Weekly Pocket

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GENERAL AWARENESS WEEKLY POCKET

26-06-2017 – 01-07-2017

Q1: Which Industries overtakes Tata Group's TCS to become most valued Indian firm? Ans: Reliance Industries

Q2: Who has been honoured with the United Nations public service award for her girl empowerment initiative 'Kanyashree Prakalpa'? Ans: Mamata Banerjee

Q3: Which village of Haryana has been dedicated to President Donald Trump? Ans: Mewat

Q4: Who has been named as the Dean of the University's School of Engineering? Ans: Anantha P Chandrakasan

Q5: Who has been bestowed with Shan-e-Mohammedan honour by Mohammedan SC? Ans. Latifuddin Najam

Q6: Who has become the first Indian woman leader to be honoured with the “Social Entrepreneur of the Year” award? Ans: Nisha Dutt

Q7: Who has been appointed as new deputy chairman of International Cricket Council (ICC)? Ans: Imran Khawaja

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Q8: Who is the present urban development minister of India? Ans: M. Venkaiah Naidu

Q9: Who has been selected for the Best Parliamentarian Award for 2016 by Lokmat media group? Ans: N K Premachandran

Q10: Who has been selected for the Best Parliamentarian Award for 2016 by Lokmat media group? Ans: Cornell University

Q11: Who has been crowned as the 54th Femina Miss India World title 2017? Ans: Manushi Chhillar

Q12: Whom did Kidambi Srikanth defeated in the Australian Open final? Ans: Chen Long

Q13: Who won the women’s singles title at the World Super Series Australian Open tournament? Ans: Nozomi Okuhara

Q14: Who has been appointed as ambassador for Government's Skill India campaign? Ans: Priyanka Chopra

Q15: KR Mohanan was …………………………. Ans: Filmmaker

Q16: Who became the first female cricketer to score seven consecutive 50+ scores in One Day Internationals?

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Ans: Mithali Raj

Q17: Who wins a gold at the women's 10m air pistol event at the ISSF Junior World Championship? Ans: Yashaswini Singh Deswal

Q18: Who has been appointed as the New Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of IDFC? Ans: Sunil Kakar

Q19: According to The Sports Journalists Federation of India (SJFI), in its annual general meeting, who has been conferred with the best Sportsperson of the Year Award? Ans: P V Sindhu

Q20: Who clinched gold medal at the Ulaanbaatar Cup boxing tournament in Mongolia? Ans: Ankush Dahiya

Q21: Who has been appointed as the new Prime Minister of Romania? Ans: Mihai Tudose

Q22: Which country has clear sale of predator Guardian drones to India? Ans: USA

Q23: How many members were comprised in the newly constituted panel headed by space scientist K Kasturirangan to frame a new National Education Policy (NEP) by HRD Ministry?

Ans: Nine

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Q24: What does R stands for the abbreviation RAAM in context to Marathon? Ans: Race

Q25: Desh Bandhu Gupta who died recently was founder chairman of which pharmaceutical company? Ans: Lupin

Q26: ISSF Junior World Championship was held in which country? Ans: Germany

Q27: Who has cleared USD 250-million loan for skill training in India? Ans: World Bank

Q28: Which company acquires German startup SensoMotoric Instruments? Ans: Apple

Q29: Whom did Anastasija Sevastova defeated to win the Mallorca Open Tennis Tournament? Ans: Julie Goerges

Q30: What is the maximum speed proposed by china's bullet train Fuxing? Ans: 400 km/h

Q31: Who has launched the biggest new generation destroyer weighing 10,000 tons? Ans: Chinese Navy

Q32: Who has been selected as a member of the US women's national cricket team, which has recently been recognized by the ICC? Ans: Sindhuja Reddy

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Q33: Who will be conferred with the East Bengal football clubs highest honor Bharat Gaurav? Ans: Dhanraj Pillay

Q34: Who took over as president of the International Economic Association (IEA)? Ans: Kaushik Basu

Q35: Who signed an agreement with the Uttar Pradesh government for a road improvement project in the state? Ans: The Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Q36: How many medals have been bagged by India at the ISSF Junior World Championship 2017? Ans: 8

Q37: The National Sugar Institute (NSI) has entered into an agreement with...... Ans: Ethiopia

Q38: Top stock exchange National Stock Exchange inked a pact with which state government to help micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the state to raise capital through listing on the bourses platform? Ans: Andhra Pradesh

Q39: Who is on the top position in the latest ranking batsman list in the ICC Twenty20 rankings? Ans: Virat Kohli

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Q40: Who has partnered with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) to jointly launch Bharat ERP, a program aimed at digital empowerment of small businesses in the country? Ans: SAP

Q41: Which type of satellite is GSAT-17? Ans: Communication

Q42: US President Donald Trump has appointed as the new US Ambassador to Peru? Ans: Krishna R Urs

Q43: IPS officer Mahesh Muralidhar Bhagwat who has been conferred with the prestigiousTrafficking in Persons (TIP) Report Heroes Award 2017 by the US state department for his fight against human trafficking in India belongs to which state?

Ans: Mahesh Muralidhar Bhagwat

Q44: Which place has been crowned with the prestigious the World Book Capital for 2019 by UNESCO? Ans: Sharjah

Q45: Recently the Union cabinet approved signing of a memorandum of cooperation between India and ……. Ans: United States

Q46: Who has been appointed as the Chairperson on the Board of Governors of the National Institute of Fashion Technology? Ans: Rajesh V Shah

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Q47: Who took over as the Chairmanfo National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)? Ans: Deepak Kumar

Q48: The armies of India and ...... will begin the yearly joint training exercise Maitree 2017 from July 3 to July 17 at Bakloh in Himachal Pradesh. Ans: Thailand

Q49: Which state has been conferred with the award of excellence for innovations and extensive use of IT for skilling the states youth? Ans: Uttarakhand

Q50: India and …………have signed three MOUs on Cultural Cooperation, Water Cooperation and on amending Social Security Arrangement. Ans: Netherlands

Q51: Who was the spiritual guru of Mahatma Gandhi? Ans: Shrimad Rajchandra

Q52: Who has been appointed as India's ambassador to Greece? Ans: Shamma Jain

Q53: Who has been nominated as Indiana next US surgeon general by President Trump?

Ans: Jerome Adams

Q54: What is the full form of ‘I’ in the abbreviation eVIN? Ans: Intelligence

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Q55: Who has been appointed as director of operations at Air India? Ans: Arvind Kathpalia

Q56: Sabita Chowdhury who died recently was ……………………. Ans: Singer

Q57: Who is the Founder and CEO of Alibaba?

Ans: Jack Ma

Q58: NATO stands for ……………….. Ans: North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Q59: Who became the fourth Indian cricketer after Thirush Kamini, Harmanpreet Kaur and Mithali Raj to register a hundred in the Womens World Cup history? Ans: Smriti Mandhana

Q60: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will become the first Indian Prime Minister to visit ...... with his three-day visit to the country starting July 4? Ans: Israel