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CURRENT AFFAIRS1. India and ............. has signed an MoU towards an Inter-governmental agreement (IGA) over the

purchase of 36 Rafale jets from Dassault Aviation?

1) USA 2) UK 3) France 4) Germany

5) None of the above

2. The First Ministerial Meeting of Arab-India Cooperation Forum was held in ............

1) Iran 2) Egypt

3) Saudi Arabia 4) Bahrain


3. Who has been honoured with the third Yash Chopra Memorial Award?

1) Sharukh Khan 2) Rekha 3) Amir Khan 4) Jaya Bachhan


4. Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2015 shows that India has moved up

in rank from 85 position to ............

1) 84 2) 80 3) 76 4) 75

5) None

5. All India Radio has launched a non-conventional audio broadcast channel. What is the name of the

channel?

1) Rangoli 2) Raagam 3) Rangam 4) Rangmanch


6. Which among the following acquires UK-

based Point to Point for around $ 11 M?

1) IBM 2) HCL 3) Infosys 4) Reliance

5) TCS

7. Which company has kept the title of world's biggest automaker for the fourth straight year?

1) Hyundai 2) Honda 3) Toyota 4) Mahindra

5) Skoda

8. Abe Vigoda who passes away recently, was a/ an ............

1) Actor 2) Singer 3) Writer 4) Guitarist5) Lyricist

9. Who has won the Amnesty International Human Rights Award 2016?

1) Jawahar Mishra 2) Kalyan Singh

3) Henri Tiphagne 4) Nesan Chandran

5) Nelson Mandela

10. Who has been named as the brand ambassador of a newly-launched pleasure cruise?

1) Aamir Khan 2) Sachin Tendulkar

3) Parineeti Chopra 4) Alia Bhat

5) Rahul Dravid

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11. Government of India has signed $80 million loan agreement with ............ to continue improving

infrastructure in two North Eastern State Capital cities?

1) World Bank 2) United Nations

3) BRICS Bank 4) Asian Development Bank

5) Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

12. A permanent memorial of India's first aircraft carrier INS Vikrant has been unveiled in ............

1) Mumbai 2) Kolkata 3) Kochi 4) Chennai

5) Vizag

13. How many capital cities are there among the selected 20 smart cities?

1) Four 2) Five 3) Six 4) Seven

5) Ten

14. Which among the following cities may soon become world's first city to get the ultra high speed 5G

mobile network by 2018?1) Moscow 2) London 3) New York 4) Stockholm

5) Warsaw

15. Arindam Sen Gupta, who passed away recently, was a/an ............

1) Economist 2) Historian

3) Wildlife Photographer 4) Journalist

5) Actor

16. Two new Hindi writers have been chosen for the 11th Navlekhan award of the Bharatiya Jnanpith. Who

are they?

1) Amlendu Tiwari and Om Nagar 2) Amit Patel and Krishnakant Bhattacharya

3) Ram Joshi and Devanand Patnaik 4) Dilip Chatterjee and Manoj Chawla


17. Who has been awarded the Diploma of Honour and President's Button by the International Shooting

Sport Federation (ISSF)?

1) Geroge Kutty 2) Abhinav Bindra 3) Rupadevi 4) Jai Akash

5) Jitu Roy

18. Leslie Berland has been named as the Chief Marketing Officer of ............

1) Facebook 2) Google 3) Microsoft 4) Twitter

5) Yahoo

19. Who has been appointed as the chairman and managing director of NTPC Ltd?

1) Dhananjay Singh 2) Arjun Singh 3) Gurdeep Singh 4) Prakash Singh


20. Who has been appointed as the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities (CCPD)?

1) Dr. Kamlesh Kumar Pandey 2) Dr. Amit Sohail Khan

3) Dr. Raj Kapoor 4) Dr. Krishna Kant Mishra





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21. Girish Kumar Ahuja and Pushpendra Rai are appointed as the Non-Official Directors of ............

1) Canara bank 2) SBI 3) IOB 4) Bank of Baroda

5) Bank of India

22. Which country has the highest number of tuberculosis cases in the world?

1) Brazil 2) China 3) India 4) Indonesia

5) Pakistan

23. IRCTC has limited how many tickets per month to one user?

1) Five 2) Six 3) Seven 4) Eight

5) Ten

24. Axiata Group Berhad (Axiata) and Bharti Airtel will merge their telecom operations in ............

1) Nepal 2) Bangladesh 3) Bhutan 4) Malaysia

5) Myanmar

25. ............ has acquired education-

technology startup LearnSprout?

1) Apple 2) Google 3) Microsoft 4) IBM

5) TCS

26. Who is the Author of 'Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition'?

1) Nisid Hajari 2) Mohammad Halid 3) Yasir Hameed 4) Mohammad Yousuf


27. Who has been chosen for the K Veeramani Award for Social Justice 2015?

1) Prem Anand 2) Nitish Kumar 3) Jawahar Singh 4) Pranav Chatterjee5) None of the above

28. Who took over charge as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Southern Naval Command?

1) Vice Admiral Girish Luthra 2) Vice Admiral Kumar Chauhan

3) Vice Admiral Ajith Singh 4) Vice Admiral Bimraj Gupta


29. Government of India has marginally revised downward the economic growth for 2014-15 to .............

from the earlier estimate of 7.3 percent?

1) 7.2% 2) 7.5% 3) 7.0% 4) 6.9%

5) 8.0%

30. The Government of India has decided to nominate .................. for the UNESCO world heritage city

tag this year?

1) Delhi 2) Mumbai 3) Varanasi 4) Ahmedabad

5) Bengaluru

31. Alibaba.com, the wholesale trading platform of China's Alibaba group has unveiled its first physical

trade facility centre in India at ............

1) Jaipur 2) Pune 3) Hyderabad 4) Bengaluru5) Chennai




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32. Prime Minister Modi to create a network for more job opportunities across villages. Name it?

1) Khadi udyog 2) Khadi Gramudyog

3) Khadi Jobs 4) Gram Khadi udyog


33. Novak Djokovic defeated ......... in straight sets to win a record-equalling sixth Australian Open title?

1) Andy Murray 2) Rafael Nadal 3) Roger Federer 4) Stan Wawrinka

5) David Ferrer

34. Who has been appointed mentor of the Kings XI Punjab for the upcoming Indian Premier League

(IPL)?

1) Sachin Tendulkar 2) Virender Sehwag 3) Rahul Dravid 4) Anil Kumble


35. Who has been appointed Senior Director for the Fragility, Conflict and Violence Group at the World

Bank?1) Atul Mittal 2) Saroj Kumar Jha 3) Satish Mishra 4) Salil Mehta


36. Which has been emerged as the fastest-growing state in the whole country with a growth rate of 9.7%

in 2013-14?

1) Bihar 2) Goa 3) Andhra Pradesh 4) Maharashtra

5) Meghalaya

37. Manipuri documentary bags top award at 14th MIFF. Name it ......

1) Pheer 2) Quisa 3) Phum Shang 4) Akira


38. Who has been appointed vice-president and chief investment officer of the newly-created Asian

Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)?

1) Tanmay Gupta 2) Rishabh Bajaj 3) Arpan Pandey 4) DJ Pandian


39. Which Country became second largest smartphone market?

1) India 2) Indonesia 3) UAE 4) UK


40. ............. has launched India's first anti-diabetic ayurvedic drug for type two Diabetes mellitus?

1) The Council for Science and Industrial Research

2) The Council for Scientific and Industry Research

3) The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

4) The Cabinet for Scientific and Industrial Research


41. The Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) approves GI tag for Indian ...........

1) Basmati Rice 2) Dal 3) Turmeric 4) Mango





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42. ............... becomes Associate Member of European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)?

1) China 2) India 3) Russia 4) Germany

5) Poland

43. World Cancer Day is observed on.......

1) February 6th 2) February 5th 3) February 4th 4) February 3rd

5) March 3rd

44. ICC removes which Country from Permanent member status?

1) India 2) Pakistan 3) South Africa 4) Australia


45. Who won Wealth Mumbai International Open Chess tournament?

1) Salil Mehta 2) Swapnil Dhopade 3) Himal Gusain 4) Shardul Garge


46. ...............received SEBI nod for Mutual Fund business?

1) Mahindra AMC 2) Muthoot Finance 3) Axis Fund 4) SBI Fund


47. PM Modi inaugurates Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited petrochemical complex, the region's

first petrochemical project at .........

1) Patna, Bihar 2) Dibrugarh, Assam

3) Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh 4) Perambadur, Tamilnadu


ANSWERS

1-3; 2-4; 3-2; 4-3; 5-2; 6-2; 7-3; 8-1; 9-3; 10-2; 11-4; 12-1; 13-2; 14-4; 15-4; 16-1; 17-2; 18-4;

19-3; 20-1; 21-2; 22-3; 23-2; 24-2; 25-1; 26-1; 27-2; 28-1; 29-1; 30-4; 31-1; 32-2; 33-1; 34-2;

35-2; 36-5; 37-3; 38-4; 39-1; 40-3; 41-1; 42-2; 43-3; 44-1; 45-2; 46-1; 47-2.

Writer: Varun Dev



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