APRIL & May 2018 MONTHLY Current Affairs Capsule for AIIMS MBBS ENTRANCE EXAM Aim4AIIMS Monthly Quiz 1. Which high-powered committee has been formed by the Union government to examine CBSE s exam conduct process? [A] Nirmal Jain committee [B] VS Oberoi committee [C] Sundaram Das committee [D] Mithali Kumar committee 2. Who is the newly appointed President of National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM)? [A] Ravi Kumar [B] CS Krishna Setty [C] R Chandrashekhar [D] Debjani Ghosh 3. Which institute has been adjudged the overall best Indian university in National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF-2018)? [A] Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad [B] Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru [C] AIIMS, New Delhi [D] National Law School of India University, Bengaluru 4. SaikhomMirabaiChanu has clinched India s first gold at the 21st Commonwealth Games (CWG- 2018). She is related to which weightlifting category? [A] 48 kg [B] 56 kg [C] 42 kg [D] 45 kg 5. Who is the newly elected president of Badminton Association of India (BAI)? [A] Devender Singh [B] Ajay Singhania [C] HimantaBiswaSarma [D] AnbumaniRamadoss
6. Which country to host 2018 Boao Forum for Asia (BFA)? [A] Japan [B] South Korea [C] China [D] Denmark 7. Which airport has been adjudged as the India s cleanest airport, as per latest survey conducted by the Airports Authority of India (AAI)? [A] Indira Gandhi International Airport [B] Goa International Airport [C] Mangaluru International Airport [D] SardarVallabhbhai Patel International Airport 8. India s longest elevated road Hindon Elevated Road has come up in which state? [A] Karnataka [B] Madhya Pradesh [C] Rajasthan [D] Uttar Pradesh 9. Kollam Ajith, who passed away recently, was associated with which field? [A] Journalism [B] Film Industry [C] Politics [D] Law 10. Who bagged India s first medal at the 21st Commonwealth Games 2018? [A] MirabaiChanu [B] VirdhawalKhade [C] Srihari Nataraj [D] P Gururaja 11. The Government of India (GoI) has launched UTTAM App for coal quality monitoring. What does UTTAM stands for? [A] Unlocking Transparency by Third Party Assessment of Mined Coal [B] Underact Transparency by Third Party Assessment of Mined Coal [C] Underplay Transparency by Third Party Assessment of Mined Coal [D] Underboss Transparency by Third Party Assessment of Mined Coal 12. What is the theme of the 2018 World Health Day (WHD)? [A] Ageing and Health [B] Good health adds life to years [C] Universal health coverage: everyone, everywhere
[D] Move for health 13. Which state has become the first Indian state to adopt a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for determining brain death cases? [A] Assam [B] Jharkhand [C] Odisha [D] Kerala 14. FSSAI has launched which project to address Vitamin D deficiencies (VDD) amongst youngsters? [A] Project Sun [B] Project Sky [C] Project Dhoop [D] Project Sunlight 15. Who has been appointed as the new member of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)? [A] M Sathiyavathy [B] Manoj Bassi [C] BhimSain Joshi [D] Sujata Bhonsle 16. What is the India s GDP forecast for FY20, according to latest Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2018? [A] 7.3% [B] 7.6% [C] 7.5% [D] 7.4% 17. Which movie bagged the best film award at the 65th National Film Awards for 2017? [A] Newton [B] Village Rockstar [C] Nagarkirtan [D] Water Baby 18. Who has become the India s youngest-ever gold medallist at the Commonwealth Games (CWG)? [A] AnjumMoudgil [B] Neeraj Kumar [C] DivyaKakran [D] Anish Bhanwala 19. Which neighbouring country of India has decided to end reservation in Government jobs?
[A] Nepal [B] Bangladesh [C] Myanmar [D] Bhutan 20. Who has become the first-ever Indian woman table tennis player to win a singles gold at the Commonwealth Games? [A] ManikaBatra [B] Mouma Das [C] MadhurikaPatkar [D] Seresthi Das 21.What is the theme of the 2018 World Haemophilia Day (WHD)? [A] Listen Carefully Their Voices [B] Together We Care [C] Hear Their Voices [D] Sharing Knowledge Makes Us Stronger 22.What is the theme of the 2018 World Earth Day (WED)? [A] Save Your Earth from Plastic [B] Environmental and Climate Literacy [C] Beware from Plastic Pollution [D] End Plastic Pollution 23. The BasavaSagar Dam is located in which state? [A] Odisha [B] Karnataka [C] Assam [D] Punjab 24. What is the theme of the 2018 World Malaria Day (WMD)? [A] Ready to beat malaria [B] Sustain Gains, Save Lives: Invest in Malaria [C] Invest in the future: defeat malaria [D] Malaria: A disease without borders 25. Who has become the first woman lawyer to be directly promoted as a judge of the Supreme Court (SC)? [A] Ranjana Prakash Desai [B] Ruma Pal [C] Indu Malhotra [D] GyanSudhaMisra
26. Who has been appointed the new Cabinet Secretary of India? [A] Pradeep Kumar Sinha [B] Ajit Seth [C] HasmukhAdhia [D] K. M. Chandrasekhar 27. The Gokak falls is located in which state? [A] Andhra Pradesh [B] Karnataka [C] Mizoram [D] Uttar Pradesh 28. The Balphakram National Park is located in which state? [A] Meghalaya [B] Nagaland [C] Mizoram [D] Tripura 29. Which state won the 72nd Santosh Trophy (Football) at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata, West Bengal, on 1st April 2018? 1.West Bengal 2.Kerala 3.Manipur 4.Arunachal Pradesh 30.Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 2.Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru 3.Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad 4.Delhi University's Miranda House 31. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to use instead of Gross Value Added (GVA) to measure economic activity in India? 1.Gross Domestic Product (GDP) 2.Gross National Product (GNP) 3.Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) 4.Non-Performing Asset (NPA) 32. Name the project that was launched by Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), with an initiative to shift the school assembly time to noon to make sure maximum absorption of Vitamin D in students through natural sunlight?
1.Project Surya 2.Project D+ 3.Project Dhoop 4.Project Sunshine 33. Who is the 17-year-old swimmer from Pune who has set a world record to double cross the Bangla Channel? 1.Sampanna Ramesh Shelar 2.Anil Kumar Singh 3.Himanshu Sircar 4.Karthik Nagarajan 34. Who has been appointed CEO of SBI Life? 1.KR Nautiyal 2.Sanjeev Nautiyal 3.Sanjay Kaushik 4.Manpreet Singh