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Which of the following festival of lights has been awarded by Guinness World Records the title for the 'Largest interactive lighting display? A) Solana Festival B) Vivid Sydney C) Lumiere London D) Berlin Illuminated Union Cabinet recently approved an MoU with which country on cooperation on youth matters? A) Armenia B) Georgia C) Azerbaijan D) Romania Who has been appointed as Serbia's first gay and first female PM? A) Ana Brnabić B) Sanda Ivić C) Slavica Đukić D) Mirjana Marković NITI Aayog has offered support for implementation of ‘Nava Kerala Mission’. The mission primarily focuses on how many sectors? A) Three B) Two C) One D) Four What is the name of the 24x7 helpline launched by CRPF to assist Kashmiris? A) Sevak B) Madadgaar C) Mitra D) Sahayak Which company topped the BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands ranking by WPP and Kantar Millward Brown? A) Google B) Apple C) Microsoft D) Amazon As per the Code Compliance Rating of banks by the Banking Codes and Standards Board of India (BCSBI) 2017, which is the only PSB that got ‘high (H)’ rating in two successive surveys? A) UCO Bank B) SBI

C) IDBI Bank D) PNB Which state government recently signed an MoU with Centre and Airports Authority of India for the programme UDAN? A) Karnataka B) Jammu & Kashmir C) Bihar D) Punjab Consumer Price inflation (CPI) fell to a record low in May to? A) 2.36% B) 2.07% C) 2.18% D) 2.41% Seed industry has decided to cut retail prices of hybrid seeds by how much percent for the ensuing 2017-18 kharif season? A) 10% B) 20% C) 15% D) 25% Who has been appointed as mission director of Atal Innovation Mission, under NITI Aayog, in the rank of additional secretary? A) Ramanathan Ramanan B) Shiv Nadar C) Vishal Sikka D) Abidali Neemuchwala Which of the following is not one of the three nations recently elected to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in the Asia Pacific category? A) India B) Japan C) Pakistan D) Philippines

Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu recently flagged off Gandhi Darshan special train originating from? A) Uttar Pradesh B) Maharashtra C) Gujarat D) Bihar

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Sustainable Gastronomy Day was observed on June 18. The resolution to observe the day every year was adopted by UNGA in? A) 2014 B) 2017 C) 2015 D) 2016 President Pranab Mukherjee recently launched how many km stretch of Green Line of 'Namma Metro' marking the completion of the first phase? A) 11.3 km B) 7.5 km C) 15.9 km D) 21.6 km Which state has the highest number of children engaged in labour as per a CRY report? A) Maharashtra B) Rajasthan C) Bihar D) Uttar Pradesh As per IFAD's report "Sending Money Home: Contributing to the SDGs, One Family at a Time", which country was the top recipient of migrant remittances in 2016? A) China B) Philippines C) Bangladesh D) India As per the T0P500 list of supercomputers, Sunway TaihuLight and Tianhe-2 have been declared the world's fastest and second fastest machines. The supercomputers have been built by? A) India B) Switzerland C) China D) US H S Shivaprakash, who has been honoured with the Kusumagraja Rashtriya Puraskar , writes in which language A) Kannada B) Telugu C) Malayalam D) Tamil

As per CM Raghubar Das, which company is going to jointly set up a steel plant at Manoharpur with Jharkhand Mineral Development Corporation (JSMDC)? A) Tata Steel B) Jindal Group C) Vedanta Group D) Bhushan Steel Which building has become the first in India to get trademarked? A) Akshardham B) Taj Mahal Palace C) Golden Temple D) Lotus Temple IOC, BPCL and HPCL recently signed an agreement to build one of the world’s largest integrated refinery-cum-petrochemicals complexes in? A) Ratnagiri B) Haldia C) Barauni D) Jamnagar Which day of June is celebrated as father's day every year? A) Third Sunday B) Second Saturday C) Third Monday D) Second Friday Which of the following ended its 41-year-old sponsorship of the Olympic Games? A) Coca Cola B) McDonald's C) Bridgestone D) Samsung Power Minister Piyush Goyal launched the Energy Conservation Building Code 2017. A commercial building needs to demonstrate minimum energy savings of how much percent in order to be considered ECBC-compliant? A) 25% B) 10% C) 30% D) 40%

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Which of the following books were released recently during the centenary celebrations of Sabarmati Ashram? 1. Gandhi and Charkha 2. Letters to Gandhi 3. Pioneers of Satyagraha 4. Conquest of Self A) 1 & 2 B) 2 & 3 C) 3 & 4 D) 4 & 1 As per UNCTAD report "World Investment Report 2017: Investment and the Digital Economy", which of the following is not one the top three countries in the most prospective destinations for FDI? A) Indonesia B) China C) India D) US Who has been appointed as brand ambassador for Goods and Services Tax (GST) by CBEC? A) Sachin Tendulkar B) Mukesh Ambani C) Virat Kohli D) Amitabh Bachchan Which state signed an MoU with the British Council to enhance quality of education in the state? A) Bihar B) Tripura C) Sikkim D) Manipur Oscar winning Director John G Avildsen, who recently passed away, is best known for which film? A) The Godfather B) Annie Hall C) The Deer Hunter D) Rocky Which country is hosting official observance of the 2017 UN 'World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought', observed on June 17 every year? A) Mali B) Burkina Faso C) Benin D) Togo

PM Narendra Modi recently flagged off the maiden run of which city's metro service? A) Lucknow B) Nagpur C) Hyderabad D) Kochi Who is ranked at number 1 in the latest ICC ODI Batting Rankings? A) Virat Kohli B) AB de Villiers C) David Warner D) Joe Root Government recently made Aadhaar mandatory for which of the following? 1. Booking Trains and Flights 2. Job Applications 3. Opening Bank Account 4. Transactions above Rs 50,000 A) 1 & 2 B) 2 & 3 C) 3 & 4 D) 4 & 1 Which country is planning to send mini-ecosystems comprising of potato seeds and silkworm eggs to the Moon in 2018? A) China B) India C) Japan D) USA Actor Sam Beazley, who recently passed away, is best known for his role in which movie series? A) The Lord of the Rings B) Harry Potter C) The Chronicals of Narnia D) Star Wars In a first, who has been named as administrator of Sahara India Life Insurance by IRDAI? A) Manish Gopal B) Swapan Ghosh C) RK Sharma D) Vineet Singh

Government is planning to set up an academy to promote which of the following dialects of hindi? A) Bundeli B) Braj C) Kannauji D) Bagheli

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Which state/UT government has announced to offer cement at subsidised rates to low and middle income people and name the scheme after Congress President Sonia Gandhi? A) Himachal Pradesh B) Punjab C) Puducherry D) Karnataka Which of the following depatments has established a GST facilitation cell to address any tax issue? A) Investment and Public Asset Management B) Economic Affairs C) Revenue D) Industrial Policy & Promotion Union Cabinet has approved the introduction of Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance (FRDI) Bill, 2017. It deals with which of the following issues? A) Bad debts B) Bankruptcy C) Asset safeguarding D) All of the above Who has been appointed as Executive Vice-President (Services) in Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN)? A) Jyoti Mishra B) Simi Kumar C) Aruna Govind D) Kajal Singh Who has been selected for the ‘5th Bhupen Hazarika National Award 2017’ by Pune-based social organization Sarhad? A) Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi B) Ramdarash Mishra C) Mridula Garg D) Nasira Sharma A Real Madrid Legends and Barcelona Legends exhibition match is going to be held in which Indian city in September? A) Aizawl B) Kolkata C) Mumbai D) Bengaluru

As per the statistics minister D V Sadananda Gowda, the base year of national accounts is going to be changed from 2011-12 to? A) 2015-16 B) 2016-17 C) 2017-18 D) 2014-15 NTPC recently energised 150 kWp canal top solar PV System on cooling water (CW) channel at? A) Korba Thermal Power Plant B) Mouda Thermal Power Project C) Sipat Thermal Power Plant D) Mundra Thermal Power Station As per Sulabh International founder Bindeshwar Pathak, an open defecation-free (ODF) village in Mewat district will be named after which leader? A) Malcolm Turnbull B) Justin Trudeau C) Donald Trump D) Theresa May When was World Elder Abuse Awareness Day observed with the 2017 theme “Understand and End Financial Abuse of Older People: A Human Rights Issue”? A) June 14 B) June 15 C) June 13 D) June 16 World Bank recently approved financing worth more than USD 520 million for developmental projects in which country? A) Bangladesh B) India C) Nepal D) Afghanistan As per "Ericsson Mobility Report 2017", an average of how much data per month is expected to be consumed by an active Indian smartphone user by 2022? A) 11 GB B) 6 GB C) 15 GB D) 10 GB

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Which country in association with Asian Development Bank (ADB) launched a green financing platform to help fight air pollution? A) Japan B) Myanmar C) India D) China BSF recently announced that the infra-ray pillars and smart sensors have been installed at India's border at? A) Rann of Kutch B) Sunderbans C) Thar desert D) Punjab Which city's civic body has directed every eatery in the city to provide free clean drinking water to all their customers? A) Bengaluru B) Mumbai C) Delhi D) Chennai The Indian arm of which of the following carmakers has planned to invest Rs 120 crore in 2017? A) Mercedes B) Audi C) Jaguar D) BMW Which of the following has voted to become the 51st state of the United States in a referendum conducted recently? A) Montserrat B) Haiti C) Puerto Rico D) Aruba

Which of the following in partnership jointly with UNESCO, has launched a fellowship programme? A) Sanskripedia B) Sahapedia C) Bharatpedia D) Hindpedia

In which city was the global event of WHO's World Blood Donor Day 2017 held on June 14, with theme "Give Blood. Give Now. Give Often"? A) Hanoi B) New Delhi C) Kathmandu D) Jakarta IBBI recently notified norms for fast-track insolvency resolution at small companies. As per the new norms the resolution process is to be completed in? A) 120 days B) 90 days C) 60 days D) 150 days

Which state government has launched a website to facilitate online sale and purchase of cattle? A) Kerala B) Telangana C) Tamilnadu D) Karnataka

SEBI has asked commodity exchanges to compulsorily set up ISF and IPF. What does 'I' in the terms stand for? A) Income B) Initial C) Incremental D) Investor June 13 is observed every year by UN to spread awareness for which of the following congenital disorders? A) Down syndrome B) Club foot C) Barth syndrome D) Albinism Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL), inked an agreement to jointly manufacture F-16 fighter jet in India with which of the following? A) Lockheed Martin B) Northrop Grumman C) General Dynamics D) Raytheon

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What was India's rank among 127 countries in the 2017 Global Innovation Index (GII), co-authored by Cornell University, Insead and WIPO? A) 60th B) 48th C) 73rd D) 56th Which bank has partnered with mobile payments switch TerraPay to enable real time money transfer? A) Federal Bank B) Karnataka Bank C) Yes Bank D) Citi Bank Ram Nath Kovind, who has been selected as NDA's candidate for presidential election, recently resigned from his post of governor of which state? A) Bihar B) Sikkim C) Karnataka D) Chhattisgarh Which state announced to give all transgender students free education in the Manonmaniam Sundaranar University? A) Karnataka B) Tamilnadu C) Andhra Pradesh D) Kerala Which of the following internet giants is developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help remove violent or inappropriate content before the user sees it? A) Facebook B) Google C) Twitter D) YouTube Who has been appointed CEO of Government e- Marketplace (GeM), an online platform for central and state departments for purchase of goods and services? A) Radha Chauhan B) Usha Venkat C) Anupriya Ray D) Shilpi Singh

Which country has announced to phase out its dependence on nuclear power? A) United Kingdom B) South Korea C) Japan D) China Which IIT has developed wearable electronic devices using a silk protein called silk fibroin? A) Kanpur B) Delhi C) Bombay D) Kharagpur Which of the following is being awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) by Her Majesty the Queen? A) Annabel Mehta B) Sachin Tendulkar C) Mira Nair D) Sania Mirza Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan inaugurated the 16th North East Region Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (NERCPA) Conference at? A) Imphal B) Shillong C) Dispur D) Agartala Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj announced to open how many new Post Office Passport Seva Kendras in the second phase? A) 154 B) 167 C) 133 D) 149 NASA successfully completed a series of tests for which spacecraft's critical safety systems, recently? A) Dawn B) Maven C) Orion D) Spirit

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Sam Pitroda has resigned from his post of Information Technology advisor to which state government? A) Maharashtra B) Kerala C) West Bengal D) Odisha DGCA recently suspended the flying licence of which of the following airlines? A) Club One Air B) FlyEasy C) TajAir D) Air Carnival Rafael Nadal has moved up to which position in the recent ATP rankings? A) 3rd B) 1st C) 4th D) 2nd DRDO successfully tested which "fire and forget" third generation anti-tank guided missile in a desert in Rajasthan? A) Toofan B) Nimrod C) Amogha D) Nag Who won the men's singles title at the Indonesia Open 2017 Super Series Badminton tournament? A) B Sai Praneeth B) Kidambi Srikanth C) Ajay Jayaram D) Prannoy Kumar Which country recently announced establishment of its diplomatic relations with China and breaking-off with Taiwan? A) Peru B) Cuba C) Costa Rica D) Panama Which Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) will confer a doctorate in Science on Olympian PT Usha at its convocation? A) Kharagpur B) Madras C) Kanpur

D) Roorkee

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) recently approved the membership of three countries at its 2nd annual meeting of governors held in South Korea. Which of the following is not one of them? A) Argentina B) Madagascar C) Tonga D) Tuvalu RBI's internal advisory committee (IAC) has recommended how many accounts totalling about 25% of the current gross NPAs for immediate reference under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC)? A) 12 B) 15 C) 10 D) 20 NITI Aayog shortlisted how many states under its SATH program for developing into role model states, in health and education sector each? A) 5 B) 4 C) 6 D) 3 Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) has completed 1,000 Earth days in Martian orbit. It was designed for a mission life of? A) 500 days B) 450 days C) 180 days D) 720 days Competition Commission of India (CCI) recently imposed a penalty of Rs 87 crore on? A) Volkswagen B) Hyundai Motor India C) Tata Motors D) Ford Which of the following launched a billbook software to assist small and medium businesses (SMEs) in the country? A) ClearTax.in B) TaxSpanner.com C) MyITReturn.com

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D) TurboTax.com

Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) is going to raise how much amount through corporate bonds to retrofit conventional appliances in the next few months? A) Rs 600 crore B) Rs 1000 crore C) Rs 1500 crore D) Rs 2000 crore UN General Assembly has approved the establishment of a new office for which of the following issue? A) Human Trafficking B) Counter-Terrorism C) Child Abuse D) Refugees India recently ratified United Nations TIR (Transports Internationaux Routiers) Convention. How many countries (except India) have ratified it thus far? A) 54 B) 70 C) 87 D) 68 Uttar Pradesh’s first regional silk research centre will be set up in? A) Aligarh B) Varanasi C) Gorakhpur D) Amethi Which country launched its first X-ray space telescope to observe black holes, pulsars and gamma-ray bursts? A) India B) Japan C) China D) Russia Which state launched ‘Anuyatra’ campaign for the differently abled? A) Punjab B) Gujarat C) Odisha D) Kerala

Who has become the first Indian to be honoured with prestigious “2017 Sickle Cell Advocate of the Year” award by Sickle Cell 101? A) Dr Vishal Saha B) Dr Krishankant Waghale C) Dr Raman Prabhu D) Dr Sudam Kate Government has recently increased the minimum support price (MSP) for the 2017-18 crop year for the following crops, except? A) Pulses B) Oil-seeds C) Cotton D) Rice Indian Energy Exchange (IEX) has filed draft papers with Sebi to float an initial public offering. The issue will be managed by? A) Kotak Mahindra Capital B) Axis Capital C) IIFL Holdings D) All of the Above How many Indian firms have been named in the top 100 of Nikkei Asian Review's Asia300 companies list? A) 43 B) 38 C) 20 D) 14 India recently signed a “white shipping” agreement to improve data sharing on non-classified merchant navy ships, with which country? A) Israel B) South Korea C) UK D) Australia G7 Environment Ministers' Meeting was recently held in? A) Bologna B) Brussels C) Sicily D) Baden Baden

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As per UK-based MoneySuperMarket, what is India's rank in the global environmental impact survey? A) 39th B) 53rd C) 75th D) 97th Which space agency is working on a electric propulsion (EP) system which converts solar energy into electrical energy and thereby reduces the use of chemical propellant? A) CNSA B) NASA C) ISRO D) ESA SEBI recently issued framework for option trading in Commodity derivatives. The average daily turnover target for agri products has been fixed at? A) Rs 100 crore B) Rs 700 crore C) Rs 500 crore D) Rs 200 crore NASA recorded May as the second-warmest month of modern record-keeping of average global temperatures in? A) 152 years B) 114 years C) 137 years D) 124 years Cabinet recently approved an MoU signed between India and Palestine to cooperate in the field of? A) Sustainable development B) Agricultural and veterinary research C) Sports D) Youth Affairs Which country has announced an online visitor visa application for Indians? A) Australia B) New Zealand C) South Africa D) Mexico

BankBazaar.com has recently begun its operations in? A) Singapore B) Malaysia C) Indonesia D) Philippines Which are the two teams that have been added in the Indian Super League (ISL) 2017-18 season? A) Jamshedpur FC and Cuttack FC B) Cuttack FC and Siliguri FC C) Siliguri FC and Bengaluru FC D) Bengaluru FC and Jamshedpur FC India recently imposed anti-dumping duty on chemical import from how many countries? A) Two B) Three C) Four D) Five Swami Atmasthanandaji Maharaj, who recently passed away, was the head of? A) Ramakrishna Mission B) Sri Aurobindo Ashram C) Yogoda Satsanga Society D) Sanatan Sanstha Which of the following has been released by Twitter as its first weather-related emoji to celebrate monsoon in India? A) Rainbow B) Clouds C) Rain drops D) Umbrella Web Portal named "Know India Programme" was launched by which ministry? A) External Affairs B) Culture C) Home D) Sports NDRF recently positioned a team to combat nuclear and biological attacks in? A) Bhopal B) Lucknow C) Hyderabad D) Delhi

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India recently opened a dedicated air freight corridor service with which country? A) Myanmar B) Iran C) Afghanistan D) Mauritius Which of the following projects recently marked its completion after getting the permission from Centre to close the gates? A) Indirasagar Dam B) Bhakra Dam C) Sardar Sarovar Dam D) Ukai Dam Who became the fastest cricketer to score 8000 runs in ODIs? A) A B de Villiers B) Hashim Amla C) Yuvraj Singh D) Virat Kohli When is ASEAN Dengue Day observed every year? A) June 13 B) June 17 C) June 15 D) June 19 What is the name of the Indian girl who won the Diana Legacy Award for her crusade for better education for under-privileged children? A) Isha Sharda B) Barkha Chatterji C) Nikhiya Shamsher D) Ananya Verma Which country recently ratified the automatic exchange of financial account information with India? A) United Kingdom B) Germany C) France D) Switzerland When was International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict observed every year? A) June 19 B) June 18 C) June 17 D) June 16

P. N. Bhagwati, who recently passed away, was a former? A) Social Activist B) Judge C) RTI Activist D) Journalist Emkay Global Financial Services announced recently that it has signed an agreement with which of the following for equity research? A) Citifinancial Services B) DBS Vickers Securities (Singapore) C) Morgan Stanley Senior Funding D) JP Morgan Securities The initial science targets of the most powerful telescope, JWST, have been revealed. The James Webb Space Telescope has been built by which space agency? A) NASA B) ESA C) CSA D) All of the Above Who has authored the book "Yug Purush, Bharat Ratna, Atal Ji"? A) Prem Kumar Dhumal B) Nityanand Swami C) Ramesh Pokhriyal D) Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri Verizon has completed acquisition of Yahoo's core business recently. The remainder of Yahoo, which has not been acquired, is now being traded in the markets under the name of? A) Altaba B) Oath C) Yahoo Japan D) AOL Which Indian film has been shortlisted to compete for top honours at the Shanghai International Film Festival? A) Bahubali B) Dangal C) Pink D) Sultan

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Helmut Kohl, who recently passed away, hailed from? A) Germany B) France C) Italy D) Denmark With which country did India recently enter into an agreement to establish $9 billion in concessional credit and $ 1 billion ODA for infrastructure development projects in India? A) South Korea B) France C) Spain D) Germany Union Minister for Housing, Urban Poverty Alleviation M. Venkaiah Naidu recently laid foundation for the construction of 1,93,000 pre-fabricated houses in? A) Jharkhand B) Andhra Pradesh C) Maharashtra D) Himachal Pradesh Who represented India at the meeting of BRICS Ministers of Foreign Affairs and International Relations held in Beijing? A) Vijay Kumar Singh B) Sushma Swaraj C) M J Akbar D) Dr. Jaishankar World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2017 was recently held in? A) Washington DC B) Paris C) Geneva D) Brussels An anti-profiteering authority will be set-up by the government to keep a check on businesses that do not pass the benefit of price reduction to consumers. The committee to be headed by a secretary level officer will constitute how many members? A) 4 B) 5 C) 6 D) 8

Which company has announced to launch 'disaster maps' to help rescue organizations in crises and emergencies? A) Google B) Facebook C) Microsoft D) Apple Which union minister recently launched a mobile app “Celebrating Yoga”? A) Ravi Shankar Prasad B) Dr Harsh Vardhan C) Venkaiah Naidu D) Prakash Javdekar Which of the following energy companies have agreed to invest Rs 40,000 crore in developing gas fields in the KG-D6 block after a break of six years? A) RIL-BP B) Cairn India C) Essar Energy D) Haldia Petrochemicals As per CBRE, which place is the most expensive prime office market in India and the ninth most expensive office market in the world? A) Connaught Place, Delhi B) Nariman Point, Mumbai C) Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai D) HITEC City, Hyderabad National Mission on Cultural Mapping of India seeks to register artistes across the country with their location in an online database, is the flagship programme of which ministry? A) Tribal Affairs B) Electronics and Information Technology C) Social Justice and Empowerment D) Culture

Which bank recently tied-up with Tirumala Milk Products to provide loans to dairy farmers? A) Canara Bank B) Bank of Baroda C) State Bank of India D) Punjab National Bank

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Government recently allowed digital enrolment in which of the following schemes? A) Pradhan mantri Awas Yojana B) Suraksha Bima Yojana C) Atal Pension Yojana D) Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana Who has won the Man Booker International Prize for his novel "A Horse Walks Into a Bar"? A) Amos Oz B) Gary Shteyngart C) David Grossman D) Han Kang In a first, which bank launched an ATM which uses Aadhar based biometric verification for dispensing cash? A) Karur Vysya Bank B) Federal Bank C) DCB Bank D) Karnataka Bank Researchers have created the first truly 2D magnet, made of chromium triiodide. The research was published in? A) ACS Nano B) Advanced Materials C) Nano Letters D) Nature Which team won the 2017 NBA Championship? A) Golden State Warriors B) Cleveland Cavaliers C) San Antonio Spurs D) Miami Heat Adani Group recently commissioned a 50-megawatt solar PV plant in Mahoba district of? A) Madhya Pradesh B) Haryana C) Rajasthan D) Uttar Pradesh Who has been appointed as the chief operating officer (COO) of Paytm Mall? A) Harish Joshi B) Amit Sinha C) Vikas Sharma D) Neeraj Sinha

7th edition of ICC World Twenty20 Championship scheduled to be held in 2018 has been scrapped and pushed to? A) 2019 B) 2021 C) 2020 D) 2022 Amazon recently announced to acquire which of the following supermarket chains at $13.7 billion? A) Stop and Shop B) Whole Foods C) Kroger D) Shoprite Who has become the first Indian woman to be appointed as a judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS)? A) Manisha Khatri B) Neeru Chadha C) Raksha Yadav D) Vaishali Tokas As per RBI, India’s current account deficit (CAD) for last fiscal narrowed to how much percent of GDP? A) 0.7% B) 1.1% C) 0.4% D) 1.3% Who won Kerala's first-ever beauty peagant for transgender women - Queen of Dhwayah, 2017? A) Harini Chandana B) Pearl Menon C) Syama Sanju D) Jaz D'souza India recently appointed Ambassador of India to three European nations. Which of the following is not one of them? A) Austria B) Denmark C) Belgium D) Italy Which Indian footballer has become the fourth highest international goal scorer among active players worldwide? A) Jeje Lalpekhlua B) Sunil Chhetri

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C) Romeo Fernandes D) Robin Singh Which Indian cricketer has been appointed by Online restaurant reservation platform EazyDiner as its brand ambassador? A) Yuvraj Singh B) Virat Kohli C) Hardik Pandya D) R Ashwin India recently ratified which of the following conventions at the International Labour Conference in Geneva? 1. Equal Remuneration 2. Minimum Age 3. Worst Forms of Child Labour 4. Forced Labour A) 1 & 2 B) 2 & 3 C) 3 & 4 D) 4 & 1 International Day of Family Remittances (IDFR) is observed every year on? A) June 14 B) June 12 C) June 16 D) June 18 Britain's most prestigious prize for political writing, 2017 Orwell Prize was bestowed upon? A) Malcolm Ray B) Dan Brooks C) John Bew D) Steve Miller Who won the Golden Bat award at the ICC Champions Trophy 2017? A) Fakhar Zaman B) Virat Kohli C) Rohit Sharma D) Shikhar Dhawan Which country has passed an anti-terrorism law which criminalises plotting and conspiring a crime? A) China B) France C) Japan D) Britain

Ajmer Singh Aulakh, who recently passed away, was a famous? A) Folk Singer B) Painter C) Playwright D) Folk Dancer Which of the following two banks have recently been put under the PCA by RBI? 1. Syndicate Bank 2. Bank of Maharashtra 3. Central Bank of India 4. Andhra Bank A) 1 & 2 B) 2 & 3 C) 3 & 4 D) 4 & 1 Which of the following personalities became the first user to garner 100 million followers on Twitter? A) Katy Perry B) Justin Beiber C) Taylor Swift D) Drake Who has been posthumously awarded Exceptional Public Service Medal by NASA recently? A) Dan Hargens B) Alan Dinges C) Jacob Miller D) Michael A’Hearn With effect from July 1, Union home ministry is going to discontinue the practice of filling up of the departure card by Indians travelling abroad via? A) Air B) Land C) Seaport D) Rail As per UNHCR's Global Trends report, how many people forcibly displaced worldwide by the end of 2016? A) 48.7 million B) 54.9 million C) 65.6 million D) 75.3 million

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Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has approved an equity investment loan of how much amount to the India Infrastructure Fund? A) USD 450 million B) USD 150 million C) USD 250 million D) USD 350 million Which state government is going to carry out a social audit of the Public Distribution System (PDS)? A) Madhya Pradesh B) Uttar Pradesh C) Bihar D) Punjab State Bank of India's paid up capital has risen to how much amount following the share sale through qualified institutional placement (QIP)? A) Rs 756 crore B) Rs 924 crore C) Rs 637 crore D) Rs 863 crore Girish Wagh has been appointed as the Head of Commercial Vehicle Business Unit by which company? A) Hindustan Motors B) Mahindra & Mahindra C) TATA Motors D) Maruti Suzuki Which team won the freestyle wrestling title at the Junior Asian Wrestling Championships held in Taichung, Taiwan? A) Uzbekistan B) Kazakhstan C) Iran D) India Centre recently approved proposal for setting up of how many AYUSH hospitals across the country? A) 150 B) 100 C) 50 D) 200

Who won the Dorothy Arzner Director’s Award at Women in Film’s 2017 Crystal and Lucy Awards? A) Aisha Tyler B) Mira Nair C) Zoey Deutch D) Tracee Ellis Ross Health and Family Welfare Ministry recently launched IDCF program for which of the following? A) Dengue B) Diarrhoea C) Diabetes D) Dementia Which company has become the first among the 12 identified accounts by RBI to face bankruptcy proceedings as IDBI Bank has initiated insolvency proceedings? A) Bhushan Steel B) Amtek Auto C) Alok Industries D) Lanco Infratech Travis Kalanick recently resigned from his position of CEO of? A) Uber B) Amazon C) Snapchat D) Alibaba