Gudni Johannes son won the recent presidential elections in which of the following countries?

(A) Iceland
(B) Greenland
(C) Norway
(D) Chile
(E) Cuba

The UN General Assembly recently elected five nations as non-permanent members of the Security Council for a two-year period beginning in Jan, 2017. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

(A) Sweden
(B) Bolivia
(C) Ethiopia
(D) Japan
(E) None of these

What is India’s ranking on the Logistics Performance Index(LPI) 2016 released by the United Nations?

(A) 19th
(B) 25th
(C) 35th
(D) 54th
(E) 63rd

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Shashi Kant Sharma was conferred honorary professorship by the Nanjing Audit University in China recently. He is the present

(A) Comptroller and Auditor General
(B) Chief Information Commissioner
(C) Central Vigilance Commissioner
(D) Chief Election Commissioner
(E) None of these

Xerxes Sapur Desai, who died recently, was the founder of

(A) HMT
(B) Titan
(C) Maxima
(D) Timex
(E) Citizen

Which of the following firms named Ulf Mark Schneider as its new Chief Executive Officer recently?

(A) Unilever
(B) GlaxoSmithKline
(C) Nestle
(D) Reckitt Benckiser
(E) Procter& Gamble

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Which of the following state govts has decided to grant district status to Majuli, making it India’s first river island district?

(A) West Bengal
(B) Sikkim
(C) Odisha
(D) Assam
(E) Manipur

Which of the following countries recently inaugurated the world’s first electric road?

(A) Russia
(B) China
(C) Japan
(D) Germany
(E) Sweden

The World Bank has approved $63-mn for “Tejaswini Project” in which of the following states?

(A) Mizoram
(B) Telangana
(C) Uttarakhand
(D) Chhattisgarh
(E) Jharkhand

______has signed up as the official sponsor for the Indian contingent to the Rio Olympics 2016.

(A) Micro max
(B) Mahindra & Mahindra
(C) Amul
(D) Patanjali
(E) Reliance Jio

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The exercise “Jalrahat” for flood relief was held recently in

(A) Assam
(B) Tamilnadu
(C) Gujarat
(D) Maharashtra
(E) Uttarakhand

Majuli has become the first river island district of the country which is situated in the river

(A) Ganga
(B) Lohit
(C) Danshiri
(D) Burhidihing
(E) Brahmaputra

The indigenously-built Varunastra was successfully inducted in the Indian Navy recently. It is a(n)

(A) anti-ship missile
(B) anti-submarine torpedo
(C) anti-aircraft gun
(D) helicopter-launched missile
(E) None of these

Which state govt has signed an MOD with a three-nation consortium to set up a gas-based fertilizer project at Krishnapatanam with an investment of Rs 10,183 cr?

(A) Tamil Nadu
(B) Karnataka
(C) Andhra Pradesh
(D) Telangana
(E) Kerala

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Who among the following is the present Union Minister for Steel and Mines?

(A) Narendra Singh Tomar
(B) Jual Oram
(C) ChaudharyBirenderSingh
(D) AnantGeete
(E) Ananth Kumar

Name the private sector lender which has launched a 10,000 sq ft innovation lab at Bengaluru for start ups, which will host a three-month accelerator programme.

(A) HDFC Bank
(B) ICICI Bank
(C) Axis Bank
(D) IDFC Bank
(E) Kotak Mahindra Bank

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The second BRIGS Youth Summit will be held in which of the following cities from Jul 1-3 with the theme ‘Youth as bridge for Intra-BRICS Exchanges’?

(A) Guwahati
(B) Kolkata
(C) Ranchi
(D) Bhopal
(E) Lucknow