*Who is the current secretary general of UNITED NATIONS (UN)?   
Answer: Antonio Guterres

1.Who is the present Union Railway minister?
    Answer: Suresh Prabhu 

2. The venue for 2016 SAARC summit (19th)  ?
    Answer: Islamabad (Pakistan)

3. Venue for 2016 Olympics ?
     Answer: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

4. UN Observes 2016 as ________?
     Answer: International Year of Pulses


5 . Who was recently appointed as Chairman of Competition Commission of India?
Answer: Devender Kumar Sikri

6. What is the full form for ASBA that was recently in news ?
Answer: Application Supported by Blocked Amount (Introduced by SEBI for applying to IPO - initial public offers ) 

7. Who will be the chief guest at 2016 Republic day parade?
Answer: French President Francois Hollande 

8.Who is the First Lady chief minister in jammu and kashmir?
Answer: Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed

9. First railway university will be in which state?
Answer: Gujarath( Vadodra )


10. Who is the Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog ( National Institution for Transforming India)?
Answer : Arvind Panagariya 

11. which is the 29th state of india?
Answer: Telangana

12. Which state moving it's capital to "Amaravati" ?
Answer: Andhra pradesh

13. Which is the First Digital state in India?
Answer: Kerala

14 First Digital district in India?
Answer: Idukki(Kerala)

15. Who Won  2016 oscar - best actor award ?
 Answer: Leonardo DiCaprio

16. Who Won  2016 oscar - best actress award ?
 Answer: brie Larson

17. Who Won  2016 oscar - best film  ? 
Answer: Spotlight  

18. Who is the winner of abel prize 2016?
answer: Andrew Wiles( Brittan )

19. which is the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 Venue ?
Answer: India

20. The eighth BRICS Summit(2016) will be held in which country?
Answer: India(Goa) 


21. India's first Semi high speed train?
Answer: Gatimaan running between Delhi and agra


22. Newly elected assam chief minister?
Answer: Sarbanada Sonowal(BJP) 

23. Newly elected kerala chief minister?
Answer: pinarayi vijayan 

24. Newly elected Tamilnadu chief minister?
Answer: Jayalalitha 

25. which state is linked with jat protest?
Answer: Hariyana 

*26. 2016  jnanpith award winner?
Answer: Shankha Ghosh (Bengali poet)

*27. who won  2016 miss world ?
Answer:  Stephanie Del Valle(Puerto Rico)

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