Current Affairs Questions for RBI Grade-B Phase-1 Exam: 16th June 2017

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Welcome to the world of Current Affairs 2017. With RBI Grade-B Phase-1 Exam round the corner, it should be your priority to cover every aspect of Current Affairs on a daily basis for RBI Grade-B Phase-1 Exam 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. Name the 38-year-old Indian-origin doctor who has scripted history by becoming Ireland’s youngest Prime Minister.

(a) Emmanuel Macron

(b) Edouard Philippe

(c) Leo Varadkar

(d) Martin McGuinness

(e) Mark Durkan

Q2. The World Bank has approved financing worth more than 500 million dollars for Afghanistan to support a string of projects to boost the economy. Who is the present President of World Bank?

(a) Jim Yong Kim

(b) Takehiko Nakao

(c) Ban ki Moon

(d) Kristalina Georgieva

(e) Joaquim Levy

Q3. India and Australia have started second Maritime Joint Exercise together. It is named as ___________.

(a) Shaurya-II

(b) EXAUSIND- II

(c) Parakram- II

(d) AUSINDEX 17

(e) Bhootal 17

Q4. Railway Ministry has recently launched a Mission named _____________ to enhance the passenger experience.

(a) Mission Naveenikaran

(b) Mission Retro-Fitment

(c) Mission Train-Fittings

(d) Mission Coach-Fitment

(e) Mission Train-Fitment

Q5. The Cabinet has recently approved a scheme called ISS for farmers for the year 2017-18 that will help farmers getting short term crop loan up to Rs. 3 lakh payable within one year at only 4% per annum. ISS is abbreviated as ____________.

(a) Interest Summation Scheme

(b) Interest Submerged Scheme

(c) Interest Subvention Scheme

(d) Interest Submissive Scheme

(e) Interest Submission Scheme

Q6. According to the Code Compliance Rating of banks done by the Banking Codes and Standards Board of India (BCSBI) 2017, name the only one bank out of 26 public sector banks which has got ‘high’ rating for their adherence to code compliance.

(a) SBI

(b) Allahabad Bank

(c) Union Bank of India

(d) UCO Bank

(e) IDBI Bank

Q7. The central government has signed an MoU between India and Armenia on cooperation on youth matters. What is the capital of Armenia? 

(a) Kapan

(b) Goris

(c) Suva

(d) Yereva

(e) Cuba

Q8. Name the person who has been named as India’s Ambassador to Belgium and the European Union.

(a) Anil Wadhwa

(b) Gaitri Issar Kumar

(c) Reenat Sandhu

(d) Ajit Vinayak Gupte

(e) Rajeev Shahare

Q9. Minister of Food Processing Industries Smt Harsimrat Kaur Badal addressed a Joint Press Conference with the organizers of ANUGA – an international business platform for Food Industry to be held in ___________.

(a) Italy

(b) Russia

(c) France

(d) Germany

(e) Canada

Q10. The Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) has successfully test fired the missile named “Nag” in a desert in Rajasthan’s western sector. 

(a) Surface to Surface Missile

(b) Air to Air Missile

(c) Anti-tank Missile

(d) Anti-Submarine Missile

(e) Surface to Air Missile

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