TIRELESSSOUL

Which of the following countries have been put in to the

grey list of Financial action task force (FATF) ?
(A) Iran
(B)Syria
(C)Pakistan
(D)Afghanistan
 The Ministry of Human Resource Development has
proposed to replace the University Grants Commission
(UGC) with which of these ?

(A) Higher Education Council of India

(B) Higher Education Commission of India
(C) India Education Commission
(D) Higher Academic Commission
 World’s largest integrated crude oil refinery and
petrochemicals complex is being established in which
state ?

(A) Rajasthan
(B) Jharkhand
(C) Maharashtra
(D) Gujarat
 Which of these actresses will help UNESCO for a
special cause by promoting a safe and secure online
environment for children who become the target of
trolls, cyber bullying, online sexual abuse, and
exploitation ?
A) Priyanka Chopra
(B) Sonakshi Sinha
(C) Vidya Balan
(D) Deepika Padukone
 Which mobile app has been launched by
Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh
Prabhu to trace missing and abandoned children
in India ?
(A) RECAPTURE
(B) KID UNITE
(C) REUNITE
(D) MAMTA
 ‘Aabhar-Aapki seva ka’
Chhattisgarh CM Raman Singh launched an
online portal and mobile app called ‘Aabhaar-
Aapki seva ka’ for the online pensioners of the
state.
 UTTAM App
The Union Minister for Railways and
Coal Shri Piyush Goyal launched
UTTAM App for Coal Quality Monitoring.

UTTAM stands for – Unlocking

Transparency by Third Party
Assessment of Mined Coal
(uttam.coalindia.in).

To monitor the process of Third Party

Sampling of coal across CIL
subsidiaries.
Udyam Sakhi Portal
The Ministry of Micro, Small and
Medium Enterprises (MSME)
launched Udyam Sakhi Portal for
women entrepreneurs of India on
Day.

The portal's aim is to nurture

entrepreneurship and create
business models for low-cost
products and services to empower
women
 Who has been appointed as the chairman of
International Kabaddi Federtation for 4 year term ?
(A) Susheel Koirala
(B) Yejuvendra Singh Ojha
(C) Raghwendra Pareek
(D)Janardhan Singh Gehlot
 Four students from Hindustan Institute of
Technology and Science near Chennai have
designed world’s lightest satellite which
weighs only 33.39 grams , What is its name ?
(A)Jaihind-1S
(B) Star-1
(C)Moonlight-1
(D)Daylight-1
 Which state government has
launched Suryashakti Kisan Yojana (SKY)?
1. Punjab
2. Rajasthan
3. Gujarat
4. Madhya Pradesh
 Scheme will start from – 2nd July
Budget – 870 crore

Suryashakti Kisan Yojana (SKY) enabling them to

generate electricity for their captive consumption as
well as sell the surplus power to the grid and earn an
extra buck.
The government will buy electricity from farmers (25 years
tenure)
7 rupees per unit – For first 7 years
3.5 rupees per unit – For next 18 years
Which of these places have been designated
as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO ?

1. Gateway of India and Churchgate

2. Elephanta Caves and Churchgate
3. Victorian Gothic and Art Deco
4. Juhu Beach and Elephanta Caves
Elephants Caves & Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus
(Victoria Terminus)
3rd World Heritage Site in Mumbai
5th World Heritage Site in Maharashtra

BAHRAIN
World Heritage Council - 42nd Meeting
52nd Skoch summit took place recently
in which Indian city ?

1. Shimla
2. New Delhi
3. Chandigarh
4. Kolkata
Chhattisgarh – Cleanest state “Gold” award
Total 64 Awards to Chhattisgarh

Sagarmala Scheme also won “Gold”

award

Vasundhra Raje – Chief Minister of the year

Chief Guest – Birendra Singh (Steel Minister)

Which team beat Indian Hockey team
to clinch the champions trophy ?
1. Australia
2. Netherlands
3. Pakistan
4. Belgium
 Penalty Shootout
3-1 (1-1)
15th time champion

Host Country – Netherlands

Netherlands BEAT Argentina 2-0 to secure 3rd

place
At which place did India finish at the
ISSF Junior World Cup 2018 ?

1. First
2. Second
3. Third
4. Fourth
 61 Countries participated

India 1st
Total medals - 26
15 Gold, 2 Silver and 9 Bronze

ISSF Junior World Cup 2018 - SUHL (Germany)

ISSF - International Shooting Sport Federation
ISSF HQ – Munich , Germany
In the first ever India’s inter-state relocation, a tiger
was shifted between which two states ?

1. Uttarakhand & Madhya Pradesh

2. Madhya Pradesh & Uttar Pradesh
3. Madhya Pradesh & Odisha
4. Gujarat & Maharashtra
Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, MP
to
Satkosia Tiger Reserve, Odisha
 Satyashree Sharmila has become first
transgender lawyer in India, he belongs to which
state ?

1. Tamilnadu
2. Uttar Pradesh
3. West Bengal
4. Madhya Pradesh
 As per report released by Indian government
based on 2011 Census, which Indian language
is the 2nd most spoken in India ?

1. Hindi
2. Tamil
3. Marathi
4. Bengali
A formal summit b/w Donald trump and
Vladimir Putin took place on 12th July in
which country ?
1. Norway
2. Sweden
3. Finland
4. Denmark
 The US State Department has categorised
which country as the "worst human trafficking
country" for the 16th straight year in its
annual '2018 Trafficking in Persons Report’ ?

1. Somalia
2. Sudan
3. North Korea
4. Syria
Yusuf Salim has become first visually
impaired judge in which country ?
1. Afghanistan
2. Pakistan
3. Iran
4. Turkey
President Ram Nath Kovind launched “Solar
Charkha Mission” for artisans , it has been
started by which ministry on 27th June?

1. Micro, Small and medium enterprises

2. New & renewable energy
3. Labour Ministry
4. Finance Ministry
Lopez obrador , the Leftist leader (National Regeneration
Movement Party) has become the president for 6 years
of which country replacing Enrique Peña Nieto ?

1. Mexico
2. Cuba
3. Peru
4. Venezuela
 Ministry of health and Family welfare has banned the
domestic companies to produce which
hormone/chemical effective from 1st July to prevent its
misuse?

1. Oxytocin
2. Serotonin
3. Insulin
4. Adrenaline
 RIMPAC naval military exercise of 26
countries started recently in Hawaii. Which
Indian naval stealth frigate ship is
participating in the exercise ?
1. INS Sahyadri
2. INS Comorta
3. INS Vikramaditya
4. INS Viraat
 Girish Chandra Chaturvedi, the former
petroleum secretary of India has been made the
non-executive chairman of which bank ?
1. State Bank of India
2. ICICI Bank
3. Axis Bank
4. Bank of Baroda
 Sandeep Bakshi – COO
Chief Operating Officer

MD & CEO Chanda Kocchar Sent on leave

Supreme court has stayed the appointment of
which person as the chief vigilance
commissioner ?

1. T M Bhasin
2. K V Chowdhary
3. Arijit Basu
4. Sharmishta Mukherjee
 Who has been appointed as the new
Managing Director of State Bank of India ?

1. K K Menon
2. Shriram Sharma
3. Rajnish Tayal
4. Arijit Basu
The chief minister of which state has laid
down the foundation stone of Gattu lift
irrigation scheme ?
1. Telangana
2. Andhra Pradesh
3. Tamil Nadu
4. Karnataka
A 216 Feet statue of Ramanuj is being
set up in which Indian city ?
1. Hyderabad
2. Amravati
3. Mysuru
4. Bengaluru
 Renowned artist Anjali Ila Menon has been
awarded the Kalidasa award by which Indian
state for her contribution to arts ?
1. Uttar Pradesh
2. Punjab
3. Odisha
4. Madhya Pradesh
 Which Indian National Park has become
the largest host for the endangered Salt-
Water (Estuarine) Crocodile?

1.Bhitarkanika
2.Sunderbans
3.Papikonda
4.Periyar
 The government has set up a 13-member expert
panel to revise the way economic activity is
measured at state and district levels as part of a
move to update the base year for calculating
national income to 2017-18 from 2011-12
now. Who has been made the head of the panel ?
1. Ravinder Dholakia
2. B R Sharma
3. Umesh Sinha
4. N Gopalaswamy
Who won the women’s singles Malaysian
open badminton tournament ?
1. Nozomi Okuhara
2. Tai Tzu-ying
3. P V Sindhu
4. Carolina Marin
 Who broke his own record for the
highest Twenty20 international score by
hitting 172 from 76 balls against
Zimbabwe in Harare ?
1. Aaron Finch
2. Glenn Maxwell
3. Ewin Louis
4. Shane Watson
 Which Indian Oil refinery
has become the first PSU in India to
adopt Online Legal Compliance System
called "LEGATRIX" ?
1. Numaligarh
2. Ratnagiri
3. Barmer
4. Mumbai
 The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has
given its approval to the proposed merger of
Bharti Infratel and, the tower arm of Bharti Airtel
with which tower company ?
1. Indus Towers
2. Darshan Towers
3. Costco Towers
4. Telenor Towers
 Q.18
India won the Kabaddi masters Dubai
Championship by defeating which team by a
score of 44-26 in the final ?

1. Pakistan
2. Iran
3. Afghanistan
4. Kazakhsthan
Tourism Minister KJ Alphons Inaugurated the
Institute of Hospitality Management in which
Indian city ?

1. Jaipur
2. Jodhpur
3. Mysuru
4. Faridabad
His holiness Dalai Lama launched 'Happiness
Curriculum' for the school students from
class nursery to class VIII of which Indian
state ?
1. Uttar Pradesh
2. Madhya Pradesh
3. Haryana
4. Delhi
Who has become the first Indian Army officer
to complete the Ironman Triathlon event,
considered one of the most difficult one-day
sporting events in the world, in Austria ?

1. Milind Soman
2. Vikram Dogra
3. Arvind Kishore
4. Anju Khosla
 • First 3.8 km Swim

• Then 180 km cycling

• Then 42.2 km Marathon

• To be completed in just 17 hours

• Completed in just 14 hours 21 minutes

Sunil Mehta panel has submitted a 5-point
plan to fight NPAs in the banks, what is the
name given to it ?
1. Project Samagra
2. Project Sashakt
3. Project Sampoorna
4. Project Samavesh
Which F1 Driver won the Austrian
Grand Prix ?
1.Max Verstappen
2.Lewis Hamilton
3.Sebastian Vettel
4.Kimi Raikkonen
Saraswati Prasad became the Chairman and MD
of which. Of these Maharatna Companies ?
1. BHEL
2. SAIL
3. NTPC
4. ONGC
In which state will the country's
first Khadi mall be opened?

A.Madhya Pradesh
B.Jharkhand
C.Chhattisgarh
D.West Bengal
In which state will the Tribal
Museum be established?

A.Uttar Pradesh
B.Madhya Pradesh
C.Chhattisgarh
D.Rajasthan
Which Indian Cricketer was recently
inducted in the International Cricket
Council (ICC) Hall of Fame?

1.Bishan Singh Bedi

2.Rahul Dravid
3.Sunil Gavaskar
4.Anil Kumble
 India’s first e-waste recycling
unit will be built in which city ?

A.Nagpur
B.Mumbai
C.Bengaluru
D.Bhopal
 "Behdienkhlam, one of the most
colourful cultural festivals was recently
celebrated in which state ?

1.Meghalaya
2.Manipur
3.Arunachal Pradesh
4.Sikkim
 Which Chinese Bank has been given the
permission by RBI to resume its operations in
India ?
1. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
2. China Construction Bank Corporation
3. Agricultural Bank of China
4. Bank of China
 Under the chairmanship of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, the Union Cabinet has decided
to name Agartala airport after the name of
which ruler of Tripura?

A. Bir Chandra Manikya Bahadur

B. Maharaja Bir Bikram Manikya Kishore
C. Kalyan Manikya
D. Anantha Manikya
 Kolhapur airport as the
'Chhatrapati Rajaram Maharaj
Airport’.

Solapur airport will be

rechristened after Mahatma
Basaveshwar
Which state has started the Acharya Balashastri
Jambhekar Samman Yojana – a pension scheme
for senior journalists?

A. Rajasthan
B. Madhya Pradesh
C. Uttar Pradesh
D. Maharashtra
In order to eliminate malnutrition among 14 to
18 years old girls , which state government has
started the Purna project?

A.Rajasthan
B. Tamil Nadu
C. Haryana
D.Gujarat
 PURNA - Gujarat
( Prevention of Under Nutrition and Reduction of
Nutritional Anemia among Adolescent Girls)

270 Crore
As per a recent decision of the supreme court,
the minimum fixed tenure of DGP of a state
must not be less than how many years?

1. 2
2. 3
3. 4
4. 5
 The high court of which state has given legal
entity status to animals giving them same rights
as human beings ?
1. Assam
2. Uttarakhand
3. Uttar Pradesh
4. Gujarat
Sports Authority of India has been renamed
to what ?

1. Khelo India
2. Sports India
3. Target Sports
4. Sports Life
World’s first digital art museum has been
opened in which city ?

1. London
2. Beijing
3. Tokyo
4. New york
Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport which
is situated in Hambantota, Srilanka will be
operated by which country from now onwards
after incurring heavy losses ?

A.India
B.China
C.Japan
D. Russia
 Which has become the first central paramilitary
force to opt for e-ticketing instead of the railway
warrant under an agreement signed with the
IRCTC?

A.Assam Rifles
B. Central Reserve Police Force
C. National Security Guard
D. Armed Border Force
1.CRPF – Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar

2.ITBP – R K Pachnanda

3.CISF – Rajesh Ranjan

4.BSF – K K Sharma

5.NSG – Sudeep Lakhatia

 UNESCO has signed an agreement with which state
government to set up a university designed for gaming?

A.Uttar Pradesh
B. Andhra Pradesh
C. Karnataka
D. Kerala
 Which state government has ordered a mandatory
dope test of all government employees, including police
personnel, from the time of their recruitment through
every stage of their service ?

A.Haryana
B.Delhi
C.Punjab
D.Madhya Pradesh
Which state government has approved the
doorstep delivery of ration scheme?

A.Uttar Pradesh
B.Delhi
C.Madhya Pradesh
D.Haryana
By how much percent has the government changed the
interest rate for small savings schemes which include
PPF, NSC etc. for the second quarter(July-September)
of the current financial year ?

A.+ 0.5%
B.+ 0.75%
C.+ 0.25%
D.No Change
PPF - 7.6 %

NSC -7.6 %

SCSS- 8.3 %

KVP - 7.3%,

SSY - 8.1%.
 Indian Railways Will Now Accept which
documents kept In DigiLocker As Valid Identity
Proof?

A.Aadhaar Card
B.Driving License
C.Pan Card
D.Both 1 & 2
 Narla Bambal, a village in Jammu and Kashmir has
received electricity connection and metaled road for
the first time since Independence. The village
belongs to which district?

A.Kishtwar
B.Rajouri
C.Poonch
D.Kathua
 Which state government has decided to provide a
total of 180 days’ paid leave to women government
employees to look after the children in the course of
service?

A.Gujarat
B.Maharashtra
C.Haryana
D.Madhya Pradesh
Airports Authority of India will develop Civil
Aviation Research
Organization (CARO) in which city of India ?

1. Amravati
2. Gwalior
3. Hyderabad
4. Gurugram
 India's much-awaited indigenously manufactured
semi high-speed train, code-named Train 18, is
expected to be rolled out in September. The train, built
by Integral Coach Factory (ICF) of Chennai to
promote Make in India, is capable of running at a
speed of how much ?
1. 130km/hr
2. 150 km /hr
3. 120 km /hr
4. 160 km/hr
 Appointments Committee of the Cabinet
has appointed whom as the new chairman of the
National Green tribunal ?

1. Swatantra Kuma
2. Adarsh Kumar Goel
3. Jawad Rahim
4. Himanshu Goel
The Chief Minister of which state has launched
“One person one car” austerity policy to curb
the wasteful state expenditures ?
1. West Bengal
2. Karnataka
3. Uttar Pradesh
4. Madhya Pradesh
As per HRD Minister Prakash Javdekar recent
announcements, which of these exams will not
be conducted by National Testing Agency ?

1. NEET
2. JEE
3. JEE Advanced
4. NET
What is the name of India's first Bio-fortified
sorghum?

A.Parbhani Shakti
B.Parbhani Jawar
C.Prabhal
D.Fortified Jwaar
As per the Supreme Court who is called the Master
of Roster?

A.Chief Justice of India

B.Collegium
C.High Court Judges
D.Governor
Which state government has issued a fresh
notification pertaining to banning the use of
Thermocol cutlery across the State?

1. Uttar Pradesh
2. Madhya Pradesh
3. Arunachal Pradesh
4. Himachal Pradesh
On which date, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will
unveil the tallest statue in the world which is 182
meter long and christened as “Statue of Unity", in
order to felicitate the first Home Minister of India -
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel?

1. 30th October
2. 31st October
3. 1st November
4. 23rd October
Who has become the second Indian
mountaineer to climb Mount Ojos del
Salado, the world's highest volcano?

A.Mallia Maastan Babu

B.Satyarup Siddhanta
C.Arunima Sinha
D.Rakesh Kumar
Which state government has announced that it
will enroll Nomadic Tribes for the Aadhar Card?

A. Tripura
B.Assam
C.Haryana
D.Jharkhand
17th World Sanskrit Conference (from July 9 to
July 13, 2018.) was inaugurated by the Shri
Prakash Javadekar, Union Human Resource
Development Minister, In which country the
inauguration took place?

A.England
B.Canada
C.Bhutan
D.America
What is the name of the novel for which Michael
Ondaatje’s won Golden Man Booker Prize at the
Southbank Centre in London?

A.The English Patient

B. Free state
C.Things Fall Apart
D.The Book Thief
 Which state government is set to announce
'compulsory retirement' for the state government
employees above the age of 50, if they are found
negligent towards their work?

A.Madhya Pradesh
B.Rajasthan
C.Jharkhand
D.Uttar Pradesh
Which harmful chemical has been found in the
fishes of Tamil Nadu for the first time?

1. Ethanol
2. Methanol
3. Ozone
4. Formalin
 How many institutions have recently been
declared as "Institutions of Eminence (IoEs)”
by HRD minister Prakash Javdekar?

A.5
B.6
C.7
D.10
 An empowered committee, under former
Chief Election Commissioner N. Gopalaswami,
recommended these institutions.
Recently, which bank has sanctioned a loan amounting
to US $ 503 million for the project of the lining of Son
Canal in Shahabad-Bhojpur area of Bihar?

A.Asian Development Bank (ADB)

B.World Bank
C.Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
D.International Monetary Fund (IMF)
The telecom ministry has approved the merger of
Vodafone India with which mobile services
operator?

A.Airtel
B.Aircel
C.Tata Docomo
D.Idea
 Chairman (TRAI)
- Ram Sewak Sharma

Minister for Communications

- Manoj Sinha

Capital First + IDFC Bank

Bharat Financial Inclusion + IndusInd Bank

 The Gujarat government has granted
religious minority status to the which community in
the state?

A.Buddha
B.Parsi
C.Jain
D.Jewish
 Which State government has launched 7-Star Gram
Panchayat Rainbow scheme to give star rankings to its
panchayats on the basis of seven social parameters?

A.Punjab
B.Madhya Pradesh
C.Uttar Pradesh
D.Haryana
Union human resource development (HRD) ministry has
given a 3-month extension to which committee that is
entrusted with the job of drafting the New Education
Policy ?

A.Arvind Subramaniam Committee

B.Arjun Sablok Committee
C.Bimal Jalaan Committee
D. Kasturirangan Committee
 Which state‘s High Court has ordered the Police
not to write that caste in the arrest memos of the
accused?

A.Maharashtra
B.Rajasthan
C.Uttar Pradesh
D.Madhya Pradesh
 For the first time in 76 years of the Rajya
Sabha, the Rajya Sabha has entered into MOU
with a foreign counterpart to promote inter-
parliamentary talks, which country the
agreement has been signed with?

A.Angola
B.Zambia
C.Nepal
D.Rwanda
 As per the Business Reform Action Plan’s
ease of doing business which state has
remained top in the state business ranking ?

A.Telangana
B.Andhra Pradesh
C.Haryana
D.Jharkhand
The airport will soon switch over to solar energy for
its everyday operations to cut down its electricity
cost ?

A.Indira Gandhi International Airport

B.Goa International Airport
C.Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport
D.Vadodara Airport
 Which state government is mulling to invest additional
Rs 39 crore to develop infrastructure for state’s
“Seema Darshan” or border tourism project at Nadabet
near Suigam in Banaskantha district?

A.Sikkim
B.Gujarat
C.Jammu and Kashmir
D.Uttar Pradesh
 Microsoft has signed an MoU with which state
government to provide free digital training to 9,500 college
students in one year ?

A.Maharashtra
B.Karnataka
C.Tamil Nadu
D.Rajasthan
 India’s first private sector unit for
manufacturing Unmanned Air Vehicles
(UAV) and light bulletproof vehicles (LBPV) will be
set up in which city of Rajasthan ?

A.Udaipur
B.Kota
C.Jaipur
D.Bhilwara
Q15) What is the rank of India in the Global
Innovation Index (GII) list of innovative
countries?

A.60th
B.57th
C.58th
D.59th
 Global Innovation Index

Cornell University + WIPO

Top 3

1. Switzerland
2. Netherlands
3. Sweden
 India has become the world's __________biggest
economy, replacing France, according to updated
World Bank figures for 2017.

A.5th
B.8th
C.6th
D.7th
“One Farmer, One Transformer” plan scheme
will be launched by which state in August?

A.Madhya Pradesh
B.Maharashtra
C.Rajasthan
D.Odisha
In which city Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, January
2019, will be held?

A.Haridwar
B.Mathura
C.Varanasi
D.Vrindavan
The tourism wing of Indian Railways will run a
unique pilgrim train, between India & Srilanka
based on Which Hindu Mythology Book ?

A.Geeta
B.Mahabharata
C.Ramayana
D.All of the above