General Awareness Questions for IBPS RRB PO and Clerk 2017

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Current Affairs and General Awareness Questions

This is the high time to pace up your preparations for Upcoming IBPS RRB PO and Clerk Mains. Subjects like Aptitude, Reasoning, and English are important for the preparation of your exams but the subject the reality comes in your way as a big challenge is General Awareness. As you know General Awareness is the very important section in the banking exams. So we are here to provide you very handy Quiz on General Awareness that will cover Current Affairs, Static Awareness, and Banking Awareness topics. Attempt the quiz with your best effort and try to score as much as you can.

Q1. Union Cabinet has recently given its approval for signing and ratifying, an agreement between India and Tajikistan on Cooperation and Mutual Assistance in Customs Matters. The currency of Tajikistan is ___________.

(a) Tajikistani Dinar

(b) Tajikistani Kuba

(c) Tajikistani Bako

(d) Tajikistani Somoni

(e) Tajikistani Yemen

Q2. India’s first Aquatic Rainbow Technology Park, an ultra-modern exclusive facility for ornamental fish equipped with multi-species hatchery and live feed culture units, will become operational in which of the following Indian city?

(a) Bengaluru

(b) Chennai

(c) Thiruvananthapuram

(d) Amravati

(e) Hyderabad

Q3. The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has recently given its approval for construction of how many units of India’s indigenous Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWR)?

(a) 6

(b) 7

(c) 8

(d) 9

(e) 10

Q4. Which of the following state government has recently hosted the 14th Goods & Services Tax (GST) Council meeting?

(a) Telangana

(b) Uttarakhand

(c) Jammu and Kashmir

(d) Andhra Pradesh

(e) Assam

Q5. RBI was granted a licence to small Finance Banks for the commencement of banking business under Section ______ of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.

(a) Section 38(3)

(b) Section 22(1)

(c) Section 47(4)

(d) Section 12(2)

(e) Section 27(5)

Q6. The expanded Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) between India and which country has come into effect recently according to which both the countries have offered to lower or eliminate duties on a number of items traded with each other?

(a) Palestine

(b) UK

(c) Chile

(d) USA

(e) China

Q7. Name the newly-elected Prime Minister of France.

(a) Emmanuel Macron

(b) Bernard Cazeneuve

(c) Manuel Valls

(d) Jean-Marc Ayrault

(e) Edouard Philippe

Q8. In a survey conducted during March and April 2017, FICCI predicted India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth will be around ________ for fiscal 2017-18.

(a) 7.0

(b) 7.1

(c) 7.3

(d) 7.4%

(e) 7.5

Q9. Chief Minister of which of the following states has been conferred with the first Bhairon Singh Shekhawat Lifetime Achievement Honour in Public Service, recently?

(a) Manipur

(b) Sikkim

(c) Maharashtra

(d) Andhra Pradesh

(e) Madhya Pradesh

Q10. Deepika Kumari is related to which of the following sports?

(a) Tennis

(b) Chess

(c) Shooting

(d) Boxing

(e) Archery

Q11. Which among the following two banks have launched co-branded credit cards for the customers recently?

(a) PNB and South Indian Bank

(b) SBI and Karnataka Bank

(c) ICICI and Indian Overseas Bank

(d) Axis Bank and Bank of Baroda

(e) Indian Bank and Bandhan Bank

Q12. Who has appointed as the new chairman of Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC)?

(a) Vanaja N. Sarna

(b) Swati Gupta

(c) Tanushree Pareek

(d) Upendra Tripathy

(e) T S Anantharaman

Q13. Which among the following countries has committed an ‘Official Development Assistance’ (ODA) of 371.345 billion yen (about Rs 21,590 crore) under 2016-2017 for various infrastructure projects, including the dedicated freight corridor in India?

(a) Malaysia

(b) Thailand

(c) South Korea

(d) Japan

(e) China

Q14. Kanha tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh has become the first tiger reserve in India to officially introduce a mascot of its own. The Mascot has been named as……………..? 

(a) Bhoorsingh the Barasingha

(b) Shersingh the Sheraham

(c) Baghathakut the Bhaghwar

(d) Singham the Singhatam

(e) None of the given options is true

Q15. Under OLTAS, only a Single Copy Challan is used with a tear of the portion for the Tax Payer. What does OLTAS stand for-

(a) On-line Tax Accounting Service

(b) On-line Tax Amounting System

(c) On-line Timing Accounting System

(d) On-line Tax Association Service

(e) On-line Tax Accounting System

General Awareness Questions for IBPS RRB PO and Clerk 2017 (Solutions)

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