Current Affairs Questions for SBI PO: 3rd March 2017 |

Dear Readers,

Welcome to the world of Current Affairs 2017. With SBI PO Prelims round the corner, it should be your priority to cover every aspect of Current Affairs on daily basis so that you can do well in Mains exam. These current affairs are based on current news. Let us see how many questions you attempt accurately.

Q1. Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) signed an agreement with CSFB to enable it to provide loans at a concessional rate to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), recently. What does ‘F’ stands for in CFSB?

(a) Funds

(b) Finance

(d) Filter

(e) Fiscal

Q2. Name the former Indian women cricket team Captain who has been nominated for BCCI ‘the Lifetime Achievement Award’ for the first time.

(a) Anjum Chopra

(b) Purnima Rau

(d) Gargi Banerji

(e) Sharmila Chakraborty

Q3. Indian Badminton Duo, Tarun Kona and Alwin Francis Won Uganda International Series Doubles Title, 2017, recently. What is the capital and currency of Uganda, respectively?

(a) Kampala, Ugandan Shilling

(b) Nansana, Euro

(d) Mbarara, Ugandan Dollar

(e) Lira, Ugandan Krone

Q4. IAS officer Ajay Tyagi took charge as the chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), recently. He has replaced ___________.

(a) C. B. Bhave

(b) G. N. Bajpai

(d) U.K Sinha

(e) Dr. S. A. Dave

Q5. A techno-social business incubator, Incube Ventures Pvt Ltd had signed an MoU with the Jharkhand government’s Department of Information Technology and e-Governance (DoIT) to establish an incubation center for start-ups in the state. Incube Ventures Pvt Ltd is _________ based company.

(a) Karnataka

(b) Kerala

(d) Maharashtra

(e) Madhya Pradesh

Q6. The World Bank has recently announced an assistance program of over $1 billion in the areas of urban transport and climate resilient agriculture to which one of the following Indian state?

(a) Gujarat

(b) Maharashtra

(d) Uttarakhand

(e) Arunanchal Pradesh

Q7. Reliance General Insurance (RGI), a part of Reliance Capital, had recently entered into a bancassurance tie-up with which of the following Bank to offer its general insurance products to Bank’s customers?

(a) Catholic Syrian Bank

(b) ING Vysya Bank

(d) Karur Vysya Bank

(e) City Union Bank

Q8. Name the person who has been named as India’s next Ambassador to the World Trade Organization (WTO) from June 2017, recently.

(a) Ajay Tyagi

(b) C Chandrasekharan

(d) Deepak Vishnoi

(e) B S Chauhan

Q9. In which of the following Indian State International Yoga Festival was held, recently?

(a) Bihar

(b) Arunachal Pradesh

(d) Uttarakhand

(e) Mizoram

Q10. India’s Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) has successfully tested an interceptor missile conducted by the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), recently. The missile was launched from ____________.

(a) Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Kerala

(b) Balasore, Odisha

(d) Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha

(e) None of the given options are true