Recruitment Procedure of TCSQ. Who appointed as Chairman of
National Skill Development Corporation?
?
a) Suresh Kumar Naik
b) Anil Kumar Saxena
c) Anil Manibhai Naik
d) Suresh Manibhai Saxena
Q. Stephen Hillenburg died at the age of 57. Which cartoon
character was created by
him?
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d) Shinchain
Q. Himachal Pradesh became the first Indian state to launch a
single emergency number
"112“. Which minister launched this Emergency Response Support
System?
"112"
?
a) Maneka Gandhi
b) Piyush Goyal
c) Rajnath Singh
d) Harsh Vardhan
Q. Who has been appointed as a Chairman of UPSC?
?
a) Aakash Saxena
b) Adarsh Saxena
c) Arvind Saxena
d) Armaan Saxena
_______
a) Jharkhand
b) Odisha
c) Chhattisgarh
d) Bihar
?
a) Birender Singh
Q. KONKAN 18, a naval exercise between India and ________.
KONKAN 18, ________
a) France
c) Russia
d) China
Q. Which country’s government has recently launched a Social
Security
Scheme for formal sector workers of the country?
?
a) Pakistan
b) Nepal
c) Maldives
d) Myanmar
Q. Mohammed Aziz has passed away aged 64. He was a _______.
64 _______
a) Actor
b) Singer
c) Politician
d) Cricketer
Q. International Migrants Day is observed on _______.
_______
a) 30 November
b) 5 December
c) 18 December
d) 22 December
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UK weapons bill to ensure right to possession of Kirpans by
Sikhs
amends
UK
- AIR News
amendment to a new weapons bill going
through the Parliament to ensure that it does
not impact the right of the British Sikh
community to possess and supply kirpans, or
religious swords.
its various readings in the House of Commons
this week and has now moved to the House of
Lords for approval.
used by the community during religious
ceremonies in gurdwaras as well as for
ceremonies involving the traditional Sikh
Gatka martial art.
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strengthening existing legislative measures on
offensive weapons, focusing on corrosive
substances, knives and certain types of
firearm.
• The Bill will give new laws to ban the sale of
corrosive substances to anyone under the age
of 18, to target people carrying acid, to make
it more difficult for anyone under the age of
18 to buy knives online and to ban certain
types of firearms.
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8 States achieve 100% household electrification under
Saubhagya
8 100%
- PIB
• Madhya Pradesh, Tripura, Bihar, J&K, Mizoram, Sikkim,
Telangana and West Bengal have achieved 100% saturation in
household electrification under Saubhagya.15 States in the country
now have 100 % household electrification.
• State like Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal
Pradesh, Chhattisgarh etc. are left with small number of
un-electrified households and expected to achieve saturation any
time.
• The States completing 100% household electrification by 31st
Dec,2018 will also receive additional grant of 15% of the project
cost (5% for special category States) sanctioned under
Saubhagya.
• The Government is committed to ensure 24x7 access to electricity
for all by 31stMarch 2019.
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Asia Pacific Screen Award to Nawazuddin and Nandita Das
- NDTV
filmmaker Nandita Das have been awarded at
the 12th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA)
Brisbane.
• Das received the FIAPF award for
achievement in films in the Asia Pacific
region.
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India, China to hold joint military exercises
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- NDTV
southwest China's Chengdu city to improve
their capabilities in fighting terrorism and
promote mutual understanding.
exercises - 'Hand in Hand’.
• The exercises will be held after a gap of one
year as both the sides were locked in a 73-day
standoff in Doklam in the Sikkim sector of the
border in 2017.
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Bholari air force base in Pakistan
from November 30 to December 23
Slovenia becomes only NATO state with female army chief
- Business Standard
Treaty Organization (NATO) Country with
the female Army Chief after appointment
of Major General Alenka Ermenc to the post
of Head of its Army.
• The 55 years Old former Army Commander,
Alenka Ermenc started her military career in
1991 when Slovenia won independence from
former Yugoslavia.
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About Slovenia
Capital - Ljubljana
Currency - Euro
Green Court slaps Rs. 5 Crore fine on SIDCO for pollution in
Basantar River
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- NDTV
• The NGT has imposed a penalty of Rs. five crore on the Jammu and
Kashmir State Industrial Development Corporation (SIDCO) for
failing to stop discharge of effluents and dumping of waste in the
Basantar river in Samba district.
• A bench headed by National Green Tribunal (NGT) Chairperson
Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel held SIDCO liable to pay the compensation
and asked it deposit the amount within a month with the Central
Pollution Control Board (CPCB) for restoration of the
environment.
• The green panel also directed the Samba Municipal Council to pay
a compensation of Rs. 10 lakh for failing to set up a sewage
treatment plant and stop discharge of untreated sewage in the
river.
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Abhinav Bindra becomes first Indian to get highest shooting
- Times of India
• The Blue Cross is the highest recognition conferred by the parent
body of international shooting, the ISSF.
• Bindra is the first Indian to be awarded the Blue Cross.
• The award is conferred for outstanding contribution to the sport
of shooting and honours distinguished members of the international
shooting fraternity.
• Bindra in his glittering career won an Olympic gold (2008), a
World Championship gold (2006), 7 Commonwealth Games medals and 3
Asian Games medals.
• He became the first Indian to win an individual Olympic gold
medal at the 2008 Games in Beijing. He was given the Arjuna award
in 2000, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in 2001 and the Padma Bhushan
in 2009.
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Assam govt to undertake campaign to encourage startups
- Indian Express
the StartUp India team to undertake an
outreach campaign in educational institutions,
aimed at motivating youths to take
up entrepreneurship.
government officials will visit these
institutions and deliberate on issues related
to entrepreneurship and startup,
Department.
youths, and give space to their ideas in the
broader plan of startup ventures.
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Ministry of Defence approves procurement of defence equipment worth
Rs
3,000 crore
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Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman accorded
approval for acquisition of defence equipments
worth three thousand crore rupees.
• The Council granted approval for procurement of
indigenous Brahmos Missiles for two Indian Navy
Ships to be built in Russia. The indigenously
designed Brahmos Missile is a tested and proven
supersonic cruise missile and will form the primary
weapon on-board these ships.
Army's main Battle Tank Arjun.
• The ARVs are designed and developed by the
DRDO and will be manufactured by Bharat Earth
Movers Limited, BEML.
and speedy repair and recovery operations during
combat.
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HM Rajnath Singh inaugurates 19th Hornbill Festival in
Nagaland
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inaugurates the 19th Hornbill Festival at
Kisama village near state capital Kohima in
Nagaland.
the vibrant culture of Nagaland through
colourful performances, crafts, sports, food
fairs, games and ceremonies.
state Kohima, Dimapur, Mokokchung, Phek
and Wokha.
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About Hornbill Festival
Formation of Nagaland – 1st December 1963
In the year 2000, that the State Government desirous of promoting
tourism embarked upon an ambitious
project to exploit the cultural assets of Nagaland, through a
weeklong long festival to coincide with the
celebration of Nagaland Statehood Day on 1st December.
The annual Hornbill Festival held for ten days, 1st - 10th
December.
Australia become first country to recognize ‘Orphanage Trafficking’
as slavery
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- BBC
world to recognise so-called orphanage
trafficking as a form of modern-day slavery.
• Children from smaller countries are recruited
in orphanages in the West for the purpose of
profit through foreign aid.
the world's orphanages have at least one
living parent.
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Suu Kyi to be stripped of freedom of Paris award
- Times of India
• Paris city will strip Aung San Suu Kyi of her
honorary freedom of the French capital over
her failure to speak out against a crackdown
on Myanmar's Rohingya minority.
the Buddhist-majority country last year,
mostly to neighboring Bangladesh.
Canadian citizenship and her Amnesty
International's "Ambassador of Conscience
Award".
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Four Indian-origin women in Forbes US Top 50 Females
50 - Financial Express
• Four Indian-origin women have been named
by Forbes among America’s top 50 female
technology moguls, a list that includes:-
1. Neha Narkhede, chief technology officer
and co-founder of streaming platform
Confluent
founder of identity-management company
4. Komal Mangtani, senior director at Uber
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Joint Exercise between Indian Air Force and US Air Force to begin
on Dec 3
3 - Economic Times
• The joint exercise between Indian Air Force
and United States Air Force will begin today.
• The 12 day exercise-Ex Cope India-2018 has
been planned at Kalaikunda and Panagarh Air
Force Base in the country.
• The aim of exercise is to provide operational
exposure and undertake mutual exchange of
best practices towards enhancing operational
capability.
• It will be the fourth edition in the series of
bilateral joint exercise held by the Air Forces
of the two nations which is conducted in
India.
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UN conference on climate change begins in Poland
- AIR
• The 24th meeting of Conference of Parties (COP-24) to the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has begun
at Katowice, Poland.The Conference will continue till 14th of this
month.
• COP-24 is very significant as it is expected to finalise
guidelines for implementation of the Paris Agreement adopted in
2016.
• India strongly supports the objective of the Paris Agreement to
strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by
keeping the global temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius
from pre- industrial revolution period.
• The Agreement also focuses on developing countries need to adapt
to adverse impacts of climate change, in a manner that it does not
put an additional burden on them.
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Q. Hand in Hand is a Joint military exercises between India and
_________.
_________
a) UK
b) USA
c) China
d) Maldives
Q. Who becomes first Indian to get highest shooting award?
?
a) Saurabh Chaudhary
b) Abhinav Bindra
d) Shreyasi Singh
Q. Indian actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui has been awarded with 12th Asia
Pacific
Screen Awards. He has been awarded for which film?
12
?
a) Gangs of Wasseypur
7 _______
a) World AIDS Day
c) International Anti-Corruption Day
d) Human Rights Day
_______
a) Chenab
b) Ravi
c) Beas
d) Indus
Q. George Herbert Walker Bush dies at the age of 94. He was a
________.
94 ________
a) Former Prime Minister of Australia
b) Former President of New Zealand
c) Former Prime Minister of Africa
d) Former President of America
Q. Who is the PM of the country in which Asia- Pacific Summit 2018
was
held?
- 2018 ?
a) Sheikh Hasina
b) Narendra Modi
Q. In which year India will host G20 summit?
G -20 ?
a) 2019
b) 2020
c) 2021
d) 2022
a) Cherry Blossom festival – Meghalaya
b) Flamingo Festival – Andhra Pradesh
c) Hornbill Festival – Nagaland
Q. World’s AIDS Day is observed on _______.
_______
a) 30 November
b) 1 December
c) 2 December
d) 3 December