Weekly Current Affairs Question Bank

(8th – 14th April 2018)

QUESTION 1 c) Bronze d) Platinum Wrestler won his first

Commonwealth Games ______medal in the QUESTION 6 men's freestyle 65 kg final in CWG 18. and Mouma Das won which medal in a) Gold b) Silver the women's doubles event at c) Bronze d) Platinum 2018?

a) Gold b) Silver QUESTION 2 c) Bronze d) Platinum MC has become the first Indian woman boxer to win which medal at the Commonwealth Games 2018? QUESTION 7 Mausam Khatri bagged which medal at the a) Gold b) Silver Commonwealth Games 2018? c) Bronze d) Platinum a) Gold b) Silver

c) Bronze d) Platinum QUESTION 3

Naman Tanwar won which medal in the men's 91 kg category at the ? QUESTION 8 Among the following, who took the metro during a) Gold b) Silver rush hour on his way to inaugurate Dr Ambedkar c) Bronze d) Platinum National Memorial on the eve of the Dalit icon's

birth anniversary? QUESTION 4 a) Amit Shah b) Yogi Adityanath Wrestler Pooja Dhanda won which medal in the c) Arun Jaitley d) Narendra Modi women's freestyle 57 kg event in the Commonwealth

Games 2018? QUESTION 9 a) Gold b) Silver Recently, US along with which two countries c) Bronze d) Platinum launched air strike on Syria?

a) UK and France b) Germany and Spain QUESTION 5 c) China and Japan d) and France Boxer Amit Panghal clinched which medal in the men's 46-49kg event at the CWG 2018? a) Gold b) Silver

QUESTION 10 2.The bench is headed by NGT Acting Chairperson ______has become the second Indian male Jawad Rahim. boxer to win gold in the flyweight category (52kg) at 3.Committee shall inform the tribunal of the extent the Commonwealth Games 2018. of hydrophytes in the lakes, along with the incidents a) Naman Tanwar b) of fire that have taken place till April 12, 2018. c) Gaurav Solanki d) Shiva Thapa Which of the above statement/statements is/are correct? QUESTION 11

Ambedkar Jayanti is celebrated on which day every a) Only 1 b) Only 2 year in india? c) Only 3 d) Both 1 and 2 a) 14th April b) 15th April c) 16th April d) 17th April QUESTION 15 Who has been awarded with Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2018 for his contribution to Indian Cinema? QUESTION 12 a) Rajesh Khanna b) Rishi Kapoor Sridevi has posthumously conferred with the Best c) Vinod Khanna d) Shashi Kapoor Actress Award for her film ______at the 65 National Awards. a) Mom b) Bombay Talkies 2 QUESTION 16 c) English Vinglish d) Chandni Which movie won the best hindi film award at the 65th National Film Awards? a) Newton b Secret Superstar QUESTION 13 c) Tubelight d) Hindi Medium India and the ______are holding talks to seal an agreement on mutual recognition of educational qualifications. QUESTION 17 a) Germany b) United Kingdom Read the following statements:- c) China d) Japan 1. India’s factory output remained strong in February, suggesting a rosier outlook for the QUESTION 14 economy. Read the following statements:- 2. The index of industrial production rose 8.1% in 1.Following orders from the National Green February over the year, compared with a revised Tribunal, a committee constituted by the tribunal is 8.4% growth in the previous month, according to set to carry out an inspection, of the Bellandur, data from the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Agara & Varthur lakes in Bengaluru. Implementation.

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3. A Bloomberg poll of economists had projected a QUESTION 21 6.8 percent rise. The NASA mission called The North Atlantic Aerosols and Marine Ecosystems Study (NAAMES) Which of the above statement/statements is/are will examine which of the following organisms? correct? a) Phytoplankton b) Microalgae a) Only 1 b) Only 2 c) Seabirds d) Coral polyps c) Only 3 d) Both 1 and 3 Question 22 QUESTION 18 Which country has replaced Germany to become the India's economic growth will rise to ______this fourth-largest passenger market globally for the first fiscal and further to ______in the next financial time ever? year, retaining the fastest-growing Asian economy a) China b) Russia tag, on back of GST and banking reforms. c) India d) South Africa a) 6.8%, 7.1% b) 7.3%, 7.6% c) 7.5%, 7.8% d) 7.6%, 7.9% Question 23 Under which ministry has NBCC signed a MoU with QUESTION 19 Skill Development Institute, Bhubaneswar for Among the following, who has became the first-ever construction of its institute? Indian to win gold in javelin throw at the a) Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Commonwealth Games? Alleviation a) Devender Singh b) b) Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs c) Kashinath Naik d) Neeraj Chopra c) Ministry of Rural Development d) Ministry of Human Resource Development

QUESTION 20 ______and won their respective Question 24 semi-finals to set up the first-ever all-Indian The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has women's badminton singles' final at the approved a $140 million loan for India to enhance Commonwealth Games 2018. rural connectivity in ______. a) Mary Kom b P. V. Sindhu a) Assam b) Madhya Pradesh c) Ashwini Ponnappa d) Carolina Marin c) d) Rajasthan

Question 25 Who has won the Shorenstein Journalism Award for 2018?

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a) Malini Parathasarthy b) Hu Shuli c) Geneva d) Paris c) Anderson Cooper d) Siddharth Varadarajan Question 30 Question 26 Which company has signed a deal with HAL and Who has been appointed the chairman of Mahindra Defence Systems to manufacture Super Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology Hornet fighter aircraft in India? taskforce? a) Airbus b) Cessna a) Sanjeeva Reddy b) Jatin Verma c) Lockheed Martin d) Boeing c) Jayant Sinha d) Naresh Chandra Question 31 Question 27 Which of the following agencies has created a map Gujarat Government has approved to set up a 5000 of the oceanic magnetic field generated by Earth's MW capacity solar park at ______. lithosphere? a) Dholera b) Sanand a) European Space Agency c) Surat d) Simar b) Indian Space Research Organization c) Chinese National Space Agency Question 28 d) Russian space agency (Roscosmos) Read the following statements: Question 32 1. The United Nations has launched a Road Safety Who won the silver medal in women's Trust Fund. final in the ongoing Commonwealth Games 2018? 2. The trust fund will support the five pillars of the a) Navjeet Dhillon b) Dani Stevens Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road c) Pranati Das d) Safety.

3. The UN Security Council adopted a resolution on Question 33 road safety on 13th April. The bronze medal in women's Freestyle Which of the above statements is/are correct? 76 kg event in Commonwealth Games 2018 has been a) Only 1 b) Only 2 won by ______. c) 1 and 3 d) 1 and 2 a) Anjum Moudgil b) c) Vinesh Phogat d) Kiran Question 29 World's first long-distance electric bus line has been Question 34 inaugurated in which city? In which of the following events did a) Copenhagen b) London win his 3rd straight Commonwealth Games gold? 4 | P a g e

a) Wrestling, Freestyle 57 kg Question 39 b) Shooting,10m Air Rifle What is the new limit of total investment for c) Wrestling, Freestyle 74 kg startups for availing tax concession from the d) Shooting, 50m Free Pistol government? a) 10 crore b) 12 crore Question 35 c) 15 crore d) 8 crore The final of men's Freestyle 57 kg event at Commonwealth Games 2018 in wrestling is won by Question 40 ______. India's retail inflation in the month of March, based a) Pakistan's Muhammad Bilal on the Consumer Price Index (CPI), stood at b) Canada's Steven Takahashi ______. c) England's George Ramm a) 5.01% b) 4.01% d) India's Rahul Aware c) 4.28% d) 5.52%

Question 36 Question 41 ______became India's youngest gold medallist The silver medal in women’s 53 kg freestyle at the Commonwealth Games 2018, winning Men's wrestling event in Commonwealth Games 2018 has 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Finals. been won by ______. a) Anish Bhanwala b) Neeraj Kumar a) Babita Phogat b) Vinesh Phogat c) Sanjeev Rajput d) Ankur Mittal c) Diana Weicker d) Kavita Devi

Question 37 Question 42 The gold medal in women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions A tribal development centre called Quality Finals in Commonwealth Games 2018 has been won Evaluation for Sustainable Transformation centre by ______. (QUEST) has been launched by which Indian state? a) Seema Tomar b) Saniya Shaikh a) Rajasthan b) Madhya Pradesh c) Deepali Deshpande d) Tejaswini Sawant c) Chhattisgarh d) Maharashtra

Question 38 Question 43 Who has been appointed as the new Chairman of Who holds the world No. 1 spot in the latest Banks Board Bureau? Badminton World Federation (BWF) men's singles a) Seema Bahuguna b) Bhanu Pratap Sharma rankings? c) Vindod Rai d) N. S. Vishwanathan a) Chou Tien Chen b) Kidambi Srikanth c) Lin Dan d) Prannoy H. S.

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3. It will offer services like instant loan approvals, Question 44 assistance in choosing investment portfolios. India’s first radio lab for 5G research has been set up Which of the above statements is/are correct? at ______. a) IIT, Kharagpur b) Indian Institute of a) 1 only b) 1 and 2 Science, Bangalore c) 2 and 3 d) 1, 2 and 3 c) IIT, Delhi d) Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Question 48 India has signed a MoU with ______for the Question 45 development of the geological infrastructure for The silver medal in women’s 50m rifle prone event Geoscience Maps and geochemical maps. at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games 2018 has a) Morocco b) Indonesia been won by ______. c) Zambia d) Canada a) Heena Sidhu b) Varsha Varman c) Chandro Tomar d) Tejaswini Sawant Question 49 Read the following statements:

Question 46 1. has been named by Wisden as the The National Skill Development Corporation Leading Men's Cricketer in the World for 2017. (NSDC) signed a MoU with ______to provide 2. Heather Knight has been named the Leading skill training to 500 youth and women in Women's Cricketer in the World for 2017. Kudankulam. a) Department of Atomic Energy 3. Kohli won his award for the second year in a row. b) Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited Which of the above statements is/are correct?. (NPCIL) c) Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) a) 1 only b) 1 and 2 d) Power Grid Corporation of India c) 1 and 3 d) 1 and 2

Question 47 Question 50 Read the following statements: Which Indian city has recently launched the 6th edition of Heat Action Plan to protect city dwellers 1. SBI has set up 60 digital branches, called from scorching temperatures? 'sbiINTOUCH', across the country. a) Jaipur b) Lucknow 2. SBI has set up these branches in partnership with c) Ahmedabad d) Chennai Dimension Data, a global technology integrator and managed services provider.

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Question 51 a) Saudi Aramco Which country has recently approved the Law on b) Exxon Mobil Equal Wages and Salaries for Men and Women? c) China National Petroleum Corporation a) Saudi Arabia b) Afghanistan d) Royal Dutch Shell c) Iran d) UAE Question 56 Question 52 With which country did India recently ink 4 India has signed a MoU with which Southeast Asian agreements regarding avoidance of double taxation, nation to extend affordable public healthcare visa exemption, judicial cooperation and through telemedicine? establishment of an Entrepreneurship Development a) Laos b) Brunei Institute? c) Philippones d) Timor-Leste a) Zaire b) Nigeria c) Libya d) Zambia Question 53 What rank does India hold in the latest annual Question 57 Index of Economic Freedom released by the The dedicated defence and aerospace SME fund Heritage Foundation? announced recently by the Department of Defence a) 120 b) 130 Production will channelise investments into which c) 100 d) 143 two defence corridors? a) Jammu and Kashmir and Rajasthan Question 54 b) Punjab and Rajasthan Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has inked an MoU with c) UP and Tamil Nadu ______to meet the defence product d) Sikkim and requirements of the Indian Armed Forces. a) Defence Research and Development Organisation Question 58 (DRDO) Ministers of ______and ______have been b) Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) recently empowered by the Union Cabinet to award c) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) oil blocks. d) Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) a) Petroleum, Home Affairs b) Petroleum, Energy and Mineral Resources Question 55 c) Finance, Energy and Mineral Resources Which global oil producer has signed an MoU with d) Finance, Petroleum Indian Consortium to develop a "mega refinery" in Maharashtra?

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Question 59 Which three countries have recently signed a MoU RBI has imposed a fine worth Rs 30 million on regarding the return of Illegal Migrants? ______for not following the central bank’s rules a) India, UK and North Ireland on classification of loans. b) India, France and Canada a) SIDBI b) IDBI c) India, UK and Germany c) ICICI d NABARD d) India, UAE and Pakistan

Question 60 Question 65 Which three countries are involved in a pact for the ______and World Expo 2020 signed first international project of National Highways participants contract in the prestigious World Expo Authority of India (NHAI)? 2020 held once in 5 years. a) India-Myanmar-Thailand a) China b) Germany b) India-China-Russia c) France d) India c) India-Bangladesh-Myanmar d) Afghanistan-Pakistan-India Question 66 India recently signed a MoU with _____ on Mutual Question 61 Recognition of Certificates of Competency of Who has been appointed the new ICMR chief? Seafarers. a) Balram Bhargava b) Sanjeeva Kumar a) Myanmar b) Japan c) Soumya Swaminathan d) Randeep Guleria c) Korea d) Malaysia

Question 62 Question 67 The first India-Nordic Summit was held in The new website and mobile app of the 'National ______. Commission for Safai Karamcharis' was launched by a) Helsinki b) Oslo ______. c) Copenhagen d) Stockholm a) Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Question 63 b) Union Minister for Labour and Employment Who has won the bronze medal in the men's double c) Union Minister for Human Resource trap finals at the ongoing 21st Commonwealth Development Games? d) Union Minister for Renewable Energy a) Ankur Mittal b) Ashab Mohd c) David McMath d) Ahvar Rizvi Question 68 Read the following statements: Question 64

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China launched the first group of China's Yaogan-31 Question 72 remote sensing satellites into space on 10th April. The bronze medal in the men's 50m pistol event at Gold Coast Commonwealth Games 2018 has been The satellites were carried by a Long March-4C won by ______. rocket. a) Manavjit Singh Sandhu The satellites will be used for electromagnetic b) Mansher Singh environment surveys and other technology tests. c) Haricharan Shaw d) Om Prakash Mitharval Which of the above statements is/are correct? a) Only 2 b) Only 1 Question 73 c) 2 and 3 d) 1, 2 and 3 Google recently marked the birth anniversary of which late Indian actor-singer with a google doodle? Question 69 a) Ashok Kumar b) K. L. Saigal Who has been appointed the new Director General c) Dev Anand d) Rajesh Khanna (DG) of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)? Question 74 a) Rajesh Ranjan b) Arun Kumar Sinha The gold medal in women’s double trap event at the c) Gurbachan Singh d) Mukesh Sahay 2018 Commonwealth Games has been won by ______. Question 70 a) Shreyasi Singh b) The 2018 Asia Cup has been relocated from India to c) Shreya Pandit d) Shagun Chowdhury which country? a) Malaysia b) UAE Question 75 c) Sri Lanka d) Pakistan Who has been appointed NASSCOM chairman for 2018-19? Question 71 a) Azim Premji b) Cyrus Mistry Who won the bronze medal in the Men's c) Rishad Premji d) Chanda Kochhar Heavyweight Para Powerlifting at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games 2018? Question 76 a) Chandrakant Dadu Mali Which body has drawn up new norms for projects b) S. G. Sethuraman funded by international agencies like IMF, World c) Farman Basha Bank, etc? d) Sachin Chaudhary a) Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority

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b) Central Vigilance Commission c) The Directorate of Enforcement d) Reserve Question 80 Bank of India Which of the following states has recently announced a water ATM policy for public places? Question 77 a) b) Odisha Read the following statements: c) Kerala d) Sikkim

1. Isro will launch on 15th April, a navigation Question 81 satellite IRNSS-1I, the 8th such satellite to be a part India and ______recognised the untapped of NavIC navigation satellite constellation, from potential of inland waterways, in order to contribute Sriharikota. towards the overall economic development of the 2. India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, in its forty- region. third flight (PSLV-C41) in XL configuration, will a) Nepal b) Afghanistan launch IRNSS-1I Satellite. c) Pakistan d) Japan 3. IRNSS-1I is expected to replace IRNSS-1C, the third of the seven navigation satellites. Question 82 Which of the above statements is/are correct? Which bank has announced the launch of its UK subsidiary with an initial capital commitment of 225 a) Only 1 b) Only 2 million pounds from its parent entity? c) 1 and 2 d) 1, 2 and 3 a) SBI b) Canara Bank

c) Punjab National Bank d) Allahabad Bank Question 78 Who has been appointed the new President of Question 83 Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2018-19? The UN World Tourism Organization has appointed a) Vikram Kirloskar b) Mr. Chandrajit Banerjee whom as an ambassador to promote responsible c) Shobana Kamineni d) Rakesh Bharti Mittal tourism?

a) Cristiano Ronaldo b) Lionel Messi Question 79 c) Luis Suárez d) Neymar Name the initiative launched by Food Safety and

Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) to overcome Question 84 rising incidence of vitamin D deficiency in school ______and Swaziland have signed two children. agreements in the field of Health and Medicine and a) Project Poshan b) Project Aahaar Visa department. c) Project Suraj d) Project Dhoop a) India b) Pakistan c) China d) Japan 10 | P a g e

Question 85 The men's table tennis team won which medal by Question 88 beating Nigeria Table tennis team in Which state's Chief Minister inaugurated a special Commonwealth Games 2018? court at Cheirap Court Complex to try drug-related a) Gold b) Silver cases? c) Bronze d) Platinum a) Meghalaya b) Assam c) Manipur d) Nagaland Question 86 Indian mixed badminton team claimed which medal Question 89 in the the 2018 Commonwealth Games? E-way bill system for the intra-state movement of goods is scheduled to be implemented in how many a) Gold b) Silver states? c) Bronze d) Platinum a) 3 b) 4

c) 5 d) 6 Question 87

Read the following statements:- Question 90 1. The government has made the use of e-Invoices, Which state government has decided to launch its e-Payments and e-Delivery orders mandatory across own app-based taxi service to some key tourist the maritime trade as it seeks to push digitisation of destinations in the state? trade processes. a) Bihar b) Andhra Pradesh c) Goa d) Rajasthan 2. The government has also directed stakeholders to use the Port Community System (PCS). Question 91 3. PCS is a centralised web-based message exchange Read the following statements:- platform for the Indian maritime community to 1. The Unique Identification Authority of India exchange the images. (UIDAI) has brought in secure digitally-signed QR Which of the above statement/statements is/are code on eAadhaar that will contain the photograph correct? of the Aadhaar holder to facilitate better offline verification of an individual. a) Only 1 b) Only 2 c) Only 3 d) Both 1 and 2 2. A QR code is a form of a barcode which contains machine-readable information.

3. eAadhaar is the electronic version of Aadhaar that can be downloaded from UIDAI website.

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Which of the above statement/statements is/are a) Only 1 b) Only 2 correct? c) Only 3 d) All of the above a) Only 1 b) Only 2 Question 95 c) Only 3 d) All of the above New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport

ranks ______in top 20 busiest airports in the Question 92 world for 2017 in terms of traffic volumes. Which state government will soon constitute a a) 15th b) 16th Happiness Commission that will take up a series of c) 17th d) 18th programmes to promote “happiness” in the state? a) Uttar Pradesh b) Himachal Pradesh Question 96 c) Rajasthan d) Andhra Pradesh Read the following statements:-

1. India and Bangladesh signed 8 pacts including Question 93 one for the construction of a 129.5 km-long oil On the recommendation of the Directorate General pipeline between Siliguri and Parbatipur. of Anti-Dumping and Allied Duties, the revenue department has imposed an anti-dumping duty on 2. The MoU on the oil pipeline is aimed at import of Phosphorus Pentoxide from ______. transporting diesel from India to Bangladesh. a) Japan b) Spain 3. An agreement between Department of Atomic c) China d) Germany Energy, India and Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, was signed. Question 94 Read the following statements:- Which of the above statement/statements is/are correct? 1. NABARD has come out with a ‘Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) Framework’ for Regional Rural Banks a) Only 1 b) Only 2 (RRBs). c) Only 3 d) Both 2 and 3

2. The framework is aimed at enabling RRBs that Question 97 fail to meet prudential requirements like capital Read the following statements:- adequacy to take self-corrective action. 1. India will build a strategic railway link between 3. The PCA will be invoked if RRBs fail to meet the Raxaul in Bihar and Kathmandu in Nepal to 'capital to risk-weighted assets ratio', assets (NPAs), facilitate people-to-people contact and bulk and profitability (Return on assets). movement of goods.

Which of the above statement/statements is/are true?

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2. The 2 Prime Ministers agreed to construct the new electrified rail line, which will be financed by

Nepal.

3. The 3 other railway projects in the pipeline are New Jalpaiguri-Kakarbhitta, Nautanwa-Bhairahawa and Nepalgunj Road-Nepalgunj.

Which of the above statement/statements is/are correct? a) Only 1 b) Only 2 c) Only 3 d) Both 1 and 3

Question 98

Prime Minister flagged off the country’s first high- powered electric locomotive assembled in Madhepura in ______. a) Uttar Pradesh b) Chhattisgarh c) Maharashtra d) Bihar

Question 99 Among the following places, where is a two-day scientific convention is being organised on the occasion of World Homoeopathy Day? a) New Delhi b) Mumbai c) Ahmedabad d) Bangalore

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Answers:

1. a 21. a 41. a 61. a 81. a

2. a 22. c 42. d 62. d 82. a

3. c 23. b 43. b 63. a 83. b

4. b 24. b 44. c 64. a 84. b

5. b 25. d 45. d 65. d 85. a

6. b 26. c 46. b 66. c 86. a

7. b 27. a 47. d 67. a 87. d

8. d 28. d 48. a 68. d 88. c

9. a 29. d 49. c 69. a 89. c

10. c 30. d 50. c 70. b 90. c

11. a 31. a 51. d 71. d 91. d

12. a 32. d 52. d 72. d 92. d

13. b 33. d 53. b 73. b 93. c

14. d 34. c 54. d 74. a 94. d

15. c 35. d 55. a 75. c 95. b

16. a 36. a 56. d 76. b 96. d

17. d 37. d 57. c 77. b 97. d

18. b 38. b 58. d 78. d 98. d

19. d 39. a 59. b 79. d 99. a

20. b 40. c 60. a 80. a

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