1) Who can purchase ‘Electoral
Bonds’ ?
a) a person, who is a citizen of
India or incorporated or established in India
b) NRIs
c)PIOs
d) None of these
Ans : a
2) When Civil Services Day is celebrated ?
a) 21st of April, every year
b) 21st March
c) 24th Jan
d) 25th Jan
Ans : a
3) ‘Niti Forum for North-East’ will be co-chaired whom ?
a) Union Labour Minister
b) The forum will be co-chaired by the Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog and
Minister of State (I/C), Ministry of Development of Northeastern Region
(DoNER). The forum will have its Secretariat in the Ministry of DoNER.
c) Governor of Sikkim
d) None of these
Ans : b
4) Where construction of 4.531 km
long 2-Lane Bi-Directional Silkyara Bend - Barkot Tunnel with escape passage
including approaches on Dharasu -Yamunotri section between Chainage 25.400 Km.
and Chainage 51.000 Km., with a total project cost of Rs. 1383.78 crore will be taken up ?
a) J&K
b) in Uttarakhand
c) Arunachal Pradesh
d) Assam
Ans : b
5) The long-pending dispute between States of Odisha and Chhattisgarh on
Mahanadi river will come to a final settlement with the setting up of a
tribunal as per provisions of the
Inter-State River Water Disputes (ISRWD) Act, 1956. The Tribunal shall consist of whom ? Give details.
a) a Chairman and two other Members nominated by the Chief Justice
of India from amongst the Judges of the Supreme Court or High Court.
b) Further, services of two
Assessors who are water resources experts having experience in handling
sensitive water-related issues will be provided to advise the Tribunal in its
proceedings
c) Both (a) & (b)
d) None of these
Ans : c
6) NW-1 is estimated to create direct employment of 46,000 persons and
indirect employment of 84,000 persons in which states ?
a) Uttar Pradesh
b) Bihar
c) Jharkhand and West Bengal
d) All the above
Ans : d
7) 2018-19 Union budget envisaged a
defined role for NITI Aayog in which critical areas ? Give details.
a) artificial intelligence and agriculture policy,
b) Reiterated a shared vision for national development in line with NITI
Aayog’s Three Year Action Agenda, the Seven Year Strategy and the 15 Year
Vision Document.
c) Both (a) & (b)
d) None of these
Ans : c
8) What is e-NAM ? Give
details.
a) e-NAM is one of the major and important flagship schemes of the
Government of India which is being implemented by Ministry of Agriculture &
Farmers’ Welfare with the objective of providing competitive and remunerative
price to farmers for their produce through online competitive bidding process.
b) Keeping in view the need of making marketing of commodities easier for
farmers, e-NAM was envisioned and launched in 21 Mandis on 14th April
2016 which has now reached 479 Mandis across 14 states and 1 Union
Territory.
c) e-NAM website is now available in eight different languages (Hindi,
English, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and Odia) while the live
trading facility is available in six different language (Hindi, English,
Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi & Telugu).
d) All the above
Ans : d
9) Where ‘Global Digital
Health Partnership Symposium’ is conducted, recently ?
a) at Sydney, Australia
b) Tokyo
c) Paris
d) Berlin
Ans : a
10) ‘National Health Policy (2017) of India’, clearly articulates the
healthcare aspirations of people of India with three distinct goals. What are
they ?
a) The first goal is to ensure district-level electronic database of
information on health system components by 2020, which largely means moving
away from paper-based data collection and recording in public health system to
use of sophisticated computerized tools for improving functioning of hospitals
and health system.
b) The second goal is to strengthen the health surveillance system and
establish registries for diseases of public health importance by 2020, where we
intend to create registries to support epidemiological profiling of diseases to
be better informed for targeted health interventions.
c) The third goal pushes us to work for establishment of federated
national e-health architecture, setting-up of health information exchanges and
national Health Information Network by 2025,”
d) All the above
Ans : d
11) Youth from
Jammu & Kashmir participated in ‘WatankoJano’. It is an initiative of which union Ministry?
a) Home Affairs
b) Finance
c) Urban Development
d) External Affairs
Ans :a
12) What is the full name
of ‘Bolivia’ country ?
a) Plurinational State of Bolivia
b) Confederation of
Bolivia
c) Federation of Bolivia
d) Union of Bolivia
Ans : a
13) Who is Dara Shukoh ? Give details.
a) Prince Dara Shukoh, one of the sons of Emperor Shah Jehan grew up under
the unmistakable influence of the teachings of the Sufi Saint, Shaik Muin-uddin
Chisti.
b) “Majma-ul-Bahrain” or the “Mingling of the two Oceans” is book written
by him
c) Both (a) & (b)
d) None of these
Ans : c
14) Which of the following
is correct ? (Sufi saints & Places)
a) Khaja Mohiuddin Chisti’s shrine : Ajmer, Rajasthan
b) Hazrath Nizammuddin Auliya’s dargah : New Delhi
c) Ameen Peer Dargah : near Kadapa,
Andhra Pradesh
d) All the above
Ans : d
15) National Urban Housing Fund (NUHF)
for Rs.60,000 crores is created. Where will be
this fund?
a) This fund will be situated in Building Materials and Technology
Promotion Council (BMTPC), an autonomous body registered under the Societies
Registration Act, 1860 under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
b) NABARD
c) SIDBI
d) Exim Bank
Ans : a
16) The target is to cater to the demand of housing shortage of nearly 1.2
crore and make available housing to all by 2022. What is the importance of 2022
year ?
a) India celebrates its 75th Anniversary of Independence
b) 14th Five
Year Plan ending
c) 15th Five
Year Plan
d) None of these
Ans : a
17) NUHF will facilitate raising requisite funds in next four years so that
flow of Central Assistance under different verticals. What are they ?
a) Beneficiary Linked Construction (BLC)
b) Affordable Housing in Partnership(AHP);
In-Situ Slum Redevelopment (ISSR)
c) Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme
(CLSS)
d) All the above (All these will help in construction of houses to address the gap in Urban
Sector progresses smoothly)
Ans : d
18) Where the Indian Defence University is being setup ?
a) Mumbai
b) at Binola and Bilaspur, in district Gurugram, Haryana
c) Chennai
d) Jaipur
Ans : b
19) Launching
of “Operation
Greens” will be on the lines of which of the following to promote Farmer Producers Organizations
(FPOs), agri-logistics, processing facilities and professional management with
an allocation of Rs, 500 crore ?
a)
“Operation Flood”
b) Green Revolution
c) Yellow Revolution
d) Blue Revolution
Ans : a
20) Jal Marg Vikas Project (JVMP) for capacity augmentation of
navigation on the Haldia-Varanasi stretch of National Waterway-1 (Ganga)
is started. Give details.
a) Development of a plan for
multimodal logistics park near the multimodal terminals being built under at
Varanasi, Sahibganj and Haldia
b) The JMVP is being implemented by the IWAI with technical
assistance and investment support of the World Bank.
c) Both (a) & (b)
d) None of these
Ans : c
21) When World Radio Day is celebrated ?
a) Feb 13
b) Jan 15
c) Dec 15
d) Nov 26
Ans :a
22) Milk production in India, which was around 17 - 22 million tonnes in
the 1960s, has increased to______ million tonnes in 2016-17
a) 165.4
b) 140
c) 100
d) None of these
Ans : a
23) In November 2016 National
Mission on Bovine Productivity Scheme was started under Rashtriya Gokul Mission
with an allocation of Rs.825 crores. What is the aim of it ?
a) The aim is to accelerate milk production and productivity and to also
make the milk production more profitable.
b) Potato cultivation
c) Onion production
d) Oilseeds production
Ans : a
24) Where
the 8th Global Theatre Olympics on 17th February,
2018 is started ?
a) at
the majestic Red Fort in New Delhi. (This Global Theatre Festival is being held
in India for the first time)
b) Kochi
c) Turuvananthapuram
d) Chennai
Ans : a
25)Where
the Theatre Olympics was established ? Who
will participate ?
a) in
1993 at Delphi, Greece
b) Being
an international theatre festival, the Theatre Olympics presents some of the
greatest theatre practitioners from around the world
c) Both (a) & (b)
d) Only football players
Ans : c
26) Since
1993, the Theatre Olympics has been held seven times in which countries ?
a) Japan
(1999), Russia (2001)
b)
Turkey (2006), South Korea (2010)
c) China
(2014), Poland (2016)
d) All the above
Ans : d
27) Which of the following
is correct ? ( Bamboo & Green India Mission)
a) A restructured National Bamboo Mission, an outlay of Rs. 1290 crore has
been made to promote bamboo sector in a holistic manner
b) Union Government has also removed bamboo grown outside forest areas
from the definition of trees.
c) Rs. 160 crore have been earmarked for the Green India Mission (National
Afforestation Programme)
d) All the above
Ans : d
28) Green India Mission will contribute to the Nationally Determined
Contribution for the period 2021-2030 to intensify the efforts for achieving
our Nationally Contribution on Forestry to sequester additional 2.5 to 3.0
billion tonnes of ________ equivalent in the forestry sector by the year
2030.
a) Ozone
b) CO2
c) Oxygen
d) Hydrogen
Ans : b
29) A New scheme Venture Capital Fund for OBCs on similar lines as Venture
Capital Fund for SCs to be launched with an initial corpus of Rs. ____ crore
a) 500
b)200
c) 300
d) None of these
Ans : b
30) Which political parties will be
eligible to receive the Electoral Bonds ?
a) Only the Political Parties registered under section
29A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (43 of 1951) and
b) Political parties which secured not less than one per cent of the votes
polled in the last general election to the House of the People
or the Legislative Assembly of the State
c) Both (a) & (b)
d) None of these
Ans : c
31) Which bank has been
authorised to issue and encash Electoral Bonds initially at its 4 Authorised
Branches ? Give details.
a) State Bank of India (SBI)
b) The first issue of the Scheme will be opened in March 2018 in place of
January 2018 for the first quarter of 2018.
c) Accordingly, the first sale of Electoral Bonds will commence from 01st March 2018 for a period of 10 days i.e. up to 10th March 2018.
d) All the above
Ans :d
32) ‘ Electoral Bond’ (issued in India) shall be valid for how many
days ? Give details.
a) fifteen days from the date of issue and no payment shall be made to any
payee Political Party if the Bond is deposited after expiry of the validity
period.
b) The bond deposited by any eligible political party to its account shall
be credited on the same day.
c) Both (a) & (b)
d) None of these
Ans : c
33) The Fifteenth Finance Commission as constituted in pursuance of clause
(1) of Article 280 of the Constitution, w.e.f. 27th November,
2017 shall make its report available by 30th October, 2019, covering a
period of five years commencing from which date ?
a) 1st April, 2020. (The Commission shall use the population data of
2011 while making its recommendations.)
b) 2015
c) 2011
d) 2022
Ans : a
34) In the abbreviation LIBOR , the
letter L stands for what ?
a) Labour
b) London ( LIBOR: London Inter Bank Offered
Rate)
c) Luck
d) Left
Ans : b
35) As a consequence of which of the following in India , there has been a
sharp rise in FDI in the past three years – from US$ 36 billion in 2013-14 to
US$ 60 billion in 2016-17 ?
a) Filing of taxes under GST has been made progressively smoother.
b) The switch from cash to digital payments has been notable and has
created new opportunities. The simplification of procedures for tax payers, business-persons
and investors has led to India making significant advances in Ease of Doing
Business.
c) The opening of more and more sectors to greater private and global
investment has also drawn appreciation.
d) All the above
Ans : d
36)
Defence Corridor in UP will leverage the existing ordnance factories and
defence PSU establishments in UP. The proposed
stretch covers which of the following ?
a) Aligarh, Agra, Jhansi, Chitrakoot
b) It
also includes Kanpur and Lucknow.
c) Both (a) & (b)
d) None of these
Ans : c
37) NDA government is inspired by the ideology of "inclusiveness"
which was postulated half a century ago by whom ?
a) Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay, who defined the concept of
"Antyoday"
b) Man Mohan Singh
c) Morarjee Desai
d) L.K.Advani
Ans : a
38) The fact is that over 70% of population of India today
is below the age of 40 years and schemes like which of the following are meant
to ensure their "inclusiveness" ?
a) "Start-up India,
b) Stand-up India"
c) "Mudra Yojana"
d) All the above
Ans : d
39) Where the India’s first test-bed
for next generation, efficient, compact, waterless super critical carbon
dioxide Brayton cycle test loop for power generation. India’s first S-CO2
Brayton Cycle based solar thermal test loop at the laboratory scale is
established ?
a) BARC, Mumbai
b) at the IISc campus in Bengaluru
c) IGCAR, Kalpakkam
d) Ahmedabad
Ans : b
40) What
is the theme of the latest edition of ‘Theatre
Olympics’ being held in India,2018 ?
a) “Flag
of Friendship”
b) Clean India
c) Food for all
d) Health for all
Ans : a
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