Current Affairs Questions for IBPS Clerk Mains 2017: 16th Jan 2018

The General Awareness Section of Banking Exams covers numerous sections in it like Banking Awareness, Static GK, and Current Affairs. But the most important thing that you might have noticed is that both the Banking Awareness and Static Awareness questions asked in the General Awareness Section are based on Current Affairs only. The questions on Static and Banking Awareness are related to the countries, events or anything that has been in news for a while. Apart from the GA Section, an excellent 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.

Q1. Which Bank and Capital First has approved a merger in share swap deal recently?
(a) IDBI Bank
(b) Axis Bank
(c) ICICI Bank
(d) IDFC Bank
(e) South Indian Bank

Q2. IRFC are one of the highest credit rated bonds issued by an Indian corporate and has been IRFC’s first foray into the Green Bond market. IRFC stands for-
(a) Indian Railways Finance Corporation
(b) Indian Railways Finance Company
(c) Indian Railways Finance Co-ordination
(d) Indian Railways Funded Corporation
(e) Indian Regulatory Finance Corporation

Q3. Which Bank has entered into a strategic partnership with Hedge Equities Ltd for providing Portfolio Investment Scheme (PIS) services to NRIs recently?
(a) State Bank of India
(b) Axis Bank
(c) Bank of Baroda
(d) IDFC Bank
(e) Federal Bank

Q4. WEF has ranked India at _________ position on a global manufacturing index – below China’s 5th place but above other BRICS peers, Brazil, Russia and South Africa.
(a) 32nd
(b) 30th
(c) 20th
(d) 10th
(e) 44th

Q5. Who is Founder MD & CEO of IDFC Bank?
(a) Chandra Shekhar Ghosh
(b) V Vaidyanathan
(c) Rajiv Lall
(d) Vinod Rai
(e) Uday Kotak

Q6. IRFC is a finance arm of the ____________, It raises financial resources for expansion and running through capital markets and other borrowings.
(a) Indian Railway
(b) Indian Airport
(c) Indian Farmer Socienty
(d) Indian Army
(e) Indian Finance Ministry

Q7. Federal Bank is authorised by the RBI to issue permission letter to NRIs on behalf of the RBI to transact in secondary market. Federal Bank based in-
(a) Andhra Pradesh
(b) Kerala
(c) Tamil Nadu
(d) Karnataka
(e) Telangana

Q8. Which country has been found to have the best structure of production in the Geneva-based WEF’s first ‘Readiness for the future of production report’?
(a) China
(b) South Korea
(c) Japan
(d) Germany
(e) USA

Q9. The 70th Army Day has been celebrated on-
(a) 13th January 2018
(b) 14th January 2018
(c) 16th January 2018
(d) 15th January 2018
(e) 17th January 2018

Q10. The mine workers who face an increased risk of tuberculosis will be part of awareness programmes on the illness, as part of a partnership that the __________ Government recently formalized with Johnson & Johnson.
(a) Uttar Pradesh
(b) Rajasthan
(c) West Bengal
(d) Gujarat
(e) Maharashtra

Q11. Which among the following country has contributed USD 50,000 to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’s Office of Envoy on Youth to help with its mission of involving young people in the world body’s goals?
(a) France
(b) India
(c) China
(d) Germany
(e) UK

Q12. Every year on this day, the ‘Army Day’ is celebrated to commemorate the day when General (later Field Marshal) ___________ took over the command of Army from General Sir F.R.R Bucher, the last British Commander-in-Chief in 1949 and became the first Commander-in-Chief of Indian Army post Independence.
(a) GS Dhillon
(b) JK Sharma
(c) Dalbir Singh
(d) KM Carriappa
(e) None of the given options is true

Q13. The United Nations is an international organization founded in-
(a) 1945
(b) 1934
(c) 1949
(d) 1956
(e) 1961

Q14. Johnson & Johnson is a multinational medical device, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods manufacturing company. It is based in-
(a) France
(b) Germany
(c) USA
(d) Japan
(e) Singapore

Q15. Name the Prime Minister of Israel who visited India recently?
(a) Joko Widodo
(b) Reuven Rivlin
(c) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
(d) Ariel Sharon
(e) Benjamin Netanyahu

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