1. The Government has extended the deadline for
submission of public comments on the proposed policy framework for net
neutrality till ___________.
1) 20th August
2) 30th August 3) 1st September
4) 5th September
5) None of these
2. Which Hindi film was awarded as a best film on
the second day of Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2015?
1) Dum Laga Ke
Haisha 2) Piku 3)
Bahubali 4) Drishyam 5) None of these
3. Who won the best actress award at the Indian
Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2015?
1) Sonam Kapoor 2) Deepika Padukone 3) Bhumi Pednekar
4) Rani
Mukherjee 5) None of
these
4. Who won the best actor award at the Indian
Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2015?
1) Amitabh
Bachchan 2) Ajay Devgan 3) Shahrukh Khan
4) Irfan Khan 5) None of these
5. Name the title of the India-US Combined
Military Training Exercise scheduled to be held from 9th Sep’15 at Joint Base
Lewis McChord in the USA?
1) EXPEDITION
2015 2) WAR EXERCISE 2015 3) YUDH ABHYAS 2015
4) YUDH SAMAGAM
2015 5) None of these
6. On 16th Aug’15, Hamida Salem passed away at
her residence in Jamia Nagar, New Delhi. She is a/an ______.
1) Urdu Writer 2) Politician 3) Singer 4)
Poet 5) None of these
7. Which of the following countries declared
State of Emergency due to over increasing activity at the Cotopaxi volcano?
1) Ecuador 2) Colombia 3) Peru 4)
Chile 5) None of these
8. Name the Indian badminton player who became
the first Indian to win a silver in the World Badminton Championship on 16th Aug’15?
1) Ashwani
Ponappa 2)
Aditya Joshi 3) Saina Nehwal
4) P Kashyap 5) None of these
9. Name the player who clinched the gold medal in
the compound men’s individual section in the Archery World Cup Stage 3
competition in Poland on 15th Aug’15?
1) Deepika
Kumari 2) Abhishek
Verma 3) Mangal Singh Champia
4) None of the
above 5) None of these
10. In which country the first International Army
Games was held?
1) China 2) Brazil 3) Kuwait 4)
Russia 5) None of these
11. The 2015 US-India Cyber Dialogue was held on
11-12th August 15
in which city?
1) New
Delhi 2)
Geneva 3)
Washington DC 4) Berlin 5) None of these
12. Which of the following organizations has been
selected for the 2014 Gandhi Peace Prize?
1) TERI 2) Bachpan Bachao Andolan 3) ISRO 4) DRDO 5)
BARC
13. Who won the All England Badminton Championship
for India?
1) P.
Gopichand 2) Prakash Padukone 3)
Saina Nehwal
4) Both 1 &
2 5) 1, 2 & 3
14. Which of the following teams won the Ranji
Trophy cricket in March 2015?
1) Karnataka 2) Tamil Nadu 3) Kerala 4) Mumbai 5)
Delhi
15. Which State government launched Bhagyashree
scheme for girls on 8th March 2015?
1) Uttar Pradesh 2) Maharashtra 3) Karnataka 4) Goa 5) West
Bengal
16. Hukam Singh passed away recently. He was the
Chief Minister of?
1) Punjab 2) Rajasthan 3) Uttarakhand
4) Uttar Pradesh 5) Haryana
17. Ajaypal Singh Banga is the President and CEO
of?
1) Deutsche Bank 2)
Citibank 3) Google 4) Master Card 5) SoftBank
18. Benetton Group is a global fashion brand based
in?
1) France
2) Italy 3)
Spain 4) UK 5) USA
19. Who is the author of the book “2014: The
Election that Changed India”?
1) Prannoy Roy 2) Vinod Mehta 3) Rajdeep Sardesai
4) Shekar Gupta 5) Yashwant Sinha
20. Which of the following is not a team name in
the Indian Super League (ISL) football tournament?
1) Delhi Dynamos 2) Mumbai City 3) FC Goa
4) Kerala
Blasters 5) North
West United
21. Which one of the following countries is not a
member of the European Union?
1) Austria 2) Estonia 3) Slovakia 4)
Slovenia 5) Serbia
22. Ultimate controller of
Bank Deposits is?
1) RBI 2)
Finance Secretary 3) Ministry of Finance
4) Controller of
Deposits 5) SEBI
23. The Deposit Insurance
Act came in to force in on 1st January_______
1) 1975 2) 1954 3) 1948 4)
1979 5) 1962
24. Around 2% revised rail
passenger fares came into effect from 7 October, 2013 to implement FAC. FAC
stands for_______
1) Fuel
Adjustment Component 2)
Food Adjustment Component
3) Full
Adjustment Component 4) Free
Adjustment Component
5) Fuel
Arrangement Component
25. Vayoshreshtha Samman to
be given to _______
1) NRI 2) Senior Citizens 3) Doctors 4) Purohiths 5)
Children
26. Banks usually collect penal rate of interest
on _______for the pre mature withdrawal of fixed deposits?
1) Principal 2) Rate of
interest 3) Minimum deposit amount
4) Maturity
amount 5) All of above
27. Fixed deposits can have_______
1) Nomination
facility
2) Nomination
facility with the permission of Bank Chairman.
3) Nomination
facility by taking special permission from bank.
4) Nomination
facility on the day of closing
5) Nomination
facility with the permission of person who introduced him to open account.
28. As per the direction of
RBI, the banks can pay rate of interest on Fixed deposits’?
1) At intervals
shorter than quarterly intervals also
2) Pay on
quarterly basis alone 3)
On half yearly basis only
4) As per the
direction of government of India 5) None of these.
29. Idea of insuring
deposits kept with banks received attention for the first time in the year 1948
after the banking crises in?
1) Maharashtra 2)
Karnataka 3) AP
4) Bengal 5) Goa
30. Which committee first
time in India supported the concept of Insuring Deposits?
1) Rural Banking
Deposit Committee 2) Urban Banking
Enquiry Committee
3) Rural Banking
Enquiry Committee 4) SBI Rural Banking
Enquiry Committee
5) None of these.
31. After crash of the two
banks, RBI seriously took the issue of insuring of deposits?
1) Palai Central
Bank Ltd and Laxmi Bank Ltd
2) Laxmi Bank
Ltd & General bank of India 3)
Development Bank Corporation Limited & ICICI
4) Palai Central
Bank Ltd and IDBI 5) None of these
32. Which of the following
terms NOT used in banking/finance related matters?
1) Discount
Rate 2) Letter of credit 3) Policy Rate 4) Exchange rate 5) Base rate
33. Who amongst the
following is the chief of SEBI?
1) Milind Bhave 2) UK Sinha 3) Shashikath Verma
4) Shyamala
Gopinath 5) None of these
34. Which of the following
is a leading electronic-payment technology firm?
1) Visa 2) Max 3) BSE 4)
Sensex 5) SWAP
35. Global Market means
market of :
1) USA 2) China 3) OPEC members 4)
European Union countries
5) All major
countries and their alliances
36. Who will be appointed as
the next Dean of Indian School of Business (ISB)?
1)
K M Sharma 2) Rajendra Srivastava 3)
Praveen Sharma
4)
Rahul Kullar 5) None of these
37. What is Komen?
1)
It’s a new operating system 2)
It’s a mobile application 3)
It’s a mobile virus
4)
It’s the name of a cyclone 5)
None of these.
38. As per United Nations
report, when India will become most populous country?
1) 2022 2) 2020 3) 2025 4)
2030 5) None of these.
39. Who is the new CEO of
Procter & Gamble (P&G)?
1) Edward
Reeds 2) Chris Lockhart 3) David Taylor 4) John Walley 5) None of these.
40. What is the name of the
internet browser in Windows 10 operating system?
1) Cortana 2) Sword 3) Mozilla 4) Edge 5) None of these
41. Who won Junior Title at
US Powerlifting Championships 2015?
1) Raj
Chetty 2) C. M. Naim 3) Vijay Vazirani 4) Amitoj Chhabra 5) None of these
42. National Broadcasting
Day is celebrated on _______?
1) 19 July 2) 21 July 3) 23 July 4) 27
July 5) None of these
43. Which city named as
World Book Capital for 2017 by UNESCO?
1) Accra 2) Conakry 3) Addis Ababa 4)
Madrid 5) None of these
44. A book “Lord Jagannath”
authored by ______.
1) Dr. Jagannath
Patnaik 2) Vasant Sarwate 3) Rohinton Mistry
4) Prasnna Kumar
Patsani 5) None of these
45. Book titled
‘’President’s Bodyguards’’ by ______.
1) Rajnath Singh 2) Uma Bharati 3)
Sushma Swaraj
4) Narendra Modi 5) None of these
46. Which among the
following accounts fetch the highest rate of interest?
1) Savings deposit 2)
Recurring deposit 3) Fixed
deposit
4) Current
account deposit 5) 1 and 4
47. The World Trade
Organization (WTO) deals with the global rules of trade between nations. Who is
the Director General of WTO?
1) Roberto
Azevedo 2) Christine Legarde 3)
Raghuram Rajan
4) Oliver Ralph
Kahn 5) None of the above
48. RBI on October, 7th
2013, has reduced Marginal Standing Facility (MSF) rate from 9.5% to 9% to
improve liquidity in the system. What is MSF?
1)
MSF rate is the rate at which banks lodge
funds overnight with RBI buying approved government securities.
2)
MSF rate is the rate at which banks
borrow funds overnight from other banks against approved government securities.
3)
MSF rate is the rate at which banks
borrow funds overnight from RBI against approved government securities.
4)
MSF rate is the minimum rate at which
banks lend to the borrowers.
5)
None of the above
49. Between 2007-08 to
2012-13, the value of Card spending rose to Rs.1.97 Lakh Crores. A raise in
Cards spending indicates?
1)
Transformation to ‘Cashless Economy’ 2)
Low inflation 3) Raising incomes
4) Falling
prices 5)
None of the above
50. What is NOT true with
regard to ‘Carbon Credit’?
1) It is a
tradable certificate or permit.
2) It represents
the right of an Industry to emit certain quantity of Carbon Dioxide.
3) Carbon
Credits mechanism was formalized in Kyoto Protocol.
4) Carbon
Credits are currently traded on 5 exchanges across the globe.
5) None of the
above.
51. Nasa announces discovery
of new planet seen as ‘close cousin’ to Earth .
1) Kepler 450c 2) Kepler 440b 3) Kepler
270c
4) Kepler
452b 5)
None of these
52. A book “Early Hindu
Temples of Gujarat,” by _______.
1) Salman
Rushdie 2) Arundhati Roy
3) Vikram
Seth
4) Varun Maira 5) None of these
53. 46th Indian Labour Conference held in ______.
1) New Delhi 2) Panji 3)
Mumbai 4) Shimla 5) None of these
54. India ranks at _______
position in terms of power generation from nuclear source as per data published
in May 2015 by PRIS of IAEA.
1) 3rd 2) 7th 3) 2th 4)
21st 5) None of these
55. “Journey of a Curious
Mind” authored ______.
1) Prasnna Kumar
Patsani 2) Vikram Seth 3) V.S. Naipaul
4) Dr. Jagannath
Patnaik 5) None of these
56. Who appointed as Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) of Myntra?
1) Sachin Bansal 2) Ananth Narayanan 3) Satish Mane
4) Binny Bansal 5) None of these
57. New fish species named
Puntius Dolichopterus discovered in _____.
1) Goa 2)
Odisha 3) Maharashtra 4)
Kerala 5) None of these
58. Who won Grand Prix World
Press Cartoon 2014 Award ?
1) Pamarthy
Shankar 2) Barun Roy 3)
S. Jithesh
4) Shubham Gupta
5) None of these
59. Who won the Best Documentary
Producer award at Madrid International Film Festival?
1) Ikram Akhtar 2) Jayantilal Gada 3) Rohit Gupta
4) Benoy Behl 5) None of these
60. Who appointed as
Chairperson of FSSAI ?
1) Dr. S.S. Negi 2)
Bhanu Pratap Sharma 3) Arun
Narendhranath
4) Sundari
Subramaniam 5) None of these
61. Who awarded with
first-ever Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Prize?
1) Helena Ndume,
Jorge Sampaio 2) Joan Levy Zlotnik,
Tamara Grigsby
3) Joe Kort,
Mariko Yamada 4) Celia
Williamson, llen DeVoe
5) None of these
62. Who selected for Fukuoka
Asian Culture Prize 2015?
1) William
Dalrymple 2) irfan
habib 3)
S. T. Joshi
4) Ramachandra
Guha 5) None of these
63. A book entitled “Locale,
Everyday Islam and Modernity” authored by _______.
1) Basharat
Peer 2)
Fareed Zakaria 3) M.
Raisur Rahman
4) Mirza Abul
Fazl 5) None of these
64. Who won IJGA World Stars
of Junior Golf event 2015?
1) S M Krishna 2) Rohit Varma 3) Sachin Sharma
4) Shubham
Jaglan 5) None of these
65. Who won Royal Society’s
Copley Medal, the world’s oldest scientific prize?
1) Brian Cox 2) Peter Higgs 3) Jocelyn Bell Burnell
4) John Pendry 5) None of these
66. A book entitled “Locale,
Everyday Islam and Modernity” authored by _______.
1) Basharat Peer 2) Fareed Zakaria 3) M. Raisur Rahman
4) Mirza Abul
Fazl 5) None of these
67. On 15th Aug’15, which of the following
campaigns was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Independence
Day Address?
1) Start-up India, Stand up India 2)
Start and Run India 3) Learn and Earn India
4) Skilled and Expert India 5) None of these
68.
Name the new name of the Agriculture
Ministry as proposed by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence
Day address to the nation on 15th Aug’15?
1) Ministry of Indian Agriculture and Farmers’
Welfare
2) Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Ministry 3)
Ministry of Indian Agriculture and Welfare 4) Agriculture and
Welfare Ministry 5)
None of these.
69.
Which state’s Chief Minister has
launched an official twitter account of Taj Mahal on 15th Aug’15?
1) Delhi
2) Bihar 3) Uttar Pradesh 4)
Gujarat 5) None of these
70.
Who has been appointed as the Chairman
of the Public Enterprises Selection Board?
1) Atul Chaturvedi 2) Aradhan
Jauhari 3) S P Goel
4) Ajit Kumar Seth 5) None of these
71.
Name the Indian cricketer who became the
first player in test cricket history to take 8 catches in a match?
1) Rohit Sharma 2) Ajinkya Rahane 3) Virat Kohli
4) Shikhar Dhawan 5) None of these
72.
With which country India has signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to tackle the menace of fake Indian currency
notes (FICN) smuggling in Aug’15?
1) Myanmar 2) China 3) Pakistan
4) Bangladesh 5) None of these
73.
Which bank has launched the fist
contactless debit, credit and multi-currency forex card?
1) Axis Bank 2) ICICI Bank 3) HDFC Bank 4) SBI
5) None of these
74. Arundhati Bhattacharya
is in news recently. She is going to be?
1) 1st woman
Deputy Governor of RBI
2) 1st woman
Chair Person of SBI
3) 1st woman
Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission
4) 1st woman
Finance Secretary to Govt. of India 5)
None of the above
75. National Spot Exchange
(NSEL) is the news for defaulting payments to investors. Who is the founder
promoter of FT?
1) Jignesh
Shah 2)
Harshad Mehta 3) Ketan Parekh
4) A K
Telgi 5) None of the above
76. India’s space agency ISRO will provide satellite-generated
information to the railways through space technology. Its indigenous
navigational guide system developed on the lines of GPS system of the US is
named
1) VARUNA 2) GAGAN
3) AKASH 4) EAGLE
5) None of these
77. The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on
15 Jun elected Mogens Lykketoft as its President for its upcoming 70th session
in Sep 2015. He was the sole candidate from the Western European nations and is
the speaker of the parliament of
1) Denmark 2) Poland 3)
Germany 4) Croatia 5) Austria
78. Name the present president of the Asian
Development Bank (ADB) who visited New Delhi recently.
1) Jim Yong Kim 2) Takehiko Nakao 3)
Lou Jiwei
4) Haruhiko
Kuroda 5) Jin Liqun
79. Which of the following trains has been named
as Yoga Express on the eve of the International Yoga Day on 21 Jun?
1) Haridwar
Mail 2)
Kalinga Utkal Express 3) Chennai
Express
4) Bhopal
Express 5) None of
these
80. The Indian Basel III framework for bank
risk-based capital requirements came into force in
1) Apr 2013 2)
Dec 2013 3) Apr 2014 4) Sep 2014
5) None of these
81. In first of its kind ‘loan against shares’
(LAS) offering, which of the following banks is allowing customers to
design their own loans and avail them in 24 hours?
1) ICICI Bank 2) SBI 3)
HDFC Bank 4) Axis Bank 5) None of these
82. India and Poland set the bilateral trade
target of _______by 2018 after the meeting of Joint Commission on Economic
Cooperation in Warsaw.
1) USD 2.5
billion 2) USD 4 billion 3) USD 5 billion 4) USD 8 billion 5) None of these
83. The ADB has decided to increase its lending
to India from an average of USD 3 billion annually to _________ in next
few years.
1) USD 4 billion 2) USD
5 billion 3) USD 6 billion 4) USD 9 billion 5) None of these
84.
What is the full form of NPS, a scheme
launched by the PFRDA?
1) National
Provided Scheme 2)
National Provisional System
3) National
Participatory Scheme 4) National
Pension System 5) None of these
85.
Which of the following telecommunication
companies launched free pan India roaming scheme on 15 Jun? This scheme
will allow company’s mobile customers across the country to receive
incoming calls free of cost.
1) Bharti
Airtel 2) Idea 3) BSNL 4) Vodafone 5)
None of these
86. In which country, two powerful bomb blasts
occurred outside a hugely popular Lord Brahma temple on 17th Aug’15?
1) Bangladesh 2) Thailand 3)
Indonesia 4) Singapore 5) None of these
87.
In 2014-15, Food grain production in
country is estimated to have declined by _____.
1) 0.32% 2) 2.34% 3) 3.12% 4) 4.66% 5)
None of these
88.
Who has been appointed as the 23rd Chief justice of Pak Supreme Court on 17th
Aug’15?
1) Nasirul Mulk 2) Mamnoon Hussain 3) Jawwad S Khawaja
4) Shiraj
Hussain 5) None of
these
89.
Who has won the Rogers Cup Masters
tournament held in Canada on 17th Aug’15?
1) Andy
Murray 2)
Novak Djokovic 3) Leander Paes
4) Rafael
Nadal 5)
None of these
90. In Golf, what position has been achieved by
Anirban Lahiri at the US PGA championship, Whistling Straits?
1) 1st 2) 3rd 3) 5th 4)
2nd 5) None of these
91.
On 17th Aug’15, from which city direct
flights to Sharjah was inaugurated?
1) Pune 2) Varanasi 3) Lucknow 4)
Kochi 5) None of these
92. The govt has appointed
Nilesh Sathe as the member-life of the Insurance Regulatory and Development
Authority of India (IRDAI). The insurance regulator IRDAI is headquartered at
1) Bengaluru 2) Mumbai 3)
New Delhi 4) Hyderabad 5) None of these
93. The central govt has
approved increasing India’s solar power capacity target under the Jawaharlal
Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) to __________ by 2022.
1) 20,000
MW 2) 50,000 MW 3) 100,000 MW 4) 150,000 MW 5) None of these
94. The Union Cabinet on 17
Jun gave its approval for Housing for All by 2022 Mission. Which of the
following is NOT true about the mission?
1) It has four components - slum rehabilitation,
credit linked interest subsidy, affordable housing and beneficiary-led
individual house construction or enhancement.
2)
The central assistance will be in the
range of Rs 1 lakh to Rs 2.30 lakh per beneficiary.
3) In urban areas, 2 crore new houses are to be
built to meet the housing shortage over the next seven years.
4) Interest subsidy of 6.5 per cent on housing
loans availed upto a tenure of 15 years will be provided to EWS/LIG categories.
5)
None of these
95. Find the ‘odd man out’
of the following?
1) Walmart 2) Tesco 3) Carrefour 4) Big Bazar 5) Ikea
96. One of the Primary
functions of IMF is to provide short term capital assistance to member
countries through SDR (Special Drawing Rights). What is NOT true about SDR?
1) Currency code
of SDR is XDR 2) SDR is
the Unit of Account of IMF
3) Asian
Development Bank (ADB) also uses SDR as
its Currency
4) SDR can be
exchanged only for US Dollar, British Pound, and Euro & Japanese Yen
5) None of the
above
97. Main functions of Money?
1) Medium of
Exchange 2)
Unit of Account 3) Store
of Value
4) Only ‘1’ and
‘2’ of the above 5) ‘1’, ‘2’
& ‘3’ of the above
98. M/s XYZ company has got
an order to supply Machinery to M/s ABC Co of Nigeria. Who has to get a Letter
of Credit issued from a Bank?
1) M/s ABC since they are the importers
2) M/s XYZ since they are the exporters
3) Both since they are the parties to the
agreement
4) RBI since they regulate the Foreign Trade in
India
5) None of the above
99. What is ‘Packing Credit’?
1) Finance extended to packing materials industry
2) Finance extended to an Importer to pack the
goods imported
3)
Finance extended to Warehouses for
keeping the goods packages
4)
Finance extended to an Exporter to meet
the costs of buying and/ or making products to be exported
5)
None of the above
100. What is NOT true with
regard to Currency Chests in India?
1)
They are managed by different banks on
behalf of RBI
2)
Deposits in Currency Chests are taken
into account for calculation of CRR (Cash Reserve Ratio)
3)
Standard Chartered Bank a Foreign Bank
also maintains Currency Chest
4) Coins are also stored in Currency Chests
5)
None of the above
101. For which state, PM Narendra Modi announced Rs. 1.25 Lakh Crore
special package on 18th Aug’15?
1) Bihar 2) Telangana 3) Uttar Pradesh 4) Uttarakhand 5) None of these
102.
Around which sanctuary located in the national capital region, the demarcation
of eco-sensitive zone has been completed by the government?
1) National Bird
Sanctuary 2) Okhla Bird Sanctuary
3) Gautam Buddha
Vihar Sanctuary 4) Buddha Bird
Sanctuary
5) None of these
103. Name the wife of
President Pranab Mukherjee who passed away on 18th Aug’15 ?
1) Sonam Mukherjee 2) Annapurna Mukherjee 3)
Suvra Mukherjee
4) Akshita Das 5) None of these
104. On 18th Aug’15 which of the following courts directed
the chief secretary of Uttar Pradesh to ensure that government servants,
representatives of people, Judiciary etc send their wards to the government
primary school of the state , so that they become serious enough to ensure good
condition of primary schools?
1) Delhi High
Court 2) Allahabad High
Court 3) Supreme Court
4) Bombay High
Court 5) None of these
105. The headquarter
of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) is located at ______.
1) Durban 2) Masdar 3) Beijing 4)
New Delhi 5) None of these
106. Which country did PM Narendra Modi visit on 16th Aug’15?
1) Iran 2) Israel 3) Kuwait 4)
UAE 5) None of
these
107. Name the India based airlines that signed a massive deal to
purchase 250 aircrafts from Europe’s Airbus Company?
1) Vistara
Airlines 2) Indian
Airlines 3) SpiceJet Airways
4) Indigo
Airlines 5) None of
these
108. Which political group emerged as the largest group to win the Sri Lankan
polls held in Aug’15?
1) United
National Party 2) Lanka Desham
Party 3) Tamil National Party
4) None of these 5) None of these
109. According to ASSOCHAM,
which State led the employment generation in manufacturing sector of the
country in 2012-13?
1) Andhra Pradeh 2) Tamil Nadu 3) Karnataka 4) Punjab 5) None of these
110. Name the mobile wallet app launched by the State Bank of India on
18th Aug’15?
1) Wallet 2)
Apna Purse 3) InstantPay 4) Buddy 5) None of these
111. How many Non Banking Financial Companies (NBFC) have been suspended
by the orders issued by RBI under RBI Act, 1934?
1) 2 2) 5 3) 7 4)
10 5) None of these
112. Which state government of India launched one stop centre “Sakhi”
to help women in distress?
1)
Chattisgarh 2)
Haryana 3)
Utter Pradesh
4) Madhya
Pradesh 5) None of these
113. Which of the following banks has been declared by Reserve Bank of
India (RBI) as Domestic systematically Important Banks (D-SIBs)
1) HDFC and
ICICI 2) ICICI and SBI 3) SBI and HDFC
4) PNB and SBI 5) None of these
114. The central govt has approved increasing India’s solar power
capacity target under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM)
to __________ by 2022.
1) 20,000
MW 2) 50,000 MW 3) 100,000 MW
4) 150,000
MW 5) None of these
115. The Union Cabinet on 17 Jun gave its approval for Housing for All
by 2022 Mission. Which of the following is NOT true about the mission?
1)
It has four components-slum rehabilitation,
credit linked interest subsidy, affordable housing and beneficiary-led
individual house construction or enhancement.
2)
The central assistance will be in the
range of Rs 1 lakh to Rs 2.30 lakh per beneficiary.
3)
In
urban areas, 2 crore new houses are to be built to meet the housing shortage
over the next seven years.
4) Interest subsidy of 6.5 per cent on housing
loans availed upto a tenure of 15 years will be provided to EWS/LIG categories.
5) None of these
116. The Union Govt on 17 Jun decided to increase the number of
workdays under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
(MGNREGA) from 100 days to _______ in drought-affected areas of the
country.
1) 120
days 2) 125 days 3) 140 days 4) 150 days 5)
200 days
117. What is India’s ranking
in the 2015 Global Peace Index out of 162 countries?
1) 154 2) 143 3) 112 4) 72 5)
69
118. Charles Correa, who passed away in Mumbai on 16 Jun, was the face
of contemporary Indian
1) literature 2) bureaucracy 3) architecture 4)
music 5) None of these
119. The 25-year-old Beno Zephine from Chennai has become the first 100
per cent blind officer in
1) Indian
Foreign Service 2) Indian
Army 3) Central Industrial Security
Force
4) Indian Police
Service 5) None of
these
120. The Election Commission has suspended the recognition of PA
Sangma-led National People’s Party? The party was a recognized state party in
the state of
1)
Rajasthan 2) Assam 3) Sikkim 4) Meghalaya 5)
None of these
121. Name the Indian footballer who has become the first Indian to
score 50 international goals. He achieved the feat during his team’s 2018 World
Cup qualifying match against Guam.
1) Sunil
Chhetri 2)
IM Vijayan 3) Robin Singh
4) Subrata
Pal 5)
Nirmal Chettri
122. Recently Parliament has pass-ed Companies Act 2013. What is NOT
true with regard to some of the features of the Act?
1) An Individual can set up “One person Private
Ltd Company”
2) An independent Director can hold 3
consecutive terms of 3 years
3) Listed Companies must have at least 1/3rd
independent Directors
4) Prescribed Companies must have at least 1
woman Director on the Board
5) A Private Ltd Company can have a maximum of
200 members
123. What is ‘Net Interest Margin’ of a Bank?
1) Margin of Interest earned on Trading in Govt
Securities
2) Difference between the Base Interest Rate and
the Average Lending Rate
3) Difference between the interest income and
the amount of interest paid out
4) Difference between Interest on Term Loans and
Interest on Cash Credits
5) None of the above
124. What is the World’s largest functioning Oil Refinery?
1) Reliance Refinery in Jamnagar, Gujarat 2)
IOC Refinery in Digboi, Assam
3) HPCL Mumbai Refinery 4)
Paraguana Refinery, Venezuela
5) Exxon Mobil Refinery, Singapore
125. Haruhiko Kuroda is the present head of which of the following
institutions?
1) Asian Development Bank 2)
World Bank 3)
IMF
4) Bank of Japan 5) None of these
126. Which of the following
statements is/are correct?
1.
The Security Council consists of fifteen members.
2.
The body’s presidency rotates yearly among its members.
1)
Only 1 2) Only 2 3) Both 1 & 2 4) All of these 5) None of these
127. Which of the following statements is/are correct?
1.
United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces
received Nobel peace prize in 1988.
2.
UN Security Council has authority to
refer cases to the International Criminal Court in which the court could not
otherwise exercise jurisdiction.
1)
Only 1 2)
Only 2 3) Both 1
and 2
4)
None of these 5)
All of these
128. Coffee club is group of a nation for the purpose of
1)
Increasing the coffe production throughout the world
2)
Discussion about peaceful non- nuclear world
3)
Demanding reforms in the United Nations Security Council
4)
Opposition to the possible expansion of the United Nations Security Council.
5) All of these
129. Which of the following statements is/are correct?
1.
Grama Jyothi is a sheme for rural development
launched by Uttar Pradesh government.
2.
The programme envisages empowering gram
panchayats for all-round development of villages in areas of sanitation and
drinking water, health and nutrition, education, social security and poverty
reduction, natural resources, agriculture and infrastructure.
1) Only 1 2) Only 2 3) Both 4) None of these
5) All of these
130. Which of the following statements is/are correct?
1.
The Economic Intelligence Council is the
apex forum overseeing government agencies responsible for economic intelligence
and combating economic offences in India.
2.
The Economic Intelligence Council is
under chairmanship of Director General of the Central Economic Intelligence
Bureau.
1) Only 1 2)
Only 2 3) Both 4) None of these 5)
All of these
131. Okhla Sanctuary is situated in
1) Chandigarh 2) Noida 3) Patna 4)
Jaipur 5) None of these
132. Which airport became
first in the world to be powered by solar energy?
1) Bangalore 2) London 3)
Kochi 4) San Francisco 5) None of these
133. In which Indian state largest deposits of lignite coal are found?
1) Jharkhand 2) Tamil Nadu 3) Odisha 4) Chattisgarh 5) None of these
134. India signed MoU with which country to solve the menace of fake
currency?
1) Nepal 2) Bhutan 3) Sri Lanka 4)
Bangladesh 5) None of
these
135. Which of the following statements are correct about Swacha bharat
mission?
1.
This campaign aims to accomplish the
vision of a ‘Clean India’ by 2nd October 2019
2. Fund sharing between the Central Government
and the State Government and Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) is 75%: 25% (90% : 10%
for North Eastern and special category states).
3. The program aims to make India “open
defecation free” by 2015.
1) 1, 2 2) 2, 3 3) 1, 3
4) All of these 5) None
of these
136. Which of the following instruments are used in Hindustani classical
music ?
1. Tabala 2. Sarangi 3. Veena 4.
Jalatarangam
1) 1 and 2 2) 2,4 3)
3 and 4 4) All of these 5) None of these
137. India is third in global doping report for 2013 released by World
Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Which of the following countries tops in this
regard?
1) China 2) Turkey 3) Russia 4)
Australia 5) None of these
138. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has given its approval
for Inclusion of which of the following states in the list of states to be
covered under the National Dairy Plan- I (NDP-I)?
1)
Uttarakhand 2) Chhattisgarh 3) Jharkhand 4) All the above 5) None of these
139. Which of the following countries has launched the world’s first
facial recognition ATM, which will not allow users to withdraw cash unless
their face matches their Ids?
1) South
Korea 2) Switzerland 3) France 4)
China 5) None of these
140. Which of the following countries has produced world’s first
electric passenger plane‘BX1E’ which has gained an airworthiness certificate?
1)
Switzerland 2) China 3) Germany 4) Sweden
5) None of these
141. Keith Vaz has been re-elected as chair of the British Parliament’s
influential home affairs select committee. He is the Britain’s longest-serving
MP of
1)
Chinese-origin 2)
Pakistani-origin 3)
Indian-origin
4)
Nepalese-origin 5)
None of these
142. After a gap of more than a decade, a new private sector lender will
start operations from Aug 23 as it received the final approval from the Reserve
Bank of India on 17 Jun. Identify the Kolkata-based micro financier.
1) Bandhan
Financial Services 2) SKS
Microfinance 3) Asirvad
Microfinance
4) Annapurna
Microfinance 5) None of
these
143. The Regulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP), which
evaluates a country’s readiness for Basel III norms, is conducted by
1) World
Bank 2) IMF 3) ADB 4) BIS 5) None of these
144. The ANZ Bank will open two more branches in India by early next
year in Gurgaon and Bangalore. What is the full form of ANZ?
1) Australia New
Zealand 2) Austria New Zealand 3) Amsterdam New Zealand
4) Athens New
Zealand 5) None of these
145. The LIC of India has been allowed to form a joint venture in
Bangladesh, becoming the second foreign insurer to operate in the country. The
first one is
1)
Tata-AIG 2)
MetLife-ALICO 3)
IFFCO-Tokyo
4) Edelweiss
Tokio 5) None of these
146. Japan’s parliament passed a bill to lower the
voting age to _____ recently.
1)
25 2) 21 3) 19 4) 18 5)
None of these
147.
Reserve Bank of India on 13 August 2015
notified the Union Budget-2015-16 Interest Subvention Scheme (ISS) and asked
all banks to provide interest concession of 2 percent on short term crop loans
of up to ________ rupees.
1)
1 lakh 2) 3 lakh 3) 6 lakh 4) 11 lakh 5)
None of these
148.
The Union Govt on 17 Jun decided to
increase the number of workdays under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment
Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) from 100 days to _______ in drought-affected areas of
the country.
1)
120 days 2) 125 days 3) 140 days 4) 150 days 5) 200 days
149.
World population day is celebrated on
_______?
1)
7 July 2) 9 July 3) 11 July 4) 13 July 5) None of these
150.
Who won the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2015?
1)
Japan 2) Germany 3) England 4)
USA 5)
None of these
151.
Who won gold for India at Archery World
Cup 2015 ?
1)
Jayanta Talukdar 2)
Abhishek Verma 3) Dhaniram
Basumatary
4)
Atul Verma 5) None of these
152. Who appointed as MD & CEO of Bank of Baroda?
1) Arunma Oteh 2) Ravi
Venkatesan 3) TC Venkat
Subramanian
4) PS Jayakumar 5) None of these
153. Who appointed as CEO of Canara Bank?
1) Rakesh Sharma 2) T N Manoharan 3) G Narayanan
4) T C V
Subramainian 5) None of these
154. Who won 2015 Gujar Mal Modi award for innovative science and
technology?
1) Pradyut
Ghosh 2) Mustansir
Barma 3) D. Sivananda Pai
4) Upinder S.
Bhalla 5) None of these
155. The “Buchi Babu Memorial Trophy” is associated with which sports?
1) Cricket 2) Badminton 3) Hockey 4) Foot ball 5) None of these
156. 2015 United States-India Cyber Dialogue held in ________.
1) Mumbai 2) New York
City 3) New Delhi
4) Washington,
DC 5) None of these
157. Who became India’s first woman to play in English league football?
1) Aditi Chauhan 2) Anjana Saikia 3) Sangita Basfore
4) Sasmita Malik 5) None of these
158. Who appointed as MD and CEO of IDBI Bank ?
1) Ravi
Venkatesan 2) G Padmananbhan 3) Kishor Piraji Kharat
4) Hasmukh Adhia 5) None of these
159. Which bank launches mobile wallet app ‘Buddy’?
1) PNB 2) Bank of Maharashtra 3) HDFC 4) SBI 5) None
of these
160. Which bank launched locker facility named ‘Smart Vault’.
1) Bank of
Baroda 2) ICICI Bank 3) SBI 4) Yes Bank 5) None of these
161. Which union ministry launched the smart National Common Mobility
Card (NCMC) recently?
1) Ministry of
Railways 2) Ministry of Home Affairs 3)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
4) Ministry of
Urban Development 5) None of these
162. Book titled ‘Mrs Funnybones’ authored by _________.
1) Twinkle
Khanna 2) Rinke Khanna 3) Dimple Kapadia
4) Akshay Kumar 5) None of these
163. Who conferred with ‘Maharashtra Bhushan’ Award ?
1) Babasaheb Purandare 2) Anna Hazare 3)
Vikas Amte
4) Ajinkya Dev 5) None of these
164. ‘Making India Awesome’ authored by ________.
1)
Rohinton Mistry 2)
Arundhati Roy 3)
Chetan Bhagat
4) Jhumpa Lahiri 5) None of these
165. Who sworn in as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka?
1) Maithripala
Sirisena 2) Ranil
Wickremesinghe 3) Sarath Amunugama
4) Thalatha
Atukorale 5) None of these
166. Who appointed as CMD of Air India Limited?
1) Ashwani
Lohani 2) Jaspreet
Singh 3) J.S. Deepak
4) C.B.S.
Venkataramana 5) None of these
167. Which became first country to receive funds from UN for Solar Home
Systems?
1) India 2) Bangladesh 3) Nepal 4) Taiwan 5)
None of these
168. Pakistan and _____ signed defence agreement that includes the sale
of four Mi-35 helicopters.
1) Russia 2) America 3) South Korea 4)
North Korea 5) None of these
169. Who won the James Tait Black Award 2015 ?
1) Tahmima
Anam 2)
Taslima Nasrin 3) Imdadul Haq Milon
4) Haider Rahman 5) None of these
170. World Humanitarian Day is observed on
________.
1) 17 August 2) 19 August 3) 21 August 4) 24
August 5) None of these
171. Who appointed as new CEO of Google?
1) Sundar Pichai 2) Satya Nadella 3) Ajaypal Singh Banga
4)
Shantanu Narayen 5)
None of these
172. Google Creates Parent Company Called _________.
1) Alphabet Inc 2) Google corporate Inc 3) Zessta Inc 4) Xylem Inc 5) None of these
173. Who awarded with Germany’s Cross of Order of the Merit?
1) Abraham
Verghese 2) Anindya Sinha 3) Avinash
Dixit
4) Raghavendra
Gadagkar 5) None of these
174. Who appointed as
Governor of Bihar ?
1) J.P.
Rajkhowa 2) Ram Nath Kovind 3)
E. S. L. Narasimhan
4) Vajubhai Vala 5) None of
these
175.
Who conferred with PATWA 2015 award ?
1)
Dilip Parulekar 2)
Omprakash Singh 3) Sudhir Mungantiwar
4)
Sunil Kumar Pintu 5) None
of these
176.
Which Asian country to become first
member of CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)?
1)
China 2) Japan 3) India 4) Pakistan 5)
None of these.
177.
India’s first Integrated Underwater
Harbour Defence and Surveillance System (IUHDSS) was commissioned in Kochi,
Kerala. First of its kind system in the country is part of initiatives to
strengthen and beef up coastal security in the western coastline. Which of the
following statement is not correct about it?
1) This
Harbour Defence and Surveillance System was Designed by Israel Aerospace
Industries (IAI).
2) This
automated system capable of detecting, identifying, tracking and generating
warning for surface and underwater threats.
3) The
system has been contracted by Integrated Headquarters of Union Ministry of
Defence in 2012. Henceforth it will operate under the control of the Naval
Officer-in-Charge (Kerala)
4) Presently,
similar kind of systems are fitted in over 150 locations across the world
including in South America, Caribbean, Mediterranean countries and Africa.
5)
None of these.
178. Union Government has conferred Arjuna Award on Indian cricket team
off-spinner bowler Ravichandran Ashwin. With this Ashwin became ______
cricketer to receive the prestigious award.
1) 48th 2) 49th 3) 47th 4)
46th 5) None of these
179. India’s 14 year old Prabhroop Sekhon has won two gold medals in the
Special Olympics World Summer Games held at ______. He won the medals in 300 metre and 500 metre
Roller Skating event.
1) Philadelphia,
US 2) New York, US 3) Los Angeles, US
4) Iowa City, US 5) None of
these.
180. Andhra Pradesh government has signed a memorandum of understanding
(MoU) with a/an ______ firm for iron ore mining projects in Kurnool and Kadapa
districts.
1) Australian 2) American 3) Argentinian 4) Brazilian 5)
None of these.
181. What is an Indian Depository Receipt?
1)
A deposit account with a Public Sector
Bank
2) A depository account with any of depositories
3) An instrument in the form of depository
receipt created by an Indian depository against underlying equity shares of the
issuing company
4) An instrument in the form of deposit receipt
issued by Indian depositories
5) None of these.
182. Land Development Banks form a part of the?
1) Commercial
Banks 2) Industrial
Development Bank of India
3) Food
Corporation of India 4) Co-operative
Credit Structure 5) None of these
183. Which of the following cannot be called as a value Added Service
offered by bank?
1) Special
Accounts for poor sections of society 2) Accident Insurance Cover
3) Instant
credit of outstations cheques 4)
Free cheque books
5) All of these
184. The minimum number of women required for formation of women groups
under Development of women and children in Rural Areas Programme is?
1) 20 2) 15 3) 10 4)
05 5) None of these
185. What is the full form of ‘FINO’, a term we see frequently in financial
newspapers?
1) Financial
Investment Network and Operations
2) Farmer’s
Investment in National Organization
3) Farmers
Inclusion News and Operations
4) Financial
Inclusion Network and Operations
5) None of these
186. With an aim to provide better services to the debit card holders,
the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has directed all commercial and public sector
banks to introduce new Automated Teller Machines (ATM) that can deliver lower
denomination notes such as?
1) Rs 10 2) 20 3) 50 4)
None of the above 5) All the above
187. Which of the following banks is limited to the needs of agriculture
and rural finance?
1) RBI 2) SBI 3) IFC 4)
NABARD 5) Axis Bank
188. Open-market operations of Reserve Bank of India refer to?
1) Trading in
securities 2) Auctioning 3) Transaction in gold
4) All of these 5) None of these
189. Which of the following has introduced a new tool named Data
Warehousing and Business Intelligence System for speedy analysis of data and
identification of violations?
1) IRDA 2) SBI 3) RBI 4)
TRAI 5) None of
these
190. The Reserve Bank hiked the limit for foreign investment in Asset
Reconstruction Companies (ARCs) from the earlier cap of 49 percent to?
1) 74 % 2) 47 % 3) 57 % 4)
72 % 5) None of the
above
191. IndusInd Bank has acquired the diamond and jewellery (bullion)
financing business and related deposit portfolio of which Bank?
1) HSBC
Holdings, UK 2) ICBC, China 3) Royal Bank of Scotland, Britain
4) Banco
Bradesco, Brazil 5) None of these.
192. Veteran Sri Lankan ______
Santasilan Kadirgamar passed away in Colombo.
1) Scientist 2) Historian 3) Proffesor 4)
Journalist 5) None of these.
193. On which day World Hepatitis Day is being observed every year
around the globe?
1) July 25 2) July 26 3) July 27 4)
July 28 5) None of these.
194. Who among the following was appointed as the chairman of telecom
regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on 27 July 2015?
1) R. K. Arnold 2) Sudheer Gupta 3) R S Sharma
4) Rahul Khullar 5) None of these.
195. Indian women’s recurve archery team has won silver medal in World
Archery Championship held in Copenhagen, Denmark. Who among the following is
not the member of Indian women’s team?
1) Laxmirani
Majhi 2) Deepika Kumari 3) Rimil Buriuly
4) Dola Banerjee 5) None of these
196. New species of butterfly called Banded Tit discovered in which
state?
1) Maharashtra 2) Arunachal Pradesh 3) Andhra Pradesh
4) Udisha 5)
None of these
197. India’s first Earthquake Warning System successfully installed in
which state?
1) Uttarakhand 2) Jharkhand 3)
Gujarat 4) Maharashtra
5) None of these
198. Who became first Indian to win a Gold Medal at World University
Games in Gwangju?
1) Siddarth Guha 2) Abhijit Mudigonda 3) Inderjeet Singh
4) Rohan Sharma 5) None of these
199. Who became 1st British-Asian appointee to ECB Management Board?
1) Jas Binag 2) Shobna Gulati 3) Indira Joshi
4) Lord Kamlesh
Patel 5) None of these
200. Who won Wimbledon 2015 Women’s title?
1) Agnieszka
Radwaska 2) Garbine Muguruza 3) Maria Sharapova
4) Serena
Williams 5) None of
these
201. The National Green Tribunal has asked Delhi Government to stop
unauthorized sand mining on the ________ riverbed.
1) Yamuna 2) Ganga 3) Indus 4) Kosi 5) None of these
202. Name the President of Seychelles who will arrive in New Delhi on
25th Aug’15 on a three-day visit to India?
1) James Alix Michel 2) Alexis
Tsipras 3) Joel Morgan
4) Jean Paul Adam 5) None of
these
203. Who has asked both India and Italy to “suspend” all court
proceedings involving two Italian marines charged with killing of two Indian
fishermen in 2012 and also refrain from initiating new ones that might
“aggravate or extend” the dispute?
1) United States 2) UN Court 3) G-20 Countries
4) G5 countries 5) None of these
204. With which country has India signed a Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) for the construction of cross-border petroleum pipeline at the Ministry
for Commerce and Supplies on 24th Aug’15?
1) Myanmar 2) Bangladesh 3) China 4) Nepal 5) None of these
205. Which country’s Prime Minister became the first PM to visit the
resting place of Indigenous land rights campaigner Eddie Koiki Mabo?
1) USA 2) Australia 3) India 4) Japan 5) None of these
206. The ‘Legion d’honneur’ award is the highest award of which of the
following countries?
1) Brazil 2) Spain 3) Greece 4) France 5) None of these
207. On 24th Aug’15 which Community protested in Rajasthan by taking out
silent proces-sion at many places against recent Rajasthan High Court order on
‘Santhara’ ritual?
1) Jain 2) Marwari 3) Gujjar 4) Meena 5) None of these
208. In which of the following cities the war museum has been
established to mark the Golden Jubilee celebration year of 1965 war between
India and Pakistan?
1) Ladakh 2) Srinagar 3) Jaipur 4) Jodhpur 5) None of these
209. Which of the following companies has signed a Memorandum of
Understanding with Andhra Pradesh government to launch the ‘Smart Village’
programme in Vijayawada?
1) ICICI Bank 2) Tata Trust 3) L&T Infra 4)
Adani Builders 5) None of these
210. What amount has been fixed by the government as a target of loan
disbursement under Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY) to small business units
during the current fiscal?
1) 1.22 Lakh Crore 2) 3.65
Thousand Crore 3) 500 Crore
4) 980 Crore 5) None of these
211. Which country has won the Ashes Test Series that ended on 23rd
Aug’15?
1) India 2) Australia
3)
England 4)
None of these 5) All of these
212. Which of the following bowlers was fined for 65 per cent of his
match fee for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct twice on 23rd Aug’15?
1) Bhomesh Kumar 2) Mitchell Johnson 3) Ishant
Sharma
4) None of these 5) None of these
213. Name the state that has announced the world’s largest solar power
station of 750 Mega Watts (MW) capacity to be established in one of its state’s
district?
1) Uttar Pradesh 2) Gujarat 3) Madhya Pradesh
4) Bihar 5) None of these
214. Which is /are the following reasons for the BSE Sensex to fall by
1624.51 pints and close at 25,741.56 on 24th Aug’15?
1) Economic Crisis in Greece 2) Slowing Chinese
economy
3) Devaluation of Chinese currency 4) Bailout of Greece Economy
5) None of these
215. India has imposed Anti- dumping duty on potassium carbonate imports
from which of the following countries?
1) China and South Korea 2)
Singapore and Taiwan 3) Taiwan and
China
4) South Korea and Taiwan 5) None of these
216. Who among the following personalities bestowed with the 2015 Gujar
Mal Modi Award recently?
1) Prof.
Mustansir Barma 2) N. Valarmathi 3) Jothimani Gowthaman
4) T K Anuradha 5) None of these
217. Who is the first recipient of Dr. A. P.J. Abdul Kalam Award,
instituted by Government of Tamil Nadu in 2015?
1) Prof. Mustansir Barma 2) N. Valarmathi 3)
Jothimani Gowthaman
4) T K Anuradha 5) None of these
218. The “Accessible India” campaign is associated with which of the
following fields?
1) Tourism 2) Child Education
3) Empowerment of Gram Panchayats 4)
Physically disabled persons
5) None of these
219. In context of banking, what does ‘BBB’ stands for ______?
1) Bank Broadcast Bureau 2) Bank Beneficial
Bureau 3) Bank Blogger Bureau
4) Bank Board Bureau Show 5) None of these
220. Who has been selected for the presigious 2014 US National
Humanities Medal?
1) Alice McMurtry 2) Larry
waters 3) Jhumpa Lahiri
4) All of the above 5) None of
these
221. Which of the following has recently acquired Bengaluru-based
HomeBuy360?
1) Housing.com 2) SoftBank 3) Indian Real Estate Forum (IREF)
4) None of the above 5)
None of these
222. The West-Central Railway (WCR) zone has become the first Railway
zone in India Railways to eliminate all unmanned level crossing. Where is the
headquarters of this zone?
1) Jhansi
2) Kanpur 3) Jabalpur 4) Kota 5)
None of these
223. Which state government has launched “Grama Jyothi” Scheme to
empower gram panchayats?
1) Telangana 2) Bihar 3) Odisha 4) Tripura 5) None of these
224. To empower women the “Women-20 (W20) group has been launched by
G20. Who is the newly appointed president of the w20 group?
1) Lakshmipuri 2) Christine Lagarde 3) Angel Gurria
4) Gulden Turktan 5) None of
these
225. India, Slovak Republic signed MoU for technical cooperation in
________.
1) Defense
Sector 2) Railway Sector 3) Health Sector 4) Shipping Sector 5) None of these
226. As per the latest sigma study from global reinsurer Swiss Re,
India’s insurance penetration in financial year 2014-15 (FY15) remained at
1) 3.1 per
cent 2) 3.3 per cent 3) 3.9
per cent 4) 4.3 per cent 5) None of these
227. The social networking giant Facebook has partnered security
software firm Kasperky to help its users detect and clean malware from their
computers. The term malware is used for computer
1) spyware 2) trojan horses 3) worms 4)
viruses 5) All the above
228. The Union Cabinet on 24 Jun gave its approval for setting up of
six new Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) in the country. Which of the
following will NOT be one of them?
1)
Vishakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) 2) Bodh
Gaya (Bihar) 3) Dispur (Assam)
4) Nagpur
(Maharashtra) 5) Amritsar (Punjab)
229. The Union Cabinet on 24 Jun decided to renew long term agreement
with the steel mills of which of the following countries for supply of high
grade Indian iron ore during Apr 2015 to Mar 2018?
1) China and
US 2) South
Korea and Japan 3) Russia and
France
4) Germany and
France 5) None of these
230. Name the tennis legend who on 24 Jun was appointed as the Ayurveda
brand ambassador of Kerala.
1) Martina
Hingis 2) Sania Mirza 3) Steffi Graf 4) Monica Seles 5) None of these
231. The board of directors of which of the following private lenders
extended managing director Aditya Puri’s tenure for another five years, with
effect from Nov 1 recently?
1) ICICI
Bank 2)
HDFC Bank 3) Kotak
Mahindra Bank
4) Yes Bank 5) None of these
232. NITI Aayog’s sub-committee of chief ministers on Swachh Bharat
Abhiyaan will submit its report to the Centre by Aug 2015. This sub-committee
is headed by
1) Lal
Thanhawla 2)
Harish Rawat 3)
Siddaramaiah
4) N Chandrababu
Naidu 5) None of these
233. PM Narendra Modi on Jul 1 will launch the digital locker facility.
Which of the following is NOT true about the digital locker facility?
1)
It will help citizens digitally store
their important documents (PAN card, passport, mark sheets and degree
certificates)
2)
It uses authenticity services provided by
Aadhaar.
3)
It will provide for sharing of verified
electronic documents across govt agencies.
4)
It will increase the administrative
overheads of govt departments and agencies created due to paper work.
5)
None of these
234. The Application Supported by Blocked Amount (ASBA) system is
related to
1) insurance
sector 2) export-import
3) commodity market
4) capital market
5) None of these
235. We often read about the term PMLA in financial newspapers. What is
the full form of PMLA?
1) Prevention of
Monetary Lending Act 2)
Prevention of Money Leasing Act
3) Prevention of
Monetary Liaisoning Act 4)
Prevention of Money Laundering Act
5) None of these
236. Name the telemedicine initiative launched by the government on 25th
Aug’15 in collaboration with Apollo Hospitals to provide healthcare facilities
in rural areas?
1) Swasthya 2) Swasth 3)
Sehat 4) Poshan 5) None of these
237. Centre has informed Supreme Court that political parties should
not be brought under the ambit of Right to Information, RTI Act by terming them
________.
1)
PublicAuthorities 2)
PrivateAuthorities 3)
IndependentAuthorities
4) DemocraticAuthorities 5) None of these
238. Name the typhoon that hit the Japan’s southern main island of
Kyushu on 25th Apr’15?
1) Soudelor 2)
Halola 3) Pirana 4) Goni 5)
None of these
239. Which country would be compensated by Russia for seizing a ship
belonging to the pressure group, Greenpeace, during a protest against Arctic
oil drilling, as ordered by an International court of arbitration in The Hague?
1) Ukraine 2) Latvia 3) Germany 4)
Netherland 5) None of these
240. Which of the following countries has condemned deportations of its
citizens after Venezuela closed its border with its eastern neighbour last
week?
1) Colombia 2) Brazil 3)
Guyana 4) Panama 5) None of these
241. As per the report by Alzheimer Disease International, by which year
number of people suffering from dementia in the world would triple to more than
a hundred and thirty million?
1) 2022 2) 2050 3) 2056 4)
2060 5) None of these
242. Which of the following countries released its last known Ebola
patient from a hospital on 24th Aug’15?
1) Sierr Leone 2) Guinea 3)
Liberia 4) Senegal 5) None of these
243. Who has been sworn in as the new Lokayukta of Maharashtra on 24th
Aug’15?
1) Justice Vinod
Tawde 2) Justice Madanlal
Laxmandas Tahaliyani
3) Justice
Ravindra Singh 4) Justice PB
Gaikwad 5) None of these
244. Who among the following would not be conferred by Dronacharya Award
for the year 2015?
1) Anoop Singh 2) Harbans Singh 3) Swatantar RajSingh
4) Romeo James 5) None of these
245. Who among the following would not be conferred by Dhyan Chand Award
for the year 2015?
1) Shiv Prakash
Mehra 2) T.P.P.Nair 3)
Romeo James
4) Ajay
Vishwakarma 5) None of
these
246. Name the woman journalist who won the prestigious 2015 Peter
Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism?
1) Zaina Erhaim 2) Anjana Kashyap 3) Christiane Amanpour
4) Barbara
Walters 5) None of
these
247. Which state will host the Youth Delphic Games in February 2016?
1) Maharashtra 2) Goa 3)
Karnataka
4) Gujarat 5) None of
these
248. Book titled India Central Asia Relations: The Economic Dimension
authored by _______.
1) Rajiv Dogra 2) Twinkle Khanna 3) Chiki Sarkar
4) Amiya Chandra 5) None of these
249. Which Bank launched watch banking application for Apple Watch ?
1) SBI 2) HDFC 3) ICICI
4) Citi 5) None
of these
250. Book ‘’37 Bridges and Other Stories’’ authored by _______.
1) Kamila
Shamsie 2) Mohsin Hamid 3) Aamer Hussein
4) Fatima Bhutto 5)
None of these.
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