Q1. The Railways has launched its first consolidated BMS, a web-enabled IT application to store data on its one lakh 50 thousand bridges. BMS stands for ____________.
(a) Building Management System
(b) Bridge Management System
(c) Breaking Management System
(d) Business Management System
(e) None of the given options is true
S1. Ans.(b)
Q2. Name the Indian runner who created history by becoming the first-ever Indian woman to win an athletics gold on the international stage in Tampere, Finland.
(a) Arunima Chinga
(b) Anjali Bhagwat
(c) Anisa Sayyed
(d) Hima Das
(e) Anuradha Biswal
S2. Ans.(d)
Q3. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has made it compulsory to incorporate purchaser’s name on the face of payment instrumentalities. The Payment instruments include ___________.
(a) demand draft
(b) pay order
(c) banker’s cheques
(d) Only (a) and (c)
(e) All (a) (b) and (c)
S3. Ans.(e)
Q4. The Vice President of India and the President of Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), M. Venkaiah Naidu has appointed ___________ as the Director General, ex officio Member-Secretary of the Council, ICWA.
(a) K B Vijay Srinivas
(b) P K Shrivastava
(c) Dr. T.C.A. Raghavan
(d) Prof. Uttam Dhillon
(e) Saraswati Prasad
S4. Ans.(c)
Q5. What is the capital city of South Korea?
(a) Pyongyang
(b) Hong Kong
(c) Seoul
(d) Beijing
(e) Tokyo
S5. Ans.(c)
Q6. The Telecom Commission has approved the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) net neutrality recommendations that bar service providers from discriminating against internet content and services by blocking, throttling or granting them higher speed access. ______________ is the chairman of Telecom Commission.
(a) Tushar Arothe
(b) Aruna Sundararajan
(c) Sandeep Sancheti
(d) T Latha
(e) Vishwas Patel
S6. Ans.(b)
Q7. In which of the following states, the state-run power giant National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC) opened its 250 MW Solar Power Plant at an investment of about Rs 1,500 crore?
(a) Kerala
(b) Rajasthan
(c) Karnataka
(d) Madhya Pradesh
(e) Odisha
S7. Ans.(d)
Q8. In a departure from the norm, the Mission Olympic Cell included the entire ___________ team in the Target Olympic Podium (TOP) scheme.
(a) Indian Men’s hockey
(b) Indian Women’s badminton
(c) Indian Men’s boxing
(d) Indian Men’s football
(e) Indian Archery
S8. Ans.(a)
Q9. The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres constituted a High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation. The panel will be co-chaired by _______________.
(a) Melinda Gates
(b) Bill Gates
(c) Jack Ma
(d) Both (a) and (c)
(e) Both (b) and (c)
S9. Ans.(d)
Q10. Reliance Industries Chairman and India’s richest person Mukesh Ambani dethroned Chinese businessman Jack Ma. Jack Ma is _____________.