General Knowledge Questions

On 2 January 2018, who launched the ‘NARI’ portal in New Delhi to provide important information about Government schemes?

Charles Wilkinson's English version of Bhagavad Gita was first published in the year

The nation-wide campaign 'Operation Smile' is related to

Kind of cell that does not have a nucleus

In August 2017, New Development Bank (NDB) approved $ 1.4 billion loan for development projects in India, Russia, and China. Where is NDB headquarter?

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".

In the post-liberalisation era, urbanisation (has being taking) place at a rapid pace.

In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

Left to itself, then, attention _____________ obeys natural laws and follows the line of least resistance. _______________ far the larger portion of our attention is of this type. Thought often runs on hour after hour when we are neither conscious of effort _____________ struggle to compel us to cease thinking about this thing and begin thinking about _________. Indeed, it may be doubted ___________ this is not the case with some persons for days at a time, instead of hours. The things that present themselves to the mind are the things which occupy it; the character of the thought is determined by the character of our interests.

conscious of effort _____________ struggle to compel

As of 2018, who is the chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC)?