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From ‘Ab ki baar Modi sarkar’ in 2014 to ‘Phir ek baar Modi sarkar’ five years later, Narendra Modi kept his Narendra word as he was sworn in prime minister on 30 may. The 68-year-old Bharatiya Janata Party leader, who took Modi 2.0 oath against the magnificent backdrop of the Rashtrapati Bhavan with thousands gathered in the forecourt and millions watching on their television screens, is only and its the third prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi to return for a second successive term challenges with a full majority. The focus shifts almost immediately from celebrations to the challenges faced by the man who powered his party to 303 seats in the Lok Sabha.He needs to fix problems in agriculture, job sector, economy, international relations and internal social disharmony. India’s economy big worry for Modi, needs stimulus India’s slowing economic growth is of serious concern and the country needs to urgently cut tax and interest rates to revive the economy. The economy grew 6.6% in the three months to December - the slowest pace in five quarters - and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) said the bigger worry was that domestic consumption was not growing fast enough to offset a weakening global economic environment. The recent signs of slowdown in the economy stem not only from slow growth in investments and subdued exports but also from weakening growth in consumption demand. “This is a matter of serious concern and if not addressed urgently, the repercussions would be long term.” Key indicative sales — of cars, two-wheelers, and tractors — have been falling. Non-oil, non-gold, non- silver, and non-precious and semi-precious stones imports, another good indicator of consumer demand, have shrunk in the past four months. The public sector banks are in bad shape on the account of non-performing assets (NPAs) despite pumping in over Rs 2 trillion in the past two years. The NPA of public-sector banks stood at over Rs 8 trillion at the end of December 2018. Currently banks are lending almost till the last penny of deposits that they have with them. When Modi took power for the first time in 2014, global oil prices slumped. But as he gets set for a second term, rising oil prices could push the current account deficit higher. The body also said the trade war between the United States and China could further slow down global trade and hurt India’s already sluggish exports.

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The upcoming budget...is an opportunity for the government to boost consumption and investments through appropriate fiscal stimulus and policies. Agrarian crisis Agriculture, forestry and fishing — together clubbed under the head of agriculture — comprised 21 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2004-05. It has dropped to around 13 per cent in the past 15 years. But the number of workforce has not dropped accordingly in farms. Agriculture employs nearly 55 per cent of the workforce in the country. An estimated 26 crore people are working in the sector. This translates into dependence of about 55-57 per cent population on agriculture, which is in distress for far too long to ignore for Narendra Modi government. The immediate reason for farm distress is falling food prices. Despite Modi government’s implementation of new MSP regime, the farmers are not getting profitable remuneration from their agriculture. Going into the Lok Sabha polls, Modi government tried to lessen the burden on the farmers with PM Kisan, a scheme to provide cash support of Rs 6,000 a year equated over three instalments. The new government will have to address bigger issue in agriculture, that is, of shifting farm workers to other employment avenues. This leads to PM Modi’s another major challenge - unemployment. Unemployment Of 136 crore estimated population of India, 67 per cent is in 15-64 years bracket. This puts the job-seeking population over 91 crore. Not all of them would actually be looking for job but this figure itself is a challenge to any government. The promise of 2 crore jobs annually coupled with the slogan of “achhe din” (good days) had brought Narendra Modi I government to power in 2014. Twin-disruption caused by demonetisation and one-step rollout of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) - government called them course correction in economy - led to massive job loss instead.

A Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) report, released in January this year, said around 1.1 crore jobs were lost in 2018 as side effects of 2016 demonetisation and 2017 GST rollout. Official figures for unemployment rate, leaked to a newspaper earlier this year, said the joblessness was at a 45-year high in 2017-18 — with an average unemployment rate of 6.1 per cent. This was considered as impact of note ban and haphazard rollout of GST.Reports suggest that weekly as well as monthly unemployment rate have been hovering around seven per cent for several months. According to an India Spend analysis, of 1.2 crore people entering job market every year, only 47.5 lakh join the labour force. The rest remain either unemployed or in disguised unemployment. The new Modi government urgently needs to give impetus to employment else the situation will explode any time during its tenure. The youths are sitting on an unemployment time bomb that is ticking fast. This brings us to the third major challenge to the Modi government. Reaching out to Muslims, minorities Following the stupendous electoral victory of the Modi government, reports suggest, there is an unease among a section of minorities, particularly Muslims. Certain incidents — shooting at a Muslim man in Bihar merely after asking for his name and thrashing of a couple in Madhya Pradesh on beef rumour — might have added to the prevailing sentiments. PM Modi, in his address, to the newly elected MPs of the ruling dispensation asserted that over the next five years, they have to ensure “sabka vishwas” (trust of all) besides “sabka saath, sabka vikas” (collective efforts, inclusive growth). Pakistan and terrorism PM Modi might have given a strong signal to Pakistan when its Prime Minister Imran Khan called him up to congratulate him over his win in the Lok Sabha election and expressed willingness to work towards peaceful bilateral relations. PM Modi is understood to have told Imran Khan that onus lies on Pakistan as talks and terror can’t go together. While leaders of other neigbouring countries have been invited to PM Modi’s oath-taking ceremony, Imran Khan does not feature in the list. This may be a snub in the aftermath of the Pulwama terror attack and aerial dogfight following air strike at a terror base in Pakistan’s Balakot. India’s relations with Pakistan is not a simple case of diplomacy. It involves many other aspects including the issue of Kashmir and also the question of religious harmony.

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PM Modi may not have the luxury of honeymoon period as he had during his previous tenure. Modi’s hands are full of challenges that his government ought to deal with urgently with long term solutions. Air pollution presents a challenge for Modi in second term One of the biggest challenges facing Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he begins his second term is ensuring clean air in a country that is home to some of the most polluted cities in the world. The country is burning up more coal to supply cheap electricity to its 1.3 billion people, resulting in polluted air across vast stretches. That is costing lives and denting the nation’s economic productivity, prompting a policy rethink. Efforts in the past to clean up the environment have struggled to clear the test of affordability. India’s fleet of coal- burning power plants, among the biggest sources of air pollution and a dominant provider of cheap energy, have dragged their feet over implementing emission standards, citing cost. Strengthen power retailers The new government must focus on strengthening electricity distribution companies. Rejuvenating the power retailers will be crucial for transitioning to cleaner, although costlier, electricity. Their losses rose from April to December, reversing a declining trend. Efforts to revive them during Modi’s first term have met with some progress but have not been completely successful. Implement emissions norms: The government must ensure the timely implementation of emissions norms for thermal power plants. One of the reasons this process has moved slowly is a possible reluctance by lenders to finance retrofits in a sector already stressed with a mountain of bad debt. Fixing the money-losing power retailers would be key to resolving the bad loan mess. Fuels under GST: Bring fuels, such as natural gas, under the national sales tax regime, helping them compete with dirtier options, such as coal and pet coke. Boosting local production of gas will make it more affordable and help raise its share in the mix to 15 per cent, more than double from now. Focus on renewable: Accelerate capacity addition in renewable energy, while enabling the grid to deal with the rising flow of intermittent power.Increase use of biomass for energy to help reduce the dependence on crude oil imports and prevent burning of crop residue, a leading air polluter in northern India. Increasing the efficiency of government expenditure is another major challenge before the government. The government must ensure that its borrowings are not used to finance revenue expenditure and are used for asset creation and infrastructure investments. Loss-making public sector enterprises are to be divested. It is heartening to see that steps for disinvestment of Air India are being taken up. The government will address the above challenges and make economic growth more broad-based, leading to a positive cycle of higher growth and higher demand, and put the Indian economy on a permanently high economic growth trajectory. Modi will have to handle economic turbulence deftly till the 2020 US elections. The US-China trade wars and the US- Russia differences will create new fronts all over the world with India often called upon to take positions for or against the election-bound Trump administration. This becomes a bigger challenge as India faces imminent US notification of withdrawal of the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) in the face of the slow progress in the resolution of the India- US trade deficit. Modi, along with President Trump, will have to use their personal clout to reach an agreement on trade as the bureaucracy on both sides is only interested in protecting its turf at a time when there is a perceptible hardening of positions on both sides. The answer to the US withdrawal does not lie in Indian retaliation but in the resolution of trade differences as both countries need each other in a worsening strategic environment. Last, for Modi to provide the last mile delivery for Centrally-sponsored schemes in the Congress-ruled states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka and Trinamool Congress-ruled West Bengal will be a challenge. Schemes like Ayushman Bharat, Ujwala, agriculture and unorganised sectors reforms will run into obstacles in these states on account of ideological differences. If the schemes succeed, the state leadership will claim credit; failure will be dumped squarely on Modi. But then the PM is known to climb mountains in adverse conditions.

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1 U.S. ENDS WAIVER FOR INDIA ON IRAN OIL The U.S. has decided that it will not renew exemptions from its sanctions for importing oil from Iran. Penalty for Indian Imports  The US will not issue any additional Significant Reduction Exceptions [SREs] to existing importers of Iranian oil.  US has continued to apply maximum pressure on the Iranian regime until its leaders change their destructive behaviour, respect the rights of the Iranian people, and return to the negotiating table.  India, China and U.S. allies Japan, South Korea and Turkey will be the most impacted by the non-renewal of waivers.  The other three currently exempted countries — Italy, Greece and Taiwan — have already reduced their imports to zero. Implications for India  India is the second biggest buyer of Iranian oil after China.  It is being pushed by the US to restrict its monthly purchase to 1.25 million tonnes or 15 million tonnes in a year down from 22.6 million tonnes in 2017-18 financial year.  Even during the last set of sanctions between 2012 and 2015, India had continued to import oil from Iran.  The US decision is intended to bring Iran’s oil exports to zero, denying the regime its principal source of revenue.  Apart from oil imports, India will also have to navigate a waiver for development of the Chabahar port which is of critical strategic importance. About India’s Oil Import  India is the world’s third-largest consumer of oil.  With 85 per cent of its crude oil and 34 per cent of its natural gas requirements is being fulfilled by imports.

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 In 2016, India imported 215 million tonnes of crude oil and at 13 per cent, Iran stood third among India’s biggest oil suppliers, after Saudi Arabia and Iraq at 18 per cent each. In an oil slick: Faced with the U.S.’s intransigent demand that all countries put a full stop to oil imports from Iran or face sanctions, the Indian government has indicated it will ‘zero out’ oil imports after the May 2 deadline. What next?  Alternative Energy Sources – Statements from the Petroleum and External Affairs Ministries suggest the government’s focus is now on finding alternative sources of energy, and minimising the impact on the Indian market.  At last count, India was importing about 10% of its oil needs from Iran, although it had considerably reduced its intake over the last few months. US’s Directions  The U.S. has made it clear that Indian companies that continue to import oil from Iran would face severe secondary sanctions, including being taken out of the SWIFT international banking system and a freeze on dollar transactions and U.S. assets.  In response, Indian importers, including the oil PSUs, have decided that sourcing oil from Iran is unviable at present. India’s Interests  As a result, the government is seeking to explain the decision as a pragmatic one, taken in India’s best interests.  Officials point to the six-month reprieve, from November 2018 to May 2019, that they received from the U.S. in the form of sanctions waivers to import Iranian oil, and the exemption to continue developing the Chabahar port, as positive outcomes of the negotiations over the past year. Caving under pressure  Such arguments are, however, not very convincing. India has, in effect, now decided to cave in to U.S. pressure on the issue less than a year after External Affairs Minister SushmaSwaraj said that India would recognise only UN sanctions, not “unilateral” ones.  In fact, last February Prime Minister NarendraModi vowed in Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s presence in Delhi to increase India’s oil intake from Iran. Costs Due to ban  There are other real costs attached to the U.S. ultimatum that India may have to bear.  High Costs – The price of oil has already shot up above the $70 mark in April.  The threat to oil shipments – In addition, Iran has threatened to shut down the Strait of Hormuz, a key channel for global oil shipments, which would further lead to inflationary trends, not just for oil but other commodities too.  Other Interests – Any direct backlash from Iran for its decision will also jeopardise India’s other interests in the country, including its considerable investment in the Chabahar port, which India is building as an alternative route for trade to Central Asia.  In the larger picture, India isn’t just testing its traditional ties with Iran, but also giving in to President Donald Trump’s blatant bullying after his administration withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal.Building a counter – Instead of engaging in what appear to have been fruitless negotiations with the U.S. over the past year, India, China, the EU and other affected entities could have spent their time more productively in building a counter with an alternative financial architecture, immune to the U.S.’s arbitrary moves.

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2 MOSQUIRIX : WORLD’S FIRST MALARIA VACCINE African Nation, Malawi will be undertaking large scale pilot tests for the world’s most advanced experimental malaria vaccine in a bid to prevent the disease. The vaccine has been recommended by WHO for pilot introduction in selected areas of 3 African countries- Ghana, Kenya and Malawi. World’s first vaccine against a parasitic disease: Mosquirix:  RTS,S, known by its trade name Mosquirix, uses antibodies to target proteins presented by sporozoites (such as the circumsporozoite protein of falciparum)to enhance the immune system and help prevent the parasite from infecting the liver.  Mosquirix is also engineered using a hepatitis B viral protein and a chemical adjuvant to further boost the immune response for enhanced effectiveness. India’s efforts in this regard:  India’s progress in fighting malaria is an outcome of concerted efforts to ensure that its malaria programme is country-owned and country-led, even as it is in alignment with globally accepted strategies.  At the East Asia Summit in 2015, India pledged to eliminate the disease by 2030. Following this public declaration, India launched the five-year National Strategic Plan for Malaria Elimination. This marked a shift in focus from malaria “control” to “elimination”. The plan provides a roadmap to achieve the target of ending malaria in 571 districts out of India’s 678 districts by 2022. DurgamaAnchalare Malaria Nirakaran (DAMaN) initiative: Among states, Odisha’s Durgama Anchalare Malaria Nirakaran (DAMaN) initiative is significant.  The initiative aims to deliver services to the most inaccessible and hardest hit people of the State. The initiative has in-built innovative strategies to combat asymptomatic malaria.  The programme is jointly implemented by Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Malaria Research (ICMR-NIMR), National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP), Odisha and Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV).

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3 ALLEGATION OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT AGAINST CJI Recently allegations of sexual harassment were made by a former employee of the Supreme Court against the CJI. However it was later claimed by a litigant that he was offered to “frame” the CJI.While judges indeed require powerful protection against motivated accusations, due process demands that an expeditious, thorough, fair and impartial probe is carried out in the matter.The extraordinary developments at the country’s highest seat of justice offer an opportunity to revisit some larger questions around its accountability. The question of ‘good behaviour’  Constitution protects judges against the will of the masses, of Parliament, and of the all-powerful executives.  A judge of the SC cannot be removed except by an order of the President passed after an address by each House of Parliament supported by a majority of the total membership of that House and by a majority of not less than two-thirds of the members of that House present and voting has been presented to the President in the same session.  Such removal can be initiated on the ground of proved misbehaviour or incapacity. However, the Constitution does not define ‘misbehavior’ and ‘incapacity’.  The Judges (Inquiry) Bill, 2006 sought to establish a National Judicial Council to inquire into allegations of incapacity or misbehavior of judges of the HC and SC.It defined misbehavior as willful or persistent conduct which brings dishonour or disrepute to the judiciary; or willful or persistent failure to perform the duties of a judge; or wilful abuse of judicial office, corruption, lack of integrity; or committing an offence involving moral turpitude.  The Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill, 2010, tried to lay down enforceable standards of conduct for judges.  It proposed to widen the definition of ‘misbehaviour’ by adding “corruption or lack of integrity which includes delivering judgments for collateral or extraneous reasons, making demands for consideration in cash or kind”, or “any other action… which has the effect of subverting the administration of justice”.  Failure to declare assets and liabilities, or wilfully giving false information was also included within the definition of ‘misbehaviour’. What should be the standard of proof for ‘misbehaviour’?  While rejecting the Opposition’s notice for impeachment of CJI, RS chairman cited the “lack of substantial merit”, and said the charges had not been proved beyond reasonable doubt.

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 But impeachment is not a criminal trial.  In all civil matters, the standard of proof is the “preponderance of probabilities”.  In Australia and South Africa, this is the standard of proof in the impeachment process of judges.  India does not currently have a statutory mechanism to examine the misconduct of judges, and short of the complex process of impeachment, there is no mechanism available to make judges accountable. Allegations against judges  While no judge has so far been removed by impeachment, several have faced allegations of corruption, and a couple of them of sexual harassment as well.  An allegation of corruption or sexual harassment, if proved, ought to count as misbehaviour or misconduct. Addressing Sexual harassment at Courts  In 1997, the Supreme Court noted that “the present civil and penal laws in India do not adequately provide for specific protection of women from sexual harassment in work places”, and laid down the ‘Vishakha Guidelines’.  Sixteen years later, Parliament enacted The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013.  The Supreme Court has a Gender Sensitization and Internal Complaints Committee headed by a woman judge, with a majority of woman members.  The committee has a laid-down procedure for dealing with complaints of sexual harassment on the premises of the court.  But it has no power to deal with complaints against the CJI or judges. In respect of misconduct by judges, the in- house process can be initiated only by the CJI.  The Regulations are silent on a situation where the allegation is against the CJI himself. No man is above the Law  The rule of law demands judicial accountability. Accountability makes the exercise of power more efficient and effective.  The British constitutional theorist A V Dicey wrote that “no man is above the law [and] every man, whatever be his rank or condition, is subject to the ordinary law of the realm and amenable to the jurisdiction of the ordinary tribunals”.  Legal equality is the cardinal principle of the rule of law, and everyone including judges, must respect it.  Should CJI undergo trial?  To place judicial performance beyond scrutiny would be myopic, as liberty without accountability is freedom of the fool.  Power without responsibility is the anti-thesis of constitutionalism. Accountability of public officials, including judges, is the very essence of a mature democracy.  Way Forward  Judicial accountability promotes at least three discrete values: the rule of law, public confidence in the judiciary, and institutional responsibility.  Both judicial independence and judicial accountability are purposive devices designed to serve greater constitutional objectives.  Though the independence of the judiciary is a part of the basic structure of the Constitution, it is not an end in itself.  In fact, it is an instrumental value defined by the purposes it serves. Not Justice  The three-member panel probing charges of sexual harassment against Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi had a task much broader and more critical than its stated remit.  Given that it was investigating allegations levelled against the highest office of the country’s apex court, the panel needed to answer questions that pertained, inevitably, to the integrity of the institution itself.  Upon it also lay the onus of instituting procedures that mitigated the unequal power relations in a case where a former junior employee of the court was ranged against the CJI.  In a report submitted, the panel has given a clean chit to CJI Gogoi. It has “found no substance” in the charges.  But this denouement — an ex parte report, which will not be made public — raises more questions than it answers.

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Proceedings Complaints regarding Procedure  The committee comprising Justices S A Bobde, Indira Banerjee and Indu Malhotra wrapped up the inquiry in sittings over four days, three of which were devoted to questioning the complainant.  On the third day, the complainant withdrew from the probe alleging that the panel did not adopt “a procedure that would ensure fairness and equality”.  She accused the committee of not informing her about its procedures, denying her legal help, not recording its proceedings and not providing her with a copy of her depositions before it. Power Asymmetry  Each of these four points raises issues of power asymmetry.  The committee’s task was, no doubt, complicated by the fact that the SC’s “in-house procedures” do not have provisions to deal with charges against the CJI.  But the apex court has, over the years, also interpreted and re-interpreted Articles 14, 15, 19 and 21 of the Constitution to lay down the rights of working women.  The probe was a chance to extend such jurisprudence to a situation inside the institution of the court. Concerns with ex parte investigation  The panel’s recourse to an ex-parte investigation is problematic.  Aside from the fact that such a probe is against the principles of natural justice..  And by not making its report public, the panel has come up short on the requirement of transparency .  It has argued that the verdict in Indira Jaising vs Supreme Court of India does not enjoin placing in public “the report of a committee constituted as a part of the In-House Procedure”. Conclusion : The panel’s verdict goes against the Court’s tradition of interpreting the law creatively for the sake of upholding and strengthening constitutional morality. The Court has corrected itself in the past. It should do so again.

4 GLOBAL TALENT COMPETITIVENESS INDEX  GTCI, launched in 2013, is an annual benchmarking report that measures the ability of countries to compete for talent.  It is released by INSEAD business school in partnership with Tata Communications and Adecco Group.

Plot-1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRP Square, Bhubaneswar-751015 Page | 11 [ Ph. : 8093556677, 9040456677, Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] ] MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF JULY 2019  The report measures levels of Global Talent Competitiveness by looking at 68 variables such as ease of hiring, gender earnings gap, and prevalence of training in firms. Uniqueness of this year’s report:  This year’s report has a special focus on entrepreneurial talent – how it is being encouraged, nurtured and developed throughout the world and how this affects the relative competitiveness of different economies.  The report also reveals that cities rather than countries are developing stronger roles as talent hubs and will be crucial to reshaping the global talent scene. India’s performance:  India remains the laggard in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) region and was ranked 80.  It performs better than its lower-income peers when it comes to growing (48th) talent, primarily by virtue of the possibilities for Lifelong Learning (38th) and Access to Growth Opportunities (41st).  An above-average Business and Labour Landscape (38th) and Employability (34th) raise the scores of the pillars related to Enable (70th) and Vocational and Technical Skills (72nd) that are otherwise hampered by the remaining sub-pillars.  Notwithstanding the scope for improvement across the board, India’s biggest challenge is to improve its ability to Attract (95th) and Retain (96th) talent.  Above all, there is a need to address its poor level of Internal Openness (116th)—in particular with respect to weak gender equality and low tolerances towards minorities and immigrants—and its disappointing showing in Lifestyle indicators. Global findings: In this sixth edition, Switzerland continues to lead the 2019 Global Talent Competitiveness index, while Singapore and the United States come in second and third respectively.Yemen has finished at the bottom of this year’s index at 125th, just below Congo (124th) and Burundi (123rd).

5 WORLD PRESS FREEDOM INDEX 2019

The Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has released the World Press Freedom Index 2019, reflecting growing animosity towards journalists.

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Performance of various countries:  The index has been topped by Norway again for the third year, followed by Finland and Sweden at second and third positions, respectively.  Only 24 percent of the 180 countries and territories were classified as “good” or “fairly good”, as opposed to 26 percent last year.  Of all the world’s regions, Americas (North and South) suffered the greatest deterioration, falling by 3.6 percent, in its regional score.  The Middle East and North Africa region continues to be the most difficult and dangerous for journalists.  Syria (174th) continues to be extremely dangerous for media personnel and as does Yemen (168th).  The Asia-Pacific region continues to rank third last. The number of murdered journalists was extremely high in Afghanistan, India and Pakistan. Disinformation is becoming a big problem in the region. Observations on India:  India’s rank dropped down to 140th from 138th in 2018, two points below the previous year.  As per the Index, one of the most striking features of the current state of press freedom in India is violence against journalists including police violence, attacks by Maoist fighters, criminal groups and corrupt politicians.  The media coverage in the sensitive regions like Kashmir continues to be very difficult. Even the entry of foreign reporters is prohibited in Kashmir and the Internet is often disconnected there. About World Press Freedom Index:  Published annually by Reporters Without Borders since 2002, the World Press Freedom Index measures the level of media freedom in 180 countries.  It is based on an evaluation of media freedom that measures pluralism, media independence, the quality of the legal framework and the safety of journalists.  It also includes indicators of the level of media freedom violations in each region.  It is compiled by means of a questionnaire in 20 languages that is completed by experts all over the world. This qualitative analysis is combined with quantitative data on abuses and acts of violence against journalists during the period evaluated.

6 UNSC DESIGNATES MASOOD AZHAR AS GLOBAL TERRORIST

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Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar was listed as a designated terrorist by the UN Security Council 1267 Committee. It would mean a travel ban, arms embargo and asset freeze on Azhar. The listing is a victory for India in a decade-old diplomatic battle waged primarily by it and supported by its friends at the UNSC. Paradigm shift by China  Since China had blocked it four times at the UNSC Resolution 1267 Sanctions committee, US felt that this would put China in an awkward position.  It would have to publicly defend the veto — and, in effect, a terrorist. Speculating Chinese intentions  China’s decision appears to be a well-rounded exercise aimed at encouraging India to bond with Eurasia instead of the Indo-Pacific.  It has taken its “all weather” ally Pakistan on board before taking the decision.  China’s move followed Russia’s decision last month to honour Mr. Modi with ‘Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First,’–Russia’s highest civilian award, in the midst of the election campaign.  Both China and Russia want New Delhi to consolidate its ties with Eurasia on Mr. Modi’s watch, rather than allow India to drift further in the direction of the U.S.-led Indo-Pacific strategy.  India is already a member of the Eurasia-centred Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Again a bliss for Pakistan  Beijing had decided to announce listing after the Belt and Road Forum (BRF), so as not to embarrass visiting Pakistan PM Imran Khan, who was guest at the conclave.  Pakistan may not be averse to Azhar’s designation, as it could help avoid being “blacklisted” by the FATF.  Otherwise it could advance Islamabad’s economic isolation.

7 US-CHINA TRADE WAR The U.S.-China trade war has flared up again after a deceptive lull over the last few months, when both sides were trying to negotiate a deal. Present Situation  Out of nowhere, President Donald Trump tweeted that he would raise the 10% tariff imposed on $200-billion worth of Chinese goods to 25%. That the Trump administration pressed ahead with the increase even as China’s Vice Premier Liu He was still in Washington for a second day of talks with U.S. trade officials only underscores the businessman-turned-President’s ‘take no prisoners’ approach to negotiations.

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 China promptly promised retaliatory action.  With Mr. Trump tweeting that “the process has begun to place additional tariffs at 25% on the remaining” Chinese goods worth $325 billion, the U.S. administration unambiguously signalled it was not going to be the first to blink. Implications for the global economy  The increase in tariffs imposed on goods crossing international borders essentially represents a new tax on a global economy already facing a slowdown.  Last month, the International Monetary Fund trimmed its projection for global growth in 2019 to 3.3%, from a 3.5% forecast made in January, citing slowing momentum in “70% of the world economy”.  IMF Chief Economist Gita Gopinath had at the time projected a pick-up in global growth momentum in the second half, predicated substantially on the “improved” outlook for U.S.-China trade tensions.  IMF chief Christine Lagarde and Ms. Gopinath, however, presciently warned that the world economy was poised at “a delicate moment”.  Were tensions in trade policy to flare up again, it could result in large disruptions to global supply chains and pose downside risks to global growth, the IMF warned.  Barely a month later, the world economy faces the very real risk of an escalation in this trade war where other countries, including India, can largely only wait and watch as the U.S. and China raise the pitch. Implications for American Economy  While the U.S. may have genuine concerns about Chinese protectionism, the overall economic logic behind Mr. Trump’s trade policy still remains weak.  The cost of these tariffs will, after all, eventually be borne by American consumers and could result in U.S. job losses too as the import of Chinese parts become uneconomical for smaller businesses. Implications for India Indian policymakers would do well to closely monitor how the latest escalation in trade tensions pans out for global demand and international energy prices, given that the RBI has flagged oil price volatility as a factor that would have a bearing on India’s inflation outlook.

8 CLIMATE EMERGENCY IN UK The UK Parliament has passed an extraordinary measure: a national declaration of an Environment and Climate Emergency. The UK is the first national government to declare such an emergency.

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Why such move?  The decision marks a renewed sense of urgency in tackling climate change, following a visit to Parliament by teenage activist Greta Thunberg.  There are now some 49 million people living under national, city and local declarations of a climate emergency around the world.  The UK is legally committed to a 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050 (relative to their 1990 levels).  It was recently recognised as one of just 18 developed economies that have driven down carbon dioxide emissions over the last decade. What is a climate emergency?  There is no precise definition of what constitutes action to meet such an emergency, the move has been likened to putting the country on a “war footing”.  This has put the climate and the environment at the very centre of all government policy, rather than being on the fringe of political decisions.

9 COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY & INDIA The executive secretary of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) has offered India an ‘Observer’ status and access to state-of-art International Monitoring System (IMS) data. Benefits of becoming an Observer: India can benefit immensely from becoming a CTBTO Observer as the organisation setting has changed a lot over the years. India will have access to the data available which was traditionally not made available. Although more than 180 countries have signed the CTBT, and mostly ratified it, the treaty can only enter into force after it is ratified by eight countries with nuclear technology capacity, namely China, Egypt, India, Iran, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan and the United States. CTBT  The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) is the Treaty banning all nuclear explosions – everywhere, by everyone. The Treaty was negotiated at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. It opened for signature on 24 September 1996.  The CTBT is the last barrier on the way to develop nuclear weapons. It curbs the development of new nuclear weapons and the improvement of existing nuclear weapon designs. When the Treaty enters into force it provides

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a legally binding norm against nuclear testing. The Treaty also helps prevent human suffering and environmental damages caused by nuclear testing. India and the CTBT:  Since its inception, India has had a number of reservations about the CTBT. While it has stood by its demand for a nuclear weapons-free world, various principled, procedural, political, and security concerns have stood in the way of its support for the CTBT.  India’s principled opposition drew from its emphasis on universal and complete nuclear disarmament in a time-bound manner. India has traditionally believed this to be the end goal with the test ban just being a path to get there. But it did not insist on a complete disarmament clause in 1994, acknowledging that it was a “complex issue.”  Another major concern was Article XIV, the entry-into-force (EIF) clause, which India considered a violation of its right to voluntarily withhold participation in an international treaty. The treaty initially made ratification by states that were to be a part of the CTBT’s International Monitoring System (IMS) mandatory for the treaty’s entry into force. Need of the hour: CTBT has an essential role within the nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime. More than 20 years since its negotiation, the Treaty has yet to enter into force. Every effort must be made to bring about the immediate entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, CTBT. The failure to bring the treaty into force prevents its full implementation and undermines its permanence in the international security architecture.

10 PROJECT MANAV : HUMAN ATLAS INITIATIVE For the first time, Indian scientists will be mapping every single tissue of the human body to have deeper understanding of the roles of tissues and cells linked to various diseases. Department of Biotechnology (DBT) launched MANAV: Human Atlas Initiative towards improving knowledge on human physiology. MANAV: Human Atlas Initiative  It is a project funded by DBT, which aims at creating a database network of all tissues in the human body from the available scientific literature.

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11 CYCLONE FANI - AN UNUSUAL STORM A powerful cyclonic storm named Fani (pronounced Foni) hit Odisha severly in the first week of May. It was not just a severe cyclone but an “extremely severe cyclone”. The wind speed was as high as 200 km per hour. The last time such a powerful cyclonic storm had emerged in the Bay of Bengal at this time of the year, in 2008, it had killed more than 1.25 lakh people in Myanmar. However India has impressively managed disasters caused by cyclones, most remarkably during Cyclone Phailin of 2013, which was even stronger than the approaching Fani. Fani is, thus, unusual, and that is mainly because of the place it originated, very close to the Equator, and the long route it has taken to reach the landmass. How are they formed?  Cyclones are formed over slightly warm ocean waters.  The temperature of the top layer of the sea, up to a depth of about 60 metres, need to be at least 28°C to support the formation of a cyclone.  This explains why the April-May and October-December periods are conducive for cyclones.  Then, the low level of air above the waters needs to have an ‘anticlockwise’ rotation (in the northern hemisphere; clockwise in the southern hemisphere).  During these periods, there is a ITCZ in the Bay of Bengal whose southern boundary experiences winds from west to east, while the northern boundary has winds flowing east to west.  This induces the anticlockwise rotation of air.  Once formed, cyclones in this area usually move northwest. As it travels over the sea, the cyclone gathers more moist air from the warm sea, and adds to its heft. What strengthens them?  A thumb rule for cyclones is that the more time they spend over the seas, the stronger they become.  Hurricanes around the US, which originate in the vast open Pacific Ocean, are usually much stronger than the tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal, a relatively narrow and enclosed region.  The cyclones originating here, after hitting the landmass, decay rapidly due to friction and absence of moisture.

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Naming a Cyclone  There are five tropical cyclone regional bodies, i.e. ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee, WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclones, RA-I Tropical Cyclone Committee, RA-IV Hurricane Committee, and RA-V Tropical Cyclone Committee.  In general, tropical cyclones are named according to the rules at a regional level.  The WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclones at its twenty-seventh Session held in 2000 in Muscat, Oman agreed in principal to assign names to the tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea.  After long deliberations among the member countries, the naming of the tropical cyclones over north Indian Ocean commenced from September 2004.  Eight countries — India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Maldives, Myanmar, Oman, Sri Lanka and Thailand participated in the panel and came up with a list of 64 names.  If public wants to suggest the name of a cyclone to be included in the list, the proposed name must meet some fundamental criteria, the RSMC website says.  The name should be short and readily understood when broadcast.  Further, the names must not be culturally sensitive and should not convey any unintended and potentially inflammatory meaning. How naming takes place?  These countries submitted eight names each, which are arranged in an 8×8 table.  The first cyclone after the list was adopted was given the name in the first row of the first column — Onil, proposed by Bangladesh.  Subsequent cyclones are being named sequentially, column-wise, with each cyclone given the name immediately below that of the previous cyclone.  Once the bottom of the column is reached, the sequence moves to the top of the next column.  So far, the first seven columns have been exhausted, and Fani (again proposed by Bangladesh) is the top name in the last column.  The next cyclone will be named Vayu. The lists will wind up with Cyclone Amphan, whenever it comes. When the lists end  After the 64 names are exhausted, the eight countries will propose fresh lists of names.  The lists for storms in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific basins are, however, rotated.  Exception are, however, made in certain cases — if a storm causes excessive death and destruction, its name is considered for retirement and is not repeated; it is replaced with another name. Why name cyclones?  It is generally agreed that appending names to cyclones makes it easier for the media to report on these cyclones, heightens interest in warnings, and increases community preparedness.  Names are presumed to be easier to remember than numbers and technical terms.  The practice of naming a storm/tropical cyclone would help identify each individual tropical cyclone.  The purpose of the move was also to make it easier for people to easily understand and remember the tropical cyclone/hurricane in a region, thus to facilitate disaster risk awareness, preparedness, management and reduction.  It does not confuse the public when there is more than one tropical cyclone in the same area.  Many agree that appending names to storms makes it easier for the media to report on tropical cyclones, heightens interest in warnings and increases community preparedness.  It’s easier and less confusing to say “Cyclone Fani” than remember the storm’s number or its longitude and latitude.

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12 7TH ECONOMIC CENSUS 2019 In the run up to upcoming 7th Edition of Economic Census, a national training workshop of the Master Trainers was organized by the Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation (MoSPI). The census is to begin in June this year. 7th Economic Census -2019  The 7th Economic Census -2019 is being conducted by MoSPI to provide disaggregated information on various operational and structural aspects of all establishments in the country.  MoSPI has partnered with Common Service Centres, CSC e-Governance Services India Limited, a Special Purpose Vehicle under the MEITY as the implementing agency for 7th Economic Census.  An IT based digital platform for data capture, validation, report generation and dissemination will be used in this Economic Census. About Economic Censuses  In 1976, Government of India launched a plan scheme called Economic Census and Surveys.  It is the census of the Indian economy through counting all entrepreneurial units in the country which involved in any economic activities of either agricultural or non-agricultural sector which are engaged in production and/or distribution of goods and/or services not for the sole purpose of own consumption.  It provides detailed information on operational and other characteristics such as number of establishments, number of persons employed, source of finance, type of ownership etc.  This information used for micro level/ decentralized planning and to assess contribution of various sectors of the economy in the gross domestic product (GDP). Censuses till date  Total Six Economic Censuses (EC) have been conducted till date.  In 1977 CSO conducted First economic census in collaboration with the Directorate of Economics & Statistics (DES) in the States/UTs.  The Second EC was carried out in 1980 followed by the Third EC in 1990. The fourth edition took place in 1998 while the fifth EC was held in 2005.  The Sixth edition of Economic Census was conducted in 2013.

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Payment Systems Inc, both US firms, for non- compliance of the guidelines.  While, a penalty of Rs 29,66,959 has been imposed by the RBI on Western Union Financial Services Inc, USA, a penalty worth Rs 10,11,653 ECONOMY has been imposed on MoneyGram Payment Systems Inc, USA. RBI directs banks to enhance housing loan limits for eligibility under priority sector lending  Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has directed banks to enhance the housing loan limits for eligibility under priority sector lending (PSL) to Rs 35 lakh in metropolitan centres (with a population of ten lakh and above) and Rs 25 lakh in other centres.  In order to bring the RRBs and SFBs at a level playing field with other Scheduled Commercial Banks, it has now been decided to enhance the housing loan limits for eligibility under PSL.  Accordingly, in respect of RRBs and SFBs, housing loans to individuals up to Rs 35 lakh in RBI IN NEWS metropolitan centres (with population of ten lakh and above) and Rs 25 lakh in other centres, provided the RBI extends ombudsman scheme to non-deposit taking overall cost of the dwelling unit in the metropolitan NBFCs centres and at other centres does not exceed Rs 45 lakh  The Reserve Bank of India has extended the NBFC and Rs 30 lakh, respectively, will be eligible for Ombudsman Scheme 2018 to Non-Deposit Taking Non- classification under PSL. Banking Financial Companies with assets size of Rupees  Earlier, loans to individuals up to Rs 28 lakh in 100 crore or above. metropolitan centres and Rs 20 lakh in other centres,  NBFC’s excluded from the ambit of NBFC were eligible to be classified under priority sector, Ombudsman:Non-Banking Financial Company – provided that the cost of dwelling unit does not exceed Infrastructure Finance Company (NBFC-IFC),Core Rs 35 lakh and Rs 25 lakh, respectively. Investment Company (CIC),Infrastructure Debt Fund- Non-Banking Financial Company (IDF-NBFC) RBI proposes to allow fintech start-ups to test regulatory  Offices of the Non-Banking Financial Companies sandbox Ombudsman are present in four metro centers viz. The Reserve Bank of India proposed that fintech start-ups could Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai and New Delhi for handling set up regulatory sandbox or livetesting of innovative products complaints. and services in segments such as retail payments, money transfer,  Maximum Award under NBFC Ombudsman: Rs 10 lakh. artificial intelligence and data analytics in the financial sector. A regulatory sandbox (RS) usually refers to live-testing of new RBI imposes fines on prepaid payment instrument issuers products or services in a controlled and test regulatory environment for violating norms for which regulators may or may not permit certain regulatory  The Reserve Bank of India announced that it has imposed relaxations for the limited purpose of the testing. penalties on five prepaid payment instrument (PPI) issuers, including Vodafone m-pesa and PhonePe, for RBI first central bank in APAC to start interest rate easing violation of regulatory norms. cycle: Fitch Rating  The central bank said in a statement that in exercise of Fitch Ratings has said that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is the the powers vested to it under Section 30 of the Payment first central bank in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region to have begun and Settlement Systems Act, 2007, the Reserve Bank of explicit interest rate easing cycle by cutting the policy twice, India has imposed monetary penalty on five PPI Issuers amounting to a cumulative 50 bps, in the last two monetary policy for non-compliance of regulatory guidelines. reviews in 2019.This is the first back-to-back rate cut since the  A penalty of Rs 3.05 crore has been imposed on Vodafone MPC was formed in late 2016. m-pesa and Rs 1 crore each on Mobile Payments, Fitch has predicted GDP growth rate of 6.8% in FY20 for India. PhonePe, Private and GI Technology.  A penalty of Rs 5 lakh has also been imposed on Y-Cash Reserve Bank of India divests its share in NABARD and Software Solutions. Penalties have also been imposed on NHB Western Union Financial Services Inc and MoneyGram

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Under stake in both the financial institutions. this partnership, YONO users can avail a discount of 15% on the entire range of products offered by Sri Sri Tattva such as food, RBI Announces Rs. 25,000 crore OMO in May personal care, healthcare, homecare, BYOGI apparels and Shankara The Reserve Bank announced a Rs. 25,000-crore liquidity injection skincare products. through OMOs(Open Market Operation) in May that will be undertaken in two equal tranches. RBI State Bank of India Links Interest Rates To RBI’s Repo repurchased bonds of over Rs. 2.8 lakh crore during the last fiscal Rate year. India’s largest bank State Bank of India has moved to a new interest rate regime on large savings account deposits as well as short-term RBI puts into circulation Rs 50 banknotes signed by Gover- loans. Earlier, SBI had announced that it will link its interest rate nor Shaktikanta Das on savings account with a balance above Rs1 lakh and short-term The Reserve Bank of India has put into circulation 50 rupees loans like overdraft and cash credit facility to Reserve Bank of denomination banknotes signed by its Governor Shaktikanta Das. India’s repo rate, effective 1 May 2019. The design of these notes is similar in all respects to 50 banknotes in Mahatma Gandhi new series. All banknotes in the denomination OTHER BANKS IN NEWS of 50 issued by the Reserve Bank in the past will continue to be legal tender. IDBI Bank launched ‘NRI-Insta-Online’ paperless account About the Rs. 50 currency note: facility  The dimension of the Rs. 50 banknote is 66 mm x 135 IDBI Bank has launched ‘NRI-Insta-Online’ account opening mm. process for NRIs (Non-Resident Indians) residing in the Financial  On the frontal side, the numeral ’50’ is written in the Action Task Force (FATF) member countries.The person will not Devanagari script along with Mahatma Gandhi’s portrait be required to furnish physical documents as well as KYC proofs in the centre. for opening an account with the bank.On the successful uploading  On the reverse side, the note has a ‘Swachh Bharat‘ logo and verification of the scanned documents, the account is instantly printed on it with its slogan. opened & electronic advice is sent to the customer. RBI to introduce new Rs 20 banknote Canara Bank is now the 1st public sector bank meeting The Reserve Bank of India will soon issue new Rs 20 denomination RBI’s EMV mandate banknotes in the Mahatma Gandhi (New) Series, bearing signature Canara Bank has successfully rolled out major new functionality of Governor Shri Shaktikanta Das. to support EMV card acquiring across its ATM network and About the Rs. 20 currency note: Aadhaar Authentication. It is the 1st public sector bank to shift to  Motif of Ellora Caves on the reverse EMV chip & PIN for card transactions.  Base colour of the note is Greenish Yellow  Dimension of the banknote will be 63 mm x 129 mm ICICI Bank launched insta car, two-wheeler loans  All the bank notes in the denomination of Rs.20 issued ICICI Bank has announced the launch of insta car and two-wheeler by the RBI in the earlier series will countinue to be legal loans that will provide existing customers final sanction letters tender. instantly. The first service, called ‘Insta Auto Loan’, enables over two million pre-approved customers to avail the final sanction SBI IN NEWS letter of a car loan instantly and digitally up to Rs 20 lakh for a tenure of up to seven years. SBI launches India’s first ‘Green Car Loan’ to promote use The second initiative, named ‘Insta Two-Wheeler Loan’, offers of EVs over 12 million pre-approved customers the facility to get instant State Bank of India (SBI)- on the occasion of World Earth Day, sanction of loan up to Rs 2 lakh for a tenure of up to three years. launched India’s first ‘Green Car Loan’ (Electric Vehicle), to encourage customers to buy Electric Vehicles. SBI Green Car Loan ICICI Bank Joins Hands With Travel Portal Goibibo (Electric Vehicle) scheme that comes with the longest repayment ICICI Bank announced the launch of a co-branded multi-currency card with online travel booking portal Goibibo. The card also period of up to eight years, is a strategic inclusion to the bank’s auto loan segment, offered with zero processing fee for the first six includes benefits of up to Rs20,000, including gift vouchers of months of the launch. Rs15,000 from Goibibo. Additionally, customers get 40 paise discount on the currency conversion rate on loading of a minimum SBI General Insurance Launches Cyber Defence Insurance of $1,000. SBI General Insurance has launched Cyber Defence Insurance to protect businesses from financial and reputational losses due to

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BoM joined M1Xchange TReDS Platform for MSME Bill RBI Approves Proposal of HDFC for Holding 9.9% Stake in Discounting Bandhan Bank Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) has partnered with M1Xchange Trade The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has given its nod to HDFC Ltd Receivables Discounting System (TReDS) platform for MSME for acquiring up to 9.9% stake in Bandhan Bank following the bill discounting. Gruh Finance deal. Gruh Finance was taken over by Bandhan TReDS is a digital platform to support micro, small and medium Bank in a share-swap deal in January. enterprises (MSMEs) to get their bills financed at a competitive rate through an auction where multiple registered financiers can HDFC Bank and Max Bupa launch ‘AnyTimeHealth’ ma- participate.The main purpose of TReDS platform is to facilitate chines smooth flow of liquidity in the system and make finance available HDFC Bank and Max Bupa (insurance company) have launched a at a competitive rate. ‘‘AnyTimeHealth (ATH)’ machines. ATH machine is completely automated, technology-based model which allows customers to NABARD Announces Rs700-cr Venture Capital Fund For avail health assessment and buy a policy instantly, without any Agriculture, Rural Startups manual intervention.  The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) announced Rs 700-crore Canara Bank launches ‘Webassurance’ with 4 life insur- venture capital fund for equity investments in agriculture ance products and rural-focused startups. NABARD has been  Public Sector Bank, Canara Bank in association with its contributing to other funds till now and this is the first life insurance partner, Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of time that the rural development bank has launched a Commerce Life Insurance has announced the launch of fund of its own. ‘Webassurance’.  The fund has been launched by Nabventures, a subsidiary  ‘Webassurance’ will enable the bank’s customer to of NABARD, and has a proposed corpus of Rs 500 purchase life insurance products from the bank’s website. crore with an option to retain over-subscription of Rs Four life insurance products of Canara HSBC OBC Life 200 crore, called as the greenshoe option. would be made available to customers of Canara Bank.  NABARD Chairman- Harsh Kumar Bhanwala, Headquarters- Mumbai, Established on- 12 July 1982. Paytm Payments Bank appoints Sairee Chahal to board of  NABARD is now 100% owned by the government. directors  Paytm Payments Bank Ltd (PPB) appointed Fincare Small Finance Bank Awarded the Celent Model Bank entrepreneur Sairee Chahal to its board of directors. 2019 Award  Sairee Chahal is the founder and CEO of Sheroes — a Fincare Small Finance Bank (SFB) has been awarded the prestigious community platform for women. Celent Model Bank 2019 Award in the category of Financial  PPB has 4.4 crore savings bank accounts with deposits Inclusion, for ‘Redesigning Lending to Reach Small Businesses’. of over Rs. 400 crore. Fincare Small Finance Bank commenced banking operations on the 21st of July, 2017, after receiving the final license from the RBI SIDBI Launched A Pilot Scheme For Fintech NBFCs under Section 22 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949. Fincare To give a fillip to digital lending, Small Industries Development Small Finance Bank serves the banking needs of banking-savvy Bank of India (SIDBI) has put together a pilot scheme to extend consumers across metro, urban and semi-urban markets. financial assistance of up to Rs10 crore to new-age fintech non- banking finance companies (NBFCs) engaged in financing small Kotak Bank launches debit card-based e-mandate on NPCI’s businesses and other income-generating activities. API platform What are fintech NBFCs?  Kotak Mahindra Bank has announced the launch of an Fintech NBFCs are digital loan companies. They leverage industry-first debit card-based authentication solution information technology to provide fast and convenient access to on NPCI’s e-Mandate API platform. funding. To be eligible for funding assistance, Reserve Bank of  The capability will enable its customers to create India-registered new-age fintech NBFCs have to meet prescribed electronic mandates (similar to the erstwhile eNACH parameters, including minimum capital risk-weighted assets ratio with Aadhaar + OTP) via both the Debit Card and Net of 15 per cent; non-performing assets less than or equal to 4 per Banking channels. cent; minimum net-owned fund (NOF) of ¹ 20 crore and minimum  This allows Kotak to go live as a sponsor or acquirer asset size of Rs. 50 crore; and at least two audited annual reports, bank for corporates and merchants seeking recurring positive net worth and leverage ratio within 5:1. payments. SIDBI was set up in 1990 under an Act of Indian Parliament to act as the principal financial institution for promotion, financing and Bandhan Bank got CCI nod for merger with Gruh Finance development of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) Bandhan Bank has received approval from the Competition sector, as well as for co-ordination of functions of institutions Commission of India (CCI) for the proposed scheme of engaged in similar activities. amalgamation of Gruh Finance with the bank. The approval has been made under sub-section (1) of Section 31 of the Competition LIC HFL launches Udyam Centre in Bengaluru Act, 2002.

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LIC Housing Finance (LIC HFL) has launched ‘Udyam’, a skilling Ubin network as part of the international cross-currency center in Bengaluru. It was launched in association with Lok Bharti payment. Education Society, the implementing partner. The Centres of Excellence will provide training to marginalised youth in the BFSI, ADB Launched $5 Billion Healthy Oceans Action Plan retail, and IT/ ITES sectors.  The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has launched the ‘Action Plan for Healthy Oceans and Sustainable Blue NEWS IN BRIEF Economies for the Asia and Pacific region’.  The government has increased its authorized capital by  The initiative was launched at the 52nd Annual Meeting Rs 5,000 crore to Rs 8,000 crore for Allahabad Bank. of ADB’s Board of Governors in Fiji.   Syndicate Bank and BEML Limited, a ‘Miniratna’ Public The $5 billion action plan will run between 2019–2024 Sector Undertaking, have signed an MOU for financing Australian Central Bank prints 46 million piece of $50 note Earth Moving and Construction Equipment with spelling mistake manufactured by BEML.  Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) i.e the Central Bank of  The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a Australia has printed the $50 note with a spelling mistake monetary penalty of Rs1 crore on Nainital Bank for its failure to fully automate the non-performing asset (NPA) where the word “responsibility” is printed as identification process, despite specific directions issued “responsibilty”.  Around 400 million notes of $50 were printed and 46 in this regard. million of them are in circulation. The total value of the  Reliance retail has become the first Indian retail company notes in circulation is around $2.3 billion. to clock more than Rs 1 lakh crore in annual revenues.  Digital payments company Paytm, in association with Citibank, launched its first credit card called Paytm First FINANCIAL NEWS Card. Mudra loans miss target by Rs. 27,000 crore in FY19  Global card payments brand Mastercard has announced Loans disbursed under the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) its plan of investing $1 billion in India operations over have fallen short of the target set for 2018-19. The loans disbursed the period of next five years. under PMMY in FY19 was Rs 2.73 lakh crore against the target of Rs 3 lakh crore. This is the first time that the target was missed in WORLD ECONOMY the last three years. Under the aegis of Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana, MUDRA has IMF & World Bank launched “Learning Coin” to Educate already created the following products / schemes. Staff about Blockchain Shishu : covering loans upto 50,000/- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have Kishor : covering loans above 50,000/- and upto 5 lakh launched their own private blockchain and digital currency network Tarun : covering loans above 5 lakh and upto 10 lakh to familiarize staff with the concepts of cryptographic assets such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH).The new pseudo-token has Deposits In Jan Dhan Accounts Are Set To Cross Rs 1 Lakh been named as “Learning Coin” (no real value), purpose to teach Crore Mark relevant individuals within the organizations about blockchain. The total deposits in Jan Dhan Account are set to cross Rs 1 lakh India Was the Biggest Recipient of Funds from ADB in 2018 crore soon. The scheme was launched on 28th August 2014 by the  India was the biggest recipient of funds from the Asian Modi-government with an aim to provide universal access to Development Bank (ADB) in the year 2018. banking facilities to all households.  The country received USD 3 billion in sovereign loans in Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY), is financial inclusion 2018 from ADB. program of Government of India which is applicable to 20 to 65  This is the highest level of assistance since sovereign years age group, that aims to expand and make affordable access to operations began in the country in 1986. financial services such as bank accounts, remittances, credit,  The multilateral funding institution is committed to grant insurance and pensions. sovereign loans in excess of USD 3 billion in 2019 as The government increased the accident insurance cover to Rs 2 well. lakh from Rs 1 lakh for new accounts opened after 28th August 2018 and the overdraft limit was also doubled to Rs 10,000. Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Bank of Canada The Bank account open under PMJDY does not require minimum complete first international cross-currency payment balance.Free RuPay debit card for account.  The Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Bank of Canada have completed the first international cross- Bajaj Finserv launched industry first proposition to pay elec- currency payment with digital currencies between central tricity bill on EMIs banks. Bajaj Finance Ltd. has launched the #BijliOnEMI campaign wherein  This was done using blockchain technology between the customer buying air conditioners will also have the option to pay two central banks. for their electricity bill on EMI.Customers buying air conditioners  The BoC’s experimental domestic payment network, of Rs 20,000 and above will be eligible for an Instant Credit loan of Project Jasper, was linked up with Singapore’s Project

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Rs 5000.For those purchasing air conditioners above Rs 40,000 from customers via SMS payment links, and keep track will receive Rs 7000 as an Instant Credit loan to their Wallet. of accounts payable to suppliers, among other services.  The BharatPe app also serves as a networking platform TCS Modernises 1.5 Lakh Post Offices in Multi-Year Deal for merchants to connect with other BharatPe merchants India’s largest IT company TCS deployed an integrated solution near them. for India Post, modernising over 1.5 lakh post offices in the country. This was carried out under Rs. 1,100-crore multi-year contract & SEBI bars NSE from accessing the securities market for a created the world’s largest distributed e-postal network. period of six months  Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has barred Finance Ministry ratifies 8.65% interest on EPF for 2018- National Stock Exchange (NSE) from accessing the 19 securities market directly or indirectly for a period of six Ministry of Finance has approved 8.65% interest rate on months starting from April 30, 2019. Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) for 2018-19 as proposed by  It means NSE cannot launch a new derivative product Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO).The interest rate for the next six months. on EPF for 2017-18 was 8.55 per cent.  This has been done as NSE had not exercised the requisite due diligence while putting in place the TBT architecture. Indian Crypto Exchange ‘BuyUcoin’ Launches Wholesale  There were some chances of fraud due to server co- Trading Platform location issue. BuyUcoin, a Cryptocurrency Exchange in India, has launched a  Tick-by-Tick (TBT) is a data feed, which provides new and unique platform for wholesale cryptocurrency trading information regarding every change in the order book on also known as OTC (Over-the-counter) desk.Users can trade the NSE. abundance of cryptocurrency through the platform on a large scale  SEBI has also directed NSE to disgorge an amount of with low price fluctuations.Initially, the platform is working on a Rs.624.89 crores to the Investor Protection and free trading model that means no fees are charged on trades through Education Fund (IPEF) created by SEBI under Section the model. 11 of the SEBI Act. Jio races ahead of Airtel to become India’s 2nd largest Max Life Insurance to Mark Protection Day on 6th of Every telecom company Month  Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio (from September 2016)  Leading life insurance company in India, Max Life is reportedly the second-largest telecom company in the Insurance Company Limited has announced that it will country. observe 6th day of every calendar month as ‘Protection  Jio overtaken Bharti Airtel in terms of customer base and Day’ to spread awareness about the concept of financial now trails only Vodafone Idea. protection.  According to a Times of India report, Jio presently has  The Company will roll out wide range of initiatives across 306 million customers, Vodafone Idea continues to lead Max Life’s network of over 240 Max Life’s offices and the industry with 387 million subscribers, Airtel has 284 distribution partners. including a “Super Customer Week”, million subscribers. where customers across the board will be educated about SEBI reduces Net worth Requirements for Clearing Corpo- various aspects of financial protection. rations in IFSC to Rs 100 Crore  SEBI has announced that the minimum Net worth MERGER AND AGREEMENT Requirements for Clearing Corporations in International NCLT Approves Merger of IndusInd Bank with Bharat Fi- Financial Services Centre (IFSC) over a period of three nancial Inclusion (BFIL) years from the commencement of operations should be The IndusInd bank has received the approval of the National at least Rs 100 Crore. This has been reduced from Rs Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) for its merger with Bharat 300 crore earlier. Financial Inclusion (BFIL).Post merger, the BFIL will become a  However, the minimum net worth requirement for subsidiary of the IndusInd Bank. Clearing Corporations in International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) over a period of three years is still Rs 50 Airtel Payments Bank Tied up with Bharti AXA General crore. Insurance Airtel Payments Bank launched a new two-wheeler insurance BharatPe launches India’s first UPI BahiKhata for mer- product in partnership with Bharti AXA General Insurance.This chants two-wheeler insurance product offers 70 per cent savings on annual  BharatPe - India’s first Fintech start-up enabling premium.Airtel Payments Bank is the first payment bank of India. payments for merchants through interoperable UPI QR Bharti AXA Ties Up With Wishfin To Offer Policies Via codes, has announced its foray into merchant services WhatsApp with a new app. Bharti AXA General Insurance, a private non-life insurer, has tied  The app allows merchants to record their cash/credit (Udhar) sales customer wise, request accounts receivable up with financial marketplace Wishfin’s insurance arm Wishpolicy, to offer two-wheeler insurance to customers via WhatsApp.

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Saudi Aramco to buy 25% stake in Reliance’s refining & Life and Non-life insurers witness 11% and 13% rise in petrochemical business premium respectively  Saudi Aramco, a Saudi Arabian national petroleum and According to the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority natural gas company, is in talks to acquire 25 percent of India (IRDAI) data, after a very low growth phase, life and non- stake in Reliance Industries’ refining and petrochemicals life premium income of insurance companies have registered businesses. substantial growth in financial year 2019.  However, both Aramco and Reliance declined to comment Life insurer’s premium income grew 11% in FY19 over 2018 and on the issue. non-life insurance firms witnessed a 13% rise in their total premium  This stake sale of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) would income to Rs 1.70 lakh crore in the financial year ended March fetch around USD 10-15 billion, valuing Reliance’s 2019. refining and petrochemicals businesses at around USD 55-60 billion. Debit Card Swipes On PoS Terminals Rise 27% in March 2019 Network Intelligence Inks MoU With BSE To Provide Cyber According to the RBI data, in Mar 2019, the total number of Security Services financial transactions done by people using their debit cards BSE has entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with increased by 15%. Also, the financial transactions done by the Network Intelligence, a global cybersecurity services provider to debit cards at POS terminals increased by 27% compared to March provide cybersecurity services to its members in line with the 2018. cybersecurity framework set by SEBI. Network Intelligence will be using its own developed platform – BlueScope to offer 24×7 India Ratings & Research Lowers Growth Forecast For 2019- cybersecurity operations to the members. Earlier, BSE had also 20 To 7.3% associated with John Chambers’ backed Lucideus to secure stock India Ratings & Research (A Fitch Group Company) has lowered brokers as per SEBI guidelines using SAFE. the country’s growth forecast for the current fiscal to 7.3%, from the earlier projection of 7.5 %. The agency has listed three key Vodafone Idea Signs Multi-Million Dollar IT Deal With IBM reasons for lowering its projection. Vodafone Idea, the country’s largest telecom operator by subscribers, has signed a five-year outsourcing contract with IBM Netherlands Becomes The Third Largest Foreign Direct to enhance its business efficiency and reduce IT-related costs. Investor In India The Netherlands has emerged as the third largest foreign direct IBM India has tied-up with HDFC ERGO investor in India during 2017-18, with investments pegged at about IBM India has tied-up with HDFC ERGO General Insurance $2.67 billion across sectors. The Netherlands was also the second Company, India’s third-largest non-life insurance provider in the largest destination for foreign investment by Indian companies, private sector, to co-create new Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based after Singapore, with investments worth $12.8 billion in 2017. solutions.

Wipro Acquires ‘Splash’ E-COMMERCE AND BUSINESS RE- Wipro Consumer Care announced that it is acquiring personal care LATED NEWS company ‘Splash’, which is based in the Philippines. Microsoft Becomes World’s Third Company To Be Worth Reliance Industries’ subsidiary acquires iconic British toy $1 Trillion retailer Hamleys Microsoft has reached a valuation of one trillion dollars for the Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries has announced it will first time after posting an increase in profits. It makes the software acquire iconic British toy-maker Hamleys for 67.96 million pounds giant only the third publicly-traded company in history to reach (around Rs 620 crore) in an all-cash deal. the threshold after Apple and Amazon passed it in 2018. Microsoft’s current valuation also means that it has again taken RATING AND SURVEY over Apple as the world’s most valuable company. Huawei Overtakes Apple To Become 2nd Biggest Income Tax E-Filings Drop By Over 6.6 Lakh In 2018-19 Smartphone Maker In a first in recent history of tax filings, income tax e-filings in FY Huawei Technologies Co overtook Apple Inc to claim the No. 2 2019 have dropped by more than 6.6 lakh, a trend that analysts spot in smartphones making in the first quarter, moving a step said was surprising as tax base was expected to increase post closer to its avowed ambition of displacing Samsung at the top of demonetisation. the market. Huawei’s been steadily gaining on Apple and Samsung According to the Income Tax Department’s e-filing website, income Electronics Co. with an increasingly high-end line-up of devices. tax e-filings in FY 2018-19 was 6.68 crore, down from 6.74 crore in the previous fiscal year. E-filers in FY 2016-17 were 5.28 crore. Apple to open its first retail store in India in Mumbai However, registered filers have been on the rise – they grew by 15 Apple Inc has finalized a short list of locations for its first retail per cent to 8.45 crore as on March 31, 2019. store in India. It will open its first retail store in India in Mumbai. However, the final place is not finalized yet. 

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Iran announces Partial Withdrawal from JCPOA Iran announced it will pull out of some commitments under 2015 international nuclear agreement signed with world powers, called Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action (JCPOA). As per Iran, such action is required as European Union (EU) and other countries did not have power to resist US pressure. Also, such measures are necessary to secure Iran’s rights and bring back balance after United States exited from agreement in 2018. JCPOA is an international nuclear agreement signed in 2015, between Iran and the P5+1. The P5+1 includes five permanent UNSC’s members (P5): China, Russia, France, United Kingdom (UK), and United States; and (+1) Germany.

Saudi Arabia increases India’s Haj Quota to 2 lakhs Saudi Arabia has issued a formal order increasing the Haj quota of India to two lakhs from one lakh Ireland becomes the second country to declare a climate seventy five-thousand. In February 2019, the Saudi Crown Prince emergency after England Mohammed bin had announced that Indian Haj quota would be  Ireland has declared a climate emergency in their country, increased by 25 thousand to two lakhs. The Hajj is an annual to be the second country after Britain to do so. Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, the holiest city for Muslims, and a  An amendment to a parliamentary report declaring a mandatory religious duty for Muslims that must be carried out at climate emergency and calling on parliament to examine least once in their lifetime by all adult Muslims who are physically how the Irish government can improve its response to and financially capable of undertaking the journey. the issue of biodiversity loss was accepted.  The UK parliament became the first national legislative Emergency Imposed in Sri Lanka body in the world to declare a climate change Sri Lankan Government imposed emergency in the country emergency.England also calls for the government to work following bomb attacks on churches and hotels. The government towards carbon neutrality before 2050 and for ministers also declared a national day of mourning on 23 April. to draft proposals within the next 6 months to restore On April 21, on the occasion of Easter, nine suicide bombers carried the country’s environment and create a “zero waste out a series of blasts that tore through three churches and three economy.” luxury hotels in Sri Lanka, killing 253 people The Islamic State has claimed the responsibility of the attacks, but Russian President Vladimir Putin signs controversial the government has blamed the local Islamist extremist group, internet bill into law National ThowheethJamaath (NTJ).  President Vladimir Putin on May 1, 2019 signed a new Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena announced a ban on measure into law that will allow Russian authorities to covering of the face with burqa, veil or in any manner that prevents isolate the country’s internet from the rest of the world identification of the person.With this, Muslim women will not be and create a new national network. allowed to wear any form of face veils in public until further notice.  The ‘sovereign internet’ bill aims to expand government control over the Internet. Indonesia Releases Special Stamp on Theme of Ramayana  Russian lawmakers insist the new law is necessary to Indonesia has released a special commemorative stamp on the theme ensure the security of Russia’s online networks, while of Ramayana to mark the 70th anniversary of the establishment of critics argue that the vaguely worded bill gives new its diplomatic ties with India. It featured a scene from Ramayana in censorship powers to government monitors. which Jatayu valiantly fought to save Sita.It is designed by Indonesian sculptor Bapak NyomanNuarta. India re-elected as observer to inter-governmental forum Arctic Council Israel Names New Settlement in Golan Heights After US India has been re-elected as an observer to inter-governmental forum President Donald Trump Arctic Council. The Arctic Council promotes cooperation, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to name a new coordination and interaction among Arctic states on common issues, community in the occupied Golan Heights after United States particularly on sustainable development and environmental President Donald Trump.This decision has been taken as an protection.

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The “Privileged Iqama” system will offer ADIBF 2019. a permanent residence scheme and one that can be renewed annually  The 29th edition of the book fair will take place from to highly skilled expatriates and owners of capital funds. April 24- 30, 2019 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre. Taiwan Becomes First Country In Asia To Legalise Same-  India will be featured as the official Guest of Honour, Sex Marriage with much of the fair’s programming dedicated to Taiwan has approved a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, a landmark reflecting and showcasing the diversity and richness of decision that makes the self-ruled island the first place in Asia to the country’s culture. pass gay marriage legislation. The successful bill includes limited adoption rights for same-sex couples. SIPRI Launches Initiative ‘GReVD’ to Measure Violent Deaths Worldwide Asian Tea Alliance Launched In China  The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute To boost tea trade, cultural and technical exchanges as well as the (SIPRI) has set up a new initiative named Global Registry global promotion of tea, the Asian Tea Alliance (ATA), a union of of Violent Deaths (GReVD) to establish the annual five tea-growing and consuming countries, was launched in Guizhou, number of violent deaths worldwide. China. The members of the alliance are the Indian Tea Association,  GReVD will track the number of deaths caused by all China Tea Marketing Association, Indonesian Tea Marketing forms of violence and display these in an open-source Association, Sri Lanka Tea Board and Japan Tea Association. database which will eventually help researchers, Iran, Pakistan To Set Up Border ‘Reaction Force’ policymakers and the general public to track trends in Iran and Pakistan have agreed to set up a joint border “reaction violence at global, regional, national levels. force” to combat the attacks by militant groups on both sides of  The initiative aims to monitor the progress on the world’s their frontier. Both the nations have decided to collaborate to form commitment to ‘significantly reduce all forms of violence the joint quick reaction force by increasing cooperation between and related death rates everywhere’ by 2030 as set out in border forces and intelligence agencies. the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically Goal 16. Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un Hold 1st-Ever talks The US approves dengue vaccine Dengvaxia Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un met face- to-face for the first time and vowed to seek closer ties. The meeting  The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved was held at Russia’s Pacific port city of Vladivostok.Six-party the first vaccine for dengue, Dengvaxia. talks on North Korean de-nuclearization started back in 2003. The  FDA has also placed significant restrictions on its use talks involve China, Japan, Russia, the US along with North Korea because the vaccine has been shown to put some people and South Korea. The last round of such talks took place in 2007. at heightened risk.  It can be only given to the people aged 9 to 16 who live UN Designates JeM Chief Masood Azhar As Global Terror- in areas where dengue is endemic and who are shown by ist lab testing already to have been infected with the disease. In a huge diplomatic win for India, the United Nations Security  The Philippines, which became the first country to Council designated Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed chief approve it in 2016, was also the first to ban it in February Masood Azhar as a global terrorist after China lifted its hold on a this year over safety concerns. proposal to blacklist him under the Security Council’s Sanctions  Dengvaxia is produced by the French pharmaceutical Committee. The announcement was made by India’s Ambassador firm Sanofi Pasteur. and Permanent Representative to UN, Syed Akbaruddin. World’s first floating nuclear power plant started opera- UN Imposed Sanctions On Terror Group ISIS Khorasan tions The UN has imposed sanctions on terror group ISIS-Khorasan  Akademik Lomonosov, the world’s only floating nuclear (ISIS-K) for its links with Al-Qaeda and involvement in several power unit is ready to start commercial operations in attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is now subject to the assets Russia. freeze, travel ban and arms embargo. The group, formed in 2015 by  The plant was launched by Russia on May 19, 2018 at a Pakistani national and a former commander of the Tehrik-e-Taliban the St Petersburg shipyard. Pakistan, has killed over 150 people.  The ‘Akademik Lomonosov’ is to be the first of a fleet of floating nuclear power stations to be stationed in the Russian Arctic.

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Japan Tests World’s Fastest Bullet Train With Speed of 400  This year’s Global Food Policy Report highlights the kmph urgency of rural revitalization to address a growing crisis  Japan began the testing of the world’s fastest bullet train in rural areas. called ALFA-X and this testing will continue for a period  Rural population account for 45.3% of the world’s total spanning three years. population and at least 70% of the world’s population  The latest version of Shinkansen train is capable of remains extremely poor. reaching speeds as much as 400 kilometers per hour (249  Nearly 50% of rural youth all over the world do not have miles per hour). any formal job they are either unemployed or under-  The train is scheduled to go into service in 2030. employed.  It will then surpass China’s Fuxing train which is currently the fastest train running at the speed of 350 kph. Global Startup Ecosystem India was ranked 17th position among 100 countries in Startup Singapore Passes ‘Fake News’ Law Ecosystem Ranking for 2019 released by StartupBlink. Singapore’s Parliament passed a law to curb the spread of fake news under which offenders may face up to 10-year jail or fines of Cancer Preparedness Index 2019 up to S$1 million (over Rs5.12 crore). The law empowers the India was ranked 19th out of 28 countries in the Index of Cancer government to direct social media platforms such as Facebook and Preparedness (ICP) released by the Economist Intelligence Unit Twitter to carry corrections or remove content it considers to be (EIU). It was released as part of the report titled “Cancer fake news. preparedness around the world: National readiness for a global epidemic” prepared by EIU. US Withdraws From UN Arms Trade Treaty Top 3 countries are Australia (1st), Netherlands (2nd) and Germany US President Donald Trump stated that his administration is (3rd) withdrawing the U.S. signature from the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty, in response to concerns from gun rights activists that it could Mukesh Ambani among TIME’s 100 most influential people  Reliance Industries (RIL) Chairman Mukesh Ambani has impinge on Americans’ right to bear arms. featured in the TIME magazine’s list of 100 most influential people. INDEX  Arundhati Katju and Menaka Guruswamy, who led the World Press Freedom Index 2019 legal battle for LGBTQ rights in India, also featured in  India has dropped two places in the 2019 World Press the list. Freedom Index released by Reporters Without Borders,  The “Time 100 Most Influential People 2019” named ranking 140 out of 180 countries. the world’s most influential pioneers, leaders, titans,  At least six Indian journalists were killed in connection artists and icons of the year. with their work in 2018.  Norway was ranked first on the index.  India Ranks 19 out of 28 Nations in 2019 Index of Cancer Preparedness by EIU  India (score - 64.9) has been placed at 19th spot out of 28 countries in the Index of Cancer Preparedness (ICP) 2019 created by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).  Australia (score - 90.6) has topped the ICP list with a, followed by the Netherlands (score- 89.9) and Germany (88.7).  The Index of Cancer Preparedness (ICP) presents data on 45 indicators that are relevant to cancer control. India Ranks 80 in Global Talent Competitiveness Index 2019 India was ranked 80 out of 125 countries in the Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI) 2019. The theme of this year’s report was ‘Entrepreneurial Talent and Global Competitiveness’. Global Food Policy Report-2019 released  International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has recently released Global Food Policy Report-2019.  IFPRI’s flagship report reviews the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2018, and considers challenges and opportunities for 2019.

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HOME EXPO INDIA 2019 organised in Greater Noida 8th edition of HOME EXPO INDIA 2019- a 3 day exhibition organized by Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts at Greater Noida. Buyers from more than 50 countries including USA, Europe, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, UAE etc. are expected to visit. Union Territories and Twenty states join pan- India Single Emergency helpline Number ‘112’  To get immediate assistance to the people who are in trouble, Union territories and Twenty states have joined in a pan-India network of single emergency helpline number ‘112’,which is implemented by central government’s Nirbhaya Fund.  Police (100), women(1090) and fire(101) helpline numbers are amalgamated in this. Government implements Project ‘SPARROW-CBIC’ for MOU signed between Ministry of AYUSH and Council of online writing of APAR Scientific and Industrial Research Government of India has now implemented Project ‘SPARROW-  MOU was signed between the Ministry of AYUSH and CBIC’ for online writing of Annual Performance Appraisal Report Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New (APAR) in SPARROW, for over 46,000 Group ‘B’ and Group ‘C’ Delhi for cooperation in research and education in areas Officers of Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs (CBIC) of traditional systems of medicine and its integration working in its various formations all across India. The term with modern science. SPARROW stands for ‘Smart Performance Appraisal Report  AYUSH- Ayurveda, Yoga & naturopathy, Unani, Siddha Recording Online Window’. & Homoeopathy. Indian Government Extends Ban on LTTE for Five Years e-Governance Services and IIT-Kanpur agreement to up- The Ministry of Home Affairs in a freshly issued notification scale Unnat Bharat Abhiyan extended 5 year ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE,  e-Governance Services India Limited, an initiative of also known as: Tamil Tigers) in India for a another period of five Common Service Centre’s (CSC), a special purpose years. vehicle under the Ministry of Electronics & IT, has tied Liberation Tigers Of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is a Sri Lanka based up with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur to Tamil militant and political organization, which was founded in upscale Unnat Bharat Abhiyan. 1976.  Unnat Bharat Abhiyan is an initiative of the Ministry of Its objective is to create an independent state of Tamil Eelam in the HRD. north and east of Sri Lanka (areas comprising Tamil Majority).  It aims to find solutions to accelerate sustainable growth It was banned in India following the assassination of former Prime in rural India. Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 by its members.  Under the Unnat Bharat Abhiyan, IIT-Kanpur has India to co-chair Consultative Group of GFDRR brought together 15 leading higher education institutions from Uttar Pradesh. India was unanimously chosen by member countries as next co- chair of Consultative Group (CG) of Global Facility for Disaster Union Ministry of Home Affairs distributed 3100 special Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) for fiscal year 2020. This kits ‘ SAECKs ‘ to states and union territories to collect decision was taken during Consultative Group meeting of GFDRR evidence on sexual assault cases 2019 held from 13 May- 17 May in Geneva, Switzerland.  The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has distributed In addition to this, GFDRR in cooperation with UN Office for around 3,100 special kits among states and union Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and EU also organized 4 th territories. edition of World Reconstruction Conference (WRC) on May 13-  14, 2019 in Geneva. The kits are termed ‘SAECKs‘ (The Sexual Assault GFDRR is a global partnership which helps developing countries Evidence Collection Kits) and are also called ‘rape to better understand and reduce their vulnerability to climate change investigation kits’ that help to collect blood and semen samples for carrying out immediate effective medico- and natural hazards. legal investigations on sexual assault cases.

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 The kits consist of a set of test tubes and bottles, which  Tagore (nicknamed “Rabi”) was born on 7 May 1861 in indicates contents and specifications of the collected the Jorasanko mansion in Calcutta to Debendranath evidence. Tagore and Sarada Devi.  The kits also contain directives on collection of evidence  He became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize from the crime scene, after which the kits would be sent in Literature in 1913 for ‘Song Offerings,’ the English to the closest laboratory and the results would be declared version of his collection of poems, ‘Gitanjali.’ within two months.  Tagore reshaped Bangla language and literature in the  The Directorate of Forensic Sciences (DFSS) under the 19th and 20th centuries. home ministry has issued 2 guidelines for sexual assault cases: for investigators and prosecutors for collecting, GRIHA Council Launched “GRIHA for Existing Day storing and transporting forensic evidence and for medical Schools” officers in dealing with the cases.  Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA) Council has launched ‘GRIHA for Existing Centre Hikes Import Duty on Wheat from 30% to 40% Day Schools’, a new rating tool to evaluate environmental  The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) performance of existing schools across India. has hiked the customs duty on wheat to 40 percent from  GRIHA council was founded by The Energy and 30 percent in order to curb imports and protect the Resources Institute (TERI) with support from Ministry domestic industry. of New and Renewable Energy along with variety of  The government aims to restrict import of wheat so that experts in the fields related to sustainability of built domestic prices of wheat do not come under pressure as environment from across the country. the wheat output in the country is expected to scale a record high this year. India’s first global, Mega-Science Exhibition ‘Vigyan  The wheat’s minimum support price (MSP) or the price Samagam’ held in Mumbai at which the government buys from farmers has been  India’s first global, Mega-Science Exhibition ‘Vigyan raised by 6% at Rs 1,840 per 100 kg in 2019, from Rs Samagam’ was held in Mumbai at the Nehru Science 1,735 in 2018, in order to fix the support price at a Centre, Worli on May 08, 2019. minimum of 1.5 times the production cost.  In the span of 11 months, the exhibition will also be held in Bengaluru, Kolkata and New Delhi. CPWD Forms M K Sharma Led Panel to Formulate Design  The exhibition will take the viewers through the workings Policy for Building Construction of the Universe. will also provide answers and insights  The Central Public Works Department (CPWD) has into the exciting world of front-ranking science and constituted an 8 member expert committee under the technology to science enthusiasts, students and people chairmanship of CPWD’s Additional Director General at large. M K Sharma, to formulate a design policy for building  This is jointly organised by the Department of Atomic construction and infrastructure development. Energy (DAE), Department of Science and Technology  The design policy will guide engineers in construction of (DST), the funding agencies of these projects, the National buildings and infrastructure development and thus revive Council of Science Museums (NCSM) and Ministry of building construction and infrastructure development at Culture. all levels in the CPWD. Centre to Form Panel under DGFT to Look at Steel Avail- Green Number Plates now Mandatory For All-Electric Ve- ability for Engineering Exporters hicles  The government has decided to set up a committee to be  Government of India has made it mandatory for Electric Chaired by the Director General of Foreign Trade Vehicles to have number/license plates in Green Color. (DGFT) that will look into availability of steel at  The font color for private cars will be white while that competitive prices for engineering goods exporters. for taxis/commercial vehicles will be yellow.  The committee will have to submit its report to steel and  The green number plates will be the fifth type of number commerce ministries within two months. plate.  The decision was taken after engineering goods exporters  Electric vehicles will be given special priviledges like complained that they should get steel at global prices as free parking, free entry in congested areas and a domestic rates are higher. However, steel producers state concessional toll on highways. that freight charges and cost of production is high in the country, which push up prices. Nation Observes 158th Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore BHEL and ARAI signs MoU for e-mobility projects  The 158th birth anniversary of Asia’s first Nobel laureate, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) and Automotive Research Rabindranath Tagore, was celebrated across the country Association of India (ARAI) signed MoU (Memorandum of on May 7, 2019. understanding) for cooperation on projects related to e-mobility. Electro mobility (e-mobility) is refers to development of electric- powered or electronic driven vehicles, and moving away from

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Ministry and focussed on various aspects of making of feature film.  The co-production was earlier announced by the Prime Ministers of both the countries. India delivers First Pair of Mi-24 helicopters to Afghanistan India recently handed over two Mi-24 attack helicopters to Afghanistan. The helicopters were formally handed over by Indian Ambassador to the acting Minister of National Defence of Afghanistan at Kabul Air Force base. Under a tripartite agreement in 2018, India had agreed to finance purchase of four attack helicopter from Belarus and then deliver them to Afghanistan. Konkan Railways signs agreement with Nepal Railways  India and Nepal have inked a deal on procurement of demo train that operates on diesel. The contract agreement was signed between India’s India-China Signs protocol for Export of Indian Chilli Meal Konkan Railways Corporation Ltd and Nepal’s India and China have signed a protocol for export of Indian chilli Department of Railways to supply two 1600 HP Diesel meal from India to China.The two countries have also agreed to Electric Multiple Unit (DEMU) train sets. resolve market access issues expeditiously in order to promote a  The trains will be manufactured by Integrated Coach more balanced trade.Greater market access will help to bridge the Factory (owned and operated by Indian Railways) in widening trade deficit. Chennai, Tamil Nadu. India extends a ban on import of Chinese milk products Vice President undertakes four-day visit to Vietnam The Union government has extended the ban on import of milk and  Vice President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu commenced its products, including chocolates, from China. Food regulator his four-day official visit to Vietnam on 9 May 2019. FSSAI had recommended extending the ban until all labs at ports His visit comes after a series of high-level exchanges are modernised to test the chemical.The ban was imposed on between India-Vietnam in 2018 which include visit of apprehensions of the presence of melamine in some milk Vietnamese Prime Minister in January and President in consignments from China.Melamine is a toxic chemical used for March to India. making plastics and fertilisers.  The Vice President participated in 16th United Nations Day of Vesak (UNDV) at Tam Chuc pagoda in northern India and Bangladesh agreed to jointly produce film on the Ha Nam province of Vietnam. He also delivered keynote life of Mujibur Rahman address at inaugural session of event, themed for which  India and Bangladesh will co-produce a film on the life is “Buddhist Approach to Global Leadership and Shared and works of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Responsibilities for Sustainable Societies”. a documentary on Bangladesh Liberation War.  He visited Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, to pay homage to  A Delegation from Bangladesh led by Adviser to Prime Former Prime Minister (and also President) of Vietnam. Minister of Bangladesh, Dr. Gowher Rizvi met Secretary  He also meets Indian community and Vietnamese and other officials of Information & Broadcasting beneficiaries of ‘Jaipur Foot Artificial Limb Fitment Camp’ organized in 2018 by India under ‘India for

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Humanity’ initiative. It was launched to commemorate  Saudi Arabia, the largest producer of OPEC has 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. traditionally been India’s top oil import source, but in 2017-18 fiscal year it was dethroned by Iraq for the first Iraq remains India’s top supplier of Crude Oil in 2019 time.  According to data released by Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCI&S), Iraq 14th Edition of Annual Sino-Indian Border Trade opens at remains India’s top crude oil supplier for second year in Nathu La a row. The 14th edition of the annual Sino-Indian border trade opened at  India is world’s third largest importer of crude oil (7% of Nathu La, the frontier post at Sino-Indian border in Sikkim. To total crude oil imports) after China (world’s largest mark the commencement of border trade, officials and traders of importer with 20.2% of total crude oil imports) and USA both countries (India and China) were present at the border.Every (13.8%). year bilateral border trade between two countries is organised four  India imported 207.3 MT (Metric Tons) of crude oil in days a week for period of six months, between May 1 and November 2018-19, down from 220.4 MT in 2017-18. This increased 30. India’s total crude oil import bill by 40.6% i.e. to $86.9 billion as compared to $61.8 billion from previous year. 

which came into force from May 1, 2019. The Act will allow the shops and other businesses in the state to operate 24×7. Chhattisgarh Deploys 1st Anti-Naxal Women Commando Unit The Chhattisgarh police for the first time has inducted women commandos in the District Reserve Guard (DRG), its frontline anti-Naxal force. Comprising 30 women led by Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Dineshwari Nand, have received extensive training in jungle combat. With the induction of the women commando contingent, the number of platoons of the DRG in NEWS Dantewada now stands at six. Kerala Becomes First Indian State To Tap Into Masala Bond Market Kerala became the first state to tap into masala bond market by listing the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB)’s masala bond worth of USD 312 million (Rs 2,150 crore) in London Centre announces assistance of Rs 1,000 cr for cyclone hit Stock Exchange (LSE)’s International Securities Market (ISM). It Odisha has a fixed interest rate of 9.723% per annum. The bond issue Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced a further release of builds on the Kerala government’s focus to get multinational Rs 1,000 Crore for assistance to the Fani affected state Odisha on corporations to invest in the state.The e-Vidhan in State Legislatures May 06, 2019. Earlier Rs 341 crores had been provided to Odisha and e-Sansad in Parliament are mission mode projects under Digital as an advance to its State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF). India. e-Vidhan: Kerala Assembly to Digitize all its Records Purple Frog to be crowned Kerala’s state amphibian The Kerala Legislative Assembly recently announced an initiative Purple frog could be soon designated as Kerala’s state amphibian. to digitize all its records and proceedings under its ambitious project The proposal for this is being mooted by Kerela’s leading called E-Vidhan which enables state legislature to go fully digital Herpetologists (a specialist in study of reptiles and amphibians). and completely paperless. The odd-looking species is endemic to Western Ghats. Gujarat Assembly Passes Act to Allow Shops & Businesses Karnataka takes steps to limit weight of School Bags Remain Open 24X7  Following the order of the Ministry of Human Resource ‘Gujarat Shops and Establishments (Regulation of Employment and Development, the government of Karnataka has taken and Conditions of Service) Act, 2019’ passed by Gujarat Assembly the necessary steps and has issued the guidelines for the school.The government of Karnataka has issued a circular

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to all schools government, aided and unaided to take students in Class 9 and 10 allowed carrying bags in the 4- necessary steps to ensure that the weight of a schoolbag 5 kg range. is not more than 10% of the child’s weight.  The bag of a student in Class 1 or 2 would weigh no more Arunachal Has Highest 35% of India’s Graphite Deposits than 2 kg and the bag can weigh anywhere between 2 and The Geological Survey of India (GSI) in its report revealed that 3 kg for students from Class 3 to 5. about 35 % of India’s total Graphite reserves are found in Arunachal  The prescribed weight increases progressively, with Pradesh. This is the highest found in the country. 

Malayalam film “Bhayanakam” won the best cinematography award at Beijing Interna- tional Film Festival Malayalam film Bhayanakam (Fear) which was directed by Jayaraj won the best cinematography award at the Beijing International Film Festival and had also won the best cinematography award at the 65th National Film Awards. Amartya Sen Chair announced by London School of Economics The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has announced the creation of the Amartya Sen Chair in Inequality Studies, named in honour of the India-born economist, philosopher and Nobel laureate, who was Professor of Economics at LSE from 1971-82.The public announcement of the chair was made during LSE’s biannual Amartya Sen Lecture. SwacchtaPakhwada Awards-2019 All India Radio and the Publication Division and Winners of 2019 BAFTA Awards Children’s Film Society of India were awarded with the The 72nd British Academy Film Awards also known as the BAFTA SwacchtaPakhwada Awards-2019.Press Council of India, Press was held on 10 February 2019 by the British Academy of Film and Information Bureau and BECIL were also mentioned during the Television Arts. award ceremony for their efforts during the SwacchtaPakhwada. List of Winners  BAFTA Fellowship –Thelma Schoonmaker Benny Antony conferred with the National IP Award 2019  Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema – Elizabeth Benny Antony (co-founder of Kochi-based Arjuna Natural Ltd) Karlsen and Stephen Woolley for Number 9 Films has been honoured with the National Intellectual Property Award  Best Film-Roma – Alfonso Cuarón and Gabriela Rodríguez for 2019 in the category of Top Individual for Patents and  Best Director – Alfonso Cuarón – Roma Commercialization.Antony has over 80 international patents to  Best Actor in a Leading Role- Rami Malek – Bohemian his credit. Rhapsody as Freddie Mercury  Best Actress in a Leading Role-Olivia Colman – The Pakistan Journalist Cyril Almeida wins Press Freedom Hero Favourite as Queen Anne award by IPI  Best Actor in a Supporting Role-Mahershala Ali – Green Pakistan Journalist at the Dawn Assistant has been named as the Book as Don Shirley 71st World Press Freedom Hero by the International Press Institute  Best Actress in a Supporting Role-Rachel Weisz – The (IPI).IPI’s World Press Freedom Hero Award honours journalists Favourite as Sarah Churchill “who have made significant contributions to the promotion of press freedom, particularly in the face of great personal risk”. New York Times, Wall Street Journal win Pulitzers for Trump probes Salim Khan, Bhandarkar and Helen felicitated with Master The New York Times & The Wall Street Journal were awarded Deenanath Mangeshkar Award Pulitzer Prizes.The Journal won for its coverage of Trump’s secret Master Deenanath Mangeshkar SmrutiPratishthan, Pune, felicitated hush money payments to two women during his 2016 presidential legends from the fields of music, drama, art and social work with campaign who claimed to have had affairs with him. the Deenanath Award among other awards.

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The Winners includes: The winners of Goldman Environmental Prize 2019 are:  Master Deenanath Mangeshkar Lifetime Award – Salim  BayarjargalAgvaantseren, Mongolia (Asia) Khan (father of superstar Salman Khan).  Alfred Brownell, Liberia (Africa)  Master Deenanath Mangeshkar Special Award-  Alberto Curamil, Chile (South and Central America) Madhur Bhandarkar for his contribution to Indian  Jacqueline Evans, Cook Islands (Islands and Island Cinema. Nations)  Master Deenanath Mangeshkar Special Award – Helen  Linda Garcia, United States (North America) for her contribution to Indian Cinema.  Ana ColovicLesoska, North Macedonia (Europe) Rana Dasgupta wins 2019 Tagore Literary Prize Rapper Drake Breaks Record for Most Billboard Music  The second edition of Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize Awards 2019 has been announced and author Rana Dasgupta has Rapper Drake broke the record for the most Billboard Music Awards won the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2019 in wins by taking home 12 prizes in different categories in the 2019 Literature for his literary novel “Solo”. edition on May 1. Now the overall Billboard Music Awards won  Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2019 (for Social by Drake has gone up to 27 awards.With this, the Canadian born Achievement) - YoheiSasakawa. He is from Japan and rapper Aubrey Drake Graham has surpassed the record earlier held has won the prize for his great contribution to world by American singer Taylor Swift who has won 23 Billboard Music peace. Awards till date.  Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2019 (for Social Achievement Community)- Madame President of Journalist G D ‘Robert’ Govender awarded 2019 V K Krishna Taiwan, Ms. Tsai Ing-Wen and Taiwanese people, as Menon award being a Beacon of Democracy, Human Rights and G D ‘Robert’ Govender has been awarded the 2019 V K Krishna Freedom. Menon award posthumously, for his outstanding contribution as a pioneer of decolonised journalism. He is an Indian Origin Journalist. Bill & Melinda Gates tops World’s 50 Greatest Leaders He was awarded in UK. List by Fortune Magazine for 2019 The 6th edition of the Fortune Magazine’s annual World’s 50 Tiger Woods awarded ‘Presidential Medal of Freedom’ Greatest Leaders List for the year 2019 has been topped by Bill & American Golfer, Tiger Woods has been awarded with US’ highest Melinda Gates, for their work with charitable organisation Bill & civilian honouri.e “Presidential Medal of Freedom”. He was given Melinda Gates Foundation. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda the honour by President Donald Trump. The Presidential Medal Ardern is second in the list followed by US special counsel Robert of Freedom recognises persons who have made “an especially Mueller. meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States. Mizoram Kid who Rushed Injured Chick to Hospital Wins PETA Compassionate Kid Award Two Indians among 115 UN Peacekeepers Honored for Sac- Derek C Lalchhanhima, Mizoram based 6 year old boy, who became rifice in Line of Duty an overnight sensation on the internet after a photo of him with an  115 UN peacekeepers from 43 different nations who injured chick in hospital went viral, has been awarded the sacrificed their lives in the line of duty have been honoured ‘Compassionate Kid’ award by PETA India for being an inspiration by the global organisation United Nations. to other children.  The list also includes two Indians namely Jitender Kumar and Shikha Garg. AS Kiran Kumar (Ex-ISRO Chairman) Awarded France’s  An Indian police officer, Jitender Kumar served in the Highest Civilian Honour UN OrganisationStabilisation Mission in the Democratic A S Kiran Kumar the Former chairman of ISRO has been conferred Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). with France’s highest civilian award -Chevalier of the Order of the  Shikha Garg was United Nations Development Legion of Honour.He has been bestowed this award for his Programme (UNDP) consultant attached with India’s contribution to India-France space cooperation.Ambassador of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. France to India, Alexandre Ziegler conferred A S Kiran Kumar with She was killed in the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash. the highest civilian honour of France on behalf of the President of France. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar gets Order of St. George award by Kerala church Winners of Goldman Environmental Prize 2019 Founder of The Art of Living Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was conferred The awarded Goldman Environmental Prize is awarded every year with ‘Order of St. George’ award as part of the Church’s to grassroots environmental activists, one from each of the world’s Commemorative Feast. Along with Ravi Shankar, the event was six geographic regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island attended by former Kerala Chief Minister Dr OommenChandy. Nations, North America, and South and Central America by the Recipient of the ‘Order of St. George’, Gurudev has spearheaded Goldman Environmental Foundation headquartered in San an unprecedented worldwide movement for a stress-free, violence- Francisco, California. It is also called the Green Nobel. free society.

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reality television show “World of Dance”, taking home a NEWS IN BRIEF cash prize of $1 million.  The Intellectual Property Rights Cell (IPR Cell) of Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) selected for the National Intellectual Property Award 2019  The Kings, a hip-hop dance crew from Mumbai, has  found international glory with their victory on American

Mr.Maheshwari takes over from interim head Balaji Krish. Twitter is an American online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as “tweets”. Volodymyr Zelenskiy: Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who played the president in a TV series won the country’s presidential election. Ukraine Capital- Kyiv Currency- Hryvnia Puranik Yogendra: Puranik Yogendra has become the 1st Indian-origin person to win an election in Japan, having gotten elected to Tokyo’s Edogawa Ward assembly. Edogawa Ward boasts the highest number of Indian residents among Tokyo’s 23 wards. Rajendra Kumar Nayak: He was Additional Controller General of Defence Accounts, Defence Accounts Department in the Ministry of Defence before taking over as the CGDA. Sanjay Mitra is the defence secretary of India. Dalbir Suhag: Former Army Chief Dalbir Singh Suhag Gangandeep Kang: Dr Gagandeep Kang made history by has been appointed as India’s next high commissioner to becoming India’s first woman to be made a Fellow of the prestigious the island nation ‘Seychelles’.Seychelles is a country which is of Royal Society London. Kang is a leading scientist in India and her strategic importance to India in the Indian Ocean region. main research focus is on viral infections in children and the testing Uday K Varma: Former bureaucrat, Uday Kumar Varma, has of rotavirus vaccines. resigned from the post of Secretary General of Assocham. Varma took over the charge in August 2018 succeeding D S Rawat who Jaideep Sarkar: Jaideep Sarkar has been appointed as India’s next High Commissioner to South Africa. The government also held the position for nearly 14 years. Currently, Assocham Deputy Secretary General Saurabh Sanyal is the interim secretary general. appointed SuhelAjaz Khan, presently serving as India’s Deputy Chief of Mission in Saudi Arabia, as the next Ambassador to The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Lebanon. (ASSOCHAM) is one of the apex trade associations of India. Christina Koch: NASA astronaut Christina Koch is going to have Kumar Sangakkara: The former captain of Sri Lanka, Kumar her mission on the International Space Station (ISS) extended to Sangakkara, has been named as the next President of Marylebone 328 days, which would set a record for the longest single spaceflight Cricket Club (MCC). He will take up his role on the year long by a woman.She is scheduled to remain in orbit until February post October 1, 2019. With this, he will be the first non – British 2020. She will break the record of 288 days set by Peggy Whitson. person to be appointed to the post since the foundation of the Ravi Shastri: Head Coach of the India National Cricket Team, club. Marylebone Cricket Club was founded in 1787 and based Ravi Shastri, also known as “Champion of Champions” was since 1814 at Lord’s cricket ground in St John’s Wood, London, appointed as Exclusive Corporate Ambassador to the Indian England Business Community of Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone (RAKEZ) LaurentinoCortizo: LaurentinoCortizo, member of the in Dubai. Democratic Revolutionary Party, has won the presidential elections Vinod Zutshi : Former deputy Election Commissioner Vinod of Panama with 33.27% of the vote in support. Zutshi was appointed as a Special Observer for Tripura where StevoPendarovski: StevoPendarovski, of the ruling Social polling is being held in the third phase of the Lok Sabha Elections Democratic Union of Macedonia, has won the 2019 Macedonian 2019. The Election Commission had earlier postponed polling in presidential elections with 51.66 percent vote to become the the Tripura (East) Lok Sabha seat, saying the prevailing law and President-elect of North Macedonia. order situation there is not favorable for holding free and fair polls. Dragan Mihailovic: The Volleyball Federation of India has Manish Maheshwari: Manish Maheshwari (CEO of Network18 appointed Dragan Mihailovic of Serbia as the head coach of the Digital) has been appointed as the Managing Director (MD) of Indian men’s national team with focus on an Olympic berth in the Twitter (U.S.-based microblogging platform) for India operations. future. In addition, PryemyslawGaszyoski of Poland and

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ValadimirRadosevic of Serbia will take charge as the team’s physio Muhammad-Bande: Tijjani Mohammad Bande, a professor from and physiotherapist respectively. Nigeria, has been appointed as the new President of the United Rajesh Yaduvanshi: Punjab National Bank (PNB) has appointed Nations General Assembly. He will succeed incumbent María Rajesh Kumar Yaduvanshi as the Executive Director of the bank Fernanda Espinosa Garces after her tenure lapses in September with effect from April 15. 2019. He served as the permanent representative of Nigeria to Mohammad Ishtayyeh: The President of the State of Palestine, United Nations before his appointment as President of UNGA. Mahmoud Abbas has confirmed the appointment of Dr. Mohammad JagjitPavadia: India’s JagjitPavadia was re-elected to the Ishtayyeh as the new Prime Minister of the country. Mr. Ishtayyeh International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) for another term. will succeed Rami Hamdallah. MsPavadia has been a member of the INCB since 2015 and her Sanjay Manohar: McAfee announced the appointment of Sanjay current term is set to expire in 2020. Manohar as managing director for its Indian operations. McAfee Hari Menon: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation named M is a US-based device-to-cloud cybersecurity company. Hari Menon as the Country Director in India effective from May Mahendra Singh Dhoni: Bus ticketing platform redBus 24. Menon will replace NachiketMor, who held this position for appointed cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni as its brand ambassador. the past three years and resigned last month. Currently, he endorses Dream11, Colgate, MasterCard, Orient Fans, Obituaries BharatMatrimony, Indigo Paints, SRMB Steel, and Revital H etc. Chinmoy Roy : Veteran Bengali actor Kaushik Shaparia: Germany-based lender Deutsche Bank has Satya Brata Sinha: Former Supreme Court judge Justice appointed Kaushik Shaparia as the chief executive officer (CEO) Vishwanatha Menon: Former Kerala Finance Minister for India.Kaushik Shapariao succeeds Ravneet Gill (joined Yes Peter Mayhew:The legendary actor, Peter Mayhew, who is best Bank last month). Deutsche Bank AG is a German multinational known for playing Chewbacca in the “Star Wars” film series, passed investment bank and financial services company headquartered in away at the age of 74. Frankfurt, Germany. Master Hirannaiah: Renowned Kannada Theatre Personality Javier Perez Tasso:The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial B Subhashan Reddy: Former Chief Justice of Madras, Kerala Telecommunication (SWIFT) has named Javier Pérez-Tasso as its High Courts new CEO and he will replace the present CEO Gottfried Leibbrandt Last Captive White Tiger ‘Bajirao’ at Sanjay Gandhi National on July 01, 2019. Park Passes Away at 18 Dilip Kumar: Senior IAS officer Dilip Kumar has been appointed Bajirao, the last surviving White Tiger at the Sanjay Gandhi National as the Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in the office of Lokpal. This Park (SGNP) in Borivali, maharashtra passed away at the age of is the first official appointment of a bureaucrat in Lokpal. 18.He was suffering from chronic ankylosis on left shoulder and Chairperson of Lokpal -Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose. chronic senile generalised arthritis for the last four years. Bajirao Air Marshal RKS Bhadauria: Air Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh was born at the SGNP in 2001 to Renuka and Sidharth. Bhadauria will take over as the Vice Chief of Indian Air Force from Seymour Nurse: Former West Indies cricketer Seymour Nurse May 1, 2019 and would be looking after all the air operations being passed away at the age of 85 years. carried out by the force. He will succeed Air Marshal Anil Khosla N. R. Madhava Menon: Father of Modern Legal Education, Passes who is superannuating on April 30, 2019. Away IsacDoru: All India Football Federation (AIFF) has appointed Rallapalli Venkata Narasimha Rao: Veteran Telugu Actor Romanian coach IsacDoru as the new technical director of the Hiralal Yadav: Padma Shri Awardee Bhojpuri Singer Indian national football team. Thoppil Mohamed Meeran : Noted Tamil novelist and Sahitya Claire Polosak: Claire Polosak from Australia has become the Akademi awardee first woman umpire in the men’s ODI. She was the umpire in the Baidyanath Mishra : Renowned economist from odissa ICC World Cricket League Division 2 match between Oman and Prof. Kirpal Singh: first chronicler of Partition, who started Namibia. She was also the first woman umpire to officiate in a building an archive in 1954, passed away at 95 in Chandigarh. He men’s domestic List A game in 2017. She is 31 years old. began his journey in Partition’s historiography in 1953 as a young Reza Baqir: International Monetary Fund (IMF) economist Reza lecturer at Khalsa College, Amritsar. Baqir has been appointed as the Governor of State Bank of Pakistan. Derek Sippy : Former Indian’s Billiards Player State Bank of Pakistan is the central bank of Pakistan. Maramraju Satyanarayana Rao: Prominent writer and Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma: Virat Kohli and Anushka academician Sharma have been appointed as the first official brand ambassadors John Singleton: an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker has of Flipkart-owned e-commerce platform, Myntra. Myntra has passed away following complications from a stroke. He was best launched its brand campaign name ‘Go Myntra-la-la’ which includes known for directing “Boyz N the Hood” and “Poetic Justice,”. an ad film starring the star couple to bring alive the joyful experience Singleton became the first black filmmaker nominated for a Best of shopping. Director Oscar for his debut feature from 1991, “Boys N The Balvinder Singh Nakai: Cooperative major IFFCO has elected Hood.” He was only 24 at the time. Balvinder Singh Nakai as its Chairman and Dileep Sanghani as Vice Pungam Kannan: Former Indian Footballer Chairman. Balvinder Singh Nakai is a farmer – co-operator – who has been deeply involved in providing strength to Indian cooperative  movement.

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Rajiv Gandhi International Airport Ranked Among Top 10 In World-Air Help Global air passengers right expert Airhelp came out with the list of world’s best airports and Hyderabad Rajiv Gandhi International airport was ranked the world’s eighth best airport. The survey takes into account on-time performance, service quality and food & shops to determine the ranking. The top 3 airports in the list of world’s best airports as per Airhelp are:  Qatar’s Hamad International Airport  Tokyo International Airport.  Athens International Airport. Supreme Court Bans Mining along Kaziranga National Park The Supreme Court has banned all mining activities along the Kaziranga National Park and catchment area of rivers originating in KarbiAnglong Hills in Assam. The ban was ordered as per the recommendations of the Central Empowered Committee (CEC).Kaziranga Mount Agung volcano in Bali resort Island erupted NP contains 2/3 of World’s Great 1-Horned Rhinoceroses.  Mount Agung on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali has erupted again (last eruption in 1963). India’s first Centre of Excellence for drone development to  The volcano’s status remains on alert, or level three of come up at IIT Hyderabad four possible levels and authorities continue to impose a India’s first Centre of Excellence for drone development will come 4-kilometre exclusion zone. up at IIT Hyderabad. IIT Hyderabad is the first academic  Thousands of masks have been distributed to the institution to offer professional courses in artificial intelligence communities amid the fears of the ashes impacting human and related technologies. respiratory.  Mount Agung is situated in Karangasem district and about 70 km from tourist hub Kuta. 

2019 Singapore Open badminton tournament  Men’s Singles - KentoMomota (Japan)  Women’s Singles - Tai Tzu-ying (Taiwan)  Men’s Doubles - Takeshi Kamura (Japan) and KeigoSonoda (Japan)  Women’s Doubles - Mayu Matsumoto (Japan) and WakanaNagahara (Japan)  Mixed Doubles - DechapolPuavaranukroh (Thailand) and SapsireeTaerattanachai (Thailand) Santosh Trophy 2019  The Services lifted the 73rd Santosh Trophy after beating Punjab 1-nil in the final at Ludhiana.  Bikash Thapa scored the winning goal. This is their 6th title win.  Services is an Indian football team representing armed forces personnel. India Bagged 17 Medals including 3 Golds at 2019 Asian Athletics Championships The 23rd edition of the Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Khalifa International

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Stadium in Doha, Qatar.India secured fourth position in Petra Kvitova Clinches Stuttgart’s Porsche Grand Prix 2019 the overall medal table by winning 17 medals including 3 World number three Petra Kvitova beat Estonian AnettKontaveit Gold, 7 Silver and 7 Bronze.Bahrain topped the medal 6-3 7-6(2) to win Stuttgart’s Porsche Grand Prix 2019 held in table with 22 medals. Stuttgart, Germany . This was the second title of the year for the Czech based Kvitova while the 27th of her career. 2019 Asian Boxing Championship in Thailand  The ASBC Asian Confederation Boxing Championships Valtteri Bottas wins 2019 Azerbaijan Grand Prix was held in Bangkok, Thailand. Mercedes racing driver Valtteri Bottas won the 2019 Azerbaijan  This was the first time when both the Women’s and Grand Prix on April 28, 2019. With this, the Finnish player claimed Men’s Championship took place simultaneously at the the Formula One world championship lead from teammate Lewis Asian Championships. Hamilton, who was second.  India ended the event with 13 medals which included 2 gold, four silver and seven bronze medals. 2019 Kunming Tennis Open Concluded in China  Gold Medal Winners: Pooja Rani – 81-kg The 2019 Kunming Open was a professional tennis tournament category,AmitPanghal – 52-kg category. held in Anning, China. List of Winners KentoMomota Clinches Single’s Title at 2019 Badminton  Men’s Single – Jay Clarke (United Kingdom) Asia Championships  Women’s Single – Zheng Saisai (China) The 2019 Badminton Asia Championships was held at Wuhan  Men’s Double – Max Purcell / Luke Saville (Australia) Sports Center Gymnasium in China.  Women’s Double – Peng Shuai /Yang Zhaoxuan (China) Winners List Bajrang Punia Wins Gold in Ali Aliyev Wrestling Tourna- Event Gold Silver ment Men’s KentoMomota Shi Yuqi Indian wrestler Bajrang Punia clinched the gold medal after defeating singles (Japan) (China) Viktor Rassadin in the finals of men’s 65kg freestyle in the Ali Women’s Akane He Bingjiao Aliyev Wrestling Tournament held in Kaspiisk, Russia on May 2, singles Yamaguchi (China) 2019. The 25- year-old World number one, will now participate in (Japan) the ‘Beat the Streets’ competition at the Madison Square Garden, New York, on May 6. Harsheel Dani clinches Dutch Open International Badmin- Jaipur to Host Asian Youth Women Handball Championship ton Tournament in August 2019 India’s shuttlerHarsheel Dani clinched the Dutch Open International The Asian Youth Women Handball Championship 2019 will be badminton title in Wateringen, Netherlands after defeating held in the Pink city Jaipur from August 21 to 30, 2019. The 8th Denmark’s Mads Christophersen. He also won the Ghana edition of the event be see participation by 10 teams. International & finished runner-up at Polish International last year. ApurviChandela becomes world number 1 in 10m air rie, Bajrang regains top spot in world wrestling rankings Anjum claims second position India’s Bajrang Punia has regained the world number one spot in India’s ApurviChandela on May 1, 2019 became world number 1 the men’s 65-kilogram freestyle category rankings. The rankings in women’s 10m air rifle event, according to the latest rankings were released by United World Wrestling. released by the International Shooting Sport Federation. Hailing India bag two gold at ISSF World Cup from Jaipur, the shooting ace is among the five Indian shooters to India opened its medal account with gold each in 10 metres Air have already secured 2020 Olympics quotas for the country. Rifle Mixed Team and 10 metres Air Pistol Mixed team events on India’s Saurav Ghosal and JoshnaChinappa Wins Asian In- the third day of ISSF World Cup in Beijing. Young shooters ‘Manu dividual Squash Championship Bhaker’ and ‘Saurabh Chaudhary’ took the top spot in the 10 Indian professional squash players Saurav Ghosal and metres Air Pistol Mixed Team event. JoshnaChinappa have won the individual titles in the Asian Squash Pankaj Advani wins Asian Snooker Tour title Championship held at Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.The top seed India’s Pankaj Advani defeated Ehsan HeydariNezhad of Iran 6-4 Ghosal defeated the fourth seed Leo Au Chun Ming of Hong Kong to win the inaugural Asian Snooker Tour title. It was held in to win 2019 Men’s Asian Individual Squash Championships. Bengaluru. The Tour was held in three parts and played in Doha India Bags 6 Medals at 36th Feliks Stamm International (Qatar), Jinan (China) and Bengaluru (India). Boxing Tournament in Warsaw VineshPhogat, Bajrang Punia recommended for Rajiv Indian boxers won total 6 medals at the 36th Feliks Stamm Gandhi Khel Ratna Award International boxing tournament held in Warsaw, Poland. It included The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) on April 29, 2019 2 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze medals.The gold medal came from recommended the names of Bajrang Punia and VineshPhogat for Gaurav Solanki in 52 kg category event and Manish Kaushik in 60 the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2019. kg event.

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first renewable energy-focused infrastructure investment trust (InvIT).  The InvIT would seek to acquire up to 1.5-2 gigawatts (GW) of stable and long-term cash- generating renewable assets, with a firm focus on diversification of clients of both solar and wind assets as well as the customers of the electricity.

Japan’s First Privately Developed Rocket ‘Momo-3’ Reached Outer Space A Japanese aerospace start-up Interstellar Technology Inc. has successfully launched a first privately developed rocket ‘Momo-3’ into space. The unmanned Momo-3 was launched from its test site in Hokkaido.It was the company’s third launch attempt after previous tries failed in 2017 and 2018. In 2017, the operator lost contact with Momo-1 shortly after launch. In 2018, Momo-2 only made it some 20 meters off the ground before crashing and bursting into flames due to a problem with a control system. World’s 1st parent-wise genome for buffaloes developed  The National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) has Russia Successfully Tests World’s First Floating Nuclear developed the world’s first complete parent-wise genome Power Plant assembly called “NDDB_ABRO_Murrah” of riverine Russia has successfully tested the world’s first floating nuclear buffaloes. power plant (NPP), Akademik Lomonosov, a subsidiary of  This comes after the successful launch of INDUSCHIP, Rosatom nuclear corporation stated. Reactors of the floating atomic a customized genotyping chip for indigenous cattle and block were launched in November 2018. their crosses. INS VELA submarine to be launched for trials  Buffaloes contribute more than 50% to the total milk INS Vela, a Scorpene class submarine will be launched for trials. production in India which is the world’s largest milk producer. The submarine will be launched by Secretary (Defence Production) at the Mazagon Dockyards Limited (MDL). Piramal, CPPIB in tie-up for India’s 1st renewables InvIT  Piramal Enterprises Ltd has signed an agreement with ISRO to launch radar imaging satellite ‘RISAT 2BR1’ India is planning to launch its latest radar imaging satellite RISAT Canada’s largest pension fund manager, Canada Pension 2BR1 towards the end of May 2019 on one of the variants of the Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), to co-sponsor India’s

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Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket. The satellite, RISAT has the advantage of continuously viewing the Sun 2BR1, is expected to be launched aboard one of the reusable PSLV without any occultation or eclipses. rockets on May 22, as per officials of the Indian Space Research  The L1 is 1.5 million kms from the Earth. Organisation (ISRO) SpaceX successfully launched cargo mission to the ISS ISRO planning to send a probe to study Sun in 2020  SpaceX has launched a Dragon cargo capsule to orbit to  The Indian Space Research Organization is planning to International Space Station. send a probe to study the Sun early in 2020.  This mission was seventeenth routine launch of SpaceX  The information was shared by ISRO chairman Dr K for NASA since 2012. Sivan, who said that currently scientists are exploring  Cargo Dragon spacecraft was carrying 2,500 kilograms possibilities to study more about Sun and the probe (5,500 pounds) of supplies for the astronauts on the ISS named Aditya-L1 will be sent to observe the solar corona, as part of the CRS-17 mission. the outer layers of the Sun.  The satellite would be in a halo orbit around the L1 (Lagrangian point 1) of the Sun- Earth system so that it 

Australian Flight Carrier, Qantas Operated World’s First Zero-waste Flight The Australian flight carrier, Qantas has operated the world’s first zero-waste commercial flight from Sydney to Adelaide which disposed of all waste through compost, reuse or recycle. The Australian airline Qantas has planned to eliminate 100 million single-use plastics by the end of 2020 and also to reduce 75% of airline’s waste by the end of 2021. Two New Bird Species Found In Indonesia Zoologists at Trinity College Dublin have discovered two new bird species named as the Wakatobi white-eye and the Wangi-Wangi white- eye in the Wakatobi Archipelago of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Details of their discovery were published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. The Wakatobi white-eye also called as Zosterops Chloris flavissimus. Centre Constitutes Committee to implement the National Almost half of World Heritage sites could lose their gla- Clean Air Programme (NCAP) ciers by 2100: Study  The Union Environment Ministry has constituted a  Glaciers are set to disappear completely from almost committee to implement the National Clean Air half of World Heritage sites if business-as-usual emissions Programme (NCAP). continue, according to the first-ever global study of World  The Secretary, Union Environment Ministry will chair Heritage glaciers, co-authored by scientists from the the committee. It will have its headquartered in New International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Delhi  The sites are home to some of the world’s most iconic  NCAP aims to reduce particulate matter (PM) pollution glaciers, such as the Grosser Aletschgletscher in the Swiss by 20%-30% in at least 102 cities by 2024. Alps, Khumbu Glacier in the Himalayas or Greenland’s  The other members of the committee will be Joint JakobshavnIsbrae. Secretary (Thermal)- Ministry of Power; Director- General- The Energy Resources Institute (TERI), and Professor Sachidananda Tripathi- Indian Institute of  Technology-Kanpur (IIT-K).  The NCAP is a five-year action plan with 2019 as the first year and there would be a review every five years.

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by many organizations including a non-profit organization PATH.  WHO Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland, Director general: Tedros Adhanom. CBSE to allow visual aids for disabled kids from 2020 The Central Board of Secondary Education has decided to allow students to use magnifying glasses and portable video magnifiers during the Class X final examination, from 2020. IIM-Bangalore becomes only Indian institute to feature in QS EMBA Rankings 2019  The Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIM-B) has once again made a mark at the global level.  The institute’s post-graduate programme in Enterprise Management (PGPEM) has secured the 12th rank in APAC listing and came 61st globally in the QS Executive MBA Rankings 2019.  The QS Rankings identify the world’s top World’s first Malaria vaccine launched in Malawi universities in individual subject areas so that students  The world’s first malaria vaccine RTS known as who know what subjects they are interested in can find ‘Mosquirix’ has launched in Malawi. suitable universities.  This vaccine has created by British Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in 1987 and after that vaccine has undergone 30 years of testing which was supported 

According to the SIPRI data, China was the second- largest military spender in 2018. India accounts for 3.7% of the global defence spending. In contrast, India’s military spending went up by 3.1% to $66.5 billion. US Air Force Successfully Tests Laser Sys- tem ‘SHiELD’ to Shoot Down Missiles  The United States Air Force successfully conducted the test of a laser weapons system called the Self-Protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD) in April 2019.  SHiELD is an Advanced Technology Demonstration (ATD) Program which is capable of shooting down multiple missiles in flight.  It would be mounted on aircraft to demonstrate self-defense of aircraft and protect the fighter jets against surface-to-air (SAM) and air-to-air (AAM) missiles attack. Indian Air Force gets first Apache Helicopter from the US India 4th Biggest Military Spender in 2018: SIPRI Report The first Apache Helicopter AH-64E (I) was formally handed over India was the world’s fourth biggest military spender in 2018 behind to the Indian Air Force, IAF at Boeing production facility in Mesa, the United States, China, and Saudi Arabia, according to new data Arizona, USA.The IAF had signed a contract with the US think tank Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Government and Boeing Company in September 2015 for 22 (SIPRI). India was the fifth largest military spender in 2017. France Apache helicopters. also figures on the list of top five spenders.

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Indian Army to Observe 2019 as ‘Year of Next of Kin’ The Indian Navy has launched a guided missile destroyer named The Indian Army has announced to commemorate the year 2019 as Imphal at Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders in Mumbai. This was the ‘Year of Next of Kin’. It plans to reach out to the next of kin of launched under the Project 15B.Imphal is the third ship under battle casualties, ex-servicemen and serving soldiers to inform them Project 15B. Ships under this project can carry and operate two of entitled financial benefits, welfare schemes and help resolve multiple role helicopters. pension related problems since most of them are unaware of the Indian Army Inks Pact with NHPC to Construct Tunnels on financial benefits that are entitled to them. China & Pakistan Borders Nirbhay cruise missile successfully test fired The Indian Army has signed an MoU with National Hydroelectric The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Power Corporation Limited (NHPC) to construct tunnels on successfully test fired indigenously designed Long Range Sub-Sonic borders with China and Pakistan to store ammunition and other Cruise Missile “Nirbhay” from the Integrated Test Range (ITR), war-related equipment.The project includes construction of three Chandipur, Odisha. tunnels on China border while one will be built along the Pakistan border. INS Kolkata, INS Shakti to participate in IFR in China  The Indian Navy will participate in International Fleet Indian Navies Missile Destroyer INS Ranjit to be Decom- Review (IFR) that is scheduled to take place in Qingdao, missioned China as part of 70th Anniversary celebrations of The missile destroyer of the Indian Navy, INS Ranjit People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLA Navy). decommissioned at the naval dockyard in Visakhapatnam on May  The International Fleet Review is a parade of naval ships, 6.INS Ranjit was the third of the five Kashin-class destroyers built aircraft and submarines. by erstwhile USSR.  The IFR is organised by nations to promote goodwill, The ship was commissioned as INS Ranjit on September 15, 1983 strengthen cooperation and showcase their organisational and has rendered service to the Navy for over 36 years.Indo-French capabilities. Joint Naval Exercise “Varuna-19” Commences off Goa Coast Indian Navy launched guided missile destroyer Imphal 

 The 5th edition of the Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) Media Summit on Climate Action and Disaster Preparedness began in Kathmandu, Nepal on April 25, 2019.  The two-day summit is based on the theme Media Solutions for Sustainable Future: Saving Lives, Building Resilient Communities.  The Summit aims on deliberating of how to utilize media’s potential of accelerating climate action and disaster preparedness and connect stakeholders to media professionals for collaboration and joint practical projects. Saudi Arabia to Host G20 Summit in 2020  Saudi Arabia will host the 15th annual G20 Leaders’ Summit in 2020 on November 21-22, in its capital Riyadh.  This will be the first G20 Summit to be hosted in China to host Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations the Arab world. G20 is an international forum containing China hosted a Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations in 19 countries and the European Union. Beijing, starting from 15 May to 22 May 2019. During the event  India will host G20 Summit in 2022. an opening ceremony was held by Chinese President Xi Jinping and six parallel sub forums were conducted. India to Host World Trade Organization Meeting in New Delhi ABU Media Summit on Climate Action and Disaster Pre-  India will hold an informal ministerial meeting of the paredness Began in Nepal World Trade Organization (WTO) from May 13-14.

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 New Delhi had organised such a meet of select nations in take place in June 2019 March last year. India Invited to attend G7 Summit 2019 in France  This year’s meeting is expected to be attended by about 25 developing nations. The 45th edition of the G7 summit will be held, in Biarritz,  WTO HQ- Geneva, Switzerland Director-General- Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.The G-7 members include US, UK, Roberto Azevedo. France, Italy, Canada, Japan and Germany.This year, India has been invited to attend the Group of 7 industrialised nations meet 7th China International Technology Fair started in Shang- along with Australia, Chile and South Africa. hai The 7th China International Technology Fair (CSITF) opened in 2020 United Nations Ocean Conference to be Held in Lisbon Shanghai, China.The national-level professional fair has five  The second edition of the United Nations Ocean exhibition areas including professional technologies, technological Conference, to support the sustainable use of the oceans, innovation, and trade services. seas and marine resources, will be held in Lisbon, Portugal in early June 2020. Nirmala Sitharaman Participates in SCO Defence Minis-  The first edition was held in United States in 2017. ters’ Meet in Bishkek  The theme of the 2020 conference will be- Scaling up The Defence Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman is on a three days ocean action based on science and innovation for the visit to Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan to attend the Shanghai Cooperation implementation of Goal 14: stocktaking, partnerships Organisation (SCO) Defence Ministers’ Meet.The SCO meeting is and solutions. being held in the run-up to the SCO summit, which is expected to 

Systemically Important Insurers (SII) and put in place an enhanced regulatory framework for them. SIIs are perceived as insurers that are ‘too big to fail’.The committee headed by Pravin Kutumbe, Member- Finance & Investment, IRDAI, has been asked to submit report in six months. CPWD constitutes 8-member committee to chart out design policy for buildings and infrastructure development The largest construction agency of the central government, Central Works Public Department (CPWD) has set up an expert 8-member committee under M K Sharma, CPWD’s Additional Director General, Chairman for developing a design scheme to construct buildings and develop infrastructure.

CPWD forms committee to bring ‘Safety Manual’ of dept; Head- K M Soni IRDAI Constitutes Committee Under Suresh Mathur to Re- The Central Public Works Department (CPWD) has view Microinsurance Regulatory Framework. constituted a 10-member committee to bring out ‘Safety Manual’ The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India of the department. The committee is headed by Additional Director (IRDAI) has set up a 13-member committee to review the regulatory General (ADG) K M Soni. It will submit a report within 2 months. framework on microinsurance and recommend measures to increase The ‘Safety Manual’ aims at ensuring safety of engineers and the demand for these insurance products. workers working in various projects of the agency working under Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry. IRDAI sets up a panel to identify systemically important insurers Insurance regulator Insurance Regulatory and Development  Authority (IRDAI) has set up a panel to identity Domestically

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of 13 novels including “Midnight’s Children”, for which he won the Man Booker Prize and Booker of Bookers Prize, and one collection of short stories.

Book on Jallianwala Bagh poem ‘Khooni Vaisakhi’ India’s Ambassador to the UAE Navdeep Singh Suri has launched a book containing English translation of the 100-year-old classic Punjabi poem about Jallianwala Bagh massacre, ‘Khooni in Abu Dhabi. Autobiography Titled ‘Game Changer’ of Former Pakistani Skipper Shahid Afridi Re- leased The autobiography of Pakistan’s former captain and star all-rounder Shahid Afridi was released in India on April 25. The name of the book is ‘Game Changer’. It has been co-authored by Afridi and journalist Wajahat S Khan. Salman Rushdie’s New Novel “Quichotte” to Release in August The British Indian Novelist Salman Rushdie’s new novel  “Quichotte” will be released in August 2019.Rushdie is the author

Marathon by an Individual’. She broke the record of India girl KalamandalamHemlatha who danced continuously for 123 hours and 15 minutes in 2011.

Hinduja Brothers Top UK’s Rich List 2019 for Straight Third Time The billionaire Hinduja brothers have been named as the wealthiest people in the UK for a third time as per the Sunday Times Rich List 2019. The UK Rich List 2019 is the 31st edition of the annual survey of the wealthiest people resident in the United Kingdom, published by The Sunday Times on 12 May 2019. 99942 APOPHIS asteroid to cruise by Earth in 2029  An asteroid named 99942 APOPHIS is on course to pass close to Earth on April 13, 2029.  This massive asteroid will be visible to the naked eyes when it passes close to Earth. It is a near- Jet Airways shut down temporarily for want of funds Earth asteroid, which will cruise by Earth in 2029, Jet Airways (India) Ltd flew its last flight night—9W 2502 from about 31,000 km above the surface. 99942 Apophis is Amritsar to Mumbai—after lenders declined to hand out emergency 340 m (about 1100 ft) wide. funds, bringing the curtains down on an era in which it broke into  According to NASA it is rare for an asteroid of this size a state monopoly sector to become India’s largest private airline at to pass Earth so closely. one point. It’s unclear whether the airline will ever return to the Modi second most followed politician globally: Report skies, but if it does so, it will be under a new ownership structure.  Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become the second Girl from Nepal dances for continuous 126-hour to set most-followed politician in the world with a social media Guinness World Records audience of 110,912,648 million on platforms including Bandana Nepal a girl from Nepal danced continuously for 126 Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, a study by online hours to set a Guinness World Records on ‘Longest Dancing

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visibility management and content marketing SaaS equipment, and possibly human beings, to the south pole of the platform SEMrush said recently. Moon by 2024.  The most-followed politician globally was former US President Barack Obama, who has 182,710,777 IIT Bombay Researchers Develop Made in India Micropro- followers on his Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter cessor AJIT accounts. Engineers from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT  With almost 110 million followers worldwide, Modi has Bombay) have developed a home grown microprocessor called overtaken US President Donald Trump who has 96 AJIT.It is the first microprocessor to be conceptualised, designed, million followers globally. developed and manufactured in India.

Microsoft unveils tool “ElectionGuard” for secure, verifi- Samsung Launches World’s Ultra-High Resolution Image able voting Sensor  Microsoft has launched a software named Samsung Electronics Co has introduced the world’s highest- “ElectionGuard” to help countries ensure secure and resolution image sensors that will help smartphones capture images verifiable voting. at vibrant ultra-high resolution.  The tool “ElectionGuard” will enable end-to-end verification of elections, open results to third-party Actress Dia Mirza, Alibaba chief among 17 new SDG Advo- organisations for secure validation, and allow individual cates of UN voters to confirm their votes were correctly counted. The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has  However, it should be noted that “ElectionGuard” is not appointed 17 global figures as the new advocates to drive action designed to support internet voting and is aimed at and solidify global political will for the ambitious Sustainable supplementing and improving the paper ballot systems. Development Goals. These include Indian actress Dia Mirza and Alibaba chief Jack Ma. Jeff Bezos unveils lunar lander project ‘Blue Moon’ Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon and the richest man in the world has unveiled a project named ‘Blue Moon’ which aims to transport 

Global Earth Day 2019:22 April Global Earth Day-2019 was observed on 22 April, 2019 to support and protect environment of the earth. This year’s theme is – Protect Our Species. This theme emphasis to protect planet and preserve its environment. World Book and Copyright Day 2019:23 April The World Book and Copyright Day was observed across the world on April 23, 2019 to highlight the power of books and to promote UNESCO’s vision of knowledge societies that are inclusive, pluralistic, equitable, open and participatory for all citizens. This year, UNESCO designated Sharjah as the World Book Capital for 2019. With the slogan “Read – you are in Sharjah”,theprogramme focuses on six themes: Inclusivity, Reading, Heritage, Outreach, Publishing and Children. Civil Services Day: April 21 National Panchayati Raj Diwas: 24 April The Civil Services Day is celebrated on April 21 every year. This The National Panchayati Raj Divas is being observed on 24th April year the day was not celebrated due to the general elections. every year across India. This day marks the passing of the Constitution (73rd Amendment) Act, 1992 that came into force World Creativity and Innovation Day: April 21 with effect from 24 April 1993. The World Creativity and Innovation Day (WCID) is celebrated on April 21 every year to raise awareness of the role of creativity World Malaria Day: 25th April and innovation in “problem-solving and in implementation of the The ‘World Malaria Day” being observed every year across the Sustainable Development Goals The Day is a part of the United world on 25th April to create awareness among the people about Nations resolution entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 this vector-borne disease. Agenda for Sustainable Development.” The Day was established in May 2007 by the 60th session of the World Health Assembly, WHO’s decision-making body.This year’s

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This year’s  The Day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly theme of the day is ‘Reach for Gold: IP and Sports’. in December 1993.  The theme of World Press Freedom Day 2019 is Media World Immunization Week 2019: April 24-30 for Democracy: Journalism and Elections in Times of The theme for 2019 World Immunization Week is Protected Disinformation. Together: Vaccines Work. International Firefighters’ Day: May 4 World Veterinary Day 2019: April 27 International Firefighters’ Day (IFFD) is observed annually on The World Veterinary Day is observed on the Fourth Saturday of May 4 to commemorate the sacrifices that firefighters make to April every year. In 2019, the day falls on April 27.The theme of ensure that their communities and environment are as safe as the 2019 World Veterinary Day is ‘Value of Vaccination’.The day possible. aims to celebrate the contributions of veterinarians to the health of animals and society. World Laughter Day 2019: May 5 World Laughter Day takes place on the first Sunday of May of World Day for Safety and Health at Work: April 28 every yearIn 2019, the Day was observed on May 5.  The World Day for Safety and Health at Work is observed annually on 28 April to raise awareness for promoting World Asthma Day 2019: May 7 safe, healthy and decent work.  The World Asthma Day takes place annually on the first  The day is promoted by the International Labour Tuesday of May since 1998 by the Global Initiative for Organization (ILO) since 2003 to prevent accidents and Asthma (GINA) to improve asthma awareness and care illnesses at work. around the world.  The theme for 2019 is Safety and Health and the future  The 2019 World Asthma Day was held on May 7. of work.  The theme for 2019 World Asthma Day is STOP for Asthma. International Dance Day: April 29 The International Dance Day is observed globally on April 29 each World Red Cross Day: May 8 year to encourage participation and education in dance through  The World Red Cross Day, also known as World Red events and festivals.This day was created by the Dance Committee Cross and Red Crescent Day, is observed every year on of the International Theatre Institute (ITI) which is the main partner May 8 to reduce the suffering of people and enabling for the performing arts of UNESCO. them to lead a dignified life with independence, humanity, impartiality, universality, unity and neutrality. International Workers’ Day: May 01  It marks the birth anniversary of Henry Dunant, founder  The International Workers’ Day is held annually on May of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 1 to honour the contributions of the labourers or working and the recipient of the first Nobel Peace Prize. class people.  He was born on 8 May 1828.The theme for 2019 World  This day is also known as Workers’ Day, Labour Day Red Cross Day is, ‘#Love’. and as May Day.  The theme of Labour Day 2019 is ‘Uniting Workers for World Thalassemia Day: May 8 Social and Economic Advancement’.  World Thalassemia Day is celebrated on May 8 every  India celebrated the first Labour day in the year 1923 year to commemorate Thalassemia victims and to and the day is referred nationally as Antarrashtriya encourage those who struggle to live with the disease. Shramik Diwas or Kamgar Din.  The theme for 2019 World Thalassemia Day is “Universal access to quality thalassaemia healthcare World Tuna Day: May 02 services: Building bridges with and for patient”  The World Tuna Day is held on 2 May since 2017 to  Thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder which is highlight the importance of Tuna fish to the marine characterised by less haemoglobin and lesser than normal ecosystem and the global economy and raise awareness blood cells. about proper conservation and management to prevent  A person suffering from thalassemia has at least one of them from crashing. the parents as carrier of the disease.  The United Nations General Assembly officially recognized the Day in December 2016. Fifth United Nations Global Road Safety Week 2019: May 6-

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24. What is the theme of this year’s World emergency? (d)Emirad Press Freedom Day 2019? (a) USA (b) UK 44. Which application launched India first (a) Advancing Media and Journalism (c) Russia (d) Canada UPI BahiKhata for merchants? (b) Critical Minds For Critical Times 33. Which bank has launched “Web assur- (a)PhonePe (b)BharatPe (c) Media for Democracy: Journalism ance” to enable its customers to pur- (c)Paytm (d)Mobikwik and Elections in Times of chase life insurance in convenient way? 45. Which company recently acquired iconic Disinformation (a) IDBI Bank British toy retailer Hamleys from Chi- (d) Media for Democracy:Elections (b) Canara Bank nese fashion wear firm C Banner? and Journalism (c) Bank of Baroda (a)BigBazaar 25. Who was named as the head coach of the (d) Indian Overseas Bank (b)Reliance Industries men’s national team by Volleyball Fed- 34. Which country MOMO 3 rocket reaches (c)Google eration of India? outer space for first time? (d)HomeShop18 (a) Michael Bustle (a) Nepal (b) India 46. Recently All India Football Federation (b) Den Hen (c) Japan (d) China recommended whom as new India na- (c) Dragan Mihailovic 35. Where is the HQ of Goldman Sachs? tional Team Manager? (d) Christopher S (a)Paris (b)London (a)Daniel Arzani 26. According to SIPRI, what is the rank of (c)New York (d)Washington DC (b)Alex Brosque India in terms of biggest military spend- 36. What is the theme of this year’s World (c)Graham Arnold ers in 2018? Red Cross Day? (d)Igor Stimac (a) 4th (b) 1st (a)#Love and Need 47. What is the theme of this year’s Global (c) 5th (d) 2nd (b)#Love for People Road Safety Week 2019? 27. Who was recently conferred with France (c)#Red (a)Road and Safety highest civilian award Chevalier de (d)#Love (b)Safe Drive on Roads I’Ordre National de la Legion 37. Who has been elected as Vice President (c)Leadership for Road Safety d’Honneur for his contribution to India of International Motorcycle Manufac- (d)Drive to Safe City France relationship? turers Association? 48. Which city was chosen by Facebook as (a) K Sivan (a)Varsha Chaturvedi the centre for the global roll out of (b) Christopher S (b)Rakesh Sharma Whatsapp pay? (c) AS Kiran Kumar (c)R Mittal (a)Newyork (b)Paris (d) PV Bharithi (d)Swati Singh (c)London (d)Beijing 28. Which company has acquired Philippines 38. According to Goldman Sachs Report, 49. Who became the third Indian to claim based personal care maker Splash Cor- food inflation in the country is likely to 150 wickets in the IPL? poration? go up to how much percent in the year (a)R Ashwin (a) TCS 2019-20? (b)Kuldeep Yadav (b) Wipro (a)4% (b)3% (c)Harbhajan Singh (c) Infosys (c)2% (d)1% (d)Yuzvendra Chahal (d) Johnson and Johnson 39. The 20th WCO Regional Heads of Cus- 50. Who has been awarded the 2019 McCain 29. Which city police has launched an all toms Administration held in Which city? Institute Award for Courage and Lead- women police patrol unit “Rani Abbakka (a)Kochi (b)Chennai ership? Force”? (c)Mumbai (d)Lucknow (a)Varsha Chaturvedi (a) Chennai (b) Kochi 40. Indian Army to commemorate Which year (b)Akanksha Saini (c) Mangaluru (d) Mumbai as the Year of Next of Kin? (c)UP Sudan 30. Recently Vice President M Venkaiah (a)2020 (b)2019 (d)Chhaya Sharma Naidu released a postage stamp to com- (c)2021 (d)2022 51. What is the deadline set by CBDT for its memorate 750th birth anniversary of 41. Which company unveiled software for officers to dispose of all cases related which person? verifiable voting known as “Election to demonetisation where assessment is (a) Sri Ravi Jai Shankar Guard”? required to be framed? (b) Sri Vedanta Desikan (a)IBM (b)Microsoft (a) May 31 (b) July 31 (c) Sri Vaishnava (c)TCS (d)Infosys (c) April 30 (d) June 30 (d) Sri Ram Charan 42. The 2020 Ocean Conference will be held 52. Which newspaper won the prize in the 31. Who is the author of article titled in which city? Public service category? “Coalgate 2.0”? (a)Beijing (b)Lisbon (a) Suwannee Democrat (a) AV Subramaniyam (c)Tokyo (d)Bangkok (b)Sun-Sentinel (b) Subash Rai 43. Which flight operator launched world’s (c) Stuart News (c) Malik Khan zero waste flight ? (d) Space Coast Daily (d) Nileena MS (a)Qantas Airways 53. Indian sports person Harsheel Dani is 32. Which country’s parliament is first in (b)Vistara related to which sports? the world to declare climate change (c)GoAir (a) Golf (b) Tennis

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(c) Badminton (d) Hockey Cricket World Cup 2019? (c) China National Space 54. Which country is joining hands with Ja- (a) United Nations Office for Project Administration (CNS(A) pan and the United Arab Emirates Services (d) National Aeronautics and Space (UAE) to implement two projects in (b) UNICEF Administration (NAS(A) Africa as it seeks to extend its footprint (c) Save the Children 71. What was the theme of the World on the continent? (d) UNESCO Haemophilia Day 2019? (a) Saudi Arabia 63. Google opens first Artificial Intelligence (a) Theme – ‘Outreach and (b) South Korea lab in which African country? Identification’ (c) Indonesia (a) Kenya (b) Ghana (b) Theme – ‘Healthy Sleep, Healthy (d) India (c) Algeria (d) Sudan Aging’ 55. Christian Garin won his ATP title in the 64. World Health Organization (WHO) (c) Theme – ‘I Am and I Will’ final of the US Men’s Clay Court Cham- raised alarm over a ____ % increase in (d) Theme – ‘Bridging health and pionships in Houston. He hails from the case of measles globally in the first social care’ which country? quarter of 2019 compared with last year 72. When was Mahaveer JanmaKalyanak (a) Palestine (b) Chile (a) 220 % (b) 280 % celebrated? (c) Norway (d) Bhutan (c) 250 % (d) 300 % (a) April 14 (b) April 15 56. Name the winner of the 2019 Masters 65. PwC appoints whom as its new chief (c) April 16 (d) April 17 Tournament for golf? people officer? 73. Name the former president of Peru who (a) Tiger Woods (a) Padmaja Alaganandan kills himself to avoid arrest over brib- (b) Rory McIlroy (b) YashodharaSrivastsav ery allegations recently. (c) Phil Mickelson (c) Mrunali Anne (a) Calvin Coolidge (d) Justin Thomas (d) Saritha Chandran (b) Harry Truman 57. Marine Lizard, world’s first armed am- 66. Which among the following banks ap- (c) Gerald Ford phibious drone boat, was recently tested points Rajesh Yaduvanshi as Executive (d) Alan Garcia by which country? Director? 74. What was the theme of the World Heri- (a) France (b) China (a) Syndicate Bank tage Day 2019? (c) US (d) Sweden (b) Bank of Baroda (a) Theme – “Rural Landscapes” 58. FIFA ban Jose Maria Marin for life,he (c) Punjab National Bank (b) Theme – “Hear the Future” belongs to which country? (d) Allahabad Bank (c) Theme – “Towards a Common (a) US (b) Australia 67. What is the name of the Bilateral Navy Future” (c) Russia (d) Brazil exercise that was held between India and (d) Theme – “Weather-ready, climate- 59. Name the first Indian small finance bank, Vietnam in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam? smart” which received prestigious Celent (a) IN–VPN BILAT EX 75. Name the Spacecraft, which is used by Model Bank 2019 Award in Financial (b) IND-VTNM BILAT NAVY EX NASA to find “Ligeia Mare”, the sec- Inclusion category, for ‘Redesigning (c) IND-VTNM EX ond largest known body of liquid on Lending to Reach Small Businesses’ . (d) IND-VTNM BILAT EX Saturn’s moon Titan. (a) ESAF Small Finance Bank 68. Where was the Debrief of Indian Navy (a) Voskhod (b) Equitas Small Finance Bank coastal defence exercise “Sea Vigil”, (b) Cassini (c) Ujjivan Small Finance Bank chaired by Vice Admiral MS Pawar held? (c) Space Shuttle (d) Fincare Small Finance Bank (a) Pune (b) Kolkata (d) Vostok 60. Who was appointed as the Goodwill (c) Mumbai (d) New Delhi 76. Which country launched its first ever Ambassador of Street Child Cricket 69. Name the quasi-cryptocurrency, satellite ‘ Raavana-1’ from the Mid- World Cup 2019? launched by the World Bank and the Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s (a) M.S. Dhoni International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s (b) Sourav Ganguly better understanding of blockchain tech- East Shore? (c) MithaliDorai Raj nology and the function of crypto as- (a) Srilanka (b) Bangladesh (d) Virat Kohli sets. (c) Indonesia (d) Myanmar 61. Who was appointed as the brand ambas- (a) Monero (b) Litecoin 77. Name the first ever satellite of Nepal sador of redBus? (c) Ethereum (d) Learning Coin launched by CygnusNG11 in Virginia, (a) Allu Arjun 70. Name the space ageny, that is set to launch USA. (b) Mahendra Singh Dhoni the first-ever “Double Asteroid Redi- (a) NepaliCube-1 (c) Amitabh Bachchan rection Test (DART)” mission to redi- (b) NepaliQAF-1 (d) Mahesh Babu rect an asteroid in 2021. (c) Nepalicom-1 62. Which non profit organization has (a) Indian Space Research (d) NepaliSat-1 partnered with International cricket Organisation (ISRO) 78. TIME Magazine has published “TIME’s council (IC(C) to launch the (b) Japan Aerospace Exploration 100 Most Influential People list 2019" #OneDay4Children, a tournament-wide Agency (JAX(A) recently, the list divides people into campaign for children, at the ICC Men’s ______categories ?

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(a) Five (b) Six (a) Option i& ii 95. Name the head of the committee, who (c) Three (d) Four (b) Option i& iv propose the concept of Regulatory 79. What is the rank of India as per the World (c) Option iii & ii Sandbox (RS) . Press Freedom Index 2019? (d) Option iv & ii (a) Viral V Acharya (a) 138 (b) 140 88. Name the NASA’s first female astronaut (b) Chetan Ghate (c) 141 (d) 150 candidate, who passed away at the age (c) PamiDua 80. Which arab city is set to host 15th edi- of 88 in Florida. (d) Sudarshan Sen tion of G20 Summit in the year 2020, (a) Jerrie Cobb 96. Who has been inducted to board of direc- which will be the first G20 Summit in (b) Sharon Christa McAuliffe tors in Paytm Payments Bank? Arab world ? (c) Mya Lecia Naylor (a) Vaibhav Goel (a) Algiers, Algeria (d) Georgia Engel (b) Sundararajan (b) ýDamascus, Syria 89. Name the journal, which has published (c)Sairee Chahal (c) Riyadh, Saudi Arabia about the first molecule of the universe- (d) Ashit Ranjit Lilani (d) Rabat, Morocco Helium hydride ion (HeH+) that is 97. Name the person, who was appointed as 81. Which country’s border trade route was formed 380,000 years after the big bang. the general secretary of Judo Union, suspended from Jammu & Kashmir (a) Journal of Biology Asian governing body. LOC by Ministry of Home Affairs (b) Science (a) Mukesh Kumar (MHA) of Indian government recently? (c) The Lancet (b) Obaid Al-Anzi (a) Bhutan (b) Pakistan (d) Nature (c) Obaid Alenezi (c) Bangladesh(d) China 90. Research team of which institute has iden- (d) Mohammed Bin Thaloub 82. When was Good Friday also known as tified a new method to detect breast and 98. Which Indian accident was inducted into Holy Friday or Black Friday observed? ovarian cancer recently? the International Labour Organisation (a) April 18 (b) April 17 (a) IIT Delhi (ILO) report titled “The Safety and the (c) April 16 (d) April 19 (b) IIT Roorkee Health at the Heart of the Future of 83. What is the name of the book containing (c) IIT Kharagpur Work- Building on 100 years of Experi- English translation of the 100 year old (d) IIT Kanpur ence”? classic Punjabi poem about Jallianwala 91. Name the person who was designated as (a) Bhopal Gas Tragedy Bagh massacre? the member of Railway Board under (b) Floods in Tamil Nadu (a) Drummer Hodge Signal & Telecom department. (c) Heatwaves in AndhraPradesh (b) Poets of the Jallianwala Bagh (a) Girish Pillai (d) Bihar Nor’wester Storm massacre (b) V.P. Pathak 99. Which entity has appointed Ravinder (c) Poems about war (c) N. Kashinath Kumar Passi as Chairman? (d) Khooni Vaisakhi (d) Arun Kumar (a) India Trade Promotion 84. Name the former president of West Indies 92. Who was the first Indian female scientist Organisation cricket Board (WICB) who passed away to be elected as a Fellow of the royal (b) Export Promotion Council for recently. Society (FRS) in the UK? Handicraft (EPCH) (a) Phillip Hughes (a) Tessy Thomas (c) Federation of Indian Export (b) Patrick Rousseau (b) Rohini Godbole Organisations (c) Wasim Raja (c) Aditi Pant (d) UK Trade & Investment (d) Darryn Randall (d) Gagandeep Kang 100. Which entity has became India’s first 85. Cricket all-rounder, Con de Lange passed 93. Name the Padma Bhushan awardee, who retail company to cross Rs.1 lakh crore away.He belongs to which country? was honoured by inducting into the annual revenue milestones? (a) England (b) Ireland 2019 list of new fellows of the UK’s (a) Reliance Retail (c) Scotland (d) Wales Royal Society. (b) Future Group 86. Name the international organization, (a) Yusuf Hamied (c) Aditya Birla Retail which has released the guidelines on the (b) Manjul Bhargava (d) Avenue Supermarts Ltd usage of digital health technology to (c) Anant Parekh 101. Who has translated the book “Indian boost health of the people. (d) Akshay Venkatesh Constitution” in Konkani language? (a) Union of International Associations 94. Which insurance company has received (a) Ruskin Bond (b) United Nations ISO 31000:2018 certification by TUV (b) Stephen QuadrosPermude (c) UNESCO India? (c) Salman Rushdie (d) World Health Organization(WHO) (a) Bharti AXA General Insurance (d) Jhumpa Lahiri 87. Which of the following warships will (b) Cholamandalam MS General 102. Where was the Indian Coast Guard Vessel participate in the Chinese International Insurance Company Limited ICGS C-441 commissioned? Fleet Review (IFR) maritime parade in (c) HDFC ERGO General Insurance (a) Mumbai, Maharashtra Qingdao? Company Limited (b) Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh i. INS Kolkata ii. INS Arihant (d) New India Assurance Co. Ltd. (c) Paradip, Odisha iii. INS Kalvari iv. INS Shakti (d) Vizhinjam, Thiruvananthapuram

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103. Which country has become the first East (b) Central Bank of Armenia (c) Second A Ghosh Committee African nation to launch the world’s first (c) Reserve Bank of Fiji report malaria vaccine RTS,S also known as (d) Reserve Bank of India (d) Second Adhyarjuna Committee Mosquirix? 110. Which private sector bank has launched report (a) Mali the industry’s first debit card based au- 115. Name the department, which has pre- (b) Malawi thentication solution on National Pay- pared the “Startup India Vision 2024” (c) Mozambique ments Corporation of India’s(NPCI’s) to promote entrepreneurs and to facili- (d) Zimbabwe e-Mandate Application Program tate setting up of 50,000 new start-ups 104. Name the private sector bank which Interface(API) platform? in the country by 2024. has received National Company Law (a) ICICI Bank (a) Department of Heavy Industries Tribunal (NCLT) nod to merge with a (b) Kotak Mahindra Bank (b) Department of Public Enterprises microfinance company, Bharat Finan- (c) HDFC Bank (c) Department of Information cial Inclusion (BFIL). (d) Axis Bank Technology (a) IndusInd Bank 111. Which International organization has (d) Department for Promotion of (b) Axis Bank issued recommendations on the usage Industry and Internal Trade (c) Federal Bank of screen for kids under 5 years of age? (DPIIT) (d) HDFC Bank (a) United Nations System 116. Who won the IPI’s (International Press 105. Who was appointed as the Managing (b) United Nations Educational, Institute) World Press Freedom Hero Director (MD) and Chief Executive Scientific and Cultural award in 2019 for his “critical” & “te- Officer (CEO) of Indian Overseas Organization(UNESCO) nacious coverage” of the civil-military Bank? (c) World Health Organization relations in Pakistan? (a) Ajay Kumar Srivastava (WHO) (a) Mazhar Ali Khan (b) KarnamSekar (d) United Nations Children’s (b) Cyril Almeida (c) T.C.A.Ranganathan Fund(UNICEF) (c) Rafael Marques (d) K. Swaminathan 112. Which of the following financial insti- (d) Gen Ziaul Haq 106. Who has been appointed as the 52nd tutions are now fully owned by central 117. Name the script writer, who won the Controller General of Defence Accounts government of India after RBI divested Deenanath Mangeshkar Lifetime Award (CGDA)? its entire stake? 2019 recently. (a) Vinakshi Gupta i. National Housing Bank (NHB) (a) Javed Akhtar (b) Anuradha Mitra ii. Small Industries Development (b) Vishal Bhardwaj (c) Madhulika P Sukul Bank of India(SIDBI) (c) Anurag Kashyap (d) Rajendra Kumar Nayak iii. National Bank for Agriculture and (d) Salim Khan 107. Name the regulatory body, which has Rural Development (NABARD) 118. Who was appointed as the High Com- reduced the minimum subscription re- iv. Industrial Finance Corporation of missioner of India to the Republic of quirement for Real Estate Investment India(IFCI) Seychelles? Trusts (REITs) and Infrastructure In- (a) Option i& ii (a) Lalit Mansingh vestment Trusts (InvITs)? (b) Option i& iii (b) Salman Haidar (a) Federation of Indian Export (c) Option ii & iv (c) Ausaf Sayeed Organisation(FIEO) (d) Option i& iv (d) Dalbir Singh Suhag (b) Securities and Exchange Board of 113. Name the private sector bank, which 119. What is the name of the world’s first India(SEBI) has partnered with Germany based glo- floating nuclear power plant that is (c) Small Industries Development bal provider of digital payments and tested by Rosenergoatom of Russia? Bank of India(SIDBI) commerce solutions, Wirecard to pro- (a) Bashkir (d) Financial Stability and mote financial inclusion in India. (b) Balakovo Development Council(FSDC) (a) HDFC Bank (c) AkademikLomonosov 108. Food regulator of India, Food Safety (b) ICICI Bank (d) Beloyarsk and Standards Regulations(FSSAI) has (c) IDBI Bank 120. What was the theme of the World banned import of milk and milk prod- (d) RBL Bank Immunisation Week 2019? ucts from which country? 114. Under the recommendation of which (a) Theme – ‘Protected , Vaccines (a) China (b) Pakistan committee’s report, RBI has divested Work’ (c) Bangladesh(d) Japan its entire stake in National Housing (b) Theme – ‘Protect children’ 109. According to credit rating agency Fitch, Bank (NHB) and National Bank for (c) Theme – ‘Protect and enhance which became the first central bank in Agriculture and Rural Development gender equality’ the Asia-Pacific region (APAC) to be- (NABARD) to the central government? (d) Theme – ‘Protected Together: gin an interest rate easing cycle floated (a) Second A C Shah Committee Vaccines Work’ by benign food inflation and easier glo- report 121. In which event, Indian Athlete, bal financial condition? (b) Second Narasimham committee GomathiMarimuthu has won the first (a) Bank of Japan report gold medal in Asian Athletics Champi- onship 2019? Plot-1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRP Square, Bhubaneswar-751015 Page | 55 [ Ph. : 8093556677, 9040456677, Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] ] MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF JULY 2019

(a) 200 metres(Women) 129. Where was the International Shooting (c) Theme – “Belt and Road (b) 1500 metres(Women) Sport Federation(ISSF) World Cup Cooperation: Wetlands and (c) 800 metres(Women) 2019 held? Climate Change” (d) 100 metres(Women) (a) Beijing, China (d) Theme – “Belt and Road 122. Indian Army and National Hydroelec- (b) Munich, Germany Cooperation: Circular Economy tric Power Corporation (NHPC) Lim- (c) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for Productivity & ited, has signed MoU to build four un- (d) New Delhi, India Sustainability” derground tunnels along the borders of 130. Which organization has signed the Let- 136. Name the product, which is set to be which country? ter of Intent (LOI) with NITI Aayog’s launched by government of India to curb i.Bangladesh ii.China Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) to pro- tax evasion. iii.Pakistan iv. Afghanistan mote participation, skill and empower- (a) E-GST Portal (a) Option i & ii ment among young children? (b) Electronic invoices (e-invoices) (b) Option ii & iv (a) Child Rights International (c) Integrated GST (c) Option iii & ii Network India (d) Electronic GST (d) Option iv & i (b) Children International India 137. President of South Africa, Cyril 123. Who was appointed as the head of 8- (c) United Nations Children Fund Ramaphosa honoured Jacques Kallis member committee constituted by Cen- (UNICEF) India with the Order of Ikhamanga in the Sil- tral Works Public Department (d) Save the Children India ver Division award 2019 for his excep- (CPWD)to chart out a policy for build- 131. Who was appointed as the head of the tional contribution towards ____sport? ings and infrastructure development? committee, formed by Ministry of En- (a) Badminton (b) Football (a) Bimal Jalan vironment, Forests and Climate Change (c) Cricket (d) Tennis (b) Ravindra Kumar Thathu (MOEFCC) to implement the National 138. Which economic corridor was excluded (c) Prabhakar Singh Clean Air Programme (NCAP) to handle from the Belt and Road Forum (BRF) (d) M K Sharma the major issue of air-pollution in In- recently? 124. Indian Council of Medical Research dia? (a) China-Myanmar Economic (ICMR) launched Malaria Elimination (a) C K Mishra Corridor (CMEC) Research Alliance (MERA) in order to (b) Harsh Vardhan (b) China-Pakistan Economic eliminate the disease from India by (c) Mahesh Sharma Corridor (CPEC) which year? (d) Siddhanta Das (c) Nepal-China-India Economic (a) 2040 (b) 2030 132. Who was appointed as head of 13 mem- Corridor(NCIEC) (c) 2020 (d) 2025 ber committee formed by Insurance (d) Bangladesh-China-India- 125. Which is the sole Indian institute fea- Regulatory and Development Author- Myanmar (BCIM) Economic tured in the QS EMBA Rankings 2019? ity of India (IRDAI) to review regula- Corridor (a) Indian Institute of Management tory framework on micro insurance? 139. Name the Organisation, which has re- Calcutta (a) Adnan Mahmood cently released the 2019 Global Food (b) Indian Institute of Management- (b) Suresh Mathur Policy Report (GFPR). Bangalore’s (IIM-B) (c) M.Rajyalakshmi Rao (a) International Food Policy (c) Indian Institute of Management (d) Goraknath Agarwal Research Institute (IFPRI) Ahmedabad 133. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has ex- (b) Food and Agriculture (d) Indian Institute of Technology tended the ombudsman scheme cover- Organization(FAO) Roorkee age to non-deposit taking Non-banking (c) International Crops Research 126. Which tech giant has became the world’s Financial Companies (NBFCs) having Institute for the Semi-Arid third entity to cross worth $1 trillion? asset size of how much worth? Tropics (a) Amazon (b) Microsoft (a) 100 crore (b) 50 crore (d) World Food Programme (c) Apple (d) IBM (c) 20 crore (d) 75 crore 140. Name the Indian golfer, who has been 127. Name the British Indian Novelist, who 134. What is the revised interest rate of awarded with “Outstanding achieve- won the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Employee’s Provident Fund (EPF) for ment as a player award for the year Prize 2019 for the novel “Solo”. 2018-19? 2019” at the 4th Edition of the annual (a) Salman Rushdie (a) 8.45% (b) 8.55% India Golf Industry Association (GIA). (b) Rudyard Kipling (c) 8.35% (d) 8.65% (a) Arjun Atwal (c) Preti Taneja 135. What was the theme of the second edi- (b) Jyoti Randhawa (d) Rana Dasgupta tion of Belt and Road Forum (BRF)? (c) Anirban Lahiri 128. Name the World billiards and snooker (a) Theme – “Belt and Road (d) Gaganjeet Bhullar champion, who won the first Asian Cooperation: Shaping a Brighter 141. Which country topped the medal tally Snooker Tour title recently. Shared Future” by winning 11 gold and 6 Bronze med- (a) Pankaj Advani (b) Theme – “Belt and Road als in Asian Wrestling Championship (b) Dhruv Sitwala Cooperation: Think equal, build 2019? 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(c) China (d) Japan (a) India (b) Indonesia Healthcare to enhance digital healthcare 142. International Dance Day is observed (c) China (d) Japan solutions? annually on ______? 150. Where was the first edition of Naval (a) Internet and Mobile Association (a) 29th April (b) 28th April Commanders Conference held? of India(IAMAI) (c) 27th April (d) 26th April (a) Kolkata (b) Mumbai (b) Confederation of Indian 143. Who is the author of the book titled (c) New Delhi (d) Bengaluru Industry(CII) “Politics of Jugaad: The Coalition Hand- 151. Which ministry has constituted a com- (c) National Association of Software book” which speaks about the possi- mittee to implement the National Clean and Services Companies bility of coalition government after the Air Program (NCAP) recently? (NASSCOM) 2019 Lok Sabha polls? (a) Ministry of Health and Family (d) Federation of Indian Chambers of (a) Amitav Ghosh Welfare Commerce and Industry(FICCI) (b) Vikram Seth (b) Ministry of Environment, Forest 158. Environmental lawyer Alfred Brownell (c) Saba Naqvi and Climate Change (MoEFCC) won Goldman Environmental Prize (d) Anita Desai (c) Ministry of New and Renewable 2019,he belongs to which country? 144. Valtteri Bottas of team Mercedes, won Energy (a) Mongolia Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2019 held in (d) Ministry of Rural Development (b) North Macedonia Baku, Azerbaijan.He hails from which 152. Name the Indo-French(India & France) (c) Chile country? bilateral naval exercise that held in the (d) Liberia (a) Belgium Arabian sea of Goa coast. 159. Who ascended the throne, ushering in (b) Germany (a) Varuna 19.1 the Reiwa era after his father Akihito (c) United Kingdom (b) Konkan 19.1 abdicated? (d) Finland (c) Corpat 19.1 (a) Fushimi (b) Taishô 145. Nitendra Singh Rawat was in news (d) Simbex 19.1 (c) Naruhito (d) Hirohito recently,he belongs to which sport? 153. Which of the following city has set a 160. B.V.P. Rao has resigned from which (a) Triathlon new Guinness World Record for the Sports governing body recently? (b) Marathon number of national flags raised in a city (a) Archery Association of India (AAI) (c) Ultramarathon for 24 hours? (b) Cycling Federation of India (d) Half marathon (a) Abu Dhabi (b) Cairo (c) Fencing Association of India 146. Reserve Bank of India(RBI) has recently (c) Beirut (d) Jerusalem (d) Rowing Federation of India proposed the rules on opening and pro- 154. Pakistan Air Force ‘s (PAF) retaliatory 161. Name the International organization of cessing which account of corporate bor- action against India on February 27 will India that has partnered with BGI- rowers to prevent diversion of funds? be observed as ____? Shenzhen, China to develop resistant (a) Recurring Deposit Account (a) Operation Maitri to vagaries of weather conditions. (b) Current Account (b) Operation Blue Star (a) Indian Council of Agricultural (c) Deposit account (c) Operation Trishul Research (d) Fixed Deposit Account (d) Operation Swift Retort (b) International Crops Research 147. Researchers from which institute, used 155. Which public sector bank, has become Institute for the Semi-Arid a multi-lingual Optical Character Rec- the first bank in the country that has Tropics’ (ICRISAT) ognition (OCR) scheme to develop a linked its deposit accounts and short (c) Central Research Institute for method for reading documents in Bharati term loans to an external benchmark? Dryland Agriculture script? (a) State Bank of India (SBI) (d) International Maize and Wheat (a) IIT Roorkee (b) Canara Bank Improvement Center (b) IIT Madras (c) Indian Bank 162. Indian Army mountaineering expedition (c) IIT Delhi (d) Bank of Baroda team has sited mysterious footprints (d) IIT Kanpur 156. Name the Ship building and repairing of which mythical creature near Makalu 148. Name the Indian wrestler, who won the company, which has signed a contract Base Camp, located in North-Eastern gold medal in Asian Wrestling Champi- with defence ministry to build eight anti- Himalayas? onship 2019 after defeating submarine warfare shallow water crafts (a) Yeti (b) Monster Kazakhstan’s SayatbekOkassov in 65- (ASWSWCs) for Indian Navy at the (c) Werewolf (d) Unicorn kg Category. cost of Rs 6311.30 crore. 163. Judge and Civil Rights Icon Damon J. (a) Sunil Kumar (a) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Keith passed away recently, he hailed (b) Vicky Chahar (b) Garden Reach Shipbuilders & from which country? (c) Bajrang Punia Engineers Ltd. (a) United Kingdom (d) Gurpreet Singh (c) Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders (b) China 149. Which country topped the medal tally Limited (c) Russia in 39th edition of Badminton Asia (d) Goa Shipyard (d) United States Championship or Badminton Asia 157. Which Non profit association has en- 164. Name the UAE Minister of Tolerance, Championship 2019? tered a strategic partnership with GE who was gifted with the coffee table

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book titled “Work of Beauty: Architec- (d) MobiKwik India spiritual icon? ture and Landscape of Rashtrapati 171. Name the cricketer, who was appointed (a) ManavalaMamunigal Bhawan” recently. as the first non-British president of (b) Sri Vedanta Desikan (a) K.K. Kan’gomaKapijimpanga Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). (c) Yamunacharya (b) Sheikh Nahayan Mubarak Al (a) Chris Gayle (d) Nathamuni Nahayan (b) Sachin Tendulkar 180. Which Institute has signed MoU with (c) Ahmed Al Banna (c) Kumar Sangakkara Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) for (d) H.E. Mariam Saeed Hareb Al (d) Sunil Gavaskar setting up a Centre of Excellence for Mehairi 172. Who was appointed as the Training Waste to Wealth Technologies in India 165. What was the theme of the International Command Chief of Indian Air Force, as a part of commemoration of 150th Labour Day 2019? after Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria ? birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi? (a) Theme – “Celebrating the (a) SK Ghotia (a) IIT Kanpur International Labour Movement” (b) Rajesh Kumar (b) IIT Bombay (b) Theme – “Uniting Workers for (c) RD Mathur (c) IIT Delhi Social and Economic (d) RKS Shera (d) IIT Madras Advancement” 173. Which Stock Exchange has appointed 181. Name the cyclone that has hit the In- (c) Theme – “Sustainable Pension for M Jayshree Vyas as its first indepen- dian States of Odisha and West Bengal all: The Role of Social Partners” dent woman director? recently. (d) Theme – “Create peace, solidarity (a) India International Exchange (a) Cyclone Hudhud and decent work” (INX) (b) Cyclone Gaja 166. Geological sites, Mawmluh cave and (b) Calcutta Stock Exchange (c) Cyclone Phailin Therriaghat cave were in news (c) National Stock Exchange of India (d) Cyclone Fani recently.It is located in which State? (NSE) 182. Where was the 16th Ministerial Meet- (a) Maharashtra (d) Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) ing of Asia Cooperation Dialogue (b) Manipur 174. Where was the country’s biggest sculp- (ACD) held recently? (c) Mizoram ture, stucco figurine from buddhist site (a) Moscow, Russia (d) Meghalaya excavated by Indian archaeologists re- (b) New Delhi, India 167. Who was designated as ‘global terror- cently? (c) Doha, Qatar ist’ by 1267 Al-Qaida Sanctions Com- (a) Belegali in Hubli, Karnataka (d) Jakarta, Indonesia mittee of the United Nations Security (b) Phanigiri in Suryapet, Telangana 183. What was the theme of 16th Ministe- Council (UNSC) recently? (c) Maniyoor in Kannur, Kerala rial Meeting of Asia Cooperation Dia- (a) Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh (d) Chandur in Belgaum, Karnataka logue held in Doha, Qatar? (b) Masood Azhar 175. Virgil Van Dijk won the Professional (a) “Future across the globe” (c) Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar Footballers’ Association (PFA) Players’ (b) “Partners in Progress” (d) Rashid Rauf Player of the Year Award for 2018-19 (c) “Climate change & Food security” 168. Which country’s parliament has become recently,he belongs to which country? (d) “Citizen well-being & happiness” the first national legislative body in the (a) Portugal (b) Argentina 184. Name the skill development centre, world to declare a Environment and Cli- (c) Netherland (d) Russia launched by LIC Housing Finance Ltd mate Emergency? 176. World Tuna Day 2019 is observed an- (LIC HFL) in association with Lok (a) United Kingdom nually on ______? Bharti Education Society for providing (b) United States (a) 1st May (b) 30th April training in the sectors of BFSI, Retail (c) Russia (c) 29th April (d) 2nd May and IT/ITES. (d) China 177. Which colour number plates should be (a) UDYAM 169. Name the bill signed into a law recently used by all types of electric vehicles as (b) GET EMPOWERED by Russian President Vladimir Putin, per the guidelines issued by central gov- (c) SKILL INDIA inorder to allow Russian authorities gain ernment? (d) TALENT control over the Internet. (a) Green (b) Blue 185. Which stock exchange was banned for 6 (a) Internet Solitarity (c) Orange (d) Green Yellow months owing to the Co-Location Case (b) Lone Internet 178. Which mountain pass has been opened by the Market regulator, Securities and (c) Sovereign Internet for the 14th edition of Sino- Exchange Board of India (SEBI)? (d) Internet Control Indian(China-India) border trade? (a) Madras Stock Exchange 170. In the online payment system, that (a) Mana Pass, Uttarakhand (b) National Stock Exchange(NSE) launched One Touch experience using (b) Baralacha La, Himachal Pradesh (c) Bombay Stock Exchange(BSE) Google Smart Lock forging India, the (c) Nathu La in Sikkim (d) Calcutta Stock Exchange first market to use Google Smart Lock? (d) Rohtang Pass, Himachal Pradesh 186. Name the former chief of Indian Space (a) Oxigen Wallet India 179. Vice President, M. Venkaiah Naidu has Research Organisation (ISRO), who has (b) PayPal India released a postage stamp to commemo- been conferred France’s highest civilian (c) PayUbiz India rate the 750th birth anniversary of which award “Knight of the Legion of Honour”

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recently. between India and Australia held re- (a) Udupi Ramachandra Rao cently? (b) Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan (a) New Delhi, India ANSWER KEYS (c) A S Kiran Kumar (b) Sydney, Australia (d) G.Madhavan Nair (c) Mumbai, Australia 1. c 2. a 3. a 4. d 187. Who was appointed as the Supreme (d) Canberra, Australia 5. c 6. d 7. c 8. c Allied Commander Europe of the North 194. Which country is set to host the 45th 9. d 10. c 11. c 12. b Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO)? G7 summit in August, 2019? 13. d 14. a 15. a 16. a (a) Tod D. Wolters (a) Japan (b) Italy 17. d 18. b 19. a 20. d (b) Jens Stoltenberg (c) France (d) Canada 21. b 22. b 23. c 24. c (c) Stuart Peach 195. What is the growth projection of Asia- 25. c 26. a 27. c 28. b (d) Général André Lanata Pacific region in the year 2019, as per 29. c 30. b 31. d 32. b 188. Name the giant asteroid which will fly the Asian Development Bank? 33. b 34. c 35. c 36. d past Earth on April 13, 2029. (a) 6.5% 37. b 38. c 39. b 40. b (a) 101955 Bennu (b) 5.5% 41. b 42. b 43. a 44. b (b) 4179 Toutatis (c) 6% 45. b 46. d 47. c 48. c (c) 99942 Apophis (d) 5.7% 49. c 50. d 51. d 52. b (d) 2062 Aten 196. Which department has signed joint agree- 53. c 54. d 55. b 56. a 189. 8th edition of Asian Youth Women ment with Income Tax Department for 57. b 58. d 59. d 60. c Handball Championship 2019 is sched- decreasing black money generation? 61. b 62. b 63. b 64. d uled to be held in which city? (a) Revenue Department 65. a 66. c 67. a 68. d (a) Chennai, Tamil Nadu (b) Financial Services Department 69. d 70. d 71. a 72. d (b) Mumbai, Maharashtra (c) Goods and Services Tax Network 73. d 74. a 75. b 76. a (c) Kolkata, WestBengal (GSTN) 77. d 78. a 79. b 80. c (d) Jaipur, Rajasthan (d) Expenditure Department 81. b 82. d 83. d 84. b 190. What was the theme of World Press 197. Name the article, for which Nileena M Freedom Day 2019? S has won the Asian College of 85. c 86. d 87. b 88. a (a) Theme – “Keeping Power in Journalism’s Award for Investigative 89. d 90. b 91. c 92. d Check: Media, Justice and The Journalism, 2018. 93. a 94. b 95. d 96. c Rule of Law” (a) Coalgate 2.0 97. a 98. a 99. b 100. a (b) Theme – “The Media and Armed (b) Labor and Labor Movements 101. b 102. d 103. b 104. a Conflict” (c) Racial and Ethnic Minorities 105. b 106. d 107. b 108. a (c) Theme – “Media for Democracy: (d) Work and Family 109. d 110. b 111. c 112. b Journalism and Elections in Times 198. Name the Chief Economic Adviser 113. d 114. b 115. d 116. b of Disinformation” (CEA) who has been included as the 117. d 118. d 119. c 120. d (d) Theme – “Celebrating the member of the Advisory Council to the 121. c 122. c 123. d 124. b fundamental principles of press 15th Finance Commission. 125. b 126. b 127. d 128. a freedom” (a) Ajay Narayan Jha 129. a 130. c 131. a 132. b 191. Where was the Shanghai Cooperation (b) N. K. Singh 133. a 134. d 135. a 136. b Organisation (SCO) Defence Ministers’ (c) Dr. Krishnamurthy Subramanian 137. c 138. d 139. a 140. d Meeting 2019 held? (d) Arvind Mehta 141. b 142. a 143. c 144. d (a) Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan 199. To which country, Godavarthi Venkata 145. b 146. b 147. b 148. c (b) Beijing, China Srinivas was appointed as the Ambas- 149. d 150. c 151. b 152. a (c) Dushanbe,Tajikistan sador of India? 153. c 154. d 155. a 156. b (d) Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan (a) Mali 157. c 158. d 159. c 160. a 192. Which institute has launched a new ini- (b) Cameroon 161. b 162. a 163. d 164. b tiative named Global Registry of Vio- (c) Nigeria 165. c 166. d 167. b 168. a lent Deaths (GReVD) ? (d) Republic of Senegal (a) International Institute for 200. Bhushan Patil, President of which e- 169. c 170. b 171. c 172. a Strategic Studies(IISS) commerce payment system and digital 173. d 174. b 175. c 176. d (b) Stockholm International peace wallet entity has resigned recently? 177. a 178. c 179. b 180. c research institute (SIPRI) (a) Paytm 181. d 182. c 183. b 184. a (c) Center for Strategic and (b) FreeCharge 185. b 186. c 187. a 188. a International Studies(CSIS) (c) PhonePe 189. d 190. c 191. a 192. b (d) Peace Research Institute (d) MobiKwik 193. d 194. c 195. d 196. c Oslo(PRIO) 197. a 198. c 199. d 200. a 193. Where was the 11th meeting of the joint  working group on counter-terrorism

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proclamation has been communicated to him in writing 15. The President can be removed by the way of impeachment which can be made only (a) By the Supreme Court (b) By the Rajya Sabha (c) By the Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha through impeachment (d) Cannot be impeached 16. Who among the following has the power to form a new State within the Union of India? (a) Parliament (b) Prime Minister (c) Supreme Court (d) Speaker of Lok Sabha 17. Who among the following is directly re- 1. Which of the following civilization is Upanishads translated in to Persian? sponsible to Parliament for all matters not associated with the Harappan civi- (a) Akbar (b) Abul Fazl concerning the Defence Services of In- lization? (c) Jahangir (d) Dara Shikoh dia? (a) Mesopotamian 10. Who among the following Peshwa was (a) Cabinet Committee on political (b) Egyptian popularly known as Nana Saheb? affairs (c) Sumerian (a) Balaji Vishwanath (b) President (d) Chinese (b) Baji Rao (c) Prime Minister 2. The 1st great empire to the south of the (c) Balaji Baji Rao (d) Defence Minister Vidhayas was of the : (d) Madhav Rao I 18. Who, according to the Anti-Defection Act, (a) Cholas (b) Cheras 11. Junagarh inscription related to which is the final authority to decide whether (c) Pandyas (d) Satavahans among the following ruler: a member of Lok Sabha has incurred 3. Alexander the Great died at : (a) Samudragupta disqualification due to defection? (a) Susa (b) Babylon (b) Chandragupta II (a) Speaker (c) Macedonia (d) Kabul (c) Rudradaman I (b) President 4. The city of Pataliputra was founded at (d) Pulakesin II (c) Election Commission the junction of the Ganges and the : 12. Who was the Mughal ruler during the (d) High Court (a) Sone (b) Brahmaputra revolt of 1857: 19. Which article provides council of minis- (c) Yamuna (d) Gomati (a) Bahadur Shah I ters to aid and advice to President : 5. The capital of the pallavas was : (b) Bahadur Shah II (a) Article-74 (a) Madurai (c) Muhammad Shah (b) Article -75 (b) Mahabalipuram (d) Shah Alam II (c) Article -76 (c) Kanchi or Conjeevaram 13. The Ordinance of the Governor (d) Article-78 (d) Thanjavur (a) Is much narrower than a law made 20. Which among the following about Gov- 6. The later Mughal King, popularly known by the State Legislature ernor is incorrect : as Shah-I Bekhabar was : (b) Is more extensive than the law (a) He appoints the Chief Ministers (a) Bahadur Shah made by the State Legislature & other Ministers (b) Shah Alam I (c) Has the same force as the law (b) He holds office for a term of 6 (c) Jahandar Shah made by the State Legislature years normally (d) Muhammad Shah (d) Has little value than the law made (c) His oath of office is administered 7. The independent kingdom of Awadh was by State Legislature by Chief Justice of the Concerned founded by the : 14. The President can issue proclamation of High court or in his absent the (a) Saadat Khan emergency senior most judge of High court (b) Safdar Jang (a) On the advice of Prime Minister available (c) Shaja-ud-Daulah (b) On the advice of Council of (d) He is entitled without payment (d) Asaf-ud-Daulah Ministers of rent to the use of his official 8. Title of Alamgir was assumed by : (c) In his own decision residence called Raj Bhavan (a) Akbar (b) Sher Shah (d) When the decision of Union 21. The first Indian female Governor is : (c) Jahangir (d) Aurangzeb Cabinet for the issuance of such (a) Draupadi Murmu 9. Who among the following had got the (b) Najma Hepattullah

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(c) Sarojini Naidu (c) Saudi Arabia (b) Only the surface of the bar gets (d) Leela Seth (d) Thailand magnetized 22. Which among the following can partici- List II (c) Only the ends of the bar get pate in the proceeding of the parliament Commodity magnetized without right to vote: 1. Natural Rubber (d) Only some parts of the outer (a) Comptroller and Auditor General 2. Milk layers of the bar get magnetized (b) Judge of Supreme Court 3. Iron Ore 40. A galvanometer is converted into an am- (c) Attorney General of India 4. Petroleum meter when we connect a (d) Any member of Parliament Codes (a) High resistance in series 23. The Taylor valley lies in A B C D A B C D (b) High resistance in parallel (a) Australia (b) Antarctica (a) 1 2 3 4 (b) 4 3 2 1 (c) Low resistance in series (c) Canada (d) U.S.A A B C D A B C D (d) Low resistance in parallel 24. Which one of the following is not cor- (c) 3 2 4 1 (d) 2 3 1 4 41. Core of a dynamo is laminated because rectly matched? 31. Blue litmus paper is converted into red (a) Magnetic field increases (a) Brazil Current – South Atlantic in solution of (b) Magnetic saturation level in core Ocean (a) Acid (b) Base increases (b) Humbolt Current – North Pacific (c) Alkali (d) Salt (c) Residual magnetism in core Ocean 32. Which of the following is a closed sys- decreases (c) Gulf Stream – North Atlantic tem? (d) Loss of energy in core due to eddy Ocean (a) Jet engine currents decreases (d) Agulhas Current – Indian Ocean (b) Tea placed in steel kettle 42. The Instrument used to see the distant 25. Which one of the following types of ero- (c) Pressure cooker objects on the Earth is sion is responsible for the formation of (d) Rocket engine during propulsion (a) Terrestrial telescope Chambal Ravines? 33. A homogeneous mixture contains two (b) Astronomical telescope (a) Splash (b) Sheet liquids. How are they separated? (c) Compound microscope (c) Rill (d) Gully (a) By filtration (d) Simple microscope 26. The density of Cattle population per 100 (b) By evaporation 43. Heat transfer horizontally within the at- hectares of gross cropped area is the (c) By distillation mosphere is called highest in (d) By condensation (a) Conduction (b) Convection (a) Bihar 34. Difference between crystalloids and (c) Absorption (d) Advection (b) Haryana colloids is of 44. Who is known as father of medicine? (c) Madhya Pradesh (a) Solubility (a) Aristotle (d) Uttar Pradesh (b) Reactivity (b) Theophrastus 27. Arakan Yoma is the extension of the (c) Size of particles (c) Hippocrates Himalayas located in (d) None of these (d) Edward Jenner (a) Baluchistan 35. Fog is an example of colloidal system of 45. Phycology is the branch of botany in (b) Myanmar (a) Liquid in a gas which we study about (c) Nepal (b) Gas in a liquid (a) Algae (b) Fungi (d) Kashmir (c) Gas in a solid (c) Ecology (d) Virus 28. Which one of the following rivers thrice (d) Solid in a liquid 46. Leaves are green because they forks into two streams and reunites a 36. Which of the following ores contains (a) Absorb green light few miles farther on, thus forming the both calcium and magnesium? (b) Do not absorb but reflect green light islands of Srirangappatanam, (a) Lime stone (b) Dolomite (c) Utilise green light Sivasamudram and Srirangam? (c) Epsom salt (d) Carmelite (d) Absorb and reflect green light (a) Cauvery (b) Tungbhadra 37. A storm is predicted if atmospheric pres- 47. Which of the following gland is respon- (c) Krishna (d) Godavari sure sible for the secretion of insulin? 29. Which one of the following rivers flows (a) Rises suddenly (a) Pituitary (b) Pineal in a rift valley? (b) Rises gradually (c) Thymus (d) Pancreas (a) Amazon (b) Indus (c) Falls suddenly 48. Colours of skin depend on (c) Volga (d) Rhine (d) Falls gradually (a) Enzyme (b) Hormones 30. Match List I with List II and select the 38. Spectacles used for viewing 3D films have (c) Epidermis (d) Melanin correct answer using the codes given (a) Bifocal lens 49. Red blood corpuscles is produced in the below the lists. (b) Convex lens (a) Spleen (b) Kidney List I (c) Concave lens (c) Liver (d) Bone Marrow Leading producer country (d) Polaroid’s 50. Which one of the following is a heredi- (a) China 39. In the process of magnetization of a bar tary disease? (b) India (a) The entire bulk of the bar gets (a) Cataract (b) Haemophilia magnetized (c) Pellagra (d) Osteoporosis

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51. During which Five Year Plan was the 61. In which year “Human Rights Resolu- (a) Vasumitra emergency clamped new election took tion” was adopted by the U.N? (b) Vajramitra place and Janata Party was elected? (a) 1945 (b) 1946 (c) Pushyamitra (a) Third Plan (b) Fourth Plan (c) 1947 (d) 1948 (d) Agnimitra (c) Fifth Plan (d) Sixth Plan 62. Who among the following was the Chair- 71. India’s first methanol-based alternative 52. Which one of the following has the final man of the Union Constitution com- cooking fuel is to be established in which authority in India to approve Five Year mittee of the Constituent Assembly: state? Plan? (a) Sardar V Patel (a) Tamil Nadu (a) Union Council of Ministers (b) Dr. Rajendra Prasad (b) Rajasthan (b) Planning Commission (c) Jawaharlal Nehru (c) Himachal Pradesh (c) National Development Council (d) J.B. Kripalini (d) Assam (d) Prime Minister 63. The inter-state water dispute tribunal 72. Which of the following is the venue of 53. Which one of the following committees where Odisha is involved is: the India’s first corn festival? recommended the abolition of reserva- (a) Krishna water dispute tribunal (a) Raipur (b) Chhindwara tion of items of small scale sector in (b) Godavari water dispute tribunal (c) Gorakhpur (d) Kota industry? (c) Narmada water dispute tribunal 73. Who has been appointed the first-ever (a) Abid Hussain Committee (d) Cauvery water dispute tribunal female major general in the 47 years his- (b) Narsimhan Committee 64. The head quarter of central Zonal council tory of Bangladesh? (c) Nayak Committee is: (a) Nasreen Jahan (d) Rakesh Mohan Committee (a) Allahabad (b) Jabalpur (b) Selina Hossain 54. The monetary and credit policy is an- (c) Bilaspur (d) Lucknow (c) Monica Ali nounced by which of the following? 65. The constituent Assembly formed the (d) Susane Giti (a) Ministry of Finance in Centre drafting committee of Indian constitu- 74. Which Indian origin personality has been (b) RBI tion on: named as Chief Economist of the Inter- (c) SBI (a) 29th August 1947 national Monetary Fund (IMF)? (d) Planning Commission (b) 30th August 1948 (a) Sashi Cheliah 55. The Indian to beat the computers in math- (c) 29th August 1949 (b) Shand Panesa ematical wizard is (d) 29th August 1950 (c) Gita Gopinath (a) Raja Ramanna 66. Who was the last British Governor Gen- (d) Guruswamy Jayraman (b) Shakuntla Devi eral who addressed the Constituent 75. Which of the following women physi- (c) Ramanujam Assembly? cists has won the 2018 Nobel Prize in (d) Rina Panigrahi (a) Lord Attlee Physics? 56. Who is known as the “Lady with the (b) Lord Mount Batten (a) Lisa Randall Lamp”? (c) Lord Bentinck (b) Lisa Randall (a) Joan of Arc (d) None of the above (c) Donna Strickland (b) Sarojini Naidu 67. Which was the following states was least (d) Gabriela (c) Indira Gandhi affected by the “Revolutionary Move- 76. Which technology-driven futuristic ini- (d) Florence Nightingale ment” tiative will be roll out by the Civil Avia- 57. Champion Trophy is associated with (a) Maharashtra tion Ministry to make hassle-free air (a) Football (b) Hockey (b) Bihar travel for passengers? (c) Polo (d) Chess (c) Punjab (a) BHIM (b) Bharat Yatra 58. The first multipurpose project of India (d) Bengal (c) Digi Yatra (d) Aadhaar Yatra is 68. Who said: ‘The Muslims were fools to 77. What is the theme of the 4th edition of (a) Damodar Valley Project ask for safeguards, and the Hindus were the India International Science Festival (b) Rihand Project greater fools to refuse them’? (IISF – 2018)? (c) Bhakra Nangal Project (a) Jawaharlal Nehru (a) Vigyan se Vikas (d) Hirakud Project (b) Abul Kalam Azad (b) Science for Transformation 59. Mohini Attam dance form developed (c) Muhammad Ali (c) Building Partnerships Impacting originally in which of the following (d) Subash Bose Society states? 69. Who was conferred the title of Gunraj (d) Making of a New India (a) Karnataka (b) Odisha Khan? 78. What is the theme of the 2018 (c) Tamilnadu (d) Kerala (a) Bipradas Pipilai International Literacy Day (ILD)? 60. Reagan’s strategic defence initiative (b) Maladhar Basu (a) Literacy and skills development programme was popularly known as (c) Kavi Jaydeva (b) Literacy in a digital world (a) Nuclear Umbrella (d) Sri Chaitanya (c) Reading the Past, Writing the (b) NATO Seize 70. Of the following who was the hero of a Future (c) Killer Shark Programme famous drama Malvlkagnimitra written (d) Literacy and Sustainable Societies (d) Star Wars by Kalidasa?

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79. The first-ever tripartite meeting among 89. Which Country has been selected to host 98. Which Indian swimmer is qualified for India, Iran and Afghanistan was held in Asian Cup Football tournament in 2023 2020 Olympics after achieving B Cut which city? after South Korea’s withdrawal? qualifying time at the Speedo Thailand (a) Kabul (b) Tehran (a) North Korea Age Group Championships? (c) Isfahan (d) New Delhi (b) India (a) Kushagra Rawat 80. Nomadic Elephant 2018 is an army (c) Taiwan (b) Virdhawal Vikram Khade exercise between India and which (d) China (c) Sajan Prakash country? 90. Council of European Chambers of (d) Sandeep Sejwal (a) Nigeria (b) Senegal Commerce(CEUCC) to honour 99. ICMR’s National Ethical Guidelines for (c) Mongolia (d) Ghana ______for promoting Children’s Biomedical Research has been now made 81. NITI Aayog has collaborated with which Rights mandate as per ______. of the following organisations to set (a) Anik Kapoor (a) New Drugs and Clinical Trials up a Model International Center for (b) Shahid Kapoor Rules 2016 Transformative Artificial Intelligence (c) Rakesh Sharma (b) New Drugs and Clinical Trials (ICTAI)? (d) Suresh Kumar Rules 2019 (a) Microsoft (b) Infosys 91. Which of the following handed over (c) Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 2016 (c) Wipro (d) Intel India’s first Apache Guardian attack (d) Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 2019 82. Which government has launched India’s helicopters to the Indian Air Force? 100. Who won 2018 Turing Award, the Nobel first scheme for doorstep delivery of (a) British aerospace company WEAF Prize of computing? essential government services? (b) US aerospace company Boeing (a) Geoffrey Hinton (a) Andhra Pradesh (c) Russia aerospace company Sukhoi (b) John L. Hennessy (b) Karnataka (d) Indian aerospace company HAL (c) Whitfield Diffie (c) Odisha 92. Who won the Indian Premier League (IPL) (d) David A. Patterson (d) Delhi 2019 title? 83. Under which article of the constitution, (a) Chennai Super Kings  President has appointed Justice Ranjan (b) Sunrisers Hyderabad Gogoi as the 46th Chief Justice of (c) Mumbai Indians India? (d) Rajasthan Royals ANSWER KEYS (a) Article 123 (b) Article 122 93. What is the name of the World’s first (c) Article 124 (d) Article 121 Women cricket magazine? 1. d 2. d 3. b 4. a 84. Which Indian cricketer became the first (a) Bike India 5. c 6. a 7. a 8. d female player to play 200 ODIs during (b) Wisden Asia Cricket 9. d 10. c 11. c 12. b the 3rd and Final ODI against New (c) Sportstar 13. c 14. d 15. c 16. a Zealand? (d) CRICZONE 17. d 18. a 19. a 20. b (a) Harmanpreet Kaur 94. Who is appointed as the first indepen- 21. c 22. c 23. b 24. b (b) Mithali Raj dent woman director of Bombay Stock 25. d 26. b 27. b 28. a (c) Smriti Mandhana Exchange (BSE)? (d) Jhulan Goswami (a) Arundhati Bhattacharya 29. c 30. c 31. a 32. b 85. Who was appointed the part-time Chair- (b) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw 33. c 34. c 35. a 36. b man of Federal Bank? (c) Jayshree Vyas 37. c 38. d 39. a 40. d (a) Shyam Srinivasan (d) Naina Lal Kidwai 41. d 42. a 43. d 44. c (b) Dilip Sadarangani 95. Which of the following is the world’s 45. a 46. b 47. d 48. d (c) Arun Thomas 10th largest stock exchange? 49. d 50. b 51. c 52. c (d) Paramesh Nair (a) National Stock Exchange (NSE) 53. a 54. b 55. b 56. d 86. 20th Bharat Rang Mahotsav was inaugu- (b) Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) 57. b 58. a 59. d 60. d rated in which city? (c) Kolkata Stock Exchange (KSE) 61. a 62. c 63. b 64. a (a) Mumbai (b) Chennai (d) Madras Stock Exchange (MSE) 65. a 66. b 67. d 68. b (c) New Delhi (d) Lucknow 96. Universe’s first molecule that formed al- 87. When is the World Hypertension Day most 14 billion years ago, recently de- 69. b 70. d 71. d 72. b celebrated? tected by NASA is ______. 73. d 74. c 75. c 76. c (a) 14th May (b) 15th May (a) Dideuterium 77. b 78. a 79. a 80. c (c) 16th May (d) 17th May (b) Disodium halide 81. d 82. d 83. c 84. b 88. Non-Banking Finance Company (NBFC) (c) Helium hydride 85. b 86. c 87. d 88. a is a company registered under the (d) Beryllium oxide 89. d 90. a 91. b 92. c ______of India. 97. Which company planned to shutdown 93. d 94. c 95. b 96. c (a) Companies Act, 1956 online operations in China 97. c 98. a 99. b 100. a (b) Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 (a) Flipkart (b) Apple (c) Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (c) Amazon (d) Samsung (d) Companies Act, 2013 Plot-1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRP Square, Bhubaneswar-751015 Page | 63 [ Ph. : 8093556677, 9040456677, Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] ] MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF JULY 2019

(c) Windows 97 (d) Windows XP COMPUTER (e) MS-DOS 13. Which of the following is used in a sequential circuit and has two stable states, either 1 or 0? (a) Decimal number MCQs (b) Logic gate (c) Flip-flop (d) Binary number (e) None of these 14. Which of the following are machine-independent languages? (a) High-level languages 6. What are those programs collectively (b) Low-level languages 1. The processing of a job is done on the called which are designed to perform (c) Assembly languages priority or urgency of the job. This is specific tasks in the computer system? (d) Machine languages called (a) System software (e) None of these (a) FIFO scheduling (b) Application software 15. FORTRAN is a programming language. (b) LIFO scheduling (c) Utility programs It is more suitable for (c) Priority scheduling (d) Operating system (a) Business applications (d) SJF scheduling (e) None of these (b) Marketing applications (e) None of these 7. What does DMA stand for? (c) Scientific applications 2. Choose the non-preemptive scheduling (a) District Memory Access (d) Statically calculative applications algorithm amongst the following sched- (b) Direct Memory Access (e) None of these uling algorithms (c) Direct Modulus Access 16. Which of the following is the Universal (a) Round Robin (d) Direct Memory Allocation Gate? (b) First- in first-out (e) None of these (a) OR gate (b) NOR gate (c) Multilevel Queue Scheduling 8. Which of the following gates is a comple- (c) NOT gate (d) AND gate (d) Multilevel Queue Scheduling with ment of the x-OR gate? (e) None of these Feedback (a) NOT gate (b) NOR gate 17. Which of the following two gates are used (e) None of these (c) AND gate (d) X-NOR gate to implement any of the basic logic 3. Which of the following techniques can be (e) None of these gates? used to store a large number of files in a 9. Which of the following represents the (a) OR and NOT gates small amount of storage space? three digit binary number? (b) NOR and OR gates (a) File adjustment (a) Decimal number (c) NOR and NAND gates (b) File copying (b) Binary number (d) NOT and NAND gates (c) File compatibility (c) Octal number (e) None of these (d) File compression (d) Hexadecimal number 18. Which of the following threads is used in (e) None of these (e) None of these an operating system? 4. Which of the following number systems 10. Which of the following gates is used to (a) User-level thread is considered as a base-10 number sys- invert, a variable? (b) Kernel-level thread tem? (a) OR gate (b) NOR gate (c) Hardware-level thread (a) Decimal number system (c) NOT gate (d) AND gate (d) Both a and b (b) Binary number system (e) None of these (e) None of these (c) Octal number system 11. MS Office is a/an 19. Which of the following acts as an inter- (d) Hexadecimal number system (a) System software face between the currently running pro- (e) None of these (b) Application software gram and operating systems? 5. The hexadecimal number system repre- (c) Utility programs (a) System call sents symbols ____and____ (d) Operating system (b) Assembly instructions (a) 0-9, A-E (b) 0-9, A-F (e) None of these (c) APIs (c) 1-10, A-E (d) 1-10, A-F 12. Which of the following operating sys- (d) Functions (e) None of these tems was first developed by Microsoft? (e) None of these (a) Windows ME (b) Windows NT

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20. Which of the following is not a part of 27. Which of the following entities in the OS 35. By default, word 2010 saves a document the three-state process management is responsible for switching between the with ___ extension model? processes? (a) docx (b) doc (a) Ready (b) Running (a) Critical section (c) docs (d) ppt (c) Blocked (d) Deadlock (b) Mutual exclusion (e) None of the above (e) None of these (c) Interrupts 36. The default extension of PowerPoint 21. The output of the ____gate is high (1) (d) Locks 2010 is only when all its inputs are high (e) None of these (a) ppt (b) pdf (a) NOT (b) NOR 28. In how many ways can you convert a (c) pptx (d) pps (c) AND (d) X-NOR decimal number into a binary number? (e) None of the above (e) None of these (a) 2 (b) 3 37. ____is not an arithmetic operator 22. The ___sign in the Boolean algebra rep- (c) 4 (d) 5 (a) + (plus) resents the OR function (e) None of these (b) * (Asterisk) (a) Minus (-) 29. Which of the following is an internal frag- (c) % (percent) (b) Plus (+) mentation (d) = (equals) (c) Multiplication (.) (a) Memory divisions (e) None of the above (d) Division (/) (b) Logical divisions 38. In MS Excel, which of the following rep- (e) None of these (c) Internal space in the partition resents the inequality operator? 23. Which of the following conditions is re- which is wasted (a) >= (b) <= sponsible for occurrence of context (d) Division of internal memory (c) >> (d) <> switching? (e) None of these (e) None of the above (a) When one process expires and a 30. In which of the following logic gates will 39. What is a PowerPoint presentation? new one is loaded from a ready the output low when one or more in- (a) It is a collection of images queue puts are zero? (b) It is a series of slides (b) No processes are in the ready (a) OR gate (b) NOT gate (c) It is a collection of animations queue (c) AND gate (d) NOR gate (d) It is a collection of transitions (c) When a process is running (e) None of these (e) None of the above (d) When the CPU is at rest 31. Which of the following applications is 40. Which of the following shortcut keys is (e) None of these not a part of the Microsoft Office 2010 used to run the slide show forward from 24. Threads have ____which consists of pro- suite? the current slide? gram counter, stack and registers. (a) Access 2010 (a) F5 (a) PCB (b) TCB (b) Outlook 2010 (b) Ctrl + F5 (c) MCB (d) Both a and b (c) Excel 2010 (c) Alt + F8 (e) None of these (d) MSN messenger (d) Shift + F5 25. Which of the following statements is cor- (e) None of the above (e) None of the above rect when a race condition occurs? 32. Which of the following shortcut keys (a) Multiple processes try to read and represents the correct sequence for  write data from the same shared copy, paste and cut commands? data (a) Ctrl + V; Ctrl + C; Ctrl + X (b) Single process owns full data (b) Ctrl + C; Ctrl + V; Ctrl + X ANSWER KEYS (c) Multiple processes read and write (c) Ctrl + X; Ctrl + C; Ctrl + V a closed data (d) Ctrl + C, Ctrl + X; Ctrl + V 1. c 2. b 3. d 4. a (d) Both b and c (e) None of the above 5. b 6. b 7. b 8. d (e) None of these 33. Which of the following shortcut keys 9. c 10. c 11. b 12. e 26. Which of the following statements is true represents the correct sequence for Bold, for Critical section? Italic and Underline commands? 13. c 14. a 15. c 16. b (a) A solution for the race condition (a) Ctrl + B; Ctrl + I; Ctrl + U 17. c 18. d 19. a 20. d (b) A part of the program from where (b) Ctrl + I; Ctrl + U; Ctrl + B 21. c 22. b 23. a 24. b the shared data are accessed by (c) Ctrl + U; Ctrl +B; Ctrl + I 25. a 26. d 27. c 28. a the processes (d) Ctrl + U, Ctrl + I; Ctrl + B (c) A scenario when all processes are (e) None of the above 29. c 30. c 31. d 32. b created 34. The default extension of Excel 2010 is 33. a 34. c 35. a 36. c (d) Both a and b (a) xls (b) pdf 37. d 38. d 39. b 40. d (e) None of these (c) xlsx (d) xps (e) None of the above

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A) Only RBI has the exclusive rights to issue currency notes in India B) RBI as Banker to Government C) Allows RBI to form rules regarding the exchange of damaged and imperfect notes. D) Emergency loans to banks 16. The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is a ______character, alphanumeric code? A) 12 B) 15 C) 10 D) 20 17. Recently,RBI has proposed strict rules for current accounts to tackle fund diversion.The norms however would apply to accounts which have borrowed and taken loans of how much B) Minimum Cost of Funds based amount or more? 1. Who is the head of the committee that Lending Ratio A)Rs 100 cr B)Rs 20 cr submitted its report on promoting C) Marginal Cost of Funds based C)Rs 25 cr D)Rs 50 cr digital payments in the country? Liquidity Ratio 18. Define Base Rate? A)Nandan Nilekani D) Market Cost of Funds based A) Minimum amount of deposit that B)Bimal Jalan Liquidity Rate the commercial banks have to hold C)Viral Acharya 9. How many angular bleed lines are present as reserves with the central bank D)Shaktikanta Das on Rs 200 bank note for visually B) Rate charged by the central bank 2. Which bank recently linked its interest impaired? for lending funds to commercial rates to RBI’s repo rate? A) 5 B) 6 banks. A)BOB B)SBI C) 7 D) 4 C) Minimum rate set by the RBI C)IDBI D)PNB 10. High worth individuals who provide seed below which banks are not allowed 3. RBI has set how much amount for the capital for start-ups in return for a to lend to its customers. Ways and Means Advances(WMA) for minority share in business are known D) Rate at which short term funds the first half of the financial year 2019- as______? are borrowed and lent in the 20? A) Personal Investor money market. A)Rs 30000 cr B)Rs 45000 cr B) Angel Investor 19. Which of the following is the class of C)Rs 75000 cr D)Rs 50000 cr C) Peer-to-peer lenders derivative which refers to an over-the- 4. The NEFT system facilitates ___cross D) Equity Investors counter and exchange-traded derivative border transfer of funds from India to 11. Dishonor of cheque is defined under that is used to transfer inflation risk Nepal which is known as the Indo- which section of negotiable from one counterparty to another? Nepal Remittance Facility Scheme instruments act? A) Freight Derivative A) One way B) Two way A) Section – 18 C) Multi way D) All of these B) Inflation Derivative B) Section – 21 C) Weather Derivative 5. Deposits under FCNR scheme can be C) Section – 108 accepted for a minimum of ___? D) Interest Rate Derivative D) Section – 138 20. Who was elected as the new president A) 6 months B) 3 months 12. RBI announced to issue Rs 20 currency of International Chamber of C) 12 months D) 15 days new denominations notes.What will be Commerce? 6. Recently,RBI extended the ombudsman the colour of the note? A)PV Kumar scheme for NBFCs to non deposit A)Pale Yellow B)VikramjitSahney taking NBFCs with asset size of at least B)Greenish Yellow C)Ashish Chauhan how much amount? C)Purple D)Vikram Limaye A)Rs 50 cr B)Rs 100 cr D)Light Green C)Rs 150 cr D)Rs 200 cr 13. Which bank recently got approval from 7. When the risk of losses in on- or off- CCI to acquire Gruh Finance?  balance sheet positions arise from A)ICICI Bank B)IDBI Bank movement in market prices, it is called C)HDFC Bank D)Bandhan Bank A) Liquidity risk 14. What is the term called for a market ANSWER KEYS B) Systemic risk structure in which only a few sellers C) Market Risk offer similar or identical products? 1. A 2. B 3. C 4. A D) Liquidity risk A) Offshore B) Monopolistic 5. C 6. B 7. C 8. A 8. What does MCLR stands for? C) Monopoly D) Oligopoly A) Marginal Cost of Funds based 9. D 10. B 11. D 12. B 15. What does Section 20 of the RBI Act 13. D 14. D 15. B 16. D Lending Rate 1934 defines? 17. D 18. C 19. B 20. B

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE judiciary who was scared to take up the dismaying phenomenon. Equally case to conduct a day-to-day trial. He had blameworthy is the police leadership, which Direction (Q.No.1-10) : Read the to be assured of an incredible scale of had over the year’s meekly abdicated following passage carefully and answer security before agreeing. It is an entirely professionalism on the sometimes dubious the question given below it. Certain different matter that later on he rose to the plea of political interference. The National words/group of words has been printed occasion to dispense justice that is now Investigation Agency, (NIA) set up in in bold to help you locate them while hailed in many quarters. He also went on to December 2008, has somewhat filled in the answering some of the questions. adorn the Bombay High Court. gap in terror investigation skills between As one who was associated with the Bombay The public should know that it is not the State and Central agencies. blasts trial for about two years (1999-2001), investigator alone who needs to have the Recent attacks in Europe, especially in the the latest conviction of six of the accused, guts to unravel all the facts. The judiciary U.K., have convinced us that no amount of including Abu Salem, gives me enormous should also be enabled to build a corps of deterrence can foil adventurism on the satisfaction. This court order forms part of fearless judges who are not only streets. But merely beefing up numbers of the second stage of the trial; in the first stage, knowledgeable about the intricacies of policemen is of no avail. What is even more the special TADA court designated for the contemporary terrorism but also have the crucial is the need to constantly sharpen purpose had in September 2006 convicted courage to steer the proceedings during a police reflexes vis-a-vis responding to an as many as 100 accused. Much more trial. act of terror. The eight minute reaction time gratified must be the unfortunate relatives Inquiries into the 12 explosions in various displayed by the Metropolitan Police and friends of the 257 people who perished parts of Bombay in March 1993 were first during the London Bridge attack deserves in the savage attack on March 12, 1993 that handled by the city police before being to be studied in detail and emulated. brought the great city to its knees. transferred to the Central Bureau of Governments and police forces have their My regret is that there is only a modest Investigation to facilitate an investigation roles cut out. But what about the citizenry? public understanding of the complexity of that had assumed pronounced international Is it not the responsibility of the private combating and investigating terrorism. The dimensions, with the escape from the sector and volunteer groups to prepare for Batla House controversy of 2008 in Delhi country of one of the principal conspirators, the worst-case scenario without waiting for is an example to mention for sheer Tiger Memon, and other prominent an actual disaster to occur. politicisation of terror matters and putting accused like Dawood Ibrahim already 1. Which can be the most suitable title of dedicated policemen in a state of aboard. the passage? discomfiture and danger. The Bombay Police did an outstanding job (a) Lessons for investigating term. There are several misconceptions about in first identifying many of the large number (b) Origin of terrorism what an investigation like the one into the of the accused and later bringing them before (c) Terrorism – A myth or A reality Bombay blasts could achieve. The the special TADA court. They further (d) Terrorism – A menace establishment, both past and present, is often produced enough credible evidence to (e) None of these accused of a failure to secure all the accused persuade the court to frame charges against 2. How many persons were convicted for and get those available convicted by the most of them. the Bombay Blast of 1993? court. The inability to bring the architect of The common impression that units of a State (a) 5 (b) 6 the 1993 conspiracy, Dawood Ibrahim, to police are hardly equipped to handle (c) 7 (d) 8 India to face trial has in particular been investigations of such epic proportions was (e) 9 outrageously assailed as an index of the for once proved wrong by the remarkable 3. What was the purpose of the incompetence of our agencies. This is unfair, groundwork done by the Bombay Police. establishment of TADA court? to say the least. Despite nearly foolproof The investigations into the November 26, (a) To punish criminals evidence that he is being protected by the 2008 attacks were again clinical, proving once (b) To punish terrorists Pakistani authorities, my perception is that again that in post post-Independence India, (c) To punish Abu Salem no amount of security cover can despite the valuable resources and talent that (d) All of these permanently shield such a fugitive from are available in the States, we have been (e) None of these justice. systematically diluting the capacity and 4. Which of the following acts as a bridge in Looking back 16 years, the most important skills of the local police forces. The political between the Union and State authorities image in my mind is, of a member of the leadership is the main culprit for this for investigation of terrorism?

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(a) The CBI 11. A. Sometimes, we think we are only C. I ask a student to be Kunti, other (b) The TADA Court the people with problems. to be Karna. (c) The BPRD B. Our problems override other D. Kunti has to persuade Karna to (d) The IB considerations; we can’t think leave Duryodhana and join the (e) None of these beyond our own vexations. Pandavas. 5. The author of the passage seems to be C. When we see a small dampness (a) A only (b) A and B quite anguished over on our wall we scurry to get them (c) C and D (d) D only (a) The terrorists repaired and corrected, (e) None of the above (b) The Mafia D. But we don’t think of people (c) The higher police authorities whose homes have been washed Directions (Q. 16-20) : Rearrange the (d) All of these away by the rage of the rain gods. following five sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) (e) None of these (a) A and B (b) B and D and (E) in the proper sequence to form a 6. What criticism the author levied on the (c) C only (d) C and D meaningful paragraph and then answer judiciary? (e) None of the above the questions given below. (a) Scared to conduct a day to day 12. A. Chen Jianping repeated again on A. We establish a relationship with trial twitter something her fiancé said them. Our relations with our (b) Lingering period for trials B. About anti-Japan protests getting friends are based as much on how (c) Knowledge of contemporary violent, and added, “Charge, angry we learn to live. terrorism youth!” B. Moments of disagreement. If our (d) All of the above C. For this she was sentenced one friends and family consist only of (e) None of the above year in a labour camp. those who agree 7. The capacity and skill of the police D. Twitter is banned in China, but C. We dissent at home, with our forces have been diluted, to a great its easy to use blocked sites with friends and with our colleagues in extent due to simple internet tricks. the places we work. It is through (a) Police leadership (a) A only (b) B only these ways of dissenting that (b) Political leadership (c) C only (d) B and D D. With our disagreements as on (c) Political interference (e) None of the above other things. The relationship (d) All of these 13. A. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, between spouses is filled with (e) None of these is gyre of marine litter in the central many. North Pacific Ocean. E. With us all the time, then we will Direction(Q. 8-9) : Choose the word B. The patch extends over a very not have any friends and family. which is MOST SIMILAR in meaning wide area, with estimates ranging 16. Which of the following will be the to the word printed in bold as used in the from area THIRD sentence after rearrangement? passage. C. the size of the state of Texas to (a) C (b) D one larger as the continental 8. ADORN (c) E (d) A United States; (a) Glorify (b) Decorate (e) B D. however, the exact size is (c) Embellish (d) Scorn 17. Which of the following will be the unknown. (e) Bequeath FIFTH sentence after rearrangement ? (a) A and D (b) B and C 9. PROMINENT (a) B (b) E (c) C only (d) D only (a) Efficient (c) C (d) A (e) None of the above (b) Notable (e) D 14. A. (c) Effervescent At media agency Mindshare’s 18. Which of the following will be the Mumbai office (d) Prudent SECOND sentence after B. sit a team of ninety-three (e) Wiley rearrangement ? individuals (a) D (b) C Direction (Q.10) : Choose the word C. who’s only focus is the consumer (c) A (d) E which is MOST OPPOSITE in meaning giant Hindustan Unilever. (e) B to the word printed in bold as used in the D. In fact, this unit occupies an area 19. Which of the following will be the passage. the size of most mid-sized FIRST sentence after rearrangement ? agency’s in this country. (a) B (b) A 10. DUBIOUS (a) A only (b) A and C (c) C (d) D (a) Equivocal (b) Sceptic (c) A and D (d) B and C (e) E (c) Definite (d) Vague (e) None of the above 20. Which of the following will be the (e) Outlandish 15. A. One of the classroom exercise I FOURTH sentence after conduct with my Persuasive Directions (11-15): Choose the sentences rearrangement ? Communication students which are correct in terms of English (a) A (b) C B. at IIMA is taken from grammar. (c) E (d) B Kurukshestra war. (e) D

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Direction (21-25) : In each question the new car, which bore an uncanny ___27___ created by heavy rains in Chennai below a sentence is given with two blanks ______to a stormtrooper’s in 2015, communication networks have time in each. Each question is followed by four helmet, was then adapted for military and again ___28___ during the crisis. The options with two words in each. You have use and produced using slave labour. importance of communication for effective to select that option as your answer (a) warranted, nutty response in natural disasters has long been which can fill both the blanks of the (b) accredited, discrepancy recognised by emergency managers. A well- sentence. (c) designated, diversity designed communications and information (d) commissioned, resemblance infrastructure which functions during a crisis 21. Sanity time is at hand. Michael Gove is (e) All are Correct can significantly enhance the ___29___ of right. The reckless, crash-bang-wallop 24. The rightwing protection racket communities exposed to risk. This has been of the hard-Brexit fantasists has had surrounding supreme court nominee acknowledged by India’s policy-makers as its day. They have not produced a Brett Kavanaugh is closing ranks, well, as the Department of Telecom has laid plausible future for British trade with girding for war now that their man is out a Standard Operating Procedure with Europe. The default option is now facing sexual misconduct _____ from a clear instructions on what needs to be done “crashing out”, and that is woman who says he sexually assaulted by all stakeholders. Yet the ___30___ of ______. Of course the her when they were in high school. “It’s country’s communications infrastructure in Chequers proposal has problems. But too late for there to be any serious reality exposes the huge gap between plan it takes the UK out of the EU and keeps consideration at this stage,” declared and practice. frictionless trade with EU members. Kenneth Starr, the former Republican 26. (a) dilutor (b) reminder Both were always pledged by the prime independent ______who is a leader (c) defilement (d) dirtier minister as constituting Brexit. The EU of the Kavanaugh defenders club. (e) All are Correct asked for Britain’s proposals to meet (a) allegations, counsel 27. (a) concordance this pledge, and now has them. It should (b) refutations, dupe (b) collocation ______them. (c) negations, contravene (c) havoc (a) immature, devolve (d) renunciations, gaff (d) convention (b) infantile, negotiate (e) All are Correct (e) All are Correct (c) juvenile, deviate 25. October is dwarfism awareness month, 28. (a) rocketed (b) surged (d) adolescent, portray when the restricted-growth community (c) soared (d) collapsed (e) All are Correct and their families ______(e) All are Correct 22. The first, and most obvious, thing to awareness of their condition around the 29. (a) resilience (b) frailty say is that Soon-Yi Previn has every world. So, as the mother of a little boy (c) tenacity (d) embrittlement right to tell her story, and any diagnosed with achondroplasia, the (e) All are Correct publication has the right to publish it. most common form of dwarfism, you 30. (a) ampleness (b) fragility Obvious, and yet, obviously, not the can imagine my shock when I saw a (c) durability (d) endurance opinion of everyone. Previn is best Facebook ______for “midget (e) All are Correct known as the ______wrestling” touring the UK this autumn. daughter of André Previn and Mia (a) swell, allude QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE Farrow, and the wife of Farrow’s very (b) growth, impassive much ex-boyfriend, Woody Allen. So (c) spread, advertisement Directions (31-35) : Given below is the when New York Magazine’s interview (d) expand, circular percentage distribution of number of with the heretofore almost silent Previn (e) All are Correct students from 5 different colleges went online on Sunday night, the most attended different number of seminars. ______reactions against it came Directions(Q.26-30) : In the following from, predictably, the Farrow family. passage there are blanks, each of which No.of No.of No.of No.of No.of No.of (a) assumed, apathetic has been numbered .These numbers are College Seminars Seminars Seminars Seminars Seminars Seminars (b) espoused, mild printed below the passage and against Attended Attended Attended Attended Attended - Attended -1 -2 -3 -4 5 -6 (c) adopted, vehement each, five words are suggested, Find out P 20 15 24 8 - 15 (d) adoptive, languid the appropriate word in each case. Q - 16 25 - - 18 (e) All are Correct The large-scale failure in communications R 12 20 25 - - - 23. For a car that was in large part the services during the recent floods in Kerala is S - - 25 15 22 12 brainchild of Adolf Hitler, who wanted a stark ___26___ of the lack of T 15 - 24 - 32 5 a “people’s car” for Aryan families, the preparedness in dealing with the aftermath 31. If the number of students from college R Volkswagen Beetle has done remarkably of disasters on the part of telecom operators, who attended at most 3 seminars is well to last for 80 years. Hitler policy-makers and disaster management equal to number of students from ______it, laid the agencies. India is not new to floods and college S who attended at least 3 cornerstone for its famous factory in earthquakes but no lessons seem to have seminars and the total number of Wolfsburg and was presented with the been learnt from similar incidents in the past. students from College S is 11400. Then first convertible version. The design of Be it the floods in Mumbai in 2005 or the

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find the number of students from Directions (36-40) : What approximate 45. 3 6 15 45 157 630 2835 college R who attended 3 seminars. value will come in place of question mark (a) 45 (b) 15 (a) 3700 (b) 4100 (?) in the given questions ? (c) 157 (d) 283 (c) 4500 (d) 4800 1 (e) 630 36. 3 (e) None of these 36.01  40962 46. From a mixture of 100 litres of milk and 32. Total no. of students from college P who 2 3 2 ? water which contain 70% milk and 30% attended atmost 2 seminars is equal to 37.99  9 75.98  4 water some amount is taken out and the sum of number of students from (a) 7 (b) 3 replaced with water . The resultant college T who attended 1 seminar and (c) 5 (d) 8 mixture contains equal amount of milk the number of students from the same (e) 7 and water . find the amount of mixture college who attended 6 seminars. Then 37. taken out in first step. the total number of students from 4809.01 9615.9614425.03 100 200 college P is what percent of total no. of  4.98  6.02  ?2 (a) litre (b) litre student from college T? 7 7 (a) 92 (b) 67 50 150 1 (c) 72 (d) 76 (c) litre (d) litre (a) 17 % (b) 45% 7 7 7 (e) 74 (e) 25 litre 38. 35% of 74000 ? 1 47. Mr. Smart while buying clothes uses a (c)49% (d) 57 % 2 faulty meter tape which actually 7  123% of 13.2  2.01 measures 110 cm for a meter and while (e) None of these (a) 40 (b) 51 selling them he uses another faulty 33. The number of students from college P (c) 75 (d) 90 meter tape which actually measures 90 who attended more than 2 seminars is (e) 65 cm for a meter. If he buys the cloth at a approximately what percent less than discount of 5% on the marked price 4 7 the number of students from college S 39. of 393  of 478  and sells it at a discount of 10% on the who attended at least 3 seminars if the 15 12 same marked price , then what is his number of student who attended 2 ? 1.99 1.01 approximate percentage gain or loss ? seminars from college P is 48 and the   (a) 15.8% (b) 14.6% number of students of college S who (a) 128 (b) 138 (c) 12.5% (d) 13.8% attended 6 seminars is 14 more than (c) 158 (d) 178 (e) 17.2% the number of students from college P, (e) 148 48. A playground is in the shape of a who attended 1 seminar? 40. rectangle . A sum of Rs. 1000 was spent (a) 52% (b) 44% 2809.001  7.98 to make the ground usable at the rate (c) 60% (d) 48% of 25 paisa per sq. m. The breadth of 12.01 2  46.002  ? (e) 57%   the ground is 50m. If the length of the 34. If the difference between number of (a) 1300 (b) 900 ground is increased by 20m , What will students from college T who attended (c) 1000 (d) 1100 be the expenditure in rupees at the same 3 seminars and students who attended (e) 980 rate per sq. m? 5 seminars is 22, and the total students (a) 1500 (b) 2250 Directions (41-45) : Find the wrong term from college R is 60% of the total (c) 1250 (d) 1000 in the following series - students from college T, then find the (e) None of these number of students of college R who 41. 33 39 56 85 127 185 254 49. Two place P and Q are 160 km apart . A are attending 2 seminars. (a) 39 (b) 254 train leaves P for Q and at the same (a)32 (b)35 (c) 185 (d) 85 time another train leaves Q for P . Both (c)33 (d) 38 (e) 56 the trains meet 5 hrs after they start (e) None of these 42. 7 9 21 67 275 1371 8233 moving . If the train travelling from P 35. If the ratio between the no. of students (a) 275 (b) 21 to Q travels 6 km/hr faster than the who attended 1 seminar and the no. of (c) 67 (d) 1371 other train , find the speed of the faster students who attend 2 seminars from (e) 8233 train. college S is 9:4, and the difference 43. 7 4 5 9 21 52.5 160.5 (a) 19 km/hr between the same is 35, then find the (a) 4 (b) 5 (b) 13 km/hr persons from this college who attended (c) 9 (d) 52.5 (c) 21 km/hr at most 4 seminars. (e) 21 (d) Can’t be determined (a) 237 (b) 234 44. 13 27 45 117 333 981 2925 (e) None of these (c) 231 (d) 240 (a) 13 (b) 27 50. Pipe A can fill an empty tank in 4 hours, (e) None of these (c) 45 (d) 117 while pipe B can fill it in 6 hours (e) 333 working separately . pipe C can empty the whole tank in 4 hours. Brava

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opened the pipe A and B and the respective ratio between the simultaneously to file the empty tank. investments of B and C was 2:3 . If the M:F He wanted to adjust his alarm so that annual profit earned by them was Rs. Delhi 3:5 he could open the pipe C when it was 12300, what was the difference Mumbai 7:5 half-filled, but he mistakely adjusted between B’s share and C’s share in the Agra 3:4 his alarm at a time when his tank would profit? Indore 6:5 be ¾ th filled . What is the time (a) Rs.900 (b) Rs.800 Agartala -:5 difference between both the cases, to (c) Rs.600 (d) Rs.400 61. If there is an increase of 25% and 15% fill the tank fully ? (e) Rs.700 population of male & female live in (a) 48 min (b) 54 min Directions (56-60) : In each of these Delhi in year 2017 with respect to (c) 30 min (d) None of these questions, two equation (I) and (II) are previous year. Then what will be total (e) Can’t be determined given. You have to solve both the percentage rise in the population of 51. A committee of 5 people is to be formed equations and give answer Delhi in 2017 with respect to previous among 4 girls and 5 boys . what is the (a) If x < y year? probability that the committee will (b) If x  y (a) 18.85% (b) 18.65% have less number of boys than girls ? (c) If x = y or no relation can be (c) 19% (d) 18% (a) 3/14 (b) 7/13 established (e) 18.75% (c) 3/5 (d) 5/14 (d) If x > y (e) None of these (e) if x  y 1 52. If annually income of Aman is 7.8 lakh . 62. In Agartala th of the person affected 2 He spend 20% of his monthly income 56. I. 2x 16x  30  0 8 from Dengue, then what is ratio of un- 2 1 II. y  8y 15  0 affected females to unaffected male in on rent and food , of remaining on Agartala,if no. of un-affected males in 13 3 57. I. x  1728 Agartala is same as no. of males in delhi clothes and 25% of remaining spend (a) 9:19 (b) 19:9 on Entertainment. If he distributed the II. y2 169 remaining income among his son , (c) 17:9 (d) 9:17 (e) None of these daughter and wife in ratio of 4:3:5 , 58. I. 2x  7y  80 then find the sum of money got by his 63. What was the difference of male & son and wife? II. 3x  2y  60 female in Mumbai city in 2014 if there is an increase in 20% of population (a) 25000 (b) 31000 2 (c) 16800 (d) 27000 59. I. 13x 106x 160  0 every year (approximately) (e) None of these (a) 10417 (b) 10217 II. 2 53. The average marks of Rahul decreased 6y 19y 15  0 (c) 10317 (d) 10400 by 1 when he replaced the marks of (e) Cannot be determined 60. I. 2 Hindi in which he got 40 marks by two x 19x  84  0 64. Males of Mumbai is what percent less subjects in which he got 23 and 25 or more than the male of Agartala if the II. 2 marks . Later he also included 57 marks y  25y 156  0 average number of males in Delhi, Agra of math due to which the average marks Directions (61-65) : Read the data given & Agartala is 27,500? increased by 2. How many subjects below and answer the following (a) 42.86% less were initially ? questions. (b) 75% less (a) 20 (b) 15 Given below is the line graph which shows (c) 75% more (c) 30 (d) 10 the population of five cities in 2016 and (d) 42.86% more (e) None of these table shows the ratio of male to female in (e) None of these 54. B is 6 years older than A . If the ratio of these five cities. B’s age 9 years hence and C’s present Note: Some values are missing in the table, 1 1 65. If th of male and of female of Indore age is 9:8, average present age of C and you have calculate these values if necessary 4 5 D is 25 and age of D is is greater than to answer question. leave the city and all those who leave age of C. difference between sum of Indore came to Delhi & Mumbai in the present age of A and C to the sum of ratio of 3 : 2 respectively then what is present age of B and D is 18.What will the percent increase of the population be the age of D after 5 year. in Mumbai ? (a) 18 years (b) 25 years (c) 31 years (d) 24 years 1 1 (e) 48 years (a)33 % (b)11 % 55. A and B started a business with an 3 9 investment in the ratio of 5: 3 1 2 respectively. After 6 months from the (c)12 % (d)16 % start of the business, C joined them 9 3

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78. Four of the following five are alike in a (e) wo go zo ye The one who lives in Laxmi Nagar likes certain way and hence from a group. Yamaha bike. E lives in Vasant kunj and Which of the following does not belong Directions (Q.86-88) : In each question preparing the paper of Coding Decoding. A to that group? below is given a group of letters followed does not live in Laxmi Nagar. The one who (a) M-Triangular by four combinations of digits/ symbols likes Hero, preparing paper of Sitting (b) M-Hexagonal numbered (1), (2), (3) and (4). You have arrangement and he is not B. C lives in Ashok (c) O-Octagonal to find out which of the combinations Nagar and he does not like Bajaj and Hero (d) S-Square correctly represents the group of letters nor he is preparing the paper on Puzzle and (e) S-Conical based on the following coding system Syllogs. A likes Avenger and he does not 79. What is the position of S in the given and mark the number of that belong to Vasant vihar. stack of boxes? combination as the answer. If none of 89. The one who belongs to Ashok Nagar, is (a) Second from the top the four combination correctly preparing the paper on which topic? (b) Fourth from the top represents the group of letters, mark (5), (a) Puzzle (c) Third from the bottom i.e. ‘None of these’ as the answer. (b) Syllogs (d) Third from the top Letter L F J T A H I M R E K D U B P Digit / (c) Sitting arrangement (e) Second from the bottom 3 7 # $ 4 9 1 8 2 @ 6 % © * 5 Symbol (d) None of these 80. How many boxes are kept between P (e) Inequality and the Square box? 1) If the first letter is a consonants 90. Who lives in Laxmi Nagar? (a) More than three and the last letter is a vowel their (a) A (b) B (b) One codes are to be interchanged. (c) C (d) D (c) None 2) If both the first and the last letters (e) None of these (d) Three is Vowel both are to be coded as 91. Which of the following combination of (e) Two +. 3) If both the first and the last letters Executive-place-bike is correctly Direction (Q.81-85) : Study the following is Consonant and in between there matched? information to answer the given are two or more vowels are to be (a) A-Mayur Vihar ph 1-Ducati questions. coded as 8. (b) B-Vasant vihar-Hero In a certain code, ‘her idea has merit’ is 4) If the first letter is vowel and the (c) C-Ashok Nagar-Ducati written as ‘fo la bu na’, ‘merit list has been last letter is a consonant, both are (d) D-Vasant kunj-Hero displayed’ is written as ‘jo ke la si na’, ‘ to be coded as the code for the (e) None of these her name displayed there’ is written as consonant. 92. In the given arrangement, if C is related ‘ye si bu zo’ and ‘name in merit list’ is to inequality and E is related to Coding 86. EFHKLB written as ‘na ye go ke’. decoding then in the same way A is (a) @7963* (b) *7963* related to? 81. What does ‘ke’ stand for? (c) @7963@ (d) *7S63@ (a) Puzzle (a) Been (b) has (e) None of these (b) Sitting arrangement (c) Merit (d) Name 87. FTAMIR (c) Syllogs (e) List (a) 7$4812 (b) 7$1842 (d) Either a or c 82. What is the code for ‘idea’? (c) 7$8882 (d) 7$189% (e) None of these (a) fo (b) la (e) None of these 93. Who among the following like Bajaj? (c) bu (d) na 88. HLEKBI (a) E (b) B (e) Either bu or na (a) 13@6*9 (b) 93@6*1 (c) C (d) D 83. Which of the following represents ‘name (c) 13@6*1 (d) 93@6*9 (e) A has been displayed’? (e) None of these (a) ye la ke si Directions (Q.94-95) : Answer the (b) jo si ye la Directions (Q.89-93) : Study the following questions referring to the (c) si jo ke na following information carefully to symbol-letter-number sequence given (d) bu ye ke la answer the given questions. below : (e) ye si jo zo There are five executives i.e. A, B, C, D and K F 5 L S 2 $ Z O M 1 N 3 G B I 9 D 6 E of a company VANIK. All are working in  84. What does ‘zo’ stand for? Y 4 ~ J 7 E (a) there (b) displayed reasoning department and lives in different (c) name (d) her places i.e. Vasant vihar, Vasant kunj, Ashok 94. Which of the following is exactly (e) Cannot be determined Nagar, Laxmi Nagar and Mayur vihar phase midway between the tenth element 85. Which of the following may represent 1. They all are preparing different sets of from the right and fifth element from paper i.e. Puzzle, Syllogs, Inequality, Sitting the left end? ‘her name is there’? (a) zo ye go wo Arrangement and Coding Decoding and they (a) O (b) M (b) bu ye zo go all like different bikes, Avenger, Hero, Bajaj, (c) 1 (d)  (c) zo ye bu ke Ducati and Yamaha. (e) None of these (d) ye zo wo bu

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Wrong no is 185 Breadth = 50 m 43  93  43  38 38 43  43   3 42. (a); 1 2 ,  2  3 , 4000 9  76 76 2 2     Length   80m 50 ? 3 2 5  4  4  4  4 3 4, 4  5..... New length = 80 + 20 = 100 m  ?  5 67  4  5  273,not 275 New area = 100  50 = 5000 m2 37. (d); (4809.01 + 9615.96 + 14425.03) So, expenditure = 5000  0.25 =  4.98 + 6.02 = (?)2 43. (e);  0.5  0.5,11, Rs.1250 49. (a); Let slower train moves with x km/ 4809  9616 14425 Or, ?2   6 1.5 1.5, 2  2.... hr . Hence speed of faster train will be 5 9 2  2  20 , not 21 x  6 kmph 28850     6  5770  6 5 44. (b); 318,318,318,..... x  x  65 160 Or, ?2  5776 13 3 18  21not 27 Or, 10x  30 160, Or, x 13 45. (c);  2,2.5,3,3.5.... speed of faster train = 13 + 6 = 19 ?  5776  76 453.5 157.5 not 157 km / hr 50. (b) 38. (b); 35% of 74000 ? 46. (b); Initial ratio of milk and water = 7:3

2 Final ratio of milk and water = 1:1  123% of 13.02  2.01 Let amount of mixture taken out is x 2  35 74000  12313  7x Or,    ?     2 litre then, 70   50  100   100  10

25900 2 Case I : Time taken to fill the tank Or,  15.99  2 200 ? x  L when pipe C was opened when tank 7 25900 6 6 21  ?   50.58  51 47. (a); Suppose , he purchases 900 cm of was half filled   hr 1616 2 5 2 5 cloth Case II : Time taken to fill the tank 4 7 And the mark price of the cloth be Rs. when pipe C was opened when tank 39. (a) ; of 393  of 100 per cm. 15 12 Actual length of cloth bought by him = 9 3 33 was 3/4th filled   hr 478  ?1.99 1.01 990 cm 5 2 10 C.P. for him  Difference in time taken to fill the 4 7 tank in two cases = Or, ?3  393   478  Rs.900 95  Rs.85,500 15 12 While selling he gives 90 cm for a meter. 21 33 9 4 7 Hence, he will given 990 cm for   hours  54 mins Or, ?3  390   480 5 10 10 15 12 100 51. (d); There are two cases  990 1100cm. st Or, ?3 104  280 90 1 case: 1 boy and 4 girls 384 S.P for him Or, ?  Probability 3  Rs.(110090)  Rs.99,000 5 C 4 C 5 ? 128 Profit %  1 4  9 C 126 … … ( i ) 2 99000  85500 5 40. (c) ; ?  2809 8 12  46  100 15.8% 85,000 2nd case: 53 2 2 boys & 3 girls Or, ?   12  46 Short tricks : 8 Probability 11 10 18 5 4 C  C 40 Or, ?  954  46 x    1.1578x  2 3  10 9 19 9 C 126 ………(ii) ? 1000 5 profit 41. (c) 15.7 15.8% Adding equation (i) and (ii) 48. (c); Area of ground Required Probability 1000 5 40 45 5   4000m2     0.25 126 126 126 14

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7.8 8 120 260 52. (d); Aman’s monthly income = = Or c  a 15……….(ii) y  and x   x  y 12 9 17 17 Rs.65000 c  d  50  d  50  c …..(iii) 59. (d); I. 13x2 106x 160  0 20 Food  Rent  65000 Now 2 100 13x  80x  26x 160  0 Difference b  d  a  c 8  13000 x 13x  80  2 13x  80  0 ……..(iv)     Remain = 65000 – 13000 = 52000 Put the value of b, d and c in (iv) Cloth + Entertainment 80 x = 2,  8  13 1 a  6 50  a 15  52000  9 13   II. 6y2 19y 15  0  1  25  8  52000  52000   a  a 15  8 6y2 10y  9y 15  0  13  100  9  Solving 2y3y  5 33y  5  0 25  4000  48000 a 12 3 5 100 y   , - b 18 2 3  4000 12000 16000 c  24 Remaining x > y  52000 16000  36000 d  26 60. (b); I. x 2 19x  84  0 Son : Daughter : Wife D’s age after 5 year  26  5  31 2 55. (a); A : B = 5 : 3 = 10 : 6  x 12x  7x  84  0 4 B : C = 2 : 3 = 6 : 9  xx 12 7x 12  0  36000 : 36000 A : B : C = 10 : 6 : 9 12 Ratio of profit  x  7x 12  0 3 5 : 36000  10x 12: 6x 12: 9x  6 x  7 or12 12 12  20 :12 : 9 2 II. y  25y 156  0 12000:9000:15000 Required difference 2 Son + wife 12  9  y 12y 13y 156  0  12300  Rs.900  12000 15000  27000 41  yy 1213y 12  0 53. (b); Let the number of subject initially 56. (c) ; I. 2x 2 16x  30  0 be ‘n’ and the initial average be ‘a’  y 13y 12  0 na  40 23 25 a 1n 1 2x 2 10x  6x  30  0 y 13 or12  a – n = 9 2xx  5 6x  5  0  x  y Also , x  3,  5 61. (e); In 2017 total population na  8  57  (a 1)n  2 2 3 125 II. y  8y 15  0  60,000    na  65  na  2a  n  2 8 100 2  2a  n  63 y  5y  3y 15  0 5 115 60,000  In solving (i) & (ii) 8 100 A = 24 & n = 15 yy  5 3y 15  0 54. (c); Let present age of A, B, C and D is y  3,  5 28,125 + 43, 125 = 71250 a, b, c and d respectively . Total increased in population = 71,250 Now ATQ No relation can be established – 60, 000 = 11, 250 57. (c); I. % increase b  a  6 …………….(i) x 12 y  13 11250 b  9 9 a 15 9  100 18.75% and  or  No relation can be established 60,000 c 8 c 8 58. (d); Multiply I by 3 and II by 2 and subtracting II from I

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62. (b); Unaffected person 70. c 85. d; Code for ‘is’ is not known but out of 7 (71-75) the given five options only ‘ye zo wo  80,000  70,000 71. c bu’ may be the coding. 8 86. b; Since the first letter is vowel and the No. of un-affected males in Agartala = last letter is consonant, so both are to No. of males in Delhi be coded as code of consonant i.e. of B which is *. 3  60,000  22,500 87. c; Since first and last letters are 8 72. d consonants and in between there are No.of unaffected females = 47, 500 two vowels, so both the vowels are to be coded as 8. So the code is 7$8882. 47500 475 19 88. a; Explanation; Ratio    st 22500 225 9 Since 1 letter is a consonant and last is a vowel, so their codes are to be 63. (e); Cannot be determined since ratio of interchanged. So the code for HLEKBI 73. d population of males and females in is 13@6*9. Delhi in 2014 is not given (89-93) 64. (c); Total no. of males in Delhi + Agra + Executive Places Paper On Bike Agartala  275003  82500 E Vasant kunj Coding Decoding Bajaj Males in Agartala D Vasant vihar Sitting Hero Arrangement 3 3 74. c C Ashok Nagar Inequality Ducati  82500   60,000   70,000 B Laxmi Nagar Puzzle/Syllogs Yamaha 8 7 A Mayur Vihar Syllogs/Puzzle Avenger ph 1  82500  22500  30,000  30,000 Males in Mumbai 89. e 90. b 91. c 92. d 93. a 94. b 7  90,000  52,500 95. c; 5LS, 3GB 12 75. d 96. e; H  I  J  K  L  M 52,500  30,000 % more  100  75% 97. a; K L = M > N 30,000  From this expression we can conclude 65. (b); Total persons who leave indore that N < K. 1 6 98. d;   1,10,000  4 11 1 5 (76-80)  1,10,000  25,000 5 11 Box Shape of Box Persons come to Mumbai O Conical 2 R Octagonal  25,000 10,000 5 N Rectangular Q Square % increase of population in Mumbai S Triangular 10,000 1  100 11 % M Pentagonal 99. c 90,000 9 P Hexagonal (66-70) 76. d 77. b 78. e 79. c 80. e (81-85) Using the given four statements, the codes are 100. e; SALE, SEAL her  bu been  jo idea  fo displayed  si has  la name  ye  merit  na there  zo 66. a 67. b 68. b 69. d list  ke in  go 81. e 82. a 83. b 84. a

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE money but its bets were on illiquid and risky and mutual funds as “systemically assets. Its second-biggest position was in important” and thus subject to stricter Direction (1-10) : Read the following the bonds of a bankrupt firm called Energy rules—would not have helped in this case. passage carefully and answer the Futures Holdings Corporation. Unrated None of the firms that are now in difficulties questions given below it. securities amounted to 40% of assets. would have been big enough to qualify. Small The three investment funds from which Whatever the merits of these investments, funds did signal big tremors back in 2007. BNP suspended redemptions in August they proved hard to shift in a skittish market. But given their explicit riskiness, the idea 2007 held less than 0.5% of the money the That has prompted close scrutiny not just that today’s failing funds are canaries looks French bank managed at the time. Yet these of other junk-bond mutual funds but also of more like a canard. humble entities turned out to be the exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that hold proverbial canaries in the coal mine: their high-yield debt. ETFs are structured so that 1. What according to the passage is true spasm was one of the first signs of the they can be traded as easily as conventional about the firm called “Third Avenue”? impending credit crunch. The question of shares, even though the underlying assets A. The corporate is a victim of the moment is whether several similarly are often not nearly as liquid. (Shares in investment fund. obscure funds that recently announced junk- bond ETFs have continued to change B. is specialized in distress debt forced liquidations are canaries too. Do their hands energetically this week.) C. Suspended redemption on the last woes reveal financial fault-lines, or did they Yet junk-bond funds make poor canaries. month of the year just take exceptional risks? For one thing, even their name conveys risk. D. high yeilding fund The funds in question all invested in low- Unlike the funds that buckled at the start of (a) OnlyA rated corporate debt. Investors have soured the credit crunch, they are not seen as (b) All of these on such “high-yield” or “junk” bonds this relatively safe investments. Many of the (c) Both B and C year, causing prices to fall sharply and concerns about credit centre on the debt of (d) All except A yields to surge. The best-known of the energy and mining firms, whose troubles (e) None of these victims, a mutual fund managed by a firm have been widely aired during the year-long 2. What is the meaning of the term called Third Avenue, specialised in rout in commodity prices. These industries “Systematically important”? distressed debt, on which average yields have account for only $225 billion or so of the $1 (a) beneficial risen from 8% in 2014 to an astronomical trillion market for junk bonds, according to (b) crucial 18% now. The fund had lost 27% of its value Wells Fargo, a bank.Energy firms with good (c) necessary this year and had seen big withdrawals, credit ratings continue to borrow relatively (d) important which together had caused its assets to cheaply. On December 10th, for instance, (e) None of these shrink from $3 billion to $790m before Third Schlumberger, an oil-services firm, sold $6 3. Why the regulators of investment funds Avenue suspended redemptions on billion in bonds with an interest premium are worried? December 10th. The firm said that the of just 1-2 percentage points over A. illiquidity of corporate bonds febrile state of the markets and the Treasuries. Blue chips in other industries B. discounted selling is a risky factor accompanying rush of withdrawals were can borrow even more cheaply: on C. liquidity will worry the investors forcing it to sell the fund’s holdings at fire December 9th Visa paid a premium of less (a) both A and B sale prices. An orderly unwinding, it argued, than one percentage point to borrow $16 (b)both B and C would serve investors better. billion. Regulators have long worried that (c)Both A and C The next day a hedge-fund manager called the illiquidity of corporate bonds could (d)all of these Stone Lion Capital announced a suspension prove a problem for fund managers, and that (e)None of these of redemptions from its junk funds. And on fire sales at such funds may prove a systemic 4. What is the most appropriate antonym December 14th Lucidus Capital Partners, a risk. Ironically, the bond market is less liquid of the word “TREMORS” according fund manager specialising in high-yield than it used to be, in part because of more to the context off the passage: bonds, said it had liquidated all its exacting capital requirements that have made (a) flutter (b) equanimity investments. Doomsters point in particular it moreexpensive for banks to hold bonds. (c) throb (d)fear to a mismatch at the heart of Third Avenue’s But the tentativesolution regulators have (e) Noneofthese model. Its high-yield fund’s prospectus proposed—classing some big fund managers 5. What is the most appropriate meaning promised investors quick access to their of the word “FEBRILE”?

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(a) aloof (b) delirious 11. In 2014, Mr. Obama had realised that (b) Privacy in India was raising issues (c) arc (d)bleak the bitterly contested Afghan range from surveillance, searching (e) None of these presidential election had led to a and seizure, and telephone taping 6. What is the tone of the passage? politically fragile situation. to abortion, transgender rights and (a) lamenting (b) optimistic (a) In 2014, Mr. Obama realised that nacro-analysis. (c) ironic (d)informative the bitterly contested Afghan (c) Private sectors on India raised (e) None of these presidential election had led to a issues ranging from surveillance, 7. What is the most appropriate meaning politically fragile situation. searched and seizure, and of the word “SPASM”: (b) In 2014, Mr. Obama had been telephone taping to abortion, (a) harmony realizing that the bitterly transgender rights and nacro- (b) throe contestant Afghan presidential analysis. (c) contraction election has led to a politically (d) Privacy in India was raised issues (d) painkiller fragile situation. ranging to surveillance, search and (e) None of these (c) In 2014, Mr. Obama has realised seizure, and telephoned taping to 8. What should be the most appropriate that the bitterly contested Afghan abortion, transgender rights and Title of the passage? presidential election had led to a nacro-analysis. (a) importance of investment politically fragile situation. (e) The given sentence is correct. (b) investment funds (d) In 2014, Mr. Obama had been 14. That is difficulty to escape the (c) Canary or Canard? realised that the bitterly contested conclusion that there cases raised (d) victims of investment Afghan presidential election had distinct issues and demand different (e) None of these led to a politically fragile analyses. 9. Writing the passage, the author wants situation. (a) This is difficult from escape the to enlighten the part of financial (e) The given sentence is correct. conclusion that those cases raise system. 12. A nine judge bench of the Supreme Court, distinct issues and demand (a)Negative (b)positive only the tenth such instance in India’s defended analyses. (c)Authentic (d) scrutinizing history was delivered a historic (b) It was difficulty to escaped the (e) None of these judgement on Thursday. conclusion that those cases was 10. Which of the following sentences is not (a) The nine judge bench of that raised distinct issues and demand correlated to the given sentence? Supreme Court, only the tenth different analyses. (a) Unlike the funds that buckled at such instance in India’s historic (c) It is difficult to escape the the start of the credit crunch, they had derived a historic judgement conclusion that these cases raise are not seen as relatively safe on Thursday. distinct issues and demand investments. (b) A nine judge bench of the Supreme different analyses. (b) Many of the concerns about credit Court, only the tenth such (d) It had difficult to escaped the centre on the debt of energy and instance in India’s conclusion that these cases raised mining firms, whose troubles have history,delivered a historic distinctively issues and demand been widely aired during the year- judgement on Thursday. different analyses. long rout in commodity prices. (c) This nine judgement bench of the (e) The given sentence is correct. (c) These industries account for only Supreme Court, only the tenth 15. In acknowledging that different $225 billion or so of the $1 trillion such instance in India’s history, conceptions of privacy exist, it had market for junk bonds, according had delivered a historic judgement significance advancement the privacy to wells Fargo a bank. on Thursday. jurisprudence in the country. (d) With rising age, numerous (d) A nine judge bench of the Supreme (a) In acknowledgement thus physiological changes occur and Court, only the tenth such differential conceptions of privacy the risk of chronic diseases rises instance in India’s history, was exist, it has significantly advance energy firms with good credit delivering a historical judgement the privacy jurisprudence in the ratings continue to borrow on Thursday. country. relatively cheaply. (e) The given sentence is correct. (b) In acknowledging that different (e) Energy firms with good credit 13. Privacy in India has raised issues ranging conceptions of privacy existment, ratings continue to borrow from surveillance, search and seizure, it has significantly advancement relatively cheaply. and telephone taping to abortion, the privacy jurisprudence in the transgender rights and nacro-analysis. country. Direction (11-15) : In each of the (a) Private on India has raised issues (c) On acknowledgement of different following sentences, there are four ranging from surveillance, search conceptions of private exist, it had options are given, which have been and seizure, and telephone tap on significant advanced the privacy written in four different ways. Mark the abortion, transgender rights and jurisprudence in the country. option which is grammatically nacro-analysis. appropriate. If the given sentence is correct then mark it as option (e).

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(d) In acknowledging that different omitted. Choose the set of words for each free then mark it as option as option (d) conceptions of privacy exist, it blank that best fits the meaning of the and if more than one error is thee, then has significantly advanced the sentence as a whole. mark it as option (e). privacy jurisprudence in the country. 21. Coercion sometimes leads to the 26. Indian’s every single (A)/expectation (e) The given sentence is correct. ______of short term goals, but from its cricket team (B)/invariably its drawbacks far______its oscillates between (C)/a cynical Direction (16-20) : Which of the phrases advantages. pessimism (D) and an unjustified given below the sentence should replace (a) realization, nullify optimism.(E) the word/phrase given in bold in the (b) appreciation, outnumber (a) ABCD (b) BCDE sentence to make it grammatically (c) accomplishment, outweigh (c) ACDE (d) None of these correct? If the sentence is correct as it is (d) achievement, crumble (e) No error given and no correction is required, (e) destination, undermine 27. The road widening exercise(A)/who aims select ‘No correction required’ as the 22. Professionals focus their ______to make NationalHighway (B)/a four answer. on fulfilling their responsibilities and lane highway(C)/ poses a threat to the achieving results, not on ______a (D)/fragile environment of the 16. The poor Brahmin led a hand to particular image. Himalayas.(E) mouthful existence and could use any (a) planning, devising (a) ABCD (b) BCDE job which paid him a little. (b) leadership, attributing (c) ACDE (d) None of these (a) handful to mouthful existence (c) abilities, developing (e) No error (b) hand to mouth existence (d) energies, portraying 28. In the aftermath of the Asian (c) handing for mouthful existing (e) skills, obtaining tsunami,(A)/the sporting community (d) hand and mouth exist 23. We must be rest assured that our have responded (B)/swiftly to (e) No correction required. sorrows, if any, are short lived and contribute (C)/in whatever way it 17. In order to earning decent living we period of joy ______us. Such could,(D)/both financially and need to have a good job which pays thinking will always maintain our qualitatively.(E) substantial amount of money. ______and peace of mind. (a) ABCD (b) BCDE (a) earned decency life (a) calls, dream (c) ACDE (d) None of these (b) earning decency live (b) befits, serenity (e) No error (c) earn a decent living (c) bemoans, skills 29. Seen as an indicator of the maturity(A)/ (d) earned decently life (d) merits, life of outsourcing business in India, (B)/ (e) No correction required. (e) awaits, equipoise the Indian outsourcing market (C)/is 18. We went to the famous restaurant to eat 24. If a junior executive neglects his expected to growth (D)/to eleven billion and were served piped hot food. professional development and dollar by this year.(D) (a) served piping hotter ______education, he can easily and (a) ABCD (b) ABCE (b) serving pipe hot quickly become obsolete in a world (c) ACDE (d) None of these (c) served piping hot changing at ______rates. (e) No error (d) serve pipe hotten (a) management, rapid 30. Angered over the delay (A)/in giving (e) No correction required. (b) higher, fast compensations, (B)/factory workers 19. Akshay considered Suresh to be a (c) better, supreme shouted(C)/slogans against the complete pain in the neck as he kept (d) continuing, dizzying President (D)/when he reaches the asking baseless questions. (e) value, profound office.(E) (a) paining in the neck 25. Nothing could ______better Swami (a) ABCD (b) BCDE (b) painless neck Vivekananda’s thoughts and (c) ACDE (d) None of these (c) painful necks personality than his own ______(e) No error (d) pain in necking language, on which I have relied heartily (e) No correction required. in this book. QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE 20. I jump through hoop to finish this (a) convey, inimitable Directions (31-35) : What should come project in time, but was not rewarded (b) suggest, prosperous in place of question mark? adequately. (c) contribute, rich (a) jumped through hoops (d) express, towering 1 (b) jumping for hooping  2  (e) focus, outstanding 31. 3024 1892  684 19 (c) jumped on hoop   (d) jumping from hoop Direction (Q.26 – 30) : In the following (e) No correction required. sentences containing five parts (A, B, C,  ?2  459 D & E) which may or may not consist (a) – 27 (b) 29 Direction (21-25): The following error. Find the error and mark the option (c) 31 (d) 841 questions have two blanks, each blank which does not contain the error (e) 1089 indicating that something has been consisting part. If the sentence is error

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O does (e) None of these between D and B? not like Chipmnuk or Jetson. Only two 89. K*M#F%L, how is K related to F ? (a) E (b) A persons live between the one who likes (a) Wife (b) Mother (c) F (d) H Purple and the one who likes Brown. The (c) Sister (d)Daughter (e) None of these person who likes Scooby Doo lives on the (e) None of these 94. Who among following likes Alicia? floor immediately above the floor of the 90. Which of the following expression (a) G (b) B person who likes Simpson. N does not like represents T is brother of W ? (c) A (d) D neither Purple nor Red. (a) W*S%T (b) W*T%S (e) F (c) T*W%K (d)W#S%T 95. Who among following sits third to left 83. How many persons live between the (e) None of these one who likes Pomona? floors on which S and P live? (a) The one who likes Seamus (a) Three (b) Two Directions (91-95) : Study the given information and answer the questions: (b) The one who likes Marcus (c) Four (d) Five (c) The one who likes Alicia (e) No one Eight persons A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting in a straight line . Some of them are (d) The one who likes Pancy 84. Which of the following statements is/ (e) None of these. are true according to the given facing towards north direction while some information? of them are facing towards south direction. Directions (96-100) : Study the given (a) Q lives on floor numbered 5 and They all like different characters of Harry information and answer the questions: he does not like Black potter movie viz Minerva, Horace, Pomona, (A) If the data in statement I alone is (b) M likes Scooby Doo and he does Marcus, Seamus, Angelina, Pancy and Alicia sufficient to answer the question. not live on floor numbered 5 but not necessarily in the same order. (B) If the data in statement II alone is (c) O likes Yellow and he lives on the A likes Marcus and sits third from one of sufficient to answer the question. topmost floor the extreme end of line. There are three (C) If the data either in statement I (d) Only two persons live between persons sit between A and H, who likes alone or statement II alone are the floors of Q and R Horace. H does not sit any of the extreme sufficient to answer the question. (e) All the statements are true. end of the line. G sits second to right of H. (D) If the data given in both I and II The one who likes Seamus does not sit together are not sufficient to 85. Who among the following lives on the adjacent to one who likes Horace. B likes answer the question. floor immediately above the floor of Seamus and sits third to right of F , who (E) If the data in both the statements S? likes Minerva. C does not like Angelina. E I and II together are necessary to (a) N (b) R does not like Pancy. B does not sit any of answer the question. (c) S (d)O the extreme end of the line. There are as 96. How many persons are sitting between (e) No one many as persons sit between C and the one Renu and Ruchi? 86. Who among the following does like who likes Pomona and as between D and I. Renu is 5th from right end of row Purple? the one who likes Pomona. F faces south. D and also 4th to the right of Anu. (a) P (b) R likes neither Pancy nor Angelina. Immediate II. Anu is 6th from the left end of (c) M (d) Q neighbor of H faces same direction as of row and also 6th to the left of (e) S H(Same direction means if H faces north Ruchi. 87. Who among the following does like then both neighbor of H will face north 97. What is the position of Shruti in a row cartoon character Popeye? direction and vice-versa). C sits one of the of 25 students? (a) R (b) P extreme end of line. G sits second to right of I. Bhavna is 12th from right to (c) N (d) Q A, and both faces same direction (Same Shruti. (e) S direction means if A faces south then G also II. Yogesh is 6th to left of Bhavna faces south and vice-versa). B sits second and also 10th from left end. Directions (88-90) : Study the given to right of D and both faces opposite information and answer the following 98. How is Priya (female) related to Vivek direction(opposite direction means B faces (male)? questions: towards north then D will face south and If A$B means A is wife of B I. Rajiv is brother of Vivek’s uncle vice-versa). Bhuvan. If A#B means A is son of B 91. Who among following sits extreme end If A%B means A is father of B II. Vivek’s grandfather has 2 children of the line? and also these 2 children have 2

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children each. Priya’s mother is 3 1 100 20 married to Rajiv.   920  ? = 2000  400 99. Aditya is facing which direction? 4 5 650 100 I. Surbhi is facing east direction and 400 if she turns to her right she will  ?  21.23 Reqd. %  100  2.27% face Rahul. (36-40) 17600 II. Aditya is facing opposite 36. (d) Sales of Phones in first six months = 45. a; Men visiting Museum Q ,25% =800 direction as that of Kirti who is 657000 Then no. of Children in Museum Q facing Surbhi. Sales of TV in first six months = 777000 800 100. In how many days Karuna completed 37. (b) Differences:  35 1120 her assignment when announced to Jan = 9, Feb = 13, March = 15, April = 25 complete so? 36, May = 15, June = 50, July = 40, Women visiting Museum U,32% I. Her teacher wanted the Aug = 40, Sep = 12, Oct = 42, Nov = =1152 assignment to be checked within 40, Dec = 30 Then Children in Museum U 10 days when announced. 38. (b) People who like TV = x, then who 1152 II. Karuna went to outstation with like Phones = 120/100 × x = 1.2x  38 1368 family the same day and came Total sales of TV in all months = 1538 32 back before 1 day the day, thousand 1368 assignment needed to get checked. Total sales of Phones in all months = Reqd. %  100 122% 1538 thousand 1120 Sales of TV/person = 1538/x and 46. c; Number of Men visiting Museum P  Sales of Phones/person = 1538/1.2x 1500 So Sales of Phones/person is minimum.   40 1000 EXPLANATIONS 39. (a) Mar = 6/112 × 100 = 5.35% 60 Similarly, May = 1.46%, July Number of children visiting Museum 1. d 2. b 3. a 4. b decreased, Sep = 4.38%, Nov = 3.42% 5. b 6. d 7. c 8. c 40. (b) [(139+173)-(127+114)]/ 200 R   20  400 9. d 10. d 11. a 12. b (139+173) × 100 = (312 -241)/312 × 10 13. e 14. c 15. d 16. b 100 = 23% Reqd. Ratio 1000:400=5:2 17. c 18. c 19. e 20. a (41-43) 47. d; Percentage of women in T= 30 + x = 21. c 22. d 23. e 24. d 41. (b) 75 => x= 45 25. a 26. b 27. c 28. c 29. b 30. a Percentage of women in P= 100 – (30+40) = 30 (31-35) Then average 1 31. (b) 2 2 (45  30  35  32) 142 162  36  ?  459    35.5 42. (d) Pattern is 4 4 Or. 2 = 4 + 1296 – 459 = 841 ? 1 48. a; Women visiting Museum S Or. ? = 29 16  2 10 1575 32. (a) 2  55 1925 (591 248)10050 101 2 12 45 ?  Men visiting Museum U 350 3 or ? = 4900 12  2  20 216 2  30 1080 7 6 11 2 33. (c);  ? 20 2  2  42  40 Then Total=1925+1080=3005 113 5 (49-51) 2 42  2 107 ? 14641 2 68 49. (d) ; 36 x  32 x   x ? 121 43. (a) The series is  2  2,3  3, 11 2 68 34. (e); 55.97  40.97 15  ?  4  4, 5  5, 6  6, 68 x   x 11 ? 2  0 So 246 is wrong one.   (44-48) x 11 ?  0 44. c; Percentage of Children = 100 – (45 + 35. (d) 35) = 20% x 121 No. of Children 50. (a);  9 100  64 16 190

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51. (d); 1919 19 Age of father = 7x  4 years 59. (b); Number of C type of garments in 19 20  380 store 1= (25  25200)/100 = 6300 52. (b) Since initial investment is in the ratio Age of son = x  4 years Number of D type of garments in store 7 : 5 : 12 means sum of investment of A 7x  4 4 2 and 3 together = (105  54000)/100 and B equal C and more amount Given ,  + (11  36000)/100 = 15750 +3960 = x  4 1 invested at the end of six months also 19710 shows that sum of investment of A and  7x  4  4x 16 Req. % = (6300 100)/19710 = 31.96% B equals to C.  3x 12 = 32%(approx.) So profit of C will be half of total profit x  4 60. (b); Total number of A type of garments 10000 7x  x  28  4  32 years in all three = (17  25200)/100 + Profit of C =  Rs.5000 2 (56-60) (72  54000)/360 + (19  36000)/100 = 4284 + 10800 + 6840 = 21,924 53. (a) Work done in first 4 days 56. (b) Total number of B type of garments in all three stores = 19224 Total number of B type of garments in  1 1 1  13  4       Total number of E type of garments in all three stores = (12  25200)/100 +  48 72 96  72 all three stores = 17400 (60  54000)/360 + (20 36000)/100 Work done in last 3 days Total number of F type of garments in = 3024 + 9000 + 7200 = 19224 Total number of C type of garments in 1 1 all three stores = 15972  3  all three stores = (25  25200)/100 + 72 24 Total number of B,E and F type garments in all three stores = 52596 (45  54000)/360 + (15 36000)/100 Remaining work Required average = 52596/3 = 17532 = 6300 + 6750 + 5400 = 18450  13 1  56 Total number of D type of garments in  1     57. (d); Number of B type of garments in  72 24  72 store 1 = (12  25200)/100 = 3024 all three stores = (10  25200)/100 + (105 54000)/360 + (11 36000)/100 This remaining work was completed Number of B type of garments in store   by A and B 2 = (60  54000)/360 = 9000 = 2520 + 15750 + 3960 = 22230 A and B per day work Number of B type of garments in store Total number of E type of garments in all three stores = (15 25200)/100 + 1 1 10 3 = (20  36000)/100 = 7200     Total number of B type of garments in (50  54000)/360 + (17  36000)/100 48 72 288 = 3780 + 7500 + 6120 = 17400 No. of days for which A and B worked all stores = 19224 Number of D type of garments in store Total number of F type of garments in 56 all three stores = (21 25200)/100 + 1 = (10  25200)/100 = 2520  2  72  22 Number of D type of garments in store (28  54000)/360 + (18  36000)/100 10 5 days 2 = (105  54000)/360 = 15750 = 5292 + 4200 + 6480 = 15972 288 Number of D type of garments in store Hence , total number of D type of garments in all three stores is maximum 2 3 = (11  36000)/100 = 3960 Total no. of days = 4 + 3 + 22 61. (b) Given , S.P = Rs.8 5 Total number of D type of garments in all stores = 22230 Profit = 37.5% 2 Required number = 19224 + 22230 = 8100 64 = 29 days CP   5 41,454 137.5 11 54. (b); Let the article costs ‘x’ to a 58. (a); Total number of A and E type of By allegation – Cost price of B = 1.2x garments in store 1= (17+15)=(32 Cost price of C = 0.75 (1.2x) = 0.9x  25200)/100 = 8064 Cost price of D = 1.4 (0.9x) = 1.26x = Number of D type of garments in store 252  x = 200 3 = (11  36000)/100 = 3960 Amount price by A for the article = Rs Hence, the total number A and E type 200 of garments in store 1 is approx. double 55. (c); Let the present age of father and son the number of D type of garments in be 7x and x years , respectively. After 4 years store 3. Water : Milk = 1 : 10

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66. 67. 68. 69. x 93 1085  x18 2 Floor Cartoon 62. (a)  Person Color 100 100 70. No Character (71-75) 7 O Flinstone Yellow  3x  1085  x 4 6 S Tweety Purple SYMBOLS = T = # P = ^ N =) F = * 5 Q Chipmnuk Red 3x  41085  4x U = @ D = & L= $ H = ! 4 N Popeya Black ALPHABETS=Last letter of the 3 M Scooby Brown 7x  41085 Doo x  4155 word Number=Number of letters in a 2 R Simpson Orange word 1 P Jetson Blue x  Rs.620 71. d 72. d 73. e 74. d st 83. c 84. e 85. d 86. e 1 part = Rs.620 75. b nd 2 part = Rs.465 (76-80) 87. c 63. (e) Let speed of car will be x km / hr (88-90) 200x 88. b 89. d 90. b Speed of train = (91-95) 100 = 2x km/ hr 150 150 30 ATQ,   x 2x 60 91. a 92. e 93. b 94. d (300 – 150 ) 60 = 60 x 95. c X = 150 km /hr 76. c 77. e 78. d 79. e 64. (d); Let the numbers be a , b and c (96-100) respectively. 80. a 96. e (81-82) a  c b  c From both:    24 81. b | | | | | Anu | | | Renu | Ruchi 2 2 So one person is sitting  a  c b  c  24 2  48 97. e; From both, first Yogesh can be located,  a  b  48 and then Bhavna and then Shruti. 65. (e) 3 men = 9 boys 98. e; From both, Vivek’s grandfather has 2 1 man = 3boys children i.e. Bhuvan and Rajiv; Bhuvan 5 men + boys is Vivek’s uncle, so Rajiv is his father. = 5 3  6 boys = 21 boys Priya’s mother married to Rajiv, so Priya is sister of Rajiv.  M1D1 = M2D2 99. e; From I: Cannot be found from I because no mention of Aditya. = 9  21  21 D 2 82. b From II : Cannot be found because 9 21 don’t know the direction of either Kirti  D   9 days 2 21 or Surbhi (66-70) From both can be found, because we get directions of all Persons Bike Route 100. d; It cannot be said that whether she A Himalayan Delhi to completed the assignment on the last Ahmedabad day, or she could have taken assignment B BMW GS Delhi to Ahmedabad to outstation also. C Triumph Leh to Tiger Manali D KTM Super Bengaluru to  Duke Hyderabad E Ducati Kolkata to (83-87) Multistrada Gangtok F Suzuki V Mumbai to Storm Goa

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QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE for a rupee. To make a profit of 20% 15. ‘O’ is the centre of the circle, AB is a 1. A plate was sold for Rs 6,300 after she should sell a dozen for chord of the circle, OM  AB. If AB giving two successive discounts of a)Rs 6 b)Rs 8 c)Rs 10 d)Rs 12 = 20 cm, OM = 2 11 cm, then radius 1 8. A and B are 20 km apart. A can walk at 12 % and 10%. Find the marked of the circle is 2 an average speed of 4 km/hour and B at a)15 cm b)12 cm 6 km/hour. If they start walking towards price. c)10 cm d)11 cm each other at 7 a.m., when they will 16. If the angles of a triangle ABC are in the a)Rs 7,300 b)Rs 7,700 meet? ratio 2 : 3 : 1, then the angles A, c)Rs 8,000 d)Rs 7, 250 a)8.00 a.m. b)8.30 a.m.  2. To attract more visitors, Zoo authority c)9.00 a.m. d)10.00 a.m.  B and  C are announces 20% discount on every 9. A policeman starts to chase a thief. a) A = 600, B = 900, C = ticket which costs 25 paise. For this    When the thief goes 10 steps the 300 reason, sale of ticket increases by 28%. policeman moves 8 steps. 5 steps of b) A = 400, B = 1200, C Find the percentage of increase in the the policeman is equal to 7 steps of the    0 number of visitors. thief. The ratio of the speeds of the = 20 a)40% b)50% policeman and the theif is c)  A = 200,  B = 600,  C = c)60% d)No change a)25 : 28 b)25 : 26 600 3. Which of the following represents a c)28 : 25 d)56 : 25 d) A = 450, B = 900, C = correct proportion?    10. What is the value of 0 a)12 : 9 = 16 : 12 45 b)13 : 11 = 5 : 4 9411492  9411492 17. In ABC, ABC = 700, BCA =  ?    c)30 : 45 = 13 : 24 941941149149 400. O is the point of intersection of d)3 : 5 = 2 : 5 the perpendicular bisectors of the sides, a)10 b)2 4. A sphere is cut into two hemispheres. then the angles BOC is One of them is used as bowl. It takes 8 c)1 d)100  a)1000 b)1200 bowlfuls of this to fill a conical vessel 1 6 1 c)1300 d)1400 of height 12 cm and radius 6 cm. The x   5 x  11. If , then 6 is 18. If the measures of the sides of triangle radius of the sphere (in centimetre) will x x are (x2 – 1), (x2 + 1) and 2x cm, then the be a)12098 b)12048 triangle would be a)3 b) 2 c)14062 d)12092 a)equilateral b)acute-angled c) 4 d)6 3 c)isosceles d)right-angled 5. The perimeters of a circle, a square and  12. If 3 2 a2 , then the 19. If 2x = 4y = 8z and xyz = 288, the value an equilateral triangle are same and their 5 5  5  5  5 areas are C, S and T respectively. value of a is 1 1 1 of   is Which of the following statements is a)4 b)5 2x 4y 8z true? c)6 d)8 2 a)C = S = T b)C > S > T 1 3 . I f x – 3x + 1 = 0, then the value of 11 11 c) C < S < T d)S < C < T 6 4 2 a) b) 6. The list price of a shirt is Rs 440 and a x  x  x 1 12 96 will be customer pays Rs 396 for it. The x3 discount rate is 29 27 a)18 b)15 c) d) 1 96 96 a)10% b) 10 % c)21 d)30 2 14. The graphs of x = a and y = b intersect c)20% d)12% at 1 π π 20. The value of sin cos  7. Nisha bought a number of oranges at 2 a)(a, b) b)(b, a) 2 6 4 for a rupee and an equal number at 3 c)(-a, b) d)(a, -b)

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be represented by 56, 68 etc. Similarly, Direction (Q.43) : In the question two Directions (49-50) : A series is given, with you have to identify the set for the statements are given each followed by one term missing. Choose the correct

w o r d ‘FIRE’. two conclusions, I and II. You have to alternative from the given ones that will consider the statements to be true even complete the series. if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. You have to 49. 3,9,6,36,30,? decide which of the given conclusions, if (a)800 (b)950 any, follows from the given statements. (c)400 (d)900 50. DKY,FJW,HIU,JHS,? 43. Statements: (a)LGQ (b)KGR 1. Some clerks are poor. (c)KFR (d)LFQ (a) 33, 34, 76, 22 2. A is poor. 51. Rajan is youngest than his father by 20 (b) 21, 22, 88, 33 Conclusion: years. 5 years ago his father was 3 (c) 02, 03, 57, 01 I. A is clerk. times elder than him. Find the present (d) 14, 10, 69, 14 II. A has a large family. age of his father. 39. Five friends are sitting in a row facing (a) Both conclusions I and II follows. a)30 years (b)35 years South. Here Mohan in between Balu (b) Only conclusion I follows. (c)36 years (d)25 years and Raju and Raju is to the immediate (c) Only conclusion II follows. 52. Sunita is the 11th from either end of a right of Praveen and Amit is to the right (d) Neither conclusion I nor row of girls. How many girls are there of Balu. Who is in extreme right end? conclusion II follows. in that row? (a) Amit 44. If ÷ stands for x (a)20 (b)21 (b) Balu + stands for ÷ (c)22 (d)19 (c) Praveen × stands for -and 53. Select the related figure from the given (d) can’t be determined -stands for +, then alternatives. (48 + 6-12) ÷ 2 + 10 = Directions (Q.40) : Some equations are (a) 9 (b) 16 solved on the basis of a certain system. (c)4 (d)14 On that basis find out the correct answer 45. If STOVE is coded as EVOTS and for the unsolved equation. CANDLE is coded as ELDNAC, then 40. If 526=9 REPORT is coded as? and 834=9, then (a) PORTRE 716=? (b) SFQPSU a)15 (b)9 (c) QDONQS (c)12 (d)20 (d) TROPER 41. Which conclusion is true with respect 46. Mr. Das started his journey from his house straight to his friend’s house at a to the given statements? 54. From the given answer figures, select Statements: distance of 12 km. On returning he walked 8 km in the same route and the one in which the question figure is Anand is an artist. Artists are beautiful. hidden/embedded. Conclusions: turned right and walked 4 km. Then he (a)Anand is not beautiful. turned to his left and walked 4 km. (b)Beautiful persons are not artists. Finally he turned to his left and walked (c)All beautiful persons are artists. 2 km. How far was he from his house? (d)Anand is beautiful. (a) 6km (b)2km 42. If a mirror is placed on the line RS, then (c)8km (d) 4km which of the answer figures is the right 47. From the given alternatives, select the image of the given figure? word which can be formed using the letters of the given word. IMMEASURABLE (a)MEAT (b)BIBLE 55. If January 1st is a Friday, what is the (c)BAILABLE first day of the month of March, in a (d)BLUE leap year? 48. The question given below is based upon (a)Wednesday (b)Thursday the following set of codes: (c)Friday (d)Tuesday Digit : 1 3 5 4 6 0 8 7 2 56. In the following letter series, how many Code: A O Z L D T N H Q B C N occur in such a way, that C is in Find the code for 21500. the middle and B and N are on any one (a)SLOPH (b) SLPHO side? (c) QAZTT (d) SHLPO

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BCMXNCXNBXNCBNCB (a) Saudi Arab (d) Tabla YBCXNBCNABONMZCB (b) Argentina 74. Biosphere reserved conservation areas (a)2 (b)5 (c) France related to : (c)3 (d)4 (d) Israel (a) Genetics diversity 57. Identify the alternative which resembles 65. The headquarters of Food and (b) Grasslands the mirror-image of the given word. Agriculture Organisation is in (c) Atmosphere DL9Q3574 (a) Washington (d) Agricultural products (b) Paris 75. Buddhism and Jainism both have stress (c) Madrid on : (d) Rome (a) Worship of God 58. Which of the conclusions can be drawn 66. Who was the first Man to Climb Mount (b) Non-violence from the given statements? Everest without Oxygen? (c) Self-mortification Statements: (a) Junko Tabei (d) None of the above All the students in my class are (b) Reinhold Messner 76. Which two planets of the solar system intelligent. Kaushik is not intelligent. (c) Peter Habeler have no satellites? a) Non-intelligent are not students (d) Phu Dorji (a) Mercury and Venus b) Kaushik is not a student of my 67. Who was the first Indian Scientist to (b) Venus and Mars class win a Nobel Prize? (c) Mercury and Mars c) All other than Kaushik are (a) CV Raman (d) Venus and Neptune intelligent (b) Amartya Sen 77. ‘Globalisation of Indian Economy’ d) Some students are not intelligent (c) Hargobind Khorana means : 59. Some equations are solved on the basis (d) Subramanian Chrandrashekar (a) Stepping up external borrowings of a certain system. Using the same, 68. The famous ‘Hornbill festival’ is (b) Establishing Indian business units solve the unsolved equation. celebrated in which of the following abroad If 10-3=12,12-4=13,14-5=14, then States of India? (c) Having minimum possible 16—6= ? (a) Nagaland restrictions on economic relations (a) 16 (b) 18 (b) Mizoram with other countries (c)10 (d)15 (c) Assam (d) Giving up programmes of import 60. Which one set of letters when (d) Meghalaya substitution sequentially placed at the gaps in the 69. Gundecha brothers are well known 78. A moderator is used in nuclear reactors given letter series shall complete it? exponents of which among the in order to : bc_bca_cab_ab_a_ca following styles of Hindustani (a) Increase the number of neutrons (a)cabac (b) abccb Classical Music? (b) Decrease the number of neutrons (c) cabca (d) abcab (a) Khayal (c) Slow down the speed of neutrons (b) Tharana (d) Accelerate the neutrons GENERAL AWARENESS (c) Dhrupad 79. Cryogenic engines find applications in : (d) Thumri (a) Rocket technology 61. Which among the following is the oldest 70. Who among the first Indian ruler to (b) Frost-free refrigerators surviving rock-cut cave in India? defeat the British? (c) Sub-marine propulsion (a) Bagh Caves (a) Shivaji (d) Researches in superconductivity (b) Ellora Caves (b) Tipu Sultan 80. Which Article in the Constitution on (c) Uday Giri Caves (c) Hyder Ali India provides for the post of (d) Barabar Caves (d) Akbar Comptroller and Auditor General of 62. Who is the writer of the book “Devdas”? 71. National civil service by is observed on. India (CAG)? (a)Vikram Seth (a) April 21 (a) Article148 (b) Arundhati Roy (c) February 13 (b) Article155 (c) Bikram Chandra Chattopadhyay (c) November 18 (c) Article165 (d) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (d) May 2 (d) Article 214 63. Who won the prestigious Global Future 72. Which of the following organs of human 81. The Governor of the State can be for nature award 2019? body provides instant energy? removed by which one of the (a) Dr. Divya Karnad (a) Lungs following? (b) Dr. Charudutt Mishra (b) Pancreas (a) Chief Minister (c) Dr. Richa Sharma (c) Muscles (b) Prime Minister (d) Dr. Neetu Singh (d) Liver (c) Union Home Minister 64. Which country has signed a 73. Bismillah Khan was associated with? (d) President memorandum of understanding with (a) Sarod 82. Manikaran Power Plant is in? India to boost cooperation in the sector (b) Shehnai (a) Arunachal Pradesh of nuclear energy on 18 Feb. 2019? (c) Flute (b) Himachal Pradesh

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(c) Madhya Pradesh 92. Which team lost the IPLtrophy in, (d) Uttar Pradesh 2019? EXPLANATIONS 83. Who won the Oscar awards for 26 times? (a) Chennai (a) Walt Disney (b) Delhi 1. c (b) Aflred Hitchcock (c) Hyderabad (c) Akira Kurosawa (d) Mumbai (d) Charlie Chaplin 93. First Indian women Olympic Medal 84. ‘CDMA’ technique used in mobile is? winner is - (a) Computer Development (a) Saina Nehwal Management Application (b) M.C Mary Kom (b) Code Division Multiple (c) Karnam Malleshwari Application (d) Sakshi Malik (c) Code Division Multiple Access 94. The “Pommel Horse” is term associated (d) Code Division Mobile Access with the game - 85. Who wrote ‘Two Lives’? (a) Chess (a) Vikram Seth (b) Tennis (b) KIran Desai (c) Badminton (c) Arundhati Roy (d) Gymnastics (d) Khushwant Singh 95. “Cue ball, break shot, pool table” are 86. Who was the editor of Kautilya’s terms associated with which of the Arthasastra ? following games? (a) Srikant Shashtri (a) Billiards (b) Srinivas Iyengar (b) Squash (c) R Shamasastri (c) Golf (d) William Jones (d) Cricket 87. The mass energy relation is the outcome 96. Which of these is not part of the of endocrine system? 2. c (a) Quantum theory (a) Lungs (b) General theory of relativity (b) Pituitary gland (c) Field theory of energy (c) Adrenal gland (d) Special theory of relativity (d) Thyroid gland 88. An example of renewable energy source 97. Ctrl, Shift and Alt are called ...... keys. is (a) Modifier (a) Coal (b) Function (b) Petroleum (c) Alphanumeric (c) Lignite (d) Adjustment (d) Biomass 98. A computer cannot “boot” if it does not 89. Which one of the following minerals is have the _____ found in pure form? (a) Compiler (a) Iron (b) Loader (b) Copper (c) Operating system (c) Bauxite (d) Assembler (d) Manganese 99. Who won the premier badminton league 90. Which of the following is not a function title on 13 Jan 2019? of the United Nations Development (a) Munbad Rockets Programme? (b) Hyderabad Hotshot (a) Poverty reduction (c) Bengaluru Raptors (b) Energy and environment (d) Chennai Smashers (c) Crises prevention and recovery 100. Which union territory has announced a (d) Protection of refugees worldwide total ban on manufacture and storage 91. Who was the only Secretary General of of single use plastics territory on 13 3. a the UNO to have died while serving Jan 2019? his tenure? (a) Pondicherry (a) U thant (b) Chandigarh (b) Dag Hammerskjold (c) Daman and Diu (c) Trygve Lie (d) Lakshadweep (d) Kurt Waldhiem 

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15. b 18. d 21. d

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31. b

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32. a 24. a 29. a 24 = 16 34= 81 54 = 625 44 = 256 14 =1 44 = 256 33. c 34. b 35. a 36. a; French is the language of France. Dutch is language of Holland. 37. a; 84=4096 134=28561 38. c; F=02,14,21.... I = 03, 10, 22 R = 57, 69, 76 E = 01, 13, 20 39. a

30. b 40. c 25. d 526=9  5 +6-2=9 26. d and 834=9  8+4-3=9 then 716=7+6-1= 12. 41. d 42. a 43. d

44. c; (48 + 6 -12) ÷ 2 + 10 From question  (48 ÷ 6 + 12) x 2 ÷ 10  (8 + 12) x 2 ÷ 10  20 x 2 ÷ 10  40 ÷ 10  4. 27. d

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45. d; Here, 47. d 55. d; January=31 48. c February=29 day(leap year) March=1 Total=61 days [January Friday=1,8,17,22,29.Feb. Hence, code for Monday=1,8,15,22,29] First January is Friday 60  7  4 So, after 4 days=Tuesday 49. d 56. c 57. b 58. b 59. d; 10-3= 12 (10+3)-(1+0)=13-1=12 12-4= 13 (12+4)-(1+2)=16-3=13 50. a 14 - 5 = 14 All the three follow the same pattern. 51. b; Let present age of father = x years (14+5)-(1+4)= 19-5=14 Pattern is: letters are reversed from last. Rajan’s age = (x- 20) years 46. b  16-6=(16+6)-(1+6) 5 years ago father’s age = (x 5) years = 22 -7 = 15. 5 years ago Rajan’s age = (x- 20- 5) 60. b 61. d 62. d 63. a = (x- 25) years 64. b 65. d 66. b 67. a According to the question, 68. a 69. c 70. c 71. a (x- 5) = (x- 25) 72. d 73. b 74. a 75. b x -5 = 3x-75 76. a 77. c 78. c 79. a  2x=70  x=35 80. a 81. d 82. b 83. a  Father’s age = 35 years. 84. c 85. a 86. c 87. d 52. b 88. d 89. b 90. d 91. b AF=4-2=2km 92. a 93. c 94. d 95. a Hence, Das is 2km away from his 96. a 97. a 98. c 99. c There are 21 girls in that row. house. 100. a 53. c 54. d 

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REASONING ABILITY Direction(9-10) : In the following I. The pilot should try to land in the question, select the missing letter from nearest airport as soon as possible Direction(1-2) : In the following the given alternatives. and follow the instruction from question, select the related word pair air traffic control. from the given alternatives. 9. A, W, D, T, G, Q, J, ? II. Crash land immediately and do not (a)M (b)N wait for any instructions as it will 1. China’s Sorrow : Huang He:: Bengal’s (c)O (d)P waste time. Sorrow: ? 10. BEJS,DGLU,KNSB,UX?L (a)Only I follows (a)Ganga (b)Brahmaputra (a)Z (b)C (b)Only II follows (c) Hooghly (d)Damodar (c)A (d) F (c)Both I and II follows 2. Great Expectations: Charles Dickens :: 11. Rahul’s mother is the only daughter of (d)Neither I nor II follows Gulliver’s Travels: ? Monika’s father. How is Monika’s 15. In a certain code ‘WASHING’ is coded (a)Daniel Defoe husband related to Rahul? as ‘FOHIRBV’. In the same code how (b)John Bunyan (Note: Monika is a female) will ‘MOTHERS’ be coded as? (c)Jonathan Swift (a) Uncle (a)RSDISPL (b)RDSPISL (d)Lewis Carroll (b) Father (c)RSDSIPL (d)RDSIPSL (c) Grandfather Direction(3-4) : In the following 16. In the following question, select the (d) Brother question, select the related number missing number from the given 12. In given equation which signs from the given alternatives. alternatives. interchange makes it correct ? 3. P x L : 24 x 32 :: W x M 7÷4×2+5÷3-4÷2-5=16 (a) 26 x 46 (b)24 x 48 (a)Interchange in ‘÷‘ and ‘–‘ (c)26 x 48 (d)24 x 46 (b)Interchange in ‘÷‘ and ‘×‘ 4. 16 : 50 : : 24 : ? (c)Interchange in ‘+‘ and ‘–‘ (a)77 (b)70 (d)Interchange in ‘÷‘ and ‘+’ (c)74 (d)79 13. Rashmi walked 20 meters towards north. (a)48 (b)72 5. In the following question, select the Then she turned right and walks 40 (c)35 (d)120 related word from the given meters. Then she turns right and walks 17. If the circle represents the cricketers, alternatives. 35 meters. Then she turns left and walks rectangle represents the wrestlers and JX: DR :: ? 15 meters. Finally she turns left and diamond represents the athletes, then (a)PN: JH (b)OP: JG walks 15 meters. In which direction and which of the following represents those (c)AD: FH (d)MP: GI how many meters is she from the wrestlers who are cricketers? starting position? Direction(6-7): In the following (a)45 meters east question, select the odd number/letter (b)35 meters west from the given alternatives. (c)45 meters west (d)55 meters east 6. (a)7324 (b)9324 14. In the following question,a statement (c)5316 (d)3716 is given followed by two course of 7. (a)JGDA (b)CZWT action assuming everything given in (c)EBXU (d)SPMJ the statement is true, decide which 8. Arrange the following words as per of the option logically worth (a) a+b (b) e+b order in the dictionary. pursuing. (c) e+d (d) b 1) Story 2) Start Statement: During a flight, the pilot 18. Some equations have been solved on 3) Saint 4) Shop found that one of the engine of airplane the basis of a certain operation. 5) Stair is not working. Find the correct answer for the (a)12345 (b)35421 Course of action: unsolved equation on that basis. (c)34521 (d)34512

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If 73 * 17 = 45 and 68 * 40 = 54, then Anika’s Birthday in the same year, if 83 * 15 = ? Anika was born on 15th August? (a)49 (b)64 (a)Wednesday (b) Friday (c)69 (d)79 (c) (d) (c)Saturday (d)Tuesday 19. From the given options ,which figure 25. In this question, the sets of symbols cannot be formed by folding the 22. In the following questions, you are given in the alternatives are figure given in the question ? given a figure (X) followed by four represented. The columns and rows Question figure : alternative figures (a), (b), (c), and of Matrix I are represented by (d) such that figure (X) is embedded &,@,#,$,* . A letter from this matrix in one of them. Trace out the can be represented first by its row alternative figure which contains and next by its column, e.g., ‘N’ can fig. (X) as its part. be represented by &@, @*, etc, and ‘D’ can be represented by *&,$* etc. Similarly you have to identify the set for the word ‘DRUM’

MATRIX-I Answer figure: & @ # $ * & R N M D U @ M D R U N # U R D N M (a)Figure (A) (b)Figure (B) (a) (b) (c)Figure (C) (d)Figure (D) $ N U M R D 20. Which of the following diagram indicates * D M U N R the best relation between Males, Fathers, Engineers. (a) @&, $$, &*, $# (a) None of these (c) (d) (b) @@, $$, &*, $# (c) @@, $#, &*, $@ (d) &$, $$, ##, $# Direction(23) : A circular sheet of paper (b) is folded in particular manner, punched ENGLISH LANGUAGE once and then unfolded. Find out manner in which the paper was folded Direction (Q.26-30) : Read the passage and punched from amongst the answer carefully and choose the most figure. appropriate answer to each question out (c) of the four alternatives. 23. It is not luck but labour that makes good Question figure: luck, says an American author, is ever waiting for something to turn up; labour with keen eyes and strong will power turns up (d) something. Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy, 21. Identify the figure that completes the labour turns out at six and with busy pen pattern. and ringing hammer lays the foundation of Answer figure: competence. Luck whines, labour watches, luck relies upon chance, labour upon character. Luck slips downwards to self- indulgence; labour strides upwards and (a) (b) aspires to independence. The conviction, therefore, is extending that diligence is the mother of good luck. In other words, a man’s success in life will be proportionate to his efforts, to his industry to his attention to small things. (c) (d) (a) (b) 26. Which one of the following words in the passage indicates that the writer does 24. Kavya’s birthday is on Tuesday 4th not ultimately reject the element of July. On what day of the week will be luck?

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(a) ‘Luck whines’ 32. I went there (a)/with a view of survey (b) Normalization (b) ‘Diligence is the mother of good (b)/the entire procedure.(c)/ No error (c) Rejuvenation luck’ (d) (d) Consternation (c) ‘Luck wishes the postman would 33. It had laid (a)/in the closet (b)/for a Direction (Q.41-42): In the following bring him news’. week before we found it.(c)/ No error questions, a part of sentence is printed (d) ‘Luck is ever waiting.’ (d) in BOLD. Below are given alternatives 27. Which pair of words means the same to the bold part a, b and c which may be thing? Direction (Q. No.34-36) : In the improved the sentence. Choose the (a) Labour and industry following questions, sentences are given correct alternative in case no (b) Industry and legacy with blanks to be filled in with an improvement is needed your answer is (c) Diligence and legacy appropriate word. Four alternatives are d. (d) Legacy and labour suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four. 28. Which one of the following, statements 41. If you were the Prime Minister of India sums up the meaning of the passage? 34. There are not solitary, free living what steps would you have taken to (a) Luck waits and complains without creatures; every form of life is ______end unemployment? working while labour achieves other forms. (a) will you take success although it complains. (a) dependent on (b) will you be taking (b) Luck is self indulgent, but labour (b) parallel to (c) would you take is selfless. (c) overshadowed by (d) No improvement (c) Luck often ends in defeat but (d) segregated from 42. A high school student is not even labour produces luck. 35. I will take ______now as I have understanding the basics of (d) Luck waits without exertion, but another’s appointment somewhere Chemistry and Physics. labour exerts without waiting. else. (a) does not understand even. 29. ______Labour turns out at six and (a) departure (b) was not even understanding. with busy pen and ringing hammer lays (b) my leave (c) has even not understood. the foundation of competence. What (c) permission (d) No improvement. does this statement mean? (d) leave from work Direction (Q.43-44) : In the following (a) Labour lays the foundation of the 36. A garden knife is ______used for right questions, four alternatives are given for building. pruning. the Idiom/Phrase printed in bold in the (b) The writer and the labourer are (a) generally sentence. Choose the alternative which the true eyes of the society. (b) compulsorily best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/ (c) There is no worker who works so (c) systematically Phrase. hard as the labourer who begins (d) daily his day at six in the 43. I tried to feel his pulse on the issue, morning. Direction (Q.37-38) : In the following but in vain. (d) Hard work of all kinds makes questions, out of the four alternatives, (a) find his views people different. choose the one which best expresses the (b) enlighten him 30. Which one of the statements is true meaning of the given word that is your (c) argue with him about the passage? answer. (d) guide him (a) Success depends only on hard 44. For this act of indifference he will be luck. 37. VENAL taken to task by the authority. (b) Expectation of good luck always (a) Corrupt (a) he will get an official reprimand meets with disappointment. (b) Comprehensible from the authority. (c) Success is exactly proportionate (c) Legible (b) he will be rewarded by the to hard work. (d) Forgivable authority (d) Luck is necessary for success. 38. AMELIORATE (a) Improve (b) Degrade (c) he will tender his resignation to (c) Motivate (d) Agree the authority. Direction (Q.31-33): In the following (d) he will be entrusted with an official questions, some parts of the sentences Direction (Q.39-40) : In the following job. have errors and some are correct. Find questions, out of the four alternatives, Direction (Q.45-46) : In the following out which part of a sentence has an error. Choose the word that is opposite in questions, four words are given in each The number of that part is your answer. meaning to the given word. question, out of which only one word is If a sentence is free from error, then your 39. AMORPHOUS correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt answer is (d) i.e. No error. (a) Amoral (b) Definite word. 31. When one hears of the incident (a)/about (c) Perfect (d) Irregular 45. (a) Revolutionize the plane crash (b)/he feels very 40. ADULTERATION (b) Revoulutionize sorry.(c)/ No error (d) (a) Purification

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greater than B. The ratio of ages (c) Revvolutionize (a) 0 (b) 3 (d) Reevolutionize between B and E is 2:3. Also age of A is 3 years less than E . What is the ratio 46. (a) Disentry (b) Dysentry (c) 1 3 (d) 1 3 (c) Diesentry (d) Dysentery     of ages of A and F if all the ages are in 53. A swimming pool has 3 drain pipes. The integers ? Direction (47-48) : In these questions out first two pipes A and B , operating (a) 12:11 (b) 9:7 of the four alternatives choose the one simultaneously, can empty the pool in (c) 24:19 (d) 12:13 which can be substituted for the given half the time than that of taken by C 59. A merchant buys 4000 kg of wheat. One words/sentence. alone. Pipe A , working alone , takes –fifth of which he sells at a gain of 5 %, half the time taken by pipe B. Together 47. A person who attends to the diseases of one –fourth at a gain of 10 % , one – they take 6 hrs 40 minutes to empty half at a gain of 12 %, and the remainder the eye is an the pool . Time taken by pipe A to at a gain of 16 % . If he had sold the a) Oculist b) Optimist empty the pool , in hours, is whole at a gain of 11 %, he would have c) Obstetrician d) Optician (a) 10 (b) 15 made Rs.72.80 more . What was the 48. The study of worms and insects (c) 30 (d) 7 cost price of the crop per KG ? a) Taxidermy 54. A trader allows a trade discount of 20% (a) Rs.2 (b) Rs.2.26 b) Entomology (c) Rs.2.50 (d) None of these c) Ornithology 1 60. A sum of Rs.725 is lent in the beginning d) Paleontology and a cash discount of 6 % on the 4 of a year at a certain rate of interest . Direction (Q.49-50) : In the following marked price of the goods and gets a After 8 months , a sum of Rs.362.50 questions, a sentence has been given in net gain of 20% of the cost. By how more is lent but at the rate twice the Active/Passive Voice. Out of the four much above the cost should the goods former. At the end of the year , Rs.33.50 alternatives suggested, select the one be marked for the sale ? is earned as interest from both the which best expresses the same sentence (a) 70 % (b) 60% loans. What was the original rate of in Passive/Active Voice. (c) 50 % (d) 40 % interest (approx) ? 55. For x = 2y +6, the value of (a) 3.5 % (b) 4.5 % 49. They will laugh at you. 3 3 (c) 5 % (d) 6 % a) You will have been laughed at by x  8y  36xy - 261 is 61. A reservoir is in the shape of a frustum them. (a) 4 (b) 0 of a right circular cone. It is 8 m across b) You can be laughed at by them. (c) -2 (d) -1 at the top and 4 m across the bottom. c) You may be laughed at by them. 56. X and Y are centres of circles of radii 9 It is 6 m deep . Find the area of its d) You will be laughed at by them. cm and 2 cm respectively, XY = 17 cm. curved surface. 50. Trespassers shall be prosecuted. Z is the centre of a circle of radius r cm (a) 119.26 m2 (b) 162.3 m2 a) The authorities might prosecute which touches the above circles (c) 452 m2 (d) 181.6 m2 trespassers. 0 62. Area enclosed by the equations y =|x|-5 ex tern ally. G iv en th at = 90 , b) The authorities can prosecute XZY the value of r is in xy –co-ordinates system is trespassers. (a) 50 sq. unit c) The authorities shall prosecute (a) 13 cm (b) 6 cm (c) 9 cm (d) 8 cm (b) 20 sq. unit trespassers. (c) 25 sq. unit d) The authorities may prosecute 3 (d) 52 sq. unit trespassers. 57. If sin = then, θ 4 63. At the foot a mountain the elevation of its summit is 450, after ascending QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE 2 2 1000m towards the mountain up a cosec θ  cot θ slope of 300 inclination, the elevation 51. If n = 7 + 4 3 , then the value of is equal to: sec2 θ 1 is found to be 600. The height of the mountain is  1   n   i s 5 7 (a) 1.366 km (b) 1.633 km  n  (a) (b) (c) 1.636 km (d) 1.363 km 3 3 64. ABCD is a square. The diagonals AC (a) 2 3 (b) 4 and BD meet at O. Let K and L be the 2 3 points on AB such that AO = AK, BO (c) – 4 (d)  2 3 (c) (d) 3 2 = BL, If θ =  LOK, then what is the 52. If sec2 θ  1 3tan 58. The ratio of age between A and B is 6:5 value of θ ? 9 0 0 θ  3 1  0 , then the value of and the age of each C and D is times (a) 75 (b) 60 10 (c) 0 (d) 0 tan θ - that of B. Age of F is less than A but 45 30

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65. What is the possible expression for the (a) 10 (b) 15 78. Which one amongst the following is the 3rd dimension of the cuboid 12ky2 + (c) 7 (d) 16 oldest Dynasty? 8ky -20k, if the two of its dimensions (a) Pallava Dynasty  1 1 1 1  are (y – 1) and 4k ? 72.    ......   is (b) Chola Dynasty (a) 3y + 2 (b) 2y +3 12 23 34 99100 (c) Maurya Dynasty (c) 3y + 5 (d) 3y - 5 equal to (d) Gupta Dynasty 66. A square field of area 31684 sq. m is to 79. The leader of the Bardoli Satyagraha be surrounded by the barbed wire. The 1 99 (1928) was? (a) (b) wire to be fixed at the height of 1,2,3, 9900 100 (a) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel & 4 m above the ground . If the length (b) Mahatma Gandhi of the wire required to cover the field 100 1000 (c) Mahadev Desai once is 5 % more than the actual length, (c) (d) 99 99 (d) Subash Bose then how long the wire will be required? 80. Which of the following Articles of Indian (a) 2390.4 m (b) 2590.6 m Direction (73-75) : The numbers in the Constitution guarantees equal (c) 2785.8 m (d) 2990.4 m bracket give the maximum marks in each opportunities in public employment to 67. The average age of Sachin and Ganguli subject. persons belonging to SC/ST and the is 35 years. If Kaif replaces Sachin, the The following table gives the percentage other minority communities? average become 32 years and if Kaif of marks obtained by seven students in (a) Article 15 (b) Article 27 replaces Ganguli, then the average age six different subjects in an examination (c) Article 22 (d) Article 16 becomes 38 years. If the average age of . study it and answer the question given 81. Which of the following Statements is Dhoni and Irfan be half of the average below it. correct regarding the Election age of Sachin, Ganguli and Kaif , then Commission of India? Subject (Maximum Marks ) the average age of all the five people is: Computer (a) It is an independent and statutory Students Maths Chemistry Physics Geography History Science (a) 28 years (b) 32 years (150) (130) (120) (100) (60) body. (c) 25 years (d) 26 years (40) Golu 90 50 90 60 70 80 (b) It consists of members having 68. A cylinder which has the capacity of Mithi 100 80 80 40 80 70 tenure of six years. eight litres contains a mixture of Suraj 90 60 70 70 90 70 (c) It acts as a court for arbitration of Gapplu 80 65 80 80 60 60 oxygen and nitrogen. The volume of Mahi 80 65 85 95 50 90 disputes related to granting of oxygen in the cylinder is 16 % of total Khushi 70 75 65 85 40 60 recognition to political parties. volume . A few litres of the mixture is Sheetal 65 35 50 77 80 80 (d) Being an all-India body, it is also released and an equal amount of concerned with the elections with 73. What are the average marks obtained by nitrogen is added. Then the same the elections to Gram Panchayats all seven students in physics ? (Round amount of the mixture as before is and State Municipalities. off two digits after decimal) released and replaced by nitrogen for 82. Which of the following is a part of the (a) 77.26 (b) 89.14 the second time . As a result the oxygen Electoral College for the Election of the (c) 91.37 (d) 96.11 content becomes 9 % of total volume , President but does not participate in 74. The number of students who obtained Find the amount of mixture released the proceedings for his/her 60% or above marks in all subjects is each time? impeachment? (a) 1 (b) 2 (a) 2 litres (b) 2.5 litres (a) Lok Sabha (c) 3 (d) 4 (c) 1 litres (d) 0.5 litres (b) Rajya Sabha 75. What was the aggregate of marks 69. A, B and C are situated at the bank of (c) State Legislative Assemblies obtained by suraj in all subjects ? river which is flowing at a constant rate (d) State Legislative Councils (a) 409 (b) 179 . B is at an equal distance with A and C. 83. The pass located at the southern end of (c) 429 (d) 449 A swimmer Avinash takes 10h to swim the Nilgiri Hills in south India is called from A to B and B to A. Also , he takes GENERAL AWARENESS (a)The Palghat gap 8h to swim from A to C in downstream. (b)The Bhorghat pass What is the ratio of speed of Avinash 76. Which battle was fought in 1565? (c)The Thalgat pass in still water and speed of stream ? (a) Battle of Chanderi (d)The Bolan pass (a) 5 : 4 (b) 3 : 5 (b) Battle of Chausa 84. Eclipses occur due to which optical (c) 2 : 5 (d) None of these (c) Battle of Talikota phenomena? (a) Reflection 70. 491  492  493  494 is divisible by (d) Battle of Khanua 77. Traces of rice cultivation have been found (b) Refraction (a) 17 (b) 13 at which of the following Harappan (c) Rectilinear propagation (c) 11 (d) 3 sites? (d) Diffraction   9    (a) Lothal and Rangpur 85. The clouds extending from one side of   21 1     441 1   horizon to other as a dark grey sheet 8   of 60% -  255  7  4  ? (b) Kalibangan and Ropar 71.   5 5      (c) Alamgirpur and Harappa having uniform base are called          (d) All Harappan sites (a) Stratus clouds

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(b) Cumulus clouds (c) Atal Bihari Vajpayee J_ _ G _ _ D _ _ A (c) Cirrus clouds (d)Bhupen Hazarika C _ _ Z _ _ W _ _ T (d) Nimbus clouds 96. The lengthiest classical epic of India is S _ _ P _ _ M _ _ J 86. The solubility of a gas in liquid increases (a) Bhagwad Gita 8. (c); Arrangements of words as per order with (b) Ramayana in dictionary are as under:- (a) Increase in Temperature (c) Gita Govinda (b) Reduction in Gas Pressure (d) Mahabharata (c) Decrease in Temperature and 97. Navy Day is observed on Increases in Gas Pressure (a) December 4 (d) Amount of Liquid Taken (b) October 28 87. Sodium carbonate crystals lose water (c) November 14 molecules. This property is called (d) January 13 (a) Hygroscope 98. Who is the winner of Vyas Samman (b) Deliquescence 2018? Hence, c is the required answer. (c) Efflorescence (a) Leeladhar Jagudi 9. (b); There are 2 series: (d) None of these (b) Mamta Kalia A _ _ D _ _ G _ _ J 88. Which of the following is a natural dye? (c) Surendra Verma W _ _ T _ _ Q _ _ N (a) Crystal violet (d) Dr. Sunita Jain Clearly, there is a gap of two letters (b) Aniline blue 99. Who is the recipient of the 2019 between two alternating series. (c) Alizarin Templeton Prize? 10. (b); BEJS=> ’ B ’, then two alphabet (d) Phenolphthalein (a) Gérard Mourou skipped, then ’ E ‘ taken, then 4 89. Water cannot be used to extinguish fire (b) Marcelo Gleiser alphabets skipped, then ‘J ‘ taken, then caused by electric current because (c) Donna Strickland 8 alphabets skipped ,’S’ taken. (a) It may cause electrocution (d) John Templeton KNSB => after ‘S‘ 8 alphabets (b) It may cause hydrolysis 100. Which country ban Assault Weapons skipped,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z,then A, these (c) It may cause electrolysis (a) New Zealand alphabets are skipped (d) It may spoil the wiring (b) Russia Same formula applied in all other 90. Electromotive force is most closely (c) Thailand elements. related to (d) Pakistan UX?L => After X, 4 alphabets (a) Electric Field  skipped,’C ‘ taken . (b) Magnetic Field So 4th term of given series is UXCL (c) Potential Difference 11. (b); (d) Mechanical Force EXPLANATIONS 91. A Money Bill can originate (a) In either house of Parliament 1. (d); River Damodar is known as Bengal’s (b) Only in the Lok Sabha sorrow. (c) Only in the Rajya Sabha 2. (c); Gulliver’s Travels was written by (d) Only in a joint sitting of the two Jonathan Swift. houses 3. (a); The position values of the alphabets 12. (b); Given equation in question 92. Which of the following gland allow are used where A=1, B=2, C=3 and so 7÷4×2+5÷3-4÷2-5=16 excess water to leave the body on. If we change sign ‘÷ ‘ and ‘ × ‘ then, (a) Thyroid gland P(16)  L(12) : (12x2)  (16x2) 7×4÷2+5×3-4×2-5 (b) Thymus gland W(23)  M(13) : (13x2)  (23x2) (c) Pituitary gland 4. (c); 50 = 16 * 3 + 2  7×4÷2+5×3-4×2-5 (d) Eccrine gland Similarly, 24 * 3 + 2 = 74  7×2+15-8-5 Hence, option (C) is the right answer. 93. Cystic vein receive blood from  14+15-8-5 (a) Liver (b) Heart 5. (a); The position values of the alphabets (c) Brain (d) Gall – bladder are used where A=1, B=2, C=3 and so  16 94. Which one of the following is considered on. 6 is subtracted to determine the 13. (d); She moves from starting point A 20 as a cell with in a cell? position values of the latter alphabets meters north wards up to B, then turns (a) Ribosome J(10) X(24) : D(4) R(18) right & moved 40 meters up to point C (b) Chloroplast P(16) N(14) : J(10) H(8) & then turns right & moves 35 meters (c) Lysosomes 6. (b); (7-1)  (3+1) = 24 up to point D & 15 meters up to E (d) Golgi Apparatus (9-1)  (3+1) = 32 and not 24 Diagram given below depicts the path 95. To whom was the “Bharat Ratna” (5-1)  (3+1) = 16 traverse by Rashmi. awarded last in 2019? (3-1)  (7+1) = 16 (a) J. P. Narayan 7. (c); The gap between the neighbouring (b) Amartya Sen alphabets is of 2.

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Hence, option (b) is the correct answer 18. (a); 73 + 17 = 90/2 = 45  4  3  4 3 68 + 40 = 108/2 = 54 2 2 83 + 15 = 98/2 = 49.  2   3  2 2 3 Hence Answer = 49 2 19. (c)  2  3 20. (a); All fathers are males. But some fathers or males are engineers.  1  1 If males are represented as a big circle, So,  n    2  3   n  2  3 AB=20 m, BC=40 m CD=35 m, fathers will represent the small circle DE=15 m, EF=15 m inside the big circle. Engineers will 7  4 3 1 AF=BC + DE =40+15=55 m represent the smallest circle touching  So answer is 55m east of starting point. both the other circles. 2  3 14. (a); Crash landing without heeding expert opinion is dangerous. Pilot should look 4 2  3 for a safe landing site and only in case     4 of emergency and when no other 2  3 options are possible, crash landing 2 should be done and pilot should always 21. (d) 52. (b) sec θ  1 3 listen to air traffic controls advice and alerts. tan θ  3 1  0 15. (a)  1 tan 2 θ  tan θ  3

22. (d); On observing the options we can tanθ 3 1  0 see that the figure given under option  2 (d) is indeed embedded in the original tan θ  3 tan θ  tanθ figure. It has been represented below: 16. (a); All four figures are made by five  3  0 squares. The middle square value is the product  tanθtanθ 31 of left vertical and right vertical squares. tanθ 3 0 For first figure: Left vertical squares =value of first 23. (b)  tan θ 3tan θ1  0 square – value of second square. 24. (d); Total number of days from 4th July Left vertical squares x = 15 – 5 =10. to 15th August  tan θ - 3 = 0 Right vertical square y = value of first = (27 + 15) = 42 Days or square + value of second square. Number of extra days = 42/7 = 0 tanθ1  0 Right vertical square y = 2 + 6 = 8. (remainder)  tan θ = 3 or tanθ 1 Value of Middle square is = Left vertical Thus, day on 15 th Aug will be 53. (b) Let x hour = time taken by pipe A squares(x) * Right vertical square(y). (Tuesday + 0) = Tuesday alone to empty the pool = 10 * 8= 80. 25. b 26. b 27. a 28. a 2x hour = time taken by pipe B alone For second figure: 29. d 30. c to empty the pool Value of Middle square is = Left vertical (31-33) So, Time taken by pipe A & B together squares(x) * Right vertical square(y). 31-b; Use ‘a’ in place of ‘the’ to empty the pool = (9 - 4) * (7 + 6) = 65. 32-b; Use ‘surveying’ in place of ‘survey’ Similarly, for third figure: as “ing” form must be used with the x  2x Value of Middle square is = Left vertical phrase with a view to.  hours x  2x squares(x) * Right vertical square(y). 33-a; Use ‘had been lying’ in place of ‘had = (13 - 11) * (16 + 8) = 48. laid’ 2x 2 2 Hence, option (a) is correct. 34. a 35. b 36. d 37. a  hours = x hours 17. (b); Clearly, circle represents the 38. a 39. b 40. a 41. c 3x 3 cricketers, rectangle represents the 42. a 43. a 44. a 45. a  Time taken by pipe C alone to wrestlers and diamond represents the 46. d 47. a 48. b 49. d athletes. So, the required region is the 50. c  2  one which is common to the circles and empty the pool   x  2 hours rectangle. 51. (b) n  7  4 3  3 

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 2900R  10050 TA B  600 a a 2 2  2 1 θ 2 2 2  R  3.46 %  3.5% In  A1A2Q tan    2 1 2 a 1 61. (a) A2Q 2 2 0 Sin 30 = A A 1 2 θ 2tan 2 2 1 1 1 tanθ  2  A Q  1  2 θ 1 2 1 2 2 2 km= B2 B1 ...(i) 1 tan   2 2 2

0 A1Q 2 2 1 2 2 1 cos 30        A1A2 1 3  2 2 2 2  2 3 3  tanθ 1 Curved surface area of a frustum  A Q  1  km ....(ii) 1 2 2  θ  450  πr  R 65. (c) Volume of the cuboid In  TB1A1 : 8 4 12ky2  8ky  20k  Here, R = 4m, r = =2 m 0 TB1 x 2 2 45   2 tan ….. (iii)  4k3y  2y  5 A1B1 A1B1 2 2 And   h  R  r  4k3y2  5y  3y  5 In  TA 2B2 :   62  22  40 tans  4ky3y  513y  5 Curved surface area 1 x   4ky 13y  5 22 2 3rd dimension = 3y + 5   2  4  40  3    3 66. (d) Side of the square field 7 x  =119.26 m2 2 = 31684 =178 m 62. (c) |x|- y – 5= 0 Perimeter of the square field Area of two triangles formed by  x  1.366 km |x| - y - 5 = 0 64. (c) Let sides of a square be a.  4178  712m Length of the wire required to cover 2 Then , AC = a 2 and AO= OC =  c2  c2 5 the field once =105 % of 712 m  2    = 1.05 712   a   2ab  ab 11 = 747.6 m Total length of the wire =25 Sq. unit 2 = 4 747.6  2990.4m 63. (a) a Here, AM = 67. (a) Total age of S + G = 35  2 = 70 2 years . K + G = 32  2 =64 years S + K = 38  2 = 76 years 70  64  76  SGK 2 210  = 105 years 2 105 Average of S + G + K = = 35 3 a a a LM =  and OM = years 2 2 2 A1A 2  1000 m  1 km 35 In OML Average of D + I =  Sum of age 0  2 A2A1B1  30 of D + I = 35

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Average of S, G, K, D , I =   9    624   21 1      89.14 105  35  441 1  8 of 60%- 62574 7 =28 years   5 5  5    74. (b) From the table , it is clear the that     68. (a) Let each time y amount of mixture      Suraj & Gapplu have 60% or more releases marks in each of the six subjects.   3    75. (d) Aggeregate marks obtained by suraj   21 1   2  21 1   y   8 of 60%- 62574 = [(90% of 150) + (60% of 130) + (70% 81    5 5   of 120) + (70% of 100) + (90% of 60)  8  0.09             + (70% of 40)] 8 0.16 2 2 = [135 + 78 + 84 + 70 + 54 + 28] = 449  y   3    2 1    76. c 77. b 78. c 79. a  1      8   of 60% -  625  7  4  8   4    5 5    80. d 81. b 82. c 83. a 84. c 85. a 86. a 87. c   2 3 1    88. c 89. a 90. c 91. b y 1  8   of   352  7  4   y  2 litres   5 5 5    92. d 93. d 94. c 95. d 8 4 96. d 97. a 98. a 99. b 69. (d) Let x = speed of Avinash in still   2 3 1    100. a water and y = speed of stream.  8     625 7  4   5 5 5     d d  10 x  y x  y …..(1)   1   VANIK’S KNOWLEDGE GARDEN  8    625  7  4  25   UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME (UBI) 2d  8  4x  y  d  8  32  4  16  Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a x  y programme for providing all citizens  1 1 1 1  of a country or other geographic ………(2) 72. (b)   .... 12 23 34 99100 area/state with a given sum of x  y  x  y   d  10 money, regardless of their income, From (1), x  yx  y 1 1 1   resources or employment status. Tn = n n 1 n n 1  The main idea behind UBI is to d  2x 10x  yx  y       [By partial fraction] prevent or reduce poverty and xd = 5 ( x + y ) (x – y) increase equality among citizens. From (2),  1 1 1 The essential principle behind Sn = 1       d  2 2 3 Universal basic income is the idea xd  5  x  y that all citizens are entitled to a 4  1 1  livable income, irrespective of the .....    5 5 99 100 circumstances they’re born in.  x  x  y  The Economic Survey 2016-17 4 4  1  advocated the concept of Universal Sn = 1   [ first term + last x 5  100 Basic Income (UBI) as an alternative x  5y   to the various social welfare schemes y 1 99 in an effort to reduce poverty. term ]= 91 2 3 100  The Survey points out that the two 70. (a) 4 1 4  4  4   prerequisites for a successful UBI 91 1 are:  4 1 4 16  64 73. (b) [(90% of 120) + (80% of 120) + 7 (a) Functional JAM (Jan Dhan, 91  4 85 (70% of 120) + (80% of 120) + (85% Aadhar and Mobile) system as it of 120) + (65% of 120) + (50% of 120)] ensures that the cash transfer  517  491 1 goes directly into the account of a Divisible by 17.  520%of120 71. (d) 7 beneficiary and (b) Centre- State negotiations on cost sharing for the programme.

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LIST OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS

NAME OF MINISTER PORTFOLIO Ministry of personnel, public grievances and pensions Narendra Modi Department of atomic energy, Department of space All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any minister Rajnath Singh Minister of defence Amit Shah Minister of home affairs Nitin Gadkari Minister of road transport and highways Minister of micro, small and medium enterprises D V Sadananda Gowda Minister of chemical and fertilizers Nirmala Sitharaman Minister of finance, Minister of corporate affairs Ram Vilas Paswan Minister of consumer affairs, food and public distribution Narendra Singh Tomar Minister of agriculture and farmers welfare Minister of rural development, Minister of panchayati raj Ravi Shankar Prasad Minister of law and justice, Minister of communications Minister of electronics and information technology Harsimrat Kaur Badal Minister of food processing industries Thaawar Chand Gehlot Minister of social justice and empowerment Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Minister of external affairs

Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' Minister of human resource development

Arjun Munda Minister of tribal affairs Smriti Zubin Irani Minister of women and child development; and Minister of textiles Dr. Harsh Vardhan Minister of health and family welfare; Minister of science and technology; and Minister of Earth sciences Prakash Javadekar Minister of environment, forest and climate change; and Minister of information and broadcasting Piyush Goyal Minister of railways; and Minister of commerce and industry Dharmendra Pradhan Minister of petroleum and natural gas; and Minister of steel. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Minister of minority affairs Pralhad Joshi Minister of parliamentary affairs; Minister of coal; and Minister of mines. Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey Minister of skill development and entrepreneurship Arvind Ganpat Sawant Minister of heavy industries and public enterprise Giriraj Singh Minister of animal husbandry, dairying and fisheries Gajendra Singh Shekhawat Minister of jal shakti

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MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE)

NAME OF PORTFOLIO MINISTER

MoS (independent charge) of ministry of labour Santosh Gangwar and employment

MoS (independent charge) of ministry of statistics Rao Inderjit Singh and programme implementation

MoS (independent charge) of ministry of AYUSH Shripad Yesso Naik MoS in the ministry of defence

MoS (independent charge) of ministry of development of North Eastern region MoS in the Prime Minister’s Office; Dr Jitendra Singh MoS in the ministry of personnel, public grievances and pensions; MoS in the department of atomic energy; and MoS in the department of space

MoS (independent charge) of the ministry of youth Kiren Rijiju affairs and sports; MoS in the ministry of minority affairs

MoS (independent charge) of the ministry of culture; Prahalad Singh Patel MoS (independent charge) of the ministry of tourism

MoS (independent charge) of the ministry of power; MoS (independent charge) of the ministry of new Raj Kumar Singh and renewable energy; MoS in the ministry of skill development and entrepreneurship

MoS (independent charge) of the ministry of housing and urban affairs; Hardeep Singh Puri MoS (independent charge) of the ministry of civil aviation; MoS in the ministry of commerce and industry

Mansukh L. MoS (independent charge) of the ministry of shipping; Mandaviya MoS in the ministry of chemicals and fertilizers

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MINISTERS OF STATE

NAME OF MINISTER PORTFOLIO

Faggansingh Kulaste MoS ministry of Steel

Ashwini Kumar Choubey MoS ministry of Health and Family Welfare

MoS ministry of Parliamentary Affairs; Arjun Ram Meghwal MoS ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

General (Retd) V. K. Singh MoS ministry of Road Transport and Highways

Krishan Pal MoS ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

Danve Raosaheb Dadarao MoS ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

G. Kishan Reddy MoS ministry of Home Affairs

Parshottam Rupala MoS ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

Ramdas Athawale MoS ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti MoS ministry of Rural Development

Babul Supriyo MoS ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

Sanjeev Kumar Balyan MoS ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries

MoS ministry of Human Resource Development; MoS ministry of Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao Communications; and MoS ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

MoS ministry of Finance; and Anurag Singh Thakur MoS ministry of Corporate Affairs

Angadi Suresh Channabasappa MoS ministry of Railways

Nityanand Rai MoS ministry of Home Affairs

MoS ministry of Jal Shakti; and MoS ministry of Social Justice and Shri. Rattan Lal Kataria Empowerment

V. Muraleedharan MoS ministry of External Affairs; and MoS ministry of Parliamentary Affairs

Renuka Singh Saruta MoS ministry of Tribal Affairs

Som Parkash MoS ministry of Commerce and Industry

Rameswar Teli MoS ministry of Food Processing Industries

MoS ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises; and MoS ministry of Pratap Chandra Sarangi Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries

Kailash Choudhary MoS ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

Debasree Chaudhuri MoS ministry of Women and Child Development

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S. STATE AND U.T. CHIEF MINISTER GOVERNOR NO 1 Andaman & Nicobar U.T. Devendra Kumar Joshi 2 Andhra Pradesh Shri Jagan Mohan Reddy Shri. E. S. L. Narasimhan 3 Arunachal Pradesh Pema Khandu B.D. Mishra 4 Assam Sarbananda Sonowal Jagdish Mukhi 5 Bihar Nitish Kumar Lal Ji Tondon 6 Chandigarh U.T. V.P. Singh Bandore 7 Chhattisgarh Dr. Bhupesh Baghel Anandiben Patel 8 Goa Pramod Sawant Mridula Sinha 9 Gujarat Vijay Rupani Shri Om Prakash Kohli 10 Haryana Manohar Lal Khattar Satyadev Narayan Arya 11 Himachal Pradesh Jai Ram Thakur Acharya Dev Vrat 12 Jammu and Kashmir Presidents Rule Satyapal Malik 13 Jharkhand Raghubar Das Draupadi Murmu 14 Karnataka H.D. Kumaraswami Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala 15 Kerala PinarayiVijayan P. Sathasivam 16 Madhya Pradesh Kamal Nath Anandiben Patel 17 Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao 18 Manipur N. Biren Singh Najma Heptullah 19 Meghalaya Conard Sangam Tathagata Roy 20 Mizoram Zoramthanga Jagdish Mukhi 21 Nagaland Neiphiu Rio Shri Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya 22 New Delhi Arvind Kejriwal Anil Bijal 23 Odisha Sh. Naveen Patnaik Ganeshi Lal 24 Puducherry V. Narayanasamy Kiran Bedi 25 Punjab Captain Amarinder Singh V P Singh Badnore 26 Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot Kalyan Singh 27 Sikkim Shri Prem Singh Tamang Ganga Prasad 28 Tamil Nadu Eddappadik Palaniswami Banwaril Lal Purohit 29 Telangana K Chandrasekhar Rao ESL Narasimhan 30 Tripura Biplap Kumar Dev Kaptan Singh Solanki 31 Uttar Pradesh Yogi Aditya Nath Shri Ram Naik 32 Uttarakhand Trivendra Singh Rawat Baby Rani Maurya 33 West Bengal Km. Mamata Banerjee Keshari Nath Tripathi 34 Dadra and Nagar Haveli U.T. Prafula Khodapatel 35 Daman and Diu U.T. Prafula Khodapatel 36 Lakshadweep U.T. Farooq Khan

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PERMANENT COMMISSIONS OFFICE-HOLDERS 1. Chairman, National Human Rights Commission of India-H. L. Dattu 2. Chairman, Central Vigilance Commission-K. V. Chowdhary 3. Chairman, Central Information Commission-Sudhir Bhargava 4. Chairperson, Central Board of Direct Taxes -Pramod Chandra Mody 5. Chairman, National Commission for Minorities-Syed Ghayorul Hasan Rizvi 6. Chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Castes-Ram Shankar Katheria 7. Chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes -Nand Kumar Sai 8. Chairman, National Commission for Backward Classes- Bhagwan Lal Sahni 9. Chairman, National Commission for Women-Rekha Sharma 10. Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission of India-Sekhar Basu 11. Chairman, ISRO-K. Sivan 12. Chairman, National Forest Commission-B. N. Kirpal 13. Chairman, Union Public Service Commission-Aravinda Saxena 14. Chairman, University Grants Commission-Dhirendra Pal Singh 15. Chairman, Central Water Commission-Narendra Kumar 16. Director, Space Applications Centre-Tapan Misra 17. Chairman, Competition Commission of India-Devender Kumar Sikri 18. Chairman, CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education)-Anita Karwal 19. Chairperson, Central Board of Indirect Tax & Customs (CBIC)-Pranab Kumar Das 20. Chairman, FSSAI(Food Safety and Standards Authority of India)-Rita A. Teotia

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Acronyms Abbreviations ACS Automated Clearing Systm. AD Authorized Dealer. CGRA Currency and Gold Revaluation Account. ADB Asian Development Bank. CIBIL Credit Information Bureau of India Limited Currency Management Information ADF Automated Data Flow CMIS System AEPS Aadhaar Enabled Payments Switch CNP Card Not Present AFS Annual Financial Statement. CPFF Commercial Paper Funding Facility AIC Agricultural Insurance Company. CPI Consumer Price Index. AIF Alternative Investment Fund CRAR Capital To Risk Weighted Asset Ratio. ALCO Asset Liability Committee CRISIL Credit Rating Information Services Of India ALM Asset Liability Management CRMD Credit Risk Management Department. AMFL Association of Mutual Funds in India. CRR Cash Reserve Ratio. AML Anti-Money Laundering CSR corporate social responsibility AMRMS Audit and Risk Monitoring Mechanism CTI Country Threat Index. ANBC Adjusted Net Bank Credit DPG Deferred Payment Guarantee APBS Aadhaar Payment Bridge System DPN Demand Promissory Note ARC Asset Reconstruction Companies DRAT Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunal ASBA Applications Supported Bank Accounts DRI Differential Rate Of Interest Associated Chambers of Commerce and DSCR Debt Service Coverage Ratio ASSOCHAM Industry of India. DTAA Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement. ATM Automated Teller Machine. European Bank for Reconstruction and EBRD BCBS Basel Committee on Banking Supervision Development. BCSBI Banking Codes and Standards Board of India ECB External Commercial Borrowings. BIS Bank for International Settlements. ECS Electronic Clearing System. BOE Bill of Exchange EDF Export Development Fund BOP Balance of Payments. EDI Electronic Data Internchange BOT Build,Operate and Transfer. EDP Entrepreneurship Development Programme BSCS Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. EEFC Exchange Earners’ Foreign Currency BSE Bombay Stock Exchange. EFTPOS Electronic Funds Transfer At Point Of Sale BSR Basic Statistical Returns. EIB European Investment Bank. CAD Current Account Deficit ELSS Equity Linked Saving Scheme. CAR Capital Adequacy Ratio EMI Equated Monthly Instalments CARE Credit Analysis and Research Limited EPFO Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation EPOS Electronic Point Of Sale CASA Current and Savings Accounts EPS Earning per Share CBLO Collateralized Bank Lending Obligations ESOP Employee Stock Options CBS Core Banking Solution. EXIM Export Import Bank of India. CCIL Clearing Corporation of India Limited FCA Foreign Currency Assets. CCL Cash Credit Limit FCCB Foreign Currency Convertible Bond CDB Caribbean Development Bank. FCNR Foreign Currency Non Resident Deposit Accounts Committee of Direction on Banking CDBS Statistics. FCNRA Foreign Currency Non resident Account. FDI Foreign Direct Investment. CDRS Corporate Debt Restructuring FEDAI Foreign Exchange Dealers Association Of India CDS Credit Default Swap. FERA Foreign Exchange Regulation Act. Comprehensive Economic Partnership CEPA Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Management. FICCI Industry. CFRA Combined Finance and Revenue Accounts.

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FII Foreign Institutional Investor. KCC Kisan Credit Card Financial Information Network and FINO Operation Limited KMB Kotak Mahindra Bank. FIPB Foreign Investment Promotion Board. KVB Karur Vysya Bank. FPI Foreign Portfolio Investment. KVIC Khadi and Village Industries Corporation FTA Free Trade Agreement. KVP Kisan Vikas Patra GAAR General Anti Avoidance Rule. KYC Know Your Customer Guidelines GDR Global Depository Receipt. LAB Local Area Bank. GFD Gross Fiscal Deficit. LAF Liquidity Adjustment Facility GIRO Government Internal Revenue Order. LAMPS Large Sized Adivasi Multipurpose Societies GMS Gold Monetisation Scheme LDB Land Development Bank. GSTN Goods and Services Network LERMS Liberalized Exchange Rate Management System HDFC Housing Development Finance Corporation. LIBOR London Inter Bank Offered Rate. IADB Inter American Development Bank. LIC Life Insurance Corporation Of India IAS Integrated Accounting Systems LTCG Long-Term Capital Gains IBBI Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India LTN Long Term Note International Bank for Reconstruction and MCA Ministry Of Company Affairs IBRD Development MCLR Marginal Cost Of Lending Rate IBU International Banking Unit MFDF Micro Finance Development Fund ICA Indian Council of Agricultural Research. MIBOR Mumbai Inter Bank Offer Rate. Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation ICICI MICR Magnetic Ink Character Recognition of India. MIS Management Information System Investment Information and Credit Rating ICRA MSS Market Stabilisation Scheme Agency of India Limited MTN Medium Term Note IDB Islamic Development Bank. MUDRA Micro Units Development And Refinance Agency IDBI Industrial Development Bank of India. National Bank For Agricultural And Rural IDR Indian Depository Receipts. NABARD Development. Institute for Development and Research Of IDRBT Banking NAS National Account Statistics. IEPF Investors Education and Protection Fund NAV Net Asset Value. IFC International Finance Corporation NBC Non Banking Companies. IIB International Investment Bank. NBFC Non Banking Finance Companies IIBF Indian Institute of Banking and Finance. NDA Net Domestic Asset IMF International Monetary Fund. NDS Negotiated Dealing Systems IMPS Immediate Payment Service NDTL Net Demand And Time Liability IMT Instant Money Transfer NECS National Electronic Clearing System IOB Indian Overseas Bank. NEFT National Electronic Funds Transfer System. IPO Initial Public Offering NFA No Frills Account. IPPB India Post Payments Bank NFC Non Banking Finance Companies. IRBI Industrial Reconstruction Bank Of India. NFS National Financial Switch Insurance Regulatory and Development NHB National Housing Bank. IRDA Authority of India NIB Nordic Investment Bank. IROs Interest rate options NPA Non Performing Assets. IRR Internal Rate Of Return. NPCI National Payments Corporation Of India International Standard Industrial ISCI NPS National Pensions Scheme. Classification NPV Net Present Value

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1. The nation pays homage to first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his 55th death anniversary on 27th May 2019. 2. Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) president Prem Singh Tamang, popularly known as PS Golay took oath as the Chief Minister of Sikkim. 3. The PK Chamling government was ousted by the SKM after over 24 years. 4. US President Donald Trump got the red carpet treatment at Japan’s Imperial Palace where he made history, becoming the first world leader to meet with the new emperor of Japan Naruhito. 5. Cyril Ramaphosa, the head of the African National Congress, was sworn in for a five-year term as South Africa’s president 6. NASA unveiled the calendar for the “Artemis” program that will return astronauts to the Moon for the first time in half a century, including eight scheduled launches and a mini-station in lunar orbit by 2024. 7. Sri Lankan navy has launched extra vigil on its northern seas in wake of media reports that some terrorist elements may have left the country to land on Indian shores. 8. Lewis Hamilton wins Monaco Grand Prix 9. Apurvi Chandela bags gold medal in 10m Air Rifle in ISSF World Cup in Munich, Germany. 10. China won the badminton world mixed-team championship, Sudirman Cup 2019 in Nanning, China. 11. Facebook plans to launch ‘GlobalCoin’ cryptocurrency in 2020 12. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder, and chief executive of Facebook 13. Action choreographer-filmmaker Veeru Devgan passes away 14. India bans Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh terror outfit 15. Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully test-fired an indigenously-developed 500 kg class guided bomb from a Sukhoi combat jet at Pokhran in Rajasthan. 16. RBI stated that all non-deposit-taking non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) with an asset size of Rs 5,000 crore and above, and all deposit-taking NBFCs irrespective of their asset size, have to maintain a liquidity buffer in terms of a Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR). 17. Corporation Bank has launched ‘Corp SME Suvidha’, a product for GST-registered MSMEs. 18. Multilateral funding agency Asian Development Bank (ADB) has announced that it has signed an agreement to provide USD 750 million equivalent in Indian rupee long-term financing to electrify railway tracks in India. 19. Indian Air Force successfully fired the BrahMos air version missile from its frontline Su-30 MKI fighter aircraft. 20. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully launched the ’RISAT-2B’Satellite from the Sriharikota’s, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, SHAR. 21. As per Election Commission of India, the 2019 Lok Sabha elections witnessed a voter turnout of 67.10% (interim), which is the highest ever voter turnout in the history of general elections. 22. Flight Lieutenant Bhawana Kanth became the first woman pilot of the Indian Air Force to qualify to undertake missions by day on a fighter aircraft. 23. After the Reserve Bank of India released a draft framework for setting up a regulatory sandbox (RS) for fintech players in the counter, the market and insurance regulators SEBI and IRDAI have also launched similar initiatives. 24. Tech Mahindra announced its biggest defence order worth over Rs 300 crore with the Indian Navy. 25. WHO Declares Algeria, Argentina Malaria-Free 26. Taiwan Expo 2019 began in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. 27. The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline meeting was held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. The groundbreaking of the TAPI gas pipeline will be held in Pakistan in October 2019. 28. World Bank, CommBank Team Up For ‘World 1st’ Blockchain Bond Transaction 29. US, Japan, South Korea, Australia Hold 1st Naval Drills “Pacific Vanguard exercise” In Western Pacific 30. HDFC Group Overtakes Tata Group As India’s Most Valuable 31. British Prime Minister Theresa May announces resignation from her post. 32. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj represented India in the meeting of Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation to be held in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic.

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33. Volodymyr Zelenskiy Sworn In As Ukraine’s New President 34. Saray Khumalo Becomes 1st Black SA Woman To Conquer Mount Everest 35. An author from Oman, Jokha Alharthi has won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize for”Celestial Bodies”. 36. Social media giant Facebook has apparently formed a new financial tech firm, Libra Networks LLC, in Geneva, Switzerland. 37. Ola Launches Credit Card In Tie-Up With SBI Card 38. India To Grow At 7.1% In FY’20: UN Report 39. Bharti AXA Life Insurance, a private life insurer, has been conferred with the FICCI Claims Excellence Award. 40. Shyam Saran To Be Conferred With Japan’s ‘Order of the Rising Sun’ Award 41. Sethu FC turned around a first-half deficit to clinch their first ever Indian Women’s League trophy after defeating Manipur Police at the Guru Nanak Stadium, in Ludhiana, Punjab. 42. As per the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Economic Outlook, India’s economic growth will regain strength and approach 7.5% by 2020 43. Pema Khandu to take oath as Arunachal Pradesh CM for 2nd term 44. Two women IAF officers from Punjab were part of the country’s first all-women crew to fly a medium-lift helicopter Mi- 17 V5. 45. Govt sets up tribunal for adjudicating ban on LTTE 46. The DRDO successfully test-fired the new version of the Akash surface-to-air defence missile system with a new indigenously-developed seeker in Balasore off the Odisha coast. 47. Indian Army officer appointed the commander of UN Mission in South Sudan 48. Russia launches new nuclear-powered icebreaker in bid to open up Arctic 49. Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) has announced that it has launched ‘Bank on Wheels’ facility in 14 of its lead districts in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, besides Vijayawada. 50. In ISSF shooting World Cup, in Munich Germany, India’s Saurabh Chaudhary has won 10m Air Pistol Gold beating his own World Record. 51. Goa celebrates its statehood day on 30th May. 52. As the World Environment Day is approaching, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change launched a theme song ‘Hawa Aane De’ on air pollution. 53. World Environment Day is celebrated on June 05. 54. Binny, India’s Only Orangutan Dies In Odisha’S Nandankanan Zoological Park 55. After Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi, Narendra Modi is the third prime minister of the country who has been able to retain power for a second term with full majority in Lok Sabha. 56. Kailasavadivoo Sivan is the chairperson of ISRO. 57. Military tribunal allows Karambir Singh to take charge as new Navy Chief 58. RBI has constituted a six-member committee on corporate loans. The committee, headed by TN Manoharan, Chairman, Canara Bank. 59. International Everest Day is being observed on 29th May. Nepalese Tenzing Norgay and New Zealand’s Edmund Hillary had climbed the Mt. Everest on this day (29th May) in 1953, as the first humans to achieve the feat. 60. Indian Writer Annie Zaidi Wins USD 100,000 Global Book Prize ‘Nine Dots’ 61. James Marape elected new Papua New Guinea PM 62. Nigeria’s Muhammadu Buhari sworn in for second term as president 63. Chelsea got the better of its English Premier League rivals to win the Europa League final, beating Arsenal 4-1 in the Baku Olympic Stadium, Azerbaijan. 64. FICCI survey forecasts India’s GDP growth at 7.1% for FY20 65. FICCI stands for Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. Headquarters of FICCI is in New Delhi. 66. Walmart Appoints Suresh Kumar as Chief Technology Officer 67. Scott Morrison has been sworn in as Australia’s Prime Minister 68. Kapil Sharma Acknowledged As Most Viewed Stand-up Comedian In India And Abroad 69. May 21 is chosen as Anti-terrorism day in India to commemorate the death Anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi died in a terrorist attack. 70. Reliance Industries has toppled state-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) to become the country’s biggest company by revenue.

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71. The Supreme Court has banned all mining activities along the ‘Kaziranga National Park’ and catchment area of rivers originating in KarbiAnglong Hills in Assam. 72. Rongali or Bohag Bihu is celebrated in Assam marking the Assamese new year, spring & harvest or sowing festival. 73. The chief of Army Staff General Bipin Rawat commissioned the Indian Coast Guard Ship Veera at a ceremony held at Visakhapatnam. 74. Indian naval ship INS Magar reached Mozambique’s Beira city loaded with suitable relief material. 75. The world’s tallest indoor waterfall (131-foot-tall), opened for the general public at Singapore’s Jewel Changi Airport. 76. Scientists unearth 220 million year old dinosaurs fossils in San Juan province. 77. Exim Bank funds projects worth USD 267 mn in Rawanda. 78. Indiabulls gets IRDAI nod for non-life business. 79. 150 Indian peacekeepers in S Sudan awarded medal of honour for dedicated service. 80. The Supreme Court directed the Gujarat Government on April 23, 2019 to give Rs 50 lakh compensation, a job and accommodation to BilkisBano. She was gang raped during the 2002 riots in the Gujarat. 81. Sunil Kumar Gautam felicitated with Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant Award for 2018-19. 82. Gagandeep Kang becomes first Indian woman Royal Society Fellow. 83. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has launched the ‘Malaria Elimination Research Alliance (MERA) India’ – a conglomeration of partners working on malaria control from India by 2030. 84. The International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day is observed every year on April 26 to raise awareness of the consequences of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the risks of nuclear energy in general. 85. Microsoft becomes world’s third company to be worth $1 trillion(APPLE & AMAZON) 86. PhonePe launched a special keyboard that will allow users to transact conveniently and securely with just a click, anytime and anywhere while using their Android phone. It is the only player in India to introduce this user-friendly feature. 87. Raheem Sterling has been named the 2019 footballer of the year by the Football Writers’ Association (FWA). Liverpool defender Virgil Van Dijk was announced as the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) young player of the year. 88. Cyclonic storm ‘Fani’ hit Coastal Odisha. 89. BCCI recently recommended cricketers Mohammad Shami, JaspritBumrah, Ravindra Jadeja and Poonam Yadav for the Arjuna award as announced by Committee of Administrators in New Delhi. 90. The Sri Lankan Government has issued orders preventing any person from preaching religious, extremist or radical ideologies that glorify terrorism. 91. India’s second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 will be launched on a day between 9 and 16 July 2019.The Indian Space Research Organisation said that the Chandrayaan-2’s lander will touch down near the Moon’s south pole on 6th September. 92. Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection scales record high of Rs 1.13 lakh crore in April, highest ever collection since GST implementation. 93. Singapore’s parliament passed the Protection from Online Falsehood and Manipulation Act (POFMA), a move to tackle the spread of online fake news. The bill was passed after two days of debate in the parliament. 94. Auto industry body SIAM said Bajaj Auto Executive Director Rakesh Sharma has been elected as Vice-President of Geneva-based International Motorcycle Manufacturers Association (IMMA). 95. Vice President Venkaiah Naidu will embark on a four-day official visit to Vietnam.The visit is expected to enhance India’s comprehensive strategic partnership with the Southeast Asian nation. 96. The Chhattisgarh police for the first time has inducted women commandos in the District Reserve Guard in its frontline anti-Naxal force

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SPECIAL SENTENCE MATTER ODD ONE OUT

What is the “Odd sentence out”? In odd sentence out type of question, you will be given a Para jumble with out of context sentence. You have to find the one that must misfit sentence with respect to the theme or the context. Here are some tips to identify the out of context sentence easily.

Find the common subject: To identify the misfit sentence, you need to understand the overall context first. To group the over all context, try finding the common subject among all the sentences. The one sentence that doesn’t share that common with other sentence is your answer. Consider the example given below.

Example: In the question given below, there are five statements marked A-E. All the statements except one belong to some context. Find the odd one out and mark she correct answer from the given options.

1. (A) But anyone who was worked as a professional in the country knows otherwise. (B) So what about the infamous terror attacks in Asian countries which is the cause of fear in much of the rest of the world? (C) In the collective imagination, there are two Europes: the industrious north, with relatively low unemployment and dynamic economies, and the sluggish south, where people would just as soon kick back, sip and espresso and watch the world go by. (D) Olivier, a senior counsel in a large French multinational in the construction industry in Paris works about 45 to 50 hours a week, from roughly 09 : 00 till 19 : 30. (E) Many people would lump France, the land of the 35-hour workweek, long lunches and even longer vacations, with the south (a) A (b) B (c) C (d) D (e) E Answer : B Solutions: The common subjects in statements A, C, D, E is ‘professional’ but statement ‘B’ is an exception which talks about ‘in famous terror attack’

Identify the common theme/ general idea: Try to identify the theme of the general idea around which the passage revolves. The general idea of the passage may appear to be the same in all the sentences. In such cases, the difference may lie in the context m which the general idea is being talked about.

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In the question given below, there are five statements A-E. All the statements except one belong to the same context. Find the odd one out and mark the correct answer from the given pattern. 2. (A) Fear is a dreadful thing. (B) It darkens our lives, from fear we act neurotically. (C) We are asking whether man can ever be free of this terrible burden. (D) Courageous people are very contented with their lives. (E) Fear may be lurking in the deep unconsciousness, in the deep recesses of one’s own brain. (a) A (b) B (c) C (d) D (e) E Answer : D Solution: The common subjects in statements A, B, C, E is ‘fear’ the statements ‘D’ is an exception which takes about ‘Courageous’.

Spot the sequence: Note that all the sentences (except the odd one) may often form a proper sequential order when put together. So you may need to approach it as a paragraph jumble question and then find out the one that cannot fit in the sequence.

In the question given below, there are five statements marked A.E. All the statements except me belong to the same context. Find the odd one out and mark the correct answer from the given options. 3. (A) He has only been given his big brain by mistake. (B) A backbone was all he needed. (C) This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of the herd nature, the military system, which is abhor. (D) This system of military is bringing the humankind to the danger of extinct (E) That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him (a) A (b) B (c) C (d) D (e) E

Answer : D Solution: Correct orders is CEAB, statement ‘D’ not come in Logical sequence.

Statement and flow contrast: You might also come across a passage where one of the statements does not fit the flow of the idea when the statement and are put together. 4. (A) A system of coercion is best suitable in a democracy and can be solution to all the world problems. (B) I am quite aware that it is necessary for the success of any complex undertaking that one man should do the thinking and directing and in general bear the responsibility (C) For force always attract men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. (D) For this reason I have always been passionately opposed to systems such as we see in Italy and Russia today. (E) But the led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their leader. (a) A (b) B (c) C (d) D (e) E Answer : A Solutions: Statements BECD which talk about negative situation but statement ‘A’ talks about positive situation statement ‘A’ doesn’t fit the flow of the idea when statements are put together.

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5. (A) Gandhi was jailed many times for his protest again the British. (B) This is precisely the greatness of any classical work; that is can lend itself for any interpretation at any given era, far removed from its own time, because of its eternal appeal (C) This total assimilation is reflected in his translation (D) Although Gandhi was commissioned to do the translation, the Tirukkural was in his genes, inherited from his maternal grandfather who had translate it 1930 (E) He was so ‘smitten’ by this celebrated work, having read and re-read it several times over, that it became a part of his intrinsic cultural psyche (a) A (b) B (c) C (d) D (e) E

Answer : A Correct Order is : BDEC

6. (A) Forgetfulness means that you are a genius according some famous people in the field of psychology (B) You then forget the essential fact that, underneath the level of physical appearancesw and separate forms, you are one with all that is (C) It is this screen of thought that creates the illusion of separateness, the illusion that there is you and a totally separate “other” (D) It comes between you and yourself, between you and your fellow man and woman, between you and nature, between you and God (E) Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgements, and definitions that blocks all true relationship. (a) A (b) B (c) C (d) D (e) E

Answer : A Correct Order is : EDCB 7. (A) They have a responsible president who is elected for a sufficiently long period and has sufficient powers to be really responsible. (B) I believe that in this respect the United States of America have found the right way. (C) The really valuable think in the pageant of human life seems to me to live a luxurious life, be ruthless and insensitive toward other fellow citizens (D) The thing that has brought discredit upon the prevailing form of democracy in Europe today is not to be laid to the door of the democratic idea as such, but to lack of stability on the part of the heads of governments and to the impersonal character of the electoral system (E) On the other hand, what I value in our political system is the more extensive provision that it makes for the individual in case of illness or need (a) A (b) B (c) C (d) D (e) E

Answer : C Correct Order is : DBAE

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