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India and ............. has signed an MoU towards an Inter-governmental agreement (IGA) over the
purchase of 36 Rafale jets from Dassault Aviation?
1) USA

2) UK

3) France

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5) None of the above

The First Ministerial Meeting of Arab-India Cooperation Forum was held in ............
1) Iran

2) Egypt

3) Saudi Arabia

4) Bahrain

5) None of the above

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Who has been honoured with the third Yash Chopra Memorial Award?
1) Sharukh Khan

2) Rekha

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3) Amir Khan

4) Jaya Bachhan

Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2015 shows that India has moved up
in rank from 85 position to ............
1) 84

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2) 80

3) 76

4) 75

All India Radio has launched a non-conventional audio broadcast channel. What is the name of the
channel?
1) Rangoli

2) Raagam

3) Rangam

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Which among the following acquires UK-based Point to Point for around $ 11 M?
1) IBM

2) HCL

3) Infosys

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5) TCS
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4) Reliance

Which company has kept the title of world's biggest automaker for the fourth straight year?
1) Hyundai

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2) Honda

5) Skoda
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3) Toyota

4) Mahindra

Abe Vigoda who passes away recently, was a/ an ............

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2) Singer

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5) Lyricist

3) Writer

4) Guitarist

Who has won the Amnesty International Human Rights Award 2016?
1) Jawahar Mishra

2) Kalyan Singh

3) Henri Tiphagne

4) Nesan Chandran

5) Nelson Mandela

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4) Rangmanch

5) None of the above

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4) Germany

Who has been named as the brand ambassador of a newly-launched pleasure cruise?
1) Aamir Khan

2) Sachin Tendulkar

3) Parineeti Chopra

4) Alia Bhat

5) Rahul Dravid

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Government of India has signed $80 million loan agreement with ............ to continue improving
infrastructure in two North Eastern State Capital cities?
1) World Bank

2) United Nations

3) BRICS Bank

4) Asian Development Bank

5) Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

2) Kolkata

3) Kochi

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2) Five

3) Six

5) Ten

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4) Seven

Which among the following cities may soon become world's first city to get the ultra high speed 5G
mobile network by 2018?
1) Moscow

2) London

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4) Chennai

How many capital cities are there among the selected 20 smart cities?
1) Four

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A permanent memorial of India's first aircraft carrier INS Vikrant has been unveiled in ............
1) Mumbai

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3) New York

4) Stockholm

Arindam Sen Gupta, who passed away recently, was a/an ............
1) Economist

2) Historian

3) Wildlife Photographer

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4) Journalist

5) Actor

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Two new Hindi writers have been chosen for the 11th Navlekhan award of the Bharatiya Jnanpith. Who

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are they?
1) Amlendu Tiwari and Om Nagar

2) Amit Patel and Krishnakant Bhattacharya

3) Ram Joshi and Devanand Patnaik

4) Dilip Chatterjee and Manoj Chawla

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Who has been awarded the Diploma of Honour and President's Button by the International Shooting
Sport Federation (ISSF)?
1) Geroge Kutty

2) Abhinav Bindra

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5) Jitu Roy
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3) Rupadevi

4) Jai Akash

Leslie Berland has been named as the Chief Marketing Officer of ............

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1) Facebook

2) Google

3) Microsoft

4) Twitter

5) Yahoo
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Who has been appointed as the chairman and managing director of NTPC Ltd?
1) Dhananjay Singh

2) Arjun Singh

3) Gurdeep Singh

4) Prakash Singh

5) None of the above

20.

Who has been appointed as the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities (CCPD)?
1) Dr. Kamlesh Kumar Pandey

2) Dr. Amit Sohail Khan

3) Dr. Raj Kapoor

4) Dr. Krishna Kant Mishra

5) None of the above

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Girish Kumar Ahuja and Pushpendra Rai are appointed as the Non-Official Directors of ............
1) Canara bank

2) SBI

3) IOB

4) Bank of Baroda

5) Bank of India
22.

1) Brazil

2) China

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3) India

4) Indonesia

5) Pakistan
23.

IRCTC has limited how many tickets per month to one user?
1) Five

2) Six

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2) Bangladesh

3) Bhutan

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5) Myanmar

4) Malaysia

............ has acquired education-technology startup LearnSprout?

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1) Apple
5) TCS
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4) Eight

Axiata Group Berhad (Axiata) and Bharti Airtel will merge their telecom operations in ............
1) Nepal

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3) Seven

5) Ten
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2) Google

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3) Microsoft

4) IBM

Who is the Author of 'Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition'?
1) Nisid Hajari

2) Mohammad Halid

3) Yasir Hameed

4) Mohammad Yousuf

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5) None of the above

Who has been chosen for the K Veeramani Award for Social Justice 2015?
1) Prem Anand

2) Nitish Kumar

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3) Jawahar Singh

5) None of the above

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2) Vice Admiral Kumar Chauhan

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3) Vice Admiral Ajith Singh

4) Vice Admiral Bimraj Gupta

5) None of the above

Government of India has marginally revised downward the economic growth for 2014-15 to .............
from the earlier estimate of 7.3 percent?
1) 7.2%

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5) 8.0%
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4) Pranav Chatterjee

Who took over charge as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Southern Naval Command?
1) Vice Admiral Girish Luthra

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Which country has the highest number of tuberculosis cases in the world?

3) 7.0%

4) 6.9%

The Government of India has decided to nominate .................. for the UNESCO world heritage city
tag this year?
1) Delhi

2) Mumbai

3) Varanasi

4) Ahmedabad

5) Bengaluru

31.

Alibaba.com, the wholesale trading platform of China's Alibaba group has unveiled its first physical
trade facility centre in India at ............
1) Jaipur

2) Pune

3) Hyderabad

5) Chennai

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4) Bengaluru

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32.

Prime Minister Modi to create a network for more job opportunities across villages. Name it?
1) Khadi udyog

2) Khadi Gramudyog

3) Khadi Jobs

4) Gram Khadi udyog

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5) None of the above

1) Andy Murray

2) Rafael Nadal

3) Roger Federer

5) David Ferrer
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2) Virender Sehwag

5) None of the above

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3) Rahul Dravid

4) Anil Kumble

Who has been appointed Senior Director for the Fragility, Conflict and Violence Group at the World
Bank?
1) Atul Mittal

2) Saroj Kumar Jha

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4) Stan Wawrinka

Who has been appointed mentor of the Kings XI Punjab for the upcoming Indian Premier League
(IPL)?
1) Sachin Tendulkar

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Novak Djokovic defeated ......... in straight sets to win a record-equalling sixth Australian Open title?

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3) Satish Mishra

4) Salil Mehta

Which has been emerged as the fastest-growing state in the whole country with a growth rate of 9.7%
in 2013-14?
1) Bihar

2) Goa

3) Andhra Pradesh

4) Maharashtra

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5) Meghalaya
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Manipuri documentary bags top award at 14th MIFF. Name it ......

2) Quisa

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3) Phum Shang

5) None of the above

Who has been appointed vice-president and chief investment officer of the newly-created Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)?
1) Tanmay Gupta

2) Rishabh Bajaj

4) DJ Pandian

Which Country became second largest smartphone market?

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1) India

2) Indonesia

3) UAE

4) UK

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5) None of the above

3) Arpan Pandey

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5) None of the above

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............. has launched India's first anti-diabetic ayurvedic drug for type two Diabetes mellitus?

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1) The Council for Science and Industrial Research

4) The Cabinet for Scientific and Industrial Research

41.

The Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) approves GI tag for Indian ...........
1) Basmati Rice

2) Dal

3) Turmeric

5) None of the above

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............... becomes Associate Member of European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)?

2) India

3) Russia

4) Germany

5) Poland
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World Cancer Day is observed on.......

2) February 5th

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3) February 4th

4) February 3rd

5) March 3rd
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ICC removes which Country from Permanent member status?

2) Pakistan

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2) Swapnil Dhopade

3) Himal Gusain

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5) None of the above

4) Shardul Garge

...............received SEBI nod for Mutual Fund business?

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1) Mahindra AMC
5) None of the above
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4) Australia

Who won Wealth Mumbai International Open Chess tournament?

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3) South Africa

2) Muthoot Finance

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3) Axis Fund

4) SBI Fund

PM Modi inaugurates Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited petrochemical complex, the region's
first petrochemical project at .........
1) Patna, Bihar

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3) Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh

4) Perambadur, Tamilnadu

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