(1). The Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) signed a Memorandum of understanding (MoU) with which publishing company to publish and distribute a special edition of the comic book, focusing on Swachh Bharat Mission?

• (a). Amar Chitra Katha
• (b). National Book Trust
• (c). Scholastic
• (d). Taxman Publications Limited
• (e). None of these

(2). Maharashtra Governor C. Vidyasagar Rao has been given the additional charge of which state by President Pranab Mukherjee?

• (a). Uttar Pradesh
• (b). Bihar
• (c). Karnataka
• (d). Tamil Nadu
• (e). Gujarat

(3). In which city is the two day BRICS Convention on Tourism being held?

• (a). Bikaner
• (b). Pune
• (c). Jaipur
• (d). New Delhi
• (e). Khajuraho

(4). What is the amount foreign investors will have to invest to secure a Permanent Residency Status (PRS) from the government of India?

• (a). Rs.5 crore
• (b). Rs.15 crore
• (c). Rs.20 crore
• (d). R.25 crore
• (e). Rs.30 crore

(5). Centre constitutes expert committee to study silt in river Ganga in Bihar. Who is selected as the Chairman of the committee?

• (a). A. K. Sinha
• (b). S. K. Sahu
• (c). A. K. Gosain
• (d). Rajnish Rajan
• (e). None of the above

(6). Brazil's Senate has impeached President ______ from the office for breaking budgetary laws.

• (a). Jose Sarney
• (b). Dilma Rousseff
• (c). Emesto Geisel
• (d). Washington Luis
• (e). None of these

(7). Ali Bongo is re-elected as the President of which Central African Country?

• (a). DR Congo
• (b). Cameroon
• (c). Gabon
• (d). Angola
• (e). Guinea

(8). Name the category of loan which would be regulated as a separate category of NBFC's by the RBI.

• (a). Title
• (b). Commodity
• (c). Equity
• (d). Soft
• (e). P2P

(9). Mobile payments start-up PhonePe Internet Pvt. Ltd, which is owned by Flipkart, in partnership with __________has launched unified payments interface (UPI) based payments app.

• (a). ICICI
• (b). Yes Bank
• (c). Axis Bank
• (d). SBI
• (e). None

(10). Government of India will sell its sovereign gold bonds (SGB) through ______.

• (a). SHCI
• (b). RBI
• (c). CDSL
• (d). NSDL
• (e). SSE

(11). Country's economic growth recorded ________ percent in first quarter of current fiscal

• (a). 0.071
• (b). 0.073
• (c). 0.069
• (d). 0.07
• (e). 0.065

(12). Who was appointed as the U.N. Women's advocate for Gender Equality?

• (a). Priya Dhanush
• (b). Sonam Kapoor
• (c). Aishwarya Dhanush
• (d). Sneha Agarwal
• (e). None of these

(13). The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri) has appointed whom as the new Chancellor of Teri University?

• (a). Harish Jain
• (b). Rajan Sinha
• (c). Amitabh Kanth
• (d). Ashok Chawla
• (e). None of these

(14). Along with Bezwada Wilson who among the following Carnatic singer receives Ramon Magsaysay prize for 2016?

• (a). Sudha Raghunadhan
• (b). P. Uniikrishnan
• (c). Sanjay Subramanyam
• (d). Abhishek Raghuram
• (e). T.M. Krishna

(15). Name the Indian bowler who is ranked 3rd in the latest ICC Test rankings for Test Bowlers.

• (a). Naman Ojha
• (b). Ashish Nehra
• (c). Ishant Sharma
• (d). Ravishandran Ashwin
• (e). None of these

(16). Which state government has inked a tripartite memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Civil Aviation and the Airport Authority of India (AAI) to develop 11 small airports and airstrips?

• (a). Gujarat
• (b). Meghalaya
• (c). Madhya Pradesh
• (d). Karnataka
• (e). Tamil Nadu

(17). Regional Editors Conference being held in which among the following cities?

• (a). Bangalore
• (b). Chennai
• (c). Hyderabad
• (d). Mumbai
• (e). Delhi

(18). Petroleum companies to hold first international conference on cooking gas in

• (a). Pune
• (b). Kolkata
• (c). Bhubaneswar
• (d). Ranchi
• (e). Vadodara

(19). Solung festival celebrated in which among the following Indian States?

• (a). Andhra Pradesh
• (b). Assam
• (c). Telangana
• (d). Arunachal Pradesh
• (e). Kerala

(20). Railway has launched an insurance scheme for passengers travelling on e- ticket. The insurance cover will be upto ____ lakhs.

• (a). Rs.5
• (b). Rs.7
• (c). Rs.7.8
• (d). Rs.8.3
• (e). Rs.10