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Current Affairs Question Bank August 2016 www.BankExamsToday.Com Page 1 1. Telangana gets its first children’s court in _________ ? (a) Bangalore (b) Hyderabad (c) New Delhi (d) Mumbai 2. Which state Cabinet has approved the Startup Policy 2016 ? (a) Gujarat (b) Bihar (c) Odisha (d) Bangal 3.Who has launched websites for Ministry of Minority Affairs ? (a) Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi (b) Piyush Goyal (c) Arun Jaitley (d) Nitish Kumar 4. World Ozone Day is observed on ? (a) 12 August (b) 20 March (c) 10 October (d) 16 September 5. What is the currency of Luxembourg ? (a) Euro (b) Zloty (c) Lev (d) Kuna 6. Who will take charge as Non-Executive Part-time Chairman of the YES Bank ? (a) Satish Dhawan (b) Ashok Chawla (c) U.R. Rao

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1. Telangana gets its first children’s court in _________ ?

(a) Bangalore

(b) Hyderabad

(c) New Delhi

(d) Mumbai 2. Which state Cabinet has approved the Startup Policy 2016 ?

(a) Gujarat

(b) Bihar

(c) Odisha

(d) Bangal 3.Who has launched websites for Ministry of Minority Affairs ? (a) Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

(b) Piyush Goyal

(c) Arun Jaitley

(d) Nitish Kumar

4. World Ozone Day is observed on ?

(a) 12 August

(b) 20 March

(c) 10 October

(d) 16 September

5. What is the currency of Luxembourg ?

(a) Euro

(b) Zloty

(c) Lev

(d) Kuna

6. Who will take charge as Non-Executive Part-time Chairman of the YES Bank ?

(a) Satish Dhawan

(b) Ashok Chawla

(c) U.R. Rao

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(d) A.S. Kiran Kumar 7. What is the Full form of ECB ?

(a) External Commercial Borrowing

(b) European Central Bank

(c) Exterior Commercial Borrowing

(d) External Commercial Bank

8. Who has been appointed as brand ambassador for Beti Bachao, Beti Padao campaign

?

(a) Saina Nehwal

(b) Saina Mirza

(c) PV Sindhu

(d) Sakshi Malik

9. India’s Jawaharlal Nehru Port has signed 400 Million US Dollar agreement with State

Bank of India and ____________ for External Commercial Borrowing (ECB) in Navi

Mumbai ?

(a) Asian development Bank

(b) Development Bank of Dubai

(c) Development Bank of Singapore

(d) Bank of China

10. Yesterday Union Cabinet approves revised Double Tax Avoidance Agreement with ?

(a) India

(b) Germany

(c) Cyprus

(d) Australia

11. World Ozone Day is observed on ?

(a) September 16

(b) June 10

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(c) August 12

(d) March 25

12. Who has launched Kolkata Akashvani Kendra’s Moitree Service in Bangla ?

(a) Arun Jaitley

(b) Piyush Goyal

(c) Pranab Mukerjee

(d) Nitish Kumar

13. A Bronze statue of B R Ambedkar (350-feet tall) will be installed at the Ambedkar

memorial at Indu Mill land in __________

(a) Ahmadabad

(b) Gandhinagar

(c) Pune

(d) Mumbai

14. Which government has proposed a draft notification to create 17 new districts in the

state ?

(a) Telangana

(b) Jharkhand

(c) Arunchal Pradesh

(d) Jammu and Kashmir

15. Which Government has signed a (MOU) with the Civil Aviation Ministry and (AAI) to

develop 10 airports ?

(a) Maharashtra

(b) Gujrat

(c) Haryana

(d) Uttar Pradesh

16. Which Indian state to host 2016 Kabaddi World Cup ?

(a) Punjab

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(b) Haryana

(c) Gujarat

(d) Uttar Pradesh

17.Who became world's number one tennis player in women's doubles category

according to WTA ? (a) Martina Hingis

(b) Sania Mirza

(c) Coco Vandeweghe

(d) Barbora Strycova

18. __________conferred with Vyas Samman award 2015 ?

(a) Sunita Jain

(b) Barbora Strycova

(c) Anita Desai

(d) Rohinton Mistry

19. Who has been awarded the Olympic Order (highest award of the Olympic Movement) ?

(a) Rajeev Mehta

(b) Abhay Singh Chautala

(c) Lalit Bhanot

(d) N. Ramachandran

20. Who will be awarded the prestigious French Honour ?

(a) Kamal Hassan

(b) Rajnikanth

(c) Shahrukh Khan

(d) Ambaiti

21. Who has announced cash prize of Rs. 50 lakh to Dipa Karmakar at Rio Olympic ?

(a) O.P. Jaisha

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(b) Sania Mirza

(c) K Chandrasekhar Rao

(d) Sakshi Malik

22. Who has inaugurated the Uttarakhand’s first animal birth control center (ABC) at

Dehradun ?

(a) Smriti Irani

(b) Maneka Gandhi

(c) Uma Bharti

(d) Ananth Kumar

23. Who has been appointed as Vice-Chancellor of Homi Bhabha National Institute ?

(a) P D Gupta

(b) Richard Benger

(c) S. Manian

(d) Prof. G. Nageswara Rao

24. Who has been re-appointed as the Chairman of Bharti Airtel ?

(a) Sunil Mittal

(b) Vikram Sarabhai

(c) Satish Dhawan

(d) K. Radhakrishnan

25. Which Country beaten Germany won First Olympic soccer gold ?

(a) Austrelia

(b) England

(c) America

(d) Brazil

26. Who won Cincinnati women’s doubles title ? (a) Martina Hingis and Coco Vandeweghe

(b) Coco Vandeweghe and Marin Cilic

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(c) Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis

(d) Marin Cilic and Sania Mirza

27. Who is the Union Women and Child Development (WCD) Minister ? (a) Smriti Irani (b) Uma Bharti (c) Mamta Banerji

(d)Maneka Gandhi

28. Who has been re-appointed as Chairman of Bharti Airtel ?

(a) Shravin Mittal

(b) Sunil Mittal

(c) Mr. Gopal Vittal

(d) Mr. Shishir Priyadarshi

29. Who has been appointed as the Ambassador of India to Georgia ?

(a) Yogeshwar Sangwan

(b) Ekhil Hakimi

(c) Abdallah Baali

(d) Tatoul Markarian

30. Who has inaugurated Animal Birth Control Centre in Dehradun ?

(a) Maneka Gandhi

(b) Sunita Tandon

(c) Vidhya Bharti

(d) Uma bharti

31. Who has been appointed as the new RBI Governor ?

(a) R Gandhi

(b) S S Mundra

(c) N S Vishwanathan

(d) Urjit Patel

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32. Who won gold 4×100 relay at Rio Olympics 2016 ?

(a) Jamaica

(b) USA

(c) Great Britain

(d) Russia

33. India ranks ______ in 2016 Global Innovation Index ?

(a) 65th

(b) 36th

(c) 66th

(d) 46th

35. Which Bank has approved merger of its five associate banks and Bharatiya Mahila Bank ?

(a) RBI

(b) IDBI

(c) SBI

(d) PNB

36. Doha Bank set to open a branch in _______ ?

(a) Mumbai

(b) Kerala

(c) Kolkata

(d) India 37. Who has launched a portal in New Delhi for electronic bidding and e-reverse auction ?

(a) Piyush Goyal

(b) Nitish Kumar

(c) Vijay Goyal

(d) Arun jaitley

38.Which State govt has launched India’s first Criminal Tracking Network System ?

(a) Maharashtra

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(b) Madhya Pradesh

(c) Uttrakhand

(d) Luckhnow

39.World’s highest and longest glass bottomed bridge in________ ?

(a) India

(b) America

(c) China

(d) Austrelia

40. Who won 3rd consecutive 200m Gold in Olympics ?

(a) Andre De Grasse

(b) Usain Bolt

(c) Christopher Lemaitre

(d) Adam Gemili

41. World Ozone Day is observed on :-

(a) September 16

(b) June 15

(c) March 20

(d) August 25

42. Who won Gold in Women's Badminton at Rio Olympics 2016?

(a) PV Sindhu

(b) Carolina Marin

(c) Saina Nehwal

(d) Nozomi Okuhara 43. Who has adopted Donja village in Osmanabad district of Maharashtra for development under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) :

(a) Sehwag

(b) Virat kohli

(c) Sachin Tendulkar

(d) MS Dhoni

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44. Which state govt. announced to honour wrestler Sakshi Malik with the coveted Rani Laxmi Bai award ?

(a) HP

(b) UP govt

(c) MP

(d) Maharashtra

45. Which State govt has earmarked Rs 10,000 cr for govt schools ?

(a) Kerala Govt

(b) Gujarat

(c) Bihar

(d) odisha 46. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Kanpur has adopted five villages in ___________ under the Namami Gange programme ?

(a) Madhya Pradesh

(b) Himachal Pradesh

(c) Maharashtra

(d) Uttar Pradesh

47. _______ Assembly passes Assam Amusements and Betting Tax (Amendment) Bill,

2016 ?

(a) Bihar

(b) Gujarat

(c) Assam

(d) Bangal

48. _____________ launches e-Trans & DEEP e-bidding portals for electronic bidding and

e-reverse auction ?

(a) Union Power Ministry

(b) Union Telecom Ministry

(c) Water Management

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(d) Union railway Ministry

49. World’s largest aircraft which made it's first flight yesterday embarks maiden flight ?

(a) Airbus 707

(b) Boeing 543

(c) Airbus 1042

(d) Airlander 10

50. Who has successfully launched the world’s first quantum satellite ? (a) England (b) Switzerland (c) China (d) America 51. Which state government has decided to make Aadhaar card mandatory for procurement of paddy ? (a) Bihar (b) Odisha (c) Gujarat (d) Luknow 52. Who has announced 20% hike in pension of freedom fighters ? (a) PM Modi (b) Inder kumar gujral (c) Manmohan Singh (d) Indira Gandhi 53. Who bagged the Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Award for meritorious services ? (a) P Shanmugam (b) Piyush Goyal (c) Nitish Kumar (d) Indira Gandhi 54. Yesterday which state assembly has unanimously passed the GST Bill ? (a) Gujarat (b) Maharashtra (c) Mumbai (d) Bihar 55.Which Language will be used to Official language in all government offices in Odisha ? (a) English (b) Hindi (c) Odia (d) Maithili

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56. Who Gold medal in 100 meters Rio Olympics 2016 ? (a) Usain Bold (b) Justin Galtin (c) Andre De Grasse (d) Yohan Blake 57. Indian Air Force Day is oberved on ? (a) 8 October (b) 10 March (c) 12 July (d) 11 June 59. India’s first facility to produce nickel was launched by the Hindustan Copper Limited (HCL) at

a. Ghatshila in Jharkhand.

b. Dhanbad in Jharkhand

c. Bhagalpur in Bihar

d. Ranchi in Jharkhand

60. Who won Best Actor award at Indian Film Festival (IFF) of Melbourne 2016

a. Abdul Aalee

b. Abdul Aalee

c. Naseem Ahmed

d. Nawazuddin Siddiqui

61. Who won Best Actress award at Indian Film Festival (IFF) of Melbourne 2016

a. Alia Bhatt

b. Sonam Kapoor

c. Shraddha Kapoor

d. Kareena Kapoor

62. Yesterday SBI launched co-branded credit card with a private bank, name the bank :-

a. South Indian Bank

b. United Bank

c. State Bank of India

d. Punjab National Bank

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63. _________bank launches USSD based mobile app for basic banking needs with NPCI

a. Bank of Baroda

b. IDBI

c. United Bank India

d. State Bank of India

64. IRDAI Slaps Rs 35 Lakh Fine On _____________

a. Bharti AXA General Insurance

b. Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Co. Ltd.

c. Cholamandalam MS General Insurance Co. Ltd.

d. Agriculture Insurance Co. of India Ltd.

65. Beam, an interactive live streaming startup has been aquired by

a. Google

b. Microsoft

c. Yahoo

d. IBM

66. Who is Union Water Resources Minister a. Uma Bharti

b. Giriraj Singh

c. Harsimrat Kaur Badal

d. M Venkaiah Naidu

67. Which state has become the first state to pass GST bill? (a) Bihar (b) Gujarat (c) Assam (d) Maharashtra 68. India's first touch-and-feel garden for visually impaired started at :- (a) Hyderabad (b) Kolkata

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(c) Mumbai (d) Calicut 69. Who has sanctioned Rs 26.06 crore to the Punjab government ? (a) NABARD (b) IBRD (c) SEBI (d) ECGC 70.Which bank has announced the availability of Flipkart’s mobile site on it's official banking app ? (a) Canara bank (b) Kotak Mahindra Bank (c) Bank of Baroda (d) SBI 71. Who has been appointed as the next High Commissioner to Ghana ? (a) Birender Singh Yadav (b) Kirpal Singh Yadav (c) Vijay Goyal (d) Arnish Kumar 72. Who won the Gold Medal in the same event at 4 Olympics ? (a) Manish Singh Rawat (b) Vikas Gowda (c) Sapna Punia (d) Michael Phelps 73. Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Divas is observed on (a) 12 June (b) 18 April (c) 22 October (d) 20 August 74. What is the Full Form of NPA ?

(a) National Performing Associated Assets

(b) Non-Performing Associated companies

(c) Non-Profitable Assets

(d) Non-Performing Assets

75. Who has inaugurated data bank portal of MSMEs ?

(a) Arun Jaitley

(b) Piyush Goyal

(c) Vijay Bansal

(d) Nitish Kumar

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76. Who is committed set up to review FDI, e-commerce rules ?

(a) Amitabh Kashyap

(b) Amitabh Kant

(c) Parmeet Singh

(d) Anurag Bansal

77. Who has been ranked the most expensive city in India ?

(a) Mumbai

(b) Delhi

(c) Lucknow

(d) Africa 78. What is the currency of Bulgaria ?

(a) Peso

(b) Lev

(c) Real

(d) Zloty 79. Name the Indian Carnatic vocalist who will be honoured at the United Nations on 15 August 2016, India’s 70th Independence Day ?

(a) M. S. Subbulakshmi

(b) R. K. Singla

(c) Vjay kakkar

(d) Ajay Arora 80. Which company has launched the country’s first facility to produce nickel

(a) Reliance Industries Limited

(b) BHEL

(c) Hindustan Copper Limited (HCL)

(d) Arvind Mills

81. Who has been appointed new MD of SBI ?

(a) Vijay Kumar

(b) Arun Prbhakar

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(c) Pawan Bhandari

(d) Dinesh Kumar Khara

82 . Who is the New Chairman of Central Silk Board assumes charge ? (a) Anand Krishnamurthy

(b) Mr. K M Hanumantharayappa

(c) Nitish Kumar

(d) Arun jaitley

83. World First Aid Day is Observed on ?

(a) 12 June

(b) 10 March

(c) 14 September

(d) 22 August

84. What is the currency of Peru ?

(a) Nuevo sol

(b) Peso

(c) Real

(d) Euro

85. Which Indian IT company has been ranked at 58th most valuable US brand ?

(a) Wipro

(b) Infosys

(c) HCL

(d) TCS

86. Who bought machine learning startup Turi ?

(a) Apple

(b) Google

(c) Microsoft

(d) IBM

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87. International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is observed on ?

(a) 11 March

(b) 24 September

(c) 9 August

(d) 18 June

88. Who has been appointed to the Board of IDFC Bank ?

(a) Vijay Bansal

(b) Suresh kakkar

(c) Ajay Malhotra

(d) Anand Sinha

89.What is Statutory Liquidity Ratio as on 10 August 2016 ?

(a) 21%

(b) 32 %

(c) 46 %

(d) 12 %

90.Who became the first U.S. athlete to wear hijab at an Olympics ?

(a) Serena Williams

(b) Ibtihaj

(c) Simone Biles

(d) Ryan Lochte 91. Who won gold in the 400m freestyle and set a new world record at the Rio Olympics 2016?

(a) Ryan lochte

(b) Hope Solo

(c) Katie Ledecky

(d ) Justin Gatlin

92. What is the currency of Cuba ?

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(a) Peso

(b) Lev

(c) Real

(d) Zloty

93. Headquarters of Asian Development Bank is situated at

(a) Manila

(b) Beijing

(c) New Delhi

(d) Bangkok

94. First Indian to qualify for the finals of artistic Gymnastics

a. Dipa Karmakar

b. Allana Slater

c. Monette Russo

d. Daria Joura

95. Name the Committee set up by RBI to look at household finances in India

a. Arundhati

b. Gayatri Malhotra

c. Tarun Ramadorai

d. Franco Carraro

96. Project ____________ launched in New Delhi to assess and rank 500 cities based on

levels of sanitation

a. Jan Dhan Yojna

b. Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana

c. Atal Pension Yojna

d. Swachh Survekshan-2017

97. Name of Union Minister of Urban Development

a. M.Venkaiah Naidu

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b. Pema Khandu

c. Nitish Kumar

d. Vijay Rupani

98. Which company installed First-ever 'Pizza ATM' opens in the US

a. Azzip

b. Paline

c. Blaze

d. Eatza

99. IRCTC signs MoU with ___________ to provide hospitality & tourism services

a. Meghalaya govt

b. Bihar govt

c. Manipur govt

d. Goa govt

100. Chhattisgarh’s first IIT inaugurated at

a. Raipur

b. Patiala

c. Manipur

d. Ropar

101. World Senior Citizen Day is observed on

a. 12 August

b. 25 August

c. 10 August

d. 8 August

102. 2nd National Handloom day is observed on ?

(a) 10 September

(b) 19 November

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(c) 5 March

(d) 7 August

103.What is the Full Form of ISRO ? (a) Indian Space Research Organisation

(b) Indian Social Research Organisation

(c) Indian Social Research Ordinary

(d) Indian Space Research Ordinary

104. Who has Launched PMO App At MyGov Anniversary Event ?

(a) Manmohan Singh

(b) Narendra Modi

(c) Piyush Goyal

(d) Indira Gandhi

105. Who has taken over as Head of BHEL Corporate R&D ?

(a) R K Mishra

(b) N K Bhandari

(c) K K Khurana

(d) Vishant Arora

106. Who is the new CEO of CSS Corp, a global Technology Support company ?

(a) Manish Tandon

(b) Manish Tiwari

(c) Arun Jaitley

(d) Nitish Kumar

107. What is the currency of Pero ? (a) Nuevo sol

(b) Peso

(c) Real

(d) Euro

108. __________ teams up with ISRO for water resources info system ?

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(a) Andhra Pradesh

(b) Bihar

(c) Chattisgarh

(d) Telangana

109. PM Modi to launch Mission _________ safe drinking water to 67 thousand

households of the Gajwel ?

(a) Bhagiratha

(b) Santa Ines

(c) Assembly constituency

(d) Commonwealth of Nations

110. Who will be awarded the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award ? (a) Ishita Munjal (b) Sumiti Irani (c) Shubha Mudgal (d) Vidhya Devi

111.Who is the Prime Minister of Tunisia's ? (a) Youssef Chahed (b) Narender Modi (c) Manmohan Singh (d) Ranil Wickremesinghe 112. Who has been elected as the new Chairman of the IOC’s Athletes’ commission ?

(a) Deepika Kumari

(b) Atanu Das

(c) Laxmirani

(d) Angela Ruggiero

113. Name of portal launched by RBI to control black money ? (a) ‘Sachet’ (b) Prakaram (c) Swasthika (d) Divya 114. What is the currency of Belize ?

(a) Peso

(b) Belize dollar

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(c) Real

(d) Euro

115.Who is UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ?

(a) Frans Timmermans

(b) Maroš Šefčovič

(c) Valdis Dombrovskis

(d) Prince Zeid Hussein

116. Who is the flag bearer of USA at Rio Olympics 2016 ?

(a) Michael Phelps

(b) Deepika Kumari

(c) Laxmirani majhi

(d) Atanu Das

117. Who has been elected as the Prime Minister (24th) of Nepal ? (a) Narender Modi (b) Manmohan Singh (c) Pushpa Kamal Dahal (d) Justin Trudeau

118. Who has been appointed as President of Microsoft India ?

(a) Anant Maheshwari

(b) Parnab Mukherjee

(c) Vladimir Putin (d) Xi Jinping

119. Who has become the first state to approve sewage & waste water policy ?

(a) Odisha

(b) Bangal

(c) Rajasthan

(d) Bihar

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120.International day of charity is observed on ? (a) 12 October (b) 5 September (c) 14 June (d) 18 April 121. What is the Currency of Latvia ?

(a) Euro

(b) Lev

(c) Zloty

(d) Peso

121. New name of state "West Bengal" will be :

(a) Bengal

(b) Bongo

(c) Bangla

(d) Banga

122. Who is the President of Asian Development Bank

(a) Parnab Mukherjee

(b) Vladimir Putin

(c) Xi Jinping

(d) Mr. Takehiko Nakao

123. Which State govt has decided to recruit transgender persons as jail warders ? (a) Gujarat (b) Bihar (c) Odisha Govt (d) Lucknow

124.Which Bank has announced 0.05% reduction in its MCLR ? (a) IDBI Bank (b) ICICI Bank (c) SBI Bank (d) RBI Bank

125. What is full form of MCLR ?

(a) Marginal Cost of Funds based Lending Rate

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(b) Machining Cost of Funds based Lending Rate

(c) Memorial Cost funds Based Lowest Rate

(d) Marginal Cost of Funds based Lowest Rate

126. Who has been appointed as secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi ? (a) Bhaskar Rao (b) Vijay Bhandari (c) Bhaskar Khulbe (d) Ajay Mittal

127.Who is the winner of fourth Rogers Cup championship (Men's singles) ?

(a) Novak Djokovic

(b) K. Nishikori

(c) G. Monfils

(d) M. Raonic 128. Who won Rogers Cup women’s single in Montreal ? (a) Dominika Cibulková

(b) Maria Sharapova

(c) Jelena Janković

(d) Simona Halep

129. What is the Full Form of NADA ?

(a) National Anti-Doping Agency

(b) National Automobile Dealers Association

(c) National Anti-Doping Association

(d) National Automobile Dealers Agency

130. What is the Currency of Luxembourg ?

(a) Lek

(b) Euro

(c) Zloty

(d) Peso

131. Who won the 4th season of Pro Kabaddi League ?

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(a) Dabang Delhi

(b) Patna Pirate

(c) Puneri Paltan

(d) Bengaluru Bulls

132. Who will continue as head coach of Australia until October 2019 ? (a) Michael Clarke (b) Glenn Maxwell (c) Aaron Finch (d) Darren Lehmann 133. What is the Full form of IRS ?

(a) Indian Revenue Service

(b) Indian Remote Sensing

(c) Insulin Receptor Substrate

(d) Interest Rate Swap

134. Who has been appointed as new chairperson of Central Board of Direct Taxes

(CBDT) ?

(a) Rani Singh seth

(b) Indira Rani

(c) Vijaya Ghosal

(d) Rani Singh Nair

135. IRCTC’s Food on Track app ties up with ___________ for e-cash payments ?

(a) Payumoney

(b) Paytm

(c) Mobikwik

(d) Freecharge

136. Who became the first person to jump from 25000 feet without a parachute or wing

suit ?

(a) Luke Aikins

(b) Cristiano Ronaldo

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(c) Cahill

(d) Traore

137. What is the currency of Hungary ?

(a) Hungarian Forint

(b) Euro

(c) Lev

(d) Zloty

138. International Youth Day is observed on ? (a) 14 March (b) 18 April (c) 12 August (d) 23 June 139. Tamil Nadu Assembly passed a resolution to rename the Madras High Court as ?

(a) Tamil Nadu High Court

(b) Tamil High Court

(c) Kodupama High Court

(d) Chennai High Court

140. Who has been appointed as DGP of Maharashtra Police ? (a) Sumit Mathur (b) Satish Mathur (c) Vijay Bansal (d) Nitish Kumar 141. Who has flagged off the run for Rio event in New Delhi ? (a) Narendra Modi (b) Indira Gandhi (c) Rajiv Gandhi (d) Manmohan Singh 142. Pashudhan Bima Yojana for animal husbandry launched in _______ state ? (a) Gujarat (b) Bihar (c) Odisha (d) Haryana 143. Which govt. has lifted the ban on the sale and consumption of toddy (palm wine) in the state? (a) Haryana

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(b) Punjab (c) Lucknow (d) Bihar Government

144. Who sets World record For Highest Jump Without Parachute ?

(a) Hollis Conway

(b) Ralf Sonn

(c) Troy Kemp

(d) Skydiver Luke Aikins 145. Who aquired NetSuite for $9.3 Billion ? (a) Oracle

(b) Microsoft

( c) Google

(d) AOL 146. Name of JK Rowling’s eighth Harry Potter story released yesterday ?

(a) Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

(b) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

(c) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

(d) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 147. What is the full form of AAAI ?

(a) Advertising Authority Association of India

(b) Advertising Agencies Authority of India

(c) Advertising Association Agencies of India

(d) Advertising Agencies Association of India

148. AAAI confers Lifetime Achievement Award to ?

(a) Swaminathan Swamy

(b) Srinivasan Swamy

(c) Jayashankar Reddy

(d) Subash Sikand

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149. Who is the Lok Sabha Speaker of India ?

(a) Sumitra Mahajan

(b) Somanath Chatterjee

(c) M Thambidurai

(d) Pratibha Patil