General Awareness Questions | NICL AO 2017 | 04.05.2017

1. Union Government recently launched the Test and Treat policy for providing treatment to patients suffering from which disease?

a) Tuberculosis

b) Human Immunodeficiency Virus 

c) Pneumonia

d) Jaundice

e) None of these

2. India’s foreign exchange (Forex) reserves have increased by how much amount to reach $371.13 billion?

a) $1.35 billion

b) $2.25 billion

c) $1.75 billion

d) $1.25 billion

e) None of these

3. Which city recently conducted India’s first-ever transgender one-day athletic meet?

a) Kerala

b) Tamil Nadu

c) New Delhi

d) Mumbai

e) None of these

4. Kazakhstan recently opened its honorary consulate in which of the following cities?

a) Thiruvananthapuram 

b) Bengaluru

c) Chennai

d) Kolkata

e) None of these

5. Which of the following countries recently supported India’s bid for membership in the UN Security Council?

a) Germany

b) Poland

c) Italy

d) Japan

e) None of these

6. President Pranab Mukherjee conferred the 52nd Jnanpith Award to eminent poet Sankha Ghosh on 27 April 2017. He belongs to which state?

a) West Bengal

b) Odisha 

c) Assam

d) Tripura

e) None of these

7. The person was conferred by the CII President’s Award for Lifetime Achievement by the President Pranab Mukherjee. 

a) Rahul Bajaj

b) Sankha Ghosh

c) Ratan Tata

d) Anil Ambani

e) None of these

8. Uma Bharti has launched a new water conservation scheme for which region in India?

a) Gird

b) Bundelkhand

c) Malwa

d) Rohilkhand

e) None of these 

9. The Indian cultural centre located in which country recently organised a seminar to strengthen the bilateral relations between the two nations?

a) United Kingdom

b) Egypt

c) Australia

d) Canada

e) None of these

10. Which country has become the first country to open an honorary consulate office in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City)? 

a) Norway

b) Georgia

c) Belgium 

d) Spain

e) None of these

ANSWER

1. ((b) Human Immunodeficiency Virus

2. (d) $1.25 billion

3. (a) Kerala

4. (c) Chennai

5. (b) Poland

6. (a) West Bengal

7. (a) Rahul Bajaj

8. (d) Rohilkhand

9. (b) Egypt

10. (c) Belgium