1) Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
2) Union Ministry of Home Affairs
3) Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
4) Union Ministry of Women and Child Development
2. Along which countries boarders Indian Army and National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) Limited, has signed MoU to build four underground tunnels?
1) China & Pakistan
2) China & Bangladesh
3) Pakistan & Nepal
4) Pakistan & Sri Lanka
3. By which year Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) launched Malaria Elimination Research Alliance (MERA) in order to eliminate the disease from India?
1) 2020
2) 2025
3) 2030
4) 2035
4. Which is the sole Indian institute featured in the QS EMBA Rankings 2019?
1) Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
2) Indian Institute of Management -Bangalore
3) Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
4) Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
5. Which British Indian Novelist has won the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2019 for the novel Solo ?
1) Salman Rushdie
2) Rudyard Kipling
3) Preti Taneja
4) Rana Dasgupta
6. Which Social entrepreneur from India who was ranked 45th in the Fortune magazine’s 2019 list of the world’s greatest leaders for inventing low cost pad making machine.
1) Arunachalam Muruganantham
2) Sandeep Ahuja
3) Naveen Krishna
4) Smita Ram
7. Which Supreme court Judge has chaired the Supreme Court bench that has directed the RBI to disclose information under the Right to Information-Act recently?
1) Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde
2) Justice Ranjan Gogoi
3) Justice N.V. Ramana
4) Justice L. Nageswara Rao
8. Which organization has signed the Letter of Intent (LOI) with NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) to promote participation, skill and empowerment among young children?
1) Child Rights International Network India
2) Children International India
3) UNICEF India
4) Save the Children India
9. Which economic corridor was excluded from the Belt and Road Forum (BRF) recently?
1) China – Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC)
2) China – Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)
3) Nepal -China – India Economic Corridor (NCIEC)
4) Bangladesh – China – IndiaMyanmar (BCIM) Economic Corridor
10. Which Indian Naval Ship(INS) has accompanied INS Kolkata for participating in ADMM-Plus Maritime Security Field Training Exercise (FTX)?
1) INS Shakti
2) INS Sumitra
3) INS Sukanya
4) INS Sharada
11. Which think tank has recently predicted that the Military Expenditure of India grew by 3.1% to reach $66.5 billion?
1) Peace Research Institute Oslo
2) Center for Strategic and International Studies
3) Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
4) NITI Aayog
12. Where was the first-ever talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held?
1) Khabarovsk, Russia
2) Pyongyang, North Korea
3) Vladivostok, Russia
4) Kaesong, North Korea
13. Which country is set to abolish its exit visa system for all foreign workers by the end of 2019 as per the United Nation’s International Labour Organization (ILO)?
1) Kuwait
2) Yemen
3) Oman
4) Qatar
14. Where was the second edition of Belt and Road Forum (BRF) for International Cooperation held recently?
1) Budapest, Hungary
2) New Delhi, India
3) Beijing, China
4) Warsaw, Poland
15. Where was the ADMM-Plus Maritime Security Field Training Exercise (FTX) held?
1) Shanghai, China
2) Tashkent, Uzbekistan
3) Beijing, China
4) Busan, South Korea
16. According to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) report, which country became the world’s biggest Military Spender in 2018?
1) India
2) Saudi Arabia
3) USA
4) China
17. What is the name of the IndoFrench (India & France) bilateral naval exercise that held in the Arabian sea of Goa coast?
1) Varuna 19.1
2) Konkan 19.1
3) Corpat 19.1
4) Simbex 19.1
18. Which of the following city has set a new Guinness World Record for the number of national flags raised in a city for 24 hours?
1) Abu Dhabi
2) Cairo
3) Beirut
4) Jerusalem
19. By which committee’s report recommendation RBI has divested its entire stake in National
Housing Bank and NABARD to the central government?
1) Second A C Shah Committee report
2) Second Narasimham committee report
3) Second A Ghosh Committee report
4) Second Adhyarjuna Committee report
20. Which public sector bank has launched India’s first Green Car Loan (Electric Vehicle) to encourage customers to buy electric vehicles?
1) Bank of Baroda
2) Karnataka Bank
3) State Bank of India
4) Union Bank of India
21. Which department has prepared the Startup India Vision 2024 to promote entrepreneurs and to facilitate setting up of 50,000 new start-ups in the country by 2024?
1) Department of MSME
2) Department of Public Enterprises
3) Department of Information Technology
4) Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade
22. Which tech giant has became the world’s third entity to cross worth $1 trillion?
1) Amazon
2) Microsoft
3) Apple
4) IBM
23. Which motif is depicted in the back side of the new Rs.20 denomination note?
1) Mangalyaan
2) Ellora caves
3) Hampi with Chariot
4) Sanchi Stupa
24. What is the revised interest rate of Employee’s Provident Fund (EPF) for 2018-19?
1) 8.35%
2) 8.45%
3) 8.55%
4) 8.65%
25. What is the custom duty of wheat, which is revised by Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) recently?
1) 10%
2) 20%
3) 30%
4) 40%
26. What is the name of the product, which is set to be launched by government of India to curb tax evasion?
1) E-GST Portal
2) Electronic invoices (e-invoices)
3) Integrated GST
4) Electronic GST
27. What is the revised GDP growth of India for the financial year 2019-20, as per India Ratings and Research company?
1) 7.1%
2) 7.2%
3) 7.3 %
4) 7.5%
28. Which public sector bank, has become the first bank in the country that has linked its deposit accounts and short term loans to an external benchmark?
1) State Bank of India
2) Canara Bank
3) Indian Bank
4) Bank of Baroda
29. Which country has created the first-ever artificial crater on an asteroid?
1) Japan
2) China
3) Russia
4) USA
30. Which space agency has recorded the first marsquake , quake on the mars due to volcanic eruptions or land tides?
1) Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
2) NASA
3) ISRO
4) European Space Agency
31. What is the name of the world’s first floating nuclear power plant that is tested by Rosenergoatom of Russia?
1) Bashkir
2) Balakovo
3) Akademik Lomonosov
4) Beloyarsk
32. Which telescope is used by NASA for confirming that the Universe is expanding about 9% faster than expected?
1) Keck Observatory
2) Galileo National Telescope
3) Spitzer Space Telescope
4) Hubble Space Telescope
33. Who led the team of scientists at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi to develope the ultrasensitive quantum thermometer by using graphene quantum dots?
1) Saikh S. Islam
2) Tokeer Ahmad
3) Arshad Khan
4) Manoj Kumar Jena
34. Which institute Researchers have used a multi-lingual Optical Character Recognition (OCR) scheme to develop a method for reading documents in Bharati script?
1) IIT Roorkee
2) IIT Madras
3) IIT Delhi
4) IIT Kanpur
35. Which mythical creature mysterious footprints have sited by Indian Army mountaineering expedition team of near Makalu Base Camp, located in North-Eastern Himalayas?
1) Yeti
2) Vulpine
3) Werewolf
4) Unicorn
36. Who has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of LIC Housing Finance?
1) Santhos Rao
2) Sandeep Kapoor
3) Siddhartha Mohanty
4) Harish Singh
37. Who ascended the throne in Japan, ushering in the Reiwa era after his father Akihito abdicated?
1) Fushimi
2) Taish?
3) Naruhito
4) Hirohito
38. Which country ranked at 1st position by winning 22 medals in the 23rd edition of Asian Athletics Championship?
1) Bahrain
2) India
3) Sri Lanka
4) Uzbekistan
39. To which sport Tejinder Pal Singh Toor belongs as he won gold medal in 23rd edition of Asian Athletics Championship?
1) Javelin throw
2) Shot put
3) Heptathlon
4) 3000m steeplechase
40. Which World billiards and snooker champion has won the first Asian Snooker Tour title recently?
1) Pankaj Advani
2) Dhruv Sitwala
3) Aditya Mehta
4) Sourav Kothari
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