01). Which of the following country has launched a new cargo service connecting Tibet and Nepal?
a) India
b) Sri Lanka
c) Pakistan
d) China
e) None of these
02). India and which country signed an agreement for civil nuclear cooperation?
a) Qatar
b) USA
c) Japan
d) China
e) Vietnam
03). Vistaar Financial Services, an MSME-focused financing firm has appointed _______ as non-executive Chairman and Independent Director.
a) C B Bhave
b) Sri Radha Mohan
c) Madhukar Gupta
d) Manoj Bajpai
e) None of these
04). Nana Akufo-Addo was elected as the President of which among the following countries?
a) Burkina Faso
b) Togo
c) Liberia
d) Benin
e) Ghana
05). Documentary, “Raising the Bar” has won the Award of Recognition at Australian film festival. The documentary is directed by
a) Onir
b) Biju
c) Chrik
d) Weng
e) None of these
06). President Pranab Mukherjee has launched a “100 Million for 100 Million” campaign organized by the KailashSatyarthi Children’s Foundation at which among the following Indian cities?
a) Mumbai
b) Pune
c) New Delhi
d) Kolkata
e) Hyderabad
07). Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) has constituted a working groupon fighting online piracy. Who among the following is the chairman of the committee?
a) Ajit Mohan
b) Kiran Shankar
c) Vijay Karan
d) Mathokar Sanjay
e) None of these
08). The Narmada SevaYatra has been launched by which of the following states?
a) Maharashtra
b) Chhattisgarh
c) Madhya Pradesh
d) Andhra Pradesh
e) Uttarakhand
09). Which among the following banks decided to Launch Credit Card WithRs 25000 Limit Soon?
a) Punjab National Bank
b) Syndicate Bank
c) Axis Bank
d) State Bank of India
e) ICICI Bank
10). What is the theme of 2016 International Mountain Day (IMD)?
a) Mountain cultures: Celebrating diversity and strengthening identity
b) Mountain minorities and indigenous peoples
c) Managing mountain biodiversity for better lives
d) Mountain biodiversity for better lives
e) None of these
11). Who among the following appointed as the Prime Minister of New Zealand?
a) John Key
b) Helen Clerk
c) Bill English
d) Jenny Shipley
e) Jim Bolger
12). Who has been elected new President of 90th Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan?
a) Vasant Abaji Dahake
b) Nagnath Kottapalle
c) F M Shinde
d) Akshay kumar M Kale
e) None of these
13). Antonio Guterres, who has been sworn-in as the new Secretary General of the United Nations, is the former Prime Minister of which country?
a) Malaysia
b) Portugal
c) France
d) Singapore
e) Switzerland
14). Who has been named as the new Prime Minister of Italy?
a) Mario Monti
b) Enrico Letta
c) Matteo Renzi
d) Ramano Prodi
e) Paolo Gentiloni
15). Which country launches new-generation weather satellite in geostationary orbit, is also the
country’s first quantitative remote-sensing satellite in high orbit.
a) Russia
b) Japan
c) New Zealand
d) China
e) India
16). Who is the first Indian captain to hit three double centuries?
a) Virat Kohli
b) Rohit Sharma
c) Ajinkya Rahane
d) Mahendra Singh Dhoni
e) Saurav Ganguly
17). Which of the state has launched the website APEDB to provide repository of knowledge on investing?
a) Haryana
b) Maharashtra
c) Andhra Pradesh
d) Madhya Pradesh
e) Himachal Pradesh
18). Which of the following state has launched Narmada Seva Yatra?
a) Haryana
b) West Bengal
c) Odisha
d) Madhya Pradesh
e) Andhra Pradesh
19). Which country has successfully launched Kounotori 6 (HTV-6) spacecraft that will deliver a large magnetic tether, a space junk collector technology into orbit?
a) China
b) Russia
c) India
d) Japan
e) USA
20). Which of the following help line number will be launched soon to educate people and provide support related to cashless mode of transactions?
a) 1444
b) 144
c) 14444
d) 14144
e) 1414
21). Name the train which is renamed as Vizag Steel Samta Express to promote its brand Vizag Steel?
a) Ala Hazrat Express
b) Ananthapuri Express
c) Andhra Pradesh Express
d) Andhra Pradesh Sampark Kranti Express
e) Hazrat Nizamuddin Express
22). Nabard will provide a grant of ____ crore rupees for deployment of point of sale machines and procurement of EMV based debit cards for farmers.
a) Rs.228 crore
b) Rs.118 crore
c) Rs.256 crore
d) Rs.172 crore
e) Rs.183 crore
23). Who among the following has presented the Shilp Guru Awards and National Awards to master crafts persons for the year 2015?
a) Narendra Modi
b) Pranab Mukherjee
c) Arun Jaitely
d) Venkaiah Naidu
e) None of these
24). Who has been appointed as the as the new director of National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA)?
a) Arjun Singh
b) Adwaita Gadanayak
c) Rajesh Verma
d) Radha Krishnan
e) None of these
25). Who became the first Indian to win a medal at the Mr Olympia event?
a) Iqbal Sayeed
b) Mahamood Saheb
c) Akram Basha
d) Vijayendra Bhoopati
e) None of these
26). Which state government launches country’s amphibious bus project to become the first of its type?
a) Haryana
b) Kerala
c) Punjab
d) Uttar Pradesh
e) Maharashtra
27). In a statement, the Indian Oil Corporation has said customers making digital payment for purchase of petrol and diesel will get a discount of ____ percent on the sale price of fuel.
a) 0.2
b) 0.25
c) 0.35
d) 0.5
e) 0.75
28). Who among the following will chair an important meeting with senior officials from Jharkhand in connection with digital cashless payment?
a) R. S. Sharma
b) Sudhir Gupta
c) Amitabh Kant
d) Kshatrapati Shivaji
e) None of these
29). Who among the following appointed as the new chief of ISI?
a) Rahul Sharif
b) Javed Jamsheed
c) Rijvana Aktar
d) Naveed Mukhtar
e) None of these
30). Who among the following appointed as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for stellar work in child rights?
a) Deepika Padukone
b) Priyanka Choopra
c) Katrina Kaif
d) Anushka Sharma
e) None of these
31). Who among the following football players win the prestigious Ballon d’Or award for a fourth time?
a) Cristiano Ronaldo
b) Lionel Messi
c) Tom Bardey
d) Russel Wilson
e) None of these
32). Who won the World Billiards Championship held in Bengaluru recently?
a) Geet Seti
b) Francisco Bustamnte
c) Pankaj Advani
d) Semih Sayagri
e) None of these
33). Who among the following has inaugurated the sixth edition of Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Housing and Urban Development in New Delhi?
a) Narendra Modi
b) Kalraj Mishra
c) Nirmala Sitaraman
d) Sriti Irani
e) Venkaiah Naidu
34). India said it will contribute ______ lakh US Dollars to the United Nations’s Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for the year 2016-17.
a) 4 lakh
b) 4.5 lakh
c) 5 lakh
d) 5.5 lakh
e) 6 lakh
35). Grofers, the on-demand e-commerce mobile and web application, is opening up a new avenue for people to get cash delivered at home, by partnering with which bank?
a) Yes Bank
b) ICICI Bank
c) Axis Bank
d) HDFC Bank
e) None of these
36). Which among the following digital payment systems has partnered with major National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) toll concessionaries to enable cashless payments at all state, national and city toll plazas?
a) Oxigen
b) MobiKiwi
c) PayUMoney
d) Paytm
e) None of these
37). Sultan Muhammad V has been elected as the King of _____
a) Thailand
b) Malaysia
c) Bhutan
d) Rwanda
e) None of these
38). Who was posthumously named Brazil’s player of the year after a vote by fans?
a) Cristiano Ronaldo
b) Gareth Bale
c) Karim Benzema
d) Sergio Ramos
e) Danilo
39). Who has won the most improved player award at the Badminton World Federation’s annual function held in Dubai.
a) Saina Nehwal
b) Lee Xuirui
c) PV Sindhu
d) Carliona Marin
e) None of these
40). Who has been named as one of 15 Global Thinkers, Compiled by the Foreign Policy magazine?
a) Smriti Irani
b) Sushma Swaraj
c) Mammtha Benerji
d) Akilesh Yadav
e) Narendra Modi
41). Name the bilateral naval exercise between India and Russia.
a) EKUVERIN
b) SIMBEX
c) INDRA
d) LAMITY
e) None of these
42). Which country has become 4th largest defence spender?
a) Russia
b) India
c) Philippines
d) Indonesia
e) Saudi Arabia
43). India’s largest indoor sports arena will come up in which of the following states?
a) Assam
b) West Bengal
c) Kerala
d) Andhra Pradesh
e) Maharashtra
44). The book “Many Everests: An Inspiring Journey of Transforming Dream into Reality” has been authored by whom?
a) Ravindra Kumar
b) Kailash Satyarthi
c) Manav Kumar
d) Nitish Bharadwaj
e) None of these
45). Antonio Guterres, who has been sworn-in as the new Secretary General of the United Nations, is the former Prime Minister of which country?
a) Portugal
b) Singapore
c) Malaysia
d) New Zealand
e) Indonesia
46). The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri NarendraModi has approved the protocol amending the agreement between India and Tajikistan for avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income. Who is the Prime Minister of Tajikistan?
a) Emomali Rahmon
b) Kokhir Rasulzoda
c) John Mogufuli
d) Kassim Majiliva
e) Noen of these
47). The Indian Railways tied-up with which bank to install at least 10000 Point of Sale (POS) machines using debit or credit cards at the Public Reservation System (PRS) counters of Railways?
a) State Bank of India
b) Punjab National Bank
c) Syndicate Bank
d) Indian Bank
e) None of these
48). Name the Mobile walletlaunched by Punjab National Bank that enables a smart phone user to undertake on line transactions using the money
stored in the wallet?
a) PNB KITTY
b) PNB CHITTY
c) PNB FITTY
d) PNB KRITTY
e) None of these
49). Who among the following appointed as the acting chief of Life Insurance Corporation of India?
a) S K Roy
b) VK Sharma
c) Vinod Roy
d) Mahesh Sharma
e) None of these
50). V G Kannan took charge as Chief Executive of which among the following National offices?
a) Children’s Film Society of India
b) Indian Bank’s Association
c) Press Council of India
d) Council of Scientific & Industrial Research
e) None of these
