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Who has been honored with the Master Deenanath Mangeshkar Lifetime Award 2019?
Javed Akhtar
Salim Khan
Shabana Azmi
Helen
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Answer: Option BExplanation
Actor, producer and screenwriter Salim Khan, who is also the father of superstar Salman Khan, was honoured with the Master Deenanath Mangeshkar Lifetime Award
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Claire Polosak became the first women to officiate in men’s ODI in the World cricket league. She hails from which country?
South Africa
Canada
England
Australia
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Answer: Option DExplanation
Australia’s Claire Polosak became the first woman to officiate in a men’s one-day international in the World Cricket League Division 2 final match between Namibia and Oman in Windhoek.
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According to RBI, the banking ombudsman received how much percent more customers complaints in FY 18 over the previous year?
22.5 percent
24.9 percent
31.8 percent
15.87 percent
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Answer: Option BExplanation
The banking ombudsman received 24.9% more customer complaints in FY18 over the previous year, said the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The 21 offices of the banking ombudsman received 1,63,590 complaints in the year 2017-18 marking an increase of 24.9% over previous year.
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Which rule under the ‘Conduct of Elections Rules’ lists out a six-month jail term and a Rs 1000 fine for falsely reporting malfunctioning of EVMs and VVPATs?
Rule 24TR
Rule 49MA
Rule 37PB
Rule 51GCA
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Answer: Option BExplanation
The Supreme Court on April 29, 2019 sought a response from the Election Commission on a plea seeking abolition of a provision in election rules that provides for prosecution of an elector if a complaint alleging malfunctioning of EVMs and VVPATs turns out to be false. A three-judge bench headed by CJI Ranjan Gogoi took note of the plea, which alleged that Rule 49MA of ‘The Conduct of Elections Rules’ was unconstitutional as it criminalises reporting of malfunctioning of Electronic Voting Machines and Voter Verified Paper Audit Trails.
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Which Indian defense organization has signed a pact with NHPC for construction of tunnels on China & Pakistan borders?
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Answer: Option DExplanation
Indian Army signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) to construct four underground tunnels for storage of ammunition along the China and Pakistan border. This is a pilot project and the tunnels are expected to be completed within two years. The cost of the pilot project is around Rs 15 crore. At Under the pilot project, three tunnels will be built on China border while one will be built along the Line of Control with Pakistan. The project is meant to bolster the Indian Army’s capabilities along the Chinese border where India’s infrastructural development is far outpaced by that of China. Besides strengthening the defensive capabilities, the tunnels will protect the ammunition and other stored equipment from the air-strikes and detection by the enemy satellite. present, ammunition dumps are mostly over-ground and could be targeted by the enemies and their spies.
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Name the credit rating agency, which has released Macro Research report indicating India is set to install 54.7 GW wind capacity by 2022
Fitch Solutions
Information and Credit Rating Agency(ICRA)
Credit Analysis and Research Limited(CARE)
Crisil
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Answer: Option AExplanation
According to Fitch Solutions Macro Research report, India is probably going to install 54.7GW of wind capacity by 2022 against the 60 GW target set by the government. This wind capacity installation is a part of India’s ambitious target of installing 175 GW of renewable energy capacity by the year 2022 which includes 100 GW from solar, 60 GW from wind, 10GW from bio-power and 5 GW from small hydro-power.
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Recently Aegean Life Insurance Company launched a Smart digital insurance product in partnership with which company?
PhonePe
Paytm
Mobikwik
Freecharge
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Answer: Option CExplanation
In a bid to enable financial inclusion and ease of buying for the Indian masses, Aegon Life Insurance, pioneer of digital insurance in India and MobiKwik, India’s leading FinTech Company; have joined hands to launch an Rs 20 smart digital insurance product.
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Which country has successfully tested the world’s first Floating Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP)?
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Answer: Option AExplanation
Russian state-run atomic energy corporation Rosatom has successfully tested the world’s first Floating Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP) – Akademik Lomonosov.
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Canara Bank and its life insurance partner Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance launched ________to enables its customers to purchase life insurance in a convenient and hassle-free way
Bank Custodian
Bankruptcy Code
Insuraisal
Webassurance
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Answer: Option DExplanation
Canara Bank and its life insurance partner Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance launched ’Webassurance’ to enable its customers to purchase life insurance in a convenient and hassle-free way.
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Mark Medoff recently passed away at the age of 79. He was a well Known
Economist
Cricketer
Director
Author
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Answer: Option DExplanation
Mark Medoff, whose acclaimed play “Children of a Lesser God,” which won the Tony Award for best play in 1980 and was turned into a 1986 movie that won an Oscar for its female lead, Marlee Matlin, recently passed away at the age of 79.
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Reliance Nippon Life Asset Management (RNAM) recently reported ______ jump in its net profit.
42%
20%
34%
28%
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Answer: Option CExplanation
RNAM is one of the largest asset managers in India. Total income in Q4 FY 19 was Rs 397 crore while it was Rs 1,650 crore in the entire fiscal.
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Ministry of Defence has awarded Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited (GRSE) contract to build how many Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Crafts (ASWSWCs)?
6
7
8
9
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Answer: Option CExplanation
The GRSE has been a pioneer warship builder of the nation. These ASWSWCs (Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Crafts) are designed for a deep displacement of 750 tons.
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MERA India has been launched to eliminate malaria from India by which year?
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Answer: Option DExplanation
The Indian Council of Medical Research has launched the ‘Malaria Elimination Research Alliance (MERA) India’ to eliminate malaria from India by 2030. The initiative is a conglomeration of partners working on malaria control. The principal activity of the alliance is to prioritise, plan, conduct, scale up and translate relevant research in a coordinated and combinatorial way in order to have a tangible impact of this research on the population at risk for malaria. The MERA India does not intend to duplicate international efforts rather complement this on a national scale while contributing to the broader global agenda. The alliance will facilitate trans-institutional coordination and collaboration around a shared research agenda which responds not only to programmatic challenges and addresses gaps in available tools but also pro actively contributes to targeted research. It aims to harness and reinforce research in coordinated and combinatorial ways in order to achieve tangible impact on malaria elimination.
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Puranik Yogendra, who has become the first ethnic Indian to contest and win an election in Japan, is from which of the following Indian cities?
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Answer: Option BExplanation
Puranik Yogendra (or Yogi) from Pune has become the first ethnic Indian to contest and win an election in Japan. He has been elected to Edogawa Ward assembly of Tokyo. Hence, this is the first-ever victory of a naturalized Japanese of Indian origin in elections in Japan. Yogi went to Japan to pursue higher studies in 1997 and worked with various IT companies there. He lived there for 20 years and has been the resident of Edogawa for 15 years. Puranik believes that his ties with his adopted home were strengthened after Japan went through earthquake and tsunami in 2011 and he came to know more about the country when would visit the affected area on weekends to help the people affected due to two calamities. Soon after, he obtained Japanese citizenship and came to enter politics; he was fielded by the Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP) of Japan in the recent polls.
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Who among the given has been appointed as the technical director by AIFF for the Indian National football team?
Stanislav Cherchesov
Fabio Cannavaro
Jerzy Brzęczek
Isac Doru
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Answer: Option DExplanation
All India Football Federation (AIFF) has appointed Romanian coach Isac Doru as the new technical director of the Indian national football team.
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The SCO Defence Ministers’ Meet 2019 has been organized in which country?
Russia
India
China
Kyrgyzstan
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Answer: Option DExplanation
The Defence Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman is on a three days visit to Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Defence Ministers’ Meet. The SCO meeting is being held in the run-up to the SCO summit, which is expected to take place in June 2019.
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Who has won the 2019 Asian Snooker Tour title?
Aditya Mehta
Aung Phyo
Pankaj Advani
Manan Chandra
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Answer: Option CExplanation
India’s ace cueist Pankaj Advani won men’s Asian Snooker Championship to complete a career grand slam in cue sports.
Record: With this win Advani has now become the only player to win Asian and World championships in all formats and also only one to do it in both billiards and snooker.
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Which party has won Spain’s snap elections?
Vox Party
Socialist Workers’ party
Centre-right Citizens party
Conservative People’s party
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Answer: Option BExplanation
Spain’s ruling center-left socialist party has won the snap elections that were held on April 28, 2019. The opinion polls had predicted a victory for outgoing socialist premier Pedro Sanchez. With 99 percent of the ballots counted, the Socialists led by Prime Minister Sanchez won 29 percent of the vote, capturing 123 seats in the 350-seat Congress of Deputies.
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Which cyclone is expected to intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm and will continue to move North West and change its path to North East in India, as per MeT department?
Cyclone Fani
Cyclone Titli
Cyclone Maarutha
Cyclone Ockhi
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Answer: Option AExplanation
Cyclone Fani is expected to intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm and will continue to move North West and change its path to North East. Cyclone Fani’s landfall over Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh is ruled out. However, the possibility of landfall in Odisha is under continuous watch.
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Name the Cryptocurrency Exchange in India, that has launched the first Indian Platform for Wholesale Cryptocurrency Trading.
Coinsecure
BuyUcoin
Belfrics
Zebpay
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Answer: Option BExplanation
BuyUcoin, second oldest Cryptocurrency Exchange in India, has introduced a new and unique platform for wholesale cryptocurrency trading. This platform works on ‘free trading model’ which means it charges zero fee on any trade. This wholesale platform also known as OTC (Over-the-counter) Desk allows users to trade on a large scale with low price fluctuations. This new platform will help to improve the problem of liquidity of cryptocurrency in Indian market. This will also help in quicker transactions, better prices and market stability.
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Which country has recently set up Coordinating Council for attracting foreign investments, mainly from India?
Kazakhstan
Turkmenistan
Kyrgyzstan
Uzbekistan
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Answer: Option AExplanation
Kazakhstan under the chairmanship of it’s Prime Minister, Askar Mamin has set up Coordinating Council for attracting foreign investments inclusive of investments from India. Under Askar Mamin, a decision was taken to lay down the functions of Investment Ombudsman in order to venture for new approaches to improve investment scenario in Kazakhstan by efficiently interacting with the investors and providing solutions to current issues.The requirement for such task is to increase the volume of investment in fixed assets in the medium term to 30% of (Gross Domestic Product) GDP of the nation and the primary driver should be foreign direct investment (FDI).The meeting chose the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) as a Unified Centre for the coordination of work on investment and promotion (Regional Investment Hub).
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Bank of Baroda has become the ______________ largest bank in the country
5th
1st
4th
3rd
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Answer: Option DExplanation
The amalgamation of Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank into the Bank of Baroda (BoB) has come into effect and all branches of the former two will function as branches of BoB. The merged entity would also receive Rs 5,042 crore fund infusion from the government. Post the merger, Bank of Baroda has become the third largest bank in the country.
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Which nation released Ramayana stamp for the first time celebrating centuries-old cultural bonds?
Malaysia
Sri Lanka
Indonesia
India
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Answer: Option CExplanation
Indonesia in a landmark step on April 23, 2019 released a special stamp on the theme of Ramayana for the first time underlining strong centuries old cultural bonds. The stamp, designed by renowned Indonesian sculptor Padmashri Bapak Nyoman Nuarta, features a scene from Ramayana in which Jatayu valiantly fought to save Devi Sita symbolising the resolve of two peoples in the face of adversity.
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Who was recently appointed as a new member of the in-house inquiry panel set up to examine the allegations of sexual harassment against CJI?
Kapil Sibal
Indu Malhotra
Arun Jaitley
Dipak Mishra
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Answer: Option BExplanation
The three-member committee is headed by Justice SA Bobde. It is worth mentioning that the complainant used to work as a junior court assistant. On 19th April, she wrote to 22 of its judges, alleging that Gogoi had made sexual advances on her at his residence office in October.
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The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has launched the MERA India recently. Expand MERA.
Mad Cow Disease Elimination Research Alliance
Malaria Elimination Research Alliance
Measles Elimination Research Alliance
MDR TB Elimination Research Alliance
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Answer: Option BExplanation
The MERA India does not intend to duplicate international efforts rather complement this on a national scale while contributing to the broader global agenda.
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__________ has recently awarded Derek C Lalchhanhima ‘Compassionate Kid’ Award for inspiring other children
Amnesty International
NITI Aayog
Akshay Patra
PETA India
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Answer: Option DExplanation
In recognition of his acts of compassion that has made headlines across India and even abroad, PETA India has recently awarded Derek C Lalchhanhima ‘Compassionate Kid’ Award. He is from Mizoram. He tried to save a dead chicken.
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The Asian Tea Alliance (ATA) has recently launched in which of the following cities?
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Answer: Option BExplanation
The Asian Tea Alliance (ATA), a union of five tea-growing and consuming countries, was launched on Friday in Guizhou in China. The members of the alliance are the Indian Tea Association (ITA), China Tea Marketing Association (CTMA), Indonesian Tea Marketing Association, Sri Lanka Tea Board and Japan Tea Association. ATA plans to work towards enhancing tea trade, cultural exchanges, technology exchanges as well as globally promoting tea. It will also work towards enhancing global consumption of tea, while creating a sustainability agenda for the future of Asian tea. The forging of this alliance comes in the aftermath of the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in December 2018 between the Indian Tea Association and China Tea Marketing Association. The two associations signed the pact to promote green and black tea consumption in major tea markets of Europe, the U.S., Russia and West Asia, besides India and China.
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Which airborne observatory has detected the Universe’s first molecule in space?
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Answer: Option AExplanation
The researchers have finally detected the most ancient type of molecule in our universe in space for the first time ever. They used NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) to detect helium hydride in a planetary nebula NGC 7027 about 3,000 light-years away from Earth. Helium hydride ion (HeH+) was the first molecule that formed when, almost 14 billion years ago, falling temperatures in the young universe allowed recombination of the light elements produced in the Big Bang. At that time, ionised hydrogen and neutral helium atoms reacted to form HeH+. Despite its importance in the history of the early Universe, HeH+ has so far escaped detection in astrophysical nebulae — cloud of gas and dust in outer space. Hence, the detection of this special molecule brings a long search to a happy ending, and eliminates doubts about understanding of the underlying formation and destruction of the early universe. SOFIA is the joint project of NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to construct and maintain an airborne observatory. Being the world’s largest airborne astronomical observatory, the telescope has the ability to produce a higher resolution image, three times higher in quality than those captured by other observatories.
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What is the rate of interest approved by the Ministry of Finance on Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) for 2018-19?
8.15%
8.25%
8.00%
8.65%
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Answer: Option DExplanation
Ministry of Finance has approved 8.65% interest rate on Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) for 2018-19 as proposed by Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO).
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