Q1. 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
Q2. 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
Q3. 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
Q4. 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
Q5. Under OLTAS, only a Single Copy Challan is used with a tear off 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
Q6. 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
Q7. 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)
Q8. The WTO’s dispute settlement set up a panel to resolve the dispute between ___________ and India over imposition of safeguard import duty on iron and steel products.
(a) Japan
(b) Pakistan
(c) China
(d) Afghanistan
(e) Myanmar
Q9. 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
Q10. 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
Q11. Name the person who has been appointed as the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations Offices in Geneva, Switzerland.
(a) Sandeep Jajodia
(b) B P Kanugo
(c) Sumit Kumar Rao
(d) Amit Gupta
(e) Rajiv Kumar Chander
Q12. The Madhya Pradesh government has launched an app named ____________ to provide various municipal services online.
(a) MP i-Seva
(b) MP e-Safai
(c) MP i-Safai
(d) MP e-nagarpalika
(e) MP e-Cleaning
Q13. Which of the following Indian Universities has topped the list of country’s official higher education rankings, recently announced by the HRD Ministry?
(a) Banaras Hindu University
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru University
(c) IISc-Bengaluru
(d) Delhi University
(e) Aligarh University
Q14. Bandipur National Park, an 874-sq.-km forested reserve in the southern Indian state of-
(a) Kerala
(b) Tamil Nadu
(c) Karnataka
(d) Telangana
(e) Andhra Pradesh
Q15. Hillary Rodham Clinton is famous of which of the following field?
(a) Cinema
(b) Politics
(c) Sports
(d) Art & Culture
(e) None of the given options is true