Weekly Current Affairs Question Bank (20th to 26th May 2018) QUESTION 1 a) Netherlands b) France Which is the first Indian company to achieve c) Australia d) Canada Rs 7 lakh crore market capitalisation? a) Tata Consultancy Services b) HDFC Bank QUESTION 5 c) Reliance Industries Which is the first industry player to offer UPI d) Larsen and Toubro access to a huge base of three million mer- chants on its app? a) Jio Money b) PhonePe QUESTION 2 c) MobiKwik d) None of the above Read the following statements: 1. Financial Stability and Development Coun- cil (FSDC) was set up in 2010 by the then Fi- QUESTION 6 nance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. Which bank has signed an MoU with Com- 2. FSDC has been reconstituted to include mon Service Centres to extend financial sup- secretaries from revenue department and port to Village Level Entrepreneurs? Ministry of IT. a) NABARD b) IDBI 3. FSDC only comprises RBI Governor, Sebi c) SIDBI d) Regional Rural Bank Chairman and finance secretary. (RRB) Which of the above statements is/are correct? a) Only 2 b) Only 3 QUESTION 7 c) 2 and 3 d) 1 and 2 The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is applicable to which of the follow- ing? QUESTION 3 a) USA b) India The police of which city are planning to use c) European Union d) Canada Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to en- hance women safety? a) Bengaluru b) Pune QUESTION 8 c) Mumbai d) Hyderabad Who is the chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)? a) Vanaja N. Sarna b) Sushil Chandra QUESTION 4 c) Ananta Narayan Nanda d) Ashim Which of the following is not a signatory to Khurana the International Solar Alliance (ISA)? QUESTION 9 QUESTION 15 Where will the Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav North Korea has carried out demolition of 2018 be organised by the Ministry of Culture? which nuclear test site? a) Himachal Pradesh b) Rajasthan a) Kumchon b) Punggye-ri c) Assam d) Uttarakhand c) Pyonggang d) Sinmak QUESTION 10 QUESTION 16 Which country has successfully conducted the Which country tested its first drone-carried world’s longest surface-to-air missile test? meteorological data monitor to undertake at- a) Russia b) China mospheric observations? c) India d) North Korea a) Russia b) India c) China d) Taiwan QUESTION 11 Urja Ganga Natural Gas Pipeline has been ex- QUESTION 17 tended till ________ in North-east India. Which bank has launched its Digital Loans a) Itanagar b) Guwahati against Mutual Funds scheme? c) Gangtok d) Imphal a) HDFC Bank b) ICICI Bank QUESTION 12 c) Axis Bank With which travel portal has IRCTC part- d) Kotak Mahindra Bank nered for exclusive hotel bookings? a) Make My Trip b) ixigo c) goibibo d) Yatra QUESTION 18 As per RBI, banks’ credit grew by _________% from May 2017 to May 2018. QUESTION 13 a) 5.09 b) 8.11 What will be the major area/areas of coopera- c) 9.56 d) 12.64 tion between India and Indonesia? a) Space b) Security c) Kite Museum d) All of the Above QUESTION 19 Tapan Ray has been appointed as non execu- tive chairperson of which bank? QUESTION 14 a) Canara Bank b) Central Bank of India Which country hosted the celebrations of c) Dena Bank d) Allahabad Bank World Environment Day 2018? a) France b) Germany c) New Zealand d) India QUESTION 20 India has launched a collaborative research programme on HIV/AIDS with ________ and ________. a) Germany and Netherlands a) Cambodia b) Singapore b) Germany and France c) Nepal d) Australia c) France and Belgium d) Netherlands and Sweden Question 26 Who has been conferred with the Nari Shakti QUESTION 21 Which of the following is hosting the ASEAN Puraskar 2017? India Film Festival 2018? a) INSV Tarini team a) Goa b) Singapore b) Manika Batra c) New Delhi d) Kuala Lumpur c) Indian women's cricket team d) Indian women's CWG shooting team Question 22 Name the software launched in Rajasthan for Question 27 presumptive diagnosis and monitoring of dis- Who has been appointed as the Chairman of eases. the Press Council of India (PCI)? a) Nidaan b) Pratham a) Justice Markandey Katju c) Aushadhi d) Nivaran b) Justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad c) Justice Gyan Sudha Misra d) Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar Question 23 Where will India's first national sports uni- versity be set up? Question 28 a) Assam b) Manipur 'Surya Kiran' is a joint military exercise be- c) Jharkhand d) Haryana tween India and ________. a) Bangladesh b) Bhutan c) Vietnam d) Nepal Question 24 Who has won the India Biodiversity Award 2018 in the category of ‘Conservation of wild- Question 29 life species’? Which stock exchange has launched India’s a) Paryavaran Mitra portal first silver options contracts? b) Singchung Bugun Community Reserve a) Inter-connected Stock Exchange of India c) Fauna and Flora international b) Multi Commodity Exchange d) Kalpavriksh Environment Action Group c) India International Exchange d) United Stock Exchange of India Question 25 Name the 1st country in south-east Asia to eliminate Trachoma. Question 30 c) Gagan Phadnis Who has been appointed as the new Vice d) Ram Kishan Narang Chief of Army Staff (VCOAS)? a) Balwant Singh Negi b) Devraj Anbu c) Sunil Shrivastava d) Manoj Pande Question 35 India ranks ________ in terms of global economy competitiveness. Question 31 a) 30th b) 65th Read the following statements: c) 51st d) 44th 1. Minister for Skill Development and Entre- preneurship has launched the Samagra Shik- sha scheme. Question 36 2. Samagra Shiksha scheme focuses on qual- As per ESPN World Fame 100 list, who is the ity of school education from pre-school to most popular athlete in the world? senior secondary levels. a) Serena Williams 3. The scheme will enhance the use of digital b) Roger Federer technology in education. c) Cristiano Ronaldo Which of the above statements is/are correct? d) Lewis Hamilton a) Only 1 b) 1 and 3 c) 2 and 3 d) 1, 2 and 3 Question 37 What is the name of world's largest interna- Question 32 tional maritime warfare exercise? Which actor will endorse the BHIM app & the a) Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Women Entrepreneurship Platform? b) International Mine Countermeasures Ex- a) Varun Dhawan b) Salman Khan ercise (IMCMEX) c) Sushant Singh Rajput d) Rajkumar Rao c) Exercise Malabar d) International Maritime Exercise (IMX) Question 33 Question 38 UNICEF has launched a 'data visualisation With which firm has NITI Ayog inked a pact app' to provide a user-friendly visual repre- to spread electric mobility, robotics and AI in sentation of analytics of which sector? India? a) Agriculture b) Education a) Siemens b) ABB India c) Employment d) Energy c) FANUC d) KUKA Question 34 Who has been appointed as MD & CEO of Airtel Payments Bank? Question 39 a) Anubrata Biswas Where will the world's largest bird sculpture b) Shashi Roy soon be inaugurated? a) Rio de Janeiro b) Jaffna c) Kollam d) Thimpu c) Urban women d) Rural women Question 40 What is the joint US-German space mission to track the global water cycle called? Question 45 a) GRACE-FO Name the Mukhyamantri Career Counselling b) GRAVITAS-FO programme of Madhya Pradesh. c) GUSTAV-FO d) GLOWATER-FO a) Sahara b) Sahayak c) Pahal d) Saarthi Question 41 Cabinet has given its approval to the MoU be- Question 46 tween India & Denmark regarding coopera- As per Lancet, India ranked ________ in tion in ________. healthcare access among 195 countries. a) Wind energy b) Solar energy a) 110th b) 145th c) Food safety d) Defence c) 164th d) 87th Question 42 Question 47 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation-Regional How many left wing extremism-affected Anti-Terrorist Structure Legal Experts meet- states will receive mobile services through the ing will be held in ________. Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF)? a) Beijing b) New Delhi a) 5 b) 10 c) Islamabad d) Almati c) 12 d) 8 Question 43 Question 48 Under the aegis of which naval command is Which of the following is the subject of MoU the exercise 'Prasthan' conducted every 6 signed between India and France in 2018? months? a) Drug control a) Western Naval Command b) Technical cooperation in railways b) Eastern Naval Command c) Renewable energy c) Southern Naval Command d) Space cooperation d) Andaman and Nicobar Command Question 49 Question 44 Who has been sworn in as Karnataka's 24th Paytm AshaKiran aims at educating which of chief minister? the following about financial services? a) H. D. Kumaraswamy b) G a) Urban youth Parameshwara b) Rural youth c) B. S. Yeddyurappa d) Jagadish Shettar Question 50 a) Wellington b) Geneva Which city is hosting the 4th Smart Cities In- dia 2018 Expo? c) Bali d) Melbourne a) Bhubaneswar b) New Delhi c) Ahmedabad d) Bengaluru Question 55 Name the new IRCTC scheme for passengers Question 51 in wait-listing to provide berth in another The latest amendment to Insolvency and train. Bankruptcy Code classifies which of the fol- a) VIKALP b) ADHIKAR lowing as "financial creditors"? c) SUVIDHA d) UPCHAR a) Car buyers b) Students c) Corporate houses d) Home buyers Question 56 Which airline has commenced the first com- Question 52 mercial flight in Arunachal Pradesh? Which cricketer holds the records for scoring a) GoAir the fastest fifty, hundred and 150 in ODIs? b) Spicejet a) Ricky Ponting b) AB de Villiers c) Air Asia India c) Chris Gayle d) Virat Kohli d) Alliance Air Question 53 Question 57 Read the following statements: Which of the following countries have "Major 1.