1. India has signed how much amount of loan agreement with the World Bank (WB) for Himachal Pradesh Public Financial Management Capacity Building Program?
[A] $68 million
[B] $56 million
[C] $36 million
[D] $45 million
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2. Who has been appointed as the new Economic Affairs Secretary?
[A] Arvind Mayaram
[B] Shaktikanta Das
[C] Vijay Kelkar
[D] Tapan Ray
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3. Which country to host 2017 board of governors meeting of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)?
[A] South Korea
[B] China
[C] India
[D] South Africa
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4. Who has been appointed as the new chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC)?
[A] Keshav Prasad Maurya
[B] Ram Shankar Katheria
[C] P M Kamalamma
[D] PL Poonia
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5. India's first freight village will be set up in which of the following cities?
[A] New Delhi
[B] Udaipur
[C] Varanasi
[D] Chennai
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6. Which Indian personality has been appointed public policy fellow to Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars?
[A] Gopalaswami Parthasarathy
[B] Rakesh Sood
[C] Srinivas Kumar Sinha
[D] Nirupama Rao
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7. Which country to host 2017 Shanghai Co operation Organization (SCO)?
[A] Kazakhstan
[B] Uzbekistan
[C] Tajikistan
[D] Kyrgyzstan
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8. The World Milk Day (WMD) is observed on which date?
[A] June 3
[B] June 1
[C] June 4
[D] June 5
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9. Who has become the first Indian woman to scale Mt. Everest from China side?
[A] Radhika GR
[B] Anshu Jamsenpa
[C] Anita Kundu
[D] Arunima Sinha
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10. The Sri Venkateswara National Park is located in which state?
[A] Kerala
[B] Karnataka
[C] Himachal Pradesh
[D] Andhra Pradesh
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11. Which Indian organisation has won the 2017 Asia Pacific Quality Network (AP QN) Award?
[A] Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)
[B] National Assessment and Accredita tion Council (NAAC)
[C] Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
[D] Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
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12. Who has been sworn-in as the new President of Serbia?
[A] Ivica Dacic
[B] Tomislav Nikolic
[C] Dragan Sutanovac
[D] Aleksandar Vucic
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13. Which state government has launched digital wallet "T-Wallet" for people with and without mobile phones?
[A] Karnataka
[B] Odisha
[C] Telangana
[D] Manipur
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14. What is the India's rank in the 2017 Global Peace Index, as per global think tank Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP)?
[A] 141st
[B] 133rd
[C] 155th
[D] 137th
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15. Who is the newly appointed Executive Director (ED) of Reserve Bank of India (RBI)?
[A] Chandan Sinha
[B] Arvind Mayaram
[C] S Ganesh Kumar
[D] Rajiv Mehrishi
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16. Which state government will collaborate with UNDOC to intensify anti-drug drive?
[A] Punjab
[B] Haryana
[C] Uttar Pradesh
[D] Madhya Pradesh
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17. India's first automatic coastal warning for disasters will come up in which state?
[A] Tamil Nadu
[B] Maharashtra
[C] Odisha
[D] Andhra Pradesh
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18. Parvathama RajKumar, who passed away recently, was the noted personality of which field?
[A] Film Industry
[B] Politics
[C] Journalism
[D] Law
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19. S. Abdul Rahman, who passed away recently, was the famous poet of which language?
[A] Kannada
[B] Tamil
[C] Odia
[D] Telugu
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10. Miroslav Lajcak will be the new President of United Nations General Assembly. He hails from which country?
[A] Slovakia
[B] Fiji
[C] Uruguay
[D] Senegal
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21. Who will become the new Prime Minister of Ireland?
[A] Leo Varadkar
[B] Brian Cowen
[C] Mary McAleese
[D] Enda Kenny
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22. Who has been appointed as the new CEO of Prasar Bharti?
[A] CK Prasad
[B] Shashi Shekhar Vempati
[C] Rajeev Singh
[D] S C Panda
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23. What is the India's rank in the 2017 global Multi-dimensional Poverty Index (MPI)?
[A] 45th
[B] 58th
[C] 37th
[D] 26th
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24. Which committee has been formed by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on corporate governance?
[A] Uday Kotak committee
[B] Naysa Modi committee
[C] Tejas Muthusamy committee
[D] Saketh Sundar committee
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25. Which Indian-American student has won the 90th Scripps Naional Spelling Bee competition?
[A] Sreeniketh Vogoti
[B] Ananya Vinay
[C] Rohan Sachdev
[D] Shourav Dasari
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26. Which film will represent India at the 52nd Karlong Vary International Film Festival?
[A] Khibula
[B] Cakemaker
[C] Ralang Road
[D] Falling
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27. Who has won boys singles title at the 2017 HCL Asian Junior Tennis Champion ship?
[A] Piyush Salekar
[B] Vikrat Mehta
[C] Kaivalya Kalamse
[D] Nitin Kumar Sinha
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28. Who has become the first Indian to be nominated as a member of the ITTF Umpires and Referees Committee (URC)?
[A] S. Sridhar
[B] Raksheet Kota
[C] Ganeshan Neelakanta Iyer
[D] Pankaj Awasthi
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29. The researchers of which IIT institute has developed a wireless technology "Ambu Sens" to monitor hospital-bound patients?
[A] IIT Kharagpur
[B] IIT Madras
[C] IIT Varanasi
[D] IIT Roorkee
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30. The Gumti Wildlife Sanctuary is located in which state?
[A] Sikkim
[B] Tripura
[C] Bihar
[D] Uttar Pradesh
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31. What is the theme of 2017 World Environment Day (WED)?
[A] Green Economy: Does it include you?
[B] Raise Your Voice Not The Sea Level
[C] Connecting People to Nature
[D] Think.Eat.Save
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32. Who has clinched the 2017 men's singles title at the Thailand Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament?
[A] Akhilesh Das Gupta
[B] B Sai Praneeth
[C] Jonatan Christie
[D] Kidambi Srikanth
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33. Which football club has won the 2017 UEFA Champions League trophy?
[A] Juventus
[B] Milan
[C] Barcelona
[D] Real Madrid
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34. India's first smartcard-based Public Bicycle Sharing (PBS) initiative "Trin Trin" has launched in which city?
[A] Mysuru
[B] New Delhi
[C] Lucknow
[D] Chennai
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35. Who has become the new Solicitor General of India?
[A] Tushar Mehta
[B] Pinky Anand
[C] Ranjit Kumar
[D] P S Narsimha
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36. What is the India's GDP growth rate in 2018, as per latest World Bank's Global Economic Prospects (GEP) report?
[A] 7.5%
[B] 7.7%
[C] 7.2%
[D] 7.6%
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37. Which country has topped the 2017 A T Kearney Global Retail Development Index (GRDI)?
[A] China
[B] India
[C] Malaysia
[D] Vietnam
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38. ISRO has successfully launched GSAT-19 communication satellite through which launch vehicle?
[A] GSLV Mark III
[B] GSLV Mark IV
[C] GSLV Mark II
[D] GSLV Mark V
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39. The International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression is observed on which date?
[A] June 5
[B] June 4
[C] June 6
[D] June 3
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40. The Abohar Wildlife Sanctuary is located in which state?
[A] Tripura
[B] Nagaland
[C] Punjab
[D] Kerala
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