Current Affairs May 2018

Current Affairs  May 2018

The General Awareness Section of Banking Exams covers various segments in it like Banking Awareness, Static GK, and Current Affairs. Be that as it may, the most vital thing that you may have seen is that both the Banking Awareness and Static Awareness questions asked in the General Awareness Section depend on Current Affairs as it were. The inquiries on Static and Banking Awareness are identified with the nations, occasions or anything that has been in news for some time. Aside from the GA Section, a fantastic information of current news additionally encourages you manage the PI (Personal Interview) all the more proficiently so you don't give a mutter clutter reply to the interviewee's straightforward inquiries. Here is a test on Current Affairs to give you a chance to survey your Current Affairs Knowledge.



Who has been appointed as an eminent jurist in the selection committee for appointment of the lokpal ?
Ranjit kumar
Kk venugopal
Harish salve
Mukul rohatgi
Ans  mukul rohatgi
Who was presented ‘young scientist award-2007’  by president ram nath kovind at the national geosciences award 2017, instituted by ministry of mines ?
Dr. aditya mohan jha
Dr. ravi sidhharth mishra
Dr. shib sankar ganguli
Dr. sachin ranjan raut
Ans : dr. shib sankar ganguli
Which satellite of NASA has captured the first global picture of the small frozen particles inside clouds ?
IceCube
cloudSat
cloudCube
IceSat
Ans : IceCube
India has sent the second relief consignment of 373 – toner for rohingya muslims to which country ?
Thailand
Nepal
Sri lanka
Bangladesh
Ans : Bangladesh
(Through INS airavat  under  operation insaniyat  )
Which of the following has launched  ‘My payments’ feature for automatic recurring payments ?
Mobikwik
Oxygen
Airtel money
Paytm
Ans : paytm
Which campaign has been launched by  worlf health organization to eliminate artificial trans fats from the global food supply by 2033 ?
REPLACE
WELLNESS
PROTECT
CHANGE
Ans : REPLACE
Who has been honoured with the Nikkei asia prize in japan, for his contribution to asia’s development ?
Baba ramdev
E. sreedharan
Dr bindeshwar pathak
M. S. Swaminathan
Ans : Dr. bindeshwar pathak
Union cabinet has approved the signing and ratification of agreement for exchange  of information and assistance in collection of taxes, with ?
Brunei Darussalam
Singapore
Fiji Islands
Madagascar
Ans : Brunei Darussalam
Who flagged off the new weekly antyodaya express to run between darbhanga  in bihar and jalandhar in punjab ?
Piyush goyal
Suresh prabhu
Manoj sinha
Dharmendra pradhan
Ans : Manoj sinha
Union cabinet has approved th establishment of national institute of mental health rehabilitation (NIMHR) at ?
Gandhinagar
Lucknow
Bhopal
Nagpur
Ans : Bhopal
Balkavi bairagi , who recently passed away, was  a  ?
Painter
Enviromentlist
Poet
Musician
Ans : Poet
Which NGO along with karbi angling autonomous council (KAAC), is helping  villages in assam to develop a rural tourism model ?
Shakti sustainable energy foundation
Environics trust
Root bridge foundation
Satpuda foundation
Ans : Root bridge foundation
As per a report by centre for development studies, which state is experiencing an advanced demographic transition ?
Bihar
Maharashtra
Kerala
Gujarat
Ans : kerala
Which ministry organized a meeting of stakeholders to take feedback on capacity building and skilling scheme ‘samarth’
Skill development
Coal
Agriculture
Textiles
Ans : textiles
Which F1 driver won the Spanish grand prix ?
Lewis Hamilton
Max verstappen
Valtteri bottas
Sebastian vettel
Ans : lewis Hamilton
Union cabinet has given its in-principle approval for establishing a “ central university of Andhra Pradesh “ at ?
Nagasamudram village
Janthaluru village
Rebbenpalle village
Tallapet village
Ans : janthaluru village
Who won ‘scientist of the year award -2017’ at the DRDO awards, presented by defence minister nirmala sitharaman, held  in new delhi ?
VK sarawat
S Pazhanikumar
Vasudev kalkunte aatre
YST Raju
Ans : S Pazhanikumar
Union cabinet has approved  signing an MoU in the field of electoral management and administration, with ?
Guyana
Suriname
Ecuador
Nicaragua
Ans : suriname
Chiref minister trivendra singh rawat has inaugurated the uttarakhand’s first city gas distribution (CGD) network at ?
Rudrapur
Haldwani
Kathgodam
Ramnagar
Ans : rudrapur
11th world  agri tourism day was recently celebrated on the theme “development and doubling the farmers income through agri tourism”, on ?
May 18
May 15
May 16
May 17
Ans may 16
Who has been named as france’s French league  palyer of the year ?
Thiago silva
Raul albiol
Andre – frank zambo
Neymar
Ans : neymar
NALCO has signed an MoU with ministry of mines, for 2018-19, setting a target of generating  revenues of ?
Rs 9,350 crore
Rs 5,790 crore
Rs 6, 540 crore
Rs 8,210 crore
Ans : Rs 9,350 crore
Union cabinet has approved an extension of delhi metro corridor from noida city centre to sector 62, noida, at a cost of
Rs 3,849 crore
Rs 2,462 crore
Rs 731 crore
Rs 1,967 crore
Ans : 1,967 crore
Ministry of new and renewable enrgy has issued national wind- solar hybrid policy. By 2022, india has targeted wind poer capacity of  ?
60 GW
75 GW
50 GW
100 GW
Ans : 60GW
When was ‘international day of light’ observed ?
 May 15
May 16
May 18
May 17
Ans :  may 16
MoRTH minister Nitin gadkari recently inaugurated two highways NH-7 and NH-54, in ?
Varanasi
Nagpur
Jaipur
Bathinda
Ans bathinda
Who has been honoured with the ‘shri jayadev rastriya Yuva pratibha puraskar 2018’ ?
Anindita anaam
Namrata pandey
Bhumika patel
Shrishti Sharma
Ans : anindita anaam
Union cabinet has approved anew mechanism for resolution of commercial disputes of CPSEs and other government departments/organizations, to replace ?
Permanent machinery of arbitration (PMA)
Mediation and arbitration Mechanism (MAM)
Alternate dispute Resolution (ADR)
Conflict resolution mechanism(CRM)
Ans : permanent machinery of arbitration(PMA)
A mountaineering expedition by the Indian army women officers was flagged off to which mountain ?
Nanda devi
Chaukhanmba
Mt bhagirath-II
Trisul
Ans : Mt bhagirath –II
CCEA  has approved the developemt of trunk infrastructure components for the integrated multimodal logistics hub known as ‘freight village’ at ?
Duliana
Nahawani
Nangal chaudhary
Malakpur
Ans : nangal chaudhary
First ayushaman bharat workshop of northern region on pradhan mantra rashtriya swasthya suraksha mission (PMRSSM) was recently held in ?
Shimla
Dehradun
New delhi
Chandigarh
Ans : shimla