricity a) Geothermal Energy b) Solar Energy b) Suresh Bharathi Mittal demand skyrockets, according to the c) Natural Gas d) Bio Gas c) Ashok Kumar Gupta International Energy Agency report? e) Wind Energy d) Atul Kumar Goel a) Japan b) Australia Q.74) Name the person who got resigned from e) Sudhir Mital c) India d) China the post of MD & CEO of Ashok Leyland, Q.58) Name the three new members was e) Russia recently? appointed by the government to the Central Q.66) The Reserve Bank has announced it has a) Vimal Kumar b) Anush Hinduja Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), which currently injected how much crore into the system c) Dheeraj Hinduja d) AbishekDiwari has only two members apart from the chairman. through purchase of government securities on e) Vinod Dasari a) Theena Kumar, Abishek Ranjan and Prasanth November 15, 2018? Q.75) According to the report by the World Kumar Dash a) Rs.40, 000 crore b) Rs.24, 000 crore Economic Fund on crime rates ‘Which? Travel’, b) Neena Kumar, Akhilesh Ranjan and Prasana c) Rs.15, 000 crore d) Rs.12, 000 crore which of the following country has topped the Kumar Dash e) Rs.10, 000 crore charts with a high risk of crime, health and c) Neena Kumar, Akash Ranjan and Prasana Q.67) Which of the following company has terrorism, recently? Kumar Dash announced the soft launch of its e-commerce a) Spain b) Turkey d) Heena Kumar, Akhilesh Ranjan and Prasanth portal to improve its revenue receipts, recently? c) Iceland d) UAE Kumar Dash a) Hindustan Newsprint e) South Africa e) Meena Kumar, Akshay Ranjan and Prasana b) National Textile Corporation Q.76) The United Nations Children's Fund-India Kumar Dash c) India Post (UNICEF-India) has appointed Asian Games Q.59) Which of the following state government d) National Small Industries Corporation gold-medalist sprinter Hima Das as the country's has started a dialogue for the purchase of 26 per e) Cotton Corporation of India first ever youth ambassador. Headquarters of cent equity shares of the Palatana gas thermal Q.68) Who has been appointed as the India UNICEF is in ______. power project from the Infrastructure Leasing operation head of Apple? a) Rome, Italy b) Paris, France and Financial Services (IL&FS), recently? a) Bhuvanesh Bansal b) Ashish Chowdhary c) Geneva, Switzerland d) New York, USA a) Mizoram b) Uttarakhand c) Akshay Ramesh d) Arnald Hook e) Washington D.C, USA c) Tripura d) Assam e) Binny Bansal Q.77) Who is the Director General of India Post? e) Manipur Q.69) Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Ltd a) Arul Kumar b) Meena Shakshi Q.60) According to a recent research published (ISPRL) has signed a Memorandum of c) Akshay Ramesh d) Praveen Ranga under the US-based organisation, National Understanding (MoU) in Abu Dhabi with the Abu e) Meera Handa bureau of economic research (NBER), which of Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) to explore Q.78) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the following city tops the “Index of Slowest the possibility of storing ADNOC crude oil at the Government of India has signed a how many Cities In Terms Of Traffic Speed” category? ISPRL’s underground oil storage facility at million dollar loan agreement to support lending a) Chennai b) Kolkata ______, which has a 2.5 million tonne capacity. by India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited c) Bangalore d) Pune a) Surat, Gujarat (IIFCL), recently? e) Mumbai b) Vizagapatam, Andhra Pradesh a) $600 Million b) $400 Million Q.61) According to the report by the World c) Padur, Karnataka c) $300 Million d) $500 Million Economic Fund on crime rates ‘Which? Travel’, d) Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh e) $800 Million which of the following country has topped the e) Puri, Odisha Q.79) Which of the following Credit rating charts with the lowest risk of a natural disaster Q.70) Who has been appointed as the Non- agency has affirmed India's 'Long-Term Foreign- as well as crime rates, recently? Executive Director of Vodafone Group Plc? Currency Issuer Default Rating' (IDR) at 'BBB-' a) Spain b) Australia a) Norman Clive with a stable outlook, recently? c) Iceland d) UAE b) Williams Sonoma a) ICRA b) Standard & Poor’s e) Singapore c) Sanjiv Ahuja c) Moody’s d) Fitch Q.62) A crucial meeting of trade ministers of d) Cadbury Schweppes e) Nomura RCEP member countries, including India and e) Gerard Kleisterlee Q.80) Name the person who got resigned from China, took place in ______on November 12- Q.71) The Reserve Bank of India has imposed a the post of Non-Executive Chairman of Yes 13. penalty of over how much crore rupees on Bank, recently. a) India b) Australia Deutsche Bank and also Jammu & Kashmir Bank a) Akash Ranjan b) Sanjiv Ahuja c) Argentina d) UAE Ltd for non-compliance of various norms, c) Ashok Chawla d) Norman Clive e) Singapore including asset classification and KYC? e) Williams Sonoma Q.63) Who has been appointed as the Chief a) Rs.5 crore b) Rs.4 crore Q.81) Who is the President of Asian Representative of Bank for International c) Rs.6 crore d) Rs.2 crore Development Bank? Settlements (BIS) for the Asia and the Pacific e) Rs.3 crore a) JinLiqun b) K. V. Kamath region? Q.72) Which of the following private sector bank c) KimimasaTarumizu d) Haruhiko Kuroda a) Arun Goel b) R Gandhi has launched its ‘Nexxt Credit Card' - India's e) Takehiko Nakao ______

Q.82) Sunil Mehta committee has released the a) Chennai b) Kolkata Q.99) Who is the Chairman of Goods and statement for formation of an Asset c) Srinagar d) Pune Services Tax Network (GSTN) ? Management Company (AMC) for resolving large e) Ranipet a) Shashi Tharoor bad loans has been formed and will be called as Q.91) Who has been appointed as the CEO of b) Hasmukh Adhia ______. Google Cloud? c) Ajay Narayan Jha a) Sashakt India Asset Management a) Thyagu Raj b) Sundar Ramesh d) Girish Chandra Murmu b) Sashakt Internal Asset Management c) Daniel Hook d) Thomas Kurian e) Ajay Bhushan Pandey c) Sashakt Invest Asset Management e) Diane Greene Q.100) The Asian Development Bank is a d) Sashakt Identify Asset Management Q.92) Which of the following state is the third regional development bank established on 19 e) Sashakt Investors Asset Management state in the country after Gujarat and December 1966, which is headquartered in the Q.83) Who has been appointed as the interim Maharashtra where hookah bars or lounges were Ortigas Center located in the city of ______. Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Infosys? banned through law, recently? a) Moscow, Russia a) Mahesh Kumar b) Shashi Tharoor a) Karnataka b) Uttar Pradesh b) Washington D.C, USA c) Jayaram d) Jayesh Sanghrajka c) Uttarakhand d) Madhya Pradesh c) Beijing, China e) Ranganath e) Punjab d) Mandaluyong, Philippines Q.84) Online fashion retailer Myntra has Q.93) 'Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana ' (PMAY) is e) Shanghai, China revealed plans to integrate its sister firm, _____ an initiative by Government of India in which Q.101) The National Stock Exchange of India with itself, recently. affordable housing will be provided to the urban (NSE) has announced the launch of its new a) Indiamart b) Shopclues poor with a target of building 20 million mobile app and web-based platform named c) Jabong d) Flipkart affordable houses by ______. ______for retail investors to buy government e) Limeroad a) 31 June 2022 b) 31 March 2022 securities. Q.85) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and c) 31 July 2022 d) 31 August 2022 a) ‘NSE goTID’ b) ‘NSE goID’ the Government of India has signed a $105 e) 31 December 2022 c) ‘NSE goDID’ d) ‘NSE goBID’ million loan to continue financing the Q.94) Who is the CEO of Online fashion retailer e) ‘NSE goesBID’ transmission system upgrades in which of the Myntra? Q.102) What is the rank of India in a global following state for increased supply of a) Suresh Mittal b) Sudeep Krishnan survey released by IMD Business School hydropower to the state and the national grid? c) Binny Bansal d) Ananth Narayanan Switzerland on fostering and attracting talent a) Andhra Pradesh b) Karnataka e) Kalyan Krishnamurthy named ‘IMD World Talent Ranking 2018’? c) Himachal Pradesh d) Uttarakhand Q.95) According to the report by the World a) 120th b) 111th e) Uttar Pradesh Economic Fund on crime rates ‘Which? Travel’, c) 53rd d) 55th Q.86) Who has been appointed as the New what is the rank of India in the most dangerous e) 48th Revenue Secretary of Unique Identification country to visit, recently? Q.103) The Government of India, the Authority of India (UIDAI) ? a) 7th b) 8th Government of Jharkhand and which bank a) Shashi Tharoor c) 12th d) 2nd signed a $310 million Loan Agreement for b) Hasmukh Adhia e) 4th Jharkhand Power System Improvement Project c) Ajay Bhushan Pandey Q.96) Housing finance firm HDFC has disbursed to provide reliable, quality, and affordable 24x7 d) Girish Chandra Murmu over how much crore rupees subsidy to over 51, electricity to the citizens of Jharkhand, recently? e) Ajay Narayan Jha 000 customers under the government's flagship a) World Bank b) IMF Q.87) Which of the following bank has scheme Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), c) AIIB d) ADB introduced a new Savings Bank (SB) scheme ‘SB recently? e) NDB – TASC’, a specialised product for trusts, a) Rs.7, 100 crore b) Rs.5, 100 crore Q.104) Kerala’s startup ecosystem got a major associates, societies and clubs, it will aim at on- c) Rs.1, 100 crore d) Rs.2, 100 crore fillip as the state government has signed a boarding additional 4 lakh-plus customers to its e) Rs.3, 100 crore Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with existing customer base of 1 crore? Q.97) SBICAP Ventures (SVL), an alternative which company to provide support and a) Axis Bank b) IndusInd Bank asset manager and a wholly owned subsidiary of mentoring for startups in Kerala and also for c) Karur Vysya Bank d) Karnataka Bank SBI Capital Markets has launched two funds for setting up Aerospace Innovation Centre in e) Kotak Mahindra Bank ______and ______. Thiruvananthapuram? Q.88) Who has resigned as an external expert of a) Large & Medium Enterprises (LMEs) and a) RK Aerospace the 'Search and Selection Committee' which has Affordable Housing Sectors b) Boeing India Private Limited been set up to find a successor to the Yes Bank’s b) Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and c) Airbus BizLab MD and CEO Rana Kapoor? Affordable Housing Sectors d) Titan Aviation India a) Jalal Srivastava b) Sanjay Kumar c) Small Scale Enterprises (SSEs) and Insurance e) Avian Aerospace c) OP Bhatt d) Sunil Mehta Sectors Q.105) Who was appointed as the full-time chief e) Ajay Bhushan d) Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) ? Q.89) India Infrastructure Finance Company Health Welfare Sectors a) Karnal Singh Limited (IIFCL) was set up in 2006 to provide e) Large & Medium Enterprises (LMEs) and b) Sundar Ramesh long term debt for infrastructure projects. Its Health Welfare Sectors c) Daniel Hook headquarters is in ______. Q.98) Who has been appointed as the chairman d) Sanjay Kumar Mishra a) Hyderabad b) Mumbai of the Inland Waterways Authority of India e) Thyagu Raj c) New Delhi d) Bangalore (IWAI) ? Q.106) Name the Indian-American ranks 12th in e) Greater Noida a) Mohammed AlNahayan the 2018 Fortune Business Person of the Year Q.90) According to a recent research published b) Jalaj Srivastava list “delivering on the bottom line and beyond”? under the US-based organisation, National c) Anwar Jalalpuri a) Jensen Huang b) Shantanu Narayen bureau of economic research (NBER), which of d) Rakesh Srivastava c) Dan Schulman d) Jeff Bezos the following city tops the “Index of Fastest e) Shaikh Tahnoun Bin e) Francois-Henri Pinault Cities In Terms Of Traffic Speed” category? ______

Q.107) Name the independent director of Yes fostering and attracting talent named ‘IMD World a) New Delhi, India Bank who got resigned recently? Talent Ranking 2018’? b) Mumbai, Maharashtra a) Rakesh Srivastava b) Vasant Gujarathi a) Japan b) Indonesia c) Bangalore, Karnataka c) Anwar Jalalpuri c) Singapore d) China d) Noida, Uttar Pradesh d) Shaikh Tahnoun Bin e) Chandrashekhar e) Thailand e) Jaipur, Rajasthan Q.108) Which of the following company said that Q.116) UK India Business Council (UKIBC) has Q.125) Who won the Lifetime Achievement it will acquire Cylance, an Artificial Intelligence released its ‘4th Annual Ease of Doing Business Award in 8th Forbes India Leadership Awards (AI) and cybersecurity company, for $1.4 billion in India Report: The UK Perspective’, what is the (FILA) held in Mumbai? in cash to help expand its QNX unit that makes percent of those responding intend to direct this a) Vivek ChaandSehga b) Sanjiv Mehta software for next-generation autonomous cars, new investment eastwards – seeking new c) Rajeev Jain d) Azim Premji recently? opportunities in states such as West Bengal, e) Vivek ChaandSehga a) Micromax b) BlackBerry Assam, Meghalaya, and Manipur? Q.126) The Reserve Bank of India had issue c) Nokia d) Intex a) 15% b) 48% Rs.100 denomination banknotes in the Mahatma e) OnePlus c) 30% d) 25% Gandhi (New) Series. Dimension of the banknote Q.109) The Aadhaar data is collected by the e) 46% is ______. Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), Q.117) Which of the following Company has a) 63 mm x 127 mm b) 66 mm x 142 mm a statutory authority established in January partnered with the Life Insurance Corporation of c) 63 mm x 124 mm d) 66 mm x 123 mm 2009 by the government of India, under the India (LIC) to offer online insurance premium e) 63 mm x 123 mm jurisdiction of the Ministry of Electronics and payments on its platform, recently? Q.127) As per the Organization for Economic Information Technology. Its headquarters is in a) Paytm b) Mobikwik Cooperation & Development (OECD) has ______. c) Phonepe d) Google Pay released its Economic Outlook 2018 report, what a) Hyderabad b) Mumbai e) Lazypay is the percent of India’s GDP growth in 2020? c) Chennai d) Bangalore Q.118) Who has been appointed as acting a) 7.3% b) 7.4% e) New Delhi Executive Director of United Nations c) 7.5% d) 7.7% Q.110) Under which rule of CGST Rules, 2017 Environment Programme (UNEP) ? e) 7.8% provides the details of e-way bill mechanism? a) James Hook b) Abhijit Bose Q.128) Who was appointed as the first ‘Youth a) Rule 139 b) Rule 135 c) Erik Solheim d) Joyce Msuya Advocate’ of the north eastern region by the c) Rule 136 d) Rule 138 e) Junita Merlin United Nations Children’s Fund, (UNICEF) to e) Rule 132 Q.119) As per the 6th edition & 2019 version of fight for child rights at an event held in Q.111) RBI has decided to set up an expert India Skills Report, which of the following state Guwahati, recently? committee to examine the central bank’s ECF to topped the list of states with the highest a) Roopa Revathi b) Nahid Afrin enable transfer of reserve worth Rs 3.6 lakh employability, recently? c) Sidharth Rath d) Najim Arshad crore to Government of India. Expand the term a) Rajasthan b) Haryana e) Sunanda Sharma ECF. c) Andhra Pradesh d) Uttar Pradesh Q.129) Who has been appointed as the brand a) Expert Capital Framework e) Karnataka ambassador of Uber Eats? b) External Capital Framework Q.120) Which of the small finance bank has a) Deepika Padukone b) Alia Bhatt c) Economic Capital Framework introduced a new personal loan scheme for c) Sachin Tendulkar d) M S Dhoni d) Enabled Capital Framework salaried individuals, recently? e) Aishwarya Bachchan e) Electronic Capital Framework a) Equitas Small Finance Bank Q.130) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has Q.112) Which of the following person topped the b) Jana Small Finance Bank directed banks to link the SWIFT (Society for 2018 Fortune Business Person of the Year list c) Ujjivan Small Finance Bank World Interbank Financial Telecommunication “delivering on the bottom line and beyond”? d) AU Small Finance Bank System platform) with the Core Banking a) Jensen Huang b) Shantanu Narayen e) Fincare Small Finance Bank Solutions (CBS) of banks by ______. c) Tricia Griffith d) Jeff Bezos Q.121) In which place 1st offshore wind a) June 30, 2018 b) April 30, 2018 e) Francois-Henri Pinault investment conference held? c) May 30, 2018 d) July 30, 2018 Q.113) Airports Authority of India (AAI) has a) New Delhi b) Mumbai e) August 30, 2018 partnered up with the US Trade and c) Bangalore d) Noida Q.131) Headquarters of Ujjivan Small Finance Development Agency (USTDA) to develop a e) Jaipur Bank is in ______. roadmap for modernisation of its air traffic Q.122) Which of the following insurance a) New Delhi, India services. Who is the acting director of USTDA? company has set up a remote sensing lab for b) Mumbai, Maharashtra a) Sarah Fandell b) Peter C. Barrett crop insurance, that help in early detection of c) Bangalore, Karnataka c) Thomas R. Hardy d) Todd Abrajano information and will be used to alert the d) Chennai, Tamil Nadu e) Diana Harbison farmers, recently? e) Jaipur, Rajasthan Q.114) ______is a form of a guarantee a) IFFCO Tokio General Insurance Q.132) According to the 2017-18 annual report issued by a banking entity to a person b) Future Generali India Insurance of Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY), which concerned for availing short term credit from the c) Bajaj Allianz General Insurance of the following organisation has sanctioned overseas branch of an Indian bank. d) HDFC ERGO General Insurance Mudra loans under PMMY, grew faster than a) Balance of Payments e) Cholamandalam MS General Insurance commercial banks in FY 2018? b) Letter of Credit Q.123) European Investment Bank (EIB) and a) Payments Banks c) Letter of Undertaking which of the following bank has agreed to b) Small Finance Banks c) NBFC d) Letter of Underwriting cooperate on financing renewable energy and d) SIDBI e) NABARD e) Line of Credit wind energy projects across India, recently? Q.133) Headquarters of European Investment Q.115) Which of the following country has a) HDFC Bank b) ICICI Bank Bank (EIB) is in ______. topped the list in terms of Asian Country c) State Bank of India d) Bank of Baroda a) France b) Luxembourg released by IMD Business School Switzerland on e) Bank of India c) USA d) Kenya Q.124) Headquarters of Paytm is in ______. e) Switzerland ______

Q.134) Who is the Chairman of HDFC ERGO c) Rs.2, 00, 000 d) Rs.5, 00, 000 a) Section 24 of the Banking Regulation Act, General Insurance? e) Rs.1, 50, 000 1949 a) Girish Radhakrishnan Q.143) Headquarters of United Nations b) Section 20 of the Banking Regulation Act, b) Ashwani Kumar Arora Environment Programme is in ______. 1949 c) Deepak S. Parekh a) Paris, France b) Rome, Italy c) Section 42 of the RBI Act, 1934 d) Saket Singhal c) Washington D.C, USA d) Nairobi, Kenya d) Section 42 of Negotiable Instruments Act e) Praveen Gupta e) Geneva, Switzerland e) Section 28 of the RBI Act, 1934 Q.135) Which of the following organisation has Q.144) According to the 2017-18 annual report Q.152) NEFT is an electronic fund transfer launched 'Samridhhi - the virtual assistant' on of Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY), in the system that operates on a DNS basis which banks revamped universal loan portal financial year 2017-18, overall loans worth settles transactions in batches. Expand the term www.udyamimitra.in, recently? ______were classified as Mudra loans. DNS? a) NABARD b) NHB a) Rs 3.54 lakh crore a) Domain Net Settlement (DNS) c) SIDBI d) SEBI b) Rs 2.54 lakh crore b) Defined Net Settlement (DNS) e) RBI c) Rs 4.54 lakh crore c) Declared Net Settlement (DNS) Q.136) Name the enterprise where investment d) Rs 6.54 lakh crore d) Deferred Net Settlement (DNS) in plant and machinery does not exceed Rs. 25 e) Rs 1.54 lakh crore e) Declined Net Settlement (DNS) lakhs. Q.145) In NEFT transaction what is the Q.153) The Committee to review arrangements a) Small enterprise b) Medium enterprise maximum limit of amount for Indo –Nepal for Institutional Credit for Agriculture and Rural c) Micro enterprise d) either a or c Remittance? Development (CRAFICARD), set up by the RBI e) None of these a) Rs.30, 000 b) Rs.20, 000 under the chairmanship of ______. Q.137) According to the 2017-18 annual report c) Rs.2, 50, 000 d) Rs.50, 000 a) Aravind Mathur b) D. Raman of Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY), which e) Rs.3, 50, 000 c) A. Ram Kumar d) Ajay Shankar of the following bank was the top lender among Q.146) A legal agreement between the lender e) B. Sivaraman Small Finance Banks (SFBs) ? and borrower where the real estate property is Q.154) As per the RBI guidelines, what is the a) Equitas Small Finance Bank used as a collateral for the loan is termed as minimum amount of deposit into/withdrawal b) Jana Small Finance Bank ______. from currency chest? c) AU Small Finance Bank a) Refinance b) Reverse Mortgage a) Rs.3, 00, 000 b) Rs.1, 50, 000 d) Ujjivan Small Finance Bank c) Repossession d) Mortgage c) Rs.2, 00, 000 d) Rs.1, 00, 000 e) Fincare Small Finance Bank e) None of these e) Rs.5, 00, 000 Q.138) Name the account which is provided by a Q.147) The “Ease of Doing Business Report” is Q.155) The Banking Codes and Standards Board bank or other financial institutions for individuals meant to measure regulations directly affecting of India (BCSBI) is an independent banking to save money and earn the modest interest for businesses and does not directly measure more industry watchdog that protects consumers of that money held in the account. general conditions such as a nation's proximity banking services in India. It was set up by a) Fixed Deposit Account to large markets, quality of infrastructure, ______, under the recommendation of Shri b) Recurring Account inflation, or crime. This Report is prepared by S.S.Tarapore committee. c) Savings Bank Account which of the following organizations every year? a) SEBI b) Ministry of Finance d) Current Account a) Asian Development Bank (ADB) c) RBI d) GOI e) None of these b) World Bank (WB) e) NPCI Q.139) Who is the chairman of Life Insurance c) New Development Bank (NDB) Q.156) AU Small Finance Bank is an Indian Corporation of India? d) World Trade Organization (WTO) commercial bank that was founded as vehicle a) Ranjit Singh e) International Monetary Fund (IMF) finance company Au Financiers (India) Ltd in b) V.K. Sharma Q.148) Name the account in which balances held 1996 and converted to a small finance bank on c) Anurudha Biswas in the account are freely repatriable. 19 April 2017. Its headquarters is in ______. d) Vijay Shekhar Sharma a) Non-Resident Rupee or NRE Account a) New Delhi, India e) Surender Kumar b) Non-Resident Ordinary Rupee or NRO Account b) Mumbai, Maharashtra Q.140) The SARFAESI Act 2002 which empowers c) Retail Account d) Both a and b c) Bangalore, Karnataka Banks or Financial Institutions to recover their e) Both b and c d) Noida, Uttar Pradesh non-performing assets (bad loans) without the Q.149) According to the 2017-18 annual report e) Jaipur, Rajasthan intervention of the Court. In “SARFAESI”, “E” of Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY), which Q.157) Mumbai based ECGC Limited (Formerly stands for ____. of the following bank was the top lender among Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India a) Enforcement b) Enabled state-run banks in India? Ltd) is a company wholly owned by ______c) Established d) External a) Punjab National Bank and is controlled by the Ministry of Commerce. e) Electronic b) Canara Bank a) RBI b) GOI Q.141) World’s first Bitcoin ATM has opened in c) Bank of Baroda c) IRDAI d) NABARD which country, that allows users to exchange d) State Bank of India e) SEBI their credits of the digital currency for cash and e) Syndicate Bank Q.158) If an ECS transaction gets bounced and vice-versa? Q.150) Micro Units Development and Refinance you are unable to recover your money from your a) Australia b) Brazil Agency Bank (MUDRA Bank) is a Non-Banking customer. Under which of the following Act c) Canada d) UK Finance Company as MUDRA Ltd has been set up criminal action can be solved/initiated? e) USA as under a subsidiary of ______. a) Negotiable Instrument Act, 1881 Q.142) Under the Deposit Insurance and Credit a) SIDBI b) IDBI b) Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007 Guarantee Corporation Act, 1961, DICGC insures c) RBI d) NABARD c) PMLA, 2002 all bank deposits, such as saving, fixed, current, e) SBI d) Indian Companies Act, 1956 Recurring deposit. It guarantees amount up to Q.151) Scheduled banks are required to keep e) RBI Act, 1934 ______per depositor per bank. cash reserve with RBI, in terms of ______. Q.159) The Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) is an a) Rs.1, 00, 000 b) Rs.3, 00, 000 association of Indian banks and financial ______

institutions. The Headquarters of IBA is in customers may access their bank account and Q.175) GST council is a governing body to ______. perform basic transactions from any of the regulate and direct each and every step for the a) Mumbai b) New Delhi member branch offices. implementation of goods and service tax in the c) Bangalore d) Hyderabad a) Investment Baking b) Core Banking nation with decisions over tax rates and further e) Chennai c) Specialised Banking d) Mobile Banking implementation measures. Who is the Chairman Q.160) As per the provisions of which act all e) Corporate Banking of GST council? financial institutions have to maintain a record Q.168) The DIPP was established in 1995 under a) Union Finance Minister for all form of transactions? the Ministry of Commerce and Industry as a b) Union Finance Secretary a) Companies Act, 1956 nodal agency for design and facilitation of c) Home Minister of India b) Credit Information (Companies Regulation industrial, trade and commerce policies. What is d) Ministry of Commerce Act, 2005) the full form of DIPP? e) Ministry of Corporate Affairs c) Information Technology Act, 2000 a) Department of Investment Policy and Q.176) APBS is a unique payment system d) PMLA Act, 2002 Promotion implemented by National Payments Corporation e) RBI Act, 1934 b) Department of Innovation Policy and of India (NPCI). In APBS, “B” stands for _____ Q.161) Security Printing and Minting Corporation Promotion a) Bank b) Bill of India (SPMCIL) is a Mini-Ratna Central Public c) Department of Industry Policy and Promotion c) Base d) Bridge Sector Enterprise (CPSE) and wholly owned by d) Department of Industrial Policy and e) Balance Government of India. The Headquarters of Partnership Q.177) Telecom Regulatory Authority of India SPMCIL is in ______. e) Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (TRAI) has set a maximum ceiling rate of a) Mumbai b) New Delhi Q.169) Which of the following organisation’s ______per transaction for using the *99# c) Bangalore d) Kolkata function as the authorized Bharat Bill Payment service. e) Hyderabad Central Unit (BBPCU), that will be responsible for a) Rs.1 b) Rs.5.50 Q.162) What is meant by a Demat Accounts in setting business standards, rules and procedures c) Rs.3.50 d) Rs.2.50 economy & financial terms? for technical and business requirements for all e) Rs.1.50 a) Accounts which are opened by Senior Citizens the participants? Q.178) Employee's State Insurance (ESI) is a b) Accounts which are operated through internet a) RBI b) SIDBI self-financing social security and health banking facility c) SEBI d) NPCI insurance scheme for Indian workers. Its c) Accounts in which shares of various e) NABARD headquarters is in ______. companies are traded in electronic form Q.170) The Swiss National Bank (SNB) is the a) Chennai b) Bangalore d) Zero Balance Accounts central bank of Switzerland. The Headquarters of c) Mumbai d) Hyderabad e) Accounts which are opened to facilitate Swiss National Bank is in ______. e) New Delhi repayment of a loan taken from the bank a) Bern b) Geneva Q.179) The Financial Stability Board (FSB) is an Q.163) In Section 48 of Reserve Bank of India c) Zurich d) Both a and b international body that monitors and makes Act, 1934 deals with ______. e) Both a and c recommendations about the global financial a) Selling of Government Securities Q.171) Under the priority sector, what is the system. The headquarters of FSB is in b) Exemption of Bank from income-tax and bank loan limit per borrower for building social ______. super-tax infrastructure? a) Washington DC, US c) Emergency loans to banks a) Rs.40 million b) Rs.50 million b) Beijing, China d) Issuing of Currency notes c) Rs.20 million d) Rs.10 million c) Russia, Moscow e) Issuing & accepting of Promissory notes e) Rs.15 million d) Shanghai, China Q.164) Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY) is Q.172) As per the RBI guidelines, what is the e) Basel, Switzerland a scheme launched by the Prime Minister on prescribed ceiling rate for Mobile Banking Q.180) Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY) is April 8, 2015 for providing loans upto 10 lakh to Services per transaction for financial a scheme for providing loans upto 10 lakh to the the non-corporate, non-farm small/micro transactions using *99# service? non-corporate, non-farm small/micro enterprises. Under this Yojana “Shishu” is a) Rs.2000 b) Rs.5000 enterprises. Under this Yojana “Tarun” is covering loans upto ______. c) Rs.3000 d) Rs.4000 covering loans upto ______. a) Upto Rs. 25, 000 e) Rs.10, 000 a) Upto Rs. 25, 000 b) No limit Q.173) The Asian Infrastructure Investment b) No limit c) Upto Rs.50, 000 Bank (AIIB) is a multilateral development bank c) Upto Rs.50, 000 d) above Rs.50, 000 and upto Rs.5 lakh that aims to support the building of d) above Rs.50, 000 and upto Rs.5 lakh e) above Rs.5 lakh and upto Rs.10 lakh infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region. The e) above Rs.5 lakh and upto Rs.10 lakh Q.165) India’s first ‘talking’ ATM for visually headquarters of AIIB is in ______. Q.181) National Electronic Funds Transfer impaired was launched by the Union Bank of a) Vienna, Austria (NEFT) is a nation-wide payment system India. It is located in which city of India? b) Beijing, China facilitating one-to-one funds transfer. Which of a) Kolkata b) Pune c) Manila, Philippines the following is not mandatory for a NEFT c) Ahmedabad d) New Delhi d) Shanghai, China transaction? e) Bangalore e) Russia, Moscow a) IFSC code Q.166) As per the RBI Guidelines, Commercial Q.174) Which of the following company has won b) MICR code Papers can be issued for maturities between a the CII-Exim Bank Business Excellence Award, c) Funds Recipient’s Bank account number minimum of 7 days and a maximum up to for being a role-model organization, at the d) Funds Recipient’s Bank account name ______from the date of issue. Quality Summit held in Bengaluru, recently? e) Both a and d a) Four years b) Three years a) Honeywell Q.182) In which section of Reserve Bank of India c) Two years d) One year b) Bharat Electronics Ltd Act, 1934 that allows the RBI to form rules e) Five years c) Bosch regarding the exchange of damaged and Q.167) ______is a banking service provided d) Bharat Earth Movers Limited imperfect notes? by a group of networked bank branches where e) Reliance Industries a) Section 19 b) Section 21 ______

c) Section 28 d) Section 34 a) Twelve b) Six d) above Rs.50, 000 and upto Rs.5 lakh e) Section 42 c) Ten d) Fifteen e) above Rs.5 lakh and upto Rs.10 lakh Q.183) Under the priority sector, what is the e) Thirteen SIMPLIFICATION bank loan limit for renewable energy per Q.193) Which of the following committee has D.1-75) What will come in place of question borrower? recommended the merger of large Indian banks mark in the following questions a) Rs. 450 million b) Rs. 150 million to make them strong? Q.1) (13.5 × 2 × 14) − (3.5 × 2 × (1.4 + 3.6)) = (? )3 c) Rs. 350 million d) Rs. 100 million a) Narasimham -II Committee a) 5 b) 4 c) 9 e) Rs. 250 million b) M K Jain Committee d) 7 e) 2 Q.184) The Nainital Bank Limited (NTB) is a c) A Ghosh Committee Q.2) √3 9261 × √4 4096 + (? ) = (3.25 × 4)2 scheduled commercial bank founded in 1922 d) Narasimham -I Committee a) 6 b) 5 c) 4 under subsidiary of which bank? e) A C Shah Committee d) 3 e) 1 a) State Bank of India b) Bank of India Q.194) NABARD bank does not provide refinance 817 3731 703 Q.3) × × = 37 × 91 × (? ) c) Union Bank of India d) Bank of Baroda to which of the following banks in India? 41 19 43 a) 30 b) 29 c) 19 e) Canara Bank a) Regional rural banks d) 17 e) 41 Q.185) Which of the following method is used for b) State Cooperative Banks Q.4) 143 + (5.6 × 2 × 5) = ((1.0 + 0.75) × 4) × (? ) the transferring funds using Unified Payment c) State land development banks Interface (UPI) ? d) Export-import bank a) 190 b) 290 c) 350 a) Aadhaar Number e) Scheduled commercial banks d) 400 e) 409 ( )2 ( ) ( )2 b) Account Number + IFSC Q.195) Under the priority sector, Loans to Q.5) 12.5% 표푓 2120 − ? = 31 + 33 × 2 c) Mobile Number + MMID individuals up to ______in metropolitan centres a) 9 b) 12 c) 36 d) QR code (with the population of ten lakh and above). d) 256 e) 3 3 2 e) All of the above a) Rs.1.5 million b) Rs.2.5 million Q.6) (450 ÷ √5832) = (5 × 12.5 × (? )) Q.186) In which section of Banking Regulation c) Rs.3.5 million d) Rs.5.5 million a) 8 b) 10 c) 12 Act, 1949 related with amalgamation of two e) Rs.4.5 million d) 14 e) 16 banking companies? Q.196) The Institute of International Finance, Q.7) 16% 표푓 2460 − (? ) = (1.4 × 0.625 × 8)3 a) Section 110 A b) Section 44A Inc. (IIF) is a global association or trade group a) 50.6 b) 49.3 c) 46.12 c) Section 39A d) Section 20C of financial institutions. The headquarters of IIF d) 52.8 e) 50 e) Section 121C is in ______. Q.8) 9373 × 9.4 × 5 = 103 × (5.875 × 5 + 17.625) × Q.187) The Employees’ State Insurance a) Shanghai, China (? ) Corporation (ESIC) has raised the monthly wage b) Beijing, China a) 70 b) 101 c) 85 limit to ______, from the existing Rs. 15, c) Geneva, Switzerland d) 81 e) 91 1276 000, for coverage with effect from 1 January d) Washington D.C, USA Q.9) 16.5% 표푓 6520 + = (2.75 × 4)3 ? 2017. e) Russia, Moscow a) 5 b) 7 c) 2 a) Rs.18, 000 b) Rs.25, 000 Q.197) Permanent Account Number (PAN) is a d) 12 e) 20

c) Rs.21, 000 d) Rs.17, 000 code that acts as an identification for individuals, 420 2 ? Q.10) ( ) + = (5.125 × 800) e) Rs.30, 000 families and corporates (Indian and Foreign as 12 2 Q.188) A transfer of money from a foreign well), especially those who pay Income Tax. In a) 3000 b) 5750 c) 2700 worker to their families or other individuals in PAN code, If the fourth letter is H, then it d) 2800 e) 3200 12 (2×55.5×( −2))−3 their home countries is known as ______. denotes ______Q.11) 1.5 + (6.125 × (1.2 + 0.4) ×? ) = 13 a) Inward Remittance a) Company (999.09 ÷ 99.909) × 10 b) Outward Remittance b) Firm a) 5 b) 8 c) 12 c) Commercial banking c) Hindu Undivided Family d) 20 e) 24 d) Wholesale banking d) Trust 3 160 2 Q.12) √(( ) + (29.5 × 2) + (1.25 × 320) = (? ) e) Foreign Remittance e) Individual 2 Q.189) In Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account, Q.198) Short-term finance for industries a) 29 b) 21 c) 19 balance in such accounts at any point of time includes those financial resources which are d) 17 e) 13 should not exceed ______. advanced by hanks to the industries for a period Q.13) 18.5 % 표푓 2640 + √6561 + 0.0033 ÷ 0.0005 = a) Rs.75, 000 b) Rs.1, 00, 000 of less than ______. (? )2 c) Rs.10, 000 d) Rs.25, 000 a) 4 years b) 2 years a) 16 b) 18 c) 14 e) Rs.50, 000 c) 3 years d) 12 months d) 26 e) 24 Q.190) In which section of Reserve Bank of India e) 6 months Q.14) 12% 표푓 6420 − (? )% 표푓 1035 = (1.125 × Act, 1934 deals with emergency loans to Banks? Q.199) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is 3 (32 − 22 + 3)) a) Section 17 b) Section 28 India's central banking institution, which controls a) 8 b) 12 c) 2 c) Section 22 d) Section 24 the monetary policy of the Indian rupee. What d) 6 e) 4 e) Section 18 was the initial share capital of RBI? Q.15) 32% 표푓 7520 + (625)% 표푓(? ) − 0.024 = Q.191) Kotak Mahindra has acquired ING Vysya a) Rs.15 crore b) Rs.10 crore 10×10×10+10 2 −5 ( 2 ) bank, to become India’s 4th Largest Private c) Rs.5 crore d) Rs.20 crore 10 Sector Bank, the headquarters of ING Vysya e) Rs.50 crore a) 12.456 b) 24.876 c) 14.979 bank is in ______. Q.200) Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY) is d) 17.890 e) 19.34

a) Chennai b) Bangalore a scheme for providing loans upto 10 lakh to the 2 576 3 512 ? Q.16) √ + √ + √ = 3 c) Mumbai d) Hyderabad non-corporate, non-farm small/micro 169 2197 12.9+0.1 e) New Delhi enterprises. Under this Yojana “Kishor” is a) 72 b) 64 c) 36 Q.192) National Payments Corporation of India covering loans upto ______. d) 49 e) 26 (NPCI) is an umbrella organisation for operating a) Upto Rs. 25, 000 Q.17) 12.75 × 300 + 21.4 × 125 + 224 × 11.5 = (? ) × retail payments and settlement systems in India. b) No limit 2269 How many promoter banks are there in NPCI? c) Upto Rs.50, 000 a) 5 b) 4 c) 3 ______

d) 7 e) 8 d) 128 e) 124 d) 24 e) 36 95×97−57×23−78×36 2 3 2 3 3 Q.37) = 159.25 × (? ) Q.56) (13 − 4 ) × 1.25 + (14 − 5 ) × 2.25 = (? ) Q.18) √√676 + (20.0025 + 3.9975) + (1.75 × 8) = 4 a) 8 b) 9 c) 4 a) 180 b) 189 c) 271 (? )2 d) 7 e) 6 d) 291 e) 280 a) 6 b) 4 c) 3 Q.57) 10609 + (18.2 × 5) + 2.5% 표푓 80 = (? )2 Q.38) √6724 × 0.25 + (? ) × 63 = 14.375 × 8 √ d) 2 e) 1 a) 1.4 b) 1.5 c) 1.6 a) 14 b) 15 c) 24 Q.19) 8765+4487+ (?) =7654+891+5987 d) 1.8 e) 2.1 d) 21 e) 17 a) 1280 c) 1380 c) 2160 2881 8633 1853 Q.39) 3 10648 + 3 3375 = ? Q.58) (? ) + + + = (18.6% 표푓 1500) d) 1189 e) 1980 √ √ √ 43 89 109 1 5 2 7 a) 1525 b) 1630 c) 1635 a) 100 b) 108 c) 92 Q.20) 11 + 7 −? = 5 + 2 9 6 3 18 d) 1640 e) 1369 d) 102 e) 98 1 2 8 a) 11 b) 13 c) 10 3 9 3 9 Q.40) 80% 표푓 160 + (2.125 × 128) = (? ) ^2 Q.59) √4913 × 3.5 + √361 × (? ) = 107 5 d) 11 e) None of these a) 0.5 b) 1.5 c) 2.5 18 a) 29 b) 20 c) 42 1 Q.21) 69 × + 435 × (? ) = (1204 + 2036) ÷ 8 + d) 26 e) 400 d) 5 e) 7.5 1.5 4032 1305 1071 2 Q.41) Q.60) × × = 6720 (9 − 5) 87 ? 63 7646+39.847+0.383+3841.3+4681.47+791= a) 2 b) 15 c) 25 a) 190 b) 140 c) 122 (?) × (2.125×4) d) 4 e) 1 d) 153 e) 173 a) 1000 b) 2000 c) 3000 54×63−26×23 Q.22) 749 × 23 + 348 × 12 + 4379 = (? ) + 162 × 100 Q.61) = (87.625 × 8 × (? ) ) d) 4000 e) 2400 2 a) 178 b) 109 c) 198 a) 2 b) 4 c) 6 Q.42) 198.89 + 32.87 = (? ) − 173.98 − 263.9 −30.36 d) 182 e) 118 d) 8 e) 10 a) 170 b) 180 c) 700 Q.23) 52 × 10387 = (? ) × 47 × 13 Q.62) √5184 + 263 + 352 = 6 × (? ) d) 190 e) 600 a) 820 b) 818 c) 884 a) 2000 b) 3000 c) 4500 Q.43) (8.5 × 126 + 2.3 × 130) = 342.5 × (? ) d) 821 e) 819 d) 1700 e) 1800 a) 4 b) 5 c) 8 Q.24) 321 × 13 + 17 × 123 = 193 − (? ) 17024 31848 Q.63) × + 72 = 0.125 × (? ) d) 7 e) 6 896 2654 a) 956 b) 595 c) 560 Q. 44) (13.9)2 + (16)2 = (? ) + (14.9)2 a) 2300 b) 2800 c) 3000 d) 558 e) 572 d) 2400 e) 5400 (18×23+27×(?) ) a) 227.0 b) 227.2 c) 267.2 Q.25) = 2.65 × 120 + 2.625 × 8 × 9 3 d) 129.8 e) 227.8 Q.64) 38.26 × 12 + 68.24 × 2.5 = 0.365 × 1200 + (? ) a) 21 b) 12 c) 41 Q. 45) (27% of 1450) − (? ) + (37% of 1850) a) 199.12 b) 189.39 c) 121.12 d) 13 e) 60 = 45% of 2040 d) 191.72 e) 120.35 Q.26) 3.358 × 125 + 25 × 7.85 = (0.4375 × 16 + 70) × a) 120 b) 124 c) 143 Q.65) 12% 표푓 3654 + 34% 표푓 4820 = (? ) + 77.28 (? ) d) 158 e) 118 a) 2200 b) 1920 c) 2100 a) 8 b) 5 c) 2 Q. 46) 98 × 17 + 52 × 19 + 32 × 18 d) 2010 e) 2000 d) 9 e) 4 = 50 × (? ) − (2.65 × 2400) Q.66) (16 × 19 + 162 + 133) = (? ) × 229.75 83% 표푓5600 Q.27) ( + 0.125 × 24) × 15 = 5 × (? ) a) 110.7 b) 125.9 c) 191.8 581 a) 10 b) 12 c) 15 a) 36 b) 77 c) 33 d) 150.8 e) 190.8 d) 17 e) 18 ( ) 9506 d) 31 e) 26 Q. 47) 487 + 56.5 + 546. +5645.5 + 545.56 + ? = 7300 Q.67) √8649 × 3.5 + × 2.5 = 2 × (? ) 98 225+(29)2 a) 17.32 b) 16.88 c) 17.88 Q.28) √ = 26.75 × 8 × (? ) a) 278 b) 264 c) 290 2 d) 18.20 e) 19.44 d) 284 e) 300 a) 3 b) 2 c) 8 13 16 1536 Q. 48) × 833 + ( ÷ ) × 3 = (? ) Q.68) 365 × 2.6 − 365 × 2.4 = 9.125 × (? ) d) 7 e) 9 17 15 1440 3 5 2 ? a) 7 b) 3 c) 5 Q.29) + + = a) 640 b) 630 c) 650 17 23 27 10557 d) 9 e) 8 a) 4940 b) 4850 c) 4910 d) 648 e) 687 Q.49) (135) 2 − 25 × ? = (109) 2 + 34 × 36 Q.69) √7569 × (25 + 68) = (8 × 5 × 2.275) + (? ) d) 5610 e) 4380 a) 8400 b) 8000 c) 8200 Q.30) 895+202.3-654.25 = 3.125% of (?) + a) 206.4 b) 204.8 c) 198.5 d) 8700 e) 8900 (14.35×3) d) 179.1 e) 210.2 Q.70) 54 × 65 + 6548 × 1.25 = 500 × (? ) a) 12900 b) 22800 c) 12210 Q.50) 621 × 2 + 32 × 12 + 38 × 11 = (? ) a) 21.39 b) 23.39 c) 33.39 d) 22180 e) 12800 a) 1250 b) 1480 c) 980 d) 23.09 e) 29.90 7 2 d) 1160 e) 2044 Q.31) √6724 × 1.5 − √12321 × + 29 − 1 = (? ) 3 2 1296 √9261+469 Q.51) √ + (2 × 0.35) + (0.15 × 2) + (11.5)2 + Q.71) × (? ) = 1190 a) 564.5 b) 574.5 c) 546.5 4.5×2×2 0.875×8 d) 585.5 e) 486.5 (11.25 × 15) = (? ) a) 17 b) 19 c) 20 Q.32) (? ) = 522 + 3 × 2 + 4000 ÷ 2 표푓 25% 표푓 1600 a) 305 b) 314 c) 204 d) 23 e) 27 4641 2407 + a) 2155 b) 2715 c) 2615 d) 304 e) 324 Q.72) 51 29 = (? )2 − (0.2 × 30) 3 Q.52) 34% 표푓 1250 + 92% 표푓 1425 − (? ) = d) 2705 e) 2805 a) 64 b) 9 c) 8 3 Q.33) (? ) = (69.3 × 15.2) + (4.5 × 18.5) + (7.25 × 44) (0.75 × 8 × 2) d) 45 e) 6 a) 12 b) 10 c) 8 a) 1355.61 b) 1445.61 c) 1455.61 Q.73) (1.2% 표푓 3650 + 2.8% 표푓 (? )) × 17 = 3791 d) 14 e) 16 d) 1545.61 e) 1544.61 a) 6400 b) 4500 c) 4600 7 247 1 Q.34) 25% 표푓 534 + 표푓 247 + (? ) %표푓 250 = Q.53) × (14.5% 표푓 1800 × 4 ) + (6.25 × 32) = 19×13 19 √81 d) 5400 e) 2600 ( )3 125×3.6−26×4.5 762 × 1.25 . ? Q.74) = (13.875 × (? )) 3 a) 132.3 b) 342.5 c) 324.8 a) 9 b) 13 c) 10 a) 5 b) 6 c) 7 d) 231.4 e) 320.9 d) 12 e) 11 d) 9 e) 8 52% 표푓 2650+2×23+22 42 Q.35) 1241 × 5 + 326 × 8 = (? ) × 10 − (3.4 × 5) Q.54) = (? ) × 0.12×24+0.12 23 Q.75) 265 × 5 + 32 × 68 + 13 × 47 = (? ) + (6.355 × a) 832 b) 830 c) 822 a) 233 b) 466 c) 456 120 + 12.4 × 21) d) 883 e) 809 d) 566 e) 656 a) 2084 b) 3089 c) 2984 17×35+69×19−6 2 6 1 3 Q.36) = 16 + (? ) −2+3+ + ( ) 5 Q.55) 45 2 10 × 30.35×12+ 0.025×32 = 12 × (? )2 d) 2098 e) 2678 a) 134 b) 144 c) 138 a) 100 b) 16 c) 81 Q.76) ______

1 30.8 + 2.20 + 3.00 × 6 × 1 = 18 ×? a) 15.05 b) 12.05 c) 15.15 Q.114) ? = √√3 64 ÷ √256 × 82 × 22 a) 2.733 b) 3 c) 2.533 d) 14.15 e) 16.45 a) 4 b) 1 c) 3 4푥+6 11 d) 3.53 e) 2.833 Q.95) = 푓𝑖푛푑푡 ℎ푒 푣푎푙푢푒 표푓 푋? 5푥+6 13 d) 2 e) 5 Q.77) 24 9 8 45 a) 4 b) 5 c) 6 Q.115) ? = ( × × × ) 18.5 24 10.5 ? 19 16 15 12 27 + − = + d) 3 e) 2 5 6 5 8 20 a) 6 b) 7 c) 1 1 Q.96) 17% of 300 is of X, then find out the a) 42.8 b) 37.2 c) 54.8 3 d) 3 e) 4 ? d) 52.8 e) None of these value of 10% of X? Q.116) = (12 + 35) × (122 − (18 × 7)) 4 2 a) 5.13 b) 15.6 c) 51.3 Q.78) (√8 + 13) =? +3√841 + 113 a) 3384 b) 3128 c) 3484 d) 15.3 e) 31.5 a) 51√2 − 10 b) 52√2 − 23 c) 52√2 − 30 d) 3834 e) None of these Q.97) 1513 + 4513 - 2513 - 1753 = 푥 × 3 7 22 25 d) 51√2 + 30 e) None of these Q.117) ? = 2 − 1 + + 2, 푓𝑖푛푑 푡ℎ푒 푣푎푙푢푒 표푓 푥? 4 8 4 8 Q.79) 78% of 1680+65% of 1740+123% of 3 1 1 a) 740 b) 880 c) 450 a) 12 b) 9 c) 10 1500=? 4 2 8 1 1 d) 720 e) 680 d) 9 e) 11 a) 4286.4 b) 4186.4 c) 4276.4 8 8 1 2 5 Q.98) ( + + ) 표푓 42 = ? 91 d) 4186 e) None of these 7 3 6 Q.118) ? = 13 × − 3 × 13 7 2 2 2 2 2 2 Q.80) 32 + 89 + 17 = 15 + 23 + 49 +? a) 73 b) 97 c) 67 a) 160 b) 132 c) 128 a) 6089 b) 5089 c) 6079 d) 69 e) 86 d) 130 e) None of these 2 2 d) 5079 e) None of these Q.99) 11 + √25 − 26 = 푋 푓𝑖푛푑 푡ℎ푒 푣푎푙푢푒 표푓 푋? 53−122+72−112) Q.119) ? = 1 2 4 1 7 √4 Q.81) + + − 2 + 4 =? a) 11 b) 9 c) 12 7 3 9 3 5 a) 42.5 b) -44.5 c) -45.5 101 101 110 d) 7 e) 10 a) 5 b) 4 c) 5 315 315 315 15 16 17 179 d) 90 e) -85 110 Q.100) × × … … … … … . . =? d) 6 e) None of these 16 17 18 180 Q.120) 23% of 200+?=25% of 480+160% of 315 1 1 1 a) b) c) Q.82) 0. 6̅ + 0. 7̅ + 0. 9̅ + 0. 69̅̅̅̅=? 15 10 8 50+125% of 10 1 1 1 34 d) e) a) 166.5 b) 154.4 c) 168.2 a) 3 b) c) 2.131313 12 20 2 99 Q.101) 21 × 14 ÷ 3 + 12 − 21 = ? d) 186.6 e) 156.6 d) 3.141414 e) None of these 12 ×60 15 4 11 1 1 7 1 1 a) 99 b) 89 c) 79 Q.121) ? = 11 × 132 × Q.83) − [ + [ + [ − ( + ) ]]=? ×51 6 30 6 5 12 3 4 d) 69 e) 59 17 a) 136 b) 614 c) 138 a) 1.5 b) -1.5 c) 1 Q.102) 21 × 11 + 4 − 8 × 16 ÷ 4 =? d) 126 e) 128 d) 0 e) None of these a) 203 b) 213 c) 224 201 ퟑ ퟏ ퟏ ퟏ Q.122) × 12 + 18% 표푓 250 =? Q.84) × [(ퟏ + ) (ퟏ + ) … … … . (ퟏ + )] =? d) 209 e) 229 67 ퟏퟏ ퟑ ퟒ ퟏퟐퟎ a) 78 b) 81 c) 62 a) 121 b) 11 c) 10.6 Q.103) 15 × 15 + 15 ÷ 15 − 15 + 115 =? d) 71 e) 80 d) 7.82 e) None of these a) 316 b) 327 c) 326 1 Q.123) 2.5 × 3.5 × 1.5 × 26 =? +0.25 Q.85) 퐼푓푋 = 2 + d) 314 e) 321 1 (1+ 1) 12 a) 339 b) 382 c) 341 1− Q.104) √2601 × 64 ÷ √64 =?× 2 13 7 d) 388 e) 321 then the value of 4푥 + =? a) 421 b) 467 c) 431 3 Q.124) 13 + 122 − 11 + 83 − 33 =?2 2 a) 11 b) 34/3 c) 11 d) 442 e) 458 3 a) 225 b) 625 c) 5 Q.105) 13% 표푓 200 − 2.5% 표푓 1000 × 12% 표푓 50 = d) 5 e) None of these d) 25 e) 15 ? −125 Q.86) If a - b = 3 and a2 + b2 = 29, find the Q.125) 15 × 4 ÷ 20 + 156 − 13 × 5 =? a) 5 b) 1 c) 0 value of ab. a) 99 b) 97 c) 78 d) 8 e) 9 a) 10 b) 12 c) 15 d) 81 e) 94 Q.106) 4321 + 4433 − 2434 + 431 − 417 − 488 =? 4 2 5 7 d) 18 e) None of these Q.126) 5 + 3 + 8 − 7 =? a) 5836 b) 5386 c) 5766 9 9 9 9 Q.87) 35 × √324 ÷ 7 − 73 =? −√16641 8 1 2 d) 5846 e) 5486 a) 5 b) 5 c) 4 a) 119 b) 128 c) 146 9 3 3 2 2 2 2 3 4 Q.107) 2.5 + 1.6 + 1.4 − 2.7 =? d) 7 e) 9 d) 136 e) None of these 9 9 a) 18.06 b) 34.8 c) 3.48 2 3 Q.127) 56% 표푓 650 + 87% 표푓 200 − 21% 표푓 800 + Q.88) (√100) + (√9) =? d) 42.9 e) 4.29 12% 표푓 150 =? a) 50 b) 25 c) 127 42 7 98 22 Q.108) × × × × 6 =? a) 377 b) 376 c) 328 d) 225 e) 175 462 49 4 14 a) 3 b) 4 c) 6 d) 388 e) 387 Q.89) 8000 ÷ (5×2) + 774- 191.667×3=? 13 4 2 d) 7 e) 8 Q.128) × 51 + × 144 − × 51 + 111 =? a) 1000 b) 1280 c) 1180 17 9 3 Q.109) 11% 표푓 200 + 45% 표푓 60 − 8% 표푓 250 =? d) 1080 e) 1500 a) 172 b) 154 c) 180 a) 43 b) 38 c) 31 Q.90) √225 × √64 × 2 × 11 =? d) 159 e) 150 d) 29 e) 39 a) 4150 b) 2640 c) 3005 Q.129) 4555 + 8646 + 231 − 5436 − 21 + 54 =? Q.110) 32 + 4378 − 322 ÷ 2 × 3 + √841 =? d) 1250 e) 2050 a) 8123 b) 8029 c) 7929 a) 3896 b) 3998 c) 4023 Q.91) (749 − √105625 − 124) ÷ (√1572516 − d) 7156 e) 8213 d) 4189 e) 3956 1 16 7 45 Q.130) × × × × 289 =? 1104) =? 11 11 5 68 21 5 4 Q.111) × 104 − × 108 + × 336 =? a) 2 b) 4 c) 6 13 27 6 a) 51 b) 53 c) 49 a) 334 b) 324 c) 312 d) 8 e) 12 d) 62 e) 57 d) 342 e) 326 Q.92) 푥2 + 16 − 22 + 68 = 92, 푓𝑖푛푑 푡ℎ푒 푣푎푙푢푒 표푓 푋? Q.131) 1.29 + 12.9 + 19.2 − 29.1 − 0.92 × 2 =? 2 Q.112) ? = 14% of 350 + 표푓 270 − 11% 표푓 300 a) 3 b) 2 c) 1 3 a) 3.55 b) 2.45 c) 1.25 d) 5 e) 6 a) 112 b) 216 c) 196 d) 2.50 e) 4.15 (42+ 32) d) 262 e) 242 Q.132) 20% of 300+12% of 150+10% of 80=x Q.93) = √? 5 4 Q.113) ? = (1.2 × 25) − ( × 32) + (3.5 × 22) a) 66 b) 76 c) 86 a) 4 b) 25 c) 5 5 d) 96 e) None of these d) 16 e) 369 a) 82.6 b) 81.4 c) 71.4 Q.133) 9.09+6.08+12.07+15.05=x Q.94) 1.01 + 3.03 + 2.02 + 4.04 + 5.05 = ? d) 84.1 e) 82.1 a) 42.29 b) 43.29 c) 44.29 ______

d) 45.29 e) None of these Q.154) 1356 + 357 − 246 = 3755 − (? ) Q.173) 30% of 450 + 45% of 300 = 150% of X, 1 5 2 1 7 Q.134) 8 + 9 + 5 + 2 = 푥 + a) 2290 b) 2288 c) 2456 find the value of X? 6 6 3 2 6 a) 24 b) 35 c) 32 d) 2480 e) 2454 a) 160 b) 180 c) 240 √256 d) 270 e) 135 d) 25 e) None of these Q.155) 3 × (154 − 131) = (? ) √512 Q.174) 252 + 45 + 332 = 1276 + x Q.135) 2.5 × 4 + 3.5 × 2 + 4.2 × 5 + 7.5 × 8 = 푥 a) 45 b) 52 c) 46 a) 483 b) 484 c) 485 a) 97 b) 98 c) 99 d) 64 e) 58 d) 100 e) None of these d) 486 e) None of these Q.156) ((1334 + (? )) ÷ 3) + ((124 + 136) ÷ 4) = 695 (12 ×13)+(13×12) 24 141 84 75 Q.175) = 푥 Q.136) + + + = 푥 12 6 3 4 5 a) 556 b) 473 c) 467 a) 13 b) 169 c) 144 a) 82 b) 83 c) 84 d) 588 e) 548 d) 24 e) 26 d) 85 e) None of these Q.157) 426 + 3713 + 241 + 2461 + (? ) = 7023 Q.176) Find 21 + 22 + 23 + 24 + ……………. 48 + Q.137) 11.11+22.22+33.67+44=x a) 197 b) 164 c) 182 49 + 50. a) 99 b) 110 c) 111 d) 164 e) 146 a) 1065 b) 1025 c) 1115 d) 112 e) None of these Q.158) 40% 표푓 1920 + 60% 표푓 3290 = (? ) Q.138) 43 × 256 × 4 = 42푥 d) 655 e) None of these a) 2632 b) 3286 c) 2742 1 2 3 Q.177) 3 + 8 + 12 = 푥 a) 4 b) 5 c) 6 d) 2538 e) 3288 7 7 7 d) 7 e) None of these a) 43.86 b) 33.86 c) 23.86 30 4 45 Q.159) √21 + √211 + √196 = (? ) Q.139) 표푓 4 + 표푓 121 + 표푓 5 = 푥 d) 13.86 e) None of these 6 11 9 a) 5 b) 6 c) 4 a) 85 b) 75 c) 79 Q.178) 22.22+88.88+55.55+45.55=x d) 7 e) 8 d) 89 e) None of these a) 212.2 b) 213.3 c) 214.4 2 5 Q.160) × × 2625 = (? ) d) 215.5 e) None of these Q.140) 182+222-121+252=x 5 7 2푥 3 a) 565 b) 535 c) 545 a) 679 b) 750 c) 684 Q.179) 7 = 49 × 343 × 7 d) 525 e) None of these d) 890 e) 970 a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 1 2 2 132 d) 4 e) None of these Q.141) 20% of 225+12% of 750+18% of 300=x Q.161) 2 − 6 + 7 = 3 5 7 ? 25 22 a) 184 b) 185 c) 186 Q.180) 표푓 112 + 표푓 25 + 12.5% 표푓 400 = 푥 a) 51.5 b) 50.5 c) 52.5 28 11 d) 187 e) None of these a) 250 b) 200 c) 150 d) 54.5 e) 55.5 Q.142) 30% of 1500 + 40% of 3700+ 19% of Q.162) 15 × 6 + 13 × 5 − 17 × 8 ÷ 2 = 29 × ? d) 100 e) None of these 7000 = x Q.181) 255+445+200-300=x a) 2 b) 3 c) 4 a) 3380 b) 3170 c) 3260 a) 400 b) 500 c) 600 d) 5 e) 6 d) 3340 e) 3080 d) 700 e) None of these Q.163) 35% of 420 + 46% of 250 – 30% of 140 Q.143) 2000×15+4500×2=x+15000 Q.182) ? = 42% of 500 − 35% of 400 + 8% of 50 = 20 × ? a) 26000 b) 20000 c) 18000 a) 88 b) 72 c) 74 a) 15 b) 9 c) 7 d) 16000 e) 24000 d) 81 e) 84 d) 13 e) 11 16 23 Q.144) 1000+1500+ 2500- 10% of 20000 =x 2 6 3 11 2 Q.183) 8? = × 256 × Q.164) 5 × 35 × 7 × 5 = 35 ? 35 . Which of the 64 42 a) 1500 b) 2000 c) 2500 1 2 2 following symbol will come on the place of a) 2 b) 1 c) 2 d) 3000 e) 3500 3 3 3 question mark? 3 1 5 17 3 d) 2 e) None of these Q.145) + + − = 푥 5 4 8 16 16 a) × b) + c) − 34×12 15×45 Q.184) ? = × a) ¾ b) 5/4 c) 7/4 d) ÷ e) ± 48×2 3×25 6 2 3 1 d) 3/2 e) None of these Q.165) + + + −? = 1 a) 38.25 b) 41.55 c) 36.50 7 4 14 2 Q.146) 78×2+ 44×3-27×5=x 15 2 13 d) 31.75 e) 41.75 a) b) c) 14 7 28 √225 a) 157 b) 151 c) 159 Q.185) ? = √121 × × √49 1 1 33 d) 153 e) 149 d) e) 56 4 a) 70 b) 35 c) 105 Q.147) 10000+1400×5+ 20% of 1000= x Q.166) 123.5 + 134.01 + 45.555 + 67.876 = ? d) 15 e) 65 a) 17200 b) 17020 c) 19200 a) 370.491 b) 347.941 c) 370.941 Q.186) ? = 33.03 + 133.33 − 333.33 + 1030.30 d) 19020 e) 18200 d) 379.041 e) 374.941 a) 813.33 b) 873.33 c) 893.03 45 2 2 2 3 2 Q.148) 25% of 3000+ × 1200 = x Q.167) 14 + 12 − 15 + 7 =? +18 15 d) 843.33 e) 863.33 a) 136 b) 137 c) 135 4 3 2 a) 4530 b) 5430 c) 4350 Q.187) ? = of 77 + of 120 − of 108 d) 134 e) 130 7 10 9 d) 4450 e) 4250 Q.168) 0.1 + 0.12 + 0.123 + 0.1234 + 0.12345 a) 46 b) 96 c) 56 Q.149) 1200+ 2500+ 5400+7500+ 8400+ x= = ? d) 86 e) None of these 30000 3 2 11 a) 1.28685 b) 0.58985 c) 0.56595 Q.188) ? = % of 1600 − % of 2500 + % of 900 a) 4000 b) 3000 c) 2000 4 5 9 d) 0.58495 e) 1.24985 a) 13 b) 11 c) 12 d) 8000 e) 5000 Q.169) −34 + 62 + 82 − 6 × 8 = ? d) 21 e) 14 Q.150) 70% of 25000+ 150×20-10000=x 1 a) 16 b) 19 c) 18 (43)2 96 a) 10000 b) 11500 c) 9500 Q.189) ? = × × √3 27 d) 17 e) 21 16 3÷27 d) 12000 e) 10500 a) 1436 b) 1156 c) 1186 1 1 3 3 Q.170) 1.2 × 5 + 4 × 0.8 − 8 ÷ 0.4 = ? Q.151) 1 + 3 + − 4 = 푥 d) 1296 e) 1269 4 2 4 8 a) 10.8 b) 11.8 c) -12.7 5 3 1 a) 1 b) 2 c) 1 8 8 8 d) 9.7 e) -10.8 √ 5 3 Q.190) ? = 16 + √70 + √117 + √16 d) 2 e) 3 Q.171) 987 + 876 + 765 + 654 = 345 + 456 + 8 8 Q.152) (1296 + (? )) ÷ 4 = 576 567 + 789 + ? a) 25 b) 5 c) 4 a) 1004 b) 1005 c) 1010 a) 890 b) 1125 c) 725 d) 7 e) None of these ?2 44 128 d) 1008 e) 1020 d) 675 e) 925 Q.191) = × × 34 2 11 122 Q.172) 4591 + 3421 – 4531 – 6754 + x = 1 Q.153) 20% 표푓(? ) + 40% 표푓 500 = 280 a) 26 b) 576 c) 24 a) 3272 b) 3273 c) 3275 a) 200 b) 300 c) 400 d) 16 e) 36 d) 240 e) 280 d) 3276 e) 3274

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Q.192) Find the x value and answer the given d) 939 e) 833 a) 25 b) 28 c) 35 304 question. Q.208) 4000 + 48% 표푓 1300 + =? d) 30 e) 33 19 98! × 96! × 109! × 198! 2 3 1 3 = 56448푥 a) 4012 b) 4392 c) 4640 Q.228) 3 − 11 + 10 + 6 =? 197! × 95! × 97! × 108! 7 14 5 10 6 1 4 d) 4302 e) 4911 a) 3 b) 9 c) 8 a) 3487 b) 3957 c) 3497 7 5 7 4 Q.209) 1 % 표푓 3600 + 1750 + 120 − 48 = 2 d) 3597 e) None of these 5 d) 8 e) None of these 7 Q.193) Find the value of x and answer the given ? +15% 표푓 √676 2 122 18 16 Q.229) × ? × = × × 272 questions. a) 1772.9 b) 1882.9 c) 1893.3 3 7 21 3 a) 244 b) 272 c) 218 140275 d) 1782.9 e) 1832.8 18 × 99 × 17 – 89.5% 표푓 39000 = 푥 – d) 243 e) 235 25 Q.210) 96 × 15 ÷ 3 × 13 + 566 =? a) 900 b) 1000 c) 2200 Q.230) 8990+6450+4300-16900 = x - 45% of a) 6806 b) 6608 c) 6680 d) 1250 e) 950 74000 d) 6783 e) 6875 a) 37240 b) 35140 c) 36140 Q.194) Find the x value and answer the given 8400 810 √729 Q.211) + 3 + 3 =? question. 60 √729 √27 d) 39420 e) 36240 2 3 7 7 94446 12643 a) 255 b) 241 c) 239 Q.231) ? = 표푓 420 − 표푓 450 + 표푓 1320 49 × + = 푥 7 5 11 198 87381 269 d) 210 e) 222 a) 690 b) 720 c) 630 1 a) 90 b) 100 c) 220 (42× ) √49 1 Q.212) ? = × √169 × 1 d) 740 e) None of these ( ) −( ) d) 250 e) 150 24×52 (144) 2 Q.232) Q.195) Find the value of x and answer the given a) 1.5 b) 0.25 c) 1.25 17 × 14 3 × 56 42 × 3 18 question. + + = 푥 + d) 0.75 e) 0.50 77 88 154 22 8 9 2 247 +7+ + − 1 97 8 9 504 Q.213) ? = 28% of 650 + % of 5200 − 130% of 80 a) 4 b) 5 c) 6 = 3푥 13 39 a) 72 b) 182 c) 90 d) 8 e) 10 a) 10 b) 3 c) 0 1 d) 82 e) None of these Q.233) 25% of 780 + 3× 5 = 푥2 − √196 3 d) 9 e) 18 445 648 446 1 Q.214) ? = × × × a) 20 b) 16 c) 15 Q.196) Find the x value and answer the given √25 12 18 534 d) 14 e) 25 question. a) 248 b) 236 c) 223 √576 √1369 99 35 2303 d) 251 e) 249 Q.234) × 3 + − = 푥 7845 – 9859.14 + 8945.94 + 푥 = 23 × 138 + + √2304 √4913 51 34 47 21 43 33 Q.215) ? = of 57 + of 75 + of 28 45% 0f 9804 19 25 14 a) 3 b) 4 c) 1 a) 803 b) 873 c) 773 a) 258 b) 239 c) 274 d) 2 e) 12 175×275 25 d) 292 e) 285 Q.235) ( ) ÷ ( ) + 85% 표푓 760 = 푥 d) 793 e) 703 225 15×75 2 2 3 3 2 1 2 Q.216) ? = 11 × 5 ÷ √125 × 0.4 × 3 Q.197) √676 × 25 + 19 × (4) – 609 ÷ 29 =? √64 a) 11241 b) 10481 c) 10271 a) 920 b) 933 c) 940 a) 15 b) 121 c) 11 d) 10121 e) None of these d) 931 e) 900 d) 55 e) 66 Q.236) 25% of 670 + 35% of 720 - 425×12 =

4 2 5 2 7 2 1 Q.198) 32 × {( ) ( ) ( ) } =? Q.217) 250 ÷ 8 × 3 + {(1800 × 100) ÷ (360 + 100 × x-210×25 5 7 8 2 2 + 40)} =? a) 582.5 b) 569.5 c) 527.5 a) 5 b) 6 c) 7 a) 243.75 b) 250.45 c) 230.45 d) 572.5 e) 578.5 d) 8 e) 9 17 d) 290.24 e) None of these Q.237) 189+ (27 × 79 − × 1653) = 푥2 + Q.199) 50% 표푓 {186 ÷ 3 × 30 ÷ 6 × 60 ÷ 12 + 19 74.2×94.2×77.2×97.2 ( )} Q.218) = 63? (798 − 796) 34 × 64 =? 632.2×73.2×93.2 a) 1750 b) 1754 c) 1863 a) 7 b) 6 c) 8 a) 31 b) 29 c) 27 d) 1850 e) 1650 d) 9 e) None of these d) 28 e) 30 1 41 3 9 38% 표푓 750 Q.200) 4 × ÷ 1 × × (? ) = 74 푄. 219) (22 × 85.2 ÷ 0.2) + 100.24 + 20.4 =? Q.238) ( + √3844) × (122 − 11 × 12) = 푥 9 2 4 41 95 a) 8 b) 9 c) 10 a) 9997.09 b) 9492.64 c) 9000.02 a) 770 b) 840 c) 780 d) 11 e) 7 d) 9080.22 e) None of these d) 620 e) 740 2 3 204 7 5 1 1 3 푄. 220) 26 − 7 + 24 + 76 =? 553−39× Q.201) 1 + 2 + 3 − 5 = × (? ) 17 8 4 8 4 8 Q.239) = 5 a) 533 b) 433 c) 655 17푥 a) 9 b) 8 c) 4 a) 3 b) 5 c) 7 d) 788 e) None of these d) 5 e) 6 푄. 221) 39% 표푓 550 + 72% 표푓 850 − 372 =? d) 9 e) 1 Q.202) 65% of 75% of 40% of (?) =3510 172−√2916 Q.240) = 푥 a) 473 b) 454.5 c) 490.8 1280−75×17 a) 12500 b) 18000 c) 16500 d) 470 e) None of these a) 57 b) 37 c) 45 d) 17500 e) 15000 Q.222) 232 + 312 × √16 ÷ 4 + 231 − 720 =? d) 39 e) 47 3 2 2 4 ? Q.203) (2 ÷ 4 ) + (7 ÷ 3 ) = 79 333 276 296 5 5 5 5 418 a) 1022 b) 1101 c) 1001 Q.241) × × = 푥 69 117 237 351 a) 1044 b) 1024 c) 1061 d) 1000 e) 1011 a) 4.5 b) 2.5 c) 3 3 2 3 1 d) 1051 e) 1078 Q.223) 2 + 4 − 1 + 3 =? 5 5 10 5 d) 6 e) 5 2 Q.204) 45% 표푓 960 + × 670 = (? ) 3 3 3 5 a) 2 b) 9 c) 7 Q.242) 24 × 16 + 172 − 654 + 361 =? 4 7 8 √ a) 700 b) 650 c) 750 9 5 d) 8 e) 8 a) 54 b) 112 c) 26 10 7 d) 800 e) 900 d) 38 e) 34 √289 Q.224) 214 × 32 ÷ 8 × 2 − 216 + 30 =? Q.205) × √3 729 × 20% 표푓 6175 = (? ) Q.243) 361 ÷ 19 × 18 − 17 =?× 5 √361 a) 1526 b) 1534 c) 1673 a) 72 b) 65 c) 55 a) 7959 b) 7085 c) 6890 d) 1529 e) 1532 d) 5895 e) 9945 114 9 357 16 d) 86 e) 60 Q.225) × × × =? 406 23 29 576 17 19 9 Q.244) × ÷ = √? 161 18 225 √ √ a) 3.8 b) 4.1 c) 3.4 Q.206) 504 + 620 + √4 + √63 × 7 = (? ) a) 25 b) 5 c) 625 d) 2.7 e) 3.5 d) 225 e) 3025 a) 27 b) 23 c) 24 Q.226) (1011.1 + 24.1 − 11.2) ÷ 4 + 24% 표푓 56000 =? Q.245) 232 + 542 + 452 − 512 =? d) 22 e) 26 a) 13996 b) 13459 c) 13658 3136 a) 2869 b) 2689 c) 2969 Q.207) √2025 + (√ ) + 866.64 + 25.36 =? d) 13986 e) 13696 √784 d) 2896 e) None of these a) 913 b) 942 c) 839 Q.227) 12% of 2850−? % of 690 = 60% of 225 ______

Q.246) 52.5 × 68 + 24 =?× 3 191) b, 192) c, 193) a, 194) d, 195) c, 196) d, 197) c, 198) d, 199) c, 200) d a) 1116 b) 1198 c) 1443 d) 1242 e) 1209 2 2 1 3 CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ Q.247) 7 + 9 + 11 + 12 =? 4 4 4 4 1) e, 2) e, 3) b, 4) b, 5) c, 6) e, 7) c, 8) d, 9) a, a) 38 b) 35 c) 31 10) d, 11) d, 12) a, 13) b, 14) b, 15) e, 16) a, d) 40 e) None of these 17) e, 18) c, 19) c, 20) b, 21) c, 22) e, 23) b, Q.248) 17 + 182 + 322 + 25 + 110 =? 24) e, 25) c, 26) b, 27) b, 28) c, 29) a, 30) d, a) 1400 b) 1500 c) 1600 31) c, 32) d, 33) d, 34) b, 35) c, 36) b, 37) b, d) 1700 e) None of these 38) c, 39) e, 40) c, 41) c, 42) e, 43) a, 44) a, 2 2 Q.249) 2 (? ) = [(0.6 + 0.4) + (0.6 − 0.4) ] 45) d, 46) d, 47) b, 48) e, 49) d, 50) e, 51) e, a) 1.52 b) 1.04 c) 0.52 52) e, 53) c, 54) b, 55) c, 56) d, 57) d, 58) e, d) 2.04 e) 0.72 59) c, 60) e, 61) a, 62) b, 63) a, 64) c, 65) c, 50 250 140 150 30 Q.250) Out of the numbers, , , , , , 66) b, 67) c, 68) b, 69) c, 70) b, 71) a, 72) d, 4 23 25 11 1.5 Which is the third smallest number? 73) d, 74) b, 75) b, 76) c, 77) b, 78) b, 79) e, 50 250 140 80) b, 81) c, 82) e, 83) c, 84) b, 85) b, 86) c, a) b) c) 4 23 25 87) a, 88) d, 89) c, 90) d, 91) a, 92) c, 93) d, 150 d) e) None of these 1.5 94) a, 95) c, 96) b, 97) e, 98) e, 99) b, 100) e, 101) e, 102) d, 103) e, 104) a, 105) b, 106) e, ANSWER KEYS 107) b, 108) d, 109) a, 110) b, 111) b, 112) c, 113) a, 114) e, 115) c, 116) c, 117) e, 118) a, SIMPLIFICATION 119) e, 120) b, 121) b, 122) b, 123) d, 124) b, 1) d, 2) e, 3) c, 4) d, 5) e, 6) b, 7) a, 8) e, 9) a, 125) d, 126) d, 127) e, 128) e, 129) b, 130) e, 10) b, 11) a, 12) c, 13) e, 14) e, 15) c, 16) d, 131) c, 132) c, 133) b, 134) b, 135) e, 136) c, 17) b, 18) d, 19) a, 20) c, 21) e, 22) d, 23) c, 137) d, 138) b, 139) e, 140) c, 141) c, 142) c, 24) b, 25) c, 26) a, 27) c, 28) b, 29) a, 30) e, 143) e, 144) c, 145) c, 146) c, 147) b, 148) c, 31) b, 32) b, 33) c, 34) c, 35) d, 36) e, 37) a, 149) b, 150) c, 151) e, 152) a, 153) d, 154) d, 38) b, 39) e, 40) b, 41) b, 42) c, 43) a, 44) b, 155) c, 156) b, 157) c, 158) a, 159) e, 160) e, 161) d, 162) a, 163) c, 164) c, 165) e, 166) b, 45) d, 46) c, 47) e, 48) a, 49) b, 50) e, 51) d, 167) e, 168) a, 169) b, 170) b, 171) c, 172) c, 52) c, 53) e, 54) a, 55) e, 56) d, 57) a, 58) e, 173) b, 174) c, 175) b, 176) a, 177) b, 178) d, 59) c, 60) d, 61) a, 62) b, 63) d, 64) d, 65) e, 179) c, 180) c, 181) c, 182) a, 183) b, 184) b, 66) b, 67) d, 68) e, 69) b, 70) b, 71) a, 72) c, 185) d, 186) b, 187) d, 188) a, 189) a, 190) b, 73) a, 74) e, 75) b, 76) e, 77) b, 78) b, 79) a, 191) c, 192) e, 193) c, 194) b, 195) d, 196) b, 80) c, 81) b, 82) d, 83) d, 84) b, 85) c, 86) a, 197) e, 198) b, 199) b, 200) b, 201) e, 202) c, 87) c, 88) c, 89) a, 90) b, 91) a, 92) c, 93) b, 203) e, 204) b, 205) d, 206) b, 207) a, 208) c, 94) c, 95) a, 96) d, 97) b, 98) d, 99) e, 100) d, 209) c, 210) d

101) b, 102) a, 103) c, 104) d, 105) b, 106) d, BANKING AWARENESS 107) c, 108) a, 109) d, 110) e, 111) b, 112) c, 1) b, 2) c, 3) d, 4) c, 5) b, 6) b, 7) e, 8) b, 9) a, 113) b, 114) d, 115) c, 116) a, 117) b, 118) d, 10) c, 11) c, 12) c, 13) c, 14) a, 15) a, 16) d, 119) c, 120) a, 121) e, 122) b, 123) c, 124) d, 17) d, 18) a, 19) d, 20) d, 21) b, 22) b, 23) d, 125) e, 126) e, 127) d, 128) c, 129) b, 130) a, 24) b, 25) c, 26) b, 27) b, 28) e, 29) c, 30) b, 131) b, 132) c, 133) a, 134) d, 135) b, 136) e, 31) d, 32) a, 33) c, 34) e, 35) b, 36) d, 37) c, 137) c, 138) a, 139) d, 140) b, 141) e, 142) c, 38) b, 39) c, 40) b, 41) b, 42) d, 43) b, 44) d, 143) e, 144) d, 145) c, 146) d, 147) a, 148) c, 45) e, 46) c, 47) c, 48) e, 49) c, 50) c, 51) c, 149) e, 150) e, 151) c, 152) d, 153) c, 154) b, 52) e, 53) b, 54) b, 55) c, 56) c, 57) c, 58) b, 155) c, 156) a, 157) c, 158) c, 159) b, 160) b, 59) c, 60) b, 61) c, 62) e, 63) d, 64) d, 65) c, 66) d, 67) c, 68) b, 69) c, 70) c, 71) e, 72) b, 161) c, 162) b, 163) e, 164) d, 165) a, 166) c, 73) c, 74) e, 75) e, 76) d, 77) e, 78) c, 79) d, 167) d, 168) b, 169) c, 170) e, 171) b, 172) e, 80) c, 81) e, 82) a, 83) d, 84) c, 85) c, 86) c, 173) b, 174) a, 175) e, 176) a, 177) c, 178) a, 87) d, 88) c, 89) c, 90) e, 91) d, 92) e, 93) b, 179) d, 180) b, 181) c, 182) c, 183) b, 184) a, 94) d, 95) e, 96) c, 97) b, 98) b, 99) e, 100) d, 185) b, 186) e, 187) c, 188) a, 189) d, 190) b, 101) d, 102) c, 103) a, 104) c, 105) d, 106) b, 191) c, 192) d, 193) b, 194) b, 195) d, 196) e, 107) e, 108) b, 109) e, 110) d, 111) c, 112) c, 197) b, 198) d, 199) c, 200) e, 201) b, 202) b, 113) c, 114) c, 115) c, 116) d, 117) a, 118) d, 119) c, 120) c, 121) a, 122) d, 123) c, 124) d, 203) c, 204) a, 205) e, 206) b, 207) d, 208) c, 125) d, 126) b, 127) b, 128) b, 129) b, 130) b, 209) b, 210) a, 211) c, 212) d, 213) d, 214) c, 131) c, 132) c, 133) b, 134) c, 135) c, 136) c, 215) a, 216) c, 217) a, 218) b, 219) b, 220) b, 137) c, 138) c, 139) b, 140) a, 141) c, 142) a, 221) b, 222) c, 223) d, 224) a, 225) e, 226) e, 143) d, 144) b, 145) d, 146) d, 147) b, 148) a, 227) d, 228) c, 229) d, 230) c, 231) a, 232) b, 149) d, 150) a, 151) c, 152) d, 153) e, 154) d, 233) c, 234) d, 235) c, 236) b, 237) b, 238) c, 155) c, 156) e, 157) b, 158) b, 159) a, 160) d, 239) e, 240) e, 241) a, 242) d, 243) b, 244) c, 161) b, 162) c, 163) b, 164) c, 165) c, 166) d, 245) a, 246) b, 247) e, 248) b, 249) c, 250) a 167) b, 168) e, 169) d, 170) e, 171) b, 172) b, 173) b, 174) b, 175) a, 176) d, 177) e, 178) e,

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