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Unique IAS Academy- TNPSC Current Affairs Question with Answer UNIQUE IAS ACADEMY The Best Coaching Center in Coimbatore NVN Layout, New Siddhapudur, Gandhipuram, Coimbatore Ph: 0422 4204182, 98842 67599 ********************************************************************************** AUGUST – 2018 1. The 2018 World Biodiesel Day (WBD) 4. Which Bollywood personality has is observed on which date? become the brand ambassador for (a) August 11 Government of India (GoI)‟s road safety awareness campaign? (b) August 8 (a) Amitabh Bachchan (c) August 10 (b) Anushka Sharma (d) August 9 (c) Deepika Padukone (d) Akshay Kumar 2. What is the current number of India‟s Biosphere reserves included in the World Network of Biosphere Reserves? 5. The International team of scientists has recently cracked the genetic code of (a) 8 which cultivated crop for the first time? (b) 9 (a) Wheat (c) 10 (b) Rice (d) 11 (c) Maize (d) Pulses 3. Which rescue operation has been launched by Indian Army in the flood-hit 6.Kofi Annan was from which African areas of Kerala? country? (a) Operation Madad (a) Ghana (b) Operation Sahyog (b) Morocco (c)Operation Surya (c) Nigeria (d) Operation Surya Hope (d) South Africa 0422 4204182, 9884267599 NVN Layout, Gandhipuram, Coimbatore Page 1 Unique IAS Academy- TNPSC Current Affairs Question with Answer 7. Who has become first Indian woman 11. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) wrestler to bag gold at the 18th Asian has appointed which committee to Games 2018? decide Vedanta‟s plea challenging closure of its Sterlite plant? (a) Pooja Dhanda (a) A K Goel committee (b) Sakshi Malik (b) Aruna Sundararajan committee (c) Vigesh Phogat (c) M S Sivan committee (d) Priyanka (d) S J Vazifdar committee 8. Which Indian personality has been conferred the WHO World No Tobacco 12.Who has been appointed new Day 2017 Award? chairman of the Defence Research and (a) Nilesh Mishra Development Organisation (DRDO)? (b) Anish Rajan (a) G Satheesh Reddy (c) SK Arora (b) Sanjay Mitra (d) Kailash Kum (c) S Christoph (d) Mrinal S Das 9.Recently tested Anti-Tank Guided Missile „Helina‟ is helicopter-launched 13. India‟s first-ever test flight powered version of which missile? by biojet fuel was successfully (a) Akash conducted by which airline? (b) Nag (a) Air India (c) Prithvi (b) SpiceJet (d) Agni (c) Vistara (d) JetLite 10. The book “281 and Beyond” is the autobiography of which Indian 14. India has made alliance with which cricketer? country to eliminate TB? (a) Rahul Dravid (a) Bhutan (b) Sourav Ganguly (b) United States (c) Sunil Gavaskar (c) France (d) VVS Laxmanan (d) Nepal 0422 4204182, 9884267599 NVN Layout, Gandhipuram, Coimbatore Page 2 Unique IAS Academy- TNPSC Current Affairs Question with Answer 15.Project Unnati is related to: 19. The first organised census of Indus Dolphins will be carried out in which (a) Eradication of Poverty in rural areas state of India? (b) Upliftment Tribals by improving (a) Punjab connectivity (b) Himachal Pradesh (c) Development of ports (c) Jammu & Kashmir (d) Development of Railways in hilly areas (d) Jharkhand 16. India‟s first methanol-based 20. The Vindhyachal Thermal Power alternative cooking fuel is to be Station is located in which state? established in which state? (a) Maharashtra (a) Tamil Nadu (b) Andhra Pradesh (b) Rajasthan (c) Madhya Pradesh (c) Himachal Pradesh (d) Karnataka (d) Assam 21. Which state government has 17.The GOBAR-DHAN scheme has launched RythuBandhu scheme for launched from which state to promote farmers? wealth and energy from waste? (a) Telangana (a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Kerala (b) Punjab (c) Andhra Pradesh (c) Madhya Pradesh (d) Tamil Nadu (d) Haryana 22. The Sikkim government has 18. Who has won the „Miss Koovagam nominated which Bollywood personality 2018‟ beauty pageant title? as the Green Ambassador of the state? (a) Sukanyeah (a) Shreya Ghoshal (b) Amita (b) Atif Aslam (c) Mubina (c) Mohit Chauhan (d) Nirjara (d) Sonu Nigam 0422 4204182, 9884267599 NVN Layout, Gandhipuram, Coimbatore Page 3 Unique IAS Academy- TNPSC Current Affairs Question with Answer 23. The first-ever all-woman Post Office 27. Which of the following missiles of Passport Seva Kendra (POPSK) has India is a “supersonic cruise missile”? started operations in which city? (a) Agni-V (a) Phagwara (b) BrahMos (b) Ujjain (c) Prithvi-III (c) Udaipur (d) Aakash (d) Kochi 28. Which Indian sportsperson has 24. Which country has launched the clinched India‟s first Gold in the 18th world‟s first floating nuclear power Jakarta Asian Games 2018? station? (a) Mary Kom (a) United States (b)Bajrang Punia (b) Russia (c) Apurvi Chandela (c) China (d) Neeraj Chopra (d) France 29.Kofi Annan was from which African 25. The joint military exercise “SURYA country? KIRAN-XIII” between India and Nepal (a) Ghana will be conducted at which place? (b)Morocco (a) Gorakhpur (c) Nigeria (b) Jaisalmer (d) South Africa (c) Pithoragarh (d) Saljhandi 30. FSSAI has constituted which expert committee to look into draft of Food 26. Which committee has been Safety and Standards (Labelling and constituted by the Central Government Display) Regulations 2018? to review Companies Act 2013? (a) P K Agarwal (a) InjetiSrinivas Committee (b)B Sesikeran committee (b) Avinash K. Srivasta (c) Hemalatha committee (c) Raghvendra Singh Committee (d) Nikhil Tandon committee (d) Sanjay Mitra Committee 0422 4204182, 9884267599 NVN Layout, Gandhipuram, Coimbatore Page 4 Unique IAS Academy- TNPSC Current Affairs Question with Answer 31. The Union Government has 35. Who heads the steering committee proposed to set up which committee to which recently submitted „Making India suggest changes to the JEE (Advanced) 5G Ready‟ report to government? examination? (a) Aruna Sundararajan (a) Kannan Moudgalya committee (b)Vinod Tawde (b)Abhay Karandikar committee (c) Waqar Ali (c) Vineet Joshi committee (d) AJ Paulraj (d) Bhaskar Ramamurthy committee 32. Which country‟s national team has 36. The Government of India (GoI) has clinched the South Asian Football decided to lift ban on retail sale of which Federation (SAFF) Under-15 Women‟s life saving drug from September 2018? Championship 2018? (a) Nialamide (a) Bangladesh (b)Metformin (b)India (c) Oxytocin (c) Bhutan (d) Cyclosporine (d) Nepal 37.The world‟s first public blockchain 33. Who has become the first-ever bond “bond-i” has recently launched by Indian woman to win an individual gold which International organisation? in shooting at the 2018 Asian Games? (a) AIIB (a) Manu Bhaker (b)ADB (b)Ankita Raina (c) World Bank (c) Mehuli (d) IMF (d) Rahi Sarnobat 38. India‟s first-ever test flight powered 34. The first-ever International Day of by biojet fuel was successfully Remembrance and tribute to the Victims conducted by which airline? of Terrorism is observed on which date? (a) Air India (a) August 22 (b)SpiceJet (b)August 21 (c) Vistara (c) August 20 (d) JetLite (d) August 19 0422 4204182, 9884267599 NVN Layout, Gandhipuram, Coimbatore Page 5 Unique IAS Academy- TNPSC Current Affairs Question with Answer 39. Which of the following is the India‟s SEPTEMBER - 2018 only aircraft carrier to have marine hydraulic system? 1. Who has been sworn-in as the first (a) INS Sahyadri female high court Chief Justice in Pakistan? (b)INS Vikrant (a)TahiraSafdar (c) INS Vikramaditya (b)Maria Hassan (d) INS Satpura (c)RiffatQuraishi (d)AsifaUlfah 40. Which Indian personality has been awarded with the UN‟s highest environmental honour „Champions of 2. Which country is host to the 4th the Earth 2018‟? International Ayurveda Congress (IAvC) 2018? (a) Sonam Wangchuk (a)Belgium (b)Maneka Gandhi (b)Russia (c) Chandi Prasad Bhatt (c)France (d) Narendra Modi (d)Netherlands 41. Who heads the Lokpal Search Committee to recommend the 3. Who of the following Indians chairperson and members of the anti- has/have received the 2018 Ramon corruption ombudsman Lokpal? Magsaysay Award? (a)Deepa Joshi and Nileema Mishra (a) A Surya Prakash (b)Kulendi Francis and Anshu Gupta (b)RanjanPrakash Desai (c)SanjivChaturvedi (c) Arundhati Bhattacharya (d)Bharat Vatwani and Sonam (d) S Kiran Kumar Wangchuk ********************************************* 4. Indian men‟s hockey team defeated which country to win bronze at the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games? (a)Japan (b)South Korea 0422 4204182, 9884267599 NVN Layout, Gandhipuram, Coimbatore Page 6 Unique IAS Academy- TNPSC Current Affairs Question with Answer (c)Indonesia (d)Italy and Spain (d)Pakistan 9. Which country has signed pact with India to collaborate on ISRO‟s first 5. Who is the author of the book “Moving human spaceflight programme On, Moving Forward: A year in Office”? “Gaganyaan”? (a)SumitraMahajan (a)Germany (b)Anand Sharma (b)France (c)ArunJaitley (c)Japan (d) Venkaiah Naidu (d)United States 6. The multi-nation tsunami mock 10. KAZIND-2018 is an army exercise exercise (drill) “IOWave18” has started in between India and which country? which of the following oceans? (a)Kuwait (a)Indian Ocean (b)Kenya (b)Pacific Ocean (c)Kyrgyzstan (c)Atlantic Ocean (d)Kazakhstan (d)Southern Antarctic Ocean 11. GovindanLakshmanan is associated 7. Which state government has decided with which sports? to provide free mobile phones to women of BPL families? (a)Sprint (a)Rajasthan (b)Basketball (b)Gujarat (c)Hockey (c)Himachal Pradesh (d)Badminton (d)Uttar Pradesh 12. Which sportsperson has been appointed the new Brand Ambassador of 8. Which two countries will participate BSNL? in SLINEX-2018 naval exercise? (a)BajrangPunia (a)Indonesia and Singapore (b)Mary Kom (b)India and Sri Lanka (c)Neeraj Chopra (c)India and South Africa 0422 4204182, 9884267599 NVN Layout, Gandhipuram, Coimbatore Page 7 Unique IAS Academy- TNPSC Current Affairs Question with Answer (d)Rani Rampal 17. Who has become the first Japanese player to clinched the women‟s singles title of US Open 2018? 13. Which cricket team has won the 57th edition of Duleep Trophy 2018? (a)Ai Sugiyama (a)India Red (b)Kimiko Date (b)India Blue (c)Kurumi Nara (c)India Green (d)Naomi Osaka (d)India Orange 18.