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1) Martyrs Day is observed on b. Sudhir Mishra a. 28 January c. Amrit Shah b. 30 January d. Rakesh Aggarwal c. 29 January d. 27 January 7) Who among the following has been appointed the United Nations in India Goodwill Ambassador 2) PM Modi has announced to make a Special Task for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? a. Bhavesh Patel Force for which of the following event? b. Malisha Patel a. Olympic Games c. Ashok Amritraj b. Word Gymnastics Championship d. Anupam Ray c. IWF World Championship d. World Boxing Championship 8) Who among the following has been appointed as the chairman of Table Federation of India? 3) Which of the following rare star was observed by a. Dushyant Chautala India’s first dedicated space observatory, b. Kartik Chauhan ASTROSAT preying” on a bigger celestial body? c. Prateek Rao a. Dragon d. Animesh Baig b. Leo 9) Who among the following won the c. Vampire crown 2017? d. Shadow a. Raquel Pelissier

b. 4) Whom did PV Sindhu defeate to win her maiden c. Roshmitha Harimurthy Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold women's singles title d. 2017? a. Gregoria Mariska 10) Which of the following Reliance bodies has b. Li Xuerui signed a contract with Defence Ministry for design c. Greysia Polli and construction of 14 fast patrol vessels for Indian d. Kim Ha-na Coast Guard? a. Reliance Power

b. Reliance Defence and Engineering Ltd (RDEL) 5) Who among the following is not included in the c. Reliance Infrastructure Ltd (RInfra) four member committee appointed by Supreme d. Reliance Communications Court to oversee the Board of Control for Cricket in

India (BCCI)? 11) Future Generali India Insurance Company (FGII) a. Ramchandra Guha has entered into a corporate agency tie-up with b. Vikram Limaye which bank? c. Amit Rajouri a. Bank of India d. Vinod Rai b. Union Bank of India c. Bank Of Maharashtra d. Bank of Baroda 6) Who among the following has been appointed the Delhi Police Commissioner? 12) Which of the following Muslim country is not a. Amulya Kumar Patnaik www.BankExamsToday.Com Page 1

Current Affairs Question Bank: January 2017 included in the seven countries for which USA has d. AP Singh temporarily banned visas for refugees? a. Syria 18) Which of the following Arabian countries has b. Libya decided set up a court for non-Muslims to c. strengthen the culture of tolerance and acceptance d. Somalia of other communities and ensure access to services for all segments of the society? 13) General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR) will not a. Qatar interplay with investors' right to choose b. Abu Dhabi a. company to be invested in c. Oman b. amount of money to be invested d. Libya c. transaction method d. commodity to be invested in 19) India signed a deal with the United Arab Emirates on that allows the Gulf OPEC country to 14) Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar, a technocrat, who fill half of an underground crude oil storage facility has been appointed the new Vice-Chancellor of at Nalanda University is known as the a. Tuticorin a. father of Indian chemical industry b. Mangalore b. father of the Indian Supercomputer c. Kochi c. father of Indian mathematics d. Vishakhapatnam d. father of binomials

15) With which of the following countries has the 30) Which country was the Guest Nation’ at Telangana government signed a memorandum of Literary Festival-HLF 2017? understanding to set up a world-class aero skills a. Philippines academy in the city in collaboration with academia b. Spain and industry c. Poland a. America d. Russia b. Japan c. Russia 31) Who among the following martyr was honoured d. France he Ashoka Chakra at 68th Republic Day for killing

16) The Deshpande Foundation will launch the four terrorists who had infiltrated into north country’s largest start-up incubation centre at Kashmir last year? a. Belur a. Karnail Singh b. Huballi b. Teh- Bishnah c. Mysore c. Hangpan Dada d. Mangalore d. Javra Munda

17) Who among the following has been appointed 32) Which of the following country's military as interim MD and CEO of the India Post Payment contingent participated in the 68th Republic Day Bank? parade on Rajpath? a. Anil Chauhan a. Bangladesh b. Vijay Rawat c. RL Yadav b. Russia www.BankExamsToday.Com Page 2

Current Affairs Question Bank: January 2017 c. UAE 38) Which of the following cities is not included d. England among the five cities of Karnataka get a passport services at the Head Post Offices (HPO)? 33) What is the name of India's indigenous Light a. Hampi Combat Aircraft that made its debut by flying past b. Bengaluru the Rajpath on the country's 68th Republic Day? c. Mysore a. Zenith d. Hubli b. Hawker c. Akash 39) President Donald Trump has issued an d. Tejas executive order for an "impassable physical barrier"

to be built along the US border with 34) Ten girl cadets and one Girls Cadets Instructor a. Bermuda (GCI) who were conferred with Raksha Mantri b. Mexico Padak in the NCC Republic Day Camp 2017 c. Greenland successfully summitted d. Canada a. Mount Everest b. Naga Tibba 40) What does A refer to in FATF? c. Kanchanjanga a. Action b. Acquisition d. Jaintia Hills c. Activity

d Acquired 35) Which of the following National Security Guard

(NSG) commandos participated in the 68 Republic 41) India's largest online travel portal MakeMyTrip Day parade at Rajpath in New Delhi? has launched the first ever social luxury travel a. Ghatak magazine called b. Rangers a. Luxury Travellers c. Black Cat b. Luxury Travel Times d. Garud c. Travel Luxury d. My Luxury Trip

36) India's Republic Day coincides with 42) Who among the following Indian-American has a. Russia Day been appointed as special assistant to the b. America Day President Donald Trump? c. China Day a. Pritam Dhingra d. Australia Day b. Nishan Juneja c. Kulbir Lodhi 37) National Action Plan for Children, 2016 (NPAC) d. Uttam Dhillon does not contain which of the following priorities? a. health and nutrition 43) Johnson & Johnson has acquired the which of b. child labour abolishment the following European bio-pharmaceutical firm? c. education and development a. Actelion b. AstraZeneca. d. protection and participation c. Pfizer www.BankExamsToday.Com Page 3

Current Affairs Question Bank: January 2017 d. Novartis about 850 MW of power? a. Hainan 44) Pankaj Advani won his 11th World Billiards b. Zhejiang (150-Up format) Championships title by beating c. Qinghai which of the following competitor? d. Sichuan a. Michael Hill b. Ronnie Allen 50) In the first week of February 2017, how many c. Johnny Archer satellites has ISRO planning to launch on a single d. Peter Gilchrist rocket? a. 98 45) Who among the following has been named b. 104 Japan's first home-grown sumo grand champion? c. 87 a. Benjiro d. 103 b. Kisenosato c. Chokichi 51) What is the greatest number of satellites d. Eriko launched by ISRO in June 2016? a. 20 46) Usain Bolt has lost one of his nine Olympic gold b. 15 medals due to which teammate? c. 18 a. Jesse Oewens d. 25 b. Thane Baker c. Armin Hary 52) Who among the following has been appointed d. Nesta Carter the Chief Operating Officer of Ola cabs? a. Tarun Goyal

b. Sanjay Kapoor

47) Who among the following has been appointed c. Vishal Kaul as the Chairman of the United States Federal d. Rahul Mohan Communications Commission by President elect Donald Trump? 53) In which of the following cities will the Asia Arts a. Sumit Mahajan Awards 2017 will be held for the first time? b. K.K. Donny a. Delhi c. Ajit Pai b. d. Atul Bisht c. Jaipur

d. Kolkata 48) Who among the following has been appointed as head of the agency for government health insurance programs by US President Donald Trump? 54) Which of the following films won the best a. Seema Verma feature film award at international Borrego Springs b. Nikki Haley Film Festival held in California, US? c. Prmila Jayapal a. Masan d. Aruna Miller b. Parzania c. Saanjh 49) In which of the following provinces has China d. Parched built World's largest solar park which can produce www.BankExamsToday.Com Page 4

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55) In which of the following dialects is the award Card? of merit winning movie at Accolade Global Film a. HDFC Bank Competition Saanjh made? b. Axis Bank a. Bhojpuri c. Yes Bank b. Rajasthani d. Punjab National Bank c. Bengali d. Himachali 61) Who among the following has been appointed the head of the Himachal Pradesh Olympic

Association (HPOA) for a four-year term? 56) 23 January, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's a. Anirudh Chaudhry birthday or Netaji Jayanti is celebrated in India as b. Anurag Thakur a. Sashakt Bharat Diwas c. Shivlal Yadav b. Bharat Mata Diwas d. Ravi Savant c. Yuva Diwas d. Desh Prem Diwas 62) Which company has been granted permission

to be merged in MakeMytrip by CCI? 57) According to The Annual Status Education a. ticketgoose Report (ASER), which Indian State has the has the b. expedia country’s highest reading and mathematics learning c. travelguru levels? d. ibibo a. Himachal Pradesh b. Kerala 63) Who among the following won the International c. Uttrakhand Tennis Federation Juniors title singles? d. Telangana a. Amit Namdev

b. Dhruv Sunish 58) Which country is helping Indian Railway to c. Kartik Goyal increase the speed of its passenger trains up to 200 d. Piyush Malik km per hour? a. China 64) Who among the following won the Malaysia b. America Masters Grand Prix Gold 2017? c. Russia a. Saina Nehwal d. Frace b. PV Sindhu

c. Aparna Popat 59) Which country has withdrawn the visa-free d. Sayali Gokhale facility for Indians? a. MThailand 65) What does CCI mean? b. Hong Kong a. Consumer Court of India c. Indonesia b. Competition Conduct of India d. Nepal c. Competition Commission of India

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66) Who among the following members of All India a. Khonoma The Green Village Football Federation has been appointed as a b. Punsari Village with Advanced Technology member of FIFA’s finance committee for a period of c. ISKCON’s Govardhan eco four years? d. Malana Ancient Indian Village a. Subrata Dutta b. Praful Patel 72) Who has been appointed as Delhi Police c. K. M. I. Mather Commissioner d. Kushal Das a. Alok Verma

b. Jyotindra Nath Dixit 67) Which of the following Indian Navy's aircraft c. Vijay K. Nambiar carrier gets an ATM onboard? d. Rakesh Sood a. INS Vikramaditya b. INS Vagsheer 73) Government of India launched a web-portal for c. INS Mysore Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, name that portal :- d. INS Gomati a. Uphaar

b. Upkaar 68) What was the campaign promise of 45th c. Iccha President of United States of America Donald d. Shagun Trump? a. Dawn of New America 74) Who has been appointed as the High b. America be the biggest power Commissioner of India to the Republic of Sierra c. Make America Powerful Again Leone d. Make America Great Again a. Birender Singh Yadav

b. Jyotindra Nath Dixit 69) The new form of hydrogen is created from c. Vijay K. Nambiar a. positively charged hydrogen clustors d. Rakesh Sood b. neutrons c. negatively charged hydrogen clusters 75) India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) signed an d. protons MOU with a Public sector bank for providing

technology support : 70) Which of the following is announced as the a. Bank of Baroda second capital of Himachal Pradesh? b. Punjab National Bank (PNB) a. Dharamshala c. United bank of India b. Manali d. State Bank of India c. Kasauli d. Nahan 76) 58th India International Garment Fair to be

organized at 71) Which of the following villages has been a. conferred the United Nations award for taking b. Mumbai innovative measures of ’sustainable tourism’ in c. New Delhi country? www.BankExamsToday.Com Page 6

Current Affairs Question Bank: January 2017 d. 81) Who among the following has been appointed as the CEO and Managing Director of Bharti AXA 77) The government signed an agreement with the General Insurance? ______to set up 1,000 Janaushadhi Kendras a. Mayur Bhagat across the country b. Dilip Chugh a. National Yuva Cooperative Society c. Kumar Rahul b. National Anti-terrorist Society d. Sanjeev Srinivasan c. National Anti-corruption Society d. Indian Anti-corruption Society 82) Which of the following institute has started a launched a full-fledged postgraduate diploma 78) Army Day is observed on course in Urdu? a. 16 January a. Indian Institute of Mass Communication b. 20 January b. National Law Universities c. 1 February c. Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology d. 15 January d. Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences

79) According to World Economic Forum's Jones 83) Which of the followinh Indian villages has Lang LaSalle (JLL) City Momentum Index lof world's become the first district in the country to geo-tag most dynamic cities , which of the following city is 100 per cent of the assets generated under the at the top? MGNREGA? a. Bengaluru a. Bilaspur b. Delhi b. Chamba c. Mumbai c. Kangra d. Chandigarh d. Kullu

79) Which of the following former Indian cricket 84) Which of the following Indian villages is Known players has not been inducted in into Legends Club as Asia’s cleanest village? of ICC Cricket Hall of Fame? a. Khonoma a. Sunil Gavaskar b. Mawlynnong b. Anil Kumble c. Kathewadi c. Ravi Shastri d. Malana d. Bishan Singh Bedi 85) Anadam Scheme of Madhya Pradesh 80) Who among the following has been nominated Government is launched to in the Best Supporting Actress category for the a. teach homeless childern 11th Asian Film Awards 2017 held in Hong Kong? b. promote girl education a. Shabhama Azmi c. sustainable growth b. Supriya Pathak d. help poor c. Aditi Rao Haidri d Swara Bhaskar 86) Mission 41k is related to which of the following Indian Ministries? www.BankExamsToday.Com Page 7

Current Affairs Question Bank: January 2017 a. Human Resource and Management the United Nations Educational, Scientific and b. Railway Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), according to a c. Finance statement issued by West Bengal government? d. Defence a. Jute Craft b. Sitalpati

c. Terracota Printed Coffee Cups 87) Recently India has become as an associate d. Shell jewellery member of a. CERN 93) Which bank has launched a customisable b. WHO savings account which will protect customers from c. UNESCO "unwanted charges" levied in current offerings? d. IMF a. Bandhan Bank

b. ICICI Bank 88) According to the annual global CEO survey of c. HDFC Bank consultancy giant PwC what is the rank of India in d. Yes Bank overall growth prospects over the next 12 months? a. 3rd 94) Saksham – 2017 inaugurated by Nagaland b. 4th government is related to c. 2nd a. digital literacy d. 6th b. aboilishment of child labour

c. rural empowerment 89) According to the 2017 Bloomberg Innovation d. petroleum awareness Index, which of the following is world's most innovative economy? 95) Barack Obama proclaimed January 16 as a. Finland, a. Religious Freedom Day b. South Korea b. World Peace Day c. Singapore c. Anti-Terrorism Day d. Denmark d. Global Harmony Day

90) Which of the following islands has become the India’s first cashless island? 96) Who among the following women boxers won a. Karang the gold medal for India in the 6th Nations Cup b. Katchal 2017 in Serbia? c. Baratang a. Sarjubala d. Majuli b. Pooja c. Priyanka 91) Who among the following has won the 2016 TS d. Neeraj Eliot Prize for poetry? a. Gilbert Adair 97) Who took charge as interim CEO of the public b. Helen Adam broadcaster Prasar Bharti after S C Panda? c. John Adams d. Jacob Polley a. Sumit Khurana b. Rajeev Singh 92) Which of the following things has been c. R. Keshvan recognised as an "intangible cultural heritage" by d. Sudhanshu Malhotra www.BankExamsToday.Com Page 8

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98) With which of the following organisation was a 103) How much money was invested in Airtel financing agreement for IDA credit of US$ 48 Payment Bank as an initial investment by Bharti million (equivalent) for the ‘Nagaland Health Airtel Ltd? Project’ signed? a. 3000 crore a. WHO b. 2500 crore b. IMF c. 4000 crore c. World Bank d. 1500 crore d. UNICEF 104) How many districts of UP got Urdu electoral 99) What is the rank of India global index of talent rolls in 2017 assembly elections? competitiveness according to list released by a. 31 INSEAD? b. 16 a. 92 c. 22 b. 93 d. 28 c. 91 105) "World's largest" LED street light replacement d. 89 project was completed in a. Central Delhi b. South Delhi 100) What is the new name of Pinaka rocket which c. North Delhi was successfully test fired from a defence test d. East Delhi facility off Odisha coast? a. Pinaka 2 106) Who among the following has been appointed b. Pinaka Guided as the managing director and chief executive of SBI c. Pinaka Slider Pension Funds, a subsidiary of State Bank of India? d. Pinaka Base a. B.Sriram

b. Rajnish Kumar 101) What is the name of First solar-powered boat c. Mrutyunjay Mahapatra of Kerala? d. Kumar Sharadindu a. Mayuri b. Pankaj 107) Who won the Technical Achievement Award, c. Jalwahini popularly called the `Technical Oscar', awarded by d. Aditya the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences?

a. Parag Havaldar 102) Chhabra thermal power of Rajasthan has b. Pranay Chulet been taken over by c. Vijay Shekhar Sharma a. AES India d. Arunabh Kumar b. NTPC Ltd c. Adani Power 108) What does GAAR stands for? d. Tata Power-ICICI a. General Anti-Acceptance Rule www.BankExamsToday.Com Page 9

Current Affairs Question Bank: January 2017 b. General Anti-Avoidance Rule 114) Which of the following airlines has been rated c. General Anti-Admission Rule the best international airline of 2016 by aviation d. Government Anti-Avoidance Rule insights company FlightStats? a. TAM 109) Which of the following Indian Airlines ranked b. ANA third-worst performing airline in the world by the c. KLM aviation insights company FlightStats? d. JAL a. Air Sahara b. Airways India 115) Who among the following has been appointed c. Air India as the chief executive of FlipKart? d. IndiGo a. Kalyan Krishnamurthy b. Mukesh Bansal 110) Which bank has launched first ‘humanoid’ in c. Chinnappa Karumbaiah Kuppanda the domestic banking space? d. Samardeep Subandh a. IndusInd Bank b. Kotak Mahindra Bank 116) Which of the following is not included in the c. ICICI FIFA FIFPro World XI from Real Madrid? d. HDFC a. Luka Modric b. Cristiano Ronaldo 111) What is the name of first "humanoid" c. Marcelo developed by Kochi-based Asimov Robotics? d. K. Casilla a. Ina b. Ira 117) Who won the Fifa’s Best Player in the World? c. Isha a. Lionel Messi d. Iva b. Cristiano Ronaldo c. Toni Kroos 112) What is the name of e-wallet launched by d. Luis Suarez Assam Government? a. Tumarpoisa 118) Who won the Best FIFA Men's Coach of the b. Apunipoisa Year award? c. Tokapoisa a. DJ Durkin d. Murmoney b. Matt Barnes c. Anthony Tucker 113) Which of the following Indian actor was d. Claudio Ranieri awarded by US Embassy for his contribution to the US-India partnership on tuberculosis? 119) Who won the Best FIFA Women's Coach a. Amitabh Bachchan award? b. Irfan Khan a. Silvia Neid c. R. Madhwan b. Corinne Diacre d. Akshay Kumar c. Jen Welter d. Maria Antonio www.BankExamsToday.Com Page 10

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for the 14th Standard Chartered Mumbai 120) Which Indian city provides the largest public Marathon? WiFi service in the country? a. Wilson Kipsang a. Mumbai b. Wilson Kipsang b. Chennai c. Tsegaye Kebede c. Bengaluru d. David Rudisha d. Hyderabad 126) Which of the following cities is included in 121) Who among the following won the Life Time New York Times' list of '52 Places to go to in 2017'? Achievement Award at the ninth edition of Jaipur a. Agra International Film Festival? b. Chennai a. Shekhar Kapur c. Jaipur b. Basu Chatterjee d. Jodhpur c. Ramesh Prasad d. Shyam Benegal 127) Travel Photographer Of The Year award was founded by photographers 122) On which edition of Pravasi Bharatiya Divas a. Bob Krist and Art Wolfe did PM Modi announce PKVY skill development b. Sherry Ott and Cait Miers program? c. Chris and Karen Coe a. 12th d. Gary Arndt and Robert Caplin b. 13th c. 14th 128) What is the rank of Kerala in "12 destinations d. 15th to watch in 2017" list released by The Association

of British Travel Agents (ABTA)? 123) For how many weeks did Sania Mirza hold the a. 9th No.1 ranking in doubles before losing the rank to b. 6th Mattek-Sands? c. 7th a. 91 d. 8th b. 81 c. 71 129) Who created history by winning the first-ever d. 89 all-Indian Boys’ Under-19 final at the British Junior Open in Sheffield? 124) With which of the following partner did Sania a. Velavan Senthilkumar Mirza win the Brisbane International women’s b. Adhitya Raghavan doubles title? c. Saurav Ghoshal a. Martina Hingis d. Dalip Tripathi b. Mattek-Sands 130) Who among the following will be the first c. Victória Fyódorovna Azárenka visually-impaired runner to participate in the d. Genie Bouchard upcoming 121st Boston Marathon on April 17?

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Current Affairs Question Bank: January 2017 c.Piyush Goel a. Sri Lanka d. Sagar Baheti b. Bangladesh c. China 131) Which of the following airlines won the world's d. Japan safest airline 2016 title, for the fourth year running? a. Qatar Airways. 137) With which of the following Civilian awards b. Qantas Airways was Om Puri, the veteran actor awarded? c. Asiana Airlines d. AirAsia a. Padma Shri b. Bharat Ratna 132) With of the following men's double team won c. Padma Bhushan the Chennai Open 2017 trophy since the legendary d. Padma Vibhushan and Mahesh Bhupathi took the title in 2011? 138) Which of the following two countries is not a. Rohan Bopanna and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan included to be developed as a smart city with the b. Divij Sharan and association of India and Japan? c. Sagar Kashyap and a. Chennai d. Harsh Mankad and Sumant Mishra b. Ahmedabad

c. Varanasi 133) Qatar Open title 2017 was won by a. Andy Murray’ d. Mumbai b. Radek Stepanek c. Novak Djokovic 139) Who among the following has been appointed d. Marcos Baghdatis as the Deputy Assistant to the President, Deputy Communication Director, and Research Director by 134) Whose jersy was gifted to Prime Minister President Elect Donald Trump? Narendra Modi by his Portuguese counterpart a. Raja Krishnamoorthi Antonio Costa? b. Raj Shah a. Cristiano Ronaldo c. Preet Bharara b. Rui Costa d. Neel Tushar Kashkari c. Deco d. Tiago 140) The first Braille library was opened in 135) Which of the following countries has directed a. Guwahati Google and Apple to remove LinkedIn from the b. Dispur local Android and iOS App stores? c. Shillong a. Argentina d. Lakhimpur b. England c. China 141) World record for the 'largest tennis lesson' d. Russia was set up in 136) To win the 2016 South Asian Football a. Mumbai Federation Women's Championship for the fourth b. Delhi consecutive time, Indian team defeated which of c. Chennai the following country? d. Kochi www.BankExamsToday.Com Page 12

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b. Bajaj Allianz General Insurance 142) International business summit Intaglio 2017 c. Cigna TTK was conducted at d. Life Insurance Corporation of India a. IIM Banglore b. IIM 148) How much discount does HDFC provides to c. IIM Ahmedabad women loan borrowers in the interest rate? d. IIM Calcutta a. 0.03%

b. 0.04% 143) World's longest bullet train 'Shangri-la of the c. 0.05% World' travels from Kunming to d. 0.02% a. Beijing b. Nanjing 149) Which of the following has received the c. Tianjin approval to open payment bank in India after d. Chengdu Airtel? a. PayUMoney 144) The People's President: Dr APJ Abdul Kalam is b. Mobikwik authored by c, Vodafone a. Paranjoy Guha Thakurta d. Paytm b. SM Khan c. Romesh Thapar 150) Which of the following hospitals has partnered d. T. K. Oommen with digital payments firm MobiKwik for digital payments? 145) Who has been appointed as the chairman for a. All India Institute of Medical Sciences Tata Power Co Ltd? b. Max Multi Speciality Hospital, a. Ravindra Pisharody c. Shivalik Hospital b. Natarajan Chandrasekaran d. Mangalam Medical and Surgical Centre c. S Padmanabhan d. Satish Borwankar 151) Anshu Jain who joined Cantor Fitzgerald LP as president was former co-chief executive officer of 146) Chief Human Resources Officer for India a. DBS Bank operation of Capgemini is b. Citi Bank a. Anil Jalali c. Deutsche Bank b. Mayank Pareek d. ABN-AMRO Bank c. Gajendra Chandel d. Guenter Butschek 152) Who has been appointed as Executive Director of RBI? 147) For augmenting capital support to enterprises a. Surekha Marandi in the country, Small Industries Development Bank b. Deepa Nayar of India (SIDBI) has tied up with c. Sonal Tripathi a. ICICI Lombard. d. Priya Banerjee www.BankExamsToday.Com Page 13

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“Best Performing Power Distribution Utility in Power 153) Paying for cooking gas (LPG) online will get Sector” by Central Board of Irrigation & Power consumers a discount of Rs. (CBIP)? a. 12 a. PowerGrid Corporation of India b. 9 b. PSPCL c. 7 c. NTPC Limited d. 5 d. Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam

154) Election Commission of India (ECI), the district 159) Which bank has entered into a partnership administration of Ludhiana has developed a mobile with CNX Corporation (CNX) with an objective to application named provide collateral management services towards a. ECI24 the loans against warehouse receipt? b. ECI360 a. Bank Of India c. ECI247 b. Union Bank of India d. ECI365 c. Bank Of Maharashtra d. Bank of Baroda

155) Who among the following was appointed as 160) Bargarh Dhanua Jatra is associated with the Chief of the Indian Air Force after Former Air which of the following states? Chief Marshal Arup Raha retired from the post? a. Odisha a. Birender Singh Dhanoa b. Bihar b. R.K. Sharma c. Madhya Pradesh c. Amarjeet Singh d. Uttranchal d. R.R. Nimbhorkar

161) Which states government has launched 156) What is the name of android based mobile Arogya Raksha offering medical insurance to those app launched by The Maritime Union of India? who were not covered under any of the existing a. NUI health schemes? b. AUI a. Andhra Pradesh c. MUI b. Karnataka d. BUI c. Odisha

d. Chattisgarh 157) Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) by 162) Which kind of fishing net is banned by President Pranab Mukherjee? government of Maharashtra in a bid to safeguard a. Alka Sirohi fingerlings, fish species and increase their b. Vinay Mittal population? c. Manbir Singh a. Plankton net d. David R Syiemlieh b. Midwater trawl

c. purse seine nets 158) Which of the following has been awarded as d. Push net www.BankExamsToday.Com Page 14

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163) In order to check infiltration and terrorism, the 168) Which state has become the first state in India Border Security Force (BSF) will be installing laser to go fully organic? walls and smart sensors along the border of which a. Sikkim country? b. Arunchal Pradesh a. Pakistan c.Tripura b. Bangladesh d. Nagaland c. Nepal d. Myanmar 169) Who wonn the World Blitz Chess Championship title 2016? 164) An entrepreneur of Indian origin, Sheikh Rafik a. Sergey Karjakin Mohammed, has assumed a top position in the b. Vladimir Kramnik defence department of which of the following c. Hikaru Nakamura countries? d. Magnus Carlsen a. Kazakhstan b. Tajikistan 170) Who has been conferred the Knighthood 2016 c. Uzbekistan in the New Year’s honours list in Britain? d. Kyrgyzstan a. Pete Sampras b. Andy Murray 165) Who among the following has been appointed c. Bjorn Borg as the 25th Chief Justice of Pakistan? d. Andre Agassi a. b. 171) Who won Mubadala World Tennis c. Bashir Jehangiri Championships 2016? d. Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim a. Belgian David Goffin b. Novak Djokovic 166) What is the latest he credit guarantee for the c. Ivan Lendl Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)? d. Rafael Nadal a. 1.5 crore b. 1 crore 172) Two new Hindi writers Shraddha and c. 2 crore Ghyansham Kumar Devansh have been chosen for d. 2.5 crore which of the following literary awards? a. Bharatiya Jnanpith Navlekhan Award 167) According to the new housing loan scheme b. Ananda Purashkar ‎ launched by PM Modi on New Year Eve, how much c.Sahitya Akademi Award exemption will poor and middle-class citizens get on d. Saraswati Samman Award loans up to Rs. 9 lakh? a. 2% 173) Who has been conferred the 'Power & Energy b. 3.5% Persona's Award for Individual Excellence' at the c. 4.5% 10th ENERTIA Awards 2016 ? d. 4% a. S. K. Sharma www.BankExamsToday.Com Page 15

Current Affairs Question Bank: January 2017 b. B K Tiwari c. K M Singh d. O P Singh

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