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Quantitative Aptitude

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Time duration

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General Awareness

Hindi/English Lang.

Computer Knowledge

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40

40

40

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200

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40

40

20

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Important Topics

Data Interpretation 10-15

Quadratic Equation 5

Series & Sequence 5

Simplification 5

Ratio & Proportion, Percentage, Averages 3

Profit & Loss 2

Time & Work 2

Time & Distance 2

Simple Interest & Compound Interest 1-2

Allegation & Mixture 1-2

Permutation & Combination, Probability 1-2

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Alphanumeric Series 0-5

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Inequalities 2-5

Ranking / Alphabet Test 0-5

Coding Decoding 5

Blood Relations / Direction 2-5

Input-Output / Data Sufficiency 5

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NATIONAL NEWS

v The Rowa Wildlife Sanctuary (RWS) is located in which state? Tripura

v What is the India’s rank in the 2017 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Index? 116th

v Which city is hosting the National Conference of NITI Aayog? New Delhi

v The Karian Shola National Park (KSNP) is located in which state? Tamil Nadu

v The Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary (MWS) is located in which state? West Bengal

v NITI Aayog has launched SATH program for cooperative federalism. What does 'SATH' stands for?

Sustainable Action for Transforming Human capital

v India's first-ever Rural LED Street Lighting Project will be set up in which state? Andhra Pradesh

v India's first smartcard-based Public Bicycle Sharing (PBS) initiative "Trin Trin" has launched in which city? Mysuru

v The Nandankanan Zoological Park (NZP) is located in which state? Odisha

v Which state has become the first Indian state to introduce a logo for vehicles driven by persons with hearing impairment? Telangana

v The Mudumalai National Park is located in which state?

Tamil Nadu

v The Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) is located in which state? Uttar Pradesh

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

v Which country has renamed part of the South China Sea as the North Natuna Sea? Indonesia

v Which country hosted the 2017 Everest International Model United Nations (EIMUN) Regional Conference? Nepal

v Who is the newly elected President of Mongolia?

Khaltmaagiin Battulga

v Saima Wazed Hossain has been appointed as WHO goodwill ambassador for Autism in South-East Asia Region. She hails from which country? Bangladesh

v The first-ever United Nations Oceans Conference has started in which country? United States

v Miroslav Lajcak will be the new President of United Nations General Assembly. He hails from which country? Slovakia

v Which city has topped the 2017 Savills Tech Cities Index?

Austin

v Which country is hosting the 26th session of the Governing Council (GC) of UN-Habitat-2017? Kenya

v Where is the headquarters of the National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR) Vasco da Gama

v The tropical cyclone "Debbie" has recently hit which country? Australia

v What is the India's rank in the WADA's Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRVs) report for year 2015? 3rd

BANKING & ECONOMY

v Who has been appointed as new Director General of Goods and Services Tax Intelligence (DG GSTI)? John Joseph

v Who has taken charge as new secretary of the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) in the finance ministry?

Subhash Garg

v Which IIT institute hosted the 2017 International Conference on Financial Markets and Corporate Finance?

IIT Kharagpur

v Which Indian commodity exchange will merge with Indian Commodity Exchange (ICEX)?

National Multi-Commodity Exchange of India Ltd

v India has signed how much amount of loan agreement with

the World Bank (WB) for Himachal Pradesh Public

Financial Management Capacity Building Programme? $36 million

v What is the India's GDP forecast for FY 18, as per latest

Economic Outlook Survey of Federation of Indian

Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI)? 7.4%

v What is the current reverse repo rate, as per first bi-monthly

monetary policy review for 2017-18 of the Reserve Bank of

India (RBI)? 6.0%

v Truecaller has partnered with which bank to launch its UPI-

based mobile payment service "Truecaller Pay"?

ICICI Bank

PERSONS IN NEWS

v Which Indian-origin personality has been appointed as the

new UNICEF’s Global Goodwill Ambassador? Lilly Singh

v Sundar Singh, who has won gold at the 2017 World Para

Athletics Championships, is associated with which sports?

Javelin throw

v Who lead the Indian delegation in the 5th edition of BRICS

Education Ministers’ Meeting-2017? Prakash Javadekar

v Which union minister has launched a month-long plantation

drive to mark Van Mahotsav-2017? Harsh Vardhan

v Who has won the 2017 Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix

tournament? Lewis Hamilton

v Which Indian mountaineer has been honoured by Nepal

Government for scaling Mt. Everest for a record six times? Love Raj Singh Dharmashaktu

v Which Indian personality has launched 'Selfie with

Daughter' app to raise awareness among people about

female foeticide and sex selection? Pranab Mukherjee

v Who has become the world’s highest wicket-taker in women

ODI cricket? Jhulan Goswami

v Mohammad Anas, who has won gold at the 2017 Asian

Athletics Championships (AAC), is associated with which

sports ? Sprint

NEW APPOINTMENT

v Who is the newly appointed director-general of the

Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI)?

Debi Prasad Dash

v Who has been appointed as the new Chairman of Indian

Institute of Management (IIM) Amritsar? Sanjay Gupta

v Who has been appointed as the new Economic Relations

Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)?

Vijay Gokhale

v Who has become the first Indian woman to be elected as

judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

(ITLOS)? Neeru Chadha

v Who has appointed the new Director General (DG) of

National Water Development Agency (NWDA)?

Sharad Jain

v Who has become the first Indian to be nominated as a

member of the ITTF Umpires and Referees Committee

(URC)? Ganeshan Neelakanta Iyer

v Which Indian personality has been appointed public policy

fellow to Woodrow Wilson International Centre for

Scholars? Nirupama Rao

v Which Indian personality has been elected as the new

chairman of FIFA Governance Committee? Mukul Mudgal

v Who has been appointed the new chief justice of Madras

High Court? Indira Banerjee

v Who has been appointed as the new spokesperson of the

Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)? Gopal Baglay

OBITUARIES

v Liu Xiaobo, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate has passed away.

He hailed from which country? China

v Ray Phiri, the Jazz legend has passed away. He hailed from

which country? South Africa

v Mangesh Tendulkar, the renowned cartoonist has passed

away. He hailed from which state? Maharashtra

v Sabita Chowdhury, the noted singer has passed away. She

hailed from which state? West Bengal

v Baldwin Lonsdale, who passed away recently, was the

President of which country? Vanuatu

v S Ramassamy, who passed away recently, was the former

Chief Minister of which state/UT? Puducherry

v Ustad Raees Khan, the legendary sitarist has passed away.

He hailed from which country? Pakistan

v Ajey Jhankar, who passed away recently, was related to

which field? Film Industry

AWARDS

v Sudha Singh, who has won gold at the 2017 Asian Athletics

Championships (AAC), is associated with which sports? Steeplechase

v Which Indian-origin personality has been honoured with the

highest civilian award “Order of Australia” in Australia for

community work? Guruswamy Jayraman

v Who has been conferred with the 2017 Best astrologer of the

world award? T S Vneeth

v Who will be honoured with the RedInk Award for Lifetime

Achievement in Journalism for 2017? Vinod Dua

v Who has been conferred with the first-ever Bhairon Singh

Shekhawat Lifetime Achievement Honour in Public

Service? Pawan Chamling

v Which Indian cricketer has been conferred with the

Fellowship Award in United Kingdom (UK)? Sachin Tendulkar

v Which movie has won the Best Film award in the 64th

National Awards-2017? Kasaav

v Who has been awarded the 2016 Indian Entrepreneur of the

Year (EOY) Award by the firm Ernst & Young (EY)? Vivek Chaand Sehgal

v “The Salesman” has won the Best Foreign Language Film at

89th Oscar Academy Awards. The movie is directed by

whom? Asghar Farhadi

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v Who is the author of the book "Yug Purush, Bharat Ratna,

Atal Ji"? Ramesh Pokhriyal

v Recently published book 'The Exile' is written by Cathy Scott and Adrian Levy

v Who is the author of the book "Hope in a Challenged

Democracy - An Indian Narrative"? Dr Ashwani Kumar

v Who is the author of the book "Building the land of five

rivers"? Arjun Gaind

v Who is the author of the book “Kohinoor: The Story of the

World’s Most Infamous Diamond”? William Dalrymple

v Who is the author of the book “The Wrong Turn: Love and

Betrayal in the Time of Netaji”? Namita Roy Ghose

v Who is the author of the book “The Secret Diary of

Kasturba”? Neelima Dalmia Adhar

v Who is the author of the book “‘The Travelling Belly: Eating

Through India’s By-Lanes”? Kalyan Karmakar

SPORTS

v Who has won the 2017 women’s singles Wimbledon tennis

tournament? Garbine Muguruza

v Govindan Laxman, who has won gold at the 2017 Asian

Athletics Championships (AAC), is associated with which

sports? Sprint

v Which football team has won the 2017 FIFA Confederations

Cup? Germany

v Who has won the 2017 French Open Women's Singles

Tennis Tournament? Jelena Ostapenko

v Which tennis pair have won the 2017 French Open mixed

doubles tournament? Rohan Bopanna and Gabriela Dabrowski

v Who has clinched the 2017 men's singles title at the Thailand

Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament? B Sai Praneeth

v Who has won boys singles title at the 2017 HCL Asian

Junior Tennis Championship? Nitin Kumar Sinha

v Which Indian sportsperson has clinched silver in women's

69kg category at the 2017 Asian Wrestling Championship? Divya Kakran

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

v The student scientist connect program “Jigyasa” has

officially launched in which city? New Delhi

v Which IIT institute has developed 'soil-to-soil' technology

to manufacture cheaper, quicker and pollution-free bio fuel? IIT Kharagpur

v Which country has launched the world's smallest and

cheapest private jet "Vision Jet"? United States

v The world's biggest-ever X- ray laser "European XFEL" has

generated its first X-ray laser light from which country? Germany

v Which union ministry has launched an online film

certification system "e-Cinepramaan" to promote

transparency and ease of doing business? Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

v Which state government has launched "e-nagarpalika" app

to provide municipal services online? Madhya Pradesh

v Which committee has been constituted by the Union

government to monitor the regional air connectivity scheme

"UDAN"? R N Choubey committee

DEFENCE AND SECURITY

v Indian Railways has launched an integrated mobile app

“Rail Saarthi” for railway passengers. What does “Saarthi”

stands for? Synergised Advanced ApplicationRail Travel Help and Information

v Which expert committee has been constituted to study free

movement along Myanmar border? Rina Mitra committee

v Which state government has recently signed MoU with

Union Aviation Ministry for Udan scheme? Tamil Nadu

v The 2017 multinational military exercise "Eager Lion" has

started in which of the following countries? Jordan

v Indian Navy has recently launched Integrated Automatic

Aviation Meteorological System (IAAMS) in which state? Tamil Nadu

v Who is the newly appointed chairman of Telecom Disputes

Settlement & Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT)? Shiva Kirti Singh

v Which state government has launched "Operation Durga" to

ensure women safety? Haryana

v India has recently signed MoU with which country for

technical cooperation in rail sector especially on safety

related subjects? Italy

IMPORTANT DAYS

v The 2017 Save Public Sector Banks Day (SPSBD) will be

celebrated on which date in India? July 19

v What is the theme of the 2017 World Population Day

(WPD)? Family Planning- Empowering People, Developing Nations

v What is the theme of the 2017 International Co-operative

Day (IDC)? Co-operatives ensure no one is left behind

v The 2017 World Refugee Day (WRD) is observed on which

date? June 20

v The International Day for the Elimination of Sexual

Violence in Conflict is observed on which day? June 19

v The 2017 World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) is

observed on which day? June 15

v What is the theme of 2017 World Oceans Day (WOD)? Our Oceans, Our Future

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