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Welcome to the world of Current Affairs 2017. With SBI PO Prelims round the corner, it should be your priority to cover every aspect of Current Affairs on daily basis so that you can do well in Mains exam. These current affairs are based on current news. Let us see how many questions you attempt accurately.
Q1. The Centre has constituted National Board of Electric Mobility (NBEM) to promote electric mobility and manufacturing of electric vehicles and their components. The Board will be chaired by _____________.
(a) Shri Harish Bhagwat
(b) Shri Prakash Javedkar
(c) Shri Rajyavardhan Rathore
(d) Shri Girish Shankar
(e) Shri Nitin Gadkari
Q2. A national conference on Communicating India will be organized in which of the following Indian cities that will be inaugurated by Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore.
(a) Kolkata
(b) New Delhi
(c) Bengaluru
(d) Chennai
(e) Varanasi
Q3. Name the IPS officer who has been appointed as the first woman Director General of Police (DGP) of Gujarat.
(a) Vimala Roy
(b) Falguni Upadhyay
(c) GeethaJ ohri
(d) Urmika Vansh
(e) Veera Joshi
Q4. The Government of India has recently announced a fund of ____________ for the first express highway project in the northeast region which be developed along the Brahmaputra river in Assam.
(a) Rs 25,000 Crore
(b) Rs 30,000 Crore
(c) Rs 35,000 Crore
(d) Rs 40,000 Crore
(e) Rs 45,000 Crore
Q5. Amazon India has launched an initiative called ‘Amazon Classroom’, a virtual training program to help sellers in learning online shopping. Name the CEO of Amazon.
(a) Larry Page
(b) Jeff Bezos
(c) Tim Cook
(d) John S. Watson
(e) Jeremy Stoppelman
Q6. Union Finance Minister ArunJaitley chaired the South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) Finance Ministers meeting in New Delhi. Name the country that has joined the SASEC program as its seventh member.
(a) Bangladesh
(b) Bhutan
(c) Myanmar
(d) Maldives
(e) Nepal
Q7. Name the Bank/Banks that sold Rs.1,800crore Ballarpur Industries loans to Edelweiss Asset Reconstruction Company.
(a) ICICI Bank
(b) HDFC Bank
(c) Axis Bank
(d) Both (a) and (c)
(e) Both (b) and (c)
Q8. The WTO’s dispute settlement set up a panel to resolve the dispute between ___________ and India over imposition of safeguard import duty on iron and steel products.
(a) Japan
(b) Pakistan
(c) China
(d) Afghanistan
(e) Myanmar
Q9. Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee declared ___________ as the 22nd district of the state.
(a) Chenani
(b) Ghorghram
(c) Bhorangram
(d) Jhargram
(e) Nasaini
Q10. Union Finance Minister ArunJaitley chaired the SASEC’s Finance Ministers meeting in New Delhi. What is full form of SASEC?
(a) South Asean Specific Economic Cooperation
(b) South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation
(c) South Asia SubRegional Essential Cooperation
(d) South Asean Standard Export Corporation
(e) None of the given options are true
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