Unique IAS Academy-TNPSC Current Affairs MAY 2018 UNIQUE IAS ACADEMY The Best Coaching Center in Coimbatore NVN Layout, New Siddhapudur, Gandhipuram, Coimbatore Ph: 0422 4204182, 98842 67599 1.Who has won the best actor award at the 4. The Government of India (GoI) has 2018 DadasahebPhalke Awards? launched which nationwide Karyashala [A] Salman Khan for farmer outreach as part of Rashtriya [B] Akshay Kumar Gram SwarajAbhiyan? [C] Shah Rukh Khan [A] Kisan Kalyan Karyashala [D] Salman Khan Hide [B] KrishiJyoti Karyashala [C] Kisan Jyoti Karyashala 2. Which city to host the 15th [D] KrishiKalyanKaryashala PravasiBharatiya Divas (PBS-2019)? [A] Bengaluru [B] New Delhi 5. The GOBAR-DHAN scheme has [C] Gandhinagar [D] Varanasi launched from which state to promote wealth and energy from waste? 3. The first-ever joint Army exercise [A] Uttar Pradesh [B] Punjab “Harimau Shakti 2018” has started [C] Madhya Pradesh [D] Haryana between India and which country? [A] Singapore [B] Vietnam [C] Malaysia [D] Indon 0422 4204182, 98842 67599, NVN Layout, Gandhipuram, Coimbatore Page 1 Unique IAS Academy-TNPSC Current Affairs MAY 2018 6. Who has won the „Miss Koovagam [A] New Delhi [B] Johannesburg 2018‟ beauty pageant title? [C] Pretoria [D] Cape Town Hid [A] Sukanyeah [B] Amita [C] Mubina [D] Nirjara 10. Which state has become the first Indian state to provide digitally-signed 7. The “2018 Vijay Prahar” exercise of land record receipts? Indian Army has started in which state? [A] Maharashtra [B] Punjab [A] Rajasthan [B] Punjab [C] Haryana [D] Uttar Prade [C] Kerala [D] Tamil Nadu 11. The 12th edition of the bilateral border 8. Who has been appointed the new trade between India and China has chairman of the Public Accounts resumed through which border post? Committee (PAC) of Parliament? [A] Khardung La [B] Shipkila [A] GhulamNabi Azad [C] Nathu [D] Lipulekh [B] MallikarjunKharge [C] Jyotira 12. Which union ministry will hold [D] Kamal Nath National Conference of 244 Districts under BetiBachaoBetiPadhao (BBBP) in New 9. The first-ever India-South Africa Delhi? Business Summit (ISABS – 2018) was held [A] Ministry of Social Justice in which city? 0422 4204182, 98842 67599, NVN Layout, Gandhipuram, Coimbatore Page 2 Unique IAS Academy-TNPSC Current Affairs MAY 2018 [B] Ministry of Women and Child 15. Which Indian boxer has been Development conferred with the WBC Asia Boxer of the [C] Ministry of Human Resource Year Award? Development [A] NeerajGoyat [B] Shiva Thapa [D] Ministry of Panchayati Raj [C] NeeravTomar [D] Vijender Singh 13. The Barkana Waterfalls is located in 16. The Vindhyachal Thermal Power which state? Station is located in which state? [A] Arunachal Pradesh [A] Maharashtra [B] Karnataka [B] Andhra Pradesh [C] Jammu and Kashmir [C] Madhya Pradesh [D] Chhattisgarh [D] Karnataka 14. Which Indian-American personality 17. Which Indian squash player has won has been appointed as the interim judge to the 2018 Abu Dhabi Open squash title? a US civil court of New York City? [A] Cyrus Poncha [A] Krishna Kaur [B] Harinder Pal Sandhu [B] Priyanka Jain [C] RamitTandon [C]DeepaAmbekar [D] Mahesh Mangaonk [D] Jeeva Singh 0422 4204182, 98842 67599, NVN Layout, Gandhipuram, Coimbatore Page 3 Unique IAS Academy-TNPSC Current Affairs MAY 2018 18. The first organised census of Indus 21. The birth anniversary of Nobel Dolphins will be carried out in which state laureate RabindraNath Tagore has of India? celebrated on which date in India? [A] Punjab [A] May 8 [B] May 9 [B] Himachal Pradesh [C] May 7 [D] May 6 [C] Jammu & Kashmir [D] Jharkhand 22. The Balphakram National Park is located in which state? 19. The Space Applications Centre (SAC) [A] Meghalaya [B] Nagaland has developed an indigenous atomic clock [C] Mizoram [D] Tripura for navigation satellites. Where is the headquarters of SAC, which works under 23. Which state government has launched the aegis of ISRO? RythuBandhu scheme for farmers? [A] Bangaluru [B] Kolkata [A] Telangana [B] Kerala [C] New Delhi [D] Ahmedabad [C] Andhra Pradesh [D] Tamil Nadu 20. The 2018 World Athletics Day (WAD) 24. The Sikkim government has is observed on which date? nominated which Bollywood personality as [A] May 5 [B] May 6 the Green Ambassador of the state? [C] May 7 [D] May 8 [A] Shreya Ghoshal [B] Atif Aslam [C] Mohit Chauhan [D] Sonu Nigam 0422 4204182, 98842 67599, NVN Layout, Gandhipuram, Coimbatore Page 4 Unique IAS Academy-TNPSC Current Affairs MAY 2018 25. The Parliamentary panel to study the [C] India [D] Vietnam recovery of black money and performance of public sector banks for 2018-19. The 28. The UNDP has proposed to set up skill panel will be headed by whom? development centre in which Indian city to [A]ShashiTharoor empower vulnerable and marginalised [B] ArunJaitley women? [C] L. K. Advani [A] New Delhi [B] Chennai [D] MuraliManohar Joshi [C] Hyderabad [D] Bangaluru 26. The 2018 National Technology Day 29. Which Indian city hosted the first (NTD) is celebrated on which date in meeting of the BIMSTEC Working Group India? on Customs Cooperation? [A] May 11 [B] May 10 [A] Jaipur [B] New Delhi [C] May 13 [D] May 12 [C] Patna [D] Pune 27. Which country has become the largest 30. Which Indian shooter has won gold in remittance-receiving country in the world the women‟s 10m air pistol event at the in 2017, as per report „RemitSCOPE – International Shooting Competitions of Remittance markets and opportunities – Hannover in Germany? Asia and the Pacific‟? [A] P Shri Ni [B] Manu Bhaker [A] Bangladesh [B] Philippines [C] Apurvi Chandela [D] Heena Sidhu 0422 4204182, 98842 67599, NVN Layout, Gandhipuram, Coimbatore Page 5 Unique IAS Academy-TNPSC Current Affairs MAY 2018 31. Balakumaran, the veteran novelist has 34. The first-ever all-woman Post Office passed away. He belonged to which state? Passport Seva Kendra (POPSK) has [A] Kerala [B] Tamil Nadu started operations in which city? [C] Andhra Pradesh [D] Karnataka [A] Phagwara [B] Ujjain [C] Udaipur [D] Kochi 32. Who has taken charge as the new Minister of Information and Broadcasting 35. Which of the following cities has been (I&B)? ranked India‟s first cleanest city, as per [A] AlphonsKannanthanam latest survey report “Swachh Survekshan- [B] S SAhluwalia 2018”? [C]RajyavardhanRathore [A] Indore [B] Vijay Vijaywada [D]PiyushGoyal [C] Ghaziabad [D] Bhopal 33. Who has been appointed as ‟eminent 36. Which state government will launch jurist‟ in the high-profile Lokpal selection the „ChatraParivahanSurakshaYojana‟ to committee? ensure safety of girl students? [A] P.P. Rao [B] DipakMisra [A] Jharkhand [B] Manipur [C] MukulRohatgi [D] Ranjan G [C] Assam [D] Haryana 0422 4204182, 98842 67599, NVN Layout, Gandhipuram, Coimbatore Page 6 Unique IAS Academy-TNPSC Current Affairs MAY 2018 37. The Farakka Barrage is built across [C] Juan Martin delPotro which river? [D] GrigorDimitrov [A] Ganga [B] Brahmaputra [C] Godavari [D] Krishna 41. Which country‟s hockey team has won the 5th Women‟s Asian Champions 38. Who has been appointed as the new Trophy 2018? Chairman of Lalit Kala Akademi? [A] South Korea [B] India [A] M L Srivastava [C] China [D] Myanmar [B] P Krishna Setty [C] N K Jaishankar 42. Which country has launched the [D] UttamPacharne world‟s first floating nuclear power station? 39. Which country hosted the 26th BASIC [A] United States [B] Russia Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change? [C] China [D] France [A] India [B] Brazil [C] China [D] South Africa 43. Which footballer has won the 2018 European Golden Shoe? 40. Who has won the 2018 Italian Open [A] Lionel Messi tennis tournament? [B] Mohamed Salah [A] Alexander Zverev [C] Cristiano Ronaldo [B] Rafael Nadal [D] Robert Lewandowski 0422 4204182, 98842 67599, NVN Layout, Gandhipuram, Coimbatore Page 7 Unique IAS Academy-TNPSC Current Affairs MAY 2018 44. The Athirappilly Falls is located in [C] May 21 [D] May 20 which state? [A] Karnataka [B] Andhra Pradesh 48. India‟s first national sports university [C] Tamil Nadu [D] Kerala will come up in which state? [A] Assam [B] Uttar Pradesh 45. Who has won the prestigious 2018 Man [C] Manipur [D] Sikkim Booker International Prize for fiction? [A] Ahmed Saadawi 49. The military exercise of Indian Army [B] Han Kang “Gandiv Vijay 2018” was concluded in [C] VirginieDespentes which state? [D] Olga Tokarczuk [A] Punjab [B] Rajasthan 46. Which state government has launched [C] Himachal Pradesh „Nidaan‟ software for disease monitoring? [D] Uttar Pradesh [A] Rajasthan [B] Kerala [C] Andhra Pradesh [D] Odisha 50. The joint military exercise “SURYA KIRAN-XIII” between India and Nepal 47. The 2018 National Anti Terrorism Day will be conducted at which place? (NATD) is celebrated on which date in [A] Gorakhpur [B] Jaisalmer India? [C] Pithoragarh [D] Saljhandi [A] May 22 [B] May 23 0422 4204182, 98842 67599, NVN Layout, Gandhipuram, Coimbatore Page 8 Unique IAS Academy-TNPSC Current Affairs MAY 2018 51. The Union Cabinet has recently [C] RoshaBasnet approved USOF to provide mobile [D] DeuraleeChamling connectivity in Left Wing Extremism (LWE) areas. What does “USOF” stands 54. Which state government has launched for? the [A] Universal Service Obligation Fund „PrakritikKhetiKhushhaalKisaanYojana‟ [B] Universal Service Offering Fund to promote organic farming? [C] Universal Service Oak Fund [A] Himachal Pradesh [B] Karnataka [D] Universal Service Opacity Fund [C]Punjab [D] Assam 52. Which city is hosting the ASEAN India 55. The Baglihar Dam is located in which Film Festival 2018? state? [A] Pune [B] New Delhi [A] Himachal Pradesh [C] Kochi [D] Mumbai [B] Jammu and Kashmir [C] Sikkim 53. Who has become only woman in the [D] Punjab world to climb three highest peaks in Nepal above 8,000 meters in single 56. Which state government has recently climbing season? declared official symbols for the state? [A]NimaJangmu Sherpa [A] Telangana [B] Mizoram [B]RojitaBuddhacharya [C] Tripura [D] Andhra Pradesh 0422 4204182, 98842 67599, NVN Layout, Gandhipuram, Coimbatore Page 9 .