Answer-(A) PhilippinesExplanation:
Narendra Modi unveiled a plaque to mark the inauguration of the ‘Shri Narendra Modi Resilient Rice Field Laboratory’. He also undertook a symbolic ground breaking for a new plot for submergence tolerant rice varieties and presented two Indian rice seed varieties to the IRRI (International Rice Research Institute) gene bank.
2) Urdu was declared second official language in _________.
(A) Telangana
(B) Andhra Pradesh
(C) Gujarat
(D) Uttar Pradesh
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Answer-(A) TelanganaExplanation:
Article 345 of the Constitution deals with Official language or languages of a state which empowers state legislature to adopt ‘any one or more of the languages in use in the State or Hindi as the language or languages to be used for all or any of the official purposes’ of the concerned State.
3) _______ tops the List of Country’s Most Polluted City.
(A) New Delhi
(B) Allahabad
(C) Varanasi
(D) Vadodara
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Answer-(C) VaranasiExplanation:
The Air Quality Index (AQI) of Varanasi was at 491, just nine short of where the AQI scale ends at 500. This indicates a public health emergency.
This air quality could affect even healthy people and seriously impact people with existing diseases. The concentration of PM2.5, the prominent pollutant, was more than eight times the safe limit of 60 micrograms per cubic metre of air.
4) India will be hosting its first Military Literature Festival in __________.
(A) Goa
(B) Chandigarh
(C) Patna
(D) Kolkata
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Answer-(B) Chandigarh
5) Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting was held on 10th and 11th November, 2017 in________.
(A) Vietnam
(B) Philippines
(C) Singapore
(D) Malaysia
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Answer-(A) VietnamExplanation:
Theme of this meeting was ‘Creating New Dynamism, Fostering a Shared Future’.
Leaders of 21 Pacific Rim countries attended this meeting.
Next year’s APEC summit will be held in Papua New Guinea.
6) Which nation’s first Hindu Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha has resigned after facing financial irregularities and money laundering allegations?
(A) Pakistan
(B) Bangladesh
(C) Myanmar
(D) Iran
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Answer-(B) BangladeshExplanation:
Surendra Kumar Sinha led the Supreme Court to a landmark verdict which scrapped Parliament’s power to remove judges on grounds of misconduct and incapacity, in August 2017. This went against the government.
He left Bangladesh in October 2017, in the middle of rumours that, he had been pressured to step aside. Immediately after he left Bangladesh, he was accused of serious crimes including money laundering and financial irregularities.
His term was scheduled to expire in January 2018. He is the first top judge of Bangladesh to step down.
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