Q1. Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Minister Kalraj Mishra has unveiled the world’s largest Charkha at which of the following Airport in India recently?
(a) Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport, Patna
(b) Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata
(c) Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai
(d) Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi
(e) Kempegowda International Airport, Bangaluru
Q2. Which of the following state has become the first state in the country to introduce minimum wages for part time workers?
(a) Rajasthan
(b) Odisha
(c) Tamil Nadu
(d) Bihar
(e) Madhya Pradesh
Q3. Javeline thrower _____________ has bettered her national record with a 59.87m throw at the 56th National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships in Hyderabad.
(a) Anil Singh
(b) Neeraj Chopra
(c) Devendra Jhajharia
(d) Satbir Singh
(e) Annu Rani
Q4. According to the Union Government, which of the following port has become India’s first port to implement logistics data tagging of containers to track cargo?
(a) Kochi Port, Kerala
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru Port, Maharashtra
(c) Kandla Port, Gujarat
(d) Kamarajar Port, Tamil Nadu
(e) None of the above
Q5. Gas importer Petronet LNG Ltd. plans to set up a 5,000 crore LNG import terminal at Kutubdia islands, in which of the following countries does it look to build terminals to feed demand in neighbouring countries?
(a) Bhutan
(b) Myanmar
(c) Bangladesh
(d) Sri Lanka
(e) Nepal
Q6. India’s economy may grow at a slightly slower pace of ____________ this fiscal amid weaker global demand and risk aversion, says an HSBC report.
(a) 7.4 per cent
(b) 7.7 per cent
(c) 7.3 per cent
(d) 7.0 per cent
(e) 7.1 per cent
Q7. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has launched a mobile application called ________ for measuring real-time mobile Internet speed that consumers get.
(a) GoGrow
(b) MYMobile
(c) Higher
(d) MySpeed
(e) None of the above
Q8. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh is going to inaugurate the second anti-drug working group meeting of heads of Drug Control Agencies of BRICS countries in?
(a) Kolkata
(b) New Delhi
(c) Mumbai
(d) Chennai
(e) Hyderabad
Q9. Coinciding with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Mozambique, India completed the delivery of how much US dollar grant assistance as part of supporting the
institutions of this African country?
(a) 34.5 million
(b) 14.5 million
(c) 24.5 million
(d) 8.5 million
(e) 4.5 million
Q10. The Supreme Court-appointed green panel EPCA has recommended high pollution cess, of up to what per cent on the cost of diesel cars with engine above 2,000 cc?
(a) 15 per cent
(b) 20 per cent
(c) 25 per cent
(d) 10 per cent
(e) 50 per cent
Q11. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved increase in foreign shareholdings in Axis Bank Ltd to how much per cent from the existing 62 per cent?
(a) 81 per cent
(b) 74 per cent
(c) 85 per cent
(d) 65 per cent
(e) None of the above
Q12. PM Narendra Modi inducted 19 new ministers into the Council of Ministers. Who is the Human Resource Development Minister after the cabinet reshuffled?
(a) Smriti Irani
(b) Rajiv Pratap Rudy
(c) Ajay Tamta
(d) Ravi Shankar Prasad
(e) Prakash Javadekar
Q13. Name the Iranian director whose 1997 film “Taste of Cherry” won the prestigious Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, has passed away following a prolonged illness in Paris recently?
(a) Abbas Kiarostami
(b) Bernardo Bertolucci
(c) Franco Zeffirelli
(d) Sergio Leone
(e) Luchino Visconti
Q14. How many projects of Namami Gange Programme are to be inaugurated at various locations in Uttrakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Haryana and Delhi recently?
(a) 210
(b) 231
(c) 150
(d) 540
(e) 643
Q15. India and which of the following countries have reviewed the implementation of decision taken at the 9th Joint Commission for furthering trade, investment and developmental linkages between the two countries in New Delhi?
(a) Myanmar
(b) Japan
(c) Sri Lanka
(d) Russia
(e) South Africa