1. Name the Malayalam film which won a prestigious Crystal Bear award at the Berlin film festival 2016. - Ottaal (The Trap)
2. Who has been appointed as the Online fashion store Jabong’s Chief Operating Officer recently? - Muralikrishnan B
3. Which country is the third largest base of technology start-ups in the world? - India
4. Name the company that has called off a Rs.5400-crore deal to buy Jaypee Group’s 2.1 mtpa cement plant in Madhya Pradesh as new MMDR Act 2015 barred transfer of mines not allocated through auctions. - UltraTech
5. Who won the Best Actor award in the 88th Oscars? - Leonardo DiCaprio
6. What is the name of the party which was announced by V. Ponraj, who was scientific adviser to Kalam? - ‘Abdul Kalam Vision India Party’
7. Which movie won the Best Pictures award at the Oscars 2016? - Spotlight
8. Japan has signed an agreement to supply defence equipment and technology to which country? - Philippines
9. Name the Tamil Actor-comedian who passed away recently at the age of 77. - Kumarimuthu
10. Name the Veteran singer who honoured with Global Green Hero award at the 13th Annual Global Green USA pre-Oscar party. - Stevie Wonder
11. Which company launched the pilot of its new service in Bengaluru that will enable customers to get motorbike rides in minutes with just a push of a button? - Uber
12. Name the Leading e-commerce company which launched its own advertisement platform, Brand Story Ads, with over 50 leading brands on board. - Flipkart
13. What is the current rank of India in the latest global football rankings released by FIFA? - 160th
14. The Delhi Police and Tihar Jail authorities worked in close coordination to ensure a secret release of which JNUSU president and sedition accused from the prison after he was granted a six-month interim bail by High Court? - Kanhaiya Kumar
15. A 75-seater solar-powered passenger ferry, the first of its kind in the country is located in? - Aroor in Alappuzha district, Kerala
16. Name the veteran cricketer of New Zealand who died of cancer. - Martin Crowe
17. The Finance Ministry has approved the issuance of which schemes bonds by four states, according to Minister of Power PiyushGoyal? - Ujjwal Discom Assurance Yojana (UDAY)
18. Name the Veteran All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) leader and senior-most leader of the Left Front in West Bengal who died at the age of 94.- Ashok Ghosh
19. The largest Multinational Field Training Exercise (FTX) recently conducted in? - Pune
20. The government confirmed that Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar would participate in the March 15-17 meeting of Foreign Ministers of South Asia in which country? - Kathmandu, Nepal
21. What is the name of the project which aimed to make all national highways free from railway level crossing by 2019 to ensure road safety? - ‘SetuBharatam’ project
22. Name the Former LokSabha Speaker who died of heart attack at the age of 68. - Purno Agitok Sangma
23. Name the country that will hike its defence budget by seven to eight per cent this year from about USD 145 billion in 2015 amidst its worst GDP growth in 26 years. - China
24. Rafael of Israel with which company signed a JV with which company to build weapon systems in India? - Kalyani Rafael Advanced Systems
25. The Reserve Bank of India has issued draft norms for the creation of a new entity in the non-banking financial sector which is named as? - NBFC – Account Aggregator (AA)
26. Name the, founder director of the National Film Archive of India (NFAI), Pune who died at the age of 86. - P.K. Nair
27. Who is the Veteran actor who will be conferred the DadasahebPhalke award for his contribution to the film industry? - Manoj Kumar
28. Name the Indian boxer who notched up his fourth successive knockout professional win by pummelling Hungary’s Alexander Horvath in less than three rounds recently. - Vijender Singh
29. Who is the astronaut of NASA who announced his retirement after spending nearly a year in space? - Scott Kelly
30. What is the name of the India’s sixth dedicated navigation satellite which ISRO successfully put into orbit recently? - The IRNSS-1F
31. Name the Deputy Leader of the Congress in the RajyaSabha who has been elected unopposed to the Upper House from Himachal Pradesh, his home State recently. - Anand Sharma
32. Country’s largest private sector lender ICICI Bank tied up with which marquee sports car maker to launch co-branded credit card? - Ferrari
33. Which airlines flew with the “world’s longest” all-women-operated flight from Delhi to San Francisco recently? - Air India
34. Which App-based cab aggregator has partnered with the Mumbai traffic police to curb drunk driving by installing ‘Its breathalysers’ at bars and pubs in the city? - Uber
35. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will now share FDI-related information with which organizations to check black money from entering the country? - Intelligence Bureau (IB) and Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)
36. Which building became the first heritage building in India to be awarded a platinum rating by the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC)? - Bombay House, the Tata group’s headquarters
37. Maharashtra with which state signed an agreement to constitute an inter-state board for joint irrigation projects which will likely to speed up work on three key irrigation projects, which were under dispute between two States? - Telangana
38. Name the Foreign Secretary of India who met with U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice and discussed bilateral ties and cooperation against terror groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed. - S. Jaishankar
39. Indian Railways has appointed which global consultancy firm to help the utility mop up advertising revenues worth over Rs.5,000 crore in the next few years? - Ernst &Young (EY)
40. Which Private lender launched an all-women operated bank branch under the name ‘Grace’ on Cunningham Road which aimed at offering customised banking solutions to women? - Yes Bank
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