GK & Current Affairs – October 2017

1.This bank inks MoU with HPCL for Digital Payments.

IDBI Bank IndusInd Bank Vijaya Bank YES Bank

2.Who won the women's all-around title in world gymnastics championships?

Lin Chaopan Morgan Hurd Ellie Black Elena Eremina

3.This state bans Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) in carry bags.

Chhattisgarh Haryana Rajasthan Bihar

4.Which of the following launches 'Eazy Connect' which will extend online customer service to social media platforms?

Tata AIA Life Exide Life Insurance IDBI Federal Life Insurance Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance

5.PAN, Aadhaar card not mandatory for jewellery purchase above __________.

Rs 90,000 Rs 85,000 Rs 75,000 Rs 50,000

Daily Current Affairs 2017

1.Who has been named as one of the most influential women in India by the BBC?

Poonam Raut Smriti Mandhana Mithali Raj Harmanpreet Kaur

2.Which Indian city topped in the most polluted city in the country?

Ghaziabad Delhi Kanpur Jaipur

3.Which company launched Mosquito repelling phone K7i recently?

Lenevo LG Micromax Samsung

4.Who of the following honoured with the 38th edition of the prestigious Sarala award?

Banaj Devi R.K. Narayan Anita Desai Arundhati Roy

5.How many new services would be added to the Mumbai Suburban Rail?

50 100 88 92

UPSC Prelims 2018

1.Who is the newly appointed CMD of the National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC)?

Pramod Kumar Arup Roy N Baijendra Kumar Nikhil Srivastav

2.The joint military training exercise “Yudh Abhyas – 2017” will be conducted between India and which country?

United States Russia France Germany

3.Which state government has signed MoU with Amul to save the children of anganwadi from malnutrition?

Gujarat Assam Madhya Pradesh Uttar Pradesh

4.Who is the author of the book “How India Sees the World: Kautilya to the 21st Century”?

Shiv Shankar Menon Shyam Saran J.J.Singh Ravi Shankar Prasad

5.The Kalesar National Park (KNP) is located in which state?

Kerala Manipur Punjab Haryana

Civil Service Exam Syllabus for IAS Preliminary Exam – General Studies

1.The Karnataka government has tied up with which tech giant to develop India’s first Farm Price Forecasting Model?

Google Infosys Microsoft Facebook

2.Which country is hosting the International Military Music Festival (IMMF-2017)?

India United States China Russia

3.The Palamau Tiger Reserve (PTR) is located in which state?

Tamil Nadu Jharkhand Punjab Haryana

4.Who has been appointed as the new Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Air India?

Rajiv Bansal Kirti Das Nitant Agrawal Vinay Kumar

5.Who is leading the Indian delegation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting on disaster prevention?

Rajnath Singh Sushma Swaraj Arun Jaitley Narendra Singh Tomar

GK & Current Affairs – August

1.The shortest war recorded in history between two sovereign powers was between__?

UK and France Denmark and UK UK and Zanzibar Italy and France

2.Who was the first Indian in independent India to have won a medal in an individual Olympic event ?

Dhyanchand K D Jadhav Prithipal Singh Harishchandra Birajdar

3.Who defined democracy as a “Government of the people, by the people and for the people”?

Abraham Lincoln Plato Aristotle Ruskin

4.Which of the following is the official language in Argentina?

Portuguese French Spanish Dutch

5.The dispute over Shatt-al-Arab region gave way to which of the following wars in modern world history?

Arab–Israeli conflict Iran-Iraq War Russo-Persian War Gulf War