• Pakistan Navy successfully test-fired an indigenous cruise missile in the Arabian Sea.
• It has anti-ship missile and land attack capability.
• According to Pakistani Navy, the missile accurately hit its target on land signifying the impressive capabilities of the indigenous missile system. 

• The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the sanction waivers that it had granted to some countries still buying oil from Iran will terminate on May 2, 2019.
• With this announcement, five countries namely, India, China, Japan, South Korea and Turkey will no longer be exempted from the US sanctions.
• The United States clarified that the Chabahar Port Project would not be impacted by sanctions on Iran. The Chabahar Port Project is being developed by India in Iran. 

• National Panchayati Raj Day is celebrated every year on 24 April in India. On this day Constitution came into force with effect from 24 April, 1993.
• In 2010 the 1st National Panchayati Raj Day was celebrated. A new part in the Constitution Part IX was added by passing 73rd Amendment Act from Article 243 to 243 (O) titled “The Panchayats” and a new Eleventh Schedule consisting of 29 subjects within the functions of Panchayats were also added.

• Markets regulator SEBI has reduced the minimum subscription requirement as well as defined trading lots for Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs).
• REITs have to offer their units in lots worth at least Rs. 50,000 in initial and follow on public offers.
• The minimum value of a single lot should be Rs. 1 lakh in the case of InvITs.

• The  Government of India has increased the authorized capital of state-owned Allahabad Bank from Rs. 3,000 crore to Rs. 8,000 crore after consultation with the Reserve Bank of India.
• This move by the central government has enabled Allahabad bank to raise further fund up to a maximum ceiling of Rs. 8,000 crore.

• Winners in the 6th annual Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the awards programme to recognize innovation in business throughout the entire Asia-Pacific region.
• Among the winners of the 2019 Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards are 18 organisations in India. In total, they’ll receive 43 Stevie Awards: 10 Gold Stevies, 19 Silver and 14 Bronze. This high number of Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevies is evidence of the great performance of organisations in India.
• Among the top overall winners are PT Petrokimia Gresik (Indonesia) with eight Gold, nine Silver and 15 Bronze Stevie Awards and SM Supermalls (Philippines) with three Gold, 25 Silver and 20 Bronze Stevie wins.

• Michelin-star chef Vikas Khanna has been named brand ambassador of a leading cultural organisation which will organise the annual New York Indian Film Festival next month that showcases the celebrity chef’s film ‘The Last Color’ and Nawazuddin Siddiqui-starrer ‘Photograph’.
• The IAAC will present the New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF), North America’s longest-running and most prestigious Indian film festival from May 7 to 12. Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan has accepted to join the IAAC board. 

 SriLanka’s 1st Satellite ‘Raavana-1’ Launched Into Space

1. Losoong festival is celebrated in which of the following states?
A) Tripua
B) Arunachal Pradesh
C) Sikkim
D) Kerala

2. Which is the India’s first digital state?
A) Goa
B) Tamil Nadu
C) Kerala
D) Karnataka
 
3. “And Then One Day: A Memoir” is an autobiography of
C) Kapil Dev
B) Anupam Kher
C) Naseeruddin Shah
D) Lal krishna Advani

4. Who invented vaccination for smallpox?
A) Sir Frederick Grant Banting
B) Sir Alexander Fleming
C) Edward Jenner
D) Loius Pasteur

5. Which is the first organic state in India?
C) Uttarakhand
B) Sikkim
C) Manipur
D) Assam

6. All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi was established in which year?
a) 1952
b) 1956
c) 1962
d) 1966

7. Which of the following Organisations gives the Kalinga Prize for popularising science?
A) UNESCO
B) CSIR
C) UGC
D) UNEP

8. Nobel Prizes are not given for which of the following fields?
A) Physics
B) Chemistry
C) Peace
D) Music

9. Booker Prize is given in the field of
A) Medicine
B) Adventure
C) Fiction writing
D) Science

10. On which river has “Naranarayan Setu” been built?
A) Ganga
B) Brahmaputra
C) Mahanadi
D) Godavari

Answers:
1:C, 2:C, 3:C, 4:C, 5:B, 6:B, 7:A, 8:D, 9:C, 10:B.

• Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar inaugurated the World Herbal Forest Project, a collaboration of Patanjali and Haryana Government, at Morni Hill, near Chandigarh.
• The project covers over 52,000 acres of land in Morni Hills and is aimed at developing a forest of medicinal plants which will provide a huge boost to the Ayurvedic industry across the country.
• About 25 different varieties of plants found in the country will be housed in this forest. 50,000 plants each of 20 medicinal varieties are being sown in the first phase of the project.

• The NITI Aayog has released a first-of-its-kind Sustainable Development Goals index released on 21st December 2018. According to the SDG Index, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu have been ranked on top 3 positions and are on track to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
• The SDG Index aims to promote healthy competition among States by evaluating their progress in social, economic and environmental terms that will help India in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by 2030. Based on the performance of the States and UTs across 13 of the 17 identified SDGs, a score ranging between 0 and 100 has been assigned to each of them in the index.
• Kerala and Himachal Pradesh have been called as the front-runners in the Index with a score of 69. Chandigarh has been declared as the front runner in the Index with a score of 68 among the UTS. The state of Tamil Nadu (score 66) is at the top to meet the goals of eradicating poverty and providing clean and affordable energy. Assam, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh are at the bottom of the rankings in the NITI Aayog’s Sustainable Development Goals Index .
• Goa, Kerala, Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland were the front runners on the Zero hunger sub-index.

1. Name the Chief Minister who has been awarded the Skoch Chief Minister of the Year Award for the year 2017? :- Mamata Banerjee

2. Name the Chief Minister who has been awarded by the Skoch Group with “SKOCH Sprinter of the Year” Award? :- N Chandrababu Naidu

3. Which Union Territory was ranked as the ‘Top Performer’ in the SDG India Index 2018? :- Chandigarh

4. Which Department released the States’ Start-up Ranking 2018? :- Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion

5. The first-ever meeting of India-China High-Level Mechanism on Cultural and People-to-People Exchanges was held in which city? :- New Delhi

6. Which state’s government approved the release of Chah Bahgicha Dhan Puraskar Mela? :- Assam

7. Who has been appointed as the new coach of the Indian women’s cricket team? :- W V Raman

8. Who has been appointed as the Ambassador of India to the USA? :- Harsh Vardhan Shringla

9. Which nation has fined Uber 400000 euros over huge data breach? :- France

10. Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha launched an official mobile application for Global Aviation Summit 2019. The Global Aviation Summit (GAS) 2019 will be held in which city of India? :- Mumbai

8. The first 'Little India Gate' was inaugurated in __________.
A.London, United Kingdom
B.Wuhan, China
C.California, United States
D.Medan, Indonesia
   
Answer:  D
(The first-of-its-kind 'Little India Gate' was inaugurated at Kampung Madras or Madras Village area in Medan city, Indonesia. It was jointly inaugurated by India's ambassador to Indonesia and Timor Leste Pradeep Kumar Rawat and Mayor of Medan H T Dzulmi Eldin S. It was developed to recognize the contribution of Indian community in the development of Medan city, the 4th largest city of the country. It will be promoted as an iconic tourist spot in Medan city as it is the first such structure in entire Indonesia. It represents Bhinneka Tunggal Ika' or Unity in Diversity of Indonesia and of the Indian belief in 'Vasudev Kutubakam', meaning the world is one family.)