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Folder 24 Current Events for competitive exams from 10th October 2018 to March 2019

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1801. Elections for five States in November and December 2018.

1802. Year on year growth of internet users in India as per data available in

October 2018.


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1803. Eight States and Union Territories where women voters exceed mem

1804. Non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) including housing finance

firms are staring at lower growth and higher credit costs this year as the

Reserve Bank of India considers tighter regulations and markets become

wary of finance firms with frothy valuations.


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1805. Lowest rate for Indian Rupee was 74.13 per $ that it hit on 11th

October 2018.


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1806. The Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) has identified five

companies out of 350 entities in the IL&FS group. These are IL&FS

Transportation Networks Ltd, IL&FS Financial Services, IL&FS Energy

Development, IL&FS Tamil Nadu Power and IL&FS Engineering and

Construction. Together, these five companies account for more than 50% of

the revenues of the entire group. There was some evidence that funds were

diverted by these firms in projects worth ₹30,000 crore.

1807. In October 2018 National Human Rights Commission (NHRC’s)

completed how many years of its establishment:

a) 25 years

b) 50 years

c) 40 years

d) 60 years

1808. Up to October 2018, the Constitution of India has been amended

a) 123 times.


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b) 120 times

c) 100 times

d) None of the above

1809. Which of the following is the correct demographic profile of India as

in 2018

a) More than 50% of its population is below the age of 25.

b) More than 40% of its population is below the age of 25.

c) More than 30% of its population is below the age of 25.

d) More than 25% of its population is below the age of 25.

1810. India was elected to the United Nations’ top human rights body on

Friday for a period of three years beginning January 1, 2019, getting 188

votes in the Asia-Pacific category, the highest number of votes among all

candidates. The 193-member UN General Assembly held elections here for

new members to the UN Human Rights Council.

1811. The proposed amendments to the Right to Information Act 2005, will

enable the Centre :

a) to prescribe the term of office, salaries and allowances and other terms

and conditions of service of chief information commissioners

information commissioners, state chief information commissioners

and state information commissioners.

1812. Cyber-enabled money laundering is a fairly simple concept. Hackers use

a bank’s computer system to execute a prohibited financial transaction by

altering critical information or disabling anti-money laundering controls.

It’s effective because it’s subtle: One need only disguise the illicit purpose

or sanctioned participant of an otherwise allowable transaction.

1813. Which international funding agency is setting up funds to buy stressed

assets from Indian Public Sector Banks:

a) International Finance Corporation (IFC)

b) World Bank (WB)

c) United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

d) None of the above.


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1814. Central Bureau of Intelligence (CBI), India’s premier investigative

agency has been in the grip of an unprecedented crisis in October 2018 due

to:

a) Government sending two top CBI officers on mandatory leave.

b) The rift between two of its highest-ranking officers became public.

c) Many of the CBI officers were transferred simultaneously in a single

day.

d) Only (a) and (c) are correct.

e) Only (a) and (b) are correct.

1815. GST collection : Collections from the goods and services tax (GST)

crossed ₹1 lakh crore in October 2018 for the second time since July 2017.

1816. 12-point ‘Support and Outreach Initiative’ for micro, small and medium

enterprises (MSMEs). These include

a) MSMEs can seek loan of up to ₹1 crore in just 59 minutes through a

new portal.

b) Firms registered for GST can also avail a 2% interest subvention, or

rebate, on incremental loan of up to ₹1 crore.

c) Interest subvention on pre- and post-shipment credit for exports by

MSMEs has been raised to 5% from 3%.

d) Public sector companies will now need to source at least 25% of their

requirement from MSMEs against 20% earlier and, within that, 3%

would have to be done from units run by women.


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e) All central public-sector enterprises will have to join the

government’s e-Marketplace (GeM) to facilitate online procurement

of commonly used goods and services by various government

departments and organisations. More than 1.5 lakh suppliers have

registered with GeM, including 40,000 MSMEs.

f) Will set up 20 hubs and 100 tool rooms for technology upgradation of

MSMEs at a cost of ₹6,000 crore.

g) Clusters for MSMEs in pharma sector will be created to boost

production.

h) All companies with turnover of more than ₹500 crore will now have

to come on Trade Receivables e-Discounting System (TReDS)

platform.

i) Inspector visit to factories in the sector will be sanctioned only

through computerised random allotment and inspectors will have to

upload reports on the portal within 48 hours.

j) MSMEs will now need a single air and water clearance and just one

consent to establish a factory.

k) They will have to file just one annual return on eight labour laws and

10 central rules.

l) An ordinance has been promulgated to simplify levy of penalties for

minor offences under the Companies Act.

1817. NASA’s pioneering Dawn spacecraft has gone silent after running out of

fuel, bringing an end to a historic 11-year mission that studied time

capsules from the solar system’s earliest chapter. Dawn studied two of the

largest objects in the asteroid belt.

1818. In bursting fire-crackers which colour is given out by different metal:

a) White from Magnesium, Aluminum, Titanium.

b) Red from Strontium.

c) Orange from Calcium.

d) Yellow from Sodium.

e) Green from Barium.


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f) Blue from Copper.

g) Purple from Strontium, Calcium.

1819.

1820. The current border haats at Nathu La in Sikkim and Moreh in Manipur

and the proposed border haat through Bum La Pass in Arunachal Pradesh

are for:

a) Trade between villages in India and China located along the border.

b) Land trade between India and China.

c) Tourism purposes only.


1821. Assembly Elections in Chhattisgarh in December 2018


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1822. Inflation statistics in November 2018

1823. Domestic card schemes

1824. Mobile SIM card verification no longer involves Aadhaar biometrics.


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1825. Job creation plan 2018: The 14 proposed sites are

a) Kachchh, Suryapur and Saurashtra in Gujarat;

b) North and South Konkan in Maharashtra.

c) Dakshin Kanara in Karnataka.

d) Malabar in Kerala.

e) Mannar. VCIC South and Poompuhar in Tamil Nadu;


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f) VCIC Central and North in Andhra;

g) Kalinga in Odisha; and

h) Gaud in West Bengal.

1826. Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections in November 2018.


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1827. The Electronic Bidding Platform (EBP) is an initiative by market

regulator SEBI, mandated for private placement of debt issues by

corporates. The EBP mechanism, on a single day on 04.12.2018 raised the

single-highest fund of around ₹10,376 crore for State Bank of India.

1828. Rural development as in December 2018

1829. After assembly elections in December 2018, Mr. Zoramthanga , is the

new Chief Minister of :

a) Mizoram

b) Arunachal Pradesh

c) Meghalaya

d) Assam

1830. The successor to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under the

1997 treaty, Kyoto Protocol, is

a) Carbon trading under the Sustainable Development Mechanism.

b) Paris Accord

c) Carbon Footprints.

d) Accounting of emission reductions

1831. Election profile for Rajasthan Assembly Elections in December 2018


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1832. Impact Analysis of Assembly Election results of December 2018.


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1833. Rajasthan has been voting out every incumbent government since 1993.


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Rajasthan saw a change of guard as most pollsters had predicted, albeit with the

incumbent BJP faring better than most forecasts. The Congress had claimed that

along with its allies it would make a clean sweep, but eventually it managed to just

sneak past the majority mark.


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1834. Chhattisgarh assembly results in December 2018.

1835. None of the Above (NOTA) option appears to have lost its appeal in the

Assembly elections of December 2018.


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1836. Which of the following Indices have already been developed by Niti

Aayog as in December 2018 for mapping the progress by States:

a) The Health Index in February 2018

b) The composite Water Management Index in June 2018.

c) The School Education Quality Index and

d) Digital Transformation Index.

e) Only a + b.

f) Only a.

g) Only c and d.

h) Only b.

1837. Inflation in 2018 in major sectors


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1838. The Labour Code on Industrial Relations Bill, 2018, aims to establish the

dignity of every worker through provision of social security, enhancing

the avenues and quality of employment. The Draft Code on Wages Bill,

2017, was introduced in the Lok Sabha last year and is being examined by

Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour. Labour code on wages and

industrial relations are two of the four codes that the ministry had been

working on over the last few years.

In line with the recommendations of the Second National

Commission on Labour, the ministry had formed four labour codes –

wages, industrial relations, social security and welfare and occupational

safety, health and working conditions by amalgamating, simplifying and

rationalising the relevant provisions of the existing 44 central labour laws.


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1839. Data from the National Payments Corporation of India, which runs the

country’s domestic card scheme RuPay, showed that digital payments for

merchant transactions increased considerably in 2018 over the year ago

figure.

1840. As in December 2018, India has achieved a 20% reduction in its

emissions intensity against the 33% level it has committed to attain by

2030 at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, The

government’s programmes on energy conservation and efficiency

including the star labelling programme, energy savings scheme for

industrial units, LED lamps distribution and efficient buildings code have

led to the reduction in carbon emissions.


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1841. The suicide data come from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

Until 2013, NCRB provided data on suicide among self-employed in

agriculture and farming. It was not clear if these numbers were only for

cultivators or included agriculture labour as well.

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The common reason for bank frauds is that most banks don’t reconcile Nostro on a

daily basis, many do it twice a week, while well run large banks do it at the end of

the day. Mid-sized and small banks generally delay these reconciliations because

their trade finance book is very small because of which many irregularities go

unnoticed.” PNB has unearthed an alleged fraud of ₹11,400 crore at its Brady

House branch in Mumbai. The fraud came to light after an employee who was

rolling over LoUs retired.

1843. The Kumbh Mela that starts in Prayagraj, on January 14, 2019 and will

go on till March 4, 2019 is cited by UNESCO as an intangible cultural

heritage. The Kumbh Mela, is considered the world’s largest

congregation of pilgrims, is set to draw millions including ascetics, saints

and sadhus over 55 days at the confluence of the rivers Ganga, Yamuna

and the mythical Sarasvati. The Kumbh Mela takes place by rotation in

one of four pilgrimage centres: Haridwar in Uttarakhand, Ujjain in

Madhya Pradesh; Nashik in Maharashtra, and Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh.

1844. ‘New India by 2022’ vision document by Niti Aayog released in

December 2018 has the following main recommendations:

1845. The Vice Chairman of Niti Aayog is:

a) Mr. Rajiv Kumar

b) Mr. Arun Jaitley

c) Mr. Amitab Kant

d) Mr. Urjit Patel


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1846. Saubhagya Yojana for Rural Electrification as in December 2018

1847. Which Ministry of Government of India had issued the notification in

December 2018, authorizing 10 intelligence and security agencies to

intercept data on internet and social media:

a) Ministry of Home Affairs.

b) Ministry of Electronics and Information

c) Ministry of Information and Communications.

d) Ministry of Defence.

1848. Who is the authority competent to finally approve the proposed

amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines)

Rules under Section 79 of the IT Act :

a) Ministry of Electronics and Information

b) The Minister of Home Affairs.

c) The Prime Minister of India

d) The Parliament.


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1849. Which of the following companies has be charged by the National Anti-

profiteering Authority (NAA) of India for not passing on gains from

lower GST to consumers to the tune of ₹462.32 crore :

a) Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL)

b) Hindustan Aeronautical Limited (HAL)

c) Hero Honda Limited.

d) Hindalco Limited

1850. Indian record overseas


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1851. 19 things that could define 2019


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1853. The Rythu Bandhu scheme for farmers that helped in winning the

assembly elections in 2018 was implemented in the State of :

a) Telangana

b) Chhattisgarh

c) Madhya Pradesh

d) West Bengal

1854. The culture ministry’s ₹500-crore flagship ‘cultural mapping’

programme, aimed at creating a dossier of artists across India, is

“unplanned” and “directionless,” the parliamentary panel on culture has

said in its report submitted to the house recently.

1855. A total of 1,780 films across languages were released in 2018, over

12,000 events also enthralled the audience across India.


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1856. BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money), the digital payments platform

promoted by the central government, is betting on merchant and utility

bill payments to expand its acceptance across the country.

1857. The Chief Guest at India’s 70

th Republic Day:

a) President of South Africa, Mr. Cyril Ramaphosa

b) President of Mozambique.

c) President of Bangladesh

d) President of Chile.

1858. Status of ‘Namami Gange’ programme


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1859. FATF stands for:

a) Financial Action Task Force

b) First Among Technical Force

c) Financial Accounts Task Force


1860. The UN proposal to ban Pakistani Terrorist by name in March 2019 was

moved by :

a) US-France-Britain

b) US-Russia-Australia

c) US-France-Australia-Britain



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1861. Between 1990 and 2017, India’s life expectancy at birth increased by

nearly 11 years; there have been significant gains in expected years of

schooling — 4.7 years more than in 1990. During this period, India’s per-

capita gross national income increased by 266.6%. While India’s HDI

value is above the average for the South Asia region (0.638), the

country’s loss of HDI value due to inequality (26.8%) is greater than the

average of 26.1% for the region.

1862. Which of the following State Assembly elections are to be held

simultaneously with the General Elections for 17th Lok Sabha in April to

May 2019:

a) Andhra Pradesh

b) Arunachal Pradesh

c) Orissa

d) Sikkim

e) All the above

1863. The elections for 17th Lok Sabha in April and May 2019 are to be held in

how many phases:

a) 7 phases

b) 9 phases


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c) 10 phases

d) 8 phases

1864. Which of the following will happen for the first time in the General

Elections 2019 ,

a) The photograph of the candidate will be displayed on the EVM.

b) The model code of conduct and pre-certified political advertisement

rules will apply to all social media platforms also, including ‘silence

period’ of 48 hours before polls.

c) The bulk SMS/Voice Messages on phone and election campaigning

through social media will also be under purview of pre-certification of

election advertisements.

d) Candidates will have to submit details of their social media account at

the time of nomination.

e) All expenditure on social media including salaries and wages paid to

those employed to maintain social account, will have to be included in

expenditure incurred.

f) All the above options are correct as they have all been introduced for

the first time in 2019.

1865. The expenditure ceiling for candidates contesting Lok Sabha

elections in all states and union territories, except for Arunachal Pradesh,

Goa, and Sikkim is:

a) Rs. 70 lakhs

b) Rs. 60 lakhs

c) Rs. 50 lakhs

d) Rs. One crore

1866. The expenditure ceiling for candidates contesting Lok Sabha

elections in the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, and Sikkim is :

a) Rs. 54 lakh

b) Rs. 74 lakh

c) Rs 50 lakh

d) Rs 75 lakh


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1867. Which political party has announced 33% reservation for women

candidates in Lok Sabha 2019 elections:

a) Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and Trinamool Congress

b) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

c) Indian National Congress (INC)


1868. The full form of VVPAT is :

a) Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail

b) Very Very Powerful Authority’s Trail

c) Voter verified Power for Audit and Transfer


1869. The three states in which General Elections 2019 will be held in all the

seven phases include:

a) Uttar Pradesh

b) Bihar

c) West Bengal

d) All the above

1870. After demonstration of the anti-satellite missile technology on 27th

March 2019, India became a ‘space super power’ to join USA, Russia,

and China as:

a) The 4th space super power to have developed this technology

b) The 3rd

space super power.

c) The 5th space super power.


1871. The first ‘hostile takeover’ of an Indian Company was attempted in

March 2019 in which of the following companies?

a) Mindtree

b) L&T India

c) Hindustan Levers Limited

d) Jet Airways

1872. By conducting the Balakot air strike into Pakistan after Phulwama terror

attack on CRPF convoy on 14th

February 2019, India became the 3rd


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country to avenge ‘martyrdom of soldiers’, after which of the two

countries in the world?

a) United States of America and Israel.

b) United States of America and China.

c) United States of America and Russia.

d) Russia and China.

1873. Bank of Baroda’s merger with Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank announced

by the Government in 2018 will make it :

a) The largest public sector bank.

b) The 2nd

largest public sector bank.

c) The 3rd

largest public sector bank.

d) The 4th largest public sector bank.

1874. India’s four defence manufacturing units are ranking amongst top 100

in the world as per 2017 Report. These include

a) Indian Ordnance Factories ranked 37.

b) Hindustan Aeronautics ranked 38.

c) Bharat Electronics ranked 64.

d) Bharat Dynamics ranked 94.

1875. As per 2018 international report, India’s rank in list of countries by sales

of armaments by the above four manufacturing units is :

a) 10th

b) 7th

c) 42nd

d) 14th

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