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WEEKLY OBJECTIVE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS ON CURRENT AFFAIRS: FOR WEEK 40/52 (OCT-07 TO 13 OCT, 2018) 1. What is the current repo rate, as per RBI’s 4th bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement for 2018-19? (a) 6.0% (b) 6.75% (c) 6.5% (d) 6.25% 2. Which of the following states police have decided to conduct joint operations and share information to combat Left Wing Extremism (LWE)? (a) Tamil Naddu and Karnataka (b) Chhattisgarh and Odisha (c) Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh (d) Odisha and Andhra Pradesh 3. Which of the following cities is the venue of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC) of Indian Region? (a) Patna (b) Shimla (c) Indore (d) Guwahati 4. The 10th Biennial International Exhibition & Conference “ Chem 2018” was held in which city? (a) Mumbai (b) New Delhi (c) Chennai (d) Kolkata 5. What is the India’s rank in Visa’s 2018 Government e-Payment Adoption Ranking (GEAR)? (a) 35th (b) 28th (c) 19th (d) 15th 6. What is the theme of the 2018 World Teachers’ Day (WTD)? (a) Valuing teachers, improving their status (b) A call for teachers (c) Teaching in Freedom, Empowering Teachers (d) The right to education means the right to a qualified teacher 7. Who has been appointed the Chief Statistician of India (CSI)? (a) T A Vina (b) Nipun Singh (c) Pravin Srivastava (d) Malti Saxena 8. India’s first ‘Methanol Cooking Fuel Program’ has launched in which state? (a) Assam (b) Manipur (c) Himachal Pradesh (d) Jammu & Kashmir 9. Who has been appointed India’s Ambassador to UN Conference on Disarmament? (a) T S Vijiyan (b) Narmada Kapoor (c) Pankaj Sharma (d) Vijay Seth 10. Which Indian personality has been appointed the Chairman of the Working Committee (WoCo) and Director on the Board of the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE)? (a) Rajnish Kumar (b) M K Sharma (c) Girish Chaturvedi (d) Vikram Limaye 11. Who has been chosen as India’s first ‘Miss Trans Queen’? (a) Veena Sendre (b) Sanya Sood (c) Nitasha Biswas (d) Namita Ammu 12. Which of the following musicians has recently won the special lifetime achievement award from the Music Academy? (a) Lalgudi G Jayaraman (b) Vikku Vinayakram (c) Hariprasad Chaurasia (d) Kamala Lakshminarayanan 13. Which Indian javelin thrower has won silver in the men’s F46 category of the 2018 Asian Para Games? (a) (b) Rinku (c) Sundar Singh Gurjar (d) Sandeep chaudhary 14. Which IIT has collaborated with e-Governance Agency (TNeGA) to enhance data-driven governance? (a) IIT-Bombay (b) IIT-Madras (c) IIT-Indore (d) IIT-Kanpur 15. Which of the following African countries will host the 2022 Youth Olympic Games? (a) Senegal (b) Nigeria (c) Morocco (d) Kenya 16. Which of the following cities is the venue of the 17th CHG of meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)? (a) Dushanbe (b) Sochi (c) New Delhi (d) Moscow

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17. Which state government to launch a new scheme ‘Blue Revolution: Integrated Development and Management of Fisheries’ ? (a) Goa (b) Arunachal Pradesh (c) Maharashtra (d) Meghalaya 18. Who has been appointed as the new CEO & MD of low cost carrier AirAsia India? (a) Dheeraj Sharma (b) Sunil Bhaskaran (c) Varsha Jain (d) Radhika Jha 19. ISRO has recently signed pact with which state University to set up the Satish Dhawan Center for Space Science’? (a) Assam (b) Odisha (c) Jammu (d) West Bengal 20. The Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) has launched a Roll on-Roll off (Ro-Ro) service in Assam from Neamati to ____? (a) Jorhat (b) Dibrugarh (c) Manjuli (d) Tezpur 21. Which state government has decided to set up anti-terrorist force ‘Kavach’? (a) Arunachal Pradesh (b) Haryana (c) Jammu & Kashmir (d) Sikkim 22. Which state Prison department has rolled out a smart video- calling facility for female prisoners and inmates lodged at open jails? (a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Chhattisgarh (c) Maharashtra (d) Odisha 23. What is the theme of the 2018 World Mental Health Day (WMHD)? (a) Mental health in the workplace (b) Psychological First Aid (c) Dignity in Mental Health (d) Young people and mental health in a changing world 24. Which Indian armed force has launched an innovative mobile health App ‘MedWatch’? (a) Indian Air Force (b) Indian Navy (c) Indian Army (d) Indian Coast Guard 25. What is the theme of the 2018 International Day of the Girl? (a) With Her: A Skilled Girl Force (b) Empower Girls: Before, during and after crises (c) Girls’ Progress = Goals’ Progress: What Counts for Girls (d) The Power of Adolescent Girl: Vision for 2030 26. India’s first 2G Ethanol Bio-Refinery will be set up in which state, where ethanol will be produced from rice straw? (a) Assam (b) Odisha (c) Rajasthan (d) Punjab 27. What is the India’s rank in the 2018 Oxfam world inequality index? (a) 168th (b) 133rd (c) 147th (d) 135th 28. Which of the following is the venue of the 17th edition of Old World Theatre festival 2018? (a) Guwahati (b) Pune (c) Kolkata (d) New Delhi 29. Which Indian sportsperson has clinched Gold in the 10-metre air pistol event at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games? (a) Anish Bhanwala (b) Shardul Vihan (c) Saurabh Chaudhary (d) Rushiraj Barot 30. Which Indian sportsperson has clinched men’s individual recurve gold at the 2018 Jakarta Asian Para-Games? (a) Harvinder Singh (b) Mariyappan Thangavelu (c) Mohammed Yasser (d) Monu Ghangas 31. Who is the author of the book “The Paradoxical Prime Minister: Narendra Modi And His India”? (a) Shashi Tharoor (b) Sanjay Baru (c) Piyush Goyal (d) Ravi Mantha 32. Kishour Giri, who passed away recently, was the noted singer and music director from which state? (a) Arunachal Pradesh (b) Assam (c) Jharkhand (d) Odisha 33. Which sports personality has been honoured with the Ramineni Foundation’s outstanding person award? (a) (b) (c) (d) P V Sindhu

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34. As per which section of the Representation of the People Act 1951, the Election Commission of India (ECI) to fill casual vacancies in Karnataka but not in Andhra Pradesh? (a) Section 153A (b) Section 154A (c) Section 151A (d) Section 152A 35. Which Indian organisation has recently organised Workshop on ‘Best Practices in International Arbitration’ in New Delhi? (a) NABARD (b) NASSCOM (c) Press Council of India (d) NITI Aayog 36. The Government of India (GoI) with the support of which organization is organizing the ‘2nd World Conference on Access to Medical Products – Achieving the SDGs 2030’? (a) WHO (b) UNO (c) FAO (d) UNICEF 37. Who has become the first shooter from India to claim a gold at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics? (a) Manu Bhaker (b) Tushar Mane (c) Mehuli Ghosh (d) Anjum Moudgil 38. What is the India’s rank at the 2018 Henley Passport Index? (a) 91st (b) 81st (c) 71st (d) 61st 39. The researchers of which country have developed the world’s first bio-electronic medicine? (a) Germany (b) United Kingdom (c) United States (d) France

40. Who has been appointed the new Solicitor General of India? (a) Ranjit Kumar (b) Kunal Mangal (c) Tushar Mehta (d) Pankaj Jain 41. Which Indian company has recently announced Rs 1.5 crores Aarohan Social Innovation Awards (ASIA) to push innovation in social work? (a) Tata Motors (b) Mahindra & Mahindra (c) Infosys (d) Reliance Industries 42. Which Indian organization has won the ‘ISSA GOOD Practice Award, Asia & The Pacific 2018’? (a) SBI (b) ESIC (c) RBI (d) NABARD 43. M N Paloor, who passed away recently, was the modernist poet of which language? (a) Odia (b) Telugu (c) Tamil (d) Malayalam 44. ho will chair the high-level Strategic Policy Group (SPG) to assist National Security Council (NSC) to review the security affairs of the country? (a) Ajit Doval (b) Amitabh Kant (c) V K Saraswat (d) Sanjay Mitra 45. Which of the following states has become partner state at 2018 Goa International Film Festival (GIFF)? (a) Jharkhand (b) Himachal Pradesh (c) Assam (d) Mizoram 46. Which union Ministry has launched the “India for Humanity”? (a) Ministry of Rural Development (b) Ministry of Railways (c) Ministry of External Affairs (d) Ministry of Defenser 47. Who is the winner of India’s first Gold Medal at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics? (a) Srihari Nataraj (b) Mehuli Ghosh (c) Jeremy Lalrinnunga (d) Manav Thakkar 48. On which date, the 2018 World Post Day (WPD), is observed recently? (a) October 11 (b) October 8 (c) October 10 (d) October 9 49. Who clinched India’s first gold medal at the 2018 Jakarta Asian Para Games? (a) Paramjeet Kumar (b) Sandeep Chaudhary (c) Farman Basha (d) Devanshi Satijawon 50. Which state government has recently launched the Sashakt Kisan Yojana (SKY) & Krishi Samuh Yojana (KSY)? (a) Arunachal Pradesh (b) Odisha (c) Punjab (d) Haryana

ANSWER KEYS 1 c 11 a 21 b 31 a 41 c

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2 d 12 b 22 c 32 b 42 b 3 d 13 c 23 d 33 b 43 d 4 a 14 b 24 a 34 c 44 a 5 b 15 a 25 a 35 d 45 a 6 d 16 a 26 b 36 a 46 c 7 c 17 d 27 c 37 a 47 c 8 a 18 b 28 d 38 b 48 d 9 c 19 c 29 c 39 c 49 b 10 d 20 c 30 a 40 c 50 a

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