Current Affairs Questions for IBPS RRB PO Exam: 03rd August 2017

Welcome to the world of Current Affairs 2017. With IBPS RRB PO and Clerk Mains round the corner, it should be your priority to cover every aspect of Current Affairs on a daily basis for IBPS RRB PO and Clerk Mains so that you can do well in the exam. These current affairs are based on current news. Let us see how many questions you attempt accurately.

Q1. Tech giant Cisco has recently appointed ______________ as president for its India and SAARC operations.

(a) Mukul Sangma

(b) Puneet Joshi

(c) Sukanvar Marathe

(d) Sameer Garde

(e) Jitu Rastogi

Q2. Name the first vice-chairman of NITI Aayog, who has recently announced his resignation.

(a) Bibek Debroy

(b) Arvind Panagariya

(c) V. K. Saraswat

(d) Ramesh Chand 

(e) Arjun Kumar

Q3. Mukesh Ambani has elbowed past _____________ to become Asia’s second-richest man, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

(a) Li Ka-Shing

(b) Jack Ma

(c) Wang Jianlin

(d) Robin Li

(e) Lei Jun

Q4. Which of the following payments bank has recently announced a strategic partnership with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) to give the further boost to digital payments in the country?

(a) Aditya Birla Nuvo

(b) FINO PayTech

(c) Airtel Payments Bank

(d) IPPB

(e) Reliance Industries

Q5. In which of the following country, China has formally opened its first overseas military base?

(a) Somalia

(b) Ethiopia

(c) Eritrea

(d) Djibouti

(e) Iran

Q6. World breastfeeding week 2017 is being celebrated from 1st to 7th August 2017 with the theme ____________________.

(a) Breastfeeding- the first food of life

(b) Sustaining Breastfeeding Together

(c) Grow together with Children

(d) Breastfeeding- The enrichment and values

(e) None of the given themes is correct

Q7. Ustad Hussain Sayeeduddin Dagar, a classical vocalist passed away recently. He belonged to which tradition?

(a) Dhrupad Tradition

(b) Lavani Tradition

(c) Ganasangeet Tradition

(d) Sruti Tradition

(e) Rabindra Sangeet

Q8. The Supreme Court of India has recently imposed a ban on the use of five harmful metals. Which one of the following metal is not among them?

(a) Lithium

(b) Arsenic

(c) Bismuth

(d) Mercury

(e) Antimony

Q9. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has recently changed the Policy Repo Rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF). What is the new Repo rate set by the RBI?

(a) 6.25%

(b) 6.50%

(c) 6.75%

(d) 6.00%

(e) 5.75%

Q10. With which of the following lender, Smartphone-maker Samsung has tied up to store higher variants of its debit cards on the app?

(a) Canara Bank

(b) State Bank of India

(c) Bank of Baroda

(d) Allahabad Bank

(e) Punjab National Bank

Current Affairs Questions for IBPS RRB PO Exam: 03rd August 2017 (Solutions)

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