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ANS: Rs 35 crore
INDEX India’s first-ever

ever digitised Panchayat ward has come up in
which of the following states?
ANS: Kerala
I. May 2017 2-13
II. June 2017 13-23 Child Labour Day is observed on which
The National Anti-Child
III. July 2017 24-34 day in India?
IV. August 2017 35-47 ANS: April 30
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Who of the following has won the 2017 Men’s Doubles
Tallahassee Challenger title?
ANS: Leander Paes and Scott Lipsky
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(JAN, FEB, MAR & APR) Which union minister has launched a nationwide “Vidya –
Veerta Abhiyan” to honour war warriors?
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FB Page www.facebook.com//wbcs17 What is the India’s GDP forecast for 2017, as per latest
UN report “The Economic and Social Survey of Asia and
the Pacific 2017”?
MAY 2017 ANS: 7.1%
Who is the newly appointed Controller General of Yusra Mardini has been appointed as new Goodwill
Accounts (CGA)? Ambassador
bassador for UNHCR. She hails from which country?
ANS: Anthony Lianzuala ANS: Syria
Ueli Steck, a renowned mountain climber

limber has passed Who has won the 2017 Men’s Singles Barcelona Open
away. He hailed from which country? Tennis Tournament?
ANS: Switzerland ANS: Rafael Nadal
The South Asia satellite “GSAT-09”

09” will be launched by Who has won the 19th edition of Women’s Asian
ISRO from which launch vehicle? Individual Squash Championships (AISC)-2017?
(AISC)
ANS: GSLV Mk-II ANS: Joshna Chinappa
The first-ever
ever Ganga Cleanliness Pledge Day (GCPD) will Who has been appointed as the first woman President of
be observed on which date in India? Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)?
ANS: May 2 ANS: Shobana Kamineni
India’s first-ever
ever Blind Football Academy (BFA) is Who has been chosen for the INSA Young Scientist Award
expected to come up in which state? 2017?
ANS: Kerala ANS: Sanjay Pratihar
Which state is the India’s most corrupt state, according to Which of the following has become
come the first city in the
latest survey by the Centre for Media Studies (CMS)? world to have its own Microsoft font?
ANS: Karnataka ANS: Dubai
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Which state has become the first Indian state to use What is the India’s GDP growth forecast for FY 18,
Automated Weather Stations (AWS) for farmers? according to Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s latest
late
ANS: Maharashtra report “Asian Development Outlook 2017”?
ANS: 7.4%
The Lovely Professional University (LPU) is located in
which state of India? What is the India’s real GDP growth forecast for FY 18,
ANS: Punjab according to latest rating review by Fitch Ratings?
ANS: 7.4%
Which state has become the first Indian state to shift to
to January to December financial year? Recently, Sualgiri and Swalgiri communities have been
ANS: Madhya Pradesh notified as Scheduled Castes in the Indian constitution.
The communities are associated with which state?
Who has been bestowed with the 2017 Avvaiyar Award? ANS: Odisha
ANS: Padma Venkataraman
The world’s highest railway bridge will come up over
Who has won thee 2017 World Snooker Championship? which Indian River?
ANS: Mark Selby ANS: Chenab
Which Indian table tennis player has won the 2017 Men’s Which Indian footballer has won the 2017 Hero of the
singles ITTF Challenge Seamaster Chile Open league 2017 award?
tournament? ANS: Sunil Chhetri
ANS: Soumyajit Ghosh
Which country is hosting the 27th session of the Universal
Which country is hosting the 2017 UNESCO/Guillermo Periodic Review (UPR) of the UN Human Rights Council
Cano World Press Freedom Prize Ceremony? (UNHRC)?
ANS: Indonesia ANS: Switzerland
Who will represent India at the 2017 Universal Periodic What is the theme of 2017 World Asthma Day (WAD)?
Review (UPR) of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)? ANS: Better air better breathing
hing
ANS: Mukul Rohatgi
Who has been appointed the new chairman of the Public
The first-ever
ever World Tuna Day (WTD) is observed by the Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament?
United Nations (UN) on which date? ANS: Mallikarjun Kharge
ANS: May 2
Which Indian personality has been conferred with the
Which country is hosting the 50th annual meeting of the Order of Diplomatic Service Merit Sungnye Medal of the
Asian Development Bank (ADB) Board of Governors? South Korea?
ANS: Japan ANS: Rajive Kaul
The new Index of Industrial Production (IIP) series for Which city has become the India’s cleanest city, according
India will be calculated on which base year? to the Swachh Bharat survey 2017?
ANS: 2011-12 ANS: Indore
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has India’s first private sector small arms manufacturing plant
approved how much loan amount for power project in has set up in which state?
Andhra Pradesh? ANS: Madhya Pradesh
ANS: $160 million
Who has been appointed
nted the new chairman of the Tea
Board of India?

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ANS: Prabhat Kamal Bezboruah

Justice (retd) Leila Seth, the renowned jurist has passed
Which social networking site has officially launched away. She was the first woman chief justice of which high
“Express Wi-Fi” internet services in India? court?
ANS: Facebook ANS: Himachal Pradeshadesh high court
Which state government has recently become the Which state government has recently signed an
registered proprietor of the GI tag for Banganapalle agreement with United Nations and IIIT for setting up
mangoes? innovation lab in the state?
ANS: Andhra Pradesh ANS: Chhattisgarh
The 2017 National Standards Conclave (NSC) was held in The International No diet day (INDD) is observed on
which city? which date?
ANS: New Delhi ANS: May 6
The International Firefighters’ Day (IFFD) is observed on Who has

as won the 2016 Wisden-MCC
Wisden (Melbourne Cricket
which date? Council) Cricket Photograph of the Year?
ANS: May 4 ANS: Saqib Majeed
Who has been appointed the new chairman of the Indian Adolph Kiefer, the swimming legend has passed away. He
Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)? hailed from which country?
ANS: Braj Bihari Kumar ANS: United States
Where is the headquarters of the Indira Gandhi National Which country’s hockey team has won the 2017
2 Sultan
Forest Academy (IGNFA)? Azlan Shah Cup?
ANS: Dehradun ANS: Great Britain
ed in which state?
The Vansda National Park (VNP) is located Which of the following is the official mascot of the 22nd
ANS: Gujarat edition of Asian Athletics Championships-2017?
Championships
ANS: Olly Turtle
Vikas Krishan Yadav is associated with which sports?
ANS: Boxing India’s first bio refinery plant has set up in which of the
following states?
Which committee has been constituted by the Insolvency ANS: Maharashtra
and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) to lay down
technical standards for performance of core se
services? Who has won the 2017 French Presidential election?
ANS: R B Barman committee ANS: Emmanuel Macron
The world’s biggest-ever X- ray laser “European XFEL” has Which country has been elected as the new President of
generated its first X-ray
ray laser light from which country? Governing Council of UN-Habitat?
Habitat?
ANS: Germany ANS: India
The 2017 India Integrated Transport and Logistics Summit Which country is hosting the 26th session of the
was held in which city? Governing Council (GC) of UN--Habitat-2017?
ANS: Chennai ANS: Kenya
Captain Chand Roop, who passed away recently, was The 2017 multinational military exercise “Eager Lion” has
associated with which sports? started in which of the following countries?
ANS: Wrestling ANS: Jordan

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ANS: Pakistan
The 2017 joint military exercise “Balikatan” has started
between United States and which country? Who has been appointed the new India’s Ambassador to
ANS: Philippines the Kingdom of the Netherlands?
ANS: Venu Rajamony
What is the theme of 2017 World Red Cross Red Crescent
Day (WRCRCD)? Who has been sworn-in
in as the new President of South
ANS: Less Known Red Cross Stories Korea?
ANS: Moon Jae-in
The Navegaon National Park is located in which state?
ANS: Maharashtra Which high-level
level committee has been set up by the Union
Government to provide credible data for employment
Kavinder Singh Bisht is associated with which sports? policies?
ANS: Boxing ANS: Arvind Panagariya committee
Which Indian cricketer has been conferred with the The Sakewa Festival has recently celebrated in which
Fellowship Award in United Kingdom (UK)? state?
ANS: Sachin Tendulkar ANS: Sikkim
Who has been conferred with the Tholkappiyar Award for Who has become the world’s highest wicket-taker
wicket in
the year 2015-16? women ODI cricket?
ANS: R Kalaikkovan ANS: Jhulan Goswami
The Dalma
alma Wildlife Sanctuary is located in which state? Which state government hass recently imposed a ban on
ANS: Jharkhand sale of High in Fat, Salt and Sugar (HFSS) food at school
canteens?
What is the India’s GDP growth forecast for FY 18, ANS: Maharashtra
according to IMF’s latest report ‘Regional Economic
Outlook (REO) for Asia and Pacific’? Which Indian actress has won the best actress award at
ANS: 7.2% the New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) 2017?
ANS: Konkona Sen Sharma
The 2017 hunting festival “Bishu Parv” was observed in
which state? What is the theme of the 2017 World Thalassaemia Day
ANS: Jharkhand (WTD)?
ANS: Together for Humanity
The headquarters of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)
is located in which city? Who will be the Pakistan’s new High Commissioner to
ANS: New Delhi India?
ANS: Sohail Mahmood
Which Hollywood actor has won the first-ever
ever gender
gender-
neutral MTV award for Best Actor in a movie? Arjun Tulshiram Pawar, who passed away recently, was
ANS: Emma Watson related to which field?
ANS: Politics
Which state government has signed pact with Oracle for
cloud-based citizen services? The Mudumalai National Park is located in which state?
ANS: Jharkhand ANS: Tamil Nadu
Ustad Raees Khan, the legendary sitarist has passed

away. He hailed from which country?

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Who will be the new under-secretary

secretary General of the ANS: Finland
United Nations Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)? Who has been appointed as the new Secretary of
ANS: Mark Lowcock Department of Telecommunications (DoT)?
ANS: Aruna Sundararajan
Who will be the new Defence Secretary of India?
ANS: Sanjay Mitra India’s first-ever
ever National Basketball Association (NBA)
academy has officially opened in which city?
Which Indian sportsman has won bronze in Greco Roman ANS: Greater Noida
80kg category at 2017 Asian Wrestling Championship?
ANS: Harpreet Singh Which Indian cricketer has been
een awarded the honorary
life membership of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)?
Who has been conferred with the 2017 Young Scientist ANS: VVS Laxman
award from the Indian National Science Academy (INSA)?
ANS: Vikram Vishal Which city has topped the 2017 Savills Tech Cities Index?
ANS: Austin
Who has become the new Country Director for Twitter in
India? Which Indian sportsperson has clinched silver in women’s
ANS: Taranjeet Singh 69kg category at the 2017 Asian
an Wrestling
Championship?
Which digital filing system has been launched for ANS: Divya Kakran
Supreme Court of India (SCI)?
ANS: Integrated Case Management Informa
Information System Which Indian personality has been appointed WHO
Goodwill Ambassador for Hepatitis in South-East
South Asia
The 29th India–Indonesia
Indonesia bilateral maritime exercise Region?
“CORPAT-2017”
2017” has started under which Indian Naval ANS: Amitabh Bachchan
Command?
ANS: Andaman and Nicobar Command ever One Belt One Road
Which country to host first-ever
(OBOR) Summit?
Who is the newly elected Prime Minister of the ANS: China
Commonwealth of the Bahamas?
ANS: Hubert Minnis Which state government is hosting the first-ever
first Videsh
Sampark outreach programme?
What is the theme of the 2017 National Technology Day ANS: Telangana
(NTD) in India?
ANS: Technology for inclusive and sustainable growth Who has become the first Indian woman to be conferred
with the Woodrow Wilson Award for Global Corporate
Which online facility has been launched by the Union Citizenship?
Government to provide direct solution to problem of ANS: Chanda Kochhar
agriculture sector?
ANS: e-Krishi Samvad What
at is the theme of 2017 World Fair Trade Day (WFTD)?
ANS: Human chains for fair trade and the planet
Which state has become the first Indian state to
introduce a logo for vehicles driven by persons with India’s first electric cab fleet will be launched in which
hearing impairment? city?
ANS: Telangana ANS: Nagpur
Which country to host the 2017 Arctic Energy Summit Which state has topped the 2017 Public Affairs Index
(AES)? (PAI) in governance?

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ANS: Kerala Which IIT institute has collaborated with the

t British
Geological Survey (BGS) to turn Varanasi into a smart
Who has won the 2017 men’s singles Mutua Madrid city?
Open tennis tournament? ANS: IIT Kharagpur
ANS: Rafael Nadal
Which Indian personality has been appointed as new
Which Indian sportsperson has won silver in men’s UNFCCC Deputy Executive Secretary?
Freestyle 125 kg category at the 2017 Asian Wrestling ANS: Ovais Sarmad
Championship?
ANS: Sumit Kumar What is the India’s GDP forecast for FY 18, as per latest
lat
Economic Outlook Survey of Federation of Indian
Who has been conferred with the first-ever
ever Bhairon Singh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI)?
Shekhawat Lifetime Achievement Honour in Public ANS: 7.4%
Service?
ANS: Pawan Chamling The Nandankanan Zoological Park (NZP) is located in
which state?
Which Indian village has won the 2017 Smart Village ANS: Odisha
Award?
ANS: Govardhan Ecovillage Who has been awarded the 2017 INSA Young Scientist
award for research
rch in cancer treatment?
The 43rd edition of G7 summit will be held in which city? ANS: Aravind Kumar Rengan
ANS: Italy
Rifath Sharook has designed the world’s lightest satellite
What is the theme of 2017 International Day of Families? “KalamSat”. He hails from which country?
ANS: Families, education and well-being ANS: India
Who has been appointed as the new Prime Minister of Which union minister has launched Operation Clean
France? Portal for transparent tax administration?
administr
ANS: Edouard Philippe ANS: Arun Jaitley
What is the India’s rank in the 2017 World Bank’s Power Javier Valdez, the renowned journalist has passed away.
accessibility list? He hailed from which country?
ANS: 26th ANS: Mexico
S Ramassamy, who passed away recently, was the former Which state government has constituted “Maa
Chief Minister of which state/UT? committee” to check mid day meal quality in schools?
ANS: Puducherry ANS: Uttar Pradesh
Who has won the 2017 Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix? Where is the headquarters of OIC Independent
ANS: Lewis Hamilton Permanent Human Rights Commission (IPHRC)?
ANS: Saudi Arabia
Which city
ity hosted the 2nd meeting of National Platform
for Disaster Risk Reduction (NPDRR)? Who has become the first Indian driver to win the race in
ANS: New Delhi the GP3 Series?
ANS: Arjun Maini
Who has become the first Indian to win gold at the 2017
Asian Wrestling Championship? Who will lead the Indian delegation to the 2017 G20
ANS: Bajrang Punia Labour
our & Employment Ministers’ Meet?
ANS: Bandaru Dattatraya

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What is the theme of 2017 World Telecommunication

India’s first smart grid project has successfully created by and Information Society Day (WTISD)?
which institute? ANS: Big data for big impact
ANS: Indian Institute of Engineering Science and
Technology (IIEST) The 2017 bilateral maritime exercise “SIMBEX-17”
“SIMBEX has
started between India and which country?
Who has become the first Indian woman to sca
scale Mount ANS: Singapore
Everest for the fourth time?
ANS: Anshu Jamsenpa Which union minister has given the additional charge of
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Which of the following has been adjudged as the cleanest (MoEFCC)?
railway station in category A1, as per recently released ANS: Harsh Vardhan
report by the Ministry of Railways?
ANS: Vishakhapatnam Which city to host the 2017 annual convention of the
African Development Bank (AfDB) Group?
Which Indian personality
lity has been named in the Forbes’s ANS: Gandhinagar
2017 Global Game Changers list?
ANS: Mukesh Ambani Which country has topped the 2017 Renewable Energy
Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI) released by Ernst
What is the India’s GDP growth forecast for 2017, as per and Young (EY)?
recently revised UN “World Economic Situation and ANS: China
Prospects (WESP) as of mid-2017” report?
ANS: 7.3% Sundaram Ravi is associated with which sports?
ANS: Cricket
Muhammed
ammed Anas, who recently qualified for 2017
London World Athletics Championships, hails from which Which company is the most valuable brand in India,
Indian state? according to recently released 2017 Brand Finance India
ANS: Kerala 100 report?
ANS: Tata Group
Which Indian wildlife activist has won the 2017 Whitley
Awards? India’s first Aquatic Rainbow Technology Park (ARTP)
(AR will
ANS: Sanjay Gubbi be set up in which city?
ANS: Chennai
Anil Madhav Dave, who passed away recently,
y, was the
union minister of which department? What is the theme of 2017 International Day against
ANS: Environment, Forest and Climate Change Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia (IDAHOT)?
ANS: Families
Which Indian scientist has won the 2017 Dan David prize
in the “Future” category? Chris Cornel, the renowned singer passed away. He hailed
ANS: Shrinivas Kulkarni from which country?
ANS: United States
Reema Lagoo, who passed away recently, was associat
associated
with which field? The International Museum Day (IMD) is observed on
ANS: Film Industry which date?
ANS: May 18
Which Indian-American
American student has won the 2017
National Geographic Bee contest? Which Indian teenager has won the 2017 Intel
ANS: Pranay Varada International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) award in
the environmental engineering category?

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ANS: Prashant Ranganathan What is the 2017 theme of International Day for
Biodiversity (IDB)?
Which state government has launched e-textbook
textbook portal ANS: Biodiversity and Sustainable Tourism
for school students?
ANS: Haryana Which state government will form “Good Morning” squad
to monitor and prevent open defecation?
Which organisation has won the 2015 Indira Gandhi ANS: Maharashtra
Peace Prize?
ANS: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Who hass won the 2017 Presidential election of Iran?
(UNHCR) ANS: Hassan Rouhani
What is the India’s rank in the 2017 Healthcare Access Which Indian squah player has won gold at 2017 Asian
and Quality Index (HAQI), according to latest Lancet Continental Women Blitz Chess Championship?
report “Global Burden of Disease (GBD)”? ANS: R Vaishali
ANS: 154th
Which Indian squash player has won the 2017 Men’s
R R Laxman is associated with which sports? Makati Open Squash tournament?
ANS: Chess ANS: Harinder Pal Sandhu
Stanley Greene, an award-winning

winning photojournalist passed Alexander Zverev has won the 2017 Men’s singles Rome
away. He hailed from which country? Masters tennis tournament. He hails from which country?
ANS: United States ANS: Germany
The Bhindawas Bird Sanctuary (BBS) is located in which What is the theme of 2017 World Metrology Day (WMD)?
state? ANS: Measurements for transport
ANS: Haryana
Which football team has won the 38th edition of Indian
Which committee has recently recommended several Federation Cup Football tournament-2017?
tournament
measures for de-siltation of River Ganga? ANS: Bengaluru FC
ANS: Madhav Chitale committee
level committee has recently submitted its
Which high-level
The
he 2017 HADR exercise “Karavali Karunya” has started report on Scouts and Guides to the Union Government?
by Indian Navy in which state? ANS: Harsh Malhotra committee
committe
ANS: Karnataka
Which bollywood actress has been bestowed with the
Who has been appointed as new Deputy Chief of 2017 International Humanitarian Award at the Asian
Integrated Defence Staff (Operations)? Voice Charity Awards?
ANS: PN Pradhan ANS: Jacqueline Fernandez
Anshu Jamsenpa has become the world’s first woma

woman to Which city is hosting the 2017 Global Rajasthan Agritech
scale Mt Everest twice within 5 days. She hails from Meet (GRAM)?
which Indian state? ANS: Kota
ANS: Arunachal Pradesh
Which country to host the 2018 annual convention of
Which of the following Indian peacekeepers to be African Development Bank (AfDB) Group?
honored posthumously with UN Dag Hammarskjold ANS: South Korea
Medal for their courage and sacrifice?
ANS: Brijesh Thapa and Ravi Kumar Which Indian cartoonist has won 2017 World Wide Fund
for Nature (WWF) International President’s Award?

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ANS: Rohan Chakravarty

Roger Moore, the James Bond actor passed away. He
Which country has won the 2017
17 Ice Hockey World hailed from which country?
Championship? ANS: United Kingdom
ANS: Sweden
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been elected as
The World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and the new Director General of the World Health
Development is observed on which date? Organization (WHO). He hails from which country?
ANS: May 21 ANS: Ethiopia
Mattuhunny Mathews, popularly known as ‘Toyota The Sonai Rupai Wildlife Sanctuary
Sanctua is located in which
Sunny’ passed away. He hailed from which country? state?
ANS: India ANS: Assam
Which country has become the largest stainless steel Which country has become the first Asian country to
producer in the world in 2016, according to data released recognize same sex marriage?
by the International Stainless Steel Forum (ISSF) 2017? ANS: Taiwan
ANS: China
Which country has recently ratify International Solar
The Ghughua Fossil National Park is located in which Alliance (ISA) framework?
state? ANS: Nauru
ANS: Madhya Pradesh
The boring of India’s
a’s first underwater rail tunnel has
Who will become the new Prime Minister of Nepal? completed under which river?
ANS: Sher Bahadur Deuba ANS: Hooghly River
Who will become the new chairperson of the National The 70th edition of World Health Assembly (WHA70) has
Commission for Minorities (NCM)? started in which city?
ANS: Gayarul Hasan ANS: Geneva
The World Turtle Day (WTD) is observed on whi

which date? Which country’s police has officially recruited the world’s
ANS: May 23 first operational
nal robot police officer “Robocop”?
ANS: UAE
Who is the author of the book “Confessions of a dying
mind: the blind faith of atheism”? The Union Cabinet has approved how much percentage
ANS: Haulianlal Guite of Central Road Fund (CRF) for development and
maintenance of National Waterways (NWs)?
Which IIT institute has inked pact with Madhya Pradesh ANS: 2.5%
for measuring happiness index?
ANS: IIT Kharagpur Who has become the new President of Ecuador?
ANS: Lenin Moreno
The Union
on Environment Ministry has organized the first
first-
ever “Ozone2Climate technology roadshow” in which Which country is hosting the 2017 North Atlantic Treaty
city? Organization (NATO)?
ANS: Agra ANS: Belgium
Who has won the 2017 CEAT International Cricketer of Which Indian sportsperson has elected as the new
the Year award? member of BWF Atheletes’ commission?
ANS: Ravichandran Ashwin ANS: P V Sindhu

Laura Biagiotti, the renowned fashion designer passed

The Union Government has launched which web portal away. She hailed from which country?
for online documentation verification for students? ANS: Italy
ANS: e-Sanad
India’s first multi-modal
modal electric vehicle project has
Who has been appointed the new chairman of launched in which city?
International Fertiliser Association (IFA)? ANS: Nagpur
ANS: Rakesh Kapoor
Which country is hosting the 2017 G7 summit?
Which Indian state to host 2017 Asian Junior Tennis ANS: Italy
Championship?
ANS: Maharashtra Which is the only Indian monument to figure
figu in the
world’s top 10 TripAdvisor’s Travellers’ Choice awards for
Sadia Bridge” has built over
India’s longest bridge “Dhola-Sadia Landmarks?
which tributary of the Brahmaputra River? ANS: Taj Mahal
ANS: Lohit River
Which city police have won the 2017 FICCI Smart Policing
Which state govenrment has launched Japanese Award?
Encephalitis (JE) vaccination drive for the people of the ANS: Pune city police
state?
ANS: Uttar Pradesh Which state tourism has won the ‘Best Destination for
Romance’ at the
he Lonely Planet Magazine Indian Travel
Who has become the new chairman of Internet and Awards 2017?
Mobile Association of India (IAMAI)? ANS: Kerala
ANS: Rajan Anandan
The book “Mann Ki Baat: a social revolution on radio” has
Which city is the world’s most crowded cities, according been authored by whom?
to World Economic Forum (WEF) citing UN Habitat Data? ANS: Rajesh Jain
ANS: Dhaka
The Royal Manas National Park is located in which
Which country is hosting the World Street Food Congress country?
(WSFC17)? ANS: Bhutan
ANS: Philippines
The Indo Thailand HADR “Siam Bharat 17” has held in
Who has been appointed the new secretary of the which city?
Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)? ANS: Chiang Mai
ANS: Anurag Tripathy
The 2017 World Table Tennis Championships (WTTC) has
The Mathikettan Shola National Park is located in which started in which country?
state? ANS: Germany
ANS: Kerala
Gregg Allaman, the renowned musician passed away. He
KPS Gill, who was known for rooting out militancy from hailed from which country?
Punjab, was belonged to which state? ANS: United States
ANS: Punjab
Which country has won the 2017 Badminton Sudirman
The Yelagiri summer festival has started in which state? Cup?
ANS: Tamil Nadu ANS: South Korea

Which Indian fencer has won gold in the sabre event of Who is the newly elected Chancellor of Jamia Millia
the Tournoi Satellite Fencing Championship (TSFC)? Islamia (JMI)?
ANS: Bhavani Devi ANS: Najma Heptulla
Which Indian student has been selected

ected to represent Love Raj Singh has become the first Indian to scale Mt.
India as young journalist at the global Football for Everest 6 times. He hails from which state?
Friendship (F4F) social programme? ANS: Uttarakhand
ANS: Ananya Kamboj
Which state government has recently declared Dailong
Who is representing India at the 2017 Little Miss Universe village as biodiversity heritage site of the state?
competition? ANS: Manipur
ANS: Padmalaya Nanda
Prasar Bharati has signed MoU with which country’s
mplex tax jurisdiction in
Which country has the most complex public broadcasting agency to step up cooperation in the
Asia-Pacific,
Pacific, as per 2017 Asia Pacific Tax Complexity broadcasting sector?
Survey conducted by Deloitte? ANS: Morocco
ANS: China
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Akademi Puraskar? Peacekeepers?
ANS: Satyabrata Rout ANS: Investing in peace around the world
What is the India’s GDP growth forecast for FY 18, as per Which film has won the Palme d’Or at the 2017 Cannes
World Bank (WB)’s latest report “India Development film festival?
Report”? ANS: The Square
ANS: 7.2%
What is the India’s rank in women workforce, as per
Who will lead the toilet usage campaign “Darwaza Band” recently released “India Development Report” of World
of the Union Government? Bank (WB)?
ANS: Amitabh Bachchan ANS: 120th
The first-ever
ever women television channel “Zan TV” has What is the 2017 theme of World No Tobacco Day
launched in which country? (WNTD)?
ANS: Afghanistan ANS: Tobacco – a threat to development
developmen
Who has won the 2017 Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix Which Indian bank has got $100 million Asian
World Championship? Development Bank (ADB) loan to finance solar rooftop
ANS: Sebastian Vettel projects in India?
ANS: Punjab National Bank (PNB)
Which Bollywood actress will be honoured with the
Dadasaheb Phalke Award as Internationally Acclaimed Which IIT institute has developed ‘soil-to-soil’
‘soil technology
Actress? to manufacture cheaper, quicker and pollution-free
poll bio
ANS: Priyanka Chopra fuel?
ANS: IIT Kharagpur

Amul has signed MoU with which organisation for fodder Which country to host 2017 board of governors meeting
acreage estimation using space technology? of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)?
ANS: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) ANS: South Korea
Dasari Narayana Rao, who passed away recently, was the Who has been appointed as the new chairman of
famous personality in which field? National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC)?
ANS: Journalism, Film Industry & Politics ANS: Ram Shankar Katheria
chairperson of National
Who has become the new vice-chairperson India’s first freight village will be set up in which of the
Commission for Minorities (NCM)? following cities?
ANS: George Kurian ANS: Varanasi
Which city to host 2017 India Mobile Congress (IMC)? Which Indian personality has been appointed public
ANS: New Delhi policy fellow to Woodrow Wilson International Centre for
Scholars?
Which
ch state government has launched “Mahaswayam ANS: Nirupama Rao
portal” for job seekers and employers?
ANS: Maharashtra Which country to host 2017 Shanghai Cooperation
Organization (SCO)?
Konstantinos Mitsotakis, who passed away recently, was ANS: Kazakhstan
the former Prime Minister of which country?
ANS: Greece The World Milk Day (WMD) is observed on which date?
ANS: June 1
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The Sri Venkateswara National Park is located in which

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ANS: Andhra Pradesh
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ANS: National Assessment and Accreditation Council
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India has signed how much amount of loan agreement
Wallet” for people with and without mobile phones?
with the World Bank (WB) for Himachal Pradesh Public
ANS: Telangana
Financial Management
ement Capacity Building Programme?
ANS: $36 million
What is the India’s rank in the 2017 Global Peace Index,
as per global think tank Institute for Economics and Peace
Who has been appointed as the new Economic Affairs
(IEP)?
Secretary?
ANS: 137th
ANS: Tapan Ray

Who is the newly appointed Executive Director (ED) of ANS: Nitin Kumar Sinha
Reserve Bank of India (RBI)?
ANS: S Ganesh Kumar Who has become the first Indian to be nominated as a
member of the ITTF Umpires and Referees Committee
Which state government will collaborate with UNDOC to (URC)?
intensify anti-drug drive? ANS: Ganeshan Neelakanta Iyer
ANS: Punjab
The researchers of which IIT institute has developed a
India’s first automatic coastal warning for disasters will wireless technology “AmbuSens” to monitor hospital-
hospital
come up in which state? bound patients?
ANS: Odisha ANS: IIT Kharagpur
Parvathama RajKumar, who passed away ay recently, was The Gumti Wildlife Sanctuary is located in which state?
the noted personality of which field? ANS: Tripura
ANS: Film Industry
What is the theme of 2017 World Environment Day
S. Abdul Rahman, who passed away recently, was the (WED)?
famous poet of which language? ANS: Connecting People to Nature
ANS: Tamil
Who has clinched the 2017 men’s singles title at the
Miroslav Lajcak will be the new President of United Thailand
and Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament?
Nations General Assembly. He hails from which country? ANS: B Sai Praneeth
ANS: Slovakia
Which football club has won the 2017 UEFA Champions
Who will become the new Prime Minister of Ireland? League trophy?
ANS: Leo Varadkar ANS: Real Madrid
Who has been appointed as the new CEO of Prasar based Public Bicycle Sharing (PBS)
India’s first smartcard-based
Bharti? initiative “Trin Trin” has launched in which
whic city?
ANS: Shashi Shekhar Vempati ANS: Mysuru
What is the India’s rank in the 2017 global Multi

Multi- Who has become the new Solicitor General of India?
dimensional Poverty Index (MPI)? ANS: Ranjit Kumar
ANS: 37th
What is the India’s GDP growth rate in 2018, as per latest
Which committee has been formed by the Securities and World Bank’s Global Economic Prospects (GEP) report?
Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on corporate governance? ANS: 7.5%
ANS: Uday Kotak committee
Which country has topped the 2017 A T Kearney Global
Which Indian-American
American student has won the 90th Scripps Retail Development Index (GRDI)?
Naional Spelling Bee competition? ANS: India
ANS: Ananya Vinay
ISRO has successfully launched GSAT-19
GSAT communication
Which film will represent India at the 52nd Karlong Vary satellite through which launch vehicle?
International Film Festival? ANS: GSLV Mark III
ANS: Ralang Road
The International Day of Innocent Children Victims of
Who has won boys singles title at the 2017 HCL Asian Aggression is observed
erved on which date?
Junior Tennis Championship? ANS: June 4

The Abohar Wildlife Sanctuary is located in which state? Who has been sworn-in
in as the new Prime minister of
ANS: Punjab Nepal?
ANS: Sher Bahadur Deuba
The first-ever
ever United Nations Oceans Conference has
started in which country? Which union minister has launched “Skills for life, Save a
ANS: United States life” initiative to promote skill development
de in the health
sector?
India’s first-ever Rural LED Street Lighting Project will be ANS: J P Nadda
set up in which state?
ANS: Andhra Pradesh What is the current repo rate, as per 2nd bi-monthly
bi
monetary policy review for 2017-18
2017 of the Reserve Bank
India has signed how much amount of loan agreement of India (RBI)?
with the World Bank for the project “Assam Citizen ANS: 6.25%
Centric Service Delivery”?
ANS: $39.2 million Who has been appointed as the new chief of Copyrights
office?
Which IIT institute is hosting the 5th International
ternational ANS: Hoshiar Singh
Convention of Spic Macay?
ANS: IIT Delhi Which Indian personality has joined UNICEF’s ‘Super
Dads’ campaign?
Who has appointed the new Director General (DG) of ANS: Sachin Tendulkar
National Water Development Agency (NWDA)?
ANS: Sharad Jain Which country has officially become the new member of
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
What is the India’s rank in the 2017 IMD World ANS: Montenegro
Competitiveness Index?
ANS: 45th Which state government has implemented ‘Green
Protocol’ for weddings?
Sudha
udha Singh, who has won gold at 21st Federation Cup ANS: Kerala
National Senior Atletices Championship, is associated
with which sports? Who will be honoured with the RedInk Award for Lifetime
ANS: Steeplechase Achievement in Journalism for 2017?
ANS: Vinod Dua
Which state has become the India’s first state to launch
single-women pension scheme? The Mukurthi National Park (MNP) is located in which
ANS: Telangana state?
ANS: Tamil Nadu
TATA Projects has recently launched which initiative to
promote green cover in India? Which city is hosting the 2017 Shanghai Cooperation
ANS: Green Thumb Organisation (SCO) summit?
ANS: Astana, Kazakhstan
What is the India’s rank in the 2017 IMD World Digital
Competitiveness Index? What is the theme of 2017 World Oceans Day (WOD)?
ANS: 51st ANS: Our Oceans, Our Future
India has signed pact with which neighboring country to Which Indian bank will set up 100 digital villages across
provide
de $318 million as line of credit for railway projects? the country?
ANS: Sri Lanka ANS: Vijaya Bank

Which Indian personality has been conferred with the

The Anshi National Park (ANP) is loacted in which state? WHO Director-General’s
General’s Special Recognition Award for
ANS: Karnataka global tobacco control?
ANS: J P Nadda
Who have been appointed as the new Independent
Directors of India Post Payments Bank (IPPB)? Which news agency will set up $1 million fund
f to boost
ANS: K G Karmakar and Gauri Shankar BRICS media cooperation?
ANS: Xinhua from China
amous arms dealer passed
Adnan Khashoggi, the world famous
away. He hailed from which country? Mehrunnisa Dalwai, the renowned Muslim rights activist
ANS: Saudi Arabia passed away. She hailed from which state?
ANS: Maharashtra
Nepal has tied up with which country to build 1200MW
Budhi-Gandaki Hydropower Project? Which state government has recently signed MoU with
ANS: China Union Aviation Ministry
ry for Udan scheme?
ANS: Tamil Nadu
Which tennis pair have won the 2017 French Open mixed
doubles tournament? The Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary (MWS) is located in
ANS: Rohan Bopanna and Gabriela Dabrowski which state?
ANS: West Bengal
Who has been bestowed with the RedInk Award
Journalist of the Year award for 2017? Which Indian sportsperson has featured in the 2017
ANS: Raj Kamal Jha Forbes list of world’s highest paid atheltes?
ANS: Virat Kohli
Which city to host the second edition of National Health
Editors’ Conference on Yoga -2017? NITI Aayog has launched SATH program for cooperative
ANS: New Delhi federalism. What does ‘SATH’ stands for?
ANS: Sustainable Action for Transforming Human capital
Which bank has become the first Indian bank to launch
bio-degradable prepaid gift cards? Which Indian mountaineer has been honoured by Nepal
ANS: Axis Bank Government for scaling Mt. Everest for a record six
times?
Basudev Chatterji, who passed away recently, was ANS:: Love Raj Singh Dharmashaktu
associated with which field?
ANS: History Who has become the first Sri Lankan cricketer to be
inducted into ICC Hall of Frame?
India and which United Nations organisation have ANS: Muttiah Muralidaran
launched partnership fund to promote sustainable
development? The first-ever
ever Indian Railways Human Resources Round
ANS: UNOSSC Table Conference has started in which city?
ANS: New Delhi
Which Indian American has been chosen for the 2017
NASA Astronaut Candidate Class? Who has been adjudged in the first-ever
first AIFF Women’s
ANS: Raja Chari player of the year for 2016?
ANS: Sasmita Malik
P Govardhan Reddy, the noted politician has passed
away. He belongs to which political party? Who will be appointed as new MD and CEO of the
ANS: Indian National Congress (INC) National Stock Exchange (NSE)?
ANS: Vikram Limaye

Which Indian personality has launched ‘Selfie

fie with The Nawabganj Bird Sanctuary is loacted in which state?
Daughter’ app to raise awareness among people about ANS: Uttar Pradesh
female foeticide and sex selection?
ANS: Pranab Mukherjee The International Albinism Awareness Day (IAAD) is
observed on which date?
The 2017 European Union Film Festival (EUFF) has started ANS: June 13
from which Indian city?
ANS: New Delhi Which Indian pair have won gold in mixed team 10m air
pistol event at 2017 International Shooting Sport
The Van Vihar National Park is loacted
acted in which state? Federation (ISSF) Gabala World Cup?
ANS: Madhya Pradesh ANS: Jitu Rai and Heena Sidhu
Who has won the 2017 French Open Men’s Singles Tennis Who has won the 2017 Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix
Tournament? tournament?
ANS: Rafael Nadal ANS: Lewis Hamilton
Which Indian personality has been selected for France’s Which state government will start free mortuary van
highest civilian award “Legion of Honour”? service for its’ citizens?
ANS: Soumitra Chatterjee ANS: Punjab
Which video conferencing aided legal service has Which water conservation model has been selected for
launched by the Union Government for rural people? the national award for excellence in the Mahatma Gandhi
ANS: Tele Law national rural employment guarantee programme
(MGNREGP)?
The Canara Bank has tied up with which general ANS: Project Jal Sanchay
insurance company to sell policies through its branches?
ANS: New India Assurance Company Limited India’s first underwater metro tunnel
tunn will come up in
which city?
Adam West, star of hit TV series “Batman” passed away. ANS: Kolkata
He hailed from which country?
ANS: United States Who has won the 2017 French Open Women’s Singles
Tennis Tournament?
Dr C Narayana Reddy, who passed away recently, was ANS: Jelena Ostapenko
associated with which field?
ANS: Poetry India has signed pact with which country on
Parliamentary Cooperation?
Nguyen Duc Hoa has won the 2017 Mumbaibai Mayor’s Cup ANS: Mauritius
International Open Chess Tournament. He hails from
which country? How many Indian states share
hare border with Myanmar?
ANS: Vietnam ANS: 4
Who has been conferred with the 2017 Kalinga Literary Who is the author of the book “Indira Gandhi – A life in
Award? nature”?
ANS: Anand Neelakantan ANS: Jairam Ramesh
The World Day Against Child Labour is observed on which The Nalanda University has signed MoU with which
date? country for academic linkages and colloborations?
ANS: June 12 ANS: South Korea

The 16th North East Region Commonwealth

Which expert
rt committee has been constituted to study Parliamentary Association (NERCPA) conference has
free movement along Myanmar border? started in which city?
ANS: Rina Mitra committee ANS: Imphal
What is the theme of the 2017 World Blood Donor Day Which country has topped the global remittance-
remittance
(WBDD)? receiving list of 2016, as per latest UN report “One Family
ANS: Give Blood. Give Now. Give Often at a Time”?
ANS: India
Padmalaya Nanda has won the 2017 Little Miss Universe
Internet beauty contest. She hails from which Indian Which state government has signed MoU with British
state? Council for quality education?
ANS: Odisha ANS: Sikkim
Who has been bestowed with the 2017 Nanniyode Rajan The 2017 G7 Environmental ministry meeting was held in
Memorial Award? which city?
ANS: E Sreedharan ANS: Bologna
The India-Australia
Australia naval exercise ‘AUSINDEX 17’ has India’ first canal top solar PV system has set up in which
started in which port city? state?
ANS: Fremantle ANS: Maharashtra
Which country has launched the world’s smallest and Who is the author of the book “Yug Purush, Bharat Ratna,
cheapest private jet “Vision Jet”? Atal Ji”?
ANS: United States ANS: Ramesh Pokhriyal
partner country in the world’s

Which country will be co-partner Which state government has launched Pashu Bazar
biggest food fair “ANUGA 2017”? website for online cattle sale?
ANS: India ANS: Telangana
Which Indian state has highest number of child labourers, The world’s largest refinery and petrochemical complex
as per latest Child Rights and You (CRY) report 2017? willll be set up in which Indian state?
ANS: Uttar Pradesh ANS: Maharashtra
The Valmiki National Park (VNP) is located in which state? Which city hosted the World Summit on Information
ANS: Bihar Society (WSIS) Forum-2017?
ANS: Geneva
The Union Government has launched IDCF programme to
reduce child deathss due to diarrhoea. What does “IDCF” Where is the headquarters of the United Nations
stands for? Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)?
ANS: Intensified Diarrhea Control Fortnight ANS: New York
Who has become the first Indian woman to be elected as P N Bhagwati, who passed away recently, was associated
judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea with which field?
(ITLOS)? ANS: Law
ANS: Neeru Chadha
Who is the newly appointed Indian Ambassador to
European Union (EU)?
ANS: Gaitri Issar Kumar

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has

What is the theme of the 2017 ASEAN Dengue Day recently approved the membership of which of the
(ADD)? following nations?
ANS: United fight against dengue ANS: Argentina, Madagascar and Tonga
Who will be conferred with the 2017 Bhupen Hazarika Sahapedia in partnership with which UN organisation has
National Award? launched fellowship programme to promote India’s
ANS: Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi cultural heritage?
ANS: UNESCO
Who has won the 2017 Man Booker International Prize?
ANS: David Grossman The Jigme Dorji National Park is located in which country?
ANS: Bhutan
Which IIT institute will confer honorary doctorate degree
to PT Usha? Who of the following has won the 2017 Orwell Prize?
ANS: IIT Kanpur ANS: John Bew
The 2017 World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) is The first-ever
ever BRICS Games 2017 has started in which
observed on which day? country?
ANS: June 15 ANS: China
What is the India’s rank in the 2017 Global Innovation The Union Government has launched ECBC 2017 for new
Index (GII)? commercial buildings. What does “ECBC” stands for?
ANS: 60th ANS: Energy Conservation Building Code
Who of the following has been conferred with the MBE Baldwin Lonsdale, who passed away recently, was the
(Member
mber of the Order of the British Empire)? President of which country?
ANS: Annabel Mehta ANS: Vanuatu
John Avildsen, the renowned film director passed away. The iconic Taj Mahal Palace hotel of Mumbai has
He hailed from which country? acquired an`image trademark’ under which act?
ANS: United States ANS: Trade Marks Act, 1999
Who has won the 2017 Men’s singles Indonesia Open The 2017 World Refugee Day (WRD) is observed on which
Super Series Badminton tournament? date?
ANS: Kidambi Srikanth ANS: June 20
Which Indian organisation has launched digital Who has become the new brand ambassador to promote
enrollment process “APY@eNPS” for Atal Pension Yojna? Goods and Services Tax (GST)?
ANS: PFRDA ANS: Amitabh Bachchan
The International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Which union minister has launched a mobile app
Violence in Conflict is observed on which day? “Celebrating Yoga” forr scientific healthy living?
ANS: June 19 ANS: Harsh Vardhan
Which public sector bank has tied up with Tirumala Milk Who has been re-nominated
nominated by India for another term as
Products for providing loans to dairy farmers? judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ)?
ANS: State Bank of India ANS: Dalveer Bhandari

Muzoon Almellehan has been named as new Unicef

Goodwill Ambassador. She hails from which country? Who has been appointed as the new special secretary in
ANS: Syria Ministry of Ayush?
ANS: Rajesh Kotecha
P K Kaw, an Internationally recognized plasma physicist
passed away. He hailed from which country? Which city has topped the list of most expensive cities for
ANS: India expatriates, according to Mercer’s 2017 Cost of Living
Survey?
Which institute has been selected as the first recipient of ANS: Luanda
the Prime Minister’s Yoga Award?
ANS: Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute Who will be the new secretary of Information and
(RIMYI), Pune Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry?
ANS: Narendra Kumar Sinha
What is the theme of the 2017 International Yoga Day
(IYD)? The world’s first ever data embassy will be established by
ANS: Yoga for Health which country?
ANS: Estonia
India has signed how much amount of loan agreement
with Asian Development Bank (ADB) to upgrade 64 small Who has been appointed as the head of the newly
towns of Madhya Pradesh? created United Nations Counter-Terrorism
Counter Office
ANS: $275 million (UNCTO)?
ANS: Vladimir Voronkov
India has signed a historical agreement with which
country to promote cooperation in the field of archives? Who has been appointed as the new economic affairs
ANS: Portugal secretary in the Union Finance Ministry?
ANS: Subhash C Garg
India’s first indigenously built floating dock (FDN
(FDN-2) has
launched on which shipyard? Carla Fendi, the fashion legend passed away.
away She hails
ANS: Kattupalli Shipyard from which country?
ANS: Italy
Who is leading the Indian delegation at the 2017 BIO
International Convention? The Bhawal National Park is located in which country?
ANS: Y S Chowdary ANS: Bangladesh
Which state government has announced free education Who is the author of the book “Hope in a challenged
for girls in Government Schools and colleges from democracy; An Indian narrative”?
Nursery to PhD? ANS: Ashwini Kumar
ANS: Punjab
The 2017 World Hydrography Day (WHD) is observed on
Which Indian agri microbiologist has been conferred with which date?
the 2017 Ministry of Environment Award in Japan? ANS: June 21
ANS: Shrihari Chandraghatgi
Which city has become the India’s first city to use robot
Who will be the new Union Home Secretary of India? to control unruly traffic?
ANS: Rajiv Gauba ANS: Indore
The Lahugala Kitulana National Park is located

ted in which Which Indian bank has launched India’s first open loop
country? EMV contactless metro card “Kochi 1”?
ANS: Sri Lanka ANS: Axis Bank

What is the theme of the 2017 International Widows Day

Which Indian personality has been honoured with the (IWD)?
“Social Entrepreneur of the Year” award at The 7th Asian ANS: Empowering women for greater achievements
Awards in London?
ANS: Nisha Dutt Who will become the first Indian woman wrestler to
compete in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)?
Which social media platform launched an Online Civil ANS: Kavita Devi
Courage Initiative (OCCI) in UK to counter online
line
extremist material? NASA has successfully launched the world’s smallest
ANS: Facebook satellite “Kalamsat”. The satellite is built by which Indian
teen?
Which Indian personality will be honoured with the 2017 ANS: Rifath Sharook
Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy?
ANS: Azim Premji Which Indian state hosted the 2017 International
Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) World Cup?
The Union Government has launched VAJRA scheme to ANS: Maharashtra
attract Indian scientists abroad. What does “VAJRA”
stands for? Who has been appointed the head of the reconstituted
ANS: Visiting Advanced Joint Research Faculty Oversight Committee (OC) of RBI for faster bad loan
resolution?
Which city has become the India’s first city to deliver ANS: Pradeep Kumar
diesel at home?
ANS: Bengaluru The World Bank (WB) has sanctioned how much amount
of loan assistance for the Assam State Public Finance
The 2017 United Nations Public Service Day is observed Institutional
al Reforms (ASPIRe) Project?
on which day? ANS: $44 million
ANS: June 23
Who has won the 2017 Sahitya Academy Yuva Puraskar in
Which Indian Anti Hunger activist will be honoured with English Language?
the 2017 Queen’s Young Leaders award? ANS: Manu S Pillai
ANS: Ankit Kawatra
Who has won the 2017 Miss World title in BodyBuilding
The Kishtwar National Park (KNP) is located in which Championship?
state? ANS: Bhumika Sharma
ANS: Jammu and Kashmir (J&K)
Desh Bandhu Gupta, who passed away recently, was the
Which state government of India has won the prestigious founder and chairman of which pharmaceutical
UN Public Service Award for year 2017? company?
ANS: West Bengal ANS: Lupin
Which state government will launched ‘My Plant’ mobile Manushi Chhilla has become the 2017 Femina Miss India
app on tree plantation? World. She hails from which state?
ANS: Maharashtra ANS: Haryana
Who has been appointed as the new Deputy Chairman of Which committee has been constituted to draft the final
the International Cricket Council (ICC) board? National Education Policy (NEP) document?
ANS: Imran Khawaja ANS: K Kasturirangan committee
What is the 2017 theme of International Day of Seafarer?

ANS: Seafarers Matter ANS: Roger Federer
Which Indian movie has won the Best Action Movie The headquarters of the World Taekwondo
Ta Federation
award at the Shanghai International Film
ilm Festival (SIFF)? (WTF) is located in which country?
ANS: Sultan ANS: South Korea
What is the theme of the 2017 International Day against Which Indian sportsperson will be conferred with the
Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking? best Sportsperson of the Year Award by the Sports
ANS: Listen First Journalists Federation of India (SJFI)?
ANS: P V Sindhu
Which Indian shuttler has won the Australian Open Super
Series Badminton trophy? Which Indian sportsperson
sperson will be conferred with the East
ANS: Kidambi Srikanth Bengal football club’s highest honour “Bharat Gaurav”?
ANS: Dhanraj Pillay
Who has become the first turbaned Sikh woman to be
appointed as Canada’s Supreme Court judge? What is the India’s rank in the 2017 Social Progress Index
ANS: Palbinder Kaur Shergill (SPI)?
ANS: 93rd
Which Indian shooter has bagged gold in the Women’s
10m Air Pistol at the ISSF Junior World Rifle/Pistol The first-ever
ever International MSME Day 2017 has
Championship? celebrated on which day?
ANS: Yashaswini Singh Deswal ANS: June 27
Who has been appointed as the new Prime Minister of The Uttar Pradesh government has signed how much
Romania? amount of ADB loan for improving roads in the state?
ANS: Mihai Tudose ANS: Rs 1,950 crore
Who has become the first Indian to complete the 4,900

4,900- Which committee has been constituted by BCCI to study
km Race Across America (RAAM) in solo category? contentious issues in implementing Lodha panel
pan reforms?
ANS: Srinivas Gokulnath ANS: Rajeev Shukla committee
The World Bank has approved how much loan amount to Who is the new President of International Economic
aid the Skill India mission? Association (IEA)?
ANS: $250-million ANS: Kaushik Basu
Who has been appointed as the new President of the O N Dhar, the veteran figure and former bureaucrat has
India International Centre (IIC)? passed away in which city?
ANS: NN Vohra ANS: New Delhi
Who is the author of the book “The Emergency

Emergency-Indian Which city has been
en designated as the UNESCO World
Democracy’s Darkest Hour”? Book Capital 2019?
ANS: Surya Prakash ANS: Sharjah
Which city will host the 2017 Whatashort Independent Which committee has been formed by the Maharashta
International Film Festival (WIIFF)? Government for Padma Awards 2018?
ANS: New Delhi ANS: Ram Shinde committee
Who has won the 2017 Gerry Weber Open tennis The Dudhwa National Park is located in which state?
tournament ? ANS: Uttar Pradesh

Who has been appointed as the new chairman of Who has beenn appointed as the new Chief Secretary of
National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT)? Uttar Pradesh?
ANS: Rajesh Shah ANS: Rajiv Kumar
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has colloborated Which Indian state has been conferred with the award of
with which social media platform to launch nationwide excellence at the 2nd Global Skill Development Summit
“Voter Registration Reminder”? (GSDM – 2017)?
ANS: Facebook ANS: Uttarakhand
Which Indian state is hosting the 2017 Asian Athletics Which union minister has launched
launch a new training
Championships? programme “COMMIT” for State Government officials?
ANS: Odisha ANS: Jitendra Singh
Which country has officially started building the world’s Which Indian company has signed pact with Japanese
first forest city? firm Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd (KHI) to make steel
ANS: China metro coaches?
ANS: BHEL
Which country to host the 12th edition of G20 summit?
ANS: Germany What is the theme of the 2017
7 National Statistics Day
(NSD)?
Which Indian American personality has been appointed ANS: Administrative Statistics
as new US Ambassador to Peru?
ANS: Krishna R Urs India’s largest Fresh water aquarium has opened in which
state?
Who has become the new member of Union Public ANS: Jharkhand
Service Commission (UPSC)?
ANS: Manoj Soni India has donated how much amount to UN Tax fund on
tax matters for developing nations?
Which Indian Bollywood actress has been appointed
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Skill India campaign? Who will be the new Chief Election Commissioner (CEC)
ANS: Priyanka Chopra of India?
ANS: Achal Kumar Jyoti
Who has become the ambassador of the 2017 Indian Film
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The 2017 National Doctors Day (NDD) is celebrated on
Which of the following Indian American personalities will
which date in India?
be honoured with the 2017 “Great Immigrants: The Pride
ANS: July 1
of America” award?
ANS: Shantanu Narayen and Vivek Murthy
India’s biggest Global Skill Park will be set up in which
city?
Who has been appointed as the new Economic Relations
ANS: Bhopal
Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)?
ANS: Vijay Gokhale
Who has become the first female Chief Executive of Hong
Kong?
Who has taken charge ass the new Director General of the
ANS: Carrie Lam
Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)?
ANS: RK Pachnanda
India’s tallest Air Traffic Control (ATC) tower will be
operational at which airport?
Minaketan Das, the noted film actor has passed away. He
ANS: Indira Gandhi International Airport
was associated with which film industry?
ANS: Odia
What is the India’s economic growth rate in terms of
Gross Value Added (GVA) in 2017-18,
2017 as per RBI’s
Simone Veil, the iconic European feminist politician
Financial Stability Report (FSR) June 2017?
passed
assed away. She hailed from which country?
ANS: 7.3%
ANS: France
The World Sports Journalist Day (WSJD) is observed on
Who has been conferred with the 2017 Best astrologer of
which date?
the world award?
ANS: July 2
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has
India has signed how much amount of loan agreement approved how much amount of loan to build roads
roa in
with ADB for improving road connectivity and efficiency Gujarat?
in Rajasthan? ANS: $329 million
ANS: $220 million
The 2017 Save Public Sector Banks Day (SPSBD) will be
The 2017 International Plastic Bag Free Day (IPBFD) is celebrated on which date in India?
observed on which date? ANS: July 19
ANS: July 3
Which state government has launched ‘Elevate 100’
Who has become the first female Prime Minister of scheme to identify and nurture innovative start-ups?
start
Serbia? ANS: Karnataka
ANS: Ana Brnabic
Who has been appointed as the new chief of the National
Who has become the first Indian to win in the FIA Disaster Response Force (NDRF)?
Formula 3 European Championship? ANS: Sanjay Kumar
ANS: Jehan Daruvala
The 2017 Indo-Thai
Thai joint military exercise “Maitree” has
What is the India’s rank in money hoarded in Swiss banks started in which Indian state?
in 2016, as per analysis by the Swiss National Bank (SNB)? ANS: Himachal Pradesh
ANS: 88th
Which union misiter has launched MERIT app and e- e
Which Indian commodity exchange will merge with Indian bidding portal for providing e--Bidding solution to States
Commodity Exchange (ICEX)? to select Independent Power Producers (IPPs)?
Commodity Exchange of India Ltd
ANS: National Multi-Commodity ANS: Piyush Goyal
Which state government has launched “G-Ride”,

Ride”, a digital The 2017 Dree festival has recently celebrated in which
ride sharing app for techies? state of India?
ANS: Kerala ANS: Arunachal Pradesh
Which Indian NGO has won the 2017 UNDP Equator Prize The Wilpattu
ilpattu National Park (WNP) is located in which
for sustainable farming model? country?
ANS: Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP) ANS: Sri Lanka
Which city is hosting the 9th edition of Delhi Dialogue? Which Indian city is hosting the International conference
ANS: New Delhi on sports “CII ScoreCard 2017”?
ANS: New Delhi
The Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) is located in
which state? Which Indian athlete was the flag bearer for the Indian
ANS: Maharashtra contingent in the
he 22nd Asian Athletics Championship
(AAC)-2017?
Which union minister has launched a month--long ANS: Tintu Luka
plantation drive to mark Van Mahotsav-2017?
2017?
ANS: Harsh Vardhan Which state government has signed an Expression of
Intent (EOI) with IAAF and Athletics Federation of India
Who has been appointed as the new Chairman of Indian (AFI) to establish a High Performance Academy?
Institute of Management (IIM) Amritsar? ANS: Odisha
ANS: Sanjay Gupta

Which country’s team has won the 2017 Asian Team What is the India’s GDP growth forecast for FY 18, as per
Snooker Championship? latest report by BMI Research?
ANS: India ANS: 6.9%
Who is the newly appointed Chief Election Commissioner Indus OS has partnered with which Indian Bank to launch
(CEC)? an OS-integrated
integrated UPI payment platform?
ANS: Achal Kumar Jyoti ANS: YES Bank
20 Summit
Which city is hosting the 12th edition of G-20 The 2017 Malabar trilateral naval exercise has started
2017? between India and which of the following countries?
ANS: Hamburg ANS: United States and Japan
Who will become the new Ambassador of India to the Who lead the Indian delegation in the 5th edition of
Republic of Indonesia? BRICS Education Ministers’ Meeting-2017?
Meeting
ANS: Pradeep Kumar Rawat ANS: Prakash Javadeka
Which country is hosting the 7th edition of BRICS Health The Karian Shola National Park (KSNP) is located in which
Ministers’ Meeting-2017? state?
ANS: China ANS: Tamil Nadu
The Guindy National Park (GNP) is located in which state? Which Indian city has been declared as a World
Wo Heritage
ANS: Tamil Nadu City (WHC) by UNESCO?
ANS: Ahmedabad
Which Indian Institute has been ranked 2nd in the 2016
ICCG Top Climate Think Tanks in the Rest of the World – Which Indian music composer has been shortlisted for
Absolute Ranking? the 2017 World Soundtrack Awards – a public choice
ANS: The Energy Resources Institute (TERI) award?
ANS: A R Rahman
What is the India’s rank in the 2017 Global Cybersecurity
Index (GCI)? Which Indian-origin
origin personality has been honoured with
ANS: 23rd the highest civilian
lian award “Order of Australia” in Australia
for community work?
Govindan Laxman, who has won gold at the 2017 Asian ANS: Guruswamy Jayraman
Athletics Championships (AAC), is associated with which
sports? Which city hosted the first edition of WINGS 2017 – “Sab
ANS: Sprint Uden, Sab Juden” to expand regional connectivity?
ANS: New Delhi
Who is the newly appointed Chairman of IIT-Kharagpur?
Kharagpur?
ANS: Sanjiv Goenka Which city to host the 2017 World Food
Foo India (WFI)?
ANS: New Delhi
The student scientist connect program “Jigyasa”
Jigyasa” has
officially launched in which city? Saima Wazed Hossain has been appointed as WHO
ANS: New Delhi goodwill ambassador for Autism in South-East
South Asia
Region. She hails from which country?
India’s first university only for Dalit students will come up ANS: Bangladesh
in which city?
ANS: Hyderabad Which country to host 2017 World Petroleum Congress
(WPC) International
nal Conference?
ANS: Turkey

Who has clinched the 2017 South Australian Open Squash Sudha Singh, who has won gold at
a the 2017 Asian
tournament? Athletics Championships (AAC), is associated with which
ANS: Harinder Pal Sandhu sports?
ANS: Steeplechase
Mohammad Anas, who has won gold at the 2017 Asian
Athletics Championships (AAC), is associated with which Who is the newly elected president of the National Rifle
sports? Association of India (NRAI)?
ANS: Sprint ANS: Raninder Singh
Which union minister has launched GST Rates Finder app Which country is hosting the 2017 SAARC Ministers
Min of
to verify accurate tax rate under GST regime? Law and Order (Interior/ Home Affairs) meeting?
ANS: Arun Jaitley ANS: Sri Lanka
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(JAN, FEB, MAR & APR)
service module ‘Aaykar Setu’?
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FB Page www.facebook.com//wbcs17 Which state government has signed MoU with Union
Which city is hosting the National Conference of NITI Ministry of Health to set up Centre of Excellence in
Aayog? Transfusion Medicine?
ANS: New Delhi ANS: West Bengal
Who has become first Indian to finish toughest cycl

cycle race Mangesh Tendulkar, the renowned cartoonist has passed
Race Across America (RAAM) in solo category? away. He hailed from which state?
ANS: Srinivas Gokulnath ANS: Maharashtra
Who has been appointed as the head of the Indian What is the theme of the 2017 World Population Day
consulate in New York? (WPD)?
ANS: Sandeep Chakravorty ANS: Family Planning- Empowering People, Developing
Nations
Who is the newly elected President of Mongolia?
ANS: Khaltmaagiin Battulga Which company has been conferred with the Golden
Peacock Environment Management Award (GPEMA)?
Sumita Sanyal, who passed away recently, was associated ANS: Danfoss India
to which field?
ANS: Film Industry Which country is hosting the 2017 Family Planning
Summit (FPS)?
Which steel firm has won the Prime Minister’s trophy for ANS: United Kingdom
‘Best Performing Integrated Steel Plant’ in 2015
2015-16?
ANS: Tata Steel Ltd Who has been appointed as new Director General of
Goods and Services Tax Intelligence (DG GSTI)?
Who is the newly appointed director-general
general of the ANS: John Joseph
Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI)?
ANS: Debi Prasad Dash Which state government to host the 2017 International
conference on “Reclaiming Social Justice, Revisiting
Which IIT institute hosted the 2017 International Ambedkar”?
Conference on Financial Markets and Corporate Finance? ANS: Karnataka
ANS: IIT Kharagpur

Who has won the 2017 Formula One Austrian Grand Prix Which country will become the world’s largest milk
tournament? producer by 2026, as per latest “OECD-FAO
“OECD Agricultural
ANS: Valtteri Bottas Outlook 2017-2026” report?
ANS: India
Which state has become the India’s first state to launch
free injectable contraceptive for women? Which country has been selected by IUCN for the
ANS: Maharashtra construction of the world’s first saola breeding centre?
ANS: Vietnam
American
Which Indian bank has tied up with Inter-American
Investment
tment Corporation (IIC) to boost trade with Latin India’s first Technology and Innovation Support Center
America? (TISC) will be set up in which state?
ANS: Axis Bank ANS: Punjab
Who has taken charge as new secretary of the Which state hosted the National conference on crowd
Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) in the finance management?
ministry? ANS: Kerala
ANS: Subhash Garg
Who has become the first woman
man cricketer to score 6000
Which state government has recently launched Live
Livelihood runs in women’s ODI cricket?
Intervention and Facilitation of Entrepreneurship (LIFE)? ANS: Mithali Raj
ANS: Meghalaya
Ray Phiri, the Jazz legend has passed away. He hailed
Which country is hosting the 22nd World Petroleum from which country?
Congress (WPC) International Conference? ANS: South Africa
ANS: Turkey
The National Gandhi Museum (NGM) is located in which
Which state has become the first Indian state to fix city?
minimum education
ation qualification for cooperative body ANS: New Delhi
poll?
ANS: Rajasthan Whichh country to host 8th Edition of Theatre Olympics
‘The Biggest Theatre Celebration of the World’?
Which state government has formed committee to study ANS: India
legalities for separate state flag?
ANS: Karnataka The Indian Railways has launched which virtual server to
optimise server usage and faster connectivity?
Which Indian sportsperson has been honoured with the ANS: RailCloud
Maruti Suzuki Living Legend of the Year award 2017?
ANS: Milkha Singh The Murlen National Park is located in which state?
ANS: Mizoram
The Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary is located in which state?
ANS: Karnataka What is the India’s rank in the 2017 Sustainable
Development Goal (SDG) Index?
IROAF has won the 2017 Golden Peacock Award for Eco ANS: 116th
Innovation. What does “IROAF” stands for?
ANS: Indian Railways Organization forr Alternate Fuel India’s first high-speed
speed rail training centre will set up in
(IROAF) which state?
ANS: Gujarat

Who has been appointed

ed as the new Chairperson of
Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC)? India’s first solar-powered
powered 1600 HP DEMU train has
ANS: Vikramajit Sen launched from which railway station?
ANS: Safdarjung railway station
Liu Xiaobo, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate has passed
away. He hailed from which country? What is the theme of 2017 World Youth Skills Day
ANS: China (WYSD)?
S: Skills for the Future of Work
ANS:
Who has been conferred the 2017 Personality of the Year
award by Skoch Consultancy Services (SCS)? Sundar Singh, who has won gold at the 2017 World Para
ANS: Kishore Sansi Athletics Championships, is associated with which sports?
ANS: Javelin throw
Which state has become the first Indian state to make
social boycott a crime? Who has won the 2017 women’s singles Wimbledon
ANS: Maharashtra tennis tournament?
ANS: Garbine Muguruza
Which state government will set up modern ornamental
fish hatchery in the state? Who is the author of the book “President’s Lady”
ANS: Haryana (Pranaber Preyosi)?
ANS: Sangeeta Ghosh
Which country hosted the 2017 Everest International
Model United Nations (EIMUN) Regional Conference? The Rowa Wildlife Sanctuary (RWS) is located in which
ANS: Nepal state?
ANS: Tripura
Who is the author of the book “Narendra Modi: The
Making of a Legend”? Who has been sworn-in
in as the new Chief Justice of
ANS: Bindeshwar Pathak Nepal?
ANS: Gopal Prasad Parajuli
The Pangolakha Wildlife Sanctuary
tuary (PWS) is located in
which state?
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ANS: Sikkim
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Which country has renamed part of the South China Sea
as the North Natuna Sea? FB Page www.faceb
book.com/wbcs17
ANS: Indonesia The 2017 United Nations Peacekeeping Course for African
Partners (UNPCAP-02)
02) has started in which Indian city?
Indian Railways has launched an integrated mobile app ANS: New Delhi
“Rail Saarthi” for railway passengers. What does “Saarthi”
stands for? Maryam Mirzakhani, the renowned mathematician
ANS: Synergised Advanced Application Rail Travel Help passed away. She hails from which country?
and Information ANS: Iran
Who has been appointed the new brand ambassador of Who has won the 2017 men’s singles Wimbledon tennis
the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC)? tournament?
ANS: Bilal Dar ANS: Roger Federer
Which Indian-origin
origin personality has been appoin
appointed as Who has won the 2017 Formula One British Grand Prix
the new UNICEF’s Global Goodwill Ambassador? tournament?
ANS: Lilly Singh ANS: Lewis Hamilton

India’s first bio-methane

methane bus has been manufactured by
Damneet Singh, who has won silver at the 2017 IAFF which Indian company?
World U-18 Athletics Championship, is associated
ociated with ANS: Tata Motors Ltd.
which sports?
ANS: Hammer throw Thangjam Tababi Devi has won gold at the 2017 Asian
Cadet
det Judo Championship (ACJC). She hails from which
Nar Bahadur Bhandari, who passed away recently, was Indian state?
the former Chief Minister of which Indian state? ANS: Manipu
ANS: Sikkim
The Dachigam National Park (DNP) is located in which
Who has won the 2017 Victorian Open Squash state?
tournament? ANS: Jammu and Kashmir (J&K)
ANS: Harinder Pal Sandhu
judge Constitution bench of the
Who is the head of the 9-judge
ever National Masters snooker
Who has won the first-ever Supreme Court (SC) to determine
termine whether privacy is a
tournament-2017? fundamental right or not under the Constitution?
ANS: I H Manudev ANS: J S Khehar
The Kalesar National Park (KNP) is located in which state? Who has been sworn-in
in as the new chief minister of
ANS: Haryana Nagaland?
ANS: TR Zeliang
Who has been given additional charge of Ministry of
Information and Broadcasting (I&B)? The Government of India (GoI) has launched which low-
low
ANS: Smriti Irani cost screening device to detect congenital hearing loss in
newborns?
Who has won the 2017 under-15
15 girls Dutch Open Junior ANS: Sohum
Squash Championship?
ANS: Ananya Dabke Amit Saroha, who has won silver at the 2017 World Para
Athletics Championship, is associated with which sports?
The 2017 World Day for International Justice (WDIJ) is ANS: Club throw
observed on which day?
ANS: July 17 Which country to host the 2022 World Short Course
Swimming Championships?
Which railway station has become the India’s first station ANS: Russia
to run by all women staff?
ANS: Matunga railway station Who has been conferred with a fellowship by the
Department of Culture, Government of India (GoI)?
Which Bollywood actress has won the 2017 IIFA Women ANS: Nandakishore Kapote
of the Year award?
ANS: Tapsee Pannu Antim Yadav has won bronze at the 2017 Commonwealth
Youth Games (CYG). He hails from which Indian state?
state
The 2017 Nelson Mandela International Day (NMID) is ANS: Madhya Pradesh
observed on which day?
ANS: July 18 Which mobile app has been launched by UIDAI to carry
unique identification profile on mobile?
Which
ich portal has been launched by the State Bank of ANS: mAadhaar app
India (SBI) for home buyers?
ANS: SBI Realty

Who has topped a poll of the most powerful Arab women ANS: Assam
in government 2017, according to latest Forbes Middle
East report? Which new pension scheme has been launched by the
ANS: Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi Union Government for the senior citizens?
ANS: Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana (PMVVY)
The Nahar Wildlife Sanctuary (NWS) is located in which
state? Which State Civil Secretariat has become the India’s first
ANS: Haryana secretariat to be fully under wireless
wirele coverage?
ANS: Arunachal Pradesh
The Union Cabinet has given ex-post
post facto approval to
IRDAI – IAIS pact for information exchange. What does Which state to host the 5th North East Connectivity
“IAIS” stands for? Summit-2018?
nternational Association of Insurance Supervisors
ANS: International ANS: Arunachal Pradesh
Who has been honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Which country to host 5th Global Conference on Cyber
(LTA) award for his contributions as a Lok Sabha Space (GCCS)-2017?
member? ANS: India
ANS: LK Advani
Who has been appointed as secretary to
t President-elect
Which state government has launched “Janahitha” to Ram Nath Kovind?
receive complaints from public? ANS: Sanjay Kothari
ANS: Telangana
Who has been appointed as the first female President of
The Union Government has approved climate change the Supreme Court (SC) in United Kingdom (UK)?
projects for which three states under NAFCC? ANS: Brenda Marjorie Hale
ANS: Rajasthan, Gujarat and Sikkim
Which state to host 5th South India Writers Ensemble
What is the India’s projected growth rate for 2017, as per (SIWE) literary festival?
supplement of Asian Development Bank (ADB)ADB) Outlook ANS: Kerala
2017?
ANS: 7.4% Karamjyoti Dalal, who has won bronze medal at the 2017
World Para Athletics Championships, is associated with
Odisha’s longest road bridge “Netaji Subhas Chandra which sports?
Bose Setu” has built over which tributary of the ANS: Discus-throw
Mahanadi River?
ANS: Kathajodi river Which state will have India’s first Eco-friendly
Eco bridges for
the movement of tigers?
Fanaceso Totti, the legendary footballer has announced ANS: Telangana
his retirement. He hails from which country?
ANS: Italy The Mouling National Park (MNP) is located in which
state?
Which state will be the focus state at the 2017 World ANS: Arunachal Pradesh
Food India (WFI)?
ANS: West Bengal Which union ministry has launched an online complaint
system “sexual harassment e-box”
box” at workplace?
The 1817 Paika rebellion was held in which Indian state? ANS: Ministry of Women and Child Development
Developm
ANS: Odisha
The Nameri National Park (NNP) is located in which state

state?

Which oil company will operate India’s first petroleum

R&D facility for testing high-end BS-VI
VI quality fuel Which mobile app has been launched by the Union
emissions? Government for road maintenance?
ANS: Indian Oil Corp (IOC) ANS: Aarambh
India has recently signed pact which country to connect Which metro will become the India’s first metro to have
both the countries by waterways? its own FM radio station?
ANS: Bangladesh ANS: Lucknow Metro
Which country is hosting the 2017 Asian Youth & Junior Sachin Siwach, who won gold at the 2017 World Para
Weightlifting Championships? Athletics Championships, is associated with which sports?
ANS: Nepal ANS: Boxing
Who has clinched the 2017 Men’s singles US Open Grand Who has been chosen as the captain of the ICC Women’s
Prix Gold badminton tournament? World Cup 2017 team?
ANS: H S Prannoy ANS: Mithali Raj
The 2017 National Broadcasting Day (NBD) is celebrated Prof. Yash Pal, who passed away recently, was the
on which date in India? famous scientist from which field?
ANS: July 23 ANS: Physics
Dr. U R Rao, the internationally acclaimed scientist has Konsam Ormila Devi is associated with which sports?
passed away. He was the former chairman of which ANS: Weightlifting
organisation?
ANS: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) The Sri Venkateshwara National Park is located in which
state?
Who will be new spokesperson off the Ministry of External ANS: Andhra Pradesh
Affairs (MEA)?
ANS: Raveesh Kumar The 18th anniversary
niversary of ‘Kargil Vijay Diwas’ has
celebrated on which day in India?
Varun Bhati, who won bronze at the 2017 World Para ANS: July 26
Athletics Championships, is associated with which sports?
ANS: High Jump Which country is hosting the 2017 BRICS Youth Forum
(BYF)?
Which union minister has inaugurated RIWATCH Museum ANS: China
in Arunachal Pradesh?
ANS: Kiren Rijiju Which country has recently declared total independence
from IMF and World Bank (WB)?
Which country to host the men’s World Boxing ANS: Bolivia
Championship in 2021?
ANS: India The United Nations has selected which city as data hub
for Middle East North Africa and South Asia (MENASA)
What is the India’s rank in the new global Commitment to region?
Reducing Inequality (CRI) index? ANS: Dubai
ANS: 132nd
Which state government has signed MoU with Airport
Mervyn Rose, the well-known tennis player
layer passed away. Authority of India (AAI) for aviation development?
He hailed from which country? ANS: Uttarakhand
ANS: Australia

Which union minister has chaired the first-ever

ever meeting ANS: Bandaru Dattatreya
of the newly constituted Islands Development Agency
(IDA)? The GST council has formed which committee to select
ANS: Rajnath Singh members of National Anti-profiteering
profiteering Authority (NAPA)
under GST?
Who has been appointed as India’s alternate Governor on ANS: Pradeep Kumar Sinha
the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank
(ADB)? Who has been honoured with the Life Time Excellence
ANS: Subhash Chandra Garg Award
ard at the 2017 National Earth System Sciences (NESS)
awards?
Kylie Masse, who won women’s 100m backstroke gold at ANS: K. Gopalan
the 2017 World Aquatics Championships, is associated
with which country? The Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary is located in which state?
ANS: Canada ANS: Karnataka
Who has been honoured with the 2017 Mahanayak India’s first bullet train project “MAHSR” will be built with
Samman? the help of which country?
ANS: Shakuntala Barua ANS: Japan
The Fakim Wildlife Sanctuary is located in which state? Which metro will launch India’s first mobile ticketing
ANS: Nagaland system?
ANS: Mumbai Metro
Which country is hosting the 2017 BRICS National
Security Advisors (NSAs) meeting? Which Indian bank has acquired Snapdeal-owned
Snapdeal mobile
ANS: China wallet FreeCharge?
ANS: Axis Bank
Which high court has made National song ‘Vande
Mataram’ mandatory in Tamil Nadu schools?
ools? Ajay Singh, who has won bronze at the Asian Youth and
ANS: Madras High Court Junior Weightliftingg Championships, is associated with
which men’s junior category?
Dharam Singh, who passed away recently, was the former ANS: 77kg category
Chief Minister of which state?
ANS: Karnataka Which technological giant has launched Kaizala – a
productivity app to empower Indian organizations?
Where is the headquarters of Dredging Corporation of ANS: Microsoft
India Limited?
ANS: Visakhapatnam Where is the headquarters of the Small Industries
Industrie
Development Bank of India (SIDBI)?
Which Indian organisation has
as designed and build the Dr ANS: Lucknow
APJ Abdul Kalam memorial?
ANS: Defence Research and Development Organisation Which of the following Indian cities are in the 2017 Dell
(DRDO) Global Women Entrepreneur Cities (WE Cities) Index?
ANS: Bengaluru and Delhi
in as the new Chief Minister of
Bihar? What is the theme of the 2017 World Hepatitis Day
ANS: Nitish Kumar (WHD)?
ANS: Eliminate Hepatitis
Who has led Indian delegation at the 2017 BRICS Labour
& Employment Ministers’ Meet?

The Union Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) has

launched which app for dissemination of earthquake The Union government has recently launched “Jiyo Parsi
parameters? Publicity Phase-2”
2” scheme in which state?
ANS: India Quake ANS: Maharashtra
The Rajaji National Park (RNP) is located in which state? Who has been appointed as the part-time
part member of the
ANS: Uttarakhand board of Insurance Regulatory and Development
Authority of India (IRDA)?
Which state governmentt has launched its flagship health ANS: Ravi Mittal
scheme “Care Companion Programme (CCP)”?
ANS: Punjab Which Indian sportsperson has won bronze in the Under-
Under
7 rapid championship at the 2017 Asian Schools Chess
Which state prisons department has proposed to Championship (ASCC)?
accommodate prisoners from overcrowded prisons in ANS: Aditya Patil
India?
ANS: Telangana Which country is the world’s largest exporter of beef, as
per recenlty released OECD-FAO
FAO Agricultural Outlook
Which country is not taking part in the 7th
th edition of 2017-2026 report?
SAARC Artists Camp and Exhibition of Paintings? ANS: Brazil
ANS: Afghanistan
Which government agency has developed India’s first
Lovepreet Singh, who has won bronze at the Asian Youth unmanned tank “Muntra”?
and Junior Weightlifting Championships, is associated ANS: Defence Research and Development Organisation
with which men’s junior category? (DRDO)
ANS: 105kg category
K E Mammen, the notedd Gandhian and freedom fighter
nara Bank has launched its first digital banking
The Canara has passed away. He hailed from which state?
branch “CANDI” in which city? ANS: Kerala
ANS: Bengaluru
Which state government has recenltly banned use Of
Which country to host the 2018 Asian Football Liquid Nitrogen in Drinks & food items?
Confederation (AFC) U-19 championship? ANS: Haryana
ANS: Indonesia
Gaurav Bidhuri is associated with which sports?
Which Indian metro has become the world’s first ANS: Boxing
completely green metro system?
ANS: Delhi Metro What is the theme of the 2017 World Day against
Trafficking in Persons?
The 2017 Global Tiger Day (GTD) is observed on which ANS: Act to protect and assist trafficked persons
date?
ANS: July 29 The Indravati National Park (INP) is located in which
state?
Which country has successfully launched satellite
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Rojgar” scheme for jobless youth? production
ANS: Punjab
Which of the following firms has been recently named as
Who has won the 2017 Formula One Hungarian Grand the world’s biggest private equity firm?
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ANS: Sebastian Vettel
Which of the following currencies is not included in the
Which IIT institute has invented a low-cost
cost dirt detector Special Drawing Rights (SDR) Currency Basket?
that alerts authorities when a place needs cleaning?
leaning? ANS: Indian Rupee
ANS: IIT Kharagpur
Which of the following statements is correct about the
Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer-winning
winning playwright passed chairperson of Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)?
away. He hailed from which country? ANS: RBI Governor is the ex officio
offic Chairperson of the
ANS: United States committee
Hussain Sayeeduddin Dagar, the noted Dhrupad Maestro Which of the following was the first paper currency
passed away. He hailed from which state? issued by RBI?
ANS: Rajasthan ANS: Rs 5 Note
Which
ch city to host the 2024 Summer Olympics?

At which of the following places printing press of Reserve Which Indian has become the Asia’s second richest man,
Bank of India is present? according to latest Bloomberg Billionaires Index (BBI)?
ANS: Nashik, Dewas, Salbon ANS: Mukesh Ambani
India Index of
The base year for the calculation of all-India BB Shivappa, the noted Indian political leader passed
Industrial Production (IIP) is: away. He hailed from which state?
ANS: 2011-12 ANS: Karnataka
Which of the following industries is covered in the Index Which international organisation has recently released
of Eight Core Industries? 2017 ICT Facts and Figures report?
ANS: Coal, Crude Oil, Natural Gas, Refinery Products, ANS: International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Fertilizers, Steel, Cement and Electricity
The Pushpagiri Wildlife Sanctuary (PWS) is located in
Which of the following are example of complementary which state?
goods? ANS: Karnataka
ANS: Printers and Ink Cartridges, Tea and Sugar and
Mobile phones and SIM cards Which committee has been constituted by the SEBI on
fair market conduct?
The 2017 Aadi Perukku festival is celebrated in which ANS: T.K. Viswanathan committee
Indian state?
ANS: Tamil Nadu Who has been appointed as the new chairman of the
Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)?
Who has been named as the new secretary general of the ANS: Dhirendra Swarup
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and
Industry (FICCI)? Who is the newly elected Prime Minister of Papua New
ANS: Sanjaya Baru Guinea?
ANS: Peter O’Neill
Indian Army has developed which mobile app for soldiers
to track promotions and postings? The 2nd Agri UDAAN, food & agribusiness accelerator
ANS: Humraaz app program has launched from which city?
ANS: New Delhi
Who has been sworn-in as the new President of Iran?
ANS: Hassan Rouhani Manju Kumari, who has won bronze in the Junior World
Wrestling Championship, is related to which category?
Which Indian sportsperson has been honored with the ANS: 59kg category
East Bengal football club’s highest honour “Bharat
Gaurav”? The Maharashtra government has constituted committee
ANS: Dhanraj Pillay on safety measures for women in IT sector?
ANS: Rashmi Shukla committee
What is the theme of 2017 World Breastfeeding Week
(WBW)? Which state government has launched Aadhaar-
Aadhaar
ANS: Sustaining Breastfeeding Together authenticated Direct Benefit Transfer portal “MahaDBT”?
ANS: Maharashtra
ANS: England
Who has been appointed as the new CMD of Small
Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI)? The Chimmini Wildlife Sanctuary (CWS) is located in
ANS: Mohammad Mustafa which state?
ANS: Kerala
Which city hosted the 2017 meeting of BRICS Trade
Ministers? Ankur Mittal is associated with which sports?
sports
ANS: Shanghai ANS: Shooting
The Pin Valley National Park (PVNP) is located in which Who has been appointed as new Executive Director of
state? the World Bank (WB) to represent the constituency of
ANS: Himachal Pradesh India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka?
ANS: S. Aparna
India has recently signed how much amount of loan pact
with AIIB for Gujarat road project? The 2017 National Handloom Day (NHD) is celebrated on
ANS: $329 million which date?
ANS: August 7
India’s first private sector missile sub-systems
systems
manufacturing facility has set up in which city? Who has been appointed as the brand ambassador for
ANS: Hyderabad Swachh Bharat Mission in Uttar Pradesh?
ANS: Akshay Kumar
Chairman of NITI Aayog?
Who has will be the new Vice-Chairman
ANS: Rajiv Kumar Sajan, who bagged a bronze at the Junior World
Wrestling Championships, is related to which Greco-
Greco
Which country to host the 15th meeting of the Foreign Roman category?
Ministers of BIMSTEC countries? ANS: 74kg class category
ANS: Nepal
India’s first helicopter-taxi
taxi service will start in which city?
Which committee has recently submitted report on ANS: Bengaluru
institutionalization of arbitration mechanism in India?
ANS: BN Srikrishna committee Where is the headquarters of the Indira Gandhi National
Forest Academy (IGNFA)?
Who has been appointed as the new Ambassador of India ANS: Dehradun
to the Republic of Kazakhstan?
ANS: Prabhat Kumar Who has won the 2017 Rwandan presidential election?
ANS: Paul Kagame
Microsoft has tied up with which Indian state to use its
AI-based MINE platform to screen children
en for eye Who has been selected for the 2017 Prem Nazir Award?
problems? ANS: Sharada
ANS: Telangana
Which Indian institute has developed a highly sensitive
Robert Hard, the noted actor has passed away. He hailed nanometre-scale
scale carbon monoxide sensor?
from which country? ANS: Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru
The Nal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary (NSBS) is located in which

The Pampadum Shola National
al Park (PSNP) is located in state?
which state? ANS: Gujarat
ANS: Kerala
Kynan Chenai has won bronze in men’s trap event at the
ISRO and NASA are jointly working on which mission to 7th Asian Championship Shotgun. He hails from which
launch dual frequency SAR satellite by 2021? city?
ANS: NISAR ANS: Hyderabad
Which country to host the 8th edition of Global t, the former Union minister has passed
Sanwar Lal Jat,
Entrepreneurship Summit (GES)? away. He hailed from which state?
ANS: India ANS: Rajasthan
Which union minister has recently launched a Swachh India’s first micro forest will be built in which state?
Survekshan (Gramin) -2017? ANS: Chattisgarh
ANS: Narendra Singh Tomar
Which city to host the 2017 India – ASEAN Youth summit?
Which country is hosting the 2017 FIBA Asia ANS: Bhopal
Championship?
ANS: Lebanon Shapath Bhardwaj
waj has become the India’s youngest
athlete to be named in the Target Olympic Podium (TOP)
Where is the headquarters of the Bureau of Police scheme. He is associated with which sports?
Research and Development (BPRD)? ANS: Shooting
ANS: New Delhi
Which fish has been officially declared as one of the
Which team has won the 2017 All-India MCC--Murugappa rarest species of fish in the world by the Marine Living
Gold Cup hockey tournament? Resources Department of Andhra University?
ANS: Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) ANS: Rayichapalu
The ‘Dawn of cruise tourism in India’ has launched in Which Indian-origin

origin personality will be honoured with the
which city to promote cruise tourism
sm in India? 2017 Asia Game Changers Award?
ANS: Mumbai ANS: Dev Patel
Amazon India has signed a MoU with which state What is the India’s rank in the 2017 Natixis Global
handloom department to educate weavers and artisans Retirement Index (GRI)?
to directly sell their products to Amazon customers? ANS: 43rd
ANS: Telangana
The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
Who has been appointed as the new Chief Justice of India is observed on which date?
(CJI)? ANS: August 9
ANS: Dipak Misra
The Keoladeo National Park (KNP) is located in which
state?
ANS: Rajasthan fledged niche Earth observation

ISRO will launch a full-fledged
(EO) satellite “HySIS” to enable distinct identification of
The 15th meeting of the Foreign Ministers of BIMSTEC objects from space. What does “HySIS” stands for?
countries has started in which city? ANS: Hyperspectral Imaging Satellite
ANS: Kathmandu
The Oxford University
versity Press (OUP) has recently launched
Rinku Hooda, who won silver at the World U--20 Para online dictionaries in which of the following Indian
Athletics Championships, is associated with which sports? languages?
ANS: Javelin throw ANS: Tamil and Gujarati
The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) has M Venkaiah Naidu has been sworn-in
sworn as 13th Vice
launched Android Skill Development programme with President of India. He hails from which state?
which tech giant? ANS: Andhra Pradesh
ANS: Google
Who has been chosen for the first-ever
first Kesari Media
Which state government has launched a new awareness Award?
drive “Namami Gange Jagriti Yatra”? ANS: T J S George
ANS: Uttar Pradesh
SEBI has recently allowed Multi Commodity Exchange of
Which state will become the India’s first state to India (MCX) to launch gold options. The headquarters of
implement coal utilisation between
en power units? MCX is located in which city?
ANS: Gujarat ANS: Mumbai
Which parliamentary panel has recently recommended Who is the chairman of the All India Council for Technical
100% pension to widow of deceased soldier? Education (AICTE)?
ANS: B C Khanduri panel ANS: Anil Sahasrabudhe
Which union minister has launched the NCERT web portal The 2017 International Biodiesel Day (IBD) is celebrated
for home delivery of books? on which date?
ANS: Upendra Kushwaha ANS: August 10
Sitaram Panchal, who passed away recently, was Which city to host the Global Entrepreneurship Summit
associated with which field? (GES-2017)?
ANS: Film Industry ANS: Hyderabad
The Mandla Plant Fossils National Park (MPNP) is located Who has become the first Indian athlete to qualify for
in which state? javelin throw final at the IAAF World Athletics
ANS: Madhya Pradesh Championships (WAC)?
ANS: Davinder Singh Kang
Which team has won the 2017 UEFA Super Cup footbal
football
tournament? The Vansda National Park (VNP) is located in which state?
ANS: Real Madrid ANS: Gujarat

Who has won the 2017 Kenyaa Presidential election? Which bank has recently launched two digital products:
ANS: Uhuru Kenyatta Bharat QR and Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) for
online payments?
Maheshwari Chauhan is associated with which sports? ANS: Canara Bank
ANS: Shootin
Vijay Nambisan, who passed away recently, was the
What is the theme of 2017 International Youth Day (IYD)? renowned personality of which field?
ANS: Youth Building Peace ANS: Poetry
Which Indian sportsperson has been appointed as the Which state government has launched Facebook’s ‘She
WHO Goodwill Ambassador for physical activity in the Means Business’ programme to train women
South-East Asia Region (SEAR)? entrepreneurs?
ANS: Milkha Singh ANS: Odisha
Who has been appointment as the new chief of the Which state is hosting the 2017 India-ASEAN
India Youth
Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC)? Summit?
ANS: Prasoon Joshi ANS: Madhya Pradesh
Which of the following have won the

he 2017 The Hindu Which Indian pair has won gold in the skeet mixed team
Playwright Award? event at the 7th Asian Championship Shotgun?
ANS: Gerish Khemani and Akshat Nigam ANS: Mairaj Ahmad Khan and Rashmmi Rathore
Which nationwide campaign has been launched by the Yisrael Kristal, the world’s oldest man
ma passed away. He
Union Government to protect elephants? hailed from which country?
ANS: Gaj ANS: Israel
Which state government has launched mobile therapy The 2017 World Elephant Day (WED) is observed on
vans for elderly people? which date?
ANS: Bihar ANS: August 12
Ruth Pfau, popularly known as Pakistan’s Mother Teresa Which state government has launched “Namo Yuva
has passed away. She hailed from which country? Rojgar Kendra” for unemployed youth?
ANS: Germany ANS: Maharashtra
The Grizzled Squirrel Wildlife Sanctuary (GSWS) is located The Orang National Park (ONP) is located in which state?
in which state? ANS: Assam
ANS: Tamil Nadu
Which union minister has launched the live twitter wall
The Union Government will launch a new sub
sub-scheme for promoting Bharat Ke Veer portal?
“AGEY” as part of the DAY– NRLM. What does “AGEY” ANS: Rajnath Singh
stands for?
ANS: Aajeevika Grameen Express Yojana Dr Bhakti Yadav, who passed away recently, was the first
woman doctor of which state?
ANS: Madhya Pradesh Which Indian shuttler has won the men’s singles 2017
Bulgaria Open International Series tournament?
ever railways disaster management centre ANS: Lakshya Sen
will come up in which city?
ANS: Bengaluru The Desert National Park (DNP) is located in which state?
ANS: Rajasthan
ever aviation university will come up in which
state? Which country has been declared the world’s most
ANS: Uttar Pradesh liveable city by The Economist’s Global Liveability Report-
Report
2017?
Which country will chair the IONS
NS maiden International ANS: Melbourne
Maritime Search and Rescue Exercise (IMMSAREX)
(IMMSAREX)-2017?
ANS: Bangladesh Which country to host the steering committee of the
proposed TAPI Gas pipeline?
Who has been appointed as the new CMD of Hindustan ANS: India
Copper Limited (HCL)?
ANS: Santosh Sharma India’s first museum on the Partition of the Indian Sub-
Sub
continent will open in which state?
Which country to host 2017 G7 Interior Ministers summit ANS: Punjab
on security issues?
ANS: Italy NABARD has conferred the ‘best performance award’ for
2016-17
17 to which regional rural bank?
Who is the newly appointed CEO of Rajya Sabha TV ANS: Karnataka Vikas Grameen
ameen Bank
(RSTV)?
ANS: Shashi Shekhar Vempati Which state government has launched “Indira Canteen”
for urban poor?
Who has been appointed as the new MD & CEO of India ANS: Karnataka
Infrastructure Finance Company Limited (IIFCL)?
ANS: Sankara Rao Who has authored the book “The Adivasi Will Not
Dance”?
Stephen Wooldridge,
ge, the former world cycle champion ANS: Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
has passed away. He hailed from which country?
ANS: Australia S Paul, who passed away recently, was the renowned
personality of which field?
The CCEA has approved the proposal of DIPAM for ANS: Photography
strategic disinvestment. What does “DIPAM” stands for?
ANS: Department of Investment and Public Asset Which union minister has launched “Harit Diwali, Swasth
Management Diwali” campaign to celebrate pollution-free
pollution diwali?
ANS: Harsh Vardhan
Who has won the 2017 Kalpana Chawla Award for
courage and daring enterprise? The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has
ANS: Preethi Srinivasan launched which consumer mobile app for smooth
functioning of electronic toll collection?
ANS: MyFASTag The United Nations (UN) has launched which global
campaign for 2017 World Humanitarian Day (WHD)?
Which football club has won the 2017 Spanish Super ANS: #NotATarget
Cup?
ANS: Real Madrid Who has been appointed as the new Russia’s new
ambassador to India?
Who has taken charge as the new Pakistan’s high ANS: Nikolay Kudashev
commissioner to India?
ANS: Sohail Mahmoodm India’s first world peace university has come up in which
state?
The 2017 World Photography Day (WPD) is observed on ANS: Maharashtra
which date?
ANS: August 19 Which of the followinng has become the first power
utility to introduce a QR code based bill payments
payment system
BSNL has launched its “BSNL Wallet” in partnership with in India?
which digital payment company? ANS: Tata Power
ANS: MobiKwik
Who has taken charge as new Executive Director of
India has recently signed $24.64 million GEF grant Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI)?
agreement with which international
nal organization for ANS: Mamta Suri
ecosystems service improvement project?
ANS: World Bank Which country to host the 2017 FIFA Under-17
Under World Cup
2017
Where is the headquarters of the Central Board of Film ANS: India
Certification (CBFC)?
ANS: Mumbai rk (PNR) is located in which state?
The Periyar National Park
ANS: Kerala
The Parambikulam Tiger Reserve (PTR) is located in which
state? Which Indian-origin
origin boy has been crowned as the UK’s
ANS: Kerala ‘Child Genius’ in a popular television quiz competition?
ANS: Rahul Doshi
Which
hich city hosted the Chief Electoral Officers’ Conference
of all States and Union Territories? Which state government has launched an exclusive 24×7
ANS: New Delhi helpline ‘181’ for women?
ANS: Telangana
The National Conference on “Insolvency and Bankruptcy:
Changing Paradigm” was held in which city? Which city is hosting the 8th World Renewable Energy
ANS: Mumbai Technology Congress?
ANS: New Delhi
Who will be the chairman of the technical committee for
the 48th International Film Festival of India (IFFI)
(IFFI)-2017? MK Damodaran, who passed away recently, was the
ANS: Nagesh Kukunoor former Advocate General of which state?
ANS: Kerala
Velichko Cholakov, the noted weightlifter passed away.

Which state government will launch
nch a new scheme for He hailed from which country?
Compassionate Family Pension (CFP) in lieu of ANS: Bularia
compassionate appointment?
ANS: Assam Which union minister has launched “Swasth Bachche
Swasth Bharat” programme?
Which state chief minister has been chosen for the ANS: Prakash Javadekar
National Agriculture Leadership Award-2017?
2017?
ANS: Telangana ho will be the head of a newly constituted preview
Who
committee for International Film Festival of India (IFFI)
Jerry Lewis, the famous comedian passed away. He hailed 2017?
from which country? ANS: Vivek Agnihotri
ANS: United States
Which state government has launched clouding seeding
Who is the author of the book “I am HIV positive, so Project Varshadhari under which an aircraft will spray
what”? chemicals to induce rainfall?
ANS: Jayanta Kalita ANS: Karnataka
The Mrugavani National Park (MNP) is located in which Which union minister has launched digital police portal
state? under Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems
ANS: Telangana Project (CCTNS)?
ANS: Rajnath Singh
The 2017 World Mosquito Day
ay (WMD) is observed on
which day? The Sepahijala Wildlife Sanctuary (SWS) is located in
ANS: August 20 which state?
ANS: Tripura
Who of the following have been selected for the 2017
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award? The NITI Aayog has launched Mentor India Campaign
ANS: Devendra Jhajharia and Sardar Singh from which city?
ANS: New Delhi
Where is the headquarters of the Border Roads
Organisation (BRO)? Under the chairmanship of whom the 17th meeting of
ANS: New Delhi the Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC)
was held?
Who has been appointed as the new director general of ANS: Arun Jaitley
Railway Protection Force (RPF)?
ANS: Dharmendra Kumar Who has been appointed as the new Chairman of Railway
Board?
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has signed ANS: Ashwani Lohani
a pact with which organization to collaborate on vaccine
research and development? Rishang Keishing, who passed away recently, was the
ANS: International Vaccine Institute former Chief Minister of which state?
ANS: Manipur
Which state government has launched a grid-connected

grid
The 58th edition of Subroto Cup International Football rooftop solar programme through net-metering
net system?
Tournament has started in which city? ANS: Odisha
ANS: New Delhi
The Karnataka government has tied up with which tech
TRAI has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with which giant to
o develop India’s first Farm Price Forecasting
country’s telecom regulator to jointly conduct capacity Model?
building exercises in telecom sector? ANS: Microsoft
ANS: Malaysia
Which country is hosting the International Military Music
Brian Aldiss, the renowned science fiction writer passed Festival (IMMF-2017)?
away. He hailed from which country? ANS: Russia
ANS: England
The Palamau Tiger Reserve (PTR) is located in which
The National Sports Museum will be established in which state?
city? ANS: Jharkhand
ANS: New Delhi
Who is leading
eading the Indian delegation in the Shanghai
Where is the headquarters of the Nehru Memorial Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting on disaster
Museum and Library (NMML)? prevention?
ANS: New Delhi ANS: Rajnath Singh
The Kasu Brahmananda Reddy National Park (KBRNP) is India’s first Videsh Bhavan will come up in which of the
located in which state? following states?
ANS: Telangana ANS: Maharashtra
The constitution bench of Supreme Court has declared Which state power discoms has become the India’s first
right to privacy as Fundamental right under constitution. state-owned
owned discoms to accept payments through Bharat
The bench was headed by whom? QR?
ANS: JS Khehar ANS: Andhra Pradesh
The 2017 International Day for the Remembrance of the Who has been appointed as the new non-executive
non
Slave Trade and its Abolition is observed on which date? Chairman of Infosys?
ANS: August 23 ANS: Nandan Nilekani
Which tech giant has launched ‘Project Brainwave’ for Tony de Brum, the well-known
known climate awareness activist
activis
real time Artificial Intelligence (AI)? has passed away. He hailed from which country?
ANS: Microsoft ANS: Marshall Islands
Which city will host the first-ever beauty

eauty pageant for The Union government has recently hiked OBC creamy
transgenders “Miss Transqueen India”? layer ceiling limit to how much for central government
ANS: Gurugram jobs?
ANS: Rs 8 lakh
ANS: Nepal
Which city to host Digital Haryana Summit (SHS)?
ANS: Gurugram Who will officially launch the National Sports Talent
Search Portal?
Which former RBI governor has authored the book “I Do ANS: Venkaiah Naidu
What I Do”?
ANS: Rahguram Rajan Which task force has been constituted by the Union
Government on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for India’s
Sanjivani Jadhav, who won silver in the World University economic transformation?
Games, is associated with which sports? ANS: V. Kamakoti task force
ANS: Sprint
Jay Thomas, the noted comic actor passed away. He
As per 2017 UNWTO report on least-visited
sited nations, hailed from which country?
which is the least visited country in 2016? ANS: United States
ANS: Tuvalu
The Chitwan National Park (CNP) is located in which
The Murlen National Park (MNP) is located in which country?
state? ANS: Nepal
ANS: Mizoram
Who has won bronze in the 2017 women’s singles World
Which state government has launched a new ‘E
‘E-Waste Badminton championships (WBC)?
Disposal’ scheme in state schools? ANS: Saina Nehwal
ANS: Kerala
Which country has won the 2017 South Asian Football
Who has won the Biju Patnaik Award for Scientific Federation (SAFF) under-15
15 football Championship?
Excellence-2016? ANS: India
ANS: Digambar Behera
Who has won the 2017 women’s singles World
The first edition of Grameen Khel Mahotsav will kick
kick-start Badminton championships (WBC)?
from which city? ANS: Nozomi Okuhara
ANS: New Delhi
Who has won 2017 Formulae 1 Belgian Grand Prix
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ANS: Lewis Hamilton
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ANS: Tarun Ramadorai
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The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has (CJI)?
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operation?
Which country to host the 2017 Indian Ocean Conference ANS: Indian Commodity Exchange
(IOC)?
ANS: Sri Lanka Nungthang Tampak, which has become North-East
North (NE)’s
first 100% computer literacy village, is located in which
origin boy has recently got top score in
Which Indian-origin state?
Mensa IQ in United Kingdom (UK)? ANS: Manipur
ANS: Dhruv Garg
Who is the newly appointed chief of Bombay
Bo Stock
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has recently approved Exchange (BSE)?
Spice Digital to process bill payments under BBPS. Where ANS: Ashish Chauhan
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ANS: Noida Which country has launched the world’s first climate-
climate
smart snow-leopard plan?
Which of the following IIT institutes have developed ANS: Nepal
biosensor to detect kidney disorders?
ANS: IIT Bombay and IIT Indore The Lawachara National Park (LNP) is located in which
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The Abohar Wildlife Sanctuary (AWLS) is located in which ANS: Bangladesh
state?
ANS: Punjab Who has been crowned as India’s
India first-ever Miss
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The 2017 National Sports Day (NSD) is celebrated on ANS: Nitasha Biswas
which day in India?
ANS: August 29 The 2017 International Day against Nuclear Tests (IDANT)
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Who will lead Indian delegation at the 2017 BRICS ANS: August 29
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ANS: Narendra Modi Who has become the 2nd Indian women and first Sikh
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Ahmed Khan, who passed away recently, was associated happening in 2030?
with which sports? ANS: Jasleen Kaur Josan
ANS: Football
The world’s first IAEA Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) Bank
Which city hosted the Defence Accounts Department has opened in which country?
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ANS: New Delhi
Who is the current Chairman & Managing Director of
India has signed pact with which country to improve grid National Research Development Corporation (NRDC)?
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ANS: Germany
India and which country will jointly issue postage stamps
ICEX has launched the world’s first diamond future with Diwali as theme?
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Laura Biagiotti, the renowned fashion designer passed

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The Sri Venkateswara National Park is located in which

Which Indian organisation has won the 2017 Asia Pacific

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What is the India’s rank in the 2017 global Multi

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Which Indian personality has been conferred with the

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Which Indian personality has launched ‘Selfie

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The 16th North East Region Commonwealth

partner country in the world’s

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The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has

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Muzoon Almellehan has been named as new Unicef

The Lahugala Kitulana National Park is located

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What is the theme of the 2017 International Widows Day

What is the 2017 theme of International Day of Seafarer?

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Who has become the first Indian to complete the 4,900

Who is the author of the book “The Emergency

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What is the theme of the 2017 International Co-operative

Which country is hosting the 41st annual UNESCO World

Which state government has launched “G-Ride”,

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