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General Awareness 1. Chairman of the Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) is ...... 1) RBI governor 2) Chief Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance 3) Union Finance Minister 4) Finance Secretary 5) President of India 2. Central Bank of China is awaiting RBl's reply on its application for license to open its first branch in India in Mumbai. Who is the present Governor of Central Bank of China? 1) Tharman Shanmugaratnam 2) Elvira Sakhipzadovna Nabiullina 3) Zhou Xiaochuan 4) Haruhiko Kuroda 5) Glenn Robert Stevens 3. Union Government, the World Bank and which of the following states have inked a $75 million (Rs.500 cr) credit deal for the Rural Inclusive Growth Project of the state? 1) Andhra Pradesh 2) Bihar 3) Goa 4) Haryana 5) Jammu and Kashmir 4. In order to expedite FDI clearance process, the government enhanced FIPB's monetary limit to approve foreign investment proposals of up to ...... 1) Rs.3,000 crore 2) Rs.15,000 crore 3) Rs.18,000 crore 4) Rs.5,000 crore 5) Rs.10,000 crore 5. RBI announced the limits for FPI investment in government securities (G-Sec) will be raised in phases (by March 2018) to what percent of the outstanding stock? 1) 8% 2) 2% 3) 5% 4) 1% 5) 3% 6. RBI permission necessary for the acquisition of shares or voting rights up to ........ or more of the equity capital in a private bank. 1) 15% 2) 10% 3) 5% 4) 2.5% 5) 7.5% 7. Which of the foreign bank operating in India announced recently to shut its private banking business in the country? 1) American Express Banking 2) BNP PARIBAS 3) HSBC 4) Citibank 5) J P Morgan Chase Bank 8. Union Government has extended the usage criterion of the RuPay debit cards in order to avail of the in-built insurance cover. Earlier, cardholders had to use the card within 45 days prior to claim the insurance claim. This has now been extended to ........... 1) 90 days 2) 180 days 3) 365 days 4) 75 days 5) 3 years 9. RBI granted an "in-principle" approval to three companies to set up and operate a new TReDS to be formed under the Payment and Settlement System (PSS) Act 2007. TReDS stands for ......... 1) Trade Receivables Due System 2) Trade Return Discounting System 3) Trade Receivables Discounting System 4) Trip Receivables Discounting System 5) Tour Receivables Discounting System 10. On 24 Nov 2015, the three companies got license to start a new TReDS system. They are NSE Strategic Investment Corporation Limited (NSICL) and SIDBI, Gurgaon based Mynd Solutions Pvt. Ltd and .... 1) Andhra Bank 2) Bharathiya Mahila Bank 3) Airtel 4) Container Corporation India Limited 5) Axis Bank

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Robot Olympiad 2015 held in...? 11. TReDS will allow SMEs to post their receivables on the system and get them financed, bringing in much needed transparency to the trade receivable system. SME stands for ........ 1) Small and Modern Enterprises 2) Small and Middle Enterprises 3) Sick and Medium Enterprises 4) Spare and Medium Enterprises 5) Small and Medium Enterprises 12. RBI granted in-principle approval to NPCI to function as the central unit for BBPS (Bharat Bill Payment Systems). The term NPCI stands for ........ 1) National Payments Company of India 2) National Pay Corporation of India 3) National Payments Corporation of India 4) National Payment Gateway Corporation of India 5) National Portal Corporation of India 13. On 3 November 2015, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced an immediate release of Rs.1,000 crore for relief and rehabilitation works for the flood affected areas in ....... 1) Assam 2) AP 3) Gujarat 4) Odisha 5) Tamilnadu 14. Which state announced ban on sale of alcohol from Apr 1, 2016? 1) Gujarat 2) Delhi 3) Bihar 4) Telangana 5) AP 15. Three day Cultural extravaganza Mayyazhi Mahotsavam (Fete de Mahe) kicked off on 29 November 2015 in ........ 1) Karnataka 2) Daman 3) West Bengal 4) Goa 5) Puducherry 16. Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry constituted a 13 member expert committee on Sanskrit headed by.... 1) N. Gopalaswami 2) Prof. Ved Prakash 3) Amith Sha 4) NR Varhadpande 5) Jayalal Kaul 17. Mission Abaas was launched by which state to provide the affordable housing to Urban poor? 1) AP 2) MP 3) Odisha 4) West Bengal 5) HP 18. 'Bill banvao, inaam pao' is the scheme of... 1) Bihar 2) Delhi 3) AP 4) UP 5) Haryana 19. India's first solar-powered court launched in Khunti district of ..... 1) Uttarakhand 2) MP 3) Telangana 4) Jharkhand 5) Rajasthan 20. UNESCO Fellini Medal conferred on .... 1) International Film Festival of India 2) Vadakkunnathan Temple 3) Aqeela Asifi 4) Abdul Kalam 5) Abraham Keita 21. Who was conferred with the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Champion for the Asia Region by the UN International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) ? 1) Rajnath Singh 2) D.K.Pathak 3) Kiren Rijiju 4) Ram Lal 5) Rajiv B Lal 22. UNISDR established in 1999. Where is its headquarters? 1) Geneva 2) Paris 3) Tokyo

4) New Delhi 5) New York 23. National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) Chairman is ..... 1) H. S. Sachdev 2) D.K.Pathak 3) Prakash Mishra 4) O.P. Singh 5) Anil Kumar Sinha 24. Abraham M Keita of which nation won the 2015 International Children's Peace Prize? 1) Liberia 2) Senegal 3) Austria 4) Italy 5) Cuba 25. Which of the following nation do not hold Dollar as the name of its currency? 1) Antigua and Barbuda 2) Australia 3) South Africa 4) Bahamas 5) Barbados 26. 2015 Nobel Peace Prize conferred on National Dialogue Quartet of ....... 1) Brazil 2) Tunisia 3) China 4) Pakistan 5) European Union 27. Narendra Modi hailed whom as Rashtra Ratna? 1) Gandhi 2) Patel 3) Deen Dayal Upadhyay 4) A.P.J.Abdul Kalam 5) Jayaprakash Narayan 28. On 28 November 2015, the Union Government has advanced the rollout year for BS stage V and VI emission norms ( BS stands for Bharat Standards) for fourwheelers. The new rollout year for BS stage V and VI respectively are....... 1) 2025 and 2030 2) 2018 and 2020 3) 2019 and 2025 4) 2020 and 2022 5) 2019 and 2021 29. Indian origin socialist party leader became the new Prime Minister of Portugal. He is ... 1) Christian Kabore 2) Mauricio Macri 3) Ahmed Adeeb Abdul Ghafoor 4) Antonio Costa 5) Justin Trudeau 30. The new President of The Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) is ..... 1) Aditya Puri 2) Harshavardhan Neotia 3) Naina Lal Kidwai 4) Ashish Chauhan 5) Sunil Kanoria 31. Who among the following is the present Attorney General of India? 1) A.P. Sha 2) Swatantra Kumar 3) Mukul Rohatgi 4) H.L. Dattu 5) Harish Salve 32. New Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission ....... 1) Prime Minister Narendra Modi 2) K.C. Purohit 3) Home J Baba 4) Sekhar Basu 5) Piyush Goyal 33. First time which nation allowed women to vote and contest in municipal elections recently? 1) Saudi Arabia 2) India 3) Pakistan 4) Bangladesh 5) Turkey 34. On which nation, Russia imposed the economic sanctions on the allegation that nation downed a Russian Sukhoi 24 warplane? 1) Syria 2) Pakistan 3) Ukraine 4) Egypt 5) Turkey 35. Barak-8 missile is the joint venture of India and which nation successfully test fired recently?

1) Russia 2) Israel 3) France 4) US 5) Sweden 36. G - 20 Summit 2015 held at ...... 1) Brisbane, Australia 2) Antalya, Turkey 3) Hangzhou, China 4) Berlin, Germany 5) New Delhi, India 37. 2016 G - 20 summit to be hosted by .... 1) USA 2) China 3) Germany 4) Australia 5) Canada 38. In which year India host G - 20 summit? 1) 2020 2) 2019 3) 2021 4) 2018 5) 2030 39. The focus of G - 20 summit was to evolve strategies to ensure inclusive and robust growth through collective action. To achieve this, Turkey proposed three I's Inclusiveness, Implementation and ....... 1) International matching grants 2) International growth 3) Incremental growth 4) Low tariffs 5) Investment for growth 40. G-20 has reaffirmed its earlier goal of achieving two percent additional GDP growth by ...... 1) 2016 2) 2018 3) 2020 4) 2030 5) 2025 41. World Robot Olympiad 2015 recently held in ....... 1) Kuwait 2) USA 3) Qatar 4) Japan 5) Canada 42. World Robot Olympiad 2016 host nation is.. 1) UK 2) Pakistan 3) India 4) New Zealand 5) Bangladesh 43. The South Asian Annual Disaster Management Exercise (SAADMEx) 2015 was held recently in.... 1) Bangladesh 2) Sri Lanka 3) Nepal 4) Afghanistan 5) India 44. Patricia Scotland will become the Commonwealth's first woman Secretary General, who replaces ...... 1) Kamalesh Sharma 2) Recep Tayyip Erdogan 3) Angela Merkel 4) Najib Razak 5) Joko Widodo 45. National Milk Day is observed on 26 Nov every year on the birth anniversary of ...... 1) M.S. Swaminathan 2) Vikram Sarabhai 3) Satish Dhawan 4) Verghese Kurien 5) Abdul Kalam 46. In the first ever day-night Test match played at Adelaide Stadium, the winner is... 1) match drawn 2) match tie 3) match abandoned due to heavy rain 4) Australia 5) New Zealand Key 1-3 2-3 3-1 4-4 5-3 6-3 7-3 8-1 9-3 10-5

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