General Awareness Quiz for RBI Grade-B 2023-11th February

Q1. Who has been elevated as Managing Director and CEO of Indian Overseas Bank with effect from January 1, 2023 from his current posting as executive director?
(a) Rajkiran Rai G.
(b) Shanti lal Jain
(c) A. Manimekhalai
(d) Ajay Kumar Srivastava
(e) Srinivasan Varadarajan
Q2. Who was appointed the state icon for Bihar by the Election Commission to create awareness among the voters for their participation in the electoral process?
(a) Hemant Brijwasi
(b) Hansraj Raghuwanshi
(c) Maithili Thakur
(d) Anup Jalota
(e) Mrunal Thakur
Q3. Give the name of Indian-origin Sikh woman who became the first ever female Sikh judge in the US after she was sworn in as a Harris county judge.
(a) Komal Mangtani
(b) Manpreet Monica Singh
(c) Padmasree Warrior
(d) Leena Nair
(e) Reshma Tehlani
Q4. Who has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL)?
(a) Anurag Kumar
(b) Abhijit Kumar
(c) Rajiv Kumar
(d) Dinesh Seth
(e) Umesh Kumar
Q5. Who has been appointed as the new Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Chief Economist?
(a) Laurence Boone
(b) Mathias Cormann
(c) Ludger Schukenecht
(d) Ligeon Taylor
(e) Clare Lombardelli
Q6. Who has been appointed as the Deputy National Security Adviser in National Security Council Secretariat for a period of two years?
(a) Ajit Kumar Doval
(b) Pankaj Kumar Singh
(c) Sheel Vardhan Singh
(d) Subodh Kumar Jaiswal
(e) Atul Karwal
Q7. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of whom as the next director general in the Directorate of General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)?
(a) Vikram Dev Dutt
(b) Arun Kumar
(c) Rajiv Bansal
(d) Mayank Aggrawal
(e) Govind Wadia
Q8. Who has been appointed as the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A)- director for five years?
(a) Errol D’souza’s
(b) Pankaj Patel
(c) Bharat Bhasker
(d) Arindam Banerjee
(e) Rajiv Malhotra
Q9. Who among the following has been appointed as the new Vice Chief of the Indian Air Force recently?
(a) Air Marshal Hardeep Dhillon
(b) Vivek Ram Chaudhari
(c) Air Marshal Sandeep Singh
(d) Air Marshal A P Singh
(e) Sandeep Singh
Q10. Who has taken over as the new General Manager of Central Railway?
(a) Ajit Sarad Dayal
(b) Mahesh Kumar Goyal
(c) Taranjit Singh
(d) Naresh Lalwani
(e) Ashok Kumar Misra

Solutions

S1. Ans(d)
Sol. Ajay Kumar Srivastava has been elevated as Managing Director and CEO of Indian Overseas Bank with effect from January 1, 2023 from his current posting as executive director.
He started his banking career as a probationary officer in 1991 with Allahabad Bank where he worked in various capacities in different parts of the country.
S2. Ans (c)
Sol. Folk singer Maithili Thakur was appointed the state icon for Bihar by the Election Commission. The singer will create awareness among the voters for their participation in the electoral process.
S3. Ans (b)
Sol. Indian-origin Sikh woman, Manpreet Monica Singh became the first ever female Sikh judge in the US after she was sworn in as a Harris county judge. Born and brought up in Houston, after her father immigrated to the US early in the 1970s, Singh currently lives in Bellaire with her husband and two children.
S4. Ans (a)
Sol. Anurag Kumar was appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL).
S5. Ans (e)
Sol. Chief Economic Adviser to the Treasury, Clare Lombardelli, has been appointed as the new Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Chief Economist.
S6. Ans (b)
Sol. Retired director general of the Border Security Force (BSF), Pankaj Kumar Singh was appointed as the Deputy National Security Adviser in National Security Council Secretariat for a period of two years.
S7. Ans (a)
Sol. The appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Vikram Dev Dutt as the next director general in the Directorate of General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
He will be succeeding the incumbent DGCA chief Arun Kumar. Earlier, Dutt had also served as the CMD of Air India. He had taken charge in January last year.
S8. Ans (c)
Sol. Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has announced the appointment of IIM-Lucknow professor Bharat Bhasker as IIM-A director for five years with effect from March 1.
The announcement for the new director was made by chairman of the IIM-A board of governors Pankaj Patel after a meeting.
S9. Ans (d)
Sol. Air Marshal A P Singh has been appointed as the new Vice Chief of the Indian Air Force. He will succeed Air Marshal Sandeep Singh, who will retire from service.
Air Marshal A P Singh is an alumnus of National Defence Academy, Defence Services Staff College and National Defence College.
S10. Ans (d)
Sol. Naresh Lalwani has taken over as the new General Manager of Central Railway. He is a senior officer of the Indian Railway Engineering Service of 1985 batch.
He succeeds Ashok Kumar Misra, General Manager Western Railway who was holding the additional charge of Central Railway as well.