1. Akodara is the first cashless village due to efforts made by ICICI Bank. It is situated in?
1) Gujarat 2) Haryana
3) Maharashtra 4) UP 5) Karnataka
2. Dhasai village in which state became the first cashless village due to initiative of Bank of Baroda in collaboration with NGO Veer Savarkar Pratishthan?
1) Odisha 2) Chhattisgarh
3) Rajasthan 4) Maharashtra 5) Jharkhand
3. Which state declared Ibrahimpur village in the state will be first village to go cashless?
1) AP 2) Jammu and Kashmir
3) Telangana 4) Gujarat 5) Goa
4. Which state joined hands with IDFC Bank to introduce Coupon for Cashless Purchase?
1) Delhi 2) West Bengal
3) Telangana 4) Karnataka 5) Tamil Nadu
5. Palnar village in which state going to become cash less village?
1) Chhattisgarh 2) Jharkhand
3) Odisha 4) MP 5) Meghalaya
6. Bind Toli, Basti, Patsa are the three villages became cash less due to initiative of .........in
Bihar.
1) Union Bank of India 2) Bank of Baroda
3) Punjab National Bank 4) HDFC Bank
5) Indian Overseas Bank
7. First state to adopt a resolution supported the demonetization of high-value currency notes is .......
1) Chhattisgarh 2) Tamil Nadu
3) AP 4) Jharkhand 5) Gujarat
8. Which Indian - UAE young girl was conferred with Children's Peace Prize?
1) Anuradha Prayacchi 2) Prema dhandu
3) Kehkashan Basu
4) Santhosh Naeayanan 5) Trinath Rani
9. Andhra Pradesh launched mobile wallet with the name .......... to help the public in the adoption of cashless payments.
1) AP Purse 2) AP PAY
3) AP POCKET 4) AP VALLET 5) AP GODIGITAL
10. Private sector RBL Bank has launched APBS for small ticket micro-finance loan disbursements. APBS stands for?
1) Aadhaar Payment Bridge System
2) Aadhaar Pal Bridge System
3) Aadhaar Payment Bond System
4) Aadhaar Paid Bridge System
5) Aadhaar Payment Bridge Store
11. APBS through EBT provide basic financial services (cash deposit, balance enquiry, cash withdrawal and remittance) at low-cost access devices called Micro ATMs maintained at business correspondents. In this context, EBT stands for?
1) Electronic Benefit Transfer
2) Electronic Bore Transfer
3) Electronic Benefit Transformation
4) Electric Benefit Transfer
5) Endemic Benefit Transfer
12. Which bank tied up with Spice Digital mobile chain for cash management services through the bank's e-collection facility?
1) Andhra bank 2) ICICI 3) Federal Bank
4) Axis Bank 5) UBI
13. List of recent appointments given. The wrong combination is?
1) Nikki Haley - USA Ambassador to UNO
2) Upma Chowdhary - First women CEO of NSE
3) Meng Hongwei - New president of INTERPOL
4) Pankaj R Patel - FICCI President
5) Rajiv Rishi-Chiarman, Indian Banks Association
14. The recent Appointments / Resignations / Extensions list given. The wrong statement is ........
1) George Yeo resigned as the Chancellor of Nalanda University.
2) Arundhathi Bhattacharya got one year extension as the Chairman of SBI.
3) Deep Kumar Upadhyay was re-appointed as Nepal envoy to India.
4) Junaid Ahmad of Bangladesh taken over as the World Bank's new Country Director for India replacing Onno Ruhl.
5) All of above statements correct
15. India successfully test-fired indigenously developed nuclear capable Prithvi-II missile twice in quick succession as a of a user trial by the army from a test range at Chandipur in?
1) Goa 2) Andhra Pradesh
3) Tamil Nadu 4) Odisha 5) Himachal Pradesh
Answers:
1-1
2-4
3-3
4-3
5-1
6-2
7-1
8-3
9-1
10-1
11-1
12-3
13-2
14-5
15-4.
Showing posts with label General Awareness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label General Awareness. Show all posts
12 December 2024
Latest General Awareness Bits for Bank Clerks, POs and Specialist Officer Exams - 2016
1. India's early paper currency also issued by Bank of Hindostan (1770-1832), and the Bengal Bank (1784-91). Bank of Hindostan established ........
1) Agency house of Loyd Company
2) Agency house of Pittsburg
3) Agency house of Cox Company
4) Agency house of Alexander and Company
5) Agency house of Rodd and Pour Company
2. India's early paper currency issued by General Bank of Bengal and Bahar (1773- 75). This bank established by?
1) Lord Dufferin 2) Lord Curzon
3) William Bentinck 4) Warren Hastings
5) Lord Cornwallis
3. Wide use of paper currency came in to existence, once the paper currency issued by three Presidency banks. Three presidency banks are?
1) Bank of Bengal (1805), Bank of Bombay
(1840) and Bank of Madras (1843)
2) Bank of Bengal (1806), Bank of Bombay
(1842) and Bank of Madras (1843)
3) Bank of Bengal (1806), Bank of Bombay
(1840) and Bank of Madras (1843)
4) Bank of Bengal (1806), Bank of Bombay
(1835) and Bank of Madras (1846)
5) Bank of Bengal (1921), Bank of Bombay
(1945) and Bank of Madras (1955)
4. In which year 'The Paper Currency Act' was passed, conferred ultimate powers to the Government of India to end the monopoly of Note Issue, bringing to an end note issues of Private and Presidency Banks?
1) 1878 2) 1845 3) 1871 4) 1861 5) 1859
5. First set of British India notes were the 'Victoria Portrait' Series. As Victoria series imitated by fake notes, in which year the Under Print Series was introduced?
1) 1867 2) 1866 3) 1891 4) 1901 5) 1911
6. Under Print Series of paper currency remained long time in force in India. Which series introduced in 1923?
1) King's Portrait 2) Queen's Portrait
3) Palace Portrait 4) Sword Portrait
5) Crown Portrait
7. Small denomination notes in India introduced, due to First World War. One Rupee Paper currency was introduced on 30th November ........
1) 1907 2) 1915 3) 1911 4) 1917 5) 1920
8. One Rupee Paper currency issued by British Government in 1917 initially bore the portrait of .......
1) King George VI 2) George I
3) George III 4) George IV 5) King George V
9. King George V series continued the circulation of currency till Reserve Bank of India took over the functions of the Controller of Currency. The highest denomination issued by RBI after take over from British India was?
1) Rs.10,000 2) Rs.1,00,000
3) Rs.50,000 4) Rs.25,000 5) Rs.5,00,000
10. Currency Note Press established at Nasik in Maharashtra in?
1) 1937 2) 1931 3) 1928 4) 1942 5) 1951
11. Reserve Bank of India inaugurated on Monday, April 1, 2024 with its Central Office at ......
1) Pune 2) Nasik 3) Kolkata
4) Mysore 5) Mumbai
12. RBI shifted its central office to Mumbai in ...
1) 1951 2) 1955 3) 1937 4) 1941 5) 1942
13. The first Governor of RBI Sir Osborne Smith did not sign any bank notes. The first Reserve Bank issues were signed by the second Governor of RBI. Who is the second Governor of RBI?
1) Sir J. M. Keynes 2) Adam smith
3) Robbins 4) Prof. Samuelsson 5) Sir James Taylor
14. First time in India, in which year the demonization of higher denomination of Rs.1,000, Rs.5,000, and Rs.10,000 notes declared?
1) 1946 2) 1950 3) 1951 4) 1955 5) 1953
15. Which of the following statement is correct regarding the paper currency issue in Independent India?
1) Government of India brought out the new design Rs.1 note in 1949.
2) King's portrait replaced by inserting Lion Capital at Sarnath.
3) In 1953, Hindi was displayed prominently on the new notes.
4) High denomination notes (Rs.1,000, Rs.5,000, Rs.10,000) were reintroduced in 1954.
5) All of above statements correct
16. In which year the commemorative design series in paper currency introduced in the honour of the birth centenary celebrations of Mahatma Gandhi was issued depicting a seated Gandhi with the Sevagram Ashram as the backdrop?
1) 1989 2) 1975 3) 1991 4) 1969 5) 1997
17. In the early 70's, which committee, a direct tax inquiry committee set up by the government, suggested demonetization as a measure to unearth and counter the spread of black money?
1) Kelkar 2) Rangarajan 3) Sivaraman 4) Wanchoo 5) Sarayu
18. High denomination notes demonetized second time in ....... by Morarji Desai government.
1) 1964 2) 1967 3) 1978 4) 1991 5) 1999
19. Rising demands of a growing economy together with a fall in purchasing power. Rs. 500 paper currency note was introduced in ........... with the portrait of Mahatma Gandhi, having water mark continued to be the Lion Capital, Ashoka Pillar.
1) 1984 2) 1985 3) 1987 4) 1994 5) 1981
20. Economic Affairs Secretary is ........
1) Ashok Lavasa 2) Hashmuck Athia
3) Amitab Khant 4) A B Pandey 5) Shaktikanta Das
Answers:
1-4
2-4
3-3
4-4
5-1
6-1
7-4
8-5
9-1
10-3
11-3
12-3
13-5
14-1
15-5
16-4
17-4
18-3
19-3
20-5
1) Agency house of Loyd Company
2) Agency house of Pittsburg
3) Agency house of Cox Company
4) Agency house of Alexander and Company
5) Agency house of Rodd and Pour Company
2. India's early paper currency issued by General Bank of Bengal and Bahar (1773- 75). This bank established by?
1) Lord Dufferin 2) Lord Curzon
3) William Bentinck 4) Warren Hastings
5) Lord Cornwallis
3. Wide use of paper currency came in to existence, once the paper currency issued by three Presidency banks. Three presidency banks are?
1) Bank of Bengal (1805), Bank of Bombay
(1840) and Bank of Madras (1843)
2) Bank of Bengal (1806), Bank of Bombay
(1842) and Bank of Madras (1843)
3) Bank of Bengal (1806), Bank of Bombay
(1840) and Bank of Madras (1843)
4) Bank of Bengal (1806), Bank of Bombay
(1835) and Bank of Madras (1846)
5) Bank of Bengal (1921), Bank of Bombay
(1945) and Bank of Madras (1955)
4. In which year 'The Paper Currency Act' was passed, conferred ultimate powers to the Government of India to end the monopoly of Note Issue, bringing to an end note issues of Private and Presidency Banks?
1) 1878 2) 1845 3) 1871 4) 1861 5) 1859
5. First set of British India notes were the 'Victoria Portrait' Series. As Victoria series imitated by fake notes, in which year the Under Print Series was introduced?
1) 1867 2) 1866 3) 1891 4) 1901 5) 1911
6. Under Print Series of paper currency remained long time in force in India. Which series introduced in 1923?
1) King's Portrait 2) Queen's Portrait
3) Palace Portrait 4) Sword Portrait
5) Crown Portrait
7. Small denomination notes in India introduced, due to First World War. One Rupee Paper currency was introduced on 30th November ........
1) 1907 2) 1915 3) 1911 4) 1917 5) 1920
8. One Rupee Paper currency issued by British Government in 1917 initially bore the portrait of .......
1) King George VI 2) George I
3) George III 4) George IV 5) King George V
9. King George V series continued the circulation of currency till Reserve Bank of India took over the functions of the Controller of Currency. The highest denomination issued by RBI after take over from British India was?
1) Rs.10,000 2) Rs.1,00,000
3) Rs.50,000 4) Rs.25,000 5) Rs.5,00,000
10. Currency Note Press established at Nasik in Maharashtra in?
1) 1937 2) 1931 3) 1928 4) 1942 5) 1951
11. Reserve Bank of India inaugurated on Monday, April 1, 2024 with its Central Office at ......
1) Pune 2) Nasik 3) Kolkata
4) Mysore 5) Mumbai
12. RBI shifted its central office to Mumbai in ...
1) 1951 2) 1955 3) 1937 4) 1941 5) 1942
13. The first Governor of RBI Sir Osborne Smith did not sign any bank notes. The first Reserve Bank issues were signed by the second Governor of RBI. Who is the second Governor of RBI?
1) Sir J. M. Keynes 2) Adam smith
3) Robbins 4) Prof. Samuelsson 5) Sir James Taylor
14. First time in India, in which year the demonization of higher denomination of Rs.1,000, Rs.5,000, and Rs.10,000 notes declared?
1) 1946 2) 1950 3) 1951 4) 1955 5) 1953
15. Which of the following statement is correct regarding the paper currency issue in Independent India?
1) Government of India brought out the new design Rs.1 note in 1949.
2) King's portrait replaced by inserting Lion Capital at Sarnath.
3) In 1953, Hindi was displayed prominently on the new notes.
4) High denomination notes (Rs.1,000, Rs.5,000, Rs.10,000) were reintroduced in 1954.
5) All of above statements correct
16. In which year the commemorative design series in paper currency introduced in the honour of the birth centenary celebrations of Mahatma Gandhi was issued depicting a seated Gandhi with the Sevagram Ashram as the backdrop?
1) 1989 2) 1975 3) 1991 4) 1969 5) 1997
17. In the early 70's, which committee, a direct tax inquiry committee set up by the government, suggested demonetization as a measure to unearth and counter the spread of black money?
1) Kelkar 2) Rangarajan 3) Sivaraman 4) Wanchoo 5) Sarayu
18. High denomination notes demonetized second time in ....... by Morarji Desai government.
1) 1964 2) 1967 3) 1978 4) 1991 5) 1999
19. Rising demands of a growing economy together with a fall in purchasing power. Rs. 500 paper currency note was introduced in ........... with the portrait of Mahatma Gandhi, having water mark continued to be the Lion Capital, Ashoka Pillar.
1) 1984 2) 1985 3) 1987 4) 1994 5) 1981
20. Economic Affairs Secretary is ........
1) Ashok Lavasa 2) Hashmuck Athia
3) Amitab Khant 4) A B Pandey 5) Shaktikanta Das
Answers:
1-4
2-4
3-3
4-4
5-1
6-1
7-4
8-5
9-1
10-3
11-3
12-3
13-5
14-1
15-5
16-4
17-4
18-3
19-3
20-5
10 November 2024
General Awareness Latest Bits for IBPS Clerks, POs, RRB Exams - 2016
1. India and Myanmar signed three Agreements during India visit of state Counsellor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi. The agreements are in the fields of insurance, power and ........
1) Infrastructure 2) Lake development
3) Information Technology 4) Banking 5) Disaster Management
2. Three year action plan of the NITI Aayog will kick start from which fiscal year as announced on 25 October 2016?
1) 2018-19 2) 2020-21
3) 2019-20 4) 2025-26 5) 2017-18
3. Finance Ministry returned a proposal of NITI Aayog for strategic disinvestment of the Centre's stake in CONCOR on the ground, that the move could potentially lead to a public sector monopoly becoming a private sector monopoly. In this context, CONCOR stands for ..................
1) Container Corporation of India Ltd
2) Coastal Corporation of India Ltd
3) Container Consortium of India Ltd
4) Cable Corporation of India Ltd
5) Container Console of India Ltd
4. Niti Aayog stands for .............
1) National Integration for Transforming India
2) National Institution for Turning India
3) Nordic Institution for Transforming India
4) National Institution for Transforming India
5) National Institution for Transforming Initiation
5. NITI Aayog constituted to replace the Planning Commission instituted in 1950. The replacement was done in order to better serve the needs and aspirations of the people of India. Who is the chairman of NITI Aayog?
1) Finance Minister 2) Union Minister for Trade and Commerce
3) Director, Enforcement Directorate 4) Prime Minister
5) Minister of State for Finance
6. NITI Aayog was formed via a resolution of the Union Cabinet on 1 January ...........
1) 1950 2) 1964 3) 1997 4) 2015 5) 2012
7. With a view to bringing the CRAR of RRBs to at least 9%, which committee recommended recapitalisation support to the extent of Rs. 2,200 crore to 40 RRBs in 21 States?
1) Usha Thorat 2) Narasimhan
3) K C Chakrabarty 4) H R Khan 5) Bibek Debroy
8. Who is CEO of NITI Aayog, who worked recently as Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP)?
1) Ajay Bhushan Pandey 2) A S Kiran Kumar
3) Amitabh Kant 4) Satya Nadella 5) Sunder Pitchai
9. Which of the following books not written by Arvind Panagariya?
1) India's Tryst with Destiny
2) Sweet Dreams : A Bedtime Storybook Collection
3) Eclipse
4) State Level Reforms, Growth and Development in Indian States
5) Regionalism in Trade Policy : Essays on Preferential Trading
10. NITI Aayog constituted the Task Force on Agriculture Development, headed by ........
1) Raghuram Rajan 2) Amith Mithra
3) Radha Mohan Singh 4) Arvind Panagariya 5) Prakash Singh Badal
11. Full time Members of NITI Aayog are Prof. Ramesh Chand, Prof.V.K.Saraswat and ......
1) Bibek Debroy 2) Pami Dua
3) Chetan Ghate 4) Ravindra Dholakia 5) Michael Debabrata Patra
12. Rashtriya Ekta Diwas observed on ....... with 'Integration of India' as the theme, the day is
the birth day of Sardar Vallabhai Patel.
1) 15 September 2) 5 September
3) 31 October 4) 2 October 5) 14 November
13. First meeting of National Committee on Trade Facilitation (NCTF) stressed the need for higher standards of excellence so that the trade eco system becomes more growth oriented. Who is the chairman of NCTF?
1) Cabinet Secretary P.K.Sinha
2) Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa
3) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
4) Minister of State for Finance Santosh Kumar Gangwar
5) Minister of State for Communications Manoj Sinha
14. NCTF is a mandatory requirement under Article 23.2 of the WTO Agreement on Trade Facilitation and NCTF secretariat located at ........
1) Hyderabad 2) Chennai 3) Mumbai 4) New Delhi 5) Guwahati
15. 2017 WTO Ministerial Conference host nation is ..........................
1) India 2) Argentina 3) Germany
4) Japan 5) Switzerland
16. WTO head office located at Geneva. WTO chairman is ...................
1) Suma Chakrabarti, India 2) Klaus Schwab, Germany
3) Robert Azevado, Brazil 4) Jean Claude Junker, Luxemburg
5) Donald Tusk, Poland
17. The WTO officially commenced on 1 January 2024 under ........ signed by 123 nations on 15 April 1994, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
1) Geneva Protocol 2) Bretton Woods Conference
3) Paris Agreement 4) New Delhi Declaration
5) Marrakesh Agreement
18. First ever National Ayurveda Day celebrated throughout the country on the occasion
of Dhanwantari Jayanti on ........
1) 28 October 2) 30 October
3) 3 October 4) 8 October 5) 7 April
Answers:
1-4
2-5
3-1
4-4
5-4
6-4
7-3
8-3
9-3
10-4
11-1
12-3
13-1
14-4
15-2
16-3
17-5
18-1.
1) Infrastructure 2) Lake development
3) Information Technology 4) Banking 5) Disaster Management
2. Three year action plan of the NITI Aayog will kick start from which fiscal year as announced on 25 October 2016?
1) 2018-19 2) 2020-21
3) 2019-20 4) 2025-26 5) 2017-18
3. Finance Ministry returned a proposal of NITI Aayog for strategic disinvestment of the Centre's stake in CONCOR on the ground, that the move could potentially lead to a public sector monopoly becoming a private sector monopoly. In this context, CONCOR stands for ..................
1) Container Corporation of India Ltd
2) Coastal Corporation of India Ltd
3) Container Consortium of India Ltd
4) Cable Corporation of India Ltd
5) Container Console of India Ltd
4. Niti Aayog stands for .............
1) National Integration for Transforming India
2) National Institution for Turning India
3) Nordic Institution for Transforming India
4) National Institution for Transforming India
5) National Institution for Transforming Initiation
5. NITI Aayog constituted to replace the Planning Commission instituted in 1950. The replacement was done in order to better serve the needs and aspirations of the people of India. Who is the chairman of NITI Aayog?
1) Finance Minister 2) Union Minister for Trade and Commerce
3) Director, Enforcement Directorate 4) Prime Minister
5) Minister of State for Finance
6. NITI Aayog was formed via a resolution of the Union Cabinet on 1 January ...........
1) 1950 2) 1964 3) 1997 4) 2015 5) 2012
7. With a view to bringing the CRAR of RRBs to at least 9%, which committee recommended recapitalisation support to the extent of Rs. 2,200 crore to 40 RRBs in 21 States?
1) Usha Thorat 2) Narasimhan
3) K C Chakrabarty 4) H R Khan 5) Bibek Debroy
8. Who is CEO of NITI Aayog, who worked recently as Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP)?
1) Ajay Bhushan Pandey 2) A S Kiran Kumar
3) Amitabh Kant 4) Satya Nadella 5) Sunder Pitchai
9. Which of the following books not written by Arvind Panagariya?
1) India's Tryst with Destiny
2) Sweet Dreams : A Bedtime Storybook Collection
3) Eclipse
4) State Level Reforms, Growth and Development in Indian States
5) Regionalism in Trade Policy : Essays on Preferential Trading
10. NITI Aayog constituted the Task Force on Agriculture Development, headed by ........
1) Raghuram Rajan 2) Amith Mithra
3) Radha Mohan Singh 4) Arvind Panagariya 5) Prakash Singh Badal
11. Full time Members of NITI Aayog are Prof. Ramesh Chand, Prof.V.K.Saraswat and ......
1) Bibek Debroy 2) Pami Dua
3) Chetan Ghate 4) Ravindra Dholakia 5) Michael Debabrata Patra
12. Rashtriya Ekta Diwas observed on ....... with 'Integration of India' as the theme, the day is
the birth day of Sardar Vallabhai Patel.
1) 15 September 2) 5 September
3) 31 October 4) 2 October 5) 14 November
13. First meeting of National Committee on Trade Facilitation (NCTF) stressed the need for higher standards of excellence so that the trade eco system becomes more growth oriented. Who is the chairman of NCTF?
1) Cabinet Secretary P.K.Sinha
2) Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa
3) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
4) Minister of State for Finance Santosh Kumar Gangwar
5) Minister of State for Communications Manoj Sinha
14. NCTF is a mandatory requirement under Article 23.2 of the WTO Agreement on Trade Facilitation and NCTF secretariat located at ........
1) Hyderabad 2) Chennai 3) Mumbai 4) New Delhi 5) Guwahati
15. 2017 WTO Ministerial Conference host nation is ..........................
1) India 2) Argentina 3) Germany
4) Japan 5) Switzerland
16. WTO head office located at Geneva. WTO chairman is ...................
1) Suma Chakrabarti, India 2) Klaus Schwab, Germany
3) Robert Azevado, Brazil 4) Jean Claude Junker, Luxemburg
5) Donald Tusk, Poland
17. The WTO officially commenced on 1 January 2024 under ........ signed by 123 nations on 15 April 1994, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
1) Geneva Protocol 2) Bretton Woods Conference
3) Paris Agreement 4) New Delhi Declaration
5) Marrakesh Agreement
18. First ever National Ayurveda Day celebrated throughout the country on the occasion
of Dhanwantari Jayanti on ........
1) 28 October 2) 30 October
3) 3 October 4) 8 October 5) 7 April
Answers:
1-4
2-5
3-1
4-4
5-4
6-4
7-3
8-3
9-3
10-4
11-1
12-3
13-1
14-4
15-2
16-3
17-5
18-1.
General Awareness Latest Questions for All IBPS Bank Exams - November 2016
1. Regional Rural Banks were established under the President of India Ordinance issued in ..................
1) 1985 2) 1990 3) 1975 4) 1935 5) 1955
2. In which year, the RRB Act was passed with a view to develop the rural economy by providing, for the purpose of development of agriculture, trade, commerce, industry and other productive activities in the rural areas?
1) 1982 2) 2015 3) 1990 4) 1976 5) 1935
3. First Regional Rural Bank - Prathama Bank opened on 2 October 2024 in the district of Moradabad in...............
1) Uttar Pradesh 2) Karnataka
3) Andhra Pradesh 4) Tamilnadu 5) MP
4. Central government stake in RRB is ............
1) 40% 2) 80% 3) 50% 4) 100% 5) 20%
5. State government stake in the RRB is ....... percent.
1) 50 2) 35 3) 40 4) 15 5) 100
6. Sponsored bank stake in RRB is ........
1) 30% 2) 40% 3) 100% 4) 35% 5) 15%
7. Financial regulation of RRBs seen after by......
1) RBI 2) SEBI 3) PFRDA 4) IBRD 5) NHB
8. Supervisory powers of RRBs have been vested with.........
1) PFRDA 2) SIDBI 3) ODA 4) NABARD 5) CCI
9. Find the wrong combination relating to the RRB and its sponsored Bank.
1) Andhra Pradesh Grameena Vikas Bank - ICICI
2) Andhra Pragathi Grameena Bank - Syndicate Bank
3) Telangana Grameena Bank - SBH
4) Chaitanya Godavari Grameena Bank - Andhra Bank
5) Saptagiri Grameena Bank - Indian Bank
10. RBI in 2001 constituted a Committee under the Chairmanship of ........ on 'Flow of Credit to Agriculture and Related Activities from
the Banking System' which examined relevance of RRBs in the rural credit system and the alternatives for making it viable.
1) Chakrabarty 2) Narasimhan
3) Dr V S Vyas 4) Rangarajan 5) Usha Thorat
11. NRBI mooted for the efficient working of RRBs. NRBI means ..........
1) National Regional Bank of India
2) Now Rural Bank of India
3) National Run Bank of India
4) National Rural Bank of India
5) None
12. RRB Act passed in April 2015 facilitates raising the share capital of RRBs from the Rs. 5 crore to ...........
1) Rs.500 crore 2) Rs.400 crore
3) Rs.2,000 crore 4) Rs.100 crore 5) Rs. 50 crore
14. As per the revised guidelines of Reserve Bank of India, the priority sector lending target for Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) increased to .................. from the earlier target of 60%.
1) 75% 2) 80% 3) 100% 4) 90% 5) 95%
15. The Priority sector lending of RRBs include the loans given to .....
1) Agriculture
2) Micro, small and medium enterprises
3) Housing 4) Weaker sections
5) All of above
16. As per the new norms released, Rural banks have to advance ...... of total outstanding towards agricultural activities as part of Priority Sector Lending.
1) 18% 2) 15% 3) 25% 4) 7% 5) 10%
17. A target of .......... percent of total outstanding must be given to micro enterprises as part of Priority Sector Lending by RRBs
1) 7.5% 2) 10.5% 3) 6.8% 4) 8.2% 5) 11.5%
18. How much percent of total outstanding must be given to weaker sections as per the new norms of Priority Sector Lending by RRBs?
1) 20% 2) 12% 3) 15% 4) 9% 5) 10%
19. Central Vigilance Commission on 31 October 2024 declared that it is mandatory for public sector banks to report to it, in all such matters involving funds over ........
1) Rs.50 Lakhs 2) Rs.25 Lakhs
3) Rs.1 crore 4) Rs.10 Lakhs 5) Rs.20 Lakhs
20. Union Government and ......... signed $ 650 million loan agreement for the development of 1839 kilometres Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor-III (EDFC-III) Project.
1) World Bank 2) NDB 3) IMF 4) ADB 5) AIIB
Answers:
1-3, 2-4, 3-1, 4-3, 5-4, 6-4, 7-1, 8-4, 9-1, 10-3, 11-4, 12-3, 13-4, 14-1, 15-5, 16-1, 17-1, 18-3, 19-3, 20-1.
1) 1985 2) 1990 3) 1975 4) 1935 5) 1955
2. In which year, the RRB Act was passed with a view to develop the rural economy by providing, for the purpose of development of agriculture, trade, commerce, industry and other productive activities in the rural areas?
1) 1982 2) 2015 3) 1990 4) 1976 5) 1935
3. First Regional Rural Bank - Prathama Bank opened on 2 October 2024 in the district of Moradabad in...............
1) Uttar Pradesh 2) Karnataka
3) Andhra Pradesh 4) Tamilnadu 5) MP
4. Central government stake in RRB is ............
1) 40% 2) 80% 3) 50% 4) 100% 5) 20%
5. State government stake in the RRB is ....... percent.
1) 50 2) 35 3) 40 4) 15 5) 100
6. Sponsored bank stake in RRB is ........
1) 30% 2) 40% 3) 100% 4) 35% 5) 15%
7. Financial regulation of RRBs seen after by......
1) RBI 2) SEBI 3) PFRDA 4) IBRD 5) NHB
8. Supervisory powers of RRBs have been vested with.........
1) PFRDA 2) SIDBI 3) ODA 4) NABARD 5) CCI
9. Find the wrong combination relating to the RRB and its sponsored Bank.
1) Andhra Pradesh Grameena Vikas Bank - ICICI
2) Andhra Pragathi Grameena Bank - Syndicate Bank
3) Telangana Grameena Bank - SBH
4) Chaitanya Godavari Grameena Bank - Andhra Bank
5) Saptagiri Grameena Bank - Indian Bank
10. RBI in 2001 constituted a Committee under the Chairmanship of ........ on 'Flow of Credit to Agriculture and Related Activities from
the Banking System' which examined relevance of RRBs in the rural credit system and the alternatives for making it viable.
1) Chakrabarty 2) Narasimhan
3) Dr V S Vyas 4) Rangarajan 5) Usha Thorat
11. NRBI mooted for the efficient working of RRBs. NRBI means ..........
1) National Regional Bank of India
2) Now Rural Bank of India
3) National Run Bank of India
4) National Rural Bank of India
5) None
12. RRB Act passed in April 2015 facilitates raising the share capital of RRBs from the Rs. 5 crore to ...........
1) Rs.500 crore 2) Rs.400 crore
3) Rs.2,000 crore 4) Rs.100 crore 5) Rs. 50 crore
14. As per the revised guidelines of Reserve Bank of India, the priority sector lending target for Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) increased to .................. from the earlier target of 60%.
1) 75% 2) 80% 3) 100% 4) 90% 5) 95%
15. The Priority sector lending of RRBs include the loans given to .....
1) Agriculture
2) Micro, small and medium enterprises
3) Housing 4) Weaker sections
5) All of above
16. As per the new norms released, Rural banks have to advance ...... of total outstanding towards agricultural activities as part of Priority Sector Lending.
1) 18% 2) 15% 3) 25% 4) 7% 5) 10%
17. A target of .......... percent of total outstanding must be given to micro enterprises as part of Priority Sector Lending by RRBs
1) 7.5% 2) 10.5% 3) 6.8% 4) 8.2% 5) 11.5%
18. How much percent of total outstanding must be given to weaker sections as per the new norms of Priority Sector Lending by RRBs?
1) 20% 2) 12% 3) 15% 4) 9% 5) 10%
19. Central Vigilance Commission on 31 October 2024 declared that it is mandatory for public sector banks to report to it, in all such matters involving funds over ........
1) Rs.50 Lakhs 2) Rs.25 Lakhs
3) Rs.1 crore 4) Rs.10 Lakhs 5) Rs.20 Lakhs
20. Union Government and ......... signed $ 650 million loan agreement for the development of 1839 kilometres Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor-III (EDFC-III) Project.
1) World Bank 2) NDB 3) IMF 4) ADB 5) AIIB
Answers:
1-3, 2-4, 3-1, 4-3, 5-4, 6-4, 7-1, 8-4, 9-1, 10-3, 11-4, 12-3, 13-4, 14-1, 15-5, 16-1, 17-1, 18-3, 19-3, 20-1.
28 October 2024
General Awareness Latest Questions for Bank Clerks, POs, RRBs and Specialist Officers Exams - 2016
1. Who is the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power, Coal and New and Renewable Energy and Mines?
1) Rao Inderjit Singh
2) Bandaru Dattatreya
3) Piyush Goel
4) Dharmendra Pradhan
5) Shripad Yasso Naik
2. List of Union Minister of State (Independent Charge ) given. Locate the wrong combination.
1) Rajiv Pratap Rudy - Skill Development & Entrepreneurship
2) Manoj Sinha - Development of North Eastern Region
3) Vijay Goel - Youth Affairs and Sports
4) Nirmala Sitharaman - Commerce and Industry
5) Anil Madhav Dave - Environment, Forest and Climate Change
3. Union Power Minister launched 'DEEP', the e-Bidding portal allows for medium term (1-5 years) purchase of power. DEEP stands for ........
1) Discovery of Efficient Electricity Price
2) Denomination of Efficient Electricity Price
3) Discovery of Efficient Empowered Price
4) Dynamic of Efficient Electricity Price
5) Discovery of End Electricity Price
4. Union Power Minister launched the web platform for e-bidding and e-reverse auction for Tariff Based Competitive Bidding (TBCB) in transmission projects. It is .......
1) e-Trans 2) e-commerce 3) e-paper 4) e-Fuse 5) e-card
5. Union Government recently released Direct Selling Guidelines 2016 framework .......
1) to protect consumers from Ponzi frauds
2) to save small traders from the new guidelines Companies Act
3) to initiate the guidelines for GST council to frame GST Percentages
4) to switch on for initiation of Second generation of National Financial
5) to guide banks not to do direct selling to its customers
6. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on 8 August 2016, denied any regulatory purview over ponzi schemes. It said it is responsibility of whom to protect the investors from ponzi Schemes?
1) RBI 2) IRDAI 3) Union Government 4) TRAI 5) State governments
7. Which state launched the Kaushalya SETU (Self-Employment and Talent Utilization) initiative, a skill development program for students on 19 October 2016?
1) AP 2) Telangana 3) Maharashtra 4) Assam 5) Meghalaya
8. Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council reached a consensus that the states would be compensated for any loss of revenue after implementation of the new indirect tax regime. Base year for calculating the revenue of a state would be ........
1) 2014-15 2) 2015-16 3) 2016-17
4) 2013-14 5) 2011-12
9. The GST Council headed by Arun Jaitley said the secular growth rate of ....would be taken for calculating the likely revenue of each state in the first five years of implementation of GST.
1) 18% 2) 21% 3) 12% 4) 26% 5) 14%
10. Peoples Resurgence and Justice Alliance (PRJA) floated by.... who ended 16-year long fasting and demanding repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act from Manipur.
1) Irom Sharmila 2) Mukul Sangma
3) Ibobi Singh 4) Manik Sarkar 5) Lal Thanwala
11. The facts of Manipur given. The correct statement is .......
1) Capital is Imphal
2) Chief minister is Okram Ibobi Singh
3) Governor is Najma Heptulla
4) Keibul Lamjao National Park is in Manipur
5) All of above
12. First Global Conference on Voter Education titled 'Voter Education for Inclusive, Informed and Ethical Participation' is being organized by the Election Commission of India in association with UNDP from 19th to 21st October, 2016 at .......
1) New Delhi 2) Mumbai 3) Hyderabad 4) Jaipur 5) Chennai
Answers:
1-3
2-2
3-1
4-1
5-1
6-5
7-3
8-2
9-5
10-1
11-5
12-1.
1) Rao Inderjit Singh
2) Bandaru Dattatreya
3) Piyush Goel
4) Dharmendra Pradhan
5) Shripad Yasso Naik
2. List of Union Minister of State (Independent Charge ) given. Locate the wrong combination.
1) Rajiv Pratap Rudy - Skill Development & Entrepreneurship
2) Manoj Sinha - Development of North Eastern Region
3) Vijay Goel - Youth Affairs and Sports
4) Nirmala Sitharaman - Commerce and Industry
5) Anil Madhav Dave - Environment, Forest and Climate Change
3. Union Power Minister launched 'DEEP', the e-Bidding portal allows for medium term (1-5 years) purchase of power. DEEP stands for ........
1) Discovery of Efficient Electricity Price
2) Denomination of Efficient Electricity Price
3) Discovery of Efficient Empowered Price
4) Dynamic of Efficient Electricity Price
5) Discovery of End Electricity Price
4. Union Power Minister launched the web platform for e-bidding and e-reverse auction for Tariff Based Competitive Bidding (TBCB) in transmission projects. It is .......
1) e-Trans 2) e-commerce 3) e-paper 4) e-Fuse 5) e-card
5. Union Government recently released Direct Selling Guidelines 2016 framework .......
1) to protect consumers from Ponzi frauds
2) to save small traders from the new guidelines Companies Act
3) to initiate the guidelines for GST council to frame GST Percentages
4) to switch on for initiation of Second generation of National Financial
5) to guide banks not to do direct selling to its customers
6. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on 8 August 2016, denied any regulatory purview over ponzi schemes. It said it is responsibility of whom to protect the investors from ponzi Schemes?
1) RBI 2) IRDAI 3) Union Government 4) TRAI 5) State governments
7. Which state launched the Kaushalya SETU (Self-Employment and Talent Utilization) initiative, a skill development program for students on 19 October 2016?
1) AP 2) Telangana 3) Maharashtra 4) Assam 5) Meghalaya
8. Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council reached a consensus that the states would be compensated for any loss of revenue after implementation of the new indirect tax regime. Base year for calculating the revenue of a state would be ........
1) 2014-15 2) 2015-16 3) 2016-17
4) 2013-14 5) 2011-12
9. The GST Council headed by Arun Jaitley said the secular growth rate of ....would be taken for calculating the likely revenue of each state in the first five years of implementation of GST.
1) 18% 2) 21% 3) 12% 4) 26% 5) 14%
10. Peoples Resurgence and Justice Alliance (PRJA) floated by.... who ended 16-year long fasting and demanding repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act from Manipur.
1) Irom Sharmila 2) Mukul Sangma
3) Ibobi Singh 4) Manik Sarkar 5) Lal Thanwala
11. The facts of Manipur given. The correct statement is .......
1) Capital is Imphal
2) Chief minister is Okram Ibobi Singh
3) Governor is Najma Heptulla
4) Keibul Lamjao National Park is in Manipur
5) All of above
12. First Global Conference on Voter Education titled 'Voter Education for Inclusive, Informed and Ethical Participation' is being organized by the Election Commission of India in association with UNDP from 19th to 21st October, 2016 at .......
1) New Delhi 2) Mumbai 3) Hyderabad 4) Jaipur 5) Chennai
Answers:
1-3
2-2
3-1
4-1
5-1
6-5
7-3
8-2
9-5
10-1
11-5
12-1.
Latest General Awareness MCQs for Bank Clerks, POs, RRBs and Other Exams - 2016
1. Operating Guidelines for Small Finance banks issued by RBI on 6 October 2016. The guidelines for Licensing of Small Finance Banks earlier passed by RBI on.....
1) 1 June 2024
2) 26 February 2024
3) 1 February 2024
4) 21 December 2023
5) 27 November 2024
2. Minimum Capital Requirement for Small Finance Banks is ..... as per the guidelines issued on 6 October 2016.
1) 9% 2) 10% 3) 15% 4) 21% 5) 11.5%
3. Tier 1 common capital ratio is a measurement of a bank's core equity capital compared with its total risk-weighted assets that signifies a bank's financial strength. As per operating guidelines, for Small Finance Banks, the Common Equity Tier 1 is .......
1) 7% 2) 8.5% 3) 10% 4) 9.8% 5) 6%
4. LCR applicable to Small Finance banks also. LCR refers to highly liquid assets held by financial institutions to meet short-term obligations. The ratio is a generic stress test that aims to anticipate market-wide shocks. It is designed to ensure financial institutions have the necessary assets on hand to ride out short-term liquidity disruptions. In this context, LCR stands for ......
1) Loan Coverage Ratio
2) Liquidity Coverage Ratio
3) Lean Coverage Ratio
4) Leap Coverage Ratio
5) LIBOR Coverage Ratio
5. The aim to provide licenses to small banks is .......
1) supply of credit to small business units
2) help the small and marginal farmers
3) to help micro and small industries
4) to help the unorganized sector
5) All of above
6. The Minimum paid-up equity capital for small finance banks shall be .....
1) Rs.1000 crore 2) Rs.5000 crore
3) Rs.500 crore 4) Rs.10 crore
5) Rs.100 crore
7. Promoter's minimum initial contribution to the paid-up equity capital of such small finance banks shall at least be 40% and gradually brought down to 26% within ......
1) 12 years 2) 6 years
3) 10 years 4) 20 years 5) 8 years
8. The eligibility to become the Promoter for Small Finance Banks is .........
1) Resident individuals/professionals with 10 years of experience in banking and finance
2) Non-Banking Finance Companies
3) Micro Finance Institutions
4) Local Area Banks
5) All of above
9. The Foreign shareholding in the small banks allowed up to .........
1) 30% 2) 20% 3) 51% 4) 64%
5) as per the FDI policy for private sector banks as amended from time to time
10. As per the guidelines of RBI, the Small finance banks will be required to extend ....of its Adjusted Net Bank Credit (ANBC) to the sectors eligible for classification as Priority Sector Lending (PSL) by the Reserve Bank of India.
1) 75 % 2) 50% 3) 40% 4) 25% 5) 85%
11. As per the RBI guidelines, the small banks should see at least 50% of its loan portfolio should constitute loans and advances of up to .......
1) Rs.25 lakh 2) Rs.50 lakh
3) Rs.75 lakh 4) Rs.5 lakh 5) Rs.50,000
12. Small Finance Banks will be allowed exemption from the existing regulatory ceiling on inter-bank borrowings till the existing loans mature or up to ........... years, whichever is earlier.
1) four 2) six 3) eight 4) three 5) five
13. India's Ambassador to UN Conference on Disarmament, Geneva is .....
1) Syed Akabruddin 2) Navtej Singh Sarna
3) Dinesh K Patnaik 4) Amandeep Singh Gill
5) Sushma Swaraj
14. Prime Minister on 18 October 2024 launched the Zero Defect, Zero Effect (ZED) scheme for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) at Ludhiana in ....
1) Punjab 2) Haryana
3) Uttarakhand 4) MP 5) Chhattisgarh
15. Which scheme's objective is to accelerate access to high quality family planning choices based on information, reliable services and supplies within a rights-based framework?
1) Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gramin Kaushalya Yozana
2) E-Nam 3) Parivar Vikas
4) Sardar Vallabhai Patel Rurban Mission
5) Mission Kakatiya
16. On 16 September 2016, the Union Tourism Minister approved projects worth of ..... for integrated development of Tourist facilities in Jammu and Kashmir under 'Swadesh Darshan Scheme'.
1) Rs.100 crore 2) Rs.1500 crore
3) Rs.300 crore 4) Rs.250 crore
5) Rs.500 crore
17. Under the Government of India's Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All (UJALA), which state became the first state to distribute 2 crore LED bulbs?
1) Gujarat 2) AP
3) Rajasthan 4) Karnataka 5) Tamilnadu
18. On 1 September 2016, Gujarat signed for the Centre's RCS to improve unserved and underserved airports and runways in smaller towns. In this context, RCS stands for...
1) Roll Connectivity Scheme
2) Regional Contact Scheme
3) Regional Combat Scheme
4) Reign Connectivity Scheme
5) Regional Connectivity Scheme
19. Union government on 13 August 2024 launched 'Smart Ganga City' programme in 10 cities to set up Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) and improve drainage network there on hybrid annuity mode on Public Private Partnership (PPP) basis. Which of the following city is not one among them?
1) Badrinath 2) Haridwar
3) Patna 4) Sahibganj 5) Barrackpore
20. Union government launched which mobile app to monitor upcoming transmission projects and monitors the progress of interstate and intra-state transmission systems in the country?
1) Tarang 2) Uday 3) Kayakalp 4) Standup India 5) e-pin
Answers:
1-5
2-3
3-5
4-2
5-5
6-5
7-1
8-5
9-5
10-1
11-1
12-4
13-4
14-1
15-3
16-5
17-1
18-5
19-1
20-1.
1) 1 June 2024
2) 26 February 2024
3) 1 February 2024
4) 21 December 2023
5) 27 November 2024
2. Minimum Capital Requirement for Small Finance Banks is ..... as per the guidelines issued on 6 October 2016.
1) 9% 2) 10% 3) 15% 4) 21% 5) 11.5%
3. Tier 1 common capital ratio is a measurement of a bank's core equity capital compared with its total risk-weighted assets that signifies a bank's financial strength. As per operating guidelines, for Small Finance Banks, the Common Equity Tier 1 is .......
1) 7% 2) 8.5% 3) 10% 4) 9.8% 5) 6%
4. LCR applicable to Small Finance banks also. LCR refers to highly liquid assets held by financial institutions to meet short-term obligations. The ratio is a generic stress test that aims to anticipate market-wide shocks. It is designed to ensure financial institutions have the necessary assets on hand to ride out short-term liquidity disruptions. In this context, LCR stands for ......
1) Loan Coverage Ratio
2) Liquidity Coverage Ratio
3) Lean Coverage Ratio
4) Leap Coverage Ratio
5) LIBOR Coverage Ratio
5. The aim to provide licenses to small banks is .......
1) supply of credit to small business units
2) help the small and marginal farmers
3) to help micro and small industries
4) to help the unorganized sector
5) All of above
6. The Minimum paid-up equity capital for small finance banks shall be .....
1) Rs.1000 crore 2) Rs.5000 crore
3) Rs.500 crore 4) Rs.10 crore
5) Rs.100 crore
7. Promoter's minimum initial contribution to the paid-up equity capital of such small finance banks shall at least be 40% and gradually brought down to 26% within ......
1) 12 years 2) 6 years
3) 10 years 4) 20 years 5) 8 years
8. The eligibility to become the Promoter for Small Finance Banks is .........
1) Resident individuals/professionals with 10 years of experience in banking and finance
2) Non-Banking Finance Companies
3) Micro Finance Institutions
4) Local Area Banks
5) All of above
9. The Foreign shareholding in the small banks allowed up to .........
1) 30% 2) 20% 3) 51% 4) 64%
5) as per the FDI policy for private sector banks as amended from time to time
10. As per the guidelines of RBI, the Small finance banks will be required to extend ....of its Adjusted Net Bank Credit (ANBC) to the sectors eligible for classification as Priority Sector Lending (PSL) by the Reserve Bank of India.
1) 75 % 2) 50% 3) 40% 4) 25% 5) 85%
11. As per the RBI guidelines, the small banks should see at least 50% of its loan portfolio should constitute loans and advances of up to .......
1) Rs.25 lakh 2) Rs.50 lakh
3) Rs.75 lakh 4) Rs.5 lakh 5) Rs.50,000
12. Small Finance Banks will be allowed exemption from the existing regulatory ceiling on inter-bank borrowings till the existing loans mature or up to ........... years, whichever is earlier.
1) four 2) six 3) eight 4) three 5) five
13. India's Ambassador to UN Conference on Disarmament, Geneva is .....
1) Syed Akabruddin 2) Navtej Singh Sarna
3) Dinesh K Patnaik 4) Amandeep Singh Gill
5) Sushma Swaraj
14. Prime Minister on 18 October 2024 launched the Zero Defect, Zero Effect (ZED) scheme for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) at Ludhiana in ....
1) Punjab 2) Haryana
3) Uttarakhand 4) MP 5) Chhattisgarh
15. Which scheme's objective is to accelerate access to high quality family planning choices based on information, reliable services and supplies within a rights-based framework?
1) Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gramin Kaushalya Yozana
2) E-Nam 3) Parivar Vikas
4) Sardar Vallabhai Patel Rurban Mission
5) Mission Kakatiya
16. On 16 September 2016, the Union Tourism Minister approved projects worth of ..... for integrated development of Tourist facilities in Jammu and Kashmir under 'Swadesh Darshan Scheme'.
1) Rs.100 crore 2) Rs.1500 crore
3) Rs.300 crore 4) Rs.250 crore
5) Rs.500 crore
17. Under the Government of India's Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All (UJALA), which state became the first state to distribute 2 crore LED bulbs?
1) Gujarat 2) AP
3) Rajasthan 4) Karnataka 5) Tamilnadu
18. On 1 September 2016, Gujarat signed for the Centre's RCS to improve unserved and underserved airports and runways in smaller towns. In this context, RCS stands for...
1) Roll Connectivity Scheme
2) Regional Contact Scheme
3) Regional Combat Scheme
4) Reign Connectivity Scheme
5) Regional Connectivity Scheme
19. Union government on 13 August 2024 launched 'Smart Ganga City' programme in 10 cities to set up Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) and improve drainage network there on hybrid annuity mode on Public Private Partnership (PPP) basis. Which of the following city is not one among them?
1) Badrinath 2) Haridwar
3) Patna 4) Sahibganj 5) Barrackpore
20. Union government launched which mobile app to monitor upcoming transmission projects and monitors the progress of interstate and intra-state transmission systems in the country?
1) Tarang 2) Uday 3) Kayakalp 4) Standup India 5) e-pin
Answers:
1-5
2-3
3-5
4-2
5-5
6-5
7-1
8-5
9-5
10-1
11-1
12-4
13-4
14-1
15-3
16-5
17-1
18-5
19-1
20-1.
20 October 2024
Latest General Awareness Bits for IBPS Clerks, POs, RRBs and Specialist Officers - 2016
1. Government of India on 28 September 2024 asked the public sector banks to use the NEIN database to check the antecedents of borrowers. In this context, NEIN stands for..........?
1) National End Intelligence Network
2) National Economic Intelligence Network
3) National Economic Intolerance Network
4) National Encrypted Intelligence Network
5) National Elevated Intelligence Network
2. Citibank likely to shut down some India branches as the most of customers using
internet for their daily banking transactions. Where is the head quarters of Citi bank?
1) UK 2) France 3) USA 4) Germany 5) Hong kong
3. Who was recently appointed as the Chairman of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board?
1) Sushil Chandra 2) Anadi Ramlingam
3) MS Sahoo 4) Alka Sirohi 5) Ravi Reddy
4. RBI decided, in consultation with the Government of India, that the limit for WMA for the second half of the financial year 2016-17 (October 2016 ñ March 2017) will be Rs. 25,000 crore. In this context, WMA stands for...
1) Write and Means Advances
2) Ways and Medium Advances
3) Ways and Means Advances
4) Ways and Means Allocations
5) Ways and Mode Advances
5. RBI released the Report of the Internal Working Group (IWG) on Rationalisation of
Branch Authorisation Policy on 6 October 2016. The Group is chaired by....
1) Aravind Pangariaya 2) Amitab Kanth
3) Lily Vadera 4) A K Mathur 5) Tarun Ramadorai
6. On 26 September 2016, which state government decided to write off all farm loans
taken from co-operative Banks up benefitting 7000 farmers?
1) AP 2) Telengana 3) UP
4) Haryana 5) Puducherry
7. Which cricketer appointed as Brand Ambassador of Punjab National Bank recently?
1) Sachin Tendulkar 2) Yuvraj Singh
3) Virat Kohli 4) Shikar Dhawan 5) Ajyanke Rahane
8. Who heads the committee constituted to assess ground situation at Cauvery basin appointed on 5 October 2016?
1) Uma Bharathi 2) Vijay Goel
3) GS Jha 4) Bachawath 5) Dipak Mishra
9. On 23 September 2016, Prime minister approved the constitution of two committees for the commemoration of the birth centenary of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay. The national Committee headed by PM and the Executive Committee headed by...
1) Finance Minister 2) Water Resources Minister
3) Culture and Tourism Minister 4) Home minister
10. Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay birthday 25 September observed as...
1) Antyodaya Diwas 2) Suparipalan Din
3) Samvidhan Diwas 4) Swatchatha Diwas
5) Bharath Rastra Diwas
11. Cauvery Supervisory Committee strictly adhere to the final order of Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT) while deciding on the quantum of the river's water to be released to Tamil Nadu. The committee headed by...
1) Swatantra Kumar 2) Anil Dave
3) Shashi Shekhar 4) M.B.Patil 5) S.P. Velumani
12. On 16 September 2016, who was appointed as the Chairman of the Parliamentary committee on Home affairs?
1) Gulam Nabi Azad 2) L.K.Advani
3) Sitharam Yechury 4) Rajnath Singh
5) Dr.P Chidambaram
13. New chairman of the BCCI Selection Committee is...
1) Anurag Takur 2) Justice Lodha
3) Markandeya Katju 4) MSK Prasad 5) Venkatesh Prasad
14. To register young voters, the Election Commission of India collaborated with which social networking site on 5 October 2016?
1) LinkedIn 2) Twitter 3) Allo
4) WeChat 5) Facebook
15. Who was recently appointed the Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission?
1) Sunil Chnadra 2) J Satyanarayana
3) Alka Sirohi 4) Amitab Kanth 5) Prakash Javedkar
16. Who headed the commission that was constituted to probe the controversial land deals in Gurgaon including Robert Vadra`s land deals?
1) Justice AK Mathur 2) Justice RKMathur
3) Justice SN Dhingra 4) Justice RM Lodha
5) Justice Markandeya Katju
Answers:
1-2
2-3
3-3
4-3
5-3
6-5
7-3
8-3
9-5
10-1
11-3
12-5
13-4
14-5
15-3
16-3.
1) National End Intelligence Network
2) National Economic Intelligence Network
3) National Economic Intolerance Network
4) National Encrypted Intelligence Network
5) National Elevated Intelligence Network
2. Citibank likely to shut down some India branches as the most of customers using
internet for their daily banking transactions. Where is the head quarters of Citi bank?
1) UK 2) France 3) USA 4) Germany 5) Hong kong
3. Who was recently appointed as the Chairman of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board?
1) Sushil Chandra 2) Anadi Ramlingam
3) MS Sahoo 4) Alka Sirohi 5) Ravi Reddy
4. RBI decided, in consultation with the Government of India, that the limit for WMA for the second half of the financial year 2016-17 (October 2016 ñ March 2017) will be Rs. 25,000 crore. In this context, WMA stands for...
1) Write and Means Advances
2) Ways and Medium Advances
3) Ways and Means Advances
4) Ways and Means Allocations
5) Ways and Mode Advances
5. RBI released the Report of the Internal Working Group (IWG) on Rationalisation of
Branch Authorisation Policy on 6 October 2016. The Group is chaired by....
1) Aravind Pangariaya 2) Amitab Kanth
3) Lily Vadera 4) A K Mathur 5) Tarun Ramadorai
6. On 26 September 2016, which state government decided to write off all farm loans
taken from co-operative Banks up benefitting 7000 farmers?
1) AP 2) Telengana 3) UP
4) Haryana 5) Puducherry
7. Which cricketer appointed as Brand Ambassador of Punjab National Bank recently?
1) Sachin Tendulkar 2) Yuvraj Singh
3) Virat Kohli 4) Shikar Dhawan 5) Ajyanke Rahane
8. Who heads the committee constituted to assess ground situation at Cauvery basin appointed on 5 October 2016?
1) Uma Bharathi 2) Vijay Goel
3) GS Jha 4) Bachawath 5) Dipak Mishra
9. On 23 September 2016, Prime minister approved the constitution of two committees for the commemoration of the birth centenary of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay. The national Committee headed by PM and the Executive Committee headed by...
1) Finance Minister 2) Water Resources Minister
3) Culture and Tourism Minister 4) Home minister
10. Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay birthday 25 September observed as...
1) Antyodaya Diwas 2) Suparipalan Din
3) Samvidhan Diwas 4) Swatchatha Diwas
5) Bharath Rastra Diwas
11. Cauvery Supervisory Committee strictly adhere to the final order of Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT) while deciding on the quantum of the river's water to be released to Tamil Nadu. The committee headed by...
1) Swatantra Kumar 2) Anil Dave
3) Shashi Shekhar 4) M.B.Patil 5) S.P. Velumani
12. On 16 September 2016, who was appointed as the Chairman of the Parliamentary committee on Home affairs?
1) Gulam Nabi Azad 2) L.K.Advani
3) Sitharam Yechury 4) Rajnath Singh
5) Dr.P Chidambaram
13. New chairman of the BCCI Selection Committee is...
1) Anurag Takur 2) Justice Lodha
3) Markandeya Katju 4) MSK Prasad 5) Venkatesh Prasad
14. To register young voters, the Election Commission of India collaborated with which social networking site on 5 October 2016?
1) LinkedIn 2) Twitter 3) Allo
4) WeChat 5) Facebook
15. Who was recently appointed the Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission?
1) Sunil Chnadra 2) J Satyanarayana
3) Alka Sirohi 4) Amitab Kanth 5) Prakash Javedkar
16. Who headed the commission that was constituted to probe the controversial land deals in Gurgaon including Robert Vadra`s land deals?
1) Justice AK Mathur 2) Justice RKMathur
3) Justice SN Dhingra 4) Justice RM Lodha
5) Justice Markandeya Katju
Answers:
1-2
2-3
3-3
4-3
5-3
6-5
7-3
8-3
9-5
10-1
11-3
12-5
13-4
14-5
15-3
16-3.
Latest General Awareness Questions for IBPS POs, Clerks, RRBs and Specialist Officers - 2016
1. On 6 October 2016, the Operating Guidelines for Payment banks issued. The guidelines for Licensing of Payment banks earlier passed by RBI on ...
1) 1 April 2024 2) 26 January 2024
3) 1 January 2024 4) 21 November 2024
5) 27 November 2024
2. As per the operating guidelines issued for payment banks on 6 October 2016, Minimum
Capital Requirement fixed at...
1) 15% 2) 11.5% 3) 6% 4) 7.5% 5) 8.2%
3. Payment Banks are allowed to participate in the call money and CBLO market as both borrowers and lenders, subject to the limit on call money borrowings as applicable to scheduled commercial banks. In this context, CBLO stands for...?
1) collateralized borrowing and lending obligation
2) correlative borrowing and lending obligation
3) collateralized beginning and lending obligation
4) collateralized borrowing and leverage obligation
5) central borrowing and lending obligation
4. As per the guidelines issued on 6 October 2024 by RBI, Payment Banks will not be permitted to lend to any person including their directors. However, they may lend to ... out of the bank's own funds, as per a board approved policy outlining the caps on such loans.
1) Their own employees 2) local business men
3) Income tax payees 4) Small transport companies
5) Share market brokers
5. The aim of RBI to permit the Payment banks is...?
1) to boost Financial inclusion
2) to allow the payments/ remittance services to migrant labour workforce
3) to help the low house holds
4) to help the small entities to do banking business
5) All of above
6. The license of Payment banks can be given to...
1) Existing non-bank Pre-paid Payment Instrument (PPI) issuers
2) Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFCs)
3) corporate Business Correspondents(BCs)
4) super-market chains
5) All of above
7. The equity capital of Payment banks is...?
1) Rs.10 crore 2) Rs.700 crore
3) Rs.1000 crore 4) Rs.500 crore
5) Rs.100 crore
8. Payment banks not allowed to....?
1) issue credit card 2) issue debit card
3) issue cheque book
4) have remittance services
5) provide accounts to women
9. Promoter's minimum initial contribution to the paid-up equity capital of payments bank shall
at least be .... for the first five years
1) 40% 2) 26% 3) 15% 4) 25% 5) 49%
10. Payments banks can give savings accounts to customers. But in the single customer account, the maximum balance allowed not more than....?
1) Rs. 1 Lakh 2) Rs.75,000 3) Rs.2 Lakh
4) Rs. 5 Lakh 5) customer of bank can maintain any balance
11. The Foreign shareholding in the payments bank allowed up to....?
1)10% 2) 35% 3) 49% 4) 26%
5) as per the FDI policy for private sector banks as amended from time to time
12. On 4 February 2015, RBI appointed the External Advisory Committee for Payments
Banks under the chairmanship of...?
1) Raghuram Rajan 2) Shyamal Gopinath
3) Urjit Patel 4) Narasimham
5) Nachiket Mor
13. First domestic Bank to open a branch in the city of Yangon, Myanmar is...?
1) SBI 2) Corporation Bank
3) Canara Bank 4) Andhra Bank 5) PNB
14. Union Government on 1 October 2024 gave a year extension to the Chairman of SBI.
She is....?
1) Arundhati Bhattacharya
2) Usha Anantha Subramanyam
3) Chitra Ramkrishna
4) Lalitha Kumaramangalam
5) Naina Lal Kidwai
15. In the news papers it is reported that SBI may sell away 5% stake in SBI Life which
may fetch the bank as much as Rs.1,950 crore. Who is the partner of SBI in SBI Life?
1) Prudential (USA) 2) Lombard (Canada)
3) IAG (Australia) 4) PNB Paribas (France)
5) ERGO (Germany)
16. Which bank got the Best bank got award in Retail Banking category, in the 10th edition
of Dun & Bradstreet's India's Top Banks & Banking Awards 2016?
1) ICICI 2) Andhra Bank
3) SBI 4) PNB 5) Yes Bank
17. Which High Court declined to grant a stay to the acquisition process of State Bank of
Travancore (SBT) by SBI on 8 October 2016?
1) AP 2) Karnataka 3) Kerala
4) Tamil Nadu 5) Delhi
18. Punch Lines of Banks given. The wrong combination is...?
1) SBI - The name you can bank upon
2) Andhra bank-Where India Banks
3) Bank of India-Relationship beyond banking
4) Bank of Baroda-India's International Bank
5) Indian Overseas Bank-Good People to Grow With
19. Which International monetary organisation sanctioned Rs. 980 crore to dredge the Brahmaputra as an initiative to develop waterways to Bangladesh and to other South East Asian countries?
1) Asian Development Bank 2) AIIB
3) World bank 4) IMF 5) New Development Bank
20. Acceptance of debit cards in shops set to get a big boost as RBI ready to set up ADF. The fund is expected to subsidise setting up of point of sales terminals or machines that enable acceptance of credit cards in areas where banks do not consider it viable to do so. In this context, ADF stands for...
1) Acceptance Development Fund
2) Agreement Development Fund
3) Acceptance Donor Fund
4) Acceptance Donation Fund
5) Admire Development Fund
Answers:
1-5
2-1
3-1
4-1
5-5
6-5
7-5
8-1
9-1
10-1
11-5
12-5
13-1
14-1
15-4
16-3
17-3
18-1
19-3
20-1.
1) 1 April 2024 2) 26 January 2024
3) 1 January 2024 4) 21 November 2024
5) 27 November 2024
2. As per the operating guidelines issued for payment banks on 6 October 2016, Minimum
Capital Requirement fixed at...
1) 15% 2) 11.5% 3) 6% 4) 7.5% 5) 8.2%
3. Payment Banks are allowed to participate in the call money and CBLO market as both borrowers and lenders, subject to the limit on call money borrowings as applicable to scheduled commercial banks. In this context, CBLO stands for...?
1) collateralized borrowing and lending obligation
2) correlative borrowing and lending obligation
3) collateralized beginning and lending obligation
4) collateralized borrowing and leverage obligation
5) central borrowing and lending obligation
4. As per the guidelines issued on 6 October 2024 by RBI, Payment Banks will not be permitted to lend to any person including their directors. However, they may lend to ... out of the bank's own funds, as per a board approved policy outlining the caps on such loans.
1) Their own employees 2) local business men
3) Income tax payees 4) Small transport companies
5) Share market brokers
5. The aim of RBI to permit the Payment banks is...?
1) to boost Financial inclusion
2) to allow the payments/ remittance services to migrant labour workforce
3) to help the low house holds
4) to help the small entities to do banking business
5) All of above
6. The license of Payment banks can be given to...
1) Existing non-bank Pre-paid Payment Instrument (PPI) issuers
2) Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFCs)
3) corporate Business Correspondents(BCs)
4) super-market chains
5) All of above
7. The equity capital of Payment banks is...?
1) Rs.10 crore 2) Rs.700 crore
3) Rs.1000 crore 4) Rs.500 crore
5) Rs.100 crore
8. Payment banks not allowed to....?
1) issue credit card 2) issue debit card
3) issue cheque book
4) have remittance services
5) provide accounts to women
9. Promoter's minimum initial contribution to the paid-up equity capital of payments bank shall
at least be .... for the first five years
1) 40% 2) 26% 3) 15% 4) 25% 5) 49%
10. Payments banks can give savings accounts to customers. But in the single customer account, the maximum balance allowed not more than....?
1) Rs. 1 Lakh 2) Rs.75,000 3) Rs.2 Lakh
4) Rs. 5 Lakh 5) customer of bank can maintain any balance
11. The Foreign shareholding in the payments bank allowed up to....?
1)10% 2) 35% 3) 49% 4) 26%
5) as per the FDI policy for private sector banks as amended from time to time
12. On 4 February 2015, RBI appointed the External Advisory Committee for Payments
Banks under the chairmanship of...?
1) Raghuram Rajan 2) Shyamal Gopinath
3) Urjit Patel 4) Narasimham
5) Nachiket Mor
13. First domestic Bank to open a branch in the city of Yangon, Myanmar is...?
1) SBI 2) Corporation Bank
3) Canara Bank 4) Andhra Bank 5) PNB
14. Union Government on 1 October 2024 gave a year extension to the Chairman of SBI.
She is....?
1) Arundhati Bhattacharya
2) Usha Anantha Subramanyam
3) Chitra Ramkrishna
4) Lalitha Kumaramangalam
5) Naina Lal Kidwai
15. In the news papers it is reported that SBI may sell away 5% stake in SBI Life which
may fetch the bank as much as Rs.1,950 crore. Who is the partner of SBI in SBI Life?
1) Prudential (USA) 2) Lombard (Canada)
3) IAG (Australia) 4) PNB Paribas (France)
5) ERGO (Germany)
16. Which bank got the Best bank got award in Retail Banking category, in the 10th edition
of Dun & Bradstreet's India's Top Banks & Banking Awards 2016?
1) ICICI 2) Andhra Bank
3) SBI 4) PNB 5) Yes Bank
17. Which High Court declined to grant a stay to the acquisition process of State Bank of
Travancore (SBT) by SBI on 8 October 2016?
1) AP 2) Karnataka 3) Kerala
4) Tamil Nadu 5) Delhi
18. Punch Lines of Banks given. The wrong combination is...?
1) SBI - The name you can bank upon
2) Andhra bank-Where India Banks
3) Bank of India-Relationship beyond banking
4) Bank of Baroda-India's International Bank
5) Indian Overseas Bank-Good People to Grow With
19. Which International monetary organisation sanctioned Rs. 980 crore to dredge the Brahmaputra as an initiative to develop waterways to Bangladesh and to other South East Asian countries?
1) Asian Development Bank 2) AIIB
3) World bank 4) IMF 5) New Development Bank
20. Acceptance of debit cards in shops set to get a big boost as RBI ready to set up ADF. The fund is expected to subsidise setting up of point of sales terminals or machines that enable acceptance of credit cards in areas where banks do not consider it viable to do so. In this context, ADF stands for...
1) Acceptance Development Fund
2) Agreement Development Fund
3) Acceptance Donor Fund
4) Acceptance Donation Fund
5) Admire Development Fund
Answers:
1-5
2-1
3-1
4-1
5-5
6-5
7-5
8-1
9-1
10-1
11-5
12-5
13-1
14-1
15-4
16-3
17-3
18-1
19-3
20-1.
12 August 2024
General Awareness Latest Questions for Bank and Insurance Exams
1. On 25 July 2015, to ensure round the clock electricity supply to farmers and rural households, 'Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana' launched at ........
1) New Delhi 2) Suratgarh
3) Kolkata 4) Varanasi 5) Patna
2. Stephen Hawking launched the biggestever search project for alien life in the universe that is being funded by Russian Internet entrepreneur Yuri Milne. Its name is ........
1) Ulysses 2) MOM
3) The Kepler 4) Breakthrough Listen 5) Discovery
3. Actor George Baker and professor of economics Richard Hay, the two Anglo-Indians nominated to the ......
1) Loksabha 2) Rajya sabha
3) NITI Aayog 4) TRAI 5) UIDAI
4. Task Force on Financial Redress Agency (FRA) headed by ...........
1) Tanksale M.V 2) Rajiv Meharshi
3) M.B.Sha 4) Ila Patnaik 5) Dhirendra Swarup
5. What is the name of the project that is an ambitious project of the Union Finance Ministry to bring into net black money hoarders and tax evaders by using optimum technology?
1) Project Look 2) Project Pass Word
3) Project Insight 4) Project PAN 5) Project TACT
6. Mauritius has regained the position as top source of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into India by pushing Singapore to the second slot in 2014-15. The capital of Mauritius is ......
1) Male 2) Victoria
3) Port Louis 4) Taipei 5) Havana
7. Maruritius currency .........
1) Pound 2) Peso 3) Rupee 4) Dollar 5) Franc
8. On 1 August 2015, which nation became the first-ever non-European Nation to become the associate member of the
European Organisation for Nuclear Research?
1) USA 2) India 3) Sri Lanka 4) China 5) Pakistan
9. Headquarters of European Organisation for Nuclear Research located in....
1) France 2) England 3) Switzerland 4) Italy 5) Norway
10. Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer is the Director - General of European Organisation for Nuclear Research. He belongs to.....
1) Germany 2) France 3) Hungary 4) England 5) Austria
11. List of Nuclear power plants in India given. The wrong combination is...
1) Kaiga - Karnataka 2) Kudankulam - Kerala
3) Kakrapar - Gujarat 4) Tarapur - Maharashtra 5) Narora - UP
12. 'Sleeping on Jupiter' shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015 written by......
1) Amitav Ghosh 2) Anitha Desai
3) Arvind Adiga 4) Anuradha Roy 5) Khushwant Singh
13. Which day will be celebrated as National Handloom Day first time through out the nation?
1) 12 Jan 2) 10 Feb 3) 7 Aug 4) 7 Apr 5) 7 Dec
14. Union Minister of State (independent charge) for Ministry of Textiles is .....
1) Santosh Kumar Gangwar
2) Inderjit Singh Rao 3) Shripad Naik
4) Sarbananda Sonowal 5) Piyush Goyal
15. Lt. General Manmohan Singh Rai appointed as the .....
1) Army Chief 2) Vice-Chief of Indian Army
3) Navy Chief 4) DRDO chief
5) Union Minister of state for Defence Affairs
16. With NSCN (I-M) Central government has signed a historic peace accord on 3 Aug 2024 that promises a return to normalcy in the Nagaland. NSCN (I - M) stands for.....
1) National Socialist Commission of Nagaland (Isak - Muivah)
2) National Socialist Commission of Nagaland (India - Main)
3) National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak - Muivah)
4) National Solidarity Commission of Nagaland (India - Main)
5) None
17. Nagaland capital is Kohima and Nagaland Chief Minister is ......
1) Nabum Tuki 2) Ibobi Singh
3) Pawan Chamling 4) T. R. Zeliang 5) None of the above
18. Which Cyclone disturbed the normal lives of people in causing heavy rains in Bangladesh, Myanmar, North East India and East India?
1) Ana 2) Andres 3) Komen 4) Guillermo 5) Charley
Answers:
1-5; 2-4; 3-1; 4-5; 5-3; 6-3; 7-3; 8-5; 9-3; 10-1; 11-2; 12-4; 13-3; 14-1; 15-2; 16-3; 17-4; 18-3.
1) New Delhi 2) Suratgarh
3) Kolkata 4) Varanasi 5) Patna
2. Stephen Hawking launched the biggestever search project for alien life in the universe that is being funded by Russian Internet entrepreneur Yuri Milne. Its name is ........
1) Ulysses 2) MOM
3) The Kepler 4) Breakthrough Listen 5) Discovery
3. Actor George Baker and professor of economics Richard Hay, the two Anglo-Indians nominated to the ......
1) Loksabha 2) Rajya sabha
3) NITI Aayog 4) TRAI 5) UIDAI
4. Task Force on Financial Redress Agency (FRA) headed by ...........
1) Tanksale M.V 2) Rajiv Meharshi
3) M.B.Sha 4) Ila Patnaik 5) Dhirendra Swarup
5. What is the name of the project that is an ambitious project of the Union Finance Ministry to bring into net black money hoarders and tax evaders by using optimum technology?
1) Project Look 2) Project Pass Word
3) Project Insight 4) Project PAN 5) Project TACT
6. Mauritius has regained the position as top source of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into India by pushing Singapore to the second slot in 2014-15. The capital of Mauritius is ......
1) Male 2) Victoria
3) Port Louis 4) Taipei 5) Havana
7. Maruritius currency .........
1) Pound 2) Peso 3) Rupee 4) Dollar 5) Franc
8. On 1 August 2015, which nation became the first-ever non-European Nation to become the associate member of the
European Organisation for Nuclear Research?
1) USA 2) India 3) Sri Lanka 4) China 5) Pakistan
9. Headquarters of European Organisation for Nuclear Research located in....
1) France 2) England 3) Switzerland 4) Italy 5) Norway
10. Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer is the Director - General of European Organisation for Nuclear Research. He belongs to.....
1) Germany 2) France 3) Hungary 4) England 5) Austria
11. List of Nuclear power plants in India given. The wrong combination is...
1) Kaiga - Karnataka 2) Kudankulam - Kerala
3) Kakrapar - Gujarat 4) Tarapur - Maharashtra 5) Narora - UP
12. 'Sleeping on Jupiter' shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015 written by......
1) Amitav Ghosh 2) Anitha Desai
3) Arvind Adiga 4) Anuradha Roy 5) Khushwant Singh
13. Which day will be celebrated as National Handloom Day first time through out the nation?
1) 12 Jan 2) 10 Feb 3) 7 Aug 4) 7 Apr 5) 7 Dec
14. Union Minister of State (independent charge) for Ministry of Textiles is .....
1) Santosh Kumar Gangwar
2) Inderjit Singh Rao 3) Shripad Naik
4) Sarbananda Sonowal 5) Piyush Goyal
15. Lt. General Manmohan Singh Rai appointed as the .....
1) Army Chief 2) Vice-Chief of Indian Army
3) Navy Chief 4) DRDO chief
5) Union Minister of state for Defence Affairs
16. With NSCN (I-M) Central government has signed a historic peace accord on 3 Aug 2024 that promises a return to normalcy in the Nagaland. NSCN (I - M) stands for.....
1) National Socialist Commission of Nagaland (Isak - Muivah)
2) National Socialist Commission of Nagaland (India - Main)
3) National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak - Muivah)
4) National Solidarity Commission of Nagaland (India - Main)
5) None
17. Nagaland capital is Kohima and Nagaland Chief Minister is ......
1) Nabum Tuki 2) Ibobi Singh
3) Pawan Chamling 4) T. R. Zeliang 5) None of the above
18. Which Cyclone disturbed the normal lives of people in causing heavy rains in Bangladesh, Myanmar, North East India and East India?
1) Ana 2) Andres 3) Komen 4) Guillermo 5) Charley
Answers:
1-5; 2-4; 3-1; 4-5; 5-3; 6-3; 7-3; 8-5; 9-3; 10-1; 11-2; 12-4; 13-3; 14-1; 15-2; 16-3; 17-4; 18-3.
Latest General Awareness Bits for Bank and Insurance Exams
1. How much of Capital would be infused in Public Sector banks by Union Government over a period of four years to improve capital ratio and fight with rising bad loans?
1) Rs.1,00,000 crore 2) Rs.1,75,000 crore
3) Rs.70,000 crore 4) Rs.54,000 crore
5) Rs.10,000 crore
2. In the capital infusion of Rs.70,000 crore, the government promised to release how much
fund in the fiscal year 2015-16?
1) Rs.15,000 crore 2) Rs.30,000 crore
3) Rs.45,000 crore 4) Rs.25,000 crore
5) Rs.10,000 crore
3. How much bad loans was accumulated with the public sector banks by 31 March 2015,
as disclosed by the Finance Ministry on 21 July 2015?
1) Rs.4.50 lakh crores 2) Rs.1.50 lakh crores
3) Rs.2.67 lakh crores 4) Rs.3.57 lakh crores
5) Rs.5.50 lakh crores
4. Gross NPA ratio of the public sector banks (PSBs) increased to ...... at the end of March
2015 as compared to 4.72% a year ago.
1) 8.05% 2) 5.43% 3) 1.43% 4) 6.50% 5) 15.43%
5. Which bank has topped the list of public sector lenders with maximum bad loans including
restructured assets as a percentage of total advances?
1) SBI 2) Central Bank of India 3) United Bank of India
4) Union Bank of India 5) Corporation Bank
6. How much percentage of United Bank of India's assets is either bad or have been restructured to save them from turning NPAs?
1) 10.5 percent 2) 18.5 percent
3) 21.5 percent 4) 20.5 percent 5) 13.5 percent
7. RBI decided early to put into circulation ...... to commemorate the International Day of Yoga.
1) 100 rupees coins 2) 1 rupee coin
3) 10 rupees coins 4) 5 rupees coins 5) None of the above
8. Which mobile banking app of Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMB) launched primarily for 'un-banked' regions?
1) Kotak Payzapp 2) VISA KOTAK
3) Kotak Bharat 4) Kotak Kevy 5) None
9. Which International Monetary Organisation agreed to provide loan of $ 300 million to support the National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) that is aimed at improving the health status of the country's urban population?
1) World Bank 2) IMF 3) ADB 4) AIIB 5) NDB
10. RBI on 17 July 2024 signed ........ Special Currency Swap Agreement with the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.
1) $ 10.1 billion 2) $ 3.1 billion
3) $ 1.1 billion 4) $ 2.1 billion 5) $ 1.8 billion
11. RBI permitted CBS-enabled Cooperative Banks to issue ATM cards in tie-up with a....
1) Government of India 2) Payment Gateways
3) Sponsor bank 4) NBFC subsidiaries 5) Currency Agencies
12. RBI on 16 July 2024 directed banks to ensure that their overall direct lending to farmers should not fall below the average of last.....
1) Two years 2) Four years
3) Three years 4) Five years 5) Ten years
13. Financial Stability Report (FSR) released by whom on half yearly basis?
1) RBI 2) SBI 3) SEBI 4) TRAI 5) SIDBI
14. The Union cabinet on 21 July 2024 approved the proposal to extend interest subvention scheme to banks to benefit the farmers. Which of the following is the correct statement in this regard?
1) The scheme applicable to short-term crop loans up to Rs. 3 Lakhs only.
2) To get this benefit, the farmers must repay the loan amount within one year of disbursal of loan.
3) Scheme would be applicable for post harvest loans taken by small and marginal farmers against their negotiable warehouse receipts.
4) Cabinet approved an expenditure of Rs.18,100 crore for FY 16 to enable banks to provide 3% interest subvention.
5) All of above
15. On 21 July 2015, Union Government launched the Surakshit Khadya Abhiyan, a country wide campaign in order to ...........
1) provide safety apps to women, launched by every state government.
2) provide free drinking water to all school going children.
3) vaccination programmes throughout North East India.
4) mark the universal introduction of Sarva Siksha Abhiyan.
5) create mass awareness and capacity building for safe and hygienic food.
16. Which Union Government scheme to be named after Abdul Kalam, as said by the Union HRD Minister Smrithi Irani?
1) Rashtriya Madhyamika Abhiyan 2) Swatch Bharat
3) Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan 4) Sarva Siksha Abhiyan
5) Pradhanmathri Krishi Sinchai Yozana
17. Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan aims to.....
1) bring the complete literacy by the year 2020.
2) bring all the school children learn the digitalization.
3) inculcate a spirit of inquiry, creativity and love for Science and Mathematics in school children.
4) allow all school children carry laptops and Mobile Apps instead of bags.
5) None of the above
18. Prime Minister launched the NCS Portal as part of an endeavour to modernise all government- run employment exchanges on 20 July 2015. NCS stands for .......
1) National Career Service 2) National Customer Service
3) Number Career Service 4) National Competitive Series
5) Ninth Career Service
19. NCS aims to create a direct market place for workers and employers. In the beginning the job seekers have been asked to furnish which primary detail to get them registered with NCS?
1) PAN card number 2) Birth certificate
3) Savings account number 4) Aadhaar number
5) Gmail account details
20. National Career Service (NCS) portal was launched at the 46th session of Indian Labour Conference held at ..........
1) Hyderabad 2) Pune 3) Kochi 4) New Delhi 5) Kolkata
Answers:
1-3; 2-4; 3-3; 4-2; 5-3; 6-3; 7-3; 8-3; 9-3; 10-3; 11-3; 12-3; 13-1; 14-5; 15-5; 16-3; 17-3; 18-1; 19-4; 20-4.
1) Rs.1,00,000 crore 2) Rs.1,75,000 crore
3) Rs.70,000 crore 4) Rs.54,000 crore
5) Rs.10,000 crore
2. In the capital infusion of Rs.70,000 crore, the government promised to release how much
fund in the fiscal year 2015-16?
1) Rs.15,000 crore 2) Rs.30,000 crore
3) Rs.45,000 crore 4) Rs.25,000 crore
5) Rs.10,000 crore
3. How much bad loans was accumulated with the public sector banks by 31 March 2015,
as disclosed by the Finance Ministry on 21 July 2015?
1) Rs.4.50 lakh crores 2) Rs.1.50 lakh crores
3) Rs.2.67 lakh crores 4) Rs.3.57 lakh crores
5) Rs.5.50 lakh crores
4. Gross NPA ratio of the public sector banks (PSBs) increased to ...... at the end of March
2015 as compared to 4.72% a year ago.
1) 8.05% 2) 5.43% 3) 1.43% 4) 6.50% 5) 15.43%
5. Which bank has topped the list of public sector lenders with maximum bad loans including
restructured assets as a percentage of total advances?
1) SBI 2) Central Bank of India 3) United Bank of India
4) Union Bank of India 5) Corporation Bank
6. How much percentage of United Bank of India's assets is either bad or have been restructured to save them from turning NPAs?
1) 10.5 percent 2) 18.5 percent
3) 21.5 percent 4) 20.5 percent 5) 13.5 percent
7. RBI decided early to put into circulation ...... to commemorate the International Day of Yoga.
1) 100 rupees coins 2) 1 rupee coin
3) 10 rupees coins 4) 5 rupees coins 5) None of the above
8. Which mobile banking app of Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMB) launched primarily for 'un-banked' regions?
1) Kotak Payzapp 2) VISA KOTAK
3) Kotak Bharat 4) Kotak Kevy 5) None
9. Which International Monetary Organisation agreed to provide loan of $ 300 million to support the National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) that is aimed at improving the health status of the country's urban population?
1) World Bank 2) IMF 3) ADB 4) AIIB 5) NDB
10. RBI on 17 July 2024 signed ........ Special Currency Swap Agreement with the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.
1) $ 10.1 billion 2) $ 3.1 billion
3) $ 1.1 billion 4) $ 2.1 billion 5) $ 1.8 billion
11. RBI permitted CBS-enabled Cooperative Banks to issue ATM cards in tie-up with a....
1) Government of India 2) Payment Gateways
3) Sponsor bank 4) NBFC subsidiaries 5) Currency Agencies
12. RBI on 16 July 2024 directed banks to ensure that their overall direct lending to farmers should not fall below the average of last.....
1) Two years 2) Four years
3) Three years 4) Five years 5) Ten years
13. Financial Stability Report (FSR) released by whom on half yearly basis?
1) RBI 2) SBI 3) SEBI 4) TRAI 5) SIDBI
14. The Union cabinet on 21 July 2024 approved the proposal to extend interest subvention scheme to banks to benefit the farmers. Which of the following is the correct statement in this regard?
1) The scheme applicable to short-term crop loans up to Rs. 3 Lakhs only.
2) To get this benefit, the farmers must repay the loan amount within one year of disbursal of loan.
3) Scheme would be applicable for post harvest loans taken by small and marginal farmers against their negotiable warehouse receipts.
4) Cabinet approved an expenditure of Rs.18,100 crore for FY 16 to enable banks to provide 3% interest subvention.
5) All of above
15. On 21 July 2015, Union Government launched the Surakshit Khadya Abhiyan, a country wide campaign in order to ...........
1) provide safety apps to women, launched by every state government.
2) provide free drinking water to all school going children.
3) vaccination programmes throughout North East India.
4) mark the universal introduction of Sarva Siksha Abhiyan.
5) create mass awareness and capacity building for safe and hygienic food.
16. Which Union Government scheme to be named after Abdul Kalam, as said by the Union HRD Minister Smrithi Irani?
1) Rashtriya Madhyamika Abhiyan 2) Swatch Bharat
3) Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan 4) Sarva Siksha Abhiyan
5) Pradhanmathri Krishi Sinchai Yozana
17. Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan aims to.....
1) bring the complete literacy by the year 2020.
2) bring all the school children learn the digitalization.
3) inculcate a spirit of inquiry, creativity and love for Science and Mathematics in school children.
4) allow all school children carry laptops and Mobile Apps instead of bags.
5) None of the above
18. Prime Minister launched the NCS Portal as part of an endeavour to modernise all government- run employment exchanges on 20 July 2015. NCS stands for .......
1) National Career Service 2) National Customer Service
3) Number Career Service 4) National Competitive Series
5) Ninth Career Service
19. NCS aims to create a direct market place for workers and employers. In the beginning the job seekers have been asked to furnish which primary detail to get them registered with NCS?
1) PAN card number 2) Birth certificate
3) Savings account number 4) Aadhaar number
5) Gmail account details
20. National Career Service (NCS) portal was launched at the 46th session of Indian Labour Conference held at ..........
1) Hyderabad 2) Pune 3) Kochi 4) New Delhi 5) Kolkata
Answers:
1-3; 2-4; 3-3; 4-2; 5-3; 6-3; 7-3; 8-3; 9-3; 10-3; 11-3; 12-3; 13-1; 14-5; 15-5; 16-3; 17-3; 18-1; 19-4; 20-4.
07 July 2024
Oriental Insurance Assistants Exam - General Awareness Model Questions
1. Ravi Shankar is the founder of .....
1) Isha Foundation 2) Patanjali Foundation
3) Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham 4) Art of Living Foundation
5) Chitrakoot Ashram
2. Man Booker International Prize get cash prize ........... awarded
to a living author.
1) $ 90,000 2) £ 30,000
3) £ 60,000 4) £ 70,000 5) £ 20,000
3. For which book Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker International Prize 2008?
1) White Tiger 2) Half Girlfriend
3) The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
4) Malgudi Days 5) Wings of Fire
4. For which book Kiran Desai won the Man Booker International Prize 2006?
1) The Inheritance of Loss
2) India Wins Freedom 3) The Insider
4) Wings of Fire
5) Without Fear: The Life and Trial of Bhagat Singh
5. Arundhati Roy got Man Booker International Prize 1997 for her book of .....
1) The God of Small Things 2) Coolie
3) The Golden Threshold
4) The Discovery of India
5) My Experiments With Truth
6. Which Indian Author nominated for Man Booker International Prize 2015?
1) Rohinton Mistry
2) U R Ananthamurthy 3) Amitav Ghosh
4) Mahasweta Devi 5) Salman Rushdie
7. Which Hungarian writer on 19 May 2024 won the prestigious Man
Booker International Prize for 2015?
1) Sandor Weores 2) Peter Esterhazy
3) Laszlo Krasznahorkai
4) Mihly Vorosmarty 5) None
Answers: 1-4; 2-3; 3-1; 4-1; 5-1; 6-3; 7-3.
1) Isha Foundation 2) Patanjali Foundation
3) Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham 4) Art of Living Foundation
5) Chitrakoot Ashram
2. Man Booker International Prize get cash prize ........... awarded
to a living author.
1) $ 90,000 2) £ 30,000
3) £ 60,000 4) £ 70,000 5) £ 20,000
3. For which book Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker International Prize 2008?
1) White Tiger 2) Half Girlfriend
3) The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
4) Malgudi Days 5) Wings of Fire
4. For which book Kiran Desai won the Man Booker International Prize 2006?
1) The Inheritance of Loss
2) India Wins Freedom 3) The Insider
4) Wings of Fire
5) Without Fear: The Life and Trial of Bhagat Singh
5. Arundhati Roy got Man Booker International Prize 1997 for her book of .....
1) The God of Small Things 2) Coolie
3) The Golden Threshold
4) The Discovery of India
5) My Experiments With Truth
6. Which Indian Author nominated for Man Booker International Prize 2015?
1) Rohinton Mistry
2) U R Ananthamurthy 3) Amitav Ghosh
4) Mahasweta Devi 5) Salman Rushdie
7. Which Hungarian writer on 19 May 2024 won the prestigious Man
Booker International Prize for 2015?
1) Sandor Weores 2) Peter Esterhazy
3) Laszlo Krasznahorkai
4) Mihly Vorosmarty 5) None
Answers: 1-4; 2-3; 3-1; 4-1; 5-1; 6-3; 7-3.
30 June 2024
General Awareness Latest Questions for Bank POs and Clerk Exams
1. The World Asthma Day 2015 is ..........
1) 4 FEB 2) 12 MAR 3) 24 MAR 4) 7 APR 5) 5 MAY
2. International Yoga Day celebrates on ........
1) 18 June 2) 20 June 3) 11 June 4) 21 June 5) 21 July
3. When UNO declared 21 June as International Yoga Day?
1) 21 June 2024 2) 21 July 2024
3) 11 Dec 2024 4) 25 Dec 2023 5) 1 Jan 2024
4. Why Narendra Modi proposed 21 June as the International Yoga Day?
1) It is the birth day of Patanjali.
2) It is the birth day of Narendra Modi.
3) Longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and had special
significance in many parts of the world and it is the first day of
summer solstice.
4) On this day in 2014, the International council of Yogis and Pujaris
agreed to declare 21 June as International day at Varnasi.
5) None of above
5. Who is called as the 'father of Modern Yoga' compiled 195 Yoga
Sutras that became the foundation of Yoga philosophy?
1) Kapila 2) Sankya 3) Patanjali
4) Kanada 5) Sankaracharya
6. New trains announced on 12 June 2024 to tackle the rush during peak
travel season are .........
1) Sampark Kranthi Trains
2) Shatabdi Trains 3) Jan Shatabdi Trains
4) Suvidha Trains 5) Duranto Trains
7. Which railway zone launched India's first Rail Coach lit by solar
panel on 3 June 2015?
1) Western Railway 2) Eastern Railway
3) Northern Railway 4) Southern Railway
5) North Eastern Frontier Railway
8. The company which pools money from investors and invests in stocks,
bonds, shares is called .........
1) Bank 2) Insurance company
3) Listed company 4) Bancassurance
5) Mutual Fund
9. On 6 May 2015, CCEA approved to increase in the investment limit
for cases requiring prior approval of Foreign Investment Promotion
Board to ......... crore rupees from the present Rs.2000 crore.
1) Rs.5000 crore 2) Rs.10000 crore
3) Rs.3500 crore 4) Rs.7000 crore
5) Rs.3000 crore
10. CCEA on 13 May 2024 gave its approval for ......... disinvestment
in NTPC and 10 % disinvestment in IOC?
1) 2.5% 2) 10% 3) 5% 4) 25% 5) 15%
11. CCEA (Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs) headed by .........
1) Finance Minister
2) Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog
3) Prime minister 4) Advisor to FM
5) RBI governor
12. An eminent Indian academician has been named on advisory panel to
Review UN Peace-Building Architecture. She is ..........
1) Saraswathi Menon 2) Puja Thakur
3) Arundhati Subramanium 4) Lalitha Kumar Mangalam
5) Arunima Sinha
13. MAT would not be applicable on foreign companies' earnings from
capital gains on securities, royalty, fee on technical services and
interest as declared by FM on 30 May 2015. MAT stands for .......
1) more alternate tax
2) maximum alternate tax
3) minimum alternate tax
4) minimum altogether tax
5) minimum alienation tax
14. Sports related persons given. Find the wrong combination?
1) Hemant Kanitkar - Cricket
2) Lionel Messi - Foot ball
3) Justin Gatlin - Athletics
4) Inderjeet Singh - Discuss Throw
5) Gurpreet Singh - Shooting
15. In the Baseline Profitability Index (BPI), announced on 26 June
2015, which nation got top rank as a destination for attractiveness to
foreign investors among 110 countries?
1) China 2) USA 3) Hong kong 4) India 5) Switzerland
16. On 15 June 2015, eex dot dcmsme dot gov dot in was launched by the
government of India to ..........
1) provide the information of the employment census
2) make survey on the issue of Aadhar Cards
3) connect the information of importers and exporters
4) help the women in the distress
5) connect employers and job seekers
17. A 'Credit Enhancement Guarantee Scheme for Scheduled Castes
(CEGSSC)' to be implemented by IFCI Ltd. Expand IFCI.
1) Industrial Finance Corporation of India
2) Industrial Forecast Corporation of India
3) Industrial Finance Council of India
4) Industry Foundation Corporation of India
5) None
18. FAME launched by Union Minister of Heavy Industries and Public
Enterprises Anant Geete on 8 April 2015, with an aim to boost sales of
eco-friendly vehicles. FAME stands for .........
1) Faster Adoption and manufacturing of Electric Vehicles
2) Faster Admission and manufacturing of Electric Vehicles
3) Faster Adoption and manufacturing of Electronic Vehicles
4) First Adoption and manufacturing of Electric Vehicles
5) None
Answers:
1-5; 2-4; 3-3; 4-3; 5-3; 6-4; 7-3; 8-5; 9-5; 10-3; 11-3; 12-1; 13-3;
14-4; 15-4; 16-5; 17-1; 18-1.
1) 4 FEB 2) 12 MAR 3) 24 MAR 4) 7 APR 5) 5 MAY
2. International Yoga Day celebrates on ........
1) 18 June 2) 20 June 3) 11 June 4) 21 June 5) 21 July
3. When UNO declared 21 June as International Yoga Day?
1) 21 June 2024 2) 21 July 2024
3) 11 Dec 2024 4) 25 Dec 2023 5) 1 Jan 2024
4. Why Narendra Modi proposed 21 June as the International Yoga Day?
1) It is the birth day of Patanjali.
2) It is the birth day of Narendra Modi.
3) Longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and had special
significance in many parts of the world and it is the first day of
summer solstice.
4) On this day in 2014, the International council of Yogis and Pujaris
agreed to declare 21 June as International day at Varnasi.
5) None of above
5. Who is called as the 'father of Modern Yoga' compiled 195 Yoga
Sutras that became the foundation of Yoga philosophy?
1) Kapila 2) Sankya 3) Patanjali
4) Kanada 5) Sankaracharya
6. New trains announced on 12 June 2024 to tackle the rush during peak
travel season are .........
1) Sampark Kranthi Trains
2) Shatabdi Trains 3) Jan Shatabdi Trains
4) Suvidha Trains 5) Duranto Trains
7. Which railway zone launched India's first Rail Coach lit by solar
panel on 3 June 2015?
1) Western Railway 2) Eastern Railway
3) Northern Railway 4) Southern Railway
5) North Eastern Frontier Railway
8. The company which pools money from investors and invests in stocks,
bonds, shares is called .........
1) Bank 2) Insurance company
3) Listed company 4) Bancassurance
5) Mutual Fund
9. On 6 May 2015, CCEA approved to increase in the investment limit
for cases requiring prior approval of Foreign Investment Promotion
Board to ......... crore rupees from the present Rs.2000 crore.
1) Rs.5000 crore 2) Rs.10000 crore
3) Rs.3500 crore 4) Rs.7000 crore
5) Rs.3000 crore
10. CCEA on 13 May 2024 gave its approval for ......... disinvestment
in NTPC and 10 % disinvestment in IOC?
1) 2.5% 2) 10% 3) 5% 4) 25% 5) 15%
11. CCEA (Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs) headed by .........
1) Finance Minister
2) Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog
3) Prime minister 4) Advisor to FM
5) RBI governor
12. An eminent Indian academician has been named on advisory panel to
Review UN Peace-Building Architecture. She is ..........
1) Saraswathi Menon 2) Puja Thakur
3) Arundhati Subramanium 4) Lalitha Kumar Mangalam
5) Arunima Sinha
13. MAT would not be applicable on foreign companies' earnings from
capital gains on securities, royalty, fee on technical services and
interest as declared by FM on 30 May 2015. MAT stands for .......
1) more alternate tax
2) maximum alternate tax
3) minimum alternate tax
4) minimum altogether tax
5) minimum alienation tax
14. Sports related persons given. Find the wrong combination?
1) Hemant Kanitkar - Cricket
2) Lionel Messi - Foot ball
3) Justin Gatlin - Athletics
4) Inderjeet Singh - Discuss Throw
5) Gurpreet Singh - Shooting
15. In the Baseline Profitability Index (BPI), announced on 26 June
2015, which nation got top rank as a destination for attractiveness to
foreign investors among 110 countries?
1) China 2) USA 3) Hong kong 4) India 5) Switzerland
16. On 15 June 2015, eex dot dcmsme dot gov dot in was launched by the
government of India to ..........
1) provide the information of the employment census
2) make survey on the issue of Aadhar Cards
3) connect the information of importers and exporters
4) help the women in the distress
5) connect employers and job seekers
17. A 'Credit Enhancement Guarantee Scheme for Scheduled Castes
(CEGSSC)' to be implemented by IFCI Ltd. Expand IFCI.
1) Industrial Finance Corporation of India
2) Industrial Forecast Corporation of India
3) Industrial Finance Council of India
4) Industry Foundation Corporation of India
5) None
18. FAME launched by Union Minister of Heavy Industries and Public
Enterprises Anant Geete on 8 April 2015, with an aim to boost sales of
eco-friendly vehicles. FAME stands for .........
1) Faster Adoption and manufacturing of Electric Vehicles
2) Faster Admission and manufacturing of Electric Vehicles
3) Faster Adoption and manufacturing of Electronic Vehicles
4) First Adoption and manufacturing of Electric Vehicles
5) None
Answers:
1-5; 2-4; 3-3; 4-3; 5-3; 6-4; 7-3; 8-5; 9-5; 10-3; 11-3; 12-1; 13-3;
14-4; 15-4; 16-5; 17-1; 18-1.
Latest General Awareness Bits for Bank POs and Clerks Exams
1. Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY) is an insurance policy
which covers death or disablement of the policyholder caused due to
accident or accidental injuries. It offers an accidental death and
full disability cover of ............
1) Rs.2 Lakh 2) Rs.10 Lakh
3) Rs.7 Lakh 4) Rs.5 Lakh 5) Rs.12 Lakh
2. PMSBY covers how much for partial disability?
1) Rs.1 Lakh 2) Rs.50,000
3) Rs.1.5 Lakh 4) Rs.10 Lakh 5) Rs.2 Lakh
3. Any Indian citizen can join in PMSBY having the minimum age of .........
1) 18 2) 21 3) 25 4) 40 5) 10
4. How much premium to be paid by the insured in PMSBY?
1) Rs.2 per month 2) Rs.120 per annum
3) Rs.12 per annum 4) Rs.330 per annum 5) None
5. Whether nomination facility is there in the PMSBY?
1) No 2) Yes, but the permission of RBI compulsory
3) Yes 4) Yes, but the nominee must be minor
5) Yes, the nominee must be unmarried
6. How the premium can be paid in PMSBY?
1) By cash 2) By ATM card only
3) Through bank account only
4) By Demand draft only
5) By postal order only
7. Whether any person can take two PMSBY policies through two various
savings accounts?
1) Yes 2) Yes, the insured should inform bank
3) No 4) Yes, by taking permission from RBI
5) None of above applicable, as the customer can take any number of
policies under PMSBY
8. Asian Development Bank (ADB) was established in .......
1) 1966 2) 1945 3) 1969 4) 1984 5) 1921
9. ADB headquarters located at ..........
1) Manila in Philippines
2) New Delhi in India
3) Shanghai in China
4) Tokyo in Japan
5) Bangkok in Thailand
10. President of ADB is .......
1) Takehiko Nakao 2) Jim Yong Kim
3) Christine Legarde 4) K.V. Kamath 5) None of above
11. Who was appointed as India's Governor on the Board of Governors of
the Asian Development Bank with effect from May 27, 2014?
1) Chidambaram 2) Nirmala Sitharaman
3) Arun Jaitely 4) Narendra Modi 5) None
12. First Indian elected as the President of the Administrative
Tribunal of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) ..........
1) Lakshmi Swaminathan
2) M.S. Swaminathan 3) Christine Legarde
4) Kaushik Basu 5) Sumith Bose
13. Diwakar Gupta was appointed as the vicepresident of ..........
1) WB 2) IMF 3) NDB 4) ADB 5) None of above
14. Fighting poverty in Asia and the Pacific is the punch line of .........
1) ADB 2) World Bank 3) IMF 4) IDA 5)None
15. 48 th annual meeting of Asian Development Bank (ADB) summit
between 2 - 5 May 2024 held at ........
1) Abu Dhabi of UAE 2) Amman of Jordan
3) Manila of Philippines 4) Baku of Azerbaijan
5) Bandar Seri Begawan of Brunei
16. ADB projected that India would grow at ........ in 2015-16 and
8.2% the next fiscal, overtaking China.
1) 7.8% 2) 8.2% 3) 9.1% 4) 10.5% 5) 9.2%
17. Union Government on 17 May 2024 allocated Rs.5000 crore rupees for
the growth of Department of AYUSH. AYUSH stands for Ayurveda, Yoga and
Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and ...........
1) Homoeopathy 2) Home medicine
3) Honey therapy 4) Herbal medicine 5) None
18. Union Minister of State (MoS) for AYUSH is ..........
1) Sripad Naik 2) Bandaru Dattatreya
3) Jayant Sinha 4) Kiren Rijiju 5) Nirmala Sitharaman
Answers: 1-1; 2-1; 3-1; 4-3; 5-3; 6-3; 7-3; 8-1; 9-1; 10-1; 11-3;
12-1; 13-4; 14-1; 15-4; 16-1; 17-1; 18-1.
which covers death or disablement of the policyholder caused due to
accident or accidental injuries. It offers an accidental death and
full disability cover of ............
1) Rs.2 Lakh 2) Rs.10 Lakh
3) Rs.7 Lakh 4) Rs.5 Lakh 5) Rs.12 Lakh
2. PMSBY covers how much for partial disability?
1) Rs.1 Lakh 2) Rs.50,000
3) Rs.1.5 Lakh 4) Rs.10 Lakh 5) Rs.2 Lakh
3. Any Indian citizen can join in PMSBY having the minimum age of .........
1) 18 2) 21 3) 25 4) 40 5) 10
4. How much premium to be paid by the insured in PMSBY?
1) Rs.2 per month 2) Rs.120 per annum
3) Rs.12 per annum 4) Rs.330 per annum 5) None
5. Whether nomination facility is there in the PMSBY?
1) No 2) Yes, but the permission of RBI compulsory
3) Yes 4) Yes, but the nominee must be minor
5) Yes, the nominee must be unmarried
6. How the premium can be paid in PMSBY?
1) By cash 2) By ATM card only
3) Through bank account only
4) By Demand draft only
5) By postal order only
7. Whether any person can take two PMSBY policies through two various
savings accounts?
1) Yes 2) Yes, the insured should inform bank
3) No 4) Yes, by taking permission from RBI
5) None of above applicable, as the customer can take any number of
policies under PMSBY
8. Asian Development Bank (ADB) was established in .......
1) 1966 2) 1945 3) 1969 4) 1984 5) 1921
9. ADB headquarters located at ..........
1) Manila in Philippines
2) New Delhi in India
3) Shanghai in China
4) Tokyo in Japan
5) Bangkok in Thailand
10. President of ADB is .......
1) Takehiko Nakao 2) Jim Yong Kim
3) Christine Legarde 4) K.V. Kamath 5) None of above
11. Who was appointed as India's Governor on the Board of Governors of
the Asian Development Bank with effect from May 27, 2014?
1) Chidambaram 2) Nirmala Sitharaman
3) Arun Jaitely 4) Narendra Modi 5) None
12. First Indian elected as the President of the Administrative
Tribunal of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) ..........
1) Lakshmi Swaminathan
2) M.S. Swaminathan 3) Christine Legarde
4) Kaushik Basu 5) Sumith Bose
13. Diwakar Gupta was appointed as the vicepresident of ..........
1) WB 2) IMF 3) NDB 4) ADB 5) None of above
14. Fighting poverty in Asia and the Pacific is the punch line of .........
1) ADB 2) World Bank 3) IMF 4) IDA 5)None
15. 48 th annual meeting of Asian Development Bank (ADB) summit
between 2 - 5 May 2024 held at ........
1) Abu Dhabi of UAE 2) Amman of Jordan
3) Manila of Philippines 4) Baku of Azerbaijan
5) Bandar Seri Begawan of Brunei
16. ADB projected that India would grow at ........ in 2015-16 and
8.2% the next fiscal, overtaking China.
1) 7.8% 2) 8.2% 3) 9.1% 4) 10.5% 5) 9.2%
17. Union Government on 17 May 2024 allocated Rs.5000 crore rupees for
the growth of Department of AYUSH. AYUSH stands for Ayurveda, Yoga and
Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and ...........
1) Homoeopathy 2) Home medicine
3) Honey therapy 4) Herbal medicine 5) None
18. Union Minister of State (MoS) for AYUSH is ..........
1) Sripad Naik 2) Bandaru Dattatreya
3) Jayant Sinha 4) Kiren Rijiju 5) Nirmala Sitharaman
Answers: 1-1; 2-1; 3-1; 4-3; 5-3; 6-3; 7-3; 8-1; 9-1; 10-1; 11-3;
12-1; 13-4; 14-1; 15-4; 16-1; 17-1; 18-1.
26 May 2024
General Awareness Bits for Bank POs and Clerks Recruitment Exams
1. If the customer can do all transactions only in a branch and the branch has no online access, it is called .......
1) Online Banking 2) Internet Banking
3) Virtual Banking 4) Brick and Mortar Banking 5) None of these
2. As a part of financial inclusion, Bank on Wheels is a banking kiosk in a mobile van which goes to various rural villages as per the predetermined schedule to provide the banking services to the rural Indians. This Vehicle Tracking through GPRS. GPRS stands for ......
1) General Packet Radio Service
2) General Packet Running Service
3) Gross Packet Radio Service
4) Gain Packet Radio Service
5) General Packet Radio Store
3. A collection of investment tools such as stocks, shares, mutual funds, bonds, cash and so on depending on the investor's income, budget and convenient time frame. The art of selecting the right investment policy for the individuals in terms of minimum risk and maximum return is called as ......
1) Portfolio management 2) Credit creation
3) Amortized management 4) Zero account
5) None of these
4. Which bank has launched the country's first contactless debit and credit cards on 7 January 2015?
1) HDFC 2) SBI 3) ICICI 4) Union Bank of India 5) Yes Bank
5. On 7 May 2015, RBI said with effect from September 1, 2024 all new cards issued - debit and credit, domestic and international - by banks shall be EMV chip and pin based cards. EMV stands for ......
1) Europay, Mastro and Visa.
2) Euro, Master Card and Visa.
3) Europay, Master Card and Visulas.
4) Entitlement of Master Card and Visa.
5) Europay, Master Card and Visa.
6. Which is the first bank to get ISO certificate?
1) Corporation Bank 2) UBI
3) Canara Bank 4) Syndicate Bank 5) ICICI
7. Kisan Credit Card (KCC) scheme introduced in ........ has emerged as an innovative credit delivery mechanism to meet the production credit requirements of the farmers in a timely and hassle - free manner.
1) 1998 2) 2000 3) 2001 4) 1991 5) 2004
8. To make KCC a Smart Card cum Debit Card, Government of India had constituted a Working Group under the Chairmanship of ........
1) C. Ranga Rajan 2) Chanda Kocchar
3) Arundhathi Bhattacharya
4) D. Subba Rao 5) T.M. Bhasin
9. In 2014, Competition Commission of India probed the merger between regional rural banks sponsored by Punjab National Bank and ........
1) Andhra Bank 2) Union Bank of India
3) State Bank of India 4) Syndicate Bank 5) None of these
10. A personal loan is a kind of unsecured loan which can be used for any purpose that the borrower deems necessary. The loan backed only by promise to repay, and for this reason the personal loan also called.....
1) Signature loans 2) Secured loans
3) Priority sector loan 4) Transfer loan 5) None of these
11. AMFI is dedicated to developing the Indian Mutual Fund Industry on professional, healthy and ethical lines and to enhance and maintain standards in the industry. AMFI stands for .....
1) Association of Mutual Funds in India
2) Authority of Mutual Funds in India
3) Amalgamation of Mutual Funds in India
4) Association of Mutual Finance in India
5) None of these
12. Providing Gas subsidy, government pensions, providing scholarships etc through banks called as .......
1) Social Banking 2) Area Banking
3) Royal Banking 4) Visual Banking 5) None of these
13. Which bank bagged the Core Banking System Initiative Award for the year 2014 at the Asian Banking and Finance - Retail Banking Awards 2014?
1) SBI 2) ICICI Bank
3) Bharathiya Mahila Bank
4) Standard Bank 5) None of these
14. In the IBA Banking Technology Awards 2014, Best Financial Inclusion Initiative award among Public Sector bank conferred on .......
1) SBI 2) Corporation Bank
3) Andhra Bank 4) Bank of Baroda 5) IOB
15. Which of the following banking does not come under Social Banking?
1) Crediting the LPG subsidy in the beneficiary bank account
2) Offering Jan Dhan Scheme accounts
3) Allowing students to credit their scholarships through No-frill accounts
4) Allowing the subsidy loan to disadvantage sections of the society
5) All of the above banking operations come under social banking
Answers:
1-4; 2-1; 3-1; 4-3; 5-5; 6-3; 7-1; 8-5; 9-4; 10-1; 11-1; 12-1; 13-3; 14-4; 15-3.
1) Online Banking 2) Internet Banking
3) Virtual Banking 4) Brick and Mortar Banking 5) None of these
2. As a part of financial inclusion, Bank on Wheels is a banking kiosk in a mobile van which goes to various rural villages as per the predetermined schedule to provide the banking services to the rural Indians. This Vehicle Tracking through GPRS. GPRS stands for ......
1) General Packet Radio Service
2) General Packet Running Service
3) Gross Packet Radio Service
4) Gain Packet Radio Service
5) General Packet Radio Store
3. A collection of investment tools such as stocks, shares, mutual funds, bonds, cash and so on depending on the investor's income, budget and convenient time frame. The art of selecting the right investment policy for the individuals in terms of minimum risk and maximum return is called as ......
1) Portfolio management 2) Credit creation
3) Amortized management 4) Zero account
5) None of these
4. Which bank has launched the country's first contactless debit and credit cards on 7 January 2015?
1) HDFC 2) SBI 3) ICICI 4) Union Bank of India 5) Yes Bank
5. On 7 May 2015, RBI said with effect from September 1, 2024 all new cards issued - debit and credit, domestic and international - by banks shall be EMV chip and pin based cards. EMV stands for ......
1) Europay, Mastro and Visa.
2) Euro, Master Card and Visa.
3) Europay, Master Card and Visulas.
4) Entitlement of Master Card and Visa.
5) Europay, Master Card and Visa.
6. Which is the first bank to get ISO certificate?
1) Corporation Bank 2) UBI
3) Canara Bank 4) Syndicate Bank 5) ICICI
7. Kisan Credit Card (KCC) scheme introduced in ........ has emerged as an innovative credit delivery mechanism to meet the production credit requirements of the farmers in a timely and hassle - free manner.
1) 1998 2) 2000 3) 2001 4) 1991 5) 2004
8. To make KCC a Smart Card cum Debit Card, Government of India had constituted a Working Group under the Chairmanship of ........
1) C. Ranga Rajan 2) Chanda Kocchar
3) Arundhathi Bhattacharya
4) D. Subba Rao 5) T.M. Bhasin
9. In 2014, Competition Commission of India probed the merger between regional rural banks sponsored by Punjab National Bank and ........
1) Andhra Bank 2) Union Bank of India
3) State Bank of India 4) Syndicate Bank 5) None of these
10. A personal loan is a kind of unsecured loan which can be used for any purpose that the borrower deems necessary. The loan backed only by promise to repay, and for this reason the personal loan also called.....
1) Signature loans 2) Secured loans
3) Priority sector loan 4) Transfer loan 5) None of these
11. AMFI is dedicated to developing the Indian Mutual Fund Industry on professional, healthy and ethical lines and to enhance and maintain standards in the industry. AMFI stands for .....
1) Association of Mutual Funds in India
2) Authority of Mutual Funds in India
3) Amalgamation of Mutual Funds in India
4) Association of Mutual Finance in India
5) None of these
12. Providing Gas subsidy, government pensions, providing scholarships etc through banks called as .......
1) Social Banking 2) Area Banking
3) Royal Banking 4) Visual Banking 5) None of these
13. Which bank bagged the Core Banking System Initiative Award for the year 2014 at the Asian Banking and Finance - Retail Banking Awards 2014?
1) SBI 2) ICICI Bank
3) Bharathiya Mahila Bank
4) Standard Bank 5) None of these
14. In the IBA Banking Technology Awards 2014, Best Financial Inclusion Initiative award among Public Sector bank conferred on .......
1) SBI 2) Corporation Bank
3) Andhra Bank 4) Bank of Baroda 5) IOB
15. Which of the following banking does not come under Social Banking?
1) Crediting the LPG subsidy in the beneficiary bank account
2) Offering Jan Dhan Scheme accounts
3) Allowing students to credit their scholarships through No-frill accounts
4) Allowing the subsidy loan to disadvantage sections of the society
5) All of the above banking operations come under social banking
Answers:
1-4; 2-1; 3-1; 4-3; 5-5; 6-3; 7-1; 8-5; 9-4; 10-1; 11-1; 12-1; 13-3; 14-4; 15-3.
General Awareness - Banking for Bank POs and Clerks Exams Preparation
Internet Banking: Internet banking is also called as an E - banking or net banking. Customer can do banking transactions through the medium of the internet or world wide web (WWW). The customer need not visit the bank's branch. Through this facility, the customer can easily inquiry about bank balance, transfer funds, request for a cheque book, etc. Most large banks offer this service to their tech-savvy customers.
Encouragement to Bank Amalgamation:
Failure of banks is well-protected with the facility of amalgamation. So depositors need not worry about their deposits. When weaker banks are absorbed by stronger banks, it is called amalgamation of banks.
Encouragement to Personal Loans:
Today, the purchasing power of Indian consumers has increased dramatically because banks give them easy personal loans. Generally, interest charged by the banks on such loans is very high. Interest is calculated on reducing balance. The documentation is less and processing is fast in these loans.
Marketing of Mutual Funds:
A mutual fund collects money from many investors and invests the money in shares, bonds, short-term money market instruments, gold assets; etc. Mutual funds earn income by interest and dividend or both from its investments. It pays a dividend to subscribers. These funds are not insured like other bank deposits. There are different types of
funds such as open-ended funds, closed-ended funds, growth funds, balanced funds, income funds, etc.
Social Banking:
The government uses the banking system to alleviate poverty and unemployment. Many social development programmes are initiated by the banks from time to time. The success of these programmes depends on financial support provided by the banks. Banks supply a lot of finance to farmers, artisans, scheduled castes (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST)
families, unemployed youth and people living below the poverty line (BPL) under social banking.
Encouragement to Bank Amalgamation:
Failure of banks is well-protected with the facility of amalgamation. So depositors need not worry about their deposits. When weaker banks are absorbed by stronger banks, it is called amalgamation of banks.
Encouragement to Personal Loans:
Today, the purchasing power of Indian consumers has increased dramatically because banks give them easy personal loans. Generally, interest charged by the banks on such loans is very high. Interest is calculated on reducing balance. The documentation is less and processing is fast in these loans.
Marketing of Mutual Funds:
A mutual fund collects money from many investors and invests the money in shares, bonds, short-term money market instruments, gold assets; etc. Mutual funds earn income by interest and dividend or both from its investments. It pays a dividend to subscribers. These funds are not insured like other bank deposits. There are different types of
funds such as open-ended funds, closed-ended funds, growth funds, balanced funds, income funds, etc.
Social Banking:
The government uses the banking system to alleviate poverty and unemployment. Many social development programmes are initiated by the banks from time to time. The success of these programmes depends on financial support provided by the banks. Banks supply a lot of finance to farmers, artisans, scheduled castes (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST)
families, unemployed youth and people living below the poverty line (BPL) under social banking.
General Banking Awareness for Bank POs and Clerks Recruitment Exams
Banks in India have already started issuing Electro - Magnetic Cards to their customers. These cards help to carry out cash - less transactions, make an online purchase, avail ATM facility, book a railway ticket, do shopping online etc. Banks issue many types of electromagnetic cards like Credit Cards, Debit Cards, Charge Cards, Kisan Credit Cards etc.
Universal Banking:
In India, the concept of universal banking has gained recognition after year 2000. The customers can get all banking and non-banking services under one roof. Universal bank is like a super store. It offers a wide range of services, including banking and other financial services like insurance, merchant banking, etc.
Automated Teller Machine (ATM):
There are many advantages of ATM. As a result, many banks have opened up ATM centres to offer convenience to their customers. Now banks are operating ATM centres not only in their branches (on site ATM) but also at public places like airports, railway stations, hotels, bazaars (off site ATM). Some banks have joined together and agreed upon to set up common ATM centres all over India.
Universal Banking:
In India, the concept of universal banking has gained recognition after year 2000. The customers can get all banking and non-banking services under one roof. Universal bank is like a super store. It offers a wide range of services, including banking and other financial services like insurance, merchant banking, etc.
Automated Teller Machine (ATM):
There are many advantages of ATM. As a result, many banks have opened up ATM centres to offer convenience to their customers. Now banks are operating ATM centres not only in their branches (on site ATM) but also at public places like airports, railway stations, hotels, bazaars (off site ATM). Some banks have joined together and agreed upon to set up common ATM centres all over India.
General Awareness on Banking Industry for Bank POs and Clerks Exams
Banks in India today have become more customer - focused and service-oriented than they were before 1991. The banks in India now give a lot of importance to their rural customers. The following points briefly highlight the changing role of banks in India:
1. Better customer service
2. Mobile banking facility
3. Bank on wheels scheme
4. Portfolio management
5. Issue of electro-magnetic cards
6. Universal banking
7. Automated Teller Machine (ATM)
8. Internet Banking
9. Encouragement to bank amalgamation
10. Encouragement to personal loans
11. Marketing of mutual funds
12. Social banking, etc.
The above - mentioned points indicate the role of banks in India is changing. Now let's discuss how banking in India is getting much better day after day.
Better Customer Service:
Before 1991, the overall service of banks in India was very poor. There were very long queues to receive payment for cheques and to deposit Cash. The banks were restricted to provide the better customer service in those days.
Banks in India have now become very customer and service focus. Their service has become quick, efficient and customer - friendly. This positive change is mostly due to rising competition from new private banks and initiation of Ombudsman Scheme by RBI.
Mobile Banking:
Under mobile banking service, customers can easily carry out major banking transactions by simply using their cell phones or mobiles. Using secret credentials and registered phone, customer can now comfortably and securely, find his bank balance, transfer money from his account to another, ask for a cheque book, stop payment of a cheque, etc. Today, almost all banks in India provide a mobile-banking service.
Bank on Wheels:
The Bank on Wheels; scheme was first introduced in the North - East Region of India. Under this scheme, banking services are made accessible to people staying in the remote areas of India. This scheme is a generous attempt to serve banking needs of rural India.
Portfolio Management: In this portfolio management, banks do all the investments work of their clients. Banks invest their clients' money in shares, debentures, fixed deposits, etc. They first enter a contract with their clients and charge them a fee for this service. Then they have the full power to invest or disinvest their clients' money. However, they have to give safety and profit to their clients.
1. Better customer service
2. Mobile banking facility
3. Bank on wheels scheme
4. Portfolio management
5. Issue of electro-magnetic cards
6. Universal banking
7. Automated Teller Machine (ATM)
8. Internet Banking
9. Encouragement to bank amalgamation
10. Encouragement to personal loans
11. Marketing of mutual funds
12. Social banking, etc.
The above - mentioned points indicate the role of banks in India is changing. Now let's discuss how banking in India is getting much better day after day.
Better Customer Service:
Before 1991, the overall service of banks in India was very poor. There were very long queues to receive payment for cheques and to deposit Cash. The banks were restricted to provide the better customer service in those days.
Banks in India have now become very customer and service focus. Their service has become quick, efficient and customer - friendly. This positive change is mostly due to rising competition from new private banks and initiation of Ombudsman Scheme by RBI.
Mobile Banking:
Under mobile banking service, customers can easily carry out major banking transactions by simply using their cell phones or mobiles. Using secret credentials and registered phone, customer can now comfortably and securely, find his bank balance, transfer money from his account to another, ask for a cheque book, stop payment of a cheque, etc. Today, almost all banks in India provide a mobile-banking service.
Bank on Wheels:
The Bank on Wheels; scheme was first introduced in the North - East Region of India. Under this scheme, banking services are made accessible to people staying in the remote areas of India. This scheme is a generous attempt to serve banking needs of rural India.
Portfolio Management: In this portfolio management, banks do all the investments work of their clients. Banks invest their clients' money in shares, debentures, fixed deposits, etc. They first enter a contract with their clients and charge them a fee for this service. Then they have the full power to invest or disinvest their clients' money. However, they have to give safety and profit to their clients.
05 January 2024
General Awareness Bits for SBI and IBPS Clerks Exams
1. The combination of Capital, Currency of the nations given. Find the wrong combination.
1) Uzbekistan - Tashkent - Som
2) Kazikistan - Astana - Tenge
3) Tajikistan - Dushanbe - Somoni
4) Belarus - Minsk - Ruble
5) None
2. Abbreviations given. Find out the wrong option.
1) IRDA - Insurance Regulatory and Domestic Authority
2) FERA - Foreign Exchange Regulation Act
3) FRBM - Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act
4) BRA - Banking Regulation Act
5) SFMS - Structured Financial Messaging System
3. Books and authors list given.
Locate wrong combination.
1) Born Again on the Mountain - Arunima Sinha
2) Final Test: Exit Sachin Tendulkar - Gregory Chappell
3) Vande Bharatam - Pandit Prabodh Kumar Mishra
4) 2014: The Election That Changed India- Rajdeep Sardesai
5) Gods of Antarctica - Yashwardhan Shukla
4. The International Organizations/ conferences list given. Pick the right combination.
1) UNCTAD - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development-Geneva- Switzerland
2) FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization- Rome-Italy
3) UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund- New York-USA
4) IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency-Vienna-Austria
5) All of above
5. The venue list of various championships in the world sports / games given. The correct option is ......
1) 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup to be held in Australia and New Zealand
2) 2016 Euro Foot Ball Cup to be held in France
3) 2017 FIFA U - 17 World Cup to be held in India
4) 2018 Asian Games to be held in Indonesia
5) All of above
6. India defeated ....... to clinch Men title of Kabaddi World Cup 2014.
1) New Zealand 2) USA
3) Afghanistan 4) Pakistan 5) None of above
7. By defeating New Zealand, which team got Women title of Kabaddi world Cup 2014?
1) Canada 2) India 3) Iran 4) Bangladesh 5) None of above
8. List of Awards given. The wrong combination is .......
1) Jnanpith Award-Literature
2) Dadasaheb Phalke Award-Information Technology
3) Dronacharya Award-Sports Coaching
4) Oscar Award-Cinema
5) Fields Medal-Mathematics
9. Democratic rights activist of China Xu Youyu was conferred with Olof Palme human rights prize on 16 December 2014. The award given by Olof Palme Memorial Fund of .......
1) Denmark 2) Portugal 3) Norway 4) Sweden 5) Japan
10. National Mathematics Day, celebrated on December 22 to mark the birth day of .......
1) Brahma Guptha 2) Varahamihara 3) Mahavira
4) Srinivasa Ramanujan 5) Aryabhatta
11. GANIT stands for ......
1) Growing Aptitude in Numerical Inventions and Training
2) Growing Aptitude in Numerical Innovations and Training
3) Great Aptitude in Numerical Innovations and Training
4) Growing Aptitude in Numerical Innovations and Trail
5) None
12. Reinsurance means?
1) If the insured do more than one life policy
2) If the insurer ask to pay another premium, at least to renew the policy for 5 years to protect the interest of the insured
3) If the insurer insures the part of risk or the whole risk with another insurer
4) If the insured and insurer gain the interest on doing of another policy
5) None
13. Insurable interest is not seen in .......
1) Mother and Son 2) Father and Son
3) Husband and wife 4) Friends 5) All of above
14. Fidelity insurance means .....
1) Compensating the employer from the dishonesty or disloyalty of employee
2) A shop keeper taking the policy to protect the ups and downs in the business
3) Company take the policy to protect its interest from the competitors
4) Government take the policy to save the life of senior officials
5) None
15. In General insurances, the actual cash value means?
1) The manufacturer price at the time of sale
2) The price of good imported from foreign country minus import duty
3) The price of good at the time of export without adding the subsidy
4) The actual or current value at the time of the loss
5) The intrinsic value of good
Answers:
1-5; 2-1; 3-2; 4-5; 5-5; 6-4; 7-2; 8-2; 9-4; 10-4; 11-2; 12-3; 13-4; 14-1; 15-4.
1) Uzbekistan - Tashkent - Som
2) Kazikistan - Astana - Tenge
3) Tajikistan - Dushanbe - Somoni
4) Belarus - Minsk - Ruble
5) None
2. Abbreviations given. Find out the wrong option.
1) IRDA - Insurance Regulatory and Domestic Authority
2) FERA - Foreign Exchange Regulation Act
3) FRBM - Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act
4) BRA - Banking Regulation Act
5) SFMS - Structured Financial Messaging System
3. Books and authors list given.
Locate wrong combination.
1) Born Again on the Mountain - Arunima Sinha
2) Final Test: Exit Sachin Tendulkar - Gregory Chappell
3) Vande Bharatam - Pandit Prabodh Kumar Mishra
4) 2014: The Election That Changed India- Rajdeep Sardesai
5) Gods of Antarctica - Yashwardhan Shukla
4. The International Organizations/ conferences list given. Pick the right combination.
1) UNCTAD - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development-Geneva- Switzerland
2) FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization- Rome-Italy
3) UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund- New York-USA
4) IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency-Vienna-Austria
5) All of above
5. The venue list of various championships in the world sports / games given. The correct option is ......
1) 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup to be held in Australia and New Zealand
2) 2016 Euro Foot Ball Cup to be held in France
3) 2017 FIFA U - 17 World Cup to be held in India
4) 2018 Asian Games to be held in Indonesia
5) All of above
6. India defeated ....... to clinch Men title of Kabaddi World Cup 2014.
1) New Zealand 2) USA
3) Afghanistan 4) Pakistan 5) None of above
7. By defeating New Zealand, which team got Women title of Kabaddi world Cup 2014?
1) Canada 2) India 3) Iran 4) Bangladesh 5) None of above
8. List of Awards given. The wrong combination is .......
1) Jnanpith Award-Literature
2) Dadasaheb Phalke Award-Information Technology
3) Dronacharya Award-Sports Coaching
4) Oscar Award-Cinema
5) Fields Medal-Mathematics
9. Democratic rights activist of China Xu Youyu was conferred with Olof Palme human rights prize on 16 December 2014. The award given by Olof Palme Memorial Fund of .......
1) Denmark 2) Portugal 3) Norway 4) Sweden 5) Japan
10. National Mathematics Day, celebrated on December 22 to mark the birth day of .......
1) Brahma Guptha 2) Varahamihara 3) Mahavira
4) Srinivasa Ramanujan 5) Aryabhatta
11. GANIT stands for ......
1) Growing Aptitude in Numerical Inventions and Training
2) Growing Aptitude in Numerical Innovations and Training
3) Great Aptitude in Numerical Innovations and Training
4) Growing Aptitude in Numerical Innovations and Trail
5) None
12. Reinsurance means?
1) If the insured do more than one life policy
2) If the insurer ask to pay another premium, at least to renew the policy for 5 years to protect the interest of the insured
3) If the insurer insures the part of risk or the whole risk with another insurer
4) If the insured and insurer gain the interest on doing of another policy
5) None
13. Insurable interest is not seen in .......
1) Mother and Son 2) Father and Son
3) Husband and wife 4) Friends 5) All of above
14. Fidelity insurance means .....
1) Compensating the employer from the dishonesty or disloyalty of employee
2) A shop keeper taking the policy to protect the ups and downs in the business
3) Company take the policy to protect its interest from the competitors
4) Government take the policy to save the life of senior officials
5) None
15. In General insurances, the actual cash value means?
1) The manufacturer price at the time of sale
2) The price of good imported from foreign country minus import duty
3) The price of good at the time of export without adding the subsidy
4) The actual or current value at the time of the loss
5) The intrinsic value of good
Answers:
1-5; 2-1; 3-2; 4-5; 5-5; 6-4; 7-2; 8-2; 9-4; 10-4; 11-2; 12-3; 13-4; 14-1; 15-4.
Latest General Awareness Bits for SBI and IBPS Clerks Recruitments
1. On 19 December 2014, HDFC bank got clearance from FIPB to get another FDI proposal. FIPB stands for ......
1) Foreign Investment Proposals Board
2) Foreign Investment Primary Board
3) Foreign Institutional Primary Board
4) First Investment Promotion Board
5) Foreign Investment Promotion Board
2. The important proposal of HDFC bank accepted by FIPB. It is .......
1) to allow 51 percent foreign employees
2) to allow HDFC bank taken over by foreign bank
3) to allow the chairman of HDFC bank as president of FIPB
4) to allow 100% FDI in Private banks in India
5) to increase its equity base by up to Rs 10,000 crore
3. FIPB headed by whom, accepted the proposal of HDFC bank to expand its equity. The share holders already gave their approval?
1) Rajiv Mehrishi 2) Ajith Kumar Seth
3) Anil Goswami 4) Arun Jaitley 5) None
4. FIPB is a government body that offers a single window clearance for proposals on FDI in India that is not allowed access through the automatic route. The Minister of Finance, considers the recommendations of the FIPB on proposals for foreign investment up to .....
1) Rs.1200 crore 2) Rs.100 crore
3) Rs.10 crore 4) Rs.700 crore 5) Rs.1000 crore
5. Proposals involving foreign more than 1200 crore require the approval of the .......
1) Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
2) SEBI
3) Competition Commission of India
4) IRDA
5) All Finance Ministers of state governments
6. e-filing facility adopted by FIPB to increase its efficiency and transparency of decision making. e-filing means .......
1) end filing 2) entry filing
3) entrusted filing 4) electrical filing 5) electronic filing
7. On 6 December 2014, CBI recorded the statement of Chidambaram, the former finance minister of India relating to the case of .......
1) Shraddha chit fund scam
2) 2 G spectrum case
3) Coal allocation scam
4) Agusta Westland scam
5) Aircel-Maxis Deal
8. Ratnakar Bank Limited (RBL) also got clearance from FIPB to allow FDI. RBL CEO is .....
1) Chanda Kocchar 2) Deepak Parekh
3) Vishwavir Ahuja 4) Sikha Sharma 5) Uday Kotak
9. Which bank has been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Global Growth Company, 2014?
1) Andhra Bank
2) South India Bank Limited
3) Ratnakar Bank Limited
4) HDFC 5) SBI
10. RBI slapped a penalty of Rs.50 lakh on which bank, relating to lapses in adhering to Know - Your - Customer (KYC) norms on 17 December 2014?
1) HDFC 2) SBI 3) ICICI 4) Indian Bank 5) Corporation Bank
11. Recently the Russian currency sank to the lowest point in its history, reaching 80 to the USA Dollar. Russian Currency is .......
1) Euro 2) Franc 3) Ruble 4) Yuan 5) Yen
12. Chair woman of Russia's central bank is .......
1) Christine Legarde 2) Janet Yellen 3) Elvira Nabiullina
4) Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner 5) None
13. Pramod Panda, a police officer was taken in to custody to interrogate him about his links with which chit fund group on 20 December 2014?
1) Artha Tatwa 2) Shraddha Chit Funds
3) Sahara Group 4) SKS group 5) None of above
14. Which International Rating Agency upgraded the rating of SBI and ten other Indian banks and financial institutions from stable to negative?
1) Fitch 2) Moody 3) S&P; 4) FIMALAC 5) CRISIL
15. Government is proposing to replace BIPA with a new pact. What is the full form of BIPA?
1) Bilateral Investment Promotion and Partnership Agreement
2) Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement
3) Bilateral Industrial Promotion and Protection Agreement
4) Bilateral Investment Protection and Priority Agreement
5) None
16. SEBI now has powers to regulate illegal collective investment schemes where the amount involved is more than .......
1) Rs.10 crores 2) Rs.500 crore
3) Rs.1 crore 4) Rs.100 crores 5) None
17. SEBI has modified the norms to clear the decks for foreign venture funds into infrastructure sector. According to the 12th Five Year Plan India requires investment of about ............... in infrastructure.
1) Rs.100 Lakh crore 2) Rs.50 Lakh crore
3) Rs.1000 Lakh crore 4) Rs.65 Lakh crore 5) None
18. CRPF new chief .......
1) Ranbir Singh 2) D.K. Pathak
3) Prakash Mishra 4) Anil Kumar Sinha 5) Dineshwar Sharma
19. Kisan Diwas celebrates on .......
1) 23 December 2) 5 December
3) 22 March 4) 26 April 5) 16 October
20. HRIDAY scheme relates to....
1) Government scheme to provide free transplantation of heart of dead to alive
2) Microsoft scheme to adopt girl children
3) Conserving and preserving the heritage characters of 12 cities
4) Rejuvenating the serenity of Ganges River
5) Providing home to all by 2022
Answers:
1-5; 2-5; 3-1; 4-1; 5-1; 6-5; 7-5; 8-3; 9-3; 10-3; 11-3; 12-3; 13-1; 14-3; 15-2; 16-4; 17-4; 18-3; 19-1; 20-3.
1) Foreign Investment Proposals Board
2) Foreign Investment Primary Board
3) Foreign Institutional Primary Board
4) First Investment Promotion Board
5) Foreign Investment Promotion Board
2. The important proposal of HDFC bank accepted by FIPB. It is .......
1) to allow 51 percent foreign employees
2) to allow HDFC bank taken over by foreign bank
3) to allow the chairman of HDFC bank as president of FIPB
4) to allow 100% FDI in Private banks in India
5) to increase its equity base by up to Rs 10,000 crore
3. FIPB headed by whom, accepted the proposal of HDFC bank to expand its equity. The share holders already gave their approval?
1) Rajiv Mehrishi 2) Ajith Kumar Seth
3) Anil Goswami 4) Arun Jaitley 5) None
4. FIPB is a government body that offers a single window clearance for proposals on FDI in India that is not allowed access through the automatic route. The Minister of Finance, considers the recommendations of the FIPB on proposals for foreign investment up to .....
1) Rs.1200 crore 2) Rs.100 crore
3) Rs.10 crore 4) Rs.700 crore 5) Rs.1000 crore
5. Proposals involving foreign more than 1200 crore require the approval of the .......
1) Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
2) SEBI
3) Competition Commission of India
4) IRDA
5) All Finance Ministers of state governments
6. e-filing facility adopted by FIPB to increase its efficiency and transparency of decision making. e-filing means .......
1) end filing 2) entry filing
3) entrusted filing 4) electrical filing 5) electronic filing
7. On 6 December 2014, CBI recorded the statement of Chidambaram, the former finance minister of India relating to the case of .......
1) Shraddha chit fund scam
2) 2 G spectrum case
3) Coal allocation scam
4) Agusta Westland scam
5) Aircel-Maxis Deal
8. Ratnakar Bank Limited (RBL) also got clearance from FIPB to allow FDI. RBL CEO is .....
1) Chanda Kocchar 2) Deepak Parekh
3) Vishwavir Ahuja 4) Sikha Sharma 5) Uday Kotak
9. Which bank has been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Global Growth Company, 2014?
1) Andhra Bank
2) South India Bank Limited
3) Ratnakar Bank Limited
4) HDFC 5) SBI
10. RBI slapped a penalty of Rs.50 lakh on which bank, relating to lapses in adhering to Know - Your - Customer (KYC) norms on 17 December 2014?
1) HDFC 2) SBI 3) ICICI 4) Indian Bank 5) Corporation Bank
11. Recently the Russian currency sank to the lowest point in its history, reaching 80 to the USA Dollar. Russian Currency is .......
1) Euro 2) Franc 3) Ruble 4) Yuan 5) Yen
12. Chair woman of Russia's central bank is .......
1) Christine Legarde 2) Janet Yellen 3) Elvira Nabiullina
4) Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner 5) None
13. Pramod Panda, a police officer was taken in to custody to interrogate him about his links with which chit fund group on 20 December 2014?
1) Artha Tatwa 2) Shraddha Chit Funds
3) Sahara Group 4) SKS group 5) None of above
14. Which International Rating Agency upgraded the rating of SBI and ten other Indian banks and financial institutions from stable to negative?
1) Fitch 2) Moody 3) S&P; 4) FIMALAC 5) CRISIL
15. Government is proposing to replace BIPA with a new pact. What is the full form of BIPA?
1) Bilateral Investment Promotion and Partnership Agreement
2) Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement
3) Bilateral Industrial Promotion and Protection Agreement
4) Bilateral Investment Protection and Priority Agreement
5) None
16. SEBI now has powers to regulate illegal collective investment schemes where the amount involved is more than .......
1) Rs.10 crores 2) Rs.500 crore
3) Rs.1 crore 4) Rs.100 crores 5) None
17. SEBI has modified the norms to clear the decks for foreign venture funds into infrastructure sector. According to the 12th Five Year Plan India requires investment of about ............... in infrastructure.
1) Rs.100 Lakh crore 2) Rs.50 Lakh crore
3) Rs.1000 Lakh crore 4) Rs.65 Lakh crore 5) None
18. CRPF new chief .......
1) Ranbir Singh 2) D.K. Pathak
3) Prakash Mishra 4) Anil Kumar Sinha 5) Dineshwar Sharma
19. Kisan Diwas celebrates on .......
1) 23 December 2) 5 December
3) 22 March 4) 26 April 5) 16 October
20. HRIDAY scheme relates to....
1) Government scheme to provide free transplantation of heart of dead to alive
2) Microsoft scheme to adopt girl children
3) Conserving and preserving the heritage characters of 12 cities
4) Rejuvenating the serenity of Ganges River
5) Providing home to all by 2022
Answers:
1-5; 2-5; 3-1; 4-1; 5-1; 6-5; 7-5; 8-3; 9-3; 10-3; 11-3; 12-3; 13-1; 14-3; 15-2; 16-4; 17-4; 18-3; 19-1; 20-3.
22 December 2023
Latest General Awareness Questions for SBI and IBPS Clerks Recruitment Tests
1. Who amongst the following has taken over as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra after recent assembly elections there?
1) Laxmikant Parsekar
2) O.Panner Selvam
3) Devendra Fadnavis
4) Manohar Lal Khattar
5) Prithviraj Chavan
2. Dineshwar Sharma has been appointed as the .......
1) New Chief of BSF
2) New Chief of CRPF
3) New Chief of CBI
4) Next Chief of Intelligence Bureau (IB)
5) New Deputy Governor of RBI
3. 'Miss World 2014' Rolene Strauss is from which of the following countries?
1) Australia 2) India
3) South Africa 4) Hungary 5) USA
4. Confucius Peace Prize 2014 conferred on Fidel Castro Ruz for his important contributions in eliminating nuclear war after his retirement. He ruled .......
1) Venezulla 2) Russia 3) Cuba 4) Vietnam 5) Fiji
5. Who was named as the Asian of the Year 2014 by Singapore's leading newspaper The Straits Times?
1) Kailash Satyardhi 2) Malala
3) Narendra Modi 4) Dalia lama 5) Lee Hsien Loong
6. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojna (DDU-GKY) aims at providing quality skill training and placement opportunities to rural poor youth in the age group of .......
1) 25-35 years 2) 18-25 years
3) 20-35 years 4) 15-35 years 5) None
7. By 2020, developed countries are predicted to face a shortfall of over 57 million semiskilled manpower while India is expected to have a surplus of .......
1) 17 million 2) 47 million 3) 27 million
4) 7 million 5) 67 million
8. For DDU-GKY scheme, the government will spend Rs. 2000 crores to train nearly ....... annually and help of corporate sector will be sought to achieve the goal.
1) Two lakh rural youth
2) Three lakh rural youth
3) Four lakh rural youth
4) Five lakh rural youth
5) Twenty lakh rural youth
9. Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) introduced on the birth anniversary .......
1) Nehru 2) Gandhi
3) Ambedkar 4) Jayaprakash Narayan
5) Lal Bahadur Shastri
10. Under SAGY, the member of Parliament will identify and develop ....... from their constituencies as a model village by 2016.
1) one village 2) two villages
3) three villages 4) four villages
5) five villages
11. Under SAGY, the member of Parliament will identify and develop from their constituencies a model village by 2016 and two more by .......
1) 2019 2) 2025 3) 2050 4) 2045 5) 2030
12. On 15 December 2014, Union Government told the proposed TAPI pipeline will have a length of 1814 kms. TAPI stands for .......
1) Turkey - Afghanistan - Pakistan - India
2) Turkmenistan - Azerbaijan - Pakistan - India
3) Turkmenistan - Afghanistan - Persian Gulf -India
4) Turkmenistan - Armenia - Pakistan - India
5) Turkmenistan - Afghanistan - Pakistan - India
13. Vijay Diwas celebrates on 16th December because .......
1) India's military victory over Pakistan in 1965
2) India's military victory over Pakistan in 1971
3) India's military victory over Pakistan in 1996
4) India's military victory over Pakistan in 2000
5) None of above
14. National Energy Conservation Day observed on .......
1) 31 October 2) 1 December
3) 4 December 4) 14 December 5) None
15. International Day of Yoga is on .......
1) 6 April 2) 14 November
3) 11 November 4) 21 June 5) None
16. 'The Dramatic Decade: The Years of Indira Gandhi' written by .......
1) Rahul Gandhi 2) Pratibha Patil
3) Manmohan Singh
4) M.S. Swami Nathan
5) Pranab Mukherjee
17. London Classic title won by .......
1) Magnus Carlsen
2) Viswanathan Anand
3) Fabiano Caruana
4) Alexander Grischuk 5) None
18. 2014 Champions Trophy of Hockey won by .......
1) Pakistan 2) Germany
3) India 4) Australia 5) None
19. Pick the wrong combination?
1) David Warner - Cricket - New Zealand
2) Amos Meindi - Marathon - Kenya
3) Sarita Devi - Boxer - India
4) Lewis Hamilton - Formula One Race Driver - Britain
5) Stanislas Wawrinka - Tennis - Switzerland
20. Pakistan has been ranked third in Global Terrorism Index released by London based Institute for Economics and Peace. Which nation tops in this list?
1) Iraq 2) Syria 3) Afghanistan 4) Nigeria 5) Iran
Answers:
1-3; 2-4; 3-3; 4-3; 5-3; 6-4; 7-2; 8-1; 9-4; 10-1; 11-1; 12-5; 13-2; 14-4; 15-4; 16-5; 17-2; 18-2; 19-1; 20-1.
1) Laxmikant Parsekar
2) O.Panner Selvam
3) Devendra Fadnavis
4) Manohar Lal Khattar
5) Prithviraj Chavan
2. Dineshwar Sharma has been appointed as the .......
1) New Chief of BSF
2) New Chief of CRPF
3) New Chief of CBI
4) Next Chief of Intelligence Bureau (IB)
5) New Deputy Governor of RBI
3. 'Miss World 2014' Rolene Strauss is from which of the following countries?
1) Australia 2) India
3) South Africa 4) Hungary 5) USA
4. Confucius Peace Prize 2014 conferred on Fidel Castro Ruz for his important contributions in eliminating nuclear war after his retirement. He ruled .......
1) Venezulla 2) Russia 3) Cuba 4) Vietnam 5) Fiji
5. Who was named as the Asian of the Year 2014 by Singapore's leading newspaper The Straits Times?
1) Kailash Satyardhi 2) Malala
3) Narendra Modi 4) Dalia lama 5) Lee Hsien Loong
6. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojna (DDU-GKY) aims at providing quality skill training and placement opportunities to rural poor youth in the age group of .......
1) 25-35 years 2) 18-25 years
3) 20-35 years 4) 15-35 years 5) None
7. By 2020, developed countries are predicted to face a shortfall of over 57 million semiskilled manpower while India is expected to have a surplus of .......
1) 17 million 2) 47 million 3) 27 million
4) 7 million 5) 67 million
8. For DDU-GKY scheme, the government will spend Rs. 2000 crores to train nearly ....... annually and help of corporate sector will be sought to achieve the goal.
1) Two lakh rural youth
2) Three lakh rural youth
3) Four lakh rural youth
4) Five lakh rural youth
5) Twenty lakh rural youth
9. Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) introduced on the birth anniversary .......
1) Nehru 2) Gandhi
3) Ambedkar 4) Jayaprakash Narayan
5) Lal Bahadur Shastri
10. Under SAGY, the member of Parliament will identify and develop ....... from their constituencies as a model village by 2016.
1) one village 2) two villages
3) three villages 4) four villages
5) five villages
11. Under SAGY, the member of Parliament will identify and develop from their constituencies a model village by 2016 and two more by .......
1) 2019 2) 2025 3) 2050 4) 2045 5) 2030
12. On 15 December 2014, Union Government told the proposed TAPI pipeline will have a length of 1814 kms. TAPI stands for .......
1) Turkey - Afghanistan - Pakistan - India
2) Turkmenistan - Azerbaijan - Pakistan - India
3) Turkmenistan - Afghanistan - Persian Gulf -India
4) Turkmenistan - Armenia - Pakistan - India
5) Turkmenistan - Afghanistan - Pakistan - India
13. Vijay Diwas celebrates on 16th December because .......
1) India's military victory over Pakistan in 1965
2) India's military victory over Pakistan in 1971
3) India's military victory over Pakistan in 1996
4) India's military victory over Pakistan in 2000
5) None of above
14. National Energy Conservation Day observed on .......
1) 31 October 2) 1 December
3) 4 December 4) 14 December 5) None
15. International Day of Yoga is on .......
1) 6 April 2) 14 November
3) 11 November 4) 21 June 5) None
16. 'The Dramatic Decade: The Years of Indira Gandhi' written by .......
1) Rahul Gandhi 2) Pratibha Patil
3) Manmohan Singh
4) M.S. Swami Nathan
5) Pranab Mukherjee
17. London Classic title won by .......
1) Magnus Carlsen
2) Viswanathan Anand
3) Fabiano Caruana
4) Alexander Grischuk 5) None
18. 2014 Champions Trophy of Hockey won by .......
1) Pakistan 2) Germany
3) India 4) Australia 5) None
19. Pick the wrong combination?
1) David Warner - Cricket - New Zealand
2) Amos Meindi - Marathon - Kenya
3) Sarita Devi - Boxer - India
4) Lewis Hamilton - Formula One Race Driver - Britain
5) Stanislas Wawrinka - Tennis - Switzerland
20. Pakistan has been ranked third in Global Terrorism Index released by London based Institute for Economics and Peace. Which nation tops in this list?
1) Iraq 2) Syria 3) Afghanistan 4) Nigeria 5) Iran
Answers:
1-3; 2-4; 3-3; 4-3; 5-3; 6-4; 7-2; 8-1; 9-4; 10-1; 11-1; 12-5; 13-2; 14-4; 15-4; 16-5; 17-2; 18-2; 19-1; 20-1.
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