Current Affairs Questions for IBPS Clerk Mains 2017: 31st Dec 2017

Welcome to the world of Current Affairs 2017. With IBPS Clerk Mains round the corner, it should be your priority to cover every aspect of Current Affairs on a daily basis for IBPS Clerk 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 Former football star who has been recently elected as Liberia’s president.
(a) Christiana Tah
(b) Johnson Sirleaf
(c) Augustine Ngafuan
(d) George Weah
(e) Blamo Nelson

Q2. A buyout giant KKR & Company has become the first foreign investor to fully own an asset reconstruction company (ARC) in India as it received approval from the Reserve Bank of India. KKR & Com. is _____________ based company
(a) France
(b) Germany
(c) USA
(d) China
(e) Russia

Q3. In which of the following country, the world’s largest human genome research project of 100,000 people was launched, recently?
(a) Japan
(b) China
(c) Denmark
(d) Sweden
(e) France

Q4. Name the city in which the three-day long 78th session of the Indian History Congress was held, recently.
(a) Pune
(b) Chennai
(c) Kochi
(d) Bengaluru
(e) Kolkata

Q5. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and her Jordanian counterpart Ayman Al Safadi held a bilateral meeting in New Delhi. What is the capital of Jordan?
(a) Damascus
(b) Riyadh
(c) Baghdad
(d) Amman
(e) Baku

Q6. In which of the following city, Nirmala Sitharaman has launched a start-up incubation centre called the Centre for Entrepreneurship Opportunities and Learning (CEOL)?
(a) Mangaluru
(b) Bengaluru
(c) Mumbai
(d) Chennai
(e) Mysore

Q7. Which of the following Public sector Banks had recently received capital infusion of Rs 2,729 crore from the government of India?
(a) Dena Bank
(b) Indian Overseas Bank
(c) IDBI Bank
(d) United Bank of India
(e) Bank of India

Q8. Who is the present Governor of West Bengal?
(a) Jagdish Mukhi
(b) Satya Pal Malik
(c) Ganga Prasad
(d) Keshari Nath Tripathi
(e) Banwarilal Purohit

Q9. The MD and CEO of Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) is _____________.
(a) Rakesh Sharma
(b) Jai Kumar Garg
(c) Rajeev Rishi
(d) Jatinder Bir Singh
(e) Mahesh Kumar Jain

Q10. What is the capital of Liberia?
(a) Freetown
(b) Monrovia
(c) Conakry
(d) Baku
(e) Abuja