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CLATapult Current Affairs Questions - July

Q1. What is the Ranking of in India out of 165 nations in a global Cybersecurity index that measures the commitment of nations across the world to Cybersecurity? (a) 27th (b) 23rd (c) 24th (d) 20th

Q2. US President Donald Trump has nominated which Indian- Americian to be the ambassador to peru? (a) Harvinder “Hary” Anand (b) Ravinder Bhalla (c) Shatanu Narayan (d) Krishna R. Urs

Q3. The Indian chamber of commerce, in association with West Bengal Government, will host Horasis Asia Meeting in which city? (a) Murshidabad (b) Kolkatta (c) Vardman (d) Haldia

Q4. A new fast- growing Isareli flower was named after Prime Minister Narendra Modi . What was the name of the flower? (a) Amaryllis (b) Begonia (c) Crocus (d) Crysanthumun

Q5. Who is appointed as the new Chief Minister of ? (a) T. R Zeliang (b) (c) S.C jamir (d) Hokishe Sema

Q6. Who is appointed as the new chief of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF)? (a) Mohan Sharma (b) Shyam Singh (c) Sanjay Kumar (d) Santosh Verma

Q7. UNICEF has appointed which Indian- origin Canadian YouTube star as its new newest Global Goodwill Ambassador? (a) Lilly Singh (b) Sunny Leone (c) Sonali Sharma (d) Komal Singh

Q8. Who is appointed as the new Interim Prime Minister of Pakistan? (a) Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (b) Shehbaz Sharif (c) Farooq Haider Khan (d) Syed Murad Ali Shah

Q9. Who is appointed as the new Chief justice of Nepal ? (a) Damodar Prasad Sharma (b) Hari Prasad Pradhan (c) Sushila Karki (d) Gopal Prasad Parajuli

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Q10. Which Political leader has received the Lifetime Achievement Award for the contribution in the Lok Sabha in 2017? (a) Kamal Nath (b) L.K Advani (c) (d) Sonia Gandhi

Q11. India is ranked at what position out of 157 countries on towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals? (a) 110th (b) 116th (c) 99th (d) 119th

Q12. Which Railway Station has becomes India’s first Railway Station run by women? (a) Jalgoan (b) Matunga (c) Belgaum (d) Mysore

Q13. The European Parliament overwhelmingly approved a first-ever cooperation deal between the European Union and which of the following country? (a) Cuba (b) Oman (c) Azerbaijan (d) Malta

Q14. Which state becomes the first in the country to launch the free Injectable Contraceptive for women? (a) (b) Uttar Pradesh (c) Kerala (d) Maharastra

Q15. Which country will host 8th edition of Theatre Olympics (biggest theatre celebration of the world) in 2018? (a) France (b) China (c) India (d) USA

Q16. Which Political leader has received the Lifetime Achievement Award for the contribution in the ? (a) Sharad Yadav (b) Gulam Nami Azad (c) Mayawati (d) Arun Jaitely

Q17. Which IPS officer conferred with 2017 trafficking in persons report Heroes Award ? (a)Mahesh Bhagwat (b)Rohit Khurana (c)Manoj Bhagat (d)Abhishek Singh

Q18. Which of the following country has topped global Cybersecurity index list? (a) Norway (b) Sweden (c) Singapore CLATapult Current Affairs Questions - July

(d) Finland Q19. India has moved four places up to the 96th position in the FIFA World Ranking released recently. The Headquarter of FIFA is in ______. (a) Zurich, Switzerland (b) Jakarta, Indonesia (c) Athens, Greece (d) Paris, France

Q20. A 14-day joint military exercise between India and Thailand held at Bakloh in Himachal Pradesh . what was the name of that Exercise? (a) Maitree 2017 (b) Yudh Abyas (c) Hand in Hand (d) Ekuverin

Q21. An international body which focus on climate policies has ranked TERI( The Energy resources institute ) an Indian think tanks at what position? (a) 1St (b) 2nd (c) 3rd (d) 4th

Q22. Name India's Shot put the player who claimed the gold medal in the women’s shot put on the opening day of the Asian Athletics Championships 2017. (a) Inderjeet Singh (b) Manpreet Kaur (c) Gowda (d) Shefali Huda

Q23. Which bank has waived charges for fund transfer up to Rs 1000 through its IMPS (immediate Payment Service) to promote small transactions. (a) ICICI (b) Bank of Baroda (c) Punjab National Bank (d) State Bank of India

Q24. Who has been appointed as the chairman of the Tata Global Beverages Limited? (a) Narayan Murthy (b) Nandan Nilekani (c) N. Chandrasekaran (d)

Q25. Which of the following company has recently opened its first digital factory in India? (a) Microsoft (b) TCS (c) Google (d) Siemens

Q26. Pakistan has successfully test-fired short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missile named ______, recently. (a) Babar-II (b) Nasr (c) Ghauri III (d) Shaheen II.

Q27. Who is appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Indonesia? (a) Pradeep Kumar Rawat (b) K.K Nair (c) Ajay Mathur (d) Sanjeev Agrawal CLATapult Current Affairs Questions - July

Q28. The G-20 Summit of 20 powerful nations, focused mainly on combating terrorism was held recently in ______. (a) Brussels, Belgium (b) Paris, France (c) New York, USA (d) Hamburg, Germany

Q29. What is the name of naval Exercise which involve Indian, USA and Japanese navies which started recently in the Bay of Bengal?

(a) INDRA (b) MALABAR (c) SIMBEX (d) VARUNA

Q30. India will import crude oil from which country for the first country after Indian oil Corp bought a cargo from there?

(a) USA

(b) Germany

(C) UAE

(d) Saudi Arabia

Q31. Which State becomes the first in the country to fix minimum qualification for cooperative body poll?

(a) Gujarat

(b) Haryana

(c) Rajasthan

(d) Himachal Pradesh

Q32. 122 countries had recently approved the first-ever treaty to ban nuclear weapons at the UN meeting boycotted by all nuclear-armed nations. In which year Japan had suffered the nuclear attack in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? (a) 1944 (b) 1945 (c) 1942 (d) 1914

Q33. Centre Government has recently launched an app named ______to verify the accurate tax rate on commodity and services under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime. (a) Know Taxes (b) Know GST (c) GST Rates Finder (d) All About GST

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Q34. Name the globally renowned champion for the cause of autism spectrum disorder who has been recently appointed as the WHO's goodwill ambassador for autism in the world body's Southeast Asia region. (a) Saima Wazed Hossain (b) Sylvie Vartan (c) Jet Li (d) Yohei Sasakawa

Q35. The country is set to get its high speed rail training centre at which city?

(a) New Delhi (b) Gandhinagar (c) Vadodara (d) Chandigarh

Q36. Which state police becomes the first state police in the country to get “super cop belt” a specially designed belt.

(a) New Delhi (b) Gujarat (c) Andhra Pradesh (d) Telangana

Q37. Who is the present Director-General of World Health Organization? (a) Margaret Chan (b) Takehiko Nakao (c) Ban Ki Moon (d) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Q38. Which State becomes the first in the country to have law against social boycott?

(a) Gujarat

(b) Haryana

(c) Rajasthan

(d) Maharashtra

Q39. Americian technology giant GOOGLE has acquired which based artificial intelligent firm ?

(a) Halli Labs (b) Freecharge (c) Hike (d) Snapdeal

Q40. Name the Indian-origin man who has been recently awarded Order of Australia for community work, the highest civilian award in Australia.

(a) T S Niketan (b) ArunBhargava (c) NitinSaxena CLATapult Current Affairs Questions - July

(d) GuruswamyJayraman

Q41. Which of the following Indian city has been recently declared as a World Heritage City by UNESCO at the 41st session of world heritage committee? (a) Varanasi (b) (c) Jaipur (d) Chennai

Q42. Which of the following country has topped the medal tally of Asian Athletics Championships, held recently in Bhubaneswar, Odisha? (a) China (b) Kazakhstan (c) Japan (d) India

Q43. Which of the following Squash player had recently lifted South Australian Open squash title 2017? (a) Rhys Dowling (b) Harinder Pal Sandhu (c) Jansher Khan (d) DipikaPallikal

Q44. The First International Aviation Security Seminar was organized recently by National Security Guard in ______. (a) New Delhi (b) Punjab (c) Haryana (d) Uttarakhand

Q45. The first edition of WINGS 2017 “Sab Uden, Sab Juden” Expanding Regional Connectivity was hosted recently in New Delhi by the Ministry of Civil Aviation. Who is the current Union Minister of Civil Aviation? (a) NitinGadkari (b) Ananth Kumar (c) Narendra Singh Tomar (d) P. Ashok GajapathiRaju

Q46. Name the Senior bureaucrat who has been appointed Director General of Goods and Services Tax Intelligence (DG GSTI). (a) John Joseph (b) Narendra Kumar (c) AjitDoval (d) Andrew Jose

Q47. Name the 14 years old Golf Player, who has recently won the Ladies European Tour and became the youngest player to win on Ladies European Tour. (a) Ryo Ishikawa (b) Rory McIlroy (c) Anthony Kim (d) AtthayaThitikul

Q48. Crypt currency guru AmitBharadwaj has recently launched an e-book named ______, which seeks to provide context and clarity on crypto currencies. (a) Mining in Cryptocurrency (b) Cryptocurrency for Beginners (c) Cryptocurrency for Developers (d) ABC of Cryptocurrency

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Q49. Businessman and Martial Arts expert Khaltmaa Battulga was recently elected as the president of ______. (a) Iran (b) Turkey (c) Oman (d) Mongolia

Q50. The next tranche of sovereign gold bond (SGB) scheme was launched recently by the Finance Ministry. What is the annual interest in the scheme to investors? (a) 1.0% (b) 3.0% (c) 2.5% (d) 2.0%

Q51. Name the sportsperson who was bestowed with the 'Sportsperson of the Year' award during the ‘Maruti Suzuki Sportsperson of the Year’ Charity Gala Awards. (a) P V Sindhu (b) AbhinavBindra (c) ViratKohli (d) M S Dhoni

Q52. Which state has become the second state to launch e-RTI portal to file online Right to Information? (a) Tamil Nadu (b) Delhi (c) Maharashtra (d) Madhya Prades

Q53. The famous blue-bordered sari of Mother Teresa has been recognised as an Intellectual Property of the Missionaries of Charity. She died in ______. (a) 1999 (b) 1997 (c) 1984 (d) 1990

Q54. What is the theme of World Population Day 2017? (a) Empowering People, Empowering Nations (b) Population- In our Hand (c) Plan you family, plan your future (d) Family Planning- Empowering People, Developing Nations

Q55. The government has merged the urban development and housing and urban poverty alleviation ministries and renamed it as MoHUA. What is the full form of MoHUA? (a) Ministry of Housing and Urban Alleviation (b) Ministry of Housing and Urbanization Affairs (c) Ministry of Human and Urban Affairs (d) Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs

Q56. Who is the newly appointed Head Coach of Indian Men's Cricket team? (a) Ravi Shastri (b) VirendraSehwag (c) VVS Laxman (d) SaurabhGanguly

Q57. The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) have relaxed the norms on bonds under GST to help exports. The present Chairman of CBEC is ______. (a) KudeepSoni (b) SomanYadav (c) Vanaja N Sarna (d) SandeepJajodia CLATapult Current Affairs Questions - July

Q58. Ram Nath Kovind has been elected as ______President of India. (a) 16th (b) 15th (c) 13th (d) 14th

Q59. Which among the following banks will be selling personal loans of up to Rs 15 lakh through its ATMs that can be availed of by select salaried customers even if they haven't previously applied for one? (a) Bank of Baroda (b) Axis Bank (c) State Bank of India (d) ICICI Bank

Q60. Which State will have eco-friendly bridges over a canal cutting across the tiger corridor linking? (a) Karnataka (b) Maharashtra (c) Kerala (d) Telangana

Q61. India-Japan agreement for Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy has come into force recently. Who is the present Prime-Minister of Japan? (a) Xi Jinping (b) Prayut Chan-o-cha (c) Li Keqiang (d) Shinzo Abe

Q62. Who has been appointed brand icon of Pro Kabaddi League franchise Tamil Thalaivas, co-owned by India batting legend ? (a) (b) Kamal Haasan (c) Akkineni Nagarjuna (d) SS Rajamouli

Q63. Who is the present Chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)? (a) UK Sinha (b) HK Bhanbhanwala (c) Urjit Patel (d) Ajay Tyagi

Q64. Finance Minister has launched PMVVY, a pension scheme exclusively for senior citizens with 8% fixed rate of interest on their savings. PMVVY stands for- (a) Pradhan Mantri Vikas Vyasak Yojana (b) Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vibhag Yojana (c) Pradhan Mantri Vyasak Vandana Yojana (d) Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana

Q65. India’s ______has won bronze medal at the World Para Athletics Championships 2017 in discus-throw. (a) Krishna Poonia (b) Vikas Gowda (c) Karamjyoti Dalal (d) Seema Punia

Q66. Name the person, who has been appointed as Secretary to President-elect Ram Nath Kovind. (a) Gopal Baglay (b) Sanjay Kothari (c) Ashok Malik CLATapult Current Affairs Questions - July

(d) Bharat Lal

Q67. Senior diplomat and External Affairs Ministry spokesperson ______appointed as Joint Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office. (a) Bharat Lal (b) Ashok Malik (c) Raveesh Kumar (d) Gopal Baglay

Q68. Name the person, who will be the next spokesperson of the ministry of external affairs? (a) Ram Nath Kovind (b) TR Zeliang (c) Raveesh Kumar (d) Gopal Baglay

Q69. Indian eves lost to England by a narrow margin of nine runs in the ICC Women's World Cup final at Lord's in London. Who was the Captain of winning side? (a) Mithali Raj (b) Heather Knight (c) Natalie Sciver (d) Amy Jones

Q70. Name the Eminent space scientist and former Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chairman who passed away recently? (a) K. Radhakrishnan (b) G. Madhavan Nair (c) Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan (d)

Q71. The UK government appointed ______as the first female President of the Supreme Court, the senior-most judge of the country. (a) Brenda Marjorie Hale (b) Mary Arden (c) Alison Russell (d) Elizabeth Gloster

Q72. Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba had recently begun an eight-day-long two-nation tour of Mozambique and Tanzania. What is the Capital of Tanzania? (a) Maputo (b) Kampala (c) Kigali (d) Dodoma

Q73. What is the name of Student-Scientist connect program was officially launched in New Delhi by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research? (a) GYAAN (b) JIGYASA (c) SAMBAAD (d) AVISKAR

Q74. The Chief Minister of which of the following state has recently launched ‘Mission Football’ at a grand ceremony at JN Sports Complex? (a) Tripura (b) Assam (c) West Bengal (d) Meghalaya

Q75. What is the ranking of India, out of 152 countries on the inaugural “Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index” released by international NGO Oxfam, recently? (a) 121 CLATapult Current Affairs Questions - July

(b) 127 (c) 132 (d) 135

Q76. Mr Ram NathKovind took over as the 14th President of India. He was administered the oath of office by ______at a special function in the Central Hall of Parliament. (a) Vice-President of India (b) Ex-President of India (c) Prime Minister of India (d) Chief Justice of India

Q77. Name the city that the UN has selected as the data hub for the Middle East North Africa and South Asia (MENASA) region for the city’s integrated initiatives to mine and manage its data. (a) Dubai (b) Abu Dhabi (c) Jerusalem (d) Manama

Q78. The world’s first floating wind farm has taken to the seas in which of the following country? (a) Netherlands (b) Scotland (c) Russia (d) Denmark

Q79. Which country will host the fifth Global Conference on cyber space 2017? (a) Russia (b) France (c) China (d) India

Q80. Who is the present Director-General of International Labour Organization (ILO)? (a) Peter Aloha (b) Mahalo Agnes (c) Guy Ryder (d) JammieSinster

Q81. Name the Veteran scientist who died recently at the age of 90. (a) Dr Ayush Singh (b) Professor Kamal Nagar (c) Dr Anil Kumar (d) Professor

Q82. Which of the following Metro has recently announced the launch of India's first Mobile Ticketing System 'OnGo' which will help commuters pass the AFC gates using their mobile phones? (a) Mumbai Metro (b) Delhi Metro (c) Kolkata Metro (d) Kochi Metro

Q83. Inder Kumar passed away recently. He was ______. (a) Classical Singer (b) Flute Player (c) Sitar Player (d) Bollywood Actor

Q84. Indian Railways launches India’s first solar powered DEMU train from which city? (a) Mumbai CLATapult Current Affairs Questions - July

(b) New Delhi (c) Kolkata (d) Kochi

Q85. Which of the following lender has re-appointed Shikha Sharma as MD & CEO for the three-year term from June 2018? (a) HDFC Bank (b) IDBI Bank (c) Axis Bank (d) ICICI Bank

Q86. Which city Airport ranked First in Customer Satisfaction Index Survey? (a) Bengaluru (b) Kolkatta (c) Bhopal (d) Raipur

Q87. The Theme for World Hepatitis Day 2017 is ______. (a) Together against Hepatitis (b) Stand for Hepatitis (c) Say No to Hepatitis (d) Eliminate Hepatitis

Q88. In which of the following State, Olympic silver medalist P V Sindhu has been recently appointed as a Group-I officer? (a) Telangana (b) Karnataka (c) Andhra Pradesh (d) Tamil Nadu

Q89. The Prime Minister of which of the following country has recently resigned over Panama Papers verdict? (a) Iran (b) Pakistan (c) Afghanistan (d) Bangladesh

Q90. Name the State of India with Maximum number of Tigers in the Country. (a) Karnataka (b) Uttarakhand (c) Maharashtra (d) Madhya Pradesh

Q91. Prominent Konkani writer Mahabaleshwar Sail was recently presented with the Saraswati Samman 2016 for his novel ______. (a) Everyone has a Story (b) Suryaheen (c) Matam (d)Hawthan

Q92. Name India's autonomous public organization that has been ranked ninth in the world, according to the Scimago Institutions ranking World Report 2017. (a) National Centre for Trade Information (NCTI) (b) Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) (c) Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) (d) Indian Telephone Industries Limited (ITI Limited)

Q93. Which of the following two states were the fastest expanding State economies in 2015- 16, according to the data published by the Central Statistics Office? (a) Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh CLATapult Current Affairs Questions - July

(b) Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh (c) Arunachal Pradesh and Maharashtra (d) Maharashtra and Jammu and Kashmir

Q94. Markets regulator SEBI barred Orion Capital as well as Orion Broking and their partners from the securities markets for 10 years. Who is the present Chairman of SEBI? (a) Ajay Tyagi (b) Rajiv Kumar (c) Sanjiv Gaba (d) Vishal Sikka

Q95. Name the former bureaucrat who was appointed Election Commissioner by the law Ministry. (a) Sharad Kumar (b) Prakash Singh (c) Sanjay Rath (d) Sunil Arora

Q96. Which film has won the Best film in the 18th edition of International Indian Film Academy Awards which held in New York? (a) Neerja (b) Pink (c) Udta Punjab (d) Dishoom

Q97. Who won the Men’s Single Wimbledon 2017 title? (a) Marin Cilic (b) Rafel Nadal (c) Roger Federer (d) Andy Murray

Q98. Who won the Women’s Single Wimbledon 2017 title?

(a) Garbine Muguruza (b) Serena Wiliams (c) Venus Williams (d) Maria Sarapova

Q99. The International Tiger Day is observed globally on ?

(a) 27th July (b) 29th July (c) 25th july (d) 20th july

100. What was the Theme of World Youth Skills Day? (a) Skills for the future of work (b) Skills for the Betterment (c) Skills for the Youth (d) Skill Development for Peace

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