SAMVEG IAS’30Day Plan for UKPCS Prelims2016 test (Day16);UKcurrent affairs

SAMVEG IAS’30Day Plan for UKPCS Prelims2016 test (Day16);UKcurrent affairs

Question1: The 9th edition of exercise INDRA NAVY, an annual bilateral maritime exercise between Indian Navy and Russian Navy was held in-
(a) Arabian Sea
(b) Indian Ocean
(c) Bay of Bengal
(d) Gulf of Mannar

Question2: President of Israel was on State Visit to India on14-21 November 2016 . Who is the President of Israel?

(a) Ariel Sharon (b) Shimon Peres

(c) Reuven Rivlin (d) None of these

Question3: Where did the Prime Minister Narendra Modi formally launched “Housing for All” inrural areas under which the Government proposes to provide an environmentally safe and secure pucca house to every rural household by 2022?

(a) Agra

(b) Mathura

(c) Lucknow

(d) Varanasi

Question4: India has been ranked at which of the following position in recently published GlobalYouth Development Index (YDI) by the Commonwealth Secretariat?

(a) 106th

(b) 95th

(c) 133rd

(d) 125th

Question5: Recently Airtel has launched India’s first payments bank in which of the following state?

(a) Uttarakhand

(b) Rajasthan

(c) Delhi

(d) Haryana

Question6: Recently India has conducted its first successful flight test of the indigenously developed Rustom-II medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (MALE UAV) at which of the following place?

(a) Chandi (b) Sriharikota (c) Chitradurga (d) Vellari

Q7 correct statement is

a)      TAPAS 201, the MALE UAV has been designed and developed by Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE),

b)      TAPAS 201, a multi-mission UAV is being developed to carry out the Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) roles for the three Armed Forces with an endurance of 24 hours

Correct ans  :

a)1          b)2            c) 1,2              d)none

Q8: ‘SIMBEX-2016’, the Bilateral Naval Exercise between Navies of the Republic of Singapore and India held from 31 October to 05 November at which of the following place?

(a) Kochi (b) Bay of Bengal

(c) Mormugao (d) Chennai

Question9: Recently Prof. M G K Menon passed away, He was a-

(a) Economist (b) Physicist (c) Sociologist (d) None of these

Question:10  Who has been selected as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration?

(a)    Nikki Haley (b) Susana Martinez

(c) Michael Haley (d) None of these