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Current Affairs Questions Based on The Hindu
Welcome to the world of Current Affairs 2017. With RBI Assistant and 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 and RBI Assistant 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. Which Bank has launched an instant international payment services using Ripple’s enterprise blockchain technology solution for retail and corporate customers?
(a) Axis Bank
(b) ICICI Bank
(c) State Bank of India
(d) HDFC Bank
(e) Bank of Baroda
Q2. Who has clinched the silver medal in Under-23 Senior World Wrestling Championship at Poland recently?
(a) Babita Kumari
(b) Vinesh Phogat
(c) Sakshi Malik
(d) Ritu Phogat
(e) Kavita Devi
Q3. On the day in 1949, the constitution was adopted which came into force on ____________ marking the beginning of a new era in the history of India.
(a) 26th January 1934
(b) 26th January 1950
(c) 26th January 1956
(d) 26th January 1942
(e) 26th January 1949
Q4. Name the player, who has created history by becoming first Indian man to win Asian Marathon Championship?
(a) Santosh Phogat
(b) Azam Hussain
(c) Moti Singh
(d) Akram Pahalwan
(e) Gopi Thonakal
Q5. Which among the following countries has successfully launched remote sensing satellites designed to conduct electromagnetic probes and other experiments recently?
(a) France
(b) Russia
(c) China
(d) Japan
(e) Germany
Q6. President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated the International Gita Mahotsav 2017 in-
(a) Kurukshetra, Haryana
(b) Amritsar, Punjab
(c) Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
(d) Gaya, Bihar
(e) Haridwar, Uttarakhand
Q7. The Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh chaired the ______ meeting of the Standing Committee of Inter-State Council (ISC) held in New Delhi.
(a) 11th
(b) 12th
(c) 13th
(d) 14th
(e) 10th
Q8. Punjab State Government notified the ‘Punjab Goods Carriages (Regulation and Prevention of Cartelization Rules), 2017’, banning goods carriage operators from forming cartels in the state. Who is the present Chief Minister of Punjab?
(a) Prakash Singh Badal
(b) V P Singh Badnore
(c) Amarinder Singh
(d) Manohar Lal Khattar
(e) Vijay Rupani
Q9. India will assist __________ to develop and set up digital locker services, on the sidelines of Global Conference on Cyber Space 2017.
(a) Peru
(b) Canada
(c) Japan
(d) Mauritius
(e) Singapore
Q10. Name the temple/mosque, which has been awarded the ‘most visited place of the world’ by ‘World Book of Records’ (WBR), a London-based organisation.
(a) Bara Imambara
(b) Jantar Mantar
(c) Jama Masjid
(d) Lotus Temple
(e) Golden Temple
Q11. Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has ranked _________ among the top 150 universities on Global University Employability Ranking 2017 published by Times Higher Education.
(a) 27th
(b) 29th
(c) 25th
(d) 23rd
(e) 31st
Q12. Standard & Poor’s (S&P) kept its sovereign rating for India unchanged at ‘BBB-‘, with outlook for the nation as ‘stable’. Standard & Poor’s (S&P) based in-
(a) Vienna
(b) London
(c) Geneva
(d) New York
(e) Sydney
Q13. The Minister of Women and Child Development, Smt Maneka Sanjay Gandhi launched an intensive training program for EWRs of Panchayati Raj Institutions and Master Trainers, in New Delhi. EWRs stands for-
(a) Elected Wonder Representatives
(b) Electronic Women Representatives
(c) Effective Women Representatives
(d) Elected Women Revenue
(e) Elected Women Republic
Q14. The International Multilateral Maritime Search and Rescue Exercise 2017 (IMMSAREX 2017) has conducted in-
(a) Bangladesh
(b) Myanmar
(c) Japan
(d) India
(e) Thailand
Q15. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has been awarded the Bronze Medal for its creative and informative display at the 37th India International Trade Fair 2017 being held at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi. Who is present Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare?
(a) DV Sadananda Gowda
(b) Ajay Tamta
(c) Maneka Gandhi
(d) Dr Harsh Vardhan
(e) Jagat Prakash Nadda
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