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CURRENT AFFAIRS

1. Pritzker Prize Laureate – Balkrishna Doshi(ARCHITECT OF IIM

B’LORE)
2. Chairman of Film and Television Institute of India(FTII) – Brijendra Pal
Singh
3. Highest FDI in India from which country- Mauritius
4. Which country has emerged as the top borrower from Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)? India
5. Which country has retained its position as the world’s top recipient of
remittances in 2018 with its diaspora sending $80 billion back home,
according to World Bank? India
6. India’s 1st Agriculture Export Policy 2018, released by Ministry of
Commerce and Industry, would boost India’s agricultural exports to
_____ dollar by 2022? USD 60 billion
7. Twitter account named _____ to create awareness about cybercrimes
and normal precautions to be taken? @CyberDost
8. Which state renamed all the childcare institutes currently run in the state
as ‘Jagannath Ashram’? Haryana
9. PM released the highest denomination in the form of a coin worth _____
rupees? 100(For Atal Bihari)

10. Safest country to visit? Iceland

11. Worst? Afghanistan
12. Which Indian institute has developed a smartphone-based system to
detect adulteration in milk? IIT, Hyderabad
13. Neighbourly app to collect local information from the neighbors? Google
14. LIC has partnered with which digital payments service provider to offer
online insurance premium payments on its platform? Paytm
15. Jammu and Kashmir Bank will be treated as? Public Sector
Undertaking(PSU)
16. GI Tag for its sweet delicacy named ‘Silao Khaja’, ? Bihar
17. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Council has approved India’s
proposal to observe which year as International Year of Millets? 2023
18. Agni-5(product of DRDO)(launched at Kalam islands) strike range ?
5,000 km.
19. SEBI has renamed the Institutional Trading Platform(ITP) as ?
Innovators Growth Platform
20. Name the new facility introduced for Mutual funds, by (SEBI), that involves
separation of distressed or illiquid assets from other healthier securities in
a debt mutual fund portfolio? Side-Pocketing
21. Nepal government banned Indian currency above the denomination of
____ rupees?100
22. “Krishi Karman” award in the rice category= Jharkhand
23. First state in the country to enact a law banning sexual exploitation of
women ? Jammu & Kashmir
24. ‘Swachch Kumbh’ on the banks of _____ river = Sangam
25. Cyclone which hit the Coast of Odisha? Titli
26. Google has confirmed that it will shut down its messaging app Allo
27. Note Torn into two pieces and pasted together- Soiled Note
28. 106th Indian Science Congress was held in which state – Jalandhar, Punjab
29. Bogibeel bridge(Assam) is situated on which of the following river? Brahmaputra
30. Govt decided to contain fiscal deficit at 3.3 % of GDP for the fiscal year
ending March 2019 to avoid a twin deficit problem.
31. In 2018, India saw more than $38 billion of inbound deals(FDI).
32. No. of Indian states have achieved 100 % household electrification? 15
33. Government has launched ‘Bhasha Sangam’, a unique initiative to
introduce school students to _____ Indian languages? 22 languages
34. Makedatu Project on river Cauvery? Karnataka
35. United Nations World Meteorological Organization’s annual report states
that Global temperature may rise by 3-___ degree Celsius by the end of
this century? 5
36. India’s first international indigenous film festival be held in February
2019? Odisha
37. Name the Indian movie that has been shortlisted for the Oscars 2019?
Period. End of Sentence
38. Which Indian state has the largest population of Great Indian
Bustard?Rajasthan
39. India has almost a _____ of the world’s stunted children, according to
the Global Nutrition Report 2018? One third
40. Which Internet Technology has unveiled a plan to provide free worldwide
WiFi service by 2026? LinkSure
41. Who launched a campaign named “Heart Attack Rewind,” for the
elimination of industrially produced trans-fat in the food supply= FSSAI
42. Country that has the highest number of children and teens with HIV in
South Asia = India
43. Portal for drone operators in India = Digital Sky
44. Cambridge Dictionary has confirmed _____ Word of the Year?
“Nomophobia” which means the “fear or worry at the idea of being without
your mobile phone or unable to use it.
45. Oxford Dictionary of the year = Toxic
46. First Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered robot to fly in Space = CIMON
(Crew Interactive Mobile Companion)
47. A common mobility card called ‘One’, for easy commute on public
transport, = Delhi
48. US, Mexico and Canada signed the Agreement (USMCA) to replace?
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
49. New Finance Secretary = Ajay Narayan Jha
50. According to EY FinTech Adoption Index, India has the second highest
FinTech adoption rate among digitally active consumers at 52percent, only
second to China at 69 percent.
51. Oil Pollution Response Exercise named ‘Clean Sea – 2018’ at Port Blair,
Andaman & Nicobar Islands
52. Korean Won and _____ are the two new currencies added to the List of
Currencies for Exchange Rate, by Central Board of Indirect taxes and
Customs (CBIC)? Turkish Lira
53. “Mukhya Mantri Krishi Yojana”(2250 crore) to help farmers to double
their income by 2022? Jharkhand
54. 28% slab rate of GST (Goods and Services Tax) will be applicable for how
many items? 28
55. PM released the highest denomination in the form of a coin worth _____
rupees? 100
56. India’s first music museum will be set up in Thiruvaiyaru, Tamil Nadu
57. Paika Bidroha = Odisha

58. One District, One Product Regional Summit held in? Varanasi
59. International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) = Varanasi
60. A initiative launched by Twitter India to encourage the youth for the 2019
general elections? #PowerOf18
61. Sashakt India Asset Management, incorporated by the Sunil Mehta
committee, will have an Alternate Investment Fund (AIF) to resolve non-
performing assets (NPAs) amounting to over ____ rupees? Rs 500 crore
62. App launched by National Stock Exchange (NSE) for retail investors to buy
government securities? NSE goBID

63. Name the sail training ship of Indian Navy that returned from a seven-
month sail across the world named ‘Lokayan 18’? INS TARANGINI
64. Renaming of Jharsuguda Airport of which state as “Veer Surendra Sai
Airport, Jharsuguda”? Odisha
65. Name the only Indian film that has been listed in BBC’s list of 100 best
foreign language films? Pather Panchali
66. Faizabad is now ? Ayodhya
67. Ekana Stadium located in which city was renamed as the “Atal Bihari
Stadium”? Luckow
68. Location of Chabahar Port in? Iran.
69. Chairperson of electric car pioneer Tesla, replacing Elon Musk? Robyn
Denholm

70. Which country unveiled the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI)
anchor? China
71. Which institute has developed a portable solar-powered cold storage
device for storing vegetables, fruits, etc.? IIT-Madras
72. Rs 75 coin to commemorate leader ?Subash Chandra Bose
 73. Which has become the first small finance bank to introduce a personal
loan scheme for salaried individuals, through which Rs 50,000 to Rs 15
lakhs personal loan will be offered to individuals earning a monthly salary
of above Rs 15, 000? Ujjivan Small Finance Bank(Hq = Bangalore)
74. Jammu and Kashmir Bank will be treated as Public Sector
Undertaking(PSU)

75. Workplace sexual harassment complaint portal named? SHe-Box

76. Top lender among Small Finance Banks (SFBs)? AU SFB(Jaipur)

77. 70-feet tall second tallest statue of Buddha in India? Rajgir, Bihar
78. Which entity has issued norms for interoperability among clearing
corporation to bring down the compliance costs for market intermediaries
and trading costs? SEBI
79. Capital First merges with IDFC Bank to create IDFC First Bank.

SPORTS
1) FIFA 2026 held in which country – US, Canada and Mexico
2) Vijay Varma and _____ are the two Indian Navy officers honoured
with the ‘Asian of The Year’ awards? P rajkumar
3) 2019 AIBA World Boxing Championships will be held in Sochi,
Russia.
4) First Indian,conferred with the ISSF’s (International Shooting Sport
Federation) highest award = Abhinav Bindra
5) International Olympic Committee (IOC) has set up an advisory
committee on human rights chaired by _____, which will start
functioning in 2024? Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein
6) First Indian to win a gold in the Commonwealth Championship=
Bhavani Devi(sabre fencer)
7) 2018 Ballon d’Or Award = Luka Modric
8) State Bank of India(SBI) has roped in Asian Games gold medalist
Swapna Barman(Indian heptathlete) as brand ambassador for
YONO
9) Delhi Daredevils were renamed as ? Delhi Capitals.
10) Shubhankar Sharma = Golfer
11) Khelo India Youth Games 2019 be held ? Pune
12) Host the 2020 Asia cricket cup = PAKISTAN
13) First Indian to win gold in the Badminton World Federation
(BWF) World Tour? PV Sindhu
14) Which country won their First Men’s Hockey World Cup
Championship held in Bhubaneswar, Odisha? Belgium
15) Australian cricketer to be officially inducted into the
International Cricket Council’s Hall of Fame? Ricky Ponting
16) First batsman to score four Twenty20 International (T20I)
centuries? Rohit Sharma
 17) First ever youth ambassador of United Nations Children’s
Fund (UNICEF)? Hima Das
18) Who won IBSF (International Billiards and Snooker
Federation)? Pankaj Advani
19) Brand ambassador of AIBA Women’s World Championship,?
Mary kom
20) First ever gymnast to win 13 world championship gold
medals? Simona Biles
21) International Olympic Committee (IOC) President? Thomas
Bach
22) First Indian woman to score a century in T20Is? Harmanpreet
Kaur
23) Indian men’s hockey team captain? Manpreet Singh
24) Sameer Verma = badminton player
25) Who retained his title as World Chess Champion? Magnus
Carlsen
26) Indian cricketer inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame?
Rahul dravid

RBI IN NEWS
1) RBI has relaxed the securitisation norms by relaxing the Minimum
Holding Period (MHP) requirement. Relaxation on MHP will be allowed
when the NBFC retains _____% of the book value of these loans? 20%
2) In order to boost MSME sector exports, the RBI said the interest subsidy
that exporters get under the ‘Interest Equalisation Scheme on Pre and
Post Shipment Rupee Export Credit’ has been increased to 5% from 3%.
3) RBI made Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) code mandatory for all
transactions regulated by RBI. How many characters do the LEI contain?
20-character.
4) RBI cleared a proposal to give existing _____ rupees corpus to SIDBI for
funding micro finance institutions (MFIs)? 1000crore
5) Name the small finance bank that has received the RBI approval to
operate as scheduled bank? ESAF Small Finance Bank(Thrissur, Kerla)

6) RBI has invited expression of interest (EOI) from companies with a

turnover of over _____ in the last 3 years to set up a wide-based digital
Public Credit Registry (PCR)? Rs 100 crore
7) RBI has allowed which Bank to open 40 new branches? BANDHAN
8) RBI announced the date of its implementation of the Net Stable Funding
Ratio (NSFR) norms to be from _____? April 1, 2020
9) State Bank of Mauritius (SBM) group has been granted license by RBI
to merge with SBM Bank (India) Limited through _____ mode under the
Banking Regulation Act, 1949? Wholly Owned Subsidiary (WOS)
10) Policy rates as per 5th Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy released by
Reserve Bank Of India (RBI), released on 5th December 2018.
Repo Rate 6.5%

Reverse Repo rate 6.25%

Marginal Standing Facility (MSF) rate 6.75%

Bank Rate 6.75%

11) Reserve Ratios:
CRR 4%

SLR 19.5%
12) Currency Swap Agreement between the RBI and UAE = 3500
crore
13) RBI will soon introduce a new currency note of? Rs 20

14) RBI has given licence to the Kirloskar group to launch a non-
banking finance company (NBFC) named? Kirloskar Capital
15) RBI cancelled the certificate of registrations of how many non-
banking finance companies (NBFCs) for unspecified reasons? 31
16) RBI decided to set up an expert committee to examine the central
bank’s Economic Capital Framework (ECF) to enable transfer of reserve
worth _______crore to Government of India? Rs.3.6 Lakh crore
17) RBI in consultation with the government of India, reduced the
mandatory hedging provision to 70 % from 100 %
18) Global Wage Report : released by International Labour
Organisation (ILO)

SUMMITS
1) ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) India Business Summit
? Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2) Global Agriculture and Food summit = Ranchi
3) Asia Pacific Summit-2018? KATHMANDU
4) 13th G-20 Summit held = Buenos Aires, Argentina
5) G20 Summit in 2022? = India

6) BRICS (Brazil Russia India China and South Africa) Leaders Informal
Meeting = Buenos Aires, Argentina ; It was organised by: President of
South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa.
7) BRICS Summit in 2019? Brazil
8) ASEAN Summit = Singapore
9) World Economic Forum Annual Meeting ? Davos-Klosters, Switzerland
FIRST
1) First India Indonesia Business forum (IIBF)? Port Blair, Andaman and
Nicobar Islands
2) Tuhin Satarkar, became the first Indian to climb three routes in the
treacherous Sahayadri mountain range in 12 days,
3) ISRO successfully GSAT-11.
4) 1st International Conference on Bears –Agra
5) India’s first underwater museum will be opened in _____? Puducherry
6) First International Conference, on the theme- ‘Sustainable Water
Management’,? Mohali
7) Installation of the world’s first “floating” nuclear power plant (FNPP)?
RUSSIA
8) India’s first National Rail and Transportation Institute (NRTI) =
Vadodara, Gujarat
9) Which state is developing India’s first ‘Justice City’? Andhra Pradesh

PERSON IN NEWS AND AWARDS

1) Tamil Writer S Ramakrishnan honoured with Sahitya Akademi Award for
his novel “Sancharam” .
2) Charlotte Prodger won the 2018 Turner Award.
3) Rattan Lal, has won the Glinka World Soil Prize 2018 at the Rome
headquarters of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for
his outstanding contribution to sustainable soil management.
4) Roshni Nadar Malhotra, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Shobhana Bhartia and
_____ are the 4 Indians featured in the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women
of 2018 released by Forbes? Priyanka Chopra
5) Who is the first deceased journalist to be honoured with the Time
Magazine’s 2018 Person of the Year award? Jamal Khashoggi
6) 25th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) = Shaktikanta Das
7) Who was appointed as Chief Economic Advisor for a period of 3 years?
Krishnamurthy Subramanian
8) Paras Dogra(Cricketer = most double hundred in Ranji test matches)
9) Miss World 2018 ? Mexico‘s Vanessa Ponce de Leon
10) First Asian/Indian to win the 2018 Mister Supranational =
Prathamesh Maulingkar
11) Whowas appointed as the new Chairman of Society for Worldwide
Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) India,? Arundhati
Bhattacharya
12) Jnanpith Award 2018 = English writer Amitav Ghosh
13) SKOCH Chief Minister of the Year Award? Mamata Banerjee
 14) Dipali Borthakur = ‘Nightingale of Assam’,
15) Florist Santiago Lopez from Argentina has named a royal blue
rose in honour of which Indian playback singer? Lata Mangeshkar

DATE/THEME/VENUE

1. Theme of the World health day 2018 – Universal health coverage

2. 13th February – World Radio Day
3. Every Year 4th January(DAY) is celebrated as- World Braille Day
4. Theme of International Civil Aviation Day = Working Together to Ensure
No Country is Left Behind
5. Theme of the World AIDS Day = Know Your Status
6. Human Rights Day Theme = #StandUp4Human Rights
7. World Vegan Day ? 1nov
8. World Pneumonia Day ? 12 nov

EXERCISES
1) Hand in Hand joint Military exercise? India and China
2) Exercise ‘Cope India 2019’ held at West Bengal? India and US
3) ‘Vajra Kayaa’ which is part of ‘Vajra Prahar 2018’ in Jaipur = India & US
4) Exercise (TROPEX) = Costal Defence System
5) “SHINYUU Maitri-18” between India and Japan, commenced at the Air
Force station in? Agra
6) ‘Excercise INDRA NAVY’ = India & Russia
7) Excercise Aviaindra commenced at ? Lipetsk, Russia
8) Dharma Guardian – 2018, a military exercise = India – Japan
9) SIMBEX, a Maritime Bilateral Exercise = India and Singapore

MISCELLANEOUS

1. The Deadline for the launch of India’s maiden human space flight
programme (Gaganyaan) – 2022
2. Bharatiya Reserve bank Note Mudran press located(BRBNPL) in Salboni &
which city – Mysore.
3. Baglihar Dam located in = Jammu and Kashmir
4. Which country is not in BIMSTEC- Pakistan.
5. Member of BIMSTEC? Bangladesh, India,Myanmar, Sri
Lanka, Thailand , Nepal and Bhutan are 7 countries in BIMSTEC
 6. The World largest solar installed powered stadium located in –
Brabourne stadium, Mumbai
7. The current Chief Justice of India – Ranjan Gogoi
8. The country topped in Happiness Index(UN) 2018 – Finland;; India= 133
9. PM-AASHA scheme is related to – Umbrella scheme for farmers
10. Jaldapara National park —West Bengal
11. Artificial sun that reaches 100 million °C, 6 times the temperature of
Sun’s core of 15 million °C? China
12. World Buddhist Forum = CHINA
13. 25th December celebrated as good governance day in the birthday of-
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
14. e-Vehicles Number Plates colour in India – Green
15. Karni Mata Temple, known as Temple for Rats, situated in – Bikaner,
Rajasthan
16. 106th Indian Science Congress held at – Jalandhar, Punjab
17. 75% of Small Finance Bank’s net credits should be in priority sector
lending.
18. Project Sashakt, is the five-pronged strategy to deal with non-performing
assets (NPAs).
19. RBL Bank buys 100% stake in Swadhaar FinServe.
20. Least spoken language in India – Sanskrit
21. A payment bank cannot accept NRI deposits.
22. European Union has set a goal to become the first major economy to be
‘Climate Neural’ by ____? 2050
23. Export-Import Bank of India (EXIM Bank) announced extension of credit
facility of _____ dollars to Tanzania for water supply projects in the
country? USD 500 million
24. Kannur International Airport Ltd (KIAL)? KERLA
25. Finance Minister has announced the rise in contribution of the
government in National Pension Scheme (NPS) to ____ % from existing
10 %? 14%
26. Jana Small Finance Bank( Bengaluru) launched Jana Bankable Debit
Card in association with BCCI

FULL FORM

1. GDR – Global Depositary Receipt

2. SFMS – messaging – Structured Financial Messaging System
3. LEI = Legal Entity Identifier
4. AEPS = Aadhaar Enabled Payment System
5. ANBC – Adjusted Net Bank Credit
6. PCA – Prompt Corrective Action
7. PMJAY – Pradhan Mantri Jan “Arogya” Yojana Abhiyan”
8. PMKVY is related to- Skill Development(PM Kaushal Vikas Yojna)
9. SWIFT = Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication
10. CBLO = Collateralized Borrowing and Lending Obligation
 11. LRS – Liberalised Remittance Scheme
12. CAGR = Compounded Annual Growth Rate
13. FATF– Financial Task Action Force
14. MSF = Marginal Standing Facility
15. LAF – Liquidity Adjustment Facility
16. ELSS – Equity linked saving scheme
17. NACH – National Automated Clearing House.
18. GSTN, N stands for —Network
19. ‘Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy (RISE) 2018 report’
released by World Bank
20. IRAC = Income Recognition and Asset Classification

21. CFMS – Centralised Funds Management System

COMMITTEE
1. IRDAI Committee to review norms related to insurance marketing firm
(IMF) with an aim to increase insurance penetration in the country –
Suresh Mathur
2. NPA committee – Murli Manohar Joshi
3. National Green Tribunal (NGT) appointed _____ as the head of the three-
member committee to oversee rejuvenation work of the Ganga River?
Justice U C Dhyani
4. Committee to look at selling 149 small and marginal oil and gas fields
of state-owned ONGC and Oil India to private and foreign companies to
boost domestic output. Who is the head of the committee? Rajiv Kumar
5. Sustainable Development Goal, SDG India Index: Baseline Report 2018
was released by the NITI Aayog in New Delhi.
6. Name the chairman of the Logistics Development Committee constituted
by the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) ?
Bibek Debroy
7. RBI in consultation with the government has set up a committee to review
the economic capital framework of the central bank. Head of the
committee? Bimal jaln

Headquarters

1. World bank located – Washington D.C (USA)

2. UNESCO located – Paris
3. European Investment Bank – Luxembourg
4. NDB (New Development Bank) -: Shanghai
5. International Criminal Court? Hague, Netherland
6. Equitas Small Finance Bank (ESAF) - Chennai
7. World Food Programme/Organisation(HQ)- Rome, Italy
8. SIDBI- Lucknow
 9. DICGC - Bombay
10. Suryoday Small Finance Bank– Navi Mumbai
11. The three types of accounts available in India Post Payment Bank –
Digital savings account, Basic savings account, Regular savings
account
12. AIBA (International Boxing Association) = Lausanne, Switzerland
13. International Migration organization – Le Grand-Saconnex, Switzerland
14. AIIB – China
15. ADB – Mandaluyong, Philippines
16. OECD – Paris, France
17. OPEC = Vienna, Austria
18. International Association of Athletics Federations Headquarters =
Monaco
19. Amnesty International? UK
20. Catholic Syrian Bank = Kerela

BANKING AWARENESS

1. Regulator of Microfinance given by NBFC – RBI

1. Who developed National Financial Switch (NFS)? IDRBT (Institute for

Development and Research in Banking Technology)
2. NBFC accept deposits for a maximum period of how much time? 60
Months
3. Current and saving account(CASA) that don’t operate for a period
more than 2 yrs are called as? Inoperative/Dormant Account
4. Local area banks(LAB) have the juridiction over a maximum
of? Three(3) contiguous districts
5. Small Finance bank(SFB) should have 25% of its branches
in? Unbanked rural areas
6. Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Limited (BRBNMPL) was
established by ________ as its wholly owned subsidiary- RBI
7. FDI in Private Sector Banks 49% is allowed in private banks without the
permission of the government, and upto 74% can be invested with the
government's approval.
8. The first bank to open a branch in foreign in 1946 – Bank of India
9. Project Sashakt is related to – NPA
10. The New Bank of India was merged with which of the following bank in
1993 – Punjab National Bank
11. Regular, Digital and Basic payments are concepts of which payment
bank – IPPB
 12. RBI stated to provide Banking Services at the doorstep for the people
above = 70 years
13. Universal bank get share listed on the stock exchange of commencement
of business – 6 years
14. The new limit for compensation by Banking Ombudsman = Rs. 20 Lakh
15. Umbrella organisation for digital payment – NPCI
16. Shell company = A shell corporation is a company or corporation that exists
only on paper and has no office and no employees, but may have a bank account or
may hold passive investments.
17. Bonding contract between bond and bondholder - Bond indenture
18. Golden Global Trust merged with = Oriental Bank of Commerce
19. The decision was taken in view of RBI guidelines, which mandate that all
DCCBs should have a Capital to Risk Weighted Assets Ratio (CRAR) of
9%.
20. A 59 minute loan portal to enable easy access to credit for MSMEs and
grant of loans upto ______ rupees? 1 crore
21. Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) cut listing time for an IPO
to _____ days from 6 days at present, on 1st November 2018? 3 days
22. Swadhaar Finserve, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the RBL Bank.

Date/venue/theme
1) Indra Sagar dam – Madhya Pradesh
2) G20 2019 summit will be held at which place – Osaka, Japan
3) World Soil Day is celebrated annually on 5th of December every
year
4) Theme of International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social
Development 2018 observed on 5thDecember 2018? “Volunteers
build Resilient Communities”.
5) Theme of International Migrants Day 2018 = Migration with
Dignity
6) Theme of National Consumer Day 2018 = Timely Disposal of
Consumer Complaints
7) Good Governance Day = 25th Dec (Atal Vihari birthday)

STATIC IN NEWS
1) Gugamal National Park = MH
2) Hornbill Festival = Nagaland
3) Sangai festival = Manipur
4) Marshall Islands Capital Majuro
5) Manipuri Dance = Jagoi
6) Dracula ant possesses the fastest animal movement on record.
With speeds of up to 200 miles per hour.
 7) Kuno, in Madhya Pradesh, was announced to be notified as
‘national park’
8) Dwijing Festival’ on the banks of which river in Chirang district of
Assam? Aie River
9) Chariot festival was celebrated in Meenakshi temple? Tamilnadu
10) Cherry Blossom Festival celebrated ? Shillong, Meghalaya
11) Nongkrem dance festival = Meghalaya
12) ‘Jhiri Mela’ = Jammu and Kashmir
13) Jangalmahal festival= West Bengal
14) Bali Yatra festival = Cuttack, Odisha
15) Jolly Grant airport located in Dehradun, Uttarakhand
16) Dudhwa Tiger Reserve of Uttar Pradesh.
17) A 221-metre long statue of Lord Ram, which will be the
world’s tallest statue, will be constructed in which district of Uttar
Pradesh? Ayodhya
18) Shri Renukaji is a tourist place near Giri river in Himachal
Pradesh.

MONEY ASSISTANCE
1) World Bank unveiled _____ dollars in climate action investment for
2021-25, adding which amounts to a doubling of its current five-year
funding? 200 bn usd
2) Which bank has approved a $400 million loan for a Water Sanitation
Project in Andhra Pradesh? Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
(AIIB)
3) India and Japan signed a _____ dollar currency swap agreement = $75
billion

GDP PEDICTION of India

1) Moody  7.2 % in FY19 and 7.4 % in FY20.
2) CRISIL  7.4% in FY19
3) CSO = 7.2%(FY19)
4) World bank = 7.3 % (FY19)
5) IMF = 7.3%(FY19)
6) RBI = 7.4%(FY19)
7) Finance ministry = 7.5%(FY19)

SCHEMES

1) Central government announced inclusion of Gangotri and Yamunotri in

Uttrarakhand, Amarkantak in Madhya Pradesh and Parasnath in Jharkhand
under the scheme Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual, Heritage
Augmentation Drive (PRASAD).
2) KALIA scheme to empower small, marginal & landless farmers and
labourers? Odisha

3) Rythu Bandhu scheme also Farmers’ Investment Support Scheme (FISS) is to

support farmer’s investment for two crops a year by the = Telangana.

4) India became the world’s _____ largest stock market by overtaking Germany
for the first time in seven years? 7th

5) Which union ministry launched two new initiatives namely, LEAP and ARPIT?
Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (Prakash Javdekar)

6) What is NIPUN? An e-learning portal

7) Women and Child Development Ministry(Menka Gandhi) announced that

the Government will reimburse employers the salaries for 7 of the 26 weeks
of maternity leave for women, who are earning more than _____ a month? Rs
15,000

RANKING
1) Global Passport Power Rank 2018, launched by Arton Capital? United
Arab Emirates (UAE) topped; India stood at 66th position.
2) Japan goes into the new year holding 1st place on the Henley Passport
Index, India ranks 79.
3) Kerala and _____ emerged as toppers among the states in the ‘Front
Runners’ category, in the SDG (Sustainable Development Goal) India
Index 2018? Himachal Pradesh
4) The top 10 fastest growing cities in the world from 2019 to 2035 are in
India, as per Oxford Economics report. Which Indian city tops this list?
Surat(1)
5) India is the _____ highest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world? 4th
6) Which country tops in road deaths with 1.51 lakh road deaths in 2016?
INDIA
7) Which country has become the first country to abolish all fares on public
transport by 2019? Luxembourg
8) What is the rank of India in the Climate Change Performance Index
released on the sidelines of COP24 UN Summit in Katowice, Poland? 11
9) Rank of India in the AT Kearney FDI (Foreign Direct Investment)
Confidence Index 2018?11
10) Rank of India in the list of countries by arms sales, as per the
report by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)? 10
11) Rank of India in the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Global
Gender Gap Report 2018? 108. Iceland (1st)
12) Rank of Indians in the “misperception index” = 12
 13) Rank of India in Ease of Doing Business ranking as per the World
Bank? 77

BOOK
1) Author of ‘Confusion of Confusions’, the first book about a stock
exchange = Joseph Penso de la Vega.
2) Author of the book ‘Of Counsel: The Challenges of the Modi-Jaitley
Economy? Arvind Subramanian
3) “Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came?
Tony Joseph
4) Book “Notes of a Dream: The Authorized Biography of A.R.
Rahman? Krishna trilok
5) Author of the book ‘Yoga and Mindfulness’ released by Vice
President Venkaiah Naidu.
6) Book titled ‘The Illustrated History of Indian Hockey: A Saga of
Triumph, Pain and Dreams’ =Arun Jaitley

Obituary:
1) Mohammed Aziz = singer
2) Ananth Kumar, passed away Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, and
Chemicals and Fertilizers

CM/GOVERNOR/MINISTER

1) Chief Minister of Nagaland = Neiphiu Rio

2) President of Mexico = Andrés Manuel López Obrador’
3) First woman President of Georgia? Salome Zurabishvili
4) Ministry of New and Renewable Energy = R. K. Singh
5) Chief Minister of Mizoram = Zoramthanga
6) Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister? Ranil Wickremesinghe
7) Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh = Kmalnath
8) Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh = Bhupesh Baghel
9) Rajasthan Chief Minister = Ashok Gehlot
10) New President of FICCI = Sandip Somany
11) Governor of Manipur = Najma A. Heptulla

12) Which union ministry launched an online marketing portal

named “Mahila-E-Haat” for promoting women farmers and
entrepreneurs, at the 5th Women of India National Organic
Festival 2018 in New Delhi, on 8thNovember 2018? Ministry of
Women and Child Development
 13) Government set up a state-of-the-art National Data
Repository. It will be wholly funded by _____? Government of
India
14) Union Minister who was assigned additional portfolio of
Ministry of Parliamentary Affair = Narendra Singh Tomar
15) Minister of Labour and Employment = Santosh Gangwar
16) Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers = DV Sadananda Gowda

Merger and Aquisitions

1) Which company has acquired IDFC Infrastructure Finance (IDFC-IFL)?
National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF)
2) Which entity launched a ‘Digital Literacy Library’ providing safety tips for
users in 6 Indian languages? FB
3) Which organization released the biennial Living Planet Report 2018? WWF

GOOD LUCK!

Total = 335 Questions