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376 . India’s largest waste-to-energy plant was inaugurated in?

a) Varanasi

b) Surat

c) Delhi

d) Mumbai

The 24 megawatt (MW) Narela-Bawana waste-to-energy plant


India’s first waste-to-energy plant,

The Timarpur Okhla Municipal Solid Waste Management plant

377 . Which city lost its right to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games due to the inability in meeting deadlines and financial problems?

a) Edmonton

b) Kingston

c) Durban

d) Jakarta


Football: –

FIFA Under-17 World Cup: India (2017)

FIFA Confederations Cup: Russia (2017)

(Germany beat Chile 1-0 )

FIFA Under-20 World Cup: South Korea (2017)

(England – 1st title beat venezuela)

FIFA World Cup (21st): Russia (2018) , FIFA World Cup (22nd): Qatar (2022)

Cricket

T20 Women’s World Cup: West Indies (2018)

T20 Men’s + Women’s World Cup: Australia (2020)

ICC Cricket World Cup (12th): England + Wales (2019)

ICC Cricket World Cup (13th), India (2023)

Olympic Games: –

Olympic Games (31st): Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (2016)

Olympic Games (32nd): Tokoyo, Japan (2020)

Olympic Games (33rd): PARIS (2024)

Olympic Games (34th): LOS ANGELES(2028)

Winter Olympics & Paralympics (23rd ): Pyeongchang, South Korea (2018)

Winter Olympics & Paralympics (24th ): Beijing , China 2022

Asian Games (18th): Jakarta, Indonesia (2018)

Asian Games (19th): Hangzhou, China (2022)

Men’s Hockey World Cup: India (2018) - Bhuwaneshwar

Women’s Hockey World Cup: England (2018)

378 Sri Lanka has decided to sell which deep-sea port to a Chinese company ?

a) Hambantota

b) Galle

c) Oluvil

d) Trincomalee


379 As per a new resolution unanimously adopted by Bangladesh parliament, which day has been declared as the Genocide Day in remembrance of the atrocities carried out by Pakistani Army in 1971?a) March 30th

b) March 15th

c) March 25th

d) March 10th

Operation Searchlight was the planned military operation carried out by the Pakistan Army to curb

the Bengali nationalist movement


380 Which Union minister announced KamaladeviChattopadhya National Awards, a new category of awards for women handloom weavers and women handicraft artisans?

a) Thawar Chand Gehlot

b) Kalraj Mishra

c) Maneka Gandhi

d) Smriti Irani


381225-year old Armoury of which 18th century warrior was recently relocated 100 meters away from original site, making it the first such exercise in the history of Indian Railways?

a) Shivaji

b) Tipu Sultan

c) Nana Sahib

d) Hyder Ali


382

Radha Mohan Singh, Union Agriculture and Farmer Welfare Minister recently laid foundation stone of a Banana Research Centre recently in?

a) West Bengal

b) Andhra Pradesh

c) Kerala

d) Bihar


Banana Research Centre in Gorole, Vaishali

It will function under Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University (RPCAU) at Pusa in Samastipur.

It is second such in the country after the National Research Centre for Banana at Tiruchirapalli in Tamil Nadu.

India 2nd in fruits production in the world behind ChinaIndia holds number one position in the world in the area of banana

production.

Among the states in India, Maharashtra is the largest producer followed by Tamil Nadu.

383 Mission Fingerling launched by Government of India with a total expenditure of about Rs. 52000 lakh is associated with?

a) Pink Revolution

b) Green Revolution

c) Blue Revolution

d) Black Revolution

The Blue Revolution, in its scope and reach, focuses on creating an enabling environment for an integrated and

holistic development and management of fisheries for the socio economic development of the fishers and fish farmers


384 For which disease did India sign WHO’s ‘call for action’ and pledged to scale up measures to end the disease by 2030?

a) Cholera

b) Tuberculosis

c) Hepatitis B

d) Yellow fever


385. When was World Consumer Rights Day with theme ‘Building a Digital World Consumers can Trust’ observed?

a) Mar 16th

b) Mar 20th

c) Mar 17th

d) Mar 15th


386 Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh announced to link 400 out of 585 wholesale mandisnationwide, by march-end, with the electronic trading platform called?

a) e-NAM

b) e-Agri

c) e-Mandi

d) e-Krishi


387 Sanjauli police station has become the first police post in the country to be linked with Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS). It is located in

which state?a) Himachal Pradesh

b) Uttarakhandc) Jammu & Kashmir

d) Uttar Pradesh

This will facilitate the people for lodging online/offline complaints, police verification of job, Tenants, Character

verification and migrant labourer registration etc. through the police post.


The Haryana police set up the country’s first centre for digital investigation and training in Gurgaon in a bid to enhance

cyber policing and monitor social media content.

Digital Investigation Training and Analysis Centre (DITAC)

The First Smart Police Station of India opened in 2017 at Nagarampalem in Amaravathi, Andhra Pardesh

Rajasthan became the first state in the country to have India's first police station which has 100 percent lady staff , Gandhi Nagar Women

Police station (JAIPUR)

Dubai - The World's First Robot Police Officer To Fight Crime - RoboCop

388As per the ‘Women in Politics 2017 Map’ launched by Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UN Women, what was India’s rank in world ranking of the number of women parliamentarians out of the 193 countries?a) 148b) 89c) 163d) 74

Women made up 11.8% of the Lok Sabha where 64 were elected to the 542-member house and 11 per cent of the Rajya Sabha with 27 of the 245 members


Rwanda ranked first in the number of women parliamentarians with 61.3 per cent in the lower house,

followed by Bolivia with 53.1 per cent and Cuba 48.9 per cent.

India ranked 88 in the number of women ministers

Bulgaria, France and Nicaragua tied for the first rank for the number of women ministers

Maneka Sanjay Gandhi

Smriti Irani

Sushma Swaraj

Nirmala Sitharaman

Uma Bharati

Harsimrat Kaur Badal

389 A Parliamentary panel has suggested merger of state-run telecom firms BSNL and MTNL for their long-term survival. The decision has been taken by Committee on Petitions chaired by?

a) Ajay Tamta

b) Virendra Singh

c) Bhagat Singh Koshyari

d) B.C.Khanduri


390

Which river in New Zealand, considered to be an ancestor by the Maori people, has become the first in the world to

get the same legal rights as a human being?

a) Waikato River

b) Oreti River

c) Mataura River

d) Whanganui River

The Ganges river, became the first non-human entity in India to be granted the same legal rights as people.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/india

391 Which of the following cricket legends recently launched his autobiography titled ‘My Story’?

a) Michael Clarke

b) Shahid Afridi

c) Saurav Ganguly

d) Ricky Ponting


392 Which badminton player has recently been named on the Governing Body of Sports Authority of India?

a) P Sindhu

b) Saina Nehwal

c) Jwala Gutta

d) P Kashyap


Sai Praneeth - 2017 Singapore Super Series title, Thailand Open

Kidambi Srikanth - 2017 Indonesia Super Series

2017 Australian Super Series

PV Sindhu - India Open (Women’s singles), Syed Modi International

Sameer Verma - Syed Modi International (Men’s singles)

HS Prannoy - US Open (Men’s singles)

Saina Nehwal - Malaysia Masters (Women’s singles)

393 Ashwin Sundar, who recently passed away in Chennai, was a famous?

a) Golfer

b) Billiards player

c) Car racer

d) Shooter


394 Derek Walcott, who recently passed away, was a Nobel laureate in which field?

a) Economics

b) Literature

c) Medicine

d) Peace


395 What is the name of India’s first indigenously built rake that was flagged off at Dadar Station in Mumbai?

a) Versha

b) Medha

c) Kiran

d) Barkha


396 Anang Tadar, a class 11 student, who has developed ‘Goggle for Blind (G4B)’ based on echo location, hails from which state?

a) Tripura

b) Sikkim

c) Assam

d) Arunachal Pradesh


397 Pakistan is planning to declare which of the following regions as its fifth province?

a) Balochistan

b) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

c) Gilgit-Baltistan

d) PoK

Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Sindh are four provinces of Pakistan.


398 As per a report presented by Union Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation Mahendra Singh Tomar, which state has highest number of Arsenic affected people in India?

a) Bihar

b) West Bengal

c) Chhattisgarh

d) Jharkhand


Bengal topped the list with more than 1.04 crore arsenic-affected persons as on March 4, 2017.

Bihar comes second with 16.88 lakh persons

Assam in third spot with 14.48 lakh victims.

According to the WHO’s guidelines for drinking water quality (2011), the permissible limit of Arsenic in groundwater is .01 mg per litre.

399 International Day of Happiness was observed on Mar 20th. Which country tops the happiness index as per the 2017 World Happiness Report which ranks 155 countries?

a) Norway

b) Denmark

c) Iceland

d) Switzerland


India ranked at 122 out of 155 countries

400 Which country has topped the 2017 Bloomberg Global Health Index that rated 167 countries?

a) Switzerland

b) Singapore

c) Italy

d) Iceland


Italy has been ranked first in the latest 2017 Bloomberg Global Health Index of 163 countries. India doesn't feature in the top 50 spots

According to the study, the average life expectancy in the country is 80-89 years. Iceland stood at 2nd position followed by Switzerland,

Singapore and Australia.

According to the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) published in the medical journal The Lancet, it has finished a dismal 154th among 195

countries on the healthcare index.

India ranks 154 in global healthcare rankings for 2015, Switzerland tops list

India ranked a lowly 154th on Healthcare Access and Quality Index, making it among the biggest underachievers in Asia, in a list that was topped by

Switzerland

401 Which township in Surat district of Gujarat became India’s first private sector township to go cashless?

a) Satya Sai, KP Group

b) Green Residency

c) Reliance Township

d) Nand Niketan, Essar Group


402 Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved Reliance Communications’ proposed merger

with which telecom service provider?

a) Vodafone

b) Tata Tele

c) Idea

d) Aircel

merged company will be called Aircom

Idea – Vodafone

Bharti - Telenor


403 In his marathon innings, which cricket player became the first Indian batsman to face 500 balls in an innings?

a) Virat Kohli

b) Kannur Lokesh Rahul

c) Ajinkya Rahane

d) Cheteshwar Pujara

Record – 847 balls – L Hutton


404 In which state the economic blockade, called by a political party, finally came to an end after 139 days?

a) Nagaland

b) Tripura

c) Manipur

d) Mizoram

Biren Singh

United Naga Council (UNC)


405 World Bank Group announced a record $57 billion in financing over the next three years for?

a) South East Asia

b) Sub Saharan countries

c) Middle Eastern countries

d) South Asia


406 Which state has announced to set up a cashew development board to promote development of good quality cashew orchards over the next 5 years?

a) Karnataka

b) Maharashtra

c) Andhra Pradesh

d) Odisha


407 Railways has announced to establish a museum to commemorate the visit of Swami Vivekananda at which station in Tamil Nadu?

a) Katpadi

b) Jolarpettai

c) Salem

d) Kumbakonam


408 Madhukar Gupta committee, which recently submitted its report, was constituted for which of the following issues?

a) Environmental protection

b) Cyber threats

c) Educational reforms

d) Border security


409 ISRO has commissioned the world’s third largest Hypersonic Wind Tunnel and Shock Tunnel at which facility?

a) ISRO Propulsion Complex

b) Space Applications Centre

c) Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre

d) Satish Dhawan Space Centre

These facilities are the third largest in terms of size and simulation capability in the world next only to the ones in

the United States (US) and Russia.


410 What was the theme of UN’s International Day of Forests 2017 observed on Mar 21st?

a) Forests and Food

b) Forests and Energy

c) Forests and Life

d) Forests and Water


411 Which team won the 2017 Vijay Hazare Trophy beating Bengal in the final?

a) Jharkhand

b) Karnataka

c) Punjab

d) Tamil Nadu

With this win, they become the only team to win the tournament five times


412 Maggie McDonnell, who won the Global Teacher Prize 2017 for $1 mn, teaches a small Innuit village in which country?

a) US

b) Greenland

c) Canada

d) Russia


413. Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HEFA) has granted the first-ever permission to carry out a new “three-parent baby” fertility technique. HEFA is the fertility clinics regulator in?

a) Germany

b) United Kingdom

c) France

d) Unites States


414 What was the theme for 2017 World Water Day observed on March 22nd?

a) One Drop At A Time

b) Water is Life

d) Slow the Flow

d) Why Waste Water?


415 Which IIT has become the first academic institution to get a supercomputing facility under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)?

a) Delhi

b) Madras

c) Kharagpur

d) Kanpur


416 When was the 86th Martyr’s Day observed to mark the death anniversary of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru?

a) Mar 24th

b) Mar 22nd

c) Mar 23rd

d) Mar 21st


417 Which Indian shooter won the Gold medal in Men’s double trap at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Shotgun World Cup being held in Mexico?

a) Amanpreet Singh

b) Gagan Narang

c) Jitu Rai

d) Ankur Mittal


418 What was India’s rank on Global Energy Architecture Performance Index 2017 report released by World Economic Forum that ranked 127 countries?

a) 87

b) 95

c) 102

d) 76

Top 5 Countries: Switzerland (1), Norway (2), Sweden (3), Denmark (4) and France (5).


Index Component Rank

PM 2.5 levels 123Environmental Sustainability 109

Economic Growth and Development 64

Energy Access and Security 95

419 Who was awarded the 2017 Abel Prize, by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, for his work on wavelets?

a) Srinivasa Varadhan

b) Yakov Sinai

c) Yves Meyer

d) Andrew Wiles


420 Which of the following regiments, raised by the British as the Fatehgarh Levy, celebrated their bicentenary?

a) Rajput Regiment

b) Dogra Regiment

c) 9 Gorkha Rifles

d) Garhwal Rifles


421 Which eminent journalist was honoured with the first Kuldip Nayar journalism award by the Gandhi Peace Foundation?

a) Ravish Kumar

b) Arnab Goswami

c) Rajdeep Sardesai

d) Sudhir Chaudhary


422 What was the theme of the World Meteorological Day 2017 observed on 23rd

March?

a) Hotter, Drier, Wetter - Face the Future

b) Understanding Clouds

b) Weather, climate and Health

c) Climate for You


423 WHO has dedicated 24th March every year to commemorate the finding of which disease’s cause by Dr Robert Koch in 1882?

a) Tuberculosis

b) Malaria

c) Jaundice

d) Hepatitis B


424 Which Indian city has become the first to have a vertical garden?

a) Trivandrum

b) Mumbai

c) New Delhi

d) Bangalore


Muntra, country's first unmanned tank, made by DRDO

Chandigarh became the first city to provide water connections to all the households (AMRUT scheme)

Delhi Metro named as world’s first and only 100% ‘green’ metro system

First Indian to Complete the World’s Toughest Cycling Race – 4,900 Km

Col Srinivas Gokulnath

Nagpur became the first city in India to have an electric mass mobility system. It will now have a fleet of 200 new electric vehicles

Indore becomes first Indian city to install a 'Robocop' for traffic management

Taj Palace becomes first Indian building to get trademark

First India-born woman to be elected as a councillor to a ward in the UK – Rehana Ameer

Mother Teresa blue-stripe sari trade marked, first ever uniform to be protected under intellectual property rights

425 Which Padma Shree awardee photojournalist was conferred with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the I&B Ministry at the 6th National Photography Awards in New Delhi?

a) Raghu Rai

b) Sudharak Olwe

c) Rajan Devadas

d) Nila Madhab Panda


426 Which of the following Indian women leaders have featured in top 30 of World’s Greatest Leaders by Fortune?

a) Chanda Kocchar

b) Nita Ambani

c) Arundhati Bhattacharya

d) Chitra Ramkrishna


Rank Winner Designation

1 Theo Epstein President, Baseball Chicago Cubs

2 Jack Ma Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group

3 Pope Francis First Latin American pope

427 Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh recently launched a coffee table book celebrating 50 years of?

a) Lentils Revolution

b) Milk Revolution

c) Jute Revolution

d) Cotton Revolution


428 What is the name of grievance redressal platform launched by Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan?

a) MoPNG e-Nivaran

b) MoPNG e-Seva

c) MoPNG e-Samadhan

d) MoPNG e-Shikayat


429 Who has become the first woman combat officer to be commissioned in the 51-year history of the BSF?

a) Priyadarshini Ray

b) Shruti Sudhakar

c) Tanushree Pareek

d) Arpita Chauhan


USHA KIRAN

CRPF's first woman officer to be posted in the insurgency-impacted Bastar region of

Chhattisgarh

430 Who has been appointed as the new Director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)?

a) Randeep Guleria

b) Rajender Singh

c) MC Mishra

d) Gautam Sagar


431 Who has been honoured with the Sikh Jewel Award, 2017 organised by the British Sikh Association?

a) Shay Grewal

b) Gurinder Chaddha

c) Valarie Kaur

d) Manjit K Gill


Preet Kaur Gill, Britain's first Sikh woman MP

432 ‘Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana”, a ‘Scheme for providing Physical Aids and Assisted-living Devices to

whom belonging to BPL category ?

a) Scheduled Tribes

b) Senior Citizens

c) Children

d) Women

Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment


433 Which film actor was honoured with Kala Ratan award 2017 by the Vice President Hamid Ansari?

a) Shabana Azmi

b) Nasseruddin Shah

c) Deepti Naval

d) Anupam Kher


434 Which e-commerce company has become the first to be a member of Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI)?

a) Snapdeal

b) Flipkart

d) Amazon India

d) PayTm


435 Defence minister Arun Jaitley recently approved 90 out of 120 recommendations on military reforms given by the committee set up last year under the chairmanship of?

a) Abhijit Guha

b) AK Bhatt

c) Anil Malik

d) DB Shekatkar


436 Government is set to change the 40-year-old definition of which disability to bring it in line with the WHO criteria?

a) Mobility Impairment

b) Muteness

c) Deafness

d) Blindness


The new definition suggests that a person who is unable to count fingers from a stipulated distance of three metres would

be regarded as ‘blind’

The earlier definition of blindness, adopted in 1976, had a prerequisite of six metres. With the implementation of the

new definition, the number of blind people would reduce from 1.20 crore to 80 lakh, according to the National Blindness

survey 2007.

437 Which state recently celebrated Sarhul, the tribal festival dedicated to mother nature?

a) Chhattisgarh

b) Nagaland

c) Jharkhand

d) Mizoram


438 Who has become the first girl to swim 36 km route from Bandra-Worli sea link to the Gateway of India in a record time of 6 hours and 30 minutes?

a) Shravani George

b) Gauri Singh

b) Aarti Gautam

c) Swapna Singha


439 What is the name of online film certification system launched by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting and to come into effect from April 1st?

a) e-Cinepramaan

b) e-Certification

c) e-Cinecertification

d) e-Pramaan


440 US Senate has approved which Balkan nation’s accession to NATO as the alliance’s 29th

member?

a) Macedonia

b) Kosovo

c) Montenegro

d) Bulgaria


441 Which team won the 2017 Deodhar Trophy?

a) Tamil Nadu

b) India-A

c) Andhra Pradesh

d) India-B

winners of Vijay Hazare Trophy playing two teams India A and India B selected by the BCCI

North Zone has won the tournament a record 13 times.


442 Which chess player became India’s 46th Grandmaster on defeating Spanish GM David Anton Guijarro at the ongoing Sharjah Masters 2017 chess tournament?

a) Akshat Khamparia

b) Siva Mahadevan

c) Praggnanandhaa R

d) Srinath Narayanan


443 In which district of Haryana, a Centre of Excellence for Flowers will be set up with the assistance of Netherlands, to encourage the farmers to take up floriculture?

a) Jhajjar

b) Faridabad

c) Jind

d) Hisar


444 Which are the two mobile apps that have been launched by the government to enable citizens to report any traffic violation or road accident?

1. e-Challan 2. e-Traffic

3. m-Vehicle 4. m-Parivahan

a) 1 & 4

b) 2 & 3

c) 3 & 4

d) 1 & 2


445 Who has been named the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) Player of the Year for 2016?

a) PR Shreejesh

b) Ramandeep Singh

c) SV Sunil

d) Harmanpreet Singh

John John Dohmen – Belgium – FIH Player of the year


446 Scientists at IIT Roorkee have created inexpensive and more efficient solar cells using which fruit?

a) Strawberry

b) Lemon

c) Jamun

d) Orange


447 Which team has become the first from the north-east to win the title at the Hero I-League?

a) Shillong Lajong FC

b) United Sikkim FC

c) Kohima FC

d) Aizawl FC


448 World’s highest railway bridge is being built on which river?a) Nubrab) Jhelumc) Chenabd) Rawi

between Bakkal and Kauri in the Reasi districtof Jammu and Kashmir in India


449 May 2 has been dedicated by the United Nations to which fish?

a) Tuna

b) Salmon

c) Herring

d) Sardine


450. Prabhat Kamal Bezboruah has been appointed as the first Non-IAS Chairman of?

a Tea Board of Indiab) National Dairy Development Board

c) Coffee Board of Indiad) Animal welfare board of India

The Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) will now be permanently chaired by a senior MoEF official, according

to a notification made public earlier this month.In its 55-year history the organisation has always been

chaired by somebody outside government, such as veterinarians, animal welfare activists or retired judges.


451. Which variety of mangoes in Andhra Pradesh has received a Geographical Indication (GI) tag?

a) Banganapalli

b) Suvarnarekha

c) Neelum

d) Totapuri


452. Which city is likely to get India's first-ever Blind Football Academy (BFA)?

a) Kochi

b) Jaipur

c) Shimla

d) Patna


453. Gujarat recently celebrated its Foundation Day. The state was formed on May 1 in which year?

a) 1963

b) 1954

c) 1958

d) 1960


454 What is the name of world's largest telescope which passed its final test at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and slated to launch in 2018?

a) Cox

b) Hall

c) Webb

d) Mill


455 What is the name of blind Indian immigrant, who was chosen as one of the 14 people to light the torch at Israel’s 69th Independence Day celebrations?

a) Piyainu Khomdram

b) Dina Simata

c) Yachanglokpi Salai

d) Tomba Meitei

From Manipur


456 Which state government has tied up with World Health Organisation (WHO) for eradication of Rubella measles?

a) Maharashtra

b) Bihar

c) Tamil Nadu

d) Rajasthan


457 UP government has announced to celebrate 'UP Diwas' each year on?

a) July 21

b) Jan 24

c) Mar 16

d) May 10


458 Which space agencies are planning to collaborate on building the first 'Moon Village'?

1. CNSA 2. ISRO

3. NASA 4. ESA

a) 3 & 4

b) 1 & 2

c) 1 & 4

d) 2 & 3


459 Which university recently conferred Degree of Doctor of Letters (Honoris Causa) on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan?

a) Aligarh Muslim University

b) Jadavpur University

c) University of Allahabad

d) Jamia Millia Islamia


460 Who won the World Snooker Championship 2017 held in England?

a) Mark Selby

b) John Higgins

c) Neil Robertson

d) Judd Trump


461 E-Nasika and OTL-300 devices that were handed over to the forces recently, have been developed by?

a) ISRO

b) DRDO

c) BEL

d) HAL


'E-Nasika', a hand-held equipment which is capable of rapid detection of chemical agents well below their

toxic limits.

'OTL-300’, It can instantly detect partially camouflaged optical elements, such as telescopes, binoculars and

night vision devices.

462. What is the name of campaign launched by HRD Ministry to inculcate patriotism in the students?

a) Vidya Veerta Abhiyan

b) Veero ka Samman

c) Veer Vidya Naman

d) Bharat ke Veer

Wall of valour will be built in colleges and universities across the country and will depict the portraits of all the 21 Paramveer Chakra recipients.


463 Who was conferred on with the Grand Collar of the Order of Makarios III, the highest civilian honour of Cyprus?

a) Narendra Modi

b) Arun Jaitley

c) Sushma Swaraj

d) Pranab Mukherjee


464 India is going to give scholarships worth Rs 35 crore to children of freedom fighters of which country under the MuktijoddhaScheme?

a) Pakistan

b) Nepal

c) Bangladesh

d) Sri Lanka


465 Who has been appointed as the new President for the year 2017-18 of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)?

a) Dr Naushad Forbes

b) Rakesh Bharti Mittal

c) Shobana Kamineni

d) Uday Kotak


466 Who has become the first Indian to clinch the title at the 19th Asian Squash Championships held in Chennai?

a) Sneha Kurian

b) Dipika Pallikal

c) Joshna Chinappa

d) Roshny Safeena


467 What is the name of web portal launched by Department of Telecom (DoT) that allows people to track radiation emitted from mobile towers within their locality?

a) Tarang Sanchar

b) Sanchar Soochna

c) Tarang Soochna

d) None of the Above


468 When was Ganga Swachhta Sankalp Divas celebrated by National Mission on Clean Ganga (NMCG)?

a) May 3rd

b) May 2nd

c) May 5th

d) May 6th


469 Scientists in which country have developed world's fastest camera that can film at a rate of five trillion images per second?

a) China

b) Sweden

c) Belgium

d) Germany


470 Cabinet has given its nod to international status for which airport?

a) Vijayawada airport

b) Rajahmundry Airport

c) Mysore Airport

d) Begumpet Airport


471 Exhibition 'SRISHTI' was recently inaugurated by which union ministry?

a) Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

b) Ministry Of Earth Sciences

c) Ministry of Shipping

d) Ministry of Road Transport and Highways


472 Madhya Pradesh Cabinet recently gave an in-principle nod to granting the status of "living human entity" to which river?

a) Tawa

b) Shipra

c) Tapti

d) Narmada


473 When is National Anti-Child Labour Day observed in India?

a) May 4

b) May 2

c) May 1

d) April 30


474 What will be the base year of the new series of Index of Industrial Production and WPI which was launched recently from replacing the 2004-05 base years?

a) 2010-11

b) 2015-16

c) 2011-12

d) 2008-09

GDP base year to be changed to 2017-18 replacing the 2011-12 base years


475 NTPC NETRA Installs Photogrammetry System of Solar Thermal Lab and Drop Tube ReactorIt has been commissioned in cooperation with which country?

a) France

b) Germany

c) Japan

d) United States


476 Who has been elected the new president of France?

a) Jacques Cheminade

b) François Bayrou

c) Marine Le Pen

d) Emmanuel Macron


477 What is the acronym coined by Home Minister Rajnath Singh of the new strategy against the Maoist terror?

a) SAMASYA

b) SANYOG

c) SAMADHAN

d) UPAAY


S-smart leadership

A-aggressive strategy

M-motivation and training

A-actionable intelligence

D-dashboard-based KPIs (key performance indicators) and KRAs (key result areas)

H-harnessing technology

A-action plan for each theatre

N-no access to financing

478 United Nations (UN) has decided to set up a Technology Innovation Laboratory at?

a) Ranchi

b) Navi Mumbai

c) Amravati

d) Naya Raipur


479 Sakewa festival was recently celebrated by the Rai community of which state?

a) Tripura

b) Meghalaya

c) Sikkim

d) Assam

tribute to Mother Earth


480 Centre has setup which committee to rework the baseline for paying MGNREGA wages and end variation among states?

a) Nagesh Singh

b) Chiranjeet Ganguly

c) Bibhu Biswal

d) Hemant Bhargava


481 When was International Nurses Day 2017 observed, to mark the birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale?

a) May 9

b) May 10

c) May 11

d) May 12


482 Who has become the first Indian woman to be conferred with the prestigious Woodrow Wilson Award for Global Corporate Citizenship?

a) Chanda Kochhar

b) Usha Ananthasubramanian

c) Shikha Sharma

d) Arundhati Bhattacharya


483 Ustad Rais Khan, who recently passed away, played which musical instrument?

a) Shehnai

b) Tabla

c) Sitar

d) Bansuri


484 Which state has become the second to adopt Jan-Dec financial year?

a) Madhya Pardesh

b) Jharkhand

c) Uttarakhand

d) Gujarat


485 Union minister of state, skill development and entrepreneurship (I/C) Rajiv Pratap Rudy, launched Mukhyamantri Koshal Samvardhan and KoshailyaYojana in which state?

a) Madhya Pradesh

b) Uttar Pradesh

c) Punjab

d) Rajasthan


486 Who is going to replace Abdul Basit as Pakistan's next High Commissioner to India?

a) Tehmina Janjua

b) Sohail Mahmood

c) Salman Bashir

d) Mohsin Razi


487 India's first government-run women drug de-addiction centre is going to be operational in which state?

a) Punjab

b) Goa

c) Delhi

d) Maharashtra


488 What is the name of online interface launched by Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister to provide direct and effective solutions to the problems faced by stakeholders in the agriculture sector?

a) e-Krishi Samvad

b) e-Krishi Sanchar

c) e-Krishi Soochna

d) e-Krishi Saral


489 Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) has approved which genetically modified (GM) crop for commercial cultivation?

a) Legume

b) Maize

c) Soybean

d) Mustard


490 In a first, which launched a logo for identifying vehicles driven by persons with hearing impairment?

a) Rajasthan

b) Kerala

c) Jharkhand

d) Telangana


491 What is the name of the invisible laser walls technology, developed by CRON Systems, which India is going to use to seal the 198 km border with Pakistan in J&K?

a) Dhaal

b) Suraksha

c) Kavach

d) Shastra

Kanpur-based MKU Limited


492 India has climbed up to which rank in World Bank’s electricity accessibility ranking in 2017 from 99th spot in 2014?

a) 41th

b) 32nd

c) 10th

d) 26th


493 What is the name of ransomware which recently attacked the cyber world?a) CryptoLockerb) Revetonc) WannaCryd) CryptoWall

Petya – Europe , Middle eastThis Petya variant was not ransomware, but instead a wiper disguised as ransomware. Unlike ransomware, wiper malware is designed to destroy systems and data; the attacker offers no option for recovery


494 What is the name of committee formed by UP government to check mid-day meal quality in state-run primary schools?

a) Aahar

b) Gunn

c) Maa

d) Bhojan


495 Who has become the first Indian driver to win a GP3 race, at the sprint race held in Barcelona?

a) Jehan Daruwala

b) Anubhav Gogoi

c) Karun Chandhok

d) Arjun Maini


496 Which committee in its recently submitted report to MoWR,RD&GR has recommended creation of sand registry for de-silting of the Ganga?

a) Pathak Committee

b) Bhosle Committee

c) Shamkuwar Committee

d) Chitale Committee


497 BSF has started operation 'Garam Hawa', along the international border with Pakistan, in which state?

a) Rajasthan

b) Punjab

c) Jammu and Kashmir

d) Gujarat


498 What is the name of the world's smallest satellite, created by an Indian teen RiftahSharook, for NASA?

a) IndiaSat

b) TinySat

c) BharatSat

d) KalamSat

64 grams


499 May 16 is dedicated to which disease by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW)?a) Influenzab) Malariac) Dengued) Diabetes

World malaria day – 25 april, theme "A push for prevention"


SOME BONUS QUESTIONS

500 Who has been appointed by WHO as its goodwill ambassador for hepatitis in South-East Asia region?

a) Amitabh Bachchan

b) Sunidhi Chauhan

c) Aamir Khan

d) Vidya Balan


Lhakpa Sherpa broke her own record of scaling Mt Everest for most number of times by a female. How many times has she summited the peak?

a) Six

b) Nine

c) Seven

d) Eight


Which nation has joined India's 'UJALA - Affordable LEDs for All' programme?

a) United States

b) Japan

c) Singapore

d) United Kingdom


Union Cabinet recently approved setting up of Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) at?

a) Punjab

b) Gujarat

c) Assam

d) Karnataka


Aquatic Rainbow Technology Park (ARTP), which is India’s first ornamental fish park, is going to be set up in?

a) Mangalore

b) Chennai

c) Vishakhapatnam

d) Kochi


Which World heritage site has been declared as the most polluted place in the world?

a) Henderson Island

b) Portobelo/San Lorenzo

c) Galápagos Islands

d) Kathmandu Valley


Which railway station has been adjudged the cleanest in the busiest stations category by the Quality Council of India?

a) Vishakhapatnam

b) Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus

c) Anand Vihar

d) Secunderabad

Cleanest port - Haldia


In a first, which state's police has formally introduced a course in 'emotional intelligence' (EI) for its personnel?

a) Bihar

b) Punjab

c) Telangana

d) Maharashtra


Which union minister recently launched Citizens’ Charter 2017 and e-court management system?

a) Bandaru Dattareya

b) Ravi Shankar Prasad

c) Venkaiah Naidu

d) Arun Jaitley


Which country's Supreme Court upheld a ruling that the country's Sikh community cannot carry religious knives in public?

a) Norway

b) Malaysia

c) Canada

d) Italy


'Nasofilters', the cheapest respiratory filter has been developed by which IIT?

a) Kharagpur

b) Bombay

c) Madras

d) Delhi


Which state has launched the scheme 'She Pad' for school students to ensure menstrual hygiene?

a) Uttar Pradesh

b) Kerala

c) Haryana

d) Rajasthan


8-14 May 2017 was observed by UN as?

a) Global Road Safety Week

b) World Immunization Week

c) Global Soil Week

d) World Space Week


Two-part book series "The Quest for a world without hunger" has been written by?

a) B. R. Barwale

b) M. S. Swaminathan

c) Modadugu Vijay Gupta

d) Sanjaya Rajaram


ISRO and NASA are jointly working to co-develop and launch a dual frequency synthetic aperture radar satellite. The satellite has been named as?

a) NISAR

b) ROSA

c) NASRO

d) ISA


Japan is going to build a war museum in which Indian state where a Japanese camp was located during World War II?

a) Andaman & Nicobar

b) Nagaland

c) Manipur

d) Arunachal Pradesh


Which team won the gold medal in the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship?

a) Norway

b) Russia

c) Sweden

d) Canada


Who is the new chairperson of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM)?

a) Gayarul Hasan

b) Sulekha Kumbhare

c) Sunil Singhi

d) George Kurian


Which of the following country’s archery team won the gold medal in the men’s category in the World

Cup held in Shanghai?a) USAb) Iran

c) Chinad) India

India were represented by Abhishek Verma, ChinnaRaju Srither and Amanjeet Singh.


Who has become the first transgender in Pakistan to be officially appointed by the government as a lecturer?

a) Faiyazi Baloch

b) Aisha Mughal

c) Amreen Ayeza

d) Sanam Qamar


Anti Terrorism Day was observed in India on May 21 to commemorate the?

a) Parliament Attack

b) Martyrdom of former PM Rajiv Gandhi

c) Operation Blue Star

d) Bombay Blasts


Mumbai Indians defeated which team to lift the cup of IPL 2017, in the final held in Hyderabad?

a) Kolkata Knight Riders

b) Rising Pune Supergiant

c) Sunrisers Hyderabad

d) Chennai Superkings


Pampa Declaration, a seven-point action plan for conservation of the river Pampa was chalked out recently. The river is located in which state?

a) Andhra Pradesh

b) Kerala

c) Tamilnadu

d) Karnataka


Which state is going to form 'Good Morning' squads to dissuade people from defecating in the open?

a) Gujarat

b) Uttar Pradesh

c) Maharashtra

d) Bihar


A first of its kind, environment-friendly toilet made of plastic bottles, has been set up in?

a) Jharkhand

b) Punjab

c) Assam

d) Kerala


The committee set up on Scouts and Guides has submitted its report to the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports. The committee was headed by?

a) Arpit Gambhir

b) Harsh Malhotra

c) Ravi Narain

d) Nitin Sikka


What is India's rank in the internal displacement as per the Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) 2016?

a) 12th

b) 1st

c) 9th

d) 3rd

CHINA > Ph >India


MEA, MeitY and MHRD recently launched the integration of “eSanad” with CBSE’s digital academic repository called?

a) Patra Manjusha

b) Parinam Manjusha

c) Pramaan Manjusha

d) Pariksha Manjusha

eSanad is aimed at online verification of the documents

'Parinam Manjusha' - enables students view mark sheets online


Which city has been ranked the world’s most densely populated by World Economic Forum (WEF)?

a) Medellin

b) Dhaka

c) Mumbai

d) Manila

KOTA – 7th


Which state has launched e-plant clinics to provide guidance to the farmers?

a) Maharashtra

b) Uttar Pradesh

c) Jammu & Kashmir

d) Tamil Nadu


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