Current Affairs Questions For NIACL AO And IBPS Clerk Mains: 16th January 2019

The General Awareness Section of Banking Exams covers numerous sections in it like Banking Awareness, Static GK, and Current Affairs. Most of the questions in GA appear from Current Affairs section. So it becomes important for you all to cover this particular section with sincerity and seriousness. The questions on Static and Banking Awareness are related to the countries, events or anything that has been in news for a while. Knowledge of current news also helps you deal with the PI (Personal Interview) more efficiently so you do not give a mumble jumble answer to the interviewee’s simple questions. Here is a quiz on Current Affairs to let you assess your Current Affairs Knowledge.

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Q1. Who has set up a world record in indoor rowing by completing 1 lakh meters in above-40 years category?

Q2. Which of the following bank inducted former SBI Managing Director B. Sriram and management consultant Rama Bijapurkar on its board as independent director?

Q3. Ananth Narayanan has stepped down as CEO of Myntra and Jabong. Who has been named as new head of these two firms?

Q4. Government e Marketplace (GeM) has launched “Womaniya on GeM” initiative. GeM is a 100% government owned company set up under the aegis of ____________.

Q5. Sir Michael Atiyah passed away at the age of 89. He was a well-known_______.

Q6. The Parliament of Macedonia has passed the resolution to amend the constitution of the country to rename it as the Republic of Northern Macedonia. What is the capital of this country?

Q7. The Madras High Court has set up an expert committee to find a solution to root out invasive species of plants from the Western Ghats. The committee shall be headed by __________.

Q8. Who has won the under-8 category at the Kids’ Golf World Championship organized by US kids Golf in Malaysia?

Q9. The theme of the National Youth Parliament Festival 2019 is_______________.

Q10. Indian army day is celebrated on ________.

Q11. National Youth Parliament Festival 2019 held at ________.

Q12.In which state India got its largest startup ecosystem recently?

Q13. Macedonia has renamed it as the Republic of Northern Macedonia. Who is the Prime Minister of this country?

Q14. A 2+2 Inter-Sessional meeting between the United States and India took recently place in ___________.

Q15. The Department of Science and Technology (DST) along with Doordarshan (DD), Prasar Bharati today launched two science communication initiatives, __________ and _________.