General Ability Test - 10

Shehri Samridhi Utsav, an initiative of Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA),aims to extend the outreach of Deendayal Antyodaya Mission – National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM), to the most vulnerable, showcase its initiatives and facilitate access of Self-Help Group (SHG) members to the other government schemes.This was launched across the country earlier this week.

Hence option A is the correct answer.

Senior IPS officer Dinkar Gupta took over as the new Director General of Punjab Police, succeeding Suresh Arora, who was on an extension after his retirement on September 30 last year.

Hence option A is the correct answer.

The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television has announced that it will be honouring filmmaker Deepa Mehta with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Hence option B is the correct answer.

Pasteurization is the application of heat to a food product in order to destroy pathogenic (disease-producing) microorganisms, to inactivate spoilage-causing enzymes, and to reduce or destroy spoilage microorganisms.

Hence option A is the correct answer.

Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the continuation of sub-schemes under Umbrella programme for the development of Scheduled Tribes from the period till March 2020.

Hence option A is the correct answer.

The white pigment in old painting turns black due to formation of PbS. This white pigment is restored by using hydrogen peroxide.

Hence option B is the correct answer.

US President Donald Trump has announced the nomination of Kelly Knight Craft as the new US ambassador to the UN. The post of the US ambassador to the UN was vacant due to the resignation of Nikki Haley.

Hence option B is the correct answer.

A knot is one nautical mile per hour (1 knot = 1.15 miles per hour ). The term knot dates from the 17th century, when sailors measured the speed of their ship by using a device called a "common log."

Hence option C is the correct answer.

Kelps are large seaweeds (algae) beloging to the brown algae in the order laminariales. Because of its high concentration of iodine, kelp has been used to treat goiter, an enlargement of the thyroid gland caused by a lack of iodine.

Hence option C is the correct answer.

Lysosomes are basically a class of waste disposal system of the cell that helps to maintain the cleanness of the cell by digesting any strange material as well as useless cell organelles.

Hence option D is the correct answer.