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★ Theme for Zero Discrimination day 2017 is Make Some Noise

For Zero Discrimination ★ World Wetlands Day observed on 2nd February to mark the date

General Awareness

of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands or Ramsar Convention on 2 February 1971. ★ 2017 World Wet Lands day theme is Wetlands for Disaster Risk

1. India's next Ambassador to World Trade Organization (WTO) is... 1) Jaishankar 2) A.K. Singh 3) Navtej Sarna 4) J.S. Deepak 5) Vikas Swarup 2. Where is the headquarters of World Trade Organization? 1) New York 2) Moscow 3) Geneva 4) Rome 5) Washington 3. Presently how many member states are there in WTO? 1) 164 2) 184 3) 185 4) 194 5) 195 4. Director General of WTO is.... 1) Antonio Guterres of Portugal 2) Irina Bokovo of Bulgeria 3) Anthony Lake of USA 4) Roberto Azevedo of Brazil 5) Yukia Amiano of Japan 5. New secretary general of SAARC is ...... 1) Santosh Dube of India 2) Khalida Zia Begum of Bangladesh 3) Tilak Ratne of Sri Lanka 4) Amjad Hussain B Sial of Pakistan 5) Tshering Tobgay of Bhutan 6. South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is the regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union of nations in South Asia. Its headquarters located at... 1) Dhaka 2) New Delhi 3) Colombo 4) Kathmandu 5) Islamabad 7. The strength of SAARC is..... 1) 4 2) 5 3) 6 4) 10 5) 8 8. Who was appointed as the new Chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST)? 1) P.L. Punia 2) P. Eswaraiah 3) Nand Kumar Sai 4) Lalith Kumar Mangalam 5) Naseem Ahmed 9. Who was appointed as the spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs on 27 February 2017? 1) Anil Baizwal 2) Nirupama Rao 3) Gopal Baglay 4) Rajiv Meharshi 5) Ashok Lavasa 10. New Chairman of SEBI is.... 1) H.R. Khan 2) C.S. Bhave 3) D. Santhanam 4) Ajay Tyagi 5) Kirthi Sekhar 11. Where is the head office of SEBI? 1) New Delhi 2) Kolkata 3) Mumbai 4) Lucknow 5) Chennai 12. New Prime Minister of Mauritius is... 1) Abdulla Yameen 2) Ameenah Gurib 3) Maithripala Sirisena 4) Pravind Jugnauth 5) Ashraf Ghani 13. Mauritius headed by which woman president? 1) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf 2) Park Geun-hye 3) Ameenah Gurib 4) Tsai Ing-wen 5) Bidhya Devi Bhandari 14. Mauritius capital is Port Louis. Mauritius currency is.... 1) Dollar 2) Pound 3) Rupee 4) Dinar 5) Peso 15. Founder of Indian supercomputing Dr Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar appointed as new Vice Chancellor of... 1) Nalanda University 2) Osmania University 3) Benaras Hindu University 4) Delhi University 5) Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

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'Newton' movie directed by...? Writer A. Veeraswamy Subject Expert 16. Visitor's Award for the Best University 2017 conferred on ..... 1) Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 2) Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi 3) Osmania University, Hyderabad 4) Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 5) Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi 17. Iris Mittenaere won Miss Universe crown 2016. She belongs to..... 1) Philippines 2) Haiti 3) Columbia 4) France 5) USA 18. Which Indian movie conferred with the Art Cinema Award in the Forum Segment at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival in Germany? 1) Vetrumaran 2) Court 3) Newton 4) Try This 5) Bahu Bali 19. Award winning movie "Newton" directed by.... 1) Amit Masurkar 2) Ram Gopal Varma 3) Prakash Jha 4) Rajkumar Hirani 5) Pahlaj Nihalani 20. Who has been conferred with the 2017 Legendary Award by the Brand Laureate? 1) Asha Bhonsle 2) A.R.Rehman 3) Lata Mangeshkar 4) Anu Malik 5) Yash Chopra 21. Vyas Samman 2016 conferred on.... 1) Madhu Patkare 2) Surinder Verma 3) Kamal Kishore Goyanka 4) Viswanath Tripathi 5) C.K. Garg 22. For which poetry collection, Surinder Verma got Vyas Samman 2016? 1) Kaatna shami ka vriksha padma-pankhuri ki dhar se 2) Kisiko Darna Math, Kya aapka Balidan 3) Trishul 4) Aam Ke Patte 5) Mohabbath ka Dona 23. Vyas Samman 2015 conferred on .... 1) Shanka Ghosh 2) Sunita Jain 3) M P Veerendra Kumar 4) Surinder Verma 5) Vishwanath Tripathi 24. For which poetry collection Sunita Jain was selected for the prestigious Vyas Samman 2015 on 26 February 2017? 1) Kshama 2) Nirdra 3) Tharuni 4) Prathima 5) Sandhya 25. TROPEX is the month long Indian Naval exercise that began on 24 January 2017 to enable the Navy strengthens its inter-operability in complex environment. TROPEX stands for.... 1) Theatre Local Rules Operational Exercise 2) Train Readiness Operational Exercise 3) Theatre Readiness Original Exercise 4) Trans Readiness Operational Exercise 5) Theatre Level Readiness and Operational Exercise

26. Raksha Mantri's Trophy for the best Service Hospital in the Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) conferred on..... 1) Command Hospital (Western Command), Ahmedabad 2) INHS Kalyani, Visakhapatnam 3) INHS Asvini, Mumbai 4) Command Hospital (Northern Command), Udhampur 5) Command Hospital (Southern Command), Pune 27. Union Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation declared how many districts in India became Open Defecation Free (ODF) till date under Swachh Bharat Mission? 1) 100 2) 150 3) 125 4) 175 5) 160 28. Union Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation is..... 1) Narendra Singh Tomar 2) M. Venkaiah Naidu 3) Jagat Prakash Nadda 4) Anant Geete 5) Thawar Chand Gehlot 29. A nation wide campaign Swachhta Pakhwada was organized by ..... from 1 March 2017 to 15 March 2017 to raise awareness about Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. 1) Ministry of Women & Child Development 2) Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change 3) Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship 4) Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga 5) Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment 30. On 25 January 2017, to create a centralized database that will have the complete healthcare records of all the citizens in the state through the digitization of government hospitals, which scheme launched by Kerala? 1) Jeevan Tarang 2) Jeevan Tiranga 3) Jeevan Life 4) Jeevan Shrama 5) Jeevan Rekha 31. 19th Bharat Rang Mahotsav, the International Theatre Festival of India on 1 Feb 2017 inaugurated at.... 1) New Delhi 2) Mumbai 3) Chennai 4) Jaipur 5) Lucknow 32. 31st Surajkhand International Crafts Mela on 1 Feb 2017 begun in.... 1) UP 2) Rajasthan 3) Haryana 4) Tamilnadu 5) Odisha 33. Who were appointed to help the visitors to do cashless transactions in Surajkund International Crafts Mela in Haryana? 1) Business Correspondent Scheme 2) Business Mitra 3) Mela Mitra 4) Dole Mitra 5) Rupay Mitra 34. 17th session of the BIMSTEC senior officials' meeting held on 7 February 2017 at..... 1) Kathmandu 2) Colombo 3) Dhaka 4) New Delhi 5) Bangkok

35. BIMSTEC stands for..... 1) Bay of Bengal Integration for MultiSectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation 2) Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation 3) Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Tour and Economic Cooperation 4) Bay of Bengal Initiative for Mini-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation 5) Bay of Bengal Indian for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation 36. BIMSTEC is an international organization involving a group of countries in South Asia and South East Asia. How many member nations are there in BIMSTEC? 1) 10 2) 7 3) 14 4) 5 5) 18 37. In BIMSTEC, the member nations are Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bhutan and .... 1) China 2) Laos 3) Vietnam 4) Nepal 5) Mauritius 38. BIMSTEC Secretariat located in ..... 1) New Delhi 2) Dhaka 3) Male 4) Bangkok 5) Naypyidaw 39. Fourth meeting of BIMSTEC Senior Officials' on Energy on 11-12 January 2017 held at .... 1) Naypyidaw 2) Thimphu 3) Colombo 4) Kathmandu 5) New Delhi 40. Which country host 4th BIMSTEC Summit in 2017? 1) Bangladesh 2) Sri Lanka 3) Nepal 4) India 5) Thailand 41. Sumithra Mahajan, the Loksabha speaker inaugurated the South Asian Speakers' Summit 2017 in ...... 1) Odisha 2) AP 3) Maharashtra 4) Madhya Pradesh 5) Goa 42. 29th International Yoga Festival organized in ..... 1) Varanasi (UP) 2) Rishikesh (Uttarakhand) 3) Gurugram (Haryana) 4) Sravan Belgola (Karnataka) 5) Ganga Sagar (West Bengal) 43. Zero Discrimination Day observed on...... 1) 1 March 2) 12 January 3) 10 December 4) 24 January 5) 8 March

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