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. DIPP is the nodal agency in the field of foreign investments in India. What is the full form of DIPP?

(a) Department of Industry Policy and Promotion

(b) Department of Innovation Policy and Promotion

(c) Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion

(d) Department of Industrial Policy and Partnership

(e) Department of Internet Pulse and Partnership

Q2. The letter ‘R’ denotes which word in the term IFRS?

(a) Restructuring

(b) Reporting

(c) Recognizing

(d) Remote

(e) Recurring

Q3. World Red Cross Day is observed every year to commemorate the birth anniversary of ______________, the founder of the Red Cross as well as the founder of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

(a) Martin Luther King-I

(b) Mark Lunger

(c) Henry Dunant

(d) Jack Dinarthy

(e) Osman Waghar

Q4. India has recently organized a cultural festival in Egypt to mark the 156th birth anniversary of ___________________.

(a) S. Radhakrishnan

(b) Rabindranath Tagore

(c) Mahatma Gandhi

(d) G. K. Gokhale

(e) Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru

Q5. Pro-European centrist leader ____________ has been elected as President of France.

(a) Nikolas Sarkozy

(b) Socker Yosera

(c) Abraham Sarfez

(d) Emmanuel Macron

(e) Steven Ambrose

Q6. The Centre has constituted National Board of Electric Mobility (NBEM) to promote electric mobility and manufacturing of electric vehicles and their components. The Board will be chaired by _____________.

(a) Shri Harish Bhagwat

(b) Shri Prakash Javedkar

(c) Shri Rajyavardhan Rathore

(d) Shri Girish Shankar

(e) Shri Nitin Gadkari

Q7. A national conference on Communicating India has organized in which of the following Indian cities that were inaugurated by Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore.

(a) Kolkata

(b) New Delhi

(c) Bengaluru

(d) Chennai

(e) Varanasi

Q8. Name the IPS officer who has been appointed as the first woman Director General of Police (DGP) of Gujarat.

(a) Vimala Roy

(b) Falguni Upadhyay

(c) Geetha Johri

(d) Urmika Vansh

(e) Veera Joshi

Q9. The Government of India has recently announced a fund of ____________ for the first express highway project in the northeast region which be developed along the Brahmaputra river in Assam.

(a) Rs 25,000 Crore

(b) Rs 30,000 Crore

(c) Rs 35,000 Crore

(d) Rs 40,000 Crore

(e) Rs 45,000 Crore

Q10. At present many public sector banks and one private sector bank are authorized to handle the Senior Citizens Savings Scheme (SCSS), 2004. Name the private sector bank, which is authorized to handle the Senior Citizens Savings Scheme (SCSS), 2004?

(a) ICICI Bank

(b) HDFC Bank

(c) Axis Bank

(d) Yes Bank

(e) Kotak Mahindra Bank

Q11. Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had chaired the South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) Finance Ministers meeting in New Delhi. Name the country that has joined the SASEC program as its seventh member.

(a) Bangladesh

(b) Bhutan

(c) Myanmar

(d) Maldives

(e) Nepal

Q12. Name the Bank/Banks that sold Rs.1,800 crore Ballarpur Industries loans to Edelweiss Asset Reconstruction Company.

(a) ICICI Bank

(b) HDFC Bank

(c) Axis Bank

(d) Both (a) and (c)

(e) Both (b) and (c)

Q13. The WTO’s dispute settlement set up a panel to resolve the dispute between ___________ and India over the imposition of safeguard import duty on iron and steel products.

(a) Japan

(b) Pakistan

(c) China

(d) Afghanistan

(e) Myanmar

Q14. The Total expenditure in Budget for 2017-18 has been placed at?

(a) Rs. 21.47 lakh crores

(b) Rs. 42.31 lakh crores

(c) Rs. 75.26 lakh crores

(d) Rs. 56.17 lakh crores

(e) Rs. 92.86 lakh crores

Q15. TEC, an acronym was announced by the Finance Minister marking the beginning of the annual budget for the next fiscal year. What is the full form of TEC?

(a) Transport, Energise, Comfort India

(b) Transfer, Energise, Clean India

(c) Transform, Essential, Clean India

(d) Transform, Energise, Capable India

(e) Transform, Energise, Clean India

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