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1.Who has been sworn-in as the first female 4.Indian men‟s hockey team defeated which high court Chief Justice in ? country to win bronze at the 2018 Jakarta

[A] TahiraSafdar [B] Maria Hassan Asian Games?

[C] RiffatQuraishi [D] AsifaUlfah [A] [B]

[C] [D] Pakistan

2.Which country is host to the 4th

International Ayurveda Congress (IAvC) 5.Who is the author of the book “Moving On,

2018? Moving Forward: A year in Office”?

[A] Belgium [B] Russia [A] SumitraMahajan [B] Anand Sharma

[C] France [D] Netherlands [C] ArunJaitley [ D] Venkaiah Naidu

3.Who of the following Indians has/have 6.The multi-nation tsunami mock exercise received the 2018 Ramon Magsaysay Award? (drill) “IOWave18” has started in which of

[A] Deepa Joshi and the following oceans?

[B] Kulendi Francis and [A] Indian Ocean

[C] SanjivChaturvedi [B] Pacific Ocean

[D] Bharat Vatwani and SonamWangchuk [C] Atlantiic Ocean

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[D] Southern Antarctic Ocean 10. Which country has signed pact with

to collaborate on ISRO‟s first human

7.The Government of India (GoI) has decided spaceflight programme “Gaganyaan”? to observe which month as National Nutrition [A] Germany [B] France

Month (NNM) across country to mark the [C] Japan [D] United States fight against malnutrition?

[A] October [B] December 11.Justice RanjanGogoi, who is expected to

[C] September [D] August become 46th Chief Justice of India (CJI),

hails from which North-East State of India?

8.Which state government has decided to [A] Assam [B] Arunachal Pradesh provide free mobile phones to women of BPL [C] Tripura [D] Nagaland families?

[A] Rajasthan [B] Gujarat 12.KAZIND-2018 is an army exercise

[C] Himachal Pradesh [D] Uttar Pradesh between India and which country?

[A] Kuwait [B] Kenya

9. Which two countries will participate in [C] Kyrgyzstan [D] Kazakhstan

SLINEX-2018 naval exercise?

[A] Indonesia and 13. GovindanLakshmanan is associated with

[B] India and which sports?

[C] India and South Africa [A] Sprint [B] Basketball

[D] Italy and Spain [C] Hockey [D] Badminton

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14. Which military communications pact has 18. Chagos Islands, which is in news recently, been signed by India and the United States in is the disputed islands between which of the the first round of the „2-plus-2-dialogue‟? following countries?

[A] GSOMIA [B] LEMOA [A] and United States

[C] BECA [D] COMCASA [B] Mauritius and United Kingdom

[C] Maldives and United States

15.Which sportsperson has been appointed [D] Maldives and Mauritius the new Brand Ambassador of BSNL?

[A] BajrangPunia [B] Mary Kom 19.India‟s longest rail-cum-road bridge

[C] Neeraj Chopra [D] Rani Rampal “Bogibeel” will come up over which river?

[A] Ganga [B] Yamuna

16. Which cricket team has won the 57th [C] Brahmaputra [D] Godavari edition of Duleep Trophy 2018?

[A] India Red [B] India Blue 20.Who has become the first Japanese player

[C] India Green [D] India Orange to clinched the women‟s singles title of US

Open 2018?

17.Under which article, the Odisha Assembly [A] Ai Sugiyama [B] Kimiko Date has passed a resolution for establishing [C] Kurumi Nara [D] Naomi Osaka

Legislative Council (VidhanParishad) in the state? 21.The Indian Air Force has successfully

[A] Article 169 [B] Article 170 carried out the first-ever mid-air refuelling of

[C] Article 171 [D] Article 168 the indigenously build which aircraft?

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[C] Jaguar [D] Mirage 25.BARC has recently re-commissioned an

upgraded version of which nuclear reactor?

22. Which city is host to the first-ever [A] Dhruva [B] Apsara

BIMSTEC military exercise “MILEX-18”? [C] Purnima [D] Zerlina

[A] Hyderabad [B] Pune

[C] Chennai [D] Bhubaneswar 26.Which state government has launched

India‟s first scheme for doorstep delivery of

23.Who will head the panel of secretaries to essential government services? look into the issues raised on some proposals [A] Andhra Pradesh of the draft e-commerce policy? [B] Karnataka

[A] Rajiv Gauba [C]Odisha

[B] S SAhluwalia [D] Delhi

[C] Ajay PrakashSawhney

[D] Ramesh Abhishek 27.Nomadic Elephant 2018 is an army

exercise between India and which country?

24.The Indo-US military training Exercise [A] Nigeria [B] Senegal

“YudhAbhyas 2018” will be held at which [C] Mongolia [D] Ghana state?

[A] Himachal Pradesh 28. India‟s first railway university “National

[B] Uttarakhand Rail and Transportation Institute (NRTI)” is

[C] Uttar Pradesh located in which city?

[D] Pune [A] Ahmedabad [B] Kanpur

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29. Which state government has banned the 32. Which country is host to the 2018 G-20 manufacture, sale and possession of e- trade and investment ministerial meeting? cigarettes? [A] Argentina [B] France

A] Odisha [B] Assam [C] Germany [D] Brazil

[C] Tamil Nadu [D] Karnataka

33.Under which article of the constitution,

30.Sagarmatha Friendship-2018 military President has appointed Justice RanjanGogoi exercise is scheduled to start between which as the 46th Chief Justice of India? of the following countries? [A] Article 123 [B] Article122

[A] and [C] Article 124 [D] Article 121

[B] and India

[C] India and Nepal 34.What is the India‟s ranks in the latest

[D] India and Sri Lanka UN‟s Human Development Index (HDI)

report 2018?

31.Who has been appointed new chairman of [A] 130 [B] 132 [C] 134 [D] 136 the LokSabha Ethics Committee?

[A] Ramesh PokhriyalNishank 35.Indian Coast Guard (ICG) has recently

[B] Chandrakant B Khaire commissioned which indigenously built

[C] L K Advani patrol vessel?

[D] P Karu [A] Tarmugli [B] Vijaya

[C] Chetlat [D] Baratang

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36.The first lion safari of Rajasthan has come [A] Merin Joseph [B] SmitaSabharwal up at which of the following parks? [C] RijjuBafna [D] Anna RajamMalhotra

[A] Nahargarh Biological Park

[B] Ranthambore National Park 40. Exercise Aviaindra 18 has started

[C] Keoladeo National Park between which of the following countries?

[D] Sariska National Park [A] Japan & India [B] Russia & Japan

[C] China & Pakistan [D] India & Russia

37. The Government of India (GoI) has proposed to merge which of the following 41. Who has been appointed new secretary of banks to create India‟s third largest lender? Central Vigilance Commission (CVC)?

[A] Indian Bank, PNB and BBoB [A] AnindoMajumdar

[B] BoB, PNB and Allahabad Bank [B] ShakuntalaGamlin

[C] BoI, IDBI and PNB [C] Shashi Sharma

[D] BoB, Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank [D] Alka Tiwari

38. Which country has rolled out world‟s first 42.India‟s first indigenously developed 500- hydrogen-powered train? megawatt (mw) prototype fast breeder

[A] Italy [B] Norway reactor is located in which state?

[C] Germany [D] Denmark [A] Odisha [B] Andhra Pradesh

[C] Tamil Nadu [D] Goa

39.Who of the following was the India‟s first woman IAS officer post-Independence, who passed away recently? 0422 4204182, 9884267599 NVN Layout, Gandhipuram, Coimbatore Page 6

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43. Who of the following have won the 2018 [A] Nagaland [B] Manipur

Rajiv Gandhi KhelRatna? [C] Mizoram [D] Tamil Nadu

[A] Hima Das &ManikaBatra

[B] ViratKohli&MirabaiChanu 47. Who has won the 2018 Presidential

[C] Jinson Johnson &SavitaPunia Election of Maldives?

[D] Neeraj Chopra &Jiwanjot Singh Teja [A] Mohamed Waheed Hassan

[B] Abdulla Yameen

44. What is the strike range of indigenously [C] Ibrahim Mohamed Solih developed Short-range tactical ballistic [D] Mohamed Nasheed missile “Prahar”, which is successfully flight tested by DRDO? 48. Who has been named The 2018 Best FIFA

[A]250 Km [B] 150 Km Men‟s Player?

[C] 200 Km [D] 350 Km [A] Lionel Messi

[B] Luka Modric

45. Which of the following is the India‟s [C] Cristiano Ronaldo biggest cyclotron facility, which recently [D] Mohamed Salah became operational?

[A] Cyclone-103 [B] Cyclone-123 49. What is the purpose of Justice Amitava

[C] Cyclone-68 [D] Cyclone-30 Roy committee constituted by Supreme

Court recently?

46. Which state government has announced a [A] Reforms in Tax Laws of India novel scheme for the protection of the exotic [B] Prison Reforms

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[D] Executive-Legislative Relations reforms 53.On which date, the 2018 International Day

for the Total Elimination of Nuclear

50. Which air pollution control device has Weapons was observed recently? recently launched by the Union Government [A] September 27 [B] September 29 for traffic junctions? [C] September 26 [D] September 28

[A] VAYU [B] WAYU

[C] VAN [D] MANUSH 54. Who heads the Lokpal Search Committee

to recommend the chairperson and members

51. Which Indian personality has been of the anti-corruption ombudsman Lokpal? awarded with the UN‟s highest [A] A Surya Prakash environmental honour „Champions of the [B] RanjanaPrakash Desai

Earth 2018‟? [C] Arundhati Bhattacharya

[A] SonamWangchuk [D] S Kiran Kumar

[B] Maneka Gandhi

[C] 55. Which of the following is the India‟s best

[D] NarendraModi institute, according to the Times Higher

Education (THE) World University Rankings

52. Project Unnati is related to: 2019?

[A] Eradication of Poverty in rural areas [A] IIScBengaluru

[B] UpliftmentTribals by improving [B] IIT Madras connectivity [C] IIT Roorkee

[C] Development of ports [D] IIT Indore

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