Ques. : 1 The Centre has proposed an investment of ___________ during five years for the Indian Railways.
1) Rs 8 lakh cr
2) Rs 8.50 lakh cr
3) Rs 9 lakh cr
4) Rs 9.50 lakh cr
5) None of these
Ques. : 2 _________ is the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
1) Jun 20
2) Jun 23
3) Jun 25
4) Jun 26
5) Jun 30
Ques. : 3 Which of the following telecommunication firms in India has acquired a strategic minority stake in OneWeb, a satellite internet company for providing affordable internet access?
1) Reliance Jio
2) Bharti Airtel
3) Idea
4) Vodafone
5) None of these
Ques. : 4 ___________ has been voted the „Best Test player‟ of the 21st century in an online poll conducted by the website of the Cricket Australia.
1) Jacques Kallis
2) Ricky Ponting
3) Adam Gilchrist
4) Kumar Sangakkara
5) Sachin Tendulkar
Ques. : 5 Name the Indian-American researcher from University of Central Florida (UCF) who has developed a nature-inspired technique for creating the world‟s first full-colour, flexible thin-film reflective display.
1) Debashis Chanda
2) Satish K Tripathi
3) Vijay K Dhir
4) Manjul Bhargava
5) None of these
Ques. : 6 Which of the following state govts on 25 Jun presented a Rs 41,129-cr budget with a major focus on education, health and transport sectors calling it the country‟s first “Swaraj” Budget?
1) Bihar
2) Delhi
3) Kerala
4) Tamil Nadu
5) None of these
Ques. : 7 Name the person who has scripted history by becoming the first Indian basketball player to be drafted in the National Basketball Association (NBA) in the US. He has been picked by Dallas Mavericks.
1) Sambhaji Kadam
2) Vishesh Bhriguvanshi
3) Pratham Singh
4) Satnam Singh Bhamara
5) None of these
Ques. : 8 The book titled „The Emergency: A Personal History‟ has been authored by
1) Coomi Kapoor
2) Pranab Mukherjee
3) Jaswant Singh
4) Sanjaya Baru
5) Natwar Singh
Ques. : 9 Who among the following, recently, warned that the global economy is “slowly slipping” into Great Depression-like problems of the 1930s?
1) Bimal Jalan
2) Duvvuri Subbarao
3) Raghuram Rajan
4) Arvind Subramania
5) Kaushik Basu
Ques. : 10 Which of following technology giants has introduced an „Undo‟ option that allows users to cancel delivery of an email within 30 seconds of hitting the send button?
1) Microsoft
2) Rediffmail
3) Yahoo
4) Google
5) None of these
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3. 2)
4. 5)
5. 1)
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7. 4)
8. 1)
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10. 4)