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Current Affairs Questions Based on The Hindu
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. Name the company that was rewarded with the prestigious Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Award at Rashtrapati Bhawan, recently.
(a) Larsen and Toubro
(b) TATA Power
(c) Reliance Foundation
(d) WIPRO
Q2. Name the President of Swiss Confederation who is on the three-day visit to India.
(a) Arnold Koller
(b) Doris Leuthard
(c) Flavio Cotti
(d) Ruth Dreifuss
(e) Kaspar Villiger
Q3. Who is the present vice-chairman of government think tank NITI Aayog?
(a) Arup Vohra
(b) Vishal Sikka
(c) Surjeet Shah
(d) Rajiv Kumar
(e) Raghubar Das
Q4. Name the ex-Home Secretary who was appointed Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG).
(a) Rajiv Mehrishi
(b) Raj Narayan Misra
(c) Rajiv Kumar
(d) Subrato Bose
(e) Swarup Kumar
Q5. Prominent Konkani writer Mahabaleshwar Sail was recently presented with the Saraswati Samman 2016 for his novel ___________.
(a) Kapalkundala
(b) Everyone has a Story
(c) Suryaheen
(d) Matam
(e) Hawthan
Q6. Name India’s autonomous public organization that has been ranked ninth in the world, according to the Scimago Institutions ranking World Report 2017.
(a) National Centre for Trade Information (NCTI)
(b) Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)
(c) Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
(d) Indian Telephone Industries Limited (ITI Limited)
(e) Federation of Indian Export Organizations (FIEO)
Q7. Which of the following two states were the fastest expanding State economies in 2015-16, according to the data published by the Central Statistics Office?
(a) Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh
(b) Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh
(c) Arunachal Pradesh and Maharashtra
(d) Maharashtra and Jammu and Kashmir
(e) Kerala and Karnataka
Q8. With which of the following country, India has signed two MoUs in the field of Railways?
(a) Rwanda
(b) France
(c) Myanmar
(d) Switzerland
(e) China
Q9. Markets regulator SEBI barred Orion Capital as well as Orion Broking and their partners from the securities markets for 10 years. Who is the present Chairman of SEBI?
(a) Ajay Tyagi
(b) Rajiv Kumar
(c) Sanjiv Gaba
(d) Vishal Sikka
(e) Umesh Rawat
Q10. Name the former bureaucrat who was appointed Election Commissioner by the law Ministry.
(a) Sharad Kumar
(b) Prakash Singh
(c) Sanjay Rath
(d) Ira Singhal
(e) Sunil Arora
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