General Awareness Questions

Indian Air Force (IAF) for first time will participate in multinational air exercise Pitch Black – 18 (PB18) in Australia hosted Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). It will be three week multi-national large force employment exercise (27 July to 17 August 2018) conducted from RAAF Base Darwin and RAAF Base Tindal.

Veteran journalist and editor of Srinagar based ‘Rising Kashmir’ newspaper was shot dead by unidentified gunmen outside his office in the Press Enclave area of Srinagar in
Jammu & Kashmir. Bukhari was instrumental in organising several conferences for peace in the Kashmir Valley.

Buddhism was introduced into Sri Lanka in the third century BCE after the Third Buddhist council by Mahinda Bhikkhu, son of Emperor Ashoka.

As per guidelines of the RBI, payments banks can accept demand deposits – savings and current – up to a maximum of ?1 lakh per customer. To overcome this restriction of holding a maximum balance of ?1 lakh per customer, payments banks have entered into tie-ups with mainline banks so that balances over ?1 lakh can be converted into fixed deposits with the latter.