Monday, December 30, 2019

e-auction | China's carrier rocket | All Government Exam Current Affairs

1.Where was Tech mahindra headquarters located?

Pune

2. Where was HCL Technologies headquarters located?

Noida

3. Where was Reserve Bank of India located?

Mumbai

4. When CSIR Institute was established?

1942 (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research)

5. Where is the headquarters of BSNL located?

New Delhi 

6. Who obtained first place in India's top 10 most Googled business tycoons?

Ratan Tata

7.Who launches common e-auction platform for assets attached by banks?

Nirmala Sitharaman 

8. Reserve Bank of India large cooperative banks to report all exposures of Rs ________crore

5 crore

9. Which country successfully launched largest carrier rocket?

China

10. How many submarines are build by Indian Navy?

24

11. Who is honoured with Dadasaheb Phalke Award?

Amitabh Bachchan

12. How many languages did All India Radio organized National Symposium of Poets 2020?

22


Friday, December 27, 2019

Akashvani | Nari Shakti Puraskar | Railway Group D Exam Questions

1. When Ministry of Women and Child Development was founded?

2006

2. All India Radio officially known Akashvani from _____________

1956

3. When Nari Shakti Puraskar was first awarded?

1999

4. Where was ASSOCHAM headquarters located?

New Delhi

5. Who is the governor of Uttar Pradesh?

Anandiben Patel

6. When NTPC Limited was founded?

1975

7. Which north east state topped the Good Governance Day?

Himachal Pradesh

8. When ASSOCHAM was founded?

1921

9. Which Indian cricketer name got listed in the Wisden cricketers of the decade?

Virat Kohli

10. India first Transgender University to come up in ____________

Uttar Pradesh

11. Who took over as Assocham President?

Niranjan Hiranandani

12. When Ministry of Defence was founded?

1947

13. Who launched Atal scheme on groundwater?

Shri Narendra Modi



Thursday, December 26, 2019

Rohit Sharma | Good Governance Day | Rohtang Tunnel - NTPC Exam Questions

1. Which Indian cricketer has broken the 22-year-old record of Sri Lankan batsman Sanath Jayasuriya for scoring the most runs in a calendar year?

Rohit Sharma

2. When ‘Good Governance Day’ is observed in India every year?

25 December

3. What is the new name of the Rohtang Tunnel?

Atal Tunnel

4. India's legendary tennis player Leander Paes announced to retire in which year?

2020

5. Which state has ranked number-1 in the Good Governance Index released by the Central Government?

Tamilnadu

6. Who won gold in the women’s 49kg weightlifting category at the 6th Qatar International Cup in Doha?

Mirabai Chanu

7. What is the name of common currency recently announced by western Africa?

ECO

8.Who among the following has recently been appointed as Foreign Secretary of India?

Harsh Vardhan Shringla

9.Who was named captain of Cricket Australia’s ODI team of the decade?

MS Dhoni

10. Who was named the captain of Cricket Australia’s test team of the decade?

Virat Kohli

Monday, December 23, 2019

Indian Railways | parent organization of Google NTPC Exam Questions

1. Who is the governor of Andhra Pradesh?

Biswabhusan Harichandan

2. When Indian Railways was founded?

1853

3. Which is parent organization of Google?

Alphabet

4 . In which year, Nirbhaya fund was initiated by Central government?

2013

5. Where was the Alphabet company headquarters located?

California

6. Who becomes first Pak batsman to score centuries in his first two Tests?

Abid Ali

7. Govt approved projects worth _________ cr under Nirbhaya fund

7000

8. Govt proposes to invest _______lakh crore rupees for modernisation of Railways

50 lakhs

9. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai awarded ________________million pay package

242

10. Which state declared 2024 deadline for Semi High-Speed Rail project?

Kerala


Saturday, December 21, 2019

Virat Kohli Forbes | ODI hat-tricks | Gandhi Citizenship Railway Exam Paper

1. Who was ranked first in the Forbes top-100 Indian celebrities list for the year 2019?

Virat Kohli

(Akshay Kumar is in second place and Salman Khan in third place, Amitabh Bachchan is in Fourth in this list.)

2.  Who has become the first Indian to take two ODI hat-tricks?

Kuldeep Yadav

3. Which nation has announced the Gandhi Citizenship Education Award?

Portugal

4. Who has won Sahitya Akademi Award in the creative non-fiction category in English literature?

 Shashi Tharoor (He won for his writings "An Era of Darkness")

5.  India signed an industrial security agreement for the transfer of defence technology with which nation?

United States

6. When Goa Liberation Day is celebrated every year?

December 19 

(Goa Liberation Day is celebrated every year on December 19. The Indian Army liberated Goa, Daman and Diu from Portuguese rule on December 19, 1961 by conducting 'Operation Vijay Abhiyan'.)

7. Which IIT institute launched Vaccination On Wheels in Collaboration With Gates Foundation?

IIT Hyderabad

8. First vegetable shipment from Varanasi flagged off to ________via sea route

Dubai

9. Which bank became the third Indian company to cross $100 billion-mark?

HDFC Bank

10. Which country launched its first satellite recently?

Ethiopia

Friday, December 20, 2019

Trastuzumab drug | Bharat Bond ETF| Railway Group D Exam

1. What is the cost estimated for the first-ever Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Tripura?

Rs.1,550 Crore

2. Trastuzumab drug is used to treat ________ cancer.

breast

3.When was the President Bill Clinton impeached?

1998

4.Which company launched the first Bharat Bond ETF?

Edelweiss

5. When was the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) launched?

2000

6. Centre is to begin the ________ of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) in December 2019.

Phase III (project budget estimated be 80,250 crore)

7. ________ Edition of the book Exam Warriors was released by the Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Shri Thaawarchand Gehlot on December 2019.

Braille

8.  The new rate announced by the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council for the lottery will be effective from ________.

March 2020

9. Which state launched Jalsathi programme?

Odisha

10. India became the world's __________ largest publisher of science and engineering articles.

Third

Thursday, December 19, 2019

CAB | Geological Congress | New chief of Indian Army TNPSC Current Affairs

1. The CAB bill  welcome religious minorities from which countries?

Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan

2. Which country is set to become the first Asian country to host International Geological Congress?

India

3. Who will be the next chief of Indian Army?

Manoj Mukund Narvane

4. What was the name of joint military exercise recently held between India and Nepal?

Surya Kiran

5. What is the new extended date for compulsory implementation of FASTag?

15 January

6. Which university has recently developed a robot ‘Surena’ that can speak and translate 100 languages?

Tehran University

7. Who won the 2019 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature?

Amitabha Bagchi

(Indian author Amitabha Bagchi has won DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019, for his novel ‘Half the Night is Gone’.)

8. What is the new authorized capital of Food Corporation of India?

Rs 10,000 crore

9. Who passed the Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes Bill on November 27, 2019?

Lok Sabha

10. What is the name of the launch vehicle that transported Cartosat-3 to the space?

PSLV-C47

Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Tansen Award | SURYA KIRAN | National Broadband Mission - TNPSC Exam Questions

1. Who won the 2019 Tansen Award?

Pandit Vidyadhar Vyas (The award was instituted by the Madhya Pradesh government.)

2. Ministry of Minority Affairs was carved out from the _________.

Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

3. Where was the SURYA KIRAN-XIV held?

Salijhandi, Nepal

4. Where is the Tansen Samaroh festival celebrated?

Gwalior

5. Government has set up the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) under _________.

National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992

6. When was the Ministry of Minority Affairs established?

2007

7. Which Carnival was removed from UNESCO's heritage list?

Racist carnival

8. Which mission was launched to provide broadband access to all villages by 2022?

National Broadband Mission

9. When was the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) established?

1939

10. Which country topped the World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Report 2019?

Iceland

11. India secured ________ on the World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Report 2018.

108

12. Where is the headquarters of UNESCO located?

France

13. In which state does Nagrota located?

J&K

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Vijay Diwas | Inner Line Permit | Railway Exam Current Affairs

1. The train service between which two Pakistani railway stations was resumed after 22 years?

Lahore and Wagah

2. When is Vijay Diwas observed?

16 December
( Vijay Diwas is celebrated every year on December 16 to commemorate the day India established its victory over Pakistan during the 1971 war. India’s victory liberated east Pakistan and paved the way for the formation of independent Bangladesh.)

3. Which country will host the 36th International Geological Congress, scheduled to be held in March 2020?

India

4. Which state has become the first one to pass a bill awarding death penalty to rapists within 21 days?

Andhra Pradesh

5. The Inner Line Permit has been implemented in how many states?



(The Inner Line Permit (ILP) came into force in Manipur with the signing of President Ram Nath Kovind. Now the Inner Line Permit has come into effect in four states of North East - Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland and Manipur.)

6. Nirmala Sitharaman was ranked at which position in the list of the world's most powerful women released by Forbes recently?

34

7. INDRA 2019 is a bilateral military exercise between India and which nation?

Russia

8.  Which state government has decided to administer pledge to male students at all schools to behave well with girls?

Delhi

9. Which Indian Telecommunications Company has rolled out Wi-Fi calling for its prepaid and postpaid subscribers?

Bharti Airtel

10. When is the International Human Rights Day observed?

10th December

11. What is India’s position in the UNDP Human Development Rankings-2019?

129

12. Which place was named as the world's leading destination for sports tourism in World Travel Awards?

Abu Dhabi

13. Which Hindi poet was recently awarded the Gangadhar National Award?

Vishwanath Prasad

Monday, December 16, 2019

Miss World | CBDT | NTPC Exam Questions

1. Who was crowned as Miss World 2019?

Toni-Ann Singh

(Jamaica's Toni-Ann Singh was crowned Miss World at an annual beauty pageant held at the 69th annual beauty pageant held in ExceL London, UK on 14 December. She was crowned by the 2018 winner Vanessa Ponce de Leon of Mexico. She became the fourth Jamaican woman to win Miss World.)

2. When was AirAsia India founded?

2013
(AirAsia India was founded on 28 March 2013. AirAsia India began its operations in June 2014. It currently has a fleet of 27 A320 aircraft and flies to 21 destinations in India. )


3. So far (December 2019), how many states' police force has been awarded the President's Colour award?

7

4. When was the Central Board of Direct Taxation (CBDT) formed?

1860

5. Who is appointed as the chief commercial officer of AirAsia India?

Ankur Garg

6. The ________ is the highest honour bestowed upon a police force in India.

President's Colour

7. PAN is a _______-digit alphanumeric number allotted by the I-T Department to a person, any firm or entity.

10

8. Which police force was honoured with the President's Colours award?

Gujarat  

9. Which state/UT unveiled a startup policy of the Industries Department?

Puducherry

10. Which site did NASA select for the sample collection on asteroid Bennu?

Nightingale

(NASA has finally selected a sample collection site on asteroid Bennu after the arrival of OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in December 2018 on asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-Rex mission team has selected the site designated Nightingale, which is located in a crater high in Bennu's northern hemisphere. The team has also selected site Osprey of Bennu as a backup sample collection site.)

11. How many wholesale regulated markets have been integrated with e-NAM platform?

585

Friday, December 13, 2019

IREDA | External affairs | George Laurer - Group D exam Questions

1. The Ministry of Human Resource Development is to implement the Scheme of __________ under Samagra Shiksha.

Vocationalisation of School Education

2. Who is appointed as the Secretary of Consular, Passport, Visa and Overseas Indian Affairs?

Sanjay Bhattacharyya

3. Who is appointed as the Secretary (West) in the Ministry of External Affairs?

Vikas Swarup

4. When was the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited (IREDA) established?

1987

5. Which state is to set up a virtual police station in the State's university?

Andhra Pradesh

6. Who became the first woman to set up a national advertising agency in India?

Tara Sinha

7.The US became India's _________ oil supplier, by replacing Kuwait during the first six months of 2019-20.

6th

8. RISAT-2BR1 is a __________ satellite.

Radar imaging

9. George Laurer who passed away recently is the co-inventor of ________.

Bar Code 

10. Where was the 4th Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Summit held?

Kathmandu

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

CEO of Alphabet | Ballon d’Or award | NTPC Exam Question

1. Who received the National Florence Nightingale award 2019 posthumously?

Lini Sajeesh

2. Which country witnessed the sharpest reduction in malaria cases in 2018?

India

3. Who has been appointed as the new CEO of Alphabet?

Sundar Pichai


4. When was Intensified Mission Indradhanush launched?



2017

5. Who was the first to spot Vikram Lander’s debris on the lunar surface?

Shanmuga Subramanian

6. India was placed at which position in the Global Climate Risk Index 2020?

5th

7.  The Union Cabinet recently approved a proposal to extend the period of reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the Lok Sabha and State Legislatures for how many more years?

10 years

8. Who has been appointed as the 24th Controller General of Accounts?

Soma Roy Burman

9. Who among the following was honoured with the 2019 Ballon d’Or award?

Lionel Messi

10.Which country has the largest number of migrants living abroad, as per World Migration Report 2020?

India 

11. Which country was recently elected to the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO for first time?

Saudi Arabia

12. Which film won the Golden Peacock Award at IFFI 2019?

Particles

13.Who among the following has been awarded the International Children's Peace Prize for the year 2019?

Greta Thunberg

Friday, December 6, 2019

CEO of Alphabet | Eat Right Station | Current Affairs December

1.  When International Volunteer Day is observed?

5 December

2. Which Coast Guard ship built in India has been gifted to the Maldives by Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently?

Kaamyaab


3.Which country has recently tested a Swedish technique to overcome the problem caused by the burning of paraali (crop residue)?

India

4. Which state has recently organized the ‘Hornbill Festival’ on the occasion of the foundation day of the state?

Nagaland

5. Which day World Soil Day is celebrated?

5 December

6. Which state government launched the 'Madhu App' for school students?

Odisha

7. India was placed at which position in the Global Climate Risk Index 2020?

5th

8. Which nation topped the list of most affected countries in the Global Climate Risk Index 2020?

Japan 

9. Who has been appointed as the new CEO of Alphabet?

Sundar Pichai

10.  When is Indian Navy Day observed every year?

4 December

11.  Which railway station was recently certified as the first 'Eat Right Station' in the country by FSSAI?

Mumbai Central

12. Which country recently inaugurated ‘Power of Siberia’ cross border gas pipeline along with Russia?

China

13. India and ADB signed a 206 million loan agreement to strengthen urban services in which state?

Tamil Nadu

Thursday, December 5, 2019

ADB | SPG | NTPC Railway Exam model Current Affairs Questions

1. Asian Development Bank and the Indian government signed a _________ loan agreement to provide the infrastructure to Tamil Nadu.

$206 million

2.  Which Bill aims to merge Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu?

Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu (Merger of Union Territories) Bill, 2019

3.  Japan is to invest an amount of _______ in several ongoing and new projects in the North-Eastern states of India.

Rs.10,000 crore

4. The Special Protection Group (Amendment) Bill, 2019 will provide cover officially only for the __________.

Prime Minister

5. Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 will amend _________.

Citizenship Act, 1955

6. Who is the Director of the Special Protection Group?

Arun Kumar Sinha

7. When was the Special Protection Group formed?

1988

8. A high-level expert group chaired by former Supreme Court judge _________ drafted the Personal Data Protection Bill.

B.N. Srikrishna

9.  Who has been selected as the President of Mauritius?

Pravind Jugnauth

10. With which country did India sign the Joint Declaration of Intent (JDI) to strengthen the cooperation on strategic projects in the field of Railways?

Germany

11. Where does the government plan to establish a National Maritime Heritage Museum?

Lothal (located in Gujarat )

12. When was the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) established?

2006

13. Which is the longest tributary in India?

Yamuna

14. Which is the largest tributary of Ganga?

Ghaghara

15. Which State has decided to sell the Yamuna water?

Himachal Pradesh (To maharastra)