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Weekly Current Affairs Question Bank (15th April 21st April 2018)

QUESTION 6 QUESTION 1 Who was recommended by the Which country has recently announced to Federation of (TTFI) for the prestigious end its tests of nuclear weapons & Arjuna Award? intercontinental ballistic missiles? a) G Sathiyan b) a) India b) North Korea c) d) Ankita Das c) South Korea d) Israel QUESTION 7 QUESTION 2 Which bank has entered into an agreement Reserve Bank of India has amended its KYC for information utility services with the guidelines, making ______key to National E-Governance Services Limited? conducting customer due diligence by banks a) Canara Bank & finance companies. b) Federal Bank a) PAN Card b) Driving License c) Indian Overseas Bank & BOI c) Voter ID d) Aadhar d) HDFC Bank QUESTION 3 QUESTION 8 The first ever International SME (small and Who will be the next head of the medium enterprises) Convention was held in Commonwealth? ______from 22nd to 24th April a) Prince Charles b) Prince William a) Athens b) New Delhi c) Prince George d) Prince Harry c) London d) Rome QUESTION 9 QUESTION 4 Read the following statements: In the ranking released by Facebook, who 1. The Health Ministry has decided to roll out has been judged the most popular among all an initiative for prevention and control of Chief Ministers in the country? viral hepatitis. a) Yohi Adityanath b) Vasundhara Raje 2. Under the initiative, the ministry intends to c) Vijay Rupani d) Shivraj Singh scale up to 100 treatment and 665 testing Chouhan centres over a period of next three years in

five states. QUESTION 5 3. India is committed to ending viral hepatitis First meeting of BRICS Finance Ministers & by 2025. Central Bank Governors was held on the Which of the above statements is/are sidelines of IMF/World Bank Spring correct? Meetings in ______. a) London b) Berlin a) Only 2 b) Only 1 c) Geneva d) Washington D.C. c) 1 and 2 d) 1 and 3

QUESTION 10 ______has been announced as the Most Who has been selected to serve as NASA's Film Friendly State for its efforts towards 13th Administrative Chief? easing filming in the state. a) Markawayne Mullin b) James Lankford a) Maharashtra b) Madhya Pradesh c) Jim Bridenstine d) Tom Cole c) Rajasthan d) Haryana

QUESTION 11 QUESTION 17 Which of the following banks has received 19th April is observed annually as ______. a) World Liver Day b) World Kidney Day two representative offices in London and c) World Brain Day d) World Braille Day Singapore? QUESTION 18 a) RBL Bank b) Standard Chartered The cashless scheme Atal Amrit Abhiyan of c) City Union Bank d) Yes Bank Assam Government offers free medical care QUESTION 12 of up to Rs. 2 lakh for every individual Which bank has announced an alliance with belonging to families with annual income Zoho to offer solutions to enhance corporate below ______. banking experience? a) 2 Lakh b) 3 Lakh a) Axis Bank b) HDFC Bank c) 4 Lakh d) 5 Lakh c) Bandhan Bank d) Standard Chartered QUESTION 19 QUESTION 13 The committee constituted by the India's entry-level hatchback ______has government to improve higher defence retained its status as the best selling management will be headed by passenger vehicle in India in 2017-18. a) Sanjay Mitra b) Subhash Bhamre a) Tata Tiago b) Renault Kwid c) Tarun Kumar Singha d) Ajit Doval c) Hyundai Eon d) Maruti Suzuki Alto QUESTION 20 QUESTION 14 Who has been appointed as the Secretary Indian Olympic Association has decided to General of Federation of Indian Chambers of bid for ______Youth Olympics as well as Commerce & Industry? the ______Summer Olympics. a) Harikishan Narayanan b) Dilip Chenoy a) 2026, 2032 b) 2024, 2036 c) Vishnu Mathur d) Shyam Prasad c) 2028, 2032 d) 2020, 2032 QUESTION 21 QUESTION 15 Which Indian state has declared itself an According to World Bank, which country open defecation free state? a) b) Maharashtra unbanked population? c) Madhya Pradesh d) Odisha a) China b) India Question 22 c) Brazil d) Russia Which country will host the Global IT QUESTION 16 Challenge for Youth with Disabilities in 2018?

a) India b) South Korea c) The International Court of Justice c) China d) Japan d) The Economic and Social Council

Question 23 Question 29 Government has decided to set up a district plan to The Treasury Department of which country accelerate growth of districts by ______%. has placed India on a watch list to monitor its a) 5 b) 3 currency and foreign exchange practices? c) 10 d) 7 a) USA b) UK c) Germany d) China Question 24 Which of the following countries has recently Question 30 agreed to deepen its cooperation with India in Which Indian tennis player has recently Smart Cities initiative, transport & energy sectors. a) Germany b) China broken into the World top-100 ATP singles c) Sweden d) Australia ranking? a) Rohan Bopanna Question 25 b) Yuki Bhambri The online reader's poll for TIME 'Person of c) the Year 2018' has been won by ______. d) Ramkumar Ramanathan a) Barack Obama b) Michelle Obama c) K-Pop group BTS d) K-Pop group IKON Question 31 Which Union Government scheme has Question 26 recently revised the timeline for achieving its Which actress will receive the Dada Saheb target from 2022 to 2019? Phalke excellence award 2018 for the Best a) Antyodaya Anna Yojana Leading Lady (Critics Award)? b) Swachh Bharat Abhiyan a) Bhoomi Pednekar b) Kriti Sannon c) Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana c) Sri Devi d) Aditi Rao Hydari d) Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana

Question 27 Question 32 Who has become the first person in the Which of the following newspapers have world to double cross the Bangla Channel? jointly won the Pulitzer Prize 2018 for public a) Sajan Prakash service? b) Sampanna Ramesh Shelar a) The Washington Post and Newsday c) Virdhawal Khade b) The Guardian and Daily Mail d) Arjun Muralidharan c) The New York Times and New Yorker d) The Los Angeles Times and New Yorker Question 28 India has recently won an election to which Question 33 of the following UN principal organs' Read the following statements: subsidiary Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations? 1. App-based cab aggregator Ola plans to a) The Trusteeship Council introduce 10,000 e-rickshaws and electric b) The Secretariat autorickshaws in India in the next 12 months.

Question 36 2. The ride-hailing company is in talks with Which bank has overtaken SBI to become state governments, OEM partners and the second most valued bank in the country? electronic vehicle innovators to speed up the a) Kotak Mahindra b) HDFC introduction of EVs. c) ICICI d) IDBI

3. Ola aims to bring one million electric Question 37 vehicles on the road by 2021. The World Bank has predicted a ______% growth rate for India in 2018 and ______% Which of the above statement/statements in 2019. is/are correct? a) 6.7, 7.3 b) 7.3, 8.0 a) Only 2 b) 1 and 2 c) 7.5, 7.9 d) 7.3, 7.5 c) 2 and 3 d) 1, 2 and 3 Question 38 Name the new layer of quality check added Question 34 Who has become the first person in the by the government for LED bulbs to be world to double cross the Bangla Channel? distributed under the UJALA scheme after a) Sajan Prakash July 1. b) Sampanna Ramesh Shelar a) QUAMED Rating System c) Virdhawal Khade b) MNRE Grading System d) Rehan Jehangir Poncha c) BEE Star Rating d) ISO 9000 Question 35 Read the following statements: Question 39 Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & 1. A loan agreement for the "Meghalaya Chemicals Limited (GNFC) has started which Community - Led Landscapes Management socio-economic project in Amethi, UP? Project (MCLLMP)" has been signed a) Ashoka Project between India and the Asian Development b) Alstonia Project Bank. c) Sugarcane Project d) Neem Project 2. The loan agreement is worth USD 48 Question 40 million. Which of the following districts is set to become 3. The objective of the project is to strengthen community-led landscapes a) East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh management in selected landscapes in b) Rajkot, Gujrat Meghalaya. c) Raichur, Karnataka d) Thrissur, Kerala Which of the above statement/statements is/are correct? Question 41 a) 1 and 3 b) 3 only Read the following statements: c) 2 and 3 d) 2 only

1. The government plans to launch a natural The Ministry of Electronics and IT has tied up gas trading hub in the country by 2020. with ______to work on a switch-based device in cars and buses to aid safety of 2. The establishment of a Gas Trading women. Hub/Exchange will boost the consumption of a) IIT, Bombay b) BITS, Pilani natural gas in the country. c) IISc, Bangalore d) IIT, Delhi

3. The world's biggest natural gas hub is the Question 46 National Balancing Point (NBP) in UK. The recently inaugurated second longest bridge in Odisha connects which two towns? Which of the above statements is/are a) Kandhamal and Ganjam correct? b) Sambalpur and Brajarajnagar a) Only 1 b) Only 2 c) Malkanpuri and Koraput c) 1 and 2 d) Only 3 d) Rayagada and Gajapati

Question 42 Question 47 Name the annual festival which is currently Read the following statements: being celebrated in Nepal to mark the beginning of Nepali new year. 1. The National Anti-Profiteering Authority a) Losar b) Dashain (NAA) has launched an Anti-Profiteering c) Thingyan d) Bisket Jatra online community for timely grievance redressal. Question 43 Home Expo India 2018 will begin on 16th 2. It was launched in association with a April at India Expo Centre and Mart in citizen-engagement platform, StumbleUpon. Greater Noida. It is being organised by ______. 3. The Authority has imposed a stricter a) The All India Handicrafts Board requirement of a Harmonised System of b) Trade Development Authority of India Nomenclature (HSN) code for the same. c) Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts d) The Federation of Indian Export Which of the above statements is/are Organization correct?

Question 44 a) 1 only b) 1 and 2 A team of scientists at Northwestern c) 1 and 3 d) Only 2 University, USA, has developed an electronic device that can mimic the human brain. It is Question 48 called ______. The scientists of which country have a) Bluebrain b) Cleverbot developed a 3D hollow-cone structure c) Memtransistori d) PARRY device called 'Artificial Transpiration' to increase solar-thermal energy conversion Question 45 efficiency?

a) China b) Japan 2. It will be hosted by the Ministry of External c) France d) Germany Affairs in cooperation with Germany and the United Nations Office for Disarmament Question 49 Affairs. The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) in March 2018 stood at ______. 3. The conference will allow participants to a) 5.11% b) 4.28% share experiences on their export control c) 3.56% d) 2.47% systems.

Question 50 Which of the above statements is/are Which Indian state celebrated its 71st correct? Foundation Day on 15th April, 2018? a) Nagaland b) Himachal Pradesh a) Only 1 b) Only 2 c) Punjab d) Gujarat c) 1 and 2 d) 1, 2 and 3 Question 51 Under the Liberalised Remittance Scheme Question 55 With which bank has the Indian Army signed (LRS) an individual can transfer up to USD a MoU regarding the Defence Salary ______abroad in a year. Package? a) 25000 b) 125000 a) Vijaya Bank b) ICICI Bank c) 500000 d) 250000 c) Axis Bank d) IndusInd Bank Question 52 In which city is India going to host its second Question 56 In which state was PM Ujwala Yojana India Mobile Congress in October 2018? recently launched on 14th April, the birth a) Bangalore b) Hyderabad anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar? c) Delhi d) Mumbai a) Maharashtra b) Telangana Question 53 c) Odisha d) Madhya Pradesh Which shuttler duo has won the silver medal in men's doubles Badminton finals in Question 57 India and Russia have signed how many 2018? MoUs at Defence Expo at , Tamil a) Satwik Rankireddy and Chirag Nadu? Chandrashekhar Shetty a) 5 b) 6 b) Adam Hall and Alexander Dunn c) 7 d) 8 c) Satwik Rankireddy and H.S. Prannoy d) Chris Adcock and Chris Langridge Question 58 Who has launched the web-based Question 54 application e-FRRO (e-Foreigners Regional Read the following statements: Registration Office) scheme?

a) Narendra Modi b) Arun Jaitley 1. The India-Wiesbaden Conference 2018 will c) Manohar Parrikar d) Rajnath Singh be held in Delhi on April 16-17. Question 59

The World Bank has approved $55mn to Who has won first CWG gold for India in expand the use of clean renewable energy in middleweight boxing category? rural areas of which country? a) b) Vikas Krishan a) India b) Nepal c) Gaurav Solanki d) Shiva Thapa c) Bangladesh d) Bhutan Question 66 Question 60 Sanjeev Rajput is associated with which ______announced a plan to promote game? micro-enterprises in 115 aspirational districts a) Boxing b) Wrestling across the country. It has tied up with c) Table Tennis d) Shooting Common Service Centre (CSC). a) SIDBI b) NABARD Question 67 c) SBI d) PNB Who became the first Indian to win silver in the men's super-heavyweight category at Question 61 CWG 2018? Which state reports the highest rate of a) Vikas Thakur b) Satish Kumar crimes against SC/ST population? c) Katulu Ravi Kumar d) Sukhen Dey a) Uttar Pradesh b) Bihar c) d) Jharkhand Question 68 Who won the silver medal in the Question 62 mixed doubles event in Commonwealth Who inaugurated the first health centre Games 2018? under Ayushman Bharat Scheme in Bijapur? a) and Joshna a) Manohar Parrikar Chinappa b) Prakash Javadekar b) and c) Rajnath Singh c) Dipika Pallikal Karthik and Harinder Pal d) Narendra Modi Sandhu d) Dipika Pallikal Karthik and Saurav Ghosal Question 63 IAF is conducting Exercise ______2018, Question 69 biggest air combat exercise along Pakistan, Indian wrestler Somveer won which medal at China borders from April 10 to 23 April 2018. the Commonwealth Games in the men's a) Sampriti b) Gagan Shakti freestyle 86 kg event? c) Garuda Shakti d) Desert Eagle a) Gold b) Silver c) Bronze d) Platinum Question 64 Who became the first-ever Indian woman to Question 70 bag gold in the women's table tennis singles' Who along with Sathiyan Gnanasekaran won event in Commonwealth Games history? India its second successive Commonwealth a) Neha Aggarwal b) Ankita Das Games silver medal in the men's table tennis c) Manika Batra d) Mouma Das doubles event? a) Chetan Baboor Question 65 b) Soumyajit Ghosh

c) Santosh Araswilli d)

Question 71 Who is the only Indian female badminton player to win singles gold in Commonwealth Games history? a) PV Sindhu b) Arundhati Pantawane c) Rituparna Das d)

Question 72

Sakshi Malik won which medal at the 2018

Commonwealth Games? a) Gold b) Silver c) Bronze d) Platinum

Question 73 Which medal did Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat win in CWG 2018? a) Gold b) Silver c) Bronze d) Platinum

Question 74 ______became the first Indian boxer to win silver medal in the men's lightweight category (60 kg) at the Commonwealth Games. a) Vijendra Singh b) Shiva Thapa c) Manish Kaushik d) Akhil Kumar

Question 75

Sumit Malik is associated with which of the following games? a) Wrestling b) Badminton c) Table Tennis d) Squash

Answers Key:

1. b 21. b 41. b 61. b 2. d 22. a 42. d 62. d 3. b 23. b 43. c 63. b 4. a 24. c 44. c 64. c 5. d 25. c 45. d 65. b 6. b 26. d 46. b 66. d 7. c 27. b 47. a 67. b 8. a 28. d 48. a 68. d 9. b 29. a 49. d 69. c 10. c 30. b 50. b 70. d 11. d 31. d 51. d 71. d 12. d 32. c 52. c 72. c 13. d 33. d 53. a 73. a 14. a 34. b 54. d 74. c 15. b 35. c 55. c 75. a 16. b 36. a 56. b 17. a 37. d 57. c 18. d 38. c 58. d 19. d 39. d 59. c 20. b 40. a 60. a