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1- This state among the following has launched Rs. 50,000 crore farm-debt scheme.

1-Madhya Pradesh.

2- Rajasthan.

3- Karnataka.

4- Maharasthra

2- Which among the following is issued by the court in the case of illegal detention of a person.

1-Mandamus.

2-Certiorari

3-Habeas Corpus

4-Quo Warranto

3- This among the following is the hardest material.

1- Steel.

2- Graphite.

3- Diamond.

4-Tungsten.

4- In which country among the following driest location on the earth is found?

1-Libya.

2- Congo.

3- Chile.

4- Kenya.

5- With which game Lady Ratan Tata Trophy is associated?

1- Hockey.

2- Cricket.

3- Basket Ball.

4- Football.

6- To which sports Mohammad Anas is related?

1-Boxing.

2-Wrestling.

3-Tennis.

4-Athletics.

7-This noted journalist and columnist among the following died recently.

1- Ranjit Guru

2- Shyam Dixit.

3-Natwar Deewan.

4-SK Mishra.

8- Who among the following Padmashree awardee and prominent Social worker died recently?

1-Kamal Bajaj.

2-Damodar Ganesh Bapat.

3-Devi Shankar Prasad.

4-Sadashiv Katre.

9- Name the former Australian pace Spearhead who has been elected as an honorary life member of the Marylebone Cricket Club(MCC)?

1- Nathan Lyon.

2- Shane Warne.

3- Mitchell Johnson.

4- Mitchell Starc.

10-Former India opener and national selector passed away recently. Who is he?

1-MK Prasad.

2-Gagan Sharma.

3- VB Chandra Sekhar.

4- Sarandeep Singh.

11-He is the first batsman to score 20,000 international runs in a single decade.

1-Shikhar Dhawan.

2-Virat Kohli.

3-Rohit Sharma.

4- MS Dhoni.

12-Name the district that has been ranked as the most improved district in Second Delta ranking for the Aspirational Districts released by NITI Aayog’

1-Nuapada, Odisha

2-Siddharthnagar, Uttar Pradesh

3-Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu

4-Aurangabad, Bihar

13-Who among the following has been conferred with the ‘Tansen Samman’ for 2018?

1-Ravi Shankar

2-Ali Akbar Khan

3-MS Subbulakshmi

4-Manju Mehta

14-Which among the following counties has withdrawn from International Whaling Commission to resume commercial whaling in its territorial waters?

1-India

2-Japan

3-USA

4-China

15- Good Governance Day is celebrated annually on?

 

1-25th December

2-3rd December

3-11th December

4-19th December

ANSWERS-

1-Madhya Pradesh.

It is CM Kamal Nath launched the scheme named Jan Kisan Rin Mukti Yojana on January 15, 2019.

2-Habeas Corpus

3- Diamond.

Diamonds are known as the hardest substance on the surface of the earth.

4- Chile(Atacama desert). The location is known as Maria Elena South(MES).

5- Hockey. (for women)

* The trophy is named after Ratan Tata, who is an Indian Businessman.

6-Athletics.

7- Ranjit Guru.

* He was working with Odia daily Sambad.

* He was associated with Anand Bazar Patrika and the Asian Age. Both are leading newspapers.

8-Damodar Ganesh Bapat.

* He dedicated his life and service towards Leprosy patients.

* Padmashree is the fourth highest civilian award.

9- Mitchell Johnson.

* He played 73 international test matches for Australia claiming 313 wickets.

* He played 153 One Day Internationals and claimed 239 wickets.

* He played 30 Twenty 20 Internationals and claimed 38 wickets.

10- VB Chandra Sekhar.

* He played 7 ODIs in between 1988 and 1990. He scored only 88 runs.

* He is a qualified engineer.

11-Virat Kohli.

* Virat Kohli made his Test and T20 Internationals debut in 2010

12-Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu

13-Manju Mehta

14-Japan

15-25th December

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1-Bandipur National Park is situated in-

2-Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Museum or Princes of Wales Museum is located in-

3-Headquarters of North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO. is located in-

4- Betla National Park is situated in-

5-. In which state Lengpui Airport is located?

6-Indirasagar Dam is located in which state?

7- In which State Kempegowda International Airport is located?

8-In which state Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium is located?

9-In which state Barkatullah Khan Stadium is located?

10-Headquarters of International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes is located in-

11-In which state Khanderi Cricket stadium is located?

12-In which State Rajiv Gandhi International Airport is located?

13- In which state Madhav Rao SC India Ground is located?

14- Headquarters of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is located in-

15- In which state Bhilai Expansion Thermal power plant is located?

16- In which state Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram Thermal power plant is located?

17-In which State Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport is located?

18-Headquarters of International Civil Aviation Organization is located in-

19-Wilson Dam is constructed across which river?

20-Valmiki National Park is located in-

ANS-

1- Karnataka
2-Mumbai
3-Brussels, Belgium
4- Jharkhand
5-Mizoram
6-Madhya Pradesh
7-Karnataka
8-Maharashtra
9-Rajasthan
10- Washington DC, USA
11-Gujarat
12-Telangana
13-Gujarat
14- Beijing, China
15- Chhattisgarh
16-Haryana
17- West Bengal
18- Montreal, Canada
19-Pravara river
20- Bihar

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1- Which country is the Largest mobile phone producer in the world?

2-Under which section of insurance regulatory act 1938, the merger of an insurance company and a financial entity is not allowed?

3-Which CM was conferred the ‘Chief Minister of the Year’ award for remarkable work in e-governance?

4-What is Unnat Bharat Abhiyan aims?

5-PM Modi addresses program ‘Satyagraha se Swachhagraha’ in Champaran which is located in which state?

6- Sukanya Samriddhi minimum Account opening limit decreased from 1000 to –

7-The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has projected unemployment growth rate in India at –

8- Sangrai dance performed in the ceremonious Republic Day parade in 2018, is associated with which state?

9-The country’s first 12,000 horsepower (HP) electric locomotive launched in which state/city?

10-The time limit of declaring loan dues from Micro Small and Marginal Entrepreneurs as NPA (Non-Performing Assets) is increased to

11-Housing loan up to how much in metros will be treated as priority sector lending?

12-Health Ministry aims to increase government health expenditure as a percentage of gross domestic product from the current 1.15% to 2.5% by.

13-Livelihood and Water Security CSR initiative of which bank?

14-Which has launched artificial intelligence powered virtual assistant electronic live assistant?

15-The Military exercise held recently in Rajasthan is?

16-Who is the current chairman of PM economic advisory council?

17- Which bank announced an Employee Stock Purchase Scheme with a view to retaining its talent and incentivizing staff by issuing up to 10 crore equity shares?

18-Who was crowned as the winner of Miss Supermodel Worldwide 2018 held in Gurugram, India?

19-Which Chinese bank allowed by RBI to open branches in India?

20-Make in North East is focussed on HIRA sector. What is the full form of HIRA?

ANS-

1-China
2- Section 35
3- Vasundhara Raje, Rajasthan
4- To link the Higher Education Institutions with rural village
5- Bihar
6-250
7-3.5%
8-Tripura
9-Madhepura, Bihar
10- 180 days
11- Rs 25 lakh
12- 2025
13-Yes bank (corporate social responsibility)
14-SBI Card

15- Vijay Prahar
16-Bibek Debroy
17- Punjab National Bank
18- Aleksandra Liashkova from Belarus
19-Bank of China
20-Highways, Inland Waterways, Railways, and Airways

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1- World Red cross day is observed on which date?

2-What is the full form of DRDO?

3-Merger of which 3 banks recently?

4- Which cricketer has turned down Doctorate Degree from Jadavpur University?

5-Where is the HQ of European Investment Bank?

6-Mahe, the smallest district is in which state?

7-G20 2019 summit will be held at which place?

8-Who is the committee Head made for NPA?

9- Biofuel flight between Delhi and Dehradun by which airline?

10-Justin Trudeau is the Prime Minister of which country?

11-Yudh abhyas exercise is between India and which country?

12-Where is the Headquarter of World bank located?

13-Bajrang Punia is related to which of the following sport?

14-Rana Kapoor is the CEO of which of the following bank?

15-Recently a football team member and coach were trapped in a cave, are from which country?

16-What is the Minimum days for guaranteed wage employment in MNGREGA?

17-What is the Deadline for the launch of India’s maiden human space flight programme (Gaganyaan)?

18-What is the full form of FAME? 

19-Where is the HQ of National Institute of Petroleum?

20-Who is the chairman of SEBI?

 

ANS-

1-8th May
2- Defence Research and Development Organisation
3- Bank of Baroda, Vijaya Bank, Dena Bank
4- Sachin Tendulkar
5- Luxembourg
6-Puducherry
7-Osaka, Japan
8-Murli Manohar Joshi
9-Spicejet
10-Canada
11- United States of America
12-Washington D.C (USA)
13-FreeStyle Wrestler
14-Yes Bank
15- Thailand
16-100 days
17- 2022
18- Faster adoption and manufacturing of vehicles
19-Dehradun (Uttarakhand)
20-Ajay Tyagi

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Indian Railway

 

1- The headquarters of South-Central Railways is situated at Secundrabad.

2-Diesel Locomotive Works is situated at Varanasi.

3- In 1988 the Shatabdi Express train was started in India.

4- In 1984 the first underground railway (Metro Railway) was started in India.

5-Eastern Railway Zone is the largest railway zone in India.

6- The nationalization of Indian Railways was done in 1950.

7- Kanyakumari railway station is situated in extreme south India.

8-Between Mumbai to Thane, the first Indian train was started.

9-3700 Km is the length of North-Eastern Frontier Railway (NEFR).

10- In 15th Jan 1958, the North-Eastern Frontier Railway (NEFR) was established.

11-The headquarters of Northern Railway is at New Delhi.

12-The position of the Indian Railway under the zonal system is second.

13-A station where the rail lines end, is called terminal station.

14-In 1957 Research, Design and Standard organization was established in India.

15-On which year the first train in India was started?
Ans-16th April 1853.

16- During Lord Dalhousie Governor-General’s reign railway lines in India were established.

17-George Stephenson invented the railway engine first.

18-The Indian Railways Institute of Civil Engineering Institute is situated in Pune.

19-Palace On Wheels train was inaugurated in 1982.

20-The passenger bogies of the Indian Railways are manufactured at Perambur.

21- Besides Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Goa, it is Kerala, which is the fourth State for Konkan Railway Project.

22-The largest national enterprise of India is Indian Railway.

23- In Bangalore, the wheel and axle plant of Indian Railways is situated.

24- In 5th Nov 1951, the Central Railway was established.

25- In 1965, the Jammu City has appeared on the map of Indian Railway.

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1-Shikhar Dhawan was presented the International Batsman of the Year Award.

2-Vidarbha wins the Irani Trophy after defeating Rest of India team at Nagpur.

3-Vijay Keshav Gokhale appointed as the new Foreign Secretary of India. He will replace S. Jaishankar.

4- Indian film Halkaa bags the Grand Prix de Montreal at the gala.

5- Mamta Kalia is the winner of Vyas Samman 2017.

6- Madhya Pradesh state has become first in India to completely implement door-to-door garbage collection in all areas under urban bodies.

7- Meghalaya state signed the Host City Contract with Indian Olympic Association for hosting the 39th National Games in 2022.

8- Debjani Ghosh has been appointed as the new President of the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM).

9-The official motto for the 2018 Commonwealth Games held in Australia is ‘Share the Dream’.

10-The new state animal of divided Andhra Pradesh is Blackbuck.

11-The current President of Indian Olympics Committee is Narinder Dhruv Batra.

12- The venue for the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar.

13-The National Youth Day was celebrated on 12th January with the theme ‘Sankalp Se Siddhi’.

14-Philippines withdraws from the International Criminal Court.

15- The venue of the Finals of IPL 2018 – Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.

16- INS Ganga frigate of the Indian Navy, was decommissioned in Mumbai, after over three decades of service.

17- Javed Akhtar has been awarded Hridaynath Mangeshkar.

18-Godikan village panchayat of Haryana has passed a resolution ‘No Toilet, No Bride’.

19-Zabivaka (wolf) is the mascot of 2018 Fifa World Cup.

20- Dave Richardson is the CEO of International Cricket Council (ICC).

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Nihal Sarin

 

 

 

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1- Hima Das become the first Indian woman to win a gold at the IAAF World Under-20 Athletics Championships.

2-Ajit Wadekar who expired recently was associated with sports Cricket.

3-Nipah virus falls under the category of Zoonotic Disease.

4-Kami Rita Sherpa climbed Mount Everest for a 22nd time creating a new record for the most summits of the world’s highest mountain.

5-Indian Women’s Hockey Team lost to South Korea team in the Final match of the 5th Women’s Asian Champions Trophy.

6-‘Paudhagiri’ campaign, aimed at increasing the green cover has been launched by state Haryana.

7-92 years old Mahathir Mohamad sworn in as the World’s oldest elected leader after winning the Prime Minister election in Malaysia.

8- Bangladesh country won the 2018 Women’s Asia Cup T20 tournament held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

9-7th OPEC International Seminar concluded at the Imperial Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria.

10-National Bamboo Mission has been restructured by the government to promote commercial bamboo cultivation in the North Eastern States.

11-Uzhavan app allows farmers to have access to nine types of services, including details about their crop insurance.

12-India’s first-ever state-of-the-art e-waste recycling unit will come up in Bengaluru.

13-The Government of India inaugurated the first edition of the Khelo India School Games (KISG) in Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium.

14-Nihal Sarin becomes 53rd Chess Grandmaster from India.

15-Karnataka defeated Saurashtra by 42 runs to clinch 2018 Vijay Hazare Trophy.

16-The India’s rank in the United Nations E-Government Development Index (EGDI) 2018 is 96th.

17-Indian biosphere Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve has become the 11th one to be added to UNESCO’s WNBR list.

18- Samsung company has set up the world’s largest mobile phone factory in Noida.

19-Akshay Kumar becomes Brand Ambassador For Road Safety Campaigns in August 2018.

20-According to the global child rights group ‘Save the Children’, India has been ranked 113th place among 175 countries in the ‘End of Childhood Index 2018’.

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1-Who is the youngest Indian woman to scale Mount Everest?
Ans-Shivangi Pathak.

2-Name the new Communication satellite which is launched by China to provide transmission across Asia-Pacific Region.
Ans-APSTAR-6C

3-Where did the first all-women Post Office Passport Seva Kendra Start operations?
Ans-Phagwara, Punjab.

4-Who is the new Australian Cricket Head Coach?
Ans-Justin Langer.

5-Who breaks his own national record at IAAF Diamond League in Doha?
Ans-Neeraj Chopra.

6-Which of the following player is officially inked his deal with top English county Survey in his bid to prepare for the tour of England?
A-Rohit Sharma
B-Ravichandran Ashwin.
C-Murali Vijay.
D-Virat Kohli.
E-Wriddhiman Saha.
Ans- Virat Kohli.

7-Former Cricketing Legend Sachin Tendulkar has launched Khel Mahakumbh with BJP MP Anurag Thakur.

8-New Delhi has hosted the six-day festival of Bharat.

9-Karnataka Bank will divest 8.26% stake in Universal Sompo General Insurance to Dabur Investment Corporation and Sompo Japan.

10-Infosys has announced to invest Rs. 1 billion in the West Bengal in order to build Software Development Centre without the status of SEZ (Special Economic Zone).

11-Retirement fund body EPFO (Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation)’s UMANG app will let view your pension passbook anywhere.

12-Chhattishgarh has launched a new weekly Antyodaya train.

13-WHO has published its first essential diagnostics list.

14-Country Panama has signed two agreements with India on the exemption of visas for holders of diplomatic and official passports in the field of agriculture.

15-NSFR– Net Stable Funding Ratio.

16-Yes Bank launched Agenda 25*25 for budding women entrepreneurs in India.

17-Space Agency ISRO has developed an atomic clock that will be used in navigation satellites to measure precise location data.

18-China has hosted the 15th meeting of SCO(Shanghai Cooperation Organization) Cultural Ministers.

19-In Durban, South Africa, the 26th BASIC Ministerial Meeting of Environment Ministers held.

20-The Indian Government has constituted a six-member panel to advise the 15th Finance Commission on issues related to its Terms of Reference(ToR). Who is the head of this panel?
Ans-Arvind Virmani.

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Neeraj Chopra

 

 

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1- North Korea recently built Intercontinental ballistic missiles at a factory at Sanumdong. It has produced the country’s first missiles which are capable of reaching the United States.

2-US President Donald Trump decided to grant India the STA-1 trading status equivalent to American allies for procurement of military weapons. What is the full form of STA?
Ans- Strategic Trade Authorization

3- J.Satyanarayana is the Chairman of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the nodal agency of Government of India for implementing Aadhaar. He is retired 1977 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

4- e-Aksharayan free software has been launched by the Union IT Ministry for converting scanned printed Indian Language documents into a fully editable text format in Unicode encoding.

5-WhatsApp chat app has recently launched four-person group video calling. WhatsApp has officially released its group calling feature on both Android and iOS

 

6-Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf sought the support of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) to form the federal government.

7- Assam is the only state in India that has an NRC (National Register of Citizens). The Assam government in a bid to identify the illegal Bangladeshi migrants released the final draft of National Register of Citizens (NRC) list with names of 28,983,677 citizens in Assam.

8-Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has signed MoU With Ministry Of Electronics And Information Technology recently.

9-HDFC bank has been awarded the best performing primary lending institution in Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme(CLSS) for the EWS (Economically Weaker Section) and LIG (Low Income Group) category. The award was given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

10-British introduced the Indo-Saracenic style of architecture in India in the late 19th century.

11- Reliance Industries defeated TCS and became India’s Most Valued Company.

12-The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or USFDA) is a federal agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The head-quarters of FDA is located at Silver Spring, Maryland, United States.

13-RBI’s monetary policy committee in its third bi-monthly monetary policy review of 2018-19, increased repo rate to 6.5%.

14-Neeraj Chopra won Gold Medal at Savo Games in Finland.

15- India levies 25% safeguard duty on import of solar cells.

16-SC/ST (PoA) Amendment Bill, 2018 Bill rules out any provision for anticipatory bail for a person accused of atrocities against people from SC and ST communities.

17-Taiwan’s Wistron, a contract manufacturer of Apple iPhones in India, is all set to invest Rs.1,150 crore in Karnataka during the first phase of operations.

18-Ram Sewak Sharma has been re-appointed as TRAI Chairman till September 2020.

19-The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill outlaws talaq-e-biddat.

20-The Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) has been granted recognition by the University Grants Commission (UGC) for the year 2018-2019.

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1- The first successful moon mission of India is Chandrayan-I (October 22, 2008).

2-The first Probe Mission to planet Pluto- New Horizons (U.S. launched on January 19, 2006).

3-America’s first Mission to Saturn- Cassini Spacecraft (Reached Saturn’s orbit in July 2004).

4-The first space tourist of S. Africa and second of the world- Mark Shuttleworth (April 2002).

5-The first American manned spaceship to perform crew transfer in space- Apollo-9 (U.S.A.).

6-The first European woman to international Space Station- Claudie Haignere (French cosmonaut).

7-The first space tourist in the world- Dennis Tito (U.S.A.).

8- The first manned spaceship to perform space flight round the moon- Apollo-8 (U.S.A.).

9-The first woman of Indian origin in space- Kalpana Chawla.

10-The first US space shuttle to explode while returning home killing all the astronauts- Columbia (February 1, 2003).

11- First private, manned spacecraft- Spaceship One (Launched on June 21, 2004).

12-The first space woman to stay for the longest ever Perivale of time in space- Sunita Williams

13-The US software pioneer who became the first person to travel twice to space as a tourist- Charles Simonyi (March 26, 2009).

14-The first Japanese spacecraft to get down to an asteroid and collect samples from there- Hayabusa (November 2005, Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

15- India’s first Mapping Satellite- CARTOSAT-I (Launched on May 5, 2005).

16-The first spacecraft to touch the surface of a comet- NASA’s Deep Impact hit its comet target temple-I (July 4, 2005).

17- European Space Agency’s first moon probe craft- SMART-I.

18-China’s first man in space- Yang Liwei.

19-The first residents on the International Space Station- Bill shepherd (U.S.A.), Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev (Russia).

20-The first space vehicle to soft land on the moon- Luna-9 (U.S.S.R.)

21- The first country to send nuclear-powered spacecraft to explore Jupiter- U.S.A.

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