Current Affairs Quiz For SBI-PO Main
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1 India recently launched the process to export “Ujala” (light) to which country with affordable Made in India LED bulbs?
1) UK
2) Japan
3) Mongolia
4) Indonesia
5) Malaysia
Answer:- 1) UK
Ques. : 2 Anil Madhav Dave passed away recently. In present Union Cabinet, he was Minister of State for
1) Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
2) Labour and Employment
3) Environment, Forest and Climate Change
4) Health and Family Welfare
5) Overseas Indian Affairs
Answer:- 3) Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Ques. : 3 India's first Aquatic Rainbow Technology Park, an ultra modern exclusive facility for ornamental fish, is soon to come up in
1) Kochi
2) Kolkata
3) Bengaluru
4) Hyderabad
5) Chennai
Answer:- 5) Chennai
Ques. : 4 Who among the following is the Minister of State for Labour and Employment (Independent Charge) in the present Union Cabinet?
1) Mahesh Sharma
2) Bandaru Dattatreya
3) Nirmala Sitharaman
4) Jitendra Singh
5) Prakash Javadekar
Answer:- 2) Bandaru Dattatreya
Ques. : 5 The Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Venkaiah Naidu recently announced a round-the-clock Doordarshan channel for which state?
1) Gujarat
2) Jammu and Kashmir
3) Himachal Pradesh
4) Jharkhand
5) Arunachal Pradesh
Answer:- 4) Jharkhand
Ques. : 6 The two-day meeting of the goods and services tax (GST) Council to finalize tax rates was held recently in
1) Lucknow
2) Sri Nagar
3) Kolkata
4) Ranchi
5) Patna
Answer:- 2) Sri Nagar
Ques. : 7 The union cabinet recently approved construction of how many units of indigenous Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWR) of 700 MW each?
1) Two
2) Four
3) Six
4) Eight
5) Ten
Answer:- 5) Ten
Ques. : 8 The Union cabinet has approved signing of an agreement with Tajikistan aimed at preventing customs offences. The capital city of Tajikistan is
1) Tashkent
2) Astana
3) Ashgabat
4) Dushanbe
5) Bishkek
Answer:- 4) Dushanbe
Ques. : 9 The CCEA has cleared the new coal linkage policy to ensure adequate supply of the fuel to power plants. Here, the term CCEA stands for
1) Cabinet Committee on External Affairs 2) Cabinet Committee on Establishment Affairs
3) Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs 4) Core Committee on External Affairs
5) None of these
Answer:- 3) Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
Ques. : 10 Who among the following has topped the Forbes list of Global Game Changers list in 2017?
1) Mukesh Ambani
2) Ziv Aviram
3) Stewart Butterfield
4) Ratan Tata
5) Scott Farquhar
Answer:- 1) Mukesh Ambani
Ques. : 11 . The first-of-its-kind women safety application called “Ammavin Aran” – meaning “mother’s fortress” – was launched in which of the following states recently?
1) Karnataka
2) West Bengal
3) Kerala
4) Tamil Nadu
5) Maharashtra
Answer:- 4) Tamil Nadu
Ques. : 12 Which of the following is NOT correct with respect to newly appointed Executive Directors in the public sector banks?
1) N Damodharan – Bank of Baroda
2) K Swaminathan – Indian Overseas Bank
3) Atanu Kumar Das – Bank of India
4) P Ramana Murthy – Central Bank of India
5) None of these
Answer:- 5) None of these
Ques. : 13 The Commonwealth Day is the annual celebration of the Commonwealth of Nations held on
1) first Mon in Mar
2) second Mon in Mar
3) third Mon in Mar
4) fourth Mon in Mar
5) first Mon of Apr
Answer:- 2) second Mon in Mar
Ques. :14 Who among the following resigned as the ICC Chairman recently?
1) Shashank Manohar
2) Ajay Shirke
3) N Srinivasan
4) Anurag Thakur
5) RM Lodha
Answer:- 1) Shashank Manohar
Ques. : 15 Globally, which city occupies first place for overall quality of living for the 8th year running this year?
1) Frankfurt
2) Dusseldorf
3) Munich
4) Zurich
5) Vienna
Answer:- 5) Vienna
Ques. :1 6 The World Consumer Rights Day is observed every year on
1) 01 Mar
2) 05 Mar
3) 15 Mar
4) 25 Mar
5) 31 Mar
Answer:- 3) 15 Mar
Ques. : 17 The Union Agriculture and Farmer’s Welfare Minister Radha Mohan Singh recently laid the foundation stone of the Banana Research Centre at
1) Lucknow, UP
2) Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
3) Ahmedabad, Gujarat
4) Vaishali, Bihar
5) Manesar, Haryana
Answer:- 4) Vaishali, Bihar
Ques. : 18 The World Bank has agreed to provide loan to develop internal transmission arrangements of the upcoming Rewa Ultra Mega Solar project in
1) Rajasthan
2) Andhra Pradesh
3) Madhya Pradesh
4) Gujarat
5) Karnataka
Answer:- 3) Madhya Pradesh
Ques. : 19 Which bank has been awarded first prize in the implementation of Official Language Policy in the western region for the year 2015-2016?
1) Bank of India
2) Syndicate Bank
3) Indian Bank
4) Corporation Bank
5) Central Bank of India
Answer:- 5) Central Bank of India
Ques. : 20 __________ has entered into an agreement with Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Ltd (IL&FS) to acquire 100 per cent stake in IL&FS Securities Services Ltd (ISSL).
1) IndusInd Bank
2) Federal Bank
3) IDBI Bank
4) IDFC Bank
5) YES Bank
Answer:- 1) IndusInd Bank
Ques. : 21 Name the assured benefit plan launched by the LIC of India that offers cover up to the age of 100.
1) Jeevan Umang
2) Jeevan Taraang
3) Jeevan Tarun
4) Jeevan Sathi
5) Jeevan Akshay
Answer:- 1) Jeevan Umang
Ques. : 22 The tennis player Junn Mitsuhashi has been banned for life following an investigation into match-fixing. He belongs to
1) Thailand
2) South Korea
3) Philippines
4) Vietnam
5) Japan
Answer:- 5) Japan
Ques. : 23 Which state govt recently passed a Bill to appoint Olympics silver medal winning shuttler PV Sindhu as a Group-1 officer in the govt, by amending the state public services Act?
1) Telangana
2) Tamil Nadu
3) Andhra Pradesh
4) Kerala
5) Karnataka
Answer:- 3) Andhra Pradesh
Ques. : 24 _________ made the world record for the most Everest summits by a woman after scaling the world's tallest peak for the eighth time.
1) Melissa Arnot
2) Lhakpa Sherpa
3) Santosh Yadav
4) Arunima Sinha
5) Premlata Agarwal
Answer:- 2) Lhakpa Sherpa
Ques. : 25 India’s Deepti Sharma and Poonam Raut became the first-ever pair to share a 300-run stand in an ODI as the duo shared a 320-run stand in South Africa recently against
1) England
2) South Africa
3) Australia
4) Ireland
5) West Indies
Answer:- 4) Ireland
Ques. : 26 Which space agency recently launched a communications satellite for Inmarsat, marking its first launch for the London-based mobile broadband company?
1) SpaceX
2) NASA
3) ISRO
4) JAXA
5) European Space Agency
Answer:- 1) SpaceX
Ques. :27 NASA and ISRO have come together to inspect the excavation of the ‘oldest civilisation’ site being carried out in Fatehabad district of
1) Punjab
2) Rajasthan
3) Haryana
4) Madhya Pradesh
5) Gujarat
Answer:- 3) Haryana
Ques. :28 The Indian Navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba recently attended the International Maritime Review (IMR) of which country held at the Changi Naval Base?
1) Switzerland
2) Malaysia
3) Indonesia
4) Philippines
5) Singapore
Answer:- 5) Singapore
Ques. : 29 Ovais Sarmad of India has been appointed Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The Secretariat of UNFCCC is located in
1) Paris
2) Bonn
3) London
4) Geneva
5) Washington DC
Answer:- 2) Bonn
Ques. : 30 According to a report by UK accountancy firm EY, India has overtaken the US to become the second-most attractive country for renewable energy investment trailing only
1) Switzerland
2) Singapore
3) Malaysia
4) China
5) Japan
Answer:- 4) China
Ques. : 31 The navies of India and which of the following countries conducted the bilateral naval exercise 'SIMBEX' recently?
1) Malaysia
2) Sri Lanka
3) Indonesia
4) Singapore
5) Philippines
Answer:- 4) Singapore
Ques. : 32 Who among the following won the men’s singles title of the 2017 Madrid Open?
1) Pablo Cuevas
2) Rafael Nadal
3) Novak Djokovic
4) Dominic Thiem
5) Andy Murray
Answer:- 2) Rafael Nadal
Ques. : 33 Ritu Phogat, who won a bronze medal at the Asian Championship recently, is associated with
1) Weightlifting
2) Boxing
3) Wrestling
4) Shot Put
5) Javelin Throw
Answer:- 3) Wrestling
Ques. :34 Emmanuel Macron was sworn-in as the youngest ever President of which of the following countries recently?
1) Spain
2) Sweden
3) Norway
4) Denmark
5) France
Answer:- 5) France
Ques. : 35 The term “OBOR” has been doing round in the print and electronic media in recent days. The expanded form of OBOR is
1) One Belt, One Road
2) One Border, One Road
3) One Business, One Road
4) One Border, One Region
5) None of these
Answer:- 1) One Belt, One Road
Ques. :36 Which of the following neighbouring countries of India conducted its first local-level polls in two decades recently?
1) Bangladesh
2) Myanmar
3) Sri Lanka
4) Maldives
5) Nepal
Answer:- 5) Nepal
Ques. : 37 A computer malware (ransomware worm) spread across the world and stopped car factories, hospitals, shops and schools recently. The malware is dubbed
1) Sasser
2) Melissa
3) WannaCry
4) Code Red
5) ILOVEYOU
Answer:- 3) WannaCry
Ques. :38 The Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) reported a net loss of Rs 1,218 cr in the quarter ended Mar 31, 2017. The bank is headquartered at
1) Gurugram
2) New Delhi
3) Kolkata
4) Chennai
5) Bengaluru
Answer:- 1) Gurugram
Ques. : 39 India's longest river bridge (9.15-km-long Dhola-Sadiya bridge) will be inaugurated in which state on May 26 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi?
1) Arunachal Pradesh
2) Assam
3) Jammu and Kashmir
4) Kerala
5) Sikkim
Answer:- 2) Assam
Ques. : 40 The World Migratory Bird Day is observed every year on
1) 02 May
2) 03 May
3) 08 May
4) 10 May
5) 15 May
Answer:- 4) 10 May
Ques. :41 Which state has been ranked at the bottom most position in public affairs index (PAI) in governance in States this year prepared by think-tank Public Affairs Centre (PAC), Bengaluru?
1) Assam
2) Odisha
3) Jharkhand
4) Bihar
5) Madhya Pradesh
Answer:- 4) Bihar
Ques. : 42 Industry body FICCI's latest Economic Outlook Survey has pegged India's gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the fiscal year 2017-18 at about
1) 6.9 per cent
2) 7.1 per cent
3) 7.4 per cent
4) 7.6 per cent
5) 7.9 per cent
Answer:- 3) 7.4 per cent
Ques. : 43 Professor Vikram Vishal has won the prestigious Indian National Science Academy (INSA) medal for Young Scientist (2017). He works at
1) IIT Bombay
2) IIT Delhi
3) IIT Kanpur
4) IIT Madras
5) IIT Kharagpur
Answer:- 1) IIT Bombay
Ques. : 44 Pawan Kumar Chamling was recently conferred with the first Bhairon Singh Shekhawat Lifetime Achievement Honour in Public Service by President Pranab Mukherjee. Chamling is the present CM of
1) Manipur
2) Meghalaya
3) Mizoram
4) Tripura
5) Sikkim
Answer:- 5) Sikkim
Ques. :45 The expanded preferential trade agreement (PTA) between India and Chile came into effect recently. The capital city of Chile is
1) Manama
2) Santiago
3) Bogota
4) Montevideo
5) Buenos Aires
Answer:- 2) Santiago
Ques. : 46 A ‘Maa’ committee will check mid-day meal quality in schools in which of the following states as decided by the state govt?
1) Madhya Pradesh
2) Uttar Pradesh
3) Rajasthan
4) Gujarat
5) Maharashtra
Answer:- 2) Uttar Pradesh
Ques. : 47 Who won the 2017 Spanish Grand Prix F1 championship?
1) Sebastian Vettel
2) Daniel Ricciardo
3) Fernando Alonso
4) Lewis Hamilton
5) Nico Rosberg
Answer:- 4) Lewis Hamilton
Ques. : 48 S Ramassamy passed away recently. He was the former Chief Minister of
1) Puducherry
2) Goa
3) Tamil Nadu
4) Kerala
5) Andhra Pradesh
Answer:- 1) Puducherry
Ques. : 49 Edouard Philippe has been appointed as the new Prime Minister in which of the following countries?
1) Spain
2) Finland
3) France
4) Sweden
5) Norway
Answer:- 3) France
Ques. : 50 India has been placed at which of the following spots in the renewable energy country attractiveness index prepared by EY, a UK-based accountancy firm?
1) Third
2) Sixth
3) Fourth
4) Fifth
5) Second
Answer:- 5) Second
Ques. : 51 The Basel III banking rules are due to fully kick in by
1) Dec 2016
2) Mar 2017
3) Apr 2018
4) Sep 2018
5) Mar 2019
Answer:- 5) Mar 2019
Ques. : 52 The “Joint Sea-2016” drill was held recently between which of the following countries?
1) US and Japan
2) China and Russia
3) Russia and Pakistan
4) Indian and US
5) Indian and Russia
Answer:- 2) China and Russia
Ques. : 53 Who among the following has topped the Fortune's ‘50 Most Powerful Women International’ list of women based outside the US?
1) Longfor Wu Yajun
2) Ornella Barra
3) Chua Sock Koong
4) Ana Botin
5) Arundhati Bhattacharya Answer:- 4) Ana Botin
Ques. :54 The Union Cabinet approved an extradition treaty between India and which of the following neighbouring countries recently?
1) Maldives 2) Nepal
3) Bhutan 4) Myanmar
5) Afghanistan Answer:- 5) Afghanistan
Ques. : 55 The Union Cabinet has approved an MoU between India and Kenya on cooperation in the field of National Housing Policy. The currency of Kenya is
1) shilling
2) dollar
3) peso
4) dinar
5) rand
Answer:- 1) shilling
Ques. : 56 Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa was removed from the post of Governor of which of the following states recently? V Shanmuganathan (Governor of Meghalaya) has been given the charge of the state.
1) Assam
2) Arunachal Pradesh
3) Himachal Pradesh
4) Uttarakhand
5) Jharkhand
Answer:- 2) Arunachal Pradesh
Ques. : 57 The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the proposal for initiation of the third phase of TEQIP. The TEQIP programme is associated with
1) Textile Export
2) Transport
3) Technical Education
4) Telemedicine
5) None of these
Answer:- 3) Technical Education
Ques. :58 Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated the Onam celebrations in which of the following states/UT recently?
1) Goa
2) Puducherry
3) Telangana
4) Kerala
5) Karnataka
Answer:- 4) Kerala
Ques. : 59 Joshna Chinappa is associated with which of the following games? She improved her global ranking recently.
1) Squash
2) Tennis
3) Badminton
4) Table tennis
5) Snooker
Answer:- 1) Squash
Ques. : 60 India’s Deepa Malik from Haryana created history by becoming the first ever woman from the country to win a medal at the Paralympics. She won silver medal in
1) high jump
2) long jump
3) shot put
4) discuss throw
5) weightlifting
Answer:- 3) shot put
Ques. : 61 The Hindi Divas is celebrated every year on which of the following dates? On this day in 1949, the Constituent Assembly of the country had adopted the Hindi language as the official language of the Republic of India.
1) 04 Sep
2) 08 Sep
3) 12 Sep
4) 14 Sep
5) 16 Sep
Answer:- 4) 14 Sep
Ques. : 62 The 3rd BRICS Urbanisation Forum Meet was held recently in
1) Chennai
2) Chandigarh
3) Ahmedabad
4) Mumbai
5) Visakhapatnam
Answer:- 5) Visakhapatnam
Ques. :63 Devendra Jhajharia has become the first Indian to clinch two gold medals at the Paralympics as he won gold at the 2016 Rio Games recently. He is a
1) weightlifter
2) javelin thrower
3) wrestler
4) shot putter
5) high jumper
Answer:- 2) javelin thrower
Ques. : 64 Andhra Pradesh has become the second state in the country to achieve 100% electrification of households. Which of the following is the first state to achieve this feat?
1) Kerala
2) Karnataka
3) Rajasthan
4) Madhya Pradesh
5) Gujarat
Answer:- 5) Gujarat
Ques. : 65 Who among the following has taken charge of the post of CMD, Shipping Corporation of India (SCI)?
1) BC Tripathi
2) PK Singh
3) B Ashok
4) Anoop Kumar Sharma
5) Anup Pujari
Answer:- 4) Anoop Kumar Sharma
Ques. : 66 Digital payment platform FreeCharge has launched Unified Payments Interface (UPI) that allows instant transactions from a smartphone. For this, FreeCharge has partnered with
1) ICICI Bank
2) YES Bank
3) Axis Bank
4) HDFC Bank
5) Federal Bank
Answer:- 3) Axis Bank
Ques. : 67 Who among the following has been chosen for Kumaon Literary Festival’s FON (Fellows of Nature) South Asia Short Story Award in Nature writing for his/her short story “People of the Sun”?
1) Anita Desai
2) Aarti V Raman
3) Meghna Pant
4) Amit Varma
5) Arnab Jan Deka
Answer:- 3) Meghna Pant
Ques. : 68 Which of the following is all set to bring the first IPO in the life insurance space in the country?
1) ICICI Prudential Life
2) HDFC Standard Life
3) IDBI Federal Life
4) Exide Life Insurance
5) Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance
Answer:- 1) ICICI Prudential Life
Ques. : 69 In the biggest consolidation deal in India's telecom sector, which of the following two firms have announced to merge their wireless businesses?
1) Reliance Communication and Aircel
2) Reliance Jio and Reliance Communication
3) Airtel and Aircel
4) Vodafone and Idea
5) Reliance Communication and Idea
Answer:- 1) Reliance Communication and Aircel
Ques. : 70 If a customer having a current or a savings bank account has not done any transactions through it for more than_______, then it will be classified as a dormant account.
1) 06 months
2) 09 months
3) 12 months
4) 16 months
5) 24 months
Answer:- 5) 24 months
Ques. : 71 The Uttar Pradesh govt has appointed who among the following as the brand ambassador of its flagship programme “Samajwadi Kisan Beema Yojana”?
1) Nawazuddin Siddiqui
2) Vidya Balan
3) Amitabh Bachchan
4) Irrfan Khan
5) Aamir Khan
Answer:- 1) Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Ques. : 72 Jim Yong Kim is heading which of the following international institutions at present? He is running for another five-year term at the institution.
1) World Bank
2) IMF
3) WTO
4) United Nations
5) ADB
Answer:- 1) World Bank
Ques. : 73 The govt has declared India free from Avian Influenza (H5N1) from 5 Sep 2016. Avian influenza (AI) is commonly called
1) typhoid
2) malaria
3) yellow fever
4) swine flu
5) bird flu
Answer:- 5) bird flu
Ques. :74 The US States has signed a USD 38-bn deal with Israel to provide the country with military assistance over a 10-year period. The currency of Israel is
1) dong
2) krona
3) ringgit
4) new shekel
5) kyat
Answer:- 4) new shekel
Ques. : 75 KK Paul recently released a book titled “Shanti Ki Talaash Mein Zindagi” written in Hindi by author and journalist Radhika Nagrath. KK Paul is the present governor of
1) Himachal Pradesh
2) Uttarakhand
3) Jharkhand
4) Haryana
5) Rajasthan
Answer:- 2) Uttarakhand
Ques. : 76 Vice-President Hamid Ansari will be representing India at the 17th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to be held in
1) Malaysia
2) Cuba
3) Venezuela
4) Egypt
5) Iran
Answer:- 3) Venezuela
Ques. : 77 Which of the following teams won the inaugural day/night Duleep Trophy Cricket tournament held in Greater Noida?
1) India Blue
2) India Green
3) India Brown
4) India Red
5) None of these
Answer:- 1) India Blue
Ques. : 78 The International Democracy Day is observed on
1) 01 Sep
2) 12 Sep
3) 13 Sep
4) 14 Sep
5) 15 Sep
Answer:- 5) 15 Sep
Ques. : 79 Typhoon Meranti hit which of the following countries recently?
1) Mongolia
2) Kazakhstan
3) Ukraine
4) China
5) Chile
Answer:- 4) China
Ques. : 80 Name the newly-elected Nepalese Prime Minister who visited New Delhi recently.
1) Krishna Bahadur Mahara
2) Sher Bahadur Deuba
3) Baburam Bhattarai
4) Khadga Prasad Oli
5) Pushpa Kamal Daha
l Answer:- 5) Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Ques. : 81 Who among the following has been named the UN’s new Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking?
1) Sunita Narain
2) Amal Clooney
3) Vian Dakhil
4) Angelina Jolie
5) Nadia Murad
Answer:- 5) Nadia Murad
Ques. : 82 The Naropa festival, which is held every 12 years, was held recently at which of the following places at the 17th century Hemis Monastery?
1) Shimla
2) Itanagar
3) Imphal
4) Ladakh
5) Agartala
Answer:- 4) Ladakh
Ques. : 83 Atul Kumar Goel has taken charge as Executive Director in which of the following public sector banks?
1) Union Bank of India
2) Bank of India
3) Bank of Baroda
4) Corporation Bank
5) Indian Bank
Answer:- 1) Union Bank of India
Ques. : 84 Name the Indian-American physician-author who has been selected for the prestigious 2015 National Humanities Medal, as announced by the White House.
1) Siddhartha Mukherjee
2) Abraham Verghese
3) Atul Gawande
4) Nisha Pahuja
5) None of these
Answer:- 2) Abraham Verghese
Ques. :85 Vijaya Bank has bagged the second prize under Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar (Region C) for the year 2015-16. The bank is headquartered at
1) New Delhi
2) Chennai
3) Kolkata
4) Bengaluru
5) Mumbai
Answer:- 4) Bengaluru
Ques. : 86 India will host the Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group in May 2017 in which of the following cities?
1) Ahmedabad
2) Jaipur
3) New Delhi
4) Mumbai
5) Hyderabad
Answer:- 1) Ahmedabad
Ques. : 87 Caracas is the capital city of which of the following countries?
1) Cambodia
2) Venezuela
3) Mongolia
4) Chile
5) Vietnam
Answer:- 2) Venezuela
Ques. : 88 Sourabh Varma is associated with which of the following games?
1) Tennis
2) Squash
3) Table tennis
4) Badminton
5) Snooker
Answer:- 4) Badminton
Ques. : 89 The govt has appointed who among the following as the new Chairman of the state-owned Life Insurance Corporation of India?
1) Ashwani Kumar
2) Girish Chandra Murmu
3) VK Sharma
4) Shaktikanta Das
5) Usha Sangwan
Answer:- 3) VK Sharma
Ques. : 90 The multiplex chain PVR Ltd is looking to raise up to Rs 250 cr through issue of NCDs to fund various activities. The term NCD stands for
1) Non-Cashable Debentures
2) Non-Convertible Debentures
3) Non-Classable Debentures
4) Non-Causable Debentures
5) None of these
Answer:- 2) Non-Convertible Debentures
Ques. : 91 Which of the following days is observed as the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer?
1) 10 Sep
2) 12 Sep
3) 14 Sep
4) 16 Sep
5) 18 Sep
Answer:- 4) 16 Sep
Ques. : 92 The scientist BHVS Narayana Murthy has been appointed director of Research Centre Imarat (RCI) of DRDO. The RCI is located in
1) Bengaluru
2) Chennai
3) Hyderabad
4) Dehradun
5) Mumbai
Answer:- 3) Hyderabad
Ques. : 93 Which of the following countries launched its second space station Tiangong 2 recently in a sign of the growing sophistication of its military-backed space programme?
1) Russia
2) South Korea
3) China
4) Germany
5) Israel
Answer:- 3) China
Ques. : 94 The Union Govt has banned agencies in possession of Aadhaar number to publish or post the information publicly. Aadhar number is issued by UIDAI in which letter ‘U’ denotes
1) Urban
2) Universal
3) Ubiquitous
4) Unique
5) User
Answer:- 4) Unique
Ques. : 95 The auto parts maker Motherson Sumi has raised money through issuance of QIP. Here, the term QIP stands for
1) Quick Institutional Placement
2) Qualified Institutional Placement
3) Qualified International Placement
4) Quick International Placement
5) None of these
Answer:- 2) Qualified Institutional Placement
Ques. : 96 India has signed an MoU with which country to support livelihood of the fishing and farming communities in the latter country by providing them equipment worth USD 2 mn?
1) Myanmar
2) Bangladesh
3) Cambodia
4) Sri Lanka
5) Maldives
Answer:- 4) Sri Lanka
Ques. : 97 The national security advisers of the BRICS countries held their sixth meeting recently chaired by National Security Adviser Ajit Doval in
1) Mumbai
2) New Delhi
3) Jaipur
4) Hyderabad
5) Chennai
Answer:- 2) New Delhi
Ques. : 98 NASA's Cassini spacecraft is set to make final, closest observations of which of the following planets starting 30 Nov?
1) Saturn
2) Jupiter
3) Mercury
4) Venus
5) Mars
Answer:- 1) Saturn
Ques. : 99 The central govt has approved Rs 500 cr to implement tourism projects in which of the following states?
1) Himachal Pradesh
2) Arunachal Pradesh
3) Uttarakhand
4) Kerala
5) Jammu and Kashmir
Answer:- 5) Jammu and Kashmir
Ques. : 100 _________ has been chosen to be honoured with Kumaon Literary Festival's FON (Fellows of Nature) South Asia Short Story Award in Nature writing for her short story “People of the Sun.”
1) Sujata Parashar
2) Afia Aslam
3) Mridula Koshy
4) Meghna Pant
5) Shinie Antony
Answer:- 4) Meghna Pant
Ques. : 100 The Indian navy conducted “Konkan-17” joint naval exercise with which of the following countries recently?
1) UK
2) US
3) UAE
4) Japan
5) Indonesia
Answer:- 1) UK
Ques. : 102 As per a study by _______, the accelerated adoption of electric and shared vehicles could save $60 bn in diesel and petrol costs while cutting down carbon emissions for India by 2030.
1) NITI Aayog
2) World Bank
3) IMF
4) ADB
5) NDB
Answer:- 1) NITI Aayog
Ques. :103 India's first indigenously-built civilian aircraft with seating capacity of 14 people is gearing up for its first flight in Jun 2017. The aircraft is named
1) Hansa
2) Eagle
3) Saras
4) Cuckoo
5) Chetak
Answer:- 3) Saras
Ques. : 104 The world's tallest tower, Jeddah Tower, which is to rise more than a kilometre (almost 3,300 feet), is coming up in which country?
1) Iran
2) Saudi Arabia
3) Kuwait
4) Bahrain
5) UAE
Answer:- 2) Saudi Arabia
Ques. : 105 Vinesh Phogat of India is associated with which of the following games?
1) Weightlifting
2) Wrestling
3) Shooting
4) Boxing
5) Archery
Answer:- 2) Wrestling
Ques. : 106 India will clock over 7.5 per cent growth in 2017-18 as forecasted by the present Finance Secretary
1) Amitabh Kant
2) Arvind Mayaram
3) Rajiv Mehrishi
4) Hasmukh Adhia
5) Ashok Lavasa
Answer:- 5) Ashok Lavasa
Ques. : 107 The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is based in
1) Ottawa
2) Sydney
3) Washington DC
4) London
5) Jakarta
Answer:- 3) Washington DC
Ques. : 108 The new series of the index of industrial production (IIP) and the wholesale price index (WPI) were released recently. The base year for the indices in the new series has shifted to
1) 2010-11
2) 2011-12
3) 2012-13
4) 2013-14
5) 2014-15
Answer:- 2) 2011-12
Ques. : 109 The Consumer Price Index (CPI)-based inflation declined to a record low in the new series in Apr at just
1) 5.47 per cent
2) 3.89 per cent
3) 2.99 per cent
4) 4.29 per cent
5) 3.99 per cent
Answer:- 3) 2.99 per cent
Ques. : 110 The public sector lender UCO Bank posted loss in the Mar quarter for the sixth straight quarter. The bank is headquartered in
1) Allahabad
2) Chennai
3) Bengaluru
4) Kolkata
5) Mumbai
Answer:- 4) Kolkata
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