Q1. On August 12, 2017, which State Assembly passed Religious Freedom Bill, 2017 aimed to stop the forced conversions in the state?
1.Chhattisgarh State Assembly
2.Jharkhand State Assembly
3.Bihar State Assembly
4.Kerala State Assembly
5.Andhra Pradesh State Assembly
Q2. On August 12, 2017, Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan commissioned which Indian Coast Guard ship in Goa?
1. Indian Coast Guard ship ‘Shaurya’
2. Indian Coast Guard ship ‘Suraj’
3. Indian Coast Guard ship ‘Shoorvir’
4. Indian Coast Guard ship ‘Sanjay’
5. Indian Coast Guard ship ‘Shalin’
Q3. Who among the following African-American author has won the Hugo Award for Best Novel 2017 for her work ‘The Obelisk Gate’?
1.Laura Haley
2.Jamie Rice
3.Amy Winters
4.Nora Jemisin
5.Nicole Winfrey
Q4. Who among the following has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)?
1.Praveen Joshi
2.Prashant Nair
3.Manohar Das
4.Rohit Sehgal
5.Dilip Asbe
Q5. Who among the following has been appointed as the World Health Organisation’s goodwill ambassador for physical activity in South-East Asia Region (SEAR)?
1.Milkha Singh
2.Sachin Tendulkar
3.Mary Kom
4.P T Usha
5.P V Sindhu
Q6. Parliamentary Panel headed by _________ has recently tabled its report in Parliament. In the report, the panel has recommended 100% pension to widow of deceased soldier.
1.L K Diwan
2.B C Khanduri
3.Rajat Divekar
4.Rajendra Singh
5.Prahlad Dhawan
Q7. On August 11, 2017, which bank introduced two tier interest rate structure for saving bank accounts and will offer 4 per cent interest per annum for incremental balance over Rs 50 lakh and 3.50 per cent per annum for balance up to Rs 50 lakh?
1.Federal Bank
2.Syndicate Bank
3.Indian Bank
4.Indian Overseas Bank
5.Vijaya Bank
Q8. Sandeep Gupta has been appointed as the head of Indian operations of which cross-border payments network?
1.Mercuryport
2.Venusport
3.Marsport
4.Earthport
5.Jupiterport
Q9. Rajya Sabha TV CEO ____________, announced his resignation from the post on August 12, 2017.
1.Gurdeep Singh Sappal
2.Jasmeet Ahuja
3.Vikas Chandok
4.Jayendra Nath Sen
5.Manpreet Singh Barnala
Q10. Researchers from which country have discovered fossils of a new species of arrow-shaped marine animals that have translucent bodies making them difficult to spot?
1.US
2.Canada
3.UK
4.China
5.Japan
Q11. Who among the following has become the youngest person to reach the summit of the 6,153 metres-high Mt Stok Kangri in Kashmir?
1.Koyal Sengupta
2.Shikha Pannu
3.Kaamya Karthikeyan
4.Isha Pandya
5.Nandita Chainani
Q12. The Indian army had sent two _______ tanks and a 21-man crew for the tank biathlon at the 2017 International Army Games in Russia.
1.T-50 tanks
2.T-60 tanks
3.T-70 tanks
4.T-80 tanks
5.T-90 Tanks
Q13. All state-run universities in which state will not observe a holiday on October 2 on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti this year?
1.Rajasthan
2.Madhya Pradesh
3.Bihar
4.Tamil Nadu
5.Goa
Q14. Who among the following has become the first female actor ever to hoist the Indian National Flag at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM)?
1.Kangna Ranaut
2.Deepika Padukone
3.Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
4.Priyanka Chopra
5.Sonakshi Sinha
Q15. Which among the following Indian company has become the third most funded private company globally?
1.Paytm
2.FreeCharge
3.Flipkart
4.Infibeam
5.MobiKwik
Q16. Which Bangalore-based start-up has been recently acquired by messaging app Hike?
1.Novo
2.Cosmo
3.SupraNex
4.Creo
5.Vibo
Q17. On August 12, 2017, who among the following resigned as president of the Nagaur District Association, marking an end to his presence in the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA)?
1.Abhijeet More
2.Rajeev Shukla
3.Lalit Modi
4.Raj Kundra
5.Sharman Nayak
Q18. On August 11, 2017, who among the following was appointed as part of the reconstituted Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC)?
1.Raveena Tandon
2.Vidya Balan
3.Shabana Azmi
4.Juhi Chawla
5.Madhuri Dixit
Q19. Anthropologists have discovered a 13 million year-old baby ape skull in _______ that reveals what the common ancestor of all living humans and apes would have looked like.
1.Somalia
2.Kenya
3.Nigeria
4.Ghana
5.Liberia
Q20. Who among the following has won a bronze medal at the ongoing seventh Asian Shotgun Championship in Kazakhstan, handing India its first women’s skeet individual medal at a top international competition?
1.Geeta Siddhu
2.Kritika Malhotra
3.Minal Deshmukh
4.Saumya Ranjan
5.Maheshwari Chauhan
Q21. ‘Organ Donation Day’ is observed on which date every year?
1.9th August
2.10th August
3.11th August
4.12th August
5.13th August
Q22. International Left-Handers Day is observed on 13th August every year. It was first observed in which year?
1.1971
2.1976
3.1981
4.1986
5.1991
Answer & Explanation 1. 2.Jharkhand State Assembly 2. 1. Indian Coast Guard ship ‘Shaurya’ 3. 4.Nora K. Jemisin 4. 5.Dilip Asbe 5. 1.Milkha Singh 6. 2. B C Khanduri 7. 3.Indian Bank 8. 4.Earthport 9. 1.Gurdeep Singh Sappal 10. 2.Canada 11. 3.Kaamya Karthikeyan 12. 5.T-90 tanks 13. 1.Rajasthan 14. 3.Aishwarya Rai Bachchan 15. 3.Flipkart 16. 4.Creo 17. 3.Lalit Modi 18. 2.Vidya Balan 19. 2.Kenya 20. 5.Maheshwari Chauhan 21. 5.13th August 22. 2.1976
Explanation:
The Bill has provision for imprisonment of three years and fine of Rs 50,000 or both, and four year- imprisonment and Rs 1 lakh fine, or both, if the person converted is a minor, woman or a member of Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe.
Explanation:
ICGS ‘Shaurya’ is the fifth in the series of six 105-metre offshore patrol vessels (OPVs). It has been designed and built indigenously by Goa Shipyard Ltd and is fitted with state-of-the-art navigation and communication equipment, sensors and machineries.
Explanation:
The award was presented at the 75th World Science Fiction Convention in Helsinki, Finland on August 11, 2017. ‘The Obelisk Gate’ is the second in the trilogy that started with ‘The Fifth Season’, which was New York Times Notable Book of 2015 and won Jemisin the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2016. The novel is about the life on a planet where the inhabitants would undergo a “Fifth Season” of catastrophic climate change every a few centuries.
Explanation:
National Payments Corporation of India has appointed Dilip Asbe, as its Chief Executive Officer in the wake of the retirement of A. P. Hota, its founding Managing Director. Mr. Hota, who had served as the MD of NPCI since its inception, retired on August 10, 2017. Asbe who currently serves as the organisation’s Chief Operating Officer will continue in the same designation, but will also act as the Chief Executive Officer of NPCI.
Explanation:
As WHO goodwill ambassador, Milkha Singh, also known as ‘the Flying Sikh’, will promote WHO SEAR’s non-communicable diseases (NCDs) prevention and control action plan which seeks to reduce the level of insufficient physical activity by 10 per cent and NCDs by 25 per cent by 2025.
Explanation:
Parliamentary Panel headed by Maj. General (Retired) B C Khanduri has recently tabled its report in Parliament. In the report, the panel has recommended the 100% pension to widow of deceased soldier so that she can take care of her family.
Explanation:
PSU lender Indian Bank has said it will offer an interest rate of 4 per cent per annum on savings account with an incremental balance of over Rs 50 lakh and 3.50 per cent per annum for deposits up to Rs 50 lakh. The new interest rate will be effective from August 16, 2017.
Explanation:
Earthport, which runs a network for cross-border payments, has appointed Sandeep Gupta as its head of Indian operations. Sandeep Gupta, who is based in Mumbai, will be responsible for leading the expansion of the business in the primary markets of India and Sri Lanka.
Explanation:
Sappal, announcing his resignation on Facebook, thanked Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu for accepting his resignation. Prasar Bharti CEO Shashi Shekhar Vempati has been given addition charge of the channel.
Explanation:
The newly discovered 508-million-year-old fossils are much bigger than their modern counterparts, largest being 10 cm long. The species has around 25 pairs of hooks around its mouth, at least double the number of hooks known in living forms.
Explanation:
Nine-year-old Kaamya Karthikeyan became the youngest person to reach the summit of the 6,153 metres-high Mt Stok Kangri in Kashmir. Reaching the peak involved climbing 30 km over a course of three days, with an altitude gain of 2,750 metres.
Explanation:
The Indian Army has been eliminated from a multi-nation tank competition in Russia after both its T-90 main battle tanks developed technical problems at the Alabino ranges in the Moscow region. China with its Type-96B tank and Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan with different T-72 variants raced to the last round of the competition in which 19 countries took part.
Explanation:
The new holiday calendar passed by the office of Rajasthan governor Kalyan Singh has holidays for Moharram and Diwali in the month of October, but not on Gandhi Jayanthi, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The government has stated that the day will be utilised to hold functions to celebrate the birth of the Father of the Nation.
Explanation:
Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has become the first female actor ever to hoist the Indian National Flag at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM), Australia’s annual celebration of film from India and the subcontinent. Aishwarya was also bestowed with ‘Excellence in Global Cinema’ award at the film festival.
Explanation:
With the $2.4 billion it just received from Japanese technology and telecom giant SoftBank, Flipkart has become the third most funded private company globally. The homegrown e-commerce company has to date raised almost $7 billion in capital
Explanation:
Indian messaging app Hike has acquired a Bangalore-based startup Creo. It is known for releasing smartphones, media streaming dongles, and an operating system. The Creo team will begin work on a developer platform to enable 3rd party developers to build services on the Hike platform.
Explanation:
Lalit Modi on August 12, 2017 resigned as president of the Nagaur District Association, marking an end to his presence in the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA), which was banned by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for allowing him in its fold.
Explanation:
The CBFC has been reconstituted for a period of three years or until further orders, whichever is earlier. Prasoon Joshi is the new Chairperson of CBFC. Vidya Balan is joined by Gautami Tadimalla, Narendra Kohli, Naresh Chandra Lal, Neil Herbert Nongkynrih, Vivek Agnihotri, Waman Kendre, T.S. Nagabharana, Ramesh Patange, Vani Tripati Tikoo, Jeevitha Rajasekhar and Mihir Bhuta.
Explanation:
According to the study published in Nature roughly the size of a lemon, the skull belongs to a newly identified species of early ape named Nyanzapithecusalesi. Nyanzapithecusalesi was part of a group of primates that existed in Africa for over 10 million years.
Besides winning a bronze medal in individual event, Maheshwari also led the Indian team to the silver medal along with compatriots Rashmmi Rathore and Saniya Sheikh. The trio shot a total of 190, finishing five points behind China.
Explanation:
Organ Donation is donating a donor’s organs like heart, liver, kidneys, intestines, lungs, and pancreas, after the donor dies, for the purpose of transplanting them into another person who is in need of an organ. The aim of this day is to motivate people to donate organs after death, and to spread awareness about the importance of organ donation.
Explanation:
International Left-Handers Day is designated by Left handers International. It was first observed on the 13th of August, in the year 1976. It is meant to promote awareness of the inconveniences faced by left-handers in a predominantly right-handed world.