1. Who became the first Asian elected Mayor in UK?
a) Balweer Singh
b) Prakash Sinha
c) Harbhajan Kaur Dheer
d) Dhyanchand Mayank
2. As per the recent SC’s guideline on regulation of public advertisements, among the following whose photographs cannot be places on the ads?
a) Prime Minister
b) Chief Minister
c) President
d) Chief Justice of India
3. Name the first Indian state which has issued Soil Health Cards to farmers?
a) Tamilnadu
b) Punjab
c) Haryana
d) Karnataka
4. Suchitra Bhattacharya, who passed away recently, was a famous writer from
a) Gujarat
b) West Bengal
c) Maharashtra
d) Karnataka
5. Which state government has banned digging of borewells beyond 200 feet?
a) Assam
b) Maharashtra
c) Andhra Pradesh
d) Punjab
6. Tech giant Google Inc is to build biggest campus outside US in which city in India?
a) Bengaluru
b) Chennai
c) Hyderabad
d) Mumbai
7. Droupadi Murmu has been appointed as the Governor of which Indian state?
a) Manipur
b) Arunachal Pradesh
c) Jharkhand
d) Meghalaya
8. Name the Indian Author who won the UK’s Encore Award for the best second novel?
a) Krishna Kumar
b) Neel Mukherjee
c) Sathya Bhat
d) Alok Singh
9. GOI has appointed whom as head of a committee to look into the issue of Minimum Alternate Tax on Foreign Institutional Investors?
a) Abishek Kapoor
b) AP Shah
c) Jeevan Mishra
d) Shankara Narayanan
10. Who has been conferred with the UNC Board of Governors 2015 Award for Excellence in Teaching?
a) Ramamoorthy
b) Sivanadane Mandjiny
c) Muthu Kumaresan
d) Jyoti Singh Bharu
11.President Pranab Mukherjee gave the National Florence Nightingale Awards to 35 _____ personnel across India.
a) Photographers
b) Nurses
c) Teachers
d) Writers
12. As per the amendment in Child Labour Act, the punishment for employing a child under 14 years have been increased to jail term of how many years?
a) 1 Year
b) 2 Years
c) 3 years
d) 4 years
13. As per the amendment approved by cabinet, what is the fine for employing a child under 14 years?
a) Rs 15,000
b) Rs 20,000
c) Rs 25,000
d) Rs 50,000
14. How much fund has been allotted for Namami Gange Program?
a) Rs 10,000 crore
b) Rs 15,000 crore
c) Rs 20,000 crore
d) Rs 25,000 crore
15. SBI has recently launched NFC enabled contactless debit and credit card with the fraud cover of how much rupees?
a) Rs 50000
b) Rs 1 Lakh
c) Rs 1.5 Lakhs
d) Rs 2 Lakhs
