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1. PM Narendra Modi recently inaugurated phase-I of the Link-II pipeline canal of the ambitious SAUNI project at Botad
in the state of
1) Gujarat 2) Jharkhand 3) Odisha 4) Maharashtra 5) Uttarakhand
2. As per a recent World Bank report, Indias economic growth is expected to speed up in 2017 to
1) 6.8% 2) 6.9% 3) 7.1% 4) 7.2% 5) 7.6%
3. The Supreme Court recently set in motion the process to sell Maharashtra-based luxury township of Aamby Valley to
recover the dues owed by ______ to the SEBI.
1) Kingfisher 2) Jsw Steel 3) Zoom Developers 4) Sahara Group 5) Prakash Industries
4. Cyclone Maarutha made a landfall on the coast of which of the following countries recently?
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1) Myanmar 2) Thailand
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3) Vietnam
3) 18 Apr
4) Mexico
_________ is in process to complete merger with Videocon d2h by Oct 2017.
1) Reliance Digital 2) Airtel digital TV 3) Sun Direct 4) Tata Sky
The International Day for Monuments and Sites is observed every year on
1) 08 Apr 2) 12 Apr 4) 28 Apr
5) Maldives
5) Dish TV
5) 30 Apr
___________ has introduced a 12-week paid leave for commissioning mothers who use surrogates to bear a child, as
it adopted provisions of the new maternity law.
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1) TCS 2) Infosys 3) RIL 4) Google India 5) Vodafone India
8. The IRDAI has reduced premium rates of motor third party insurance for some categories of vehicles for 2017-18. The
present Chairman of IRDAI is
1) Yogesh Aggarwal 2) TS Vijayan 3) VK Sharma 4) Ajay Tyagi 5) UK Sinha
9. Rodrigo Duterte has won Time magazines readers poll of the 100 most influential people in the world. He is the current
President of
1) Vietnam 2) North Korea 3) Thailand 4) Philippines 5) Venezuela
10. Who among the following won the Bahrain Grand Prix 2017?
1) Lewis Hamilton 2) Daniel Ricciardo 3) Sebastian Vettel 4) Fernando Alonso 5) Nico Rosberg
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11. The ISRO is set to sign a memorandum of understanding with which firm to help develop low-cost lithium ion batteries
for lectric vehicles?
1) Maruti Suzuki 2) Toshiba 3) OFB 4) Samsung 5) BHEL
12. Which of the following recently become the most valued public sector undertaking (PSU) stock in terms of market
capitalization (m-cap)?
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1) Second 2) Third 3) Fifth 4) Sixth 5) Eighth
18. The state oil firm HPCL and which state govt recently inked a revised MoU of Rs 43,129 cr for an oil refinery in the state?
1) Madhya Pradesh 2) Gujarat 3) Maharashtra 4) Rajasthan 5) Karnataka
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19. The data centre of which of the following banks in Hyderabad has become countrys first CII-IGBC Platinum rated
project?
1) HDFC Bank 2) ICICI Bank 3) SBI 4) PNB 5) Axis Bank
20. The RBI recently inked a supervisory cooperation pact with the Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan for information
sharing. The currency of Bhutan is
1) Rand 2) Baht 3) Rupiah 4) Kyat 5) Ngultrum
21. Antonio Guterres is the present head of which of the following international organisations?
1) WTO 2) IMF 3) World Bank
4) United Nations 5) Transparency International
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The Earth Day is observed across the world on
1) 02 Apr 2) 12 Apr
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3) 16 Apr 4) 20 Apr
Who among the following is the present chairman of the present 21st Law Commission?
1) Balbir Singh Chauhan
4) TS Thakur
2) DK Jain
5) G Rohini
3) RM Lodha
5) 22 Apr
The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has announced which of the following games as full sports at the 2022 Asian
Games?
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1) Kho Kho 2) Kabaddi 3) Cricket 4) Video Gaming 5) None of these
25. Mongolia launched its first satellite named Mongol Sat-I recently. The capital city of Mongolia is
1) Ashgabat 2) Astana 3) Tbilisi 4) Ulaanbaatar 5) Istanbul
26. The United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) has awarded its Peace Prize to Giuseppina
Nicolini, the mayor of the island of Lampedusa situated in
1) Spain 2) France 3) UK 4) Italy 5) Sweden
27. The 14th Edition of United Nations International Day of Vesak 2017 will be hosted from 12-14 May 2017 by
1) Sri Lanka 2) Bangladesh 3) Maldives 4) Nepal 5) Myanmar
28. Only two Indians have made it to the annual list of 100 most influential people in the world 2017, released by the Time
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1) Malaysia 2) Mongolia 3) Venezuela 4) Cambodia 5) Zambia
36. Who among the following won the mens singles title of 2017 Monte Carlo Masters Tennis tournament?
1) Albert Vinolas 2) Stan Wawrinka 3) Rafael Nadal 4) Milos Raonic 5) Andy Murray
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37. _________ will infuse Rs 406.9 cr in IDBI Bank increasing its stake to 14.25 per cent in the state-owned lender.
1) UTI 2) Kotak Mahindra Bank 3) SBI
4) LIC of India 5) ITC Ltd
38. Rohan Bopanna recently lifted the mens doubles crown of the 2017 Monte Carlo Masters
Tennis tournament with his partner
1) Marcin Matkowski 2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 3) Marc Lopez
4) Feliciano Lopez 5) Pablo Cuevas
39. The govt has extended the date of declarations about tax payment and deposits under the PMGKY till 10 May 2017. In
the term PMGKY, the letter G stands for
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1) Garib 2) Grameen
45. Au Financiers India recently converted itself into a small finance bank. The Small Finance Banks should have a minimum
capital of
1) Rs 50 cr 2) Rs 100 cr 3) Rs 200 cr 4) Rs 300 cr 5) Rs 500 cr
46. The RBI has announced signing of an MoU with the Bank of Guyana on Supervisory Cooperation and Exchange of
Supervisory Information. The currency of Guyana is
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1) Cabinet Secretary 2) Finance Secretary 3) Revenue Secretary 4) Home Secretary 5) Defence Secretary
52. The central govt has announced to set up a Central university for Divyangs in which state?
1) Gujarat 2) Madhya Pradesh 3) Uttar Pradesh 4) Rajasthan 5) Maharashtra
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53. Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari visited Armenia recently. The capital city of Armenia is
1) Baku 2) Tbilisi 3) Amman 4) Ashgabat 5) Yerevan
54. Manpreet Kaur clinched a gold medal in the Asian Grand Prix in Jinhua, China recently. She is a
1) shuttler 2) shot putter 3) discus thrower 4) pole vault player 5) pugilist
55. Nicos Anastasiades is the present President of which of the following countries?
1) Netherlands 2) Cyprus 3) Finland 4) Sweden 5) Mongolia
56. The names of SSP Chawrasia and Aditi Ashok are associated with which of the following games?
1) Golf 2) Snooker 3) Chess 4) Polo 5) Squash
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1) Dangal 2) Airlift
2) 12 Apr
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Which of the following Bollywood films won the best film honor at the Hong Kong International Film Festival recently?
3) Neerja
3) China
The World Book and Copyright Day is observed every year on
1) 02 Apr 3) 18 Apr
The National Panchayati Raj Diwas is observed every year on
4) Rustom
4) France
4) 23 Apr
5) Newton
Iran has signed the first agreement on the reconfiguration of its Arak reactor with which of the following countries?
1) Russia 2) Japan 5) Germany
5) 30 Apr
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1) 12 Apr 2) 24 Apr 3) 30 Apr 4) 15 Apr 5) 25 Apr
61. Which of the following is the first state to adopt the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill, 2017?
1) Telangana 2) Bihar 3) Odisha 4) Maharashtra 5) Gujarat
62. The subscribers of the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) will be able to withdraw up to what per cent of
their accumulations in their PF account for purchase of homes?
1) 20 per cent 2) 25 per cent 3) 50 per cent 4) 75 per cent 5) 90 per cent
63. The World Malaria Day is observed globally on
1) 05 Apr 2) 15 Apr 3) 20 Apr 4) 25 Apr 5) 30 Apr
64. Which of the following countries recently launched its first domestically designed and built aircraft carrier code-named
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66. The Indian Navy held the joint maritime exercise named Varuna with the Navy of which country at the Mediterranean
Sea recently?
1) France 2) Japan 3) Sweden 4) Russia 5) Australia
67. Who among the following has won the Dadasaheb Phalke award for the year 2016 for his outstanding contribution to the
film industry?
1) Kamal Haasan 2) SS Rajamouli 3) Kasinathuni Viswanath
4) Mani Ratnam 5) Rajinikanth
68. The environmental activist Prafulla Samantara has been selected for Goldman Environmental Prize 2017 (also called as
Green Nobel) from Asia region. He had led a historic legal battle that protected the Niyamgiri Hills in the state of
1) Andhra Pradesh 2) Jharkhand 3) Chhattisgarh 4) West Bengal 5) Odisha
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1) Bhutan 2) Cambodia 3) Mauritius 4) Sri Lanka 5) Trinidad and Tobago
71. ________ has replaced Japan as worlds number two importer of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG).
1) China 2) India 3) Malaysia 4) Indonesia 5) Mexico
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72. PM Minister Narendra Modi launched the UDAN scheme recently under which airfare for a 1-hour journey of
approximately 500 km on a fixed wing aircraft would be capped at
1) Rs 500 2) Rs 1,500 3) Rs 800 4) Rs 2,000 5) Rs 2,500
73. Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar has been appointed as the Director General of the
1) CRPF 2) BSF 3) CISF 4) ITBP 5) SSB
74. The US military recently started deploying the THAAD missile defence system in which country?
1) Japan 2) South Korea 3) Philippines 4) Vietnam 5) Cambodia
75. The youngest chancellor of any university in the nation, Dileep K Nair bagged Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International
Foundation award for excellent performance in the field of education recently. He is the current Chancellor of NEFTU
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situated in
1) Kerala
1) Mauritius
2) Himachal Pradesh 3) Sikkim
2) Armenia
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3) Suriname
4) Arunachal Pradesh 5) Tripura
Karen Karapetyan is the present Prime Minister of which of the following countries? Vice President Hamid Ansari visited
the country recently.
4) Poland 5) Trinidad and Tobago
_________ has become the first country to open an honorary consulate office in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City
(GIFT City).
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1) Bulgaria 2) New Zealand 3) Australia 4) Belgium 5) Norway
78. India and Sri Lanka recently signed an MoU on economic co-operation. The currency of Sri Lanka is
1) Rupee 2) Rufiyaa 3) Rupiah 4) Peso 5) Dollar
79. Northeast Indias largest Information Technology (IT) hub was inaugurated recently in the capital city of which state?
The present CM of the state is Manik Sarkar.
1) Manipur 2) Nagaland 3) Tripura 4) Sikkim 5) Mizoram
80. The World Intellectual Property Day is observed every year on
1) 06 Apr 2) 16 Apr 3) 22 Apr 4) 26 Apr 5) 30 Apr
81. Indian Bank recorded an almost four-fold increase in net profit at Rs 320 cr during the fourth quarter of 2016-17. The bank
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is headquartered at
1) Mumbai 2) Kolkata 3) Bengaluru 4) New Delhi 5) Chennai
82. RK Pachnanda has been appointed as the new Director General of
1) ITBP 2) CISF 3) CRPF 4) BSF 5) SSB
83. India Post Payment Bank (IPPB) has planned a mega expansion to open _______ branches this year (2017).
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88. Srishti Kaur was crowned Miss Teen Universe 2017 at the annual beauty pageant held in Managua, the capital city of
1) El Salvador 2) Honduras 3) Nicaragua 4) Costa Rica 5) Colombia
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89. Which of the following private sector banks has won the prestigious Golden Peacock Innovative Product/Service
Award 2017 (in Financial sector Banking)?
1) Federal Bank 2) YES Bank 3) IndusInd Bank
4) Axis Bank 5) Kotak Mahindra Bank
90. Veteran actor Vinod Khanna passed away recently. He was a Member of Parliament from
1) Chandigarh 2) Ahmedabad East 3) Amritsar 4) Gurdaspur 5) Jalandhar
91. The Delhi High Court recently upheld a settlement agreement between Tata Sons and which company approving the
$1.18-bn London Court of International Arbitration award?
1) Marcopolo 2) NTT DoCoMo 3) Daewoo Motors 4) Jaguar Land Rover 5) Hispano
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1) Ronnie OSullivan 2) Aditya Mehta
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Indias Pankaj Advani lost to who among the following in the summit clash of Asian Snooker Championship in Doha
recently?
3) Peter Gilchrist 4) Lv Haotian
The Sultan of Azlan Shah Cup is associated with which of the following games?
1) Football 2) Basketball 3) Hockey 4) Cricket
5) None of these
5) Golf
The Union Health Minister JP Nadda launched the Test and Treat policy for providing treatment to patients suffering
from which disease?
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1) HIV 2) Dengue 3) Cholera 4) Typhoid 5) Tuberculosis
95. PM Narendra Modi had announced a development package for Jammu and Kashmir (in Nov 201 5) of which Rs
19,000 cr have been released so far. The complete package is worth
1) Rs 30,000 2) Rs 40,000 3) Rs 50,000 4) Rs 60,000 5) Rs 80,000
96. Neeraj Chopra is associated with which of the following games?
1) Snooker 2) Javelin throw 3) Archery 4) Pole vault 5) Shooting
97. T Krishnakumar has been appointed as the president of India and South West Asia Business Unit of which of the
following firms?
1) Pepsico 2) Nestle 3) HUL 4) Coca-Cola 5) Reckitt Benckiser
98. The Ballabgarh town was renamed as Balramgarh recently. The town is situated in the state of
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105. Ajay Tyagi is heading which of the following bodies at present?
1) IRDAI 2) PFRDA 3) NHB 4) SEBI 5) NABARD
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106. The South Korean auto major Kia Motors has decided to set up a base in which state in India with an investment of $1.1
bn?
1) Tamil Nadu 2) Andhra Pradesh 3) Telangana 4) Karnataka 5) Uttar Pradesh
107. India successfully carried out a fresh user trial of Agni-III ballistic missile recently. Agni III was inducted into the armed
forces in Jun
1) 2007 2) 2009 3) 2011 4) 2013 5) 2015
108. North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile defying global pressure and warnings from the United States recently. The
capital city of North Korea is
1) Naypyidaw 2) Caracas 3) Phnom Penh 4) Pyongyang 5) Hanoi
1) Gold
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109. Indias foreign exchange (Forex) reserves reached $371.13 bn as on Apr 21, 2017. The components of Indias Foreign
Exchange Reserves are
2) Foreign currency assets 3) Special Drawing Rights
110. The FATCA of the US makes it mandatory for overseas financial institutions to give information about non-resident US
account holders or face withholding tax. FATCA means
1) Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act
3) First Account Tax Compliance Act
2) Formal Account Tax Compliance Act
4) Fugitive Account Tax Compliance Act
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5) None of these
Answers (GA-106)
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6. 3 7. 3 8. 2 9. 4 10. 3 61. 1 62. 5 63. 4 64. 3 65. 3
11. 5 12. 3 13. 3 14. 2 15. 1 66. 1 67. 3 68. 5 69. 2 70. 4
16. 1 17. 5 18. 4 19. 2 20. 5 71. 2 72. 5 73. 1 74. 2 75. 4
21. 4 22. 5 23. 1 24. 4 25. 4 76. 2 77. 4 78. 1 79. 3 80. 4
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36. 3 37. 4 38. 5 39. 1 40. 4 91. 2 92. 4 93. 3 94. 1 95. 5
41. 4 42. 1 43. 5 44. 3 45. 2 96. 2 97. 4 98. 5 99. 1 100. 3
46. 1 47. 3 48. 4 49. 5 50. 5 101. 1 102. 5 103. 2 104. 3 105. 4
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