WEEKLY UPDATED CURRENT AFFAIRS FOR WEEK 32/52(AUG 12-AUG 18) WEEKLY OBJECTIVE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS ON CURRENT AFFAIRS: FOR WEEK 32/52 (12 AUG-18 AUG 2018) 1. Justice Manjula Chellur, who has been appointed as new chairperson of Appellate Tribunal for Electricity was previously chief justice of which high court? (a)Jammu & Kashmir High Court (b) Punjab & Haryana High Court (c) Bombay High Court (d)Gujarat High Court 2. India’s first genetic bank for wildlife conservation has been inaugurated in which city? (a)New Delhi (b) Kolkata (c) Hyderabad (d) Chennai 3. On which date, the 2018 World Elephant Day (WED) was observed recently? (a)August 13 (b) August 14 (c) August 12 (d) August 15 4. Which city hosted the Nepal-India Literature Festival 2018? (a)Bharatpur (b) New Delhi (c) Kathmandu (d) Birgunj 5. Who has been officially appointed new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights? (a)Dina Kawar (b) Mary Robinson (c)Ricardo Lagos (d) Michelle Bachelet 6. Which rescue operation has been launched by Indian Army in the flood-hit areas of Kerala? (a)Operation Madad (b)Operation Sahyog (c)Operation Surya Hope (d) Operation Surya Hope 7. Which space agency has successfully launched the Parker Solar Probe mission to touch the Sun? (a) Roscosmos (b) NASA (c)ISRO (d)JAXA 8. What was the tenure of Somnath Chatterjee, who passed away recently, as Lok Sabha Speaker? (a)2004-2009 (b) 2005-2010 (c)2000-2005 (d)2002-2006 9. Who has become the youngest Indian golfer to claim Asian Tour title at the 2018 Take Solutions Masters? (a) Om Prakash Chouhan (b) Viraj Madappa (c) Shubhankar Sharma (d)SSP Chawrasia 10. Who has been sworn-in as the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court (MHC)? (a)Aniruddha Bose (b)Mukesh R Shah (c)R Rajagopal (d)Vijaya Kamlesh Tahilramani 11. Which Indian authority has launched the RUCO initiative recently? (a) Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (b)National Disaster Management Authority (c) Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (d) Narcotics Control Bureau 12. In which three southern states, Wipro has launched Santoor women’s scholarship for higher education to girls from economically weaker families? (a)Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh (b)Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka (c)Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka (d)Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana 13. What is the theme of the 9th edition of Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit-2019? (a)Towards a New India of the future (b) Laying the foundations for New India (c)Boost India in the World (d)Shaping of a New India 14. Which of the following is not a work of late VS Naipaul, the Trinidad-born Indian origin Nobel prize winning author who passed away recently? (a) A Bend in the River (b)Magic Seeds (c) A House for Mr Biswas (d) The Remains of the Day 15. What is the theme of the 2018 International Youth Day (IYD)? (a) Youth Building Peace (b) Safe Spaces for Youth (c) Change Your World (d) Eradicate Negativity 16. Which of the following has become the India’s first bank to introduce iris authentication for Aadhaar-based transactions through micro ATMs? (a) ICICI Bank (b) Punjab National Bank (c) Axis Bank (d)State Bank of India 17. India’s first all-woman Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team for anti-terrorist operations has been inducted in which state / UT police ? Plot-1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRP Square, Bhubaneswar-751015 Ph. : 8093556677, 9040456677, Web :www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] 1 WEEKLY UPDATED CURRENT AFFAIRS FOR WEEK 32/52(AUG 12-AUG 18) (a) Karnataka Police (b)Delhi Police (c) Kerala Police (d) Assam Police 18. Recently, the first electronics manufacturing cluster in the northeastern region under the Indian Government’s ‘Digital North East Vision 2022’ was inauguarted in which city? (a) Agartala (b) Dispur (c) Guwahati (d) Kohima 19. Which Indian author has won the 2018 Hindu Playwright Award 2018? (a)Keval Arora (b)Sneh Sapru (c)Swetanshu Bora (d)Annie Zaidi 20. The ‘Tatkal sewa’ for property registration is a proposed initiative of which state government? (a) Punjab (b)Uttar Pradesh (c)Maharashtra (d)Assam 21. Which committee has been constituted by the Central government to coordinate the discharge of floodwaters from Kerala-Tamil Nadu inter-State projects? (a)Narendra Kumar committee (b) Kirti Sharma committee (c) Ajit Doval committee (d) M S Das committee 22. Which telecom company has launched a VOIP based phone service “WINGS”? (a) Airtel (b)BSNL (c) Reliance Jio (d)Vodafone 23. The special film festival on theme “Freedom Struggle & Freedom Fighters” has been organized by Films Division of India (FDI) in which city? (a)Chennai (b)Kolkata (c)New Delhi (d)Mumbai 24. Which of the following has been ranked as India’s most patriotic brand, as per survey conducted by UK-based online market research and data analytics firm YouGov? (a) Patanjali (b)State Bank of India (c) Tata Motors (d)Reliance Jio 25. Who has been sworn-in as the new President of Paraguay? (a) Horacio Cartes (b)Federico Franco (c)Mario Abdo Benítez (d)Fernando Lugo 26. Which city is hosting the 24th World Congress of Philosophy (WCP) 2018? (a)Istanbul (b)Beijing (c)Seoul (d)Athens 27. Which of the following Indian cities has been included in the 2018 Global Liveability Index, which was released by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)? (a)Chennai and Pune (b)Kolkata and Mysuru (c) Kochi and Chandigarh (d) Delhi and Mumbai 28. Nihal Sarin, who has become the 53rd chess Grandmaster from India, belongs to which state? (a) Kerala (b)Assam (c) Tamil Nadu (d)Odisha 29. In which year, Ajit Wadekar, who passed away recently, led the Indian team to historic test series victories in West Indies and England? (a)1972 (b) 1970 (c) 1971 (d)1974 30. Which Bollywood personality has become the brand ambassador for Government of India (GoI)’s road safety awareness campaign? (a)Amitabh Bachchan (b) Anushka Sharma (c)Deepika Padukone (d) Akshay Kumar 31. NITI Aayog has launched which mobility pitch competition for budding startups in the mobility field? (a)Pitch to Mob (b)Pitch to Move (c)Pitch to Start (d) Pitch to Gear 32. Who has been appointed India’s new ambassador to Russia? (a) Partha Satpathy (b)Swetanshu Bora (c)Pankaj Saran (d) D Bala Venkatesh Varma 33. Which Indian personality has been ranked first in the Kotak Wealth Hurun-Leading Wealthy Women 2018 list? (a) Smitha V. Crishna (b)Roshni Nadar (c) Indu Jain (d) Leena Gandhi Tewari 34. Which Indian sportsperson has won the Community Award in the Junior NBA World Basketball Championship 2018? (a)Ajmer Singh (b)Sunishka Kartik (c)Satnam Singh Bhamara (d)Geethu Anna Jose 35. The Postal Highway Project, for which Government of India (GoI) is providing financial support, is located in which country? (a)Afghanistan (b) Myanmar (c)Nepal (d)Sri Lanka 36. Who has been appointed the head coach of the Indian Women’s National Cricket team? (a) Madan Lal (b) Gundappa Viswanath (c)Ramesh Powar (d) Sanjay Bangar 37. Which state government has decided to observe September as the “month of nutrition” to create awareness among people living in the state? (a) Assam (b)Rajasthan (c) Uttar Pradesh (d)Odisha 38. Chemmanam Chacko, who passed away recently, was noted poet of which language? Plot-1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRP Square, Bhubaneswar-751015 Ph. : 8093556677, 9040456677, Web :www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] 2 WEEKLY UPDATED CURRENT AFFAIRS FOR WEEK 32/52(AUG 12-AUG 18) (a) Malayalam (b)Tamil (c)Telugu (d) Odia 39. Which state government has launched the eye care scheme ‘Kanti Velugu’ on the occasion of 72nd Independence Day 2018? (a) Andhra Pradesh (b) Karnataka (c)Telangana (d) Tamil Nadu 40. The festival of the historic Esala Maha Perehera has started in which neighbouring country of India? (a) Bhutan (b)Myanmar (c) Sri Lanka (d) China 41. Which state is host to the 2018 International Conference on Recent Advances in Food Processing Technology (iCRAFPT)? (a) Karnataka (b)Tamil Nadu (c) Odisha (d) Assam 42. Esow Alben, who scripted history by winning the India’s first junior cycling World Cup medal, hails from which state/UT? (a)Daman & Diu (b)Gujarat (c) Andaman & Nicobar Islands (d)West Bengal 43. Which IIT has decided to set up a Re-Water Research Center to replenish and rejuvenate water resources? (a)IIT Delhi (b)IIT Kharagpur (c) IIT Madras (d) IIT Bombay 44. Who is the newly appointed Chairman of Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA)? (a)KS Srinivas (b) BVR Subrahmanyam (c) M S Mohan (d)J K Nayak 45. Who has been sworn-in as the new President of Mali? (a) Alpha Oumar Konare (b) Dioncounda Traore (c) Soumaila Cisse (d) Ibrahim Boubacar Keita 46. Legendary singer Aretha Franklin, who passed away recently, had performed at the inaugurations of which of the following Presidents of the United States? (a) George W. Bush (b)Donald Trump (c)Jimmy Carter (d)Ronald Reagan 47. Which of the following cities is the venue of the 11th World Hindi Conference (WHC) 2018? (a) New Delhi (b)Port Louis (c)Johannesburg (d)Paramaribo 48. India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) has revised India’s GDP growth to 7.2% for FY19. Ind-Ra belongs to which group? (a)CRISIL (b) Standard & Poor’s (c) Moody’s Corporation (d) Fitch 49. Who is the world’s highest paid female actress according to Forbes? (a) Angelina Jolie (b)Scarlett Johansson (c)Jennifer Aniston (d)Sandra Bullock 50.