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1. President Ram Nath Kovind has appointed a Commission to examine sub categorization of Other Backward Classes

(OBCs) which is headed by

1) G Rohini

2) Nishita Nirmal Mhatre

3) Manjula Chellur

4) Indira Banerjee

5) Subhro Kamal Mukherjee

2. For the first time, which country and India will undertake a joint tiger census in their national parks, forests and

protected areas adjoining the two countries?

1) Bangladesh

2) Myanmar

3) Nepal

4) Bhutan

5) Pakistan

3. The Kaziranga National Park opened for the 2017-18 tourist season recently. The Park is situated in the state of

1) Sikkim

2) Arunachal Pradesh

3) West Bengal

4) Jharkhand

5) Assam

4. The govt is examining a report on new laws to deal with hate speech on internet. The report is submitted by a high-

level committee headed by

1) HL Dattu

2) TK Viswanathan

3) TS Thakur

4) Rajendra Mal Lodha

5) Markandey Katju

5. The Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) in India declined in 2016 and remained at

1) 29 per 1000 live births





6. Which of the following is the host city for the third India International Science Festival?

1) Chennai

2) Hyderabad

3) Bengaluru

4) Mumbai

5) New Delhi

7. The Vihaan Networks Limited has signed an MoU with which telecom company to launch “Relief 123” service to

provide disaster management in India?

1) Airtel

2) Idea

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3) BSNL

4) Reliance Jio

5) Vodafone

8. The Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) has awarded a contract to procure 10,000 electric vehicles for govt

departments to

1) Mahindra & Mahindra

2) Tata Motors

3) Renault

4) Nissan

5) Ford

9. Tom Alter passed away recently. He was a veteran

1) historian

2) journalist

3) cartoonist

4) poet

5) actor

10. The International Day of Older Persons is observed every year on

1) 29 Sep

2) 30 Sep

3) 01 Oct

4) 02 Oct

5) 10 Oct

11. Satya Pal Malik has been appointed as the new Governor of which of the following states?

1) Bihar

2) Uttar Pradesh

3) Gujarat

4) Rajasthan

5) Assam

12. The index of eight core industries expanded at its fastest pace this fiscal in Aug at

1) 2.6 per cent

2) 3.1 per cent

3) 4.9 per cent

4) 5.2 per cent

5) 5.4 per cent

13. The book titled How India Sees the World: Kautilya to the 21st Century is authored by

1) MK Narayanan

2) Sanjaya Baru

3) Nirupama Rao

4) Shivshankar Menon

5) Shyam Saran

14. ‘Tenge’ is name of the currency of which of the following countries?

1) Tajikistan

2) Kazakhstan

3) Uzbekistan

4) Kyrgyzstan

5) Turkmenistan

15. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the apex body in India for the formulation, coordination and

promotion of biomedical research, is based in





1) Kolkata

2) Bengaluru

3) Hyderabad

4) New Delhi

5) Mumbai

16. Who among the following is the new Governor of Assam?

1) BD Mishra

2) Ganga Prasad

3) Devendra Kumar Joshi

4) Ganga Prasad

5) Jagdish Mukhi

17. Which of the following neighbouring countries of India marked its 68th National Day on 01 Oct?

1) China

2) Bangladesh

3) Myanmar

4) Sri Lanka

5) Nepal

18. Birendra Sasmal has bagged the International Business Person of the Year award at the Asian Achievers Awards

in London. He is the CEO of

1) Sulabh

2) Bihan

3) Subah

4) Vedanta

5) Katha

19. Jagmeet Singh has been elected the leader of New Democratic Party, a major political party based in

1) Australia

2) UK

3) Malaysia

4) New Zealand

5) Canada

20. The International Day of Older Persons is observed every year on

1) 01 Oct

2) 11 Oct

3) 15 Oct

4) 25 Oct

5) 31 Oct

21. Several people were injured in clashes in Catalonia amid the recent referendum on the region's independence from

which country?

1) Spain

2) Denmark

3) Netherlands

4) Norway

5) France

22. Which country released 22 Indian prisoners and commuted sentences of 97 others recently?

1) Saudi Arabia

2) UAE

3) Kuwait

4) Bahrain

5) Iraq





23. This year's Nobel Medicine Prize went to geneticists Jeffrey C Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W Young. All

of them belong to

1) UK

2) France

3) Canada

4) Australia

5) US

24. President Ram Nath Kovind declared the Rural area of which of the following states as ODF - Open Defecation

Free - during his recent visit to the state?

1) Karnataka

2) Gujarat

3) Bihar

4) Maharashtra

5) Rajasthan

25. At least 58 people were killed and more than 500 injured in the worst mass shooting in which of the following

cities in the US recently?

1) Boston

2) Los Angeles

3) New York

4) Las Vegas

5) Washington DC

26. Which of the following Mumbai-headquartered banks recently waived the closure charges for savings accounts

that are over one year old?

1) Allahabad Bank

2) UCO Bank

3) PNB

4) SBI

5) Canara Bank

27. Bandhan Bank plans to open another 60 branches in coming months as part of efforts to expand its presence across

the country. The bank is headquartered at

1) New Delhi

2) Kolkata

3) Chennai

4) Bengaluru

5) Hyderabad

28. India received its first ever shipment of crude oil from which country with State-owned Indian Oil importing 1.6

mn barrels at the Paradip Port in Odisha?

1) Russia

2) Venezuela

3) Cambodia

4) Vietnam

5) US

29. Morgan Stanley has forecasted that India will grow to a _______ economy and achieve upper-middle income

status by 2026-27.

1) $6-tn

2) $5-tn

3) $4-tn

4) $8-tn

5) $10-tn





30. In which of the following countries, Monarch Airlines ceased operations recently? Monarch became the largest

carrier of the country to go into administration.

1) France

2) Germany

3) UK

4) US

5) Australia

31. Who among the following has/have won the 2017 Physics Nobel for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector

and the observation of gravitational waves?

1) Kip Thorne

2) Barry Barish

3) Rainer Weiss

4) All the above

5) Only 1) and 2)

32. The Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2017 will be held in which city on Nov 28-30?

1) New Delhi

2) Hyderabad

3) Mumbai

4) Chennai

5) Gurugram

33. Which of the following Union Ministries has been adjudged as the best department for its contribution during

Swachhta Pakhwada?

1) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

2) Food Processing Industries

3) Drinking Water and Sanitation

4) Commerce and Industry

5) Finance and Corporate Affairs

34. ___________ has been adjudged best ‘Swachh Iconic Place’ in India as on Oct 1, 2017.

1) Humayun’s Tomb

2) Konark Sun Temple

3) Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple

4) Agra Fort

5) Virupaksha Temple

35. The govt has waived service charges on railway tickets booked online through IRCTC till

1) Dec 2017

2) Mar 2018

3) Jun 2018

4) Sep 2018

5) Dec 2018

36. The 21-member committee on corporate governance, which will submit its report to markets regulator SEBI, is

headed by

1) Uday Kotak

2) Shikha Sharma

3) Chanda Kochhar

4) Aditya Puri

5) Nandan Nilekani

37. The name of Jagan Kumar is associated with which of the following sports?

1) Formula One





2) Motorcycle Racing

3) Cycling

4) 100 metre race

5) Triple Jump

38. Brenda Hale has been sworn in as first female president of the Supreme Court in

1) US

2) France

3) UK

4) Germany

5) Australia

39. ‘Kyat’ is the currency of which of the following countries?

1) Vietnam

2) Cambodia

3) Philippines

4) Thailand

5) Myanmar

40. The insurance behemoth Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India recently paid what amount to the govt as

surplus for the financial year 2017?

1) Rs 1650 cr

2) Rs 1,820 cr

3) Rs 2,020 cr

4) Rs 2,206 cr

5) Rs 2,420 cr

41. Ganga Prasad has been appointed as the new governor of which of the following states?

1) Meghalaya

2) Mizoram

3) Tripura

4) Assam

5) Sikkim

42. The Queen's Baton for the 2018 Commonwealth Games arrived in India recently. The Games will be held in

1) New Zealand

2) Canada

3) Australia

4) Malaysia

5) Maldives

43. India recently approved a Line of Credit to Bangladesh for funding infrastructure projects. The amount of the Line

of Credit is

1) $2.5 bn

2) $3 bn

3) $3.5 bn

4) $4 bn

5) $4.5 bn

44. The govt has set up a high-level committee for proper management of water resources in the North-Eastern region.

The Committee will be headed by

1) Arvind Mayaram

2) Rajiv Kumar

3) Shashi Kant Sharma

4) Pradeep Kumar Sinha





5) Rajiv Mehrishi

45. Which of the following states has started a midday meal scheme named Matrupurna for pregnant women and new

mothers?

1) Kerala

2) Maharashtra

3) Bihar

4) Karnataka

5) Rajasthan

46. The 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to who among the following for developing method to

visualise biomolecules?

1) Richard Henderson

2) Joachim Frank

3) Jacques Dubochet

4) All the above

5) Only 2) and 3)

47. The RBI, in its fourth bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement for 2017-18, cut the growth forecast for the current

fiscal to

1) 6.4 per cent

2) 6.7 per cent

3) 6.9 per cent

4) 7.3 per cent

5) 7.6 per cent

48. Who among the following has been appointed as the 25th chairman of the country’s largest lender State Bank of

India?

1) PK Gupta

2) Dinesh Kumar Khara

3) B Sriram

4) Vinod Rai

5) Rajnish Kumar

49. The RBI has issued rules for NBFCs that want to operate as peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms. The maturity of

the loans in this case must not exceed

1) 12 months

2) 24 months

3) 36 months

4) 48 months

5) 60 months

50. The Paytm Payments Bank incurred losses of Rs 30.7 cr between Aug 2016 and Mar 2017 of FY17. The first

physical branch of PPB was opened in

1) NOIDA

2) Bengaluru

3) Gurugram

4) Hyderabad

5) Mumbai

51. Who among the following is the present Union Sports Minister? He announced the launch of National School and

College Games recently.

1) Rajyavardhan Rathore

2) Narendra Singh Tomar

3) Rajiv Pratap Rudy

4) Vijay Goel





5) Piyush Goyal

52. India's renewable energy capacity will double by 2022 as per the International Energy Agency (IEA), an

autonomous intergovernmental organization based in

1) London

2) New York

3) Paris

4) Toronto

5) Geneva

53. The Union Cabinet has approved the Extradition Treaty between India and Lithuania. The capital city Lithuania is

1) Baku

2) Yerevan

3) Tallinn

4) Asmara

5) Vilnius

54. The Union Cabinet has given its ex-post facto approval to an MoU between India and which country on

upgradation of the women’s police training centre at Yamethin?

1) Maldives

2) Myanmar

3) Nepal

4) Bangladesh

5) Afghanistan

55. The RBI issued its fourth bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement for 2017-18 recently. Now, the reverse repo, at

which RBI borrows from banks, stands at

1) 5 per cent

2) 5.25 per cent

3) 5.50 per cent

4) 5.75 per cent

5) 6 per cent

56. The foundation stone of the first industrial training institute (ITI) exclusively for the differently-abled

(divyangans) was laid down recently in

1) Dibrugarh

2) Jaipur

3) Bhopal

4) Patna

5) Lucknow

57. The RBI, in its fourth bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement for 2017-18, cut the statutory liquidity ratio which

now stands at

1) 17.5 per cent

2) 18 per cent

3) 18.5 per cent

4) 19 per cent

5) 19.5 per cent

58. ________ has become the first Asian market to get Amazon’s Echo speakers and Alexa smart assistant.

1) Malaysia

2) China

3) India

4) Japan

5) Indonesia





59. Which telecom firm recently received Ghana’s approval for the merger between its Ghana arm and Millicom

Ghana (Tigo)?

1) Vodafone

2) Bharti Airtel

3) Idea

4) Reliance Jio

5) Aircel

60. Which country recently launched the world’s largest nuclear-powered icebreaker ship named Sibir?

1) Canada

2) Australia

3) New Zealand

4) Russia

5) US

61. The RBI in fourth bimonthly policy review slashed the Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) which will free over

__________ to bank funds for lending.

1) Rs 37,000 cr

2) Rs 42,000 cr

3) Rs 47,000 cr

4) Rs 52,000 cr

5) Rs 57,000 cr

62. The TASS is the largest news agency of which country? It is the fourth largest in the world.

1) Germany

2) UK

3) Russia

4) France

5) Australia

63. The RBI has specified norms for NBFCs to act as P2Ps. The aggregate exposure of a lender to all borrowers at any

point of time, across all P2Ps, would be subject to a cap of

1) Rs 05 lakh

2) Rs 10 lakh

3) Rs 15 lakh

4) Rs 20 lakh

5) Rs 25 lakh

64. The World Teachers’ Day is observed every year on

1) 05 Oct

2) 10 Oct

3) 15 Oct

4) 20 Oct

5) 25 Oct

65. The 8th conference of the Association of SAARC Speakers and Parliamentarians was held recently in

1) New Delhi

2) Kathmandu

3) Dhaka

4) Colombo

5) Kabul

66. According to the Forbes magazine’s annual India Rich List 2017, who among the following has emerged as the

richest person in the country?

1) Pallonji Mistry

2) Acharya Balkrishna





3) Dilip Shanghvi

4) Azim Premji

5) Mukesh Ambani

67. Who among the following has won the 2017 Nobel Literature Prize for his novel The Remains of the Day?

1) Toni Morrison

2) Julian Barnes

3) Kazuo Ishiguro

4) Mark Romanek

5) Margaret Atwood

68. Pooja Kadian created history as she bagged India’s first ever gold medal at the World Championships in Russia in

the game of

1) Wushu

2) Skating

3) Cycling

4) Shot put

5) Discus throw

69. _________ has launched Neo, a servicing bot for Twitter, that uses artificial intelligence for customer service.

1) ICICI Pru

2) Bajaj Allianz

3) SBI Life

4) HDFC Life

5) LIC of India

70. Zafar Mahmood Abbasi has been appointed as the new Chief of Naval Staff in

1) Bangladesh

2) Pakistan

3) Maldives

4) Afghanistan

5) Indonesia

71. Who among the following is the Housing and Urban Affairs Minister in the present Union Cabinet?

1) Hardeep Singh Puri

2) Anant Kumar Hegde

3) Rajiv Pratap Rudy

4) Ashwini Kumar Choubey

5) RK Singh

72. The RBI opened a branch in Dehradun recently to make transactions of the state govt more convenient. The

present Chief Minister of Uttarakhand is

1) Harak Singh Rawat

2) Harish Rawat

3) Prakash Pant

4) Satpal Maharaj

5) Trivendra Singh Rawat

73. Users will be able to transfer funds from one mobile wallet to another as RRI is allowing inter-operability among

PPIs very soon. The term PPI stands for

1) Postpaid Payment Instrument

2) Prepaid Payment Interface

3) Prepaid Payment Instrument

4) Postpaid Payment Interface

5) None of these





74. A court in which country recently sentenced 40 people to life in prison for attempting to kill President Recep

Tayyip Erdogan?

1) Egypt

2) Turkey

3) Greece

4) Venezuela

5) Cambodia

75. The United Nations designated the first Monday of Oct of every year as World Habitat Day which was observed

recently on

1) 31 Oct

2) 22 Oct

3) 12 Oct

4) 02 Oct

5) 01 Oct

76. India and Ethiopia have signed agreements on trade, communication and media to boost bilateral ties. The

currency of Ethiopia is

1) Birr

2) Rand

3) Krona

4) Peso

5) Real

77. The parliament in which country recently confirmed the nomination of Ukhnaa Khurelsukh as Prime Minister?

1) Kenya

2) Philippines

3) Mongolia

4) Vietnam

5) Cambodia

78. The Sebi panel, which has recommended separating Chairman, MD roles at listed firms, was headed by

1) Shikha Sharma

2) Deepak Parekh

3) Chanda Kochhar

4) Aditya Puri

5) Uday Kotak

79. Which of the following is the first state to slash the value-added tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel after the centre

urged states to do so?

1) Karnataka

2) Kerala

3) Tamil Nadu

4) Gujarat

5) Rajasthan

80. _________ has acquired HyperCity for Rs 655 cr from Shoppers Stop.

1) Amazon

2) Future Group

3) Flipkart

4) Snapdeal

5) Infibeam

81. The Indian Air Force celebrated its 85th anniversary recently on

1) 02 Oct

2) 04 Oct





3) 06 Oct

4) 08 Oct

5) 10 Oct

82. The first edition of the ASEAN India Music Festival was held recently at Purana Qila in

1) Agra

2) Hyderabad

3) New Delhi

4) Kolkata

5) Jaipur

83. ________ has entered into an MoU with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation for enabling all HPCL retail outlets

with BHIM/UPI merchant solutions.

1) Vijaya Bank

2) Dena Bank

3) Syndicate Bank

4) Indian Bank

5) Allahabad Bank

84. Carlos Nuzman is the present chairman of the Olympic Committee of which country? He was arrested on

corruption charges recently.

1) Spain

2) Brazil

3) Argentina

4) France

5) Belgium

85. _________ has launched ‘Eazy Connect’ that will extend online customer service to social media platforms.

1) SBI Life

2) HDFC Standard Life

3) Bajaj Allianz Life

4) Tata AIA Life

5) Bharti AXA Life

86. The RBI has initiated a 'prompt corrective action' against the state-owned Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC)

which is headquartered at

1) Gurugram

2) New Delhi

3) Mumbai

4) Bengaluru

5) Chennai

87. __________ has become the first Indian journalist to win Anna Politkovskaya Award.

1) Punya Prasun Bajpai

2) Ravish Kumar

3) Gauri Lankesh (Posthumously)

4) Arnab Goswami

5) Jyotirmoy Dey (Posthumously)

88. Who among the following has become the world’s most followed leader on Twitter?

1) Joko Widodo

2) Sushma Swaraj

3) Pope Francis

4) Narendra Modi

5) Donald Trump





89. The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to

1) Vladimir Putin

2) Xi Jinping

3) Emmanuel Macron

4) International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)

5) International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

90. Purushottam Lal Kaushik passed away recently. He had served as tourism and civil aviation minister during 1977-

1979 and belonged to

1) Jharkhand

2) Chhattisgarh

3) Uttarakhand

4) Karnataka

5) West Bengal

91. Kundan Shah passed away recently. He was a

1) Sportsperson

2) Filmmaker

3) Actor

4) Politician

5) Writer

92. An all-rounder John Hastings recently announced his retirement from Tests, ODIs and domestic cricket. He was

playing for which among the following countries?

1) Sri Lanka

2) New Zealand

3) Australia

4) England

5) Zimbabwe

93. A new private label brand, ‘MarQ’ launched recently by which of the following India’s e-commerce firm for its

key large appliances category?

1) Flipkart

2) Paytm

3) Snapdeal

4) HomeShop18

5) ShopClues

94. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) set up a new research centre in which of the following cities for

startups, academicians, environmentalists and entrepreneurs?

1) Chandipur

2) Guwahati

3) Jodhpur

4) Ahmedabad

5) Hassan

95. The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council recently raised the threshold limit for Composition Scheme to Rs.

_______ and allowed quarterly return filing for traders having Rs 1.5 crore turnover to ease the tax filing for small

traders.

1) 1 cr

2) 1.5 cr

3) 2 cr

4) 5 cr

5) None of these

96. Who among the following has been appointed as the new Chairman of SBI?





1) Kishor P Kharat

2) Rajkiran Rai G

3) R A Sankaranarayanan

4) Sunil Mehta

5) Rajnish Kumar

97. _____________ is the first law firm to have opened an office at Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT),

which is being promoted like Singapore of India.

1) J Sagar Associates (JSA)

2) BM Morrison Partners (BM)

3) AZB & Partners

4) S&R Associates

5) Phoenix Legal

98. India and which of the following Investment Bank recently signed the finance contract for lending of 300 million

euros (about Rs 2,293 crore) for Bangalore Metro Rail Project phase-II.

1) JP Morgan

2) European

3) Goldman Sachs

4) Morgan Stanley

5) Barclays

99. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed recently by which of the following states under the 'Ek

Bharat, Shrestha Bharat' programme to boost cultural relationship between different states of the country?

1) Uttar Pradesh


3) Meghalaya

4) All the above

5) None of these

100. Which of the following is the host city for the 4th Dialogue of Civilizations which is being organized from 8th to

15th October, 2017?

1) Bengaluru

2) New Delhi

3) Chennai

4) Hyderabad

5) Ahmedabad

101. India and which of the following countries recently signed agreements on trade, communication and media to

boost bilateral ties?

1) Malaysia

2) Myanmar

3) Ethiopia

4) Bangladesh

5) Afghanistan

102. Which of the following bank recently entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Hindustan

Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) for enabling all HPCL retail outlets with BHIM/UPI merchant solutions?

1) SBI

2) Vijaya Bank

3) Dena Bank

4) Union Bank

5) Corporation Bank

103. Which of the following is the host city of the first meeting of India-Australia Joint Steering Committee?

1) Vishakhapatnam





2) Varanasi

3) New Delhi

4) Ahmedabad

5) Chandigarh

104. The World Mental Health Day is observed every year on

1) 10 Oct

2) 11 Oct

3) 20 Oct

4) 15 Oct

5) 13 Oct

105. In the recently released notification by the Centre, Jewellery purchases exceeding how much amount won’t

require the income tax permanent account number (PAN)?

1) Rs 25,000

2) Rs 75,000

3) Rs 1 lac

4) Rs 1.5 lac

5) Rs 50,000

106. Which of the following Indian states has seen the rise in infant mortality rate according to the recent findings of

the Sample Registration System (SRS), an annual survey conducted by the Union ministry of health?

1) Bihar

2) Assam

3) Chhattisgarh

4) Uttarakhand

5) Odisha

107. Huge explosions have rocked a natural gas station in capital Accra, killing at least one person. Accra is the capital

of

1) Andorra

2) Ghana

3) Niue

4) Samoa

5) Brunei

108. The govt appointed Committee on Haj Policy has recommended phasing out of subsidy for Haj pilgrims and

allowing women devotees above 45 years of age to travel in a group of at least four without a male. The Committee

was headed by

1) Afzal Amanullah

2) Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

3) Mapanna Mallikarjun Kharge

4) Rajiv Kumar

5) Dr Ashima Goyal

109. “A Friend You Can Bank Upon” is the tagline of

1) Dena Bank

2) UCO Bank

3) Vijaya Bank

4) Indian Bank

5) Canara Bank

110. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has signed two more advance pricing agreements (APAs) with

taxpayers as part of its aim to reduce litigation by providing certainty in transfer pricing. Who is the current

Chairperson of CBDT?

1) Prasoon Joshi





2) Ajay Tyagi

3) Sushil Chandra

4) David R. Syiemlieh

5) Rahul Chaudhry

111. International Day of the Girl Child is observed every year on

1) Oct 12

2) Oct 15

3) Oct 11

4) Oct 05

5) Oct 18

112. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its October World Economic Outlook (WEO) has slashed India’s

economic growth forecast by 0.5 percentage points to _____ in 2017.

1) 6.9%

2) 6.7%

3) 7.1%

4) 7%

5) 7.4%

113. The central govt has approved how much amount for setting up Aadhaar centres in post offices?

1) Rs 1,000 cr

2) Rs 500 cr

3) Rs 2,000 cr

4) Rs 1,500 cr

5) Rs 750 cr

114. Which of the following state govt announced two new policies focussing on Internet of things and e-waste?

1) Odisha

2) Telangana

3) Karnataka

4) Kerala

5) Tamil Naidu

115. The Supreme Court has criminalised sex between man and his underage wife below ____ provided the woman

files a complaint within a year.

1) 15 years

2) 16 years

3) 17 years

4) 18 years

5) 20 years

116. The first BIMSTEC Disaster Management Exercise (DMEx-2017) was held in

1) Dehradun

2) Raebareli

3) Varanasi

4) Jodhpur

5) New Delhi

117. Which of the following IITs signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Samsung India for the setting

up of a digital academy on the institute’s campus?

1) IIT-Kharagpur

2) IIT-Kanpur

3) IIT-Delhi

4) IIT-Patna

5) IIT-Jammu





118. Which of the following state govt launched ‘Solar Briefcase’ programme to provide electricity to far flung areas

in the hill state?

1) Kerala

2) Odisha


4) Uttarakhand

5) Sikkim

119. According to the Nation Brands 2017 report of Brand Finance, India ranked at ___ on the latest list of most

valuable nation brands.

1) 8th

2) 5th

3) 3rd

4) 11th

5) 12th

120. Who has been named the interim managing director of Facebook India?

1) Kunal Bahl

2) Sandeep Bhushan

3) Ahmed El Sheikh

4) Rohit Bansal

5) Umang Bedi

121. Which of the following lender recently announced to create a 15,000-sqft innovation centre at its Global IT

Centre in Belapur in Navi Mumbai investing around Rs 100 crore?

1) Yes Bank

2) ICICI Bank

3) State Bank of India

4) HDFC Bank

122. Who has been appointed as the new chairman of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), located in Pune?

1) Satyajit Ray

2) Anupam Kher

3) Gajendra Chauhan

4) Bhupendra Kainthola

5) Sanjay Leela Bhansali

123. President Ramnath Kovind recently honoured Gurbax Singh Sandhu with the National Awards for senior

citizens. He is the Coach of

1) Indian Wrestling

2) Indian Boxing

3) Kabaddi

4) Field Hockey

5) Golf

124. Who among the following has been appointed as the next expenditure secretary in the finance ministry?

1) Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha

2) Ashok Lavasa

3) Preeti Sudan

4) Shakuntala Gamlin

5) Ajay Narayan Jha

125. The Union Cabinet has recently approved signing of Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) between India and

which of the following countries on the Technical Intern Training Program (TITP)?

1) Kuwait





2) France

3) Russia

4) Japan

5) South Africa

126. Which of the following country has emerged as the second largest market for the pharmaceuticals and

biotechnology industry with 13.7 per cent contribution to the workforce?

1) India

2) Sweden

3) Iceland

4) US

5) China

127. Which state govt recently approved reservations for 'Divyangs', persons with disabilities, in govt jobs and

educational institutions?

1) Gujarat

2) Odisha

3) Bihar

4) Manipur

5) Assam

128. Which of the following countries becomes the smallest country to clinch a position at the 21st FIFA World Cup?

1) Netherlands

2) Vatican City

3) Monaco

4) Nauru

5) Iceland

129. Which of the following Indian pacer recently announced his retirement from all forms of cricket?

1) Ishant Sharma

2) Mohammad Shami

3) Ashish Nehra

4) Rush Kalaria

5) None of these

130. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its October World Economic Outlook (WEO) has slashed India’s

economic growth forecast by 0.3 percentage points to _____ in 2018.

1) 7.4%

2) 7%

3) 7.2%

4) 7.6%

5) 7.5%

131. India ranked at ____ position among 119 countries on Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2017 report released by

Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

1) 105th

2) 96th

3) 100th

4) 87th

5) 102nd

132. Who has been appointed new Health Secretary?

1) Rahul Prasad Bhatnagar

2) Preeti Sudan

3) Shakuntala Gamlin

4) Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha





5) Injeti Srinivas

133. Recently, the Centre approved setting up of India’s first Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) at Haridwar and

___________ for a combined cost of ₹324.69 crore under Namami Gange programme.

1) Allahabad

2) Jhansi

3) Varanasi

4) Noida

5) Meerut

134. Who has been appointed as next ambassador to China?

1) Navtej Singh Sarna

2) Vijay Thakur Singh

3) Reenat Sandhu

4) Gautam Bambawale

5) Arun Kumar Singh

135. Which of the following state govt recently implemented the Senior Citizen Health Insurance Scheme (SCHIS)

under which Rs 30,000 per senior citizen will be provided to all existing Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna (RSBY)

smart card holders?

1) Himachal Pradesh

2) Odisha

3) Assam

4) Jammu & Kashmir

5) Tamil Naidu

136. The Indian Air Force has launched an innovative mobile health App named 'MedWatch' on the occasion of its

85th anniversary. The Indian Air Force Day is observed every year on

1) Oct 12

2) Oct 08

3) Oct 10

4) Oct 05

5) Oct 13

137. Who has been appointed as the new president of US India Business Council (USIBC)?

1) Mukesh Aghi

2) Thomas Donohue

3) Gaurav Verma

4) Nisha Desai Biswal

5) None of these

138. International Day for Disaster Reduction is observed every year on

1) Oct 11

2) Oct 17

3) Oct 15

4) Oct 14

5) Oct 13

139. Which of the following is the host city of G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG)

Meeting?

1) Washington D.C

2) Berlin

3) New Delhi

4) Russia

5) Los Angeles





140. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has teamed up with which of the following technology company to launch an

open-source and deep learning interface 'Gluon'?

1) Microsoft

2) Apple Inc

3) Intel

4) Alphabet Inc

5) None of these

141. The World Food Day is observed every year on

1) 06 Oct

2) 11 Oct

3) 16 Oct

4) 26 Oct

5) 31 Oct

142. Satish Chandra passed away recently. He was a veteran

1) surgeon

2) musician

3) physicist

4) historian

5) chemist

143. Who among the following created history by scoring India’s first ever goal in FIFA World Cup (in recent Under-

17 World Cup)?

1) Anwar Ali

2) Jeakson Thounaojam

3) Sunny Dhaliwal

4) Prabhsukhan Gill

5) Dheeraj Moirangthem

144. Esther Staubli became the first female referee to officiate a match at the FIFA U-17 World Cup recently. She

hails from

1) New Zealand

2) Canada

3) Switzerland

4) Argentina

5) Spain

145. MK Sanu has been chosen for the Mathrubhumi Literary Award for 2016 in recognition of his rich contribution

to the

1) Sanskrit literature

2) Hindi literature

3) Telugu literature

4) Tamil literature

5) Malayalam literature

146. The US and Israel have announced to withdraw from the UNESCO. The cultural organisation is headquartered in

1) Geneva

2) Paris

3) London

4) Moscow

5) Madrid

147. The joint training exercise MITRA SHAKTI 2017 was held between India and which of the following countries

recently?

1) Nepal





2) Bangladesh

3) Myanmar

4) Sri Lanka

5) Maldives

148. Rukaiya Rangwala has been appointed as the head of which of the following mobile wallet and payment gateway

services providers?

1) MobiKwik

2) Paytm

3) Freecharge

4) Digibank

5) Phone Pe

149. Audrey Azoulay has been elected as the new Director General of the

1) WTO

2) World Bank

3) UNESCO

4) UNICEF

5) IMF

150. The world’s largest combustion research centre was inaugurated recently at the

1) IIT Mumbai

2) IIT Delhi

3) IIT Kanpur

4) IIT Delhi

5) IIT Madras

151. According to the Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, the retail inflation remained at what per cent in Sep 2017?

1) 3.28 per cent

2) 3.45 per cent

3) 2.28 per cent

4) 3.85 per cent

5) 4.28 per cent

152. The country’s IIP was at a nine-month high of 4.3 per cent in Aug 2017. The term IIP means

1) Index of Initial Production

2) Index of Intermediate Production

3) Index of Industrial Production

4) Index of Industrial Purchase

5) None of these

153. Who among the following is the present Lieutenant Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar islands?

1) Ganga Prasad

2) Satya Pal Malik

3) Jagdish Mukhi

4) Brigadier (Dr) BD Mishra

5) Admiral DK Joshi

154. The blast caused by a truck bomb in Mogadishu recently killed at least 231 people. Mogadishu is the capital city

of

1) Nigeria

2) Somalia

3) Yemen

4) Syria

5) Kenya





155. The Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has exited its last overseas conventional oil and gas assets by relinquishing

two blocks in

1) Bangladesh

2) Kenya

3) Vietnam

4) Myanmar

5) Venezuela

156. The Tata Teleservices has announced to merge its consumer mobile businesses with which of the following in a

cashless deal?

1) Bharti Airtel

2) Vodafone

3) Idea

4) Reliance Jio

5) Aircel

157. __________ has announced the takeover of the micro finance lender Bharat Financial Inclusion Ltd.

1) RBL Bank

2) YES Bamkl

3) IndusInd Bank

4) Federal Bank

5) Axis Bank

158. Kavita Devi is associated with which of the following games? She has become the first Indian woman to sign

with WWE.

1) Weightlifting

2) Volleyball

3) Wushu

4) Water Polo

5) Wrestling

159. Which of the following state govts would soon set up coaching academies for civil services aspirants in all 32

districts?

1) Karnataka

2) Kerala

3) Andhra Pradesh

4) Tamil Nadu

5) Odisha

160. The Srisailam dam is situated in which of the following states?

1) Chhattisgarh

2) Andhra Pradesh

3) Madhya Pradesh

4) Karnataka

5) Maharashtra

161. The Manipur Governor and CM N Biren Singh felicitated the eight players of the state who were part of India’s

Under-17 FIFA World Cup team. The present governor of Manipur is

1) Najma Heptulla

2) Ganga Prasad

3) Jagdish Mukhi

4) Satya Pal Malik

5) BD Mishra

162. The top national security body of which country recently called for a fifth extension of a state of emergency,

imposed after a failed coup in 2016?





1) Greece

2) Spain

3) Turkey

4) Egypt

5) Venezuela

163. A spate of wildfires in central and north Portugal killed at least 39 people. The capital city of Portugal is

1) Copenhagen

2) Oslo

3) Manama

4) Yerevan

5) Lisbon

164. Fifty Indian peace keepers stationed in which country were recently awarded the UN Medal for their

professionalism and service in protecting civilians and building?

1) Somalia

2) South Sudan

3) Nigeria

4) Uganda

5) Estonia

165. The External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj held talks with Agapito Mba Mokuy in New Delhi who is her

counterpart from

1) Mauritania

2) Chad

3) Cameroon

4) Equatorial Guinea

5) Botswana

166. The All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) was inaugurated at Sarita Vihar in New Delhi on the occasion of

National Ayurveda Day (observed on Dhanwantari Jayanti) on

1) 03 Oct

2) 07 Oct

3) 17 Oct

4) 27 Sep

5) 30 Sep

167. Which of the following is the newest anti-submarine warfare (ASW) corvette commissioned into the Indian Navy

recently?

1) INS Kiltan

2) INS Aridhaman

3) INS Kamorta

4) INS Kalvari

5) INS Chennai

168. According to a Pew Research survey on governance and trust among key countries, what per cent of people in

India trust their national govt?

1) 65 per cent

2) 70 per cent

3) 75 per cent

4) 80 per cent

5) 85 per cent

169. Who among the following released the third part of his memoir “The Coalition Years: 1996-2012” recently?

1) LK Advani

2) Pranab Mukherjee





3) Mohammad Hamid Ansari

4) Pratibha Patil

5) Manmohan Singh

170. The govt of India has appointed Mahesh Kumar Gupta and DK Gayen as the two new members in the Railway

Board. The present chairman of the Board is

1) RK Chaturvedi

2) Anita Karwal

3) Rajiv Bansal

4) Ashwani Lohani

5) David R Syiemlieh

171. Which of the following teams lifted the 37th All India Governor's Gold Cup football tournament?

1) Partha Chakra

2) Mohun Bagan

3) Punjab Police

4) Calcutta Port Trust

5) Border Security Force

172. Who among the following won the men’s singles title of the Shanghai Masters 2017?

1) Rafael Nadal

2) Kevin Anderson

3) Andy Murray

4) Roger Federer

5) Juan Martín del Potro

173. The NIIF has inked a pact worth $1 bn with Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. The term NIIF stands for

1) National Industrial Infrastructure Fund

2) National Industrial Innovation Fund

3) National Innovation and Infrastructure Fund

4) National Investment and Infrastructure Fund

5) None of these

174. Who among the following won the women’s singles title of the Tianjin Open 2017?

1) Aryna Sabalenka

2) Ivana Jorović

3) Maria Sharapova

4) Simona Halep

5) Serena Williams

175. Who among the following recently became the first from Bangladesh to join MCC World Cricket Committee?

1) Mustafizur Rahman

2) Mushfiqur Rahim

3) Mashrafe Mortaza

4) Tamim Iqbal

5) Shakib Al Hasan

176. Shamsher Khan passed away recently. He was India’s first Olympic

1) swimmer

2) boxer

3) wrestler

4) weightlifter

5) shooter

177. The Union Bank of India has launched an Android app, Union Sahyog. The headquarters of the Union Bank of

India is situated in





1) New Delhi

2) Chennai

3) Mumbai

4) Kolkata

5) Bengaluru

178. _________ has emerged as the top-ranked Indian institute in the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Asia

University Rankings 2018.

1) Indian Institute of Science

2) University of Delhi

3) IIT Roorkee

4) IIT Delhi

5) IIT Bombay

179. The island nation of Vanuatu has announced to accept payments in Bitcoin for its citizenship program. The

capital city of Vanuatu is

1) Belmopan

2) Port Vila

3) Nassau

4) Port Louis

5) Tirane

180. The Sampoorna Bima Gram (SBG) Yojana was launched recently by the Union Minister for Communications

1) Santosh Gangwar

2) Kalraj Mishra

3) Suresh Prabhu

4) Manoj Sinha

5) Keshav Prasad Maurya

181. Hema Malini’s biography Beyond the Dream Girl has been authored by

1) Ram Kamal Mukherjee

2) David Dhawan

3) Karan Johar

4) Shah Rukh Khan

5) Madhur Bhandarkar

182. The headquarters of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) is located in

1) Rome

2) Lisbon

3) Geneva

4) London

5) New York

183. According to a global communications agency Cohn & Wolfe, which of the following is regarded as the most

authentic brand in the world?

1) Apple

2) Facebook

3) Google

4) Microsoft

5) Amazon.com

184. Robert Scheidt has announced his retirement from Olympic competition. He is a legendary Brazilian

1) boxer

2) archer

3) sailor

4) wrestler





5) weightlifter

185. Eminent poet Prabha Varma has been chosen for Padma Prabha Puraskaram 2017. He has been awarded for his

contribution to

1) Kannada

2) Telugu

3) Bengali

4) Assamese

5) Malayalam

186. Who among the following is the Minister of State for Commerce & Industry in the present Union Cabinet?

1) CR Chaudhary

2) Thawar Chand Gehlot

3) PP Choudhary

4) Arjun Ram Meghwal

5) Anupriya Patel

187. The host country of the 6th Annual LNG Producers Consumer Conference was

1) India

2) Malaysia

3) Japan

4) Philippines

5) China

188. _________ has committed Rs 156 cr to fund first Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) to be constructed at Varanasi

under Hybrid Annuity-PPP Model.

1) Kotak Mahindra Bank

2) IndusInd Bank

3) Federal Bank

4) RBL Bank

5) YES Bank

189. __________ has launched a programme, Prerna, to empower women working in the agriculture sector by

promoting efficient and ergonomic farm tools and equipment.

1) Tata Motors

2) Mahindra & Mahindra

3) John Deer

4) Escorts

5) Massey Ferguson

190. The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is observed every year on

1) 01 Oct

2) 07 Oct

3) 17 Oct

4) 27 Oct

5) 31 Oct

191. A division bench of the Kerala High Court restored the life ban imposed on who among the following cricketers

by the BCCI?

1) S Sreesanth

2) Ajay Jadeja

3) Manoj Prabhakar

4) Ankeet Chavan

5) Ajit Chandila

192. The World Statistics Day is observed every year on





1) 01 Oct

2) 05 Oct

3) 10 Oct

4) 20 Oct

5) 30 Oct

193. What is the currency of Bhutan?

1) Rand

2) Rupee

3) Pound

4) Reminbi

5) Ngultrum

194. The 189 convention of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) ensures various rights for

1) miners

2) domestic workers

3) child labourers

4) daily wagers

5) contract workers

195. India's Selena Selvakumar completed a golden sweep in Egypt in the game of

1) Tennis

2) Badminton

3) Chess

4) Table Tennis

5) Squash

196. Who among the following won the 2017 Man Booker Prize for his first full-length novel Lincoln in the Bardo?

1) George Saunders

2) Paul Beatty

3) Zadie Smith

4) Lane Smith

5) Karen Russell

197. India has signed an MoU with which country to send youngsters there as technical interns for on-the-job training

for a period of three to five years?

1) South Korea

2) Vietnam

3) Philippines

4) Australia

5) Japan

198. According to a global communications agency Cohn & Wolfe, which of the following is regarded as the most

authentic brand in India?

1) Apple

2) Maruti Suzuki

3) Google

4) Microsoft

5) Amazon.com

199. The Rural Postal Life Insurance (RPLI) was introduced on Mar 24, 1995 on the recommendations of

1) Nachiket Mor Committee

2) Malhotra Committee

3) Usha Thorat Committee

4) MS Swaminathan

5) YV Reddy Committee





200. Several lakh farmers have got registered in Bhavantar Bhugtan Yojana launched recently in the state of

1) Maharashtra

2) Rajasthan

3) Gujarat

4) Madhya Pradesh

5) Uttar Pradesh

201. The wholesale inflation remained at what per cent in Sep 2017?

1) 1.50 per cent

2) 1.96 per cent

3) 2.30 per cent

4) 2.60 per cent

5) 2.80 per cent

202. Which of the following countries is planning to develop a “Frankenmissile” to counter North Korea's escalating

missile and nuclear capabilities?

1) Japan

2) South Korea

3) Philippines

4) US

5) Malaysia

203. The banks will provide funds to women self help groups in rural areas at what per cent under the Deendayal

Antyodaya Yojana - National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) in the current fiscal?

1) 05 per cent

2) 06 per cent

3) 07 per cent

4) 08 per cent

5) 09 per cent

204. Which state govt has reduced the rate of interest on loan given to women and their self help groups-under

Saksham Yojna from 6.5 per cent to 5 per cent?

1) Chhattisgarh

2) Jharkhand

3) West Bengal

4) Bihar

5) Uttar Pradesh

205. The first-ever tri-services military drill named “Indra 2017” was held recently between India and

1) US

2) Japan

3) Australia

4) UK

5) Russia

206. Which country had the world's highest number of deaths due to air, water and other forms of pollution in 2015

according to a study published in the Lancet journal?

1) India

2) China

3) US

4) Bangladesh

5) Pakistan

207. Which of the following states released a sum of Rs 4,000 cr under the first phase of the over Rs 34,000 cr farm

loan waiver scheme recently?





1) Rajasthan

2) Uttar Pradesh

3) Maharashtra

4) Punjab

5) Tamil Nadu

208. Antananarivo is the capital city of which of the following countries?

1) Nigeria

2) South Sudan

3) Trinidad and Tobago

4) Mauritania

5) Madagascar

209. Who among the following resigned recently as the Solicitor General of India?

1) Gopal Subramanium

2) Ranjit Kumar

3) L Nageswara Rao

4) Harish Salve

5) Prashant Bhushan

210. The World Post Day is observed every year on

1) 03 Oct

2) 05 Oct

3) 09 Oct

4) 19 Oct

5) 29 Oct

211. NASA has authorized a second extension of the mission at Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between

Mars and Jupiter. The mission is called

1) Discovery mission

2) Colombia mission

3) Dark mission

4) Cassini mission

5) Dawn mission

212. The parliament in which country has approved a bill to authorise the medicinal and therapeutic use of cannabis

(marijuana)?

1) Peru

2) Mexico

3) Afghanistan

4) Canada

5) Spain

213. Which state govt has introduced The Code of Criminal Procedure (Rajasthan Amendment) Bill, 2017 which

prohibits investigation without prior sanction against “a Judge or a Magistrate or a public servant”?

1) Gujarat

2) Bihar

3) Rajasthan

4) Uttar Pradesh

5) Karnataka

214. The govt has given its nod for banks to sell more small savings schemes. Along with the public sector banks

three private sector banks has been allowed for the same which are

1) ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank and YES Bank

2) ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank and Axis Bank

3) Federal Bank, HDFC Bank and Axis Bank





4) ICICI Bank, IndusInd Bank and Axis Bank

5) None of these

215. The Police Commemoration Day is observed every year on

1) 01 Oct

2) 07 Oct

3) 11 Oct

4) 21 Oct

5) 31 Oct

216. The Union ministry of electronics and information technology has set up an internal committee to advise the govt

on a policy on AI which means

1) Artificial Integration

2) Augmented Intelligence

3) Artificial Intelligence

4) Assisted Integration

5) Advance Intelligence

217. The Centre has given nod for a greenfield airport project at Hirasar which is situated in the state of

1) Gujarat

2) Maharashtra

3) Madhya Pradesh

4) Tamil Nadu

5) Telangana

218. Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently inaugurated the first phase of the Ghogha-Dahej Ro-Ro ferry service in

which of the following states?

1) Uttar Pradesh

2) Madhya Pradesh

3) Kerala

4) West Bengal

5) Gujarat

219. Who among the following won the Denmark Open Super Series Premier 2017?

1) Lee Hyun Il

2) Kidambi Srikanth

3) Chen Long

4) Ajay Jayaram

5) Parupalli Kashyap

220. The World Statistics Day is observed every year on

1) 02 Oct

2) 14 Oct

3) 20 Oct

4) 24 Oct

5) 31 Oct

221. Robert Mugabe was named a goodwill ambassador for the World Health Organization recently. Mugabe is the

present President of

1) Zimbabwe

2) Nigeria

3) Kenya

4) Zambia

5) Somalia





222. Which country has highlighted its intention to make 2020 a unique year for the country’s space sector by

launching the first Arab probe to Mars?

1) Saudi Arabia

2) Qatar

3) United Arab Emirates

4) Bahrain

5) Kuwait

223. Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner secured an absolute majority in which country

recently?

1) Vietnam

2) South Korea

3) Philippines

4) Thailand

5) Japan

224. The Union Minister of State for External Affairs MJ Akbar met Abdel Fattah el-Sisi recently. El-Sisi is the

present president of

1) Turkey

2) Egypt

3) Greece

4) Jordan

5) Chad

225. In her first foreign visit as Defence Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman visited Philippines recently. The capital city of

Philippines is

1) Hanoi

2) Bangkok

3) Jakarta

4) Manila

5) Kuala Lumpur

226. The Catalan President, Carles Puigdemont recently said that the region will not accept the plan for direct rule

being imposed by

1) Denmark

2) Spain

3) Finland

4) Netherlands

5) Norway

227. Typhoon Lan, classified as an intense Category 4 storm, hit which of the following countries recently?

1) Mexico

2) Canada

3) US

4) Japan

5) Colombia

228. India defeated which of the following teams to win the 2017 Asia Cup Hockey championship in Dhaka?

1) Malaysia

2) Bangladesh

3) Pakistan

4) Indonesia

5) Sri Lanka

229. The World Cities Day is observed every year on

1) 02 Oct





2) 14 Oct

3) 20 Oct

4) 24 Oct

5) 31 Oct

230. Who among the following won the United States Grand Prix 2017 recently?

1) Kimi Räikkönen

2) Fernando Alonso

3) Lewis Hamilton

4) Nico Rosberg

5) Sebastian Vettel

231. The Reserve Bank of India has constituted a 10-member ‘High Level Task Force on Public Credit Registry

(PCR) for India’ which is headed by

1) Sriram Kalyanaraman

2) Rashesh Shah

3) Vishaka Mulye

4) Sekar Karnam

5) YM Deosthalee

232. The govt has appointed who among the following as its representative to hold dialogue on Kashmir issue?

1) Dineshwar Sharma

2) Devendra Kumar Pathak

3) Ram Jethmalani

4) Nripendra Misra

5) Rajiv Gauba

233. Which of the following payments banks has appointed Suresh Sethi as its Managing Director & Chief Executive

Officer?

1) Paytm Payments Bank

2) Airtel Payments Bank

3) India Post Payments Bank

4) Fino Payment Bank

5) None of these

234. Who among the following won the 2017 Macau Open golf tournament?

1) Anirban Lahiri

2) Gaganjeet Bhullar

3) Shiv Kapur

4) Arjun Atwal

5) Jyoti Randhawa

235. Who among the following is the richest sports personality in the world, according to the latest Forbes' Rich List?

1) Kevin Durant (basketball)

2) Roger Federer (tennis)

3) Lionel Messi (football)

4) Cristiano Ronaldo (football)

5) LeBron James (basketball)

236. Alka Yagnik and Udit Narayan and three others have been selected for the prestigious National Lata Mangeshkar

Award presented by the govt of

1) Rajasthan

2) Maharashtra

3) Madhya Pradesh

4) Uttar Pradesh

5) Gujarat





237. Sibi George has been appointed as India’s next ambassador to

1) Switzerland

2) Singapore

3) Malaysia

4) Japan

5) Spain

238. Which of the following banks has announced the appointment of Jayant Rikhye as the Chief Executive Officer

for India?

1) CITI Bank

2) Standard Chartered

3) HSBC

4) Deutsche Bank

5) Barclays Bank

239. Which of the following airports has been ranked as the Best Airport in the World catering to a traffic volume of 2

to 5 million passengers per year in 2016?

1) Srinagar International Airport

2) Jaipur International Airport

3) JPN International Airport

4) Cochin International Airport

5) Raja Bhoj Airport

240. What is the currency of Philippines?

1) Piso

2) Togrog

3) Rand

4) Real

5) Peso

241. The Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has announced a massive package to give a fillip to the Indian

economy. The package is worth

1) Rs 03 lakh cr

2) Rs 05 lakh cr

3) Rs 07 lakh cr

4) Rs 09 lakh cr

5) Rs 10 lakh cr

242. The RBI has slapped a Rs 6-cr penalty on which bank for breaching its rules on classifying NPAs and failing to

report a security incident involving its ATMs on time?

1) Federal Bank

2) Yes Bank

3) IndusInd Bank

4) RBL Bank

5) Karnataka Bank

243. The Union Cabinet has approved an unprecedented public sector bank capitalisation of

1) Rs 1.11 lakh cr

2) Rs 1.70 lakh cr

3) Rs 2.11 lakh cr

4) Rs 2.80 lakh cr

5) Rs 3.11 lakh cr

244. The Union Cabinet has approved the biggest ever highway development plan to develop and expand

approximately 83,000 km of roads by 2022 at an investment of





1) Rs 2.6 lakh cr

2) Rs 3.5 lakh cr

3) Rs 4.9 lakh cr

4) Rs 5.3 lakh cr

5) Rs 6.9 lakh cr

245. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has published “The State of World Population 2017” report.

Which of the following is correct regarding the report?

1) Only about half of the world’s women hold paid jobs.

2) Globally, women earn 77 per cent of what men get.

3) Three in five women worldwide lack maternity leave.

4) All the above

5) None of the above

246. Who among the following has won the Best FIFA Men’s Player award (Nov 2016 to Jul 2017) for the second

year running?

1) Neymar

2) Lionel Messi

3) Cristiano Ronaldo

4) Sergio Ramos

5) Gareth Bale

247. Who among the following has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Association of Mutual Funds in

India (AMFI)?

1) NS Venkatesh

2) Vishwavir Ahuja

3) Uday Kotak

4) Rana Kapoor

5) Rajiv Lall

248. _______, in association with MobiKwik, has launched a co-branded wallet that allows its customers to pay at the

MobiKwik merchant network with a ’Direct Debit Feature’?

1) YES Bank

2) Bandhan Bank

3) Federal Bank

4) Axis Bank

5) IndusInd Bank

249. Central American country Nicaragua has signed the Paris Agreement on climate change. The capital city of

Nicaragua is

1) Manama

2) Managua

3) Dili

4) Tbilisi

5) Yerevan

250. The Engineering Export Promotion Council (EEPC) of India has signed an MoU with which bank to provide

easy access to finance for SMEs and merchant exporters?

1) SBI

2) Dena Bank

3) Bank of Baroda

4) PNB

5) Canara Bank

251. The eminent classical singer and Padma Vibhushan awardee Girija Devi passed away recently. She was known as

the Queen of





1) Thumri

2) Tarana

3) Bhajan

4) Qawwali

5) Dhrupad

252. Jitu Rai and Heena Sidhu won gold medal for India recently. Both of them are associated with the game of

1) archery

2) chess

3) shooting

4) squash

5) snooker

253. Which of the following telecom firms announced to shut down its 2G mobile business by Nov 30 recently?

1) Idea Cellular

2) Vodafone

3) Airtel

4) Reliance Communications

5) Aircel

254. Which state has emerged as the top state in terms of digital initiatives undertaken on performance index as per a

report by Coeus Age Consulting?

1) Chhattisgarh

2) Karnataka

3) Andhra Pradesh

4) Gujarat

5) Madhya Pradesh

255. ________ has the world’s most powerful passport, according to a global ranking topped for the first time by an

Asian country with India figuring at 75th position.

1) China

2) Singapore

3) Japan

4) Malaysia

5) Indonesia

256. Indian Naval ship Sukanya visited which of the following countries to take part in the 30th edition of CORPAT

(Coordinated Patrol) and third Bilateral exercise?

1) Indonesia

2) Philippines

3) Vietnam

4) Thailand

5) Sri Lanka

257. The RBI has imposed a monetary penalty of ₹2 cr on which bank for contravention of regulatory restrictions

pertaining to loans and advances?

1) Bandhan Bank

2) YES Bank

3) IDFC Bank

4) Federal Bank

5) IndusInd Bank

258. The RBI is set to make LEI compulsory for companies having aggregate fund-based and non-fund based

exposure over Rs 5 cr. The term LEI stands for

1) Legal Entry Identifier

2) Legal Entity Initiator





3) Legal Exchange Identifier

4) Legal Entity Identifier

5) None of these

259. _______ and the govt of India signed a $300-mn loan to continue a series of fiscal reforms in the State of West

Bengal to improve the quality of public service delivery.

1) World Bank

2) IMF

3) New Development Bank

4) AIIB

5) Asian Development Bank

260. The Edapaddi K Palanswami laid the foundation stone for an aerospace park at Kanchipuram district recently.

Palanswami is the present Chief Minister of

1) Karnataka

2) Andhra Pradesh

3) Telangana

4) Tamil Nadu

5) Maharashtra

261. Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje launched an e-book titled ‘India 2017 Yearbook’, compiled by the present

Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG)

1) Vinod Rai

2) Rajiv Mehrishi

3) Shashi Kant Sharma

4) Hasmukh Adhia

5) SS Mundra

262. Alok Kumar Pateria has been appointed as the new additional director general (ADG) of the

1) BSF

2) CRPF

3) RAF

4) CISF

5) ITBP

263. The Indian-origin campaigner Gina Miller has been named the most influential black person of the year in

1) UK

2) US

3) Canada

4) Australia

5) France

264. India has 108 publicly-listed family-owned businesses, the third highest in the world. Which country tops the

tally as per a Credit Suisse report?

1) US

2) Japan

3) China

4) South Korea

5) Germany

265. Seven companies were short-listed for Letters of Intent by the Ministry of Tourism for 14 monuments under

‘Adopt a Heritage’ Scheme. Which of the following is NOT one of the shortlisted firms?

1) NBCC

2) Yatra Online

3) TK International

4) SBI Foundation





5) None of these

266. ________ has been conferred with the CII Industrial Innovation Award, 2017.

1) Infosys

2) Wipro

3) HCL

4) Tech Mahnidra

5) L&T Tech Services

267. The State Bank of India (SBI) has slashed IMPS charges up to 80 per cent. The term IMPS means

1) Intermediate Payment Service

2) Immediate Processing Service

3) Immediate Payment Service

4) Improved Processing Service

5) None of these

268. Who among the following is the present Union Minister of State (IC) for Power and New and Renewable

Energy?

1) RK Singh

2) Ram Kripal Yadav

3) Ashwini Kumar Choubey

4) Satyapal Singh

5) Anant Kumar Hegde

269. Which of the following High Courts has banned photos of living persons on banners and hoardings in the state?

1) Bombay HC

2) Patna HC

3) Allahabad HC

4) Madras HC

5) Calcutta HC

270. Who among the following is the present President of Afghanistan?

1) Atta Muhammad Nur

2) Ashraf Ghani

3) Abdul Rashid Dostum

4) Abdullah Abdullah

5) Hamid Karzai

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