What is the name of India's fastest and first

"multi-petaflops" supercomputer, recently

inaugurated by Minister of S&T Dr. Harsh
Vardhan?

A) Pratyush

B) Ravi

C) Surya

D) Aditya

Who has been appointed as the chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)?

A) P Sathashivam

B) K Sivan

C) N Venkitachalam

D) P Verma

which state has topped the Logistics Ease Across Different

States (LEADS) index developed by Commerce Ministry and
Deloitte?

A) Andhra Pradesh

B) Punjab

C) Gujarat

D) Maharashtra

which is the only state in India that has rolled out

e-Raktkosh in all 45 government blood banks?

A) Karnataka

B) Himachal Pradesh

C) Punjab

D) Assam

UIDAI has introduced the concept of a 'Virtual ID' (VID) to safeguard Aadhaar data. It is a temporary,
random number consisting of ___ digits?

A) 16

B) 12

C) 10

D) 15
 Name of Code No of Characters Nature of Characters
Aadhaar 12 Numeric
PAN Card 10 Alpha-numeric
Legal Entity Identifier 20 Alpha-numeric
IFSC Code 11 Alpha-numeric
MICR Code 9 Numeric
MMID 7 Numeric

who has been appointed as the official brand

ambassador of Sikkim?

A) AR Rahman

B) Aamir Khan

C) Akshay Kumar

D) Amitabh Bachchan

who has become the first Indian to win an international medal in skiing after winning
Bronze at the Alpine Ejder 3200 Cup, held in Turkey?

A) Aparna Vashisht

B) Shrishti Chawla

C) Aanchal Thakur

D) Smriti Rai

World Hindi Day was recently observed on?

A) Jan 8

B) Jan 10

C) Jan 9

D) Jan 11

Which station in Mumbai has entered the Limca Book of Records 2018, for being India's
first ever all-women staff railway suburban station?

A) Dombivli

B) Borivali

C) Churchgate

D) Matunga

Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG) 'Mankidia' has been denied habitat rights
in which tiger reserve by Odisha Forest Department?

A) Satkosia Tiger Reserve

 B) Sunabeda Tiger Reserve

C) Simlipal Tiger Reserve

D) Satapada Tiger Reserve

A Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) sub-committee will recommend free

and compulsory education for girls up to post-graduate level across India. The sub-committee was
headed by?

A) Himanta Biswa Sharma

B) Kadiam Srihari

C) Meenakshi Garg

D) Neera Yadav

Which country recently signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia to revive the option of
sending Hajj devotees to Jeddah via sea route?

A) Pakistan

B) India

C) Bangladesh

D) Malaysia
 who has been appointed to head the inter-ministerial
committee set up to take a final call on the playing of
the national anthem in cinema halls?

A) B.R. Sharma

B) Suresh Kumar

C) PK Tripathi

D) Arun Mehta

Which of the following police stations in Tamilnadu has

been awarded India's 'Best Police Station' in the SMART
Police Stations category?

A) Koyambedu

B) RS Puram

C) Pammal

D) Anna Nagar

Which city has become second major city to be declared open defecation free (ODF)?

A) Bengaluru

B) Hyderabad

C) Kolkata

D) Chennai

Which state government has formally launched an award scheme named ‘Chah
Bagichar Dhan Puraskar’, in which it will give Rs 2,500 to tea plantation labourers who have opened
bank accounts for the first time?

A) West Bengal

B) Assam

C) Sikkim

D) Meghalaya

which state government has launched a price deficit

compensation scheme, named 'Bhavantar Bharpayee
Yojana'?

A) Haryana

B) Madhya Pradesh

C) Bihar

D) Rajasthan
 Which company's Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine named 'Typbar' has received pre-
qualification from WHO?

A) Panacea Biotec

B) Wockhardt

C) Serum Institute of India

D) Bharat Biotech

IAF recently bade farewell to the last MiG-27 ML aircraft at the Hasimara Air Force
base. The aircraft was codenamed as?

A) Nirbhay

B) Shastra

C) Bahadur

D) Shaurya

Which state has signed the host city contract with the Indian Olympic Association for
hosting the 39th National Games in 2022?

A) Odisha

B) Tripura

C) Meghalaya

D) Assam

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has commissioned the world’s largest Refinery Off-Gas
Cracker (ROGC) complex, of 1.5 mtpa capacity, in?

A) Numaligarh

B) Jamnagar

C) Digboi

D) Barauni

India’s first ‘Robocop’, named after the martyr Hemant Karkare, has been launched
in which city?

A) Mumbai

B) Bengaluru

C) Gurugram

D) Hyderabad

Startup named Genrobotics developed ‘Bandicoot’ robot to clean up
sewer holes in Kerala
Which country's "bird language" of Black Sea villagers has been added to
the Unesco's list of Intangible Cultural Heritage?

A) Bulgaria

B) Romania

C) Georgia

D) Turkey

Who has become the first batsman to score three hundreds in T20 internationals?

A) Rohit Sharma

B) Colin Munro

C) Kane Williamson

D) Virat Kohli

Which state's police has recently gone digital with Criminal Tracking and Networking
System (CCTNS)?

A) Bihar

B) Chhattisgarh

C) Jharkhand

D) Odisha

Which state government has announced to set up a 24×7 'Guddia' helpline for
safety of women?

A) Andhra Pradesh

B) Madhya Pradesh

C) Himachal Pradesh

D) Uttar Pradesh

Suraksha – Karnataka government

HIMMAT – Delhi Police

Wsafety - Madhya Pradesh

R MITRA- Eastern railways

'Eyewatch Railways' - Western Railways

Hawk EYE - Telangana

Who has been appointed as the Deputy National Security Advisor?

A) Pravesh Kumar
 B) Susheel Ranade

C) Rajinder Khanna

D) Vineet Chandok

Who is the director of the film 'Kashmir Daily', which is the first Kashmiri feature film in
45 years to be released in India?

A) Raja Bilal

B) Mir Sarwar

C) Sanam Ziya

D) Hussein Khan
Lok Sabha has passed the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological
Sites and Remains (Amendment) Bill, 2017. It now allows civil
construction around the monument within a distance of?

A) 100 metres

B) 500 metres

C) 250 metres

D) 200 metres

Union Minister Jitendra Singh has announced that government will set up the second
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in?

A) Assam

B) Sikkim

C) Manipur

D) Arunachal Pradesh

Indian-origin Ravi Menon has been named as the best central bank
governor in Asia-Pacific for 2018 by 'The Banker'. He is the governor of
which central bank?

A) State Bank of Vietnam

B) Central Bank of Sri Lanka

C) Nepal Rastra Bank

D) Monetary Authority of Singapore

Which movie has won the 'Best motion picture, drama' at the 75th Annual Golden Globe
Awards held at Beverly Hills, California?
 Category Winner
Best motion picture, musical or Lady Bird
comedy
Best actress in a motion picture, Frances McDormand, "Three Billboards
drama Outside Ebbing, Missouri"
Best actor in a motion picture, Gary Oldman, "Darkest Hour"
drama
Best director Guillermo del Toro, "The Shape of Water"
Best television series, drama The Handmaid's Tale
Cecil B. DeMille award Oprah Winfrey
A) Darkest Hour

B) The Disaster Artist

C) The Shape of Water

D) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Which state government has recently launched its State symbol?

A) Gujarat

B) Andhra Pradesh

C) Haryana

D) West Bengal

Central bank has announced to release Rs 10 note in a chocolate brown

colour with the motif of?

A) Tajmahal

B) Hampi with Chariot

C) Qutub Minar

D) Sun Temple, Konark

Bhanakpur has become the second village in India to put into practice the system of
singing national anthem everyday. It is located in?

A) Rajasthan

B) Haryana

C) Madhya Pradesh

D) Uttar Pradesh

First was Telangana's Jammikunta village

Lok Sabha has passed a bill to hike the salaries of judges of the Supreme Court and
High Courts. The monthly salary of Chief Justice of India has been hiked from Rs 1 lakh to?

A) Rs 1.5 lakh

B) Rs 3.2 lakh
 C) Rs 2.8 lakh

D) Rs 2.1 lakh

Which state government has inaugurated India's first National Park for
people with special needs?

A) Gujarat

B) Telangana

C) Assam

D) Tamilnadu

who has been appointed as head of the SIT that will re-investigate 186 cases related to the
1984 anti-Sikh riots?

A) Avishek Dullar

B) Vinod Yadav

C) Shiv Narayan Dhingra

D) Rajdeep Singh

Which railway station has become the first to install a sanitary napkin vending
machine, named 'Happy Nari'?

A) New Delhi

B) Bhopal

C) CST

D) Secundrabad

What is India's rank on Global Manufacturing Index, released by World Economic Forum
(WEF)?

A) 30

B) 24

C) 45

D) 51

Who won the best boxer trophy at the National Women’s Boxing Championships held
in Rohtak?

A) L Sarita Devi

B) Sarjubala Devi

C) Sonia Lather

D) Meena Kumari
which satellite was recently launched by ISRO as its 100th?
 A) RISAT-1

B) IRNSS-1H

C) Cartosat-2

D) INSAT-6C

Teen Murti Chowk has been renamed after which Israeli City ?

A) Ashdod

B) Haifa

C) Eilat

D) Nazareth

Who has recently launched his autobiography titled "Imperfect"?

A) Sunil Gavaskar

B) Harsha Bhogale

C) Sanjay Manjrekar

D) Ravi Shastri
Who has become the first woman lawyer to be directly appointed as a
Supreme Court?

A) Shweta Agarwal

B) Geetanjali Bhoumik

C) Indu Malhotra

D) Deepthi R

Which bank has recently announced its merger with Capital First?

A) IndusInd Bank

B) Fedral Bank

C) IDFC Bank

D) Karnataka Bank

Few mergers :-

IndusInd Bank and Bharat Financial

ONGC and HPCL

Vodafone and Idea

RCom and Sistema
 
Bharti Airtel and Tata Tele

EC has set up a committee to suggest changes to Section 126 of the

Representation of the People (RP) Act, which prohibits poll campaign in the
last 48 hours to voting. It is headed by?

A) Umesh Sinha

B) Ravjot Pandey

C) Navneet Singh

D) Deepak Bansal

In a first, which state government has granted permission to

prisoners to donate their organs to immediate family
members?

A) Telangana

B) Odisha

C) Haryana

D) Kerala

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has been granted citizenship by which country?

A) Colombia

B) Chile

C) Peru

D) Ecuador
Which states have signed an MoU with the Water Resources Ministry for
completion of balance works of North Koel reservoir project at a cost of Rs
1,622 crore?

1. Bihar 2. Uttar Pradesh

3. Madhya Pradesh 4. Jharkhand

A) 1 & 2

B) 2 & 3

C) 3 & 4

D) 1 & 4

Which state government has announced 'Mukhyamantri Kalakar

Sahayata Yojana' to provide pension of Rs 1200 per month to 50,000
artists?

A) Jharkhand

B) Odisha

C) Rajasthan

D) Uttarakhand

Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently laid the foundation stone of Rs 43,129 crore refinery project
in?

A) Barauni

B) Numaligarh

C) Digboi

D) Barmer
Which state government has allowed people to forge a fraternal relationship
with trees, through a practice locally known as Mith/Mit or Mitini?

A) Arunachal Pradesh

B) Sikkim

C) Assam

D) Mizoram

Who has been named the ICC Cricketer of the Year at the ICC Awards
2017?

A) R Ashwin

B) Virat Kohli

C) Rohit Sharma

D) Jasprit Bumrah
Which team won the third edition of the Premier Badminton League
championship held in Hyderabad?

A) Hyderabad Hunters

B) Bengaluru Blasters

C) Chennai Smashers

D) Delhi Dashers

Indian peacekeepers from the UN mission have rebuilt the Akoka bridge in the record time of 10
days. It is located in?

A) Congo

B) Mali

C) Haiti

D) South Sudan

Which state cabinet has approved 1% reservation for orphans in

government jobs and education?

A) Rajasthan

B) Andhra Pradesh

C) Chhattisgarh

D) Maharashtra

World's fifth largest diamond, weighing 182 grams, has recently been discovered in?

A) Malawi

B) Lesotho

C) Botswana

D) Swaziland

What is the name of the second bus service launched from Agartala to
Kolkata via Dhaka?

A) Sahyog-2

B) Maitre-2

C) Saath-2

D) Parijan-2

Which country has decided to declare 2018 as the ‘national year

of millets’?

A) China

B) Nepal
 C) Sri Lanka

D) India

Who was awarded by President Ram Nath Kovind as part of MoWCD's

'First Ladies' celebration, for being the first actor to be recognised as a
Global Icon from India?

A) Priyanka Chopra

B) Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

C) Deepika Padukone

D) Konkona Sen

NGT has ordered "intensive survey" of Kali, Krishna and the Hindon rivers in?

A) Uttar Pradesh

B) Karnataka

C) Telangana

D) Madhyra Pradesh

which state government has approved a Rs 4,000 crore project, named Nanaji
Deshmukh Krishi Sanjivani Yojna?

A) Kerala

B) Maharashtra

C) Madhya Pradesh

D) Goa

Which indigenously-developed weapon system integrated

helicopter is going to make its maiden appearance in the
Republic Day parade?

A) Cheetah

B) Dhruv

C) Chetak

D) Rudra
which team won the 2018 Blind Cricket World Cup, held in Sharjah?

A) UAE

B) Pakistan

C) Bangladesh

D) India
 India has announced to set up a solar
development fund to support financing of solar
projects, worth?

A) $200 million

B) $350 million

C) $700 million

D) $550 million

Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has launched a liveability index of

_____ cities?

A) 124

B) 116

C) 109

D) 131

Who won the Best Actor in a Leading Role (Male) at the 63rd Jio Filmfare Awards 2018?

A) Irrfan Khan

B) Rajkummar Rao

C) Salman Khan

D) Akshay Kumar

India has joined the Australia Group (AG) as its ____ member?

A) 51st

B) 39th

C) 43rd

D) 27th

'Sur Festival' organized every year by Sublime Urge to Rejoice (SUR), has been renamed in tribute to?

A) S Janaki

B) MS Subbulakshmi

C) Kesarbai Kerkar

D) Girija Devi
Which of the following forces celebrated its 13th Raising Day
on Jan 19th?

A) NDRF

B) ITBP

C) BSF
D) SSB
Which state government recently launched an e-Hospital
Management Information System?

A) Bihar

B) Odisha

C) Assam

D) Haryana
Nirmala Sitharaman became the first Indian woman defence minister
to fly on a?

A) Sukhoi-30 MKI

B) Tejas

C) Rafale

D) MiG-21

Who has taken charge as the new Chief Election Commissioner of India?

A) Ashok Lavasa

B) Om Prakash Rawat

C) Sunil Arora

D) Achal Kumar Joti

What is India's rank out of 180 countries on the Environmental
Performance Index 2018, released by Yale and Columbia Universities
along with the World Economic Forum?

A) 158

B) 185

C) 177

D) 163
what is India's rank among emerging economies on the Inclusive Development
Index by WEF?

A) 83

B) 78

C) 57

D) 62
Who has taken charge as the new director of Vikram Sarabhai Space
Centre (VSSC)?

A) S Somnath

B) H Gandhi

C) V Balasubramanian

D) N Venkatesh
MoS for AYUSH Shripad Yesso Naik laid the foundation stone for Central
Research Institute of Homeopathy (CRIH) in?

A) Kanpur

B) Jaipur

C) Raipur

D) Patna

Which state's cabinet has approved 'one district, one product' scheme to promote products
indigenous to every district?

A) Madhya Pradesh

B) Andhra Pradesh

C) Uttar Pradesh

D) Himachal Pradesh
Which Indian personality has received the 24th Crystal Award at the Annual
Crystal Awards ceremony held in Davos?

A) Amitabh Bachchan

B) Shah Rukh Khan

C) Akshay Kumar

D) Aamir Khan

What is India's rank on the global index of talent

competitiveness?

A) 81

B) 73

C) 69

D) 94

World Bank has signed a $120 million loan agreement to help improve water supply services in peri-
urban areas in?

A) Assam

B) Jharkhand

C) Uttarakhand

D) Telangana
Which of the following is not one of the personalities, who has been
conferred Padma Vibhushan award for the year 2018?

A) R. Nagaswamy

B) Ghulam Mustafa Khan

C) Illaiyaraja
 D) P. Parameswaran

Which nation has signed an agreement with India to build military

infrastructure on its Assumption Island?

A) Seychelles

B) Madagascar

C) Tuvalu

D) Nauru

World Health Organisation (WHO) has awarded pre-qualification to India's first

rotavirus diarrhoea vaccine, ROTAVAC. It has been developed by?

A) Sanofi

B) Bharat Biotech

C) Cipla

D) Lupin

Who was posthumously awarded Ashok Chakra on the occasion of 69th

Republic Day at Rajpath?

A) Corporal Vikram Kumar

B) Corporal Ajeya Sarkar

C) Corporal Shaurya Malik

D) Corporal Jyoti Prakash Nirala

Who has won the 5th 'Yash Chopra Memorial Award'?

A) Madhuri Dixit

B) Saroj Khan

C) Alka Yagnik

D) Asha Bhosle

India has signed a pact with UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to raise
incomes and food security for tribal farming households in Mizoram and Nagaland, worth?

A) $279 million

B) $168 million

C) $102 million

D) $234 million
The bus driver who saved 52 Amarnath pilgrims from terror attack last
year, has been awarded the “Uttam Jeevan Raksha Padak”. What is his
name?

A) Ashraf Ali

B) Sheikh Salim

C) Mustafa Khan

D) Abdul Hassan

Which state government has launched `Mahatama Gandhi Sarbat

Vikas Yojana'?

A) Himachal Pradesh

B) Karnataka

C) Uttar Pradesh

D) Punjab

Who has become the first Nepalese player to be part of any IPL franchise?

A) Sandeep Lamichhane

B) Gyanendra Malla

C) Binod Bhandari

D) Sharad Vesawkar

Who has become the first woman chairman of the Indian Banks'
Association?

A) Shikha Sharma

B) Chanda Kochhar

C) Arundhati Bhattacharya

D) Usha Ananthasubramanian

Which state government has recently issued a detailed helipad policy?

A) Telangana

B) Uttarakhand

C) Maharashtra

D) Assam

Which of the following has been chosen as the first-ever Hindi Word of the
Year by Oxford Dictionaries for 2017?

A) Gau Rakshak

B) Mitron
 C) Aadhaar

D) Baahubali

In a first, scientists from which country have

successfully cloned monkeys?

A) Japan

B) US

C) China

D) India

Who won the men's singles title at the Australian Open?

A) Rafael Nadal

B) Marin Cilic

C) Grigor Dimitrov

D) Roger Federer
MHRD has approved setting up of a new Indian Institute of
Information Technology (IIIT) in?

A) Belgaum

B) Bijapur

C) Raichur

D) Hubli

Which chief minister recently received the Unesco Award of Merit

awarded to the Ranganathaswamy temple?

A) Siddaramaiah

B) K. Chandrashekar Rao

C) Edappady K. Palaniswami

D) N. Chandrababu Naidu

As per a recent order by DoPT, the quota in central government jobs for people
with benchmark disabilities has been increased from 3% to?

A) 5%

B) 7%

C) 4%

D) 6%