New Appointments
(1) Who is appointed as Director of Research Centre Imarat (RCI), a premier laboratory of Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO)
BHVS Narayana Murthy
(2) Who was chosen as ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ mascot by the Union Government?
105-year-old Kunwar Bai from Chhattisgarh’s Dhamtari district
(3) Who has been appointed as the chairman of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)?
Alka Sirohi
(4) Who has been appointed as the Head of International Society for Blood Transfusion (ISBT)?
Indian-origin South African Ravi Reddy
(5) Who has assumed charge as Director Marketing of the Public sector Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL)?
Anandi Ramalingam
(6) Who has been sworn-in as Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court?
G C Gupta
(7) Who has been appointed Additional Secretary in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council?
Arun Goyal
(8) Who has been appointed as Director General of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF)?
R. K. Pachnanda
(9) Who has been appointed as the Director General (DG) of counter-terrorism force National Security Guard (NSG)?
Sudhir Pratap Singh
(10) Who has been appointed as Directors General of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)?
O P Singh
(11) Who has been re-appointed as President of World Bank for a second five-year term beginning 1 July 2017?
Jim Yong Kim
(12) Who has been appointed as a full-time Member of the 21st Law Commission of India (LCI)?
S. Sivakumar
Honors & Awards
(1) Who has won the prestigious 2016 Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar Award ?
Dinesh Bharadia
(2) Who has won the Fellows of Nature (FON) South Asia Short Story Award
Meghna Pant
(3) Name the cricketers who were conferred with the Arjuna Award for their contributions to sport of cricket.
Ajinkya Rahane and Rohit Sharma
(4) Who won the bronze medal in the first World Deaf Shooting Championships held in in Kazan, Russia?
Priyesha Deshmukh
(5) Who has won the gold medal at the ISSF Junior World Cup for pistol, rifle and shotgun in Gabala, Azerbaijan?
Indian shooter Subhankar Pramanick
(6) Who won the bronze medal in the sporting event of Kurash at the 5th Asian Beach Games held at Da Nang, Vietnam ?
Pinky Balhara
(7) Who has won the Under-19 Asian Junior Individual squash championship title?
India’s squash player Velavan Senthilkumar
(8) Who has won the Belgium Open title of the table tennis in the men’s singles category?
Indian paddler Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
(9) Which team won the gold medal at the 5th Asian Beach Games held in Danang, Vietnam?
Indian women’s beach kabaddi team
(10) Who has been conferred with the prestigious Moortidevi Award of Bharatiya Jnanpith for the year 2015?
Prof.Kalakaluri Enoch
Banking & Financial Awareness
(1) At what position has India been ranked in the 2016 World Economic Freedom Index (WEFI)?
112th
(2) At what position has India been ranked among the 138 countries in the 2016-17 Global Competitiveness Index (GCI)?
39th
Miscellaneous
(1) What is the name of the space lab launched by China to develop expertise for a future space station and conduct science experiments
Tiangong-2
(2) With which country has India signed an Extradition Treaty to facilitate exchange of wanted terrorists and criminals?
Afghanistan
(3)Where did the meeting of BRICS Representatives in charge of security held?
New Delhi
(4) With which state has Gionee India signed a MoU to set up its phone manufacturing hub ?
With Haryana Government ( Hub to be set up in Faridabad)
(5) Which governments signed the MoU for speedy implementation of Namami Gange program ?
Union Water Resources Ministry & Union Agriculture Ministry
(6) Which place has been named as the 22nd District of Haryana by the Haryana Government?
Charkhi Dadri
(7) With which German company has Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) signed the contract to design vessels suited to navigate the 1620 km stretch of National Waterway (NW-1) ?
German company DST
(8) Which two Indian forest officials were awarded with 2016 Clark R. Bavin Wildlife Law Enforcement Awards ?
Assistant Conservator Ritesh Sarothiya of Madhya Pradesh State Forest Service and Range officer Sanjay Dutta of Belakoba Forest Range Jalpaiguri in West Bengal
(9) Which film has been selected as the India’s official entry to Oscars 2017 (89th Academy Awards) in the Foreign Language Film category?
Tamil film “Visaranai”
(10) Where is the world’s largest solar power plant commissioned?
Kamudhi in Ramanathapuram district of Tamil Nadu (capacity of 648MW)
(11) With which country has India signed an Inter-Governmental Agreement for the purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets at a cost of 7.87 billion Euros?
France
(12) Where was the second meeting of the High Level Group of Eminent Experts to strengthen the SAARC Anti-Terrorism Mechanism held?
New Delhi
(13) Name the largest radio telescope built recently.
Tianyan (Heavenly Eye” or “The Eye of Heaven) or the five-hundred-metre aperture spherical radio telescope (FAST) built by China
(14) Which two countries have signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of peaceful atomic energy use?
Cuba and Russia
(15) Which airport has become Asia-Pacific’s only and one of the world’s few airports to achieve a carbon neutral status?
Indira Gandhi International Airport
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