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Q1: Which of the following Indian-Americans has been honoured with the 2016 Great Immigrants: The Pride of America award?

Ans: Bharati Mukherjee, Vikram Malhotra and Sundar Pichai

Q2: Who has been appointed as the new Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India in December 2016? 

Ans: Viral V Acharya

Q3: Which Indian personality has won the Woman of the Year award at the 2016 International Indian Film Academy Awards?

Ans: Priyanka Chopra

Q4: Which state of India launched "Sakhi-One Stop Centre" to help women in distress in September 2016?

Ans: Haryana

Q5: India became the full member of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) in June 2016. How many countries are member of MTCR?

Ans: 35

Q6: In December 2016, ISRO has successfully launched a remote sensing satellite  'Resourcesat-2A from

Ans: PSLV C-36

Q7: Which of the following countries hosted the 2017 Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit?

Ans: Kazakhstan

Q8: Which one of the following cities hosted the 20th Edition of the National Conference for e-governance 2016-17, held in January 2017?

Ans: Visakhapatnam

Q9: Which historical site has been declared as the SAARC cultural capital for 2016-17?

Ans: Mahashangarh  

Q10: The Indian Army has successfully conducted 'user validation' trials of indigenous Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System (ATAGS) 'Dhanush' in January 2017. This Artillery gun is developed by

Ans: DRDO

Q11: In January 2017, Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu Launched new passenger mobile application to promote ease of ticketing through digital transactions. Identify the app.

Ans: IRCTC Rail Connect app.

Q12: The National Youth Day is observed every year on 12th January to mark the birth anniversary of_______.

Ans: Swami Vivekananda

Q13: Which web portal was launched by the Union Minister for Human Resource Development for District Institutes of Education and Training (DIET)?

Ans: Prashi kshak

Q14: The first squadron of home-grown Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas was inducted into Indian Air Force at the Aircraft System Testing Establishment in _____.

Ans: Bengaluru

Q15: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar inaugurated India's first Integrated Defence Communication Network. The network was developed by

Ans: HCL