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Current Affairs: Provident Fund, Pension & Insurance. Smt Now, any Indian Citizen, resident or NATIONAL Mahajan inaugurated 65th foundation day non-resident, between the age of 60- 65 years, Home Ministry sets up two new divisions to celebrations of EPFO in New Delhi. She also can also join NPS and continue up to the age of deal with radicalisation & cybercrime: inaugurated 1 MW solar power plant at various 70 years in NPS. NPS provides a very robust The Union Home Ministry, as part of regional offices of EPFO. EPFO is spreading the platform to the subscriber to save for his/her an administrative rejig, has formed two new coverage area of its schemes for workers from old age income security. divisions to exclusively deal with emerging unorganized sector. security challenges such as radicalisation and President of India inaugurates Global cybercrime. The two divisions called Counter- EESL launches $454 million ‘Creating and Clubfoot Conference in New Delhi: Terrorism and Counter-Radicalisation (CTCR) Sustaining Markets for Energy Efficiency’ The President of India, Shri Ram Nath and the Cyber and Information Security project in partnership with the GEF: Kovind, inaugurated the Global Clubfoot (CIS) also encompass merger of some of the Recognizing India’s efforts towards a low Conference being organised by the CURE India Ministry’s existing divisions. emission-economy and focusing on energy in partnership with the Ministry of Health and The CTCR wing, which is basically efficiency programmes, the Global Environment Family Welfare, Government of India, in New modified version of the Home Ministry’s internal Facility (GEF) has now partnered with Energy Delhi. Clubfoot is one of the most common security-II division, will focus on tracking and Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) , under orthopaedic birth defects. It can cause assessing the online reach of global terrorist Ministry of Power, for the project ‘Creating and permanent disability if not treated early. This outfits and devising strategies to counter their Sustaining Markets for Energy Efficiency’. affects the child’s mobility and confidence. propaganda. The CIS division will monitor online The project will receive a composite Inevitably, education and schooling suffer – and crimes and threats, including cyber fraud and funding of $454 million comprised of the GEF the child cannot fulfil his or her potential. hacking, and suggest ways to minimise and fight grant of $20 million and co-financing of $434 them. million in the form of loans and equity, including PM’s address at World Food India 2017: a $200 million loan from the Asian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh celebrates its Development Bank (ADB) . EESL further inaugurated the World Food India 2017 62nd formation day: proposes Energy Efficiency Revolving Fund festival at the Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi in Five states — Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, (EERF) for sustainable funding mechanism of the presence of Union Minister for Food Kerala, Chhattisgarh and Karnataka — are energy efficiency projects in the country. Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal. celebrating their foundation day on Nov 1. The event aims to transform food economy and Karnataka & Madhya Pradesh -62nd state Delhi to host 9th global green film festival: realise the vision of doubling of famers' income foundation day. The 9th edition of ‘CMS Vatavaran’, a by 2022 establishing India as a preferred Kerala - 60th anniversary of the state formation global film festival on environment and wildlife, investment destination and sourcing hub for the day (‘Kerala Piravi’) . will begin on November 2, 2017 in New Delhi. global food processing industry. Haryana - 51st anniversary of the state formation The Theme of CMS Vatavaran is “Conservation A memorandum of understanding day. 4 Water”. The festival "aims to create (MoU) of Rs 10, 000 Crore was signed between Chhattisgarh - 17th state foundation day. awareness and sensitize people through films the Government of India (GoI) and Patanjali and discussions regarding water conservation and at the World Food India 2017. The MoU was President of India inaugurates 21st World the inter-connectedness of climate change and signed by Managing Director of Patanjali, Congress of mental health, calls for fighting water, water struggles in a world dealing with Acharya Balkrishna and Harsimrat Kaur stigma: global warming, climate variability, bio-diversity Badal, the Union Cabinet Minister of Food The President of India, Shri Ram Nath loss, and environmental damage”. Processing in the Government of India. Kovind, inaugurated the 21st World Congress The event is supported and partnered by The Telangana government unveiled of Mental Health being organised by the World Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate the food processing policy at the World Food Federation for Mental Health in partnership Change, National Geographic, United Nations India 2017 conference being held in New with Caring Foundation and other institutions in Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Delhi. The policy is aimed at attracting New Delhi. World Congress of Mental Health is (UNESCO) , United Nations Development investments to the tune of Rs 20,000 crore in taking place in India for the first time. Our Programme (UNDP) and World-Wide Fund for the food processing sector in the state and also National Mental Health Survey 2016 found that Nature (WWF) . creating about 1.25 lakh direct jobs in the next close to 14 per cent of India’s population five years. required active mental health interventions. Maximum Age of Joining NPS Increased from 60 to 65 years: Finance Ministry PAN Indian Army Release of Integrated Smt. Sumitra Mahajan inaugurates 65th Pension Fund Regulatory and Quarter Master Package (IQMP) Software foundation day celebrations of EPFO in New Development Authority (PFRDA) during the Application: Delhi: last few years to increase the pension coverage Integrated Quarter Master Package Smt. Sumitra Mahajan praised the in the country, PFRDA has now increased the (IQMP) software application was formally efforts of Employees’ Provident Fund maximum age of joining under NPS-Private released to the Indian Army by the Vice Chief of Organisation (EPFO) to digitalize the services to Sector (i.e. All Citizen and Corporate Model) from Army Staff Lt Gen Sarath Chand in an event accelerate the claims of EPFO beneficiaries in the existing 60 years to 65 years of age. organised at South Block. IQMP is web based

|Legend Magazine | November - 2017| 2 software developed by Army Software First Heli Expo India & International Civil India became the first country to partner Development Centre in association with M/s TCS Helicopter Conclave in New Delhi: with Facebook on disaster response: Ltd. The application automates various logistics The 1st Heli Expo India and India is the first country to partner related functions of an Army Unit. The application International Civil Helicopter Conclave-2017 with social networking site Facebook on disaster will replace numerous legacy applications such as is inaugurated in New Delhi by the response, Union minister Kiren Rijiju. 'India ‘Vastra’ and ‘Quarter Master Package’. Uttarakhand Tourism Minister Shri Satpal Disaster Response Summit', organised jointly by Maharaja ji in the presence of the Secretary, the National Disaster Management Authority Deen Dayal SPARSH Yojana launched to Civil Aviation Shri R.N. Choubey, CMD Pawan (NDMA) and Facebook. The programme will be promote philately-Manoj Sinha: Hans, Dr. B. P. Sharma and other dignitaries. The piloted in two disaster prone states Assam and Minister of Communications Shri first issue of Pawan Hans Magazine Aviation is Uttarakhand. She said that India need to prepare Manoj Sinha launched a Pan India also unveiled by the chief guests on this itself for moving towards Disaster Risk scholarship program for school children called occasion. Management (DRM) and Disaster Risk Deen Dayal SPARSH Yojana to increase the Pawan Hans, a Mini Ratna company of Reduction (DRR) from an approach of traditional reach of Philately. Under the scheme of SPARSH Ministry of Civil Aviation in association with PHD Disaster Management. (Scholarship for Promotion of Aptitude & Chamber of Commerce and Industry with the Research in Stamps as a Hobby) , it is theme of ‘Enhancing Connectivity’ at the Smriti Irani flags off Digital Rath in New proposed to award annual scholarships to Pawan Hans Heliport, Rohini, New Delhi. Delhi: children of Standard VI to IX having good Information and Broadcasting Minister academic record and also pursuing Philately as a Chennai included in UNESCO’s Creative Smriti Irani flagged off Digital Rath in New hobby through a competitive selection process in Cities Network: Delhi to create awareness among people for all postal circles. The amount of Scholarship will Chennai is the third Indian city on the cashless transaction. UPI transactions have be Rs. 6000/- per annum @ Rs. 500/- per month. list of UNESCO Creative Cities list after Jaipur increased from 3.8 million in April to 77 million and Varanasi. They join a network at the in October this year. National secretary of the 4th JWGACTC meeting in India 29 Oct to 03 frontline of UNESCO’s effort to foster innovation Confederations of All India Traders (CAIT) Nov 17: and creativity as key drivers for a more Praveen Khandelwal said, the Digital Rath will The 4th meeting of the Joint sustainable and inclusive urban development. travel from Delhi to Lucknow, then Kolkata, Working Group on Aircraft Carrier This network also attracts growing interest from Puducherry, Mumbai and Bhopal till 31st of next Technology Co-operation (JWGACTC) , local authorities. month. He said, it will travel 20 thousand kilo- constituted under the auspices of the Indo - US metre and will reach 10 lakh people. Defence Trade and Technology Initiative, was Delhi govt signs twin city agreement with organised in India. A 13-member US delegation, Seoul: Odisha, West Bengal to hold joint coastal headed by Rear Admiral Brian Antonio, The Delhi government signed a twin security exercise: Program Executive Officer Aircraft Carriers, city agreement with the Seoul Metropolitan The governments of Odisha and visited the Shore Based Test Facility at Goa, Government for strengthening cooperation in neighbouring West Bengal will organize a joint Naval Base at Karwar, INS Vikramaditya at sea, the fields of e-governance, transportation, security exercise named as ‘Sagar Kavach’ to Mazagaon Dock Limited and Headquarters climate change and smart city. The agreement further tighten the existing coastal security Western Naval Command. - Establishment of Friendship City Relationship - mechanism along the 630-km long coastline. This The concluding session of the Joint was signed between Seoul (South Korea) was informed by Odisha's additional chief Working Group Meeting was held on 03 Nov 17 Metropolitan Government led by Mayor Park secretary, home department, Asit Tripathy. at New Delhi and was co-chaired by Vice Won Soon and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Admiral DM Deshpande. During the meeting, Varanasi tops the List of Country’s Most both sides acknowledged the significant First Ever Nordic-Baltic Youth Film Festival Polluted City: achievements of the Joint Working Group so far in India: When National Capital is hitting the and discussed plans for future co-operation The Nordic-Baltic embassies will host headlines over alarming levels of pollution, a under various aspects of aircraft carrier the first ever youth film festival of the report by the Central Pollution Control Board technology such as design optimisation, European nations in Delhi showcasing movies (CPCB) has found that the air quality of holy city construction philosophy, trials procedure and from the region. The Nordic-Baltic countries Varanasi is most polluted among the 42 cities project management. Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, monitored recently. Varanasi’s Air Quality Lithuania, Norway, and Sweden or NB8 are tied Index (AQI) was at an alarming 491, followed FASTag Mandatory for New Four-Wheelers together geographically and historically through by Gurugram at 480, Delhi at 468, Lucknow at from December 1: trade, culture, and many common value systems. 462 and Kanpur at 461. Notably, pollution level is December 1 would be mandatory for categorised as ‘severe’ when the AQI ranges all new four-wheelers to have FASTag Central Government approves National between 401 and 500, which affects healthy devices fixed on front windscreens by Highway project to connect two sacred people and seriously impacts those with existing automobile manufacturers or authorised dealers. places: diseases. A FASTag is a device that employs Radio Central Government has given its Frequency Identification (RFID) technology principle approval for linking historical religious Rajnath Singh chairs second meeting of for making toll payments directly from the places of Sri Fatehgarh Sahib and Sri Island Development Agency: prepaid or savings account linked to it and is Chamkaur Sahib with the National Highway The Union Home Minister Shri affixed on the windscreen of the vehicle and paving way to connect the sacred places of Rajnath Singh chaired the second meeting of enables the commuter to drive through toll younger Sahibzadas - Baba Zorawar Singh and Island Development Agency (IDA) in New plazas, without stopping for cash transactions. Baba Fateh Singh, and elder Sahibzadas - Baba Delhi. The Island Development Agency reviewed The notification follows amendment to Central Ajit Singh and Baba Jujhar Singh. The national the concept development plans and detailed Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989 by the central highway would be constructed at the cost of Rs master plans for holistic development of 9 islands government as per powers vested in it under 500 crores for connecting both the religious (four in A&N Islands i.e. Smith, Ross, Long, Avis) Motor Vehicles Act, 1989. places. and (five in Lakshadweep i.e. Minicoy, Bangaram, Thinnakara, Cheriyam, Suheli) . The project Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

|Legend Magazine | November - 2017| 3 being steered by NITI Aayog aims at promoting 37th India International Trade Fair region, USA, Europe, Industry, Academia, and implementing development based on (IITF) begin at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi. Government and Media. sustainable approach to building a thriving The 14-day annual event, organised by the India Uttar Pradesh Tops in Mobilising Jan Dhan maritime economy of the project islands. Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) will be Accounts: inaugurated by President Ram Nath Kovind. Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana Home loan limit for Central Government This year the theme of the fair is “Startup (PMJDY) , which was launched in 2014 to employees raised to Rs.25 Lakh: India Standup India”. Vietnam is the Partner further the financial-inclusion process in the The government has raised the Country, while Kyrgyzstan is the Focus country, seems to have gathered momentum in maximum amount that a Central government Country. Jharkhand is participating as a some northern States post demonetisation. With employee can borrow from the government for Partner State in the event. its area and size of population, Uttar Pradesh house-building to Rs.25 lakh from the earlier tops in opening new PMJDY accounts after Rs.7.5 lakh. The interest rate on the loan Sainik Sankshema Sabha to be organised in demonetisation. Bihar, Maharashtra, Madhya amount shall be at a uniform rate of 8.5% at all districts of Andhra and Telangana: Pradesh and West Bengal cumulatively added simple interest, in place of the earlier four slabs Ex-servicemen Welfare Board officials another 2.2 crore new accounts in the last one of interest rates ranging from 6% to 9.5%. have announced that Sainik Sankshema Sabha year. Revising the House Building Advance (HBA) will be organised in all districts of Andhra While the total number of PMJDY rules incorporating the accepted Pradesh and Telangana. Inaugurating the accounts crossed four crores and three crores in recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission, the Lieutenant General R.K. Anand, the General Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, respectively, the government also increased the amount that a Officer Commanding Dakshin Bharat Area, said number crossed the one-crore mark in Assam, central government employee can borrow for this at a rally and grievance redressal programme Gujarat, Jharkhand and Karnataka during the expansion of their homes to 34 months of basic held in Secunderabad. Thousands of former year. But the number of PMJDY accounts has pay to a maximum of Rs 10 lakh, from Rs 1.80 armed forces personnel from Ranga Reddy, come down in Andhra Pradesh in a span of lakh earlier. Medchal, Malkajgiri, Vikarabad and Hyderabad one year. The rural and semi-urban centres of districts including those who had served in World Andhra Pradesh witnessed a decline of 6.37 lakh Nitin Gadkari announced World Bank backed War-II attended the rally. accounts during the period. Rs. 6,000 crore irrigation schemes: The Government of India launched the Union minister Nitin Gadkari Northeast to get India first ever Air BHARAT-22 Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) announced that the World Bank– supported Rs Dispensary: managed by ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund: 6,000 crore scheme to improve the Northeast is all set to get India’s first- The Government of India launched the irrigation facilities and water accessibility ever “Air Dispensary” based in a helicopter BHARAT-22 Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) capacity in several states, including and the Union Ministry of Development of managed by ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Northeast (DONER) has already contributed targeting an initial amount of about Rs. 8,000 Pradesh and Gujarat. This scheme will improve Rs. 25 crores as part of the initial funding for crores. This New Fund Offer is open till the water capacity in Jayakwadi in Marathwada to this initiative. November 17, 2017. The Units of the Scheme will 100 per cent. Similarly, all the dams in be allotted 25% to each category of investors. In Ahmadnagar and Nashik will be filled 100 per WCD Ministry to Host Hausala 2017 to this ETF, the Retirement Fund has been made cent. Celebrate Child Rights Week: separate category of Investors. The Ministry of Women and Child The strength of this ETF lies in the India will be hosting its first Military Development will celebrate the Child Rights specially created Index S&P BSE BHARAT-22 Literature Festival in Chandigarh: Week (Hausla 2017) from 16th to 20th INDEX. This Index is a unique blend of shares of Punjab State Government has November 2017. The country celebrates the key CPSEs, Public Sector Banks (PSBs) and also announced that the first Military Literature Children’s Day on 14th November and the the Government owned shares in blue chip Festival would be held in Chandigarh. The International Child Rights Day is celebrated private companies like Larsen & Tubro (L&T) , event is being organised to pay tribute to the on 20th November every year. The period Axis Bank and ITC. The shares of the armed forces and spread awareness about between the two important events will be Government companies represent 6 core sectors Military Literature among masses. It will be celebrated as Child Rights Week by WCD of the economy - Finance, Industry, Energy, jointly promoted by the Punjab government and Ministry by hosting an Inter CCI Festival for the Utilities, Fast Moving Consumer Goods Chandigarh Administration. Punjab’s Local Bodies children who reside in Child Care Institutions (FMCG) and Basic Materials. This is expected and Tourism and Culture Minister, Navjot Singh (CCIs) . to benefit long term and retail investors by Sidhu, unveiled Military Literature Festival’s providing an opportunity of participation in equity logo. First Ever APCERT Conference in New Delhi: stocks of the Government run companies and The Indian Computer Emergency earn stable returns. JEE Main, NEET likely to be conducted twice Response Team (CERT-In) under the aegis of Railway introduces Project Saksham to a year from 2019: Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology upgrade knowledge of employees and for Centre cleared the proposal for organizing the Asia Pacific Computer boosting productivity: formation of the National Testing Agency Emergency Response Team (APCERT) Under the direction of Minister of (NTA) , entrance examinations like JEE Main Conference from November 12-15, 2017 in Railways & Coal, Shri Piyush Goyal, a and NEET are likely to be conducted twice a New Delhi. This is the 15th Conference of comprehensive plan for imparting training to all year from 2019. The move is aimed at relieving APCERT and first ever conference in India and employees of Indian Railways is being prepared the Central Board of Secondary Education from South Asia and is expected to be attended by 21 with a view to upgrade skill & knowledge. This its duties of conducting entrance examinations economies. comprehensive training programme named as and instead focus on improving the quality of The conference theme is "Building “Project Saksham” will help boost productivity higher education. Trust in the Digital Economy". This will be and efficiency. inaugurated by Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hon'ble Andhra Pradesh hosting its first ever hot-air 37th India International Trade Fair begins in Minister of Electronics & Information Technology, balloon festival: New Delhi: and is expected to be attended by over 300 cyber Andhra Pradesh is hosting its first Hot security professionals from the Asia Pacific Air Balloon Festival in Araku Valley. The Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

|Legend Magazine | November - 2017| 4 three-day festival, which features a line-up of 16 1921, headquartered at Brussels in Belgium balloons from 13 countries, has para-motoring and currently has 112 nations as members. India received Rs. 14,354 crore through shows by pilots and a light and colour show with Theme: “Military Medicine in Transition: Tourism Sector: inflated balloons. The participating countries are Looking Ahead”. Tourism sector of India continues to India, Australia, USA, Brazil and South grow immensely year to year. Foreign Korea. The Hot Air Balloon Festival is organized National Anti-Profiteering authority by Exchange Earnings (FEEs) during the month of by SkyWaltz and supported by Andhra Union Government: October 2017 was Rs.14,354 crore. The Foreign Pradesh tourism. The Union Cabinet has given its Tourist Arrivals (FTA) have registered whopping India’s First wave-powered Navigational approval for the creation of the posts of growth of 18.1% in October 2017 in the country. Buoy Launched: Chairman and Technical Members of the A wave-powered navigational buoy, National Anti-profiteering Authority (NAA) 12th North East Business Summit: developed by the National Institute of Ocean under GST. The NAA is tasked to ensure, benefits The Two-day “12th North-East Technology (NIOT) , to guide ships in and out of reduction in tax on supply of goods or services Business Summit” was inaugurated in New of ports, was launched. The buoy, deployed at flow to consumers. Delhi. The summit aims to explore the scope Ennore Kamarajar Port, would help ships, for business opportunities in the North-Eastern moving in and out of the harbour, navigate Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) in region of India. The Summit is being organized through a designated channel. According to the Hyderabad: Amitabh Kant by the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) , NIOT, the buoy’s beacon, for guiding ships, is Entrepreneurs, especially women, from with Manipur being the state partner for the powered by wave energy while conventional ones India, the United States and the rest of the world event. use solar power. The buoy stores energy will get to network with investors at a three-day The Union Cabinet approves Rs 3,320 cr for generated by waves in a battery. summit to be co-hosted by New Delhi and judicial infrastructure: The buoy was launched by Secretary, Washington starting 28 November in The Union Cabinet chaired has approved Ministry of Earth Sciences M Rajeevan on the Hyderabad. continuation of the Centrally Sponsored eve of the 33rd executive committee meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi will Scheme (CSS) for Development of International Energy Agency-Ocean Energy inaugurate the “eighth edition of the annual Infrastructure Facilities for Judiciary beyond Systems Collaboration Programme (IEA- global entrepreneurship summit”. The 12th Five Year Plan to be implemented in a OES) . summit will focus on four key sectors of the Mission Mode through National Mission for Justice International fund to promote sustainable economy—energy and infrastructure, digital Delivery and Legal Reforms with an estimated fishing practice in India: economy and financial technology, health and life outlay of Rs.3,320 crore. sciences and media and entertainment, said Niti The funds sharing pattern for Centre and India has received the international Aayog chief executive officer Amitabh Kant. State is 60:40 in respect of States other than fund for the promotion of sustainable fishing The US delegation will be led by Ivanka North Eastern and Himalayan States. The funds practices. The London based Marine Trump, advisor to President Donald Trump. sharing pattern is 90:10 in respect of North Stewardship Council (MSC) , an international Theme: ’Women First, Prosperity for All’. Eastern and Himalayan States; and 100% in non-profit organization, has awarded £43,373 respect of Union Territories. (Rs.37,25,740) fund for promoting sustainable Rae Bareli to get the ‘Smart City’ tag: Hunar Haat inaugurated in IITF 2017: practices in the country’s fisheries sector. Rae Bareli (UP) , constituency of The Union Ministry of Minority  World Fisheries Day is celebrated on Congress President Sonia Gandhi, will get Smart Affairs had organized “Hunar Haat” at India November 21. City tag. The Smart City Mission was launched International Trade Fair (IITF) at Pragati by the Modi government in June 2015 with the Maidan, New Delhi. It has provided a platform Steering Committee of SARTTAC held in New aim of transforming 100 Indian cities by to master artisans and craftsmen to display their Delhi: 2019-20. The GOI provides Rs.500 crore to rich heritage and skills. “Hunar Haat” under An Interim Meeting of the Steering each city over a period of five years for “USTTAD” scheme at different parts of the Committee of the International Monetary implementing various projects. country. Fund (IMF) ’s South Asia Regional Training Union Ministry of Minority Affairs and Technical Assistance Center (SARTTAC) PM Awas Yojana: Realtors hail increase in  Union Minister: Shri Mukhtar Abbas was held in New Delhi to assess the Center’s carpet area for houses Naqvi activities since its inauguration in February 2017 Under the PMAY-U, the Centre aims to  Constituency: Jharkhand and to review the Fiscal Year 2018 Work Plan. provide houses to all the urban poor by The Committee welcomed progress in 2022.The Centre approved the enhancement of India’s first ‘Home-Made’ aircraft from securing over 90 percent of the financing for the carpet area of houses for the middle-income Mumbai: SARTTAC’s first five-year (2017-2022) Phase. group (MIG) category under the Pradhan Mantri Mumbai-based pilot Amol Yadav The next Steering Committee meeting will take Awas Yojana-Urban (PMAY-U) . developed an indigenous aircraft. This is the first place in Sri Lanka in May 2018. Under the MIG-I category, the carpet aircraft manufactured in India. It is a six-seater area of the houses has been enhanced from 90 aircraft and named as VT-NMD, where NM 42nd International Congress of Military sq.mtr to 120 sq.mtr, while under the MIG-II stands for Narendra Modi and D for Devendra Medicine begins in New Delhi: category, it has been increased to 150 sq.mtr Fadnavis. The government was hosting a Make The 42nd World Congress of the from the current 110 sq.mtr, said by Union in India show, an initiative aimed at making the International Committee of Military minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. country a global manufacturing hub in Mumbai Medicine (ICMM) organised by the Armed Under the MIG-I category, a four-per and the aircraft was kept in that show. Forces Medical Services (AFMS) under the cent interest subsidy is provided to the 1st World Conference on Access to Medical aegis of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) . The five- beneficiaries, whose annual income is between Rs Products: day event is being organised for the first time in 6 lakh and Rs 12 lakh, on a loan of up to Rs 9 Union Minister of Health and Family India, and is the largest medical conference ever lakh. Similarly, under the MIG-II category, the Welfare, J P Nadda inaugurated the 1st World organised by the AFMS. beneficiaries with an annual income of Rs 12 lakh Conference on Access to Medical Products The ICMM is an international inter- to Rs 18 lakh get an interest subsidy of three per and International Laws for Trade and Health governmental organisation was established in cent on a loan of up to Rs 12 lakh. in the Context of the 2030 Agenda for Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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Sustainable Development at Delhi. It is Prime Minister Narendra Modi formally on the occasion of the 2nd World Tsunami organized by the Ministry of Health & Family launched UMANG, a state and central Awareness Day held on November 5, 2017. Welfare in partnership with Indian Society of government services app. The Ministry of Bamboo Not A ‘Tree’ Anymore as President International Law and with the support of WHO Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) Clears Ordinance Amending Forest Law Country Office for India. along with the National e-Governance Division President Ram Nath Kovind cleared an India becomes Second Largest Fish (NeGD) . UMANG-an acronym for “Unified ordinance amending the Indian Forest Act, Producing Country in the World: Mobile App for New-Age Governance”. 1927. The ordinance omits bamboo grown in India becomes second largest fish Umang will be providing integration with various non-forest areas from the definition of trees, producing country in the world: Shri Radha other services such as PayGov in near future. The thereby exempting it from requiring permits for Mohan Singh. For the integrated development of app is currently available in 13 languages. felling or transportation. The move will the Fisheries sector in the country, ‘Blue contribute to achieving the objective of doubling Revolution’ scheme has been launched with the Safe City Plan for Women in Eight Cities by farmers' income by 2022. Bamboo grown in outlay of Rs. 300 crore. The main aim of Blue Union Government: forest areas will continue to be governed by the Revolution Scheme is to increase the fish Union Government will start ‘safe city’ Forest Conservation Act, 1980. production and productivity to up to 8% annual plan for women in eight metropolitan cities of the Aditya-L1, Mission to the Sun by ISRO growth rate and to produce 15 million tonnes of country. The eight cities are Delhi, Mumbai, India’s first mission to the sun, will fish by 2020. Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Lucknow, be launched in 2019 said by ISRO Chairman World Fisheries Day is being Bengaluru and Hyderabad. The process was A.S Kiran Kumar. It will be launched from celebrated from 21st November 2014 and it is started on the occasion of Steering Committee Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh using PSLV- XL being celebrated for the fourth consecutive year. meeting chaired by Union Home Secretary Rajiv launch vehicle. The main aim of the solar The theme of this year is "2022 ka hai sapnaa Gauba. It will serve as strong emergency mission is to improve our understanding of kisaan ki aay ho duguna – Sankalp se response system and provides police-verified dynamical processes of the sun and help siddhi". public transport will come into place. resolve some outstanding questions in solar CCMB-IIRR Developed Low Glycemic Index These include ‘Himmat’ app, all women physics. It will be launched into the halo orbit rice: patrol van, ‘Shishtachar’ programme of the around the Lagrangian point 1 (L1) of the Sun- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology Delhi police; ‘Hawkeye’ mobile app; ‘Bharosa’ Earth system. (CCMB) in association with the Indian Institute of programme of the Hyderabad police; ‘Suraksha’ ISRO Rice Research (IIRR) has come out with an app of the Bengaluru police, and ‘Power Angels’  Headquarters: Bengaluru Improved Samba Masuri (ISM) with low of Uttar Pradesh police. Glycemic Index (GI) . STATES/ UT Rice with low GI is considered suitable Tamil Nadu has the Highest number of ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS for people with diabetics. The ISM has been Women Entrepreneurs in India: India conducts major exercise in grown in 1.3 lakh hectares in 7 states including According to the report of Sheatwork, a strategically-located Andaman & Nicobar Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttar knowledge hub for women entrepreneurs, Tamil Islands: Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Nadu has the highest number of women India has conducted a major military World’s Fastest Supersonic Cruise Missile: entrepreneurs in India followed by Kerala and exercise in the Andaman and Nicobar Island Brahmos Test Fired West Bengal. archipelago. The abbreviation of DANX is Brahmos supersonic cruise missile Goa, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, “Defence of A&N Islands Exercise”. DANX, was test fired from Indian Air Force’s (IAF) Rajasthan, and West Bengal are the top five the first such major exercise of the ANC, was frontline fighter aircraft Sukhoi-30MKI for the states that offer the maximum number of planned for synergistic application of forces. The first time. It was launched against a sea-based schemes for women entrepreneurs. As per the main objective of the exercise was to practice target in the Bay of Bengal. It has a strike range report, the education sector has the maximum and validate procedures and drills aimed at of around 290 km and it travels at 2.8 times number of women entrepreneurs followed by defending the A&N Islands. the speed of sound. The missile is named after financial services, insurance, livestock, forestry. Andaman & Nicobar Islands two rivers, the Brahmaputra and the Moskva. ‘Rural Livelihood’ scheme for Northeast  Capital: Port Blair It is a joint venture between the India:  Currency: Indian rupee Russian Federation’s NPO Mashinostroeyenia The “North East Rural Livelihood  Prime Minister: Devendra Kumar Joshi and India’s Defence Research and Development Project” is launched by the Union Minister of ANDHRA PRADESH Organisation (DRDO) who together have formed State for Development of North Eastern Region AIIB grants Rs. 13,000 cr loan to Andhra BrahMos Aerospace. Dr Jitendra Singh. The objective of the scheme Pradesh: 15th Finance Commission approved by is to assist over 10,000 Self Help Groups China-sponsored Asian Infrastructure cabinet: (SHGs) and to benefit about three lakh poor Investment Bank (AIIB) approved USD 2 The Cabinet approved the setting up of households. The scheme is supported by the million loan (Rs. 13,000 crores) for five the 15th Finance Commission which will decide World Bank. To begin with, four states, project in Andhra Pradesh. Five projects which the formula for sharing of taxes between the Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura will includes two roads and buildings department, Centre and states for five years starting April 1, be taken up for helping the tribal and even the one each for rural safe drinking water 2020. It is expected to submit its report by non-tribal lower groups living in remote areas. department, municipal and urban development October 30, 2019. This commission has department and Panchayat Raj department. different tax regime because the goods and Multi State Mega Mock Tsunami Exercise services tax (GST) rolled out from July 1,2017. 2017 in East cost of India Vizag to host first international agriculture Former Expenditure and Revenue Ministry of Home Affairs conducted a hackathon from November 15: Secretary NK Singh will chair the Fifteenth Multi-State Mega Mock Exercise on tsunami The Coastal city is all set to host the Finance Commission. The panel, which is a preparedness along the East Coast of India. This first ever agriculture hackathon being statutory body under Article 280(1) of the exercise was conducted through National organized by Andhra Pradesh government. Constitution. Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and The three-day conclave will begin from November Prime Minister launches Umang app: the Indian National Centre for Ocean 15 where farmers, agriculture experts, and Information Services (INCOIS) . It is planned Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

|Legend Magazine | November - 2017| 6 several stakeholders will participate in the Assam government signed Chhattisgarh launches toll-free helpline deliberations. Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) and number for senior citizens: On this occasion, Chief Minister N. Terms of Reference (ToR) with Singapore for Chhattisgarh Dr Raman Singh, in his Chandrababu Naidu will inaugurate the skilling youth of the state. The MoU and ToR for address to people of state in his monthly radio international convention. On the other hand, North East Skills Centre (NESC) was signed programme Raman Ke Goth aired from Microsoft Corporation co-founder Bill Gates between Skill, Employment and Entrepreneurship Akashwani Raipur, said that state Government will attend the concluding session of the Department, of Assam government and ITE has launched toll free number 1800-180-1253 international summit co-hosted by Confederation Education Service, Singapore in the presence of and helpline number 0771-2511253 in Police of Indian Industry. Union Agriculture Minister Foreign Affairs Minister of Singapore Dr Vivian Headquarters Raipur with senior citizen cell, for Radha Mohan Singh will also present on the Balakrishnan and Chief Minister Sarbananda helping senior citizens. second day of the hackathon. Sonowal. An MoU for Guwahati City Greening was Piyush Goyal approves Vizag-Jagdalpur Andhra Pradesh Govt join hands with Bill inked between the Guwahati Metropolitan express’ extension to Chhattisgarh’s Gates Foundation: Agtech Summit 2017 Development Authority and Singapore Kirandul: Andhra Pradesh government and the Corporation Enterprise. Union Railways Minister Piyush Goyal Bill Gates Foundation join hands to relieve approved to extend Visakhapatnam-Jagdalpur farmers by implementing a ‘digital innovation Assam Launches 647 scheme for welfare of express upto Dantewada’s Kirandul to programme’. Andhra Pradesh Agtech Manjuli: facilitate easy transport of passengers in the Summit 2017 inaugurated by Chief Minister Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Naxal-affected region. The Union Minister Chandrababu Naidu in order to promote inclusive Sonowal rolled out 647 schemes entailing an directed to complete the first phase of the East growth and happiness for farmers with Smart investment of Rs 24.57 crore for development Rail Corridor project between Kharsia and Farming. of the world's largest river island Majuli. Out Dharamjaigarh by September 2018. He also 100 Companies to Invest in Andhra Pradesh of these, 448 schemes under MGNREGA sanctioned a new rail line between Nagpur Road A South Korean diplomat has involved Rs 21.90 crore and 199 schemes Halt and Manendragadh via Chirmiri. appreciated the Make-in-India programme and under 14th Finance Commission have an outlay India’s 1st Tribal Entrepreneurship Summit this program has enabled companies from South of Rs 2.67 crore. to be organised at Dantewada: Korea to invest a Rs.25,000 crore and around To inspire, nurture and promote the 100 companies will soon be invested in Andhra India’s 1st Exclusive Air Ambulance Service spirit of entrepreneurship in tribal youth, the Pradesh in the next six months, Kim Hyung Tae to be Launched from Guwahati: NITI Aayog in partnership with the US said, the consul general of South Korea for South Assam Transport, Industries and government organized India’s first Tribal India. Commerce Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary Entrepreneurship Summit at Dantewada. The CANEUS establishes Space centre in Andhra formally launched an air ambulance service at summit is inaugurated by MoS Science and Pradesh NEDF (North Eastern Development Finance Technology YS Chowdhary held at Dantewada CANEUS International, an agreement Corporation Ltd) House, Dispur. in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh. This event is with the Andhra Pradesh Economic Development The air ambulance is equipped with all an 8th Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Board (APEDB) and the Andhra Pradesh State emergency medical equipment and medical team being held in India which ensures yet another Skills Development Corporation (APSSDC) to to take care of patients onboard. step towards tribal-centric sustainable and establish a Centre of Excellence on Space inclusive development. Sciences and Technologies for Development Delhi-based Flaps Aviation Private Chhattisgarh (CoE4SSTD) at Hindpur in Anantapur. It is Ltd will operate its air ambulance service from  Capital: Raipur expected to help build capacities and capabilities Guwahati with “Book Air Ambulance” as its  Chief Minister: Raman Singh in space science and research. Andhra Pradesh brand. The aim is to expand this facility to the  Governor: Balram Das Tandon will partner, collaborate and assist the CoE4SSTD capitals of all states. and help align the state with the 2030 Agenda GOA for Sustainable Development. Assam: Namami Barak festival to begin Goa hosts inaugural India-US Ocean  Chairman of CANEUS: Milind today in Silchar Dialogue: Pimprikar In Assam, the first ever Namami Goa is hosting the inaugural India-US  CEO of APEDB: J Krishna Kishore Barak festival at Police Parade ground in Ocean Dialogue beginning. The US state Silchar. Namami Barak is a celebrated to pay department has said, the dialogue, aimed at India Rice Conclave 2017: Andhra Pradesh tribute to the River Barak. President Ram Nath promoting sustainable development of the Blue focusing on Agriculture: Kovind will grace the occasion as Chief Guest. Economy, is being hosted by the Indian Ministry India Rice Conclave 2017 was Assam of External Affairs at the Council of Scientific and inaugurated by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister  Capital: Dispur Industrial Research-National Institute of Chandrababu Naidu in Vijayawada. India Rice  Chief Minister: Sarbananda Sonowal Oceanography (CSIR-NIO) in Goa. Conclave 2017 was organised by the Agriculture  Governor: Prof Jagdish Mukhi

Department of Andhra Pradesh in association Goa to host Nobel Prize Event in February with Indian Chamber of Commerce. The CHHATTISGARH 2018: objective of the Forum is to promote rice Venkaiah Naidu to inaugurate Chhattisgarh The Goa government executed a production and to process food security. foundation day celebrations: trilateral Memorandum of Understanding Andhra Pradesh Vice president M Venkaiah Naidu will (MoU) with the Department of Bio-Technology,  Capital: Amaravati inaugurate Chhattisgarh Rajyotsav, the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government  Chief Minister: N. Chandrababu Naidu celebrations to mark the 17th state foundation of India (GoI) and Nobel Media, Sweden to hold  Governor: E. S. L. Narasimhan day in Naya Raipur, the upcoming new capital, the ‘Nobel Prize Series — India 2018 (Science remaining 26 district headquarters will witness Impacts Life) ’ to be held from February 1-28 ASSAM celebrations for three days. Chhattisgarh came next year along with a month-long exhibition Assam signs MoUs with Singapore for into existence on November 1, 2000 after a brought from Nobel Museum, Sweden. The Nobel skilling state’s youth: bifurcation of Madhya Pradesh. series has earlier been organised in Gujarat. The

|Legend Magazine | November - 2017| 7 event will be jointly organised by Department of medical institute would be opened in an area of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, is Rs 17 Bio-Technology, Ministry of Science and 20 acres in Panchkula on the pattern of All- crore. The plant will power the Drass town in Technology, Government of India in collaboration India Institute of Medical Sciences. It will be Kargil, which is one of the coldest places in India. with Nobel Media, Sweden and Department of established in the ancestral shop of the Union The project has been developed by the Kargil Science and Technology. Vijay Goel, in Jharoth village of Sonipat district. Renewable Energy Development Agency Shah Rukh Khan to inaugurate IFFI at Haryana becomes first state in India to treat (KREDA) under the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Panaji on 20th Nov: Hepatitis C patients with oral medicine: Development Council. Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan Haryana has become the first state in Jammu and Kashmir will inaugurate the 48th International Film the country to treat Hepatitis-C patients of all  Capital: Srinagar Festival of India which is going to held at the categories through oral medicine. The medicine  Chief Minister: Mehbooba Mufti Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee stadium in Panaji, and treatment costs about Rs 28,000 to Rs  Governor: Narinder Nath Vohra Goa. Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi’s movie 30,000 in the market, but the state government “Beyond The Clouds” will be the opening film would provide this facility free of cost. JHARKHAND of the fest. Indo-Argentine film “Thinking of Gurugram to get North India’s biggest President Ram Kovind inaugurates JOHAR Him” by filmmaker Pablo Cesar will be the butterfly park: scheme worth 1,500 cr rupees in Jharkhand: closing film of the festival. Forests Minister Rao Narbir Singh In Jharkhand, on State Establishment- Goa laid the foundation stone for Butterfly Day President Ramnath Kovind inaugurated  Capital: Panaji Conservatory Park, which will be developed on JOHAR scheme worth one thousand five  Chief Minister: Manohar Parrikar 15 acres in Sector 52 of Gurugram and will be hundred crore rupees. The World Bank aided the biggest butterfly park in North India. The JOHAR (Jharkhand’s Opportunities for  Governor: Mridula Sinha state Forest Department is setting up the park to Harnessing Rural Growth) scheme is aimed at

conserve the species of butterflies that are near doubling the income of two lakh rural poor. GUJARAT extinction because of the massive urbanisation in He also laid the foundation stones of, various India’s First Cartoon Network theme park to the area. The park will be developed in schemes entailing total expenditure of Rs 3,455 be set up in Gujarat: association with Uthaan, an NGO. crore in Jharkhand to coincide with the state's India will have the first Cartoon Haryana 17th Foundation Day. Network-branded theme park. Turner  Capital: Chandigarh Kovind launched the Rs 636-crore International India, which owns the Cartoon  Chief Minister: Manohar Lal Khattar 'Mukhyamantri Health Insurance Scheme' Network brand, has entered into a brand  Governor: Kaptan Singh Solanki under which 57 lakh of the 68 lakh families in the partnership with Gujarat based real estate, state will benefit. Beneficiaries will get treatment entertainment and hospitality group Rajgreen for JAMMU AND KASHMIR costing Rs 2 lakh under the scheme. The the launch of a 61,000-square meter property BRO Builds World's Highest Motorable Road President also kicked off the Rs 290-crore '108 Amaazia, in Surat. To be launched in the first in Ladakh: Ambulance' service in the state. He also laid the quarter of 2019 on a budget of Rs 450 crore, The Border Roads Organisation foundation stones of two flyovers at Harmu the amusement park will be located at Surat, in (BRO) has constructed the world's highest and Kantatoli, which will cost Rs 490 crore. Gujarat. motorable road in Ladakh region of Jammu Three-day Jharkhand Food Summit to start Gujarat and Kashmir, passing through Umlingla Top at a from February 23  Capital: Gandhinagar height of over 19,300 feet. The feat was Jharkhand Food Summit will be  Chief Minister: Vijay Rupani achieved under 'Project Himank' of the organized in February 23rd next year for 3  Governor: Om Prakash Kohli organisation. days, it’s aims to attract food and processing investors of the country. The Food Processing HARYANA Indian Railways launches main arch on Ministry of the Central Government has Haryana govt signs Rs 20,000 cr worth MoU world’s highest bridge: announced a grant of Rs.113 crore for food for logistics parks: The Indian Railways has launched the processing potential in Jharkhand. Haryana government has signed a main arch of the world's highest bridge on the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with River Chenab in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi Rs 2,000 crore has been allocated for Verbind, an integrated trade facilitation district which will provide direct connectivity to Jharkhand Tourism services organisation, to set up logistics and the Kashmir Valley. The iconic bridge will soar trading hub in the state that would attract 359 metres above the bed of the River Chenab Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das investment to the tune of Rs 20,000 crore. The and will be 30 metres higher than the iconic announced Rs.2000 crore for the promotion of logistics and trading hub will be spread over an Eiffel Tower in Paris. The bridge forms the tourism and it will be spent to develop the tourist area of 600 acres near Gurugram and the public- crucial link in the 111-km stretch between Katra destinations including Itkhori, Lugu Guru private project is expected to generate and Banihal which is part of the Udhampur- mountain, Anjan Dham, Parasnath and Deoghar employment for 6 lakh. Srinagar-Baramulla section of the Kashmir Temple. Rajrappa temple beautification project The Haryana State Industrial and Railway project. The 1.3-km-long bridge is being with a target to complete it by 2019 with an Infrastructure Development Corporation constructed at a cost of Rs 1,250 crore. The estimated cost of Rs.200 crore. (HSIIDC) will be the nodal agency for the work is being done by AFCONS through Konkan Jharkhand project. Haryana is ranked first among north railways. It will complete it by May 2019.  Capital: Ranchi Indian states in the ease of doing business index First power plant under PM Ladakh scheme  Chief Minister: Raghubar Das of the government, and sixth in the country. commissioned in Drass:  Governor: Draupadi Murmu The New and Renewable Energy KARNATAKA Ayurvedic AIIMS will be set up in Haryana’s Ministry said the 1.5 Mw small hydropower Karnataka inks pacts with Chinese firms: Panchkula to promote Ayurveda in the state: plant in Biaras Drass of Kargil in Jammu & Karnataka Chief Minister Haryana government planned to Kashmir has become the first project to be Siddaramaiah inaugurated the sixth China- promote AYUSH as well as allopathy, Unani and commissioned under the Prime Minister’s India Forum meet being jointly hosted by the natural systems of medicine. Chief Minister Ladakh Renewable Energy Initiative(LREI) . Government of China, Chinese People’s Manohar Lal Khattar said that an Ayurveda The total cost of the project, fully funded by the Association for Friendship with Foreign Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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Countries (CPAFFC) , China-India Friendship Maharashtra government plans to build in the  Chairman of INA: S Ramadorai Association (CIFA) , and Podar Enterprise in sea off the Mumbai coast, has received Bangalore. environmental clearance, making it the world’s Maharashtra Government Launches a new Karnataka Minister for Large and tallest statue. The Maharashtra Coastal Zone Initiative to control ‘Childhood Obesity’ Medium Industries RV Deshpande said Management Authority (MCZMA) approved the Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Karnataka expected trade and investments government’s application to increase the height Fadnavis launched a new initiative against between India and China to increase as India from the earlier proposed 192 metres. Currently, childhood obesity, which will directly benefit sees big opportunities to attract Chinese the Spring Temple Buddha statue, which over 6,000 children in Pune alone by making companies to Make in India, besides attracting stands at 208 metres in China, is the world’s them aware about their Body Mass Index investments. tallest statue. (BMI) . As per the initiative, a BMI dialler will Karnataka launches project to install WiFi be given to the schools through which children facilities in gram panchayats: Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu to will be able to know their BMI. The initiative was Karnataka State Government unveiled inaugurate 9th edition of Agrovision: taken by Rotary Club of Koregaon Park with an ambitious project to install Wi-Fi facility in all Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu JT Foundation. gram panchayats across the state. During this will inaugurate the 9th edition of Agrovision, India is the diabetes capital of the world year itself, Wi-Fi facility will be installed in 2500- Central India’s biggest agriculture summit and by 2025 is expected to be the second-largest gram panchayats with an overall investment of scheduled from 10-13 November at Reshimbagh country with childhood obesity, according to the Rs 50 crore, set aside from the state’s 2017-18 Ground in Nagpur. This is for the first time after World Health Organisation (WHO) . budget. assuming the office of Vice President Naidu will Karnataka ties up with Intel’s Mobileye be visiting the Orange city. The summit aims to Maharashtra wants to first banish plastic The Karnataka government has train farmers about the new technologies, water bottles from Mantralaya: partnered with Intel company Mobileye to innovative methods to increase the farm yield, The Maharashtra government, in a bid launch a project “Automotive Safety bridge the knowledge gap and empower them to become plastic-free state from March Innovation” for automotive safety. It will create through enhanced income. 2018, has banned packaged water bottles in a repository of road and traffic information. The Mantralaya and other government offices. project contributes to make roads safer with ‘No Load Shedding’ Mission: Maharashtra driving becoming more intelligent and efficient. Government approves 312 Crores for the Focusing on Quality maternal care in India Intel Orange city: by FOGSI:  CEO: Brian Krzanich The state govt is on the ‘No load Federation of Obstetric and  Headquarters: California, United shedding mission’ for the orange city and its Gynecological Societies of India (FOGSI) in States rural areas. The amount of electricity supply will partnership with MSD for Mothers, MacArthur Karnataka now increase in the city as the state has Foundation and Jhpiego (an affiliate of Johns  Capital: Bengaluru approved Rs 312 Cr under Deendayal Hopkins University) , launched ‘Manyata’ in Upadhyay Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGYJ) . Maharashtra. It is a nationwide movement  Chief Minister: Siddaramaiah This mission will be carried out by installing 47 stressing the need for quality care for mothers  Governor: Vajubhai Vala sub centers in which till now 19 sub centers are during and immediately after childbirth.

successfully constructed. The DDUGJY is one of The movement was flagged off by KERALA the flagship programmes of the Ministry of Power Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty and Kerala road accident victims to get free aid and will facilitate 24x7 supply of power. Maharashtra’s Minister of Rural Development, for 1st 48 hrs: Women and Child Welfare, Pankaja Munde. The Kerala government has decided to Maharashtra Government to set up village Maharashtra set up a 'trauma care' policy to provide road climate resilient committees:  Capital: Mumbai accident victims free treatment for the first The Maharashtra state government  Chief Minister: Devendra Fadnavis 48 hours. It plans to reimburse the treatment decided to set up a committee for the  Governor: C. Vidyasagar Rao cost by first paying hospitals and later getting it implementation of a Rs. 4,000-crore project on back from insurance companies. This would be climate resilience agriculture in 5,000 villages MEGHALAYA launched in government medical colleges, district of 15 districts in the state. The seven-member Army Launched Independent & fully and taluk hospitals and major private medical panel, headed by the Principal Secretary Integrated Joint Training Node in Shillong: institutions. (Agriculture) , has been set up with a target of Aiming to host foreign armies in joint Japan Mela in Kerala: selecting 4,000 drought-prone villages for the exercises, the Indian Army launched an The Indo Japan Chamber of implementation of the project. independent and fully-integrated Joint Commerce Kerala (INJACK) is organising first The programme aims to reduce farmers’ Training Node (JTN) at Umroi cantonment. The Japan Mela in Kochi. The event will showcase dependence on unpredictable weather cycles and JTN is the first of its kind in eastern command the best Japanese products and services that enhance the resilience of agriculture to climate and is different from other joint training centres creates market for Japan. It will be inaugurated change and vulnerability through research and in Belgaum, Varangte and Bakloh. It has been by Kenji Hiramatsu, Japanese Ambassador use of technology. developed at par with training centres of leading Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary in India. armies of the world. Kerala Mumbai hosts Conference on Natural Meghalaya  Capital: Tiruvanantapuram Resources:  Capital: Shillong  Chief Minister: Pinarayi Vijayan A two-day conference on ‘Towards  Chief Minister: Mukul Sangma  Governor: P. Sathasivam Resource Resilient India’ started in Mumbai.  Governor: Ganga Prasad

Issues related to both biotic and abiotic natural MAHARASHTRA resources were discussed. The conference was NAGALAND Maharashtra govt adds 18m to Shivaji inaugurated by Vice-Admiral Girish Luthra, Flag Nagaland aims to promote ‘plastic free’ statue, to be world’s tallest at 210m: Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Naval motive through ‘Hornbill Festival’: The 210-metre-high statue of Command. It was Organised by the Indian Nagaland is set to host ‘Hornbill Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, which the National Association (INA) . Festival’ with a main motive to promote the Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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‘plastic-free’ mission all around. ‘Hornbill India signs loan agreement with World Bank launched in Chandigarh by Punjab government Festival’ will go on for 10 days from December 1 for 119 million dollars for OHEPEE project: and Save the Children. to 10 at the Naga Heritage village Kisama. India has signed a loan agreement of Punjab Nagaland becomes first North-East state to 119 million dollar with World Bank for the  Capital: Chandigarh launch PoS for electricity bill payments Odisha higher education programme for  Chief Minister: Amarinder Singh Nagaland becomes the first State in excellence and equity project (OHEPEE) . The  Governor: Kaptan Singh Solanki the Northeast to launch Point of Sale (POS) financing agreement for the International Bank facility for electricity bill payment, where the for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD loan RAJASTHAN mode of payment will be cashless. It is launched is for the Odisha Higher Education ERO-Net launched in Rajasthan: by Nagaland’s chief secretary Pankaj Kumar in Programme for Excellence and Equity, OHEPEE Rajasthan’s Chief Electoral Officer Kohima. Project. The Financing Agreement was signed by Ashwini Bhagat launched the Election Nagaland Mr. Sameer Kumar Khare (Joint Secretary, Commission’s web-based project, ERO-Net,  Capital: Kohima Department of Economic Affairs) on behalf of using which voters can register their names on  Chief Minister: T R Zeliang Government of India and Mr. Hisham A. Abdo electoral rolls. Till now, the Electoral Roll  Governor: Padmanabha Acharya Kahin, Acting Country Director, World Bank Management System (ERMS) software was (India) on behalf of the World Bank. being used to make voter lists. It could not ODISHA identify multiple entries of a voter. It was being India Successfully Tests its first fully India’s Largest CDQ Facility at Tata Steel replaced with ERO-Net which was a transparent Indigenous ‘Glide Bomb’: Kalinganagar: mechanism to identify whether the voter was The Union Government announced Tata Steel has established India's listed anywhere in the country. that an indigenously developed lightweight largest Coke Dry Quenching (CDQ) facility, This virtual platform would be available ‘Glide’ bomb was successfully tested in capable of handling 200 metric tonnes per hour, for all the 200 Assembly constituencies in the Chandipur in Odisha. The development marks a at its state-of-the-art steel plant at state. Those who have completed 18 years of age major milestone in developing such weapons. The Kalinganagar Industrial Complex in Jajpur as on January 1, 2018, and/or do not have their bomb – SAAW (Smart Anti Airfield Weapon) district of Odisha. Nippon Steel and Sumkin names in voters' list can get their registration was dropped from an Indian Air Force aircraft at Engineering (NSENGI) of Japan are the supplier done online by November 30 and also through the Integrated Test Range (ITR) in and technology partner of the CDQ system set up the conventional system. Chandipur. at Tata Steel Kalinganagar. The project was The guided bomb is developed by the executed by Essar Projects. An International Conference on Petroleum Research Centre Imarat (RCI) , Defence held in Jaipur Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Odisha CM inaugurates 15 projects The 12th Biennial International , along with other laboratories of the DRDO and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Conference & Exposition of Society of the Indian Air Force. inaugurated 15 projects involving an investment Petroleum Geophysicists India was held at of Rs.11,690 crore. Patnaik also launched a Jaipur. Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; Odisha govt announces package of Rs. 124 portal named ‘GO SWIFT’ to help investors get Minister of Skill Development and crores for farmers affected by pest attack: single window facilitation and tracking Entrepreneurship, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan The Odisha government has mechanism online. released a special issue of SPG’s half yearly announced a package of 124 crore rupees for Odisha journal, ‘GEOHORIZONS’. the farmers affected by pest attack in  Capital: Bhubaneswar Theme of the conference: “Energy trough different areas of the state during this year's  Chief Minister: Naveen Patnaik Synergy”. Kharif season. The decision in this regard was  Governor: S. C. Jamir Rajasthan taken at the Agriculture Cabinet meeting chaired  Capital: Jaipur by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in PUDUCHERRY  Chief Minister: Vasundhara Raje Bhubaneswar. Agriculture input subsidy will be Central Government allocated Rs 109 crores  Governor: Kalyan Singh provided to small and marginal farmers, who to promote tourism projects in Puducherry: have sustained crop loss of 33 per cent and Central Government earmarked Rs TELANGANA above due to pest attack at the rate of Rs 6,800 109 crores to promote heritage and spiritual Telangana Government Declares Urdu as per hectare in rain-fed/non-irrigated areas, and tourism projects under ‘Swadesh Darshan’ Second Official Language: Rs 13,500 per hectare in areas under assured Scheme in Puducherry. The main focuses on Telangana Chief Minister K irrigation. integrated development of tourist circuits around Chandrashekar Rao declared Urdu as the specific themes. state’s second official language. Every office India successfully test fires indigenous sub- Puducherry in the state will now have an Urdu speaking sonic cruise missile ‘Nirbhay’:  Chief Minister: V. Narayanasamy officer. India successfully test-fired its first  Governor: Kiran Bedi indigenously designed and developed long 20th International Children’s Film Festival range sub-sonic cruise missile 'Nirbhay', PUNJAB of India begins: which has 1,000 km operational range and a Punjab government collaborates with Save The 20th International Children’s capacity to carry warheads of up to 300 kg. the Children organization Film Festival of India (ICFFI) kick started in Nirbhay missile with a turbo-fan engine is guided The State Commission for Protection Hyderabad with “New India” as the main by a highly advanced inertial navigation of Child Rights (SCERT) Joined hands with theme this time. The festival largest in the world system. It was successfully test fired from the Save the Children organization with an aim and titled "Golden Elephant" will be hosted by Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur along to promote child safety in state and also to the Telangana Government jointly with CFSI and the Odisha coast. The state-of-the-art missile educate the people on Child Sexual Abuse and the ministry of I&B, Government of India. developed by the Defence Research and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences

Development Organisation. (POCSO) Act 2012. On this occasion, a program Telangana and Patanjali Group signed an called ‘Satark Main, Surakshit Main’ was MoU to establish ‘Food Park’

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Telangana government Joined Hands districts. The new committee will supervise all the My Book’. The event has been organised by with the Patanjali group with an aim to set up development works in Darjeeling and Kalimpong. Sharjah Book Authority (SBA) . ‘Food Park’. The Patanjali Group will set up a It will be headed by Mann Ghising, president of Rathore in Egypt to attend World Youth large food park in Telangana with units for Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) . Forum: processing edible oil, fruit pulp and spices. West Bengal The Minister of State (Independent TSIIC Managing Director: EV Narsimha Reddy  Capital: Kolkata Charge) Youth Affairs and Sports Col. Patanjali Group CEO: Acharya Balakrishna  Chief Minister: Mamata Banerjee Rajyavardhan Rathore has left to attend Telangana  Governor: Keshari Nath Tripathi World Youth Forum, scheduled to be held at  Capital: Hyderabad INTERNATIONAL Sharam El Shiekh, Egypt. Col Rathore has  Chief Minister: Chandrasekhar rao Recent Cabinet Approvals been deputed on behalf of the Prime Minister  Governor: E. S. L. Narasimhan  The Cabinet Committee on Economic Shri Narendra Modi to represent the country at Affairs chaired by the Prime Minister the Forum. UTTARAKHAND Shri Narendra Modi, has accorded the The five-day forum will be inaugurated Uttarakhand celebrates its 17th formation ex-post facto approval for by the President of Egypt Mr Abdelfateh El Sisi. day: implementation of Special Banking The Forum aims to provide a platform to the Uttarakhand celebrated the 17th Arrangement (SBA) for Rs. 10,000 youth from all over the globe to engage with the formation day with a number of events held crore for payment of outstanding claims key global policy makers. The forum will cover across the state on November 9, Chief Minister on account of fertilizer subsidy in the role of youth in business and innovation, Harish Rawat attended the event held at Police year 2016-17. challenges and making of future leaders, gender Lines to mark the day.  The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime equity and women empowerment among other Uttarakhand Minister Shri Narendra Modi has given things.  Capital: Dehradun its ex-post facto approval for the trade China, U.S. sign deals worth $9 bn:  Chief Minister: Trivendra Singh Rawat Agreement between India and United States President Donald  Governor: Krishna Kant Paul Ethiopia for strengthening and Trump landed in China, both countries signed promoting trade and economic co- deals worth USD nine billion. China and the UTTAR PRADESH operation. The trade Agreement will U.S. have sealed a total of 19 deals covering Allahabad to get India’s first black buck replace the existing trade Agreement bioscience, aviation and smart conservation reserve: signed in 1982. manufacturing. The deals were signed in the Uttar Pradesh cabinet decided to  The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime presence of Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang, make India's first conservation reserve for Minister Shri Narendra Modi has given who oversees economic issues, and U.S. black buck in Allahabad's Meja. It is believed its approval for signing and ratifying an Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. that the decision taken for protection of black Agreement between India and US, Qatar hold first counter-terrorism deer will also help in wooing tourists. Armenia on cooperation and mutual dialogue: Radha Mohan Singh inaugurates three-day assistance in customs matters. In a commitment to expand their Organic World Congress 2017: counter-terrorism partnership, the United Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare First ever International AYUSH Conference States and Qatar have held their first dialogue Minister, Shri Radha Mohan Singh will and Exhibition held in Dubai: over it in Washington D.C. The U.S. and Qatari inaugurate the three-day Organic World India will hold Dubai’s first-ever officials discussed regional terrorist threats, Congress – 2017 being organized at India Expo AYUSH conference to spread awareness about counter-terrorism financing, regulation of the Centre in Greater Noida. The Organic World the prevention and management of lifestyle charitable sector, information sharing, and Congress (OWC) is organized once every three diseases through Yoga and Ayurveda. aviation security. The Qatari delegation was led years in a different country and this time it is ‘International AYUSH Conference and by Major General Abdul Aziz al Ansari, being organised in India. The last edition of the Exhibition 2017’ with the theme of ‘Lifestyle Chairman of Qatar's National Counter Terrorism Organic World Congress took place in Istanbul, diseases: Prevention and management Committee, while the US delegation was headed Turkey, in 2014. The goal is to move from through AYUSH’ will be organised from by Nathan A Sales, Coordinator for organic India to the organic world. November 9-11 by Science India Forum, a Counterterrorism Ambassador. Uttar Pradesh voluntary group for propagation of science Qatar  Capital: Lucknow among masses, with the support of Ministry of  Currency: Qatari riyal  Chief Minister: Yogi Adityanath AYUSH.  Capital: Doha  Governor: Shri Ram Naik Hong Kong is World's Top City for  Prime Minister: Abdullah bin Nasser International Visits: bin Khalifa Al Thani WEST BENGAL Hong Kong remains the world's most India re-elected member of UNESCO's The 23rd edition of the Kolkata visited city by international travellers in spite executive board: International Film Festival inaugurated: of strained relations with neighbouring China. In India was re-elected as the member Kolkata International Film Festival a report on the top 100 city destinations that of the UNESCO's executive board, its top (KIFF) , India’s second oldest film festival, will highlights the growth in Asian tourism market decision- making body. The election was held at screen an assemblage of 143 films spanning 53 research firm Euromonitor International approved the 39th session of the General Conference of the countries under 16 different categories till Nov 25.7 million arrivals are expected in Hong Kong United Nations Educational, Scientific and 17. Britain will be the focus country this year in 2017. Cultural Organisation in Paris. in commemoration of the UK-India Year of World’s third largest book fair opens in US-China signs trade contract worth $220 Culture 2017. Sharjah: billion: West Bengal government framed Hill Area With more than 1.5 million book titles US President Donald Trump's 1st Development Committee headed by Mann and 1,650 publishing houses from 60 countries, visit to China, both nations signed business Ghising: Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) contracts worth $220 billion. US Commerce The Home and Hill Affairs Department opened its doors to public and trade visitors. It is Secretary Wilbur Ross signed 19 agreements. has constituted a “Hill Area Development the third largest book fair in the world. The This is a sign of both the nations moving towards Committee” for Darjeeling and Kalimpong book fair was held under the theme ‘A World in a healthy relationship. The contracts signed Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

|Legend Magazine | November - 2017| 11 included the Chinese purchase of Boeing jets for four highly advanced polar-orbiting satellites, China, US was held at the Vivekananda US$37 billion, mobile phone chipsets from equipped with next-generation technology and International Foundation, a New-Delhi. During Qualcomm for US$12 billion, US$1.6 billion of designed to improve the accuracy of U.S. the meeting, delegates identified specific soybeans and vehicles and parts from General weather forecasts out to seven days. The Joint mechanisms for improving cooperation on a Motors and Ford for a total of US$11.7 billion. Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) lifted off on a trilateral basis to investigate and respond to One of the most substantive agreements United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket from cyber incidents. was a gas deal between the state of Alaska, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Alaska Gasline Development Corp, China Minister of Commerce and Industry Petrochemical Corp (Sinopec) , China Investment 1st WHO Global Ministerial Conference at participate in SCO meeting: Corp and the Bank of China, involving a total Moscow, Russia: The Minister of Commerce and Industry, investment of up to US$43 billion. Shri J P Nadda, Union Minister of Suresh Prabhu participates in the Shanghai USA Health and Family Welfare, reaffirmed India’s Cooperation Organization Meeting of the  President of the United States: Donald commitment to eliminating TB by 2025 at 1st Ministers of Member States responsible for Trump WHO Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Foreign Economic and Foreign Trade. The meet  Currency: United States Dollar TB in Sustainable Development Era’ at Moscow, strengthens India- Russia Investment and  Capital: Washington, D.C. Russia. The National Strategic Plan for TB collaboration in creating JV under the Make in US grants $500k to promote religious elimination in India has essentially four pillars to India initiative of the GOI. freedom in India, Sri Lanka: address the major challenges for TB control, SCO The US has announced a grant of nearly namely- “Detect, Treat, Build and Prevent”.  Headquarters: Beijing, China USD 500,000 for organisations which can come Theme - “Ending TB: Our Promise to Our  Secretary General: Rashid Alimov up with ideas and projects to promote religious People” freedom in India and Sri Lanka. World Health Organization (WHO) U.S and South Korea will begin air force drill Srilanka  Director-General: Tedros Adhanom “Vigilant Ace”  Currency: Sri Lankan rupee Ghebreyesus The air forces of South Korea and the  Capitals: Colombo, Sri  Headquarter: Geneva, Switzerland. United States will hold ‘Vigilant Ace’ a joint Jayawardenepura Kotte drill. Six F-22 Raptor stealth fighters will be  Prime minister: Ranil Wickremesinghe China, Russia to hold computer-simulated deployed in the exercise. According to South UN to host first talks on use of ‘killer anti-missile drill: Korea’s Yonhap news agency, it will be the robots’: Chinese and Russian militaries will biggest number of F-22 fighter jets to participate The United Nations is set to host the hold a Joint Anti-Missile Drill based on in a single drill. first-ever talks on the use of autonomous computer simulations from December 11 to 16 India asks UN to declare 2018 as weapons, but those hoping for a ban on the in Beijing, China. The command-and-staff International Year of Millets: machines dubbed killer robots will be exercise, code-named Aerospace Security- India has asked the United Nations to disappointed, the ambassador leading the 2017, will be the second of such kind held by the declare 2018 as the ‘International Year of discussions. More than 100 artificial intelligence two countries. The first drill, Aerospace Millets’ to promote it as nutrition-rich smart food entrepreneurs led by Tesla’s Elon Musk in Security-2016, was held at the scientific research across the world. A letter in this regard has been August urged the UN to enforce a global ban on center of Russian Aerospace Defense Forces in written to UN Secretary General Antonio fully-automated weapons, echoing calls from May last year. Guterres by Union Agriculture Minister Radha activists who have warned the machines will put The main purpose of the six-day Mohan Singh. civilians at enormous risk. A UN disarmament exercise is to improve the capability of the two grouping known as the Convention on Certain countries, in dealing with accidental and Bali’s Volcano erupts for the First Time: Conventional Weapons (CCW) will hold five days provocative ballistic and cruise missile strikes on Mount Agung, a volcano on Bali, sends of talks on the issue in Geneva. the two countries' territories through holding a thick ash cloud into the sky over the Indonesian drills of joint air defense and anti-missile defense island and grounding thousands of travelers. Syria Signs up Paris Agreement on Climate operations. According to the country’s National Disaster Change: Mitigation Agency the eruptions marked the Syria has officially signed up to the NEA and CTGC Sign Joint Venture Pact to first major activity from Mount Agung since 1963, Paris Agreement, the UN, leaving the United Construct West Seti Hydropower Project: though there is still the threat of an even bigger States as the only country to reject the global Nepal Electricity Authority, NEA eruption to come. climate-rescue pact. War-torn Syria became the signed a joint venture agreement with China India’s Membership for EBRD approved by 169th of 196 countries that are members of the Three Gorges Corporation (CTGC) , a Chinese Union Cabinet: UN climate convention to take the legal step of company to construct 750 MW West Seti Union Cabinet chaired by Prime ratification. Hydropower Project. Estimated cost of this Minister Narendra Modi has approved India’s project will be 1.8 billion US dollars. Membership for European Bank for Saudi recognises Yoga as Sports: CTGC will have 75% stake in the joint Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) . It The Saudi Arabian government has venture and NEA will hold remaining 25%. The would increase the scope of cooperation approved the practice of yoga as a sports project will be completed in 79 months after between India and EBRD through co-financing activity, claimed a social media post of Nouf starting of construction work. West Seti project opportunities in manufacturing, services, Marwaai, founder of the Arab Yoga Foundation in will be spread over Baitadi, Bajhang, Dadeldhura Information Technology, and Energy. The the Saudi kingdom. and Doti districts of Nepal. minimum initial investment towards the  NEA Executive Director: Kulman membership of EBRD will be approximately €1 NASA Launches NOAA Weather Satellite Ghising (one) million. It will be initiated by the Aboard United Launch Alliance Rocket to Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Improve Forecasts: India, China, US agree to cooperate together Finance to acquire the membership of the EBRD. NASA has successfully launched for the on cyberspace security: EBRD National Oceanic and Atmospheric A joint trilateral meeting between  Headquarters: London, United Administration (NOAA) the first in a series of representatives from three countries India, Kingdom Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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 President: Suma Chakrabarti The Union Cabinet approved an peacekeeping and youth as peacebuilders. The ARGENTINA agreement between India and Belarus on discussion will also explore the importance of 4th Global Conference on Sustained Scientific and Technological Cooperation. It economic development in preventing conflict in Eradication of Child Labour Held in is being approved for mutual benefit in the areas fragile states and in sustainably rebuilding post- Argentina: of science, technology, agriculture. The conflict states. The IV Global Conference on the agreement was signed between Indian National Canada Sustained Eradication of Child Labour will be Science Academy (INSA) and National Academy  Currency: Canadian dollar organized by the Government of Argentina and of Sciences of Belarus (NASB) .  Capital: Ottawa held in Buenos Aires. It was concluded with a Belarus call to action to accelerate efforts to end child  Capital: Minsk CHINA labour by 2025 and forced labour by 2030,  Currency: Belorussian ruble China Unveils Asia’s Largest Island-Building and to generate more decent employment  President: Alexander Lukashenko Vessel: opportunities for young people around the world. BHUTAN China unveiled Asia's largest artificial Argentina India-Bhutan Development Cooperation island-building ship. The 140-metre-long  Capital: Buenos Aires Talks: vessel, which has been dubbed as "magic island  Currency: Peso The Annual India-Bhutan maker", is capable of digging 6,000 cubic metres  Prime Minister: Mauricio Macri Development Cooperation Talks were held in an hour, which is equivalent to three standard New Delhi. The Indian delegation was led by Mr. swimming pools, according to reports. The vessel BANGLADESH Vijay Gokhale, Secretary (Economic Relations) , is expected to be delivered in June next year Adani Power Inks Power Purchase Ministry of External Affairs, and the delegation after being tested completely. Agreement with Bangladesh: from Bhutan was led by Dasho Sonam Tshong, Adani Power said its arm Adani Foreign Secretary of Bhutan. China launches two BeiDou-3 navigation Power (Jharkhand) has inked long-term pact The Annual Development Cooperation satellites on single carrier rocket: with Bangladesh Power Development Board Talks is an important bilateral mechanism to China, which is building its own to supply electricity from its upcoming 1,600 MW review the entire gamut of India’s development navigation system to rival United States’ GPS, plant at Godda in Jharkhand. The company’s partnership with Bhutan. Government of India has launched two BeiDou-3 satellites into wholly-owned subsidiary Adani Power has committed assistance of Rs. 4500 Crore for space though a single carrier rocket. The (Jharkhand) Limited has signed a long-term implementation of development projects during satellites were launched aboard a Long March-3B power purchase agreement (PPA) for net capacity Bhutan’s 11th Five Year Plan (2013 – 2018) . carrier rocket last night from Xichang Satellite of 1,496 MW with Bangladesh Power The two sides also initiated discussions on Launch Center in the southwestern province of Development Board for 25 years. Government of India’s assistance to the 12th Sichuan. Five Year Plan (2018-2023) of the Royal The two newly-launched satellites Narendra Modi, Sheikh Hasina to launch Government of Bhutan. represent the third phase of the BeiDou Indo-Bangla train: Bhutan Navigation Satellite System. This system will Prime Minister Narendra Modi and  Currencies: Indian rupee, Bhutanese provide services for countries involved in the Belt his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina will ngultrum and Road Initiative, and form a complete global flag off a new Indo-Bangla train, strengthening satellite navigation system by 2020 — by which  Capital: Thimphu bilateral ties and communication. The commercial time China plans to have more than 30 satellites. service between Kolkata and Khulna, the third- CANADA largest city of Bangladesh, will roll out after Modi 4th India-Canada Annual Ministerial China launches world’s first fully electric and Hasina flags it off through a special video cargo ship: Dialogue begins: conference. They would also launch an 'end-to- China launched the world’s first all- A high-level delegation led by the end' immigration facility to ease Dhaka-Kolkata Canadian International Trade Minister, Mr. electric ship, which can travel up to 80 km with Maitree train services. 2000-tonnes cargo after a two-hour charge. It François-Philippe Champagne is visiting India was launched in Guangzhou in South China’s to attend the 4th Annual Ministerial Dialogue India and Bangladesh joint military combat Guangdong Province. The ship has been (AMD) scheduled to begin in New Delhi. The exercise “Sampriti” begins in Meghalaya: Indian delegation will be led by the Commerce manufactured by the Guangzhou Shipyard ‘SAMPRITI 2017’, the seventh edition International Company Limited powered by a 26- and Industry Minister, Shri Suresh Prabhu. India of Indo-Bangladesh joint military training tonne lithium battery. It can cruise at the top and Canada would be focusing on some of the exercise begun in Meghalaya. The exercise will speed of 12.8 km per hour. key commercial drivers to enhance the India- be held from 6th – 18th November 2017. The Canada partnership in the current round of the main Objective of this exercise is to enhance China Successfully launched Three Remote Ministerial Dialogue. The trade ministers of both interoperability between army personnel of India Sensing Satellites countries are likely to discuss issues to explore and Bangladesh while carrying out joint counter- ways of expediting the early conclusion of the China launched three remote sensing insurgency or counter-terrorism operations. It satellites designed to improve observation CEPA and the Foreign Investment Promotion and will engage in a joint counter-terrorist training capability to promote commercial use for the Protection Agreement. exercise at India's Jungle Warfare School at remote sensing industry. The three satellites

Vairengte in Mizoram and at the Joint Training names are Jilin-1 04, Jilin-1 05 and Jilin-1 06. Dr. Bhamre to Represent India at ‘UN Node at Umroi in Meghalaya. It was launched on a Long March-2C rocket Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial: Bangladesh from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Vancouver 2017’  Capital: Dhaka Raksha Rajya Mantri Dr. Subhash southwestern Sichuan province. The Long March-  Currency: Bangladeshi taka 6 rocket was developed by China Aerospace Bhamre will represent the Government of India Science and Technology Corporation. at the ‘UN Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial: BELARUS China Vancouver 2017’ at Vancouver in Canada. It Scientific and Technological Cooperation  Currency: Renminbi will be the second time Dr. Bhamre will be agreement between India and Belarus  Capital: Beijing attending the conference. Focus will be on  Prime minister: Li Keqiang Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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 President: Xi Jinping affirmative action, developed countries will travel records to Japan twice or more in the last earmark a percentage of Overseas one year. FINLAND Development Assistance (ODA) towards solar India and Finland tie up to boost IT, energy projects in developing countries. He also Moon Mission by India and Japan Renewable energy: spoke about the Government plans to increase India and Japan will collaborate to India and Finland tie up to boost in the the share of renewable energy in India’s energy send a joint mission to the moon, which includes areas of trade and investment, renewable mix, especially towards achieving cumulative landing a rover and bringing samples back to energy and science and technology. Minister installed renewable power capacity of 175GW the earth. This is the second time that Japan and for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj and her by 2022. India are teaming up for a moon mission. Finnish counterpart Timo Soini reviewed whole GERMANY Indian Space Research Organisation scope of bilateral relations. Already, India’s  Currency: Euro (ISRO) Chairman A S Kiran Kumar and Japan annual trade with Finland has crossed $1 billion.  Capital: Berlin Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) President Finland Naoki Okumara signed the agreement.  Capital: Helsinki GUINEA Japan  Currency: Euro Guinea becomes new member of ISA:  Capital: Tokyo  President: Sauli Niinisto External Affairs Minister Sushma  Currency: Yen Swaraj held a meeting with Guinea’s Foreign  Prime minister: Shinzō Abe FRANCE Minister, Mamady Toure, during which the latter

Shri R. K. Singh leads Indian Delegation in handed over his country’s instrument accession KAZAKHSTAN the IEA Ministerial, Paris: to the India-initiated International Solar Indo – Kazakhstan Joint Exercise “PRABAL Union Minister of State (IC) for Alliance (ISA) . DOSTYK 2017”: Power and New & Renewable Energy, Shri Guinea A fourteen-day joint training exercise Raj Kumar Singh led the Indian delegation in  Currency: Guinean franc “PRABAL DOSTYK – 2017” between the Indian the International Energy Agency (IEA)  Capital: Conakry Army and the Kazakhstan Army commenced Ministerial, being held in Paris. The Minister with the Opening Ceremony at Bakloh, emphasised the importance of clean energy and ISRAEL Himachal Pradesh. The joint exercise is aimed assured achievement of 175GW of renewable ‘EX BLUE FLAG-17’- kicks off with India for at enhancing the military ties between the two target of India while addressing the Plenary the first time: countries as also at achieving interoperability Session on Driving the Transitions to Clean ‘EX BLUE FLAG-17’ kicked off along between the two armies. The training contingents Energy. with air forces from nine countries - the largest comprise of platoon strength from the 11th At the Ministerial, India signed joint aerial exercise ever held by the Israel Defence Gorkha Rifles of the Indian Army and a similar work programmes with IEA and other key Forces. For the first time, the Indian Air strength of the Kazakhstan Army. members of the IEA Family i.e. Brazil, Chile, Force or IAF is participating in Blue Flag 2017. A

India, Indonesia and Thailand. The event 45-member contingent of the Indian Air Force Kazakhstan to change its name by 2025: focusses on energy security, clean energy touched down Uvda Air Force Base in southern Kazakhstan is changing its name to technology and government-industry dialogue on Israel for exercise ‘Blue Flag-17’. Blue Flag is a Qazaqstan as part of a transition from Cyrillic to investment and digitalization, which would bi-annual multilateral exercise which aims to a Latin-based script. A national commission will provide major opportunities for efficiency gains in strengthen military cooperation amongst be set up to oversee the transition, which will be the energy sector in the future. participating nations. completed by 2025. FRANCE Teams from India, the United States, Kazakhstan  France President: Emmanuel Macron Greece, Poland, France, Italy and Germany  Currency: Kazakhstani Tenge  Currencies: Euro, CFP franc are taking part in the exercise, along with Israel  Capital: Astana  Capital: Paris and an eighth country unidentified by the IDF.

The Indian Air Force sent a C-130J transport NEPAL GERMANY plane. International Conference on “Ramayan India Pavilion Launched at Cop 23 in Bonn: Israel Circuit and Mithila-Awadh Relations” begins The India Pavilion at COP 23 was  Currency: Israeli new shekel in Janakpur: inaugurated by Union Minister of Environment,  Capital: Jerusalem An international Conference on Forest and Climate Change, Dr. Harsh Vardhan “Ramayan Circuit and Mithila-Awadh at Bonn in Germany. The Minister is leading the JAPAN Relations” started at Janakpur in Nepal. Indian delegation, which is participating in the India, Japan begins three-day anti- Eminent experts from India and Nepal 23rd Conference of Parties (COP-23) to the submarine drill: participating in the two-day event. Culture United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Navies of India and Japan began a Minister of Nepal Jitendra Naryan Dev Change (UNFCCC) being held at the Bonn, three-day anti-submarine warfare exercise inaugurated this conference. The basic objective Germany. India’s theme for COP 23 “Conserving in the Indian Ocean region to deepen their of the conference is to give thrust on all aspects Now, Preserving Future”. It focuses on India’s operational coordination in the strategically of social, cultural and religious ties between positive climate actions in adaptation, mitigation, important sea lanes around the two countries. Mithila and Awadh besides developing clean technology innovation and renewable Japan to relax visa regime for Indians from connectivity between Janakpur and Ayodhya as energy. January 1: twin cities. Japan will simplify its visa rules from

Founding Ceremony of International Solar January 1 next year for Indians and issue 5th meeting of Nepal-India Oversight Alliance Held in Germany: multiple-entry-visa for short-term stay, a move Mechanism held at Kathmandu: Founding Ceremony of the which is expected to benefit tourists and business The 5th Meeting of Nepal-India International Solar Alliance (ISA) was held at persons as well as repeat visitors, the Japanese Oversight Mechanism, co-chaired by Foreign Bonn, Germany. Shri Anand Kumar, Secretary, embassy. Multiple entry visas with a validity of Secretary Mr. Shanker Das Bairagi and Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, five years maximum and stay of 90 days Ambassador of India to Nepal Mr. Manjeev Government of India hoped that, in the spirit of maximum will be issued to applicants who have Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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Singh Puri, was held in Kathmandu. The partnership with ASEAN, as well as review the based lending rate (MCLR) by the largest Indian meeting made a comprehensive review of the broad spectrum of India-ASEAN cooperation in all bank, last made on January 1 this year, has thus progress achieved in the implementation of its aspects. brought its MCLR down to 7.95 per cent from 8 bilateral projects since the 4th meeting of the Apart from the 10 ASEAN Member per cent, the SBI. mechanism held on 06 July 2017. states, East Asia Summit includes India, China, The MCLR on overnight borrowings has Japan, Republic of Korea, Australia, New Zealand, been reduced to 7.70 per cent from 7.75 per 10th South Asia Economic Summit begins in United States and Russia. India, being a cent, while the rate for three-year tenures has Kathmandu: founding member of the East Asia Summit, is been lowered from 8.15 per cent to 8.10 per The 10th South Asia Economic committed to strengthening the East Asia cent. Summit (SAES) will begin at Kathmandu. The Summit and making it more effective for dealing theme of three-day summit is “Deepening with contemporary challenges. At the 12th East SBI reduces lending rates on home and Economic Integration for Inclusive and Asia Summit, Leaders will discuss matters of vehicle loans: Sustainable Development in South Asia”. regional and international interest and concern India's largest lender State Bank of The summit is being organised by National including maritime security, terrorism, non- India (SBI) announced reduction of interest Planning Commission and Ministry of Commerce proliferation, irregular migration, etc. rates on home and automobile loans by five of Nepal and South Asia Watch on Trade, Philippines basis points (bps) . In a statement issued here Economics and Environment, Nepal. Vice  Currency: Philippine peso the bank said, it has reduced home loan interest Chairman of National Planning Commission of  Capital: Manila rates to 8.30 per cent. Similarly, automobile Nepal Dr. Swarnim Wagle told that the summit loan is now offered at a starting interest rate of will be on development of South Asia. 8.70 per cent per annum compared to earlier POLAND South Asia Economic Summit (SAES) 8.75 per cent. With this reduction, SBI's offering MoU signed between India & Poland for Civil was started in 2008. It is a regional platform for Aviation Cooperation in home loan is the lowest in the market. The discussing and analyzing economic and new rates will be effective from November 01. The Union Cabinet has given its approval development issues and challenges faced by for signing the Memorandum of Understanding South Asian countries and advancing the cause of Michael Jackson named top-earning dead (MoU) between India and Poland for the regional integration and cooperation. Promotion of Civil Aviation Cooperation. The celebrity for 5th time: Nepal Late singer Michael Jackson has been MoU would be for a term of five years. The  Prime minister: Sher Bahadur Deuba named the highest-earning dead celebrity for objective of the MoU is to recognize the mutual  Currency: Nepalese rupee benefit of Cooperation in the field of Civil Aviation the 5th consecutive year by Forbes. His  Capital: Kathmandu earnings have been estimated to be $75 million having particular significance in establishing and PHILIPPINES (Rs.485 crore) . Two other singers who have improving Regional Air Connectivity in India. PM Modi inaugurated Rice Field laboratory featured among the top five are Elvis Presley and Poland in Manila named after him:  Capital: Warsaw Bob Marley, with earnings of $35 million (Rs.226 Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited crore) and $23 million (Rs.148 crore)  Currency: Polish zloty the International Rice Research Institute respectively.  Prime Minister: Beata Szydlo (IRRI) in Los Banos, Philippines and inaugurated ‘Shri Narendra Modi Resilient Transcorp launches pre-paid card in THAILAND Rice Field Laboratory’. Four agreements association with Yes Bank: 7th Asian Ministerial Energy Roundtable in were signed by India and Philippines in areas Forex and inward solutions provider Bangkok: including Defence Cooperation and Logistics, The Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas Transcorp International launched a platinum agriculture, Micro, Medium and Small pre-paid card in association with Yes Bank that and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Shri Enterprises-MSME and forging closer relations can be used for transactions in stores and ATMs Dharmendra Pradhan will be on an official visit between the Indian Council of World Affairs and to Bangkok, Thailand to participate in the IEF 7th across the country. The card is being launched in the Philippines Foreign Service Institute. In the association with Yes Bank, the country’s leading Asian Ministerial Energy Roundtable (AMER7) . bilateral meeting between Prime Minister private bank and RUPAY – India’s very own India is the current chair of Narendra Modi and the Philippines President switch powered by NPCI. International Energy Forum (IEF) which is Rodrigo Duterte, it was agreed that bilateral promoting the AMER - a biennial event bringing The maximum amount that can be cooperation in areas of terrorism and boosting loaded is Rs 10,000 in case of non-KYC (Know together Energy Ministers and experts from Asian trade and investment could be further enhanced. Your Customer) compliant card and Rs 1,00,000 countries. The Government of Thailand will host IRRI is a premier research in case of KYC compliant card this prestigious biennial event, which is a key organisation dedicated to reducing poverty and feature of the global energy dialogue promoted hunger through rice science; improving the PFRDA increases upper age limit to join NPS under the neutral banner of the International health and welfare of rice farmers and to 65 years: Energy Forum. The Ministerial will be co- consumers; and protecting the rice growing Hosted by the United Arab Emirates. The Pension Fund Regulatory and environment for future generations. Development Authority (PFRDA) has raised Thailand 15th ASEAN-India Summit and 12th East the upper age limit to join under NPS-Private  Currency: Thai baht Asia Summit in Manila, Philippines: Sector from 60 years to 65 years. Now, any  Capital: Bangkok Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Indian Citizen, resident or non-resident, between will attend the 15th ASEAN-India Summit and the age of 60- 65 years, can also join NPS and BANKING & BUSINESS the 12th East Asia Summit to be held in continue up to the age of 70 years in NPS. NPS SBI cuts benchmark lending rate by 0.05 pc Manila, Philippines on 14 November 2017, at across maturities: provides a very robust platform to the subscriber the invitation of H.E. Mr. Rodrigo Roa Duterte, to save for his/her old age income security. State Bank of India (SBI) has cut is President of the Republic of the Philippines. At benchmark lending rate by 0.05 per cent the 15th India-ASEAN Summit, the prime Coal India Launched Grahak Sadak Koyla across maturities, effective from November 1, minister and ASEAN Leaders will review the Vitaran App: according to an announcement by the state-run commemorative activities undertaken in Public sector undertaking Coal India lender. The reduction in marginal cost of funds 2017 to mark the 25 years of India's dialogue has launched the ‘Grahak Sadak Koyla Vitaran Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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App’ aimed at benefitting customers of the retains the top position for the seventh index to 108, behind neighbours China and company that are being supplied coal by road. consecutive year Bangladesh, primarily due to less participation of The app will allow users to monitor, whether the Only five Indian women feature on the women in the economy and low wages. despatches are made on the fair principle of ‘First list this year. CEO of HCL Enterprise Roshni Bangladesh has topped the South Asian in First Out’ and keeps track of all the activities Nadar Malhotra (57) , Chairperson of Biocon countries in gender equality for the third from issuance of sale order to physical delivery of Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (64) , Chairperson of consecutive year, ranking 47th among 144 coal by road. Hindustan Times Group Shobhana Bhartia (92) nations while China was placed at 100th. The main features of the app are that and actress Priyanka Chopra (97) are the other Iceland has topped the index for the it provides date-wise, truck-wise quantity of coal Indian women who featured on the list. ninth straight term, followed by Norway, delivered against the Sale Orders and information Finland, Rwanda and Sweden. Yemen is at the related to Scheme-wise, Colliery-wise, Grade- AU Small Finance Gets Scheduled bottom. The Maldives comes 2nd after wise, customer-wise details of Sale Orders issued Commercial Bank Status: Bangladesh among the South Asian nations, during a period. AU Small Finance Bank has received ranking 106th. Pakistan remains at the lowest Reserve Bank of India (RBI) approval to position in this region. India Posts bank to have nationwide operate as Scheduled Commercial Bank. This operations by April: bank's name has now been included in the ICICI bank teams with apple to launch voice India Posts Payments Bank services Second Schedule of Reserve Bank of India based International Remittance: are expected to be available across the country Act, 1934. Post acquiring scheduled commercial ICICI Bank, the country's largest by April, Communications Minister Manoj Sinha. bank status, AU Small Finance Bank will be able private sector bank by consolidated assets, has The IPPB branches are operational in Raipur and to do borrowing and lending with RBI under launched voice-based international remittance Ranchi. All these branches will be linked to rural Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF) and service on its “Money2India” application. This post offices. There are 1.55 lakh post offices in Marginal Standing Facility (MSF) . It will also would enable a Non-Resident Indian (NRI) the country. Payments banks can accept deposits enable AU Small Finance Bank to issue customer of ICICI Bank to send money to any of up to Rs 1 lakh per account from individuals Certificate of Deposits (CDs) on competitive bank in India via just a simple voice command to and small businesses. interest rates in market to get liquidity. Apple's virtual voice assistant, Siri, on his/her  MD & CEO of AU Small Finance Bank: Apple iPhone/iPad with IOS version 10. Available Goa named safest for women in India, Bihar Sanjay Agarwal 24x7 and on-all-days. most unsafe: A first-of-its-kind cross border The safest state to be a woman in ONGC Gets Government Nod for Acquiring remittance service by a bank in the country, it India is Goa, followed by Kerala, Mizoram, HPCL: improves customer's convenience significantly as Sikkim and Manipur. States where women and ONGC has received the Information it replaces a five-step process, which was girls are the most vulnerable are Bihar, Memorandum from the Department of required to initiate a remittance to India earlier. Jharkhand, UP and, perhaps not so surprisingly, Investment and Public Asset Management ICICI Bank is the first bank in the country to Delhi. for acquiring majority stake in fellow public- leverage on Apple's virtual voice assistant to The findings of the first-ever Gender sector undertaking HPCL. ONGC’s acquisition of enable cross border remittances. Vulnerability Index (GVI) are expected to help 51.11 per cent stake in HPCL is in line with the identify the challenges women face with respect government’s plan to create an integrated energy HSBC Bank pledges $100 billion of finance to four parameters — education, health, poverty major with businesses spread across the by 2025 to combat climate change: and protection against violence and assist policy hydrocarbon value chain. HSBC has pledged to provide $100 makers mark out priorities. The report was  ONGC Chairman & MD: Shashi billion in financing and investment by 2025 to prepared by Plan India and released by Justice Shankar help combat climate change. They promised Madan B Lokur at a conference organised jointly $100billion of finance for low-carbon technology by Plan India and the women and child YES, bank signs MoU with Government for and sustainable development by 2025 as part its development ministry. Rs, 1000 Crore: commitment to tackling climate change and other Private sector lender Yes Bank signed “green” goals. HSBC said it will facilitate financial Pakistan rated among most dangerous an agreement with the government to provide flows to help boost support for clean energy countries for journalists: Rs 1,000 crore financing for food processing and lower carbon technologies. An International Index for Press projects. The funding will be provided to around Freedom has placed Pakistan among the most 100 food processing projects with an average Paytm Introduces BHIM UPI for Money dangerous countries for journalists along ticket size of Rs 10 crore each. The memorandum Transfer: with the Philippines and Bangladesh. The 2017 of understanding (MoU) amid the ongoing three- Digital payment platform Paytm World Press Freedom Index, prepared by day World Food India being organised by the introduced payments using BHIM UPI on its international media advocacy group Reporters Food Processing Ministry platform, using which users can create their own Without Borders (RSF) , ranked Pakistan 139th Paytm BHIM UPI ID on the app, which will be out of 180 countries surveyed for the report. In Fake News named as Word of the Year: issued by Paytm Payments Bank. Also, Paytm 2016, Pakistan was 146th. India is 136th in the “Fake news”, a term heavily users can link any of their savings bank account report. popularised by US President Donald Trump, with this unique Paytm BHIM UPI ID and start has been named the word of the year by Collins sending and accepting money. With Paytm BHIM Forbes names Chanda Kochhar the most dictionary due to its widespread use around the UPI, users can now make seamless and instant powerful woman in India: world. The U.K.-based lexicographer found that money transfers directly between two bank The Indian women on the 14th edition of the use of “fake news” registered a 365% rise in accounts, with no waiting time to add beneficiary. the annual rankings include CEO of ICICI Bank the last 12 months. For example, if a Paytm user's Chanda Kochhar was named the most registered mobile number is 9123456789, the powerful woman in India as she ranked 32nd India falls 21 places in global gender UPI ID will be generated as in World's 100 Most Powerful Women list by equality report, ranks 108 in 144-nation list: 9123456789@paytm. Users can link their Paytm Forbes. German Chancellor Angela Merkel India slipped 21 places on the World BHIM UPI ID with their existing savings bank Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap account. 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Karachi. Karachi branch was its first in South  Currency: Dollar HDFC Bank makes RTGS, NEFT online Asia. The bank would strengthen the "brotherly transactions free: relations" between the two countries in the SEBI Imposes Fine on Gujarat CM Family for HDFC Bank Ltd has made online financial sector. Manipulative Trading: transactions through RTGS and NEFT free of Pakistan According to SEBI order, Rupani's cost from 1 November, with an aim to  Currency: Pakistani rupee alleged manipulative transactions took place promote a digital economy, but various  Capital: Islamabad between January-June 2011. His Hindu Undivided charges for cheque-related transactions as well  Prime Minister: Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Family (HUF) has been asked to pay a fine of Rs as request for additional leaves will get costly  State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Governor: 15 lakh. In May 2016, SEBI had issued a from early next month for non-managed savings Tariq Bajwa common show cause notice to the 22 entities and salary accounts. alleging violations under Prohibition of Earlier, customers were levied Rs 25 Dubai based Emirates NBD bank begins Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices each for Rs 2-5 lakh online transaction via RTGS operations in India: (PFUTP) relating to the securities market, and Rs 50 each for such money transfers over Emirates NBD, the UAE's second- including Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani's Rs5 lakh. Online NEFT transactions attracted a largest lender, has started operations in Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) , which has been fee of Rs 2.5 for less than Rs 10,000, Rs 5 for Rs India with an aim to invest USD 100 million asked to pay a Rs 15 lakh fine for manipulative 10,001-1 lakh and Rs15 for transactions between capital into its Indian operations. The Mumbai trading through a listed firm called Sarang Rs1 lakh and Rs 2 lakh. For NEFT transactions of branch marks the bank's fifth international Chemicals. over Rs 2 lakh, there was a fee of Rs 25. branch outside of its UAE network. The branch However, any NEFT or RTGS transaction carried will offer a range of services to corporate, SME PNB MetLife to sell policies to Bahrain Bank out at the bank branch will be payable. and institutional clients including trade finance, customers: treasury services, bilateral and syndicated loans Private sector life insurer PNB MetLife Linking Aadhaar with insurance policies in addition to supporting NRI (non-resident has inked a corporate agency tie-up with Bank mandatory: IRDAI Indian) customers looking for cross-border of Bahrain and Kuwait (BBK) to sell retail and Regulator IRDAI said that linkage of wealth management solutions. group insurance products of the company to the the unique identity number Aadhaar with  Group CEO of Emirates NBD: foreign bank’s customers in India. PNB MetLife insurance policies is mandatory and asked Shayne Nelson will also offer its wide array of best-in-class and insurers to comply with the statutory norms. The innovative insurance solutions to BBKs India Authority clarifies that, linkage of Aadhaar IDFC Bank Partners with MobiKwik: customers spread across its branches. number to Insurance Policies is mandatory under On the first anniversary of the Prevention of Money-laundering demonetisation, IDFC Bank has entered a Mumbai to host Asian Bankers Association (Maintenance of Records) Second “strategic alliance” with mobile wallet major summit: Amendment Rules, 2017, the Insurance MobiKwik to launch a co-branded virtual Visa For the first time, the nation’s Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDAI) prepaid card for customers of MobiKwik. financial capital will host the 34th annual said.  Co-Founder, MobiKwik: conference of the Asian Bankers Association Upasana Taku (ABA) this week. The two-day conference will be India at 7th Position in Business Optimism held in the megapolis from November 16 and will Ranking: GST rate on 178 items which are used daily, be hosted by State Bank, with the theme of India has slipped to the 7th position reduced from 28 percent tax: ‘Asia’s turn to transform’, SBI said. this quarter in business optimism ranking in The tax rates on over 200 items, Founded in 1981, the ABA serves as a Grant Thornton’s International Business ranging from chewing gum to chocolates, to forum for advancing the cause of the banking Report (IBR) survey. Last quarter, India was beauty products, wigs and wrist watches, were industry and promote regional economic ranked second in the survey. Indonesia is at the on cut to provide relief to consumers and cooperation across the continent. top, followed by Finland (2nd) , the Netherlands businesses amid economic slowdown. As many as (3rd) , Philippines (4th) , Austria (5th) and 178 items of daily use were shifted from the top Rajyavardhan Rathore releases the India Nigeria (6th) , as per Grant Thornton's tax bracket of 28 per cent to 18 per cent, Youth Development Index and Report 2017: International Business Report (IBR) . while a uniform 5 per cent tax was prescribed Union Minister of State for Youth Affairs for all restaurants, both AC and non-AC, Finance and Sports (Independent Charge) Col. ICEX completes first diamond futures Minister Arun Jaitley said after the GST Council Rajyavardhan Rathore released the India contract of Rs 173.32 crore: meeting. Youth Development Index and Report 2017 Indian Commodity Exchange (ICEX) in New Delhi. The objective of constructing the , the world's first diamond derivatives Federal Bank gets RBI nod to open offices in India Youth Development Index (YDI) 2017 exchange, said it has successfully completed Kuwait, Singapore: is to track the trends in Youth Development first-ever diamond futures contracts Federal Bank has obtained RBI across the States. The Index enables recognizing settlement with the total traded quantity in approval to open representative offices at the high and low performing states, identifies the November expiry for 5,382.08 carats valued at Kuwait and Singapore. The bank has been the weak domains and informs the policy makers the Rs 173.32 crore. ICEX had commenced preferred banker for NRIs and the NRI friendly priority areas of intervention for youth operations on August 28 with the launch of three measures have resulted in increasing inflow of development in the states. monthly diamond futures contracts - of foreign remittances. The bank already has its The Rajiv Gandhi National Institute November 2017, December 2017 and January representative offices in Abu Dhabi and Dubai of Youth Development (RGNIYD) , 2018 expiry, respectively. and it has tied up with 110+ overseas Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, an Institute of banks/remittance partners. It has already National Importance has come out with Youth Bank of China Begins Operations in received approval from RBI for opening a branch Development Index and Report 2017. This is a Pakistan: in DIFC, Dubai and a representative office in pioneering attempt made by the Institute in 2010 Bank of China (Chairman: Chen Bahrain, the setting up of which is under process. which it followed up with the India Youth Siqing) formally launched its operations in Singapore Development Index in 2017. Pakistan, with its first branch inaugurated in  Capital: Singapore Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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Uber approves Softbank Multibillion Dollar worth of $44.8 billion, up $19 billion from the Denmark Investment offer: previous year, Forbes said.  Capital: Copenhagen Uber Technologies Inc. approved Despite dropping to the No. 2 spot,  Currency: Krone SoftBank Group Corp.’s offer to buy a Korea’s Lee family still saw their wealth soar by  Prime Minister: Lars Lokke multibillion-dollar stake in the ride-hailing $11.2 billion to $40.8 billion this year, as shares Rasmussen company, setting the stage for one of the largest of Samsung Electronics are up 75 percent over private start-up deals ever. The agreement lets the past year. Ericsson ties up with Airtel for next step,5G SoftBank and other firms invest up to $1 billion Multinational networking and in Uber and proceed with a tender offer in coming India second highest Bingers: telecommunications company Ericsson weeks to buy up to $9 billion in shares from Binge watching in public is the new headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden partnered existing investors. trend in India, and Indians are the second- with India’s largest telecom operator Bharti highest public bingers in the world, just behind Airtel for deploying 5G technology in the Wholesale Price Index rises to six months Mexico, according to a survey. The survey, country. high of 3.59 % in October: released by online streaming platform Netflix, Apart from Ericsson, Airtel has similar Wholesale inflation rose to a six- shows how most Indians are binge watching in partnership with Nokia for 5G technology month high of 3.59 per cent in October from public with 71 per cent more people doing so this standard and management of connected devices. 2.6 per cent in September as food items and fuel year than the last, read a statement. became more expensive. WPI Food Index Indians are the second-highest public IOC joined hands with Ola consisting of food articles from primary articles bingers in the world (88 per cent) , just behind Indian Oil Corporation, ties up with group and food product from manufactured Mexico (89 per cent) . Ola, launched the country’s first electric products group increased to 3.23 per cent in charging station in Nagpur. Nagpur, is the first October 2017 from 1.99 per cent in September. Paytm and ICICI Bank ties up together to city to introduce Electric Public Transportation offer short-term instant digital credit Model in India, has now started the first electric India will overtake Japan and Germany in Paytm, India’s largest payments charging station at IOC’s petrol pump in Nagpur. nominal GDP by 2028: platform has partnered with ICICI Bank, the OLA India will emerge as the third largest country’s largest private sector bank by  CEO: Bhavish Aggarwal economy overtaking Japan over the next ten consolidated assets, to jointly launch ‘Paytm-  Headquarters: Bengaluru years on the back of falling dependency, financial ICICI Bank Postpaid’ the most seamless way maturity and higher income and affordability, to access interest-free short-term digital credit. PNB, ACE joined hands for farm machinery says a report by Bank of America Merrill This new offering will enable millions of Paytm financing Lynch. The country has already overtaken Brazil customers to get access to instant credit for Punjab National Bank (PNB) and and Russia to emerge as the second largest BRIC the first time for everyday use-cases ranging Action Construction Equipment Ltd (ACE) economy after China and is well on track to cross from movies to bill payments to flights to have tied up for augmenting tractors/agricultural France and Britain to emerge as the world's physical goods. implements financing to the farmers across the fifth largest economy after Germany by This is the country’s first tie up country through PNB’s branch network. A 2019. between a Scheduled Commercial Bank and a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was payments platform to offer digital credit to signed by B. M. Padha, Corporate General BSE Institute sets up India's first in-house customers of the commerce platform instantly. Manager, PNB and Ashok Kumar Tomar, COO, Block Chain Lab: There is no transaction, joining or hidden ACE (Agriculture Division) . The leader in financial education, administration fees either. Punjab National Bank Bombay Stock Exchange Institute Ltd. (BIL) ,  Headquarters: New Delhi has signed an MoU with DLT Labs in Mumbai Reliance General Insurance ties up with Yes  CEO: Sunil Mehta to set up the country's first state-of-the-art Block Bank: Chain Lab in an institution. The collaborative Reliance General Insurance, a Qatar has been named the World’s Richest efforts of BSE Institute and DLT Labs aim at subsidiary of Reliance Capital, inks a Country providing knowledge driven and best in class bancassurance agreement with YES Bank. Based on the per capita income of its education and training in the field of financial This is the first partnership signed by YES Bank people, Qatar has been named the World’s technology, especially Block Chain. since the open-architecture norms under the Richest Country as per the recent corporate agency regulations were introduced by International Monetary Fund (IMF) report. RBI Rejects HDFC Bank's Request to the IRDAI in April 2016. The per capita GDP (gross domestic product) of Declassify HDFC as FII: Yes Bank Qatar is over Rs. 81 lakh. India, with a GDP of The Reserve Bank of India has  Headquarters: Mumbai over Rs. 4 lakh per person, is in 126th position. reportedly rejected HDFC Bank's plea to  CEO: Rana Kapoor Top 3 Countries in the list are 1. Qatar; 2. declassify its parent Housing Development  Tagline: Experience our Expertise Luxembourg; 3. Singapore Finance Corporation Limited (HDFC) as a India’s global ranks 14 in reducing foreign institutional investor (FII) . This YES FINTECH collaborates with ICDK India greenhouse gas emissions decision would impact HDFC Bank's fund-raising to create Fintech Innovation ecosystem in India is ranked 14th in this year’s program via the qualified institutional placement Denmark and India: Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) (QIP) route. As FII would be blocked from Private sector lender Yes Bank’s YES 2018 for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) investing in the bank, it would limit the fund- FINTECH signed an MoU with Innovation emissions by opting to transform its electricity raising options to domestic investors only. Centre Denmark India (ICDK India) , a sector towards green technology. China, with its partnership between the Ministry of Foreign high emissions ranks 41st. The report was made Mukesh Ambani Topped Forbes List of Asia's Affairs of Denmark and the Danish Ministry of by the UN Climate Change negotiations Richest Families: Higher Education and Science. The tie up is to (COP23) in Bonn. As in all past editions of the Mukesh Ambani family has topped bring Fintech innovations and startups from CCPI, the places 1 to 3 remain unoccupied the list of Asia’s 50 Richest Families with a net Denmark to India and to expand both the because even after the Paris Agreement came markets. into force, no country has yet done enough to Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

|Legend Magazine | November - 2017| 18 prevent the dangerous impacts of climate Messaging app Hike has tied up with Kings, Thomas Cook, Yatra, Airbnb, Swiggy and change. Sweden ranks 4th in the list this year. Airtel Payments Bank to power its mobile Byus. The India’s aim to reduce greenhouse wallet product. Hike users will have access to gas emissions by at least 40 per cent and the bank’s different products including merchant “Smart Banking 24×7” e-Lobbies by Kotak increase energy efficiency and renewable by at and utility payments. It was the first company Mahindra Bank least 27 per cent by 2030. in India to receive a payments bank license from Kotak Mahindra Bank (Kotak) the Reserve Bank of India. launched “Smart Banking 24X7” e-lobbies, in RBL Bank opens its First all women branch Airtel Payments Bank the Mumbai suburbs of Juhu and Powai. It is a 24 in Chennai:  Headquarters: New Delhi hour accessible e-Lobbies which gives Private sector RBL Bank has set up an  CEO: Shashi Arora customers the freedom to complete banking all women branch in Chennai. The branch at R A  Parent organization: Bharti Airtel transactions at any hour of the day as per their Puram would be managed by eight women and convenience. The banking services includes cash offer all products and services across liability and Paytm invests in lending startup CreditMate: withdrawals, cash deposits and cheque deposits. assets. The women branch is to encourage SoftBank and Alibaba-backed Paytm The bank is focused on offering accessible and gender equality. RBL Bank currently serves said it has invested in Mumbai-based lending simple banking solutions to the customers. 3.54 million customers. It has 246 branches and startup CreditMate. CreditMate was founded in Kotak Mahindra Bank 389 ATM services across the country. 2016 by Jonathan Bill, Ashish Doshi and Aditya  Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra RBL Bank Singh. The company focuses on secured lending  Executive Vice Chairman & MD: Uday  CEO: Vishwavir Ahuja against two-wheelers. Paytm will use Urja Kotak  Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra Money’s owned CreditMate technology to create  Tagline: ‘Let’s make money simple’ a loan management system in collaboration with NRIs, PIOs don’t need to link bank a/c, PAN lending partners. Axis Bank Launched Block Chain-based with Aadhaar, UIDAI clarifies International Payment Service Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) , Samsung and UP govt sets ‘Smart For retail and corporate customers, Person of Indian Origin (PIOs) and Overseas Healthcare Programme’ Private sector lender Axis Bank has launched an Citizens of India (OCI) are not required to link Samsung India, a subsidiary of the instant international payment services using bank accounts and other services with Aadhaar, South Korea-based electronics major has Ripple’s enterprise blockchain technology by the Unique Identification Authority of India partnered with the Uttar Pradesh government solution. The bank is offering the facility only (UIDAI) . to set-up 20 new smart healthcare centres to its retail customers in the country to receive UIDAI across the state to provide health care payments from the UAE-based Rak Bank and for  Chairman: Shri J Satyanarayana equipment’s. The objective of the tie up is to its corporate customers to receive payments from  Headquarters: New Delhi offer affordable and quality healthcare to patients Standard Chartered, Singapore. Ripple makes Moody’s Upgrades India’s Sovereign Rating from the economically and socially weaker international remittances faster and for First Time in 14 Years sections of society. transparent for customers while ensuring International rating agency Moody’s security and improving efficiencies. Investors Service has upgraded India’s Canara Bank unveils Canarites app and Axis Bank sovereign bond rating to Baa2 from Baa3 and digital library  Headquarters: Mumbai its short-term local currency rating to P-2 from P- Canara Bank celebrated its Founder’s  Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and MD: 3 for the first time in nearly 14 years. Day by launching several initiatives and benefits Shikha Sharma Moody’s Investors Service for its staff. It includes a Canarites app, a  Headquarters: New York, United digital library, a field recovery mobile app, a Facebook launches Training hubs which will States retail loan (vehicle) – tracking system, and a Train 5 Lakh Indians by 2020:  CEO: Raymond W. McDaniel regulatory guidance tracking system were Social networking giant Facebook said launched. Canara Bank was founded on July 1, it expects to train about five lakh people in Boeing ties up with HAL to build Super 1906, by Ammembal SubbaRao Pai, at India on digital skills by 2020 and has unveiled Hornets: Mangaluru. two programmes designed for individuals and The Boeing Company ties up with Canara Bank start-ups. Two programmes namely Facebook Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) to explore  Headquarters: Bengaluru, Karnataka Digital Training and Facebook Startup the co-manufacture of its F/A-18E/F Super  Current MD & CEO: Rakesh Sharma Training Hubs are being rolled out in India Hornet fighter in India. Along with HAL, Boeing  Tagline: ‘Together we can’ before any other country. also intends to involve the Mahindra Group in The Facebook Digital Training Hub will building Super Hornets in India. SBI launches YONO APP for Financial provide free social and content marketing Boeing Services training. Facebook Startup Training Hub will  Headquarters: Chicago, United States State Bank of India has launched a help developers and tech startups build  CEO: Dennis Muilenburg unified integrated app called YONO. It offers all better products and businesses. Facebook, Google, Twitter join ‘The Trust kinds of financial and lifestyle products. The Project: abbreviation of YONO is You Need Only One. It FDI increased by 17% to USD 25.35 billion To Identify fake news and help readers is the first digital banking platform which during April-September fiscal identify trustworthy news sources, Facebook, offers customised products to the customer. FDI increased by 17% to USD 25.35 Google, Twitter and several media YONO will also allow customers to meet their billion during April-September fiscal. Telecom, organisations have joined the non-partisan “The lifestyle needs across 14 categories including trading, computer hardware and software and Trust Project”. “The Trust Project” is led by booking and renting cabs, entertainment, dining automobile are the main sectors which attract journalist Sally Lehrman of Santa Clara experience, travel and stay, medical needs. foreign inflows. The bulk of the FDI came in from University. To provide the customised offers and Singapore, Mauritius, the Netherlands, and discounts, SBI has partnered with nearly 60 e- Japan. The department of industrial policy and Hike ties up with Airtel Payments Bank for commerce players including Amazon, Uber, promotion (DIPP) , under the commerce and mobile wallet: Ola, Myntra, Jabong, Shoppers Stop, Cox & industry ministry, deals with FDI related issues. 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Tata Steel Ltd has promoted T V R K Kulshrestha assumes charges as GM, RBI Raises Shareholding Limit of ARCs Narendran as chief executive officer and Southern Railway: The Reserve bank of India (RBI) managing director globally. Narendran, 52, a RK Kulshrestha took charge as allowed Asset Reconstruction Companies (ARCs) company veteran who joined the Tata ranks in General Manager, Southern Railway. Prior to to hold more than 26% post-conversion of debt 1988, was serving as managing director (India this, he was General Manager, Northern Railway. into equity in companies undergoing and South-East Asia) for the past four years. An alumnus of IIT, Roorkee, he had worked in restructuring. Now, the central bank notified the various capacities in Eastern Railway, South extent of shareholding post-conversion will be in Vikram Singh Appointed Private Secretary to Eastern Railway, Southern Railway, South Central accordance with permissible foreign direct President: Railway, West Central Railway and investment (FDI) limit for that specific sector. Railway officer Vikram Singh was RDSO/Lucknow. The criteria are ARC should also appointed Private Secretary to President Ram maintain New Owned Fund (NOF) of Rs. 100 Nath Kovind. Singh is a 1997 batch officer of Madhu Azad becomes Gurgaon’s first crore and should have at least half of the board the Indian Railway Traffic Service. The woman mayor: members as independent directors to be eligible Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has The Millennium City got its first for exemption from the shareholding limit. approved his appointment to the post for a period woman mayor with Madhu Azad of the BJP of two years. winning the post. APPOINTMENTS Birendra Prasad Baishya re-elected as Govt forms panel under Yashwant Thorat to Binoy Kumar appointed as Special Secretary President of IWLF: study merger of weak DCCBs with MSC in Commerce Ministry: Indian WeightLifting Federation Bank: Senior IAS officer Binoy Kumar has President Birendra Prasad Baishya has been The state government has formed a been appointed Special Secretary in the elected chairman of two sub-committees of committee to study the feasibility of merging commerce ministry. The 1983-batch IAS officer the parent international body. Baishya was financially weak District Central Cooperative of the Telangana cadre is the Director General of elected as chairman of International Banks (DCCBs) with the Maharashtra State Directorate General of Supplies and Disposals Weightlifting Federation’s Ethics Cooperative (MSC) Bank. The panel, headed by (DGS&D) , the procurement arm of the central Commission as well as of Anti-Disciplinary former NABARD chairman Yashwant Thorat, government that will be closed on October 31. Commission at the world body’s Executive is expected to submit its report in a month’s Committee Meeting held at Bucharest. The newly time. Priti Patel resigns cabinet over Israel formed Executive Committee of IWLF comprises meetings: seven vice-presidents, while Sahdev Yadav Shamika Ravi to be appointed as member of Britain’s international development became the secretary general. PM economic panel: secretary, Priti Patel, became the second Shamika Ravi, a senior fellow at cabinet minister to quit in a week, a significant Bharti AXA Life Appoints Vikas Seth as CEO: Brookings India, would be appointed as part- new setback for Prime Minister Theresa May. Ms. Bharti AXA Life Insurance, a joint time member of the Economic Advisory Patel, 45, resigned after breaching ministerial venture between Bharti Enterprises and AXA, Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) . rules by holding a dozen unauthorized meetings has appointed Vikas Seth as Chief Executive Headed by NITI Aayog member Bibek Debroy, with Israeli officials during a summer vacation. Officer. The appointment is subject to requisite the EAC-PM includes NITI Aayog's Principal IRDAI approval. Prior to joining Bharti AXA Life, Advisor Ratan Watal as its member and Multi-agency group reconstituted to probe Vikas was with the Aditya Birla Group, where he economists Surjit Bhalla, Rathin Roy and Ashima Paradise Papers: worked for nearly 10 years in different roles. Goyal as part-time members. A Multi-Agency Group (MAG) will Vikas succeeds Sandeep Ghosh, the erstwhile investigate the Paradise Papers on offshore CEO of Bharti AXA Life Insurance, who moved to Mary Kom named Youth World financial holdings, including a list 714 Indian Hong Kong for a role at AXA. Championships ambassador: individuals and entities. The government also Five-time world champion and Olympic said that it had so far zeroed in on 147 actionable Japanese lawmakers re-elect Shinzo Abe as bronze medalist MC Mary Kom named as the cases and 279 non-actionable cases relating to PM: ambassador of the upcoming AIBA Women's the earlier published Panama Papers. The Japanese lawmakers have re-elected Youth World Championships. The event, which Panama Papers disclosures too had been made Shinzo Abe as Prime Minister, Liberal is being hosted in Guwahati, Assam is scheduled by the International Consortium of Democratic Party (LDP) following the to be held from November 19 to 26. Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) . governing coalition’s landslide victory in a general The government has directed that election last month. Abe was re-elected by both Nasir Kamal Appointed Additional Director investigations in cases of Paradise Papers will be Houses of the Diet. General of BSF: monitored through a reconstituted Multi-Agency The competent authority has appointed Group, headed by CBDT Chairman and Suresh Chukkapalli Appointed as Consul Shri Nasir Kamal, as Additional Director including representatives from the Central Board General of Korea: General, Border Security Force for a period of of Direct Taxes, ED (Enforcement Directorate) , Suresh Chukkapalli, Chairman of four years from the date of assumption of RBI (Reserve Bank of India) and FIU (Financial Phoenix Group of Hyderabad appointed as charge of the post. Intelligence Unit) . Honorary Consul General in Hyderabad by the Republic of Korea, with consular jurisdiction Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia Sanjeev Kaushik appointed as whole-time over the state of Telangana. South Korea is the designated as Finance Secretary: member of SEBI: fourth largest economy in Asia and the 11th Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia Sanjeev Kaushik was appointed a largest in the world known for its global has been designated as the new Finance whole-time member of market regulator corporations. Secretary. The vacancy was caused following Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) . the superannuation of Ashok Lavasa last month. Kaushik, a 1992-batch IAS officer of the Kerala Tata Steel elevates T V Narendran as global Adhia is a 1981 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre, is the Chairman and Managing Director CEO, MD: cadre. of India Infrastructure Finance Company

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(IIFCL) . He has been appointed to the post for And now, Bharat Khandare is all set to be the "fallen short" of the standards expected by the a period of three years or till the age of 65 years. first Indian-born Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) UK military. fighter in the UFC. Ravinder Singh elected first Sikh mayor of Bangladesh cricket coach Chandika US city: Vijay Prasad Dimri Appointed President of Hathurusingha resigns: Ravinder Bhalla has become the first 36th International Geological Congress: Chandika Hathurusingha, the head ever Sikh mayor of New Jersey's Hoboken Scientist Vijay Prasad Dimri has been coach of Bangladesh’s national cricket team city after a stiff competition. appointed as the president of the 36th has resigned, the sport’s board said. International Geological Congress (IGC) , a Environment ministry forms 7-member global platform for advancement of earth science, Chakravarthi appointed as ambassador of panel for air pollution in Delhi: to be held here in 2020. The Appointments World Packaging Organisation (WPO) : The Union environment ministry Committee of the Cabinet, headed by Prime Chakravarthi AVPS, Managing formed a seven-member committee headed by Minister Narendra Modi, has approved Dermis Director, Ecobliss India appointed as global environment secretary CK Mishra, to appointment in place of Shailesh Nayak. ambassador of the World Packaging formulate short and long-term measures to solve India, along with its co-host Organisation (WPO) . He is the first Asian to the problem of air pollution in the Delhi-NCR neighbouring countries Bangladesh, Nepal, get this honour. The honorary appointment was region. Srilanka and Pakistan won the bid to host the made in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the 99th 36th IGC in the National Capital Region from board meeting of WPO. Slovenia’s President Borut Pahor wins March 2 -8, 2020. India had organised the 22nd World Packaging Organisation second term: session of IGC at New Delhi in 1964. Thus, the  President: Thomas Schneider Slovenian President Borut Pahor was IGC is returning to Indian subcontinent after a re-elected for a second term after winning a gap of 56 years. First Female Black Rod in Britain runoff election against a former comedian Marjan Sarah Clarke, appointed as the Black Sarec who currently serves as the mayor of a Ganga Kumari becomes first transgender to rod in Britain after Queen Elizabeth II approval. northern town. be appointed in Rajasthan Police: It is the first time a woman has held the now Slovenia Twenty-four-year old Ganga Kumari is largely ceremonial parliamentary position in its  Currency: Euro all set to be Rajasthan’s first and India’s third 669-year history. Clarke will take over early next  Capital: Ljubljana transgender to join a state police force. year from David Leakey, who has been Justice Dinesh Mehta asked the force to Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod since 2011. appoint Kumari within six weeks from the date of Debjani Ghosh to be the first woman to be the order along with the notional benefits from Anand Rajeshwar Baiwar takes charge as President of NASSCOM in 2018: year 2015. SEBI executive director The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) named Anand Rajeshwar Baiwar has taken RBI Governor Urjit appointed to Financial charge as an executive director. He will look after Debjani Ghosh as its President-Designate, who Stability Institute Advisory Board: the Investigation Department and Division of will succeed R Chandrashekhar after completion of his tenure in March next year. RBI Governor Urjit Patel has been Foreign Portfolio Investors and Custodians. He is appointed to the Financial Stability Institute an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer of the Ghosh, former managing director of Intel South Advisory Board or the Bank of International 1990 batch. Asia, will be the first woman President of Settlement (BIS) . Bank for International The Securities and Exchange Board of Nasscom. Settlements is an international financial India (SEBI) had also promoted two senior organisation owned by 60-member central banks employees Amarjeet Singh and Nagendraa Ravi Bangar concurrently accredited as the across the world. Parakh as executive directors in July. next Ambassador of India to Ecuador: Shri Ravi Bangar, presently The Financial Stability Institute (FSI) of the BIS assists financial sector authorities Ira Joshi appointed as the Director General Ambassador of lndia to Colombia, has been worldwide in strengthening their financial of Doordarshan News concurrently accredited as the next systems. The Advisory Board will provide Following the retirement of Veena Jain, Ambassador of India to Ecuador, with residence in Bogota. strategic advice to help the FSI continue to Ira Joshi has been appointed as the Director meet its mandate in a way that is responsive to General of Doordarshan News. Previously, Ira

the changing needs of its key stakeholders Joshi was the director general of Press Bhaskar Ganguly, former football captain, around the world. Information Bureau (PIB) . The appointment was appointed AIFF ombudsman by Supreme Jaime Caruana, General Manager of made by Ministry of Information and Court: the BIS, will be Chair of the new FSI Advisory Broadcasting. The Supreme Court had appointed Board (until 30 November 2017 after which he Doordarshan former football captain Bhaskar Ganguly as ombudsman of All India Football Federation will be replaced by Agustín Carstens, incoming  Headquarters: New Delhi General Manager of the BIS) .  Launched in: 1959 (AIFF) . It also appointed S Y Quraishi, former

Chief Election Commissioner of India, who has Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) appoints S Zimbabwe’s new president: Emmerson also served as Secretary in the Ministry of Youth Ravi as its new chairman: Mnangagwa Affairs and Sports, Government of India as the Eminent chartered accountant Emmerson Mnangagwa, a 75-year-old ombudsmen to formulate the AIFF Constitution Sethurathnam Ravi has been appointed as the liberation war veteran to be sworn in as within eight weeks. Chairman of the Bombay Stock Exchange. president. He belongs to the ruling Zanu - PF Ravi, who was a public interest director at the party and also, he is the former vice-president of Bharat Khandare becomes first India-Born BSE, replaces Dhirendra Swarup. Zimbabwe. He was succeeded by Mr. Robert Fighter to sign with Ultimate Fighting UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon Mugabe. He stepped down after 37 years ruling Championship: resigns: the country. Earlier this year Arjan Singh Bhullar Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon Zimbabwe became the first Indian to sign up in the UFC. has resigned, saying his behaviour may have  Capital: Harare Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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 Currency: Zimbabwe Dollar protesters belonging to hard-line religious  Prime Minister: Morgan Tsvangirai groups. Krishna Sobti gets prestigious Jnanpith award 2017: First Female Pilot in Indian Navy AWARDS Eminent Hindi Literature Krishna Shubhangi Swaroop became the first- K Satchidanandan selected for Ezhuthachan Sobti has been awarded the 53rd Jnanpith ever female pilot in the Indian Navy. She will Puraskaram: Award for the year 2017 for her path-breaking be flying a maritime reconnaissance aircraft. She Noted Malayalam Poet and literary contribution to Indian literature. Jnanpith is the has been appointed in the Naval Armament critic, K Satchidanandan, has been selected for highest literary award of the country. She was Inspection (NAI) branch after pilot training at this year's Ezhuthachan Puraskaram, Kerala also the recipient of the first Katha Chudamani Dundigal Air Force Academy near Hyderabad. She government's highest literary honour. The award Award, in 1999, for Lifetime Literary belongs to Bareilly, a district in Uttarpradesh. is for his contributions to Malayalam literature Achievement. Shalaka Award of the Hindi Besides her, three other women cadets and poetry. He was also a former editor of Indian Academy Delhi and in 2008, her novel Samay Astha Segal from New Delhi, Roopa A from Literary Journal and former secretary of Sahitiya Sargam was selected for Vyas Samman, Puducherry and Sakthi Maya S from Kerala have Akademi. instituted by the K. K. Birla Foundation. also been inducted in the Navy's armament division. Google honours Urdu writer Abdul Qavi Girish Karnad to be honoured with Tata Desnavi with a doodle: Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri Search engine giant Google paid 2017: resigns: tribute to Urdu writer, critic and linguist Abdul Indian playwright, actor, film director, Lebanon’s prime minister Saad al- Qavi Desnavi on his 87th birth anniversary and writer Girish Karnad has been announced Hariri resigned, citing an assassination plot with a special doodle. Desnavi, who was born in as the recipient of the Tata Literature Live! against him and accusing Iran and its Lebanese Desna village in Nalanda district of Bihar, passed Lifetime Achievement Award for 2017. The ally Hezbollah of sowing strife in the Arab world. away on July 7, 2011 in Bhopal where he spent award will be presented to Mr Karnad at Tata Lebanon his life. Literature Live!’s Annual Awards ceremony to be  Currency: Lebanese pound held on November 19, 2017, at the National  Capital: Beirut Venezuela’s opposition awarded European Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) , Nariman Union’s Sakharov Prize for human rights: Point, Mumbai. Bangladesh Chief Justice Surendra Kumar The democratic opposition and political Sinha resigns: prisoners in Venezuela have won the European Srirangam temple wins UNESCO award: Bangladesh Chief Justice Surendra Union's Sakharov Prize for human rights. The massive renovation and restoration Kumar Sinha has resigned about six weeks The prize, named after Soviet physicist and effort at the Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple in after he went on leave amid criticism by the dissident Andrei Sakharov, was awarded to Srirangam has won the UNESCO Asia Pacific government over a Supreme Court verdict which Venezuela’s opposition-led National Assembly Award of Merit 2017 for cultural heritage scrapped Parliament’s power to remove judges legislature. conservation. on grounds of misconduct and incapacity. Justice Sinha which term was scheduled to expire in Royal Opera House at Mumbai gets UNESCO Air New Zealand wins Airline Excellence January next year is the first top judge of the heritage award: Award for the 5th time: country to step down. The restored Royal Opera House, Air New Zealand has been crowned located at Mumbai's Charni Road, has received “2018 Airline of the Year” by leading Sujoy Ghosh Resigns as Jury Head of 48th the Award of Merit from the 2017 UNESCO international aviation. The award marks the International Film Festival of India: Asia-Pacific 5th consecutive year Air New Zealand has Filmmaker Sujoy Ghosh resigned as received the top honour in its Airline Excellence Jury Chairman of the 48th International Film Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation. Awards. It is followed by Qantas Airways, Festival of India (IFFI) 2017 Indian Panorama Meanwhile, amongst this, all Mumbai Singapore Airlines, Virgin Australia and Virgin section in protest against the dropping of two bagged the maximum number of UNESCO Atlantic. films from the lineup. Malayalam filmmaker Sanal Heritage Awards for - Christ Church and Royal Kumar Sasidharan’s S Durga and Ravi Jadhav’s Opera House (Award of Merit) , Bomonjee Mohan Joshi honoured with Vishnudas Marathi film Nude were rejected by the Ministry Hormarjee Wadia Fountain and Clock Tower and Bhave award: of Information and Broadcasting despite being Wellington Fountain (Honourable Mention) . Renowned Indian film and television selected by the jury constituted as per the Indian Ahead, Delhi bagged for Haveli Dharampura in actor Mohan Joshi was honoured with the Panorama regulations. Shahjahanabad. The other two winners from prestigious Vishnudas Bhave award for his India were the Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple contribution to the theatre. The award was Pakistan’s Saeed Ajmal retires from all in Srirangam, Tamil Nadu, and the Gateways of presented to Joshi by veteran actor Jayant forms of cricket: Gohad Fort near Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. Sawarkar. The award is conferred with memory Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal of Vishnudas Bhave, the founder of Marathi announced his retirement from all forms of Tata Power Solar bags Dun & Bradstreet theatre. cricket, two years after losing his wicket-taking award: bite with a remodelled bowling action that was Tata Power Solar has won ‘Dun & Apollo Munich Health Insurance Wins twice deemed illegal. In his international career, Bradstreet - Everest Infra Awards 2017’ General Insurance company of the Year: Ajmal picked 178 wickets in 35 Tests, 184 under Infrastructure Project category for Apollo Munich Health Insurance wickets in 113 ODIs, and 85 wickets in 64 T20I. commissioning India's largest solar project under Company, a joint venture between integrated Domestic Content Requirement for NTPC at healthcare provider, Apollo Hospitals Group, and Zahid Hamid: Pakistan’s Law Minister Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh. The 100-MW the Munich Re Group was conferred with the Resigns project is expected to generate nearly 160 million 21st Asia Insurance Industry Awards in the Pakistan’s Law Minister Zahid Hamid units (kWh) of energy per year and help offset "General Insurance Company of the Year" stepped down from his post following the deadly approximately 110,000 tonnes of CO2 in the first category. The award recognises Apollo Munich's clashes across the country between police and year. contribution in demonstrating market leadership Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

|Legend Magazine | November - 2017| 22 during the qualifying period via innovation in S.No Award (Sub- Winner passenger airliner Airbus A380 for 100 products, services, practices, responsiveness to Category) metres. The plane which weighs 3.02 lakh kg end-users and intermediaries, initiatives in 1 Agri, food and Rays Culinary was dragged by 56 police officers to break the boosting the image of insurance in society. forestry Delights Pvt. Ltd. previous record set by 100 people who pulled a products 2.18-lakh kg airplane at Hong Kong International Indian Short Film ‘The School Bag’ Wins 2 Engineering SenseGiz Airport in 2011. award in Montreal: systems Technologies Pvt. Indian short film 'The School Bag', Ltd. NINL gets prestigious Kalinga Safety Award: which tells a story based in Pakistan, has won Neelachal Ispat Nigam Limited 3 Renewable Atomberg the Best Short Film Award at the South Asian (NINL) received the prestigious “Kalinga energy and Technologies Pvt. Film Festival of Montreal (SAFFM) , said by waste Ltd. Safety Award” in the 8th Odisha State Safety the director Dheeraj Jindal. management Conclave. The Odisha-based NINL got the award in gold category for best safety 4 IT & ITES, Naffa Innovations Maya Swaminathan Sinha awarded performer of the year 2016.S B Jagdale, Jt Financial Pvt. Ltd. Entrepreneur of the Year by ASSOCHAM: Managing Director, NINL received the award from ASSOCHAM (Associated Chambers of 5 Education Simulanis Solutions Odisha Governor S C Jamir at a ceremony. It was Commerce and Industry of India) bestowed Pvt. Ltd. organised by Institute of Quality and CMC Skills’ Founder Ms. Maya Swaminathan 6 Hospitality Oravel Stays Pvt. Ltd. Environment Management Services (IQEMS) Sinha with the 'Entrepreneur of the Year 7 E-Commerce, LogiNext Solutions and institute of Public Enterprises. Award 2017' in Ranchi. The award was logistics, Pvt Ltd. presented by Hon'ble Governor of Jharkhand, transport & UNHCR to get Mother Teresa Award 2017 for Smt. Draupadi Murmu. ASSOCHAM the apex other services social justice: body of industry & commerce of India had 8 Social Sampurn(e) arth The United Nations High organized “One Day National Summit on Enterprises Environment Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has Leadership Cum Awards 2017’’ in Ranchi. Solutions Pvt. Ltd. been named as the recipient of the Mother 9 Barefoot Thejaswini Coconut Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice, Natalie Portman has been awarded Israel’s Enterprises Farmers Producer 2017 as an acknowledgement of its exceptional 2018 Genesis Prize: Company Ltd. work worldwide by Harmony Foundation. The Natalie Portman has been awarded 10 Woman SP Robotic Works UNHCR provides humanitarian aid to innumerable Israel’s 2018 Genesis Prize in recognition of Enterprise Pvt. Ltd. people internally displaced by conflicts and her commitment to social causes and deep helping stateless people all over the world. connection to her Jewish and Israeli roots, ATP World Tour Awards 2017: Harmony Foundation's theme for 2017 - organizers of the prize announced. The $1 The winners of the 2017 ATP World Compassion Beyond Borders million award, known as “the Jewish Nobel Tour Awards presented by Moët & Chandon Prize,” is granted each year to a person were revealed as the year’s best eight singles Mithali Raj named best sportswoman at recognised as an inspiration to the next players and doubles teams gathered at the Tower Indian Sports Honours: generation of Jews through professional of London for the 2017 Nitto ATP Finals. Indian women’s cricket team captain achievement and commitment to Jewish values. Rafael Nadal was recognised for his Mithali Raj bagged the Indian Sportswoman achievement of clinching the year-end No. 1 of the Year (Team Sports) award at the Indian Girija Devi to get posthumous Lifetime Emirates ATP Ranking for the fourth time in his Sports Honours (ISH) event held in Mumbai. Achievement award: career. Roger Federer was selected by his peers Further, Mithali-led Indian team, which ended as Eminent classical singer late Girija Devi as Comeback Player of the Year for the first time runners-up in the World Cup, won the Team of will be honoured with the prestigious Sumitra and as the recipient of the Stefan Edberg the Year award. Charat Ram Award for Lifetime Sportsmanship Award for the 13th time. Achievement. The award will be presented by Tecau was named the recipient of the Arthur IFFI personality of the year award for Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of State (Ministry of Ashe Humanitarian Award for his efforts in Amitabh Bachchan: Housing and Urban Affairs) to the thumri championing children’s rights and education in Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan maestro's daughter, Sudha Datta, at Kamani his home country of Romania, while Godwin will be honoured with personality of the year Auditorium. won Coach of the Year after guiding countryman award at the upcoming International Film Kevin Anderson to his first Grand Slam final at Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa. IFFI founded National Entrepreneurship Awards 2017 the US Open earlier this year. in 1952, is considered to be one of the most hosted by MSDE: prestigious film festivals in Asia. Embarking on an ambitious mission to Transport for London gets 2017 Bad empower Indian youth with skill training and Grammar Award by The Idler Academy in West Bengal gets GI Tag for ‘Rosogolla’: employability, the Ministry of Skill Britain: West Bengal’s Rosogolla gets GI Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE) “Transport for London” has been (Geographical Indication) tag. Bengal claimed hosted the National Entrepreneurship Awards given the 2017 ‘Bad Grammar Award’ by The that the delicacy was invented in Kolkata by 2017. The awards were conferred in the Idler Academy in Britain. The award was confectioner Nobin Chandra Das in the 1860s. presence of Minister of Finance and Minister of instituted by the academy to highlight “the The GI tag was primarily developed with the Corporate Affairs Shri Arun Jaitley, Minister of incorrect use of English by people and institutions purpose of recognising the unique identity Petroleum and Natural Gas and Minister of Skill who should know better.” connecting different products and places. For a Development & Entrepreneurship Shri product to get GI tag, it has to have a unique Dharmendra Pradhan, Ambassador of Japan to Dubai police officers set a Guinness World quality, reputation or characteristic which is India Shri Kenji Hiramatsu. Record by pulling 3 lakh kg plane: attributable to its geographic origin. List of Winners Dubai police officers set a Guinness World Record by pulling the world’s largest Indonesia wins Miss International 2017:

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Indonesia's Kevin Lilliana was Canadian Filmmaker Atom Egoyan will be Foreign Language category at the 90th Academy crowned Miss International 2017 at an event honoured by lifetime achievement Award: Awards. held at the Tokyo Dome City Hall. First runner- Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan will Presented by: UNESCO (United Nations up: Chanelle Wilhelmina Maria (Curacao) . get the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Second runner-up: Diana Macarena Croce Garcia International Film Festival of India (IFFI) , said , FIAPF (International Federation of Film (Venezuela) . Miss International Asia: Nam Seung by Information and Broadcasting Minister Smriti Producers Associations) and Brisbane City Woo (Korea) . Irani. Council, Australia The festival is planned to be held in the Abu Dhabi award for APMDC: western state of Goa. Egoyan is best known for Five Indian films nominated for ICFT- The Andhra Pradesh Mineral his films “Exotica”, “The Sweet Hereafter” and UNESCO Gandhi Medal Development Corporation (APMDC) bagged “Chloe”. The International Film Festival of Abu Dhabi Award. The ADI PEC (Abu Dhabi India (IFFI) has nominated a total of Nine International Petroleum Exhibition and Prof. Yashwantrao Kelkar Youth Award 2017 movies for this year’s International Council for Conference) Excellence in Energy Awards 2017 will be received by Gopinath R.: Film, Television and Audiovisual Communication had adjudged the APMDC as the winner for the The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ICFT) UNESCO Gandhi Medal. All 9 films are second position in the category of “social (ABVP) which is the largest student organization being screened at the ongoing IFFI in Panaji, contribution in country value”. The award was has selected Gopinath R. for Prof. Goa. The Award will be given to a film that best received by T Venkatesh, General Manager Yashwantrao Kelkar Yuva Puraskar 2017. reflects Mahatma Gandhi’s ideals of peace, (Marketing) . Gopinath R. is a child care activist from tolerance and non-violence. Bengaluru and he is currently taking care of 400 The Indian films competing for the Nicaraguas Sergio Ramirez wins Spains children. It will be presented to him on 2nd prestigious ICFT UNESCO Gandhi Medal among Cervantes Prize: December 2017 in a special function at the 63rd nine films are Kshitij – A Horizon, Nicaraguan author and former politician National Conference of ABVP, held at Ranchi Manusangada, Poorna, Railway Children and Sergio Ramirez Mercado won the 2017 (Jharkhand) . Take-Off. The foreign films in the fray are Amok Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world’s from Poland, Khibula – a co-production of highest literary honor. Spanish novelist Eduardo Pawan Kalyan gets IEBF Excellence Award Germany, France and Georgia, The Last Painting Mendoza won the prize in 2016. The prizes are Pawan Kalyan (Tollywood Actor) has from Taiwan and Women of The Weeping River – presented each April 23 on the anniversary of received the prestigious Indo-European a joint production of the US and UK. the death of Miguel de Cervantes, author of “Don Business Forum (IEBF) Excellence Award for Quixote.” his renowned work in the field of social and ‘QS University Rankings: BRICS 2018’: Community services. The award was presented in The interdisciplinary O.P. Jindal Global Jesmyn Ward, Masha Gessen win National Global Business Meet-2017 at House of Lords, University (JGU) has been ranked among the Book Awards: London. Top 10 Private Institutions in India by QS Jesmyn Ward’s “Sing, Unburied, University Rankings. JGU became the Youngest Sing” a surreal and poetic novel about a Manik Banerjee, RS Jamwal honoured by Indian University and also the First and Only struggling family in Mississippi, on won the Indian Mountaineering Foundation(IMF) : Private university in Haryana to have been National Book Award for fiction. Veteran mountaineers Manik Banerjee ranked in an international ranking. It is the second time Ward is receiving received Nain Singh-Kishen Singh Life Time the fiction prize, having won in 2011 for Salvage Achievement Award and Lt col RS Jamwal SPORTS the Bones. was presented with the IMF Gold Medal. The Commonwealth Shooting Championships Masha Gessen’s “The Future Is awards were given by Indian Mountaineering 2017, Brisbane (Australia) : History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia” Foundation for their invaluable contribution in India ended the Commonwealth received the non-fiction prize and Robin promotion of mountaineering in the country. Shooting Championships with a rich haul of 20 Benway’s “Far From the Tree” won for young medals. The Indian squad won a total of six people’s literature. The poetry prize was Actress Trisha Krishnan received UNICEF gold, seven silvers and seven bronze medals given to Frank Bidart for his career anthology celebrity advocate status during the competition.

“Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016.” Tamil actress Trisha Krishnan was CATEGORY GOLD SILVER BRONZE conferred with UNICEF celebrity advocate MEDAL MEDAL MEDAL

S.NO Manushi Chhillar Won Miss World 2017: status. UNICEF collaborated with Veteran actress 1. Women’s Heena Elena Kristy India’s Manushi Chhillar received the Trisha Krishnan for the cause of Child 10m Air Sidhu Galiabovitch Gillman Miss World 2017 crown. The event held at Sanya Empowerment. Trisha will be the first South Pistol event (India) (Australia) (Australia) City Arena in China. Chhillar, born in Haryana, Indian actress to join hands with UNICEF for the 2. Women’s L E Anu raj 25m pistol Yaumleuskay Galiabovitch Singh is the sixth Indian woman to win Miss World. The noble cause. She will participate and extend her (Australia) (Australia) (India) first and the second runners-up were Miss support for the irradiation of social issues such as 3. Women’s Jennifer Seonaid Anjum England Stephanie Hill and Miss Mexico Andrea Child marriage, labour, and child abuse. 50m rifle McIntosh McIntosh Moudgil Meza. Prone event (Scotland) (Scotland) (India) Asia Pacific Screen Awards held in Brisbane, 4. Double Emma Cox Shreyasi Rachel Trap (Australia) Singh Parish Former PM Manmohan Singh to get Indira Australia (Women) (India) (England) Gandhi Prize for Peace: Bollywood movie ‘Newton’ secured two 5. Women’s Pooja Anjum Martina Former prime minister Manmohan wins at APSA. Rajkummar Rao won the Best 10m air Ghatkar Moudgil Lindsay Singh will receive the Indira Gandhi Prize for Actor award for his performance in Newton. rifle event (India) (India) Veloso (Singapore) Peace, Disarmament and Development this Mayank Tewari and Amit V. Masurkar secured 6. Men’s 10m Shahzar Omkar Jitu Rai year for his leadership of the country between the best screenplay honour. India’s Lady of the air pistol Rizvi (India) Singh (India) 2004 and 2014 and for enhancing India's stature Lake directed by Haobam Paban Kumar won a event (India) globally. The international jury is chaired by special mention in the Cultural Diversity Award 7. Men’s 10m Alex Hoberg Jack Deepak former President Pranab Mukherjee. under the Patronage of UNESCO category. air rifle (Australia) Rossiter Kumar event (Australia) (India) Newton will also represent India in the Best Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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8. Men’s 50m Prakash Amanpreet Jitu Rai pistol event Nanjappa Singh (India) Aditi Ashok Wins her third LET title in Abu 2017 Senior National Championships: (India) (India) Dhabi: H.S Prannoy outwitted World No 2 and 9. Men’s 25m Sergei Anish Neeraj pistol event Evglevski Bhanwala Kumar Young Indian golfer Aditi Ashok title favourite Kidambi Srikanth in a thrilling finale (Australia) (India) (India) made a triumphant return to the Ladies to claim the men’s singles title at the 82nd 10. Men's 50m Satyendra Sanjeev Dane European Tour by clinching the Fatima Bint Senior National Championship in Nagpur. rifle 3 Singh Rajput Sampson Mubarak Ladies Open. Saina Nehwal beat PV Sindhu in the position (India) (India) (Australia) blockbuster final of Senior National Badminton Event 11. Double Ankur Matthew Nathan-LeeShiv Kapur Clinches Panasonic Open Title: Championships in Nagpur to lift her third Trap (Men) Mittal French Xuereb Shiv Kapur clinched his first Asian nationals title. (India) (England) (Malta) Tour title in India, bagging the Panasonic 12. Men’s 50m Dane Gagan Swapnil Open by three strokes, after bringing home a Dhoni inaugurates his first global cricket Rifle Prone Sampson Narang Suresh card of four-under 68 in the fourth and final academy in UAE: (Australia) (India) Kusale (India) round at the Delhi Golf Club. Kapur had won the Two-time World Cup winning captain Yeangder Heritage in April and finished second at Mahendra Singh Dhoni inaugurated his first Bumrah hops to top in ICC T20 rankings: the Thailand Open this season. He had won his global cricket academy in UAE. The academy, Indian fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah first Asian tour title in 2005 at the Volvo Masters jointly launched by Dubai-based Pacific Sports climbed to the number one spot in the latest of Asia. Club and Aarka Sports Club, has been in ICC T20 rankings. Bumrah, who attained a operation for a couple of months at the career-best third position in the ODI rankings, India’s Sharath Kamal & Sathiyan bag Springdale’s School in Al Quoz. The facility has regained the T20 top spot after Pakistan bronze in Belgium Open: named the MS Dhoni Cricket Academy (MSDCA) spinner Imad Wasim slipped one place. India India’s Achanta Sharath Kamal and G will have coaches from India to train the wards. captain Virat Kohli, who edged AB de Villiers to Sathiyan won a bronze medal in doubles at the claim the top ranking in ODIs, also goes into the prestigious 2017 Challenge Belgium Open Leander Paes and Purav Raja won Knoxville New Zealand series as the top-ranked batsman in Table Tennis tournament. They lost their Challenger men’s doubles title: the shortest format. semifinals to the second-seeded German of Leander Paes and Purav Raja lifted Patrick Franziska and Ricardo Walther the Knoxville Challenger title in Tennessee India's K Srikanth achieves career-best respectively. after clinching a comfortable straight set win in World No 2 ranking: the finals of the men’s doubles event. The top- India ace Kidambi Srikanth was India unveil logo, mascot and song for AIBA seeded pair swept aside the American-Australian rewarded for his sensational run this season as Youth Women’s World Boxing Championship duo of James Cerretani and John Patrick Smith. he grabbed a career-best ranking of World 2017: No. 2 after jumping two places in the latest BWF Assam famed one-horned rhino was Pankaj Advani clinches 17th world title: ranking. Srikanth, who reached five finals and unveiled as the official mascot of the 2017 Ace Indian cueist Pankaj Advani clinched four titles this year so far, now has AIBA Youth Womens World Boxing clinched his 17th world title after he thrashed his 73,403 points, 4527 points away from World Championship. The official mascot, named arch-rival Mike Russell of England in the IBSF Champion Viktor Axelsen of Denmark, who Guppy, is a female version of Assam's one- World Billiards Championship in Doha. heads the ranking list. horned rhino. The anthem "Make Some Noise" US Open Grand Prix Gold winner HS has been composed by Shaan and rendered by Teddy Riner remains undefeated and claims Prannoy, who had reached the semifinals at Sunidhi Chauhan. tenth World title: Paris, also improved a place to reach a career- Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda French’s Teddy Riner won his tenth best ranking of World No. 10. Singapore Open Sonowal and Boxing Federation of India World title with a victory over Brazil's David Champion B Sai Praneeth, however, dropped a President Ajay Singh also released the Moura at the 2017 Judo World place to be at the 16th spot, while Sameer championship's official logo and anthem, to mark Championships Open in Marrakesh and Verma, who had skipped the events at Denmark the countdown for India's first youth world boxing remains undefeated emperor in judo. and France due to fitness issues, is steady at the championship from November 19 to 26. 18th place. Golfer Vani Kapoor Finishes in Top 10 at In women’s singles, P V Sindhu, who Asian Women's Boxing Championships: M C women’s India open: also reached the semifinals at France, was static Mary Kom wins gold medal in 48 kg Indian golfer Vani Kapoor registered at World No. 2, while former World No. 1 Saina category: her maiden top-10 finish after finishing tied 6th Nehwal was also steady at the 11th spot. In Indian boxer MC Mary Kom defeated at the Women’s Indian Open in Gurugram. women’s doubles, Indian pair of Ashwini North Korea’s Kim Hyang Mi in the 48-kg Meanwhile, another Indian, Aditi Ashok, finished Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy moved a spot up category final of the Asian Women's Boxing the tournament at the tied 13th spot. to be placed at number 24. In mixed doubles pair Championships held in Vietnam’s Ho Chi of Pranaav Jerry Chopra and N Sikki Reddy Minh City. This is Mary Kom's first international Sebastian Vettel wins Brazilian Grand Prix: dropped to a spot down to be ranked at 17th in gold medal since the 2014 Asian Games and her Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel won the their category. first medal in over a year. Brazilian Grand Prix while Lewis Hamilton fought from the back of the field to finish fourth India Women wins Asia Cup: Mitchell Starc makes history with two hat- for champions Mercedes. India won their biggest title in recent tricks in one game: Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov wins ATP Finals years as they completed a historic win over China Strike bowler Mitchell Starc became Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria has won in the Women’s Hockey Asia Cup. This was the first man to take two hat-tricks in the the ATP World Tour Finals after three set India’s second Asia Cup title win after they had same first-class game in Australia as he hit victory over David Goffin of Belgium in London. beaten Japan in 2004 in New Delhi. Playing the ominous form ahead of the Ashes Test series It is his fourth title of the year and will lift him final for the first time since 2009, India managed against England. Starc removed Behrendorff, three places to No. 3 in the world, behind Rafael to hold off China 5-4 in shootout in the final in Moody and Mackin in WA's first innings to Nadal and Roger Federer. Kakamighara, Japan. complete his first career hat-trick. 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Bulgaria France to host 2023 Rugby World Cup:  Capital: Juba  Capital: Sofia France will host the 2023 Rugby  Currency: South Sudanese pound  Currency: Lev World Cup after beating rival bids from South  President: Moon Jae-in  President: Rumen Radev Africa and Ireland. Lionel Messi wins Fourth European Golden Afghanistan Wins Maiden Under-19 Asia Cup Shagun Chowdhary crowned National Shoe Award: Afghanistan clinched their maiden Women’s Trap champion: Lionel Messi (Argentina) wins Under-19 Asia Cup title by defeating The first Indian woman trap shooter to European Golden Shoe award after netting 37 Pakistan. The match was held in Kuala win an Olympic berth, Shagun Chowdhary goals for FC Barcelona in La Liga's 2016-17 Lumpur, Malaysia. bagged a National Champion Crown at the 61st season, for the fourth time at a ceremony in Man of the Match: Ikram Ali khelof; National Shooting Championship in New Barcelona, Spain. He has already got this Man of Series: Mujeeb Zadran Delhi. Representing ONGC, Chowdhary overcame award in 2010, 2012 and 2013. the challenge from Punjab’s Rajeshwari Kumari in Amit Dhankar, Mausam Khatri clinched gold the final. International Polo Tournament 2017 begins medal in National Wrestling Championship Pujara was added to the Cricket Record by at Manipur Amit Dhankar and Mausam Khatri batting on all five days in Test match International Polo Tournament 2017 bagged the gold medal in their respective India’s middle-order batsman begins on the oldest ground Mapal Kangjeibung weight categories of men’s freestyle. Khatri got Cheteshwar Pujara became third Indian and of Imphal. The participants are from England, the medal in men’s 97kg freestyle and Dhankar ninth in overall to bat across five days in a Test USA, Argentina, Morocco. Argentina and in 70kg. The event held at Indore, Madhya match. The record was achieved when India Morocco participated for the first time in this Pradesh. Other big names in the Indian played against Sri Lanka. international tournament. Manipur Chief Minister wrestling circle such as Rahul Aware (61kg) , Kohli reached 5th spot in ICC Test rankings N Biren Singh inaugurated the International Jitender (79kg) , Somvir (92kg) and Sumit Virat Kohli, already is top-ranked in Polo Tournament 2017. (125kg) also finished on top of the podium. both ODIs and T20Is now got 5th rank ICC test ranking for batsman. Ravindra Jadeja has First Indian casino game training course Yuki Bhambri won ATP Pune Challenger slipped a place to be third in the bowlers’ centre in Goa Title: standings. The casino game training courses India’s tennis player Yuki Bhambri Shikhar Dhawan gained two places to were set up in 2013 as a part of Delta Corp clinched ATP Pune Challenger Title. He reach 28th position while among India’s bowlers, Limited’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) overcame Ramkumar Ramanathan in the pace bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar moved up in Goa. Anil Malani, President Delta Corp Ltd Finals. The Event was held at Balewadi Sports eight places to a career-best 29th position. said that, they have a designated batch of 20 Complex in Pune, Maharashtra. Mohammad Shami climbed a rung to 18th courses which is absolutely free. After passing position. the course, most of the students get recruited in A Sharath Kamal, G Sathiyan win bronze premier hotels like Hyatt or Taj. medal in Sweden Open First Indian Gopi Thonakal wins Asian India’s star doubles table tennis pair A Marathon Championship: Indian football team remains 105th in FIFA Sharath Kamal and G Sathiyan clinched Gopi Thonakal became the 1st Indian to win rankings Bronze Medal in 2017 World Tour Swedish the Asian Marathon Championship. It is the The Indian football team remains at Open at Stockholm, Sweden. They lost to Hong 16th edition of the event which is held in 105th in the latest FIFA (International Kong’s Kwan Kit Ho and Chun Ting Wong to miss Dongguan, China. It is organized by the Asian Federation of Association Football) rankings.In out on the chance to make the title round. Athletics Association. He finished the Asia, India is at 15th, ahead of North Korea, Sweden marathon with a time 2 hours 15 minutes and 48 Jordan and Bahrain. In Asian rankings Iran is in  Capital: Stockholm seconds. Gopi also had finished a decent 28th in the First place and in world rankings Germany  Currency: Krona the men’s marathon at the World Athletics tops the list  President: Stefan Lofven Championship in London. FIFA Uzbekistan’s Andrey Petrov bagged the  Headquarters: Zurich, Switzerland Apollo Tyres ties up with Chennaiyin FC as silver medal with a timing of 2:15:51s.  President: Gianni Infantino principal sponsor Mongolia’s Byambalev Tseveenravdan won Apollo Tyres has associated with bronze medal with the timing 2:16:14s. Ritu Phogat Clinches Silver medal in World Chennaiyin FC soccer team as its principal Wrestling Championship sponsor for the 2017-18 Hero Indian Super India bagged 10 medals in Para Badminton India wrestler Ritu Phogat (48kg) League (ISL) season. The association is Apollo’s World Championships: clinched a silver medal in the Under-23 Senior first partnership with Indian football team. Apollo India clinched 10 medals, including World Wrestling Championship in Poland. Tyres is currently the global tyre partner for two two Gold medals,2 Silver medals and 6 Bronze She lost against Turkish Wrestler Demirhan. current English Premier League clubs namely medals at the Para Badminton World Youth Women World Championship 2017 Manchester United and Crystal Palace. Championships at Ulsan in South Korea. India’s held in Guwahati, Assam Parul Parmar defeated Thailand’s The World Youth Women’s Boxing Sushil Kumar, Geeta Phogat win gold in Wannaphatdee Kamtam in the finals of the Championship 2017 was inaugurated Md. National Wrestling championship women’s singles Standing Lower (SL3) to clinch Ayatullah Hockey Stadium in Bhetapara by Two-time Olympic-medallist Sushil the Gold Medal. Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal. It Kumar (74kg) , India’s Olympic medal winner Parmar also combined with Japan’s is organized by AIBA (International Boxing Sakshi Malik(62kg) and Geeta Phogat(59kg) Akiko Sugino defeated Chinese pair of Cheng Association) . Nitu (48kg) , Jyoti Gulia (51kg) , won gold medal in their respective categories in Hefang and MA Huihui to win the gold in the Sakshi choudhury (54kg) , Shashi Chopra the National Wrestling championship in Indore. women’s doubles. India bagged 2 Silver medals (57kg) and Ankushita Boro (64kg) won gold Pawan Kumar (86kg) also won the gold medal through Tarun Dhillon in Men’s Singles and medals for an Indian sweep in the finals. in National Wrestling championship. Manoj Sarkar in SL-3 section. South Korea Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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Basel jointly host Badminton and Para Mahatma Gandhi to the studio of All India Week, Nov. 12-18, 2017 to promote anti-fraud Badminton World Championships in 2019 Radio, Delhi in 1947. awareness and education. Basel will become the first city to Universal Children’s Day:20 November jointly host the Badminton and Para- World Pneumonia Day – November 12: Badminton World Championships in 2019, World Pneumonia Day was observed United Nations Universal Children's announced by Badminton World Federation on November 12 with an aim to raise Day was established in 1954 and is celebrated (BWF) . It was awarded the 2019 edition of the awareness about the disease and encourage on November 20th each year to promote Para event. Basel is a city on the Rhine River in concerted efforts to combat it. The day also international togetherness, awareness among northwest Switzerland. highlights the severity of Pneumonia as it is children worldwide, and improving children's leading killer of children under five. welfare. HISTORIC EVENT OF THE DAY Theme of 2017: #KidsTakeOver World Kindness Day – November 13: World Vegan Day – November 1: World Kindness Day is an international National Law Day – 26Nov World Vegan Day is an annual event observance on 13 November. It was introduced National Law Day 2017 to be celebrated celebrated by vegans around the world every 1 in 1998 by the World Kindness Movement a jointly by Law Commission and NITI Aayog. November. Vegan Day first occurred on coalition of nations kindness NGOs. It is observed Prime Minister Narendra Modi had declared 26 November 1st, 1994 as a way of commemorating in many countries, including Italy, India, Canada, November as “Constitution Day” to spread the 50th anniversary of the UK Vegan Society Japan, Australia, Nigeria and United Arab awareness of Indian Constitution and its and indeed the term “Vegan”. Emirates. In 2009, Singapore observed the day architecture framed by Dr. B R Ambedkar. for the first time. The HRD Ministry has launched a Digital International Day for Preventing the Signature campaign to generate awareness on Exploitation of the Environment in War and Nation pays homage to 1st PM Jawaharlal fundamental duties enshrined in the Constitution. Armed Conflict: Nehru on his 128th birth anniversary: People can join the campaign by filling a form On 5 November 2001, the UN General Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid online. Assembly declared 6 November of each year as tribute to the Nation’s first Prime Minister the International Day for Preventing the Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his 128th birth National Milk Day – November 26 Exploitation of the Environment in War and anniversary. He was born on November 14, National Milk Day is celebrated on Armed Conflict. It aims to educate people about 1889 in Allahabad (in what was then the United November 26 each year to mark the birth the damaging effects of war and armed conflict Provinces of Agra and Oudh, now Uttar Pradesh) , anniversary of Dr. Verghese Kurien, who is on the environment. Nehru is fondly called “Chacha Nehru”. Nehru known as the Father of White Revolution in was sworn-in as the Prime Minister on August 15, India. This year it was 95th birth anniversary of World Radiology Day – November 8 1947 when India gained independence from him and third edition of observance of the day World Radiography Day is celebrated Britain. Children’s Day is celebrated across since it was established in 2014. on 8 November each year. The date marks the India on this day. anniversary of the discovery of x-radiation by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895. The International World Diabetes Day: November 14 BOOK & AUTHOR Day of Radiology or IDOR or Radiology Day is an World Diabetes Day is being observed Vice President launches “Journey of Women annual event celebrated to promote the role of on November 14th in the country as elsewhere Law Reforms and The Law Commission of medical imaging in modern healthcare. Theme of around the world in a befitting manner to create India Some Insights” book this year is “Emergency Radiology”. awareness about diabetes among millions of Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu people worldwide. This year’s theme is “Women received the first copy of the book ‘Journey of World science day for peace & development: and diabetes – our right to a healthy Women Law Reforms and The Law November 10 future”. Commission of India Some Insights’, from Celebrated every 10th November, the Author Former Joint Secretary, Dr. Pavan World Science Day for Peace and National Press Day is observed on Sharma. Development highlights the important role of November 16: science in society and the need to engage the India celebrated the National Press OBITUARY wider public in debates on emerging scientific Day on November 16 as the Press Council of Writer and journalist Khadri Achyuthan dies issues. It also underlines the importance and India started functioning as a responsible body at 71: relevance of science in our daily lives. This year's overlooking the works of the press body on this Khadri Achyuthan (71) is no more. A theme is 'Science for Global Understanding'. day. veteran print and broadcast journalist, author, academic and translator of various literary works, National education day: November 11 National Integration Week will be observed the former Doordarshan news director. His National Education Day is an annual from November 19-25, 2017 yeoman contribution to the development of observance in India to commemorate the birth Quami Ekta Week (National Integration Kannada television news and the coinage of new anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Week) is celebrated to foster and reinforce the Kannada words will always be remembered. the first education minister of independent India, strength of public harmony and national who served from 15 August 1947 until 2 February integration. The “Qaumi Ekta Week” (National Former MP Baddam Narasimha Reddy 1958. National Education Day of India is Integration Week) will be observed all over the passes away: celebrated on 11 November every year. country, from the 19th to 25th November Famous architect, poet, film producer 2017. and Former Miryalaguda MP Baddam Narsimha Public Service Broadcasting Day: November Reddy, 82, passed away in, Banjara Hills in 12 The International Fraud Awareness week is Hyderabad. Public Service Broadcasting Day is observed from 12 – 18 November 2017: being observed on November 12. The day is NetGuardians has partnered with the Former India Test Cricketer A G Milkha observed every year to commemorate the first Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) Singh passes away at 75: and last visit of the Father of the Nation to participate in International Fraud Awareness Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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Former India cricketer A G Milkha and mixed doubles and a three-time Olympic c) ICICI Bank d) Yes Bank Singh passed away at 75. Milkha Singh played medalist. e) State Bank of India four Test matches in the early 60s. A flamboyant Q.9) Who has been elected as the chairman of left-hand batsman and a fine fielder, Milkha Legendary Jazz singer Jon Hendricks passes International Weightlifting Federation’s Ethics Singh made his Ranjit Trophy debut at 17 and away Commission as well as of Anti-Disciplinary played his first Test just after his 18th birthday. Veteran jazz singer and lyricist Jon Commission at the world body’s Executive Hendricks passed away at a New York City in Committee Meeting held in Bucharest. Padma Shri awardee author Manu Sharma United States. Hendricks was best known for his a) Shakthi Prasad Baishya passes away: enchanting singing style and mastering the art of b) Praveen Prasad Baishya Noted author and Padma Shri vocalese. c) Birendra Prasad Baishya awardee Manu Sharma died following a d) Sunil Prasad Baishya prolonged illness. He was 89. He was nominated Rajasthani folk singer Mangi Bai Arya e) Jagan Prasad Baishya as one of the Navratna of the Swachha Bharat passes away: Q.10) Who has been appointed the Chief Abhiyan by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during Rajasthani Maand folk singer Mangi Bai Executive Officer of Bharti AXA Life Insurance, his visit to Varanasi, his Lok Sabha constituency Arya passed away in Udaipur. She was 88 years recently? in 2014. He was also the recipient of the old. She has won several awards, including the a) Vasu Seth b) Sunil Seth prestigious Yash Bharti Award of the Uttar Kendriya Sangeet Natak Akademy Award. c) Surendar Seth d) Vikram Seth Pradesh government. e) Vikas Seth Current Affairs Quiz: Q.11) Shinzo Abe have been re-elected as the Former Nepal PM Kirti Nidhi Bista passes Q.1) India-US Ocean Dialogue is inaugurated at Prime Minister of ______. away: which Indian state recently? a) Japan b) China c) US Former Prime Minister of Nepal Kirti a) Karnataka b) Kerala d) UK e) Pakistan Nidhi Bista passed away at Kathmandu. He was c) Andhra Pradesh d) Odisha Q.12) Who has been appointed as Honorary 90 and suffering from cancer. Bista served as e) Goa Consul General in Hyderabad by the Republic of Prime Minister from 1969 to 1970, 1971 to 1973 Q.2) Which of the following Indian state, Chief Korea? and 1977 to 1979 during the party-less Electoral Officer Ashwini Bhagat launched the a) T V Narendran Panchayat system under two monarchs -- King Election Commission’s web-based project, ERO- b) Suresh Chukkapalli Mahendra and King Birendra. Net, using which voters can register their names c) Vikram Singh on electoral rolls? d) Abdul Qavi Desnavi Veteran journalist Virendra Sanghi passes a) Rajasthan b) Chhattisgarh e) Khadri Achyuthan away: c) Haryana d) Madhya Pradesh Q.13) Who is promoted as chief executive officer Senior journalist Virendra Sanghi died e) Kerala and managing director globally for Tata Steel at the age of 66. Sanghi had worked for the Q.3) Who inaugurated “Chhattisgarh Rajyotsav”, Ltd? Samachar Bharti and PTI-Bhasha for long period the celebrations to mark the 17th state a) T V Narendran of time. foundation day? b) Suresh Chukkapalli a) Ram Nath Kovind b) Venkaiah Naidu c) Vikram Singh Veteran Hindustani vocalist Jagdish Mohan c) Rajnath Singh d) Smriti Irani d) Abdul Qavi Desnavi passes away: e) Radha Mohan Singh e) Khadri Achyuthan Noted Hindustani vocalist of Kirana Q.4) How many states celebrated their Q.14) Who was appointed as the Private Gharana Jagdish Mohan died. He was 87. He foundation day on Nov 1st? Secretary to President Ram Nath Kovind? hailed from Uttarakhands Haridwar and was born a) 6 b) 2 c) 3 a) T V Narendran on March 4, 1930. d) 4 e) 5 b) Suresh Chukkapalli Mohan was awarded the title of Sangeet Q.5) India and which country began a three-day c) Vikram Singh Sartaj by Pracheen Kala Kendra, Chandigarh and anti-submarine warfare exercise in the Indian d) Abdul Qavi Desnavi was a regular performer at the All India Radio Ocean region to deepen their operational e) Khadri Achyuthan and Doordarshan. coordination in the strategically important sea Q.15) Search engine giant Google paid tribute to lanes around the two countries? Urdu writer, critic and linguist ______on his Legendary Poet Kunwar Narayan Passes a) Japan b) China c) US 87th birth anniversary with a special doodle. Away: d) UK e) Pakistan a) T V Narendran Eminent Hindi poet and Jnanpith Q.6) Which of the following bank has cut the b) Suresh Chukkapalli awardee Kunwar Narayan passed away in New benchmark lending rate by 0.05 per cent across c) Vikram Singh Delhi. He was Born on 9 September 1927 in Uttar maturities, effective from November 1, 2017? d) Abdul Qavi Desnavi Pradesh’s Faizabad. His first poetry collection was a) Bank of Baroda b) Indian Overseas bank e) Khadri Achyuthan “Chakravyuh”. c) Indian Bank d) Dena Bank Q.16) Who won the gold medal in 10m Air Pistol e) State Bank of India at Commonwealth Shooting Championships, Former Union Minister Shri Priya Ranjan Q.7) Who has been named the highest-earning Brisbane? Dasmunsi passes away: dead celebrity for the 5th consecutive year by a) Abinav Bindra b) Heena Sidhu Veteran Congress leader and former Forbes? c) Ankur Mittal d) Jitu Rai union minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, in a) Elvis Presley b) Bob Marley e) Ayonika Paul coma since 2008, died at a hospital in Delhi. He c) Michael Jackson d) Bob Dylan Q.17) Who climbed to the number one spot in the was 72. e) Elvis Marley latest ICC T20 rankings? Q.8) Which of the following bank has launched a a) Jasprit Bumrah Former Wimbledon Champion Jana Novotna platinum pre-paid card in association with b) Stuart Broad Passes Away: Transcorp International, that can be used for c) Imad Wasim Czech Republic’s Jana Novotna died transactions in stores and ATMs across the d) Ravichandran Ashwin at the age of 49. She is a Wimbledon champion country? e) James Anderson in 1998, 16-time Grand Slam winner in doubles a) Bank of Baroda b) HDFC Bank Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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Q.18) Veteran Khadri Achyuthan was died Q.28) How many million USD loan has been a) Integrated Quarterly Master Package (IQMP) recently. He is related to which field? approved by China-sponsored Asian b) Integrity Quarter Master Package (IQMP) a) Politician b) Writer c) Journalist Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) for five c) Integration Quarter Master Package (IQMP) d) Actor e) Both b and c projects in Andhra Pradesh? d) Integrated Quarter Master Package (IQMP) Q.19) World Savings Day is celebrated on a) USD 1 million b) USD 2 million e) Integrating Quarter Master Package (IQMP) ______. c) USD 3 million d) USD 4 million Q.39) Which of the following state government a) October 26th b) October 27th e) USD 5 million has signed a memorandum of understanding c) October 28th d) October 30th Q.29) The 7th Asian Ministerial Energy (MoU) with Verbind, an integrated trade e) October 31st Roundtable (AMER7) took place in ______from facilitation services organisation, to set up Q.20) Who inaugurated the 21st World Congress 1-3 November 2017. logistics and trading hub in the state that would of Mental Health in New Delhi? a) Bangladesh b) Singapore attract investment to the tune of Rs 20,000 a) Narendra Modi b) Sumitra Mahajan c) Malaysia d) United Arab Emirates crore? c) Ram Nath Kovind e) Thailand a) Arunachal Pradesh b) Assam d) Rajnath Singh e) Arun Jaitley Q.30) Which of the following bank has reduced c) West Bengal d) Haryana Q.21) Who inaugurated the 65th foundation day home loan interest rates to 8.30 per cent and e) Bihar celebrations of EPFO in New Delhi? automobile loan interest rate of 8.70 per cent per Q.40) A fourteen-day joint training exercise a) Narendra Modi annum compared to earlier 8.75 per cent? “PRABAL DOSTYK – 2017” between the Indian b) Sumitra Mahajan a) Indian bank b) Vijaya bank Army and the Kazakhstan Army commenced with c) Ram Nath Kovind c) Dena bank d) State bank of India the Opening Ceremony at ______. d) Rajnath Singh e) Indian Overseas bank a) Punjab b) Himachal Pradesh e) Arun Jaitley Q.31) Who has been selected for this year's c) Rajasthan d) Haryana Q.22) EESL launches ‘Creating and Sustaining Ezhuthachan Puraskaram, Kerala government's e) Uttar Pradesh Markets for Energy Efficiency’ project in highest literary honour? Q.41) World’s third largest book fair opens in partnership with the GEF. What is the total a) S Satchidanandan ______. amount funded to the project? b) K Satchidanandan a) Al Jaddah b) Fujariah a) $452 million b) $453 million c) R Satchidanandan c) Sharjah d) Qatar c) $454 million d) $455 million d) H Satchidanandan e) Abu Dhabi e) $456 million e) J Satchidanandan Q.42) Kazakhstan is changing its name to Q.23) Which of the following state government Q.32) Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon has ______as part of a transition from Cyrillic to a plans to add 18m to Shivaji statue, making it the resigned recently. He belongs to which of the Latin-based script. A national commission will be world’s tallest statue (210m), once built? following country? set up to oversee the transition, which will be a) Haryana a) USA b) UK c) China completed by 2025. b) Gujarat d) Japan e) Thailand a) Qazahstan b) Kazaqstan c) Madhya Pradesh Q.33) Who won a silver medal in the men’s 50m c) Qazaqstan d) Qazakhqstan d) Maharashtra rifle prone event of the Commonwealth Shooting e) Kazakhqstan e) Rajasthan Championships in Gold Coast? Q.43) Which of the following state is the safest Q.24) How many crores earmarked by Central a) L Yaumleuskay state to be a woman in India, according to the Government to promote heritage and spiritual b) Swapnil Suresh Kusale first-ever gender vulnerability index (GVI)? tourism projects under ‘Swadesh Darshan’ c) Gagan Narang a) Manipur b) Mizoram c) Sikkim Scheme in Puducherry? d) Anu raj Singh d) Kerala e) Goa a) 105 crores b) 106 crores e) Heena Sindhu Q.44) Which of the following country has rated c) 107 crores d) 108 crores Q.34) World Vegan day is celebrated on ______. the most dangerous countries for journalists? e) 109 crores a) November 1st b) November 2nd a) Pakistan b) Philippines Q.25) The 9th edition of ‘CMS Vatavaran’, a c) November 3rd d) November 4th c) Bangladesh d) Syria global film festival on the environment and e) November 5th e) Israel wildlife, began on November 2, 2017 in New Q.35) Which of the following state government Q.45) Who was named the most powerful woman Delhi. What is the theme of CMS Vatavaran? has signed Memorandum of Understanding in India as she ranked 32nd in World's 100 Most a) “Conservation 4 Water” (MoUs) and Terms of Reference (ToR) with Powerful Women list by Forbes? b) “Conservation 4 Air” Singapore for skilling youth of the state? a) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw c) “Conservation 4 Soil” a) Arunachal Pradesh b) Assam b) Roshni Nadar Malhotra d) “Conservation 4 Ocean” c) West Bengal d) Haryana c) Priyanka Chopra e) “Conservation 4 Wildlife” e) Bihar d) Chanda Kochhar Q.26) PFRDA has now increased the maximum Q.36) Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated e) Shobhana Bhartia age of joining under NPS-Private Sector from the the World Food India 2017 festival in ______. Q.46) Who has topped the Forbes list of the 100 existing 60 years to ______years of age. a) Jaipur b) Bangalore most powerful women? a) 67 b) 66 c) 63 c) New Delhi d) Hyderabad a) Ivanka Trump b) Theresa May d) 64 e) 65 e) Kolkata c) Angela Merkeld) Nikki Haley Q.27) Who inaugurated the Global Clubfoot Q.37) Which of the following state government e) Priyanka Chopra Conference 2017 being organized by the CURE cabinet decided to make India's first conservation Q.47) Who is the next Chairman of the Federal India in partnership with the Ministry of Health reserve for black buck? Reserve, replacing Janet Yellen, the first and Family Welfare, Government of India, in New a) Uttar Pradesh b) Assam woman to head the country's central bank? Delhi? c) West Bengal d) Haryana a) Jerome Powell a) Narendra Modi e) Bihar b) Manisha Singh b) Sumitra Mahajan Q.38) Name the software application that was c) Gavin Williamson c) Ram Nath Kovind formally released to the Indian Army by the Vice d) Sudhanshu Jain d) Rajnath Singh Chief of Army Staff Lt Gen Sarath Chand in an e) Rajesh Vaishnaw e) Arun Jaitley event organized at South Block. Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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Q.48) The US Senate has confirmed the Q.56) India Post Payments Bank services are Q.66) Which of the following iconic place has won nomination of______, a prominent Indian- expected to be available across the country by the UNESCO Asia Pacific Award of Merit 2017 for American lawyer, to a key administration ______. cultural heritage conservation? position in the State Department that would a) January b) February c) March a) Taj Mahal b) Agra Fort make her in charge of the country’s economic d) April e) May c) Gwalior Fort diplomacy. Q.57) The Border Roads Organization (BRO) has d) Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple a) Rajesh Vaishnaw constructed the world's highest motorable road in e) Sri Venkateshwara Temple b) Manisha Singh which region of Jammu and Kashmir, passing Q.67) Who has been announced as the recipient c) Gavin Williamson through Umlingla Top at a height of over 19,300 of the Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement d) Sudhanshu Jain feet? Award for 2017 at the National Centre for the e) Jerome Powell a) Leh b) Ladakh c) Thoise Performing Arts (NCPA), Nariman Point, Mumbai? Q.49) Who is named as the new Defence d) Hunder e) Diskit a) Saad al-Hariri Secretary of UK after the shock resignation of Sir Q.58) The Union Government announced that an b) Krishna Sobti Michael Fallon? indigenously developed lightweight ‘Glide’ bomb c) Mahesh Sharma a) Jerome Powell was successfully tested in ______. d) Girish Karnad b) Manisha Singh a) Odisha b) Andhra Pradesh e) Shamika Ravi c) Gavin Williamson c) Rajasthan d) Gujarat Q.68) Who has been awarded the 53rd Jnanpith d) Sudhanshu Jain e) Maharashtra Award for the year 2017 for her path-breaking e) Rajesh Vaishnaw Q.59) An International Conference on “Ramayan contribution to Indian literature? Q.50) Who is appointed as the Chief Financial Circuit and Mithila-Awadh Relations” started at a) Saad al-Hariri b) Krishna Sobti Officer for Paytm Payments Bank (PPB)? ______. c) Manju Karnad d) Girish Karnad a) Jerome Powell b) Manisha Singh a) China b) Japan c) Nepal e) Shamika Ravi c) Surendar Jain d) Sudhanshu Jain d) Indonesia e) Malaysia Q.69) Name the Lebanese Prime Minister who e) Rajesh Phogat Q.60) Which small finance bank has received resigned recently. Q.51) Who has been appointed as the next High Reserve Bank of India (RBI) approval to operate a) Saad al-Hariri b) Alferd Ahmed Commissioner of India to the Republic of Malta? as a Scheduled Commercial Bank? c) Sarah al Khan d) Girish Karnad a) Jerome Powell a) Escorts Small Finance Bank e) Tammam Salam b) Manisha Singh b) Muthoot Small Finance Bank Q.70) Who is named as the ambassador of the c) Rakesh Vaishnaw c) Fincare Small Finance Bank upcoming AIBA Women's Youth World d) Sudhanshu Jain d) AU Small Finance Bank Championships? e) Rajesh Vaishnaw e) Reliance Small Finance Bank a) Laishram Sarita Devi Q.52) Which of the following has received the Q.61) Which of the following entity has received b) Sarjubala Devi award of merit from the 2017 UNESCO Asia- the Information Memorandum from the c) MC Mary Kom Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Department of Investment and Public Asset d) Pinki Rani Conservation? Management for acquiring majority stake in e) Kavita Chahal a) Bomonjee Hormarjee Wadia fellow public-sector undertaking HPCL? Q.71) Which of the following entity has won ‘Dun b) Royal Opera House a) BHEL b) BEL c) ONGC & Bradstreet - Everest Infra Awards 2017’ under c) Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple d) GAIL e) SAIL Infrastructure Project category for commissioning d) Gateways of Gohad Fort Q.62) How many crore agreements has signed by India's largest solar project under Domestic e) Haveli Dharampura the Private sector lender Yes Bank with the Content Requirement for NTPC at Anantapur? in Q.53) India ace ______was rewarded for his government for food processing projects? Andhra Pradesh sensational run this season as he grabbed a a) 1,000 crores b) 2,000 crores a) Reliance Power Solar career-best ranking of World No. 2 after jumping c) 3,000 crores d) 4,000 crores b) Tata Power Solar two places in the latest BWF ranking. e) 5,000 crores c) Adani Power Solar a) P V Sindhu Q.63) Who headed the panel to study merger of d) Airtel Power Solar b) B Sai Praneeth weak DCCBs with MSC Bank? e) MKV Power Solar c) HS Prannoy a) Akilesh Thorat Q.72) Which of the following state government d) Kidambi Srikanth b) Deolathee Thorat has decided to set up a 'trauma care' policy to e) Saina Nehwal c) Vasanth Thorat provide road accident victims free treatment for Q.54) Name the player who won gold in the 50m d) Rishikesh Thorat the first 48 hours? pistol event at Commonwealth Shooting e) Yashwant Thorat a) Goa b) Assam c) Kerala Championships. Q.64) Name the Senior Fellow at Brookings India, d) Karnataka e) Odisha a) Prakash Nanjappa would be appointed as part-time member of the Q.73) Indian Army launched an independent and b) B Sai Praneeth Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister fully-integrated Joint Training Node (JTN) at c) HS Prannoy (EAC-PM). Umroi cantonment in _____. d) Amanpreet Singh a) Rakshitha Ravi a) Manipur b) Tripura c) Nagaland e) Jitu Rai b) Vanjika Ravi d) Mizoram e) Meghalaya Q.55) Name the minister who launched a Pan c) Anamika Ravi Q.74) Which of the following state government India scholarship program for school children d) Shamika Ravi executed a trilateral Memorandum of called Deen Dayal SPARSH Yojana to increase the e) Boohmika Ravi Understanding (MoU) with the Department of reach of Philately. Q.65) Which of the following entity has been Bio-Technology, Ministry of Science and a) Shakthikanth Das crowned “2018 Airline of the Year” by leading Technology, Government of India (GoI) and b) Mahesh Sharma international aviation website AirlineRatings.com. Nobel Media, Sweden to hold the ‘Nobel Prize c) Kiren Rijiju for the 5th time? Series — India 2018? d) Manoj Sinha a) Air Malaysia b) Air Singapore a) Goa b) Assam c) Kerala e) Manjit Singh c) Air New Zealand d) Air Indonesia d) Karnataka e) Odisha e) Air Australia Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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Q.75) Which of the following state government Q.86) Which of the following private sector bank a) Hasmukh Adhia rolled out 647 Schemes entailing an investment by consolidated assets, has launched voice-based b) RK Kulshrestha of Rs 24.57 crore for development of the world's international remittance service on its c) Madhu Azad largest river island Majuli? Money2India application? d) Mohan Joshi a) Goa b) Assam c) Kerala a) Yes Bank b) ICICI Bank e) Kamlesh Kumar d) Karnataka e) Odisha c) Axis Bank d) HDFC Bank Q.96) Who becomes Gurgaon’s first woman Q.76) From _____ it would be mandatory for all e) South Indian Bank Mayor? new four-wheelers to have FASTag devices fixed Q.87) Which of the following state government a) Akshaya Jain b) Manthavi Azad on front windscreens by automobile has announced a package of 124 crore rupees for c) Madhu Azad d) Mohana Jhosi manufacturers or authorised dealers. the farmers affected by pest attack in different e) Kamleshi Kumat a) November 1st b) December 1st areas of the state during this year's Kharif Q.97) Name the Renowned Indian film and c) January 1st d) February 1st season? television actor who was honoured with the e) March 1st a) Jammu and Kashmir prestigious Vishnudas Bhave award for his Q.77) How many crore memorandum of b) Jharkhand contribution to the theatre. understanding (MoU) was signed between the c) Bihar a) Hasmukh Adhia b) RK Kulshrestha Government of India (GoI) and Patanjali at the d) Odisha c) Madhan Joshna d) Mohan Joshi World Food India 2017? e) Telangana e) Kamlesh Kumar a) Rs 10, 000 Crore Q.88) The Indian Railways have launched the Q.98) With how many medals India ended the b) Rs 20, 000 Crore main arch of the world's highest bridge on the Commonwealth Shooting Championships 2017 in c) Rs 30, 000 Crore River Chenab in ______. Gold coast? d) Rs 40, 000 Crore a) Jammu and Kashmir a) 10 b) 15 c) 20 e) Rs 50, 000 Crore b) Jharkhand d) 25 e) 30 Q.78) The 1st Heli Expo India and International c) Bihar Q.99) Who clinched his first Asian Tour title in Civil Helicopter Conclave-2017 is inaugurated in d) Mizoram India, bagging the Panasonic Open by three ______. e) Arunachal Pradesh strokes, after bringing home a card of four-under a) Jaipur b) Bangalore Q.89) In which of the following Indian state, Tata 68 in the fourth and final round at the Delhi Golf c) New Delhi d) Chennai Steel has established India's largest Coke Dry Club? e) Kolkata Quenching (CDQ) facility, capable of handling a) Jeev Milkha Singh Q.79) Which of the following country unveiled 200 metric tonnes per hour? b) Arjun Atwal Asia's largest artificial island-building ship? a) Karnataka b) Andhra Pradesh c) Anirban Lahiri a) Malaysia b) Japan c) China c) Bihar d) Odisha d) Shiv Kapur d) Indonesia e) USA e) Telangana e) Shiv Chawrasia Q.80) Which of the following country has Q.90) Which of the following state government Q.100) Name the Indian Players who won a launched two BeiDou-3 satellites into space unveiled the food processing policy at the bronze medal in doubles at the prestigious 2017 though a single carrier rocket? ongoing World Food India 2017 conference being Challenge Belgium Open Table Tennis a) Malaysia b) Japan c) China held in New Delhi? tournament. d) Indonesia e) USA a) Andhra Pradesh b) Karnataka a) Achanta Sharath Kamal Q.81) The Minister of State (Independent c) Bihar d) Odisha b) G Sathiyan Charge) Youth Affairs and Sports Col. Rajya e) Telangana c) Anthony Amalraj Vardhan Rathore has left to attend World Youth Q.91) The India Pavilion at COP 23 was launched d) Both a and b Forum, scheduled to be held at ______. by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and e) Both b and c a) Malaysia b) Japan c) China Climate Change in ______. Q.101) International Day for Preventing the d) Indonesia e) Egypt a) Japan b) UK c) Austria Exploitation of the Environment in War and Q.82) According to global gender equality report, d) Germany e) Malaysia Armed Conflict is observed on______which country has topped the index for the ninth Q.92) ‘SAMPRITI 2017’, the seventh edition of a) November 4th b) November 5th straight term? ______joint military training exercise begun c) November 6th d) November 7th a) Rwanda b) Iceland c) Norway in Meghalaya. e) November 8th d) Yemen e) Sweden a) Indo-Srilanka b) Indo-Bangladesh Q.102) Who flagged off Digital Rath in New Delhi Q.83) Name the former MP who passed away in c) Indo-Pakistan d) Indo-Afghanistan to create awareness among people for cashless Banjara Hills in Hyderabad. e) Indo-China transaction? a) Yasir Kamal Q.93) Which of the following bank has pledged to a) Ram Nath Kovind b) Nasir Kamal provide $100 billion in financing and investment b) Smriti Irani c) Baddam Narsimha Reddy by 2025 to help combat climate change. It will c) Venkaiah Naidu d) Paddam Narsimha Reddy facilitate financial flows to help boost support for d) Narendra Modi e) Kamal Narsimha Reddy clean energy and lower carbon technologies.? e) Arun Jaitley Q.84) Which of the following country won their a) HDFC Bank b) HSBC Bank Q.103) What is the main theme of 20th biggest title in recent years as they completed a c) ICICI Bank d) YES Bank International Children’s Film Festival of India historic win over China in the women’s Hockey e) AXIS Bank (ICFFI) kick started in Hyderabad? Asia Cup? Q.94) Who has been designated as the new a) New movement b) Standup India a) Malaysia b) Japan c) India Finance Secretary? c) New India d) New Transform d) Indonesia e) USA a) Hasmukh Adhia e) New Action Q.85) Who has appointed as the additional b) Kasmukh Adhia Q.104) Name the sub-sonic cruise missile Director General, Border Security Force for a c) Madhu Azad successfully test-fired from the Integrated Test period of four years? d) Mohan Joshi Range (ITR) at Chandipur along the Odisha coast. a) Yasir Kamal b) Nasir Kamal e) Kamlesh Kumar a) Brahmos b) Prithvi c) Yasser Nazim d) Nazim Ahmed Q.95) Who took charge as the General Manager c) Agni d) Nirbhay e) Kamal Narsimha of Southern Railway, recently? e) Astra Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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Q.105) How many million-dollar loan agreement Q.115) Name the Indian short film, which tells a a) US & China b) US & Qatar has signed by India with World Bank for the story based in Pakistan, has won the Best Short c) US & Japan d) US & Germany Odisha higher education programme for Film Award at the South Asian Film Festival of e) US & Israel excellence and equity project (OHEPEE)? Montreal (SAFFM). Q.126) Which of the following entity said that a) 115 million dollars b) 116 million dollars a) 'The School Bus' b) 'The Lunch BOX' linkage of the unique identity number Aadhaar c) 117 million dollars d) 118 million dollars c) 'The Lunch Bag'15 d) 'The School Bag' with insurance policies is mandatory and asked e) 119 million dollars e) 'The School Bell' insurers to comply with the statutory norms? Q.106) Who will inaugurate the 9th edition of Q.116) Who was awarded with Entrepreneur of a) GOI b) SIDBI c) IRDAI Agrovision, Central India’s biggest agriculture the Year by ASSOCHAM? d) RBI e) SEBI summit scheduled from 10-13 November at a) Vinay Kumar Singh Q.127) India has slipped to the ______position Reshimbagh Ground in Nagpur? b) Maya Swaminathan Sinha this quarter in business optimism ranking in a) Ram Nath Kovind b) Smriti Irani c) Binoy Kumar Banwala Grant Thornton’s International Business Report c) Venkaiah Naidu d) Narendra Modi d) Chaya Swaminathan Sinha (IBR) survey. e) Arun Jaitley e) Naveen Kumar Sinha a) 5th b) 6th c) 7th Q.107) Which of the following state government Q.117) Which of the following state unveiled the d) 8th e) 9th will now increase the amount of electricity supply official mascot of the 2017 AIBA Youth Womens Q.128) Name the entity that has successfully through ‘No load shedding mission’ under World Boxing Championship? completed the first-ever diamond futures contract Deendayal Upadhyay Gram Jyoti Yojana a) Manipur b) Mizoram settlement with the total traded quantity in (DDUGYJ)? c) Meghalaya d) Nagaland November expiry for 5,382.08 carats valued at a) Maharashtra b) Madhya Pradesh e) Assam Rs 173.32 crore. c) Gujarat d) Odisha Q.118) Who won gold medal in 48 kg category a) ICQX b) ICUX c) ICAX e) Karnataka final of the Asian Women's Boxing Championships d) ICEX e) ICMX Q.108) Which of the following city is the third held recently? Q.129) Name the bank that formally launched its Indian city on the list of the UNESCO creative a) Sonia Lather b) Kim Hyang Mi operations in Pakistan, with its first branch cities list after Jaipur and Varanasi? c) MC Mary Kom d) Sarita Devi inaugurated in Karachi. a) Kolkata b) Chennai e) Christy Martin a) Bank of Tokyo b) Bank of China c) Bhubaneshwar d) Patna Q.119) Name the app launched by Coal India Ltd c) Bank of Malaysia d) Bank of Indonesia e) Gandhinagar aimed at benefitting customers of the company e) Bank of India Q.109) Which of the following state is set to host that are being supplied coal by road. Q.130) Name the Britain’s International ‘Hornbill Festival’ with a main motive to promote a) ‘Grahak Sadak Koyna Vitaran App’ Development Secretary who became the second the ‘plastic-free’ mission all around? b) ‘Grahak Sadak Koyla Vitaran App’ cabinet minister to quit in a week. a) Manipur b) Mizoram c) ‘Grahak Sadak Sankalp Vitaran App’ a) Priti Patel b) Pragati Patel c) Meghalaya d) Nagaland d) ‘Grahak Sadak Koyla Vikalp App’ c) Michael Johnson d) Bimal Jackson e) Tripura e) ‘Grahak Sadak Koyla Vikranth App’ e) Vikram Seth Q.110) Which of the following country has Q.120) Which of the following state government Q.131) Who was appointed a whole-time member pledged an additional USD 100 million towards decided to set up a Committee for the of market regulator Securities and Exchange the UN partnership fund, which significantly implementation of a Rs. 4,000-crore project on Board of India (SEBI)? increases its support to sustainable development climate resilience agriculture in 5,000 villages of a) Sanjay Kumar b) R. K. Singh projects across the developing world? 15 districts in the state? c) Sanjeev Kaushik d) Bimal Jan a) Japan b) China a) Gujarat b) Uttarakhand e) Vikram Seth c) USA d) Germany c) Maharashtra d) Bihar Q.132) Name the player who has won men’s e) India e) Madhya Pradesh singles title in the 82nd Senior National Q.111) Which country has become a new Q.121) Which of the following state celebrated its Championship held at Nagpur. member of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) 17th formation day on Nov 9, 2017 with many a) Prakash Padukone b) Chetan Anand recently? events held across the state? c) Aparna Popat d) HS Prannoy a) Japan b) China a) Gujarat b) Uttarakhand e) Kidambi Srikanth c) Guinea d) Germany c) Maharashtra d) Bihar Q.133) Who won the women single title in the e) India e) Madhya Pradesh Senior National Badminton Championships held Q.112) Name the Digital payment platform which Q.122) Name the countries which have signed a at Nagpur to lift her third nationals title? introduced payments using BHIM UPI on its deal worth USD nine billion that comprised with a a) PV Sindhu b) Saina Nehwal platform, using which users can create their own total of 19 deals covering bioscience, aviation and c) Jwala Gutta d) Nozomi Okuhara BHIM UPI ID on the app. smart manufacturing. e) Ashwini ponnapa a) Paypal b) Mobikwik a) US & China b) US & Qatar Q.134) World Radiology Day is celebrated on c) Paytm d) PayU c) US & Japan d) US & Germany ______. e) Phonepe e) US & Israel a) November 6th b) November 7th Q.113) Which of the following bank has made Q.123) In which edition the meeting of Nepal- c) November 8th d) November 9th online transactions through RTGS and NEFT free India Oversight Mechanism held at Kathmandu, e) November10th of cost from 1 November 2017, with an aim to recently? Q.135) With which country does the Delhi promote a digital economy? a) 1st b) 2nd c) 3rd government signed a twin city agreement for a) HDFC Bank b) HSBC Bank d) 4th e) 5th strengthening cooperation in the fields of e- c) ICICI Bank d) YES Bank Q.124) Who leads Indian Delegation in the IEA governance, transportation, climate change and e) AXIS Bank Ministerial, Paris? smart city? Q.114) Who has been appointed as the Special a) Prithi Patel b) R. K. Singh a) China b) Philippines Secretary in the commerce ministry, recently? c) Sanjeev Kaushik d) Bimal Jan c) Sri Lanka d) Israel a) Vinay Kumar b) Maya Sinha e) Vikram Seth e) South Korea c) Binoy Kumar d) Chaya Sinha Q.125) Which of the following countries hold first e) Naveen Kumar counter-terrorism dialogue? Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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Q.136) The Nordic-Baltic embassies will host the c) Sri Lanka d) Israel Counter-Radicalisation (CTCR) and the Cyber and first ever youth film festival of the European e) South Korea Information Security (CIS). nations in _____. Q.146) With an aim to invest how many million a) Smriti Irani b) Arun Jaitley a) Greater Noida b) Vishakhapatnam capital Emirates NBD, the UAE's second-largest c) Radha Mohan Singh d) Narendra Modi c) New Delhi d) Jaipur lender, has started operations in India? e) Rajnath Singh e) Chennai a) 100 million b) 200 million Q.157) Which of the following state government Q.137) Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare c) 300 million d) 400 million will set up Ayurvedic AIIMS to promote Ayurveda Minister, Shri Radha Mohan Singh will inaugurate e) 500 million in the state? the three-day Organic World Congress – 2017 Q.147) Which bank has entered a “strategic a) West Bengal b) Telangana being organized at India Expo Centre in alliance” with mobile wallet major MobiKwik to c) Haryana d) Gujarat ______. launch a co-branded virtual Visa prepaid card for e) Andhra Pradesh a) Greater Noida b) Vishakhapatnam customers of MobiKwik? Q.158) Which country will host ‘International c) New Delhi d) Jaipur a) Oriental bank of commerce AYUSH Conference and Exhibition 2017’? e) Chennai b) Punjab National bank a) Malaysia b) Bangladesh Q.138) Which of the following place is set to host c) Indian bank c) UAE d) Singapore the first ever agriculture hackathon from d) IDFC bank e) Thailand November 15, 2017? e) SBI bank Q.159) With which country Adani Power inks a) Hyderabad b) Vishakhapatnam Q.148) Who has become the first ever Sikh power purchase agreement to supply electricity c) New Delhi d) Jaipur mayor of New Jersey's Hoboken city? from its upcoming 1,600 MW plant at Godda in e) Chennai a) Ravinder Bhalla Jharkhand? Q.139) How many crores has given by the central b) Kavinder Bhalla a) Malaysia b) Bangladesh government for linking historical religious places c) Natalie Portman c) India d) Singapore of Sri Fatehgarh Sahib and Sri Chamkaur Sahib d) A G Milkha Singh e) Thailand with the National Highway paving way to connect e) M K Singh Q.160) Which bank has obtained RBI approval to the sacred places? Q.149) Name the Bangladesh cricket coach who open representative offices in Kuwait and a) 100 crores b) 200 crores resigned recently. Singapore? c) 300 crores d) 400 crores a) Tamim Iqbal a) ICICI bank b) AXIS bank e) 500 crores b) Chandika Hathurusingha c) Yes bank d) HDFC bank Q.140) The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi c) Mushifiqur Rahim e) Federal bank attends the 15th ASEAN-India Summit and the d) Taskin Ahmed Q.161) On which Indian state Chief Minister, 12th East Asia Summit to be held in ______. e) Mashrafe Mortaza SEBI Imposes Fine for Manipulative Trading? a) China b) Philippines Q.150) Who has been awarded Israel’s 2018 a) West Bengal b) Telangana c) Sri Lanka d) Israel Genesis Prize in recognition of her commitment c) Haryana d) Gujarat e) South Korea to social causes and deep connection to her e) Andhra Pradesh Q.141) With which of the following country US Jewish and Israeli roots? Q.162) How many members in a panel has signed business contracts worth $220 billion for a) Chathruka Singh b) Natasha Poli formed by the Environment Ministry to find US$37 billion, mobile phone chipsets from c) Natalie Portman d) Mahendra Singh solutions for air pollution in Delhi? Qualcomm for US$12 billion, US$1.6 billion of e) M K Singh a) Five b) Six c) Seven soybeans and vehicles and parts from General Q.151) Name the former Indian cricketer who d) Eight e) Nine Motors and Ford for a total of US$11.7 billion, passed away recently. Q.163) Who gets prestigious Sumitra Charat Ram recently? a) Ian Folley b) Raman Singh Award as Posthumous Lifetime Achievement a) China b) Philippines c) Wasim Ahmed d) A G Milkha Singh recently? c) Sri Lanka d) Israel e) M K Singh a) Sanu Sharma b) Girija Devi e) South Korea Q.152) World Science Day for Peace and c) Manu Sharma d) Vikas Krishnan Q.142) Which of the following country was re- Development was celebrated on ______. e) Hemant Kumar elected as the member of the UNESCO's a) November 8th b) November 9th Q.164) Name the noted author and Padma Shri executive board? c) November 10th d) November 11th awardee who was nominated as one of the a) China b) Philippines e) November 12th navratna of the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan by c) Sri Lanka d) India Q.153) Which country has become the first Prime Minister Narendra Modi died recently. e) South Korea country to partner with Facebook on disaster a) Sanu Sharma b) Girija Devi Q.143) The US has announced a grant of nearly response? c) Manu Sharma d) Vikas Sharma USD 500,000 for organizations which can come a) Malaysia b) Bangladesh e) Hemant Kumar up with ideas and projects to promote religious c) India d) Singapore Q.165) National education day was celebrated on freedom in India and ______. e) Thailand ______. a) China b) Philippines Q.154) Which of the following state government a) November 10th b) November 11th c) Sri Lanka d) Israel declared “Urdu” as the state’s second official c) November 12th d) November 13th e) South Korea language? e) November 14th Q.144) Which city remains the world's most a) West Bengal b) Telangana Q.166) Which of the following state government visited city by international travellers? c) Haryana d) Gujarat and its neighbouring West Bengal will organize a a) Paris b) Hong Kong e) Andhra Pradesh joint security exercise named as 'Sagar Kavach' c) Dubai d) London Q.155) The 23rd edition of the International Film to further tighten the existing coastal security e) New York Festival was inaugurated at ______. mechanism along the 630-km long coastline? Q.145) ‘EX BLUE FLAG-17’ kicked off along with a) West Bengal b) Telangana a) Jharkhand b) Chhattisgarh air forces from nine countries - the largest aerial c) Haryana d) Gujarat c) Andhra Pradesh d) Odisha exercise ever held by the ______Defence e) Andhra Pradesh e) Karnataka Forces. Q.156) Name the minister who has formed two a) China b) Philippines new divisions called the Counter-Terrorism and Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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Q.167) Which of the following place tops the List Q.177) Which edition of the India-Canada Annual Q.189) World Pneumonia Day was observed on of Country’s Most Polluted City, a report released Ministerial Dialogue held in New Delhi, recently? ______. by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)? a) 1st b) 2nd c) 3rd a) November 11th b) November 12th a) Lucknow b) Varanasi d) 4th e) 5th c) November 13th d) November 14th c) Kanpur d) New Delhi Q.178) Who was appointed as the Slovenian e) November 15th e) Gurugram President? Q.190) Name the Former Prime Minister of Nepal Q.168) Name the minister who chaired the a) Bharat Ghosh b) Borut Pahor passed away recently. second meeting of the Island Development c) Debjani Ghosh d) Ravi Bangar a) Birendra Sanghi b) Nidhi Kirti Bista Agency (IDA) in New Delhi. e) Bhaskar Ganguly c) Virendra Sanghi d) Vijay Kumar Sanghi a) Rajnath Singh b) Narendra Modi Q.179) Who becomes first India-Born Fighter to e) Kirti Nidhi Bista c) Arun Jaitley d) Radha Mohan Singh sign with the Ultimate Fighting Championship? Q.191) Name the Senior journalist who worked e) Smriti Irani a) Bharat Khandare for the Samachar Bharti and PTI-Bhasha for long Q.169) The government has raised the maximum b) Borut Ghosh period of time, died recently. amount that a Central government employee can c) Debjani Ghosh a) Birendra Sanghi b) Nidhi Kirti Bista borrow from the government for house-building d) Ravi Bangar c) Virendra Sanghi d) Kirti Nidhi Bista to ______from the earlier Rs.7.5 lakh. e) Vikas Dalwai e) Vijay Kumar Sanghi a) Rs.15 lakh b) Rs.25 lakh Q.180) Name the former football captain, who Q.192) 37th India International Trade Fair (IITF) c) Rs.30 lakh d) Rs.35 lakh was appointed as AIFF ombudsman by the began at ______. e) Rs.45 lakh Supreme Court. a) New Delhi b) Bengaluru Q.170) Who announced that the World Bank has a) Bharat Khandare b) Vikas Singh c) Kolkata d) Chennai supported Rs. 6,000 crore schemes to improve c) Debjani Ghosh d) Ravi Bangar e) Mumbai the irrigation facilities and water accessibility e) Bhaskar Ganguly Q.193) Name the Union Minister who approved to capacity in several states, including Maharashtra, Q.181) Who is concurrently accredited as the extend Visakhapatnam-Jagdalpur express upto Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and next Ambassador of India to Ecuador? Dantewada's Kirandul to facilitate easy transport Gujarat? a) Bharat Khandare b) Kishore Khandare of passengers in the Naxal-affected region. a) Rajnath Singh b) Nitin Gadkari c) Debjani Ghosh d) Ravi Bangar a) Rajnath Singh b) Piyush Goyal c) Arun Jaitley d) Radha Mohan Singh e) Bhaskar Ganguly c) Narendra Modi d) Rajnath Singh e) Smriti Irani Q.182) Who is to be the first woman to be e) Smriti Irani Q.171) Which government has said the first President of NASSCOM in 2018? Q.194) In which of the following states Sainik Military Literature Festival would be held in a) Bharat Khandare Sankshema Sabha to be organised in all districts? Chandigarh from December 7-9? b) Vikas Ghosh a) Andhra Pradesh b) Telangana a) Jharkhand b) Punjab c) Bhaskar Ganguly c) Karnataka d) Both a and b c) Andhra Pradesh d) Odisha d) Ravi Bangar e) Both b and c e) Haryana e) Debjani Ghosh Q.195) Name the minister who hosted “Hausala Q.172) National Testing Agency (NTA), entrance Q.183) Which city police officers set a Guinness 2017” to Celebrate Child Rights Week from 16th examinations like JEE Main and NEET are likely to World Record by pulling the world's largest to 20th Nov. be conducted twice a year from ______. passenger airliner Airbus A380 for 100 metres? a) Rajnath Singh b) Maneka Gandhi a) 2018 b) 2019 c) 2020 a) Abu Dhabi b) Dubai c) Narendra Modi d) Rajnath Singh d) 2021 e) 2022 c) Sharjah d) Ajman e) Smriti Irani Q.173) Which state has become the first Indian e) Masdar city Q.196) Which state government launches a toll- state in the country to treat Hepatitis-C patients Q.184) Which of the following entity has received free helpline number for senior citizens? of all categories through oral medicine? the prestigious "Kalinga Safety Award" in the 8th a) Gujarat b) Maharashtra a) Jharkhand b) Chhattisgarh Odisha State Safety Conclave? c) Madhya Pradesh d) Chhattisgarh c) Haryana d) Odisha a) NINL b) MINL c) RINL e) Jharkhand e) Karnataka d) SINL e) KINL Q.197) Who won Brazilian Grand Prix 2017 Q.174) Name the forest Minister who laid the Q.185) Which of the following organisation has recently? foundation stone for Butterfly Conservatory Park, been named as the recipient of the Mother Teresa a) Sebastian Vettel b) Lewis Hamilton which will be developed on 15 acres in Sector 52 Memorial Award for Social Justice, 2017? c) Valtteri Bottas d) Kimi Raikkonen of Gurugram and will be the biggest butterfly a) WHO b) UNICEF c) UNESCO e) Daniel Riccardo park in North India. d) UNHCR e) UNCTAD Q.198) International Rice Research Institute a) Rajnath Singh b) Nitin Gadkari Q.186) In which of the following place captain (IRRI) is in ______. c) Arun Jaitley d) Rao Narbir Singh Mahendra Singh Dhoni inaugurated his first a) Bangladesh b) Philippines e) Smriti Irani global cricket academy? c) Nepal d) Bhutan Q.175) Which of the following state has a) Qatar b) Bahrain c) UAE e) Singapore inaugurated the sixth China-India Forum meet d) Israel e) Palestine Q.199) What is the theme of three-day 10th being jointly hosted by the Government of China, Q.187) Name the snooker who clinched his 17th South Asia Economic Summit (SAES)? Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with world title in the IBSF World Billiards a) "Deepening Economic Integrity for Inclusive Foreign Countries (CPAFFC)? Championship in Doha. and Sustainable Development in South Asia" a) Jharkhand b) Chhattisgarh a) Pankaj Advani b) Aditya Mehta b) "Deepening Economic Integration for Inclusion c) Haryana d) Odisha c) Geet Sethi d) Yasin Merchant and Sustainable Development in South Asia" e) Karnataka e) Subhash Agarwal c) "Deepening Economic Integration for Inclusive Q.176) First power plant under the PM Ladakh Q.188) Public Service Broadcasting Day is and Sustainability Development in South Asia" Scheme commissioned in Jammu & Kashmir. It celebrated on ______. d) "Deepening Economic Integration for Inclusive consists of ____MW small hydropower plant in a) November 11th b) November 12th and Sustainable Development in South East Asia" Biaras Drass of Kargil? c) November 13th d) November 14th e) "Deepening Economic Integration for Inclusive a) 1.5 b) 2.5 c) 3.5 e) November 15th and Sustainable Development in South Asia" d) 4.5 e) 5.5 Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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Q.200) Which city hosts Asian Bankers Q.209) Asia Pacific Computer Emergency income and affordability, says a report by Bank Association summit? Response Team (APCERT) Conference of America Merrill Lynch? a) New Delhi b) Bengaluru commenced from November 12-15, 2017 in a) China b) India c) Germany c) Kolkata d) Chennai ______. d) USA e) UK e) Mumbai a) Mumbai b) New Delhi c) Kolkata Q.221) Who becomes first transgender to be d) Jaipur e) Bhopal appointed in Rajasthan Police? Q.201) The Union Minister of State for Youth Q.210) In which of the following Indian state, US a) Rathiya Kumari Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge) Col. government organized India’s first Tribal b) Ganga Kumari Rajyavardhan Rathore released the India Youth Entrepreneurship Summit? c) Kanga Ghosh Development Index and Report 2017 in a) Maharashtra b) Uttar Pradesh d) Sujoy Ghosh ______. c) Chhattisgarh d) Jharkhand e) Saeed Ajmal a) New Delhi e) West Bengal Q.222) BSE Institute has sets up India's first in- b) Bengaluru Q.211) Which of the following Indian state tops in house Block Chain Lab in ______. c) Kolkata Mobilising Jan Dhan Accounts? a) Mumbai b) New Delhi d) Chennai a) Maharashtra b) Uttar Pradesh c) Kolkata d) Jaipur e) Mumbai c) Chhattisgarh d) Jharkhand e) Bhopal Q.202) Name the Bangladesh chief justice who e) West Bengal Q.223) Who resigns as Jury Head of 48th resigned recently. Q.212) Which of the following entity launched the International Film Festival of India? a) Gajendra Kumar Sinha BHARAT-22 Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) a) Vijay Prasad Dimri b) Narendra Kumar Sinha managed by ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund? b) Ganga Kumari c) Surendra Kumar Sinha a) GOI b) RBI c) SEBI c) Sunil Ghosh d) Mahendra Kumar Sinha d) MEA e) IRDA d) Sujoy Ghosh e) Virendra Kumar Sinha Q.213) Who launched “Project Saksham” to e) Saeed Ajmal Q.203) Name the person who bagged the Indian upgrade the knowledge of employees and for Q.224) Who will be honoured with personality of Sportswoman of the Year (Team Sports) award at boosting productivity? the year award at the upcoming International the Indian Sports Honours (ISH) event held in a) Suresh Prabhu b) Rajnath Singh Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa? Mumbai. c) Smriti Irani d) Piyush Goyal a) Farah Khan b) Amitabh Bachchan a) Punam Raut b) Harmanpreet Kaur e) Narendra Modi c) Abishek Bachchan d) Shah Rukh Khan c) Jhulam Goswami d) Mithali Raj Q.214) Which of the following country will e) Salman Khan e) Veda Krishnamurthy simplify its visa rules from January 1 next year Q.225) Name the Pakistan Cricket player who Q.204) Who won his tenth World title at the 2017 for the Indians? announced his retirement from all forms of Judo World Championships Open in Marrakesh? a) China b) Japan c) Germany cricket. a) Yasuhiro Yamashita d) USA e) UK a) Vijay Prasad Dimri b) Saheed Ajmal b) Tadahiro Nomura Q.215) Founding Ceremony of the International c) Ahmed Khan d) Sujoy Ghosh c) Teddy Riner Solar Alliance (ISA) was held at ______. e) Saeed Ajmal d) Anton Geesink a) China b) Japan c) Germany Q.226) Which state Rosogolla gets GI e) David Douillet d) USA e) UK (Geographical Indication) tag? Q.205) Name the Indian Golfer who registered Q.216) Which country launched the world’s first a) Maharashtra b) Uttar Pradesh her maiden top-10 finish after finishing tied 6th all-electric ship, which can travel up to 80 km c) Chhattisgarh d) Jharkhand in the Women's Indian Open in Gurugram. with 2000-tonnes cargo after a two-hour charge? e) West Bengal a) Neha Tripathi b) Vani Kapoor a) China b) Japan Q.227) Who won Mexican Grand Prix 2017 c) Aditi Ashok d) Sharmila Nicollet c) Germany d) USA e) UK recently? e) Saakniya Sharma Q.217) Name the person who represented the a) Sebastian Vettel b) Lewis Hamilton Q.206) What is the theme of World Diabetes Government of India at the ‘UN Peacekeeping c) Valtteri Botta d) Max Verstappen Day? Defence Ministerial: Vancouver 2017’. e) Daniel Riccardo a) “Women and diabetes - our right to a Bright a) Vijay Prasad Dimri Q.228) Which of the following state hosting its future” b) Ganga Kumari first ever hot-air balloon festival? b) “Women and diabetes - our right to a Better c) Dr. Subhash Bhamre a) Telangana b) Maharashtra future” d) Sujoy Ghosh c) Andhra Pradesh d) Odisha c) “Women and diabetes - our right to a Best e) Saeed Ajmal e) Tamilnadu future” Q.218) Wholesale inflation rose to a six-month Q.229) In Which of the following state India’s d) “Women and diabetes - our right to a healthy high of ______per cent in October, 2017. First wave-powered Navigational Buoy Launched? future” a) 3.56% b) 3.57% c) 3.58% a) Telangana b) Maharashtra e) “Women and diabetes - our right to a healthy d) 3.59% e) 4.00% c) Andhra Pradesh d) Odisha life” Q.219) Who has been appointed as the president e) Tamil Nadu Q.207) World Kindness Day is celebrated on of the 36th International Geological Congress Q.230) Which country has officially signed up to ______. (IGC), a global platform for advancement of the Paris Agreement, the UN, leaving the United a) November 11th b) November 12th earth science? States as the only country to reject the global c) November 13th d) November 14th a) Vijay Prasad Dimri climate-rescue pact? e) November 15th b) Ganga Kumari a) Palestine b) Syria c) Israel Q.208) In which of the following Indian state c) Dr. Subhash Bhamre d) Iran e) Pakistan does the President Ramnath Kovind inaugurated d) Sujoy Ghosh Q.231) Kevin Lilliana was crowned Miss JOHAR Scheme worth one thousand five hundred e) Saeed Ajmal International 2017 belongs to which country? crore rupees? Q.220) Which of the following country will a) Singapore b) Malaysia a) Maharashtra b) Uttar Pradesh emerge as the third largest economy overtaking c) Indonesia d) China e) Japan c) Chhattisgarh d) Jharkhand Japan over the next ten years on the back of e) West Bengal falling dependency, financial maturity and higher Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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Q.232) Which of the following country Q.244) Boeing ties up with which company to a) Ashok Mehta b) Sri Krishabalan government has approved the practice of yoga as manufacture F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter in c) Subramanian Pillai d) Kumaravel a sports activity? India? e) Acharya Balakrishna a) Palestine b) Syria c) Israel a) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Q.255) Hausala 2017 is a painting event d) Iran e) Saudi Arabia b) Mahindra Aerospace Pvt. Ltd. organized in New Delhi. Which Ministry Organized Q.233) Name the bank, which has reportedly c) Society of Indian Aerospace Technologies and the event? rejected by the Reserve Bank of India to Industries a) Ministry of Human Resource and Development declassify its parent as a foreign institutional d) Airbus Group India Private Limited b) Ministry of Women and Child Development investor (FII). e) Ferchau Engineering India Pvt Ltd c) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare a) HDFC b) ICICI Q.245) The Headquarters of Moody’s Investors d) Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment c) Indus Ind Bank d) Axis bank Service is located at? e) Ministry of Transport, Tourism and Culture e) HSBC a) Melbourne b) London Q.256) Who is the first Asian to be appointed as Q.234) Which of the following country topped the c) New York d) Tokyo the global ambassador of the World Packaging list of highest public bingers in the world? e) Brisbane Organisation? a) India b) Mexico Q.246) India International Trade Fair (IITF) a) HR Shankar b) Chakravarthi c) Argentina d) Canada inaugurated at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi is c) Dhanabalan d) Dharshan e) Rwanda organised by which Ministry? e) Sivamoorthy Q.235) Who has been appointed to the Financial a) Ministry of Urban Development Q.257) Sergio Ramirez, author and former Stability Institute Advisory Board or the Bank of b) Ministry of Minority Affairs politician won the 2017 Cervantes Prize, the International Settlement (BIS)? c) Ministry of Panchayat Raj Spanish-speaking world’s highest literary honor. a) R Gandhi b) S S Mundra d) Ministry of Labour and Employment Sergio Ramirez belongs to which country? c) Rakesh Sharma d) Urjit Patel e) Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public a) Tuvalu b) Nicaragua e) H R Khan Distribution c) Nigeria d) Serbia Q.236) Who has been appointed as the Chairman Q.247) Which country has signed for Civil e) Paraguay of the Bombay Stock Exchange? Aviation Cooperation with India recently? Q.258) Geeta Phogat belongs to which game? a) M Ravi b) S Ravi a) France b) Sweden a) Boxing b) Billiards c) L Ravi d) N Ravi c) Poland d) Spain c) Football d) Wrestling e) B Ravi e) Rome e) Cricket Q.237) Name the Noted Hindustani vocalist who Q.248) In BWF rankings, Kidambi Srikanth Q.259) First WHO Global Ministerial Conference died recently. retains in which place? held at? a) Kirana Gharana Jagdish Mohan a) Third b) Second a) London b) New York b) Sangeet Sartaj Jagdish Mohan c) Tenth d) Sixth c) Hyderabad d) Moscow c) Manjeet Sartaj Jagdish Mohan e) First e) Beijing d) Tirana Gharana Jagdish Mohan Q.249) Which of the following state ties up with Q.260) What is the theme of GES which is to be e) Swagat Sartaj Jagdish Mohan Intel’s Mobileye for the launch of automotive held at Hyderabad? Q.238) National Press Day is celebrated on safety project? a) ’Women First, Prosperity for All’ ______. a) Jharkhand b) Odisha b) ’Women, the next new voice’ a) November 12th b) November 13th c) Karnataka d) Maharashtra c) ’Women the backbone of Future’ c) November 14th d) November 15th e) Andhra Pradesh d) ’The Entrepreneurship Quality’ e) November 16th Q.250) Namami Barak festival was celebrated in e) ’Desire to be a Entrepreneurship’ Q.239) The Food Processing Ministry has which Indian state? Q.261) Yes Bank Ties up with ICDK for Fintech announced how much amount for food processing a) Jharkhand b) Odisha Collaboration. What is the abbreviation for ICDK? potential in Jharkhand? c) Assam d) Maharashtra a) Innovation Centre Development a) 115 crore b) 113 crore e) Andhra Pradesh b) Innovation Committee in Denmark c) 119 crore d) 120 crore Q.251) The 12th North-East Business Summit c) India Combined Development Kit e) 114 crore was held at New Delhi with state partners as d) Indian Centres in Denmark Q.240) Which state becomes first state to launch Manipur. Who organized the meet? e) Innovation Centre Denmark PoS for electricity bill payments? a) Energy and Commerce Committee Q.262) The International jury for Indira Gandhi a) Tamil Nadu b) Madhya Pradesh b) Ministry of Commerce and Industry Prize for Peace is chaired by? c) Haryana d) Nagaland c) Ministry of Finance a) ICC CEO e) Chattisgarh d) Indian Chamber of Commerce b) Vice President of India Q.241) NEA Signed with which company to e) Ministry of Urban Development c) President of India Construct West Seti Hydropower Project in Q.252) The Union Cabinet has approved an d) Prime Minister of India Nepal? agreement between India and with which of the e) Secretary-General of India a) CCTG b) CTGC c) GTCC following country on Scientific and Technological Q.263) Atom Egoyan, who gets the lifetime d) CTGG e) CGTC Cooperation? achievement award at the International Film Q.242) Which state installs WiFi facility in gram a) Belarus b) Bahamas Festival of India (IFFI) belongs to which of the panchayats in India? c) Bahrain d) Belgium following category? a) Andhra Pradesh e) Bangladesh a) Editor b) Director c) Writer b) Madhya Pradesh Q.253) Sampriti’ 17 is a defence exercise d) Musician e) Singer c) Chattisgarh between which of the following countries? Q.264) Balewadi Sports Complex is located at d) Karnataka a) India and Indonesia which of the following place? e) Kerala b) India and Myanmar a) Mumbai b) Pune Q.243) Where is the Headquarters of Shangai c) India and Austria c) Ahmedabad d) New Delhi Cooperation Organisation located? d) India and Maldives e) Jaipur a) Shangai b) Beijing c) Tianjin e) India and Bangladesh Q.265) Mausam Khatri belongs to which sports? d) Shenzhen e) Wuhan Q.254) Who is the CEO of Patanjali group? a) Boxing b) Cricket Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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Ambassador for Adolescents and HIV. as Miss world 2017? a) Actor b) Scientist a) T.P Seetharam a) Brianny Chamorro c) Athlete d) Politician b) Quarraisha Abdool Karim b) Felicia Hwang e) Musician c) Monica Geingos c) Manushi Chiller Q.278) What is the currency of Bulgaria? d) Nalin surie d) Kevin Lilliana a) Dollar b) Peso e) None of the above e) Alina Chirciu c) Euro d) Lev Q.289) What title is planned for the Q.267) Ericsson ties up with which of the e) Ruble Ramanujacharya’s Sahasrabdi Statue? following Telecom operator to provide 5G Q.279) India’s nominee ______has re-elected to a) ‘Statue of Positivity’ Technology recently? the International Court of Justice (ICJ), held in b) ‘Statue of Peace’ a) Aircel b) Airtel c) Vodafone New York. c) ‘Statue of Love’ d) Idea e) BSNL a) Chritopher greenwood d) ‘Statue of Equality’ Q.268) Amitabh Kant is the CEO of ____ b) Jagdish Singh Khehar e) ‘Statue of Power’ a) ONGC b) Bharati Enterprises c) Dalveer Bhandari Q.290) India and Russia inks for Anti-Terror Pact c) Oil India d) NITI Aayog d) T. S. Thakur recently. Who signed the pact on behalf of e) Food Corporation of India e) None of these Russia? Q.269) How much amount has been allocated for Q.280) A recent survey stated that Prime Minister a) Ivan Logginovich Goremykin Jharkhand Tourism recently? Modi leads Third most trusted Govt in the world. b) Nikolay Dmitriyevich Golitsyn a) 1000 Crore b) 20 Million This report was released by ______c) Alexander Fyodorovich Trepov c) 200 Crore d) 2000 Crore a) International Economic Development Council d) Vladimir Kolokoltsev e) 100 Crore b) UN Conference on Trade and Development. e) Sergei Yulyevich Witte Q.270) 12th Biennial International Conference & c) World Trade Organization Q.291) International Ambedkar Conclave Exposition of Society of Petroleum Geophysicists d) The Organization for Economic Co-operation inaugurated by President of India which is held at India was held at? and Development ______. a) Kolkata b) Raipur e) None of these a) Chennai b) New Delhi c) Jaipur d) Chandigarh Q.281) “World fisheries day” is celebrated on c) Hyderabad d) Trivandrum e) Varanasi ______. e) Mumbai Q.271) Which bank opens its First all women a) 22nd November b) 21st November Q.292) The Golden Temple has been awarded the branch in Chennai? c) 20th November d) 23rd November ‘most visited place of the world’. It is located at a) SBI b) RBL bank e) 25th November ______. c) HDFC bank d) Punjab National Bank Q.282) The Union government signs loan of how a) Pune b) Kolkata c) Bhopal e) HSBC Bank much amount from World Bank for constructing d) Jaipur e) Amristar Q.272) 42nd International Congress of Military solar parks in the country? Q.293) In the recently held Miss Universe Medicine begins in New Delhi. Where is the a) $100 Million b) $100 Crore contest, who won the crown? Headquarter of ICMM located in? c) $100 Billion d) $10 Million a) Julia Morley a) Rome b) New York e) None of these b) Manushi Chillar c) Brussels d) Paris Q.283) “North East Development Summit” c) Kylie Verzosa e) London (NEDS) was held at ______. d) Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters Q.273) As per IMF report the per capita GDP a) Jaipur b) Aizawl e) Eric Morley (gross domestic product) of India is? c) Imphal d) Shillong Q.294) The Asian Development Bank will provide a) Rs.4 thousand per person e) Dispur how much loan to Nepal to improve its urban b) Rs.4 lakh per person Q.284) The Government targeted to build infrastructure? c) Rs.2 crore per person ______houses by March 2018 under PMAY a) USD 200 million b) USD 75 million d) Rs.2 lakh per person scheme. c) USD 100 million d) USD 150 million e) None of these a) 1 crore b) 51 lakhs e) USD 250 million Q.274) The Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS- c) 51 thousand d) 75 lakhs Q.295) What is the capital of Mauritius? 1) lifted off from which place? e) 55 lakhs a) Manama b) Nassau a) Sriharikota b) Paris Q.285) IMBAX, a Bilateral Army Exercise between c) Port Louis d) Suva c) Shanghai d) California which countries, begins at Umroi near Shillong in e) Bissau e) None of these Meghalaya? Q.296) Britain appointed Karen Pierce as its new Q.275) Ola ties up with which of the following to a) India and Myanmar Ambassador to the UN. She replaces ______. launch the country’s first electric charging station b) India and Pakistan a) Matthew Rycroft in Nagpur. c) India and Nepal b) Alexander Cadogan a) Bharath petroleum d) India and Bhutan c) Gladwyn Jebb b) Reliance e) India and South Korea d) Patrick Dean c) Indian Oil Corporation Q.286) World Talent Rankings 2017 by IMD was e) Colin Crowe d) Tata son’s ltd topped by ______. Q.297) Recently which Indian bowler honoured as e) None of these a) Denmark b) Netherland the fastest bowler by reaching the milestone of Q.276) Punjab National Bank (PNB) and Action c) Switzerland d) Australia 300 Test wickets in 54 Test matches? Construction Equipment Ltd (ACE) ties up for e) India a) Zaheer Khan which of the following reasons? Q.287) Who is the Former Wimbledon Champion b) Harbhajan Singh a) Metro equipment’s machinery and three-time Olympic medallist was died c) Ravichandran Ashwin b) Farm machinery financing recently? d) Amit Mishra c) Medicine manufacturing financing a) Michael Phelps b) Jana Novotna e) Ishant Sharma d) Water purification financing c) Marion Bartoli d) Larisa Latynina Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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Q.298) Bajrang Punia belongs to which of the (c) 276. (b) 277. (a) 278. (d) 279. (c) 280. (d) a) 41.625 b) 222 c) 18.5 following field? 281. (b) 282. (a) 283. (c) 284. (b) 285. (a) 286. d) 185 e) None of these a) Hockey b) Wrestling (c) 287. (b) 288. (b) 289. (d) 290. (d) 291. (b) 20. 725 ÷ 25 -13 =? c) Shuttler d) Boxing 292. (e) 293. (d) 294. (d) 295. (c) 296. (a) 297. a) 16 b) 29 c) 12 e) Cricket (c) 298. (b) 299. (b) 300. (e) d) 18 e) None of these 558 푋 45 Q.299) Who became the first Indian to win the 21. =? 18 푋 4.5 Asian Marathon Championship held in Dongguan, Simplification: a) 314 b) 313 c) 312 China? Directions (Q.1-100) : What should come in d) 311 e) None of these a) Anu raj Singh b) Gopi Thonakal place of the question mark (?) in the 22. 559+965=? X 16 c) Byambalev Tseveenravdan following questions? a) 92.05 b) 95.25 c) 93.15 d) Andrey Petrov e) Varun Singh 1. 52 x 7 x ? = 4004 d) 94.35 e) None of these Q.300) Who won the gold medal in Para a) 17 b) 13 c) 11 23. {(337 + 146) x 8} =? Badminton World Championships at Ulsan in d) 9 e) 15 a) 3884 b) 1515 c) 3864 South Korea under Women’s singles SL3 2. 555.55+55.55+15+0.55+0.05=? d) 1505 e) 3846 Category? a) 626.65 b) 626.50 c) 625.70 24. 126 ÷ 7 ÷ 0.6 =? a) MA Huihui b) Cheng Hefang d) 626.70 e) None of these a) 3 b) 30 c) 300 361 ? c) Akiko Sugino d) Wannaphatdee Kamtam 3. = ? 289 d) 6 e) 18 e) Parul Parmar a) 357 b) 399 c) 323 25. 8.75 x ? – 17.5 =350 d) 327 e) None of these a) 32 b) 36 c) 40 Answer Key: 4. 12.50 x 14 ÷ 8.75 + 12 = 20 + ? d) 42 e) 44 1. (e) 2. (a) 3. (b) 4. (e) 5. (a) 6. (e) 7. (c) 8. a) 10 b) 12 c) 14 26. 36 x 1.75 + 24 x 3.25 =? (d) 9. (c) 10. (e) 11. (a) 12. (b) 13. (a) 14. (c) d) 16 e) 18 a) 137.5 b) 141 c) 143.75 15. (d) 16. (b) 17. (a) 18. (e) 19. (d) 20. (c) 21. 5. 1805 ÷ 19 + 65 = 200 + ? d) 145 e) 147.25 (b) 22. (c) 23. (d) 24. (e) 25. (a) 26. (e) 27. (c) a) 70 b) -40 c) 30 27. 4.8 x 8.75 x 6.4 =? 28. (b) 29. (e) 30. (d) 31. (b) 32. (b) 33. (c) 34. d) -30 e) 40 a) 262.2 b) 264.4 c) 266.6 (a) 35. (b) 36. (c) 37. (a) 38. (d) 39. (d) 40. (b) ? 324 6. = d) 268.8 e) 270.2 41. (c) 42. (c) 43. (e) 44. (a) 45. (d) 46. (c) 47. 529 ? 28. 1772 x 34 -578=? a) 404 b) 408 c) 410 (a) 48. (b) 49. (c) 50. (d) 51. (e) 52. (b) 53. (d) a) 57226 b) 27368 c) 59670 d) 414 e) 416 54. (a) 55. (d) 56. (d) 57. (b) 58. (a) 59. (c) 60. d) 29565 e) 28486 7. 61.25 x 1.08 x 1.8=? (d) 61. (c) 62. (a) 63. (e) 64. (d) 65. (c) 66. (d) 29. 12.7 x 3.9 x11.4=? a) 119.07 b) 117.09 c) 97.07 67. (d) 68. (b) 69. (a) 70. (c) 71. (b) 72. (c) 73. a) 432.314 b) 486.624 c) 564.642 d) 107.12 e) None of these (e) 74. (a) 75. (b) 76. (b) 77. (a) 78. (c) 79. (c) 8. (3080 + 6160) ÷ ?=330 d) 584.27 e) 593.310 80. (c) 81. (e) 82. (b) 83. (c) 84. (c) 85. (b) 86. 30. 284 ÷ 8 ÷ 0.4=? a) 26 b) 22 c) 28 (b) 87. (d) 88. (a) 89. (d) 90. (e) 91. (d) 92. (b) a) 82.25 b) 84.45 c) 86.65 d) 29 e) 18 93. (b) 94. (a) 95. (b) 96. (c) 97. (d) 98. (c) 99. d) 88.75 e) 90.25 9. ? x (523.5 + 687.5) =24220 (d) 100. (d) 101. (c) 102. (b) 103. (c) 104. (d) 31. (4270÷122) + ?=200 a) 32 b) 22 c) 28 105. (e) 106. (c) 107. (a) 108. (b) 109. (d) 110. a) 135 b) 145 c) 155 d) 20 e) 30 (e) 111. (c) 112. (c) 113. (a) 114. (c) 115. (d) 5 푋 5 푋 5 푋 5 d) 165 e) 175 10. ( ) =? 116. (b) 117. (e) 118. (c) 119. (b) 120. (c) 121. 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 32. 32 x 15 -1850 ÷ 37=? (b) 122. (a) 123. (e) 124. (b) 125. (b) 126. (c) a) 78.125 b) 76.125 c) 68.125 a) 295 b) 326 c) 410 127. (c) 128. (d) 129. (b) 130. (a) 131. (c) 132. d) 72.125 e) 74 d) 430 e) None of these (d) 133. (b) 134. (c) 135. (e) 136. (c) 137. (a) 11. 264 x ? x 6 = 28512 33. 11.02 x 8 + 1.5 x 0.6=? 138. (b) 139. (e) 140. (b) 141. (a) 142. (d) 143. a) 18 b) 13 c) 16 a) 89.06 b) 89.60 c) 89.96 (c) 144. (b) 145. (d) 146. (a) 147. (d) 148. (a) d) 17 e) 20 d) 89.26 e) None of these 149. (b) 150. (c) 151. (d) 152. (c) 153. (c) 154. 12. {2.002+7.9(2.8-1.4) } =? 34. 20 x 168 ÷ 14 – 40 =? + 110 (b) 155. (a) 156. (e) 157. (c) 158. (c) 159. (b) a) 11.312 b) 12.204 c) 13.062 a) 90 b) 80 c) 200 160. (e) 161. (d) 162. (c) 163. (b) 164. (c) 165. d) 14.442 e) 11.006 d) 240 e) None of these (b) 166. (d) 167. (b) 168. (a) 169. (b) 170. (b) 13. 32 x 15 - 1850 ÷ 37 =? 35. (2222.5 – 1680 x 0.75) x 1.2=? 171. (b) 172. (b) 173. (c) 174. (d) 175. (e) 176. a) 295 b) 326 c) 410 a) 1015 b) 1115 c) 1155 (a) 177. (d) 178. (b) 179. (a) 180. (e) 181. (d) d) 430 e) None of these d) 1555 e) 1515 182. (e) 183. (b) 184. (a) 185. (d) 186. (c) 187. 14. 125 + 265 x 9=? 36. (0.1x0.1x0.1x0.01) + (0.2x0.01x0.1) = (?) (a) 188. (b) 189. (b) 190. (e) 191. (c) 192. (a) a) 2510 b) 3510 c) 399 a) 0.00003 b) 0.00012 c) 0.0003 193. (b) 194. (d) 195. (b) 196. (d) 197. (a) 198. d) 298.125 e) None of these d) 0.00021 e) None of these (b) 199. (d) 200. (e) 201. (a) 202. (c) 203. (d) 15.16.23 x 12.9 + 17.32 =? 37. 13.2 x 11.7 x 8.6 =? 204. (c) 205. (b) 206. (d) 207. (d) 208. (d) 209. a) 294.0036 b) 490.4706 c) 226.687 a) 1328.184 b) 1416.916 c) 1448.642 (b) 210. (c) 211. (b) 212. (a) 213. (d) 214. (b) d) 432.795 e) None of these d) 1581.124 e) None of these 215. (c) 216. (a) 217. (c) 218. (d) 219. (a) 220. 16. 2.5 x 4.8 ÷ ? =30 38. 11.5 x ?=193.2 (b) 221. (b) 222. (a) 223. (d) 224. (b) 225. (e) a) 1.4 b) 0.2 c) 1.2 a) 15.4 b) 16.8 c) 14.2 226. (e) 227. (d) 228. (c) 229. (e) 230. (b) 231. d) 0.4 e) None of these d) 17.6 e) 15.8 18 푋 15−20 (c) 232. (e) 233. (a) 234. (b) 235. (d) 236. (b) 17. =? (3.2+9.4)−7.6 39. 184 ÷ 46 ÷ 0.008 ÷ 12.5=? 237. (a) 238. (e) 239. (b) 240. (d) 241. (b) 242. a) 75 b) 100 c) 150 a) 20 b) 40 c) 80 (d) 243. (b) 244. (a) 245. (c) 246. (b) 247. (c) d) 50 e) None of these d) 400 e) 500 248. (b) 249. (c) 250. (c) 251. (d) 252. (a) 253. 18. 963 x 874 =? 40. 85943 – 71206 + 37517-3512+119=? (e) 254. (e) 255. (b) 256. (b) 257. (b) 258. (d) a) 840788 b) 843588 c) 83972 a) 48861 b) 47641 c) 47929 259. (d) 260. (a) 261. (e) 262. (c) 263. (b) 264. d) 842536 e) None of these d) 48781 e) 49101 (b) 265. (c) 266. (c) 267. (b) 268. (d) 269. (d) 19. 444 ÷ (16 x 1.5) =? 41. 2522÷97+34 x 43 -96+69 =? 270. (c) 271. (b) 272. (c) 273. (b) 274. (d) 275. Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

|Legend Magazine | November - 2017| 38 a) 1641 b) 4161 c) 1461 a) 5 b) 50 c) 500 a) 2156 b) 109.68 c) 185.56 d) 6411 e) 1146 d) 5000 e) None of these d) 2742 e) None of these 0.1 푋 0.1 푋 0.1 + 0.02 푋 0.02 푋 0.02 42. 1131÷87+2-8 x16 =? 63. The value of ( ) is: 84. 256 x 0.5 = 1024÷? X 4 0.2 푋 0.2 푋 0.2 + 0.04 푋 0.04 푋 0.04 a) -113 b) 113 c) 114 a) 128 b) 8 c) 32 a) 1.25 b) 0.125 c) 0.0125 d) -114 e) -115 d) 28 e) None of these d) 0.00125 e) None of these 43. 11+19+17 x 65 –1064 ÷ 19 +288 =? 85. 52.901 – 17.563 – 7.731 – 0.690 =? 64. 0.07 X 0.008 X 0.2 =? a) 1201 b) 1367 c) 1368 a) 23.971 b) 26.917 c) 28.971 a) 0.000112 b) 0.00056 d) 1907 e) 2253 d) 31.917 e) None of these c) 0.00112 d) 0.0112 44. 86+34 x 79 -1512÷63+13 x 10 =? 86. 518 x ? x 9 = 303030 e) None of these a) 8782 b) 8728 c) 2887 (25 푋 7)+19 푋 8 a) 75 b) 65 c) 85 65. =? d) 2878 e) 2788 243÷(10 푋 9−9) d) 55 e) None of these 45. 73+19-2385÷53+89 x 98 =? a) 109 b) 103 c) 107 87. 15.593 – 9.214 – 3.452 – 2.191=? a) 8769 b) 7896 c) 8967 d) 2.5 e) None of these a) 1.873 b) 0.686 c) 2.342 66. 3 X 0.3 X 0.03 X 0.003 X 30 =? d) 6987 e) 9678 d) 0.736 e) None of these 46. 20+17-5757÷101+64 x 98 =? a) 0.243 b) 0.0243 c) 0.00243 88. 12.50 x 14÷8.75+12=20+? a) 2625 b) 2265 c) 6252 d) 0.000243 e) None of these a) 10 b) 12 c) 14 67. 0.777777÷0.011 =? d) 5622 e) 2256 d) 16 e) 18 (24 x 16)−(736÷23) a) 70.707 b) 77.07 c) 0.70707 47. =? 89. ? x (523.5+687.5) = 24220 (42 x 17) ÷102 d) 76.9999 e) none of these a) 32 b) 22 c) 28 a) 51 b) 51.28 c) 50.28 9.5 × 0.085 68. is d) 20 e) 30 d) 53 e) 54 0.0017 × 0.19 a) 25 b) 250 c) 2500 90. 4900÷28x444÷12 =? 48. 29.92 x 2.4+21.28 x 4.5 =? d) 25000 e) None of these a) 6575 b) 6475 c) 6455 a) 167.568 b) 176.568 c) 176.658 (5.7 × 5.7 × 5.7 + 2.3 × 2.3 × 2.3) 69. =? d) 6745 e) None of these d) 167.658 e) None of these 5.7 × 5.7 + 2.3 × 2.3 − 5.7 × 2.3 17.28 ÷ ? 91. = 200 49. 5610 ÷ 35.0625 × 2.5 =? a) 2.3 b) 3.4 c) 5.7 3.6 × 0.2 a) 400 b) 320 c) 415 d) 8.0 e) None of these a) 120 b) 1.20 c) 12 3420 ? d) 360 e) 435 70. = X 7 d) 0.12 e) None of these 19 0.1 (272−32)(124+176) 50. 12.4 X ? X 16.5= 2905.32 35 63 18 92. =? a) b) c) 17×15−15 9 5 7 a) 13.4 b) 15.2 c) 16.2 63 a) 0 b) 2.25 c) 300 d) e) None of these d) 14.2 e) None of these 7 d) 240 e) None of these 71. 39.05 x 14.95–27.99 x 10.12= (36 + ?) x 5 51. 3772 ÷ 164 x 29.5 =? 93. (4444÷40) +(645÷25) +(3991÷26) =? a) 25 b) 29 c) 34 a) 699.5 b) 715.0 c) 6875 a) 280.4 b) 290.4 c) 295.4 d) 32 e) 22 d) 678.5 e) 6895 d) 285.4 e) None of these 4+4 x 18−6−8 72. (54679 + 5982 + 32614) – (312 X 69) =? 52. =? 94. 3.5 + 11.25 x 4.5 – 32.5 =? 123 x 6−146 x 5 a) 71528 b) 39660 c) 71747 a) 1 b) 2 c) 6.65 a) 18.275 b) 21.625 c) 32.375 d) 61757 e) None of these d) 7.75 e) None of these d) 25.45 e) None of these 73. 1478.4÷56 + 66.8x57 = (?x3) + (34x34.5) 180 x 15−12 x 20 53. =? 95. (85410 + 36885 + 24705) ÷1600 =? 140 x 8+2 x 55 a) 785 b) 887 c) 889 1 4 a) 90.25 b) 94.385 c) 95.50 a) b) c) 2 d) 989 e) 885 7 5 d) 91.875 e) None of these d) 4 e) None of these 74. 0.2 x 1.1 + 0.6 x 0.009 =? - 313.06 96. 16.45x2.8 + 4.5x1.6 =? 54. The value of 25-5[2+3{2-2(5-3) + 5}-10]÷4 a) 353.2581 b) 353.2854 c) 331.54 a) 56.23 b) 56.32 c) 53.26 is: d) 313.2854 e) 331.2854 d) 53.66 e) None of these a) 5 b) 23.25 c) 23.75 75. (? ÷25) ÷0.16 = 1935÷9 97. 5616 ÷ 18 ÷ 8 =? d) 25 e) None of these a) 560 b) 1860 c) 760 a) 36 b) 76 c) 49 55. 11.6 + 9.28 ÷ 0.464 -0.2828 ÷ 0.07 =? d) 860 e) None of these d) 39 e) None of these a) 9.2 b) 9.56 c) 27.2 76. 96 x 2117 ÷ 73 = (?-198) x 32 98. 456 ÷ 24 x 38 – 958 + 364 =? d) 27.56 e) None of these a) 285 b) 385 c) 185 a) 112 b) 154 c) 128 56. 5.8 x 2.5 + 0.6 x 6.75 + 139.25 =? d) 825 e) None of these d) 136 e) 118 a) 157.30 b) 157.80 c) 158.40 77. 565 – 469.3 ÷ 19 x 10 = ? 9÷2×27÷9 99. =? d) 160.30 e) None of these a) 381 b) 391 c) 325 18÷7.5×5÷4 a) 4.5 b) 5.7 c) 2.5 57. 2.375 x 5.22 ÷ 0.87 – 1.425 x 0.02 =? d) 324 e) None of these d) 6.8 e) None of these a) 0.142215 b) 1.42215 c) 14.2215 78. 4326.73-2332.52+765.91 = ? + 2494.75 100. 5+ 5.5+5.55+5.555=? d) 1.042215 e) None of these a) 265.37 b) 265.73 c) 256.37 a) 22.605 b) 21.605 c) 20.625 58. 2.002+7.9{2.8-6.3(3.6 – 1.5) + 15.6} = ? d) 256.73 e) None of these d) 24.605 e) 25.555 a) 2.002 b) 4.2845 c) 40.843 79. 873.53+532.32-? = 535.1 + 232.95 d) 42.845 e) None of these a) 673.8 b) 637.8 c) 367.8 Practice set—3 59. 14.6 x 12.8 + 3.9 x 4.5 =? d) 763.8 e) None of these Directions (Q.101-200) : What should come a) 217.23 b) 204.43 c) 200.53 80. 18.5 x 22.5 x ? = 5161.5 in place of the question mark (?) in the d) 1097.19 e) None of these a) 13.5 b) 11.4 c) 16.5 74.6−38.9−5.7 following questions? 60. =? d) 12.4 e) None of these 26.4−18.9 37 18×15−20 43 푋 43⁻⁴¹ 81. =? 101. =? a) 0.5 b) 2.0 c) 1.5 (3.2+9.4)−7.6 43⁻⁶ d) 3.0 e) None of these a) 75 b) 100 c) 150 a) 1849 b) 2139 c) 79507 35.80 x 4.5−1.1 d) 43 e) 3043 61. =? d) 50 e) None of these 15.5 x 5.8−9.9 102. (53.7) 2 - (43.6) 2 =? 1 82. (560÷32) x (720÷48) =? a) b) 2 c) 3 2 a) 262.5 b) 255 c) 263.5 a) 970.73 b) 943.71 c) 952.33 d) 4 e) 1 d) 271.25 e) None of these d) 982.73 e) None of these 62. Value of 2.5 ÷0.0005 is: 2 83. 8226÷15÷5 = ? 103. [(192) ÷ 64 x 24] ÷ 48=√?

|Legend Magazine | November - 2017| 39 a) 83000 b) 82944 c) 82954 d) 3.5 e) None of these a) 108 b) 144 c) 132 d) 82950 e) None of these 124. 187.9 x 30.1 x 60.1 ÷ (34 x 64) =18? d) 136 e) None of these 104. √182.25 =? a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 145. [(6) 3 x (9) 2]÷18=? a) 11.25 b) 12.5 c) 13.5 d) 4 e) 5 a) 1458 b) 972 c) 8748 1 3 1 3 18 35 d) 14.5 e) 15.5 125. 3 + 2 + 7 - 5 – = d) 162 e) None of these 7 5 5 7 35 ? 2 2 2 105. √(1331) 1/3 − (343) 1/3=? a) 3 b) 5 c) 7 146. (73) – (41) +(29) =? a) 2 b) 5 c) 4 d) 9 e) 11 a) 4344 b) 4321 c) 4489 3 d) 4649 e) None of these d) 3 e) 6 126. √3969 - √2209 + 9 = √68921 - ? 6 5 4 9 1 147. 3 941192 =? 106. 1 X 1 X 1 ÷ 6 = x ? a) 12 b) 13 c) 14 √ 7 6 5 70 5 a) 101 b) 98 c) 96 a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 15 e) 16 3 16 3 3 12 18 d) 99 e) None of these 127. ( x x ) + ( x x ) =? d) 4 e) 5 2 4 8 8 4 2 148. 12544 ÷ 64 x ?= 43.75 0.2 0.6 0.2 1 2 3 √ 107. 3 x 9 x 27 = 5 +? a) 12 b) 12 c) 12 8 8 8 a) 30 b) 15 c) 25 a) 3 b) 9 c) 4 5 7 d) 12 e) 12 d) 40 e) None of these d) 8 e) 12 8 8 3 5 13 3 3 5 4 ? 2 128. + + + =? 149. of of of 10395= ? 108. 65536 = (4 ) 4 8 16 8 7 11 5 9 1 3 a) 6 b) 2 c) 8 a) 2 b) 2 c) 2 a) 1560 b) 1575 c) 1590 16 16 16 d) 4 e) 5 7 13 d) 1620 e) 1625 d) 2 e) 2 16 16 109. If 15625 = (x2) 3, then x=? 150. 37.2 x 92.4 ÷ 275= (3) ? 2 4 1 ? 129. 1 + 2 + 3 = 7 a) 3 b) 4 c) 5 3 5 15 15 a) -0.2 b) 9.8 c) -0.8 d) 7 e) 9 a) 2 b) 4 c) 6 d) 2 e) -3 1 1 d) 8 e) 10 110. ( ) −2/5 + ( ) −2/3 =? x 5 151. √? x √1156=952 1024 343 130. 24 x {(3/5) 2(4/8) 2(5/6) 2} =? a) 65 b) 42 c) 13 a) 784 b) 676 c) 576 a) 1 b) 1.5 c) 2 d) 21 e) 27 d) 1024 e) 961 d) 2.5 e) 3 13 3 5 6.5 -1.5 5 2 152. of of of 12320 = ? 111. {(15) ÷ (15) ÷ (15) } – 15 =? 7 4 8 131. (27) 1/3+(125) 1/3+(64) 1/3=(?√?) 2/3 a) 15 b) 225 c) 3375 a) 98075 b) 10135 c) 10345 a) 169 b) 144 c) 60 d) 3150 e) None of these d) 10725 e) 11225 7 5 1 1 d) 134 e) 12 3 4 7 112. 1 + 2 +3 − 4 =? 153. of of of 1380=? 9 3 9 5 132. (32 x 25 x 62) +(82 x 32 x 83) =? 5 7 9 13 17 16 a) 2 b) 3 c) 4 a) 378 b) 376 c) 368 45 45 45 a) 306170 b) 305080 c) 305280 13 d) 386 e) None of these d) 2 e) None of these d) 316210 e) 244912 45 ? 15 푋 4−40 3 5 3 29 -2 154. = 3 133. ( + ) + ( + ) = 2 x ? √25 2 113. √148877 = 30 + ? 4 2 2 2 a) 19 b) 20 c) 21 a) 63 b) 71 c) 77 a) 20 b) 45 c) 25 d) 22 e) 23 d) 79 e) 83 d) 50 e) None of these 2 5 3 2 3 2 2 2 155. of of ? =200 114. (12 – 5 ) ÷ 5 =? 134. (25) +(?) +(6) =805 7 6 5 5 70 131 141 151 a) 10 b) 11 c) 12 a) 480 b) 420 c) 729 a) 1 b) 2 c) 1 353 353 353 d) 9 e) 14 d) 840 e) None of these 151 d) 3 e) None of these 3 12 4 19 353 135. ( x ) + ( x ) = 10-3 x ? 156. 4 x 52 – 32 x 7 + 62=? + 24 4 14 14 4 115. {√2 x (79) }2 + {√2 x (49) }2 =? 2 2 2 a) 400 b) 4000 c) 2000 a) 7 b) 8 c) 9 a) 15484 b) 16384 c) 17284 2 d) 500 e) 5500 d) 4 e) None of these 3 d) 18184 e) 19484 3 4 5 2 157. 7 of 534 + 262 = 61800 - ? 136. (3) + (2) + (4) +(1) =? 6 116. (343) 2/3 ÷ (512) -2/3 =56 x ? a) 1065 b) 1058 c) 964 a) 56533 b) 57533 c) 58533 a) 49 b) 56 c) 64 d) 1068 e) 1168 d) 37355 e) None of these d) 66 e) 72 1 2 3 4 137. of of of of 36465=? 158. (53) 2 + (21) 2 = (?) 2 + 157 7 4 117. of 616 X 12 ÷ 16 + ?=17 x 19+81+ x ? 11 13 15 17 8 3 a) 324 b) 224 c) 124 a) 56.628 b) 55.614 c) 53.264 3 2 4 a) b) c) d) 58.814 e) None of these 5 5 5 d) 24 e) 424 2 3 4 2 36 (78−32) 2 16020 d) e) 138. 11 x =? 159. 3 + of = ? 4 3 9 101 2 5 120 118. 337.8 X 331.2 ÷ 335 = 33 X 33? a) 16 b) 18 c) 4 a) 316.9 b) 317.9 c) 318.9 a) 2.8 b) 3 c) 3.2 d) 7 e) None of these d) 315.9 e) None of these 8 8 d) 4 e) 6 139. √? +187=220 160. c5 x 30 = (?) of p3 0.673³+1.327³ 119. = 22 X (?) -1 a) 1089 b) 529 c) 23 a) 5 b) 4 c) 6 0.673²+1.327²−0.673 푋 1.327 d) 7 e) None of these a) 1 b) 2 c) 4 d) 33 e) None of these 3 2 3 3 13 (?) 27 푋 2³ ÷18 161. (2 ) x 2 x 4 =8 ÷ 8 d) 2-1 e) 2-2 140. =? 6 2 3 4 7 a) 4 b) 8 c) 5 120. of of of of ? = 200 a) 3 b) 2 c) 9/2 3 5 7 9 d) 6 e) None of these a) 725 b) 875 c) 925 d) 3 e) None of these 23 115 138 2 2 162. ÷ ÷ = (?) d) 1075 e) 1125 141. 36 – 24 =? 25 125 150 5 1 1 1 2 2 a) 1 b) c) 1 121. 4 + 2 - 6 + 5 =? a) 840 b) 640 c) 720 6 5 3 2 3 7 23 13 11 7 d) 960 e) None of these d) e) None of these a) 4 b) 5 c) 5 25 2 32 88 84 42 142. 11 x = ? 19 19 8 10 163. 77112 ÷ √?=54 x 34 d) 5 e) 4 42 42 a) 16 b) 28 c) 36 a) 2304 b) 2116 c) 1936 122. √1.1236 =? d) 6 e) None of these d) 1764 e) 1444 a) 106 b) 10.6 c) 1.06 143. √? + 187 =220 164. √√6.5536=? d) 1.26 e) None of these a) 1089 b) 529 c) 23 2 1 23 36 a) 3.6 b) 3.3 c) 2.8 123. 5 x 3 ÷ 10 x 1 =? 7 2 32 111 d) 33 e) None of these d) 2.6 e) 1.6 2 3 7 1 2 a) 2.3 b) 2 c) 3 144. ? of of of =12 2 2 2 2 7 7 8 3 7 165. [(84) – (44) ]= (?) - 8

|Legend Magazine | November - 2017| 40 a) 164 b) 68 c) 72 a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 a) 38.12 b) 36.40 c) 38.22 d) 76 e) 80 d) 4 e) 5 d) 42.60 e) 39.22 166. √7 푋 70 ÷ 10 = (?) 1/3 185. If √1369 + √0.0625 푋 ? =37.025, then ? is 202. (21% of 1326) – (17% of 932) =? a) 7 b) 49 c) 343 equal to: a) 120.02 b) 206.05 c) 240.04 d) 2401 e) None of these a) 10-1 b) 10-2 c) 10-3 d) 120.20 e) 122.22 167. (8) 2 +√31684 x 16 - 69+ (3) 3 =? d) 10-4 e) 1 203. 3.5% of 2400 +4.5% of 3200=1140 ÷ ? 3 a) 2870 b) 8270 c) 7280 186. 28√? + 1426 = 표푓 2872 a) 2 b) 3 c) 4 4 d) 5 e) 6 d) 7028 e) 7082 a) 576 b) 676 c) 1296 2 204. 4.5% of 2400 + 3.5% of 3200 = 1320 ÷ ? 168. √676 x 65 + 19 x (4) – 273 ÷ 13=? d) 1444 e) None of these a) 1973 b) 9137 c) 3791 3 3 3 3 1 2 2 a) 2 b) 3 c) 4 187. Simplify: ÷ of (2 + 2 ) + ÷ 1 − 10 7 10 5 5 5 7 d) 7139 e) 3197 d) 6 e) 5 a) 1 b) 2 c) 0 169. 23 + 34 x 65 -16 ÷ 4 – √2025 = ? 205. 1.65% of 310 + 1.75% of 430=? d) 3 e) None of these a) 10.27 b) 12.64 c) 14.44 a) 1284 b) 4812 c) 8214 5 6 8 3 3 1 7 188. ÷ x ? − ÷ 1 + x 3 = 2 d) 2184 e) 4821 6 7 9 5 4 3 9 d) 16.56 e) 13.56 7 6 2 2 2 2 3 1 a) b) c) 1 206. 30% of of of of of 9450=? 170. 2+(56÷ 4) +8 (7-4) +15= √125 + ? x 12 6 7 7 9 5 3 47 1 5 7 5 d) e) None of these a) 32 b) 36 c) 42 a) 6 b) 5 c) 8 2 93 93 93 d) 48 e) 52 5 189. The value of d) 5 e) 0 93 21⁄2∙31⁄3∙41⁄4 34⁄3∙5−7⁄5 207. 3.5% of 40 + 3.5% of 80= ?% of 10 7 ÷ is [(2.5)2+18+(3.6)2]−[3.7 x 2 x 2.2] 10−1⁄5∙53⁄5 4−3⁄5∙6 171. 11 = ? a) 30 b) 32 c) 36 (2.5)2+(3.6)2 a) 5 b) 6 c) 10 d) 40 e) 42 a) 1.82 b) 0.82 c) 12.82 d) 15 e) None of these 208. 65% of 75 + 35% of 25=?% of 460 64 9 d) 11.82 e) 9.82 − 121 64 190. 8 3 = ? a) 7.5 b) 8.25 c) 9 20 + 172. of 729÷30+343-49= ? 11 8 27 88 31 41 d) 12.5 e) 9.25 a) 311 b) 310 c) 313 a) b) c) 31 88 99 209. 230% of 1150 – 123% of 115=? 99 d) 312 e) None of these d) e) None of these 41 a) 2303.55 b) 2403.55 c) 2503.55 173. √31.36 ÷ √0.64 x 252 =?2 x36 1 1 1 191. 560 x 4 + 3 ÷2 = ? d) 2603.55 e) 2703.55 5 2 3 a) 81 b) 64 c) -8 1 1 a) 2353 b) 2354 c) 2434 210. 17.5% of 460 + √? = 83 d) 7 e) 9 2 2 1 a) 6.25 b) 9 c) 1.6 174. (1.69) 4÷(2197÷1000) 3x(0.13x10) 3=(1.3) d) 2353 e) 2453 3 d) 6.40 e) 4 3 7 8 ?-2 192. The value of + + is: 1 10 100 211. 14% of 80 + ?% of 90= 31.9 a) 6 b) 2 c) 4 a) 3.078 b) 3.78 c) 3.87 a) 16 b) 23 c) 18 d) 0 e) None of these d) 3.087 e) None of these d) 26 e) None of these 175. √110.25 X √0.01 ÷ √0.0025 − √420.25 is equal 10 12 ? 1 3 193. X X = 16 212. x 3237 + x 5362 + 200% of 1=? 3 5 4 to: 13 14 a) 6 b) 2 c) 8 +1335 a) 0.75 b) 0.50 c) 0.64 d) 4 e) None of these a) 15 b) 35 c) 55 d) 0.73 e) None of these 1 7 3 2 2 194. + [ − ( + ) − ] = ? d) 65 e) 75 9.5 푋 0.085 7 9 9 9 9 ? ? 176. The value of √ is equal to: 1 3 2 213. 175% of 460 + 110% 0f 170 + 2 = 10 0.0017 푋 0.19 a) b) c) 9 7 9 a) 3 b) 4 c) 5 a) 50 b) 500 c) 0.05 1 d) e) None of these d) 5 e) None of these 7 d) 2 e) 1 2 3 2 195. 2 + 1 – 2 = ? 214. 33% of 120 + 54% of 110 = ?% of 300 177. √12² 푋 24 ÷ 5 − (6)3 + 149.8 = (?) ² 7 5 5 17 17 17 a) 1 b) 1 c) 3 a) 30 b) 31 c) 32 a) √5 b) 25 c) 5 175 35 175 17 d) 33 e) 35 d) 625 e) None of these d) 3 e) None of these 35 215. (18% of 1024) + (26% of ?) =486.96 178. Find the value of “?” in √( ? 푋 7) X 18=84 0.012+0.22²+0.333² 196. is 0.001²+0.022²+0.0333² a) 1164 b) 1248 c) 1324 a) 3.11 b) 3.12 c) 3.13 1 a) b) 10 c) 100 d) 1150 e) 1162 d) 3.14 e) None of these 10 216. 110% of 250 + 350% of 450= ?% of (0.96)3−(0.1) ³ d) 1000 e) None of these 179. The value of is: (0.96)2+(0.096)+(0.1) ² 300+50 0.85×(0.105+0.024−0.008) 197. √ is a) 0.86 b) 1.06 c) 0.95 0.022×0.25×1.7 a) 80% b) 60% c) 120% d) 0.97 e) None of these a) √11 b) √1.1 c) 11 d) 180% e) 600% 1 3 1 1 7 − 5 + 1 2 4 2 4 d) √0.11 e) None of these 217. 32% of 860 x ? = 61920 180. 1 ÷ 1 1 = 0.6 3 + ? 1 + 3 2 5 2 0.324×0.081×4.624 a) 252 b) 255 c) 215 1 1 2 198. √ is equal to a) 4 b) 4 c) 4 1.5625×0.0289×72.9×64 3 2 3 d) 205 e) None of these d) 4 e) None of these a) 0.024 b) 0.24 c) 2.4 218. 52% of 1120- ?% of 980=4.2 1 4 5 3 − 표푓 d) 24 e) None of these 4 5 6 a) 59 b) 47 c) 49 181. 1 1 3 1 is equal to 4 ÷ − ( +21 ) (0.87)3+(0.13) ³ 3 5 10 5 199. The simplification of d) 61 e) None of these (0.87)2+(0.13)2−(0.87)(0.13) 1 7 1 7 a) b) 2 c) 15 219. of 248 + 20% of 110=? 6 12 2 a) 0.13 b) 0.74 c) 0.87 8 1 d) 21 e) None of these 2 d) 1 e) None of these a) 192 b) 202 c) 212 2 32 182. 6 of 7.26 ÷0.45 of ? = 8 3 0.2×0.2×0.2+0.04×0.04×0.04 d) 239 e) 242 3 117 200. √ = ? 0.4×0.4×0.4+0.08×0.08×0.08 1 1 220. 18% of 155 + 16% of 175=? a) b) 13 c) 13 13 9 a) 0.5 b) 0.25 c) 0.75 a) 51.4 b) 53.6 c) 55.9 2 d) 13 e) None of these d) 0.125 e) None of these 3 d) 57.5 e) 59.8

9.5 x 0.085 x 18.9 183. √ = ? 221. 72% of 75 + 64% of 175=? 0.017 x 1.9 x 0.021 Directions (Q.201-250) : What should come a) 166 b) 178 c) 204 a) 120 b) 135 c) 150 in place of the question mark (?) in the d) 216 e) 224 d) 145 e) 140 following questions? 222. 175% of 644=? % of 3220 184. [(12.1)2 − (8.1)2] ÷ [(0.25)2 + (0.25) (19.95) ] √ 201. 76% of 112 – 42% of 116=? a) 32 b) 35 c) 38

|Legend Magazine | November - 2017| 41 d) 40 e) 45 244. 27% of 450 –? % of 375 = 76.5 Banking Awareness: 223. 75% of 580 + 58% of 750=? a) 14 b) 19 c) 12 Q.1) ______are government securities a) 840 b) 860 c) 680 d) 15 e) 13 denominated in multiple gram(s) of gold. It is d) 780 e) None of these 245. 15% of 524 – 2% of 985 +? = 20% of 423 issued by Reserve Bank of India on behalf of the 224. 25% of 420 - ?% of 140=77 a) 25.9 b) 27.7 c) 25.7 Government of India. a) 25 b) 36 c) 20 d) 24.9 e) None of these a) Gold Bond d) 40 e) None of these 246. 67% of √676 ÷0.01 =? +577 b) Sovereign Gold Bond 225. 0.75% of 90 + 0.55% of 80=? a) 1170 b) 1165 c) 1175 c) Gold Promissory Note a) 1.725 b) 1.475 c) 1.325 d) 1160 e) None of these d) Gold Plan d) 1.115 e) 0.995 247. 65% of 654 – ? % of 860=210.1 e) None of these 226. 88% of 75 + 36% of 225=? a) 25 b) 15 c) 20 Q.2) Unclaimed Deposit defined under the section a) 147 b) 149 c) 151 d) 30 e) None of these 26 (A) and ______. d) 153 e) 155 248. 50% of √576 ÷ 0.02 =? + 577 a) Banking Regulation act of 1949 227. 72% of 486 - 64% of 261 =? a) 19 b) 23 c) 33 b) Companies act of 1956 a) 184.66 b) 183.66 c) 188.88 d) 13 e) None of these c) RBI act of 1934 d) 182.88 e) 186.24 249. 15.5% of 646 + 24.5% of 298=? d) Transfer of Property Act of1882 228. 65% of 862 +? =969 a) 184.22 b) 173.14 c) 168.26 e) Foreign Exchange Management Act of 1999 a) 406.7 b) 408.7 c) 404.4 d) 137.41 e) None of these Q.3) Which of the following not authorized d) 405.8 e) 412.4 250. (5 X 7) % of (34 X 55) + 456.60=699.1+? agencies selling the SGBs? 229. 47% of 300 = (?) % of 188 a) 412 b) 422 c) 418 a) Scheduled Commercial Banks a) 65 b) 60 c) 75 d) 428 e) None of these b) SHCIL offices d) 80 e) None of these Answer Key: c) Designated Post Offices 4 7 5 230. of of of 40% of 2244 =? 1. (c) 2. (d) 3. (c) 4. (b) 5. (b) 6. (d) 7. (a) 8. (c) d) Regional Rural Bank 3 4 11 a) 876 b) 896 c) 912 9. (d) 10. (a) 11. (a) 12. (c) 13. (d) 14. (a) 15. e) Recognised stock exchanges d) 952 e) 984 (c) 16. (d) 17. (d) 18. (e) 19. (c) 20. (a) 21. (e) Q.4) What is the rate of interest for Sovereign 231. 42% of 2345 -76% of 1155 =? 22. (b) 23. (c) 24. (b) 25. (d) 26. (b) 27. (d) 28. Gold Bond (SGB) as of Oct -Dec 2017? a) 93.6 b) 82.9 c) 99.8 (c) 29. (c) 30. (d) 31. (d) 32. (d) 33. (a) 34. (a) a) 2.7% b) 3% c) 2.75% d) 107.1 e) 112.4 35. (c) 36. (d) 37. (a) 38. (b) 39. (b) 40. (a) 41. d) 2.5% e) 3.75% 232. 48% of 465 - ?% of 288 =93.6 (c) 42. (a) 43. (d) 44. (d) 45. (a) 46. (c) 47. (c) Q.5) What is the Maximum denomination limit of a) 25 b) 35 c) 45 48. (a) 49. (a) 50. (d) 51. (d) 52. (d) 53. (c) 54. Sovereign Gold Bond (SGB) investment? d) 55 e) 65 (c) 55. (d) 56. (b) 57. (c) 58. (d) 59. (b) 60. (e) a) 200 Gram Gold 233. 15% of 1500 =? + 698-14175÷(21 of 75% 61. (b) 62. (d) 63. (b) 64. (a) 65. (a) 66. (c) 67. b) 500 Gram Gold of 300) (a) 68. (c) 69. (d) 70. (c) 71. (a) 72. (c) 73. (b) c) 1000 Gram Gold d) 150 Gram Gold a) –470 b) 470 c) –460 74. (d) 75. (d) 76. (a) 77. (e) 78. (a) 79. (b) 80. d) 460 e) 450 (d) 81. (d) 82. (a) 83. (b) 84. (c) 85. (b) 86. (b) e) 250 Gram Gold 1 Q.6) What is the minimum denomination limit of 234. of ? =30% of 6870 – 317+468÷4 87. (d) 88. (b) 89. (d) 90. (b) 91. (d) 92. (c) 93. 16 (b) 94. (b) 95. (d) 96. (c) 97. (d) 98. (c) 99. (a) Sovereign Gold Bond (SGB) investment? a) 29777 b) 29666 c) 29776 100. (b) 101. (a) 102. (d) 103. (b) 104. (c) 105. a) 1 Gram Gold b) 5 Gram Gold d) 92776 e) 67792 c) 10 Gram Gold d) 15 Gram Gold 2 1 (a) 106. (e) 107. (c) 108. (d) 109. (c) 110. (c) 235. 63% of 1800+280= ? + of 456 5 19 111. (d) 112. (c) 113. (e) 114. (c) 115. (c) 116. e) 8 Gram Gold a) 3675 b) 345 c) 3475 (b) 117. (d) 118. (b) 119. (b) 120. (e) 121. (d) Q.7) Under which act, persons resident in India is d) 3745 e) 3545 122. (c) 123. (b) 124. (d) 125. (b) 126. (e) 127. eligible to invest in SGB. Eligible investors include 1 236. 1 of 15% of 185+284÷71=? 2 (c) 128. (a) 129. (d) 130. (b) 131. (e) 132. (c) individuals, HUFs, trusts, universities, charitable a) 45.63 b) 44.63 c) 42.63 133. (c) 134. (c) 135. (c) 136. (d) 137. (d) 138. institutions, etc d) 41.63 e) 43.63 (c) 139. (a) 140. (b) 141. (c) 142. (c) 143. (a) a) Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1998 1 3 237. [18 of of 24% of 1200] =? 144. (b) 145. (b) 146. (c) 147. (b) 148. (c) 149. b) Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 243 8 c) Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1997 a) 7 b) 6 c) 5 (d) 150. (e) 151. (a) 152. (d) 153. (c) 154. (d) d) Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1996 d) 8 e) 4 155. (d) 156. (a) 157. (b) 158. (b) 159. (b) 160. (a) 161. (b) 162. (e) 163. (d) 164. (e) 165. (c) e) Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1990 238. 55% of√2116 ÷ 0.01=? x 20 166. (c) 167. (a) 168. (a) 169. (d) 170. (d) 171. Q.8) What is the Rate of interest of Sukanya a) 126.5 b) 125.6 c) 124.6 (b) 172. (d) 173. (d) 174. (c) 175. (b) 176. (a) Samriddhi Account as of Oct- Dec 2017? d) 125.4 e) None of these 177. (c) 178. (a) 179. (a) 180. (a) 181. (c) 182. a) 8.3% b) 8.4% c) 8.5% 239. 70% of 320 + 45% of 240 =? (b) 183. (c) 184. (d) 185. (b) 186. (b) 187. (c) d) 8.6% e) 7.9% a) 322 b) 330 c) 336 188. (b) 189. (c) 190. (b) 191. (a) 192. (b) 193. Q.9) Under Sukanya Samriddhi Account, what is d) 338 e) None of these 4 (c) 194. (d) 195. (b) 196. (c) 197. (a) 198. (a) the maximum amount of ______deposit financial 240. 85% of of 6755 =? +1687 7 199. (d) 200. (a) 201. (b) 202. (a) 203. (d) 204. years. a) 1586 b) 1592 c) 1594 (d) 205. (b) 206. (d) 207. (e) 208. (d) 209. (c) a) Rs.100000 b) Rs.150000 d) 1582 e) 1584 210. (a) 211. (b) 212. (d) 213. (a) 214. (d) 215. c) Rs.50000 d) Rs.30000 241. 45% of√2025 ÷ 0.1 = (?) 2 +121.5 (a) 216. (e) 217. (e) 218. (a) 219. (d) 220. (c) e) None of these a) 3 b) (81) 2 c) 81 221. (a) 222. (b) 223. (e) 224. (c) 225. (d) 226. Q.10) Under Sukanya Samriddhi Account, what is d) 9 e) None of these (a) 227. (d) 228. (b) 229. (c) 230. (d) 231. (d) the minimum amount of ______deposit financial 242. 73% of 5800 – 69% of 240 =? 232. (c) 233. (a) 234. (c) 235. (c) 236. (a) 237. years. a) 4608.3 b) 4210.8 c) 4008.4 (d) 238. (a) 239. (e) 240. (c) 241. (d) 242. (e) a) Rs.1000 b) Rs.2000 c) Rs.5000 d) 4680.4 e) None of these 243. (d) 244. (c) 245. (c) 246. (b) 247. (a) 248. d) Rs.3000 e) Rs.4000 243. 204% of ? = 1848.24 (b) 249. (b) 250. (a) Q.11) Under Sukanya Samriddhi Account, a) 517 b) 784 c) 321 account can be closed after completion of d) 906 e) None of these ______. Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

|Legend Magazine | November - 2017| 42 a) 21 years b) 24 years c) 25 years d) 1987 e) 1993 a) Rs.100 b) Rs.500 d) 22 years e) 18 years Q.24) Public Provident Fund Maturity period is c) Rs.1,000 d) Rs.5,000 Q.12) Under Sukanya Samriddhi Account, can be ______years, but the same can be extended e) Rs.200 opened up to the age of ______only from the within one year of maturity for a further 5 years Q.35) What is the maximum deposit under date of birth. and so on. National Savings Certificates (NSC) ? a) 12 years b) 11 years c) 13 years a) 15 years b) 12 years c) 13 years a) Rs.1,00,000 b) Rs.1,50,000 d) 10 years e) 18 years d) 14 years e) 16 years c) Rs.2,00,000 d) No such limit Q.13) Under Sukanya Samriddhi Account, a Q.25) What is the present rate of interest in e) None of these guardian can open only one account in the name Public Provident Fund Account as of Oct- Dec Q.36) The NBFCs are allowed to accept/renew of one girl child and maximum ______accounts 2017? public deposits for a minimum period of ______. in the name of two different Girl children. a) 8.0% b) 7.8% c) 7.9% a) 6 months b) 3 months a) Two b) Three c) Four d) 8.65% e) 8.5% c) 18 months d) 24 months d) Five e) Six Q.26) What is the maximum deposit allowed in e) 12 months Q.14) A legal Guardian/Natural Guardian can the Public Provident Fund Account in a financial Q.37) ______accounts are generally held by a open account in the name of Girl Child is called year? 3rd party bank, other than the account ______. a) Rs.1,00,000 b) Rs.1,30,000 maintaining bank or with whom the account is a) Girl Child Account c) Rs.1,50,000 d) Rs.10,00,000 maintained. b) Minor Account e) Rs.1,25,000 a) VOSTRO Account b) NOSTRO Account c) Sukanya Samriddhi Account. Q.27) What is the minimum deposit allowed in c) LORO Account d) FCNR Account d) Samridhi Account the Public Provident Fund Account in a financial e) None of these e) None of these year? Q.38) ______accounts are generally held by a Q.15) In Senior Citizen Savings Scheme (SCSS) a) Rs.1000 b) Rs.500 foreign bank in our country (with a domestic Account, an individual at the age of 60 years or c) Rs.5000 d) No such limit bank) . more may open the account in the post office. e) None of these a) VOSTRO Account b) NOSTRO Account Maturity Period of that account is _____. Q.28) ______scheme is a popular long-term c) LORO Account d) FCNR Account a) 4 Years b) 10 Years c) 11 Years investment option backed by the Government of e) None of these d) 5 Years e) 6 Years India which offers safety with attractive interest Q.39) ______accounts are generally held in a Q.16) KVP can be purchased by an adult for rate and returns that are fully exempted from foreign country (with a foreign bank) domestic himself or on behalf of a minor or by two adults. Tax. bank (from our perspective, our bank) . KVP issued by ______. a) National Saving Certificate a) VOSTRO Account b) NOSTRO Account a) Departmental Post office b) Kisan Vikas Patra c) LORO Account d) FCNR Account b) NABARD c) RRB c) Public Provident Fund e) None of these d) RBI e) SEBI d) Senior Citizen Saving Scheme Q.40) State Bank of India installed a ______Q.17) Kisan Vikas Patra Certificate can be e) None of these ATM that can be accessed only by women encashed after ______from the date of issue. Q.29) NSC scheme is specially designed for customers in Jamshedpur. a) 4 & 1/2 years b) 3 & 1/2 years government employees, businessmen and other a) White Label ATM b) Brown Label ATM c) 2 & 1/2 years d) 5 & 1/2 years salaried classes. Who cannot participate in this c) Pink Label ATM d) On-site ATM e) 6 & 1/2 years Scheme? e) Off-site ATM Q.18) The amount invested in Kisan Vikas Patra a) Trust Q.41) Under the scheme, Pradhan Mantri Mudra will mature in how many months? b) HUF – Hindu Undivided Family Yojana, the Loan Limit of “SHISHU” is ______. a) 115 months b) 112 months c) Minors a) Rs.50,000 b) Rs.1,00,000 c) 113 months d) 114 months d) Both a and b c) Rs.2,00,000 d) Rs.4,00,000 e) 116 months e) None of these e) Rs.25,000 Q.19) What is the present Rate of Interest in Q.30) What is the rate of interest for the National Q.42) Micro Units Development and Refinance Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP) ? Savings Certificates (NSC) as of Oct- Dec 2017? Agency Bank (or MUDRA Bank) founded on 8 a) 7.7% b) 7.4% c) 7.8% a) 7.8% b) 7.7% c) 7.6% April 2015. Its Headquarters is located in d) 7.5% e) 8.0% d) 8.0% e) 8.2% ______. Q.20) What is the maximum deposit limit under Q.31) CRISIL’s businesses operate from 8 a) Chennai b) Mumbai Kisan Vikas Patra? countries including USA, Argentina, Poland, UK, c) Kolkata d) New Delhi a) Rs.50,000 b) Rs.1,00,000 India, China, Hong Kong and Singapore) Its e) Hyderabad c) No such limit d) Rs.2,00,000 headquarters is located in ______. Q.43) Credit Rating Agencies are regulated by e) Rs.1,50,000 a) Chennai b) Mumbai ______. Q.21) What is the minimum denominations under c) Bangalore d) New Delhi a) NABARD b) NHB Kisan Vikas Patra? e) Hyderabad c) RBI d) SEBI a) Rs.500 b) Rs.1000 Q.32) The National Savings Certificate (NSC) e) SIDBI c) Rs.5,000 d) No such limit holder gets the tax benefit under which act? Q.44) Credit Analysis & Research Ltd) (CARE) is e) None of these a) 40 C of Income Tax Act, 1961 the second-largest credit rating agency in India Q.22) Due to misuse of Kisan Vikas Patra Scheme b) 60 C of Income Tax Act, 1961 its headquarters is located in ______. closed in 2011, under the recommendation of c) 70 C of Income Tax Act, 1961 a) Delhi b) Mumbai which committee? d) 80C of Income Tax Act, 1961 c) Kolkata d) Chennai a) Rangarajan b) H R Khan e) 90c of Income Tax Act, 1961 e) None of these c) Shayamla Gopinath Q.33) National Saving Certificate has Maturity Q.45) SME Rating Agency of India Ltd. (SMERA) d) S.S. Mundra e) Ganesh Singh period up to _____ years. up for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Its Q.23) Kisan Vikas Patra is a saving certificate a) 5 Years b) 4 Years c) 6 Years headquarters is located in ______. scheme which was first launched in ______by d) 7 Years e) 8 Years a) New Delhi b) Mumbai India Post. Q.34) What is the minimum Denomination under c) Kolkata d) Chennai a) 1988 b) 1990 c) 1992 National Savings Certificates (NSC) ? e) Hyderabad Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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Q.46) Standard and Poor’s, Moody’s are an Q.55) Name the ATM which is owned by a service Q.64) ______is a terminal at a store, where the International Credit Rating Agency. Standard and provider, but cash management and connectivity customer makes purchasing using Debit card Poor’s, Moody’s headquarter located in ______. to banking networks, is provided by a sponsor /Credit card /Prepaid card. a) New York b) London bank whose brand is used on the ATM? a) Access Terminal c) Tokyo d) Melbourne a) White Label ATM b) Brown Label ATM b) Point of Access Terminal e) Geneva c) Pink Label ATM d) On-site ATM c) Point of Sale Terminal Q.47) Who is the head of the Committee that e) Off-site ATM d) Point Terminal recommended for applying 7th pay commission? Q.56) ATM set up owned and operated by Non- e) None of these a) Justice A.K Mathur banking entities incorporated in India under the Q.65) The SWIFT provides a network that b) Ganesh Singh companies Act 1956 is called ______. enables financial institutions worldwide to send c) TVSN Prasad a) White Label ATM b) Off-line ATM and receive information about financial d) Sudarshan Sen c) Pink Label ATM d) Green Label ATM transactions in a secure, standardized and e) M. S. Sahoo e) Yellow Label ATM reliable environment. In SWIFT “T” stands Q.48) DRT have been established by the Q.57) TATA launched the first white label ATM in for______. Government of India under an Act of Parliament India under the brand name of _____. a) Telecom b) Telecommunication (Act 51 of 1993) for expeditious adjudication and a) TATA ATM b) Indian Cash c) Terminal d) Telegram recovery of debts due to banks and financial c) Indicash d) Birla ATM e) Transform institutions. DRT stands for ______. e) TATA India Q.66) SWIFT linked more than 11,000 financial a) Debit Ready Tribunals Q.58) Which is an annual banking and financial institutions in more than 200 countries and b) Debt Recovery Tribunals conference organized by the Society for territories. SWIFT headquarters is located in c) Debt Recovery Transforms Worldwide Interbank Financial ______. d) Detect Recovery Tribunals Telecommunication (SWIFT) in various cities a) La Hulpe, Belgium e) Debt Redressal Tribunals around the world? b) London, UK Q.49) ______help banks to improve their a) SWIFT conference b) Sibos c) Vienna, Austria balance sheet by buying their Non-Performing c) Enhance future d) SWIFT interaction d) Washington, USA Asset and releasing funds to these seller banks. e) None of these e) Basel, Switzerland a) Asset Reconstruction Corporation Q.59) 122nd Constitutional Amendment Bill Q.67) Which of the following is not true about b) Asset Recover Company unanimously adopted. Which is related to – Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) app? c) Asset Reconstruction Company a) Goods and Services Tax a) BHIM is a digital payment solution app, for d) Asset Recovering agent b) Constitutional status to National Commission easy and quick transactions, based on the Unified e) Asset Recovering Corporation on Backward classes Payments Interface (UPI) from the National Q.50) SWAYAM initiative launched by the Ministry c) Established national judicial appointment Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) . of HRD. It refers to commission b) Money can also be sent to non-UPI supported a) Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) d) Reduce age for voting rights from 21 to 18 banks using IFSC code and account number. platform e) Provisions for setting up Rent Control Tribunals c) BHIM allows a daily transaction limit of Rs. b) Massive Online Money Transfer (MOMT) Q.60) The government has constituted an expert 20,000. platform team headed by a Joint Secretary in the Ministry d) There is no charge for transactions from Rs.1 c) Massive Open Offline Courses (MOOC) of Home Affairs to explore possible alternatives to Rs.1 lakh platform to pellet guns. Who is the Head of the e) All are True d) Transfer of Goods from one place to another Committee? Q.68) Who is the head of the Committee to e) e-commerce platform a) Justice A.K Mathur b) Ganesh Singh examine on regulatory issues regarding financial Q.51) NEFT is an electronic fund transfer system c) TVSN Prasad d) Sudarshan Sen technology and digital banking? that operates on a _____ basis, which settles e) M. S. Sahoo a) Justice A.K Mathur transactions in batches. Q.61) Which of the following is not true about b) Ganesh Singh a) Net Settlement System National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) system c) TVSN Prasad b) Deferred Net Settlement maintained by RBI? d) Sudarshan Sen c) Priority System a) Only bank branches which are NEFT enabled, e) M. S. Sahoo d) Performance System can be a part of the NEFT funds transfer network. Q.69) What is the limit of amount in an ordinary e) Domain Net System b) Free, no charges to be collected from transaction of NEFT? Q.52) For Long term loans the credit rating beneficiaries (Inward Transaction) a) Rs.30000 b) Rs.50000 symbols “B” represented by c) NEFT is a payment system which facilitates c) Rs.250000 d) Rs.40000 a) High risk one-to-one funds transfer. e) No Minimum and No Maximum b) Adequate degree of safety – Low credit risk d) There is no limit on transaction through NEFT Q.70) In NEFT transaction what is the maximum c) Highest degree of safety – Lowest credit risk e) All are True limit of amount for Indo –Nepal Remittance? d) Moderate risk Q.62) What is the minimum amount of RTGS a) Rs.30000 b) Rs.20000 e) None of these Transaction? c) Rs.250000 d) Rs.50000 Q.53) ______has the power to issue the a) 2 Lakh b) 3 Lakh e) Rs.35000 license to Asset Reconstruction Company. c) 4 Lakh d) 5 Lakh Q.71) ______is a facility when money is a) NABARD b) Government of India e) No Minimum and No maximum withdrawn from a bank account and the available c) RBI d) RRB Q.63) The first regional office of the BRICS New balance goes below zero. e) DICGC Development Bank had been set up in which a) Temporary Credit Q.54) Who is the head of the Joint Parliamentary place? b) Short term loan Committee examining the Land Acquisition bill? a) New Delhi, India c) Cash Credit a) Justice A.K Mathur b) Ganesh Singh b) Johannesburg, South Africa d) Over draft c) TVSN Prasad d) Sudarshan Sen c) Beijing, China e) None of these e) M. S. Sahoo d) Fortaleza, Brazil e) Moscow, Russia Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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Q.72) Current and saving accounts that don’t Q.83) An amount of Rs.1000 crore is being set up Q.92) Reliance Industries and SBI promoted operate/transaction for a period of 1 year is initially in NITI Aayog for SETU. SETU program of payments bank is in the process of finishing called _____. govt. for? regulatory requirements. What is the share ratio a) Demat Account b) Inactive Account a) Online Money Transfer of the Reliance Payment Bank & SBI Promotion? c) Escrow Account d) Dormant Account b) Online Courses for school children a) 70:30 b) 75:25 c) 55:45 e) None of these c) Startups and Self-Employment d) 50:50 e) 85:15 Q.73) For short term loans the credit rating d) Dairy Development Q.93) A micro enterprise is an enterprise where symbols “D” represented by e) Agriculture Development investment in plant and machinery does not a) Defaulting already and expected to default Q.84) The Government has set up a high-level exceed – b) Minimal degree of safety – high credit risk committee to suggest ways to strengthen the a) Rs.5 lakh b) Rs.20 lakh c) Rs.10 lakh c) Strong degree of safety – low credit risk security along the border with Pakistan and d) Rs.25 lakh e) Rs.15 lakh d) Moderate risk address the issue of gaps and vulnerability in Q.94) The maximum value of any pre-paid e) None of these border fencing. Who is the head of the payment instrument should not exceed _____. Q.74) Presently, the maximum rate of interest an committee? a) Rs.2,00,000 b) Rs.5,00,000 NBFC can offer is ______. a) Madhukar Gupta b) Ganesh Singh c) Rs.10,00,000 d) Rs.50,000 a) 10.5% b) 20% c) TVSN Prasad d) Sudarshan Sen e) Rs.1,00,000 c) 12.5% d) 12% e) M. S. Sahoo Q.95) What type of instruments can be presented e) 15% Q.85) The Initial capital of the AIIB bank is for clearing through CTS for faster realisation? Q.75) A medium enterprise is an enterprise ______, equivalent to 2⁄3 of the capital of the a) CTS-2009 standards where the investment in plant and machinery is Asian Development Bank and about half that of b) CTS-2011 standards more than _____ but does not exceed ______. the World Bank. c) CTS-2000 standards a) Rs.5 crore, Rs.25 crore a) $100 billion b) $150 billion d) CTS-2010 standards b) Rs.5 crore, Rs.10 crore c) $200 billion d) $500 billion e) CTS-2013 standards c) Rs.5 crore, Rs.20 crore e) $600 billion Q.96) Mortgage and its various types comes d) Rs.15 crore, Rs.20 crore Q.86) SCORES is redressal portal of which under which act? e) Rs.3 crore, Rs.10 crore organisation? a) Section 55 of Transfer of Property Act 1882 Q.76) Who is the head of the Committee to a) DICGC b) SIDBI b) Section 58 of Transfer of Property Act 1882 enable on doubling farmers income by 2022? c) SEBI d) IRDAI c) Section 52 of Transfer of Property Act 1882 a) Justice A.K Mathur b) Ganesh Singh e) RBI d) Section 58 of Transfer of Property Act 1892 c) Ashok Dalwai d) Sudarshan Sen Q.87) India can shift January to December e) Section 24 of Transfer of Property Act 1882 e) M. S. Sahoo financial year, recommended a government- Q.97) The oldest or first asset reconstruction Q.77) How much is the share of India among the appointed Committee headed by whom? company in the country is ______. shareholders in BRICS New Development Bank? a) Shankar Acharya b) Ganesh Singh a) International Asset Reconstruction Company a) 15% b) 12% c) 20% c) TVSN Prasad d) Sudarshan Sen Private Limited d) 18% e) 10% e) M. S. Sahoo b) ACRE c) ARCIL Q.78) Ease of Doing Business Index is developed Q.88) The SMERA is an organisation exclusively d) ASREC e) ISARC by ______. set up for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Q.98) The Credit Guarantee Fund for Micro Units a) World Bank Group (MSME) in India and has grown to rate SME, mid (CGFMU) is coming under _____. b) World Economic Forum & large corporate. It is a – a) PMMY b) PMJDY c) PMSSY c) International Telecommunication Union a) Investment Company d) PMSBY e) PMJJBY d) Heritage Foundation b) Providing loan for farmers Q.99) Notes which are in pieces and/or of which e) Institute for Economics and Peace c) Credit rating agency the essential portions are missing can also be Q.79) The NDB signed its first loan agreement d) Both a and b exchanged. with which of the following countries? e) None of the above a) Burnt Notes b) Soiled Notes a) Russia b) India Q.89) AML refers to a set of procedures, laws and c) Mutilated notes d) Both a and b c) South Africa d) Brazil regulations designed to stop the practice of e) None of these e) China generating income through illegal actions. Q.100) DEAF fund (Depositor Education and Q.80) RBI extends the deadline to BASEL III Expand the term AML: Awareness Fund) associated with which act? Norms to be implemented in India by – a) Annual Money Liquidity a) Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 a) July 31, 2019 b) Anti Money Laundering b) Contingency Fund of India Act, 1950 b) August 31, 2019 c) Annual Money Laundering c) Chartered Accountants Act, 1949 c) March 31, 2019 d) Anti Money Liquidity d) Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 d) June 30, 2019 e) Asset Money Laundering e) Banking Regulation Act, 1949 e) May 31, 2019 Q.90) Among the following who cannot issue Q.101) What is the Annual Premium amount Q.81) In BASEL Norms, LCR stands for – Sovereign Gold Bond Schemes? under PMJJBY (Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima a) Liquidity Coverage Ratio a) Insurance Companies Yojana) ? b) Least Coverage Ratio b) Banking Sector a) Rs.500 b) Rs.12 c) Rs.300 c) Liquidity Cost Ratio c) Stock Exchanges d) Rs.330 e) Rs.110 d) Liquidity Cumulative Ratio d) Designated post offices Q.102) The Mobile Money IDentifier (MMID) is e) Liquidity Credit Ratio e) None of the these the key identifying details of a user participating Q.82) According to Basel III HQLA stands for – Q.91) Who is the head of the Committee that was in a transaction. How many unique digit number a) High-Quantity Liquid Assets set up to look at various facets of household it contains while transaction? b) High-Quality Liquid Assets finance in India? a) 11- digit number b) 12- digit number c) High-Quality Liquid Assignment a) Shankar Acharya b) Ganesh Singh c) 7- digit number d) 8 - digit number d) Highest-Quality Liquid Assets c) Tarun Ramadorai d) Sudarshan Sen e) 4- digit number e) High-Quality Liquid Adequacy e) M. S. Sahoo

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Q.103) Rupee 10,000 currency notes were a) HDFC Bank b) ICICI Bank c) Point to Peer d) Peer to Peer introduced in 1938. They were demonetized in c) Axis Bank d) HSBC Bank e) Point to Point the year? e) YES Bank Q.125) Asset Reconstruction Company a) 1968 b) 1958 c) 1948 Q.114) The country’s First Display Variant Debit (Securitization Company / Reconstruction d) 1978 e) 1998 Card launched by which bank? Company) is a company registered under which Q.104) How much amount can be withdrawn and a) Axis Bank b) HSBC Bank act? transfer limit in BSDBA? c) YES Bank d) ICICI Bank a) Section 4 of SARFAESI Act, 2002 a) Rs.20,000 in a month e) Indusind Bank b) Section 3 of SARFAESI Act, 2002 b) Rs.50,000 in a month Q.115) OROP is a longstanding demand of the c) Section 24 of SARFAESI Act, 2002 c) Rs.5,000 in a month Indian armed forces and veterans. What is the d) Section 32 of SARFAESI Act, 2002 d) Rs.15,000 in a month full form of OROP? e) Section 13 of SARFAESI Act, 2002 e) Rs.10,000 in a month a) Only Rank One Pension Q.126) The S4A Scheme aims at deep financial Q.105) What is the full form of DAY – NRLM? b) One Rank Onetime Pension restructuring of big debted projects by allowing a) Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Urban c) Onetime Rank One Pension the lender (bank) to acquire equity of the Livelihoods Mission d) Only Rank Online Pension stressed project. What is the full form of S4A? b) Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Semi- e) One Rank One Pension a) Scheme for Sustainability Structuring of Urban Livelihoods Mission Q.116) What is the amount of the fund for Start Stressed Assets c) Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Rural Up India? b) Sector of Sustainable Structuring of Stressed Livelihoods Mission a) Rs.20,000 crore b) Rs.10,000 crore Assets d) Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National c) Rs.15,000 crore d) Rs.25,000 crore c) Scheme for Sustainable Structured of Stressed Farmers Livelihoods Mission e) Rs.12,000 crore Assets e) Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Semi- Q.117) The Income Tax department has launched d) Scheme for Sustainable Structuring of Rural Livelihoods Mission a special electronic grievance redressal system Stressed Assets Q.106) GST Slab structure consists of 4 tier called as ______. e) Scheme for Sustainable Structuring of Stress Structure. They are a) e-nivaran b) e-rakam Assets a) 5%, 10%, 12%, 18% c) e-CPGRAMS d) e-INGRAM Q.127) Which sector has launched 'Nivaran' b) 5%, 15%, 18%, 28% e) e-PRAGATI portal, an online system for redressal of service- c) 5%, 12%, 18%, 28% Q.118) What is the maximum deposit of Sukanya related grievances of serving and former d) 5%, 12%, 15%, 28% Samriddhi Yojana? employees? e) 5%, 12%, 18%, 20% a) Rs.2.5 lakhs b) Rs.3.5 lakhs a) Railway Sector Q.107) How many times demonetization has c) Rs.4.5 lakhs d) Rs.1.5 lakhs b) Real Estate Sector occurred in India Since 1935? e) Rs.2.75 lakhs c) Infrastructure Sector a) 6 (1946, 1956, 1968, 1978, 1988 and 2016) Q.119) What is the full form of CKYCR? d) Household Sector b) 5 (1946, 1956, 1968, 1978, and 2016) a) Certain KYC Records Registry e) Finance Sector c) 2 (1946 and 2016) b) Central KYC Records Register Q.128) Which portal is launched by the RBI to d) 3 (1946, 1978 and 2016) c) Central KYC Records Registry curb illegal collection of money by companies? e) 4 (1946, 1968, 1978, and 2016) d) Central KYC Reserve Registry a) Sachet b) Sacket Q.108) How many rural houses will cover under e) Centralised KYC Records Registry c) Saachet d) Sachent Housing for all by 2022? Q.120) Global Gender Gap report is published by e) Shachet a) 5.95 crore houses b) 4.95 crore houses which organisation? Q.129) Who has been appointed as the chairman c) 2.95 crore houses d) 3.95 crore houses a) World Bank Group of Bankruptcy and Insolvency Board? e) 1.95 crore houses b) World Economic Forum a) Shankar Acharya Q.109) Small finance banks will also have to c) International Telecommunication Union b) Ganesh Singh ensure that 50% of their loan portfolio d) Heritage Foundation c) Tarun Ramadorai constitutes advances of up to ______. e) Institute for Economics and Peace d) Sudarshan Sen a) Rs.25 lakh b) Rs.15 lakh Q.121) Savings Bank account opened by minor e) M. S. Sahoo c) Rs.5 lakh d) Rs.35 lakh 10 years above not eligible to issue? Q.130) What would be the benefits under the e) Rs.20 lakh a) Credit Cards b) Debit Cards PMJJBY (Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Q.110) What is the maximum total credit amount c) Rupay Cards d) Both a and b Yojana) scheme and premium payable? in the BSBDA account in a year? e) None of these a) Rs.5 lakh is payable on a subscriber’s death a) 2 Lakh rupees b) 1 Lakh rupees Q.122) Swacch Indhan Behtar Jeevan is the due to any cause. The premium payable is c) 50,000 rupees d) 3 Lakh rupees tagline of which Yojana? Rs.330/- per annum per subscriber. e) 75,000 rupees a) PMJJBY b) PMMY b) Rs.2 lakh is payable on a subscriber’s death Q.111) The New Development bank will allow c) PMUY d) PMSSY due to any cause. The premium payable is new members to join, but the BRICS capital e) PMSBY Rs.12/- per annum per subscriber. share cannot fall below to how many percent? Q.123) TDS withdrawal amount for PF is c) Rs.2.5 lakh is payable on a subscriber’s death a) 54% b) 60% c) 51% increased to? due to any cause. The premium payable is d) 55% e) 75% a) Rs.75000 b) Rs.30000 Rs.120/- per annum per subscriber. Q.112) What is the full form of MCLR? c) Rs.50000 d) Rs.150000 d) Rs.2.75 lakh is payable on a subscriber’s death a) Managing Cost of Funds based Lending Rate e) Rs.250000 due to any cause. The premium payable is b) Marginal Credit of Funds based Lending Rate Q.124) The Reserve Bank of India’s recent move Rs.330/- per annum per subscriber. c) Marginal Cost of Funds based Liquidity Rate to regulate P2P lending platforms as non-banking e) Rs.2 lakh is payable on a subscriber’s death d) Marginal Cost of Fidelity based Lending Rate financial companies (NBFCs) have created a grey due to any cause. The premium payable is e) Marginal Cost of Funds based Lending Rate area of sorts, spelling trouble for thousands of Rs.330/- per annum per subscriber. Q.113) Which of the following bank issues direct selling agents (DSA) or direct marketing Q.131) ARC has been set up to provide a focused World’s first Masala Bond listing in London Stock agents (DMAs) . Then P2P Stands for? approach to ______. Exchange (LSE) ? a) Private to Public b) Peer to Point a) Non- Performing Assets Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

|Legend Magazine | November - 2017| 46 b) Senior Citizens Q.142) National Automated Clearing House c) 6 months d) 4 months c) Inflation (NACH) is formed to replace which of the e) 8 months d) Deflation following term? Q.151) Maximum loan size to single obligator e) To increase GDP in the country a) Electronic Clearing Structure (ECS) can’t be more than what percent of the capital Q.132) Last six digits of IFSC need to identify of b) Electronic Clearing Settlement (ECS) investment? _____. c) Electronic Clearing Stress (ECS) a) 10 % b) 20 % c) 30 % a) Bank Branch b) City Code d) Electronic Clearing Statement (ECS) d) 25 % e) 40 % c) Bank Code d) Either b or c e) Electronic Clearing System (ECS) Q.152) Local Area Banks have jurisdiction over e) None of these Q.143) As per the Coinage Act, 1906, coins can _____. Q.133) ICRA Ltd. (formerly Investment be issued up to the denomination of ______. a) Over a maximum of six contiguous districts, Information and Credit Rating Agency of India a) Rs.1000 b) Rs.100 and their basic function is to mobilise funds in Ltd.) was established and promoted by which c) Rs.500 d) Rs.10,000 rural and urban areas organization? e) Rs.1,500 b) Over a maximum of three contiguous districts, a) Industrial Financial Corporation of India (IFCI) Q.144) Which is the first private bank in India to and their basic function is to mobilise funds in b) Industrial Finance Company of India (IFCI) issue gold coins? rural and urban areas c) Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI) a) Yes Bank b) Federal Bank c) Over a maximum of three contiguous districts, d) Investing Finance Corporation of India (IFCI) c) Axis Bank d) ICICI Bank and their basic function is to mobilise funds in e) Industry Finance Corporation of India (IFCI) e) HDFC Bank rural and semi-urban areas Q.134) SMFS is a secure messaging standard Q.145) The 14-member task-force will develop a d) Over a minimum of three contiguous districts, developed to serve as a platform for intra-bank working definition of poverty and prepare a and their basic function is to mobilise funds in and inter-bank applications. In SMFS, first “S” roadmap for its elimination. The Poverty rural and semi-urban areas stands for? Committee of India is headed by whom? e) Over a minimum of three contiguous states, a) Structured b) System a) Arvind Panagriya and their basic function is to mobilise funds in c) Settlement d) Small b) Ganesh Singh rural and semi-urban areas e) Stress c) Tarun Ramadorai Q.153) Who has owned the Initial shares of RBI? Q.135) Which is the highest loan limit (Tarun) of d) Sudarshan Sen a) Public Shareholders Mudra Bank? e) M. S. Sahoo b) Redeemable shares a) 12 lakhs b) 15 lakhs Q.146) NBFC are allowed to accept/renew public c) Unanimous Shareholders c) 10 lakhs d) 5 lakhs deposits for a maximum period of _____. d) Private Shareholders e) 50 lakhs a) 60 months b) 90 months e) Both a and d Q.136) The MUDRA bank will initially function as c) 120 months d) 24 months Q.154) The rate of interest charged by the a non-banking financial company and a e) 180 months central bank on the loans they have extended to subsidiary of the which Institution? Q.147) What is the name of the Web based commercial banks and other financial institutions a) SEBI b) SIDBI solution for interbank and other bulk is called ______. c) DICGC d) NABARD transactions? a) Bank Rate b) Reverse Repo Rate e) RBI a) RTGS b) NEFT c) SWIFT c) Base Rate d) CRR e) SLR Q.137) Which is the India's first credit rating d) NACH e) None of these Q.155) In which of the following countries is agency, incorporated in 1987? Q.148) Which of the following is true about Micro Rabobank situated? a) CARE (Credit Analysis & Research) ATMs? a) Netherlands b) Scotland c) USA b) ICRA (Investment Information and Credit a) The cost of deployment of a micro ATM is d) Russia e) Canada Rating Agency) lesser than that of an ordinary ATM. Q.156) What is the current aggregate foreign c) ONICRA (Onicra Credit Rating Agency of India b) Micro ATM is normally POS which connect to investment limit is ____% will apply to universal Ltd) the bank’s core banking system using debit card banks? d) CRISIL (Credit Rating Information Services of c) Micro ATMs has been introduced basically to a) 50 % b) 74 % c) 75 % India Limited) facilitate residents of those areas/villages rural / d) 47 % e) 49 % e) Both a and c remote / underbanked areas of the country Q.157) By which of the following has NFS Q.138) Which is the umbrella organization for all where there no bank are available easily nor any (National Financial Switch) was developed, with retail payment systems in India? ATM . the goal of inter-connecting the ATMs in the a) NPCI b) RBI c) SEBI d) The fingerprint and personal details may also country and facilitating convenience banking? d) NBFC e) IFCI be linked to the Aadhaar Card, which will then a) SEBI b) RBI c) NPCI Q.139) Where is the headquarters of Prathama serve as the ID proof required to withdraw d) IRDAI e) NABARD Bank located? money. Q.158) Which of the following entity can issues in a) Moradabad b) Faizabad e) All are true Commercial Papers in India? c) Mumbai d) Hyderabad Q.149) Current and saving accounts that don’t a) Corporates e) Jaipur operate for a period more than 2 year are called b) Primary dealers Q.140) The minimum paid up capital of small ______. c) All-India Financial Institutions finance banks was ______. a) Inactive Account d) All the above a) Rs.100 crores b) Rs.500 crores b) Dormant Account e) Both a and b c) Rs.250 crores d) Rs.150 crores c) Escrow Account Q.159) EFPOS is an electronic payment system e) Rs.600 crores d) Demat Account involving electronic funds transfers based on the Q.141) The small finance banks will be required e) None of these use of payment cards, such as debit or credit to extend _____ percent of its Adjusted Net Bank Q.150) BSBDA-Small Accounts are valid for a cards, at payment terminals. What does P in Credit (ANBC) to the sectors eligible for period of 12 months initially which may be EFPOS stand for? classification as priority sector lending (PSL) by extended by another______if the person a) Point b) Peer c) Product the Reserve Bank of India? provides proof of having applied for an Officially d) Payment e) Purchase a) 49% b) 50% c) 75% Valid Document (OVD) . Q.160) In which type of Electronic Fund Transfer d) 25% e) 60% a) 10 months b) 12 months there is hourly slots? Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

|Legend Magazine | November - 2017| 47 a) IMPS b) RTGS c) SWIFT Q.171) The allocation for Pradhan Mantri Kaushal d) Companies Act, 2013 d) NEFT e) None of these Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) for the period of 2016- e) Banking Regulation Act, 1949 Q.161) The Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) 2020? Q.181) AIRTEL Payment Bank’s initial capital was is an instant real-time inter-bank electronic funds a) Rs.24,000 cr b) Rs.15,000 cr ______. transfer system in India. It is founded in which c) Rs.10,000 cr d) Rs.20,000 cr a) Rs.5,000 crore b) Rs.3,000 crore year? e) Rs.12,000 cr c) Rs.2,000 crore d) Rs.6,000 crore a) 22 November 2012 Q.172) CERSAI comes under which act? e) Rs.10,000 crore b) 22 November 2014 a) SARFAESI Act, 2002 Q.182) IDRBT is a unique institution exclusively c) 22 November 2010 b) Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 focused on Banking Technology. Established by d) 22 November 2015 c) Societies Registration Act, 1860 the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in 1996, the e) 22 November 2001 d) Companies Act, 2013 Institution works at the intersection of- Q.162) Under Lucky Grahak Yojna weekly prize e) Banking Regulation Act, 1949 a) Online e-commerce worth ______for consumers. Q.173) PMKVY will impart fresh training to 60 b) Criminal Cases a) Rs.1 lakh, Rs.20,000 and Rs.5000 lakh youths and certify skills of 40 lakh persons c) Fund and Liquidity b) Rs.1 lakh, Rs.50,000 and Rs.5000 acquired non-formally under the ______. d) Banking and Technology c) Rs.50,000, Rs.5,000 and Rs.2,500 a) Recognition of Proper Learning (RPL) e) Fraud and Finance d) Rs.1 lakh, Rs.10,000 and Rs.5000 b) Recommend of Prior Learning (RPL) Q.183) What does P stand for in AEPS? e) Rs.50,000, Rs.15,000 and Rs.2,500 c) Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) a) Parity b) Purchase Q.163) RBI Nationalised in which year? d) Recognition of Private Learning (RPL) . c) Profit d) Property a) 1934 b) 1935 c) 1949 e) Recognition of Partnership Learning (RPL) . e) Payment d) 1950 e) 1938 Q.174) For which account PAN Card is not Q.184) What is the purpose behind cross selling Q.164) Maximum balance in the BSBDA account required? by the Bank? should not exceed _____ at any time as per RBI. a) Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana a) Marketing b) Liquidity in Market a) Rs.60,000 b) Rs.50,000 b) Pradhan Mantri Mundra Yojana c) Fee Received d) Control Inflation c) Rs.10,000 d) Rs.75,000 c) Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana e) International Business e) Rs.80,000 d) Pradhan Mantri UJALA Yojana Q.185) ______is an increase in the quantity of Q.165) The first branch of IPPB inaugurated on e) Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jothi Yojana money in circulation without any corresponding 30 January 2017 at _____ and _____. Q.175) What does L stand for in ALCO? increase in goods, thus leading to an abnormal a) Raipur and Ranchi a) Lender b) Liability rise in the price level. b) Mumbai and Jaipur c) Liquidity d) Least a) Invisible Trade b) Inflation c) Raipur and Gandhinagar e) Life c) Deflation d) Both a and b d) Raipur and Mumbai Q.176) Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana e) None of these e) Mumbai and Ranchi (PMSBY) is one of three social security Schemes Q.186) Reserve Bank of India is an ______Q.166) The Union Budget has allocated ______that the government had announced in the 2015 body. towards recapitalisation of public sector banks in Budget. What is PMSBY? a) Regulatory b) Constitutional FY 2017-18. a) An accident insurance scheme c) Autonomous d) Statutory a) Rs.18,000 crore b) Rs.15,000 crore b) Life insurance scheme e) Judicial c) Rs.10,000 crore d) Rs.23,000 crore c) Health insurance scheme Q.187) Which Bank is the first to offer a fully e) Rs.30,000 crore d) Future money insurance scheme digital and paperless banking system in India? Q.167) The government has allocated _____ to e) Motor vehicles insurance scheme a) Airtel Payments Bank the India Post Payments Bank for the financial Q.177) Under MUDRA Scheme “Kishor” covering b) State Bank of India year 2017-18 as it gears up to set up 650 loans above Rs 50,000 and up to ______. c) Yes Bank branches across the country by September 2017? a) Rs.5 lakh b) Rs.10 lakh d) Canara Bank a) Rs.100 crore b) Rs.500 crore c) Rs.20 lakh d) Rs.15 lakh e) ICICI Bank c) Rs.300 crore d) Rs.550 crore e) Rs.1 lakh Q.188) ______is "the risk of a change in value e) Rs.250 crore Q.178) At least how much % of Small Finance caused by the fact that actual losses, incurred Q.168) The Reserve Bank of India has set up an banks to be opened in the unbanked rural area? from inadequate or failed internal processes, inter-regulatory Working Group to study the a) 50% b) 35% c) 25% people and systems, or from external events, entire gamut of regulatory issues relating to d) 20% e) 15% differ from the expected losses". Financial Technology and Digital Banking in India. Q.179) Jalandhar based ______became the first a) Credit Risk b) Liquidity Risk The Working Group is headed by whom? financial entity in India to get Small Financial c) Economy Risk d) Operational Risk a) Ganesh Singh b) Tarun Ramadorai Bank License by the Reserve Bank of India. e) Market Risk c) Sudarshan Sen d) Aravind Panagariya a) AU Small Finance Bank Q.189) _____ is the risk of default on a debt that e) M. S. Sahoo b) Equitas Small Finance Bank may arise from a borrower failing to make Q.169) SWAYAM is an instrument for self- c) Ujjivan Small Finance Bank Limited required payments. actualisation providing opportunities for a life- d) Capital Local Area Bank Limited a) Credit Risk b) Liquidity Risk long learning. SWAYAM is an initiative of? e) Utkarsh Small Finance Bank c) Economy Risk d) Operational Risk a) Ministry of External Affairs Q.180) The Banking Codes and Standards Board e) Market Risk b) Ministry of Human Resource Development of India (BCSBI) is an independent and Q.190) RIDF is maintained by the National Bank c) Ministry of Corporate Affairs autonomous institution to monitor and ensure for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) d) Ministry of Home Affairs that the Banking Codes and Standards adopted . RIDF was set up by the Government in 1995-96 e) Ministry of Women and Child Development by the banks are adhered to in true spirit while for financing ongoing ______projects. Q.170) What is R in the abbreviation FCNR delivering their services. BCSBI was registered as a) Road projects Account? a society under the- b) Infrastructure projects a) Retail b) Repatriable a) Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 c) Electricity projects c) Recurring d) Remittance b) Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 d) Food projects e) Reproduce c) Societies Registration Act, 1860 e) Health Projects Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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Q.191) Name the Bank, which has launched c) Equitable Mortgage d) Term loan d) A situation where machines are substituted for India's first payments bank? e) None of the Above labour a) Fino Payments Bank Ltd Q.200) What do you mean by “cheque e) None of these b) Paytm Payments Bank truncation”? Q.209) Financial activities tax and Financial c) Airtel Payments Bank Ltd a) Adding MICR code at the bottom of the cheque stability contribution are proposed by? d) India Post Payments Bank b) Adding IFSC code at the bottom of the cheque a) G-8 e) Reliance Industries c) Converting the physical cheque into an b) SAARC Summit (second) Q.192) The Bank for International Settlements electronic image of the cheque c) G-20 (BIS) is an international financial institution d) Sending the cheque by post d) SAARC Summit (First) owned by central banks, which fosters e) None of these e) None of the above international monetary and financial cooperation Q.201) The IFSC code uniquely identifies a Q.210) Who is the present MD and CEO of Multi and serves as a bank for central banks. a) Bank Commodity Exchange? Headquarters of BIS is in ______. b) Particular branch of a bank a) Balasubramaniam Venkatramani a) Vienna, Austria b) Geneva, Switzerland c) Particular city b) Mrugank Paranjape c) London, UK d) Basel, Switzerland d) Particular country c) ManojVaish e) Manilla, Phillipines e) None of the above d) Praveen Kumar Singhal Q.193) Cheque truncation is the conversion of a Q.202) IQA ensures the quality of the images e) Mansi Aggarwal physical cheque into a substitute electronic form participating in cheque truncation system. What Q.211) The second credit rating agency for transmission to the paying bank. Cheque is IQA? incorporated in India was ICRA in 1991 and its truncation and electronic cheque come under a) Institute of Quality Assurance headquarters is located in which act? b) Image Quarterly Audit a) Gurugram b) Bangalore a) Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 c) Insurance Quality Audit c) New Delhi d) Kolkata b) Banking Regulation Act, 1949 d) Investment Quarterly Assessment e) Hyderabad c) Companies Act, 2013 e) Image Quality Assessment Q.212) The term “hyper-inflation” means? d) Societies Registration Act, 1860 Q.203) In Credit Rating and Information Services a) A situation with moderate rise in price level e) Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 of India Limited (CRISIL) the Majority of b) A “runway” or “galloping” inflationary situation Q.194) The Current FDI limit for Multi Brand shareholder is ______. where the monetary unit becomes almost Retail Trading is _____. a) Standard & Poor’s b) NABARD worthless a) 49% b) 74% c) 51% c) RBI d) SBI c) An inflationary situation where the external d) 100% e) 26% e) Moody’s forces are the primary contributing factors Q.195) The Reserve Bank of India has recognized Q.204) Who is the sponsoring bank for the d) A situation where the cost of living index is the need for an explicit policy on the banking Pandian Gramin Bank? rising alarmingly structure in India keeping in view the a) Indian Bank e) None of these recommendations of the Committee on ______b) Bank of Baroda Q.213) Investment Information and Credit rating for Licensing of Small Finance Banks in the c) Indian Overseas Bank agency majority shareholder is Private Sector under the Chairmanship of M d) Punjab National Bank a) Standard & Poor’s b) NABARD Narasimham. e) Vijaya bank c) Moody’s d) SBI e) IMF a) Liquidity Sector Reforms Q.205) ______is a company which rates the Q.214) Fitch is the International Credit Rating b) Recession Sector Reforms debtors on the basis of their ability to pay back Agency. Fitch have dual headquarters, New York c) Economy Sector Reforms the debt in timely manner. and ______. d) Financial Sector Reforms a) Credit Rating Agency a) Washington b) London e) Banking Sector Reforms b) Asset Reconstruction Company c) Tokyo d) Melbourne Q.196) Currency is also printed by the Reserve c) Business correspondent e) Dubai Bank of India. It has two printing presses which d) Rating Company Q.215) SARFAESI Act -2002 has provisions for are owned by the Bhartiya Reserve Bank Note e) None of these the banks to take legal recourse to recover their Mudran Private Limited. These printing presses Q.206) Inflation in India is measured in which of dues without intervention of the Court. In located in Mysore and another is in? the following indexes/indicators? SARFAESI act, R Stands for - a) Nasik b) Dewas c) Salboni a) Cost of Living Index (COLI) a) Reconstruction b) Recover d) Noida e) Hyderabad b) Consumer Price Index (CPI) c) Ready d) Reward Q.197) The promoter's minimum initial c) Gross Domestic Product (GDP) e) Remittance contribution to the paid-up equity capital of such d) Wholesale Price Index (WPI) Q.216) What is the limit of amount in NEFT small finance bank shall at least be ______e) None of these Transaction. If the remitter does not have any percent. Q.207) On which of the following types of bank account? a) 40 percent b) 25 percent cheques alterations are not allowed by RBI? a) Rs.30000 b) Rs.50000 c) 10 percent d) 75 percent a) Paper cheque c) Rs.250000 d) Rs.40000 e) 51 percent b) CTS cheque e) Rs.1 Lakh Q.198) Name the bank, which has been acquired c) Electronic cheque Q.217) RTGS is the continuous (real-time) by the HDFC Bank? d) Cheque with account payee crossing settlement of funds transfers individually on an a) Bharatiya Mahila Bank e) None of these order by order basis (without netting) . In RTGS b) IDFC Bank Q.208) What is meant by “hyper-employment”? “G” Stands for____. c) ING Vysya Bank a) A situation where the demand for labour far a) Gross b) Growth d) Centurion Bank of Punjab exceeds its supply c) Grand d) Government e) Bank of Rajasthan b) A situation where the plant is used without e) Guarantee Q.199) Which of the following is defined as the any rest Q.218) What is meant by “Multi-currency difference between current assets and current c) A situation where machines are used to basket”? liabilities? intensify utilization of labour a) A number of international currencies to which a) Venture Capital b) Working Capital the value of SDRs is linked Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

|Legend Magazine | November - 2017| 49 b) Number of major international currencies to Q.228) ONICRA is a leading Credit and d) Personal account which the external value of the Indian rupee is Performance Rating agencies set up by Onida e) Current and savings account linked Finance. Its headquarters is located in _____. Q.238) Individuals (including relatives) and c) Selected international currencies to which the a) Kolkata b) Mumbai entities other than the promoters will not be value of Asian Monetary Unit is linked c) Gurugram d) Chennai permitted to have a shareholding in excess of d) The name given to a group of West European e) Hyderabad _____ of the paid-up equity capital of the bank. currencies. Q.229) Which of the following is true about a) 10 per cent b) 15 per cent e) None of these National Consumer Disputes Redressal c) 20 per cent e) 25 per cent Q.219) The term “Balance of Trade” means? Commission (NCDRC) ? e) 30 per cent a) A point where the values of imports and a) It functions at the national level for the Q.239) The objective for small banks is to exports are equal Consumer complaints of the value exceeding increase ______. b) The difference between the value of the Rs.100 lakhs a) Financial inclusion b) GDP growth imports and exports of a country b) It is to hear appeals against the orders of the c) CRR c) The term is used with reference to bilateral State Commission only d) Circulation of money trade agreements with countries of CIS Block c) Its chairman must be either sitting or retired e) MSF d) The difference between the total of Judge of the Supreme Court of India Q.240) The stance of RBI monetary policy is? transactions with foreign countries in trade, d) Both a and b a) Inflation control with adequate liquidity for services and capital e) All a, b and c growth e) None of these Q.230) Interest on Savings Bank Deposit account b) Improving credit quality of the Banks Q.220) KYC norms introduced in which of the is calculated on: c) Strengthening credit delivery mechanism following years? a) Minimum balance during the month d) All of the above a) 2006 b) 2001 c) 2002 b) Balance as on 30th of the month e) None of these d) 2004 e) 2005 c) Minimum balance between 10th and last day of Q.241) An agreement signed between two Q.221) What is an Indian Depository Receipt? the month nations or a group of nations which establishes a) A deposit account with a Public-Sector Bank d) Balance on all Fridays unimpeded exchange and flow of goods and b) A deposit account with any of depositories in e) Average daily balances services between/among trade partners India Q.231) Which of the following public-sector banks regardless of national boundaries is called? c) A denominated in Indian currency and are has the largest number of branches in foreign a) Import Free Agreement issued by a domestic depository and against the countries? b) Balance of Trade underlying equity shares are secured with a a) Bank of India b) Bank of Baroda c) Export Free Agreement custodian c) Punjab National Bank d) Corporation Bank d) Free Trade Agreement d) None of the above e) Indian Bank e) All of the above e) Both a and b Q.232) Permanent account number is must Q.242) “Doing Business Report” is released by Q.222) Which among the following is also known for______. which of the following organizations every year? as “Rubber cheque”? a) Nostro accounts a) Asian Development Bank (ADB) a) Dated cheque b) Bank cheque b) Co-operative bank accounts b) World Bank (WB) c) Bounced cheque d) Post-dated cheque c) Joint accounts c) International Monetary Fund (IMF) e) Bearer cheque d) Demat accounts d) World Trade Organization (WTO) Q.223) Who initiated ’Rupay’ card in India? e) Personal accounts e) World Economic Forum (WEF) a) UIDAI b) NPCI c) RBI Q.233) For Long term loans the credit rating Q.243) The Task Force on Supportive Policy and d) IBA e) SEBI symbols “AAA” represented by Regulatory Framework for Microfinance set up – Q.224) Under Interest Subvention Scheme, a) High degree of safety – Low credit risk a) SEBI b) SIDBI c) NABARD farmers can get short term crop loans up to b) Adequate degree of safety – Low credit risk d) DICGC e) RBI ______payable within one year at only 4% per c) Highest degree of safety – Lowest credit risk Q.244) _____ will create a framework for annum. d) Moderate risk licensing small banks and other differentiated a) Rs.5 Lakh b) Rs.3 Lakh c) Rs.2 Lakh e) None of these banks. d) Rs.1 Lakh e) Rs.6 Lakh Q.234) A bank customer can file a complaint a) SIDBI b) NABARD c) RBI Q.225) The business strategy of the ‘women only’ against a banking organization if reply is not d) SEBI e) IRDAI bank has been drawn up by a core management received from the bank within a period of Q.245) Whenever RBI does Open Market team led by ______. _____after concerned bank has received Operation Transaction, actually it wishes to a) MBN Rao b) R. Gandhi complaint representation: regulate which of the following? c) Urjit patel d) Vijay Kelkar a) Two Months b) Four Months a) Inflation only b) Liquidity in the economy e) M. S. Sahoo c) Three Months d) One Month c) Borrowing powers of the banks Q.226) Which Committee recommends the LAF to e) Six Months d) Flow of Foreign Direct Investments provide a floor for money market rates? Q.235) Current Banking Ombudsman Scheme e) None of these a) Nachiket Mor b) SS Ahluwalia introduced in ______. Q.246) Currency Swap is an instrument to c) Narasimham d) Anil Baijal a) 2004 b) 2005 c) 2006 manage? e) Hilton young d) 2003 e) 2008 a) Currency risk b) Interest rate risk Q.227) Repo rate is the rate at which banks Q.236) Who is the Secretary General of the Basel c) Currency and interest rate risk borrow money from the RBI against the pledge of Committee? d) Cash flows in different currency government securities whenever the banks need a) Wayne Byres b) William Coen e) None of these funds to meet their day-to-day obligations. It is a c) Stefan Ingves d) James taylor Q.247) In the capital market, the term arbitrage ______loan? e) Martin Coof is used with reference to? a) Long term b) Short term Q.237) Payments Banks can accept ______. a) Purchase of securities to cover the sale c) Medium term d) Reverse term a) Current account b) Sale of securities to reduce the loss on e) None of these b) Savings account purchase c) Nominal account Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

|Legend Magazine | November - 2017| 50 c) Simultaneous purchase and sale of securities Q.1) What is the shortcut key to close the active Q.17) The computer understandable language is to make profits from price window? also known as d) All of the above a) CTRL+W b) CTRL+F10 a) machine language e) None of these c) CTRL+F4 d) Both a & c b) machine code Q.248) The 2nd ARC was established under which e) none of the above c) object code Committee recommendations? Q.2) What is the shortcut key to open Font dialog d) all the above a) Narasimhan b) H R Khan box? e) none of these c) Veerappa Moily d) Vijay Kelkar a) CTRL + R b) CTRL+D c) CTRL+B Q.18) .in is the domain name for e) AK Mathur d) CTRL+G e) CTRL+Q a) jobs b) organization Q.249) The process of the total valuation of the Q.3) Primary memory stores? c) name d) commercial business financial capital assets of a country is technically a) data b) program c) result e) India known as? d) all the above e) none of these Q.19) In relational database, a field is a a) Gross Domestic Resources Q.4) A program that is used to view websites is a) label b) table of information b) Gross Domestic Product called a: c) related records d) category of information c) Net wealth of the country a) spread sheet b) word document e) none of these d) Market Capitalization c) web viewer d) browser Q.20) The network IP addresses ranging from e) None of these e) viewer 192.0.0.0 to 223.0.0.0 is Q.250) Banks can give a notice in writing to the Q.5) Which of the following is not an input a) class A b) class B c) class C defaulting borrower requiring it to discharge its device? d) class D e) class E liabilities within ____days. a) mouse b) keyboard c) monitor Q.21) Who invented the Difference Engine? a) 30 b) 45 c) 60 d) joystick e) touch screen a) J ohn naiper b) Blaise pascal d) 90 e) 75 Q.6) The Internet began with the development of c) Charles babbage d) Herman Hollerith Answer Key: a) USENET b) ARPANET c) Ethernet e) none of these 1. (b) 2. (a) 3. (d) 4. (d) 5. (b) 6. (a) 7. (b) 8. d) Intranet e) None of these Q.22) Which of the following involves creating a (a) 9. (b) 10. (a) 11. (a) 12. (d) 13. (a) 14. (c) Q.7) In slide layout panel, how many layouts are single cell by combining two or more selected 15. (d) 16. (a) 17. (c) 18. (a) 19. (d) 20. (c) 21. available for text layout by default? cells? (b) 22. (c) 23. (a) 24. (a) 25. (b) 26. (c) 27. (b) a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 a) combining b) merging 28. (c) 29. (d) 30. (a) 31. (b) 32. (d) 33. (a) 34. d) 4 e) 5 c) splitting d) formating (a) 35. (d) 36. (e) 37. (c) 38. (a) 39. (b) 40. (c) Q.8) The first microprocessor was developed by e) transferring 41. (a) 42. (b) 43. (d) 44. (b) 45. (b) 46. (a) 47. whom? Q.23) The address given to a computer (a) 48. (b) 49. (c) 50. (a) 51. (b) 52. (a) 53. (c) a) IBM b) Intel c) Pentium connected to a network is 54. (b) 55. (b) 56. (a) 57. (c) 58. (b) 59. (a) 60. d) dell e) none of these a) IP address b) server address (c) 61. (e) 62. (a) 63. (b) 64. (c) 65. (b) 66. (a) Q.9) IPV4 address is c) client address d) source address 67. (e) 68. (d) 69. (e) 70. (d) 71. (d) 72. (d) 73. a) 8 bits b) 16 bits c) 32 bits e) destination address (a) 74. (c) 75. (b) 76. (c) 77. (c) 78. (a) 79. (e) d) 64 bits e) 128 bits Q.24) Which of the following is an electronic or 80. (c) 81. (a) 82. (b) 83. (c) 84. (a) 85. (a) 86. Q.10) What does BSOD stand for? paper log used to track computer activity? (c) 87. (a) 88. (c) 89. (b) 90. (a) 91. (c) 92. (a) a) blue screen of death a) cookie b) firewall 93. (d) 94. (e) 95. (d) 96. (b) 97. (c) 98. (a) 99. b) blur screen of death c) keylogger d) spyware e) audit trial (c) 100. (e) 101. (d) 102. (c) 103. (d) 104. (e) c) blue screen of dual Q.25) To execute a given DOS program, you 105. (c) 106. (c) 107. (d) 108. (c) 109. (a) 110. d) blur screen of dual must type a(n) (b) 111. (d) 112. (e) 113. (a) 114. (a) 115. (e) e) none of these a) command b) order 116. (b) 117. (a) 118. (d) 119. (c) 120. (b) 121. Q.11) What is the name of the first general c) syntax d) number (a) 122. (c) 123. (c) 124. (d) 125. (b) 126. (d) purpose electronic computer? e) none of these 127. (a) 128. (a) 129. (e) 130. (e) 131. (a) 132. a) UNIVAC b) ENIAC c) EDSAC Q.26) The space between the margin and the (a) 133. (c) 134. (a) 135. (c) 136. (b) 137. (d) d) EDVAC e) none of these text is 138. (a) 139. (a) 140. (a) 141. (c) 142. (e) 143. Q.12) To move from one worksheets to another a) line spacing b) paragraph spacing (a) 144. (b) 145. (a) 146. (a) 147. (d) 148. (e) in MS-Excel workbook one should click c) indent d) all the above 149. (a) 150. (b) 151. (a) 152. (c) 153. (d) 154. a) active cell b) scroll bar e) none of these (a) 155. (a) 156. (b) 157. (c) 158. (d) 159. (a) c) sheet tab d) windows button Q.27) A directory within a directory is 160. (d) 161. (c) 162. (d) 163. (c) 164. (b) 165. e) status bar a) double directory (a) 166. (c) 167. (b) 168. (c) 169. (b) 170. (b) Q.13) The sixth layer in the OSI model is b) mini directory 171. (e) 172. (a) 173. (c) 174. (a) 175. (b) 176. a) network b) session c) nested directory (a) 177. (a) 178. (c) 179. (d) 180. (c) 181. (b) c) transport d) application d) in directory 182. (d) 183. (e) 184. (c) 185. (b) 186. (c) 187. e) presentation e) sub directory (a) 188. (d) 189. (a) 190. (b) 191. (c) 192. (d) Q.14) Who is the father of Internet? Q.28) The creation of Internet Protocol(IP) 193. (e) 194. (c) 195. (e) 196. (c) 197. (a) 198. a) Vint Cerf b) Tim Berners Lee packets with a forged source IP address, with the (d) 199. (b) 200. (c) 201. (b) 202. (e) 203. (a) c) Martin Cooper d) Bill Gates purpose of concealing the identity of the sender 204. (c) 205. (a) 206. (b) 207. (b) 208. (a) 209. e) Mark Zuckerberg or impersonating another computer system is (c) 210. (b) 211. (a) 212. (b) 213. (c) 214. (b) Q.15) A small amount of time is allocated for the a) smishing b) phishing 215. (a) 216. (b) 217. (a) 218. (b) 219. (b) 220. processing simultaneously is c) hacking d) spoofing (c) 221. (c) 222. (c) 223. (b) 224. (b) 225. (a) a) single user OS b) multi user OS e) pharming 226. (c) 227. (b) 228. (c) 229. (c) 230. (e) 231. c) real time OS d) multi tasking OS Q.29) The second layer in OSI model is (b) 232. (d) 233. (c) 234. (d) 235. (c) 236. (c) e) time sharing OS ______237. (e) 238. (a) 239. (a) 240. (d) 241. (d) 242. Q.16) The portion that shows all the choices you a) Physical layer b) Data link layer (b) 243. (c) 244. (c) 245. (b) 246. (d) 247. (c) can make while working in a window is called the c) Transport layer d) Network layer 248. (c) 249. (d) 250. (c) a) options b) table e) Session layer Computer: c) menu bar d) task bar e) item bar Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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Q.30) Which of the following shortcut key is used Q.45) Trackball is an example for a e) low – level programming language to repeat the last action performed? a) pointing device b) output device Q.58) .com is the domain name for a) F3 b) F4 c) F5 c) software device d) printing device a) jobs b) organization d) F6 e) F7 e) programming device c) name d) commercial business Q.31) Abacus was developed in which country? Q.46) A virus that creates a new file with same e) India a) India b) Japan c) China existing file name is Q.59) .in relational database, a field is a d) USA e) France a) Macro virus b) virus hoax a) label Q.32) Zoom in & out button is available in c) computer prank d) Worm b) table of information a) home tab b) insert tab c) review tab e) companion virus c) related records d) view tab e) references tab Q.47) World wide web was invented by whom? d) category of information Q.33) Bits are packaged into frames at which a) Mosaic corporation b) Opera corporation e) none of these layer of the OSI model? c) Tim Berners Lee d) Vint cert Q.60) The network IP addresses ranging from a) network layer b) physical layer e) None of these 192.0.0.0 to 223.0.0.0 is c) data link layer d) application layer Q.48) The Operating system used in the first a) class A b) class B e) session layer generation of computers is c) class C d) class D Q.34) An online discussion group that allows a) Multitasking OS b) Real time OS e) class E direct live communication is c) Time sharing OS d) Batch processing Q.61) The computer which is used for weather a) email b) hyperlink OS forecasting is c) ISP d) web crawler e) GUI OS a) mainframe b) super computer e) chat group Q.49) Each device connected to a network is c) mini computer d) pc Q.35) Which program is used to interprets called e) all the above commands given by the user? a) intranet b) extranet Q.62) The bar at the bottom of the screen that a) fork b) function c) pc d) server shows what Ms word is prepared to do next is c) kernel d) shell e) node a) title bar b) menu bar e) all the above Q.50) Which OS does not have GUI Interface? c) tool bar d) scroll bar Q.36) Routers operate at which layer of the OSI a) Windows 98 b) Windows XP e) status bar model? c) Windows 2000 d) Windows 2007 Q.63) Data compression is done in which layer? a) physical layer b) network layer e) DOS a) presentation b) application c) data link layer d) session layer Q.51) The memory acts as a buffer between the c) network d) session e) application layer CPU and main memory is e) datalink Q.37) Employee(ID, name, dept name, sal) : in a) RAM b) ROM c) Cache Q.64) Internet uses this query which attribute form the primary key? d) hard disk e) all the above a) Packet switching a) name b) dept name Q.52) The OS is embedded in a device in the b) Circuit switching c) ID d) sal ROM is c) Digital switching e) all the above a) multi processing OS d) Code switching Q.38) Which of the following output device b) real time OS e) Telefix switching display information from the computer on to a c) embedded OS Q.65) What is the process of copying software large white screen? d) multiuser OS programs from secondary storage media to the a) Monitor b) Screen image projector e) single user OS hard disk called? c) Printer d) Data projector Q.53) The input devices which accepts inputs a) Running b) execution e) both b & d when the user places a fingertip on the computer c) installation d) uninstallation Q.39) Junk email is also called screen is e) optimization a) cookies b) buffer a) plotter b) light pen Q.66) Zombie army is also known as c) spam d) spoof e) shell c) joystick d) digitizing tablet a) keylogger b) rootkit Q.40) What is the base of the decimal number e) touch screen c) Botnet d) Dos attacks system? Q.54) Which memory need to be continually e) none of these a) 10 b) 5 c) 16 refreshing to retain data Q.67) What holds the meta data? d) 8 e) 2 a) ROM b) SRAM c) PROM a) data files b) data structures Q.41) IC stands for d) DRAM e) EEPROM c) data manager d) data dictionary a) Internal circuit Q.55) Which of the following displays the e) file manager b) Information circuit information includes the current page number, Q.68) The measurement of degree of the c) Integrated circuit the total number of pages and the number of sharpness of a displayed image is d) Input circuit words in the document, zoom slider etc.? a) pixel b) dot e) None of these a) status bar b) scroll bar c) resolution d) line Q.42) Which of the following shortcut key is used c) ruler bar d) work area e) none of these to justify a paragraph? e) none of these Q.69) Which of the following is a cookie that is a) Ctrl+I b) Ctrl+B Q.56) In which form does the data is stored in automatically recreated after being deleted? c) Ctrl+C d) Ctrl+V e) Ctrl+J the computer a) Zombie Cookie Q.43) Computer’s BIOS is stored in a) Decimal b) Binary b) Super Cookie a) RAM b) ROM c) SRAM c) HexaDecimal d) Octal c) Session Cookie d) DRAM e) Hard disk e) Octahedral d) HTTP only Cookie Q.44) Which device is used to convert digital into Q.57) Which level language is an Assembly e) none of these analog form at the sending end and back to language? 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Q.102) In SMTP, M stands for d) $ e) % a) zombie b) computer worm a) many b) management Q.73) The half an octet is c) scareware d) rootkit c) more d) mail a) bit b) byte c) kilobyte e) worm e) none of these d) nibble e) megabyte Q.89) The language which enables user to Q.103) Flash drives are plugged into a(n) Q.74) 1 Mega Byte is equal to manipulate data is a) expansion slot b) serial port a) 1024 Bits b) 1024 Bytes a) DCL b) DDL c) DML c) USB port d) 3.55 jack c) 1024 Kilo Bytes d) 1024 Giga Bytes d) DQL e) all the above e) drive bay e) None of these Q.90) Which protocol is used in network layer? Q.104) The octal equivalent of decimal number Q.75) Which of the following is not an output a) IP b) TCP c) FTP 73 is device? d) SMTP e) HTTP a) 89 b) 88 c) 90 a) mouse b) plotter Q.91) The command used to save a document d) 91 e) 92 c) monitor d) printer under a different name is Q.105) The key which is used to delete e) projector a) Save b) Save As c) New characters to the left of the cursor is Q.76) The Anti-virus which is available free of d) Different e) None of these a) backspace b) delete c) end cost on Internet is Q.92) Which of the following is a server that d) home e) arrow keys a) avira b) Norton c) Mcfee saves Web pages that users have requested so Q.106) Who gave the definition of computer d) quick heal e) all the above that successive requests for these pages do not virus? Q.77) The best way to insert a new slide in a require the use of the Internet? a) Charles Babbage presentation is to use the a) dedicated server b) virtual server b) John Von Neumann a) normal view b) slide sorter view c) cache server d) all the above c) Alan Turing c) slide show view d) special view e) none of these d) Fred Cohan e) single view Q.93) The shortcut which is used to insert new e) Poul Allen Q.78) Ultra Large Scale Integrated circuit is used slide in powerpoint is Q.107) Image can be sent over telephone lines in which generation of computer? a) Ctrl+M b) Ctrl+N c) Ctrl+E by using a) first b) second c) third d) Ctrl+O e) Ctrl+R a) scanner b) fax c) OCR d) fourth e) fifth Q.94) The decimal equivalent of the binary d) cable e) none of these Q.79) The method of Internet access that number 11001101 is Q.108) The IBM super computer is requires phone line, but offers faster access a) 205 b) 206 c) 204 a) Shasra-T b) Sunway Taihu Light speeds than dial-up is d) 208 e) 201 c) Watson d) Cray-1 a) model b) Digital subscriber line (DSL) Q.95) The main characteristic of fourth e) Param 8000 c) cable d) satellite access generation computer was Q.109) Television is an example for e) fibre optic a) transistor b) microprocessor a) simplex b) half duplex Q.80) Restarting a computer that is already ‘ON’ c) vacuum tubes d) circuit c) full duplex d) multiplex is known as e) none of these e) demultiplex a) Booting b) Refreshing c) Restart Q.96) The cell which we are currently working is Q.110) LynxOS is an example for d) Warm booting e) Repeating known as a) single user OS b) multi user OS Q.81) A floppy disk contains a) Default cell b) current cell c) multi-processor OS a) circular tracks b) sectors c) active cell d) first cell d) real time OS e) time sharing OS c) both a & b d) selection e) none of these Q.111) Which of the following does not have flash e) none of the above Q.97) The computer understandable language is memory? Q.82) The unit of work for the Operating system also known as a) pen drive b) hard disk is a) machine language c) memory cards d) memory stick a) task b) process c) work b) machine code e) car radio d) all the above e) none of these c) object code Q.112) How many OS can be at work in the Q.83) Most of the commonly available Pcs/Laptop d) all the above computer at a time? have a keyboard popularly known as d) none of these a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 a) WSDFR b) ASDFGH c) ZXCVBNM Q.98) Which of the following is a cyber-attack d) 4 e) 5 d) QWERTY e) SDFTHJN intended to redirect a website’s traffic to another, Q.113) An input device that utilizes a light Q.84) Main memory works in conjunction with fake site? sensitive detector to select objects on a display a) RAM b) CD c) LAN a) pharming b) phishing screen is d) Graphics card e) CPU c) spoofing d) scareware a) digitizer b) keyboard Q.85) The background on which the windows e) adware c) light pen d) barcode reader appears is Q.99) Which topology requires the central e) OCR a) desktop b) start c) icon controller or hub? Q.114) Which of the following is not necessarily d) images e) none of these a) bus b) star c) mesh required to start the computer? Q.86) In DOS which of the following command is d) ring e) line a) RAM b) motherboard used to delete all the files as well as sub- Q.100) WAN stands for c) CPU d) flash drives e) OS directories of a directory? a) WAP area network Q.115) Computers designed for specialized a) DELETE b) DEL c) DELTREE b) Wired area network scientific work and specific instructions are called d) MOVE e) DELE c) Wide area network a) mainframe b) super computer Q.87) The set of instructions which is used to d) Wireless area network c) mini computer d) micro computer perform a given task is called? e) none of these e) all the above Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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Q.116) Which among the following is a diagnostic c) scareware d) virus hoax e) None of these testing sequence that a computers basic e) companion virus Q.142) ULSI is input/output system runs to determine if the Q.129) Which of the following cable technologies a) Ultra Large-Scale Integration hardware components are working correctly? which covert electrical signals into optical b) Ultimate Large-Scale Integration a) booting b) BSOD signals? c) Upper Large-Scale Integration c) POST d) bootstrap loading a) co-axial b) twisted pair d) Ultra Large Script Integration e) none of these c) UTP d) fiber optics e) Ultimate Large Script Integration Q.117) A pictorial representation of the sequence e) none of these Q.143) The most frequently used instructions of a of steps and decisions need to perform a process Q.130) The shortcut key to open Save As dialog computer program are likely to be fetched from is box, press a) hard disk b) RAM c) ROM a) algorithm b) procedure a) F3 b) F5 c) F7 d) cache e) all the above c) program d) flow chart d) F10 e) F12 Q.144) Which of the following is a way of storing e) software Q.131) Which type of computer could be found in your favourite websites on the Internet? Q.118) The binary equivalent of hexadecimal a digital watch? a) bookmark b) adware number 510 is a) hand held computer c) cookies d) spam a) 111111110 b) 111100111 b) tablet c) PC e) all the above c) 101010101 d) 111100001 d) mainframe e) embedded computer Q.145) Ctrl, Shift, Alt are e) 111111100 Q.132) The default font type in Ms-word 2007 is a) toggle keys b) modifier keys Q.119) The key in one table that used as a a) verdana b) calibri c) typing keys d) cursor control keys primary key in another table is c) times new roman e) numeric keys a) candidate key b) foreign key d) all the above e) none of these Q.146) The virus that uses computer hosts to c) super key d) alternate key Q.133) The small hardware device that joins reproduce itself is e) secondary key multiple computers together within one LAN is a) adware b) spyware Q.120) Which of the following network devices is called: c) worm d) time bomb also known as concentrator? a) NIC b) bridge c) router e) macro virus a) hub b) bridge d) gateway e) switch Q.147) The shortcut which is used to change the c) switch d) gateway Q.134) A cookie that can only be transmitted text in Microsoft Word from uppercase to e) repeater over an encrypted connection is: lowercase or a capital letter at the beginning of Q.121) In Ms-word 2007, the option which is a) super cookie b) transient cookie every word? used to change page size and margins is c) secure cookie d) tracking cookie a) Shift + F3 b) Shift + F4 a) home tab b) reference tab e) all the above c) Shift + F5 d) Shift + F7 c) insert tab d) page layout tab Q.135) When a computer is switched on, the e) Shift + F6 e) view tab booting process performs ______Q.148) Which of the following is a large and Q.122) To copy data from a remote computer/ a) integrity test b) power-on-self test expensive, computer capable of simultaneously internet to a local computer is called c) reliability test d) functioning test processing data for hundreds or thousands of a) uploading b) surfing e) alpha test users? c) downloading d) browsing Q.136) A hacker installs malicious code on a a) hand held computer e) none of these personal computer or server misdirecting users to b) PC Q.123) In ENIAC, E stands for fraudulent Web sites without their knowledge or c) embedded computer a) electrical b) electronic consent is d) mainframe c) engineering d) equipment a) phishing b) spoofing c) smishing e) none of these e) none of these d) pharming e) all the above Q.149) The fifth Layer in the OSI model is Q.124) The decimal equivalent of binary number Q.137) Which of the following is the ascending a) physical layer 11100111 is order of data hierarchy? b) network layer a) 228 b) 235 c) 238 a) Bit, Byte, Field, Record c) application layer d) 230 e) 231 b) Field, Byte, Bit, Record d) data link layer Q.125) The component of a motherboard which c) Bit, Byte, Record, Field e) session layer absorbs the heat produced by the CPU and the d) Field, Bit, Byte, Record Q.150) UNIX Operating System is used in other components of the computer is e) Byte, Bit, Record, Field a) laptop b) web servers a) CPU socket b) CMOS battery Q.138) The key that makes characters either c) PC d) palmtop c) heat sink d) all the above upper or lowercase and numbers to symbols is e) tablets e) none of these a) icon b) ctrl key c) shift key Q.151) A duplicate of a file, program, or disk that Q.126) The cell range in Excel is represented by d) mouse e) joystick you can use in case the original is lost, damaged, using Q.139) Which of the following is the valid domain or destroyed is a) comma b) colon name extension? a) backup b) SRAM c) DRAM c) semi colon d) plus a) .edu b) .org c) .com d) ROM e) EEPROM e) dot d) .gov e) all the above Q.152) The bus that transfer data from one Q.127) The software which allows to do Q.140) The binary equivalent of decimal number component to another or between computers is mathematical calculations is 147 is a) control bus b) data bus a) word processing software a) 1100110 b) 1101110 c) address bus d) all the above b) spread sheet software c) 1011110 d) 1111101 e) none of these c) image processing software e) 1110001 Q.153) The special type of optical scanner which d) presentation software Q.141) NOS is is used to recognize the type of mark made by e) browsing software a) Node operating system Pen or Pencil is Q.128) Which of the following spreads from b) Non-open software a) MICR b) OCR c) OMR computer to computer through networks? c) Network Operating system d) bar code reader e) all the above a) worm b) trojan horse d) Non-operating software Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

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Q.154) The part of control unit that holds the Q.165) Which of the following is an operating a) LAN b) WAN c) MAN instruction currently being processed or executed system? d) SAN e) PAN is a) Unix b) Linux c) Mozilla firefox Q.180) The collection of programs that controls a) memory address register d) both a & b e) Google chrome how the computer system runs and processes b) memory data register Q.166) To protect yourself from computer hacker information is called c) program counter instructions you should install a a) compiler b) interpreter d) instruction registers a) firewall b) mailer c) macro c) operating system e) all the above d) script e) HTTP d) assembler e) translator Q.155) A free software which does not have a Q.167) A collection of conceptual tools for Q.181) The rate at which data is written to a disk copyright owner or license restrictions and the describing data, relationships, semantics and or read from the disk is source code is publicly available for anyone to constrains is referred to as a) data format rate use is a) shareware b) freeware a) database b) data model c) DBMs b) data transfer rate c) demo software d) open source software d) RDBMS e) all the above c) data sending rate e) public domain software Q.168) The key which is used in combination with d) data receiving rate Q.156) The first commercially successful version another key to perform a specific task is? e) none of these of Windows OS is a) space bar b) arrow c) control Q.182) Arrange in descending order the units of a) windows 1.0 b) windows 3.0 d) delete e) page up memory KB, TB, GB, MB c) windows 95 d) windows 98 Q.169) Which among the following is a search a) TB>GB>MB>KB e) windows 2000 engine? b) GB>TB>KB>MB Q.157) The Recycle Bin stores discarded items a) internet explorer b) mozilla firefox c) MB>KB>GB>TB until c) google d) flash d) KB>MB>GB>TB a) You empty it e) all the above e) MB>GB>TB>KB b) the computer is log off Q.170) To convert binary number in to decimal, Q.183) The smallest unit in an image in a c) the computer is Shut down multiply all binary digits by the power of computer screen is d) Another user logs on e) all the above a) 2 b) 4 c) 6 a) pel b) pixel Q.158) A program that performs a useful task d) 8 e) 10 c) picture element d) all the above while simultaneously allowing destructive acts is: Q.171) The command which is used to e) none of these a) Trojan horse b) virus permanently delete files or folders is Q.184) The temporary physical storage used to c) worm d) macro virus a) Shift+delete b) Ctrl+Delete hold data during execution of process from one e) spyware c) Alt+Delete d) Delete place to another is Q.159) A database that contains tables linked by e) Backspace a) socket b) buffer common fields is called Q.172) The default extensions of Ms-word 2007 c) virtual memory d) flash memory a) centralised database and Ms-Excel 2007 is e) none of these b) flat file database a) .doc, .xls b) .doc, .xml Q.185) The intangible instructions that tell the c) relational database c) .docx, .xlsx d) .txtx, .xlsx computer what to do is d) hierarchical database e) .docx, .xmlx a) hardware b) data e) network database Q.173) Pen drive is also known as c) software d) input Q.160) Encryption and Decryption are the a) flash drive b) thumb drive e) output functions of c) CD d) DVD Q.186) The simultaneously processing of two or a) data link layer b) session layer e) both a & b more programs by multiple processors is c) network layer d) transport layer Q.174) The Internet services that provides a a) single user e) presentation layer multimedia interface to available resources is b) time sharing Q.161) Pascaline is also known as called c) multi programming a) abacus a) FTP b) IP c) Telnet d) multi tasking b) adding machine d) gopher e) WWW e) multi processing c) division machine Q.175) Printer is an example of Q.187) Date and time are available on the d) difference machine a) output device b) input device desktop of e) none of these c) storage device d) processing device a) my computer Q.162) Storage of e-mails messages is called e) none of these b) start menu a) file b) folder Q.176) The virus spreads in application software c) recycle bin c) mailbox d) directory is d) menu bar e) hard drive a) boot virus b) macro virus e) task bar Q.163) The networking device that reduce the c) anti-virus d) file virus Q.188) The first boot sector virus is amount of traffic on a LAN by dividing it in to two e) trojan horse a) brain b) creeper segments is Q.177) The electronics spreadsheet consists of c) ransomware d) time bomb a) router b) gateway a) rows b) columns c) cell e) proxy c) bridges d) switches d) all the above e) none of these Q.189) Which of the following types of table e) hub Q.178) ENIAC is an example for constraints will prevent the entry of duplicate Q.164) A host on the Internet finds another host a) first generation b) second generation rows? by which of the following address? c) third generation d) fourth generation a) primary key b) foreign key a) postal address b) electronic address e) fifth generation c) null key d) unique key c) destination address d) source address Q.179) Bluetooth is an example for e) all the above e) IP address

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Q.190) A system that responds to requests b) character c) cell Q.218) The ALU and Control Unit jointly known across a computer network is d) computer e) none of these as______a) client b) server c) network Q.206) Which input device cannot be used to a) RAM b) ROM d) firewall e) router work in MS Office? c) CPU d) PC Q.191) When entering text within a document, a) Scanner b) Mouse c) Keyboard e) none of these the enter key is pressed at the end of the d) Joy stick d) Light pen Q.219) The device is used to connect your a) paragraph b) sentence e) all the above computer with a telephone line, so that can c) word d) file e) line Q.207) The errors that can be pointed out by the access information from other servers and Q.192) A HTTP request contains how many parts? compiler known as ______. ordinary users too, said device is called a) 1 part b) 2 parts c) 3 parts a) Syntax errors b) Semantic errors ______d) 4parts e) 5 parts c) Logic errors d) System errors a) Modem b) Set Top Box Q.193) The shortcut for cut command is e) None of these c) LAN Card d) UPS e) None of these a) Ctrl+W b) Ctrl+X c) Ctrl+Z Q.208) In MICR, C stands for? Q.220) To be able to 'boot', the computer must d) CTRL+V e) CTRL+C a) Code b) Color c) Computer have a(n) ...... Q.194) The binary equivalent of decimal number d) Character e) None of these a) Compiler b) Loader 99 is Q.209) Which of the following is used by the c) Operating System a) 1100011 b) 1000111 c) 1110001 browser to connect to the location of the Internet d) Assembler e) None of these d) 1111000 e) 1100111 resources? Q.221) Instructions and data that are processed Q.195) The brain of the computer is a) Linkers b) Protocol c) Cable by the CPU are located in______a) CU b) ALU d) URL e) None of these a) CD-ROM b) RAM c) microprocessor d) Input device Q.210) How many megabytes make a gigabyte ? c) the hard disk d) the motherboard e) CPU a) 1024 b) 128 c) 256 e) none of these Q.196) By default, on which page the header or d) 512 e) 64 Q.222) Which of the following processing is used footer is printed? Q.211) VIRUS stands for______when a large mail-order company accumulates a) on first page b) on last page a) Very Important Record User Searched orders and processes them together in one large c) on alternative page d) on every page b) Verify Interchanged Result Until Source set? e) none of these c) Vital Information Resource Under Seige a) batch b) online c) real-time Q.197) The primary purpose of the software is to d) Very Important Resource Under Search d) embedded e) group turn data in to e) None of these Q.223) Which of the following is not an input a) information b) classes Q.212) 'FTP‘ stands for_____ device? c) inheritance d) objects a) File Translate Protocol a) Mouse b) Keyboard e) web pages b) File Transit Protocol c) Light pen d) printer Q.198) The first computer virus is c) File Typing Protocol e) scanner a) brain b) creeper d) File Transfer Protocol Q.224) A concentric circle on a disk is called c) wanna cry d) param e) None of these a______e) all the above Q.213) The programs which are as permanent as a) cylinder b) track c) head Q.199) The network used in phone lines is hardware and stored in ROM is known as d) sector e) none of these a) WAN b) LAN c) WWLAN a) Hardware b) Software Q.225) The minimum free space required for d) PAN e) SAN c) Firmware d) ROM ware running window is Q.200) Gb stands for e) None of these a) 8 MB b) 10 MB c) 16 MB a) Giga Byte b) Giga bit c) Geop bit Q.214) Which of the following printer do not hit d) 32 MB e) None of these d) Geop Byte e) none of these or impact a ribbon to print? Q.226) The commonly used UNIX commands like Q.201) The number system computer uses to a) daisy wheel b) dot-matrix date, ls, cat etc. are stored in______store data and perform calculations. c) drum d) ink-jet a) dev directory b) bin directory a) Binary b) octal e) all the above c) tmp directory d) unix directory c) Decimal d) Hexadecimal Q.215) Which of the following is an impact e) None of these e) None of these printer? Q.227) Word processing, spreadsheet, and Q.202) The symbol is used in Excel to denote a) Page printers b) Laser printers photo-editing are examples of______exponential numbers is c) Ink-jet printers d) Dot-matrix printers a) application software a) * b) ^ c) & e) None of these b) system software d) $ e) None of these Q.216) A network of geographically distant c) operating system software Q.203) Personal computers can be connected computers and terminals is called d) platform software together to form a______. a) Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) e) none of these a) server b) supercomputer b) Wide area network (WAN) Q.228) After a picture has been taken with a c) network d) enterprise c) Local area network (LAN) digital camera and processed appropriately, the e) client d) Metropolitan area network(MAN) actual print of the picture is considered as Q.204) What's considered the 'backbone' of the e) Personal area network(PAN) a) data b) input c) output World Wide Web? Q.217) Setting fonts for the text in your d) process e) storage a) URL b) HTML c) HTTP document is an example of: Q.229) A table consists of______d) FTP e) telnet a) Formatting b) Formulas a) Fields and columns Q.205) In OCR the word ’C’ stands for c) Tracking changes d) Tools b) Rows and columns a) Communication e) None of these c) Rows and cells

|Legend Magazine | November - 2017| 56 d) All of the above c) 10011100 d) 11110000 67. (d) 68. (c) 69. (a) 70. (e) 71. (d) 72. (b) 73. e) None of these e) 10001100 (d) 74. (c) 75. (e) 76. (a) 77. (c) 78. (e) 79. (b) Q.230) Which type of transmission media is Q.241) The shortcut key used to insert the 80. (d) 81. (c) 82. (b) 83. (d) 84. (e) 85. (a) 86. known as regular telephone wire? current Time is (c) 87. (c) 88. (d) 89. (c) 90. (a) 91. (b) 92. (c) a) Wi-Fi a) Shift+Alt+T b) Shift+Alt+D 93. (a) 94. (a) 95. (b) 96. (b) 97. (d) 98. (a) 99. b) Twisted-pair wire c) Ctrl+Alt+T d) Ctrl+Alt+T (b) 100. (c) 101. (b) 102. (d) 103. (c) 104. (d) c) Fiber optic cable e) Shift+Ctrl+T 105. (a) 106. (d) 107. (b) 108. (c) 109. (a) 110. d) Coaxial cable Q.242) Which is used to create a soft break (d) 111. (e) 112. (a) 113. (c) 114. (d) 115. (b) e) None of these instead of a new paragraph? 116. (c) 117. (d) 118. (a) 119. (b) 120. (a) 121. Q.231) Which of the following is the fastest and a) shift+ctrl b) shift+enter (d) 122. (c) 123. (b) 124. (e) 125. (c) 126. (b) most expensive computers? c) shift+alt d) shift+tab 127. (b) 128. (a) 129. (d) 130. (e) 131. (e) 132. a) Super Computers e) ctrl+enter (b) 133. (e) 134. (c) 135. (b) 136. (d) 137. (a) b) Quantum Computers Q.243) A removable magnetic disk that holds 138. (c) 139. (e) 140. (c) 141. (c) 142. (a) 143. c) Mainframe Computers information is (d) 144. (a) 145. (b) 146. (c) 147. (a) 148. (d) d) Micro Computers a) monitor b) CPU 149. (e) 150. (b) 151. (a) 152. (b) 153. (c) 154. e) Mini computers c) hard disk d) UPS e) keyboard (d) 155. (e) 156. (b) 157. (a) 158. (a) 159. (c) Q.232) Which of the following is not associated Q.244) Which of the following is not a valid 160. (e) 161. (b) 162. (c) 163. (c) 164. (e) 165. with spread sheet? domain name extension? (d) 166. (a) 167. (b) 168. (c) 169. (c) 170. (a) a) cell b) formula a) .edu b) .org c) .com 171. (a) 172. (c) 173. (e) 174. (e) 175. (a) 176. c) worksheet d) virus d) .net e) .xls (b) 177. (d) 178. (a) 179. (e) 180. (c) 181. (b) e) none of these Q.245) The input device which is used to process 182. (d) 183. (b) 184. (b) 185. (c) 186. (e) 187. Q.233) The protocol layer that transfers data huge volume of cheques is (e) 188. (a) 189. (D) 190. (b) 191. (e) 192. (c) between adjacent network nodes in a WAN or a) MICR b) OCR c) OMR 193. (b) 194. (a) 195. (e) 196. (d) 197. (a) 198. between nodes on the same LAN d) barcode reader e) scanner (b) 199. (a) 200. (a) 201. (a) 202. (b) 203. (c) a) datalink layer b) network layer Q.246) Smishing is also known as 204. (c) 205. (b) 206. (d) 207. (a) 208. (d) 209. c) session layer d) presentation layer a) SMS phishing (d) 210. (a) 211. (c) 212. (d) 213. (c) 214. (d) e) application layer b) SMS vishing 215. (d) 216. (b) 217. (a) 218. (c) 219. (a) 220. Q.234) The network which is used to connect c) SMS pharming (c) 221. (b) 222. (a) 223. (d) 224. (b) 225. (a) computer devices which are located within small d) SMS spoofing 226. (b) 227. (a) 228. (c) 229. (b) 230. (b) 231. geographical area like home, office, schools etc. e) all the above (a) 232. (d) 233. (a) 234. (c) 235. (b) 236. (e) is Q.247) A feature of Word used to transform text 237. (c) 238. (d) 239. (a) 240. (c) 241. (a) 242. a) MAN b) WAN c) LAN into a drawing object is (b) 243. (c) 244. (e) 245. (a) 246. (a) 247. (b) d) SAN e) PAN a) clip art b) word art 248. (d) 249. (b) 250. (e) Q.235) UNIX Operating System is typically used c) animation d) font for e) all the above a) client b) web servers Q.248) A hybrid computer is a combination of c) mainframe d) Pc a) Micro & Mini computers e) none of these b) Mini & Super Computers Q.236) Collecting personal information and c) Mainframe & Super Computers effectively posing as another individual is known d) Analog & Digital computers as the crime of ______e) Micro & Digital computers a) smishing b) phishing Q.249) The Fifth layer in OSI model is c) hacking d) pharming a) transport layer e) identity theft b) session layer Q.237) Which of the following is used to store c) application layer custom data private to the page or application? d) network layer a) Data Redundancy b) Data Integrity e) presentation layer c) Data Attribute d) All the above Q.250) The portion of an OS that is responsible e) none of these for interacting with the hardware is Q.238) Which of the following is used to read a) root b) kernel c) register handwritten or printed text to make a digital d) buffer e) shell image that is stored in memory? Answer Key: a) printer b) laser 1. (d) 2. (b) 3. (d) 4. (d) 5. (c) 6. (b) 7. (d) 8. c) touch screen d) scanner (b) 9. (c) 10. (a) 11. (a) 12. (c) 13. (e) 14. (a) e) none of these 15. (e) 16. (c) 17. (d) 18. (e) 19. (d) 20. (c) 21. Q.239) The automated program that runs over (c) 22. (b) 23. (a) 24. (e) 25. (a) 26. (c) 27. (e) the Internet is 28. (d) 29. (b) 30. (b) 31. (c) 32. (d) 33. (c) 34. a) bot b) ping c) jitter (e) 35. (d) 36. (b) 37. (c) 38. (e) 39. (c) 40. (a) d) hub e) all the above 41. (c) 42. (e) 43. (b) 44. (d) 45. (a) 46. (e) 47. Q.240) The binary equivalent of the decimal (c) 48. (d) 49. (e) 50. (e) 51. (c) 52. (c) 53. (e) number 156 is 54. (d) 55. (a) 56. (b) 57. (e) 58. (d) 59. (d) 60. a) 11011100 b) 10111100 (c) 61. (b) 62. (e) 63. (a) 64. (a) 65. (c) 66. (c)