Civil Service Exam Syllabus for IAS Preliminary Exam – General Studies

1.Who has been bestowed with the 2016 Saraswati Samman?

Naiyer Masud Sugatha Kumari Surjit Paatar Mahabaleshwar Sail

2.Who is the newly elected President of the European Council (EC)?

Andrej Plenkovic Christian Kern Donald Tusk Charles Michel

3.According to the Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill 2016, the maternity leave has been extended from 12 weeks to how many weeks?

22 weeks 26 weeks 23 weeks 24 weeks

4.Which company has become the first Indian power utility to successfully deploy tele-protection service using Line-Differential Relay (LDR) over an IP/MPLS network?

Tata Power-DDL Adani Power Jindal Steel and Power Reliance Power

5.Which Indian institute has won the 2017 IEEE Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society Award?

IIT Bombay IIT Madras IIT Indore IIT Kolkata