1) A nine-judge
constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India, declared that the right to
privacy is ‘intrinsic to life and liberty’ and an inherent part of the
fundamental freedoms enshrined in Part III of the Constitution of India. In
this context, which of the following is correct ?
a) Right to privacy is an
intrinsic part of Article 21 that protects life and liberty of the citizens of
India
b) The ruling has
implications for the government’s vast biometric ID scheme, covering access to
benefits, bank accounts and payment of taxes
c) The other outcomes are
unambiguously positive
d) All the above
Ans : d
2) The Bench comprising of five judges of
Supreme Court of India, including Chief Justice JS Khehar, from major faiths in India i.e., Hinduism,
Christianity, Islam, Sikhism and Zoroastrianism delivered judgement in which
case recently ?
a) Triple Talaq
b) Animal
protection
c) Land Acquisition
d) Child marraiges
Ans : a
3) Which of the following
is not a fundamental right now,
in Indian Constitution ?
a) Right to equality
b) Right to freedom
c) Right to privacy
d) Right to property
Ans : d
4) Devendra Jhajharia and
Sardara Singh received which award recently ?
a) Rajiv Khel Ratna Award,2017
b) Dronacharya Award
c) Dhyan Chand Award
d) Bharat Ratna Award
Ans : a
5) Article 12 of the
Universal declaration of Human Rights (UN) guarantees which of the following ?
a) No one shall be
subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or
correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation.
b) Everyone has the right
to the protection of law against such interference or attacks
c) Every one has the right
to a nationality
d) Both (a) and (b)
Ans : d
6) For Ramon Magsaysay
Award, who are selected recently ?
a) Gethsie Shanmugam from Sri Lanka
b) Abdon Nababan from Indonesia
c) Lilia de Lima from
Philippines
d) All the above
Ans : d
7) The Indian Council of
Food and Agriculture on 19th August, 2017 announced the Global
Agriculture Leadership Award to whom ?
a) K.Chandrasekhara Rao,
CM , Telangana
b) Nitish Kumar
c) P.Vijayan
d) Mamata Banerjee
Ans : a
8) The motif of ‘Hampi with Chariot’ is printed on the
reverse of which currency note ?
a) One Rupee Note
b) Rs. 500 note
c) Rs.50 note
d) Rs.1000 note
Ans : c
9) Who has taken charge as
Pakistan High Commissioner to India recently ?
a)Kulbhushan Jadhav
b) Sohail Mahmood
c) Mohamoud Abbas
d)Hassan Rouhani
Ans : b
10) Who assumed charge as
the 45th Chief Justice of India on 28th August, 2017 ?
a) Justice Dipak Misra
b) Justice J S Khehar
c)Dalbir Singh Bhandari
d)Justice Leila Seth
Ans : a
11) The Payment of
Gratuity Act, 1972 applies to establishments employing 10 or more persons. The
present upper ceiling on gratuity amount under the Act is Rs. 10 Lakh. (with
implementation of 7th Central Pay Commission, in case of Government servants,
the ceiling now is Rs. 20 Lakhs effective from 1.1.2016).Payment of Gratuity
Act, 1972 is an important social security legislation to wage earning
population in which of the following ?
a) industries
b) factories
c) establishments
d) All the above
Ans : d
12) The Cabinet Committee
on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has
given its approval for development of six laning of Narasannapeta-Ranastalam
section of National Highway (NH) – 16 (old NH-5). Narasannapeta – Ranastalam is
in which state ?
a) Bihar
b)West Bengal
c) Orisha
d) Andhra Pradesh
Ans : d
13) Who is the
Union Minister of State for AYUSH (Independent Charge)
?
a) Shri Shripad Yesso Naik
b) Bandaru Dattatreya
c) Shri Ramdas Athawale
d) Smt.Anupriya Patel
Ans : a
14) Coarse cereals
were included in the 12th scheme and NFSM-coarse cereal is being implemented in
how many districts ?
a) 200 districts
b) 265 districts of 28 states
since 2014-15.
c) 150 districts
d) None of these
Ans : b
15) Who is the Secretary of DIPP ?
a) Dr.S.Christopher
b) Ramesh Abhishek
c) A.S.Kiran Kumar
d) S.Basu
Ans : b
16) Who are the enablers
for the startups in India ?
a) Venture Capitalists
(VCs)
b) Incubators
c) Accelerators, Banks, etc.
d) All the above
Ans : d
17) Ministry of Corporate
Affairs cancelled registration of around 2.10 lakh (2,09,032)
defaulting companies . After closing of around 2.10 Lakh Companies, how many
companies are there having Active status with the Registrar of Companies ?
a) about 11 Lakh companies
b) 4 lakh companies
c) 6 lakh companies
d) None of these
Ans : a
18) Area of Sir Creek
because of the relevance of the area to the overall security requirements of
Southern Command. Where is Sir Creek ?
a) Gujrat coast ( tidal estuary between Pakistan and Pakistan )
b) Maharastra sea coast
c) Karnataka sea coast
d) Kerala sea coast
Ans : a
19) Work will start on three river interlinking projects within
the next three months. These include which of the following ?
a) Ken-Betwa Linking
Project
b) Damanganga- Pinjal Link
Project
c) Par-Tapi-Narmada Link
projects
d) All the above
Ans : d
20) When Government of
India confers the "Highest Civilian Honor for Women" by presenting "Nari Shakti
Puraskars"?
a) June 5
b) 8thMarch,
every year, International Women’s Day
c) June 21
d) April 7
Ans : b
21) What is National SC-ST Hub ? Give details.
a) It is launched by Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri
Narendra Modi
b) It aims to create a
supportive ecosystem for SC/ST entrepreneurs by assisting in technology
upgradation and capacity building
c) It enables SC/ST entrepreneurs to effectively
participate in public procurement processes.
d) All the above
Ans : d
22) Which of the following
are some of the Priority programmes of
central government ?
a) Pradhan Mantri Fasal
Bima Yojana
b) Din Dayal Upadhyaya
Grameen Kaushalya Yojana
c) Promoting Digital
Payments and Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban and Rural)
d) All the above
Ans : d
23) Which country is a pioneer in high-speed rail networks, and its
Shinkansen bullet train is among the fastest in the world?
a) Japan
b) China
c) France
d) Russia
Ans : a
24) 125th Year of Swami
Vivekananda's Chicago Address is celebrated this year . When Swami Vivekananda extended
love, harmony and brotherhood through his famous speech, 125 years back
?
a) 12th January 1863
b) September 11, 1893
c) 14.11.1889
d) 2.10.1869
Ans : b
25) The two-day festival
‘North East Calling’, is organized by which ministry ?
a) Ministry of Development
of North Eastern Region (DoNER)
b) Ministry of External
Affairs
c) Ministry of Home
Affairs
d) Ministry of Defence
Ans : a
26) Which of the following
is correct ?
a) National Zoological
Park : Delhi
b) the Lion Safari :
Etawah
c) Sri Chamarajendra
Zoological Gardens : Mysusru
d) All the above
Ans : d
27) The Central Zoo
Authority (CZA) is a statutory body created under the provisions of the
Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and
Climate Change. When it came into existence
to oversee the functioning of zoos and provide them technical and other
assistance?
a) 1992
b) 1975
c) 2001
d)1985
Ans : a
28) The commencement of
work on the Country’s First High Speed (Bullet train) will begin on 14th
September, 2017 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. What are the salient features of this
project ?
a) Length 508 KMs
(approx.), doubleline through two states, Maharashtra(156 KMs)and Gujarat(351
KMs) and UT of Dadra and Nagar Haveli (2 KMs).
b) Longest tunnel 21 KM switch 7 KMs undersea (Thane
Creek).
c) Maximum Design Speed-:350
kmph
d) All the above
Ans : d
29) Who is Defence
Minister of India, now?
a) Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman
b) smt. Indira Gandhi
c)SS Ahluwalia
d) Kiren Rijiju
Ans : a
30) The International
Literacy Day is celebrated on 8th September every year
throughout the world. When UNESCO
declared the International Literacy
Day ?
a) 1945
b) UNESCO in its 14th Session
in November, 1966, declared 8th September as
the International Literacy Day
c) 1991
d) 1948
Ans : b
31) What are the major causes leading to railway accidents in India ?
a) Unmanned Level
Crossings accounted for 34% of accidents in 2016-17 : (All unmanned level
crossings should be eliminated expeditiously on the entire Indian Railway
network in a year’s time from now)
b) Derailments
due to defects in tracks.( The special focus is to identify measures to reduce
accidents due to derailments which has emerged as one of the major causes of
Train accidents)
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) Only (a)
Ans : c
32) Who is the President of the Swiss Confederation ?
a) Jean Claude Juncker
b) Ms. Doris Leuthard
c) Thomas Bach
d) Asharose Migiro
Ans : b
33) Shri Sunil Arora
assumed charge of which of the following
?
a) new Election
Commissioner of India
b) Attorney General
c) Solicitor General
d) Advocate General
Ans : a
34) Pradhan Mantri
Jan Dhan Yojna was announced by Prime Minister Shri Narendra
Modi in his independence speech on 15th August, 2014 & the
scheme was formally launched on which date ?
a) 2015
b) 28th August,
2014
c) 2016
d) 2017
Ans : b
35) What are the additional benefits, accrue to a customer on opening a bank account under Jan Dhan Scheme
?
a) a RuPay Debit Card
having inbuilt insurance cover of Rs 1 Lakh.
b) an overdraft (OD)
facility of Rs 5,000/- is granted to the customer for satisfactory operation of
account for 6 months.
c) A life cover of Rs
30,000/- has also been granted to customers for opening the accounts up to a
certain time period
d)All the above
Ans : d
36) The period of five
years from 1942 to 1947 reflected India’s struggle for freedom which
transformed the entire country into one to fight for the freedom from the
British Rule. Similarly the vision of new India from 2017 to 2022 will
be showcased with various developmental
programmes. What is the importance of
2022 ?
a) Starting of 15th Five Year Plan
b) India will be celebrating
75 years of India’s Independence.
c) 60 years of Green
Revolution
d) None of these
Ans : b
37) The five year period
from 2017 to 2022 is to give a unique opportunity of ‘Sankalp se Sidhi’ towards
a ‘New India’. This programme is in tune with the mass campaign started by the
Prime Minister to take the six resolves to make the country free from which of
the following ?
a) free of corruption;
free of poverty;
b) free of filth; free of
communalism;.
c) free of terrorism and
free of casteism
d) All the above
Ans : d
38) Which of the following
is correct ?
a) “The First War of
Independence : 1857”
b) “The Champaran
Satyagrah” : 1917
c) “The Quit India Movement” : 1942
d) All the above
Ans : d
39) The Prime Minister,
Shri Narendra Modi had announced the pan-India implementation of PMMVY w.e.f.
01st January, 2017 ? In the abbreviation PMMVY, the letter V stands for what ?
a) Vandana ( PMMVY :
Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana )
b) Vaya
c)Value
d) Vision
Ans : a
40) What is FASTag ?
a) Train
b) The FASTag is an RFID
tag, available both online and offline through banks and Common Service Centres
c) Lorry
d) Bus
Ans : b
41) What is ‘Tribes
India’? Give details.
a) It is a brand name .
b) TRIFED is engaged
in marketing development of tribal products including tribal art & craft
under the brand name “TRIBES INDIA”.
c) Tribal Cooperative
Marketing Development of India Ltd., (TRIFED) is an organization under the
Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Govt. of India
d) All the above
Ans : d
42) Which of the following
is correct ? (Tribes: Living Places/States)
a) Bhutia tribes : Uttrakhand
b) Bodh & Kinnaura
tribes : Himachal Pradesh
c) Toda & Erula tribes
: Nilgiri Hills
d) All the above
Ans : d
43) Which of the following
is correct ? (Tribes: Living Places/States)
a) Thangkul Naga, Bodo,
Konyak & Dimasha tribes : North Eastern States
b) Bhil, Garasia, Rathwa,
Gamit tribes : desert of Rajasthan and Rann of Kuchh
c) Munda and Oraon tribes
: Ranchi district in Jarkhand
d) All the above
Ans : d
44) Who is the chairman of
the ‘Committee on Doubling Farmers’ income’ , which submitted report recently ?
a) Ashok Dalwai
b) V K Mittal
c) KK Chakravarty
d) Ashwani Lohani
Ans : a
45) Who is the new Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog ?
a) Prof.M.Aslam
b) Dr. Rajiv Kumar
c) Dilip Rath
d) Shekhar Sen
Ans : b
46) Leaders of the Federative Republic of Brazil,
the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People’s Republic of China
and the Republic of South Africa, met on 4 September 2017 in Xiamen, China, at
the Ninth BRICS Summit. What is the
theme of this summit ?
a) I4C
b) “BRICS: Stronger
Partnership for a Brighter Future”,
c) Trust us to find way
d) Recognition of mutual
need
Ans : b
47) A Geographical
Indication or a GI is a sign used on products that have a specific geographical
origin and possess qualities or a reputation that are due to that origin. Such
a name conveys an assurance of quality and distinctiveness which is essentially
attributable to its origin in that defined geographical locality. Which of the
following some examples of GIs. ?
a) Darjeeling Tea,
Mahabaleshwar Strawberry,
b) Blue Pottery of Jaipur,
c) Banarasi Sarees and
Tirupati Laddus
d) All the above
Ans : d
48) Symbolising the
growing hydrocarbon engagement between India and Myanmar, the first consignment
of 30 MT of High Speed Diesel was sent today from India to Myanmar by land
route. Which refinery despatched the
first diesel consignment through NH 37 across the Moreh Custom Check Point on
the Indian side and Tamu Custom Check Point on the Myanmar side ?
a) Numaligarh Refinery
Ltd. (NRL),
b) MRPL
c) Paradip Refinery
d) RIL
Ans : a
49) India
contributed hand made wax candles to the 2500 year old Shwedagon Pagoda
earlier this year. Where is Shwedagon Pagoda ?
a) Bangladesh
b) Myanmar
c) Thailand
d) Indonesia
Ans : b
50) ‘Line of Blood’ is a
book written by whom ?
a) Balraj Khanna
b) Ursula Vernon
c) Amal El-Mohtar
d) Diksha Basu
Ans : a
51)Where the 21st Meeting
of GST Council was conducted on 9th
September, 2017 ?
a) New Delhi
b) Hyderabad
c) Chennai
d) Bengaluru
Ans : b
52) Who is the President of the Republic of Belarus ?
a) Vladimir Putin
b) Alexander Lukashenko
c) Andrei Kobyakov
d) Nikolai Ulakhovich
Ans : b
53) In India, there are around 4,42,000 mobile towers .
Out of which, BSNL has how many
mobile towers ? (It is proposed to set up a separate oranisation for
BSNL owned towers)
a) 40,000
b) 30,000
c) more than 66,000
d) 20,000
Ans : c
54) Which is
referred as ‘Spiritual Capital of India’ ? (Clue: From this
constituency, Shri Narendra Modi elected to Lok Sabha )
a) Ayodhy
b) Varanasi
c) New Delhi
d) Kanyakumari
Ans : a
55) Who is the
Convenor of Group of Ministers (GoM), i.e., constituted to monitor and resolve the IT challenges
faced in the implementation of GST ?
a) Sushil Kumar Modi, Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar
b) Ram Kripal Yadav
c) Parashottam Rupala
d) Mansukh L.Mandaviya
Ans : a
56) Election Commission of India has decided that the voter’s identification shall be mandatory in the elections at the
time of poll. Which of the following shall be the main document of
identification of a voter ?
a) Voter Slip
b) Electoral Photo
Identity Cards (EPIC)
c) Indelible ink mark
d) Electoral rolls
Ans : b
57) Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) between India and Armenia on Cooperation in the field of
Disaster Management will be signed. What is the capital of Armania ?
a) Baku
b) Yerevan
c) Tbilisi
d) Gyumri
Ans : b
58) Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) between Central Silk Board (CSB), India and National
Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS), Japan will be signed for collaborative research in
the field of silkworm and silk industries. What is the binomial name of silkworm, as per scientific
classification ?
a) Papilo Machaon
b) Apis nigrocincta
c) Bombyx Mori
d) Musca domestica
Ans : c
59) During the period from
2017-18 to 2028-29, Dairy Processing & Infrastructure Development Fund”
(DIDF) with an outlay of Rs 10,881 crore will be set up ? What are the major activities of DIDF?
a) The project will focus on
building an efficient milk procurement system by setting up of chilling
infrastructure &.
b) installation of electronic
milk adulteration testing equipment, creation/modernization/expansion of
processing infrastructure
c) manufacturing faculties
for Value Added Products for the Milk Unions/ Milk Producer Companies
d) All the above
Ans : d
60) India has 26 sedimentary
basins covering an area of 3.14 Million Sq Km spread over onland, shallow water
and deep water. A project is taken up which will help in increasing the
investments in domestic production of oil and gas. The project will be
implemented by whom ? Give details.
a) NOCs, i.e. Oil India
Limited (OIL) and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).
b) OIL will conduct survey
in North - Eastern States
c) Remaining
area(excluding North-Eastern States) will be covered by ONGC. Survey work will
be carried out in 24 States
d) All the above
Ans : d
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