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Solutions
S1. Ans.(a)
Sol. From statement (I) we get June. And from statement (II) we can’t say about any particular
month.
S2. Ans.(d)
Sol. Even after using of both the statement we can’t get answer.
S3. Ans.(e)
Sol. After combining both the statement we get P>R>S>Q.
Solutions (4-8):
Step-1: S sits third to the left of T who likes red colour. W is not the neighbor of S and immediate
neighbor of T does not like Green and Black. There are two persons sits between S and the one who
like Yellow colour.
Step-2: There is only one person sits between W and P who does not sit near to S and T. The person
who like Black colour and R sits opposite to each other and P doesn’t like Black colour so the only
possible place for R is where Yellow color lies.

Step-3: U likes grey color and sits between the persons who like Pink and Green color. The person
who like Green and Blue sits adjacent to the person who sits second to the left of U. Q does not face
the person who likes green colour.
S4. Ans.(a)
S5. Ans.(b)
S6. Ans.(a)
S7. Ans.(e)
S8. Ans.(a)
S9. Ans.(b)
Sol.
Aryan fulfills all the conditions except I but he fulfills the sub conditions (a). Hence, his case is to be
referred to General Manager Advances.
S10. Ans.(e)
Sol.
Rohit fulfills all the conditions, so he is to be selected.

Solutions (11-15):
Step-1: The employee who work on the seventh day of the week works in Currentadda and he
belongs to Support department. B works on Wednesday and he does not work in GA and Quant
department. The employee who works in IT department work on Thursday and he is neither from
Career power nor Ctetadda. Only two employee works after C. C is from CP and work one day
before D. G does not work on Thursday. F is from Ctetadda and works on the second day of the
week. The employee who works on Friday does not work in GA, Blog and Quant department.
Step-2: A works in either Quant or Blog department and he is from Adda. C does not work in Blog
department. D works in English department and he is from Bankersadda and does not work on
Monday and Tuesday.
S11. Ans.(b)
S12. Ans.(c)
S13. Ans.(b)
S14. Ans.(e)
S15. Ans.(a)

S16. Ans.(d)
Sol.
S17. Ans.(e)
Sol.
S18. Ans.(d)
Sol.
S19. Ans.(b)
Sol.

S20. Ans.(d)
Sol.
S21. Ans.(b)
Sol. Let efficiency of child and father be x unit/day and 5x unit/day
=
168x
70
× 100
= 240x
Mother complete 85% of work in
=
240x ×
85
100
3x
=
204x
3x
= 68 days
S22. Ans.(d)
Sol. Let investment of A, B and C

S23. Ans.(e)
Sol.
Profit = 3300 Rs.
S24. Ans.(a)
Sol. Monthly income of Arun
S25. Ans.(b)
Sol. Total tourist brought tickets for Taj mahal and
Red fort in march = (12750+ 23750) = 36500
Absent tourists = 36500 ×
20
100
= 7300
No. of tourists who bought Gold Class tickets= 3300
No. of tourists who bought Silver Class tickets = 7300 – 3300 = 4000
Total amount collected from absent tourists = 15 × 3300 + 12 × 4000
= 49500 + 48000 = 97500 Rs

S26. Ans.(c)
Sol. Given – average of all tickets sold in jan = 15400
Total ticket sold in jan from all five tourist places = 15400 × 5
= 77000
Ticket sold for Golden temple in april = 13200×7/8
= 1650 × 7
= 11550
Total ticket sold in april
= (17000 + 7500 + 13800 + 11550 + 20500)
= 70350
Jan – April = 77000 – 70350
= 6650
S27. Ans.(c)
Sol. Total ticket sold for Golden temple in July = 9500 + 8500
= 18000
S28. Ans.(c)
Sol. Tickets sold for Golden temple in April
= 13750 – 1750 = 12000
S29. Ans.(b)
Sol. Quantity I: Let’s CP of table = 100x Rs.
Given,
MP of table = 100x ×
170
100
= 170x Rs.
SP of table = 170x – (170x ×
20
100
×
25
100
) = 120x Rs.

S30. Ans.(a)
Sol. Quantity I:
= 90750 – 30750 = 60000
Satish paid total amount after next 2 year
= 60000 ×
121
100
= 72600 Rs.

S31. Ans.(e)
Sol.
= 18200 Rs.
S32. Ans.(a)
Sol.
S33. Ans.(e)
Sol. Average investment of IBM from 2018 – 22
=
125 + 130 + 150 + 170 + 160
5
=
735
5
= 147 cr

S34. Ans.(c)
Sol. Investment of IBM in rural areas in 2022
= 160 ×
3
5
= 96 cr.
S35. Ans.(b)
Sol. Required ratio
=
105 + 125 + 130
170 + 190 + 220
=
360
580
= 18 ∶ 29
S36. Ans.(a)
Sol. Investment of IBM in cities A and C together in 2019
= 130 ×
(5 + 4)
(5 + 4 + 4)
= 90 cr
Investment of TCS in city Q in 2022
= 220 ×
6
11
= 120 cr
Required difference = 120 – 90 = 30 cr
S37. Ans.(b)
Sol. First mixture = 2 gallon

S38. Ans.(e)
Sol. Let speed of car will be x km/hr
S39. Ans.(d)
Sol. Let speed of boat in still water = x km/hr
Speed of current =
𝑥
4
km/hr
ATQ,
15
𝑥 −
𝑥
4
= 5
x = 4 km/hr
Required time =
15
4 + 1
= 3 hr
S40. Ans.(b)
Sol. Let, total no. of packet in bucket be 35x,
S41. Ans.(c)
Sol. Refer to paragraph1 of the passage, we can easily conclude that the primary reason for the
dissension in America is urbanization and the economic difference between the rural and the urban
population.
S42. Ans.(d)
Sol. Read the passage carefully, it can be easily inferred that only option(d) is incorrect in the context
of the passage, remaining four statements are completely true.

S43. Ans.(b)
Sol. Refer to paragraph2 of the passage, it can be easily inferred that earlier the author used to think
that the middle Americans mostly the Republican voters hate foreigners especially the brown ones
but when he spent time in Loudonville he observed the kind and benevolent nature of the residents.
It entirely changed his perception.
S44. Ans.(e)
Sol. Read paragraph3 of the passage carefully, it is clearly mentioned that major attractions of the
annual Street Fair of Loudonville was the food stalls, carousels, livestock shows, the tractor pull, etc
S45. Ans.(e)
Sol. Read paragraph4 of the passage, it can be concluded that life in countryside is quite different
than the life in city as the life in countryside is slow as compared to the city, the things people enjoy
in countryside is very different than those enjoyed by the people in cities. In countryside there are
acres of farm lands which is hardly seen in cities. The sense of enjoyment is very different in
countryside as compared to the city.
S46. Ans.(c)
Sol. In context of the passage, as compared to other options, option(c) seems to be the most
appropriate title for the given passage.
S47. Ans.(b)
Sol. Strife means Conflict.
Truce means an agreement between enemies or opponents to stop fighting or arguing for a certain
time.
Discord means lack of agreement or harmony between things.
S48. Ans.(c)
Sol. Quaint means attractively unusual or old-fashioned.
Grave means a place where a broken or discarded object lies.
Whimsical means playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way.
Whimsical has same meaning as quaint.
S49. Ans.(d)
Sol. Sprawling means spread out over a large area in an untidy or irregular way.
Slouching means stand, move, or sit in a lazy, drooping way.
Slumping means sit, lean, or fall heavily and limply.
Trailing means walk or move slowly or wearily.
Compressing has opposite meaning as sprawling.

S50. Ans.(e)
Sol. Exorbitant means unreasonably high.
Steep means not reasonable; excessive.
Extortionate means much too high; exorbitant.
Moderate has opposite meaning as exorbitant.
S51. Ans.(e)
Sol. The correct sequence to form a meaningful paragraph is DAEBFC.
S52. Ans.(a)
S53. Ans.(b)
S54. Ans.(c)
S55. Ans.(a)
S56. Ans.(d)
Sol. While the quantifier ‘a little’ means something that is not much in quantity, ‘little’ means
something that is almost nil. In the case of sentence (IV), there is almost no knowledge of a certain
fact.
Hence except (IV), all sentences are grammatically correct.
S57. Ans.(c)
Sol. “A good deal” is used as a quantifier with uncountable nouns, like work, writing, etc. The
phrase, when not used as a quantifier, can simply mean a deal that is good, like in sentence (III). But
the phrase cannot be used as a quantifier with countable nouns as in sentence (II). Hence all sentences
except (II) are grammatically correct.
S58. Ans.(c)
Sol. In case of sentence (I), replace ‘were’ by ‘was’ as “The Secretary and Treasurer” denotes the same
person. However, if “The Secretary and the Treasurer” were used, then the verb “were” would have
been correct as it denotes two different persons and in such cases, it takes plural verb.
e.g. The Secretary and Principal has come.
The Secretary and the Principal have come.
In sentence (III), remove ‘to’ after ‘resembles’ to make the sentence grammatically correct.
“Resemble” is a Transitive Verb and thus it is always followed by Object and not ‘to’, ‘with’, etc.
e.g. She resembles her mother.
Hence only sentences (II) and (IV) are grammatically correct.

S59. Ans.(a)
Sol. In sentence (II), replace ‘take’ by ‘takes’ to make the sentence grammatically correct as “One of”
is followed by a Plural Noun or Pronoun but it always takes Singular verb.
e.g. One of the volcanic eruptions takes place.
In sentence (III), ‘you’ should be followed by ‘are’ as “you” is such a Pronoun which acts the same
way in both Nominative Case and Objective Case.
e.g. I like him more than you. [=I like him more than (I like) you.]
I like him more than you do. [=I like him more than you like him.]
In sentence (IV), replace ‘his’ by “one’s” as when the subject of the sentence is “One” and it refers to
‘anybody’ then the possessive of ‘one’ is “one’s”.
e.g. One should be respectful to one’s elders.
Hence only sentence (I) is grammatically correct.
S60. Ans.(e)
Sol. All the given sentences are grammatically correct.
S61. Ans.(a)
Sol. Accretion means a thing formed or added by gradual growth or increase.
S62. Ans.(e)
Sol. Emancipation means the fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political
restrictions; liberation.
S63. Ans.(b)
Sol. Wholesale means done on a large scale; extensive.
S64. Ans.(e)
Sol. All the given options fit into the blanks appropriately as all four words mean the same i.e. so as
to give the impression of having a certain quality; apparently.
S65. Ans.(d)
Sol. Meddling means interfering in something that is not one's
concern.
S66. Ans.(e)
Sol. The given sentence is grammatically correct.
S67. Ans.(a)
Sol. “to be more prudent than the ones offered by” is the correct
phrase replacement to make the sentence grammatically correct.

S68. Ans.(d)
Sol. “has come a long way since Independence” is the correct phrase replacement as the sentence is in
Present Tense. Hence (d) is the correct option.
S69. Ans.(e)
Sol. The given sentence does not require any correction as it is grammatically correct.
S70. Ans.(c)
Sol. “to suspend diplomatic ties with” is the correct phrase replacement to make the sentence
grammatically correct.
S71. Ans.(b)
S72. Ans.(d)
S73. Ans.(d)
S74. Ans.(c)
S75. Ans.(e)
S76. Ans.(a)
S77. Ans.(c)
S78. Ans.(b)
S79. Ans.(e)
S80. Ans.(a)
S81. Ans.(a)
Sol. Ctrl+F is the short cut key combination that can be used to search in Windows Explorer.
S82. Ans.(c)
Sol. The Word Count command displays the total number of page, words and lines in a document.
S83. Ans.(c)
Sol. SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer protocol) is used for sending email, while IMAP (Internet Message
Access Protocol) is used for accessing email on a remote web server from a local client.
S84. Ans.(d)
Sol. An Internet telephony service provider (ITSP) offers digital telecommunications services based
on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) that are provisioned via the Internet.
S85. Ans.(e)
Sol. Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language and it is used to create websites or
Web pages.
S86. Ans.(a)
Sol. <a> tag defines a hyperlink, which is used to link from one page to another.
S87. Ans.(b)
Sol. Range of Class B IP address 128.0.0.0 to 191.255.255.255

S88. Ans.(d)
Sol. A worm is a type of virus that spreads through your computer by creating duplicates of itself on
other drives, systems and networks.
S89. Ans.(d)
S90. Ans.(d)
Sol. SMiShing is a security attack in which the user is tricked into downloading a Trojan horse virus
or other malware onto his cellular phone or other mobile device. SMiShing is short for "SMS
phishing."
S91. Ans.(b)
Sol. WAV (Waveform Audio File Format), WMA (Windows Media Audio), AIFF (Audio Interchange
File Format) are examples of audio file format.
S92. Ans.(b)
S93. Ans.(a)
Sol. Analog computers store data in a continuous form of physical quantities and perform
calculations with the help of measures.
S94. Ans.(d)
Sol. A stylus is an instrument for writing and, in computers, an input device used to write text or
draw lines on a surface as input to a computer.
S95. Ans.(d)
Sol. Adware is a software that is used to post unwanted advertisements. Generally, these
advertisements are posted as popups.
S96. Ans.(c)
Sol. The Proofing group contains commands to use the spell check and word count features. The
Paragraph group allows you to modify the layout of a paragraph, thereby setting spacing and
indentation of the paragraph. The Editing group contains the Find, Replace and Select commands to
find text, replace text and select text or objects, respectively.
S97. Ans.(b)
Sol. In the case of walkie-talkie, the person at one end sends signals, while the other on the receiving
end receives these signals. The person at the receiving end cannot communicate until the person at
the first end stops.

S98. Ans.(a)
Sol. At the time of the booting process, all necessary files of the
operating system are copied to the main memory (RAM) from
hard disk. These files contain all necessary information to start
the computer and initiate the input-output process.
S99. Ans.(a)
S100. Ans.(c)
Sol. A dumb terminal is a computer terminal that consists mostly
of just a display monitor and a keyboard (and perhaps a mouse as well). It has no internal CPU
(central processing unit), and thus has little or no processing power.
S101. Ans.(c)
Sol. Biplab Kumar Deb was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Tripura's first BJP government in
Agartala
S102. Ans.(e)
Sol. Retirement fund body EPFO has made it mandatory to file online claims for provident fund
withdrawals above 10 lakh, taking another step towards becoming a paperless organisation.
The Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has also made it mandatory to file online claims
for withdrawals of above 5 lakh under the Employees Pension Scheme 1995.
S103. Ans.(a)
Sol. audi Arabia's military has opened its applications to women for the first time, marking another
major step towards enhancing women's rights in a deeply patriarchal society.
S104. Ans.(c)
Sol. On the basis of an assessment of the current and evolving macroeconomic situation at its
meeting, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to keep the policy repo rate under the
liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) unchanged at 6.0 percent.
S105. Ans.(e)
Sol. Insurance is the economic device whereby the individual or business pays a cost (premium) in
exchange for protection against financial loss. The agreement is a contract also known as an insurance
policy.

S106. Ans.(d)
Sol. OBOPAY, the global mobile payment solutions company, has recently secured a license for
Prepaid Payment Instrument (PPI) from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to operate a semi-closed loop
wallet in India. Using the PPI license, OBOPAY will solve various payment related problems for their
partner clients – bringing efficiency and transparency to the payments process, improving reporting,
and reducing turnaround times for funds transfers. The PPI license can be implemented in a variety
of industry segments.
S107. Ans.(c)
Sol. Hong Kong remains the world's most visited city by international travelers in spite of strained
relations with neighboring China. In a report on the top 100 city destinations that highlights the
growth in Asian tourism, market research firm Euromonitor International said 25.7 million arrivals
are expected in Hong Kong in 2017.
Top 3 Countries in the list are-
1. Hong Kong.
2. Bangkok.
3. London.
S108. Ans.(b)
Sol. Project ‘Mausam’ is the initiative of Ministry of Culture to be implemented by the Archaeological
Survey of India (ASI) as the nodal agency with research support of the Indira Gandhi National Centre
for the Arts (IGNCA) and National Museum as associate bodies. This project aims to explore the
multi-faceted Indian Ocean ‘world’ – collating archaeological and historical research in order to
document the diversity of cultural, commercial and religious interactions in the Indian Ocean.
S109.Ans(a)
S110. Ans.(b)
Sol. Kenneth I. Juster, deputy director of the National Economic Council at the White House, has
been nominated as the next U.S ambassador to India.
S111. Ans.(b)
Sol. The Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany (BSIP) is an autonomous institute constituted under
the Department of Science and Technology, GoI. The institute is located at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
and is a seat of higher learning in the field of plant fossil research.
S112. Ans.(a)
Sol. Rajneesh Gurbani is the India’s right-arm fast bowler who plays for Vidarbha cricket team
S113. Ans.(e)
Sol. Eazypay app launched by ICICI Bank.

S114. Ans.(e)
Sol. Tennessee Capital- Nashville.
S115. Ans.(e)
Sol. The Kandaleru Dam is located in Andhra pradesh State.
S116. Ans.(a)
Sol. Sir Mohamed Muktar Jama “Mo” Farah, who is Britain’s most successful-ever distance runner,
has won the 2017 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award. Farah, a four-time Olympic champion,
has won his third successive world 10,000m gold medal in London in August 2017. He is the first
athlete to win ten global outdoor long-distance titles on the track and the first Briton to win outdoor
titles in four World Championships (both consecutively and outright).
S117. Ans.(b)
Sol. Twinkle Khanna is the author of book “Mrs Funnybones”
S118. Ans.(c)
Sol. Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan launched M-Kerala, a unified app for all government services at
#FUTURE 2018. It is a first-of-its-kind digital tech summit in the state. Kerala also becomes the state
with the largest public Wi-Fi deployment in the country. The internet penetration in the state is at
52%. #FUTURE is Kerala's first-ever Global Digital Summit and was inaugurated by P Vijayan in
Kochi.
S119. Ans.(a)
Sol. Milkbasket, India’s first and largest micro-delivery platform, has been recognised as ‘Startup of
the Year’ 2017 at the 7th Small Business Awards held in New Delhi. The startup of the year award is
dedicated to young SMEs, aged 7 years or less, with great potential to become big in
local/international markets.
S120. Ans.(d)
Sol. As per the revised guidelines, the banks will be required to
identify incipient stress in loan accounts, immediately on default,
by classifying stressed assets as special mention accounts (SMA)
depending upon the period of default.
S121. Ans.(d)
Sol. The Union Ministry of Rural Development has sanctioned Rs
706.47 crore for the construction of 43 roads and 15 bridges in
Arunachal Pradesh under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana
(PMGSY).

S122. Ans.(d)
Sol. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi,
has approved the regularization and extension of Govt. Guarantee provided to lender Bank for
providing credit limit to National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED)
Rs.19,000 crore from earlier Rs.9,500 crore for undertaking procurement operation of pulses and
oilseeds under Price Support Scheme (PSS) and to Small Farmers Agri-Business Consortium (SFAC)
for Rs. 45 crore for meeting their existing liability and settlement of extant claims. These Government
Guarantees are provided for a period of five years i.e. till 2021-22 by Govt. of India and with waiver
of 1% Government Guarantee fee.
S123. Ans.(d)
Sol. The Odisha government has launched a programme Ama Gaon, Ama Vikas (Our Village, our
development) to reach out to the people in rural areas and involve themselves in the developmental
activities.
S124. Ans.(a)
Sol. The Odisha government on Monday launched a scheme 'Khushi' to provide free sanitary pads to
17 lakh girl students across the state.
S125. Ans.(d)
Sol. According to the Reserve Bank of India it will conduct additional variable rate repo operations
for longer tenors up to 31 days every Tuesday in the month of March 2018 for Rs 25,000 crore each to
provide additional liquidity support to banks.
S126. Ans.(d)
India announced one of the world’s largest investment plans in solar energy at the Founding
Conference of the International Solar Alliance (ISA). The $1.4 billion line of credit will cover 27
projects in 15 countries and boost the much-required financial power to the solar sector.
S127. Ans.(b)
Sol. India and the Manila- based Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a $250 million loan to
finance the construction of 6,254 km of all-weather rural roads in Assam, Chhattisgarh, Madhya
Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal under the flagship Prime Minister’s Rural Roads Programme
(PMGSY)
S128. Ans.(e)
Sol. The Union government plans to launch ‘Operation Green’ with a corpus of Rs 500 crore. It will
promote Farmer Producers Organizations (FPOs), agri-logistics, processing facilities and professional
management.

S129. Ans.(d)
Sol. The government had launched Ujjwala Yojana earlier to make poor women free from the smoke
of wood. Though initially, their target was to provide free LPG connections to about 5 crore poor
women, the government has now proposed to increase the target to 8 crore poor women.
S130. Ans.(d)
Sol. The monthly salary of the President has been revised to Rs 5 lakh , vice president Rs 4 lakh and
governors Rs 3.5 lakh.
S131. Ans.(a)
Sol. India has pledged an additional USD 100 million towards the UN partnership fund, significantly
scaling up it support to sustainable development projects across the developing world.
S132. Ans.(b)
Sol. India has signed a second loan agreement for $100 million with the New Development Bank
(NDB) for efficient use of water in desert areas of Rajasthan.
S133. Ans.(b)
Sol. Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh presented its second budget. Ahead of 2019,
general elections, this is considered one of biggest budgetary allocation for the state. UP Finance
Minister Rajesh Aggarwal presented a mega budget of over Rs 4.28 lakh crore with a focus on
farmers, artisans, youth, infrastructure and urban development.
S134. Ans.(c)
Sol. International Finance Corporation (IFC), member of the World Bank Group, is set to enter into a
pact with PNB Housing Finance to form an $800-million platform to support construction of
environment-friendly affordable houses across the country.
S135. Ans.(a)
Sol. India has contributed USD one million for the rehabilitation efforts in Tonga after the Tropical
Cyclone Gita caused massive destruction in the Pacific island nation.
S136. Ans.(c)
Sol. State-owned NTPC has signed a term loan agreement for Rs3,000 crore with ICICI Bank for
partially funding its capital expenditure.
S137. Ans.(d)
Sol. Nepal has signed a $635 million UN assistance package for 2018-2022 to lay out the country’s
development strategy for the next five years.

S138. Ans.(d)
Sol. Indian banks are likely to require around $ 65 billion (close to
Rs 4,16,000 crore) of additional capital to meet new Basel III
capital standards that will be fully implemented by the financial
year ending March 2019 (FY19).
S139. Ans.(d)
Sol. The World Health Organization (WHO) has released its first
tranche of emergency funding of $175,000 to provide life-saving
healthcare to the "vulnerable population" in Bangladesh's Cox's
Bazar. WHO headquarters is in Geneva, Switzerland.
S140. Ans.(b)
Sol. The State Bank of India revised the minimum account balance for its savings accounts, as well as
the penalties for non-maintenance of minimum balance. The major change has been made with
respect to savings accounts in metro cities, where SBI account holders will now have to maintain a
monthly average balance (MAB) of Rs 3,000, instead of Rs 5,000.
S141. Ans.(d)
Sol. IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has invested $76 million (INR 5 billion) in 5-year
unrated masala bond issuances of Fullerton India Credit Company Limited.
S142. Ans.(c)
Sol. The Executive Committee of National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) has approved eight
projects worth Rs. 700 crore under Namami Gange Programme.
S143. Ans.(a)
Sol. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved Rs 2,000 crore specifically for setting up Aadhaar
centers in post offices, a move that will see private contractors phased out from the data collection
process.
S144. Ans.(a)
Sol. The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has bought an additional
7% stake in Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) for Rs900 crore from troubled
public-sector lender IDBI Bank Ltd
S145. Ans.(d)
Sol. The Indian Air Force (IAF) launched an innovative health mobile App named `MedWatch' on the
occasion of its 85th anniversary. It was launched by Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa during the Air
Force Commanders' Conference in New Delhi.

S146. Ans.(a)
Sol. ONGC has received the Information Memorandum from the Department of Investment and
Public Asset Management for acquiring majority stake in fellow public sector undertaking HPCL.
ONGC’s acquisition of 51.11 per cent stake in HPCL is in line with the government’s plan to create an
integrated energy major with businesses spread across the hydrocarbon value chain.
S147. Ans.(c)
Sol. The country’s largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) has slashed the benchmark lending rate by
0.05% across maturities.
S148. Ans.(b)
Sol. The Haryana government has signed initial pacts worth Rs. 2,069 crore with 44 agro-based and
food processing enterprises and establishments that will provide employment to 5,012 persons. The
MoUs were signed in the presence of State Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar at the Haryana
Session on the second day of the three-day World Food India organized in the national capital.
S149. Ans.(c)
Sol. The Income Tax Department has clarified that the cash sales of agricultural produce by a
cultivator to a trader for less than 2 lakh rupees will not attract tax under the Income Tax Act. A
circular issued by the Department stated the cultivator and the trader will also not have to provide
their Permanent Account Number.
S150. Ans.(b)
Sol. Inflation based on wholesale prices accelerated to 8-month high of 3.93 per cent in November
due to a sharp rise in onion prices and costlier seasonal vegetables
S151. Ans.(d)
Sol. The GST provision requiring transporters to carry an electronic waybill or e-way bill when
moving goods from one place to another, will be implemented by June 1, 2018.
S152. Ans.(b)
Sol. World Bank has committed $125 million (around Rs.800 crore) loan to India for the STRIVE
project for skill development.
S153. Ans.(e)
Sol. The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved setting up of
National Nutrition Mission (NNM) with a three year budget of Rs.9046.17 crore commencing from
2017-18. The program through the targets will strive to reduce the level of stunting, under-nutrition,
anemia and low birth weight babies.

S154. Ans.(c)
Sol. The West Bengal government has negotiated with the World Bank to avail subsidy to buy 130
electric buses for plying in Kolkata, AsanSol. and Durgapur. The World Bank has agreed to provide a
subsidy of Rs seven lakh per bus.
S155. Ans.(e)
Sol. The Government to Government Umbrella Agreement between India and Germany concerning
Financial Cooperation in 2016 (II) under the Indo-German Development Cooperation was signed to
formalize an amount up to Euro 200 million for the Financial Cooperation in form of loan for the
project ‘Climate Friendly Urban Mobility III’ and Euro 11 million Accompanying measures in form of
grant for four projects.
S156. Ans.(e)
Sol. Maharashtra’s mine workers who face an increased risk of tuberculosis will be part of awareness
programmes on the illness, as part of a partnership that the Maharashtra Government recently
formalized with Johnson & Johnson. Other interventions under the ambit of the agreement include
hospital acquired infections and maternal and infant mortality.
S157. Ans.(a)
Sol. Retail inflation crossed the RBI's comfort level and rose to 5.21 percent in December on rise in
prices of food items, egg and vegetables, dashing hopes of interest rate cut in the near future.
S158. Ans.(d)
Sol. The State Bank of India reduced the base rate and benchmark prime lending rates (BPLR) by 30
basis points each, which will benefit nearly 80 lakh customers on the old pricing regime.
S159. Ans.(d)
Sol. PMINDIA Multilingual Website now available in 13 languages.
S160. Ans.(a)
Sol. Customers will not have to pay any transaction charges for payments through debit card, BHIM
app and other payment made for up to Rs2,000.
S161. Ans.(c)
Sol. The latest census 2011 data shows that around 41 percent of
India's is below the age of 20 years.
S162. Ans.(c)
Sol. National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) is an ambitious
initiative to trigger a broadband revolution in rural areas. NOFN
was envisaged as an information super-highway through the
creation of a robust middle-mile infrastructure for reaching
broadband connectivity to Gram Panchayats.

S163. Ans.(b)
S164. Ans.(c)
Sol. India was placed at 40th spot among 137 countries in World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global
Competitiveness Index (GCI) 2017-18. India has slipped by one position compared to 39th spot in
2016 GCI.
S165. Ans.(a)
Sol. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday allocated Rs 55,000 crore for Mahatma Gandhi
National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) for the financial year 2018-19, signaling
the government’s continued intent to address concerns of rural distress in a politically significant
year.
S166. Ans.(c)
Sol. The PMGSY is managed by the National Rural Roads Development Agency (NRRDA), headed
by a Director-General.
S167. Ans.(c)
S168. Ans.(e)
Sol. AwaasSoft has been developed to monitor the implementation of Pradhan Mantri Gramin
Awaas Yojana
S169. Ans.(d)
Sol. Nai Manzil,Seekho aur Kamao,Nai Roshni are skill development schemes
S170. Ans.(a)
Sol. Government of India is planning to achieve 100% village electrification by May 2018.
S171. Ans.(b)
Sol. Sakshi Malik is the brand ambassador of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao campaign for the state of
Haryana
S172. Ans.(b)
Sol. "Survival of the fittest" is a phrase that originated from Darwinian evolutionary theory as a way
of describing the mechanism of natural selection. The biological concept of fitness is defined as
reproductive success. In Darwinian terms the phrase is best understood as "Survival of the form that
will leave the most copies of itself in successive generations."
S173. Ans.(b)
S174. Ans.(a)

S175. Ans.(b)
Sol. Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be
woven into textiles. The protein fiber of silk is composed mainly
of fibroin and is produced by certain insect larvae to form
cocoons. Silk is produced by several insects, like silk worms but
generally only the silk of moth caterpillars has been used for
textile manufacturing.
S176. Ans.(c)
Sol. Agricultural Census conducted last time in India in 2015-16.
S177. Ans.(b)
Sol. On 2nd October 2009 an amendment was made in the National Rural Employment Guarantee
Act 2005, to change the nomenclature of the Act from NREGA to MGNREGA. The Section 1 (1) was
amended by renaming the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act with the words the Mahatma
Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (The Gazette of India Extraordinary Notification
dated 2nd October 2009, No. 53).
S178. Ans.(b)
Sol. This gave birth to IAY in the fiscal year 1985–86. "Indira Awaas Yojana" (IAY) was launched by
Rajiv Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India in 1985 and was restructured as "Pradhan Mantri
Gramin Awaas Yojana" (PMGAY) in 2015.
S179. Ans.(a)
Sol. Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana is a scheme of the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas for
providing LPG connections to women from Below Poverty Line (BPL) households.
S180. Ans.(b)
S181. Ans.(c)
Sol. Himayat was launched in Jammu and Kashmir state for giving training and placement to one
lakh youth over a period of 5 years
S182. Ans.(b)
Sol. Ex-post facto approval to additional employment of 50 days over and above 100 days per
household under Mahatama Gandhi National Rural Employment Act (MGNREGA) in areas hit by
drought or natural calamities.
S183. Ans.(d)
Sol. State of Forests Report is published by the Forest Survey of India (FSI) on a biennial basis since
1987. State of Forests Report is published by the Forest Survey of India (FSI) on a biennial basis since
1987.

S184. Ans.(d)
Sol. Kudumbashree is the women empowerment and poverty eradication program, framed and
enforced by the State Poverty Eradication Mission of the Government of Kerala.
S185. Ans.(a)
S186. Ans.(a)
Sol. Government of India created the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) under
NABARD in 1995-96, with an initial corpus of Rs.2,000 crore.
S187. Ans.(a)
Sol. The World Fisheries day is celebrated every year on November 21 throughout world by
fisherfolk communities to highlight critical importance to human lives, of water and lives it sustains,
both in and out of water.
S188. Ans.(b)
Sol. Blue Revolution, the Neel Kranti Mission has the vision to achieve economic prosperity of the
country and the fishers and fish farmers as well as contribute towards food and nutritional security
through full potential utilization of water resources for fisheries development in a sustainable
manner, keeping in view the bio-security and environmental concerns.
S189. Ans.(b)
Sol. The Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute is an institute under the Indian Council of
Agricultural Research (ICAR) with the mandate for developing new techniques for the design of
agricultural experiments as well as to analyze data in agriculture. The institute is affiliated with and
is located in the campus of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, a deemed university, at Pusa in
New Delhi. The institute specializes in statistical techniques for animal and plant breeding.
S190. Ans.(a)
Sol. India Is the Second Largest Fruit Producer In The World. India's fruit trees had a bumper harvest
last year, leading the country to become the second largest fruit producer in the world, after China,
according to the Ministry of Horticulture, as reported by The Times of India.
S191. Ans.(c)
S192. Ans.(c)
S193. Ans.(e)
So. Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH) situated in) Medziphema (Nagaland).
S194. Ans.(b)
Sol. MGNREGA-"Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act"
S195. Ans.(c)
S196. Ans.(d)

S197. Ans.(e)
Sol. Jute is considered to be the golden fibre amongst all the crops
S198. Ans.(c)
Sol. International Day of the Girl Child is an international
observance day declared by the United Nations; it is also called
the Day of the Girl and the International Day of the Girl. October
11, 2012, was the first Day of the Girl.
S199. Ans.(d)
Sol. The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid
Tropics (ICRISAT) is an international organization which conducts agricultural research for rural
development, headquartered in Patancheru, Hyderabad, Telangana.
S200. Ans.(b)
Sol. Hornbills are unique birds. They get their name from the horn-like projection called a casque on
top of their beak. Hornbills are often called as the ‘farmers of the forest’ as they disperse the seeds of
many tropical trees and keep the forest alive. Unfortunately, most hornbill species are threatened by
habitat loss and hunting.

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