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Who is the new Chairman of Tata Sons? N. Vijayender Reddy Subject Expert, Hyderabad.

GENERAL AWARENESS 1. Who became the most expensive overseas player ever bought at an Indian Premier League (IPL) auction on February 20, 2017? (He was bought by Rising Pune Supergiants for Rs. 14.5 crore) 1) Tymal Mills 2) Chris Woakes 3) Ben Stokes 4) Eoin Morgan 5) Kagiso Rabada 2. Who took charge as the Chairman of Tata Sons on February 21, 2017? 1) Venu Srinivasan 2) N. Chandrasekaran 3) S. Ramadorai 4) T.V. Narendran 5) Noel Naval Tata 3. Who is the author of the newly launched book "Fearless in Opposition: Power & Accountability"? 1) Jairam Ramesh 2) Kamal Nath 3) P. Chidambaram 4) Shashi Tharoor 5) Sitaram Yechury 4. Which country hosted the Asian Winter Games in February 2017? 1) South Korea 2) China 3) Kazakhstan 4) Japan 5) Vietnam 5. Bank of Baroda has signed a sponsorship contract with which of the following badminton players? 1) P.V. Sindhu 2) Kidambi Srikanth 3) Parupalli Kashyap 4) Both (1) and (2) 5) All (1), (2) and (3) 6. Which of the following offers an instant, 24x7, interbank electronic fund transfer service through mobile phones? 1) NEFT 2) RTGS 3) IMPS 4) IFSC 5) IMFC 7. In Payments Banks, for the first five years the stake of the promoter should be at least? 1) 40% 2) 30% 3) 25% 4) 50% 5) 60% 8. Which country has recently testfired a shore based anti-ship missile named "Zarb"? 1) Iran 2) Israel 3) China 4) Pakistan 5) Russia

9. Kersti Kalijulaid became the first female President of which of the following countries on October 10, 2016? 1) Latvia 2) Lithuania 3) Estonia 4) Slovenia 5) Bulgaria 10. Abdelilah Benkirane was reappointed as the Prime Minister of which of the following countries in October 2016? 1) Morocco 2) Egypt 3) Sudan 4) Tunisia 5) Libya 11. Which of the following books is written by Stuart Blackburn? (The book is based on the little known Apatani tribe of Arunachal Pradesh) 1) Into the Hidden Valley 2) Allegiance 3) A Highland Ruby 4) Daggers of Treason 5) A Knife in Darkness 12. Where is the headquarters of the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) located? 1) London 2) Amsterdam 3) Berlin 4) Bonn 5) Frankfurt 13. Monsanto is a multinational agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology company based in: 1) Germany 2) France 3) USA 4) Japan 5) Switzerland 14. Who is the only Indian to win two gold medals at the Paralympics? 1) Deepa Malik 2) Mariyappan Thangavelu 3) Devendra Jhajharia 4) Rajinder Singh 5) Sundar Singh Gurjar 15. What is the name of the largest cash transfer program in the world? 1) SARAL 2) PAHAL 3) SAHAJ 4) SABLA 5) None of these 16. Who headed the committee that recommended the setting up of NABARD? 1) A. Ghosh 2) Abid Hussain 3) D. R. Mehta 4) B. Sivaraman 5) M. Narasimham 17. The illegal copying of information from the magnetic strips found on credit and debit cards is called as: 1) Card Encryption 2) Card Fraud 3) Card Skimming 4) Card Spoofing 5) None of these 18. A bond with no maturity date is called as: 1) Convertible Bond 2) Callable Bond 3) Redeemable Bond

BANK POs, Clerks Special 4) Perpetual Bond 5) Speculative Bond 19. What is the maximum limit for deposits in the Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana Account in an year? 1) Rs.1, 50,000 2) Rs.1, 00,000 3) Rs.2, 00,000 4) Rs.2, 50,000 5) No limit 20. Sipat Super Thermal Power Station is located in which of the following Indian States? 1) Madhya Pradesh 2) Chhattisgarh 3) Bihar 4) Jharkhand 5) Odisha 21. Which of the following banks are not permitted to issue credit cards to their customers? 1) Regional Rural Banks 2) Private Sector Banks 3) Small Finance Banks 4) Payments Banks 5) None of these 22. "SCORES" is a web based complaints redress system of: 1) RBI 2) NABARD 3) SEBI 4) PFRDA 5) None of these 23. Indradhanush is a seven pronged plan to revamp functioning of? 1) Public Sector Banks 2) Private Sector Banks 3) Regional Rural Banks 4) Cooperative Banks 5) None of these 24. Nokrek National Park is located in which of the following Indian States? 1) Assam 2) Nagaland 3) Himachal Pradesh 4) Meghalaya

5) Arunachal Pradesh 25. The first Regional Rural Bank in India Prathama Bank was established on October 2, 1975. It was sponsored by which of the following banks? 1) State Bank of India 2) Punjab National Bank 3) Union Bank of India 4) United Bank of India 5) Syndicate Bank 26. Ravi Venkatesan is the Chairman of which of the following public sector banks? (He is former Chairman of Microsoft India) 1) Punjab National Bank 2) Bank of India 3) Bank of Baroda 4) Indian Overseas Bank 5) Oriental Bank of Commerce 27. Who is the present Union Minister for Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation? 1) Narendra Singh Tomar 2) Radha Mohan Singh 3) Thawar Chand Gehlot 4) Anant Kumar 5) Chaudhary Birender Singh 28. Indian badminton player Sourabh Verma won which of the following tournaments in October 2016? 1) Chinese Taipei Open 2) Dutch Open 3) Russian Open 4) Japan Open 5) Malaysian Open 29. Which country won the 1st BRI CS U-17 Football Tournament held in Goa in October 2016? 1) South Africa 2) India 3) Brazil 4) Russia 5) China 30. Bhumibol Adulyadej passed away on October 13, 2016. He was the 9th monarch of which of the following countries? 1) Bhutan 2) Morocco 3) Vietnam 4) Thailand 5) Cambodia 31. What is the premium payable per annum per member under the Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY)? 1) Rs.100 2) Rs. 330 3) Rs. 300 3) Rs. 12 5) Rs. 76 32. DAX is a blue chip stock market index of which of the following countries? 1) France 2) Germany 3) UK 4) Spain 5) Russia 33. Which of the following cities is located on the banks of the river Han? 1) Hong Kong 2) Tokyo 3) Seoul 4) Beijing 5) Hangzhou

34. Who was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on autophagy? 1) David Thouless 2) Bernard Feringa 3) J. Fraser Stoddart 4) Yoshinori Ohsumi 5) Both (1) and (2) 35. The Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd. (RINL), the corporate entity of Vizag Steel, has appointed which of the following players as its brand ambassador? 1) Saina Nehwal 2) Sakshi Malik 3) Dipa Karmakar 4) Deepika Kumari 5) P.V. Sindhu 36. Who was appointed as India's Ambassador to UN Conference on Disarmament, Geneva in October 2016? 1) Renu Pall 2) Anup Wadhwan 3) Amandeep Singh Gill 4) Ajay Kumar Bhalla 5) None of these 37. Who received the Harvard University's Humanitarian Award in September 2016? 1) Ban Ki-moon 2) Elie Wiesel 3) Dalai Lama 4) Aung San Suu Kyi 5) Julian Assange 38. Arnold Palmer of USA died on September 25, 2016. He excelled in which of the following sports? 1) Baseball 2) Golf 3) Basketball 4) Tennis 5) Ice Hockey 39. Dario Fo, the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature, passed away on October 13, 2016. He belonged to: 1) Netherlands 2) Poland 3) Italy 4) Germany 5) Spain 40. What is India's rank among the 118 developing countries in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2016? 1) 73 2) 75 3) 87 4) 97 5) 88 KEY 1) 3 5) 4 9) 3 13) 3 17) 3 21) 4 25) 5 29) 3 33) 3 37) 4

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