1. The SBM Group has appointed Siby Sebastian as Chief Executive for its India operations. The SBM bank is based in
- 1) Malaysia
- 2) Myanmar
- 3) Mauritius
- 4) Maldives
- 5) Mongolia
2. Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who was awarded the prestigious Mother Teresa International Award by the Mumbai-based NGO Harmony Foundation recently, is a minister in
- 1) Iran
- 2) UAE
- 3) Saudi Arabia
- 4) Bahrain
- 5) Kuwait
3. The Union Govt has appointed who among the following as the new Executive Chairman of the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA)?
- 1) Anil R Dave
- 2) Jagdish Singh Khehar
- 3) Ranjan Gogoi
- 4) Jasti Chelameswar
- 5) Dipak Misra
4. Which of the following space agencies has successfully launched highly advanced geostationary weather satellite Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R (GOES-R)?
- 1) ISRO
- 2) JAXA
- 3) European Space Agency
- 4) NASA
- 5) None of these
5. India has become an Associate Member State of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) which is located in
- 1) London
- 2) New York
- 3) Paris
- 4) Geneva
- 5) Basel
6. India successfully conducted the twin trials of Prithvi-II missile recently. The missiles have a strike range of
- 1) 350 km
- 2) 750 km
- 3) 1500 km
- 4) 2500 km
- 5) 3500 km
7. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn was conferred the first “World Sanskrit Award” for her contribution towards promotion of the language. She is a princess of
- 1) Philippines
- 2) Thailand
- 3) Japan
- 4) Cambodia
- 5) Bhutan
8. The largest-ever ‘Made-in- India’ warship INS Chennai was recently commissioned into the Indian Navy. This is a
- 1) helicopter carrier
- 2) torpedo launch and recovery vessel
- 3) fast attack craft
- 4) anti-submarine warfare carrier
- 5) guided missile destroyer
9. The six-lane 302-km- long expressway, India’s longest expressway so far, was opened in Uttar Pradesh recently. The expressway connects
- 1) Agra and Lucknow
- 2) Agra and Varanasi
- 3) Agra and Gorakhpur
- 4) Lucknow and Varanasi
- 5) Noida and Lucknow
10. Who among the following won the ATP World Tour Finals title in London recently?
- 1) Novak Djokovic
- 2) Andy Murray
- 3) Stan Wawrinka
- 4) Rafael Nadal
- 5) Roger Federer
