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Current Affairs Question Banks August 2016

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1. Who got awarded with Great Immigrants Award 2016 in US

a. Sundar Pichai, Hari Sreenivasan, Vikram Malhotra and Bharati

Mukherjee

b. Sundar Pichai, Hari Sreenivasan, Vikrant Malhotra and Bharati Mukherjee

c. Sham Pichai, Hari Sreenivasan, Vikrant Malhotra and Bharati Mukherjee

d. Sundar Pichai, Hari Sreenivasan, Vikrant Malhotra and Bharati Sharma

2. National Statistics Day is observed on

a. 29 July

b. 29 June

c. 29 May

d. 29 April

3. The Union Cabinet has approved Memorandum of Understanding

between Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) and Royal Civil Service

Commission (RCSC), RCSC is related to which country ?

a. India

b. Sri Lanka

c. Africa

d. Bhutan

4. Who is the president of World Banka.

a. Deepak Bansal

b. Raj Sharma

c. Jim Yong Kim

d. Sidhant Verma

5 ________ sworn in as Philippines’ president

a. Morgan

b. Rodrigo Duterte

c. Jeremy

d. Montana

6. HRD Minister launched teacher education portal_______

a. Parerna

b. Prashikshak

c. Aansh

d. Vidhata


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7. Name the an online system for redressal of service related grievance of

serving and former Railway employees

a. Nivaran

b. Nirpeksh

c. Atulya

d. Aansh

8. Who has been honoured with ‘Honoris Causa’ Doctor of Science degree ?

(a) Viswanathan Anand

(b) Mark hyman

(c) Will kirby

(d) Carl Jung

9. Who is the fastest athlete of National Inter-state Athletics ?

(a) Vijay

(b) Sameer (10.6 sec)

(c) Ntiish

(d) Tushar

10. Which Country has supplies 60 modern passenger coaches to

Bangladesh Railway ?

(a) Denmark

(b) India

(c) Germany

(d) London

11. Who is the Railway Cabinet Minister ?

(a) Susheel Yadav

(b) Arun Patley

(c) Piyush Goyal

(d) Suresh Prabhu

12. What is the full form of DCN ?

(a) Defence Communication Network

(b) Defence Communiity Network

(c) Dynamic Circuit Network

(d) Dynamic Community Network

13. World Zoonoses Day is observed on ?

(a) 8 June


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(b) 10 March

(c) 6 July

(d) 17 May

14. What is the Currency of Norway ?

(a) Zloty

(b) Lek

(c) Lev

(d) Krone

15. Second BRICS Youth Summit concludes in _______ ?

(a) Guwahati

(b) Agra

(c) Patna

(d) New Delhi

16. Which Bank secured $625 million from World Bank for solar programm

?

(a) RBI

(b) IDBI

(c) PNB

(d) SBI

17. Who won Austrian Grand Prix of F1 2016 ?

(a) Lewis Hamilton

(b) Nico Rosberg

(c) Sergio Pérez

(d) Adrian Sutil

18. 1st meeting of BRICS Working Group on Energy Saving and Energy

Efficiency begins in ______?

(a) Kolkata

(b) Visakhapatnam

(c) Chennai

(d) Pune

19. India’s first Commercial Court and Commercial Disputes Resolution

Centre inaugurated in _________ ?


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(a) Chhattisgarh

(b) Bhopal

(c) Indore

(d) Jaipur

20. Which government launched Rapid Rural Police Response System ?

(a) Delhi Government

(b) Bihar Government

(c) Haryana Government

(d) Punjab Government

21. National Sports Day is Observed on ?

(a) July 18

(b) June 22

(c) August 29

(d) May 10

22. Recently PM Narendra has attended martyrdom anniversary of

___________ ?

(a) Baba Banda Singh Bahadur

(b) Baba Deep Singh

(c) Baba Ranjit singh

(d) Baba Ram Singh

23. Who has inaugurated smart village pilot project at Rashtrapati Bhavan ?

(a) Rajendra Prasad

(b) Zakir Husain

(c) Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

(d) Parnab Mukherjee

24. Who won Canada Open Grand Prix Badminton ?

(a) Chetan Anand

(b) B Sai Praneeth

(c) Aditya Joshi

(d) Valiyaveetil Diju

25.What is the Full form of ICC ?

(a) International Cricket Council

(b) International Chamber of Commerce

(c) International Criminal Court


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(d) International Criminal Council

26. What is the Full form of DRS ?

(a) Data Revice Service

(b) Drag Reduction System

(c) Data Review System

(d) Decision Review System

27. International Literacy Day is Observed on ?

(a) 10 July

(b) 16 June

(c) 8 September

(d) 22 May

28. Number of members countries of Multilateral Investment Guarantee

Agency ?

(a) 181

(b) 176

(c) 199

(d) 135

29. Gender Inequality Index is published by :

(a) UNICEF

(b) UNDP

(c) UNO

(d)World Bank

30. Name female the Javelin thrower who broke the national record with a

59.87m throw

(a) Annu Rani

(b) Priya Ghosal

(c) Sunita Kumari

(d) Kanishka Kapoor

31.Who has been appointed as Director at ISRO Inertial Systems Unit ?

(a) Anurag Dixit

(b) Madhav Dhekane

(c) Jahnu Barua

(d) Ram Varma


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32. Which Company inked 3-year wage agreement with Gurgaon workers ?

(a) Reliance Industries

(b) Tata Motors

(c) Hero MotoCorp

(d) Bajaj Motors

33. Who is the HRD Cabinet Minister

(a) Prakash Javadekar

(b) Rajnath Singh

(c) Manohar Parrikar

(d) Ananth Kumar

34.Which bank has launched premium credit card 'Elite' ?

(a) RBI

(b) IDBI

(c) ICICI

(d) SBI

35. Who is the Cabinet Minister Information and Broadcasting minstry

(a) Venkaiah Naidu

(b) Chaudhary Birender Singh

(c) Thaawar Chand Gehlot:

(d) Prakash Javadekar

36. Which Global credit information company is the parent company of

Cibil ?

(a) TransUnion

(b) Moody

(c) Standard and poor

(d) Western Union

37.Number of members Countries of UN Capital Development Fund ?

(a) 67

(b) 33

(c) 48

(d) 98

38. World Tourism Day is Observed on ?

(a) 27 September

(b) 17 July

(c) 20 June


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(d) 3 March

39.What is the Currency of Bulgaria ?

(a) Lek

(b) Lev

(c) Zloty

(d) Euro

40. World’s largest charkha unveiled at______ ?

(a) India

(b) Kolkata

(d) Delhi

(d)Mumbai

41. Who has inaugurated Swami Vivekanand Sabhagar at Kathak Kendra ?

(a) piyush Goyal

(b) Parnab Mukherjee

(c) Nitish kumar

(d) Vijay Bansal

42. Which is the first state to introduce minimum wages for part time

workers ?

(a) Rajasthan

(b) America

(c) Himachal Pradesh

(d) Uttra Khand

43. Who is launched by "Myspeed" app to track mobile data speed ?

(a) TRAI

(b) DOT

(c) Ministry of Information and telecommunication

(d) ISRO

44. Who won eight medals in IWAS World Games ?

(a) Danger Fourpence

(b) Leonid Slutsky

(c) Danny Shittu

(d) Niranjan Mukundan

45. International Day for the Elderly Is Observed on ?


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(a) 8 August

(b) 16 June

(c) 1 October

(d) 22 July

46. What is the Currency of Brazil ?

(a) Real

(b) Guaraní

(c) Peso

(d) Lev

47. Who is Cabinet Minister of Textile ?

(a) Smt. Sushma Swaraj

(b) Smriti Zubin Irani

(c) Raj Nath Singh

(d) Arun Jaitley

48. Who is the Cabinet Minister of HRD ministry ?

(a) Nitish Kumar

(b) Vijay Kumar

(c) Arun jaitley

(d) Prakash Javadekar

49. Who has been appointed as the new Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh ?

(a) Rajeev Ranjan

(b) Deepak Singhal

(c) Dr. R. S. Dhillon

(d) Apoorva Kumar Singh

50. Which State government doubles prize money of Unesco Kalinga prize ?

(a) Bihar

(b) Lukhnow

(c) Odisha

(d) Pune

51. Which bank has launched a premium credit card ‘Elite‘ ?

(a) SBI

(b) RBI


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(c) IDBI

(d) PNB

52. Who become first Indian gymnast to bag ‘World Class Gymnast’ award

(a) Dipa Karmakar

(b) Georgia Bonora

(c) Yulia Inshina

(d) Jade Barbosa

53.World Animal Welfare Day is observed on ?

(a) 10 August

(b) 22 June

(c) 5 March

(d) 4 October

54. What is the currency of Gambia ?

(a) Dalasi

(b) Loti

(c) Nakfa

(d) Pula

55. Who is the Cabinet minister for Water Resources Ministry ?

(a) Smt. Sushma Swaraj

(b) Uma Bharti

(c) Arun Jaitley

(d) Raj Nath Singh

56. Woodpecker Environment and Wildlife Film Festival has begun at

Gaiety Theater situated at ?

(a) Goa

(b) Mumbai

(c) Shimla

(d) Kolkata

57. Recently India signed 3 MOUs with ?

(a) Mozambique


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(b) Angola

(c) Bahreïn

(d) Bénin

58. Google buys France-based startup that build image recognition

technology for smartphones, name that startup ?

(a) Veep 2

(b) Square Vista

(c) Moodstocks

(d) Recosta

59. India sets up apparel training centre in ________ ?

(a) Nigeria

(b) Egypt

(c) Ecuador

(d) Timor

60. Which South African writer won 2016 Caine Prize ?

(a) J.M. Coetzee

(b) Nelson Mandela

(c) Zakesh MDA

(d) Lidudumalingani Mqombothi

61. ________ re-elected as Maharashtra Council Chairman ?

(a) Dr. Moji jini

(b) Dr. G.B. Gupta

(c) Dr. S S Sangwan

(d) Ramraje Naik Nimbalkar

62. Who has been appointed as the Controller General of Defence Accounts

?

(a) S K Kohli

(b) R.K Malhotra

(c) J.K Bansal

(d) Nitish Arora

63. World Population Day is observed on ?

(a) 8 June

(b) July 11

(c) 20 March'

(d) 23 May


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64. Number of member countries of UNICEF ?

(a) 187

(b) 191

(c) 122

(d) 156

65. Who has sworn been in as the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh ?

(a) C. D. Deshmukh

(b) Tathagata Roy

(c) H. V. R. Iyengar

(d) B. N. Adarkar

66.Who won the 2016 Wimbledon title in men’s singles ?

(a) M. Raonic

(b) R. Federer

(c) L. Pouille

(d) Andy Murray

67. Who won the 2016 Wimbledon title in Women’s singles ?

(a) Serena Williams

(b) T. Berdych

(c) M. Raonic

(d) L. Pouille

68. Who won British Grand Prix of F1 2016 ?

(a) Max Verstappen

(b) Nico Rosberg

(c) Lewis Hamilton

(d) Daniel Ricciardo

69. What is the Full form of DRDO ?

(a) Department of Research and Development Organisation

(b) Defence Research and Development Organisation

(c) Defence Restoration and Development Organisation

(d) Dairy Research and Development Organisation

70. Who won Gourmand World Cookbook Award ?

(a) Nimi Sunilkumar

(b) Sunita Kumari


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(c) Vidya Devi

(d) Anshita Arora

71. International Youth Day Is Observed on _____ ?

(a) 12 August

(b) 15 June

(c) 20 July

(d) 26 May

72. What is the Currency of Swaziland ?

(a) Leone

(b) Nakfa

(c) Loti

(d) Lilangeni

73. Who won Euro 2016 football championship

a. Wales

b. Portugal

c. Italy

d. Germany

74. World Population Day is being observed on

a. 11 July

b. 15 June

c. 25 July

d. 11 May

74. Who has been appointed as CMD Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd

a. Mahesh Gupta

b. Sanjay Gupta

c. Krishn Swamy

d. Karun Jairath

75. Who got AAAI Lifetime Achievement Award

a. Jayakrishna Reddy

b. Mahesh Iyyer

c. Srinivasan K Swamy

d. Rajkrishna Iyengar


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76. Who has been Nepal's first woman Chief Justice

a. Sushila Karki

b. Mahim Koerala

c. Sushmeta Seth

d. Sushma Koerala

77. India signed five bilateral agreements with __________.

a. Tanzania

b. Kenya

c. Nigeria

d. South Africa

78. Headquarters of IMF is situated at :

a. Parag

b. Paris

c. Geneva

d. Washington D.C.

79. Ease of Doing Business is published by

a. UNO

b. IBRD (World Bank)

c. Federal Reserve Bank

d. IMF

80. Which financial institution celebrated 35th foundation day today

a. NABARD

b. RBI

c. SEBI

d. SIDBI

81. Which Indian state has created a world record by planting over 5 cr

saplings within ten hours

a. Maharashtra

b. Uttar Pradesh

c. Uttaranchal

d. Punjab

82. Delhi govt has approved proposal to continue 50% subsidy on

________


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a. Sewerage bills

b. Telephone bills

c. Stamp duty

d. Electricity bills

83. Who has been appointed Nepal's first woman Chief Justice

a. Sushila Karki

b. Mahim Koerala

c. Sushmeta Seth

d. Sushma Koerala

84. World Investment Report is released by

a. IMF

b. UNCTAD

c. World Bank

d. Unesco

85. Who won Gourmand World Cookbook award

a. Asha Verma

b. Nisha Agarwal

c. Nimi Sunilkumar

d. Preet Mehra

86. Who is Union Urban Development Minister

a. M Venkaiah Naidu

b. Satish Kumar

c. Pranay Patel

d. Arnav Mukhar

87. Which bank has announced to acquire micro finance institution Grama

Vidiyal ?

(a) IDBI Bank

(b) SBI Bank

(c) HDFC Bank

(d) RBI bank

88. Who is the CEO of HDFC bank

(a) Vijay Goyal

(b) Piyush Goyal


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(c) Aditya Puri

(d) Nitish Kumar

89. Who has been named as Best Banking CEO in Asia ?

(a) HDFC Bank’s CEO Aditya Puri

(b) HDFC Bank’s CEO Piyush Goyal

(c) HDFC Bank’s CEO Arun Jaitley

(d) HDFC Bank’s CEO Nitish Kumar

90. Who is the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh

(a) Sarbananda Sonowal

(b) Nabam Tuki

(c) Nitish Kumar

(d) Nara Chandrababu Naidu

91. Who is the Union Minister for Minority Affairs ?

(a) Mukhtar Abbas

(b) Raj Nath Singh

(c) Arun Jaitley

(d) Sushma Swaraj

92. India has signed a landmark deal for construction of coal fired power

plant with ______?

(a) Bihar

(b) Gujarat

(c) Madhya Pradesh

(d) Bangladesh

93. World Humanitarian Day is Observed on ?

(a) 16 July

(b) 18 June

(c) 12 August

(d) 3 March

94. Who became the new British Prime Minister ?

(a) Theresa May

(b) Indira Gandhi

(c) Manmohan Singh

(d) Inder Kumar Gujral


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95. Who has been appointed new National Intelligence Grid chief ?

(a) Arun Jaitley

(b) Sushil yadav

(c) Nitish Kumar

(d) Ashok Patnaik

96. Who takes charge as Arunachal Pradesh CM ?

(a) N. Chandrababu Naidu

()b) Nabam Tuki

(c) Sarbananda Sonowal

(d) Nitish Kumar

97. Who has taken over as CMD of the Jute Corporation ?

(a) K V R Murthy

(b) Arundhati Bhattacharya

(c) R.K Mishra

(d) Piyush Goyal

98.What is the Full From of NBCL?

(a) National Building Construction Corporation Limited

(b) Novel Biomarkers Catalyst Labs

(c) Najmi Bilgrami Collaborative Ltd.

(d) National Bilgarmi Collaborative Ltd.

99. Which train has become the fastest train in the country.

(a) Kongu Express

(b) Konark

(c) Maitree

(d) Talgo

100. Which bank has signed MoU with IIT Bombay to promote startups ?

(a) SBI

(b) RBI

(c) IDBI

(d) PNB

101. Malala Day is observed on ?


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(a) August 8

(b) July 12

(c) March 10

(d) June 19

102. What is the full form of UNCTAD ?

(a) United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

(b) United Nations Committee on Trade and Development

(c) United Nations Concataion on Trade and Development

(d) United Nations Conference on Free Trade and Development

103. World Investment Report is published by ?

(a) IBRD

(b) IMF

(c) UNICEF

(d) UNCTAD

104. Who is a new CBSE chairman ?

(a) Rakesh Kumar Chaturvedi

(b) Nitish Kumar

(c) Arun Tiwari

(d) Parveen Bansal

105. World Youth Skills Day is Observed on ?

(a) 17 June

(b) 4 March

(c) 11 May

(d) 15 July

106.What is the Full form of SIT ?

(a) Special Investigation Team

(b) Special Information Tone

(c) Simple Interface Tunnel

(d) Simple Investigation Team

107. Which airlines won World’s best airline Award in Skytrax awards 2016

?


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(a) Eva

(b) Alitalia

(c) Gulf

(d) Emirates

108. Which is the first country in the world to become YAWS-free ?

(a) India

(b) Mumbai

(c) Delhi

(d) Kokata

109. Who has launched online incubator for student start-ups ?

(a) Vinaya Ghoshal

(b) Parveen Bansal

(c) Sudheer kumar

(d) Pinarayi Vijayan

110. Who won Fide Women’s Grand Prix trophy in China ?

(a) Lella Lombardi

(b) Harika Dronavalli

(c) Desiré Wilson

(d) Giovanna Amati

111. Who is Union Health Minister ?

(a) Ananthkumar

(b) Ravi Shankar Prasad

(c) JP Nadda

(d) Arun Jaitley

112. Nelson Mandela International Day is observed on ?

(a) July 18

(b) June 15

(c) March 10

(d) May 6

113. Global Talent Competitiveness Index is published by ?

(a) INSEAD

(b) IPRD

(c) UNISEF

(d) IMF


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114. Who acquired Yatra Online ?

(a) Tiger Internet

(b) Newyork Startups

(c) Makemytrip

(d) Terrapin 3

115. Tata Advanced Systems signs deal with ________India’s aviation and

defense modernization initiatives ?

(a) Airbus

(b) Fedex

(c) Bell Helicopter

(d) Air France

116. Book "Courage & Commitment" authored by_____?

(a) Margaret Alva

(b) Arvind Mallya

(c) Survind Garg

(d) Surbhi Malviya

117. Who was sworn in as the 10th Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh

(Youngest Chief Minister of India)?

(a) Pema Khandu

(b) Tomo Riba

(c) Geogong Apang

(d) Mukut Mithi

118. 11th ASEM Summit issues__________Declaration.

(a) Ulaanbaatar

(b) Baanbaatar

(c) Seham

(d) Paanbaatar

119.What is the Full Form of ASEM ?

(a) Australian-Europe Meeting Summit

(b) American-Europe Meeting Summit

(c) All Europe Meeting Summit

(d) Asia-Europe Meeting Summit

120. World Senior Citizen Day is observed on ?

(a) 12 July

(b) 8 August


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(c) 18 June

(d) 6 March

121. Number of members Countries of International Finance Corporation ?

(a) 178

(b) 166

(c) 184

(d) 109

122. Today which BJP leader has resigned from Rajya Sabha ?

(a) Navjot Singh Sidhu

(b) Amit Shah

(c) Murli Manohar Joshi

(d) Nitin Gadkari

123. Nelson Mandela International Day is observed on ?

(a) 16 June

(b) 2 March

(c) 18 July

(d) 10 May

124. Which financial institution has Constituted an Inter-regulatory

Working Group on Fin Tech and Digital Banking ?

(a) SEBI

(b) RBI

(c) IRDA

(d) Finance Ministry

125. Which Indian domestic airlines started it's operations yesterday ?

(a) Air Asia

(b) Kamak Airlines

(c) Southern East Airlines

(d) Air Carnival

126. How many LPG connections released under PMUY ?

(a) 14 Lakh

(b) 10 Lakh

(c) 8 Lakh

(d) 16 lakh

127. Who won National Squash Championship in Mumbai ?


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(a) Abdul Bari and Dipika

(b) Dipika and Saurav Ghosal

(c) Saurav Ghosal and vinita

(d) Sam Howe and Dipika

128. What is the Currency of Brazil ?

(a) Real

(b) Peso

(c) Guaraní

(d) Pula

129. Global Peace Index is published by ?

(a) UNICEF

(b) IEP

(c) IBRD

(d) IMF

130. Who has been appointed as Chairman of Airports Authority of India ?

Ashok Bharti

Pawan Arora

Prahlat Vasudev

Guruprasad Mohapatra

131. Who has been appointed as Chief Economist of World Bank ?

Kee un Law

Paul Romer

Josh Orlando

Peter Portland

132. India’s first e-court opened at ________?

Chandigarh High Court

Karkardooma Court

Hyderabad High Court

Bombay High Court

133.Who has been appointed as the UNESCO Artist for Peace ?

Kudsi Erguner

Edgar

Matthew Wiley

Peerfly


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134. Who is the number one test crickter as per ICC Test rankings ?

Yasir Shah

Yonus Khan

Imarn Tahir

Misbah Ul Haq

135. What is the currency of Colombia ?

Lev

Lek

Real

Peso

136. Organ Donation Day is observed on ?

6 August

5 June

8 May

10 March

137. Which country has declared a three-month state of emergency after a

failed military coup ?

(a) Libya

(b) Mali

(c) Chad

(d) Turkey

138. Cabinet approved establishment of new AIIMS at _________ ?

(a) Amritsar

(b) Gorakhpur

(c) Nagpur

(d) Dhanbad

139.Who has announced the discovery of 104 new planets outside our solar

system ?

(a) ISRO

(b) MIA

(c) NASA

(d) SLTA


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140. Who has organised a course for umpires on English language and

communication skills ?

(a) BCCI

(b) ICC

(c) IOC

(d) MHRD

141. What is the currency of Gambia ?

(a) Dalasi

(b) Peso

(c) Real

(d) Loti

142.Nagasaki Day is observed on ?

(a) 12 July

(b) 18 June

(c) 9 August

(d) 10 March

143. The Energy Report & Living Planet Report is published by ?

(a) UNICEF

'(b) IMF

(c) IMBRD

(d) WWF (World Wildlife Fund)

144. Who is the CEO of UIDAI ?

(a) Arun Pandey

(b) Ajay Bhushan Pandey

(c) Vishal Verma

(d) Nitish Jain

145. Which Bank has signed an agreement with Reliance Jio Money ?

(a) Canara Bank

(b) Bank of Baroda

(c) Federal Bank

(d) Bank of India

146. IRCTC has joined hands with ______ to promote rail ticketing ?

(a) SBI

(b) RBI


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(c) CBI

(d) IDBI

147.Which state govt forms judicial panel for reforms in Jagannath temple

management ?

(a) Bihar

(b) Gujarat

(c) Bangal

(d) Odisha

148. India has signed a Social Security Agreement with ________ ?

(a) India and Gujarat

(b) India and Australia

(c) India and Japan

(d) India and Karnal

149. What is the Full form of PATA ?

(a) Pacific Asia Travel Association

(b) Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment

(c) Proper Advanced Technology Attachment

(d) Parallel Advanced Technology Association

150. What is the currency of Canada ?

(a) Canadian dollar

(b) Canadian Peso

(c) Real

(d) lev

151. Foundation stone laid for MSME technology center in _____ ?

(a) Visakhapatnam

(b) Chennai

(c) Gujarat

(d) Surat

152. Who is the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh ?

(a) N Chandrababu Naidu

(b) Devendra Fadnavis

(c) Pema Khandu

(d) Durga Das basu


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153. Which government has launched first ever Water Metro project in the

country ?

(a) Gujarat

(b) Bihar

(c) Maharshtra

(d) Kerala Government

154. Who has inaugurated 114-km long Rameswaram-Mana Madurai routes

?

(a) Nitish Kumar

(b) Arun jaitley

(c) Suresh Prabhu

(d) Vivek Bansal

155. First green rail corridor opens in _____?

(a) Mumbai

(b) Tamil Nadu

(c) Maharashtra

(d) Chennai

156. Who is launched pilot project of e-complaint system ?

(a) Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis

(b) Pema Khandu

(c) Durga Das basu

(d) Sarbananda Sonowal

157. What is the Full form of NSE ?

(a) National Stock Exchange

(b) National Science Exhibition

(c) New Delhi Stock Exchange

(d) NCR Stock Exchange

158.Who have been honoured with 'Mahanayak award' ?

(a) Goutam Ghose, Udit Narayan

(b) Goutam Ghose,Alka Yagnik

(c) Goutam Ghose, A.R. Rahman

(d) Goutam Ghose, Bappi Lahiri

159. Who become 1st Indian to set world record in Jr athletics

Championship ?


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(a) Asha Agarwal

(b) Neeraj Chopra (Javelin Thrower)

(c) Ashwani

(d) Geeta singh

160. National Sports Day is observed on ?

(a) August 29

(b) 22 June

(c) 12 July

(d) 25 May

161. Who won Hungarian Grand Prix of F1 in 2016 ?

(a) Daniel Ricciardo

(b) Lewis Hamilton

(c) Nico Rosberg

(d) Daniil Kvyat

162. Who is the COO of the ITC Ltd ?

(a) Vijay Kumar

(b) Sameer Rao

(c) Arun panday

(d) Sanjiv Puri

163.Who won Swiss Open Gstaad 2016 ?

(a) Feliciano Lope

(b) R. Haase

(c) D. Brown

(d) P. Mathieu

164. Indian shooters Manavaditya and Anant clinch Bronze in Junior World

Cup in ____?

(a) Canada

(b) Pune

(c) Italy

(d) Delhi

165. RBI has imposed Rs.5 crore fine on a bank for FOREX transactions

irregularities, name the bank ?

(a) Bank of Baroda

(b) Bank of Canara

(c) Bank of India


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(d) Bank of Patiyala

166. What is the Currency of Mexico ?

(a) Lev

(b) Peso

(c) Real

(d) Euro

167. International day of charity is observed on ?

(a) 5 September

(b) 12 October

(c) 3 November

(d) 10 June

168. Name the Nepal’s Prime Minister who recently resigned ?

(a) Bujar Nishani

(b) Ashraf Ghani

(c) Narendra Modi

(d) Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli

169. Kargil Vijay Diwas is Observed on ?

(a) 22 June

(b) 20 March

(c) 26th July

(d) 8 May

170. Who has been appointed as Director General (DG) of National Museum

?

(a) Dr. Budha Rashmi Mani

(b) Ashok Ambre

(c) Surinder Singh

(d) RK Sharma

171. First Water Metro of India launched in _______?

(a) Pune

(b) Kochi

(c) Hydrabad

(d) Lucknow

172. Who has launched Kochi water Metro project ?


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(a) Pinarayi Vijayan

(b) Ashwani singh

(c) Vinay Rajput

(d) Sushil Bansal

173. Yesterday,Who has becomes ICC Number 1 Test bowler ?

(a) A.N . Cook

(b) T.A. Bault

(c) Ravichandran Ashwin

(d) Yasir Shah

174. What is the Currency of Argentina ?

(a) Real

(b) Lev

(c) Euro

(d) Peso

175. Number of member countries of International Centre for Settlement of

Investment Disputes?

(a) 159

(b) 189

(c) 177

(d) 145

176. Who won Ramon Magsaysay Award for 2016 ?

(a) Amitabha Chowdhury

(b) Akhtar Hameed Khan

(c) Bezwada Wilson and TM Krishna

(d) Francisca Reyes-Aquino

177. Govt approved Rs 1,601 crore for Himayat programme in ______

state?

(a) Jammu and Kashmir

(b) Punjab

(c) Himachal

(d) Gujarat

178.Which Bank has used Indian Oil Corporation’s ‘Kisan Seva centres to

serve farmers ?

(a) SBI

(b) RBI


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(c) IDBI

(d) CBI

179. Who has announced Rs.60 lakhs special incentive for Rio Olympic

qualifiers ?

(a) Bihar

(b) Odisha Government

(c) Delhi

(d) Gujarat

180. World Ozone Day is observed on ?

(a) June 10

(b) July 15

(c) August 19'

(d) September 16

181. What is the Currency of Germany ?

(a) Euro

(b) krone

(c) Lev

(d) Zloty

181.Numbers of member countries of IBRD ?

(a) 199

(b) 126

(c) 167

(d) 189

182. World Hepatitis Day is being observed on ?

(a) 22 June

(b) 28 July

(c) 12 August

(d) 19 March

183.Which State Govt has decided to set up de-addiction centres in the

premises of Jails of the State?

(a) Haryana

(b) Odisha

(c) Punjab

(d) Rajasthan


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184.Which football club has announced to award Milkha Singh with Bharat

Gaurav award ?

(a) West Bengal

(b) Mohanbagan

(c) East Bengal

(d) Panaji

185. RBI bank has imposed Rs 27 crore penalty on 13 banks for

__________ ?

(a) FEMA violations

(b) Money laundering

(c) Holding excess liquid assets

(d) Misappropriations in Gold loans cases

186. Which bank has launched debit card-less instant money transfer

facility ?

(a) RBI

(b) ICICI

(c) IDBI

(d) SBI

187.What is the full form of IOC ?

(a) Internal Olympic Committee

(b) International Olympic Community

(c) International Olympic Committee

(d) Internal Olympic Community

188. What is the Currency of Malta ?

(a) Euro

(b) Lek

(c) Peso

(d) Zloty

189. Who is the Chairman of Railway Board ?

(a) R.K Mittal

(b) B.K Kashyap

(c) N.K. Sohal

(d)A K Mittal

190. International Tiger Day is being observed on ?


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(a) 23 June

(b) 29 July

(c) 26 March

(d) 10 August

191.Who is the first woman ever been nominated for President elections by

a major US political party ?

(a) Hillary Clinton

(b) Jill Stein

(c) Shirley Chrilholm

(d) Carol Braun

192. 3rd India Education fair begins in ______?

(a) Chennai

(b) Dhaka

(c) New Delhi

(d) Colombo

193. What is the Currency of Croatia ?

(a) Lev

(b) Zloty

(c) Euro

(d) Kuna

194. European Commission appoints has appointed ___________as its

Chief Negotiator for the United Kingdom’s exit from the bloc.

(a) Tasneem Khan

(b) Jim Carter

(c) Stephan Morkel

(d) Michel Barnier

196. Who won Bharatiya Jnanpith’s 11th Navlekhan award for the year 2015

(a) Amlendu Tiwari, Balram Kawant, Om Naagar and Tasneem Khan

(b) Amar sandhu, vijay Kumar, Nitish Chhopra, Vinay Sohal

(c) Amlendu Tiwari, Balram Kawant, Om Naagar and Vijay Kumar

(d) Amar sandhu, vijay Kumar, Nitish Chhopra and Amit Chuahan

197. Environmental Performance Index is published by

(a) IBRD

(b) WEF

(c) World Bank

(d) UNICEF


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198. Who has been appointed as DGP of Maharashtra Police ?

(a) Sumit Mathur

(b) Satish Mathur

(c) Vijay Bansal

(d) Nitish Kumar

199. Who has flagged off the run for Rio event in New Delhi ?

(a) Narendra Modi

(b) Indira Gandhi

(c) Rajiv Gandhi

(d) Manmohan Singh

200. Pashudhan Bima Yojana for animal husbandry launched in _______

state ?

(a) Gujarat

(b) Bihar

(c) Odisha

(d) Haryana

201. Which govt. has lifted the ban on the sale and consumption of toddy

(palm wine) in the state?

(a) Haryana

(b) Punjab

(c) Lucknow

(d) Bihar Government

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

(a) Hollis Conway

(b) Ralf Sonn

(c) Troy Kemp

(d) Skydiver Luke Aikins

202. Who aquired NetSuite for $9.3 Billion ?

(a) Oracle

(b) Microsoft

( c) Google

(d) AOL

203. Name of JK Rowling’s eighth Harry Potter story released yesterday ?


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(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

204. 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

205. AAAI confers Lifetime Achievement Award to ?

(a) Swaminathan Swamy

(b) Srinivasan Swamy

(c) Jayashankar Reddy

(d) Subash Sikand

206. Who is the Lok Sabha Speaker of India ?

(a) Sumitra Mahajan

(b) Somanath Chatterjee

(c) M Thambidurai

(d) Pratibha Patil

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

(a) Dabang Delhi

(b) Patna Pirate

(c) Puneri Paltan

(d) Bengaluru Bulls

208. Who will continue as head coach of Australia until October 2019 ?

(a) Michael Clarke

(b) Glenn Maxwell

(c) Aaron Finch

(d) Darren Lehmann

209. What is the Full form of IRS ?

(a) Indian Revenue Service

(b) Indian Remote Sensing

(c) Insulin Receptor Substrate

(d) Interest Rate Swap


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210. 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

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

payments ?

(a) Payumoney

(b) Paytm

(c) Mobikwik

(d) Freecharge

212. Who became the first person to jump from 25000 feet without a

parachute or wing suit ?

(a) Luke Aikins

(b) Cristiano Ronaldo

(c) Cahill

(d) Traore

213. What is the currency of Hungary ?

(a) Hungarian Forint

(b) Euro

(c) Lev

(d) Zloty

214. International Youth Day is observed on ?

(a) 14 March

(b) 18 April

(c) 12 August

(d) 23 June

215. 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


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216. Which State govt has decided to recruit transgender persons as jail

warders ?

(a) Gujarat

(b) Bihar

(c) Odisha Govt

(d) Lucknow

217.Which Bank has announced 0.05% reduction in its MCLR ?

(a) IDBI Bank

(b) ICICI Bank

(c) SBI Bank

(d) RBI Bank

218. What is full form of MCLR ?

(a) Marginal Cost of Funds based Lending Rate

(b) Machining Cost of Funds based Lending Rate

(c) Memorial Cost funds Based Lowest Rate

(d) Marginal Cost of Funds based Lowest Rate

219. Who has been appointed as secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi

?

(a) Bhaskar Rao

(b) Vijay Bhandari

(c) Bhaskar Khulbe

(d) Ajay Mittal

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

?

(a) Novak Djokovic

(b) K. Nishikori

(c) G. Monfils

(d) M. Raonic

221. Who won Rogers Cup women’s single in Montreal ?

(a) Dominika Cibulková

(b) Maria Sharapova


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(c) Jelena Janković

(d) Simona Halep

222. 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

223. What is the Currency of Luxembourg ?

(a) Lek

(b) Euro

(c) Zloty

(d) Peso

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