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1. Two Year Eight Months and Twenty –Eight Night –Salman Rushddi 2. The Red Sari –Javier Moro 3. Neither a Hawk nor a dove –Khurshid M Kasuari 4. Faces and Places Professor –Deepak Nayyar 5. Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy- Meira Kumar 6. Farishta –Kapil Isapuari 7. Super Economies –Raghav Bahal 8. :Confucius in the Shadow –Poonam Surie 9. My country My Life - L.K.Advani 10. Joseph Anton - Sulman Rushdie (Autobiography) 11. The Sahara Testaments - Tade Ipadeola 12. : A Political Biography - Andy Marino 13. My Unforgettable Memories - Mamata Banerjee 14. Rationalised Roman for Kashmiri - Dr R L Bhat 15. Strictly Personal, Manmohan and Gursharan - Daman Singh 16. The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001- 2014 - Carlotta Gall 17. : Lessons in Leadership - 18. Walking With Giants - G. Ramachandran(former Finance Secretary ) 19. Crusader or Conspirator? Coalgate and other Truths - PC Parakh 20. The Accidental Prime Minister: the making and unmaking of - Sanjaya Baru 21. God of Antarctica - 13 year old Yashwardhan Shukla 22. My Years with Rajiv and Sonia - R.D.Pradhan 23. Khushwantnama -The Lessons of My Life - 24. Syntheism – Creating God in The Internet Age - Alexander Bard 25. One Life is Not Enough - 26. The Lives of Others - Neel Mukherjee 27. My Music My Life - Pt Shankar 28. I am Malala - Malala Yousufzai and Christina Lamb 29. A Man and A Motorcycle, How Hamid Karzai Came to Power - Bette Dam 30. True Colours — Adam Gilchrist 31. Assassination of : An Inside Job? - Faraz Ahmad 32. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy 33. Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri 34. And then One Day: A Memoir - Nasiruddin Shah (Autobiography) 35. Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri 36. Lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri 37. Truth Always Prevails - Sadruddin Hashwani 38. Playing It My Way – and Boria Mazumder 39. Unbreakable (Autobiography of ) - Mary Kom 40. Enoch, I am a British Indian - Sarinder Joshua 41. Duroch ModiNomics - Sameer Kochar 42. Public Issues Before Parliament - Vijay Darda 43. Water, Peace and War – Confronting the Global Water Crisis - Brahma Chellaney Ambedkar 44. Awakening ’s Social Conscience - Dr. Narendra Jadhav 45. Munger through the Ages - Late DP Yadav 46. Akbar – The Aesthete - Dr. Indu Anand 47. Runs in Ruins — Message from Director

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Events of the Month 3  International news 10  National news 13  Bilateral 18  Economy and Banking 20  Award and Honour 27  Book and Author 29  Person in news 29  Places in news 32  Sports 33  Science and Technology 36  Environment and Ecology 37  Defence 38  Recent Summit in News 39  Committee and its Function 40  Date and Observation 42  International and National institution 43  State news 44  Recent government devlopement and scheme 47  Miscellaneous 48

 Vanik Question Hub 200 MCQ on Current Affairs - 51 100 MCQ on SSC/Railway - 60 40 MCQ on Computer - 64 20 Special MCQ on Banking - 66

 Practice Set  Vanik Extra Dose IBPS-PO (Main-1) - 68 Who’s Who - 130 IBPS-PO (Main-2) - 84 Abbreviation - 136 IBPS-Clerk (Prelim) - 101 Word of the Month - 137 RRB-Clerk (Prelim) - 108 One Liner - 138 SSC-CHSL-2016 - 121 MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER - 2016 EVENTS OF THE MONTH 8TH BRICS SUMMIT Capital: Moscow Currency: Russian ruble The 2016 BRICS summit was the 8th annual BRICS summit, President: Vladimir Putin an international relations conference attended by the heads Prime minister: Dmitry Medvedev of country or heads of government of the five member Represented by Vladimir Putin countries , Russia, India, China and South Africa. The China summit was held from 15 to 16 October 2016 at the Taj Exotica Capital: hotel in Benaulim, Goa, India. India PM Narendra Modi hold Currency: Renminbi (yuan) the chair. President: Xi Jinping Events Represented by Xi Jinping  The first BRICS film festival(five-day) was held at India New from 2 September to 6 September 2016 Capital: which screened four films each from the participating Currency: Rupees nations - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South President: Africa. Represented by P.M. Narendra Modi  The environment ministers of BRICS nations held a Besides, first-ever BRICS-BIMSTEC Outreach Summit was meeting on 16th September 2016 in Goa, they agreed also held on side-lines of 2016 BRICS Summit. Leaders from on a memorandum of understanding (MOU) and both forums planned to jointly explore possibilities of announced the setting up of a joint working group expanding ties between them on issues such as terrorism, institutionalizing their mutual cooperation on economy, trade and connectivity. BIMSTEC stands for Bay environment related issues. of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and  The agriculture ministers of BRICS nations held a Economic Cooperation. BIMSTEC member countries are meeting on 23rd September 2016 in New Delhi. Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bhutan  The first trade fair of the BRICS countries, was held and Nepal. at Pragati Maidan exhibition ground, New Delhi from Representatives of the BIMSTEC states in attendance 12 to 14 October.  Bangladesh - Sheikh Hasina, Prime minister  The first BRICS U-17 Football Cup was held at Goa  Bhutan – Tshering Tobgay, Prime minister from 5th to 15th October, 2016.  Myanmar – Aung San Suu Kyi, State Counsellor  4th BRICS Science, Technology and Innovation  Nepal – Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Prime minister Ministerial Meeting was held atJaipur, on  Sri Lanka – Maithripala Sirisena, President 8 October, 2016 to strengthen the collaboration  Thailand – Virasakdi Futrakul, Vice-Minister amongst the BRICS countries in the areas of Science, Key Highlights of Goa Declaration Technology and Innovation (STI).Theme – Building,  BRICS nations condemns terrorism in all its forms Responsive Inclusive and Collective Solutions. India and stressed that there can be no justification for hosted the 1st BRICS Young Scientists Conclave at such acts. Bengaluru and Hampi.  International terrorism, especially the Islamic State MEMBER OF BRICS (IS) is an unprecedented threat to international peace Brazil and security. Capital : Brasília  BRICS nations reaffirmed the commitment to Currency: Brazilian real increase effectiveness of the UN counter terrorism President: Michel Temer framework. Represented by Michel Temer  Need for adaptation of Comprehensive Convention South Africa on International Terrorism (CCIT) in the UN General Capitals: Pretoria, Cape Town, Bloemfontein Assembly. Currency: South African rand  Urgent need to reforms of the United Nations, President: Jacob Zuma including UN Security Council, to increase Represented by Jacob Zuma representation of developing countries.

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 Resolution of civil war in Syria, in accordance with institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, and/or the “legitimate aspirations of the people of Syria” scientific advances. and action against U.N.-designated terrorist groups 6 Categories : like IS and Jabhat al-Nusra. Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Economy, Literature and  All nations must counter radicalism and block Peace sources of financing international terrorism, 2016 Nobel Prize in Medicine dismantling terrorist bases and countering misuse  Yoshinori Ohsumi (71) of Japan has won the 2016 of the Internet including social media. Nobel Prize for physiology or Medicine for his  Appreciated progress in implementation of Strategy pioneering work on autophagy. for BRICS Economic Partnership and emphasise  With this he becomes the 23rd Japanese national to importance of BRICS Roadmap for Trade, Economic win a Nobel prize and overall the sixth Japanese and Investment Cooperation until 2020. medicine Nobel laureate.  Welcomed adoption of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 Development and its Sustainable Development  The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has Goals. decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2016  Reiterated determination to use all policy tools to for theoretical discoveries of topological phase achieve the goal of sustainable and inclusive transitions and topological phases of matter growth.  David J. Thouless (University of Washington, The 9th BRICS summit will be held at Peking, China in 2017.The Seattle, WA, USA) from UK 7th BRICS summit was held at Ufa, Russia in 2015.  F. Duncan M. Haldane (Princeton University, NJ, The New Development Bank (NDB), formerly referred to as USA) from UK the BRICS Development Bank, is a multilateral development  J. Michael Kosterlitz (Brown University, Providence, bank established by the BRICS states (Brazil, Russia, India, RI, USA) from UK China and South Africa).The initial authorized capital of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry bank is $100 bln. The bank is headquartered in Shanghai,  Jean-Pierre Sauvage (), J Fraser Stoddart China.The first regional office of the NDB will be opened in (Britain) and Bernard L Feringa (Netherlands) have Johannesburg, South Africa. won the prestigious 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. President-K.V. Kamath from India  Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has chosen BRICS Development Bank To Raise Lending them for this award for their individual efforts in The development bank set up by the BRICS group of developing molecular machines. emerging economies will ramp up lending to $2.5 billion next Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics year.It has already approved loans totalling $900 million to Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom were awarded the 2016 green projects in each member state.It has also started a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science for their work on borrowing programme, issuing a 3 billion yuan ($450 million) improving the design of contracts, the deals that bind bond.India and Brazil signed four agreements in areas of together employers and their workers, or companies and their investment cooperation and facilitation, cattle genomics, customers. pharmaceuticals and agriculture. 2016 Nobel Peace Prize BRICS to set up credit rating agency The 2016 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Colombian The five-nation group of emerging economies BRICS has President Juan Manuel Santos. He was selected for the agreed to set up an independent BRICS Rating Agency in its prestigious award by the Norwegian Nobel Committee for efforts to challenge western hegemony in the world of his resolute efforts to bring the more than 50-year-long civil finance.It was announced during the 8th BRICS summit held war of Colombia to an end. He is second Colombian to win in Goa, India.The BRICS Rating Agency will be based on Nobel Prize after writer Gabriel Gracia Marquez who had won market-oriented principles to strengthen the global the literature Prize in 1982. Santos is also second Latin governance architecture. American to receive Nobel Peace Prize after Guatemala’s Rigoberta Menchu had won it in 1992. NOBEL PRIZE Bob Dylan wins 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan(75) won the 2016 The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards Nobel Prize in Literature “for having created new poetic bestowed in 6 categories by Swedish and Norwegian expressions within the great American song tradition”. Alfred Nobel established the Nobel prizes in 1895. The prizes in Chemistry, Literature, Physics, and Physiology or

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Medicine are given by Sweden. Nobel peace prize is given transactions amounts to only a minuscule 0.05% of by Norway. all non-cash retail transactions, while accounting Nobel laureates who were Indian citizens for 5.5% of the volume. What is a cashless economy? Year Laureate Subject It is a situation in which the flow of cash within an economy 1913 Rabindranath Tagore Literature is non-existent and all transactions have to be through 1930 C. V. Raman Physics electronic channels such as direct debit, credit and debit 1979 Mother Teresa Peace cards, electronic clearing, payment systems such as 1998 Amartya Sen Welfare Immediate Payment Service (IMPS), National Electronic Economics Funds Transfer and Real Time Gross Settlement. 2014 Kailash Satyarthi Peace Benefits of a cashless economy:  Usage of cashless mechanisms would ensure that Overseas citizens of Indian origin loopholes in public systems get plugged, and the intended beneficiaries are able to avail the benefits 1968 Physiology due to them. It also leads to increased efficiency in or Medicine welfare programmes as money is wired directly into 1983 Subrahmanyan Physics the accounts of recipients. Chandrasekhar  Efficiency gains can also be seen as transaction 2009 Venkatraman Chemistry costs across the economy come down. Ramakrishnan  Reducing use of cash would also strangulate the grey economy, prevent money laundering and even increase tax compliance, which will ultimately benefit the customers at large. INDIA LAGS PEERS IN ITS BID  It also provides an on-ramp to financial inclusion and enables e-commerce growth. TOWARDS A CASHLESS ECONOMY Benefits for individuals: According to the recently released data pertaining to  No need for queues outside ATMs. payment, clearing and settlement systems in 23 major  No cashout during long holidays. economies by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS),  No waiting for a deposited cheque to be credited. moving towards a cashless economy remains a herculean  No risk of carrying currency notes in the wallet. challenge for India. What perpetuates use of cash in India? Performance of India:  A high propensity to save in and use cash.  Cash intensive supply chains require many  India lags far behind both emerging market and developed peers in the move towards a cashless merchants to transact in cash. economy.  A large shadow and remittance based economy is also to be blamed for the situation.  India ranks the lowest among BRICS countries in terms of per capita non-cash transactions. Non-cash  Gender imbalance in use of digital payments has payments transactions in India amounted to only further aggravated the problem. This is due to 11 per inhabitant in 2015, much lower than other insufficient focus on financial literacy. BRIC economies, with China reporting 17 such  Also, costs of point-of-sale terminals and operating transactions per inhabitant in 2014. costs are still high in India. What needs to be done now?  Debit cards accounted for the most number of non- cash payment transactions in India in 2015. But, the  Effective implementation of existing initiatives like number of debit card holders in India remains Jan Dhan Yojana and DBT helps to some extent. relatively low. In India, one in two people have a  A robust payments mechanism to settle digital debit card, which also typically functions as an transactions should be put in place. automated teller machine (ATM) card.  Incentives such as a service tax waiver should be given when credit cards or other forms of digital  Number of Point of Sale (PoS) terminals and ATMs in India are low by global standards when adjusted settlements are used. for population.  The Reserve Bank of India too will have to come to terms with a few issues, from figuring out what  Also, India lags many of the emerging market peers in terms of mobile money penetration. E-money digital payments across borders means for its capital

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controls to how the new modes of payment affect  It is noted that China, which conducted its first key monetary variables such as the velocity of manned space mission in 2003, is putting in billions money. into its space programme in a bid to catch up with  The regulators also need to keep a sharp eye on the US and Europe. It also plans to launch its maiden any potential restrictive practices that banks may Mars mission in 2020 to match India and others. indulge in to maintain their current dominance over  The mission of the orbiting space lab Tiangong-2 the lucrative payments business. and the Shenzhou-11 manned spacecraft marks the Way ahead: first time that astronauts will stay in orbit for medium Greater usage of digital payments will save trillions of rupees term. for the Indian economy as it will help bring down the cost of  The space lab was launched last month as part of cash. China’s efforts to set up its own manned space  In this regard, India can learn from other countries station by 2022, which will make it the only the in the developing world, which have managed to country to have such a facility in service as the reduce their dependence on cash even while current in-service International Space Station (ISS) bringing more people in the folds of the formal retires by 2024. banking network.  The Shenzhou-11 spaceship will return to Earth  Kenya has been a well-documented success story, within a day after docking the two astronauts on where mobile money has spread much faster and Tiangong-2 space lab and separating from it. deeper than in India. Kenyan households with  The two astronauts will undertake ultrasound tests access to mobile money were able to manage during space travel for the first time, cultivate plants negative economic shocks (like job loss, death of in space, and test the three winners of an experiment livestock or problems with harvests) better than design competition run in Hong Kong for secondary those without access to mobile money, according school students. to World Bank research.  Several technical alterations have been made to Conclusion: Shenzhou- 11, though its main functions and While the recent initiatives of the central bank and the technical parameters are basically the same as government to make cashless transactions easier are laudable, Shenzhou-10. India has a long road to travel in her journey towards a  The space station has a designed life of 10 years in cashless future. orbit 400 kms above the earth surface. With this space station, China will become the second country after Russia to have developed a space CHINA LAUNCHES LONGEST- station.  China made a three-step strategy in 1992 for its EVER MANNED SPACE MISSION manned space programme, the large-scale manned space station being the last step. China successfully launched a spacecraft carrying two astronauts, in its longest-ever manned space mission. This team would later join its experimental space lab orbiting the N A FIRST, BANK DEPOSITS Earth as the country moved a step closer to establish its I permanent space station by 2022. CROSS RS. 100 LAKH CRORE About the mission :  China successfully launches the manned spacecraft According to a data released by the RBI shows that India’ Shenzhou-11, carrying two astronauts who will banking system reported total deposits of Rs 100 lakh crore remain in space for 33 days, the longest manned for the first time ever in September 2016. mission in its space program to date. About Deposits  Shenzhou-11, China’s sixth manned spacecraft, will  Demand deposits crossing R10 lakh crore and time dock with space lab Tiangong-2, marking a step deposits crossing the Rs 90 lakh crore mark, the closer to the country’s space ambitions. month saw the highest-ever monthly rise of Rs 5.32  The Shenzhou-11 was put into orbit by a Long lakh crore — more than the total deposits in the March-2F carrier rocket. It will dock with orbiting banking sector 20 years back. space lab Tiangong-2 in two days and the  Although Rs 100 lakh crore is a big milestone, astronauts will stay in the lab for 30 days historical data reveal deposit growth slowed down

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considerably over the last five years. While banks’  The rate of return is higher than for savings deposits grew at a CAGR of 12.88% in the last five accounts because the requirement that the deposit years, they had grown at a CAGR of 19.9% in the be held for a prespecified term gives the bank the previous five years ability to invest it in a higher-gain financial product  The slowing down in the pace of deposit growth class. was in line with the slowing down of M3 or broad  However, the return on a time deposit is generally money supply in the economy.RBI lower than the long-term average of that of  An analysis of historical data suggests that while investments in riskier products like stocks or bonds. M3 in India grew at well over 20% (y-o-y) for several Some banks offer market-linked time deposit years in the middle of last decade, it has been accounts which offer potentially higher returns growing in the sub-teens in recent years. while guaranteeing principal. About Demand Deposits: A time deposit is an interest-bearing bank deposit that has a  Bank money are funds held in demand deposit specified date of maturity. A deposit of funds in a savings accounts in commercial banks. These account institution is made under an agreement stipulating that (a) balances are usually considered money and form the funds must be kept on deposit for a stated period of time, the greater part of the narrowly defined money or (b) the institution may require a minimum period of supply of a country. Simply put, these would be notification before a withdrawal is made. funds like those held in a checking account.  Demand deposits are usually considered part of the narrowly defined money supply, as they can be 2016 WORLD ECONOMIC used, via checks and drafts, as a means of payment for goods and services and to settle debts FORUM (WEF)  The money supply of a country is usually held to The India Economic Summit of the consist of currency plus demand deposits. In most (WEF) was held in partnership with the Confederation of countries, demand deposits account for a majority Indian Industry in New Delhi, will provide a strategic platform of the money supply. for the WEF’s global multi-stakeholder community to discuss  During times of financial crisis, bank customers will and debate the theme Fostering an Inclusive India through withdraw their funds in cash, leading to a drop in Digital Transformation. demand deposits and a shrinking of the money About WEF : supply. Economists have speculated that this effect  The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a Swiss contributed to the severity of the Great Depression. nonprofit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva.  This did not happen, however, in the financial crisis Recognized by the Swiss authorities as the that began in 2008. In fact, demand deposits in the international institution for public-private U.S. increased dramatically, from around $310bn in cooperation, its mission is cited as “committed to August 2008 to a peak of around $460bn in improving the state of the world by engaging December 2008. business, political, academic, and other leaders of About Time Deposits, society to shape global, regional, and industry  A time deposit is a money deposit at a banking agendas”. institution that cannot be withdrawn for a specific  The Forum is best known for its annual winter term or period of time. When the term is over it can meeting for five days inDavos, a mountain resort in be withdrawn or it can be held for another term. Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Generally speaking, the longer the term the better . the yield on the money.  The meeting brings together some 2,500 top  In its strict sense, certificate deposit is different from business leaders, international political leaders, that of time deposit in terms of its negotiability: selected intellectuals, and journalists for up to five CDs are negotiable and can be rediscounted when days (winter) to discuss the most pressingissues the holder needs some liquidity, while time deposits facing the world. Often this location alone is used must be kept until maturity. to identify meetings, participation, and participants  The opposite, sometimes known as a sight deposit with such phrases as, “a Davos panel” and “a Davos or “on call” deposit, can be withdrawn at any time, Man”. without any notice or penalty: e.g., money deposited in a checking account in a bank.

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 The organization also convenes some six to eight regional meetings each year in locations such as TH INDIA-RUSSIA ANNUAL Latin America and East Asia, as well as undertaking 17 two further annual meetings in China and the United BILATERAL SUMMIT IN GOA Arab Emirates.  Beside meetings, the foundation produces a series India and Russia have signed 16 agreements across diverse of research reports and engages its members in sectors including in defence, infrastructure, energy, space, sector specific initiatives. ship building sectors etc. They were signed following About India Economic Summit: delegation-level talks co-chaired by Prime Minister Narendra  The summit will address key issues of national and Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin during the 17th regional importance under three thematic pillars: India-Russia Annual Bilateral Summit in Goa. Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Driving Defence Deal Sustainable and Equitable Growth and, Improving a) India and Russia announced defence deals worth the Ease of Doing Business. about 60,000 crores. On the birthday of India’s  The world economy today is a matrix of divergent Misssile men A. P. J. Abdul Kalam India-Russia inked growth patterns, where different economies are joint venture to manufacture Kamov-226T growing at different paces. The ‘two-speed’ helicopters in India. economic growth theory that was followed for at b) India and Russia also formally inked the agreement least two decades before the Global Financial Crisis for five S-400 “Triumf air defence systems” and four (GFC) of 2008-09 has, over the last five years, given stealth frigates(Aircraft carried).Inter-governmental way to divergent growth paths in both the agreements (IGAs) were signed between both advanced and emerging economies. countries following talks between Prime Minister  It has become difficult to cull optimum investment Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin opportunities globally, and BREXIT fears as well as on the sidelines of the 8th BRICS Summit in Goa the slowdown in China have further dimmed the What is S-400 ‘Triumf’ Air Defence System? global investment outlook. An S-400 ‘Triumf’ long-range air defence missile system is  The opening plenary session is aptly titled India’s one of the most advanced long-range defence systems in Inflection Point. With a strong demographic the world. It is referred to as SA-21 Growler by NATO. It is dividend, a growing entrepreneurial ecosystem and capable of firing three types of missiles. Thus, it creates a a large domestic market, the time is right for India’s layered defence, and simultaneously engaging 36 targets. It economy to soar. has capability to destroy incoming all airborne targets at  The issues under discussion include making farming ranges of up to 400 km. With it, India can destroy Pakistani attractive and inspirational for the youth, ensuring aircrafts even when they are in their airspace. sustainable and safe means of production and During the 17th India-Russia Annual Bilateral Summit in Goa leveraging new technology and innovation. India and Russia have signed 16 agreements  The closing plenary session is called India’s Take- Some of the signed agreements are Off and will examine how India can translate its  MoU for developing smart cities in Andhra Pradesh potential into action and impact, and take off from and Haryana and for developing transport logistics here. systems for such cities.  More than 600 participants from business, public  MoU between Gazprom and Engineers India Limited sector, science, arts, civil society, media and (EIL) for the joint study of a gas pipeline to India international organizations spanning 30 countries from Russia and other areas of cooperation. has participated in it.  Cooperation Agreement between Rosneft Oil  India will be represented by key public figures Company and ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) in the including Union ministers Jayant Sinha, Nirmala area of Education and Training. Sitharaman, , and Suresh  MoU for setting up an investment fund of $1 billion Prabhu. by the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund  The India Economic Summit showcased the power (NIIF) and the Russian Direct Investment Fund of technology and storytelling through a series of (RDIF). virtual-reality films. Academics and experts will lead  MoU for Cooperation between Russian and Indian sessions on transformations facing the country. Railways in increasing the speed of trains between Nagpur- Hyderabad/ Secundrabad.

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 MoU between ROSCOSMOS and ISRO on Mutual $13 billion. Essar Group is an Indian conglomerate Allocation of Ground Measurement Gathering led by Shashi Ruia and Ravi Ruia. Stations for NAvIC and GLONASS. India, Russia agree to double the range of BrahMos Missile  MoU between India’s Department of Science and  India and Russia have agreed to double the range Technology and Russia’s Federal Agency for of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from 290 Scientific Organisations. km to over 600 km. The decision in this regard was  India and Russia have agreed to explore building taken during the meeting between Prime Minister the world’s most expensive pipeline costing about Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin $25 billion (around Rs.1.66 lakh crore) to transport in Goa on the sidelines of the BRICS summit. natural gas from Siberia to India. OTHER NEWS RELATED TO INDIA AND RUSSIA ISTORIC GLOBAL GREEN India, Russia ink agreement to set up 25 Agro Irradiation H Centres HOUSE GAS EMISSION a) India and Russia have signed an agreement for cooperation in the development of a network of 25 AGREEMENT SIGNED IN KIGALI integrated infrastructure Agro irradiation centres. a) 197 countries including India came to an agreement b) The agreement was signed between Indian in Kigali, Rwanda, to reduce the use of HFCs by Agricultural Association, Hindustan Agro Co-Op roughly 85% of their baselines by 2045 and move to Ltd (HACL) and United Innovation Corporation prevent a potential 0.5 C rise in global temperature (UIC), a subsidiary of ROSATOM State Atomic by 2050. Energy Corporation of Russia. b) The Kigali Amendment amends the 1987 Montreal India –Russia: Protocol that was designed to close growing ozone a) India has signed agreement worth about $2 billion hole in by banning ozone-depleting coolants like with Russia to lease second Akula-II class nuclear chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). attack submarine (SSN) which is expected to arrive c) The Kigali Agreement or amended Montreal in Indian waters in 2020-21. Protocol for HFCs reduction will be binding on b) The lease to transfer a multipurpose Project 971 countries from 2019. nuclear submarine to India from the Russian Navy d) It also has provisions for penalties for non- was signed in Goa on the sidelines of 8th BRICS compliance. Under it, developed countries will also Summit. provide enhanced funding support estimated at c) India had earlier leased first Akula-II class nuclear billions of dollars globally. attack submarine (SSN) for a period of 10 years from e) It is differ from Paris Agreement as the Paris Russia. agreement which will come into force by 2020 is not INS(Indian Navy Ships) legally binding on countries to cut their emissions.  INS Arihant (Arihant class) is india’s first Different timelines under Kigali Amendment indigenously ballistic missile submarine(SSBN).This First group: It includes richest countries like US and those is India’s only one nuclear power ballistic missile in European Union (EU). They will freeze production and submarine. consumption of HFCs by 2018. They will reduce them to  Akula-II(Chakra class) is Russian made nuclear about 15% of 2012 levels by 2036. power attack submarine in India. Currently only one Second group: It includes countries like China, Brazil and all Akula II in service. of Africa etc. They will freeze HFC use by 2024 and cut it to CCEA gave nod to acquisition of 11 per cent stake in Russian 20% of 2021 levels by 2045. oil company Third group: It includes countries India, Pakistan, Pakistan,  The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, CCEA Iran, Saudi Arabia etc. They will be freezing HFC use by 2028 gave nod to acquisition of 11 per cent stake in and reducing it to about 15% of 2025 levels by 2047. Russian oil company JSC Vankorneft, by ONGC Videsh Limited, OVL for 930 million dollars. Rosneft-led consortium acquired India’s Essar Oil for $13  billion  Russian consortium led energy giant Rosneft Oil Company has agreed to acquire India’s second biggest private oil firm Essar Oil,valued at about US

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Pakistan postponed the SAARC Summit to be b) Recently China has successfully launched longest- held in Islamabad ever manned mission by taking two astronauts Jing Pakistan postponed the SAARC Summit to be held in Haipeng (50) and Chen Dong (37) into the orbit. Islamabad on November 9 and 10 after India along with four c) They were launched on board of Shenzhou-11 other member states (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan and spacecraft from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre Sri Lanka) of the regional grouping decided against attending near the Gobi Desert in northwest China. the meet. South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Bangladeshs economy grew at record 7.11% in (SAARC) 2015-16 a)  Headquarter – Kathmandu Bangladesh’s economy grew at a record 7.11% in the last financial year amid stronger industrial  Official languages - English performance.  8 members Member states-Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, b) Bangladesh, as per the purchasing power parity, Pakistan & Sri Lanka now stands at 33rd position among the world economies.  Establishment-8 December 1985  Secretaries-General of SAARC -Arjun Bahadur The World Bank has pledged 2 billion US dollars Thapa (Nepal) aid package to Bangladesh  18th SAARC SUMMIT–Nepal Kathmandu a) The World Bank has pledged 2 billion US dollars EU approved the ratification of Paris Agreement aid package to Bangladesh to tackle climate change on Climate Change over the next three years. The European Union (EU) ministers have approved the b) This is the second large investment announcement ratification of Paris Agreement (on Climate Change). This made by the World Bank President Jim Yong Kim decision brings the Paris Agreement closer to entering into during his 2-day visit to Bangladesh. force. Once approved by the European Parliament, the EU c) Earlier he had announced to provide US $1 billion deposit its ratification instrument before national ratification aid to Bangladesh over the next three years to fight processes which are completed in each member state. child malnutrition. European Union (EU) d) Bangladesh is extremely vulnerable to climate change accounting for almost 70% of all storm  Headquarters: City of Brussels, Belgium surges in the world.  Official languages -24 languages World Bank  Member states-28 states  The World Bank is an international financial  , Belgium, Bulgaria ,Croatia, Cyprus, ,Denmark, Estonia ,Finland, France, institution that provides loans to developing , Greece, , Ireland, , Latvia, countries for capital programs. Lithuania ,Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands ,,  Headquarters: Washington DC, United States. Portugal, , , Slovenia , &  Membership: 189 countries (IBRD), 173 countries Sweden . (IDA) nd Leaders  Head- Jim Yong Kim(for 2 term) Bangladesh  President of the European Commission-Jean-Claude Juncker  Capital: Dhaka,Currency: Bangladeshi taka  Prime minister: Sheikh Hasina  President of the European Council-Donald Tusk  President: Abdul Hamid  President of the European Parliament-Martin Schulz BRICS to set up credit rating agency China’s Space Lab Tiangong-2 launches Micro- Satellite Banxing-2 a) The five-nation group of emerging economies BRICS has agreed to set up an independent BRICS a) China’s experimental space lab Tiangong-2 orbiting the Earth with two astronauts on board has Rating Agency in its efforts to challenge western successfully launched a micro-satellite Banxing-2. hegemony in the world of finance.

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b) It was announced during the 8th BRICS summit held b) UJALA scheme is LED-based Domestic Efficient in Goa, India. Lighting Programme (DELP) that aims to promote c) The BRICS Rating Agency will be based on market- efficient lighting, reducing energy consumption and oriented principles to strengthen the global energy savings. governance architecture. Russia & Turkey agreed to intensify military, South Africa begins process to withdraw from ICC intelligence contacts a) South Africa has formally begun the process of a) After a meeting in Istanbul, Turkish President Recep withdrawing from the International Criminal Court Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir (ICC). Putin had agreed to intensify military and b) During African Union summit in Johannesburg Las intelligence contacts between both country. year , South Africa refused to arrest Sudanese b) Both have agreed on the need for aid to get to the President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the ICC northern Syrian city of Aleppo and also had signed on charges of genocide and war crimes. a deal to construct two Turk Stream gas pipelines to Brazil Opens 1st Elephant Refuge send Russian gas under the Black Sea to Turkey. The first elephant sanctuary in Latin America has opened in Turkey: Brazil to provide a home for an estimated 50 circus animals  Capital: Ankara, Currency: Turkish lira. from across the region. Guida and Maia, both over 40 years RUSSIA old, are the first residents.  Capital: Moscow, Currency: Russian ruble Brazil  Prime minister: Dmitry Medvedev  Capital: Brasília, Currency: Brazilian real Do you know?  President: Michel Temer The Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India Pipeline (TAPI), also known as Trans-Afghanistan China, Bangladesh inked 26 agreements Pipeline(Length 1,814 km), is a natural gaspipeline being a) During Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit developed by the Asian Development Bank. The pipeline will Bangladesh, both countries signed 26 agreements transport Caspian Sea natural gas from Turkmenistan on different sectors. China will reportedly sign off through Afghanistan into Pakistan and then loans worth $24 billion (around 1.6 lakh crore) to to India. Construction on the project started in Turkmenistan Bangladesh. on 13 December 2015. The pipeline is expected to be b) The two countries also have agreed to jointly operational by 2019. advance China’s One belt and One road (OBOR) initiative. With this Bangladesh, formally joined Moroccan king reappoints Abdelilah Benkirane China’s OBOR initiative. as PM c) This is the first official state visit by Chinese head Mohammed VI, the king of Morocco has reappointed of state to Bangladesh in three decades since Abdelilah Benkirane, leader of Morocco’s Islamic Justice and President Li Xiannian’s visit in March 1986. Development Party as the country’s prime minister. One Belt, One Road (OBOR) Initiative Morocco  OBOR initiative is China’s ambitious development  Capital: Rabat,Currency: Moroccan dirham strategy and framework focuses on connectivity WHO sending 10 lakh cholera vaccines to Haiti and cooperation among countries primarily between The World Health Organization (WHO) is sending around China and rest of Eurasia. It consists of two main 10 lakh cholera vaccines to Haiti, following the outbreak of components, the land-based “Silk Road Economic the disease due to Hurricane Matthew. Belt” (SREB) and ocean going 21st Century Haiti “Maritime Silk Road” (MSR).  Capital: Port-au-Prince, IAE to tie up with India for its global LED  Currency: Haitian gourde programme  President-Jocelerme Privert a) The International Energy Agency (IAE) is going to India to host 2016 Asian Ministerial Conference partner with India to implement its Unnat Jyoti by for Disaster Risk Reduction Affordable LEDs for All (UJALA) initiative globally  For the second time India is going to host the 2016 for energy savings. Asian Ministerial Conference for Disaster Risk

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Reduction (AMCDRR) from November 3 to 5, 2016 Beijing Issues Yellow Air Pollution Alert in New Delhi. This will be second time India hosting Chinese capital Beijing city issued its first yellow alert for air AMCDRR. pollution in the second half of this year.  The conference will be hosted by Union China Government in collaboration with the United  Capital: Beijing Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction  Currency: Renminbi (yuan) (UNISDR).  President: Xi Jinping  It will be first AMCDRR after advent of Sendai China successfully launched its longest ever Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRRR) manned mission to space which was adopted at 3rd UN World Conference in a) China has successfully launched its longest-ever Sendai, Japan in March, 2015. manned mission(one month long) by taking two France became first country to ban plastic cups astronauts Jing Haipeng (50) and Chen Dong (37) and plates into the experimental space laboratory Tiangong-2 France has become the first country in the world to ban (Heavenly Palace 2) disposable plastic cups and plates.The country has passed b) They were launched on board of Shenzhou-11 a law in September 2016 that will go into effect in January (heavenly vessel) spacecraft by a Long March-2F 2020. carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch FRANCE Centre near the Gobi Desert in northwest China.  Capital: Paris, Currencies: Euro, CFP franc c) Tiangong-2 was launched in September 2016 as part  President: François Hollande of China’s efforts to set up its own permanent manned space station by 2022. Myanmar scraps stringent emergency law Myanmar has scrapped a stringent law which had been used NEWS IN BRIEF by the former military leaders to silence opponents.  The United Nations appointed comic book character MYANMAR Wonder Woman as its new Honorary Ambassador  Capital: Naypyidaw, Currency: Burmese kyat for the Empowerment of Women and Girls.  President: Htin Kyaw  Japan has barred all Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones from airplanes and saying anyone Russia Suspends Plutonium Program With USA attempting to travel with the recalled handsets may Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to suspend face fines and have the devices confiscated. an agreement with the United States on disposing of  World Bank says, more than 700 million people weapons­ grade plutonium.The deal was signed in 2000 and around the world are still living in extreme poverty. went into force under a 2010 agreement. INDEX Libya hosted its first-ever Comic Con Libya hosted its first-ever Comic Convention between 2017 Ease of Doing Business index September 23 and 25 in Tripoli. a) Top 5 Countries: New Zealand (1st), Singapore Libya (2nd), Denmark (3rd), Hong Kong (4th),  Capital: Tripoli, Currency: Libyan dinar (5th)  President- Magariaf b) India has been placed at 130th position among the 190 countries in the recently released World Bank’s Kersti Kaljulaid elected as first female President ease of doing business index for the year 2017 of Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid on 3 October 2016 was elected as the Global Gender Gap Report 2016 President of Estonia by the parliament.With this, Kaljulaid a) Top 5 Countries in 2016 Report: Iceland (1st), became Estonia’s first female president. Finland (2nd), Norway (3rd), Sweden (4th) and Estonia Rwanda(5th )  Capital: Tallinn, Currency: Euro b) India has been ranked 87th out of 144 countries on the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2016.

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c) Pakistan has been ranked the second-worst country Apple in the world for gender inequality for the second Founder-Steve Jobs consecutive year. C.E.O-Tim Cook,H.Q.-California, United States Google Global Power City Index Founder-Larry Page, H.Q.-California, United States a) has topped the 2016 Global Power City Index C.E.O-Sundar Pichai for the fifth consecutive year. was ranked Coca-cola 39th on the list for business, innovation and culture, Muhtar Kent,H.Q.-Atlanta, Georgia, United States according to a report released. MICROSOFT b) The 2016 Global Power City Index (GPCI) report was FOUNDER-, C.E.O-Satya Nadella released by the Mori Memorial Foundation’s H.Q-Redmond, Washington, United States Institute for Urban Strategies. IBM Global Hunger Index: 2016 Founder-Charles Ranlett Flint Topped by Central Republic Africa. India ranked 97th out of C.E.O-Ginni Rometty 118 countries. India’s Hunger percentage in 2016 is 28.5%. INDIA RANKED AT SOME INDEX 2016 India will hope to eliminate poverty by 2030.Global Hunger Index is published in every 8 years Indian Topped By Rank As per WEF Finland is the safest country in the Global Competitiveness 39 Switzerland world Index Global Innovation Index 66 Switzerland a) As per the World Economic Forum(WEF) Finland is the safest place in the world followed by Qatar- World Press Freedom Index 133 Finland nd rd 2 and UAE-3 in Safety and Security. World’s Best Countries for 130 Singapore b) At the bottom of the survey ranked Nigeria.India doing Business ranked 13th as the least safe countries in the world. Intellectual Property (IP) 37 USA c) Headquarters- Cologny, Switzerland Environment Global Environment 155 Finland World’s 100 Most Valuable Brands Performance Index a) Apple Inc, Alphabet Inc’s Google and Coca-Cola Global index of talent 89 Switzerland Co topped the list of the world’s 100 most valuable competitiveness brands in 2016. Global Peace Index 141 Iceland b) Microsoft Corp, Toyota Motor Corp, IBM Corp, World bank Logistics Index 35 Germany Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, Amazon.com Inc, World Happiness Index 118 Denmark Mercedes-Benz and General Electric Co were also on the Top 10 list.  NATIONAL NEWS

India ratified Paris Climate Agreement UNFCCC (UN Framework Convention on Climate a) India has ratified the Paris Agreement on climate Change) held in Paris in December 2015 known as change on the 147th birth anniversary(2nd October COP 21. 2106) of Mahatma Gandhi. e) COP22 will take place at Marrakech in Morocco, b) With this, India became 62nd country to ratify the 2016. agreement. PM launches #Sandesh2Soldiers campaign c) India’s Permanent Representative to UN, Syed a) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched Akbaruddin handed over the Instrument of #Sandesh2Soldiers campaign through which people Ratification signed by President Pranab Mukherjee can send their Diwali greetings and messages to to the United Nations in New York. the soldiers to boost their morale. d) The Paris Agreement was adopted by more than 190 nations at the 21st Conference of Parties of

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b) The messages can be sent on the Narendra Modi Uma Bharti released the first installment of Rs. App, through MyGov.in, and also through All India 1500 crore for 99 Irrigation Projects Radio. a) Union Minister for Water Resources, River c) PM Modi will be leading the campaign. Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Uma Bharti released the first installment of Rs. 1500 crore to the Five crore LPG connections to BPL families in 3 states as central assistance for 99 prioritized years irrigation projects under Accelerated Irrigation Petroleum Minister Pradhan announced that the Benefits Program (AIBP). Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojna (PMUY) aims at providing five b) Total funds required for completion of all the 99 crore LPG connections to Below Poverty Line households in identified projects have been estimated at Rs.77595 the country within three years. crore. PMUY Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana Centre to establish Krishi Vigyan Kendra in each  Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana aimed at providing district 5 Crore LPG connections in the name of women in a) Centre will establish at least one Krishi Vigyan BPL (Below Poverty Line) households across the Kendra in each of the districts in country to provide country. technical assistance to farmers.  The ambitious project, launched by Prime Minister b) Agriculture Minister Narendra Modi at Ballia on first of May 2016. announced this while interacting via video  In Jammu and Kashmir over 800 years old village conference with all the Krishi Vigyan Kendra experts, Itchu in Ladakh region has been electrified for the district level officers associated with agriculture first time using solar micro grids. development and progressive farmers of 12 States. ECI amends election rules to allow e-transfer of Union Cabinet approved establishment of National postal ballot Academic Depository a) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has a) The Union Cabinet approved establishment and amended the Conduct of Election Rules, 1961 to operationalisation of a National Academic facilitate the e-transfer of postal ballot. Depository (NAD). b) The new rules empower a returning officer in any b) Under it all academic degrees, certificates and constituency to send postal ballots to an eligible awards in the country will be made digitally available voter by electronic means as specified by the ECI. for verification on single spot. Union Government funds to Sagarmala Irom names her party ‘People’s Resurgence Programme Justice Alliance’ a) Union Government has released released Rs 58.50 a) Human rights activist Irom Sharmila announced the Crore funds for Ro Pax Ferry Services between name of her party as ‘People’s Resurgence and Gogha & Dahej, in Gulf of Cambay in under Justice Alliance’. Sagarmala programme. b) The Iron Lady of , ended her 16-year-long b) The total project cost is estimated to be 234 crore, fast against AFSPA Armed Forces (Special Powers) of which 50 per cent will be funded by the Centre Acts in Manipur this year. under the Sagarmala programme. India would have 100 % electrification for all c) The Gulf of Cambay (also known as Gulf of by May 1, 2017 Khambhat) is an inlet of the Arabian Sea in the state a) India would have 100 % electrification for all of Gujarat along the west coast of India. by May 1, 2017 as per the announcement made by Sagarmala Programme the Union Power Minister . The Sagarmala Programme is Union Government’s flagship b) As per latest report, Andhra Pradesh has become strategic, customer-oriented initiative to achieve the broad the second state in the country after Gujarat to objective of promoting port-led economic development in achieve 100 per cent electrification of households. India. The ambitious programme seeks to harness vast potential of India’s 7,500 km long coastline, 14,500 km of potentially navigable waterways and strategic location on key international maritime trade routes. 14 Plot-1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRP Square, Bhubaneswar-751015 Ph. : (0674) 6556677, 8093556677. Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER - 2016

Abu Dhabi Crown Prince to be 2017 Republic Day Change (UNFCCC) that commits State Parties to reduce chief guest greenhouse gas emissions. As of June 2013, there are 192 a) The Indian government has invited the Crown Prince parties to the Kyoto Protocol. of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Union Government has launched Mining Nahyan to be the next Chief Guest at India’s Surveillance System Republic Day parade of 2017. a) The mines ministry on 15th oct came out with mining b) This is the first time that a leader of the United Arab surveillance system (MSS), a pan-India surveillance Emirates will be honoured with the invitation of network using latest satellite technology, to check being the Chief Guest at India’s Republic Day illegal mining. parade. b) MSS is a satellite-based monitoring system, which c) UAE is India’s third largest trading partner after aims to check illegal mining activity through China and the United States. automatic remote-sensing detection technology. d) 2016-Francois Hollande (French President), 2015- Barack Obama (US President) PM Narendra Modi inaugurates Shaurya Smarak UAE in Bhopal  President: Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan a) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 14 October 2016  Capital: Abu Dhabi inaugurated ‘Shaurya Smarak’, the war memorial in  Currency: United Arab Emirates dirham Bhopal, . Auto manufacturers to provide emission and noise b) The ‘Shaurya Smarak’ was constructed by the state pollution details for every vehicle government in honour of those who laid down their lives for the country. a) The Union Ministry of Road Transport & Highways c) It was developed at an expense of 41 crore rupees has made it mandatory for all automobile includes a 62-foot Shaurya Stambh. manufacturers to provide emission and noise pollution details for every vehicle they produce by PM Narendra Modi inaugurates three mega hydro April 2017. projects in Himachal Pradesh b) In this regard, the ministry has amended Form 22 Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated three hydro- under the Central Motor Vehicles Act, 1989 through electric projects (HEPs) with a generating capacity of 1,732 which manufactures provide the initial certification MW in Himachal Pradesh. of compliance of vehicles. These three hydro-electric projects are India decided to eliminate potent greenhouse gas Koldam HEP: It is 4×200 MW capacity project executed by HFC-23 by 2030 National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC). a) India has decided to eliminate use of HFC-23, a Parbati HEP: It is Stage-III project with a capacity of 530 MW greenhouse gas (GHG) that harms the ozone layer of National Hydropower Corporation (NHPC). by 2030. Rampur HEP: It is 412 MW capacity project of Sutlej Jal b) It was announced during the 28th Meeting of the Vidyut Nigam (SJVN). These three projects will collectively Parties to the Montreal Protocol at Kigali in Rwanda. play an important role in boosting the Hydro-power sector c) HFC-23 is a by-product of HCFC-22 of Himachal Pradesh. (Hydrochloroflurocarbon-22), which is used in industrial refrigeration. Union Government launched Indian Bridge Montreal Protocol Management System The Montreal Protocol is an international treaty designed to a) The Union Ministry of Road Transport and protect the ozone layer located in Montreal, . It came Highways has launched the Indian Bridge into force in 1989. It aims at reducing the production and Management System (IBMS). consumption of ozone depleting substances (ODS) in order b) It was launched by Union Minister of Road to protect the earth’s fragile ozone layer. It has been ratified Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari in New Delhi by 197 parties making it universally ratified protocol in United as a major step towards ensuring safety of bridges Nations history. in the country. Kyoto Protocol,Japan The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate

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Aadhaar card must for LPG subsidy after b) The summit was organised by The Energy and November 2016 Resources Institute (TERI) with the theme Beyond a) Union Petroleum Ministry has made card 2015: People, Planet and Progress. mandatory for availing cooking gas (LPG) subsidies c) WSDS has replaced TERI’s earlier called Delhi after November 2016. Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS). The first b) For those not yet having Aadhaar, it gave time till DSDS was organised in 2005. November 30, 2016 to make application for enrollment Centre to invest 15 thousand crore to expand for the unique identification number. Panipat refinery c) Currently, the government gives 12 LPG cylinders a) During distributing free LPG connections to women at subsidised rates per household in a year. belonging to below poverty line families under d) The subsidy on every LPG cylinder is transferred the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana at directly into bank accounts of individuals who then Panipat(Haryana) ,Union Minister of State for buy the cooking fuel at market rates. Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan, About Aadhaar announced to invest Rs.15,000 crore to increase the  The unique number is issued by the Unique capacity of Panipat refinery from 15 million Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) with tonnes (MT) to 25 MT. biometric information. b) Indian Oil Corporation would set up an ethanol plant  Aadhaar is a 12-digit unique number which acts as in Panipat for Rs.500 crore to generate alternative a proof of identity and address anywhere in the fuel from agricultural residue. country. Do you know?  It is considered as the world’s largest national There are 8 core sector in India- Coal, Crude Oil, Natural Gas, identification project. Refinery Products, Fertilizers, Steel , Cement & Electricity. CCEA gave nod to acquisition of 11 per cent stake in Russian oil company NEWS IN BRIEF Union Skill development and Entrepreneurship The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, CCEA gave  nod to acquisition of 11 per cent stake in Russian oil Minister Rajeev Pratap Rudy inaugurated ‘Kaushal company JSC Vankorneft, by ONGC Videsh Limited, OVL for Mahotasava’ in Varanasi.  Dr. Mahesh Sharma, Minister of State (Independent 930 million dollars. ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation) charge) for Culture and Tourism chaired the ”First Meeting of the Re-constituted Central Advisory Headquarters: Uttarakhand Board on Culture (CABC). CEO: Dinesh K Sarraf Supreme Court of India order women to enter into List of 7 Maharatna company in india  the Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai. 1. Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited  The Union Cabinet has given its ex-post facto 2. Coal India Limited approval to formation of the Indian Institute of 3. GAIL (India) Limited Science Education & Research (IISER) at Berhampur 4. Indian Oil Corporation Limited in Odisha. 5. NTPC Limited According to System of Air Quality and Weather 6. Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Limited  Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) national capital 7. Steel Authority of India Limited Eligibility for navaratna-Three years with an average annual New Delhi’s air quality was recorded in the ‘very net profit of over Rs. 2500 crore, or average annual Net worth poor’ category.SAFAR was introduced by Union Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) for greater of Rs. 10,000 crore for 3 years, OR Average annual Turnover metropolitan cities of India to provide location of Rs. 20,000 crore for 3 years specific information on air quality in near real time. President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurates World  Prime Minister NarendraModi will distribute 500 Sustainable Development Summit traditional wooden charkhas (spinning wheel) to a) President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the first women spinners belonging to the five Khadi local edition of World Sustainable Development Summit institutions in Ludhiana. Khadi and Village (WSDS) at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi. Industries Commission (KVIC) Chairman- V K Saxena

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 Cabinet approves India-EU MoU on water c) Initially, 100 railway stations and an adjoining area cooperation of 300-800 acres will be redeveloped in Smart Cities  Cabinet approves amendments to HIV/AIDS bill and Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban  Cabinet approves setting up of country’s first Transformation (AMRUT) Schemes. Later the scope Medipark of the MoU will be extended to over 500 cities in  Cabinet approves rural development MoU with time. African-Asian Rural Development Organisation Okha-Kanalus, Porbandar-Wansjaliya sections of  CCEA gives a nod to the acquisition of 11% stake Gujarat became Green Train Corridors in Russian oil company. a) The Union Ministry of Railways has declared the  The Union Cabinet HLL Lifecare to sub-lease its Okha-Kanalus and the Porbandar-Wansjaliya land for setting up the country’s first medical railway sections of Gujarat as Green Train Corridors. devices manufacturing park. Cabinet approved b) All trains passing on these route are now equipped setting up of country’s first medical devices with bio-toilets. manufacturing park in TN by gave its approval to M/ Green Train Corridors s HLL Lifecare Ltd.  The Union Ministry of Railways has taken up a  The Central Government has given in principle mammoth task of equipping human discharge free approval to a grant of Rs. 515 crores to make the bio-toilets in all its coaches by 2021-22 in order to development of the proposed Sagar Port project in on September 4 , 2016. contribute to mission ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’.  Green Train Corridors are sections of the railways  China has blocked a tributary of the Brahmaputra which will be free of human waste discharge on the river in Tibet which may affect water flow to India. tracks. RAILWAY  Trains running on these corridors will be equipped with bio-toilets. Railways to introduce 9 more trains in UP by Nov-  The 114-km long Rameswaram-Manamadurai end section of Tamil Nadu was made the India’s first a) will introduce nine more trains in Green Rail Corridor in July 2016 the poll-bound by November-end this  The environment-friendly bio-toilets for passenger year. coaches were developed jointly by Indian Railways b) Railways has already introduced about 57 trains in and Defence Research and Development the last two and half years in the state. Organisation (DRDO). ‘Happiness junction’ inaugurated at Bihar’s Centre provides over Rs 1600 crore to Railways railway station for bio toilets & CCTV cameras a) A ‘happiness junction’ has been inaugurated at the a) Railways has received 1655 crore rupees from the Sonpur railway station in Bihar’s Saran district, government for the installation of CCTVs at stations which will provide books and several entertainment and bio-toilets in trains across the country. tools for waiting passengers. b) Railway Board Chairman- AK Mital b) As part of the initiative, affluent(wealthy) people can also donate goods which could be used by the New Solar Powered Guard Van of Goods Train needy. flagged off a) Railways Minister Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu flags Railway ministry signed MoU with Union Urban off the newly manufactured Guard Van of Goods Development Ministry for Smart Railway Stations (Freight) Train, in New Delhi. a) The Union Ministry of Railways and Union Urban b) The newly manufactured Guard Van of Goods Train Development Ministry have inked Memorandum of has been equipped for the first time with Solar Understanding (MoU) for ‘smarten up’ 500 railway powered Light, Fan, Mobile Charging Point along stations in the country. with the facility of Zero discharge Bio Toilet. b) The validity of the MoU is for the five years and can be extended with the consent of both the ministries.

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NEWS IN BRIEF  The world’s most luxurious train Maharajas’ Express  The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism has received the 2016 Seven Star Luxury Hospitality Corporation (IRCTC) will manage and operate “The and Lifestyle Awards at Marbella in Spain. Rails”, the newly constructed swanky restaurant at  The West Bengal Chief Minister Ms. Mamata the National Rail Museum (NRM) designed to attract Banerjee has decided to install 14-kilometre- visitors and tourists with an array of sumptuous long monorail from Budge in South 24-Parganas cuisines. to Ruby Connector in at a cost of 4,216 IRCTC:CEO-A.K.Manocha, H.Q.-New Delhi crore rupees.

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India-Pakistan: Pakistan has warned India that it will take India-South Korea: India and South Korea signed a appropriate action if India violates the Indus Water Treaty revised Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) for (IWT) unilaterally. the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal IWT evasion with respect to taxes on income. IWT is a water-distribution treaty between India and Pakistan South Korea which was signed by then Prime Minister  Capital: Seoul, Currency: won and President of Pakistan Ayub Khan in Karachi on  President: Park Geun-hye September 19, 1960 under World Bank mediation.  Prime minister: Hwang Kyo-ahn The Union Cabinet has given its approval India-Pakistan border to sealed by 2018 India – Estonia: for signing and ratification of an Agreement between India Union Home Minister announced that India- and Estonia on the transfer of sentenced persons. Pakistan border will be completely sealed by December Estonia 2018.Central government has formulated time-bound action  Capital: Tallinn, Currency: Euro plan to completely seal the entire stretch of 3,323-km-long  President: Kersti Kaljulaid border between the two countries 4 states share this India- Vanuatu : India will provide LED bulbs and other international border with Pakistan. Of this 1,225 km falls in energy efficient equipment worth nearly 1.34 crore rupees to Jammu and Kashmir (including Line of Control), 1,037 km in Pacific island nation Vanuatu as a grant. It came after Power Rajasthan, 553 km in and 508 km in Gujarat. Minister Piyush Goyal’s two day visit to Vanuatu. Pakistan Vanuatu  Chiefs of Army Staff-Raheel Sharif  Capital: Port Vila, Currency: Vanuatu vatu  N.S.A-Nasser Khan Janjua  PM - Salwai Tabimasmas  Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs - India –Algeria: India has shown keen desire to initiate a Sartaj Aziz joint venture (JV) arrangement with Algeria for a multi-billion  High Commissioner - Abdul Basit dollar fertilizer plant located in the North African country. India -New Zealand Algeria a) India and New Zealand signed three agreements in  Capital: Algiers, Currency: Dinar (DZD) the areas of double taxation avoidance (DTA),  President: Abdelaziz Bouteflika sports and food security to carry forward the ties  Prime Minister: Abdelmalek Sellal between both sides. India –Myanmar: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi b) The agreements were signed in the presence of with the visiting State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung San Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his New Zealand Suu Kyi have signed three Memorandum of Understanding P.M. John Key. (MoUs) to boost bilateral relations between two neighboring New Zealand nations.  Capital: Wellington Signed MoUs are  Currency: New Zealand dollar a) MoU for designing an academic and professional  President-Nigel Haworth building programme for insurance industry of  P.M.-John Key Myanmar.

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b) MoU on Cooperation in the field of Power Sector. NEWS IN BRIEF Under it India has offered to enhance power supply  The 10th Indo-US trade forum began in Delhi. Visa, from Moreh in Manipur to Tamu in Myanmar. customs cooperation, greater market access for c) MoU on Banking Supervision. It was signed goods and intellectual property rights are the key between Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Central issues expected to be discussed. Bank of Myanmar.  India and Iran have agreed to conclude an Myanmar agreement to develop the Farzad-B gas field in  Myanmar president-Htin kyaw Iranian offshore within the next three months.  Currency-kyat, Capital- Naypyidaw  For the first time the American School (TAS) Central Bank of Myanmar launched ‘Any Time School’ in India.  H.Q.-Naypyidaw  India & Russia will sign the deal for 200 Kamov  -Kyaw Kyaw Maunga Helicopter for deployment in high altitude area by India-Sri Lanka: Foreign Secretary S. Jaishanker has Indian Air Force. visited Sri Lanka to further strengthen economic cooperation  16th meeting of the India-Russia Intergovernmental and discuss other bilateral issues. During his visit he meet Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation was Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samarweera. India has held in New Delhi. also planning to supply 500 MW power to Sri Lanka through MOU a network of sub-sea underground cables. Sri lanka , IGNOU signed agreement for  Capitals: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Colombo telecast of Gyan Darshan channels  Prime minister: Ranil Wickremesinghe a) Doordarshan and National Open  President: Maithripala Sirisena University (IGNOU) have entered into an agreement  Currency: Sri Lankan rupee for transmission of four Gyan Darshan educational India and Hungary The Union Cabinet has given its channels. approval for signing of a Memorandum of Understanding b) Chairperson of Prasar Bharati - Dr. A. Surya Prakash (MoU) between India and Hungary on cooperation in the IGNOU field of water management.  Chancellor- (Pranab Mukherjee) Hungary  Vice-Chancellor-Nageshwar Rao (I/C)  Capital: Budapest, Currency: Hungarian forint  President:János Áder EC of India collaborates with FB Election Commission of India collaborates with Facebook to India-Bahrain: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh leave register young voters for Bahrain on a 3-day visit. Social networking site Facebook is collaborating with the Bahrain Election Commission of India in five states ,which are  Capital: Manama going to polls next year, to run a voter registration drive  Currency: Bahraini dinar aimed at encouraging youth to participate in the democratic  Prime minister: Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa exercise.  King: Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa EC Indo-Bangla  Chief Election Commissioner - Dr.Nasim Zaidi a) In Tripura, the Indo-Bangla bilateral meeting for  Election Commissioners - Achal Kumar Jyoti and Agartala-Akhaura rail project was held in Agartala. b) The total cost of the project would be 972.52 crores, Facebook out of which 580 crores will be spent by India and  Head- Mark Zuckerberg 392.52 crores will be spent by Bangladesh. INDIA – EU: The Union Cabinet has given its approval Tripura for the signing Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)  Capital: Agartala between India and European Union in the field of water  Governor: resources.  Chief Minister: Manik Sarkar INDIA- AARDO: The Union Cabinet gave its approval to sign Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and African Asian Rural Development Organization

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(AARDO) for capacity building programmes in the field of c) It will be the largest offset contract to be executed rural development. by any defence company in India. The contract  The AARDO is an autonomous inter-Governmental value is estimated up to Rs. 30,000 crore. organization with its headquarters in New Delhi. d) In September 2016, India and France had signed an  AARDO currently has 31 countries under its fold Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) for 36 Rafale from the African-Asian Region. multi-role jets in fly-away condition worth €7.87  India and Singapore: Former ISRO Chairman and billion (about Rs. 59,000 crore). The deal has a 50% space scientist Prof offset clause to be executed by Dassault Aviation became the first Indian to be inducted in the Hall of and its partners in India. Fame of International Astronautical Federation Puducherry government signed MOU for the (IAF). proposed regional connectivity scheme INDIA-SINGAPORE: India and Singapore have signed With an aim to provide air services between un-served and three agreements (MoUs) in the fields of skill development under-served areas and is part of larger plans to boost the and IPR to boost bilateral relations between them.These domestic aviation sector, Civil Aviation Ministry, along agreements were signed in New Delhi during Singapore Prime with Airports Authority of India (AAI), entered into a pact Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s official state visit to India. with the Puducherry government for the proposed regional Singapore: connectivity scheme (RCS). The Civil Aviation Ministry had  Currency: Singapore dollar already signed MoUs with various states, including Gujarat,  President-Tony Tan Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and and Andhra  Prime Minister-Lee Hsien Loong Pradesh for implementation of RCS. Reliance, Dassault tie up for Rafale deal execution Civil aviation minstery a) Anil Ambani led Reliance Group and French  Cabinet Minister: Ashok Gajapathi Raju aerospace giant Dassault Aviation have signed deal  Minister of State: Jayant Sinha to set up a joint venture called Dassault Reliance  CM of Puducherry - V. Narayanasamy Aerospace.  Chairman of AAI - Dr. Guruprasad Mohapatra b) The Dassault Reliance Aerospace will execute offsets for the recently concluded India-France deal  for 36 Rafale fighter jets.

ECONOMY & BANKING

RBI IN NEWS RBI allowed startups to raise $3 million via ECBs annually RBI’s fourth bi-monthly monetary policy With an aim to boosting innovation and promoting job a) RBI’s 24th Governor Urjit Patel (who has been creation in the country The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has recently appointed), has announced his first and permitted startups to raise external commercial borrowings country’s 4th Bi-monthly Policy Statement for the (ECBs) of up to $3 million in a financial year for three year year 2016-17. tenure. b) Repo rate: 6.25 %(reduced by 25 basis points from What is ECB? 6.5 per cent to 6.25 per cent).  Any money borrowed from foreign sources for c) Reverse Repo: 5.75 %( reduced by 25 basis points). financing the commercial activities in India are called d) Marginal Standing Facility (MSF) - 6.75 %( reduced ECBs. by 25 basis points)  The Central Government permits ECBs as a source e) Bank Rate to 6.75 %-( reduced by 25 basis points) of finance for Indian Corporates for expansion of f) CRR: 4% unchanged existing capacity as well as for fresh investment. g) Growth forecast at 7.6% for the current fiscal  The DEA (Department of Economic Affairs), Ministry of Finance, along

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with Reserve Bank of India, monitors and regulates  BNP also has an ink factory that produces ink for ECB guidelines and policies. security printing.  Borrowers can use 25 per cent of the ECB to repay  India Security Press, located in Nashik, and Security rupee debt and the remaining 75 per cent should be Printing Press, located in Hyderabad, produce travel used for new projects. documents, postage stamps, and other government- Thus, ECBs are defined as money borrowed from foreign related documents. resources including the following: Mints  Commercial bank loans  SPMCIL comprises four mints: India Government  Buyers’ credit and suppliers’ credit Mint, Mumbai, India Government Mint, Kolkata,  Securitised instruments such as Floating Rate Notes India Government Mint, Hyderabad, and India and Fixed Rate Bonds etc. Government Mint, Noida.  Credit from official export credit agencies and  These mints produce coins, and medals and awards, commercial borrowings from the private sector as required by the Government of India. window of Multilateral Financial Institutions such Paper mill as World Bank, ADB, AFIC, CDC, etc.  Security Paper Mill was established in 1968 at ECB cannot be used for investment in stock market or Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh. speculation in real estate.  It produces papers for banknotes and non–judicial For infrastructure and greenfield projects, funding up to 50% stamps (through ECB) is allowed. In telecom sector too, up to 50% funding through ECBs is allowed. RBI Panel moots easing bank branch norms a) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Internal Working The Reserve Bank of India Launched Rs 2,000 Group (IWG) on Rationalisation of Branch notes Authorisation Policy has proposed easing bank a) The Reserve Bank of India has very nearly branch norms. completed preparations for introducing Rs. 2,000 b) It was chaired by Lily Vadera. notes in currency system. c) It has proposed to relax norms that a bank branch b) The notes have already been printed and their has to follow, like a building, number of employees dispatch from the currency printing press in Mysuru etc to facilitate financial inclusion. has commenced. Key Recommendations Do you know SPMCIL?  Bank branches including those manned by  Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India business correspondents providing minimum 4 Limited (SPMCIL) is an Indian government-owned hours of service for 5 days a week, should be corporation that engages in the production of bank allowed to be treated as a full-service branch. notes, coins, non–judicial stamps, postage stamps,  Any other fixed point unit of the bank not and other government related documents for India. complying with minimum working period should be  The company was formed in 2006 as the result of considered a ‘part-time banking outlet’. corporatisation of security presses and mints  A part-time banking outlet can be opened in any functioning under the India Ministry of Finance. centre. It will be counted in for computing  It contains nine units, four mints, and a paper mill. requirement of having 25% branches in rural areas. Presses  SPMCIL comprises four presses: Currency Note Interest rates for the October-December quarter Press (CNP), Bank Note Press (BNP), India Security of 2016-17 Press, and Security Printing Press. a) Interest rates on small savings schemes have been  CNP was established in 1928 as the first printing reduced marginally by0.1 percent for the October- press for bank notes in India. December quarter of 2016-17, leading to lower  Both CNP, located in Nashik, Maharashtra,BNP returns on Public Provident Fund, Kisan Vikas Patra, located in Mysore, , print Indian currency. Sukanya Samriddhi Account, among others.  Currency is also printed by Reserve Bank of India, b) Public Provident Fund will fetch interest rate of 8 along with two presses owned by Bharatiya Reserve percent in the third quarter of the current fiscal as Bank Note Mudran Private Limited. against 8.1 percent in the previous three-months period.

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c) Interest rate on Kisan Vikas Patra has been brought OTHER BANKS IN NEWS down to 7.7 percent from 7.8 percent. As a result Union Bank Of India To Raise Rs 2,900 Crore the KVP will now mature in 112 months instead of Through Bonds 110 months. a) Union Bank of India announced to raise Rs 2900 d) The rate of interest for the third quarter for 5-Year crore through bonds in the next five months. Senior Citizens Savings Scheme and 5-Year National b) The board approved to raise up to Rs 2,900 crore of Savings Certificate has been reduced to 8.5 percent debt capital by March 31, 2017 by way of issue of and 8 percent, respectively. Basel III-compliant Perpetual Debt Instruments e) The Sukanya Samriddhi Account Scheme, for girl (Additional Tier 1) or Basel III-compliant Tier 2 child, will now fetch 8.5 percent interest rate. It was bonds, the state-owned bank said in a filing to stock 8.6 percent in July-September quarter. exchanges f) Interest rate on 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 year time deposits too have been reduced by 0.1 percent. Depositors will Bank of America has unveiled a virtual assistant get an interest rate of 7.3% on five-year recurring called Erica deposit. Bank of America has unveiled a virtual assistant called Erica, g) The interest rate on savings deposit has, however, that uses artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to been kept unchanged at 4 percent. learn consumers’ personal spending habits and offer financial SBI IN NEWS advice. a) SBI announced the launch of a special financing NABARD sanctions Rs. 19,702 crore loan to scheme ‘Hope Loans’, under which customers could National Water Development Agency avail credit facility at lower rates. Hope Loans comes a) The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural with the added benefit of reduced interest rates that Development (NABARD) has sanctioned loan SBI has just announced due to the reduction in worth Rs. 19,702 crore to National Water the marginal cost of lending rate (MCLR). With the Development Agency (NWDA). reduction in MCLR, the effective interest rate for b) The loan will be provided through NABARD’s Long home loans would be 9.25 per cent for Term Irrigation Fund (LTIF) for 50 irrigation projects women and 9.30 per cent for men and for auto loans, from 11 States. it would be 9.65 per cent respectively. NABARD b) State Bank of Patiala has been conferred “Special  Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra Award for Excellence in MSME lending” for its  Chairman: Dr. Harsh Kumar Bhanwala performance in lending to the MSME sector during the year 2013-14 & 2014-15. ICICI, Axis, StanChart get back $2.5 bn of Essar c) In one of the biggest card replacements in Indian loans banking, State Bank of India has said that it will re- a) Within days of Essar Group signing a mega USD issue around six lakh debit cards to customers.The 12.9-billion asset sale in its oil business, three top cards were blocked following a malware-related lenders - ICICI Bank, Axis Bank and StanChart, have security breach in a non-SBI ATM network. got back an estimated USD 2.5 billion as part of the d) The State Bank of India (SBI) has declared Silchar first payment for their debt exposure to the Ruias- as its 5th zone in North East after , , led conglomerate. Dibrugarh and Jorhat, which will cater to the banking b) The two Indian lenders which together had an needs of the people of Mizoram, Tripura and exposure of USD 1.5 billion, will get back nearly half Manipur along with the Barak Valley. of their money or about USD 770 million in cash e) The State Bank of India has become the first India while further USD 750 million of debt will get bank to open a branch in the capital city of Yangon transferred to Rosneft-led consortium and Essar’s capital of Myanmar.The Yangon branch is the 54th ports and other businesses, as per the terms agreed foreign branch of the SBI.This branch extends the upon by them. global presence of SBI in 37 countries through 198 ICC offices. Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India  CEO:  Headquarters: Mumbai

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 Largest private sector bank of India b) This is the fourth issue of rupee-denominated bonds Axix bank to overseas investors.The bonds will mature on  CEO: Shikha Sharma Managing Director January 9, 2020.  Headquarters: Mumbai c) The masala bonds are instruments through which Standard charter bank Indian entities can raise funds by accessing Standard Chartered PLC is a British multinational banking overseas capital markets while bond investors hold and financial services company headquartered in London. the currency risk. SIDBI Launches ASPIRE Fund ICICI Executes Transaction on Blockchain a) SIDBI has launched a Rs 60 crore ASPIRE fund to a) ICICI Bank has executed international trade finance promote innovation,rural entrepreneurship &agri- transactions & overseas remittances using industry. blockchain technology. b) The Rs 60 crore ‘fund of funds’ falls under ‘A b) This puts ICICI Bank the first bank in India to carry Scheme for Promotion of Innovation and Rural out overseas transactions in a few minutes via Entrepreneurship & agro-industry (ASPIRE)’ for blockchain. supporting various venture capital funds. c) The usage of blockchain tech simplifies the process SIDBI & makes it almost instant.This is in contrast to the Small Industries Development Bank of india is an current process which involves a complex & lengthy independent financial institution aimed to Promotion, paper trail. Financing and Development of the Micro, Small and Medium Soft Bank, Saudi Arabia plan largest tech fund of Enterprise (MSME) sector and for Co-ordination of the $100 bn functions of the institutions engaged in similar activities.  H.Q- Lucknow Japan’s Soft Bank has announced a technology investment  Chairman- Shri N.K. Maini fund of up to $100 billion with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign Public Investment Fund. Entities founded by SIDBI Japan Soft Bank  Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small  Headquarters :Tokyo Shiodome Building Enterprises provides guarantees to banks for  CEO : Masayoshi Son collateral-free loans extended to SME.  SIDBI Venture Capital Ltd.is a venture capital OTHER FINANCIAL NEWS company focussed at SME.  SME Rating Agency of India Ltd. provides Black money worth Rs. 65,250 crore declared composite ratings to SME. under Income Disclosure Scheme, 2016  ISARC - India SME Asset Reconstruction Company a) The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has in 2009, as specialized entities for NPA resolution received total disclosure of Rs. 65,250 crore black for SME. money in the form of cash and other assets under the Income Disclosure Scheme, 2016. SEBI re-constitutes panel on disclosure, b) Hyderabad reportedly topped the list with INR accounting standards 13,000 crore, while Mumbai and Delhi received a) Capital Markets Regulator, SEBI has re-constituted disclosures worth over INR 8,000 crore each. its committee which advises the regulator on issues c) The scheme launched in June 2016 has provided a related to disclosure requirements and accounting one-time opportunity to those who had not paid practices for various entities in the securities market. full taxes in the past. It had provided four-month b) The 17-member Committee on Disclosures and window for declaring undisclosed income or black Accounting Standards will continue to be chaired money and ended on 30 September 2016. by Tata Sons Director (Finance) Ishaat Hussain. c) SEBI: Chairman-Upendra Kumar sinha,H.Q-Mumbai ONGC beats to become India’s 5th most valuable firm HDFC Bank Raises Rs 500 crore 1. TCS , CEO: Natarajan Chandrasekaran a) HDFC has raised another Rs 500 crore by issuing Founders: J. R. D. Tata, F. C. Kohli rupee-denominated masala bonds to overseas 2. Limited investors. C.E.O -Mukesh Ambani

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3. HDFC Bank , C.E.O -Aditya Puri b) The proposals included augmenting the 4 ONGC , C.E.O -Dinesh K Sarraf transformation capacity in the southern region, sub- 5 Infosys, C.E.O -Vishal Sikka station works in Vemagiri in Andhra Pradesh, and a transmission system for Ultra Mega Solar Park at Finance Ministry announced the sixth tranche of Tumkur in Karnataka. sovereign gold bonds Power Grid Corporation a) The Finance Ministry announced the sixth tranche  H.Q-Gurugram,Haryana of sovereign gold bonds. The duration of the bond  Chairman-Sri IS jha will be for a period of eight years with exit option from the fifth year to be exercised on the interest Bank Penalization Framework Issued payment dates. a) The RBI has released guidelines for penalizing b) Applications for the bonds will be accepted from payments systems & banks under the Payments October 24 to November 2, 2016 and the bonds will and Settlements Systems Act, 2007. be issued on November 17. b) According to the framework issued payments systems & banks can be told to fork out penalties Launched SMS Alert Service between Rs5 lakh & Rs1 cr.Under the Act,no person a) Arun Jaitley launched the SMS alert service for Tax can operate a payment system without RBI Deducted at Source (TDS) for salaried class. authorization. Only stock exchanges are exempt from b) As many as 2.5 crore salaried tax payers will now obtaining such authorization. receive SMS alerts from the Income Tax department regarding their quarterly TDS deductions. TRAI suggests Rs 3,000-crore fine on three telecoms MMTC ties up with major banks to retail gold The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has coins proposed a penalty of about Rs 3,050 crore on three telecoms Public sector major MMTC (Metals and Minerals Trading — BhartiAirtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular for failing to Corporation of India) has joined hands with HDFC Bank, provide sufficient interconnect points to Reliance Jio which ICICI Bank and Andhra Bank to retail gold coins with a new has led to massive call failures. buyback option. TRAI Union Government inks loan pact with World  Chairman -R. S. Sharma, H.Q- New Delhi Bank for Eastern Freight Corridor Bank deposits cross Rs 100 lakh crore for first a) The Union Government has signed $650 million loan time agreement with the International Bank for a) According to the data released by the RBI, India’ Reconstruction and Development (IRBD), part of banking system reported total deposits of Rs 100 World Bank for construction of the Eastern lakh crore for the first time ever in September month Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC)-III project. of this year. b) The project aims to enhance rail transport capacity, b) With demand deposits crossing Rs10 lakh crore and improve service quality and boost freight carriage time deposits crossing the Rs 90 lakh crore mark, on the 401-km- long Ludhiana-Khurja section of the the month saw the highest-ever monthly rise of Rs EDFC. 5.32 lakh crore. Aditya Birla Group to invest Rs. 20,000 cr in BRICS Development Bank to Raise Lending Madhya Pradesh a) The development bank set up by the BRICS group a) Aditya Birla Group pledged an investment of Rs. of emerging economies will ramp up lending to $2.5 20,000 crore in Madhya Pradesh. billion next year. b) The investment is for the sectors like retail, telecom b) It has already approved loans totalling $900 million and cement. to green projects in each member state.It has also Power Grid’s board approves investments of Rs started a borrowing programme, issuing a 3 billion 1,184.45 crore in power transmission projects yuan ($450 million) bond. a) Power Grid Corporation board has approved three c) India and Brazil signed four agreements in areas of proposals to invest Rs1,184.45 crore in power investment cooperation and facilitation, cattle transmission projects across the country. genomics, pharmaceuticals and agriculture.

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Australia raises $5.8 bn in the largest govt bonds the “MasterCard” brand debit and credit cards to make sale purchases. Australia, in its biggest-ever government bonds sale, raised  CEO: Ajaypal Singh Banga 7.6 billion Australian dollars ($5.8 billion) in a debut offering  Headquarters: New York, United State of 30-year securities. Govt bond IMF revises India’s economic growth upwards to 7.6% for FY17 and 18 A Government bond’ is a bond issued by a national a) The International Monetary Fund has raised government, generally with a promise to pay periodic interest payments and to repay the face value on the maturity date. projections for India’s economic growth by 0.2 percentage points to 7.6% for 2016-17 and 2017-18. Government bonds are usually denominated in the country’s b) The International Monetary Fund is an own currency. international organization headquartered in Indian banks’ Tier 1 capital 3rd lowest in emerging Washington, D.C. markets IMF Indian Banks have been ranked third from the bottom in terms  Headquarters: Washington of Tier 1 capital ratio among major emerging market  Head: Christine Lagarde. economies, according to the International Monetary Fund’s latest Global Financial Stability Report. Only Russian and China’s Yuan Just Joined An Elite Club Of International Monetary Fund Reserve Currencies Chilean banks were ranked below India. Tier 1 capital is the a) China’s yuan joined the International Monetary core measure of a bank’s financial strength from a regulator’s point of view. Fund’s basket of reserve currencies in a significant event for the government’s campaign for SEBI proposes ban on trading tips through SMS, recognition as a global economic power. social media b) The yuan joined the dollar, euro, The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has yen and pound in the IMF’s special drawing proposed a ban on unauthorised trading tips through social rights(SDR) basket, which determined currencies media platforms like SMS, WhatsApp and Facebook. that countries could receive as part of IMF loans. SEBI c) China officials led by Zhou Xiaochuan, head of  Headquarters : Mumbai the People’s Bank of China  Chairman- Upendra Kumar Sinha NEWS IN BRIEF India now the 12th largest holder of US govt bonds  Global agency Fitch Ratings projected that the India’s investments in US government bonds reached 123.7 Indian economy will grow at 7.4% in 2016-17 and billion dollars, making it the 12 largest holder of American touches 8% growth only in 2018-19. bonds. China stand at 1st position.  The World Bank has said that India’s GDP growth Important news regarding FDI will remain strong at 7.6% in 2016 and 7.7% in 2017.  During FY2015, India received the maximum FDI  Shri , the Minister of State on equity inflows from Mauritius. behalf of Union Government announced to raise  India replaces China as top FDI destination in 2015. the Employees Provident Fund ( EPF) investment  Services sector still continues to attract most foreign in Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) from present 5% direct investment (FDI) to 10% with an aim to get the good returns in ETF. The move was set to see nearly Rs 13,000 crore flow MasterCard launches ‘selfie pay’ app in Europe into the stock markets from the EPFO during the a) US financial services company MasterCard has current fiscal year. rolled out ‘Identity Check’, an app that uses facial  According to World Bank, India accounted for biometrics for payment authentication, in Europe. the largest number of people living below b) The app will be made available to MasterCard users international poverty line in 2013. globally in early 2017. MasterCard Throughout the world, its principal business is to process payments between the banks of merchants and the card issuing banks or credit unions of the purchasers who use

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MERGER ACQUISITION AND TIE UP b) Time Warner is the parent of CNN, TNT, HBO, the Warner Bros. studio, and other channels and Standard Chartered Bank forms tie-up with Uber websites, CNNMoney. a) Foreign lender Standard Chartered Bank has announced a tie-up with Uber under which its credit Uber inks pact with Electronics and IT Min to cardholders, across six countries, will get a cash- train drivers back of up to 25 per cent for hailing cabs from the a) Ride-hailing app Uber on Saturday inked a pact with app. the Ministry of Electronics and IT’s CSCs (Common b) In India, the cardholders will get a 20 per cent cash- Services Centres) to train drivers on its platform. back on all Uber rides, subject to a cash—back cap b) A part of company’s UberSHAAN initiative, the of Rs. 600 per month. agreement will help individuals receive driver c) Additionally, first-time Uber users will get a discount training, facilitate license procurement and vehicle of Rs.50 for the first three rides. financing. Through the initiative, Uber aims to create d) Apart from India, the partnership has been activated 10 lakh job opportunities in India by 2018. in Singapore, Indonesia, , and Cabinet approves pact between EXIM Bank, UAE. NDB UBER a) Union Cabinet today approved a pact between  CEO: Travis Kalanick Export-Import Bank of India and BRICS-promoted  Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United New Development Bank, along with other States development financial institutions of member  Founders: Travis Kalanick, Garrett Camp nations, with an aim to strengthen trade and Standard Chartered Bank economic ties.  Headquarters: London, United Kingdom b) The New Development Bank (NDB) aims to mobilize  CEO: Bill Winters resources for development projects in BRICS, Rosneft-led consortium acquired India’s Essar Oil emerging economies and developing countries. for $13 billion NDB a) Russian consortium led energy giant Rosneft Oil  President: K. V. Kamath,Founder: BRICS Company has agreed to acquire India’s second EXIM bank biggest private oil firm Essar Oil,valued at about US  Headquarters: Mumbai $13 billion.  CEO: Shri Yaduvendra Mathur b) Essar Group is an Indian conglomerate led by Shashi NEWS IN BRIEF Ruia and Ravi Ruia. State-run carrier Air India, to tie up with BSNL for c) Top 3 country  Wi-Fi facility on flights  Online travel company MakeMyTrip has acquired Oil production Oil Oil rival Indian travel company Ibibo. importer exporter 1- United States 1-United 1-Saudi  State-run Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) tied-up with States Arabia United India Insurance Company (UIIC). 2- Saudi Arabia 2-China 2- Russia  Italian motorcycle company Ducati has signed a (OPEC) 3-India 3- Kuwait pact with YES Bank to provide retail finance to 3- Russia customers. YES BANK AT&T Agrees to Buy Time Warner for $85.4  Headquarters: Maharashtra Billion  CEO: Rana Kapoor a) Telecommunications giant AT&T agreed to  Tag line-Experience our Expertise buy Media giant Time Warner for about $85.4 billion to expand beyond it’s wireless and Internet service into programming. 

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c) The award bestowed upon him in recognition of his  Swayam Shikshan Prayog has bagged the UN vision and leadership in environment and climate award 2016 for clean energy project sustainable development that made Sikkim India’s  Film-maker and elephant researcher Prajna Chowta first into a fully organic state. (46) has been appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite (Knight in the National Order of Indian-origin Kiara Nirghin wins 2016 Google Merit) by the French government. Science Fair prize  Young filmmaker Katyayan Shivpuri, from a) Indian-origin South African Kiara Nirghin (16) has Maharashtra, has won the first prize at the Swachh won a $50,000 scholarship at the annual Google Bharat Short Film Festival (SBSFF) for his work Science Fair held in United States. “Murga”. b) He has won this prestigious scholarship for her  The prestigious ‘P.L. Roy Award’ instituted by project titled ‘No More Thirsty Crops’ by HelpAge India has been conferred on SJVN for its developing a cheaper super-absorbent material outstanding contribution in providing free & quality using orange peel that helps soil retain water and medical care to the communities as one of its many help to alleviate the severe drought plaguing South CSR initiatives. Africa.  Telangana IT Minister K T Rama Rao (KTR) was NEWS IN BRIEF awarded with the Global Champion of Digital  A 13-year-old Chhattisgarh boy has won the Literacy Award by Certiport. Certiport found the prestigious APJ Abdul Kalam IGNITE Award. work done by Rao deserving of a Global Champion  Bollywood Actress Sonam Kapoor has been of Digital Literacy Award. bestowed upon with the 2016 ET Panache  The 29 year old Prineet Grewal from Pune was Trendsetter Award in Mumbai, Maharashtra. crowned with Mrs India Earth 2016 at a gala  The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced ceremony amid members of the fashion industry in Robert De Niro as the recipient of the 44th Chaplin Dwarka. Award.  Airport Authority of India’s Tirupati Airport has  Eminent writer C Radhakrishnan has been selected been awarded as “Best Tourist Friendly Airport” for the Mathrubhumi Literary Award in recognition under the category for “State Annual Excellence of his contribution to the field of literature. Awards (2015-16)” by Andhra Pradesh Tourism.  Veteran actor Ian McKellen was honoured at the  Gujarat’s 900-year-old World Heritage Site Rani ki UK Theatre Awards Vav bagged an award for the “Cleanest Iconic Place”  recently received the at the Indian Sanitation Conference (INDOSAN) ‘Outstanding Celebrity Woman of the Year’ award 2016 at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi. while featuring among Outlook Business’ 19  Renowned Dalit personality, poet and Telugu outstanding women. writer Prof.Kalakaluri Enoch was conferred with the  Former Uttarakhand chief minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 29th Moortidevi Award of Bharatiya Jnanpith for Nishank has been conferred with a prestigious the year 2015. award by the Ugandan government for promoting  R. A. Mashelkar, former Director-General of CSIR, human values through his literature. has been conferred the V Krishnamurthy Award for  The new integrated terminal building of excellence by the Hyderabad-based Centre for Chandigarh International Airports Limited (CHIAL) Organisation Development. has bagged the 2014-15 India Building Congress (IBC) Award for Excellence in Built Environment.   Sprinter Srabani Nanda has bagged the 24th Ekalabya Award for the year 2016 in recognition of her sporting excellence by IMPACT in Odisha.  Nayanjot Lahiri, Professor of History at the Ashoka University, has been awarded the 2016 John F. Richards Prize

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The Will Not Dance: Hansda Sowvendra Photo-biography chronicling Gandhi’s life in colour Shekhar launched The book titled The Adivasi Will Not Dance, penned by The photo-biography on Mahatma Gandhi titled “Mahatma Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, was in news in the second week – Gandhi’s Life in Colour” launched by Union Culture of October 2016.The book was recently shortlisted for The Minister Mahesh Sharma in New Delhi. It contains 692-pages Hindu Prize 2016. and published by GandhiServe India.Another book titled ‘Andhere se Ujale ki Aur‘ book released “Untouchability No More” was also released by Mahesh Sharma BJP President released the book ‘Andhere se Ujale ki Aur‘ authored by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. Arundhati Roy’s next novel to be out in 2017 The book is a compilation of blogs and articles. Nearly, 20 years after her Booker prize-winning novel ‘The The Sleepwalker’s Dream authored by God of Small Things’ was published. Arundhati Roy has Dhrubajyoti Borah released announced the release of her next novel titled “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness” in June 2017. Book titled The Sleepwalker’s Dream authored by Dhrubajyoti Borah released. The book authored by Borah, President of Shri releases book titled “Modi’s Asam Sahitya Sabha. Midas Touch in Foreign Policy” Minister for Information and Broadcasting M. Venkaiah ‘Shahid Afridi: An Autobiography’. Naidu along with Minister for Railways Shri Suresh Pakistani cricketer Shahid Afridi has the announced plans to Prabhu and Shri Tarun Vijay, Former Member of Parliament reveal his autobiography next year, titled ‘Shahid Afridi: An released the book titled “Modi’s Midas Touch in Foreign Autobiography’. Policy” in New Delhi.The book has been authored by Book launched on Ambassador Surendra Kumar. A book on India’s Test captain Virat Kohli named ‘Driven: The Virat Kohli Story’ was launched in New Delhi.It is Written by journalist Vijay Lokapally. 

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WORLD Yao Ming: China has appointed Basketball player Yao Ming Sheikh Hasina: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as its ambassador to Mars, in order to promote country’s was re-elected unopposed as the ruling Awami League’s first mission to the Red Planet in 2020. president. Antonio Guterres: The UN General Assembly will Morinari Watanabe: Morinari Watanabe(57) from formally appoint Portugal’s former Prime Minister Antonio Japan was elected as the Ninth president of the International Guterres as the next Secretary-General of the world body to Gymnastics Federation at the 81st FIG Congress in Tokyo. FIG replace Ban Ki-moon. Mr Guterres will succeed Mr Ban as Headquarters : Lausanne, Switzerland an the 9th Secretary General when Mr Ban’s tenure ends on P. S. Raman: The World Free Zones Orgànisation (World December 31. FZO) has appointed P. S. Raman, Joint Development BILATERAL Commissioner (Retd), Santacruz Electronics Export Processing Zone, Special Economic Zone, Mumbai, as its Dr. Ajay M. Gondane: Dr. Ajay M. Gondane has been Regional Representative for SAARC countries comprising appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Australia. Pakistan and Sri Lanka. FZO-Headquartered-Dubai Navdeep Singh Suri: Senior diplomat Navdeep Singh Morinari Watanabe: Japan’s Morinari Watanabe on 20 Suri has been appointed Ambassador to the United Arab October 2016 was elected the new President of the Emirates. International Gymnastics Federation (FIG). 29 Plot-1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRP Square, Bhubaneswar-751015 Ph. : (0674) 6556677, 8093556677. Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER- 2016

Amandeep Singh: Former IAS officer Amandeep Singh : The Union Government has appointed Gill was appointed as the next Ambassador/PR of India to senior Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer Sushil Chandra the UN Conference on Disarmament, Geneva. as the Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). Luo Zhaohui: China president appointed Luo Zhaohui , K J Yesudas: Playback singer K J Yesudas has been roped as China’s new ambassador to India. in by the ’ government as the brand ambassador of its Ms. Renu: Ms. Renu Pall Former ambitious ‘Haritha Keralam’ project. ‘Haritha Keralam’ (Green officer has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India Kerala) project, a massive initiative envisaged for a garbage- to Austria. free and clean state. Shri R Ravindra: Shri R Ravindra, presently Ambassador Anoyara Khatun: An 18-year-old girl Anoyara Khatun, of India to the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire, has been who was trafficked from the remote islands of Sundarbans in concurrently accredited as the Ambassador of India to the West Bengal, is an international child rights crusader and Republic of Guinea. has been invited twice to speak at the United Nations. M.Sevala Naik: M.Sevala Naik was concurrently ArjunVajpai: The professional Indian mountaineer, scaled accredited as the High Commissioner of India to the the world’s sixth highest mountain Cho Oyu. The mountain Commonwealth of The Bahamas. is located on the China-Nepal border at an altitude of 8188 Ravindra: Ravindra has been appointed as the meters above the sea level. Ambassador of India to the Republic of Guinea. S. Sivakumar: The Union Government has appointed S. Sivakumar as a full-time Member of the 21st Law Commission INDIA of India (LCI). Karnal Singh: The Union Government has appointed CORPORATE & PSU Senior IPS officer Karnal Singh as the Director of Enforcement Directorate (ED). The Economic Enforcement is economic Rajeev Misra: India-born Rajeev Misra in the third week intelligence and law enforcement agency responsible for of October 2016 was appointed the SoftBank Vision Fund, enforcing economic laws and fighting economic crime in constituted by Japanese telecom and Internet major Softbank India. It functions under the aegis of the Department of Corp. Revenue, Union Ministry of Finance. Bharti Enterprises Founder and Chairman Sunil Bilal Nazki: Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra has Mittal has been elected as GSMA (Global System Mobile appointed former Chief Justice of Orissa High Court Bilal Association) Chairman for a two-year period. Nazki as the chairperson of the State Human Rights Anup Bagchi: ICICI Bank appointed its brokerage Commission. business head Anup Bagchi as executive director of the bank S P Yadav: S P Yadav has been elected as the new President G Mahalingam: The government has appointed Reserve of the North Zone of Urology Society of India. Bank’s Executive Director G Mahalingam as a Whole-Time Member of markets regulator SEBI. Geeta Phogat: Haryana Government has appointed Parvez Ahmed : Jammu and Kashmir Bank today international woman wrestler Geeta Phogat as a Deputy appointed Parvez Ahmed as Chairman and CEO of the bank. Superintendent of Police (DSP) in Haryana Police. Arundhati Bhattacharya: Arundhati Bhattacharya will remain BCCI president Anurag Thakur has taken Anurag Thakur: the chairperson of the State Bank of India (SBI) for another charge as the member of the ICC’s powerful Finance and year. Commercial Affairs committee. Somesh Sharma: Somesh Sharma of Rashtradoot Saptahik Sanjay Singh: Former legislative secretary Sanjay Singh has been elected President of The Indian Newspaper Society has been appointed as Member Secretary, Law Commission for the year 2016-17. He succeeds PV Chandran. of India. R Subramania Kumar:R Subramania Kumar has Lalbiakthanga Pachuau: The Mizoram government and appointed as Executive Director (ED) of Indian Overseas the Mizoram Journalists’ Association declared Lalbiakthanga Bank (IOB). Pachuau as the “oldest working journalist in the country”. Mohit Kampani: Mohit Kampani, the former managing The 90-year-old former soldier is the editor of ‘Zoram director of Spencer’s Retail, will be joining Aditya Birla Retail Tlangau’, a Mizo daily, started by him in 1970. as chief executive officer. Ajay Kumar Bhalla: Senior IAS officer Ajay Kumar Bhalla Riyadh Mathew: Riyadh Mathew, Director of Malayala was on 14 October 2016 appointed as the Director General of , Chairman and Managing Director of Indian Foreign Trade (DGFT). Express has been unanimously elected Chairman of Press Trust of India (PTI).

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Shakti Sinha: The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet Vaishnavacharya Goswami : Vaishnavacharya Goswami approved the appointment of retired IAS officer Shakti Sinha Indirabetiji, a proponent of Sanatan Dharma known for her to the post of director, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library devotion to social causes, passed away. (NMML). M.S. Sahoo: The Centre has constituted a four-member RECENT VISITOR Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) under the FM Arun Jaitley embarks on 7-day official visit to Chairmanship of M.S. Sahoo. Canada,US RESIGN Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has embarked a 7-days official(October 3 to October 10) visit to Canada and the US Cyrus Mistry: Cyrus Mistry removed as Chairman of Tata to attend the annual meetings of World Bank and IMF and Sons.The company’s Board has named Chairman Emeritus hold talks with global investors. as the Interim Chairman. Canada Jawhar Sircar: Jawhar Sircar resigned as the Chief He met top official and review progress made in the Executive Officer (CEO) of Prasar Bharati Corporation. proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) and Foreign Investment and Protection Agreement OBITUARY (FIPA).  Capital: Ottawa,Currency: Canadian dollar Carlos Alberto Torres: Legendary footballer Carlos  Prime minister: Justin Trudeau Alberto Torres passed away US Raj Begum: The Nightingale of Kashmir, Raj Begum, who He participated in the 2016IMF-World Bank Annual enthralled millions with her mellifluous voice for more than Meetings Plenary on October 7, 2016 at the historic DAR seven decades, passed away Constitution Hall, Washington DC.He also chaired Mehar Mittal: Veteran Punjabi actor Mehar Mittal, who acquired legendary status with his comic roles, passed away the Commonwealth Finance Minister’s meeting at the IMF headquarters. at a hospital in Mount Abu, Rajasthan Junko Tabei: The first woman to conquer Mount Everest, Aung San SuuKyi to embark on three day-visit to Junko Tabei, died in Japan. Tabei became the first woman to India reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1975, and the first to a) Myanmar pro-democratic leader Aung San SuuKyi complete the Seven Summits, ascending the seven will pay a three day-visit to India from 17th of this continents’ highest points. Her last challenge was made in month. July when she climbed Mount Fuji. b) The visit will take place immediately after the Tom Hayden: Tom Hayden, a 1960s anti-war activist and conclusion of the BRICS-BIMSTEC outreach summit one of the era’s most prominent, counter-culture radicals to be held in Goa on October 16 who went on to serve in the California state assembly and senate, has died aged 76. NEWS IN BRIEF Mewa Ramgobin: South African struggle icon and  Vice President Hamid Ansari had a five-day tour of Gandhian activist Mewa Ramgobin has died at the age of 83 Nigeria and Mali in order to strengthen India after a prolonged illness. bilateral engagements with these two West African Kigeli V: The last king of Rwanda, Kigeli V passed away. nations. Dayanand Anant: Renowned writer and litterateur from NIGERIA Uttarakhand, Dayanand Anant, passed away.  Capital: Abuja, Currency: Nigerian naira Parmeshwar Godrej: Parmeshwar Godrej, philantropist  President: Muhammadu Buhari and wife of Godrej group chairman passed away MALI in Mumbai on October 11 2016.  Capital: Bamako, Currency: franc Aaron Pryor: Hall of Famer Aaron Pryor died in  President: Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta Los Angels.  Guyana PM Moses Nagamootoo come on an official Ram Ekbal Singh: Veteran socialist leader and freedom visit to India. fighter Ram Ekbal Singh has died after protracted illness.  Capital: Georgetown, Currency: Guyanese dollar Bhumibol Adulyadej: Thailand’s King Bhumibol  President: David A. Granger Adulyadej – the world’s longest-serving monarch, died at the age of 88.  Syed Shamsul Haq: Bangladeshi author Syed Shamsul Haq passed away in Dhaka.

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Marine park, Antarctica c) C hairm an of A A I- Guruprasad Mohapatra a) The European Union and 24 countries reached an agreement to create the world’s largest marine park High-altitude glacial lab opens in the Himalayas in Antarctica, after five years of negotiations. a) A high altitude glaciological research station in b) The deal will protect over 1.5 million square Himalaya called Himansh (meaning a slice of ice) kilometres of the Ross Sea, with 1.1 million square began functioning above 13,500 ft (4000 m) in a kilometres being designated a ‘general protection remote region in Spiti, Himachal Pradesh. zone’ that outlaws fishing. The protections are set Researchers will use this station as a base for to expire in 35 years. undertaking surveys that would digitize the glacier motion and snow cover variations with exceptional Harni airport, Vadodara precision. a) Prime Minister NarendraModi inaugurated the state b) It was established by the National Centre for of art international terminal bulding at Harni airport Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR). in Vadodara. b) Prime Minister also distributed artificial limbs and Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis declares other equipment to more than 8 thousands Nagpur first digital district of India ‘Divyangs’ the people with disabilities in Vadodara. a) Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis declared Nagpur as the first digital district of India in Sardar Patel Heart Institute at Ankleshwar Mumbai. a) President Pranab Mukherjee has inaugurated the b) All 776 gram panchayats in Nagpur district have Sardar Patel Heart Institute at Ankleshwar in Gujarat. been digitally transformed. b) He also unveiled the statue of Sardar Patel situated c) He also announced a campaign against illicit liquor. in the institute premises. d) GOV-Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao Almatti dam, Karnataka NEWS IN BRIEF a) Almatti dam, one of the largest reservoirs in  Madhya Pradesh’s Katni district has made it Karnataka, was chosen for the World Bank’s Award mandatory for passport applicants to have toilets of Excellence for best utilisation of funds for in their homes, if they wish to obtain No Objection renovation to enhance the strength of the dam. Certificates from the police. b) The World Bank had granted Rs.72 crore to  The Congo River, which spans ten countries in the Bhagya Jal Nigam Limited to prevent Africa, is considered the world’s deepest river by seepage which could damage the dam. the Guinness World Records. c) Dams located in Karnataka-Krishna Raja Sagara  The Warley Museum, considered to be the world’s Dam, Tungabhadra Dam, Bhadra Dam and Vani smallest museum, recently opened up inside a phone Vilasa Sagara Dam booth in Yorkshire, England.  Puducherry Lt Governor in the presence Vadodara gets India’s second eco-friendly airport of Chief Minister V Narayansamy a) Vadodara in Gujarat has got India’s second eco- declared Velrampet lake and surrounding area as friendly airport which is located on the outskirts of open defecation free. the city.  A 688-metre-long escalator, which is believed to be b) Chandigarh was the first eco friendly airport. the world’s longest sightseeing escalator, recently Chandigarh airport won best rated AirPort opened in China’s Hubei province. a) As per survey of Airports Authority of India (AAI)  The first Hindu temple in UAE’s capital Abu Dhabi Chandigarh airport has taken the top position among will be ready by 2017 all the 52 airports in the country, followed by Raipur,  A two-day international conference on with the third position being shared by Mangaluru empowering handloom and Khadi held in Vadodara. and airports. b) Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) has been rated the best in Southern region and third among  all the 52 airports in the country.

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partnership in Ranji trophy with their unbeaten appointed member of IOC’s stand of 594 runs. Athletes’ Commission a) Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal has been appointed as a member of the International Olympic 2016 Committee’s (IOC) Athletes’ Commission. Title Winner Runner b) Saina Nehwal recently won award in 2016 Men’s IOC Singles  H.Q-Lausanne, Switzerland Agnieszka Women’s  Head- Thomas Bach Singles Radwańska  Indian shuttler SourabhVerma clinched the men’s Pablo Carreño Jack singles title at the Chinese Open , Men’s Busta / Rafael Sock / Bernard Doubles defeating Malaysia’s Daren Nadal Tomic, Bethanie Mattek- FOOTBALL Women’s Sands / Lucie / France Kristina Doubles BRICS U–17 Football Tournament Championship Šafářová Mladenovic won by Brazil Maria Sharapova’s two-year doping ban reduced Brazil won the 1st BRICS U-17 Football Tournament 2016 Maria Sharapova’s two-year doping ban has been reduced held at Goa after defeating the South Africa in the title clash to 15 months following her appeal to the Court of Arbitration with 5-1.Russia placed at 3rd position,while china and india for Sport.The five-time winner was initially placed at 4th and 5th respectively. banned by the International Tennis Federation for two years FIFA unveiled mascot for 2018 World Cup after testing positive for meldonium at the 2016 Australian A wolf named Zabivaka has been chosen as the official Open. mascot of the upcoming FIFA football World Cup which will  Britain’s Andy Murray beat be held in Russia in 2018, gaining more than 53 percent of a 7-6 6-1 in straight sets to win the Shanghai Masters. nationwide vote HOCKEY FIFA(International Federation of Association Football)  The International Hockey Federation has appointed  2018 FIFA world cup will be held in Russia New Zealand’s Jason McCracken as its Chief  2014 FIFA world cup was held at Brasil and won by Executive Officer. Germany.  India lifted the 4th men’s Under-18 Asia Cup hockey  President-Gianni Infantino trophy by defeating Bangladesh 5-4 in the Under-  Secretary General-Fatma Samoura 18 Asia Cup hockey trophy in Dhaka. India had 2016 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup defeated Pakistan in semifinal. North Korea won the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup, BADMINTON after defeating Japan on penalties in the final of the tournament.North Korea became the first team to win the India at Grand Prix title tournament twice. a) India’s 19-year-old shuttler Ruthvika Shivani Gadde won the women’s singles title at the India rise to best FIFA rankings in 6 years Russian Open in Vladivostok. a) The Indian football team achieved its best FIFA b) Pranaav Jerry Chopra and N Sikki Reddy added to ranking in over six years when the side jumped 11 India’s tally by winning the mixed doubles title at places to be 137th in the latest list released. the event. b) Top 3 rank:1-Argentina,2-Belgium,3-Chile  Portugal’s Renato Sanches was awarded the 2016 Title Winner Runner European Golden Boy award.  The FIFA delegation along with the Local Men’s singles Zulfadli Zulkiffli Siril Verma Organising Committee members has confirmed Gadde Ruthvika Evgeniya Women’s Guwahati as the fifth venue for next year’s FIFA U- singles Shivani Kosetskaya 17 World Cup in India.

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 Former Brazilian footballer Pelé holds the Guinness b) Project Energia will focus on substances used with World Record for the most number of goals scored the exclusive aim of improving physical fitness and by an individual in a specified period. athletic performance. INTERPOL KABBADI  The International Criminal Police Organization India won 2016 Kabaddi World Cup  President is Mrs Mireille Ballestrazzi a) India has won the 2016 Kabaddi World Cup by  H.Q-Lyon, France defeating Iran by 38-29 score in the final match WADA played at the Arena By Trans Stadia in  H.Q-Montreal, Canada (Gujarat)  President-Sir Craig Reedie. b) Captain of Indian team: Anup Kumar Captain of NEWS IN BRIEF Iranian team: Meraj Sheykh  India has won its first-ever medal in an international c) It was India’s third consecutive Kabaddi World Cup roller skating racing event at the ongoing Asian in the Standard Style version of Kabaddi. Championships in China. d) Earlier India had won in 2004 and 2007 by defeating  Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton (England) has won Iran both times in final. the 2016 United States Grand Prix. e) In circle style Kabaddi world cup India had won 5  Indian Railways have won the World Railway consecutive world cup from 2010-14. Shooting Championship Cup held at Saint Mandrier, f) Pakistan has been debarred for the kabaddi world France. up 2016.  Manipur’s Jason Yengkhom has become the first OTHER SPORTS Indian to win a gold medal in the World Junior Wushu Championships. Usian Bolt to retire after the 2017 World  Indian boxer Neeraj Goyat outpunched Australia’s Championships Ben Kite to retain the WBC welterweight Asia title. a) Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt has confirmed that he  Nico Rosberg of Germany and Mercedes GP won is going to retire after the 2017 World Championships the Japan Grand Prix at Suzuka Circuit in London.  Aditi Ashok becomes first female Indian golfer to b) Jamaican Sprinter Usain Bolt created an record 3 consecutive top 10 European Tour finishes unprecedented record of a triple treble (first athlete  World No. 3 Siddharth Parikh clinched the gold to win 9 gold medals in sprinting events of medal at the inaugural Asian billiards 2016, Olympics) by winning third Gold medal in Rio defeating Aung Htay (Myanmar). Olympics 2016.  23-year old Kieren Dsouza from Bengaluru has become the first Indian to complete the Spartathlon, Govt to set up five dedicated centres for divyang widely described as the “world’s toughest race”. He athletes completed the 246.6 km distance in the 2016 edition, Union Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thawar in 33 hours, one minute and 38 seconds. The Chand Gehlot announced to set up five national-level Spartathlon is an annual run between Athens and sophisticated sports centres for differently-abled sports Sparta in Greece persons, with an objective of catering to their special needs  Annu Rani became the first Indian woman javelin like training and diet. thrower to cross the 60m mark on the third day of 2016 Reo Paralympics & India the 56th Open National Athletics Championships  Rank-43 by smashing her own national record.  Medal-4(2 gold,1 silver & 1 bronze)  The International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF)  Gold- -Men’s High Jump has awarded ace shooter, , the ‘Champion of  -Men’s JavelinThrow Champions’ title for pistol shooting in 2016.  Silver-- Women’s Shot Put  Australian racing driver, Daniel Ricciardo has won  Bronze-Varun Singh Bhati-Men’s High Jump the 2016 Malaysian Grand Prix held at the Sepang Project Energia by INTERPOL and World Andi- International Circuit in Selangor, Malaysia. Doping Agency (WADA)  Indian golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar won his 6th Asian a) INTERPOL and World Andi-Doping Agency Tour title, winning the Korea Open 2016 in (WADA) have launched a joint Project Energia to ,South Korea. combat doping abuse in sports.  35 Plot-1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRP Square, Bhubaneswar-751015 Ph. : (0674) 6556677, 8093556677. Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER- 2016 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

India showed 2nd highest growth in science Microsoft research  Founders-Bill Gates, Paul Allen According to a new report India placed at second position in  Headquarters- Washington, US contribution to high-quality scientific research, which shows  C.E.O- Satya Nadella( From India) that the growth of research in the country is only behind China’s. NPL Scientists produce electricity from water without using energy India’s communication satellite GSAT-18 a) Scientists have developed a novel way using of successfully launched from French Guiana producing electricity from water hydroelectric cell  India’s latest communication satellite GSAT-18 was at room temperature without using any power or successfully launched from the spaceport of Kourou chemicals. in French Guiana. b) The major breakthrough was developed by team of  GSAT-18 was the 20th satellite from ISRO to be scientists led by Dr. RK Kotnala from Delhi’s National launched by the European space agency and overall Physical Laboratory (NPL). 280th mission of the Arianespace rocket launcher family. Ashok Leyland launches first India-made electric  ISRO Head-A. S. Kiran Kumar bus a) Hinduja Group flagship Ashok Leyland today Microsoft Launched Cybersecurity Engagement launched - Circuit - the first “Made in India” electric Centre in India bus. Microsoft has launched its first cybersecurity engagement b) The bus with a minimum seating capacity of 35 to a center in New Delhi, which will help the government and the maximum of 65 can run up to 120 kilometres on a private sector organisations to deal with cyber attacks. single recharge under standard test conditions.

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IIL develops CYSVAX, world’s first vaccine to fight against tapeworms in pig a) The Indian Immunologicals Limited (IIL) has launched CYSVAX, world’s first vaccine to fight against Taenia solium Tapeworms in pigs. b) Cysticercosis is a parasitic disease caused by pork tapeworm named Taenia solium. NEWS IN BRIEF  The world’s first child with genes from three people was born to a Jordanian couple in Mexico.

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CO2 level reaches record high in 2016: WMO Powerful typhoon Chaba to hit Japan a) According to the World Meteorological Powerful typhoon Chaba barrelled toward Japan after it hit a Organization’s (WMO) annual Greenhouse Gas South Korean resort island causing flight cancellations and Bulletin level of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in flooding streets. the atmosphere has reached a record high. Japan b) The globally averaged concentration of CO2 in the  Capital: Tokyo, Currency: Japanese yen atmosphere reached to 400 parts per million (ppm)  Prime minister: Shinzô Abe for the first time in 2015. NEWS IN BRIEF c) It is expected to surge again to new records in 2016  According to study conducted by researchers from on the back of the very powerful El Niño event. University of Idaho, US Uranus may have two tiny, World Meteorological Organization (WMO) previously undiscovered moons orbiting near two  Membership: 191 Member States and Territories. of the planet’s rings.  Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland.  Typhoon Haima made a landfall in south China’s Delhi govt. to install machines to check air Guangdong Province triggering sudden pollution downpours in several cities. a) The Delhi government has decided to install devices  The International Union for Conservation of Nature and machines for regulation of commercial vehicles (IUCN) would be declaring the Kashmiri Red Stag to check air pollution. or Hangul as a ‘critically endangered species’. b) The machines would be installed at all 13 entry  A new species of fish named Scomber Indicus in points in the national capital. Kerala waters by a team of CMFRI (Central Marine c) Recently in Delhi, the Environment Pollution Control Fisheries Research Institute)scientists led by E M Authority (EPCA), a Supreme Court-appointed Abdussamad. pollution watchdog, launched a mobile app  ISRO started landing tests for Chandrayaan-2 “HawaBadlo”, aiming to improve air quality with mission. public participation.  Two-thirds of wild animals may go extinct by 2020 As pr the report of Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), global wildlife populations VANIK’S KNOWLEDGE GARDEN have fallen by 58% since 1970 and if the trend continues Important Nuclear Power Plant in India then two-thirds of wild animals may go extinct by 2020. Plant Location State Capacity Narora Atomic Power WWF Narora Uttar Pradesh 440 MW  Headquarters: Gland, Switzerland Station Rajasthan Atomic  Rawatbhata Rajasthan 1180 MW CEO: Marco Lambertini Power Station Tarapur Atomic Power Protein-enriched rice variety developed by IGKV Tarapur Maharashtra 1400 MW Station Chattisgarh Kakrapar Atomic Kakrapar Gujarat 440 MW a) A protein-enriched rice variety has developed by Power Station Researchers from Indira Gandhi Krishi Kudankulam Nuclear Kudankulam Tamilnadu - MW Vishwavidyalaya (IGKV),Chattisgarh. Power Plant Madras Atomic Power b) The new developed rice variety has over 10% Kalpakkam Tamilnadu - MW Station protein content, which is 3% more than what is Kaiga Nuclear Power Kaiga Karnataka 660 MW found in any popular variety and has 30 PPM (parts Plant per million) zinc content. Madras Atomic Power Kalpakkam Tamil Nadu 440 MW c) Top producer of Rice: 1- china,2-india,3-Indonesia. Station d) Top producer of Rice in india-1-west Bengal, 2- Uttar Pradesh,3- Andhra Pradesh

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India and Russia signed agreement worth about INS Viraat, the world’s oldest aircraft carrier is $2 billion lease second Akula-II being decommissioned by Indian Navy a) India has signed agreement worth about $2 billion a) INS Viraat is expected to be decommissioned by with Russia to lease second Akula-II class nuclear end of this year, after 55 years of service, including attack submarine (SSN) which is expected to 27 years with the Royal Navy (British Navy). arrive in Indian waters in 2020-21. b) The Navy has agreed to hand over INS Viraat to b) The lease to transfer a multipurpose Project 971 Andhra Pradesh government after its nuclear submarine to India from the Russian Navy decommissioning. was signed in Goa on the sidelines of 8th BRICS Summit. Two ships commissioned for Navy and Coast c) India had earlier leased first Akula-II class nuclear Guard attack submarine (SSN) for a period of 10 years a) Indian Navy has commissioned INS Tihayu, a Car from Russia. Nicobar Class water jet fast attack craft (WJFAC). INS(Indian Navy Ships) b) It was commissioned by the Flag-Officer-  INS Arihant (Arihant class) is india’s first Commanding-in-Chief of the Eastern Naval indigenously ballistic missile submarine(SSBN).This Command Vice-Admiral H.C.S. Bisht in is India’s only one nuclear power ballistic missile Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. submarine. c) Fast patrol vessel ICGS Gaidinliu, named after Naga  Akula-II(Chakra class) is Russia made nuclear power freedom fighter and leader , was attack submarine in India. Currently only one Akula commissioned by Director-General Rajendra Singh II in service. of the Coast Guard. India-Sri Lanka joint military exercise Mitra Three day conference of Indian Air Force Shakti 2016 begins concludes The fourth edition of the India-Sri Lanka Joint Military Three day conference of top commanders of Indian Air Force Exercise ‘MITRA SHAKTI 2016’ began at Sinha Regimental was held in New Delhi. Centre in Ambepussa, Sri Lanka. Indian Air Force  Headquarters: New Delhi nd India and China conducted 2 joint military  Chief of Air Staff (CAS): Air Chief Marshal Arup exercise Sino India Cooperation 2016 Raha a) India and China have conducted second joint military exercise “Sino India Cooperation 2016” in India completes nuclear triad by commissioning Ladakh region along the Line of Actual Control INS Arihant (LAC) in Jammu and Kashmir. a) India navy has inducted the first indigenously built b) The exercise compliments Hand in Hand series of strategic nuclear submarine INS Arihant into service. India-China joint military exercises. b) With this, India becomes fourth country to have a c) The theme of the day long joint exercise was based nuclear triad i.e. capable of delivering nuclear on Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief (HADR). weapons by aircraft, ballistic missiles and submarine launched missiles. ICGS Aryaman and Atulya Commissioned into c) Other countries having nuclear triad are Russia, Indian Coast Guard United States and China. a) The Indian Coast Guard Ships (ICGSs) ‘Aryaman’ and ‘Atulya’ were commissioned into Indian Coast India-Indonesia Bilateral Maritime Exercise Guard in , Kerala. Commenced at Belawan, Indonesia b) These ships are the eighteenth and nineteenth in India and Indonesia commenced their 28th India-Indonesia the series of twenty Fast Patrol Vessels (FPVs) Coordinated Patrol and Second Bilateral Maritime Exercise designed and built by Cochin Shipyard Limited. at Belawan, Indonesia in the Andaman Sea.

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INDONESIA  An 8-member team of ’s 2nd Battalion  Capital: Jakarta of 8 Gorkha Rifles was awarded a gold medal at the  Currency: Indonesian rupiah Cambrian Patrol organised by the British Army.  President: Joko Widodo NEWS IN BRIEF  In Haryana, traffic policemen in Gurugram would  soon be equipped with body worn video cameras which would enhance road safety. RECENT SUMMIT IN NEWS

BU General Assembly’s meetings held in Global Conference to strengthen Arbitration & Indonesia Enforcement held in New Delhi a) The 53rd Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union General a) President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated 3 day long Assembly and Associated Meetings (ABU) held at first ever global conference to strengthen Arbitration Bali, Indonesia. and Enforcement in New Delhi, India. b) The nine-day events hosted by the Radio Republic b) The conference aims to provide impetus to Indonesia. commercial arbitration in country or faster and c) The theme for this year is “Media for the Future”. efficient dispute resolution outside the court room. G-20 Anti Corruption Working Group (ACWG) First ever International Conference on Voter meeting held in Paris Education hosted by EC The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the G20 Anti- a) Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Dr Nasim Zaidi Corruption Working Group (ACWG) held a 6th joint Experts inagurated the 3 day long, first ever International Meeting on Corruption in Paris, France. Conference on Voter Education in New Delhi. The meeting was chaired jointly by the FATF President, Mr. b) The Conference was attended by 27 countries and Juan Manuel Vega-Serrano (Spain) and the G20 ACWG Co- 5 international organizations. Chair, Mr. Creon Butler (United Kingdom). EC G20 :  CEC- Dr Nasim Zaidi  The G20 is an international forum for the  EC- Achal Kumar Jyoti, Om Prakash Rawat governments and central bank governors from 19  First EC-Sukumar Sen countries & European Union.  H.Q.-New Delhi  Founded: 1999  Headquarters : ýCancún, Mexico 4th BRICS Science, Technology and Innovation  Members : Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ministerial Meeting held at China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, a) 4th BRICS Science, Technology and Innovation Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Ministerial Meeting was held atJaipur, Rajasthan on South Africa, Turkey, United Kingdom and United 8 October, 2016 to strengthen the collaboration States along with the European Union (EU). amongst the BRICS countries in the areas of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI). Western Zonal Council Meeting held in Mumbai b) Theme – Building, Responsive Inclusive and a) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated Collective Solutions the 22nd meeting of the Western Zonal Council was c) India hosted the 1st BRICS Young Scientists recently held at Mumbai, Maharashtra Conclave at Bengaluru and Hampi last week. b) The Western Zonal Council consist of the States of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa and Union Territories of First BRICS Trade Fair in Delhi Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli The first trade fair of the BRICS countries was held on October 12-14 in New Delhi. Along with it the meetings of the BRICS Business Forum and BRICS Business Council was also be held.

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18th edition of World Congress  Minister of Women and Child Development Maneka The 18th edition of World Congress of Criminology would Gandhi will inaugurate the Women of India Festival be held in India from December 15-19 in Sonipat, Haryana. 2016 at Dilli Haat in New Delhi. Theme of 3 day World Congress of Criminology is  The Ministry of Tourism has organised the “5th ‘Urbanization, Globalization, Development and Crime: International Buddhist Conclave” (from October 2 Opportunities and Challenges of the XXI Century’. O P Jindal to 6) in collaboration with the State Governments Global University (JGU) and International Society of of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Criminology (ISC) is going to organize this summits.  Union Tourism and Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma inaugurated the 5th International NEWS IN BRIEF Buddhist Conclave in Varanasi-Sarnath.  Prime Minister NarendraModi will inaugurate the five-day 104th Indian Science Congress at the Sri Venkateswara University in Tirupati on January 3.  COMMITTEE & ITS FUNCTION

Union Government notifies constitution of b) The committee was constituted after mortality Monetary Policy Committee. among the birds in National Zoological Park, Delhi The Union Government has notified the constitution of the NCR and other parts of the country due to Avian six members Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). Influenza Virus (H5N1) was found. The six member are c) Recently in month of September India has officially 1. Urjit Patel: RBI Governor (Chairperson). declared itself free from highly contagious Avian 2. R Gandhi: Deputy Governor RBI in charge of Influenza (H5N1) or bird flu. Monetary Policy (Member). 3. Michael Patra: Executive Director of RBI (Member). L Narasimha Reddy Committee on OROP submits 4. Chetan Ghate: Professor, Indian Statistical Institute report to Defence Minister (ISI) (Member). The committee headed by L Narasimha Reddy on One Rank 5. Professor Pami Dua: Director, Delhi School of One Pension (OROP), has submitted its report to Defence Economics (DSE) (Member). Minister Manohar Parrikar. 6. Ravindra H. Dholakia: Professor Indian Institute of K.S. Valdiya committee concluded that Saraswati Management (IIM), Ahmedabad (Member). river existed The meetings of the MPC will be held at least 4 times a year. a) The K.S. Valdiya committee which submitted its The six member MPC has been entrusted with the task of report to the Union Water Resources Ministry has fixing the benchmark policy rate (repo rate) required to contain concluded that Saraswati River so far considered inflation within the specified target level. mythical, existed. MPC b) Earlier, River Saraswati was considered as a As per the provisions of the RBI Act, out of the six Members mythological river and has been mentioned in of MPC, three Members will be from the RBI. They are the ancient Hindu scriptures like the Rig Veda, Governor of RBI (ex officio Chairperson), Deputy Governor Ramayana, Mahabharata. of RBI, in charge of Monetary Policy (Member), One officer of RBI (Member), other three will be appointed by the Central CERC appointed committee suggests overhaul in Government. transmission planning a) The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission Munialappa Committee constituted to monitor (CERC) appointed committee has submitted its bird flu situation recommendations in power transmission. a) The Union Agricultural Ministry has constituted b) It was headed by power system expert . “Munialappa Committee” to monitor the bird flu situation and help state governments take steps to contain the disease.

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Finance Ministry constitutes committee to SOME RECENT COMMITTEE IN NEWS consolidate regulation of pension products  GST committee Chairman-Arun Jaitely. a) The Union Finance Ministry has constituted a high-  Committee on Finance to probe merger of railway, level committee to consolidate the regulation of union budget-Veerappa Moily. pension products.  The K.S. Valdiya committee-On Saraswati River b) The committee would have representatives from all  Mata Prasad committee-The Central Electricity financial sector regulators SEBI, IRDA, RBI and Regulatory Commission (CERC) PFRDA.  The Madhukar Gupta Committee -on border c) Its mandate will be to look into the issue of bringing protection has submitted its report to the Union these companies which are offering pension plans Ministry Home Affairs (MHA). under different regulators under the purview of  Amitabh Kant committee to review e-commerce PFRDA. rules. PFRDA: Pension Fund Regulatory and Development  Tarun Ramadorai committee to look at household Authority. finances in India. PFRDA is a statuary pension regulatory authority established  T V S N Prasad Committee to explore possible in 2003 under the PFRDA Act. It functions under the aegis of alternatives to pellet guns in Kashmir Union Ministry of Finance, Department of Financial Services.  Arvind Subramanian committee to tackle the PFRDA promotes old age income security by establishing, shortage of pulses. developing and regulating pension funds  Shankar Acharya Committee to examine desirability  Headquarters-New Delhi, India and feasibility of new financial year  Chairman-Hemant Contractor  NK Singh Committee to review FRBM Fiscal SEBI(Securities And Exchange Board Of India) Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM)  In April 1988 the SEBI was constituted as the Act. regulator of capital markets in India under a resolution of the Government of India.   Initially SEBI was a non statutory body without any statutory power. However, in 1995, the SEBI was given additional statutory power by the Vanik’s Knowledge Garden Government of India through an amendment to Name of the Bank /Head Office

t h e S ecurities and E xchange B o ard o f Ind ia A ct,

1 9 9 2 . 1. Allahabad Bank Kolkata  Headquarters-Mumbai, Maharashtra 2. Bank of Baroda Baroda 3. Bank of Maharashtra Pune  Chairman-Upendra Kumar Sinha 4. Bank of India Mumbai IRDAI 5. Central Bank of India Mumbai  Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority 6. Canara Bank of India (IRDAI) is an autonomous apex statutory 7. Dena Bank Mumbai 8. Indian Bank Chennai body tasked with the regulation and promotion of 9. Indian Overseas Bank Chennai the insurance and Re-insurance industries in India. 10. Punjab National Bank New  It was constituted by the Insurance Regulatory and Delhi Development Authority Act, 1999 passed by the 11. Syndicate Bank Manipal 12. Union Bank of India Mumbai Government of India. 13. United Commercial Bank (UCO Bank)  There are 52 insurance companies operating in India, Kolkata of which 24 are in the life insurance business and 28 14. United Bank of India Kolkata in general insurance. 15. Andhra Bank Hyderabad 16. Corporation Bank Mangalore  Government has relaxed FDI norms for the insurance 17. Oriental Bank of Commerce New Delhi sector by permitting overseas companies to buy 49 18. Punjab and Sindh Bank New Delhi per cent stake in domestic insurers without prior 19. Vijaya Bank Bangalore approval. 20. IDBI Bank Ltd Mumbai 21. ECGC (The Export Credit  Headquarters- Hyderabad, Telangana Guarantee Corporation of  Chairman, IRDA-T.S. Vijayan India Ltd) Mumbai

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20 October: World Statistics Day October 31: Rashtriya Ekta Diwas Theme “Better Data, Better Lives”. Noted British statistician a) Rashtriya Ekta Diwas (National Unity Day) is Sir David Cox (92) was awarded inaugural recipient of the observed across India on 31 October to International Prize in Statistics. commemorate birth anniversary (141 st ) of 17 October: International Day for the Eradication of Independent India’s first Deputy Prime Minister Poverty Sardar Vallabhai Patel. Theme: “Moving from humiliation and exclusion to b) 2016 Theme: “Integration of India”. participation: Ending poverty in all its forms”. c) The idea of Rashtriya Ekta Diwas was mooted by For the first time, it was observed in 1993. PM Narendra Modi in October 2014 to mark the 16 October: World Food Day birth anniversary of country’s first Home Minister Theme: “Climate is changing. Food and agriculture must too”. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. 15 October: International Day of Rural Women d) In the occasion of RashtriyaEktaDiwas Maharashtra In Uttar Pradesh, the Safe Motherhood Week is being and Government organized “Run for Unity” observed from 14 October to 21 October 2016. a special event. October 15: World Student Day e) The week in which 31st October, the birthday of October 15th, Dr. Abdul Kalam’s birthday is observed as late SardarVallabhbhai Patel falls is observed as World Student Day by United Nations Organization Vigilance Awareness Week (31oct – 5nov). annually. He was the 11th President of India. October 31: World Cities Day 5 October :World Teachers’ Day a) The World is observing Cities Day globally on 31st The World Teachers’ Day (WTD) 2016 was observed across October to work together for a planned and the world on 5 October 2016.The theme for the World sustainable urban life in the wake of rapid growth Teachers’ Day 2016 was Valuing Teachers, Improving their of population and problems. Status. b) 2016 Theme: “Inclusive Cities, Shared 3 October :The World Habitat Day Development”. Theme- Housing at the Centre. Union Minister for Urban 29 October : International Internet Day development Venkaiah Naidu has released ‘India Habitat III- National Report’, on the occasion of World Habitat Day at 28th October : National Ayurveda Day Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi. The first National Ayurveda Day was observed on 28 October 4–10 October: World Space Week on the occasion of Dhanwantari Jayanti.The theme for this World Space Week is an annual event that is observed from year is ‘Ayurveda for Prevention and Control of 4-10 October every year in various parts of the world Diabetes‘.Union Ministry of AYUSH had launched “Mission including Europe and Asia. World Space Week, 2016 is being Madhumeha” through Ayurveda on the occasion. observed with the theme, Remote Sensing: Enabling our 27 October: World Day for Audiovisual Heritage Future. Theme - It’s Your Story - Don’t Lose It. 2 October: The International Day of Non-Violence is 27th October :Infantry Day marked on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. It October 24: United Nations Day was the147th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The The day marks the anniversary of the entry into force of the nation also remembers the former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur UN Charter (the founding document of UNO) in 24 october Shastri on his 112nd birth anniversary. 1945.Theme: “Freedom First”.This year’s UN Day will be used 1st October : International day of Older Persons. to highlight concrete actions people can take to help achieve Theme - ”Take a Stand Against Ageism.” the Sustainable Development Goals. United Nations week, runs from 20 to 26 October. 24 October:55th raising day of The Indo Tibetan Border  Police (ITBP). October 21: Police Commemoration Day

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1. World Trade Organization (WTO) – 12. United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) – Headquarters – Geneva, Switzerland Headquarters – New York, US Head – Roberto Azevedo Head – Anthony Lake Founded on – 1 January, 1995 Founded on – December, 1946 13. United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) – 2. World Health Organization (WHO) – Headquarters – New York, US Headquarters – Geneva, Switzerland Head – Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin Head – Dr Margaret Chan Founded on – 1969 Founded on – 7 April, 1948 14. Asian Development Bank – 3. World Economic Forum (WEF) – Headquarters – Manila, Headquarters – Geneva, Switzerland Head – Takehiko Nakao Head – Klaus Schwab Founded on – 22 August, 1966 Founded on – 1971 15. Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) – 4. World Intellectual Property Organisation(WIPO Also Headquarters – Beijing, China called OMPI) – Head – Jin Liqun Headquarters – Geneva, Switzerland Founded on – 4 October, 2014 Head – Francis Gurry 16. New Development Bank (BRICS Development Bank) – Founded on – July 14, 1967 Headquarters – Shanghai, China 5. International Labour Organisation (ILO/OIT) – Head – K. V. Kamath Headquarters – Geneva, Switzerland Founded on – July, 2015 Head – Guy Ryder 17. United Nations Education Scientific & Cultural Founded on – 1919 Organisation (UNESCO) – 6. United Nations Conference on Trade & Development Headquarters – Paris, France (UNCTAD) – Head – Irina Bokova Headquarters – Geneva, Switzerland Founded on – 16 November, 1945 Head – Mukhisa Kituyi 18. Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development Founded on – 1964 (OECD) – 7. World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) – Headquarters – Paris, France Headquarters – Geneva, Switzerland Head – Jose Angel Gurria Head – Pettere Talas Founded on – 30 September, 1961 Founded on – 1950 19. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) – 8. International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) – Headquarters – Brussels, Belgium Headquarters – Geneva, Switzerland Head – Jens Stoltenberg Head – Peter Mauren Founded on – 4 April, 1949 Founded on – 1863 20. Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) – 9. International Monetary Fund (IMF) – Headquarters – Singapore Headquarters – Washington DC, US Head – Dr. Alan Bollard Head – Christine Lagarde Founded on – 1989 Founded on – 27 December, 1945 21. Association of South East Nations (ASEAN) – 10. The World Bank – Headquarters – Jakarta, Indonesia Headquarters – Washington DC, US Secretary-General – Le Luong Minh, Vietnam Founded on – July, 1944 Founded on – 8 August, 1967 11. United Nations Organization (UN) – 22. South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Headquarters – New York, US (SAARC) – Head – Ban Ki-moon Headquarters – Kathmandu, Nepal Founded on – 1945 Head-Mr. Thapa

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Founded on – 8 December, 1985 29. International Olympic Committee (IOC) – 23. International Maritime Organisation (IMO) – Headquarters – Lausanne, Switzerland Headquarters – London, UK Head – Thomas Bach Head – Kitack Lim Founded on – 23 June, 1894 Founded on – 1959 30. International Cricket Council (ICC) – 24. Amnesty International – Headquarters – Dubai, UAE Headquarters – London, UK Head – Dave Richardson Head – Salil Shetty Founded on – 15 June, 1909 Founded on – July, 1961 31. The Fédération Internationale de Football Association 25. – (FIFA) – Headquarters – London, UK Headquarters – Zurich, Switzerland Head – Queen Elizabeth II Head – Joseph S. Blatter Founded on – 28 April, 1949 Founded on – 21 May, 1904 26. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – 32. World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) – Headquarters – Vienna, Austria Headquarters – Avenue du Mont-Blanc, Gland, Vaud, Head – Yukiya Amano Switzerland Founded on – July 29, 1957 Head – Macro Lambertini 27. United Nations Industrial Development Organisation Founded on – 29 April, 1961 (UNIDO) – 33. Food & Agricultural Organisation (FAO) – Headquarters – Vienna, Austria Headquarters – Rome, Italy Head – Li Yong Head – Jose Graziano da Silva Founded on – 1966 Founded on -16 October, 1945

28. Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries 34. International Court of Justice (ICJ) – (OPEC) – Headquarters – The Hague, The Netherland Headquarters – Vienna, Austria Head – Ronny Abraham Head – Mohammed Sanusi Bankindo Founded on -1945 Founded on – 1961-62  STATE NEWS

Telangana Government created 21 new districts PMUY, DBT for subsidised kerosene launched a) Telangana Government in its the biggest in Jharkahnd administrative reform has created 21 new districts. a) Jharkhand Chief Minister launched With this reorganization, the total number of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) and ‘Direct districts in the State went up to 31 from 10. Benefit Transfer’ (DBT) for subsidised kerosene In b) Telangana came into existence as the 29th State of Jharkahnd. India on June 2, 2014 after it was carved out of b) The state is the first to adopt a scheme of Direct Andhra Pradesh. Transfer of Subsidies on kerosene through banks, Telangana which will enable state to save 7,000 crore rupees  Capital: Hyderabad annually due to removal of corruption in this  Governor:E. S. L. Narasimhan scheme.  Chief minister:Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao c) PMUY scheme to provide free LPG connections (TRS) along with accessories and stoves to the BPL  Lok Sabha constituencies:17 families.  High Court:High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad

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Assam govt to procure 40,000 Metric Tons of b) The Bihar Cabinet gave its approval to the paddy to help flood affected farmers programme which is scheduled to start from The Assam government has decided to procure 40 thousand December. Metric Tons of paddy at Minimum Support Price to help the c) “LokSamvad would come in a different format, under flood affected farmers. which people can make suggestions on speedy Assam implementation of welfare programmes.  Governor-  Chief Minister- Kaushalya Setu skill-development programme launched by Maharashtra Government Haryana govt to observe next year as Garib Kalyan a) Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has Varsh launched ‘Kaushalya Setu’, a skill development a) Haryana government, would observe the next year programme for students who failed to clear Class X as “Garib Kalyan Varsh” or SSC exam. b) UN will observe 2017as International Year of b) The main aim of the initiative to compensate loss of Sustainable Tourism for Development one year of students who have failed matriculation examination by providing skill-oriented training. Punjab govt to sign MoU with UNICEF to procure c) It will give a big boost to Central Government’s Skill 40,000 doses of HPV vaccine India Mission-2020 by providing skill development a) Punjab government would soon sign a courses to students. Memorandum of Understanding with the UNICEF to procure 40,000 doses of vaccine against Human HP Police celebrated Cyber Crime awareness Papilloma Virus in a phased manner. week b) With this decision, Punjab would be the first state a) In Himachal Pradesh, the police is celebrating Cyber in the country to launch this free vaccination Crime awareness week. program to eradicate the curse of cervical cancer. b) The C-DAC an institution of Department of Punjab Electronics & Information Technology under the  Governor-V P Singh Badnore Ministry of Communication & Information  Chief Minister- Technology is helping the police in this field. Uttarakhand High court bans sale of whitener MP to launch ‘Lalima Abhiyan’ to make state free a) The Uttarakhand High Court ordered state from anaemia government to completely ban on the sale of With an aim to make Madhya Pradesh anaemia-free, the state whitener in the state following the death of a government has decided to launch a scheme-’Lalima teenager from sniffing an excess of it. Abhiyan’- that will be effective from November 1. b) Besides, the high court also ordered that items such  Capitals: Bhopal, Jabalpur as Feviquick, Iodex should not be sold to children  CM- below 18 years of age in view of prevalent abuse of  GOV-(Gujarat also) these among teenagers. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Rajasthan to launch India’s 1st indigenous olive inaugurated 100 urban piped drinking water oil brand supply projects Rajasthan is going to launch its own brand olive oil next a) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated month, which is claimed to be India’s first indigenously- 100 urban piped drinking water supply projects, with produced such brand. an objective to provide safe drinking water to every  Governor- family in Odisha.  Chief Minister-Vasundhra Raje b) The projects dedicated will cater to the needs of  Capital-Jaipur around 2 lakh people. Bihar to start new public feedback programme Arunachal Inks MoU For Skill Development a) Having discontinued “JanataDarbar”, Bihar government signed a Memorandum of government is set to introduce “LokSamvad” Understanding with the National Institute of Electronics and programme in an effort to get public feedback and Information Technology for skill development of local people suggestions. in presence of Arunachal Pradesh CM in New Delhi

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 Gov- All towns in MP to be open defecation free by Dec  CM-Pema Khandu 2017 a) Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced New prohibition law in force in Bihar from October that In Madhya Pradesh, all the towns will become 2, 2016 Open Defecation Free by December 2017. a) Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016 has come into b) He said that the state government will launch a force from October 2 in the state. Nagar UdayAbhiyaan on the occasion of birthday b) As per one of the provision, every adult of a family of former prime minister AtalBihari Vajpayee from would be pretended to be aware of the offence if 25th December this year. alcohol is consumed, manufactured, sold or distributed in premises one occupies. Govt to invest Rs 1 lakh crore to boost road, inland water transport in Assam Urban areas of Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh declared a) Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and open defecation free Shipping Nitin Gadkari announced invest nearly Rs a) Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh became the first states 1 lakh crore for a major boost to road and inland to become open defecation free in urban areas. water communication of Assam. b) In all, 180 and 110 cities and towns in Gujarat and b) The Union Minister has also sanctioned Rs 30 crore Andhra Pradesh respectively were declared ODF for installation of solar LED Light in the Dhola-Sadia by their chief ministers. bridge which is to be inaugurated soon. c) So far, total of 405 out of the 4,041 cities and towns across India have claimed to have become open NEWS IN BRIEF defecation free.  Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has urged d) The Union Government has set ambitious target of the Centre to release 795 crore 31 lakh rupees to making 334 more cities open defecation free by settle insurance claims of farmers afftected by March 2017. drought last year. Swachh Bharat Mission  Haryana government has decided to increase the  The Swachh Bharat Mission is the pet project of retirement age of doctors from 58 to 65 years. NDA Government led by Prime Minister Narendra  Odisha government will roll out biometrics Modi. authentication for receiving food grains for  It was launched on 2 October 2014 to make India beneficiaries of National Food Security Act (NFSA) clean and open defecation free by 2019 to mark from January next year in the state. Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary.  Jharkhand’s Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma has issued a directive to prepare a sportsperson pension Jharkhand becames first state to implement DBT scheme for the players who have brought laurels to in Kerosene the state or the country, but are still working as a) Jharkhand has become the first state in the country daily wagers. to implement Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) in  The AAP government has decided to provide Kerosene Scheme. ‘tablets’ to teachers in Delhi government schools. b) The scheme is being implemented in four identified  The Haryana government started a ‘Farm Tourism’ districts (Chatra, Hazaribagh, Khunti and Jamtara) scheme, under which registered farm owners can of the state from 1st of October 2017. host tourists as part of holiday packages. c) Under the DBTK scheme, PDS kerosene will be sold  Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has at non-subsidised price and the subsidy will be said that the state government is determined to make directly transferred to consumers directly into their all cities open defecation free by 2017 but it’s bank accounts. possible only when ‘Swachh Maharashtra’ becomes Assam CM Sonowal released report on human a people’s movement. development  The Karnataka government has made it mandatory Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal released the for all government hospitals to have hair salons on “Assam Human Development Report 2014” and the Vision their premises. and Strategic Architecture Document on SDGs, namely, “Assam 2030: Our Dream, Our Commitment”.This is the  second Human Development Report for the state, the first was published a decade back in 2003.

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PM launched National SC/ST hub and Zero Defect Union Ministry of Science and – Zero Effect scheme Technology launches Biotech-KISAN and Cattle a) Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Genomics to empower farmers National SC/ST hub and the Zero Defect, Zero Effect The Union Ministry of Science and Technology has launched (ZED) scheme for Micro, Small and Medium two new schemes Biotech-KISAN and Cattle Genomics in Enterprises (MSMEs) at Ludhiana in Punjab. order to apply science to boost rural economy by empower b) He also distributed 500 traditional wooden charkhas farmers, especially women farmers. (spinning wheels) among women. c) SC/ST hub- The objective of the SC/ST (Schedule D.V. Sadananda Gowda launched the International Castes/Schedule Tribes) Hub is to provide Household Survey Network (IHSN) Toolkit a) The Union Minister for Statistics and Programme professional support to entrepreneurs from the SC/ Implementation, D.V. Sadananda Gowda has ST. launched the International Household Survey d) ZED Scheme -ZED Scheme aims to rate and Network (IHSN) Toolkit. handhold all MSMEs to deliver top quality products b) He also had launched new Website of the Ministry using clean technology. It will have sector-specific of Statistics and Programme Implementation in New parameters for each industry. Delhi. Union Government launches UDAN Scheme for Regional Air Connectivity Samajwadi smartphone scheme launched by UP a) Union Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju CM Akhilesh Yadav a) UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav launched the has launched the regional air connectivity scheme portal of Samajwadi Smartphone Scheme under UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam naagrik) in New Delhi. which smartphones will be distributed to people in b) The flights priced at Rs.2,500 for one hour of flying the state who are all aged above 18, Class X time to and from regional airports. passout, and earning less than Rs 6 lakh per year. c) It will be rolled out by January, 2017 and will be in b) The applications for the Samajwadi Smartphone operation for a period of 10 years. Yojana will be invited online from 10th October to UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam naagrik) Scheme 10th November 2016.  The UDAN scheme seeks to provide connectivity Schemes launched by Uttar Pradesh : to un-served and under-served airports of the  Samajwadi Kisan Bima Yojana or Samajwadi Kisan country through revival of existing air-strips and & Sarvhit Bima Yojana -insurance scheme airports.  Samajwadi Yuva Swarozgar Yojana - self-  It aims to increase ticketing volume from 80 million employment scheme to 300 million by 2022.  Kanya Vidya Dhan Yojana -scholarship scheme to PM launched Urja Ganga schemes in Varanasi provide scholarships to meritorious girl students in a) Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation the state of several schemes in Varanasi, including the City Gas Distribution (C.G.D) project of Rs 1,000 crore. JSY has reduced socioeconomic inequalities As per the new study of National Council of Applied b) The project will be executed by Gas Authority Of Economic Research, Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) has played India Limited(GAIL). c) The City Gas Distribution Project (C.G.D) is expected important role in reducing ‘socioeconomic disparities’ existing in maternal care. to connect 50,000 households with Piped Natural About Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) Gas and supply Compressed Natural Gas (C.N.G.) a) The JSY was launched as part of the National Rural through twenty C.N.G. stations. Health Mission (NRHM) in 2005 to improve maternal d) Natural Gas will be brought to Varanasi through the and neonatal health by promotion of institutional 2540 kilometres Jagdishpur-Haldia and Bokaro- deliveries (childbirth in hospitals). It is a 100% Dhamara Natural Gas Pipeline Project known as “Urja Ganga Project”.

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centrally sponsored scheme (CSS). It integrates b) These five cities are: Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh), cash assistance with delivery and post-delivery care Amritsar (Punjab), Dwaraka (Gujarat), Puri (Odisha) b) Under it, ASHA (Accredited social health activist) and Warangal (Telangana). is considered as a link between Government and c) HRIDAY is a Central Scheme that aims to preserve poor pregnant women for encourage institutional and rejuvenate the rich cultural heritage of the deliveries among poor women. country. Maharashtra becomes 17th state to join UDAY Progress Panchayat Scheme The Centre launched ‘Progress Panchayat’, an outreach a) Maharashtra became the 17th state to Central campaign to create awareness about its programmes for Government’s Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojna the welfare of religious minorities and remove their “fear and (UDAY) scheme. misconceptions” about the NDA government. The b) It will help Maharashtra to reap benefits worth Rs programme would be organised in 100 places across the 9,725 crore country in the coming days where union ministers would c) UDAY Scheme was launched by Union Ministry of interact with people about the several schemes. Minister of Power for financial restructuring of debt of Power State for Minority Affairs (independent charge) Mukhtar Distribution companies (DISCOMs). Abbas Naqvi would kick-start the programme from Mewat region of Haryana. Rs.114 cr approved for HRIDAY projects a) The Union Ministry of Urban Development has approved projects worth Rs.114 crore under  HRIDAY scheme for improving infrastructure facilities around core heritage sites in five cities. MISCELLANEOUS

The word Aiyoh is now in the Oxford English b) The flight was from Delhi to San Francisco. Dictionary c) The Emirates was operating the world’s longest a) The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has now nonstop flight till now, from Dubai to Auckland included ”Aiyoh” and “Aiyah” (Indian word)in its covering almost 14,120 km. latest addition this September. b) The OED does four updates every year. India’s first startup magazine launched c) This word can mean many things depending on a) The Cofounder launches itself as India’s first context and tone — irritation, disgust, surprise, startup magazine that will help boost dismay, pain, lament, disappointment. the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the country through its stories. Life expectancy highest in Jammu and Kashmir: b) The Cofounder, founded by Adhish Verma and RGI Report Arunraj Rajendran, is the first startup magazine that a) According to the data given by the Registrar General will talk about real stories behind the early stage of India (RGI), Jammu and Kashmir has the highest startups and entrepreneurs. life expectancy (i.e. post-60 life expectancy), except life expectancy at birth. Kerala island among NatGeo’s travel-worthy b) With this, Jammu and Kashmir has surpassed Kerala destinations which used to be the leader in life expectancy in a) Kakkathuruthu, a tiny island in Kerala, has been almost all categories of age till 2010. listed as a travel-worthy destination by National Geographic in its ‘Around the World in 24 Hours’ Air India makes world record for longest nonstop photographic tour. flight b) Kakkathuruthu, also known as the ‘Island of crows,’ a) Flying non-stop for 15,300 kilometres in 14.5 hours, can be reached only by boat. the Air India has created the world record for longest nonstop flight.

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Valvoline ropes in Virat Kohli as brand ambassador  Goa Tourism Development Corporation recently Valvoline Cummins India has signed up India Test captain held its very first vintage car and bike rally, called Virat Kohli as its ambassador. the ‘Vintage Bike and Car festival 2016’. Some recently appointed brand ambassador  Actress-turned-author Twinkle Khanna has shared  Virat Kohli – Punjab National Bank the first look of her second book titled ‘The Legend  Nawazuddin - UP farmers’ scheme Of Lakshmi Prasad’.Her first book was  - Samajwadi Pension Yojana ‘MrsFunnybones: She’s Just Like You and a Lot  P V Sindhu and K Srikanth - Bank of Baroda Like Me’,  Yesudas - ‘Haritha Keralam’  Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis inaugurated  John Abraham - Arunachal Pradesh Tourism India’s first centre for international arbitration in  Sakshi Brand -Ambassador for Beti Bachao Mumbai.  PV Sindhu - honorary Commandant of the CRPF  The Telangana government has declared  Deepika Padukone-Vistara, domestic airline ‘Bathukamma’ as a state festival. The event, attended  Saina Nehwal-ITC’s Savlon by about ten thousand women, found a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. NEWS IN BRIEF  The UK pound saw a sudden collapse in intra-day  The 18th MAMI (Mumbai Acadamy of the Moving trade on 08 October 2016, plunging over 6% to Image) Film Festival began at the Opera House in $1.1841 in two minutes, to hit a fresh 31-year-low. Mumbai.  India donated 9.3 million rupees to the Nelson Tawang festival celebrated in Arunachal Pradesh.  Mandela Foundation to help it in its welfare work Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL), the corporate  for the people of South Africa. entity of Vizag Steel, has roped in top ranked Indian  French energy management and automation firm Badminton Player PV Sindhu as its brand Schneider Electric planned to invest 750 crore in ambassador. India over the next three-five years in research and  Abhaneri’ festival would be held at the Abhaneri development, innovation and manufacturing. village in Dausa district, Rajsthan to promote rural  A 2,400-year-old burial chamber was recently tourism in the area for two days. discovered by archaeologists in Milas district,  State-run BHEL has commissioned 660 Mw coal- Turkey. based supercritical thermal power unit in Uttar  In a bid to strengthen the public transport system Pradesh. in Gurugram, the Haryana government has  NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has sanctioned a fleet of 500 buses for the millennium detected Great Balls of Fire (GBF), a mysterious city. super-hot blobs of gas seen near a dying star.  The Cabinet approved the setting up of an Indian  A researcher from Pune’s Indian Institute of Science Institute of Management in Jammu as part of PM Education and Research (IISER) has successfully Narendra Modi’s development package for Jammu produced a stable, high-efficiency, all- and Kashmir. inorganic perovskite nanocrystal solar cells.  Punjab Agricultural University and FieldFresh Revenue department has extended anti-dumping  Foods, a joint venture between Bharti Enterprises duty on import of certain Chinese products, used & Del Monte Pacific Limited have signed a in garment, footwear and toys manufacturing, for Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to carry out another five years. a corn productivity research programme.  The Centre is looking to pump in around 1,000 crore  Raising the slogan ‘Haryana ek Haryanvi ek’, Chief in public sector undertakings (PSUs) through the Minister urged people of the skill development initiative. state to help eradicate casteism from the society for A medium intensity earthquake, measuring 5.3 on  the development of the state. the Richter Scale, hit the Lakshadweep Sea.  Researchers from Kolkata based Indian Institute of India-based Amity University is planning to open  Science Education and Research (IISER) have its first branch in US. produced cost-effective, metal-free cathodes using Indian Railways will introduce three train coaches  human hair for use in solar cells. with glass ceilings in trains in Kashmir Valley and Araku Valley

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 Dreaded Japanese Encephalitis killed many children  The State of Himachal Pradesh & Kerala was in Malkangiri district of Odisha. officially declared 2nd & 3rd Open Defecation Free  ONGC has initiated a procedure to conduct 2D (ODF). Previously Sikkim became the first state to survey of sedimentary basin to locate natural gas achieve the status of Open Defecation Free (ODF). in Odisha under National Seismic Programme.  The Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT)  As per Finance Ministry report 80% of the 24 cr. under the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances PM Jan Dhan Yojana Accounts are functional now. and Pensions has launched Employees Online (EO)  IOCL has launched a 30 cr. Start up Fund to support App. The mobile application aims to update on innovation in technology in low cost efficient Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) vapour recovery, low cost production of hydrogen, appointments and postings on real time basis and low cost desalination of sea water, LPG cylinder to bring transparency. safety etc.  The Centre has decided to fix the minimum wage for  The Supreme Court has stayed the commercial unskilled agricultural labour in C-class towns in release of GM mustard crop for farming till Oct 17 central sphere at 350 rupees per day. and has asked the centre to take public opinion on  The Centre would soon open 300 pharmacy AMRIT such seeds before releasing it for cultivation. outlets in different parts of the country to provide  All central govt. departments have been asked to affordable medicines to the people at a discount put copies of RTI application and their response in rate of 60-70 per cent. their website.  Veteran actress is set to be honoured with  The central govt. will soon notify the Real Estate the Lifetime Achievement Award at the upcoming Act passed by the Parliament in March 2016 to Dubai International Film Festival. protect the home buyers. As per the provisions Real  Indian Documentary film “Daughters of Mother Estate Developers must use 70% of the money India” has won at the 6th CAM International Film collect from the buyers for construction only and Festival in Cairo. cannot invest that money in any other project. The  Indian cricketer has become the developer will pay a certain compensation is the top-ranked female bowler in the ICC ODI rankings. project is delayed.  India clinched the five-match ODI series against  The central govt. in the 1st phase has decided to New Zealand 3-2 after winning the final ODI by 190 invite bid for development of 36 national waterways. runs.  The Economic Development Board of Andhra  Andy Murray has beaten Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to win Pradesh signed a pact with Russia’s JSC United the Erste Bank Open. Shipping Corporation for setting up a ship-building  Indian junior men’s hockey team clinched the 4 unit in the state. Nations Invitational Tournament in Spain by  Indian Oil Corp (IOC) planned to construct the defeating Germany 5-2 in the final. nation’s longest LPG pipeline from Gujarat coast to  Commodore V Sriramulu a 92-year-old Indian Navy Gorakhpur in eastern Uttar Pradesh to supply to veteran has won a gold medal in a 5,000-metres race growing demand for cooking gas in the country. walk at the World Masters Athletics Championships  Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) and being held in Perth. FieldFresh Foods, a joint venture Punjab Univ &  Andhra Pradesh and Telengana topped the all-India Field fresh between Bharti Enterprises & Del Monte ranking with 98.78 per cent each, followed by Gujarat Pacific Limited have signed a Memorandum of with 98.21 per cent. Odisha is at 11 rank. Top 10:1- Understanding (MoU) to carry out a corn Andhra Pradesh,2- Telengana,3- Gujarat,4- productivity research programme. Chhattisgarh , 5- Madhya Pradesh , 6- Haryana ,7-  On Gandhi Jayanti October 2nd India marked 2nd Jharkhand,8- Rajasthan , 9- Uttarakhand & 10- anniversary of Swachha Bharat with 2019 target Maharashtra . reiterated.  Central Vigilance Commission has now made it  Maharashtra has been adjudged as the country’s mandatory for the public sector bank to report all most farmer friendly state followed by Gujarat and fraud matters involving funds over Rs one corer. Rajasthan, according to NITI Aayog’s ‘Agriculture Marketing and Farmer Friendly Reforms Index’. 

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200 MCQ ON CURRENT AFFAIRS a) Arunachal Pradesh 1. Name the state govt which has roll out 8. Name the Pakistani cricket player who b) Madhya Pradesh biometrics authentication for NFSA has become the second fastest bowler c) Himachal Pradesh beneficiaries? to take 100 wickets in Tests. d) Sikkim a) Andhra Pradesh a) Yasir Shah e) b) Odisha b) Sohail Khan 17. Name the Indian luxury train which has c) Telangana c) Junaid Khan received the 2016 Seven Star Luxury d) Kerala d) Hasan Ali Hospitality and Lifestyle Awards. e) New delhi e) Babar Azam a) Deccan Odyssey 2. Prime Minster Narendra Modi has 9. Which country banned Samsung Galaxy b) recently inaugurated three hydropower Note 7 smartphones from airplanes? projects of 1,752 MW capacity in a) Russia b) Singapore c) Maharajas’ Express d) which state of India? c) Italy d) Japan e) Royal Orient Train a) Uttarakhand e) China 18. The BRICS nations have adopted the b) Himachal Pradesh 10. Which economic group has decided to ____ point Goa declaration. c) Maharashtra set up a credit ratings agency? a) 106 b) 107 d) Tamil Nadu a) BRICS b) G20 c) 108 d) 109 e) Andhra Pradesh c) G8 d) NATO e) 105 3. The 2017 Indian Science Congress (ISC) e) BRIS 19. Name the Indian railway station, which will be held in which of the following 11. In which year will the GST tax be has tops in Wi-Fi usage? states? implemented? a) Patna b) Mumbai a) Andhra Pradesh a) 2018 b) 2017 c) Delhi d) Kolkata b) Arunchal Pradesh c) 2019 d) 2020 e) Chennai c) Telangana e) 2021 20. Which airlines company has prohibited d) Kerala 12. Which motor vehicle manufacturing carrying Samsung Galaxy Note 7 e) New delhi company has manufactured ‘Circuit’, smartphones onboard any of its flights? 4. Name the state govt, which has introduce India’s first electric bus? a) Jetstar Airways pension for sportspersons? a) Ashok Leyland b) Cargolux Italia a) Haryana b) Eicher Motors c) AirAsia b) Madhya Pradesh c) Mahindra & Mahindra d) South African Airways c) Punjab d) Preet Group Motors e) Mandarin Airlines d) Uttar Pradesh e) Sundharam motors 21. The Food Safety and Standards e) Jharkhand 13. Name the country, which has launched Authority of India (FSSAI) released 5. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim Shenzhou 11 space mission? new standards on food____. has announced One billion US Dollar a) UK b) France a) Fortification aid to _____ over the next three years c) Israel d) China b) Security to fight child malnutrition. e) Russia c) Manufacturing a) India b) Pakistan 14. Name the country, which has d) Packaging c) Bangladesh d) Nepal commissioned its largest, most e) Service e) Sri Lanka expensive and technologically 22. BRICS development bank will raise its 6. The National SC/ST hub and zero effect advanced destroyer, Zumwalt? lending rate to $___ billion next year. on environment scheme for MSME a) The USA b) The UK a) 4.6 b) 2.5 sector has been launched in which of c) China d) Russia c) 3.5 d) 1.9 the following cities? e) France e) 5.3 a) Rohtak b) Ludhiana 15. Who has been selected for the 23. Kigeli V dies in US, who is he? c) Shimla d) Jabalpur Mathrubhumi Literary Award in a) The king e) Udaipur recognition of his contribution to the b) The politicians 7. Who has been appointed as the field of literature? c) The sports person Ambassador of India to the UN a) Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri d) The journalist Conference on Disarmament in b) C. Radhakrishnan e) The writer Geneva? c) M. Leelavathy 24. Who won the 2016 Chinese Taipei Open a) Abdul Majeed Khwaja d) Sukumar Azhikode badminton? b) Amandeep Singh Gill e) T. Padmanabhan a) Daren Liew c) Narendra Hirwani 16. Name the state police which has b) d) Gandhi celebrates Cyber Crime awareness c) Chen Long e) Umesh Sharma week?

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d) Sourabh Verma c) H Anjaneya 41. Modi to distribute ______charkhas e) Khosit Phetpradab d) Swart Binny to women spinners in Ludhiana? 25. Who won the 2016 Shanghai Masters in e) Veeranna a) 500 b) 550 Singles category? 33. Which country based consortium led c) 660 d) 600 a) energy giant Rosneft Oil Company has e) 510 b) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga agreed to acquire India’s second biggest 42. Name the city where the 10-day c) David Goffin private oil firm Essar Oil in an all-cash ‘Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav’ (RSM) d) deal valued at about US $13 billion. was inaugurated by Home Minister e) Andy Murray a) Russian b) China Rajnath Singh? 26. What is the theme of the International c) German d) Italy a) New Delhi Day (oct 15) of Rural Women, 2016? e) Saudi Arabiya b) a) Climate is changing. Food and life 34. Which country has opens ‘World’s c) Bhopal style must too longest sightseeing escalator’? d) Mumbai b) Pledge for Parity a) Russian b) China e) Chennai c) Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up c) German d) Saudi Arabiya 43. On October 31 Patel Jayanti was for Gender Equality e) The USA celebrated, recently modi d) Climate is changing. Food and 35. Which country became first team to play governmentrenamed the Patel agriculture must too 900 ODIs? Jayantias? e) Planet 50:50 by 2020: Step It Up a) Australia b) England a) ‘RashtriyaEktaDiwas’ for Gender Equality c) India d) Pakistan b) ‘RashtriyaftraDiwas’ 27. WEF has announced which country as e) Sri Lanka c) ‘RashtriyavkataDiwas’ the safest place in the world on ‘Safety 36. In which of the following city Prime d) ‘RashtriyaDiwas’ and Security’? Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated e) ‘RashtriyavikasDiwas’ a) Finland b) Nigeria ‘Shaurya Smarak’,? 44. Which of the state Government c) Colombia d) Yemen, a) Mumbai b) Bhopal determined to make all cities open e) Venezuela c) Kochi d) Panji defecation free by 2017? 28. According to World Economic Forum, e) New Delhi a) Andhra Pradesh India ranked ______th as the least safe 37. Which state of India has launched The b) Telangana countries in the world? National Seismic Programme (NSP) ? c) Tamil nau a) 13 b) 14 a) Arunachal Pradesh d) Odisha c) 11 d) 10 b) Bihar e) Maharashtra e) 6 c) Nagaland 45. Recently which of the state/ UT 29. Who won the 1st BRICS U-17 Football d) Odisha dedicated ‘CivilDefence Force’ to Tournament Championship 2016 held e) Punjab address challenges, related to disasters, at Goa? 38. The first-ever BRICS-BIMSTEC ahead of the arrival of North East a) Brazil b) China Outreach Summit will be held in which monsoon? c) India d) Russia state of India? a) Delhi e) South Africa a) Kerala b) Puducherry 30. With which country India has signed a b) Andhra Pradesh c) Chandigarh defence deal worth nearly Rs 39,000 c) Uttar Pradesh d) Vizag crore to purchase five state of art S- d) Goa e) Bhubaneswar 400 ‘Triumf’ air defence systems? e) Rajasthan 46. Andhra Pradesh Government releases a) Brazil b) China 39. Dr. Abdul Kalam’s birthday is observed Rs.99.62 crore under ______scheme? c) Germany d) Russia as World Student Day on which date? a) MUNDRA e) South Africa a) 12th October b) PMJDJ 31. Name the gas which India has decided to b) 14th October c) PMAJ eliminate production of a potent c) 15th October d) AMRUT greenhouse gas with Global Warming d) 26th October e) Both A & B Potential of 14800 by 2030. e) 13th October 47. In Uttar Pradesh, the ‘safe motherhood’ a) HCF-23 b) CCL2F2 40. Which of the following country has week started in the state,the main aim c) HCF-22 d) N2O formally joined China’s One-Belt One of the ‘Safe Motherhood Week’ is to e) HCF -24 Road Initiative? decrease the ‘Mother Mortality Rate’ 32. Name the person, who has been selected a) Bangladesh and______? for the Sri Maharshi Valimiki Jayanti b) India a) Infant Mortality Rate Award for 2016-17? c) Pakistan b) Husband wife Mortality rate a) Aswin d) Sri Lanka c) Infant fathers Mortality Rate b) D Borappa e) Nepal d) Fathers Mothers Mortality Rate

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e) None of the above c) Graeme Macrae Burnet e) 139th 48. Name the state government, which has d) Paul Beatty 65. Who was appointed as the Chief makes it mandatory for hospitals to e) Wyl Menmuir Executive Officer (CEO) of have salons? 56. India began the 4th Joint Military International Hockey Federation a) Andhra Pradesh Exercise, ‘MITRA SHAKTI 2016’ (FIH)? b) Telangana with which country? a) Jason McCracken c) Karnataka a) USA b) Sri Lanka b) Kelly Fairweather d) Odisha c) Oman d) Indonesia c) Renato Sanches e) Maharashtra e) Canada d) Tom Hayden 49. The Cabinet Committee on Economic 57. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has e) Graeme Macrae Burnet Affairs approved construction of a launched 7 schemes in his Lok Sabha 66. When is United Nations Day celebrated? road link between Sahibganj in constituency, Varanasi, what is the a) October 21 Jharkhand to Manihari in Bihar, overall cost of the project ? b) October 22 including a bridge on the Ganges, with a) 5000 crore b) 5500 crore c) October 23 an estimated project cost c) 6000 crore d) 5600 crore d) October 24 of______? e) 500 crore e) October 29 a) 1,955 b) 1,956 58. India to provide LED bulbs, equipment 67. In which year was INS Viraat c) 1,957 d) 1,958 to which of the following country as a commissioned into the Indian Navy? e) 1,959 grant? a) 1944 b) 1950 50. India’s longest gas pipeline from Gujarat a) Vanuatu b) Vietnam c) 1963 d) 1972 coast to ______? c) Nepal d) Myanmar e) 1987 a) Gorakhpur b) Allahabad e) None of the above 68. Which city has the Sardar Patel Hospital c) Agra d) Varanasi 59. What is India’s rank in the latest World & Heart Institute located? e) Faizabad Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap a) Ankleshwar 51. Govt launches Biotech-KISAN scheme Report 2016? b) Jambusar to empower farmers, especially women, a) 108th b) 123rd c) Lunawada which of the following person c) 76th d) 87th d) Vadodara inaugurate the scheme? e) 99th e) Vapi a) Harsh Vardhan 60. Which country’s Prime Minister arrived 69. Which of the following book has been b) Narendra Modi in New Delhi for a three-day long state shortlisted for Prize 2016? c) Raj Nath Singh visit on October 26? a) The Adivasi Will Not Dance by d) Smt. a) Australia b) China Hansda Sowendra Shekhar e) None of the above c) Finland d) New Zealand b) Andhere se ujale ki aur by Arun 52. Which of the following govt to observe e) UK Jaitley next year as Garib Kalyan Varsh? 61. Which country won against Australia in c) Jinnah Often Came To Our House a) Kerala b) Madhya Pradesh the 2016 RoboCup Challenge? by Kiran Doshi c) Sikkim d) Haryana a) China b) Germany d) Kalkutta by Kunal Basu e) Nagaland c) Japan d) South Korea e) None of the above 53. Which of the following govt to sign e) USA 70. Name the Bollywood actor who has MoU with UNICEF to procure 40,000 62. Carlos Alberto, a legendary football been selected for the prestigious Yash doses of HPV vaccine? player who passed away on October Bharti Samman 2016. a) Punjab 25 was of which nationality? a) b) Madhya Pradesh a) Spanish b) Brazilian b) c) Sikkim c) Argentinian d) Portuguese c) Amitabh Bacchan d) Haryana e) American d) Naseeruddin Shah e) Nagaland 63. Sanjay Baweja, CFO of _____ resigned e) Kamala khasan 54. Name the country which has announced on October 26. 71. What is the India’s rank in female literacy its withdrawal from the International a) TCS as per International Commission on Criminal Court. b) Amazon India Financing Global Education a) Angola b) China c) Wells Fargo Opportunity? c) Russia d) Gambia d) Capgemini a) 35 b) 36 e) Germany e) Flipkart c) 37 d) 38 55. Who won the 2016 Man Booker Prize 64. According to the World Bank’s’ latest e) 39 for his book, “The Sellout”? ‘Doing Business’ report, India ranks 72. Name the doctors who have been a) David Means ____ in terms of ease of doing business. selected for the prestigious Dr BC Roy b) David Szalay a) 130th b) 131th Award for excellence in the field of c) 132nd d) 133rd medicine.

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e) J&K Human Rights commission a) Gorkha Rifles c) Real Men Build Their Strength 94. Almatti dam is located in which of the b) Ladak Regiment from Within following states? c) Parachute Regiment d) Serve Up Bone Health a) Andhra Pradesh d) Punjab Regiment e) Stop at One: Make Your First b) Karnataka e) Rajputana Rifles Break Your Last c) Rajasthan 103. A protein-enriched rice variety has been 109. Which country’s pollution control d) Telangana developed by the Indira Gandhi Krishi authority has launched a mobile app e) Uttar Pradesh Vishwavidyalaya (IGKV) in ___. to curb pollution? 95. Jorge Batlle was paased away , he a) Raipur b) Bilaspur a) China b) Egypt related to which country? c) Raigarh d) Ratanpur c) India d) South Korea a) Israel b) Norway e) Udaipur e) USA c) Austria d) Uruguay 104. India has signed a 650-million US dollar 110. Name the scheme launched by the e) Godavari loan agreement with which financial Aviation industry for air connectivity. 96. US has sanctioned a 75 million dollars organisation for the Eastern Dedicated a) AAKASH b) GAGAN sale of military hardware to Freight Corridor-III (EDFC-III) c) KAABIL d) UDAN a) India b) Iran Project? e) VRUND c) Israel d) Saudi Arabia a) Asian Development Bank (ADB) 111. Name the veteran cricket player who e) UAE b) World Bank will receive the Lifetime Achievement 97. Mehar Mittal, who passed away c) International Monetary Fund award by the Sports Journalists’ recently, was the legendary actor of (IMF) Association of Mumbai (SJAM). which language? d) International Development a) a) Telugu b) Punjabi Association (IDA) b) c) Malayalam d) e) New Development Bank (NDB) c) e) Urudu 105. Regional air connectivity scheme that d) Sunil Gavaskar 98. Who won the 2016 European Golden was unveiled recently by Aviation e) Krishnamachari Srikkanth Boy Award? Ministry will be rolled out by 112. Which company will acquire Butler a) Gianluigi Donnarumma a) April 2017 America Aerospace for $85 million? b) Kingsley Coman b) March 2017 a) Apple b) HCL c) Marcus Rashford c) January 2017 c) Dell d) GM d) Renato Sanches d) December 2016 e) Atomics e) None of the above e) January 2018 113. National Bank for Agriculture & Rural 99. Govt to invest Rs 1 lakh crore to boost 106. Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Development (Nabard) has sanctioned road, inland water transport in ____? (TRAI) has recommended to the a loan of Rs. 19702 crore to to National a) Assam b) Bihar imposition of _____ penalty on Bharti Water Development Agency (NWDA) c) Sikkim d) Nagaland Airtel, Vodafone and Idea cellular for for how many irrigation projects? e) Arunachal Pradesh allegedly denying interconnectivity to a) 21 b) 37 100. Union Skill development and Reliance Jio. c) 49 d) 50 Entrepreneurship Minister Rajeev a) Rs. 2,650 crore e) 67 Pratap Rudy has inaugurated ‘Kaushal b) Rs. 2,850 crore 114. How much has GMR Infrastructure’s Mahotasava‘ in which city of India? c) Rs. 3,050 crore airport arm Delhi International Airport a) Lucknow b) Mumbai d) Rs. 3,200 crore (DIAL) raised through the issue of c) Noida d) Varanasi e) Rs. 3,300 crore high-yield 10-year bonds? e) Delhi 107. Which of the following union minister a) $522 million 101. Which union minister has launched the has announced the ‘Krishi Vigyan b) $509 million Regional air Connectivity Scheme Kendra’ in each of the districts in the c) $517 million UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam naagrik) to country? d) $536 million enable more people to fly in smaller a) Venkaiah Naidu e) $598 million towns? b) Radha Mohan Singh 115. According to the Payments and a) Ashok Gajapathi Raju c) Narendra Singh Tomar Settlements Systems Act, 2007 how b) Narendra Modi d) Modi much can RBI penalize payments c) Nitin Gadkari e) Birender Singh systems and banks for operating d) Raj Nath Singh 108. What is the theme of 2016 World without permission? e) Rajeev Pratap Rudy Osteoporosis Day (WOD) ? a) 5 lakh b) 1 crore 102. Which Regiment of Indian Army has a) Love Your Bones: Perfect today c) 10 lacs d) Both a and b won a gold medal in gruelling Cambrian b) Love Your Bones: Protect Your e) Both a and c Patrol exercise organized by the British Future 116. Which bank has raised Rs.500 crore Army? via Masala bonds?

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a) SBI b) ICICI a) Agarthala b) Dibrugarh c) October 21 d) October 22 c) HDFC d) Axis c) Jorhat d) Shillong e) October 23 e) PNB e) Silchar 133. Name the Fast Patrol Vessel(FPV) 117. Which Indian city is ranked 14th in 125. Who is the author of the book titled commissioned by the Indian Coast terms of total wealth held? “The Adivasi Will Not Dance”? Guard on October 20. a) Ahmedabad b) Bengaluru a) Kiran Doshi a) ICGS Rani Abbakka c) Delhi d) Kolkata b) Kunal Basu b) ICGS Rani Avanti Bai e) Mumbai c) Manjula Padmanabhan c) ICGS Rani Durgavati 118. Tawang festival starts at? d) Hansda Sowendra Shekhar d) ICGS Rani Gaidinliu a) Arunachal Pradesh e) Basu Padmanabhan e) ICGS Rani Rashmoni b) Sikkim 126. The book “Driven: The Virat Kohli 134. Indian Railways has declared how many c) Assam Story” has been authored by whom? railway stations as as Green Train d) Tripura a) Sandeep Bamzai Corridors? e) Nagaland b) Sharma a) 2 b) 3 119. Journalist Tilak Hazarika passes away, c) Vijay Lokapally c) 5 d) 6 he belongs to which of the following d) Pradeep Sangwan e) 9 state? e) Kunal Basu 135. Who won the Wildlife Photographer a) Assam b) Bihar 127. Which city has topped the 2016 Global Award, 2016? c) Maharashtra d) Punjab Power City Index (GPCI)? a) Indulal Kanaiyalal Yagnik e) Nagaland a) Delhi b) Tokyo b) Koratala Satyanarayana 120. Who has received a second European c) London d) Mumbai c) Krittibas Ojha Golden Shoe of his career after e) Agarthala d) Luiz Perera becoming the leading scorer in Europe’s 128. The Police Commemoration Day is e) Nayan Khanolkar top domestic leagues 2015-16? being observed across the country on 136. In which country was the World a) Neymar da Silva which date? Railway Shooting Championship Cup b) Luis Suarez a) 18 October b) 20 October held? c) Lionel Messi c) 21 October d) 22 October a) Azerbaijan b) Brazil d) Diego Forlán e) 23 October c) Cuba d) France e) Cristiano Ronaldo 129. The Union Ministry of Railways and e) Romania 121. The first ever three-day global ______have inked Memorandum of 137. What is India’s rank in the latest FIFA conference to strengthen Arbitration Understanding (MoU) for smart rankings? and Enforcement in India inaugurated railway stations. a) 133rd b) 136th by President Pranab Mukherjee in a) Union Urban Development c) 137th d) 138th which city of India? Ministry e) 139th a) Agra b) Vizag b) Union Rural Development 138. Which bank has declared Silchar as its c) Mumbai d) New Delhi Ministry 5th zone in North East? e) Kochin c) DMRC a) BoM b) PNB 122. Who has recently honored with the d) National Development Authority c) OBC d) CBI Milan Honorary citizenship award at e) Urban and rural development e) SBI the ceremony held at the Arcimboldi ministry 139. Which financial institute has launched Theatre in Milan, Italy? 130. Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory a Rs 60 crore ASPIRE fund to promote a) Angela Merkel Authority (PEMRA) has decided to innovation,rural entrepreneurship and b) Barack Obama ban which county’s channels in the agri industry? c) Dalai Lama country? a) ECGC Limited d) Nerendra modi a) China b) France b) IFCI Ltd e) Sachin Tendulkar c) India d) Saudi Arabia c) MUDRA Bank 123. Who has been elected as the new e) USA d) PFC President of the International 131. Recently, which country announced its e) SIDBI Gymnastics Federation (FIG)? exit from the International Criminal 140. The 10th Indo-US trade forum is being a) Bruno Grandi Court (ICC), accusing it of bias against held in which city? b) Diego Forlán Africans? a) Mumbai b) Chennai c) Georges Guelzec a) Angola b) Egypt c) New Delhi d) Bengaluru d) Mark Vasily c) Nigeria d) South Africa e) Jaipur e) Morinari Watanabe e) 141. The government will launch the ___ 124. Which of the following city has been 132. When is World Statistics Day tranche of Sovereign Gold Bonds (SGB) declared as the 5th North East zone by observed? scheme on 24th of October. State Bank of India(SBI)? a) October 19 b) October 20 a) 10th b) 6th

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c) 7th d) 8th SETU (Self-Employment and Talent 157. The AtalAkshayUrjaBhawan is e) 9th Utilization) for students? headquartered in which city? 142. Who was appointed as the a) Kerala a) Jaipur b) Chennai Commandant of the Indian Naval b) Maharashtra c) Mumbai d) New Delhi Academy at Ezhimala in Kerala? c) Madhya Pradesh e) Bhubaneshwar a) Vice Admiral S V Bhokare d) Andhra Pradesh 158. Which bank has blocked over 6 lakh b) Vice Admiral S V Bhosle e) Telangana debit cards after a security breach? c) Vice Admiral Karambir Singh 150. Which country is set to be the 3rd largest a) Axis b) SBI d) Vice Admiral G. aviation market by 2026? c) HDFC d) Yes e) Vice Admiral K V Bhosle a) Japan b) Mongolia e) KMB 143. Satyadev Katare recently passed away. c) UK d) China 159. Which institute has signed anMoU with Who was he? e) India All India Institute of Ayurveda for a) politician b) A Gandhian activist 151. India will hold a meeting with which collaboration in the areas of cancer c) Artist d) Sports person country for market access issues on prevention, research and care? e) Film maker goods and services as well as IPR a) Pioneers for a Cure 144. Gandhi activist, who passed away policy related matters on October 19 b) ISREC recently. and October 20? c) Hayim Association a) Anna Hazaare a) Ireland b) Japan d) Help Fight Childhood Cancer b) Eqbal Ahmad c) Mexico d) Russia e) National Institute of Cancer c) Joan Baez e) USA Prevention d) Mewa Ramgobin 152. Name the typhoon which hit the 160. India has signed an agreement with e) Uri Avnery Philippines recently? which country to lease second Akula- 145. Who of the following is the author of a) Haima b) Chan-hom II class nuclear attack submarine the book The Sleepwalker’s Dream? c) Ading d) Felicia (SSN)? a) Amitav Ghosh e) Enteng a) Hungary b) Russia b) Dhrubajyoti Borah 153. Asian Champions Trophy men’s c) UAE d) Japan c) Dhrubajyoti Ghosh hockey tournament 2016 has begun in e) USA d) Margaret Alva which city? 161. The ______Law Commission e) a) Kuantan, Malaysia recommended a series of changes in the 146. Who of the following has authored the b) kualalumpur, Malaysia Child Abduction Bill, 2016. book Andhere Se Ujale Ki Aur that was c) Tokyo, Japan a) 27th b) 18th released in October 2016? d) Kyoto, Japan c) 20th d) 19th a) Amit Shah e) Belgium, china e) 21st b) Arun Jaitley 154. Who won the World Railway Shooting 162. Name the South African struggle icon c) Dandavate Championship Cup at Saint Mandrier, who has passed away at Cape Town? d) Prasad France? a) Steve Biko e) Swapan Das Gupta a) Canadian Pacific Railway b) MewaRamgobin 147. Which bank has been conferred “Special b) Canadian National Railway c) Jacob Zuma Award for Excellence in MSME c) China Railway Corporation d) Billy Nair lending” for its performance in lending d) Indian Railways e) Jacobiko to the MSME sector during the year e) American Metro Railway 163. India signed how many MoUs with 2013-14 and 2014-15? 155. Name the British statistician who has Myanmar? a) IndusInd Bank been named the inaugural recipient of a) 4 b) 3 b) Karnataka Bank the International Prize in Statistics? c) 5 d) 2 c) Corporation Bank a) Leroy Hood e) 7 d) State Bank of Patiala b) Bradley Efron 164. Indian Railways has sold rights for e) United Bank of India c) Sir David Cox vinyl advertisements on how many 148. Which language will get official d) PersiDiaconis trains? recognition under the Eighth Schedule e) BradlyJhon a) 3 b) 6 of the Constitution? 156. Who has been appointed as the new c) 5 d) 4 a) Tulu b) Marwari President of Urology Society of India? e) 8 c) Rajasthani d) Onge a) P.N. Dogra 165. Sino India Cooperation 2016, a joint e) Sidi b) Percy J Chibber tactical exercise, between Indian and 149. Which of the following state c) R Keshavamurthy China was recently held in governments launched a skill d) S P Yadav a) Jorhat b) East Siang development programme, Kaushalya e) Manna vahoora c) Ladakh d) Beijing e) Karhil

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166. Name the automobile manufacturing c) Rajkot Airport d) Varanasi company which announced to make d) Surat Airport e) None of these self-driving cars on October 20. e) Vadodara Airport 181. Which bank has acquired the semi- a) Zhong Tai 174. Name the state which has increases the naming rights of Sikanderpur Metro b) Citroën retirement age of doctors to 65 yrs? Station in Gurugram? c) RimacAutomobili a) Madhya Pradesh a) BoB b) SBI d) Obvio b) Jharkhand c) HDFC d) IDFC e) Tesla c) Odisha e) PNB 167. According to a recent report how many d) Haryana 182. What is Mumbai’s rank in the 2016 debit cards have been compromised? e) sikkim Global Power City Index? a) 3.1 million 175. Who is the author of ‘Driven: The a) 21 b) 23 b) 3.3 million ViratKohli Story’? c) 39 d) 36 c) 3.2 million a) S.S. Kohli e) 33 d) 3.4 million b) Vikram Seth 183. Which country has cut off the Julian e) 3.6 million c) Vijay Lokapally Assange’s internet access? 168. Which city has been confirmed as a d) AbulFazal a) Bolivia b) Chilly venue for next year’s under-17 football e) Viratkohli c) Ecuador d) Russia World Cup? 176. RBI has launched the survey to seek e) USA a) Jaipur quantitative information on order 184. Name the Indian grappler who was b) Kochi books, inventories and capacity appointed as the DSP in Haryana c) Trivandrum utilization of companies in which Police? d) New Delhi sector? a) Babita Kumari e) Mumbai a) Agro b) Geeta Phogat 169. Which electronics manufacturing b) Financial c) Mary Kom company has entered into education c) Industry d) sector in India? d) Manufacturing e) a) IBM b) Samsung e) Mining 185. Which bank has become the first Indian c) Sony d) LG 177. Three-days International Conference lender to execute banking transaction e) Honeywell on voter education has been inaugurated via blockchain technology? 170. Which state were launched the by Chief Election Commissioner of a) Axis bank PradhanMantriUjjwalaYojana India Dr. Nasim Zaidi in which city of b) HDFC bank (PMUY) and ‘Direct Benefit Transfer’ India? c) ICICI bank (DBT) for subsidized kerosene? a) Bhopal b) Pune d) Punjab national bank a) Madhya Pradesh c) New Delhi d) Noida e) State Bank of India b) Jharkhand e) Mumbai 186. The International Union for c) Odisha 178. TRAI has started discussions on which Conservation of Nature is all set to d) Haryana type of communication technology? declare which of the following animals e) sikkim a) 6LoWPAN a Critically Endangered species? 171. Which city hosts the 28th Accountants b) ANT+ a) Blackbuck General Conference? c) Machine to machine b) Kashmiri Red Stag a) New Delhi d) Tera-play c) Monal b) Mumbai e) XBee d) Nilgai c) Chennai 179. Which country agreed for close security e) West Bengal tigers d) Kochin coordination with India in border areas 187. Which bollywood actress has been e) Bhopal keeping in view the sensitivity of each bestowed with the 2016 ET Panache 172. The North Eastern Electric Power other’s strategic interests? Trendsetter Award? Corporation Limited (NEEPCO) will a) Bhutan a) Aishwarya Rai commission two power projects in b) Myanmar b) Alia Bhatt Arunachal Pradesh, what is the c) Pakistan c) prithijindha capacity of those power plants? d) Nepal d) a) 550 b) 710 e) Bangladesh e) Sonam Kapoor c) 770 d) 880 180. Which of the following city has the 188. Name the political party launched by e) 570 first National Tribal Carnival launched Irom Sharmila. 173. Name the airport which has gets India’s by PM? a) Front for Victory second eco-friendly airport award? a) Bhopal b) All Manipur Unity Party a) Palanpur Airport b) New Delhi c) National- Manipur Social b) Porbandar Airport c) Udaipur Association

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d) Manipur People’s Revolutionary 195. The Central government has proposed ANSWER KEYS Party a ____ slab rate structure for the Goods 1.b 2.b 3.a 4.e e) People’s Resurgence and Justice and Services Tax, ranging from zero to 5.c 6.b 7.b 8.a Alliance 26%. 9.d 10.a 11.b 12.a 189. Kigeli V Ndahindurwa who passed a) 2 13.d 14.a 15.b 16.c away recently was the last king of b) 3 17.c 18.d 19.a 20.c which of the following countries? c) 4 21.a 22.b 23.a 24.d a) Rwanda d) 5 b) Chad e) 6 25.e 26.d 27.a 28.a c) Liberia 196. Name the actor who will be receive the 29.a 30.d 31.a 32.e d) Morocco 44th annual Chaplin Award. 33.a 34.b 35.c 36.b e) Mozambique a) Al Pacino 37.d 38.d 39.c 40.a 190. Which of the following is the sixth b) James Caan 41.a 42.a 43.a 44.e Water Jet Fast Attack Craft (WJFAC) c) Michael Sheen 45.b 46.d 47.a 48.c Car Nicobar Class vessel was d) Robert De Niro 49.a 50.a 51.a 52.d commissioned and allotted to the e) Stephen Fry 53.a 54.d 55.d 56.b Eastern Fleet of the Navy at 197. Name the Pakistan nuclear reactor 57.a 58.a 59.d 60.d Vishakhapatnam. which became active on October 17. 61.e 62.b 63.e 64.a a) INS Tahiyu a) Karachi Nuclear Power Complex 65.a 66.d 67.e 68.a b) INS Chakra b) Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant c) INS Aridhaman c) Chashma Nuclear Power Plant 69.a 70.d 71.d 72.e d) INS Arihant d) Multan Heavy Water Production 73.b 74.a 75.e 76.c e) INS Vikranth Facility 77.b 78.d 79.a 80.a 191. Name the Sri Lankan cricket player e) Pakistan Nuclear Power Fuel 81.a 82.d 83.a 84.a who has been named brand ambassador Complex 85.c 86.d 87.c 88.e of the third edition of the STAIRS 198. What is the slogan of Cell for IPR 89.d 90.c 91.b 92.a School Football League (SSFL). Promotion and Management 93.e 94.b 95.d 96.e a) Mahilajayavarthna (CIPAM)? 97.b 98.d 99.a 100.e b) Arjun Ranatunga a) Creative India, Innovative India. 101.a 102.a 103.a 104.b c) Sanath Jayasuriya b) Creative India, Improve India. 105.c 106.c 107.b 108.b d) Farveez Maharoof c) Innovative India, Improve India. 109.c 110.d 111.d 112.b e) Kumar sagagara d) Innovative India, Implement India. 192. Over 50 scientists from ____ countries e) Innovative India, increase growth 113.d 114.a 115.d 116.c will participate in the ‘Antarctic in India. 117.e 118.a 119.a 120.b Circumpolar Expedition’. 199. Three day conference of top 121.d 122.c 123.e 124.e a) 55 commanders of Indian Air Force 125.d 126.c 127.c 128.c b) 41 concluded today in ____? 129.a 130.c 131.d 132.b c) 30 a) Mumbai 133.d 134.a 135.e 136.d d) 27 b) Agarthala 137.c 138.e 139.a 140.c e) 19 c) Ahmadabad 141.b 142.a 143.a 144.d 193. Name the Tennis player who has d) New Delhi 145.b 146.b 147.d 148.c retained the top spot in the latest e) Cochin 149.c 150.e 151.e 152.a Association of Tennis Professionals 200. Name the person who has won the 2016 153.b 154.d 155.c 156.d (ATP) rankings. Wildlife photographer of the year a) Novak Djokovic award? 157.d 158.b 159.e 160.b b) a) Tim Laman 161.e 162.b 163.b 164.d c) Kei Nishikori b) James Caan 165.c 166.e 167.c 168.b d) Andre Agassi c) Michael Sheen 169.c 170.b 171.a 172.b e) Aundy Murray d) Robert De Niro 173.e 174.d 175.c 176.d 194. Which housing finance company will e) Stephen Fry 177.c 178.c 179.b 180.b open its first initial public offering 181.a 182.c 183.c 184.b (IPO) to the public on October 25? 185.c 186.b 187.e 188.e a) Max housing insurance  189.a 190.a 191.c 192.c b) SBI housing insurance 193.a 194.e 195.c 196.d c) LIC Housing Finance 197.c 198.a 199.d 200.a d) ICICI housing insurance e) PNB Housing Finance Limited  59 Plot-1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRP Square, Bhubaneswar-751015 Ph. : (0674) 6556677, 8093556677. Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER- 2016

100 G.K. QUESTION FOR SSC/RAILWAY 1. Consider the following metals: b) calcium oxide and ammonium 17. Which one among the following 1) Uranium chloride produces seeds but not flowers? 2) Radium c) aragonite and sodium carbonate a) Cashew nut 3) Plutonium d) ammonium sulphate and sodium b) Coffee Which of these are used in making carbonate c) Groundnut nuclear weapons? 9. The high-temperature superconductors d) Pine a) 1 and 2 b) 1, 2 and 3 are : 18. Which one of the following forms an c) 2 and 3 d) 1 and 3 a) metal alloys irreversible complex with haemoglobin 2. Tiredness is felt on the top of the b) ceramic oxides of blood? mountains because of : c) inorganic polymers a) Carbon dioxide a) high temperature d) pure rare earth metals b) Pure nitrogen gas b) low temperature 10. Which one of the following fertilizers c) Carbon monoxide c) high pressure outside the body has more nitrogen content? d) A mixture of carbon dioxide d) low pressure outside the body a) Urea 19. Milk, cheese and eggs are the source of 3. Nights are cooler in the deserts because: b) Ammonium Nitrate vitamins? a) sand radiate heat less quickly as c) Potassium Nitrate a) B and C b) A and C compared to earth d) Ammonium phosphate c) C and D d) A and D b) the sky is generally clear 11. Which one of the following is a mixture? 20. Which of the following is a physical c) sand radiates heat more quickly a) Lime b) Table salt basis of life? as compared to earth c) Sugar d) Sea water a) Mitochondria d) the sky is generally cloudy 12. Amalgam is a mixture of : b) Ribosome 4. The most efficient engine is : a) any non-metal and chlorine c) Protoplasm a) petrol b) diesel b) any metal and florine d) Nucleus c) electric d) steam c) any non-metal and lead 21. Railway Budget in India was separated 5. The hydraulic brakes used in automobiles d) any metal and mercury from general budget in : is a direct application of: 13. Which one of the following is used in a) 1924-25 b) 1941-42 a) Archmimedes’ principle welding industry? c) 1947-48 d) 1950-51 b) Toricellian law a) Methane b) Ethane 22. Excise Duties are taxes on : c) Bernoulli’s theorem c) Acetylene d) Benzene a) sale of commodities d) Pascal’s law 14. Match the following: b) export commodities 6. Match the following : a) Red blood cells c) production of commodities Physical quantity Unit b) White blood cells d) import of commodities a) Solid angle 1. Pascal c) Platelets 23. After textiles, India’s second important b) Impulse 2. Steradian 1. Leucocytes industry is : c) Viscosity 3. Newton-sec 2. Erythrocytes a) Sugar b) Jute d) Pressure 4. Pascal-sec 3. Thrombocytes c) Cement d) Iron and steel A B C D A B C D A B C A B C 24. Low productivity of agriculture in India a)1 2 4 2 b) 1 4 3 2 a) 3 1 2 b) 2 1 3 is not caused by : c) 2 4 3 1 d) 2 3 4 1 c) 2 3 1 d) 1 2 3 a) inadequate availability of inputs 7. A car is running on a road at a uniform 15. Desert plants would be characterized b) subdivision of land holdings speed of 60 km/hr. The net resultant by : c) less area under cultivation force on the car is: a) vivipary d) poor finance facilities a) driving force in the direction of b) aerenchyma 25. The per capita foodgrains consumption: car’s motion c) aerial roots a) has fallen steadily over the years b) resistance force opposite to the d) sunken stomata b) has fluctuated direction of car’s motion 16. Leishmania, the causative agent of kala- c) has remained stagnant c) an inclined force azar, multiplies asexually by d) has risen very slowly d) equal to zero a) budding 26. The Government of India Act, 1935 8. The main constituents of pearls are : b) binary fission vested the residuary power in the : a) calcium carbonate and magnesium c) multiple fission a) British Parliament carbonate d) sporogony b) Federal Legislature

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c) Sate Legislature d) Jaimal 46. India is a member of : d) Governor- General 36. Super Nova is : a) NAM and SAARC 27. India became a Sovereign, democratic a) an asteroid b) OPEC and SAARC republic on : b) a black hole c) NAM and ASEAN a) Aug 15, 1947 c) a comet d) NAM and OPEC b) Jan 30, 1948 d) a dying star 47. A Web site’s main page is called its c) Jan 26, 1950 37. The Saturn rings were discovered by : a) Home page d) Nov 26, 1929 a) Copernicus b) Browser page 28. Regarding equality before law, the Indian b) Newton c) Search page constitution makes exceptions in the c) Galileo d) Bookmark case of : d) None of these 48. Which of the following can input a) The President or a Governor 38. The Tropic of Cancer does NOT pass graphical images and pictures for a b) Foreign sovereigns only through: computer? c) The President only a) Egypt b) Mexico a) Plotter b) Scanner d) None c) Oman d) Yemen c) Mouse d) Printer 29. Who decides about the reasonableness 39. Which one of the following minerals 49. Majuli is to become India’s first river of the restrictions placed on occurs abundantly in the Earth’s crust? Island district by August this year At. Fundamental Rights? a) Bauxite Present the Island is sub. Division a) Parliament b) Silica under Zorhat district in which state? b) President c) Manganese a) Assam c) Courts d) Iron b) West Bangle d) Special Tribunal 40. Which is the largest fresh water lake in c) Nagaland 30. The total number of Fundamental Duties the world? d) Arunachal Pradesh mentioned in the Constitution is : a) Lake Tanganyika 50. Criketers Ajinkys Rahane and ___ were, a) 9 b) 10 b)Lake Superior in September 2016, conferred with the c) 11 d) 12 c) Lake Baikal for their contributions 31. From which one of the following sites, d) Lake Michigan to sport of cricket. was the famous Bull-seal f Indus Valley 41. The first were a) Virat Kohili found? held in 1930. Which country hosted b) Sikhar Dhawan a) Harappa b) Chanhudaro the games? c) c) Lothal d) Mohenjodaro a) Australia d) M.S. Dhoni 32. The script of Indus Valley Civilization b) England 51. Tesla is a unit of magnetic was/is: c) New Zealand a) Flux a) Persian b) Dravidian d) Canada b) Induction c) Sanskrit d) Undeciphered 42. The term ‘Tee’ is connected with : c) Moment 33. Who were Barids during the Sultanate a) Polo b) Golf d) None of these period? c) Bridge d) Billiards 52. The threshold frequency is the frequency a) Police officers 43. Who is the proponent and propagandist below which b) News reporters of the “Art of Living”? a) photo current increases with c) Revenue officers a) Maharishi Mahesh Yogi voltage d) Accountants b) Sri Sri Ravi Shankar b) photo current decreases with 34. Mughal dynasty was to Bahadur Shah c) Swami Chinmayananda voltage Zafar as Lodi dynasty was to : d) Bhagwan Rajneesh c) photo electric emissions is not a) Bahalol Lodi 44. Who among the following was the first possible b) Daulat Khan Lodi Defence minister of India? d) photo current is constant c) Ibrahim Lodi a) K.M. Cariappa 53. Sir C.V. Raman was awarded Nobel prize d) Sikandar Lodi b) Sardar Patel for his work on 35. When Akbar surrounded Chittor fort, c) N. Goaplaswami Ayyangar a) light scattering who saved it four months? d) Maulana Azad b) Radio activity a) Udya Singh 45. The headquarters of UNHCR is located c) cryogenics b) Rana Pratap at : d) Sono meter c) Bhama Shah a) New York b) Rome c) London d) Geneva 61 Plot-1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRP Square, Bhubaneswar-751015 Ph. : (0674) 6556677, 8093556677. Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER- 2016

54. Transition Ions absorb light in 63. 2, 4, D is used as 73. Match the medieval traveler’s with their a) infrared region a) weedicide countries b) ultraviolet region b) Vitamin List-I c) microwave region c) fertilizer A) Marco Polo d) visible region d) Insecticide B) Ibn Battuta 55. The motion of the wheels of a bullock- 64. Widal test is used for the diagnosis of C) Antonio Monserrate cart-while moving on the road is a) Salmonellosis D) Mahmud wali Balkhi example of b) Malaria List-II a) oscillatory and rotator motion c) Cholera (1) Spain b) oscillatory and translatory motion d) Typhoid (2) Balkh c) translatory and rotator motion 65. Species which has restricted distribution (3) Italy d) translator mote on only is (4) Morocco 56. A thin oil film on a water surface appears a) Eco species A B C D colored because of b) Endemic a) 3 4 1 2 a) reflection c) Sympatric b) 1 3 2 4 b) interference d) Allopatric c) 4 3 1 2 c) diffraction 66. The alkaloid naturally found in coffee, d) 3 1 4 2 d) polarization Cocoa, and cola nut is 74. The French challenge to British in India 57. Which devices can be used to detect a) Cocaine b) Morphine came to an end with- radient heat? c) Tannin d) Coffeine a) Battle of Plassey a) liquid thermometer 67. Which Vein brings clean blood from the b) Battle of Buxar b) six’s maximum and minimum lungs into the heart c) Battle of Wandiwash thermometer a) Reanl vein d) Battle of Srirangapatna c) constant volume air thermometer b) pulmonary Vein 75. Which Articles of the constitution deals d) thermopile c) Vena Cava with the fundamental duties 58. Which is very reactive and kept in d) Hepatic Vein a) Article 39 kerosene 68. If waste materials contaminate the source b) Article 514 a) sodium b) potassium of drinking water, which of the c) Article 293 c) lodine d) bromine following disease will spread d) None of these 59. The apparatus used to test acidity of a) Survey b) Typhoid 76. Where did the practice of shadow aqueous solution is c) Malaria d) Anaemia cabinet originate a) PH meter 69. Vermicomposting is done by a) United states of America b) Ammeter a) Fungus b) Bacteria b) Great Britain c) Hygrometer c) Worms d) Animals c) Italy d) Acid meter 70. The Gandhi’s Dandi March’ was a part d) France 60. The moderator used in a nuclear reactor of 77. In which case did Supreme Court restore is a) Non-Cooperation Movement the primary of the fundamental rights a) uranium b) Home Rule league over the directive principle of state b) radium c) Civil Disobedience Movement policy c) ordinary water d) Quit India Movement a) Golaknath case d) graphite 71. Who succeeded Guru Nanank b) Keshavnanda Bharati case 61. Acid rain is caused by a) Guru Angad c) Minerva mills case b) Guru Ramdas d) All the above case a) NO2 and O2 c) Guru Arjun Dev 78. How many times was the term of the b) CO. and CO2 d) Guru Hargobind Loksabha extended upto 6 years c) SO2 and NO2 72. The First woman to preside over the a) Once b) Twice d) NiO2 and SO2 62. The rusting of metal iron in air needs UN General Assembly c) Thrice d) Never both a) Rajkumari Amrit Kaur 79. If the Anglo-Indian community does not a) oxygen and grease b) Vijayalakhmi Pandit get adequate representation in the Lok b) oxygen and moisture c) Kamala Nehru sabha, two members of the community c) carbon dioxide and moisture d) Indira Gandhi can be nominated by the d) water and paint

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a) Prime minister a) Bhadravati c) The smallest resolvable of part of b) President b) Bhilai a picture c) Speaker c) Jamshedpur d) All of the above d) President in Consultaion with the d) Burnpu 98. What is a small arrow or blinking symbol parliament 90. ‘Ranjit Trophy’ is given to the sport indicator desktop is called 80. Production refer to person in a) Logo b) Mouse a) Destruction of utility a) Football b) Hockey c) Cursor d) Palm b) Creation of Utility c) Cricket d) Kabadi 99. Lionel messi sensationally announced c) Exchange value 91. A book entitled “The stories of Malgudi his retirement from International d) Use of a product Days written by” football. He played for which country 81. Capital market deals with a) K.R. Narayan a) Russia b) USA a) Short term fund b) R.K. Narayan c) Argentina d) Brazil b) Long term fund c) P.M. Bajpai 100. A bronze Statue of Netaji Subash c) Cash d) Abdul Kalam Chandra Bose has been unveiled at the d) Both long and short term funds 92. Ama Jangal Yajna (My forest Scheme) a Indian cultural centre premises in which 82. Jawahar Rozgar Yojna was introduced bad to enhance forest cover in the state country in was launched in a) Canada b) Russia a) Fifth five year plan a) Odisha c) USA d) Malaysia b) Sixth five year plan b) Chhatisgarh c) Seventh five year plan c) Jharkhand d) Eighths five year plan d) Assam  83. The study of factor pricing is 93. United Nations appreciate un for better alternatively called the theory of management of cyclone, phalin was a) Functional distribution awarded is 2014 to Government of ANSWER KEYS b) Personal distribution a) West Bengal c) Income distribution b) Andhra Pradesh 1. d 2. d 3. c 4. c d) Wealth distribution c) Andaman & Nicobar 5. d 6. d 7. d 8. a 84. SEBI was set up in d) Odisha 9. b 10. a 11. a 12. d a) 1992 b) 1980 94. The Famous Sun Temple at Konark was 13. c 14. b 15. d 16. b c)1984 d) 1988 built by 17. c 18. c 19. d 20. c 85. Which is not Galileon satellite of Jupiter a) Pratap Rudra 21. a 22. c 23. d 24. c a) Europe b) Anangaviman 25. d 26. d 27. c 28. a b) Gnaymede c) Narasinha-i 29. c 30. c 31. d 32. d c) Callisto d) Narsinhs-ii 33. a 34. c 35. d 36. d d) Deimos 95. Who developed the basic architecture of 37. c 38. d 39. b 40. b 86. A narrow strip of land that connects computer 41. d 42. b 43. b 44. c two larger land masses is called a) Charles Babbage 45. d 46. a 47. a 48. b a) Strait b) Blaise pascal 49. a 50. c 51. a 52. c b) Peninsula c) Steve Neuton 53. a 54. d 55. c 56. b c) Cape d) John Von-Neumann 57. d 58. a 59. a 60. c d) Isthmus 96. Which bar is usually located below the 61. c 62. b 63. a 64. d 87. Where is the Maikal range situated Title Bar that provides categorized 65. b 66. d 67. b 68. b a) UP options 69. c 70. c 71. c 72. a b) Rajasthan a) Menu bar 73. a 74. c 75. c 76. b c) Bihar b) Status bar 77. a 78. a 79. b 80. b d) Chhattisgarh c) Tool bar 81. b 82. c 83. a 84. d 88. The latitude passing though the northern d) Scroll bar 85. d 86. c 87. d 88. c most part of India is 97. What is a pixel 89. c 90. c 91. b 92. a a) 350 N b) 360 N a) Computer programme that draws 93. d 94. c 95. d 96. a c) 370 N d) 380 N picture 97. c 98. c 99. c 100. d 89. Where was the first Iron and steel b) A picture stored in secondary Industry of India established memory

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40 MCQ ON COMPUTER

1. GIF images can have only up to______7. Which Provides the fastest access to 14. Storage capacity of magnetic disk depend colours large video files on a) 128 a) Optical drives a) tracks for inch of surface b) 256 b) IDC hard drives b) bits per inch of tracks c) 512 c) SCSI hard drive c) disk pack in disk surface d) 1024 d) EIDE hard drives d) all of these e) None of these e) None of these e) None of these 2. The method of storing data temporarily 8. With respect to a network interface 15. Which of the following devices typically such that the input- output of the same card, the term 10/100 refers to: attaches to a parallel port? job is overlapped with its own a) Protocol speed a) Keyboard processing is known as b) A fiber speed b) Mouse a) Spooling c) Megabits per Second c) Monitor b) Contention d) Minimum and Maximum Server d) Printer c) I/O wait speed e) None of these d) Buffering e) None of these 16. Which device cannot be used for e) None of these 9. The time for which a piece of equipment authentication? 3. Network operating systems from Novel operate & is called. a) Flatbed scanner is ______a) Seek time b) Finger print sensor a) NOS b) Effective time c) Voice recognition system b) UNIX c) Access time d) Retina scanner c) Netware d) Real time e) None of these d) Solaries e) None of these 17. A digital signature is e) None of these 10. Which of the following is valid IP a) Scanned signature 4. Which layer defines the mechanical, address? b) Signature in binary form electrical and timing interfaces to the a) 984.12 .787. 76 c) encrypting information network? b) 192.168.321.10 d) handwritten signature a) Physical layer c) 1.888.234.3456 e) None of these b) Datalink Layer d) 192.168.56.115 18. ______Software are programs that c) Network layer e) None of these are installed onto your computer and d) Application layer 11. Data redundancy can be eliminated by can scan and remove known viruses e) None of these using : which you may have contracted. 5. ADCCP means. a) Networking a) Key logger a) Analog data code check b) DBMS b) Adware procedure. c) Operating system c) Antivirus b) Active database communication d) Processing the data manually d) Firmware Control program. e) None of these e) None of these c) Application data cache call 12. A file of records used to update the 19. LISP is suitable for _____ operations procedure. master file is known as. a) numeric d) Advanced data communication a) Transaction File b) arithmetic control procedure. b) Random access File c) Both ‘a’ and ‘b’ e) None of these c) Sequential File d) character 6. You get a CMOS check sum error during d) All of these e) None of these boot up what is most likely the cause? e) None of these 20. Which is not a page size in MS Word a) Power supply is bad 13. Which of the following is not the part of document? b) BIOS needs updating standard office Suite? a) A4 c) CMOS battery is nearing end of a) Word processor b) A3 life b) Data base c) Legal d) Hard drive types are incorrectly c) Image editor d) Letter defined d) File manager e) Z100 e) None of these e) None of these

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21. Press______to start presentation e) None of these e) None of these from the beginning 28. The appropriate data type to store time 36. What is the full form of APL? a) F5 b) F6 in MS access? a) A programming language c) F7 d) F8 a) Date/time b) Procedure Language e) None of these b) Time only c) Array Programming language

22. Conversion of decimal number (93)10to c) Time d) Array Programming level hexadecimal number is d) Time can’t be stored e) None of the above

a)(2D)16 b)(5D)16 e) None of these 37. Which of the following is not a valid

c)(62)16 d)(31)16 29. With an IP address of 100, you have data type in MS access? e) None of these currently 80 subnets. What subnet a) Memo 23. Which file is the batch File that is read mask should you use to maximise the b) Picture while booting a computer? no. of available hosts? c) Currency a) Auto batch a) 192 b) 240 d) Auto number b) Auto Executive.bat c) 248 d) 224 e) None of these c) Auto exec. Bat e) 252 38. In the relational model, a cardinality is d) Auto. Bat 30. Telnet is a termed as e) None of these a) Network of telephones a) number of tuples 24. Inspite of the extra power needed for b) Television Network b) No. of attributes refreshing, DRAMs are widely used in c) Remote login c) No. of tables computers because. d) All of these d) No. of Constraints a) of the lower cost of bus. e) None of these e) None of these b) of it is a lower cost relative to 31. The concept of electronic cash is to 39. Which Field type can store photos? SRAM execute payment by a) OLE c) of case of Programming a) credit card b) Hyperlink d) of it is a ligher speed relative to b) ATM card c) Both of these can be used SRAMs. c) using computers over network d) Access tables can’t store photos. e) None of these d) Cheque e) None of these 25. Secondary storage device is needed to? e) None of these 40. The contents of information are stored a) Perform arithmetic and logical 32. DOS and Window 3.x support file names in operations. up to ______characters in length. a) Memory data register b) Store small volume of data a) Two b) Four b) Memory address register c) Print output result c) Six d) Eight c) Memory arithmetic registers d) Store large volume of data that e) None of these d) Memory access register exceed the capacity of main 33. A permanent virtual circuit involves e) None of these memory. a) Connection establishment e) None of these b) data transfer 26. Which one of the following medium is c) connection release  universal, portable and inexpensive but d) All of the above has its own limitations in term of e) None of these storage capacity and speed? 34. What is correcting errors in a program ANSWER KEYS a) Hard disk called? b) Winchester disk a) Interpreting 1. b 2. d 3. c 4. a c) Optical disk b) Translating 5. d 6. c 7. c 8. c d) Floppy disk c) debugging 9. b 10. d 11. b 12. a e) None of these d) compiling 13. d 14. d 15. d 16. a 27. In case of Winchester disk the head? e) None of these 17. c 18. c 19. c 20. e a) Contacts the recording surface 35. An IC contains 50 gates each of which 21. a 22. b 23. c 24. b occasionally consists of 6 components It belongs to 25. d 26. d 27. d 28. a b) Never Contacts the disk Surface a) VLSI 29. e 30. c 31. c 32. d c) Always contacts the recording b) LSI 33. b 34. c 35. c 36. a surface c) MSI 37. b 38. a 39. a 40. a d) Contacts only the landing area d) SSI while not recording 65 Plot-1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRP Square, Bhubaneswar-751015 Ph. : (0674) 6556677, 8093556677. Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER- 2016

20 SPECIAL MCQ ON BANKINGAWARENESS

1. Which of the following is not included c) NPA a) Bank Ombudsman scheme was in govt. securities? d) All of the above first introduced in 1995 but start a) Promissory notes e) None of the Above in operations from 2006 b) Debentures 9. Who are the major players in the call b) Bank Ombudsman has the power c) Bearer bonds money markets? to solve bank Complaints d) all a) Banks c) Bank Ombudsman acts as the one e) none b) Insurance companies of representative of Reserve Bank 2. Money Market is regulated by? c) Development Financial Institutions of India in order to implement a) RBI d) Selected Mutual Funds RBIs rules and regulations b) SEBI e) All of the above d) All the Above c) IRDAI 10. ______is a voluntary market body e) None of these d) None of the Above for the bond, money and derivatives 17. Which of the following fall under the e) Both (a) and (c) markets. qualitative method of credit control 3. Who issues treasury bills? a) RBI adopted by RBI? a) Reserve Bank of India, as the b) SEBI a) Selective credit control agent of the Central Government c) IRDAI b) Moral suasion b) Any Govt. deptt. of State and d) FIMMDA c) Credit authorization scheme Central e) None of the above d) All of the above c) Any Commercial Bank 11. Which bank launched Mobi cash easy e) None of the above d) All of the above scheme? 18. _____ is a short term and unsecured e) None of the above a) SBP promissory notes issued by 4. ______short term instrument, have b) SBH corporations with very high credit the generic character of T-bills but are c) SBI standingd? issued for maturities less than 91 days. d) Axis a) Demand draft a) Dated Government Securities e) ICICI b) Credit card b) State Development Loans(SDL) 12. Coins in india are minted at c) Debit card c) Cash Management Bills(CMBs) a) Hyderabad d) Commercial Paper d) All of the Above b) Kolkata e) None of these e) None of these c) Noida 19. Slogan of Corporation Bank? 5. Certificate of deposit can be subscribed d) All the above a) Working for a better tomorrow by e) None of these b) Prosperity for all a) individuals 13. All the financial issues of agriculture are c) Trusted family Bank b) corporate companies dealt by which Bank? d) None of these c) Trusts, funds, association e.t.c a) Andhra Bank 20. ______term refers an account that d) (a) and (b) b) SBI cannot be converted and repatriated e) all of (a) to (c) c) RBI into foreign currency. 6. ______refers borrowers ability to d) NABARD a) Non-Resident Ordinary Rupee or meet immediate liabilities. e) None of these NRO Account a) Current Ratio 14. If you buy a financial instrument in one b) Non-Resident Rupee or NRE b) Gearing Ratio market in order to sell the same Account c) Acid-Test Ratio instrument in another market at higher c) FCNR Account d) All of the above price, it will be called as d) Retail Account e) None of the Above a) Brokerage e) None of these 7. A government security is generally issued b) Arbitrage in the form of c) Forfeiture of Instrument a) Stock certificates d) investment  b) Bearer bonds e) None of these c) Promissory notes 15. AER stands for ___? d) all a) Average Earnings rate ANSWER KEYS e) none b) Annual Earning Rate 1.a 2.a 3.a 4.c 8. An Asset Reconstruction c) Appropriate Earning Rate 5.e 6.c 7.d 8.c Company(ARC) in India is associated d) Approximate Earning Rate 9.e 10.d 11.c 12.d with ______e) None of these 13.d 14.b 15.b 16.e a) UCPDC 16. Which among the following is incorrect 17.d 18.d 19.b 20.a b) DICGC about Bank Ombudsman ?

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APPOLOGIES!!! Corrected General Awareness of SSC-CHSL Practice Set of Previous Magazine (November-2016 Issue) PART-B d) 1988, Odisha 44. Which is very reactive and kept in GENERAL AWARENESS 36. What is the fulform of UIDAI? kerosene? a) Union International Authority of a) Sodium b) Potassium 26. Who is the first man to hit double Itanagr c) Iodine d) Bromine century in one-day International match b) United Indefinitely Authority of 45. The apparatus used to test acidity of a) Birendra Shewag Italy aqueous solution is b) Ricky Ponting c) Unique Identification Authority a) PH meter c) Rohit Sharma of India b) Ammeter d) Sachin Tendulkar d) Unique International Authority of c) Hygrometer 27. Which city is also called Whiteman’s India d) Acid meter grave? 37. The Government of India appointed a 46. The moderator used in a nuclear reactors a) Gibralter National Income Committee under the is b) Belgium Chairmanship of a) Uranium c) Guinea Coast of Africa a) C. Rangranjan b) Radium d) Guayaquil port of Ecudor b) Harolds Damodar c) Ordinary water 28. Who is the fathers of Geometry? c) P.C. Mohalanobis d) Graphite a) Archimedes d) Vijaya Kelkar 47. Process through which plants reproduce b) Galileo Galilei 38. Who is the first Chief Justice of the a) Pollin action c) Eueclid supreme court of India? b) Condensation d) Panini a) G.V. mavalnkar c) Eating 29. Who built the capital city Rajhir b) H.L. Kania d) Evaporation (Girivraja) c) Ranganath Mishra 48. Araneology is a) Ajatshatru b) Bimbisara d) None of these a) Study of mites c) Kanishka d) Udayin 39. Congress has just lost a state Govt. in b) Rearing of bees 30. Who founded Jainism? an North – East state when 43 off 44 c) Study of aphids a) Mahavir MLA’s joined a rival party, which state d) Study of spiders b) Goutam Budha is it? 49. What does “corpus luteum” secretes? c) Rishabhnath a) Manipur b) Meghalay a) Progesterone d) kalashaka c) Mizoram d) Arunachal Pradesh b) Testosterone 31. Who composed the National Song 40. Twittar has Introduces as emoji on which c) estrogen ‘Amar Sonar Bangla’? festival from September 4-16? d) Hemoglobin a) M.G. Ranade a) Ganesh chaturthi 50. What is the Chemical name of Bleaching b) Rabindra Nath Tagore b) Diwai powder c) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee c) Holi a) Solid carbon dioxide d) Vivekananda d) Idd b) Silicon dioxide 32. Which is the cold current? 41. Which one of the is radioactive? c) Sodium chloride a) Labrdor current a) Cesium b) Platinum d) Magnesium sulphate b) Kuroshio current c) Strontium d) Thorium c) North equatorial current 42. A fountain pen works on the principle  d) Alaska current of 33. Which city of India is associated with a) Flow of liquids from higher to “Newsprint”? lower potential ANSWER KEYS a) Nepanagar b) Nashik b) Capillary action 1. d 2. c 3. c 4. b c) Hydrabad d) Koyana c) Bernoulli’s principle 34. The National bird of Odisha? d) Viscosity of liquids 5. c 6. b 7. a 8. a a) Chhanchan b) Pegion 43. Newtons’s first law of motion gives the 9. d 10. c 11. c 12. c c) peacock d) Blue Joy concept force 35. “Twenty point progrme” is started on a) Energy 13. b 14. d 15. a 16. b which year and states of India? b) Work 17. d 18. a 19. a 20. a a) 1970, Asam c) Momentum 21. c 22. a 23. d 24. a b) 1972, Rajasthan d) Inertia c) 1975 Tamil Nadu 25. c

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PRACTICE SET FOR UPCOMING EXAM [IBPS-PO (MAIN-1)] ENGLISH LANGUAGE sentence. The number of that part is the d) be quick introducing to repeal answer. If there is no error the answer is e) No correction required Directions (Q.1-5): In each of the e). (Ignore errors in punctuation, if any) 15. The driver didn’t accede at the demand following sentences there are two blank of the people as he was aware of the spaces. Below each sentence there are risk involved in it. 6. There is (a)/no question (b)/of my failing five pairs of words denoted by letter a), a)was not accede at the demand (c)/ in the examination (d)/No error (e). b), c), d) and e). Find out which pair of b)didn’t accede at demanding 7. The scientist must follow (a)/his hunches words can be filled up in the blanks in c)was not acceded by the demand and (b)/his data (c)/wherever it may the sentence in the same sequence to d)didn’t accede to the demand lead (d)/No error (e) make the sentence grammatically correct e) No correction required 8. Due to me (a)/being a newcomer, (b)/I and meaningfully complete. was unable to get a house (c)/suitable Directions (Q.16-25): in the following 1. The activities of the association have for my family (d)/No error (e) some of the words have been left out. ______from the ______objectives set 9. I suppose (a)/that you have heard (b)/ Read the passage carefully and choose for it in the initial years. the latest news (c)/Jack has married that the correct answer to each question out a)grown, simple girl (d)/No error (e) of the five alternatives and fill in the b)deviated, original 10. Wherever they go, (a)/Indians easily (b)/ blanks. c)details, grand adapt to (c)/the local circumstances (d)/ It is one of the tragic ironies of our age that d)emerged, total No error (e) the rocket which could have been symbol of e)increased, perverse humanity’s aspirations for the stars, has Directions (Q.11-15): In the following 2. Those suffering from glaucoma find that become one of the weapons threatening to questions a part of the sentence is their ______vision is ______destroy civilisation. This state of affairs has printed as bold Below are given and that they can no longer see objects (16) a difficult moral problem to (17) wishing alternatives to the bold part at a), b) ,c) not directly in front of them. to take an active (18) in the development of and d) which may improve the sentence. a)optical, distorted astronautics, (19) almost all research on Choose the correct alternative. In case b)peripheral, impaired rockets (20) now carried out by military No correction required is needed your c)prephrastic, demurred (21) and is covered by various (22) answer is e) d)peripatetic, diminished classifications. The technical problems e)optimistic, perfunctory 11. It is true that there has been a involved (23) designing long range guided 3. ______the broker had warned him considerable decline in rural poverty. missiles are (24) identical with those involved that the stock was a _____ investment, a)has been considerably declining in the (25) of reconnaissance rockets. he instead on buying a thousand shares. b)was considerably a decline 16. a)produced b)caused a)because, prudent c)have been considered decline c)presented d)prepared b)since, negligible d)has a considerable decline e)highlighted c)because, speculative e)No correction required 17. a)those b)others d)as, vulnerable 12. They have been attending classes c)men d)about e)although, precarious since the term began. e)of 4. Due to ______rainfall this year, a)would attend 18. a)part b)position they had to ______cut in water b)had attended c)interest d)compete supply. c)would be attending e)dominate a)scantly, lift d)should attend 19. a)when b)for b)heavy, regulate e) No correction required c)where d)of c)regular, clamp 13. He considers the new assignment as e)had d)sufficient, enforce more challenging than much of the 20. a)was b)are e)inadequate, impose other assignments. 5. He is so ______that everyone is c)is d)was been a)none for the other’s e)has been always ______to help him in b)most of the other 21. a)establishments his work. c)more of the other b)officers a)helpful, reluctant d)rest of the other c)centres b)aloof, cooperative e) No correction required d)producer c)adamant, enthusiastic 14. Resolutions must be introducing e)culprit d)miserly, ignorant quickly to repeal the outdated laws. 22. a)secret b)security e)magnanimous, eager a) be introducing to quick repeal c)defence d)found b) have to be introduced to quick Directions (Q. 6-10): Read each sentence e)about repealing to find out if there is any error in it. The c) be quickly introduced to repeal error, if any, will be in one part of the

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23. a)in b)with e)E surge in oil and food prices, which individual c)for d)to 30. Which of the following should be the governments can do little to control. Of e)of THRID sentence after rearrangement? course, inflation is not just a problem in 24. a)hardly b)never a)A b)B Asia. World Bank President, Robert c)practically d)analysed c)C d)D Zoellick, called rising food and oil prices a e)recovery e)E man –made “catastrophe” that could 25. a)launching quickly reverse the gains, made in b)construction Directions (Q.31-40) Read the following overcoming poverty over the past seven c)deployment passage carefully and answer the years. For now, though, there is more talk d)implementing questions given below it. Certain word/ than action on the international front, so e)propagating phrases have been printed in bold to help Asian governments are moving on their own. you locate them while answering some Even though inflation throughout the region Directions (Q.26-30): Rearrange the of the questions. is likely to continue to rise in coming following sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), and Over the past few decades, many Asian months, no one is expecting an economic (E) to make a meaningful paragraph and nations transformed from poverty into global calamity. According to the Asian then answer the questions which follow: competitors. From 2003 to 2007, Asian Development Bank Asian countries have A. A study to this effect suggests that economies expanded at an average annual large hard currency reserves and relatively the average white-collar worker rate of 8.1%, triple that of advanced countries healthy banks and so are far better prepared demonstrates only about twenty- economies. Over the same period, inflation to absorb external shocks than they were five percent listening efficiency. in Asia averaged only about 3.5%. But Asia during the region’s last recession ten years B. However, for trained and good could be facing turbulent economic times. ago. Asian policymakers have learned their listeners; it is not unusual to use In May, the average inflation rate throughout lessons and are more alert now. all the three approaches during a the region reached nearly 7%, led by spikes setting thus improving listening in oil and food prices! In India; inflation 31. Which of the following can be said about efficiency. jumped to 11.6% annual rate in June, Asian economies during the period C. There are three approaches to according to the latest government figures, from 2003-2007? listening; listening for the highest in 13 years. i. Though inflation was rising at the comprehension, listening for Policy makers and central bankers are forced time politicians did not pay much empathy, and listening for to raise interest rates and limit credit to get attention. evaluation. inflation under control. But these same ii. Many of the poor countries were D. Although we spend nearly half of measures suppress the investment and able to compete internationally. each communication interaction consumption that generates growth. The iii. The growth rate of Asian countries listening, we do not listen well. combination of slowing growth and soaring was facilitated by growth in E. Each approach has a particular inflation makes economic policy making advanced countries. emphasis that may help us to tricky. Inflation stirs up the middle classes a)All of these receive and process information because it can quickly erase years of hard b)Only i in different settings. won personal gains. Inflation is cruel to the c)Only ii poor, because families have to spend a larger d)Both i and ii 26. Which of the following should be the share of their meagre incomes on necessities. e)None of these SECOND sentence after In the Philippines, farmers, unable to afford 32. Which of the following is not an anti- rearrangement? fuel for tractors, use water buffaloes to inflation measure being used by Asian a)A b)B plough their fields. But to avoid unrest, countries? c)C d)D leaders cannot blindly adopt rigid anti- i. Increase in benchmark interest rate e)E inflation measures. Voters won’t hesitate to by a central bank. 27. Which of the following should be the remove any politician from office who ii. Checks on lending. FIFTH sentence after rearrangement? doesn’t deliver the goods. So they cannot iii. Subsidizing fuel for farmers. a)A b)B overreact to the inflation threat and scale a)Only iii c)C d)D down economic growth in the process. b)Both i and ii e)E Developing nations need to grow quickly to c)Both ii and iii 28. Which of the following should be the create jobs and increase incomes for their d)Only ii FOURTH sentence after large populations. With prices soaring, doing e)None of these rearrangement? nothing is not an option. Most central banks 33. Why are experts not very much a)A b)B in Asia have started raising interest rates. concerned about the impact of inflation c)C d)D The Reserve Bank of India increased its on Asian economies? e)E bench mark rate twice last month, to a six i. Asian countries have not 29. Which of the following should be the year high of 8.5%. maintained substantial hard FIRST sentence after rearrangement? The challenge is especially difficult because currency reserves. a)A b)B currently, inflation is not of domestic origin. ii. 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iii. The Asian Development Bank 40. GAINS 45. Gabrielle was married to ____ will bail them out any trouble. a)decreases b)fails a) Max b) Daniel a)Only i c)deprives d)frauds c) Patterson d)Romeo b)Both i and iii e)losses e) None of these c)Both i and ii d)Only ii REASONING ABILITY Directions (Q.46-50): Read the following e)None of these information and answer the questions Directions (Q. 41-45): Read the following 34. Why is high economic growth necessary that follow: information and answer the questions for developing countries? There are eight people- G, H, I, J, K, L, M that follow: a) To catch up with the growth rate and N-each of them belongs to different Six friends Andrew, Daniel, Max, Patterson, of the advanced countries states viz., Assam, Bihar, Karnataka, Romeo and Sunny married within a year in b) To sustain their economies despite Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu the months of February, April, July, the ill-effects of inflation and West Bengal, but not necessarily in the September, November and December and c) To provide better educational same order. They live in an eight story in the cities of Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, opportunities to their citizens building having floors numbered one to eight- Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata but d) Both a and b each of them on different floor. (The Ground not necessarily following the above order. e) None of these Floor is numbered Floor No.1, the Floor The brides names were Gabrielle, Jina, 35. Which of the following can be inferred above it Floor No.2 and so on). G lives on Hanna, Bethany, Ileana and Victoria, once from the passage? even numbered floor. Three persons live again not following any order. The following i. Growth rate in advanced countries between L and G. Three persons live are some facts about their weddings. was low so the effects of inflation between the persons from Bihar and West I. were not felt. Max’s wedding took place in Bengal. N lives immediately above G’s floor Chennai, however he was not ii. Closing the economy to global and immediately below K’s floor. G is from married to Gabrielle or Victoria markets will reduced inflation. Tamil Nadu. There are five floors between II. iii. India has been the most severely Andrew’s wedding took place in the floors on which J and the person from affected by inflation. Ahmedabad and Romeo’s in Delhi; Karnataka live. The person from West however neither of them was a)None of these Bengal lives on the floor immediately below married to Jina or Bethany. b)Only i the floor on which the person from Assam III. The wedding in Kolkata took c)Only ii lives. The person from Assam live place in February d)Both ii & iii immediately below G’s floor. Three people IV. e)All of these Hanna’s wedding took place in live between J and the person from Assam. April, but not in Ahmedabad I does not belong to Assam. Four person Directions (Q. 36-38) : In the following V. Gabrielle and Ileana got married live between the person from Bihar and questions out of four alternatives, in February and November and in Maharashtra. L does not belong to choose the one which best expresses the Chennai and Kolkata but not Rajasthan. H lives on the even numbered meaning of the given word. following the above order floor. VI. Patterson visited Bengaluru and 36. STIRS Kolkata only after his marriage in 46. On which of the following floors does a)trembles b)moves December the person from Bihar live? c)mixes d)inspires VII. Sunny was married to Jasmine to a)Fourth b)Sixth e)agitates September c)Fifth d)Eighth 37. SCALE e)None of these a)descent b)climb 41. Hanna’s husband is 47. Who lives on the top most floor? c)hindrance d)cut a) Andrew b) Daniel a)K b)G e)measure c) Romeo d) Patterson c)N d)M 38. ORIGIN e) Max e)None of these a)ancestry b)source 42. Daniel’s wedding took place in 48. To which state does J belong? c)inauguration d)down a) Bengaluru b)Mumbai a)West Bengal e)scuffle c) Kolkata d) Delhi b)Karnataka e) Chennai c)Rajasthan Directions (Q. Nos. 39-40) Choose the 43. In Mumbai, the wedding of one of the d)Assam word opposite in meaning to the given friends took place in the month of e)Punjab word as your answer. a) April b) September 49. Who lives exactly between H and L? c) November d) December 39. TURBULENT a)M b)I e) July a)quiet b)rest c)J d)N c)soothes d)stormy 44. Sunny’s wedding was held in e)K a) Bengaluru b) Chennai e)lawful 50. The person from the state of Assam c) Kolkata d) Delhi lives on which floor? e) Mumbai

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a)Second b)Third e) girl 48 life 55 family 32 beautiful 62. How many such pairs of letters are there c)Sixth d)Fourth 17 proud 97 rich 61 72 nice in the word TRIBUNAL each of which e)Fifth 54. What is the position of ‘nice’ from the has as many letters between them in left end in the final step? the word as in the English alphabet? Directions (Q. 51-55): Read the following a) Fifth b) Sixth a)None b)One information and answer the question c) Seventh d) Eighth c)Two d)Three that follow: e) Ninth e)More than three When a word and number arrangement 55. Which element is third to the right of 63. In a certain code DOWN is written as machine is given an input line of words and ‘family’ in Step V? ‘5@9#’ and NAME is written as numbers, it arranges them following a a) beautiful b) 17 ‘#6%3’. How is MODE written in that particular rule. The following is an c) proud d) 97 code? illustration of input and rearrangement (All e) 32 a)%653 b)%@63 the numbers are two-digit numbers). 56. If ‘R’ denotes ‘-‘; ‘Q’ denotes ‘  ’; ‘W’ c)%5@3 d)%@53 Input: 40 made butter 23 37 cookies denotes ‘ ’; and ‘A’ denotes ‘+’, then e)None of these salt extra 52 86 92 fell now 19  42 W 7 R 8 A 6 Q 4 = ? 64. How many meaningful English words Step I: butter 19 40 made 23 37 cookies a)-22 b)-168 can be formed with the letters LGEU salt extra 52 86 92 fell now c)22 d)28 using each letter only once in each word? Step II: cookies 23 butter 19 40 made e)None of these a)None b)One 37 salt extra 52 86 92 fell now 57. Mohan walked 30 metres towards c)Two d)Three Step III: extra 37 cookies 23 butter 19 South, took a left turn and walked 15 e)More than three 40 made salt 52 86 92 fell now. metres. He then took a right turn and 65. In a certain code THRIVES is written as Step IV: fell 40 extra 37 cookies 23 walked 20 metres. He again took a right SIUHRDU. How is SOULFUL butter 19 made salt 52 86 92 now. turn and walked 15 metres. How far is written in that code? Step V: made 52 fell 40 extra 37 cookies he from the starting point? a)VPTKKTE 23 butter 19 salt 86 92 now. a)95 metres b)VPTKETK Step VI: now 86 made 52 fell 40 extra b)50 metres c)TPVKKTE 37 cookies 23 butter 19 salt 92 c)70 metres d)TNRKMVG Step VII: Salt 92 now 86 made 52 fell d)Cannot be determined e)None of these 40 extra 37 cookies 23 butter 19 e)None of these Step VII is the last step of the above Directions: (Q. 66-70): Each of the 58. What should come next in the following arrangement as the intended questions below consists of a questions letter series based on English alphabet? arrangement is obtained. As per the and three statements numbered, I, II and CEA IKG OQM ? rules followed in the given steps, find III given below it. You have to decide a)STW b)WUS out the appropriate steps for the given whether the data provided in the c)SWU d)UWS input. statements are sufficient to answer the e)None of these Input: 32 proud girl beautiful 48 55 97 questions. 59. The positions of how many digits in the rich family 61 72 17 nice life. number 59164823 will remain 66. How many daughters does lisa have? 51. How many steps will be required to unchanged after the digits are rearranged I. liza and lipa are sisters of lily. complete the given input? in descending order within the number? II. lily’s father lucky is husband of a) Five b) Six a)None b)One lisa. c) Seven d) Eight c)Two d)Three III. Out of the three children which e) Nine e)More than three lucky has, only one is a boy. 52. Which of the following is the third 60. What should come next in the following a) Only I and III element from the left end of step VI? letter series? b) All I, II and III are required to a) beautiful b) life P Q R S T A B C D E P Q R S A B C D answer the question. c) 61 d) nice E P Q R S A B C D P Q c) Only II & III are sufficient to e) 17 a)R b)T answer the question. 53. Which of the following is step III of the c)A d)B d) Question cannot be answered even given input? e)None of these with all I, II and III a) proud 72 girl 48 family 32 61. In a certain code language, ‘how can you e) Only I and II beautiful 17 55 97 rich 61 nice life. go’ is written as ‘ja da ka pa’, ‘can you 67. Who among A, B, C, D, E and F each b) Life 55 girl 48 family 32 beautiful come here’ is written as ‘na ka sa ja’ having a different height, is the tallest? 17 proud 97 rich 61 72 nice and ‘come and go’ is written as ‘ra pa I. B is taller than A but shorter than c) girl 48 family 32 beautiful 17 proud sa’. How is ‘here’ written in that code E. 55 97 rich 61 72 nice life language? II. Only two of them are shorter are d) family 32 beautiful 17 proud girl a)ja b)na shorter than C. 48 55 97 rich 61 72 nice life c)pa d)Data inadequate III. D is taller than only F e)None of these

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a) Only I and II statement and choose your answer II. Persons managing big showrooms b) Only I and III accordingly. are cheats. c) Only II and III III. Maintenance of big showrooms is d) All I, II and III are required to 71. Statement : This book is so an expensive affair in itself; hence answer the question. prepared that even a layman can study the prices are a little higher. e) All I, II and III are not sufficient science in the absence of a teacher. a) None is implicit to answer the question. Assumptions: b) Only I is implicit 68. How is ‘go’ written in a code language? I. A layman wishes to study science c) Only II is implicit I. ‘now or never again’ is written as without a teacher. d) Only III is implicit ‘tom ka na sa’ in that code language. II. A teacher may not always be e) Either II or III is implicit II. ‘you come again now’ is written available to teach science. 75. Statement: Wars must be discouraged as ‘ja ka ta sa’ in that code III. A layman generally finds it vehemently even though majority of language. difficult to learn science on its the victims might have been a nuisance III. ‘again go now or never’ is written own. to peace loving people. as ‘na ho ka sa tom’ in that code a) None is implicit Assumptions: language. b) All are implicit I. Wars kill majority of wicked a) Only I and III c) Only I and II are implicit people. b) Only II and III d) Only II and III are implicit II. Innocent people are also killed in c) Only I and II e) Only I and III are implicit wars. d) All I, II and III are required to 72. Statement: There is big boom in drug III. Vehement opposition to wars may answer the question business and a number of jhuggi-jhopari have some desirable impact. e) None of these dwellers in Delhi can be seen pedalling a) Only I and II are implicit 69. Towards which direction is village J from with small pouches of smack and brown b) Only III is implicit village W? sugar. c) Only III, and either I or II are implicit I. Village R is to the Village W and to Assumptions: d) All are implicit the north of village T. I. Drug addiction is increasing in the e) None of these II. Village Z is to the east of Village J country, specially in the capital. and to the south of Village T. II. All the big dons involved in the Direction Question(76-78): Study the III. Village M is to the northeast of smuggling of drugs live in jhuggi- following information carefully and Village J and north of Village Z. jhopari areas. answer the given questions. a) Only III III. Most of the jhuggi-jhopari In a family there are two fathers, two b) Only II and III dwellers would do anything for mothers, one sister, one brother, two c) All I, II and III are required to money. daughter, one mother-in-law, one daughter- answer the question a) None is implicit in-law, two sister-in-law, one son, one d) Question cannot be answered even b) Only I is implicit grandfather, one grandmother and one with all I, II and III c) All are implicit granddaughter. d) Only I and III are implicit e) None of these 76. How many married couples are there in 70. On which day of the week starting from e) Either I or III is implicit 73. Statement: “X-chocolate is ideal as a the family ? Monday did Gopal visit US? a)Three b)One I. Gopal took leave on Wednesday. gift for someone you love.” - An advertisement. c)Two d)Four II. Gopal visited US the day after his e)None of these mother’s visit to his house. Assumptions: I. People generally give gifts to loved 77. 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Statement: Items in big showrooms in below is given a statement followed by below is given a statement followed by main markets are costlier than similar two courses of action numbered I and II. three assumptions numbered I, II and III. items in small shops. You have to assume everything in the You have to consider the statement and Assumptions: statement to be true and on the basis of the following assumptions, decide which I. Items in small shops are never the information given in the statement, of the assumptions is implicit in the reliable. 72 Plot-1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRP Square, Bhubaneswar-751015 Ph. : (0674) 6556677, 8093556677. Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER - 2016 decide which of the suggested courses of 82. Statement A – The local co-operative c) S faces the centre. action logically follow(s) for pursuing. credit society has decided to stop d) Only two people sit between S Give answer giving loans to farmers with immediate and T. (a) if only I follows; effect. e) Only one person sits between S (b) is only II follows, Statement B – A large number of credit and N. (c) if either I or II follows society members have withdrawn major 87. What is P’s positions with respect to (d) if neither I nor II follows and part of their deposits from the credit N? (e) if both I and II follow. society . a)Second to the left 79. Statement A large number of 83. Statement A – The employees of the b)Second to the right engineering graduates in our country are biggest bank in the country have given c)Third to the right not in a position to have gainful an indefinite strike call starting from d)Third to the left employment at present and the number third of the next month. e)Fourth to the left of such engineers are likely to grow in Statement B – The employees of the 88. How many people in the given future. central government have withdrawn arrangement face outside? Courses of action their week long demonstrations. a)Three b)Two I. The government should launch c)Four d)Five attractive employment generating Directions (Q. Nos. 84- 88): Study the e)One schemes and encourage these following information carefully and graduates to opt for such schemes answer the given questions. Directions (Q.89 - 90): In each of the to effectively use their expertise N, O, P, Q, R, S, T and U are sitting around questions below, two statements are given and knowledge. a circular area at equal distances between followed by two conclusions numbered I II. This happened due to proliferation each other, but not necessarily in the same and II. You have to take the two of engineering colleges in the order. Some of the people are facing the statements to be true even if they seem to country and thereby lowering the centre while some of the people are facing be at variance with commonly known facts quality of the engineering the centre while some face outside (i.e. in a and then decide which of the given graduates. Those colleges, which direction opposite to the centre). conclusions logically follows from the are not equipped to impart R sits second to the right of T. T face the given statements, disregarding commonly quality education should be closed centre. O sits third to the left of R. R and O known facts. Give answer down immediately. face opposite directions. Immediate a) if only conclusion I follows. 80. Statement Higher disposal costs neighbours of O face the centre. P sits second b) if only conclusion II follows. encourage those who produce waste to to the right of O. U sits to the immediate c) if either conclusion I or look for cheaper ways to get rid of it. left of P. N sits second to the left of Q. Q conclusion II follows. Courses of action faces the same direction as O. Q is not an d) if neither conclusion I nor I. The disposal costs should be immediate neighbour of T. Immediate conclusion II follows. brought down. neighbours of R face opposite directions. e) if both conclusions I and II II. A committee should be set up (i.e. if one neighbour faces the centre the follow. study the details in this respect. other neighbour faces outside and vice- 89. Statements: All scooters are vehicles. versa.) No vehicle is a four-wheeler. Directions (Q. 81-83): In each question, 84. Four of the following five are alike in a Conclusions: I. All scooters being two statements A and B are provided. four-wheelers is a possibility. These may have a cause and effect certain way based on the given seating arrangement and so form a group. II. Some four-wheelers may be relationship or may have independent scooters. causes. Which is the one that does not belong to that group? 90. Statements: Some pencils are black. a) If the statement A is the cause and Some pens are pencils. statement B is its effect a)U b)S c)P d)N Conclusions: I. Some pencils are pens. b) If the statement B is the cause and II. No pen is black. statement A is its effect e)Q c) If both statements are effects of 85. Who sits second to the left of U? QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE independent causes a)T d) If both statements are effects of b)O Direction (91-95). Refer to the table and some common cause c)S answer the given questions. 81. Statement A - China became a hotspot d)Other than those given as options Total Population in Five Cities = 20,00,000 for global manufacturing in the late 80s, e)Q Cities and continues to be so till the present. 86. As per the given seating arrangement, Total Population(In Lakhs) Rural : Urban Statement B – China has abundant which of the following is true regarding Male : Female Literate : Illiterate % sources of cheap manpower and natural S? of Graduate out of Literates resources - both of which are essential a) U is one of the immediate A ___7:3 10:11 2:3_____ for industrial growth. neighbours of S. b) S sits third to the right of R.

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B 3.15____ 7:3_____ 45 96. If the profit earned by company A in the II. y3 = 2197 C_____6:5______7:4 ____ year 2005 was Rs.1.50 lakh, what was D4.20______11:3______65 the profit earned by the company A in Direction (106-110) Find the next E___11:9___ 2:3____ the year 2006? number in the following series a) 185000 b) 172500 91. The total population of City A and C is 106. 13 16 22 33 51 ? c) 165500 d) 182500 a) 72 b) 74 7,55,000. The difference between the e)none of these total population of City A and C is is c) 70 d) 76 97. If the profit earned by company B in e) None of these 1.25 lakhs. If the City C has more the year 2007 was Rs.2 lakh, what was population than City A then the urban 107. 435 354 282 219 165 ? the profit earned by the company B in a) 112 b) 109 population of City A and C together is the year 2008? approximately what percent of total c) 110 d) 120 a) 285000 b) 272500 e) None of these population of these two Cities? c) 250000 d) 282500 a)39% b)12% 108. 27 38 71 126 203 ? e)none of these a) 312 b) 305 c) 13% d)11% 98. If the profit earned by company A in the e)None of the Above c) 302 d) 315 year 2006 was Rs.1.84 lakh, what was e) None of these 92.The difference between the number of the amount of profit earned by the male and female in the City A is 15000. 109. 4 11 25 53 109 ? company B in the year 2006? a) 221 b) 224 Approximately, by what percent of a) Rs. 2.14 lakh urban population of City A less than c) 220 d) 223 b) Rs. 2.44 lakh e) None of these its Rural population? c) Rs. 2.32 lakh a) 75% b) 57% 110. 33 43 65 99 145 ? d) cannot be determined a) 103 b) 209 c) 55% d) 68% e)none of these e) None of the Above c) 203 d) 109 99. What is the percentage increase in e) None of these 93. One – fourth of total population of City percentage rise in profit of company B C is 1,10,000. If the total number of in the year 2007 from the previous Direction (question111-115)Find the Literate graduates of City B and D are year? value of the question mark in the given 15,750 and 91,000. What % of the total a) 20% b) 5% below population of City B, C and D together c) 10% d) 15% is literate? e)none of these 111. 1.980×4.059 + 14.0101×3.009 – a) 28.6% b) 17.6% 100. What is the average percentage rise in 4.003×6.001 = ? c) 50.6% d) 25.6% profit of company B over all the years a) 22 b) 24 e) 45.6% together? c) 26 d) 28 94. The difference between the total a) 125/6 % b) 135/6 % e) 30 population of City C and E is 30,000. c) 145/6 % d) 155/6 % 112. (1÷2) × (1÷17.01) ×289×? = The ratio of total population of City C e) none of these 4.001×2.01 and E is 44:41. Total % of Literate a) 16/17 b) 14/17 graduates of City C and E is 80%. If Directions (Q. 101-105): In the following c) 15/17 d) 13/17 the % Literate graduates of City E is questions two equations numbered I and e) 17/16 equalled to three times of Literate II are given. You have to solve both the graduates of City C then what is the equations and give answer if: 113. 1023.90 + 16.01 × difference between the number of a) x > y graduates from City C and City E? b) x > y 24.91 = ? – (3÷4) × (95.98) a) 43800 b) 42600 c) x  y a) 114 b) 124 c) 44800 d) 45800 c) 128 d) 134 d) x y e) 42400  e) 136 95. What is the sum of male population in e) x = y or the relationship cannot be 114. 21% of 4200 + 47% of 3000 -? = City B and female population in City established. 17.001×21.998 D together ? 101. I. 30x – 49 x + 20 = 0 a) 1818 b) 1898 a) 3,76,000 b) 3,10,500 c) 1918 d) 1928 c) 3,60,000 d) 3,60,500 e) none of these II. 42y – 5 y – 25 = 0 e) None of the Above 115. (3÷7) × (14÷19) × (38÷3) ×? = 17 102. I. x2 – 14x + 48 = 0 a) 11/4 b) 13/4 Direction (96-100)Refer to the line graph II. y2 – y – 30 = 0 c) 15/4 d) 17/4 and answer the given questions 103. I. x2 + 15x + 36 = 0 e) 19/4 Percentage rise in profit of two companies II. 4y2 – 13y – 17=0 over the years 104. I. 10x2 – 17x -11 = 0 Direction(116-120) : Study the following II. 6y2 + 19y + 15 = 0 Pie-Chart carefully to answer the 105. I. x2 + 5x -234 = 0 questions that follow

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Breakup of number of employees working 121. A car overtakes two persons. The first B. The base of the triangle is 87.50% in different departments of an organisation. one walks at the speed of 4.5 km/hr more than the height of the the number of males and the number of and the other walks at 6.3 km/hr. what triangle. employees who recently got promoted in is the length of the car if both the C. The hypotenuse of the triangle is each department. persons are moving in the same 17 cm. Breakup of employees working in different direction? a)Any two of them departments A. The speed of the car is 22.5 km/ b)Any of them Total number of employees = 3600 hr. c)Only C Breakup number of males in each B. The car overtakes the first person d)A and B together only department in 4 seconds. e)A and either B or C Total number of male employees = 2040 C. The car overtakes the second 125. 15 men and 20 women work together Breakup number of employees who recently person in 4 seconds. for 5 days and then 5 men and 8 women got promoted in each department a)Any of them leave the group. In how many days will Total number of employees who got b)A and either B or C the remaining work be finished by the promoted = 1200 c)Any two of them remaining people? d)Only B and C together A. 10 men and 15 women together 116. The number of employees who got e)All statements are required can complete the work in 17 days. promoted from HR department was 122. A sum of money is put at CI for a B. The work done by 1 man is equal what percent of the total employees period of two years. Find the rate to the work done by 2 women. working in that department?(rounded percent per annum. C. 20 men alone can do the entire off to two digits after decimal). A. If the same money is put at SI for work in 15 days. a) 36.18% b) 30.56% three years then the amount of a)Any one of them c) 47.22% d) 28.16% interest is Rs 712.50 more than b)Either A or C e) None of the Above the interest amount calculated on c)Only B 117. The total number of employees who CI at the end of two years. d)All statements are required got promoted from all the departments B. The simple interest on the same e)Any two of them together was what percent of the total sum at the end of four years is Rs number of employees working in all 3000. Directions: (Q. 126-130): Study the the department together?(rounded off C. Sum of money becomes eight following information carefully and to the nearest integer) times in three years at compound answer the given questions. a) 56% b) 21% interest. Certain number of students passed from five c) 45% d) 33% a)Either C alone or A and B together colleges A, B, C, D and E. Total students e) None of the Above b)Only A & B together passed in College A is 18% of total passed 118. What is the total number of females c)Any two of them students from all colleges. Ratio of total working in the production and d)Only C passed students from College B to total marketing departments together? e)All statements are required passed students from College C is 11 : 10 a) 468 b) 812 123. Shyam bought a radio at a certain and their average value is 420. From College c) 582 d) 972 percentage of discount on the original D 300 students passed which is 15% of total e) None of the Above price and sold it at Rs 1380. What passed students. 119. If half of the member of employees would have been the profit percentage Students passed in College E is th of number who got promoted from the IT on the original price? of total passed students of College C. Ratio department were males, what was the A. He earned a profit of 20% by of boys to girls passed from College A is 13 approximate percentage of males who selling it at Rs 1296. : 5. Number of passed boys in College B is got promoted from the IT Department? B. If Shyam gets 5% less discount 240% of number of passed girls from College a) 61% b) 29% then he has to pay Rs 60 more A. Ratio of total passed students in College c) 54% d) 38% than he was paying earlier. C to number of girls passed in College C is e) None of the Above C. Shyam bought the radio at 10% 20 : 11. Number of girls passed in College D 120. How many females work in the discount. is 40% more than the number of passed boys accounts department? a)Only A and C together in College D. Average of boys passed in all a) 618 b) 592 b)Either B alone or A and C together five colleges is 231. c) 566 d) 624 c)Any two of them e) None of the Above 126. What is the average of total girls passed d)All statements are required in all colleges? Directions: (Q. 121-125): The following e)Any one of them a)174 b)172 questions are accompanied by three 124. Find the area of a right-angled triangle. c)170 d)169 statements A, B and C. You have to A. The perimeter of the triangle is 30 e)165 determine which statement(s) is/are cm. 127. What is the ratio of passed boys and necessary/sufficient to answer the girls of College E? questions. a)5 : 3 b)4 : 3

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c)7 : 3 d)7 : 5 c)9 h d)4 h e) None of the Above e)4 : 5 e)None of these 142. Any type of money that has face value 128. Number of boys passed in College B in 136. The diameter of a roller is 84 cm and its greater than its value as material how much percentage more than the length 120 cm. It takes 500 complete substance is known as ______number of passed girls? revolutions to move once over to level a) Commodity Money a)20% b)30% a playground. Find the area of the b) Representative Money c)40% d)45% playground (in sq m). c) Fiat Money e)50% a)1632 b)1817 d) fiduciary currency 129. Number of girls passed in College A is c)1532 d)1584 e) None of the Above what percent of number of passed boys e)None of these 143. According to RBI Regulations, which in College D? 137. In a certain examination, the average of the following are allowed to set up a)60% b)70% marks of an examinee is 64 per paper. small finance banks? c)80% d)40% If he had obtained 18 more marks for a) NBFC e)None of these his Mathematics paper and 4 more b) MFI 130. In which college the percentage of girls marks for his English paper, his average c) LAB passed with respect to its total passed per paper would have been 66. How d) All of the Above students is maximum? many papers were there in the e) None of the Above a)A b)B examination? 144. Maximum loan size to a single person c)C d)D a)11 b)13 cannot exceed ______of total capital e)E c)9 d)15 funds. 131. Brothers A and B had some savings in e)None of these a) 30% b) 20% the ratio 4:5. They decided to buy a 138. A person bought 8 quintal of rice for c) 11% d) 10% gift for their sister, sharing the cost in certain rupees. After a week, he sold 3 e) None of the Above the ratio 3:4. After they bought, A quintal of rice at 10% profit, 3 quintal 145. Under ______debentures, if the issuer spent two-third of his amount, while of rice with neither profit nor loss and fails on payment of either the principal B is left with Rs 145. Then, the value 2 quintal at 5% loss. In this transaction, or interest amount, his assets can be of the gift is what is the profit? sold to repay the liability to the a)Rs 70 b)Rs 105 a)10% b)20% investors c)Rs 140 d)Rs 175 c)25% d)2.5% a) Secured Debentures e)None of these e)None of these b) Partly Convertible Debentures 132. A merchant has 2000 kg of rice, one 139. The average runs scored by a (PCD) part of which he sells at 36% profit cricketer in 42 innings, is 30. The c) Fully convertible Debentures and the rest at 16% profit. He gains difference between his maximum and (FCD) 28% on the whole. Find the quantity minimum scores in an innings is 100. If d) Optionally Convertible sold at 16%. these two innings are not taken into Debentures (OCD) a)400 kg b)300 kg consideration, then the average score e) Unsecured Debentures c)900 kg d)800 kg of remaining 40 innings is 28. Calculate 146. SMERA Ratings Ltd (SMERA) is e)None of these the maximum runs scored by him in an registered by ______133. Ram, Shyam and Kamal together start innings? a) SEBI a business in partnership. The ratio of a)125 b)120 b) SIDBI their capitals is 3: 4:7. If their annual c)110 d)100 c) NABARD profit be Rs 21000, what will be e)None of these d) RBI Kamal’s share in this profit? 140. Fresh grapes contain 80% water, e) None of these a)Rs 12500 b)Rs 10500 while dry grapes contain 10% water. If 147. Which of the following is the format of c)Rs 15000 d)Rs 10000 the weight of dry grapes is 500 kg, then Virtual Address in UPI? e)None of these what is its total weight when it is fresh? a) [name] @ [bank name] 134. The ratio between the present ages of a)2350 kg b)2085 kg b) [Phone number] @ [bank name] Indira and Lizzy is 3 : 8, respectively. c)2255 kg d)2250 kg c) [name] @ [bank branch name] After 8 yr, Indira’s age will be 20 yr. e)None of these d). Both (A) and (B) What was Lizzy’s age 5 yr ago? e) Both (B) and (C) a)37 yr b)27 yr BANKING AWARENESS 148. By which rate is the domestic current c)28 yr d)38 yr rate of currency converted into foreign 141. A market established for the buying e)None of these currency? and selling of precious metals such as 135. A, B and C can complete a work in 2 h. a) Bank Rate Gold and Silver is termed as ______If A does the job alone in 6 h and B in 5 b) CRR a) Bullion Market h, how long will it take for C to finish c) Stock Exchange Rate b) Capital Market the job alone? d) Repo Rate c) Money Market a)5 h b)7 h e) Exchange Rate d) All of the Above

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149. Which minister has inaugurated 155. The World Sustainable Development d) South Korea ‘Women of India Festival 2016’ of Summit 2016, themed, ‘Beyond 2015: e) None of these organic products by women at Dilli People, Planet & Progress’, is among 160. After the latest policy announcement, Haat at INA, New Delhi? the first international platforms to officials of the central bank said that a) Maneka Sanjay Gandhi discuss the new agenda post the the real neutral interest rate in India is b) Suresh Prabu adoption of the Sustainable now 1.25%. Which of the following c) Development Goals and the signing of statements about the real neutral d) Smriti Irani the Paris Agreement. It is being interest rate is/are incorrect? e) None of these organised by 1. It is the estimated level of real 150. Which date is celebrated as World a) Alliance of Small Island States interest rates at which the Standards Day every year b) International Solar Alliance economy is growing at potential internationally by the member of the c) The Energy and Resources Institute while inflation is under control. IEC, ISO and ITU? d) United Nations Population Fund 2. This rate can go below zero, viz. a) October 16 e) None of these it can be negative. b) October 13 156. ‘MERCOSUR’ is an economic and 3. If projected inflation is higher than c) October 15 political bloc with which India has the inflation target, then the actual d) October 14 signed a Preferential Trade Agreement, real rates must be higher than the e) None of these and is looking to expand the scope of neutral real rate. 150. Valvoline Cummins India has roped this agreement now. This bloc’s ‘full Select the correct answer using the which cricketer as its brand ambassador members’ does NOT include code given below: of it’s engine oils and lubricants range? a) Argentina a) 1 and 2 only a)M.S. Dhoni b) Bolivia b) 2 only b) Shikar Dhawan c) Paraguay c) 1 and 3 only c) Suresh Raina d) Venezuela d) Only 1 d) Virat Kohli e) None of these e) None of the above e) None of these 157. The 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry 161. ‘Mission Raftaar’ is 151. The high-level Pam Rajput Committee has been awarded for a) The Indian Railways’ Mission was set up in order to study the a) Development of the world’s Mode activity to increase speeds a) Status of women since 1989 in smallest machines. of freight train and super-fast mail/ India. b) Discoveries in DNA repair. express trains b) Proposal of setting up a ‘bad c) Devising computer simulations of b) A component of the Ministry of bank’. chemical processes. Road Transport and Highways’ c) State of bridges built in the pre- d) Developing new ways of linking ‘Avataran’ or seven mission mode independence period. carbon atoms together. activities, under which all national d) Digital momentum of India since e) None of these highways will be made pothole- 2000 and to suggest steps to 158. India is a member of which of the free by 2019 enhance it in a time- bound following? c) A complementary programme to manner. 1. Asia-Pacific economic the Sagarmala initiative in order e) None of these corporation. to provide efficient road and rail 153. The Directorate General of Anti- 2. Association of South-East Asian connectivity from ports to the Dumping and Allied Duties is Nations. hinterland constituted under 3. East Asia Summit d) A blueprint for making optimum a) Ministry of Commerce and Industry Select the correct answer using the code use of the massive renewable b) Ministry of Finance given below. energy generation capacity that c) Ministry of Company Affairs a) 1 and 2 only will be created by 2022 d) Ministry of External Affairs b) 3 only e) None of these e) None of these c) 1, 2, and 3 162. ‘Kunduz’, often seen in the news, is a 154. “MIP Vaccine” – the first of its kind in d) 2 and 3 only city in which of the following nations? the world to be developed in India – e) India is a member of none of them a) Afghanistan will be piloted in Bihar and Gujarat as 159. The United Nations’ highest court – b) Iran a part of the country’s efforts at The International Court of Justice – c) Iraq eradicating which of the following recently rejected the nuclear d) Syria diseases? disarmament case filed against India, e) None of these a) Rotavirus Pakistan and the United Kingdom by 163. Which among the following serves as b) Leprosy which of the following nations? the secretariat for the SASEC c) Rubella a) Italy program? d) Japanese Encephalitis b) Marshall Islands a)India e) None of these c) Japan b)Bangladesh

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c)The Asian Development Bank Environment and Architectural establishment on 21st December, d) All of the above Heritage Award 2016 in UK? 2011? e) None of these a) International Society for Krishna a) Central Bank of India 164. Union Government has approved the Consciousness b) State Bank of India mechanism for revision of which b) International Society for Tirumala c) Punjab National Bank product price for supply to Public c) International Society for Ganesh d) Bank of Baroda Sector Oil Marketing Companies? d) International Society for Lord e) Allahabad Bank a) Butane e) None of these 175. As we all know, the major source of b) Iso Butyl Alcohol 171. As per the reports in the major financial income of the banks is lending money c) Nitrogen newspapers, India has urged China to (Providing credit) and earning interest d) Ethanol redress imbalance in trade. What does on it. In normal circumstances, the e) None of these it really mean? demand of the credit comes mainly 165. Who has received the International (a) India exports more items to China from which of the following sectors? Automation Award in excellence of whereas China does not export I. Personal Loans technical innovation by the much to India II. Priority Sector Lending & Bailout International Society of Automation? (b) India is not able to export much Packages a) Sathish Pathak to China whereas its import from III. Project Finance b) Naresh Mandal China is of higher value a) Only I c) Bisram Ojha (c) China and India are not at all trade b) Only II d) Gurpreet Singh partners. Hence there is no c) Only III e) None of these transaction between the two d) All of the above 166. Union Minister of Sports and Youth countries e) None of these Affairs Vijay Goel unveiled BRICS (d) As per WTO laws, India is 176. When a country decides to conduct football tournament logo at which supposed to export food -grains trade on favorable terms with another state? to China. But China has not country for mutual benefits, this is a) Andhra Pradesh placed any order for the same in called? b) Himachal Pradesh 2006-07. It has also refused to a) FTA System c) Chattisgarh accept 200 lakh tonnes of wheat b) MFN Status d) Goa exported to it by India c) Bilateral Trade e) None of these (e) None of the above d) Counter Trade 167. The pharmaceutical company Sun 172. ‘National Financial Switch’ has been e) None of these Pharma has signed a deal with the Delhi setup to facilitate connectivity between 177. Where is the famous Virupaksha temple unit of the International Centre for the bank’s switches and their ATMs located? Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology and interbank payment gateway for a) Srikalahasti (ICGEB) to develop vaccine for which authentication and routing the payment b) Bhadrachalam disease? details of various e-commerce c) Chidambaram a) Dengue b) AIDS transactions. Which organisation has d) Hampi c) H1N1 d) Polio set-up this switch? e) None of the above e) None of these a) IBRD b) IDRBT 178. The highest waterfall of the world is 168. Scientists and Wildlife conservationists c) SBI d) SIDBI ...? reported that which animal became e) None of the above a) Jog Falls b) Angel extinct by the National Waterways 173. If the Bill of Exchange is not honored c) Ribbon d) Gavarine project? on the due date, there is always a change e) Tugela Falls a) Sea Horse the drawer will become liable on the 179. The Kakrapar project is on the river....? b) Gangetic River Dolphins bill. This is called a Contingent Liability. a) Narmada b) Kosi c) Blue Whale What does it mean? c) Tapti d) Sukhbhadar d) Fresh water algae (a) A liability that will only arise if a e) Khari e) None of these certain event occurs 180. When was the first World Book day 169. Name the messaging app launched by (b) A liability that will remain valid observed? Google similar to Whatsapp and until the debtor pays his debt a) 1995 in United Kingdom Facebook messenger for both Android (c) Both (a) and (b) b)1999 in United Kingdom and iOS Platforms? (d) Interest or principal of loan c)1998 in United Kingdom a) Alli b) Alle amount is defaulted for 3 to 12 d)1997 in United Kingdom c) Allo d) Ally months e)1996 in United Kingdom e) None of these (e) None of the above 170. Name the society had received the 174. Which one of the public sector bank COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE Green Apple Awards for Built has completed 100 years of its 181. Using antivirus software is a) detective measures

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b) Preventive measure d) All of the above a) Video- display software c) corrective measure e) None of these b) Video- digitizing d) All of the above 191. The hierarchy of data, arranged in c) Video- Conferencing e) None of these ascending order is d) Video – scanning 182. The Standard protocol of the internet a) database – bit- byte- Record – e) None of these is ______file 200. A device operating at the physical layer a) TCP / IP b) Java b) bit- byte- field – record- file – is called a c) HTML d) Flash database a) bridge e) None of these c) Bit- byte – Record- file b) Router 183. The particular field of a record that d) Byte – Record – file c) Repeater uniquely identifies each record is called e) None of these d) All of these the 192. We can save our favourite websites in a e) None of these a) Key Field browser as: b) Primary Field a) Favourites c) Master Field b) Save  d) Order Field c) Book mark e) Both ‘a’ and ‘c’ d) Both ‘a’ and ‘c’ EXPLANATIONS 184. Grouping and processing all of a firm’s e) None of these transactions at one time is called 193. Documentation while developing a 1. b 2. b 3. e 4. e a) A database management system software for a bank is required for 5. e b) Batch processing a) editing 6-e; No error c) a real time system b) Auditing d) an online system c) Correction 7-d; Say ‘they/these’ for ‘it’ e) None of these d) All of these 8-a; Say, ‘my being’. Possessive pronoun is used in such constructions. 185. Which of the following displays to the e) None of these 9-e; No error right of the space where the text will 194. The ______indicates how much be inserted when you type? data a particular storage medium can 10-c; Add ‘themselves’ after ‘adapt’ 11. a 12. e 13. a 14. b a) Screen tip hold. 15. c 16. b 17. a 18. a b) Insertion point a) Access b) Capacity 19. a 20. c 21. a 22. a c) Ruler c) Memory d) Storage 23. a 24. b 25. b d) Office Assistant e) None of these (26-30) e) None of these 195. A megabyte is actually equal to CEBDA 186. Plotter accuracy is measured in terms ______kilobytes. 26. e 27. a 28. d 29. c of repeatability and a) 100 b) 1000 30. b 31. c 32. a 33. d a) buffer size c) 1024 d) 1224 × 1024 34. e 35. b 36. e 37. e b) Resolution e) None of these 38. b 39. a 40. e c) vertical dimensions 196. A______allows sharing of a (41-45) d)Intelligence broadband internet connection. e) None of these a) hub b) adapter 187. Which of the following processors use c) router d) switch Husband Wife Place R/SC technology? e) Plug Andrew Victoria Ahmedabad a) 486 dx b) Power PC 197. A common boundary between two Daniel Gabrielle Kolkata c) 486 sx d) 6340 systems is called Max Ileana Chennai Patterson Bethany Mumbai e) None of these a) Interdiction Romeo Hanna Delhi 188. The brain of any computer system is. b) Interface Sunny Jina Bengaluru a) ALU b) Memory c) Interdiction c) CPU d) Control unit d) Surface 41-c; 42 –c; 43- d; 44- a; e) None of these e) None of these 45- b 189. The tracks on a disk which can be 198. In latest generation computers, the (46-50) accessed without repositioning the R/ instructions are executed: W heads is a) Parallel only Floor Person States a) Surface b) Cylinder b) Sequentially only 8 K Bihar c) Cluster d) All of the above c) Both Sequentially and Parallel 7 N Karnataka e) None of these d) All of these 6 G Tamilnadu 190. A permanent Virtual circuit involves. e) None of these 5 M Assam 4 H Westbengal a) Connection establishment 199. If employee reside in different parts of 3 I Maharashtra b) Data transfer the country and need to meet monthly, 2 L Punjab c) Connection Release useful computer technology would be: 1 J Rajasthan

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66- ; 67- ; 68- ; 69. e 70. e 71. d; The statement is made to impress the usefulness of the book. It does not mention the desire of a layman. So, I is not 58-d; implicit. Also, the book is intended to guide one when a teacher is not available. So, both II and III are implicit. 59-c; 72. d; The statement talks of boom in drug business and cites examples from the capital city. This makes I implicit. Further, it is given that most jhuggi-jhopari dwellers are seen to indulge in transactions of drug pouches. This implies that they give in to their lust for money quite easily and do not hesitate to get 60-a; involved in illegal activities for the same. So, III is implicit while II is not. 73. d; All the three directly follow from the given statement. 61-b; 74. d; Clearly, only III defines the correct essence of the statement and hence is implicit. 75. d; The statement mentions that’.....majority of the victims might have been a nuisance to peace loving people. This implies that majority of the victims are wicked people though some victims are innocent people too. So, both I and II are implicit. Further, the statement advocates vehement opposition of wars. So, III is also implicit. 76. c.Two 77. c.Four 78. d.6 62-e; 79. (a) Only course of action I seems to be suitable for pursuing. The first line of course of action II is not a course of action and second line does not properly address the problem 80. (e) Action II and III are feasible and effective to combat the problem. 63-d; 81.b; The reason for China becoming a hotspot for manufacturing globally has been stated in Statement II. The factors of cheap labour and abundance of natural resources contributed to the industrial growth of China in the late 80s and helped it become a manufacturing hub. Thus, statement II is the cause and statement I is the effect. Here, the reason is a principal cause. 64-b; GLUE The words ‘till the present’ also gives an indication that statement 1 cannot be the cause because the cause should always precede the effect.

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82.b; Withdrawal of funds by society members is bound to reduce x = Literate population of City B the lending power of the society. So, option (b) is our answer. 45% of x = 15570 => x = 34600 83.c; The employees of a bank going on strike and the government Total number of Literate graduates of City D = 91000 = 65% employees calling off their protest seem to be two independent y = Literate population of City D events that might have been triggered by individual causes. 65% of y = 91000 => x = 280000 So, option (c) is our answer. % = (594600/1175000) * 100 = 50.6% 84-88: 94.e; 3/85 * x = 30000 => x = 85000 44/85*85000 = 440000 = City C Population 7/11*440000 = 280000 S Number of graduates from City C = 20% of 280000 = 56000 O Q 41/85*85000 = 410000 = City E Population 2/5*410000 = 164000 Number of graduates from City E = 60% of 1,64,000 = 98400 Difference = 42400 U R 95.b; Sum = 7/11 * 315000 + 3/14 *420000 = 220500 + 90000 = 310500 (96-100) P N 96.b; Profit earned by company A in the year 2005 = Rs.1.50 lakh T profit earned by the company A in the year 2006 = 115% of 150000 = 172500 97.c; Profit earned by company B in the year 2005 = Rs.2 lakh 84-d ; 85-c ; 86- c; 87- b; 88-b ; profit earned by the company B in the year 2006 = 125% of 89- d 200000 = 250000 98.d; From the value of the profit earned by company A, we cannot determine the profit value of B. 99.a’ Percentage rise in profit of company B in the year 2006 = Scooter 25% Four Percentage rise in profit of company B in the year 2007 = wheels 30% Required Percentage rise = 30-25/25 = 20% 100.c; Average percentage rise in profit of company B over all the years together = 20+15+25+30+25+30/6 = 145/6 101. e 102. d 103. a 104. a 105. a 90- a 106.e; 13 + 3 = 16 13 + 3 + 3 = 22 22 + 6 + 5 = 33 33 + 11 + 7 = 51 Black 51 + 18 + 9 = 78 Pens Pencil 107.b; 435 – (9*9) = 354 354 – (9*8) = 282 282 – (9*7) = 219 219 – (9*6) = 165 (91-95) 165 – (9*5) = 120 91.a; A + C = 7,55,000 108.c; 27 + 11 = 38 (C has more population than A) C – A = 125000 38 + 33 = 71 C = 4,40,000 ; A = 315000 71 + 55 = 126 Urban population of City A and C = 3/10 * 315000 + 5/11 * 126 + 77 = 203 440000 = 294500 203 + 99 = 302 % = (294500 / 755000)*100 = 39% 109.a; 4 + (1 * 7) = 11 92.b; X= Total population in City A 11 + (2 * 7) = 25 1/21 * x = 15000 => x = 3,15,000 25 + (4 * 7) = 53 Rural Population = 2,20,500 53 + (8 * 7) = 109 Urban Population =94,500 109 + (16 * 7) = 221 % = (Difference / Rural Population)*100 = (1,26,000 / 110.c; 33 + 10 = 43 2,20,500)*100 = 57% 43 + (10 + 12) = 65 93.c; 1/4 * C = 1,10,000 => C = 4,40,000 65 + (10 + 24) = 99 Literate population of City C = 7/11 * 4,40,000 = 2,80,000 99 + (10 + 36) = 145 Total number of Literate graduates of City B = 15750 = 45% 145 + (10 + 48) = 203

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(111-115) 111.c; 8 + 42 – 24 = ? 237.5100 Rate % = = 5% ? = 26 1500 112.a; ? = (4*2*2)/17 = 16/17 From C; alone, 113.b; 32 + 4*5 = ? – 3*24 ? = 124 1 (8) 3 1 100 114.c; 21*42 + 47*30 – ? = 17*22 Rate % =   = 100% ? = 1918   115.d; ? *2*2 = 17 Therefore, either A & B together or C alone is sufficient. ? = 17/4 123-b; For the question, our requirements is to first find out the (116-120) original price. When we combine A with C we get the original 116.b; Number of employees who got promoted from HR price. And when we take B alone, even we get the value of department = 11% of 1200 = 132 original price. Therefore, either B alone or A & C together is Number of working employees in HR department = 12% of sufficient. 3600 = 432 124-a; Let p, b and h be the length of perpendicular, base and Required Percentage = (132/432)*100 = 30.56% hypotenuse respectively. 117.d; Number of promoted employees in all departments = 1200 Then, p2 +b2 = h2 Number of working employees in all departments = 3600 A ——— p + b +h = 30 % = (1200/3600)*100 = 33% B ———— p : b = 15 : 8 118.c; Total number of employees working in the production and C ——— h = 17 marketing departments together = 53% of 3600 = 1908 By combining any two of the above, the value of p, b and h Total number of male employees working in the production can be determined. and marketing departments together = 65% of 2040 = 1326 125-e; Total number of female employees working in the production (126-130) and marketing departments together = 1908 – 1326 = 582 119.d; Number of promoted employees in IT department = 26% of 1200 = 312 Number of promoted male employees in IT department = 312/2 = 156 Number of working male employees in IT department = 20% of 2040 = 408 % = (156/408 * 100) = 38% 120.a; Number of employees working in accounts department = 20% of 3600 = 720 Number of male employees in accounts department = 5% of 2040 = 102 Number of females work in the accounts department = 720 - 845 102 = 618 126-d; Avg. = = 169 (121-125) 5 121-c; Let the length and the speed of the car be ‘d’ m and ‘v’ m/sec respectively. 350 127-c; Ratio = = 7 : 3 d d 150 Then, v - 1.25 = and v – 1.75 = t t1 240 200 128-a; %= 100 = 20% A ——— v = 22.5 km/hr = 6.25 m/sec 200 B ———— t = 4 secs = 40/9 secs C ——— t1 100 Now, combining any two of A , B and C with the above, we 129-c; % = 100 = 80% can get the value of d. therefore, any two of them are sufficient 125 to answer the question. 130-d; It is 59% 122-a; From A and B; (131-135) SI for the first 3 yr = Rs 2250 131-c; Let the savings of A and B are 4x, 5x and share in Cost of gift CI for the first two yrs = 2250 – 712.50 = Rs 1537.50 are 3y, 4y respectively. Therefore, CI at the end of two yrs is Rs. 37.50 more than SI According to the questions, for the same period. 2 For, A, 4x- 3y =  4x 3

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9y 1584104 X = ……..i) = = 1584 sq m 4 104 For B, 5x – 4y = 145 137-a; Let the number of papers =x According to the question, 64x+18+4 = 66x 9y 2x = 22 5   4y = 145 4 x = 11 Y= 20 138-d; 139-b; Let the minimum score = x. Cost of gift = 3y +4y = 7 20 =Rs 140  Maximum score = x+100 132-d; According the rule allegation,  Part I(16%) Part II (36%) x + (x +100)=30×42-40×28

Mean value(28%) 2x  100  1260  1120  140 2x  140  100  40 (36-28)=8 (28-16) =12 Part I (16%) : Part II (36%) =8 : 12 = 2 : 3 x  20 a Hence, the maximum score = x + 100= 20 + 100=120 Quantity sold at 16% profit =  total quantity 140. d; Let the weight of fresh grapes be x . a  b 80 4x 2 Quantity of water in it = x  = 2000 = 800 kg 100 5 5 133-b; Given, ratio of profits of Ram, Shayam and Kamal = Ratio 4x  x Quantity of pulp in it = x    of their capitals =3 : 4 : 7 5  5 7 Quantity of water in 500 kg dry grapes = Kamal’s share = 21000 = 10500 3 4  7 10 500  50kg 134-b; Let present age of Indira and Lizzy are 3x and 8x yr 100 respectively. 3x+8 =20 or, 3x =12 x X = 4  Quantity of pulp in it = (500-50)= 450 kg  450 Hence Lizzy’s reqd. age = 8x – 5 = 32 – 5 = 27 yr 5 135-b; Let C alone can finish the job in x h.  x=2250 kg According to the question, 141. a 142. b 143. d 144. d 145. a 146. a 147. d 148. e 149. a 150. d 151. d 152. a 1 153. a 154. b 155. c 156. b 157. a 158. b Work done by A, B and C in 1 h = 2 159. b 160. e 161. a 162. a 163. c 164. a 165. a 166. d 167. a 168. b 169. c 170. a 1 1 1 1 171. b 172. b 173. a 174. a 175. d 176. b =    177. d 178. b 179. c 180. a 181. b 182. a 6 5 x 2 183. b 184. c 185. b 186. b 187. b 188. c 189. b 190. a 191. b 192. c 193. b 194. b 1 15 5  6 195. c 196. c 197. b 198. c 199. c 200. c =  x 30  1 x  7 h 2 (136-140) 136-d; In one revolution, area covered = curved surface are 22 = 2rh  2 42120 = 31680 sq cm 7

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE its social protection schemes, and leave some c)Only D space for States to innovate. d)Only B Directions (Q.1-10) Read the following It would also be wise for the government to e)All are true passage carefully and answer the release caste-wise information on questions given below It. Certain words/ 3. In the sentence, “their own combinations socioeconomic indicators collected by the of Indicators to create tailor-made phrases have been printed in bold to help SECC but not yet put in the public domain. you locate them while answering some definitions of poverty,” which of the Those numbers would allow, for the first following, best explains the word “tailor of the questions. time since 1931, for the relative socio- New data for rural households revealed by -made”? economic status of various caste groups to a)Perfectly fitted Socio Economic and Caste (SECC) represent be compared while framing policies of b)Pertinent a grim reminder of the state of rural India. affirmative action. This government stands c)Rightful In over 90 percent of households, the main accused of suppressing vital new information d)Befitting earning member makes less than Rs. 10,000 on the status of malnutrition among children, e)None of these a month. Over half the households are contained in a survey commissioned by the 4. What is the percentage of rural household landless and a similar share of them rely on previous government through UNICEF. It in India which have a family member casual manual labour for the larger part of should not make a habit of suppressing who is a graduate according to the new their income. Just 20 percent of households inconvenient data. The India public might data for rural households revealed by own any kind of a motor vehicle. These hotly contest some of these numbers, SECC numbers should come as a reality check for particularly those relating to caste, but even a)Less than 2% those who talk of India’s unbridled growth, angry debates represent a democratic right b)Below 3% and arrival on the global stage as a that must not be curtailed. c)More than 5% superpower. The country-side remains d)More than 2% unable to find jobs that can pull families out 1. Which of the following does the data e)None of these of poverty. Agriculture remains at reveal regarding rural households in 5. Which of the following does the author subsistence levels, with low mechanisation India by SECC showcase? suggest as a way to ensure rural limited irrigation facilities and little access A) There is a dearth of availability of developments. to credit. skilled jobs in rural India a) The government should ensure Just over 3 per cent of rural households have B) Caste discrimination is still transparency by revealing the data a family member who is a graduate, so skilled prevalent in those areas. given by SECC to public. jobs are going to be hard to get. Female- C) Majority of rural households run b) The government should allow headed households, and Scheduled Caste and with money earned through flexibility to each state to define Scheduled Tribe households are the worst agricultural activities. its own definition of ‘Poverty ’ off. The eastern and central State of a)Only A c) The government should expand Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha b)Only B and universalise its social have the poorest indicators. Even in the c)Both A and B protection schemes developed southern States of Kerala and d)Both B and C d) All of the above Tamil Nadu, family incomes are low and e)All A, B and C e) None of these dependence on casual manual labour is high. 2. Which of the following is /are false 6. Which of the following is /are true Meanwhile, early results from the urban regarding the passage? regarding the passage? SECC suggest that levels of deprivation, A) Rural households data revealed by A) The eastern and central states of while lower in cities, are still shockingly the socio economic and caste Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh high. census (SECC) represent a and Odisha have the poorest What the government chooses to do with dissatisfied reminder of the indicators the data is as yet unclear while situation in Rural India B) What the government chooses to commissioning the SECC, the UPA B) 20 percent of households own any do with the data is as yet unclear. government had spoken of creating flexibility kind of a motor vehicle C) Southern states like Kerala, Tamil to enable States to draw up their own C) Over 3 percent of rural households Nadu, family incomes are high and combinations of indicators to create tailor- have a family member who is a not dependent on casual Manual made definitions of poverty. The Narendra graduate according to the new data labour. Modi government is yet to make its for rural households revealed by D) Early results from the urban SECC intentions clear in the SECC, especially with SECC. suggest that levels of deprivation, regard to the thorny issue of where to draw D) The country side remains able to while lower in cities, are still the line. Instead of a fresh round of unseemly find jobs that can pull families out shockingly low. wrangling over precisely where to set of poverty. a)Both C and D India’s poverty line, the government would e)Only A b)Only C be well-advised to expand and universalise b)Both A and B c)Only D

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d)Both A and B d)election, acceptable 20. To preserve the unity of our people (a)/ e)None of these e)recommendation, infeasible the tyranny of the caste system (b)/ 13. He was convinced that people were was given a nourishment (c)/by the Directions: (Q.7-8) Choose the word driven by ______motives; he constitution makers. (d)/No error (e) which is most nearly the SAME is believed there was no such thing as a meaning as the word printed in bold as purely ______act. Directions (Q.21-25): Rearrange the used in the passage. a)personal, vengeful following sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) b)personal, eternal and (F) to make a meaningful paragraph 7. AFFIRMATIVE and then answer the questions which a)dissenting c)altruistic, praiseworthy d)ulterior, selfless follow : b)approving A. The contrary result spelling out a c)turbulent e)sentimental, divine 14. Although there were ______state of political insouciance is d)rabid indeed tragic, particularly since we e)unmanageable circumstances in this particular violation of the law, the judge ruled that have never experienced this type 8. UNBRIDLED of instability after independence. a)uncontrolled there had to be strict ______so there would be no law at all. B. Even for an optimistic person, the b)restrained events that have recently c)stubborn a)extraordinary, complaisance b)specific, obedience overtaken the country is d)sulky disturbing. e)sullen c)tantalizing, adherence d)extenuating, compliance C. Having an elected government Directions: (Q.9-10) Choose the word e)questionable, observation voted out in Parliament and not which is most nearly the OPPOSITE is 15. In architecture, much more than in any replaced by another democratic meaning as the word printed in bold as of the other fine arts, there is a marked outfit has led to a void. used in the passage. time lag between the ______of ideas D. Twice in two years we have gone 9. GRIM and their ______in the shape of to the polls. a)joyful b)dogged completed building. E. Each time, the outcome is a c)crusty d)grumpy a)settlement, fruition fractured verdict that does not e)pleasant b)creation, welcoming ensure arming a single party with 10. WRANGLING c)tradition, modernization a mandate from the people. a)harmony b)unity d)dawn, practicability F. Each time the elected government c)brawl d)quarrel e)emergence, application has been incapable of e)controversy withstanding political upheavals Directions (Q. 16-20): Read each and has been unable to govern the Directions (Q.11-15): In each of the sentence to find out if there is any error country for the full tenure. following sentences there is one or two in it. The error, if any, will be in one part blank space. Below each sentence there of the sentence. The number of that part 21. Which of the following should be the are five pairs of words denoted by letter is the answer. If there is no error the SECOND sentence after a), b), c), d) and e). Find out which pair of answer is e). (Ignore errors in rearrangement? words can be filled up in the blanks in punctuation, if any) a)A b)B the sentence in the same sequence to c)C d)D make the sentence grammatically correct 16. The vested interests there (a)/will oppose e)E and meaningfully complete. the move precisely (b)/because of the 22. Which of the following should be the possibility (c)/of greater integration. LAST (SIXTH) sentence after 11. The speech ______with subtle (d)/No error (e) rearrangement? threats has resulted in ______17. Bureaucratic rounds of talks yielded a)B b)C tension in the sensitive areas of the city. little (a)/and only the will of the (b)/ c)D d)A a)started, reduced political leadership broke the barriers e)F b)replete, increasing (c)/that have long smoothen relations. 23. Which of the following should be the c)full, escalating (d)/No error (e) THIRD sentence after rearrangement? d)forced, dissolving 18. The decision was regarded likely (a)/a a)D b)E e)followed, continuous political move, triggered by vote (b)/ c)F d)C 12. The minister felt that the ______considerations and detrimental to (c)/ e)B made by the committee was the growth of a healthy society. (d)/ 24. Which of the following should be the ______even though similar No error (e) FIRST sentence after rearrangement? schemes had worked earlier. 19. Modern India was visualised (a)/on being a)B b)A a)decision, gainful a castless and secular (b)/State where c)C d)D b)choice, profitable each individual (c)/could hold his head e)F c)acceptance, approved high. (d)/No error (e)

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25. Which of the following should be the 32. a)job b)house d) No student can be barred from the FOURTH sentence after c)relatives d)homestead boards without prior clearance rearrangement? e)kindred from the CBSE a)D b)E 33. a)habits e) Teachers will be able to handle c)A d)B b)doings students well if they know child e)C c)whereabouts psychology. d)emanate 37. What is the ruling of the CBSE? Directions (Q.26-35): In the following e)eminate a) Students must pass the pre-board passage there are blanks, each of which 34. a)deeply exam before appearing for the has been numbered. These numbers are b)shocked board exam. printed below the passage and against c)disappointed b) Schools should follow the practice each, five words are suggested, Find out d)foil of performance linked the appropriate word in each case. e)thwart department. I noticed George Ramsay at the restaurant. 35. a)come back b)go c) Schools should maintain the He was staring into space. He looked as c)settle d)moribund performance record of students at though the burden of the whole world sat e)sadist high level. on his shoulders. I (26) at once that his d) Schools must motivate students unfortunate brother was causing him trouble Directions (Q.36-40) Read the following to work hard. again. I suppose every family has a black passage carefully and answer the e) Before barring any student for the sheep Tom had been a (27) trial to his family questions given below board schools must take prior for twenty years. He had begun life decently It. Certain words/phrases have been permission of the CBSE enough; he went (28) business, married and printed in bold to help you locate them 38. What is the faulty assumption of had two children. The Ramsays were while answering some of the questions. schools, according to the passage? perfectly respectable people, and there was Child psychology is certainly not a strong a) Students who do not do well at every (29) to suppose that Tom Raimsay point with most Indian schools. Why else pre-boards will be motivated to would have a useful and profitable carrier. would it inflict a double trauma on a student work hard But one day without warning, he (30) that faring badly in the pre-boards by banning b) Pre-boards are generally easy and he did not like to work and that he was not her from taking the exams? Often with fatal therefore students take them suited for marriage. He wanted to enjoy (31). results as evidenced by reports of student lightly. He would listen to no advice. He left his suicides in the run-up to the board. Now c) Students who fare poorly at the wife and his (32). He had a little money and the Central Board of Secondary Education pre-board will fail at the boards. he spent two happy years in the various (CBSE) has stepped in and put the brakes d) Learning by rote a better method capitals of Europe. Rumours of his (33) on. This is good news for parents and of learning reached his relations from time and they were students, many of whom have had to live e) Students perform well in (34) He certainly had a very good time. They with the threat of the performance-linked languages than in science subjects. shook their heads and asked what would department. While the schools’ logic is that 39. Which of the following, according to the happen when his money was spent. They in order to attract students they need to passage, is the problem with our school soon found out that he was broke and wanted maintain their performance records at high system? to (35) home. levels, the assumption that a student faring a) Providing study facilities to the poorly the pre-boards will replicate this at students 26. a)believed b)suspected the boards is faulty. Chances are that the c)agreed d)doubtful b) Linking pre-board performance of student will be spurred to work doubly hard. students to the boards e)imagine On the other hand, the threat of the 27. a)sore b)bitter c) Teachers’ lack of knowledge of department will almost certainly impact her child psychology c)sweet d)tacit performance adversely. Of course, linking e)massacare d) Attracting talent students pre-boards to the boards is only of the e) Low percentage of students 28. a)into b)for problem with our school system. c)to d)with passing the board exam e)out 36. Which is the good news for parents, 40. According to the passage, parents had 29. a)reason b)cause according to the passage? to live with the threat of c)point d)alibi a) Schools will take the a) falling grades of their wards e)plea responsibility of preparing b) not getting their words admitted 30. a)said b)announced students for the board. in quality schools. c)wrote d)moto b) Schools will provide study c) schools not treating their wards e)trumpet facilities to the poor students. with the attitude of counsellor. 31. a)himself b)idleness c) Schools will enforce discipline to d) linking performance of their wards c)others d)given ensure higher attendances of in pre-boards to the boards. e)eke students. e) schools creating traumatic situations for their wards.

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REASONING ABILITY III. The Government should issue Courses of action: arrest warrants for all the parents I. The State Government should set Direction (Q. 41-45) :In each question who force their children to work up a committee to review the given below a statement is followed by in fields instead of attending alarming situation. courses of action denoted I, II, and III. A classes. II. The State Government should Course of action is a step or a)I and III b)Only I immediately remove all the administrative decision to be taken for c)Only II d)Only III restrictions on use of potable improvement, follow-up for further e)None of these water in all the major cities in the action in regard to the problem, policy 4 3 . Statement: A large private bank has state. etc. on the basis of the information given decided to retrench one-third of its III. The State Government should in the statement. You have to assume employees in view of the huge losses send relief supplies to all the everything in the statement to be true, incurred by it during the past three affected areas in the state. then decide which of the three given/ quarters. a)Only III b)Only I suggested courses of action logically Courses of action: c)II and III d)All of these follows for pursuing and decided the I. The Government should issue a e)None of these answer. notification to general public to immediately stop all transactions Directions (Q.46-48): Study the 41. Statement : Many political activities with the bank. following information to answer the have decided to stage demonstrations II. The Government should direct the given questions. and block traffic movement in the city bank to refrain from retrenching In a certain ‘ek la ki’ means ‘don’t touch during peak hours to protest against its employees. flowers’, ‘ra ku’ means ‘respect teachers’ the steep rise in prices of essential III. The Government should ask the and ‘ek ra le’ means ‘don’t hurt teachers’. commodities. central bank of the country to Courses of action: 46. How is ‘respect’ written in that code? initiate an enquiry into the bank’s I. The Government should a)ra activities and submit its report. immediately ban all forms of b)ku a)I and III b)Only I agitations in the country. c)Either ra or ku c)Only II d)Only III II. The police authority of the city d)Can’t be determined e)None of these should deploy additional forces all e)None of these 44. Statement: One aspirant was killed due over the city to help traffic 47. How is ‘flowers’ written in that code? to stampede while participating in a movement in the city. a)ek recruitment drive of police constables. III. The state administration should b)la Courses of action: carry out preventive arrests of the c)ki I. The officials incharge of the known criminals staying in the d)Can’t be determined recruitment process should city. e)None of these immediately be suspended. a)Only I b)Only II 48. How is ‘teachers touch flowers’ written II. A team of officials should be c)Only III d)I and II in that code? asked to find out the e)None of these a)ki le ra circumstances which led to the 42. Statements: The school dropout rate b)ra ek ki death of the aspirant and submit in many districts in the state has c)ki la ra its report within a week. increased sharply during the last few d)Can’t be determined III. The Government should ask the years as the parents of these children e)None of these home department to stagger the make them work in the fields owned number of aspirants over more Directions (Q.49-50): Study the by others to earn enough for them to number of days to avoid such following information to answer the get atleast one meal a day. incidents in future. given questions. Courses of action: a)Only I b)Only II In a certain code language ‘781’ means ‘rose I. The Government should put up a c)Only III d)II and III is red’, ‘276’ means ‘old is gold’ and ‘689’ mechanism to provide foodgrains e)None of these means ‘old looks red’. to the poor people in these 45. Statement: A heavy unseasonal districts through public downpour during the last two days has 49. What number is the code for ‘is’? distribution system to encourage paralysed the normal life in the state in a)1 b)2 the parents to send their wards which five persons were killed but this c)4 d)7 to school. has provided a huge relief to the e)None of these II. The Government should close problem of acute water crisis in the 50. What number is the code for ‘rose’? down some of these schools in the state. a)1 b)4 district and deploy the teachers c)8 d)6 of these schools to nearby schools e)None of these and also ask remaining students to join these schools.

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Directions (Q.51-55): Read the following examine each inference separately in I. There is a family of seven persons information carefully and then answer the context of the passage and decide representing three generations. the questions given below it. upon its degree of truth or falsity. II. There are two married couples. Eight players of different games are Give answer Both the wives are housewives sponsored by different companies. Sachin, (a) If the inference is ‘definitely true’, and both have only two children. who plays cricket, is not sponsored by i.e., it properly follows from the III. Sudhakar, the lawyer, is the father Pepsi or Britannia. The player who is statement of facts given of Amit and has two grand- sponsored by Adidas plays badminton. The (b) If the inference is ‘probably true’ children. player of billiards is sponsored by Reebok. though not ‘definitely true’ in the IV. Monasi, the doctor, is the sister Mahesh is sponsored by MRF. He does not light of the facts given. of the teacher. play table tennis or chess. Singer sponsored (c) If the ‘data area inadequate’ i.e., V. Subhra’s daughter-in-law Sulekha player plays football. Dinko does not play from the facts given you cannot is married to a teacher. hockey. The volleyball player is sponsored say whether the inference is likely VI. Nidhi, the grand-daughter of one by Pepsi. Laxman and Ramesh play to be true or false of the housewives, is studying in volleyball and badminton, though not (d) If the inference is ‘probably false’ the 9th standard. necessarily respectively. Rahul plays though not ‘definitely false’ in the billiards. Dhanraj, who is sponsored by light of the facts given 61. What is the profession of Amit? Ispat International, does not play chess. (e) If the inference is ‘definitely a)Student Mukesh is not sponsored by Britannia. false’, i.e, it cannot possibly be b)Teacher Manikchand sponsored player does not drawn from the facts given or it c)Lawyer play table tennis or hockey. contradicts the given facts d)Can’t be determined India is the third largest producer of e)None of these 51. Who is sponsored by Singer? fertilisers in the world. India has to rely on 62. Which among the following is/are the a)Dinko other counties for the potassic fertilisers. father-daughter pair? b)Mukesh This has happened due to its own a)Sudhakar – Nidhi c)Sachin insignificant commercially exploitable b)Sudhakar – Sulekha d)Can’t be determined reserves of potash. During 2003-04 India c)Amit – Nidhi e)None of these imported over 1.7millions tonne of potassic d)Sudhakar – Monasi 52. Dinko plays fertilisers for direct application as well as e) c) and d) a)football for production of complex fertilisers. As per 63. Which of the following groups is b)table tennis the forecast of FAO, India’s foodgrain associated with all three generations? c)chess production in the current season will be up a)Sudhakar, Monasi and Nidhi d)Can’t be determined atleast 10% to 232 million tonne. The b)Amit, Monasi and Nidhi e)None of these government is trying to secure additional c)Amit, Sulekha and Nidhi 53. Who plays table tennis? supply of urea by allowing the well-managed d)Can’t be determined a)Dhanraj factories to produce beyond their re- e)None of the above b)Dinko assessed capacity government has given a 64. How many female members are there in c)Mukesh number of incentives to the private and the family? d)Can’t be determined cooperative sectors to enhance the a)Two b)Four e)None of these productivity with a view to achieving self- c)Three d)Five 54. The player sponsored by MRF plays reliance. The government is exploring the e)Can’t be determined which game? possibility to support their expansion 65. Which of the following statements is a)Cricket programmes. not true? b)Hockey a) The doctor is the paternal aunt of c)Chess 56. Indian farmers prefer green manures to Nidhi d)Can’t be determined chemical fertilizers. b) Sulekha has one sister-in-law e)None of these 57. India is self-reliant in urea to a great c) The teacher is the son of Subhra 55. Which of the following combinations is extent. d) Sudhakar is the father-in-law of definitely false? 58. With every good monsoon the demand Sulekha a)Laxman – Volleyball – Pepsi for fertilizer increases. e) Subhra has two grand-daughter b)Ramesh – Badminton – Adidas 59. The expected foodgrain production will c)Rahul – Billiards – Reebok fall short of the record Indian foodgrain Directions (Q.66-70): Read the following d)Mahesh – Football – MRF production in 2000-01. information carefully and answer the e)Sachin – Cricket – Manikchand 60. In India potash is available in plenty. questions given below. I. 12 friends A, B, C, D, P, Q, R, S, Directions (Q.56-60): Below is given a Directions (Q.61-65): Study the W, X , Y and Z are sitting in a row passage followed by several possible following information carefully and facing to the East. inferences which can be drawn from the answer the given questions. II. X is third to the left of P, who is facts stated in the passage. You have to sixth to the right of A.

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III. R is fourth to the right of Z, who A, the person belonging to Punjab, a) A – Bihar – Kolkata – Cricket – is not near to C. the one who had to travel to Coffee IV. B is fifth to the right end and S is Bengaluru and the one who was b) B – Punjab – Bhopal – Volleyball second left of D. associated with Tennis. – Coffee V. W and Q are not near to P, who is (iv) D did not take tea and he had to c) C – Kerala – Bengaluru – Football second to the right of B. travel to Mumbai. D was found – Coffee VI. There are two friends between C busy in conversation with his d) D – MP – Mumbai – Tennis – and Y, who is not near to X. friend, whose home state was Coffee Punjab and was one of the five e) E – AP – Chennai – Basketball – 66. Who are sitting at the end of the row? executives. Coffee a)Z and W (v) B had to travel to Bhopal. He did b)W and Q not take tea. E was not associated Directions (Q. 76-78): Each of the c)Q and Z with Cricket, Volleyball or questions below consists of a question d)Can’t be determined Football. But the person who had and two statements numbered I and II e)None of these to travel to Kolkata was given below it. You have to decide 67. What is the position of A in respect of associated with Cricket and the whether the data provided in the S? person whose home state was statements are sufficient to answer the a)Immediate right Kerala was associated with question. Read both the statements and b)third right Football. give answer c)fourth left (vi) D did not belong to Bihar. The a) if the data in statement I alone are d)second right executive whose home state was sufficient to answer the question, e)fifth left Bihar took coffee. The person while the data in statement II alone 68. Who is sitting third to the right of R? whose home state was MP, had are not sufficient to answer the a)B b)S to travel to a city which was not question. c)Y d)B or S Chennai. One of the executives b) if the data in statement II alone e)B or Y belonged to AP. The names of the are sufficient to answer the 69. Which two friends are sitting near to D? games, cities and states used above question, while the data in a)A and R b)Z and A are not irrelevant. statement I alone are not sufficient c)P and Q d)A and C to answer the question. e)Can’t be determined 71. Among the given persons A, B, C, D and c) if the data either in statement I 70. Which of the following is true? E, whose home state is AP? alone or in statement II alone are a) Five friends are sitting between Z I.B had to travel to Bhopal. sufficient to answer the and B II.D does not belong to Bihar. question. b) R and X are sitting in the middle III.E was not associated with Cricket, d) if the data given in both the of the row Volleyball or Football. statements I and II together are c) D is sitting fifth to the left of B Which of the following clues is not not sufficient to answer the d) Only one friend is sitting between necessary to answer the questions question. Y and Z given above? e) if the data in both the statements e) More than one of the above are a)Only I I and II together are necessary to true b)Only II answer the question. c)Only III Directions (Q.71-75): Study the d)Any one of the three 76. Who among T, R and S is (are) to the following information carefully and e)All are necessary East of P? answer the questions given below. 72. The person whose home state is Bihar, I. R, who is to the West of P, is not (i) A, B, C, D and E were five is as near to S as P is, S is in the executives of a company X. Each a)C b)D farthest East. belonged to five different states c)A d)Can’t say II. P is not as far away from S as T and each one was an international e)None of these is. player but was associated with 73. B is associated with 77. Who amongst A, B, C, D and E was the different games. a)Cricket b)Football first to reach the function? (ii) They once gathered at Delhi c)Volleyball d)Can’t say I. B, who reached earlier than E, A railway station with a purpose to e)None of these and C was not the first to reach. travel to five different places. 74. The person who had to go to Bhopal is II. A, who reached earlier than E and (iii) Before departure they decided to associated with C could not reach earlier than D, take hot beverages. One person, a)MP b)AP who was at the function before B. st who was associated with c)Punjab d)Can’t say 78. How many students did secure 1 Class Basketball preferred to tea while e)None of these in a class of 48 students? others, preferred coffee. The four 75. Which of the following combinations is persons who took coffee were – not correctly matched? 89 Plot-1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRP Square, Bhubaneswar-751015 Ph. : (0674) 6556677, 8093556677. Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER- 2016

I. Double the number of 1st Class Step VII is the last step of the above work on IInd floor. P, a male, work students secured IInd Class and input. As per the rules followed in the on Ist floor. all the remaining failed. above steps, find out in each of the II. Number of students failed was following questions the appropriate 86. Which of the following groups of thrice the number of 1st Class steps for the given input. persons are females? students in the class. Input: 21 date 42 name 73 queen 37 a)SQT b)QMT easy 54 jar c)QPT d)Data inadequate Directions (Q. 79-80): Each of the e)None of these questions below consists of a question 81. What is the position of ‘name’ in Step 87. Which of the following pairs of persons and three statements numbered I, II and VIII? work in Administration? III given below it. You have to decide a)Sixth from the left end a)QP b)QN whether the data provided in the b)First from the right end c)SP d)Data inadequate statements are sufficient to answer the c)Fifth from the right end e)None of these question. d)Seventh from the left end 88. T works in which department? e)None of these a)Accounts 79. Who among A, B, C, D, E and F each 82. Which of the following is seventh from b)Administration having a different height, is the tallest? the right in Step V? c)Personnel I. B is taller than A but shorter than a)21 b)name d)Accounts or Personnel E. c)42 d)queen e)None of these II. Only two of them are shorter than e)None of these 89. Which of the following pairs works on C. 83. How many steps are required to IInd floor? III. D is taller than only F. complete this arrangement? a)PT b)SM a) I and II a)Seven b)Eight c)QN d)None of these b) I and III c)Nine d)Ten e)All of these c) II and III e)None of these 90. Which of the following pairs of the d) All I, II and III are required to 84. What is the position of ‘37’ in Step VII? person work in personally department? answer the question a)Third from the right end a)PQ b)MN e) All I, II and III are not sufficient b)Eighth from the left end c)QN d)Data inadequate to answer the question c)Sixth from the right end e)None of these 80. Towards which direction is village J from d)Fourth from the left end village W? e)None of these QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE I. Village R is to the West of Village 85. How many words/numbers are there W and to the North of Village T. between ‘21’ and ‘jar’ in Step IV? Directions: (Q. 91-95): Study the II. Village Z is to the East of Village J a)Two b)Three following graph and the table and and to the South of village T. c)Four d)Five answer the questions given below. III. Village M is to the North-East of e)None of these Data of different states regarding Village J and North of Village Z. population of states in the year 1998 a)I and II b)II and III Directions (Q. 86-90) : Read the c)I and III d)I, II and III following information and answer the e)None of these questions that follow: (i) M, N, P, Q, S and T are six Directions (Q. 81-85) : Study the members of a group in which there following information carefully to are three female members. answer the given questions. Females work in three A word and number arrangement machine departments – Accounts, when given an input line of words and Administration and Personnel – numbers rearranges them following a and sit on three different floors – particular rule in each step. The following is Ist, IInd and IIIrd. Persons an illustration of input and rearrangement. working in the same department Input: 36 for 49 with 72 53 true just are not on the same floor. On each Step I: 72 36 for 49 with 53 true just floor two persons work. Step II: 72 36 49 with 53 true just for (ii) No two females work in the same Step III: 72 53 36 49 with true just for department or on the same floor. Step IV: 72 53 36 49 with true for just N and S work in the same Step V: 72 53 49 36 with for just true department but not in Personnel. Step VI: 72 53 49 36 with for just true Q works in administration. S and Step VII: 72 53 49 36 for just true M are on the Ist and IIIrd floors 91. What was the number of males in UP in with respectively and work in the same the year 1998? department. Q, a female, does not a)254650 b)294840

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c)321470 d)341200 Wagha Boarder on Monday and 102. Students majored in History are e)None of these Wednesday together? approximately, what percent of the 92. What was the total number of illiterate a)168% b)124% total number of students majored in people in AP and MP in 1998? c)112% d)224% Politics? a)876040 b)932170 e)212% a)48 b)61 c)981550 d)1161160 98. On which day was the total number of c)52 d)57 e)None of these foreign tourists who visited all the e)45 93. What is the ratio of the number of females three places together second lowest? 103. How many students have majored only in TN to the number of females in a)Monday b)Tuesday in Politics? Delhi? c)Wednesday d)Thursday a)650 b)975 a)7 : 5 b)9 : 7 e)Friday c)780 d)455 c)13 : 11 d)15 : 14 99. What is the respective ratio between the e)None of these e)None of these number of foreign tourists who visited 104. What is the total number of students 94. What will be the percentage of total Taj Mahal on Thursday and the majored in English literature? number of males in UP, MP and Goa number of foreign tourists who visited a)780 b)1495 together to the total population of all Golden Temple on Friday? c)1300 d)2050 the given states? a)14 : 9 b)8 : 13 e)None of these a)25% b)27.5% c)13 : 8 d)13 : 7 105. Lowest number of students have c)28.5% d)31.5% e)None of these majored in which subject? e)None of these 100. On which day was the difference a)History b)Philosophy 95. If in the year 1998, there was an increase between the number of foreign tourists c)Politics d)English literature of 10% in the population of UP and who visited Taj Mahal and Golden e)Psychology 12% in the population of MP compared Temple, second highest? to the previous year, then what was a)Monday b)Tuesday Directions: (Q. 106-110): What should the ratio of population of UP and MP c)Wednesday d)Thursday come in place of the question mark (?) in 1997? e)Friday in the following number series? a)42 : 55 b)48 : 55 Directions: (Q.101-105): Study the 106. 948, 474, ?, 118.5, 59.25, 29.625 c)7 : 11 d)4 : 6 a)221 b)190 e)None of these following data carefully and answer the questions given below. c)237 d)189.06 Directions: (Q. 96-100): Study the e)None of these following graph carefully to answer the Out of 6500 students from the Art-wing of a college 21% of the total number of 107. 374, 355, 317, ?, 184, 89 questions that follow. a)260 b)298 Number of foreign tourists who visited students have majored only in Psychology. 12% of the total number of students have c)279 d)241 three different places in five different e)None of these days majored only in English literature, 15% of the total number of students have majored 108. 96, 94, 373, 3353, ?, 1341069 only in Politics. 7% of the total number of a)83819 b)53483 students have majored only in Philosophy c)63813 d)53643 and 10% of the total number of students e)None of these have majored only in History. 8% of the 109. 1, 16, 81, 256, ?, 1296 total number of students have majored in a)400 b)625 both Psychology as well as Philosophy. 4% c)875 d)1125 of the total number of students have majored e)None of these in History as well as Politics and 11% of 110. 281, 141, 71, 36, 18.5, ? the total number of students have majored a)9.5 b)9.25 in English literature as well as Politics. 9% c)10.75 d)10 of the total number of students have majored e)None of these in Psychology and English literature and 3% Directions: (Q. 111-115): Study the of the total number of students have majored following graph carefully and answer 96. What is the average number of foreign in History and Philosophy. the questions given below. tourists who visited Wagha Border on Profit earned by three companies over all the days together? 101. What is the respective ratio of the the years (Rs in crores) a)184 b)172 number of students majored in c)186 d)174 Philosophy to number of students e)None of these majored only in Psychology? 97. Total number of foreign tourists who a)4 : 5 b)5 : 6 visited all the three places on Tuesday c)6 : 7 d)7 : 8 together is what percent of the total e)None of these number foreign tourists who visited

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question. Read both the statements and more than the largest angle of the give answer triangle. a) if the data in statement I alone are II. Larger angle of the parallelogram sufficient to answer the question, is 380 more than its smaller angle. while the data in statement II alone 121. Taps A, B and C are attached with a are not sufficient. tank and velocity of water coming b) if the data in statement II alone through them are 42 L/h, 56 L/h and 48 are sufficient to answer the L/h, respectively. A and B are inlets question, while the data in and C is outlet. If all the taps are statement I alone are not opened simultaneously, tank is filled sufficient. in 16 h. What is the capacity of the c) if the data either in statement I tank? alone or in statement II alone are a)2346 L b)1600 L sufficient to answer the c)800 L d)960 L question. e)None of these d) if the data in both the statements 122. When A alone does a piece of work, he 111. What was the average profit earned by I and II together are not sufficient takes 25 days more than the time taken all the three companies in the year to answer the question. by (A+B) to complete that particular 2008? e) if the data in both the statements work, while B alone takes 49 days more a)Rs 300 crore I and II together are necessary to than the time taken by (A+B) to finish b)Rs 400 crore answer the question. the same work. A and B together will c)Rs 350 crore take what time to finish this work? d)Rs 520 crore 116. What is the minimum passing a)35 days b)25 days e)None of these percentage in a test? c)15 days d)45 days 112. In which of the following years was I. Raman scored 25% marks in the e)None of these the difference between the profits test and Sunil scored 288 marks 123. Two stations P and Q are at a distance earned by company B and company A which is 128 more than Raman. of 160 km. Two trains start moving the minimum? II. Raman scored 64 marks less than from P and Q to Q and P respectively a)2003 b)2004 the minimum passing marks. and meet each other after 4 h. If speed 2 c)2005 d)2008 117. What is the value of x + y + z ? of the train starting from P is more than e)None of these I.4x+3y+5z =60, 2x = y, 2y = z that of other train by 6 km/h, then find 113. In which of the following years was II.3x +3y +2z = 34, 2x+5y +6z =72 the speeds of both the trains, the total profit earned by all three 118. Whose body weight is second highest respectively? companies together the highest? among the five boys Arun, Vinay, Suraj, a)19 km/h, 13 km/h a)2004 b)2007 Raju and Pratap? b)13 km/h, 9 km/h c)2008 d)2009 I. Average weight of Arun, Suraj and c)17 km/h, 23 km/h e)None of these Vinay is 68 kg and average weight d)16 km/h, 10 km/h 114. What was the approximate percentage of Raju and Pratap is 72 kg. Also, e)None of the above increase in the profit earned by Suraj is 78 kg, Raju is 68 kg and 124. A boat covers 24 km upstream and 36 company A from 2006 to 2007? Vinay is 46 kg. km downstream in 6 h, while it covers a)36 b)24 II. Average weight of Arun, Suraj, 36 km upstream and 24 km downstream c)40 d)20 Vinay and Raju is 68 kg and also e)54 Suraj is 78 kg, Raju is 68 kg and 1 in 6 h. The speed of the current is 115. What was the difference between the Vinay is 46 kg. All of them have 2 profit earned by company A in 2004 different weight. a)1 km/h b)2 km/h and the profit earned by company C in 119. What is the respective ratio between c)1.5 km/h d)2.5 km/h 2009? the length of a rectangle and side of a e)None of these a)Rs 50 crore square? 125. The probability that a man will be alive b)Rs 1 crore I. Area of the square is 576 sq cm c)Rs 100 crore and the area of the rectangle is 600 1 d)Rs 200 crore sq cm. for 10 more years is and the e)None of these II. Breadth of the rectangle is half the 4 side of the square. probability that his wife will alive for Directions (Q.116-120): Each of the 120. What is the smaller angle of a questions below consists of a question parallelogram? 1 10 more years is . The probability and two statements numbered I and II I. Ratio between the angles of a 3 given below it. You have to decide triangle is 3 : 5 : 4 and the larger whether the data provided in the angel, of the parallelogram is 340 that none of them will be alive for 10 statements are sufficient to answer the more years, is

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Parat donates his 30 coins and Marat Directions: (Q. 136-140): In the 5 1 losses 25 coins. Now, the ratio of gold following questions, two equations a) b) 12 2 coins with them is 46 : 41 : 34, numbered I and II are given. You have to respectively. How many coins did Parat solve both the equations and – 7 11 receive from his father? Give answer If c) d) a)705 b)950 (a) x > y 12 12 c)800 d)850 (b) x  y e)None of these e)None of these (c) x < y 126. The diameter of a roller is 84 cm and its 132. If the price of three types of rice are Rs (d) x y length 120 cm. It takes 500 complete 480, Rs 576 and Rs 696 per quintal,  revolutions to move once over to level then find the ratio in which these types (e) x = y or the relationship cannot a playground. Find the area of the of rice should be mixed, so that the be established. playground (in sq m). resultant mixture cost Rs 564 per 136. I. 3x2 + 8x + 4= 0 a)1632 b)1817 quintal? c)1532 d)1584 a)22 : 11 : 9 II. 4y2 – 19y + 12 =0 e)None of these b)28 : 14 : 7 137. I. x2 + x – 20 =0 127. In a certain examination, the average c)14 : 7 : 21 II. y2 – y – 30 = 0 marks of an examinee is 64 per paper. d)11 : 77 : 7 138. I. x2 – 365 =364 If he had obtained 18 more marks for e)None of these his Mathematics paper and 4 more 133. A, B and C started a business with II. y - 324  81 marks for his English paper, his average their investments in the ratio 1 : 2 : 4, per paper would have been 66. How after 6 months, A invested the half 4 7 139. I.   x many papers were there in the amount more as before and B invested x x examination? twice the amount more as before, while a)11 b)13 5 c)9 d)15 1 2 C withdraws th of their (11) e)None of these 4 II. y2 - =0 128. A person bought 8 quintal of rice for investments. Find the ratio of their y certain rupees. After a week, he sold 3 profits at the end of the year. 2 quintal of rice at 10% profit, 3 quintal 140. I. 225x – 4 = 0 a)5 : 10 : 15 of rice with neither profit nor loss and b)15 : 20 : 25 II. y+2 = 0 2 quintal at 5% loss. In this transaction, 225 c)5 : 16 : 20 what is the profit? d)5 : 16 : 14 a)10% b)20% BANKING AWARENESS e)None of these c)25% d)2.5% 134. 5 yr ago, age of Sachin was 4 times the 141. As per latest Global Competitiveness e)None of these age of Vineet and after 10 yr. Sachin Index (GCI), India’s rank is 129. 2/3 part of my sum is lent out at 3%, 1/ will be twice as old as Vineet. Find the a) 36 b) 71 6 part is lent out at 6% and remaining present ages of Sachin and Vineet. c) 39 d) 55 part is lent out at 12%. All the three e) None of these parts are lent out at simple interest. If 1 1 142. Which of the following is/are true the annual income is Rs 25, what is the a)12 yr b)16 yr 2 3 regarding recent amendment to the sum? New Coal Distribution Policy a)Rs 500 b)Rs 650 (NCDP), 2007? c)Rs 600 d)Rs 450 1 c)18 yr d)21 yr 1) It has increased the annual cap of e)None of these 2 coal from 4200 tonnes for sale 130. SBI lent Rs 1331 lakh to the TATA e)None of these through State Nominated group at compound interest and got Rs 135. Four milkmen rented a pasture. A grazed Agencies to 10,000 tonnes. 1728 lakh after 3 yr. What is the rate of 15 cows for 4 months, B grazed 12 2) By this amendment large scale interest charged, if compounded cows for 2 months, C grazed 18 cows industries cannot avail coal annually? for 6 months, and D grazed 16 cows through the State Nominated a)11% b)9.09% for 5 months. If A’s share of rent is Rs Agencies. c)12% d)8.33% 1, 020, what is C’s share of rent? a) Only 1 e)None of these a)Rs 1, 836 b) Only 2 131. Mr. Shrimant inherits 2505 gold coins b)Rs 1, 360 c) Both 1 and 2 and divides them among his three sons; c)Rs 816 d) Neither 1 nor 2 Bharat, Parat and Marat; in a certain d)Cannot be determined e) either 1 or 2 ratio. Out of the total coins received e)Rs 2, 532 by each of them, Bharat sells 30 coins,

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143. Which of the following is/are true magnificus, which is the largest dinosaur c) Sensitise men, especially newly- regarding BRICS Trade Fair and ever found. Which facts are true about married men, regarding a woman’s Exhibition? this dinosaur? bodily autonomy and birth- 1) It will be organized at New Delhi. a) It belongs to the titanosaur group spacing issues. 2) Business leaders from BIMSTEC b) It is a herbivore d) Improve maternal and neonatal countries have been invited for c) It lived during the Cretaceous Period health by promotion of meetings and discussions with the d) All of the above institutional deliveries. BRICS business leaders and e) None of these e) None of the above companies at the Fair. 149. Which industry finally agreed to reduce 154. Which of the following Indian Railways a) Only 1 its carbon footprint on Oct 5, 2016? Sites have been accorded ‘World b) Only 2 a) Aviation Heritage Site’ status by UNESCO? c) Both 1 and 2 b) Manufacturing 1) Darjeeling Himalayan Railway d) Neither 1 nor 2 c) Food and Beverages 2) Kangra Valley Railway e) either 1 or 2 d) Services 3) Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 144. An Anti-Dumping Workshop for Asian e) None of these 4) Matheran Light Railway Investigating Authorities was held. It 150. Which pair of International Buddhist Select the correct answer using the code was held in ? Conclave and its location correctly given below: a) matched? a) 1, 2 and 3 b) Jakarta 1) 1st International Buddhist b) 1 and 3 only c) Beijing Conclave - New Delhi and c) 2 and 4 only d) New Delhi Bodhgaya d) 1, 2, 3 and 4 e) None of these 2) 5th International Buddhist e) None of these 145. What is ‘AARDO’? Conclave - Varanasi-Sarnath 155. What is the Currency of Hungary? a) An international organisation 3) 2nd International Buddhist a) Litas b) Euro b) A NGO Conclave - Varanasi and Bodh c) Dram d) Shekel c) A state of art defence system Gaya e) Forint d) New missile planned by India and a) 1, 2 b) 1, 3 156. Dhauli Ganga Dam is in which of the Israel jointly c) 2, 3 d) All of the above following state? e) None of these e) None o these a) Karnataka 146. Which of the following is/are true 151. At the CITES meeting in South Africa b) Uttarakhand regarding the Asian Ministerial in September 2016, Pangolins – said to c) Kerala Conference for Disaster Risk be the world’s most trafficked mammal d) Maharashtra Reduction (AMCDRR)? – received extra safeguards against e) Odisha 1) India’s population above 60 years trafficking. Where in India can one 157. Which Indian city is also known as age is estimated to increase from naturally find the endangered Indian Orange City? 100 million in 2011 to 500 million Pangolin? a) Panipat b) Purulia in 2050. a) Brahmaputra river basin area c) Nagpur d) Mundi 2) AIIMS Cohort Study Centre is b) Zanskar Valley e) Kolkata to determine only the lifestyle and c) Northeast including the 158. Snapchat has released a special type of socioeconomic risk factors for the Brahmaputra river basin area sunglasses on 30th Sept. What are occurrence of stroke, heart attack, d) None of the above these? etc. e) All of the Above a) Cam sunglasses a) Only 1 152. ‘Kigali’ is the capital of b) Camera sunglasses b) Only 2 a) Burundi b) Rwanda c) Video sunglasses c) Both 1 and 2 c) Uganda d) Tanzania d) Both b and c d) Neither 1 nor 2 e) None of the above e) All the above e) None of these 153. The ‘Janani SurakshaYojana’ was 159. What is the name of the singing fish 147. A public debt management cell was launched in 2005 as part of the National found in San Francisco Bay? formed on Oct 4 2016 by the Union Health Mission to a) Porichthys Notatus Finance Ministry. Who is the person a) Protect infants from contracting b) Midshipsman fish in charge of the cell? easily-preventable diseases that c) Both of the above a) Joint Secretary, DEA can be deadly. d) Neither of the above b) Secretary, DEA b) Improve the long-term health e) All of the above c) Additional Secretary, DEA outcomes of newborns by 160. What is the world’s largest flower d) Joint Secretary, DFA focusing on regular provision of called? e) None of these nutritious food supplements to a) Rafflesia arnoldii 148. Brazilian scientists have discovered lactating mothers. b) Rafflesia varnoldii fossils of a 25m long Austroposeid on c) Rafflesia carnoldii

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d) None of the above d) Indian Audit Bureau 174. Cartels is a form of ___ e) All of the above e) Indian Bank’s Association. a) Collusive oligopoly 161. The underlying objective of ‘Advantage 168. Urjit Ji had failed a complaint with b) Non- Collusive oligopoly Health Care India 2016 (AHCI 2016)’ Banking Ombudsman but is not c) Monopoly is a conglomeration of 5Ts. Which of Satisfied with the decision what is the d) Monopolistic Competition the following are the 5Ts? next option be fore him for getting his e) None of these 1) Tradition matter resolved? 175. It is mandatory to quite which of the 2) Tourism a) Write to the CMD of the Bank following identification number on all 3) Trade b) File an appeal before the finance – large – value financial transaction? a) 1, 3 b) 2, 3 Minister a) PAN c) 1, 2 d) All of the above c) File an appeal before the Banking b) Voter ID e) None of these ombudsman again c) PIN 162. To boost trade among BRICS nations, d) File an appeal before the Dy. d) Ration Card Number India has planned to organise the trade Governor of RBI. e) Phone Number fair for the bloc at which venue? e) Simply close the matter as going 176. The food & Agriculture Organization a) Goa b) Delhi to court involves time and money (FAO) is a wing/ agency of the c) Mumbai d) Kolkata 169. The Proceeds from disinvestment of a) World Bank e) None of the above Various Public Sector Under takings are b) United Nation Organization 163. BSI announced that the highest species Channelized into____ c) ADB of endemic flowering plants are found a) Technology Up gradation fund. d) ASEAN in which southern India State? b) Venture Capital Fund (NABARD) e) None of these a) Kerala c) Rural Innovation Fund (NABARD) 177. The RBI is September 2016, Expanded b) Karnataka d) Portfolio Risk fund (SIDBI) the market for bank’s Stressed assets c) Tamil Nadu e) National Investment Fund. by Permitting them to be sold to other d) Andhra Pradesh 170. Man bearers of the burden of Indirect lenders, including e) None of these tax are __ a) NBFLs 164. Tara pore Committee Submitted its a) Manufactures b) Financial Institution report on “Full Convertibility on b) Traders c) Asset Reconstruction Rupee” in c) Consumers d) Both (a) and (b) a) Current Account d) Tax Payers e) None of these b) Capital account e) None of these 178. Which public — Sector Oil Company, c) Both is Current as well in Capital 171. CENVAT is related to ___ in September 2016 Launched dynamic Account a) Sales Tax pricing at a few of its retail Outlets on d) Special Drawing Rights (SDR) b) Excise duty a pilot basis and this became the first e) None of these c) Custom duty entity to launch such initiative in this 165. Private Investment is otherwise Called d) Service Tax Sector? as e) None of these a) HPCL b) BPCL a) Foreign direct Investment 172. Which of the following is the full form c) HOEC d) MRPL b) Induced Investment of the abbreviation “IFRS” as used in e) None of these c) Autonomous investment Corporate/ Finance Sector 179. Which Chinese Smartphone marker, on d) Foreign Institutional Investment a) Indian Financial Reconciliation 23 Sept. 2016 announced that it will e) None of these Standard. Start to manufacture. Smart Phones in 166. Who amongst the following was the b) Interpretation & Formal India in Partnership with Flex? Chairperson of the “Working group on Reporting Systems a) Yu b) Huawei Bench mark prime lending Rate c) International Financial Reporting c) Vivo d) Oppo (BILR)” Constituted by RBI? standards. e) None of these a) Dr. K. C. Chakravorty d) International Finance Reporting 180. In a Major Policy shift, the RBI, b) Mr Deepak Mohanty System changed it outlook towards______c) Mr R. Bhaskkaran e) None of these banking and potentially proposed d) Mr. U. P. Bhatt 173. Which from the following is not true opening ______finance in the 167. General Clients of Various banks in when the interest rate in the economy Country. India can make a Complaint to which goes up: a) Bit coin, plastic of the following offices on the issues a) Saving increases b) Islamic, Islamic related to deficiency in services, b) Lending decreases c) Plastic, Bit coin a) Comptroller and Auditor General c) Developed economy d) Islamic, Digital of India (CAG) d) Return on Capital increases e) None of these b) Attorney General of India e) None of these c) Ombudsman

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COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE 189. Which of the following topologies is e) None of these not broadcast type? 197. All of the following are steps involved 181. The main computer in a network is a) Star b) Bus in the boot process EXCEPT: called c) Ring d) Tree a) load the operating system into a) host processor e) None of these RAM. b) front- end processor 190. In MODEMS b) the power-on self –test c) commentator a) several digital signals are c) activate the basic input/ output d) KIPS multiplexed system (BIOS). e) None of these b) a digital signal changes some d) USB port 182. A compiler means characteristic of carrier wave e) None of these a) a person who compiles source c) digital signal is amplified 198. When you insert a picture and adjust programs d) All of these the height, Word automatically adjusts. b) the same thing as programmer e) None of these The ...... to maintain the correct c) keypunch operator 191. The feature that keeps track of the right proportion. d) a program which translates source margin is a) pixel size program into object program a) find and replace b) resolution e) None of these b) word wrap c) screen size 183. Which of the following languages is c) right justified d) width not well suited for computation? d) left justified e) None of these a) PASCAL e) ragged right 199. Which of the following is not a correct b) FORTRAN 192. What is the advantage of using basic match? c) Machine HTML to create a document? a) Oracle- Larry Ellison d) C a) HTML is very easy to use b) Microsoft – Bill Gates e) None of these b) The document can displayed by c) Wipro- 184. Which of the following is used as “Input all word processors d) Infosys- device” for the computer? c) The document can be displayed e) HCL – a) Printer b) VDU by all programs 200. Which of the following e-mail address c) TV d) Light pen d) The document can be displayed in incorrect? e) None of these by all browsers a) abcd _ 123 @ xyz.com 185. A subdivision of a track on a magnetic e) None of these b) abc (4) 123# xyz.com disk or drum is 193. The transformation of a message into c) 123abc @ xyz.com a) Surface an encoded form is known as: d) 1@ xyz.com b) sector a) Mnemonics e) None of these c) tape deck b) Encoding d) scratch tape c) Encryption e) None of these d) Decoding  186. Data processing computer built to e) None of these conventional architecture is known as 194. The unique signal, generated by a a) Super Computer device, that tells the operating system b) Mainframe computer that it is in need of immediate attention EXPLANATIONS c)Micro computer is called an: d) Mini Compute a) action 1. d 2. c 3. a 4. e e) None of these b) event 5. d 6. d 7. b 8. a 187. Which is an electronic device that can c) interrupt 9. d 10. a 11. b 12. e store temporarily a single bit of data? d) activity 13. d 14. d 15. e 16. e a) Accumulator e) None of these 17. d 18. a 19. b 20. c b) Buffer 195. How many peripheral devices can be 21. c 22. d 23. a 24. a c) Memory connected to a single SCSI port? 25. b 26. a 27. b 28. a d) Latch a) 1 b) 8 29. a 30. b 31. a 32. a e) None of these c) 16 d) 32 33. b 34. b 35. a 36. d 188. A device that both transmits and e) 64 37. e 38. c 39. b 40. d receives data, is 196. Screen that comes on when you turn (41-45) a) transducer on your computer that shows all the 41-d; Only courses of action I and II are b) trapdoor icons..... essential to remove the block traffic c) translator a) desktop movement. d) transceiver b) face to face 42-b; In the given statement only course of e) None of these c) viewer action I is essential because if the d) view space Government provide foodgrains to the

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poor people, then they will send their children to school. - A 43-c; The Government should direct the bank to refrain from - R retrenching its employees. - C 44-d; For the given statement, only courses of action II and III are - X necessary - B 45-c; In order to remove, the problem of water-crisis only courses - S of action II and III are necessary - P 46-b 47-d 48-c 49-d 50-a - D (51-55) - Q/W 66-d 67-e 68-a 69-e 70-d (71-75): Player Game Sponsored Sachin Cricket Manikchand Mahesh Hockey MRF Dinko Chess Britania Laxman Volley/Badminton Pepsi /Adidas Ramesh Volley/Badminton Pepsi /Adidas Rahul Billiard Rebook Dhanraj Tennis Ispat Mukesh Football Singer 71-e 72-c 73-c 74-c 75-e (76-80): 76-a; From I it is clear that S, is in the East of P. 51-b 52-c 53-a 54-b 55-d 77-c (56-60): 78-e; If x students secured I class in the class of 48 students, then 56-d; from II, Number of students who failed = 3x And From I, x +2x +3x = 48 X =8 Hence, I and II together are necessary to answer the question. 79-d 80-a (81-85)

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(86-90) 98-c; The number of tourists was second lowest on Wednesday = 120 +150 +180 = 450 99-d; Number of tourists who visited Taj Mahal on Thursday =260 Number of tourists who visited Golden Temple on Friday =140 Reqd. ratio = = 13 : 7 100-a; The difference is second highest on Monday = 200 – 90 = 110 (101-105) 101-c; Total number of students majored in philosophy = 455 +520 +195 =1170 Reqd. ratio = 1170 : 1365 =6 : 7 102-d; Total number of students majored in History = 650 +260+195 =1105 86-a 87-d 88-c 89-d 90-d Total number of students majored in Politics = 975 +260+715 (91-95): =1950 15 1105100 1105100 2 91-b; Total population in UP = 3276000 Reqd. % =  56 %  57% 100 1950 1950 3 103-b; Total number of students in majored in Politics = 975 3 15 104-e; Total number of students in majored in English = Number of males in UP =  3276000 = 294840 5 100 780+715+585 =2080 105-a; Lowest numbers of students has majored in History = 7 25 (106-110): 92-d; Number of illiterate people in AP =  3276000 9 100 1 1 1 106-c; The series is  , , , ……………….. = 637000 2 2 2 4 20 107-a; The series is – 19 , -38, -57, ……………….. Number of illiterate people in MP =  3276000 108-d; The series is  12-2,  22-3,  32-4, ………….. 5 100 109-b; The series is 14, 24, 34, …………….. = 524160 110-e; The series is Total number = 637000 + 524160 = 1161160 93-d; Reqd. Ratio 1 1 1   0.5,  0.5,  0.5, …………….. Number of females in TN : number of females in Delhi 2 2 2 4 9 (111-115)  3276000 7 100 49 5 400  450  350  : 111-b; Avg. profit in 2008 = =Rs 400 crore = 3 8 = 15 : 14 3  3276000 7 38 5 100 112-e; By visual inspection of line of graph, it is clear that difference is minimum in 2007 = Rs 25 crore 94-c 95-a 113-d; It is obvious from the line graph that total profit of three (96-100) companies is highest in 2009 = 400+425+475 = Rs 1300 96-b; Total number of foreign tourists who visited wagha boarder crore on all the days together =130 +190 +120 +200 +220 = 860 114-a; Percent increase in the profit earned by company A = 860 375  275 Reqd. avg. = =172 100% = 36.36%  36% 5 275 97-e; Total number of tourists who visited all the three places on 115-c; Reqd. diff. = 400 – 300 = Rs 100 crore Tuesday = 70+190+270 = 530 (116-120) Total number of foreign tourists who visited Wagha Boarder 116-e; From I, marks scored by Sunil =288 - 128 = 160 on Monday and Wednesday together =130 +120 =250 160100 530 Maximum marks = = 640 Reqd. % = 100 = 212% 25 250 From II, minimum passing marks =160+64 = 224

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2x +6 = 40 224 2x =34 Minimum passing percentage = 100 = 35% 640 x = 17 Hence, the data in both statements are necessary. 124-b; Let speed of boat and current be x and y km/h. 117-a; From I, 4x+3y+5z = 60………….i) Speed of boat upstream = (x – y) km/h 2x =y And speed of boat downstream =x +y km/h 24 36 y   6...... i) X = 2 x  y x  y 2y =z 36 24 13 y   ...... ii) From eqn. i) 4  +3y+5  2y =60 x  y x  y 2 2 On solving eqn. i) and ii) we get 15y = 60 x = 10, y = 2 Y=4 X = 2, z = 8  1   1  1 X2 + y +z = 22 +4+8 =16 125-b; Reqd. probability = 1 1    4   3 2 118-c; From I, total weight of Arun, Suraj and Binay = 3  68 kg Arun’s weight = 3  68 -(78 +46) =8 kg 126-d; In one revolution, area covered = curved surface are Now, total weight of Raju and Pratap = 2  72 = 144 kg 22 Pratap’s weight =144 – 68 = 76 kg = 2rh  2  42120 = 31680 sq cm Second highest weight = 78 kg 7 From II, total weight of Arun, Suraj, Binay and Raju =4  68 In five hundred revolution area covered = 31680 500 = 272 kg 4 Arun’s weight = 272 – (78 +68 +46)= 8 kg 158410 = = 1584 sq m Second highest weight = 78 kg (Suraj’s weight) 104 119-e 127-a; Let the number of papers =x 5 According to the question, 64x+18+4 = 66x 120-c; From I, Larger angle of triangle = 180 = 750 2x = 22 3 5  4 x = 11 Larger angle of parallelogram =750 +340 =1090 128-d Smaller angle of parallelogram =1800 – 1090 = 710 129-a; Let entire sum = P From II, According to the question Let the smaller angle of parallelogram be x = x And the larger angle of parallelogram = x +380 2P 3 P 6  4 112P 0     1  Sum of two opposite angle of a parallelogram = 180 3 100 6 100 6 100 = 25 X+x +380 =1800   1800  380 2P P 2P X = = 710 Or,    25 2 100 100 100 (121-135) Or, 5P = 2500 121-c; Quantity of water admitted by tap 1 in 1 hr =42L P = 500 Quantity of water admitted by tap 2 in 1 hr = 56 L 130-b; According to the question, Quantity of water removed by tap 3 in 1 hr = 48 L 3 So, quantity of water filled in the tank in 1 h =42+56 -48 = 50  R  1728 = 1331 1  L  100  Quantity of water filled in 16 h = 16  50=800 L 3 122- a; According to the formula reqd. time = ab 1728  R  Or,  1  Where a =25 and b = 49 1331  100  Reqd. time = 25 49 = 35 days R 12 R 12 1 123-c; Let the speed of both trains be x km/h and (x+6) km/h, Or 1+    1  respectively. 100 11 100 11 11 According to the question, 160 = x  4 +(x+6)  4

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100 II.y – 324  81 R = = 9.09% 11 Y = 27 131-d; According to the question, 46x +30+41x+30+34x+25 = 2505 Clearly, x  y 121x =2505 – 85 = 2420 139-e; I.4+7 = x  x 2420 x= 11 x= = 20 121 5 2 Number of coins received by Parat =41x +30 = 41 20+30 = 11  2 I I . y - =0 850 y 132-d 133-d; Let us assume their initial investments be x, 2x and 4x Y = 11 respectively. Clearly, x = y According to the question, investment of A for 1 yr = x for 6 140-e; I.225x2 =4 2  x  2 months +  x   for 6 months X =   2  15 = 6x+ 6 = 6x +9x =15x II. 225 y+2 = 0 Investment of B for 1 yr = 2x for 6 months + (2x +4x) for 6 15y = -2 months = 12x +36x = 48x 2  4x  Y =  Investment of C for 1 yr =4x for 6 months + 4x   for 15  4  Clearly, x y 6 months  141. c 142. a 143. c 144. d 145. a 146. d Or, 24x + 18x =42x 147. a 148. d 149. a 150. a 151. d 152. b A : B : C = 15x : 48x : 42x = 15 : 48 : 42 153. d 154. b 155. e 156. b 157. c 158. d =5 : 16 : 14 159. a 160. a 161. d 162. b 163. c 164. b 134-a 165. c 166. b 167. c 168. d 169. e 170. c 135-a; 15 4 =Rs 1020  171. b 172. c 173. d 174. a 175. a 176. b 1020 177. d 178. a 179. b 180. b 181. a 182. d 18  6 = (18  6) =Rs 1836 183. c 184. d 185. b 186. b 187. d 188. d 15 4 189. c 190. b 191. d 192. d 193. b 194. c (136-140) 195. b 196. a 197. d 198. d 199. d 200. b 136-c; I.3x2 +8x +4= 0 3x(x+2)+2(x+2) =0  2 x= -2, or- 3 II.4y2 – 19y +12 = 0 4y (y-4) -3(y-4) = 0 3 Y = 4, or 4

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE Australia, Poland, South Africa and Belgium, 5. Based on the passage, what can be said the survey showed. The Germans and about the internet is a nutshell? Directions (Q. 1- 10): Read the following British come on top for using online a) It has increased the number of passage carefully and answer the shopping with 74% of respondents in both cybercrimes questions given below it. Certain words/ countries having bought something online b) It is useful only for the rich phases in the passage are printed in bold in the past three months. They are followed c) It has been hyped for no reason to help you locate them while answering by 68% of respondents in Sweden. 65% in d) It is more popular for online some of the questions. US and 62% in South Korea. shopping than anything else A majority of Indians prefer to use the e) It has made lives easier than before internet for accessing banking and other 1. If the given sentences were to be arranged 6. Which of the following can be appropriate financial services than shopping online, in their order of their popularity (from title for the passage? shows a new survey. most popular to least popular), which a) The growing utility of the internet Almost 57% of Indian respondents using one of the following would represent b) Internet and its drawbacks the internet prefer to bank online and use the correct sequences as given in the c) The traditional versus modern other financial services due to hassle-free passage? ways of shopping access and time saving feature of online A. Use internet to gain information d) Use of the internet in different banking according to the survey. about products and services. countries Checking information on products and B. Use internet to search for jobs e) Internet –The Curse services online comes a close second at 53% C. Use internet for online banking. 7. Which of the following is /are true in while 50% shop for products online. The a) B,A, C b) C, B, A the context of the passage? fourth on the list-around 42% of c) C, A, B d) A, B, C A. More than 50% Indians using respondents in India surfed online to look e) A, C, B internet prefer online banking. for jobs, the survey said. Online banking 2. Which of the following is not true in B. Many banks in India have has made things much easier for the people the context of the passage? introduced facilities to suit the and it saves a lot of time. a) Internet users across the globe are needs of customers (customer- It has eliminated the problems associated mainly interested in looking for friendly) with traditional way of banking where one jobs and keeping track of finances C. More people shop online in South had to stand in a queue and fill up several b) Germany and Great Britain are the Korea as compared to those in forms. Most of the banks in India have top countries where online Sweden. introduced customer- friendly online shopping is quite popular a) Only B banking facility with advanced security c) Many people in Sweden use e- b) Only C features to protect customers against banking to maintain their finances c) Both B and C cybercrime. d) A majority of Indians prefer d) Both A and B The easy registration process for net banking shopping online as compared to e) Both A and C other online activities has improved customers’ access to several 8. According to the passage, globally, the banking products increased customer e) All the given statements are true most popular used of internet is loyalty, facilitated money transfer to any 3. According to the passage, banks are a) looking for a job bank across India and has helped banks- successful in attracting more customers b) checking bank accounts and attract new customers. The Indian results due to maintaining financial assets closely track the global trends as well A. Better training to sales staff c) finding out information about conducted among 19216 people from 24 B. Opening more branches at various various products countries, the survey showed that banking locations d) shopping online and keeping track of finances and searching C. Easy registration process for net e) blogging and tweeting every for jobs are main tasks of internet users banking update in one’s personal life around the globe. a) Only B Overall, 60% of people surveyed used the b) Only C Directions (Q.9): Choose the word which web to check their bank account and other c) Both A and B is most SIMILAR in meaning to the word financial assets in the past 90 days, making d) Both A and C printed in bold as used in the passage. it the most popular use of the internet e) Both B and C globality, Shopping was not too far behind 4. How many of the Indians using the 9. HASSLE – FREE at 48%, the survey showed and 41% went internet shop online? a) unskilled b) Not annoying online in search of a job in terms of country a) Between 40% and 50% c) subtle d) Unsaddle preferences, almost 90% of respondents in b) One- fourth of them e) Notable Sweden use e- banking. c) One-third of them Directions: (Q.10) Choose the word Online banking has also caught on in a big d) Half of them which is most nearly the OPPOSITE is way in nations like France, Canada, e) All of them

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Below each sentence there are THIRD sentence after rearrangement? faster(c)/ of all animals (d)/ No error a) A b) B five pairs of words denoted by the (e) numbers (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e). Find out c) C d) D 17. Sakshi wrote an essay (a)/ so well that e) E which pair of words can be filled up in (b)/ her teacher was(c)/ very pleased the blanks in the sentence in the same 24. Which of the following should be the with her (d)/ No error (e) FIFTH sentence after rearrangement? sequence to make it meaningfully 18. The conference was(a)/attended (b)/ by complete. a) A b) B more than a (c)/ hundred delegates (d)/ c) C d) D 11. In his ______, he followed the No error(e). e) E ______course. 19. This is (a)/ one of the most(b)/ 25. Which of the following should be the a) agony, funny interesting book(c)/ I have ever read (d)/ LAST (SIXTH) sentence after b) ignorance, wrong No error(e). rearrangement? c) hurry, diversified 20. Ram was happy(a)/ that Rita and her a) A b) B d) predicament, proper sister was going (b)/ by the same c) C d) D e) bewilderment, appropriate train(c)/ the next day(d)/ No error(e) e) E 12. Only when ______failed, the police Directions (Q.21- 25): Rearrange the Directions (Q.26-30): In the following resorted to______following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), a) efforts, power passage there are blanks, each of which (E) and F in the proper sequence to form has been numbered. These numbers are b) arrests, imprisonment a meaningful paragraph; then answer c) persuasions, force printed below the passage and against the questions given below them. each, five words are suggested, Find out d) Power, Punishment A. Moreover salaries in public sector e) manipulations, arrests the appropriate word in each case. enterprises are not as competitive The king of Rampur was not wise The 13. The partners broke off as they found as those offered by private or each other ______of ______following story proves that . Once he paid a foreign corporates. (26) to a town away from his capital. breach of promise. B. This trend should be a wakeup a) faulty, severe The king’s staff governing the town call for stakeholders to examine welcomed the king. As per the king’s desire, b) responsible, serious why employees are seeking better c) guilty, flagrant a (27) of the renowned people of the town opportunities with private was called at night. The people greeted The d) accused, rigid companies in India and abroad. e) liable, utter King and bestowed their praise on him and C. Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs) all sat down to listen to (28) the king had to 14. They wanted to ______all these have been experiencing severe books, but they could not find ______tell them. challenges in attracting motivating Suddenly the lantern gave away. It become time to do so. and retaining their key staff. a) cover, almost very dark. ‘Light the lantern, !’ ordered the D. Having identified these as the king to his servants. Five minutes passed. b) pursue, necessary reasons employees leave PSEs it c) dispose, some The king shouted to know why there was is important empower (29) in lighting the lantern. “My Lord, I am d) read, sufficient stakeholders to find ways to e) buy, some unable to lay my hand on the match box. It remedy the situation. is so dark!” replied the servant. ‘Fool!’ 15. Though he is reputed for his E. One reason is that young technical______, his books were screamed the king (30). If that is the case, employees lured away to private why don’t you light the candle first? You sadly______of the works of others firms are more willing to as he lacked originality. can certainly locatethe match box with the undertake professional risks. help of the candle. a) advice, unconscious F. Employees” in specialist roles b) skill, independent especially have become 26. a) homage b) visit c) knowledge, ignorant increasingly difficult to retain. c) donation d) fund d) expertise, derivative e) contribution e) dependence, indicative 21. Which of the following should be the 27. a) meeting b) majority FIRST sentence after rearrangement? c) Procession d) survey a) A b) B e) list

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28. a)carefully b) about (b) USA and Canada above or immediately below Jeevan Kumar. c) which d) all (c) UK and Canada TanmayArora does not travel to Jaipur. e) what (d) Japan and UK 36. Which of the following is true with 29. a) difficulty b) time (e) UK and France respect to TanmayArora as per the c) patience d) delay 33. Which president has come in Zenvo? given information? e) haste (a)UK a) The one who lives immediately 30. a) loudly b) angrily (b) Canada below TanmayArora is travelling c) anxiously d) happily (c) France to Haridwar e) pertinently (d) Germany b) TanmayArora lives one floor (e) Can’t be determined number 7. REASONING ABILITY 34. Which of the following pairs is correct? c) TanmayArora lives immediately (a) Russia — Zenvo belowBhoomiPillai. Directions (31-35): Read the following (b) France — Ferrari d) TanmayArora lives on the information and answer the questions (c) Italy— McLaren lowermost floor. that follow: (d) Japan — Porsche e) TanmayArora is travelling to Germany, France, UK, Italy, Japan, US, (e) USA — Bugatti Kanpur. Canada and Russia are the members of G-8 35. How many presidents are sitting 37. Who among the following lives on floor committee sitting around a circular table between the President of Canada and number 3? facing the centre, but not necessarily in the the President of US if we count in a) The one travelling to Jaipur same order. All the member countries have anticlockwise direction, starting from b) The one travelling to Haldwani different cars at the venue. These cars are the Canadian President? c) Renuka Singh Porsche, McLaren, Hennessey Venom, (a) Four d) TanmayArora Zenvo, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Aston Maruti (b) Two e) BhoomiPillai and Bugatti, but not necessarily in the same (c) Three 38. Who lives on the floor immediately order. (d) Five aboveBhoomiPillai? The President of Germany is sitting third to (e) Can’t be determined a)Jeevan Kumar the right of the President of France. The b)ArundhatiRai President whose car is Porsche is sitting Directions (36-41): Read the following c) KavitaMalhotra second to the right of Japan’s President. The information and answer the questions d) TanmayArora President who used Ferrari is sitting fourth that follow: e) Rajesh Pant to the right of the person coming in Seven people Jeevan Kumar, ArundhatiRai, 39. To which of the following cities is Hennessey Venom, which is owned by the Renuka Singh, Kavita Malhotra, Bhoomi KavitaMalhotra travelling? Canadian President. The President of Italy Pillai, Rajesh Pant and TanmayArora live a) Haridwar is sitting a opposite the President who is on separate floors of a 7-floor building. b) Kanpur coming in Bugatti. The UK and Canadian Ground floor is numbered 1, first floor is c) Pune presidents are the neighbours of the Italian numbered 2 and so on until the topmost d) Haldwani president. The President of Russia is sitting floor is numbered 7. Each one of these is e) Jaipur fifth to the left and third to the right of the travelling to a different city, viz Delhi, 40. How many people live between the Italian President. Haridwar, Pune, Jaipur, Haldwani, Kanpur floors on which KavitaMalhotra and There are two persons sitting between the and Amritsar but not necessarily in the same the one travelling to Haridwar live? US President and the Canadian President. order. Only three people live above the floor a) None The President coming in Lamborghini is on which Jeevan Kumar lives. Only one b)Two sitting second to the left of the US President person lives between Jeevan Kumar and the c) One and the President coming in McLaren is one travelling to Kanpur. 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42. If P+Q-R, which of the following is true? e)If both conclusions I and II follow. d) if neither conclusion I nor a) R is the mother of P 49. Statements :Some days are summer. conclusion II follows. b) R is the sister in law of P Some summer are winter e) if both conclusions I and II follow. c) R is the aunt of P Conclusion:I.All winter are either 54. Statements : A  C > B > D; P < F  d) R is the mother in law of P summer or days C > E e) None of these II.Some winter are summer Conclusions :I. A E II. F > D 43. If P*Q+R, which of the following is a)If only conclusion I follows.  true? b)If only conclusion II follows. a) if only conclusion I follows. a) P is the brother of R c)If either I or II follows. b) if only conclusion II follows. b) P is the uncle of R d)If neither I nor II follows. c) if either conclusion I or conclusion c) P is the son of R e)If both conclusions I and II follow. II follows. d) P is the father of P d) if neither conclusion I nor e) None of these Directions(50-51): Read the following conclusion II follows. 44. If P+Q*R, which of the following is information carefully and answer the e) if both conclusions I and II follow. true? questions given below 55. Statements : M = N  O  R; P < O Point A is 5m to the north of point B. a) P is the niece of R S < T Point B is 8m to the west of point C.  b) P is daughter of P Conclusions :I. N = S II. N < S c) P is the cousin of R Point D is 4m to the south of point C. Point E is 4m to the east of point A. a) if only conclusion I follows. d) P is the daughter in law of R b) if only conclusion II follows. e) None of these Point F is exactly midway between point B and C in such a way that point c) if either conclusion I or conclusion Directions(45-49): Read the following B, C and F form a straight line. II follows. information carefully and answer the d) if neither conclusion I nor questions given below 50. Which of the following point is exactly conclusion II follows. 45. Statements:All tomatoes are potatoes. 5m away from point E ? e) if both conclusions I and II follow. No potato is cabbage a)D b)F 56. Statements : J  K = M, N  P > K, Conclusion:I.No cabbage is a tomato c)B d)A Q > N = R e)none of these II.No tomato is a cabbage Conclusions :I. R > J II. Q M 51. In which direction is point D with  a)If only conclusion I follows. a) if only conclusion I follows. b)If only conclusion II follows. respect to point A ? a)South – west b) if only conclusion II follows. c)If either I or II follows. c) if either conclusion I or conclusion d)If neither I nor II follows. b)South-east c)North-west II follows. e)If both conclusions I and II follow. d) if neither conclusion I nor 46. Statements:All rooms are houses. All d)South e)none of these conclusion II follows. houses are temples e) if both conclusions I and II follow Conclusion:I.Some temples are rooms Directions(52-56): Read the following II.Some temples are houses information carefully and answer the Directions(57-61): Read the following a)If only conclusion I follows. questions given below information carefully and answer the b)If only conclusion II follows. questions given below c)If either I or II follows. 52. Statements : B  C = D  E ; A  F Eight students A, B, C, D , E, F, G and H are d)If neither I nor II follows. sitting around a square table in such a way P = D e)If both conclusions I and II follow.  four of them sit at four corners while four 47. StatementsAll plants are flowers. Some Conclusions :I. D  A II. B  F sit in the middle of each of the four sides. flowers are roses a) if only conclusion I follows. The one who sit at the 4 corners face the Conclusion:I.Some roses are plants b) f only conclusion II follows. centre and others facing outside.A who faces II.No rose is plant c) if either conclusion I or conclusion the centre sits third to the left of F. E who a)If only conclusion I follows. II follows. faces the centre is not an immediate b)If only conclusion II follows. d) if neither conclusion I nor neighbour of F. Only 1 person sits between c)If either I or II follows. conclusion II follows. F and G. D sits second to right of B. B faces d)If neither I nor II follows. e) if both conclusions I and II follow. the centre. C is not an immediate neighbour e)If both conclusions I and II follow. 53. Statements : P = S < T  U ; Q  U of A. 48. Statements :Some toys are cars. All = A B cars are helicopters  57. Which one does not belong to that group Conclusion:I.Some helicopters are Conclusions :I. Q = B II. 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a)DFB b)DGA QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE e) 36000 c)DCG d)DBF 72. 1548.45 + 3065.15 ÷ 15.058 = ? e)None of these Directions (Q. 66-70): Study the a)1650 b)1750 59. What is the position of G with respect following table carefully and answer c) 1850 d) 1950 to C ? accordingly. The following table shows e) 1550 a)Third to the right the marks obtained by six students in 73. 25*3.25 + 50.4 ÷ 24 = ? b)Second to the left six different subject. Marks within a)77 b)66 c) 55 c)Second to the right brackets show the total marks d) 44 e) 60 d)Fourth to the right 74. (833.25 – 384.45) ÷ 24 = ? e)None of these a) 15.8 b)16.5 60. Who sits third to the left of B ? c) 18.7 d) 17.9 a)H b)A e) 17.5 c)G d)F 75. 5907 – 1296 ÷ 144 = ? * 8 e)None of these a) 700.25 b) 658.25 61. Which is true from the given c) 628.25 d) 737.25 arrangement? e) 630.5 a)G faces the centre b)B faces outside Direction: (76-80) study the following c)H faces inside question and answer the following d)A faces the centre question e)None of these a)If X>Y 62. In a row X is sitting 16th from the left 66. In which of the following subjects did b)If X

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88. A man bought some fruits at the rate of c) Rs. 250 d) Rs. 300 States Dieselengine Petrolengine 4 for Rs 5 and sold them at the rate of e) None of these cars cars 7 for Rs 8. What is the profit/loss per 97. Kishore lends Rs. 9000 on condition State 1 3 4 cent? that the loan is repayable in 10 months State 2 5 9 a) 8 (4/7)% profit by 10 equal instalments of Rs. 1000 State 3 5 3 State 4 1 1 b) 8 (4/7)% loss each. Find the rate %. c) 9 (3/8)% profit a) 262/3% b) 5% 81. What is the difference between the d) 9 (3/8)% loss c) 10% d) 20% number of diesel engine cars in state 2 e) None of these e) None of these and the number of petrol engine cars in 89. A, B and C can do a piece of work in 20, 98. The ratio of length to breadth of a state 4? 30 and 100 days respectively. If A rectangle is 7:6. The perimeter of the a) 21 b) 23 worked alone on the first day, B worked plot is 260m. Find the area of the plot? c) 25 d) 24 alone on the second day, C worked a)4800sq.m b)5600sq.m e)none of these alone on the third day, A worked alone c)4200sq.m d)2600sq.m 82. Number of petrol engine cars in state 3 on the fourth day, and so on, then in e)None of these is what percent more than the number how many days the work got 99. A, B and C can all together do piece of of diesel engine cars in state 1? completed? work in 10 days, in which B takes three a) 200% b) 300% a) 29 days times as long as A and C together do c) 400% d) 100% b) 28 days the work and C takes twice as long as e) none of these c) 31 (1/2) days A and B together take to do the work. 83. If 25% of diesel engine cars in state 3 are d) Can’t be determined In how many days B can alone do the AC and remaining cars are non-AC, e) None of these work? what is the number of diesel engine cars 90. In business, A and C invested amounts a) 35 days b) 33 days in state 3 which are non AC? in the ratio 2:1, whereas the ratio c) 43 days d) 40 days a)75 b)95 between amounts invested by A and B e) 45 days c) 105 d) 100 was 3:2, If Rs 157300 was their profit, 100. At present Priya is twice Sariga’s age. e)none of these how much amount did B receive? 8 yrs hence the respective ratio 84. What is the difference between the total a)Rs 48000 b) Rs 47000 between Priya and Sariga’s age will be number of cars in state 3 and the c) Rs 47400 d) Rs 48400 22 :13, What is Sariga’s present age ? number of petrol engine cars in state e) none of these a)26 b)36 2? c)18 d)20 Directions (Q. 91-95): What value should a) 75 b) 95 e)none of these come in place of question mark (?) in c)85 d) 98 the following number series? e)none of these  85. What is the average number of petrol 91. 124 215 342 511 ? 999 engine cars in states together? a) 695 b) 625 EXPLANATIONS a) 75.25 b) 95.25 c) 728 d) 806 c) 85.25 d) 89.25 e) 573 1. c 2. d 3. b 4. d e)none of these 92. 516 256 126 61 28.5 ? 5. e 6. a 7. d 8. b 86. The average of nine number is x and the a) 12.25 b) 16.75 9. b 10. c 11. b 12. c average of three of these is y,if the c) 14.25 d) 20.20 13. c 14. d 15. d average of the remaining three is z,then e) 18.7 16-d; Replace ‘of all animals’ by ‘than any a)3x=y+z 93. 7 21 50 109 ? 467 other animal’ b)2x=y+z a) 198 b) 228 17-a; Replace ‘an essay’ by ‘the essay’ c)x=3y+3z c) 372 d) 402 18-e; No error d)None of these e) 275 19-c; Change ‘book’ to ‘books’ e)can’t be determined 94. 18 82 118 134 138 ? 20-b; Change ‘was’ to ‘were’ 87. A started a business investing Rs 10,000. a) 132 b) 198 21-25; B joined him after six months with an c) 125 d) 138 CFEABD amount of Rs 8,000 and C joined them e) 92 21. c 22. e 23. e 24. b with Rs 12,000 after another six 95. 5 22 103 406 ? 2422 25. d 26. b1 27. a 28. e months. The amount of profit earned a) 1516 b) 1298 29. e 30. b should be distributed in what ratio c) 1136 d) 1602 31-35 among A, B and C respectively, four e) 1213 years after A started the business? 96. The CI on Rs. 1800 at the rate of 4% for a) 9 : 7 : 10 b) 10 : 9 : 7 2 years 9 months is nearly c) 10 : 7 : 9 d) Can’t be determined a) Rs. 150 b) Rs. 205 e) None of these

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66. d) Required % = (45*100)/75 = 60% 85.d) Total no of cars in state 1 = 14% of 67. e) Total marks obtained by Shreya = 700 = 98 348 Total no of cars in state 2 = 28% of Total marks od paper = 515 700 = 196 Required % = 348*100/515 = 67.5% Total no of cars in state 3 = 32% of 68. a) Total marks of Mehra = 347 700 = 224 Total marks of Shreya = 348 Total no of cars in state 4 = 26% of Total marks of Geetanjali = 383 700 = 182 Total marks of Rishab = 343 Number of petrol engine cars in state 1 Total marks of Arpita = 353 = 98 × 4/7 = 56 Total marks of Prashat = 360 Number of petrol engine cars in state 2 69. c)Required ratio = 56 : 84 = 196 × 9/14 = 126 = 2 : 3 Number of petrol engine cars in state 3 70. d) 60% of 75 = 45 = 224 × 3/8 = 84 So, Answer is Rishab Number of petrol engine cars in state 4 31. d 32. e 33. a 34. e 71. 1525 × 20 + 495 = 30995 = 182 × 1/2 = 91 35. a 72. 3065 ÷ 15 = 204 + 1548 = 1752 Average total number of petrol engine 36-41 73. 25 × 3 = 75; 75 + 2 = 77 cars in all states = (56 + 126 + 84 + 74. (833.25 – 384.45) = 448.48 91)/4 = 89.25 448.48 ÷ 24 = 18.68 86. a) 75. 1296 / 144 = 9 Floor People City 5907 – 9 / 8 = 737.25 7 KavitaMalhotra Jaipur 76. c 77. a 78. e 79. e 6 ArundhatiRai Pune 80. e 5 TanmayArora Amritsar 81. a) Total no of cars in state 2 = 28% of 87. c) Required Ratio 4 Jeevan Kumar Haridwar 700 = 196 = (10000 × 48) : (8000 × 42) : (12000 3 Rajesh Pant Haldwani Number of diesel engine cars in state 2 × 36) 2 BhoomiPillai Kanpur = 196 × 5/14 = 70 = 10 : 7: 9 36. a1 37.Renuka b Singh38. e 39.Delhi e Total no of cars in state 4 = 26% of 88. b) 40. b 41. e 42. a 43. c 700 = 182 44. a 45. e 46. e 47. c Number of petrol engine cars in state 4 48. e 49. b = 182 × 1/2 = 91 50-51 Required difference = 91 – 70 = 21 82. b) Total no of cars in state 3 = 32% of 700 = 224 Number of petrol engine cars in state 3 = 224 × 3/8 = 84 Total no of cars in state 1 = 14% of 89. c) A’s, B’s and C’s 1 day work = 1/20 + 700 = 98 1/30 + 1/100 Number of diesel engine cars in state 1 Total 3 day’s work = 28/300 = 98× 3/7 = 42 Total 30 day work = 280/300 % = [(84-42)/42]*100 = 100% Remaining work = 20/300 = 1/15 Now A’s 1 day work = 1/20 50. b 51. b 52. e 53. d 83.c) Total no of cars in state 3 = 32% of 700 = 224 Then remaining work = 1/15 – 1/20 = 54. b 55. c 56. a 1/60 57-61 Number of diesel engine cars in state 3 = 224× 5/8 = 140 Now B completes the remaining work Number of diesel engine AC cars in in (1/60)/(1/30) = 1/2 state 3 = 25% of 140 = 35 Total number of days = 31 1/2 days. Number of diesel engine non-AC cars 90. d 91. c 92. a 93. b = 140-35 = 105 94. d 95. e 96. b 97. a 84.d) Total no of cars in state 3 = 32% of 98. c 99. d 700 = 224 100. c) P = 2S Total no of cars in state 2 = 28% of 2s+8/s+8 = 22/13 700 = 196 26s+104 = 22s+176 Number of petrol engine cars in state 2 4s = 72 = 196×(9/14) = 126 S= 18yr 57. b 58. a 59. d 60. a 61. d 62. d 63. c 64. b Required difference = 224 – 126 = 98 65. b 

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PRACTICE SET FOR UPCOMING EXAM [RRB-CLERK (PRELIMINARY)] REASONING ABILITY 4. Statements: All pens are clocks. e)None of these Some clocks are tyres. 7. Who amongst the following is the Directions: (Q.1-4): In each question Some tyres are wheels. Some wheels President of the company? below are given two or more statements are buses. a)A b)C followed by four conclusions numbered Conclusions: I. Some buses are tyres. c)H d)G I, II, III & IV. You have to take the given II. Some wheels are clocks. e)None of these statements to be true even if they seem III. Some wheels are pens. 8. Which of the following is true with to be at variance with commonly known IV. Some buses are clocks. respect to the given seating facts. Read all the conclusions and then a)None follows arrangement? decide which of the given conclusions b)Only I follows a) The Group Leader of the logically follows from the given c)Only II follows company is an immediate statements, disregarding commonly d)Only III follows neighbour of the Vice-President known facts. e)None of these b) G sits second to the right of D. c) The Group Leader and the Directions (Q.5-8): Study the following 1. Statements: Some trains are cars.All Company Secretary are immediate information carefully and answer the cars are branches. neighbours of each other given questions. All branches are nets. Some nets are d) The Chairman of the company Eight colleagues A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H dresses. sits to the immediate left of the are sitting around a circular table facing the Conclusions: I. Some dresses are cars. Managing Director centre but not necessarily in the same order. II. Some nets are trains. e) None of these III. Some branches are trains. Each one of them holds a different post viz. IV. Some dresses are trains. Manager, Company Secretary, Chairman, Directions (Q.9-11): Study the following a)I and III follow President, Vice-President, Group Leader, information to answer the given b)II and III follow Financial Advisor and Managing Director. questions: c)I and IV follow A sits third to right of the Managing Director. In a certain code ‘always create new ideas’ d)II, III and IV follow Only two people sit between the Managing is written as ‘ba ri sha gi’, ‘ideas and new e)None of these Director and H. Vice-President and the thoughts’ is written as ‘fa gi ma ri’, ‘create 2. Statements: Some pencils are kites. Company Secretary are immediate thoughts and insights’ is written as ‘ma jo Some kites are desks. neighbours of each other. Neither A nor H is ba fa’ and ‘new and better solutions’ is All desks are jungles. All jungles are a Vice-President or a Company Secretary. written as ‘ki ri to fa’. mountains. Vice President is not an immediate neighbour Conclusions: I. Some mountains are of the Managing Director. Manager sits 9. What is the code for ‘ideas’? pencils. second to left of E. E is not an immediate a)sha b)ba II. Some jungles are pencils. neighbour of H. The Manager is an c)gi d)ma III. Some mountains are desks. immediate neighbour of both Group Leader e)None of these IV. Some jungles are kites. and the Financial Advisor. Financial Advisor 10. What des ‘fa’ stand for? a)I and III follow sits third to the right of B. B is not the Vice- a)thoughts b)insights b)I, II and III follow President. C sits to the immediate right of c)new d)and c)III and IV follow the Chairman. A is not the Chairman. F is e)None of these d)II, III and IV follow not an immediate neighbour of A. G is not 11. ‘gi fa ma’ could be a code for which of e)None of these an immediate neighbour of the Manager. the following? 3. Statements: All papers are clips. a)thoughts and action Some clips are boards. 5. Who amongst the following sits third to b)create and innovate Some boards are lenes. All lanes are the left of E? c)ideas and thoughts roads. a)The Manager d)create new solutions Conclusions: I. Some roads are b)G c)A e)None of these boards. d)The Financial Advisor e)None of these Directions (Q.12-14): Read the following II. Some lanes are clips. information to answer these questions. III. Some boards are papers. 6. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on the given P ¥ Q means P is mother of Q. IV. Some roads are clips. P  Q means P is sister of Q. a)I and II follow arrangement and thus form a group. P $ Q means P is father of Q. b)I and III follow Which is the one that does not belong P # Q means P is brother of Q c)I, II and III follow to that group? a)F – Chairman d)II and III follow 12. Which of the following means D is b)G – President e)None of these definitely daughter of A? c)D – Manager a)A $ B # C # D d)B - Managing Director

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b)C ¥ A $ D  B in which direction is Raghubr from his 24. RL12, TQ20, WU32, AX48, ? c)A ¥ C $ B  D starting point? a)EZ68 b)FZ68 d)B ¥ A $ C # D a)2 km West c)GZ68 d)HZ68 e)None of these b)6 km South e)None of these 13. Which of the following means R is c)5 km West 25. Four of the following five are alike in a brother of T? d)8 km North certain way and so form a group. Which a)R ¥ S # U $ T e)10 km South is the one that does not belong to that b)U ¥ R # S # T 19. Akanaksha is related t Bimla and Charu. group? c)U ¥ RS # T Alka is Charu’s mother and Bimla’s a)Mica b)Zinc d)K # R $ S  T sister. Also, Akanksha is Alka’s sister. c)Iron d)Chlorine e)None of these How is Charu related to Akanksha? e)None of these a)Cousin b)Sister 14. Which of the following means A is Directions (Q.26-30): Study the nephew of C? c)Aunt d)Niece e)Cannot be detemined following arrangement carefully and a)D # C $ B # A E answer the questions given below. b)A # B $ DE $ C Directions (Q.20-22): Read the following 6 4 2 5 2 8 5 2 6 4 1 3 9 1 8 1 2 5 8 6 3 5 1 4 c)C # D $ B # A $ E information carefully and answer the 9 4 7 3 2 7 2 5 9 d)B ¥ E # C $ EA questions that follow. e)None of these Five friends, A, B, C, D and E travelled to 26. How many 4’s are there in the above 15. Pointing towards the person in a five different cities of India from Mumbai. arrangement, each of which is photograph Ram says, “She is the only They went to Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi, immediately preceded by a digit which daughter of the mother of my brother’s Bengaluru and Hyderabad by different has a numerical value of more than sister.” How is that person related to modes of transport, i.e., by bus, train, four? Ram? aeroplane, car and boat. Mumbai is not a)None b)One a)Uncle b)Cousin connected by bus to Delhi and Chennai. The c)Two d)Three c)Mother d)All of these person who travelled to Delhi did not make e)More than three e)None of these use of the boat. ‘C’ went to Bengaluru by 27. Which of the following is seventh to the 16. Reeta is facing Southwards. She returns car and ‘B’ went to Kolkata by aeroplane. left of the twentieth from the left end right and walks 20 metres. Then, she D travelled by boat while E travelled by of the above arrangement? turns right again and walks 10 metres. train. a)3 b)9 She then turns left to walk 10 metres c)2 d)7 and again turning to her right, she walks 20. Which of the following combinations of e)1 20 meters. Finally, she takes another person and mode is not correct? 28. If all the even digits are deleted from the right turn and walks 60 metres. In a)D – Boat above arrangement, which of the which direction is Reeta now with b)B – Aeroplane following will be tenth from the right reference to the starting point? c)E – Aeroplane end of the arrangement? a)North b)North-East d)C – Car a)9 b)5 c)East d)North-West e)A – Bus c)1 d)3 e)None of these 21. Which of the following combinations is e)7 17. Five friends are sitting in a row and their true for ‘D’? 29. How many such 5’s are there in the above names are Kripa, Prerna, Taruna, Rashi a)Delhi – Bus arrangement each of which is and Sakshi. Sakshi is sitting next to b)Chennai – Bus immediately preceded by an odd digit Prerna but not next to Taruna. Kripa is c)Chennai – Boat and immediately followed by an even sitting next to Rashi who is sitting on d)Chennai – Car digit? the extreme left end of the row. Taruna e)None of these a)None b)One is not sitting next to Kripa. Who is/are 22. Who among the following travelled to c)Two d)Three sitting adjacent to Sakshi? Delhi? e)More than three a)Kripa and Prerna a)C b)D 30. How many such 1’s are there in the above b)Prerna and Taruna c)E d)A arrangement, each of which is c)Rashi and Prerna e)B immediately preceded by a perfect square? d)Only Prerna Directions (Q.23-25): What should come e)None of these a)None b)One in place of question mark (?) in the c)Two d)Three 18. Raghubir drove 15 km Northwards by series? his car. He then turned towards West e)More than three and drove for 10 km. He then drove 23. Q33IT, U442X, Y553A, ? Directions (Q.31-35): In the following towards South for 5 km and then turned a)Z665D b)C664C questions the symbols @, #, © , * and $ towards East and drove for the next 8 c)B666D d)B664F are used with the following meanings: km. Finally, he turned to the right and e)None of these A @ B means A is not greater than B. drove for the next 10 km. How far and 109 Plot-1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRP Square, Bhubaneswar-751015 Ph. : (0674) 6556677, 8093556677. Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER- 2016

A # B means A is not smaller than B. c)NJL d)LPS c)2238 d)2410 A © B means A is neither greater than e)HDF e)None of these nor smaller than B. 39. Pointing to a photograph, Suraj said, 42. The total number of lecturers (both males A * B means A is neither greater than ‘His son’s mother is the only daughter- and females) in Marketing is nor equal to B. in-law of my mother.’ How is Suraj approximately what percent of the A $ B means A is neither smaller than related to the person in the photograph? total number of female lecturers in nor equal to B. a)Brother b)Husband Accounts and Tourism together? Now in each of the following questions c)Uncle d)Son a)170% b)150% assuming in the given statements to be e)None of these c)180% d)140% true, find out which of the two 40. M is sister of F and E is brother of F. A e)200% conclusions I and II given below then is mother of F and C is daughter of B, 43. The total number of male lecturers in is/are definitely true. who is father of M. How many Marketing, Accounts and Tourism is Give answer – daughters does B have? approximately what percent, of the a) If only conclusion I follows. a)One female lecturers from Computer b) If only conclusion II follows. b)Two Science, Financial Management and c) If either conclusion I or II follows c)Three International Marketing? d) If neither conclusion I nor II d)Can’t be determined a)103% b)93% follows e)None of these c)86% d)98% e) If both conclusion I and II follows e)None of these QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE 44. What is the ratio of the number of female 31. Statements: D @ T, T * E, E $ N lecturers from Tourism and Accounts Directions: (Q. 41-45): Study the Conclusions: I. E $ D to that of male lecturers in Financial following pie-chart and the table given II. T $ N Management and Computer Science? below it carefully to answer the following 32. Statements: H * F, F # G, G ©Q a)2 : 1 b)1 : 2 questions. Conclusions: I. Q ©F c)4 : 5 d)3 : 2 Percentagewise distribution of II. Q * F e)None of these Lecturers in six different subjects in a 33. Statements: K * T, T # F, F # R 45. If the total number of lecturers is reduced Central university Conclusions: I. K $ R by 50% then what is the total number II. F * K of male lecturers in Marketing, 34. Statements: M ©R, R $ K, K # A International marketing and Tourism Conclusions: I. M ©A together? II. M $ A a)2756 b)2758 35. Statements: B @ V, V ©M, J $ M c)2751 d)3750 Conclusions: I. J $ B e)None of these II. J $ V 36. In a certain code FOREST is written as Directions (Q.46-50): Each of the UUHVTL. How is TYPES written in questions below consists of a question that code? and two statements numbered I and II a)TGSCY b)TSGCY given below it. You have to decide c)UFQTY d)UZQFT whether the data provided in the e)None of these statements are sufficient to answer the 37.Each vowel of the word question. Read both the statements and INFORMATION is substituted with Ratio of male to female lecturers in give answer the next letters of the English the university a) if the data in statement I alone are alphabetical series and each consonant sufficient to answer the question, is substituted with the letter preceding while the data in statement II alone it. How many letters are there in the are not sufficient to answer the alphabet between fifth from right and question. sixth from the left? b) if the data in statement II alone a)None are sufficient to answer the b)Seven question, while the data in c)Eight statement I alone are not sufficient d)More than Eight to answer the question. e)Can’t be determined c) if the data given in both the 38. Four of the following five are alike in a 41. What is the difference between the statements I and II together are certain way and so form a group. Which number of male lecturers and female sufficient to answer the question. is the one that does not belong to that lecturers in the university? d) if the data either in statement I group? a)3500 b)2506 alone or in statement II alone are a)TPR b)WSU 110 Plot-1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRP Square, Bhubaneswar-751015 Ph. : (0674) 6556677, 8093556677. Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER - 2016

sufficient to answer the e)7250 e)IDBI question. 63. Among SBI, PNB, UCO and IDBI Bank, e) if you cannot get the answer from Directions: (Q. 56-60):What will come which bank has the minimum difference the statement I & II together but in place of question mark (?) in the between the number of clerks and that need even more data. following number series? of officers for the given years? 46. What is a three-digit number? 56. 860 739 658 609 ? 575 a)PNB I) The three-digit number is an exact a)584 b)600 b)IDBI multiple of 19. c)548 d)540 c)SBI II) The first and the third digit are 7 e)564 d)UCO Bank and 9 respectively. 57. 3 13 39 89 ? 293 e)Both SBI and IDBI 47. What is the age of T in the group of P, Q, a)172 b)171 64. What is the average number of officers R, S and T whose average age is 55 c)182 d)181 recruited (in thousand) by BOB during years? e)201 all the years together? I) The average age of P and Q is 65 58. 6 12 ? 90 315 12260 a)6.6 b)6.3 years. a)24 b)27 c)6.5 d)6.4 II) The average age of R and S is 60 c)30 d)60 e)None of these years. e)72 65. The total number of officers recruited 48. How many women can complete a piece 59. 42 44.6 49.8 ? 81 122.6 by all the banks together in the year of work in 25 days? a)58.2 b)60.2 2012 is approximately what percent I) 35 women can complete the same c)54 d)57 of the total number of clerks recruited piece of work in 15 days. e)None of these by SBI, UCO Bank and IDBI in the II) 25 men complete the same piece 60. 529 ? 729 841 961 1089 year 2014? of work in 15 days. a)575 b)675 a)146 b)152 49. What is the age of Sandeep? c)625 d)676 c)192 d)136 I) Sandeep is two times younger than e)784 e)None of these Ramesh. 66. A can do a piece of work in 36 days. B II) Suresh’s age is four times that of Directions: (Q.61-65):Study the can do the same piece of work in 24 Ramesh. following table carefully to answer the days. C can do it in 48 days. A worked 50. What is the perimeter of a semicircle? questions that follow. for 12 days and handed it to B, who I) The radius of the semi-circle is The number of Clerks and Officers recruited worked for 6 days and left the job for equal to half the side of a square. (in thousand) by six different banks during C. How many days will C take to finish II) The area of the square is 169 sq six different years the work? cm. a)16 days b)20 days c)24 days d)12 days Directions: (Q.51-55):What approximate e)18 days value should come in place of question 67. In how many ways can 3 boys and 3 mark (?) in the following questions? girls sit in a row so that neither any 51. (129.899)2 = ? two boys nor any two girls sit a)16800 b)16700 together? c)17900 d)17200 a)720 b)36 e)16900 c)72 d)12 e)35 52. 68.003  33.489 = (?)2 – 18.789 68. A man invests equal sums at 12% per a)8 b)3 annum on compound interest and c)18 d)10 simple interest respectively for 2 years. e)5 61. What is the ratio of the total number of After two years, the difference 53. 13.689 17.213 + 21.864 8.79 =?   officers recruited by BOB and PNB between the compound interest and the a)460 b)380 together in the year 2011 to that of simple interest is Rs 14400. Find the c)440 d)400 clerks recruited by SBI and Canara sum. e)510 Bank together in the year 2013? a)Rs 10000 54. 20440  639.890 = ? a)72 : 13 b)11 : 14 b)Rs 100000 c)13 : 11 d)7 : 36 c)Rs 1000000 a)980 b)1084 e)None of these d)Rs120000 c)1184 d)1050 62. Which of the following banks recruited e)Rs 150000 e)984 the Maximum number of officers in the 69. A contractor agency, to finish a work in 55. 279.04 12.546 +65.37 47.08 =?   given period? 100 days, employed 60 men, each +126.589 a)BOB b)Canara Bank working 6 hours daily. After 60 days a)6450 b)6850 c)SBI d)UCO Bank c)6550 d)6350

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2 b) If x  y only of the work was completed. How many more men c) If x  y 7 d) If x > y should join now so that, each working for 10 hours daily now, e) If x = y or no relationship can be established the work could be completed in time? 1 a)75 b)72 c)60 d)65 e)68 76. I. 3x+4y = 2 70. In the figure given below, a circle of diameter 42 cm is given (1681)

inside the circle. Two other circles with diameters 28 cm and 1 14 cm have been drawn. Find the area of the shaded portion? II. 3x+2y = (961) 2

77. I. 3x2 – (6  17)x  2 17  0

II. 5y2 – (15 17)y 3 17 0 78. I. x2 – 16x + 63 =0 II. y2 – 2y – 35 =0

a)625 cm2 b)462 cm2 Directions: (Q. 79-80): What will come in place of question c)635 cm2 d)605 cm2 mark (?) in the following questions? 2 e)630 cm 79. 38.4% of 1450 +78.2% of 240 - ?2 = 20% of 77.4 71. What is the probability that a card drawn from a pack of 52 a)17 b)19 c)27 d)81 e)23 cards will be either a diamond or a king? 80. 3 +35% of 6500 – ?% of 1250 = 222.8 2 4 1 1 2 5.832 a) b) c) d) e) a)164.32 b)184.23 13 13 13 52 37 c)174.32 d)194.23 72. A car travels 250 km with 25 liters of petrol. Find the distance e)144.321 it can travel with 18 litres of petrol if the consumption of petrol increases by 50%  a)160 km b)180 km c)120 km d)190 km e)150 km EXPLANATIONS 73. Ram borrowed Rs 15000 from the money lender at the rate of 13% per annum for 3 years compounded annually. Find the 1. (b) amount of interest he will have to pay at the end of 3 years. a)Rs 6643.45 b)Rs 6600.54 c)Rs 6650 d)Rs 6750.45 e)Rs 6800.45 74. Divide Rs 21000 into two parts such that the simple interest on the first part for 3 years at 5% per annum is equal to the simple interest on the second part for 5 years at 4% per annum. a)Rs 8000, Rs 13000 b)Rs 9000, Rs 12000 c)Rs 11000, Rs 10000 d)Rs 15000, Rs 6000 2. (c) e)Rs 12000, Rs 9000 75. In a mixture of 120 litres the ratio of milk to water is 2 : 1. If the ratio is to be 1 : 2, find the quantity of water to be added further. a)40 litres b)60 litres c)80 litres d)120 litres e)90 litres Directions: (Q. 76-78): In the following questions two equations numbered I and II are given. Solve both the equations and give answer a) If x < y

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3. (e) 7. (a)

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11. (c) 15. (e)

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20. (c) 25. (d)

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32. (c) 38. (d)

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44. (e) 50. (c)

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57. (b) 66. (b)

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69. (d) 74. (e)

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SSC CHSL 2016 (Tier I) Mock Test  = not greater than This Mock Test consists of 100 questions  = less than which are spread across 4 sections – General Intelligence, Mathematics, General a  b  c implies Awareness and English Language. The mock test carries 200 marks and of 1 hour 15 min a) a  b  c duration. There is negative marking of 1/4 b) a  b + c marks for each wrong answer. c) a o b + c PART-A d) a o b × c REASONING ABILITY 9. If PEAR is written a GFDN, how is REAP written in this code? Directions (Q 1 - 3): In each of the a) FDNG b) NFDG following questions, select the related c) DNGF d) NDFG 13. Find the correct set of numbers from the letters/ word/ number from the given given alternatives. alternatives. Directions (Q. 10 - 11): In each of the (4,3,2), (16, 9, 4), (256, 81, 16), (65536, following questions, one/two statements ? ,?) 1. Eagle : Swoops : : Duck : ? are given, followed by two conclusions I a) 6651, 286 a) waddles b) floats and II. You have to consider the b) 6561, 256 c) swims d) flits statements to be true, even if they seem c) 1486, 97 2. Accommodation : Rent : : Journey : ? to be at variance from commonly known d) 190, 20 a) Freight b) Octroi facts. You have to decide which of the 14. Six girls are standing in such a way that c) Fare d) Expense given conclusions, if any follow from the they form a circle, facing the centre. 3. AEZ : FPY : : BGX : ? given statements. Subbu is to the left of Pappu, Revathi a) HWW b) IYY is between Subbu and Nisha, Aruna is c) HTX d) HYW 10. Statements: between Pappu and Keerthana. Who Temple is a place of worship Directions (Q.4 - 6): In each of the is to the left of Pappu? Church is also a place of worship following questions, find the odd a) Subbu Conclusions: b) Keerthana number / letters /word/ number pair from I. Hindus and Christians use the the given alternatives. c) Nisha same place for worship d) Aruna 4. a) SP b) NL II. All churches are temples. 15. Naseebah runs for 10 km in the eastern c) ZW d) TQ a) Neither conclusion I nor II follows direction. She then turns left and starts 5. a) Life Insurance Corporation b) Both conclusions I and II follow walking for 6 km. Again, she turns left b) New India Assurance Company c) Only conclusion I follows and starts running for 6 km. Then she Ltd d) Only Conclusion II follows turns left and walks again for 6 km. c) United India Insurance Company 11. Statements : How far is she from the starting point? Ltd The human organism grows and a) 4 km b) 5 km d) National Insurance Company Ltd develops through stimulation and c) 6 km d) 3 km 6. a) Mar b) Remedy action. 16. If STYLE is written as PQVIB, how can c) Maim d) Mutilate Conclusions: SMELL be written in that code? 7. Which one set of letters when I. Inert human organism cannot a) PJBII b) PVBII sequentially placed at the gaps in the grow and develop. c) PVHII d) PJHII given letter series shall complete it? II. Human organisms do not react to 17. Ram walks 10 m South from his house, _ c _ bd _ cbcda _ a _ db _ a stimulation and action. turns left and walks 25m, again turns a) daabbc b) bdbcba a) Neither Conclusion I nor II follows left and walks 40 m, then turns right c) adabcd d) cdbbca b) Both conclusions I and II follow and walks 5 m to reach the school. In 8. Some relationships have been expressed c) Only conclusion I follows which direction is the school from his through symbols which are explained d) Only conclusion II follows house? below: 12. Which of the answer figures is exactly a) North O = greater than the mirror image of the question figure b) South- West if a mirror is placed on the line MN?  = not equal to c) North- East  = not less than d) East + = equal to

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18. 23. Which answer figure will complete the that women weakened men as was described question figure? in the story of Samson and Delilah.

26. “To sell one’s soul to the devil” means a) suppressing one’s conscience b) giving up goodness in exchange for evil c) giving up one’s honesty for the sake of monetary benefits. d) to sell oneself to earn livelihood 27. John thought that women weakened men because a) he thought that women were evil. b) he believed that a woman was a fancy devil 19. A is father of B and C. B is the son of A. c) he thought that a woman would But C is not the son of A. How is C spoil his life 24. In a queue, I am the last person while related to A? d) he was convinced that what the my friend is seventh from the front. If a) Niece story of Samson and Delilah the person exactly between me and my b) Son – in- law illustrates is correct friend is on the 23rd position from the c) Daughter 28. It was John’s belief that front, what is my position in the queue? d) Grandson a) one can be happy only by a) 37 b) 36 20. .Hari is twice as old as Johnny, who is remaining a bachelor c) 38 d) 39 three years older than Rahul. If Hari’s b) the world is a happy place 25. There are eight poets A, B, C, D, E, F, G age is five times Rahul’s age, how old is c) there is no other world. and H. A, B, C and D are medieval Johnny? d) one must lead an honest life poets where as E, F, G and H are a) 2 yr b) 4 yr 29. By not desiring another man’s wife John modern poets. Questions on modern c) 5 yr d) 8 yr showed that poets and medieval poets are set in the 21. Karan facing towards South moved a)he wanted to get married question paper every alternate year. straight 2 km and from there turned to b)he was a man of principles Among the modern poets, question- his right 90p and travelled 2 km. Then c)he felt sorry for other men setters who like E also like F and those he took a 45p turn to his left and d)he had no desire for another’s wealth who like G also like H. The question- travelled 1 km. Where would he be now 30. From the above passage we understand setter has written a book on F and so with respect to the starting point? that John was he does not like to ask any question on a) South region a)not highly educated F. Last year, there was a question on b) South- East Region b)a man of simple faith A. On which poet will be the probable c) North –west region c)a deeply pessimistic man question this year? d) South- West region d)a scholar of scriptures 22. In given question, two statements are a) F b) E given followed by four conclusions as c) D d) C Directions (Q. Nos. 31-32) Find out which responses. You have to consider the part of a sentence has an error. If there PART-B statements to be true even if they seem is no error corresponding to (d). ENGLISH LANGUAGE to be at variance from commonly known 31. The assassin was convicted (a)/and facts. You have to decide which one of Directions (Q. Nos. 26-30) Read the ordered to be hung (b)/even though the the four given conclusions (responses) passage carefully and choose the best defence lawyer handled the case is definitely drawn from the given answer to each question out of the four efficiently. (c)/No error (d) statements. alternatives. 32. If I was told earlier (a)/I would have (b)/ Statements: John had never thought much about the origin certainly helped you. (c)/No error (d) There are monks among those who are of wealth or inequalities in life. It was his felicitated for remarkable social service. firm belief that if this world was not good, Directions (Q. Nos. 33-34) Choose the Jitananda and Vidyananda are among the next would be good, and this faith word opposite meaning to the given word. those felicitated. sustained him. He was not like some others Conclusions (Responses) whom he knew, who would sell their souls 33. GRUESOME a) Jitananda and Vidyananda did to the devil. He always thought of God a)macabre b)grim remarkable social service before doing anything. He lived the life of c)repugnant d)pleasant b) All monks do social service an honest man. He had not married but did 34. DAUNTLESS c) Jitananda and Vidyananda are not not desire another man’s wife. He believed a)daring b)forgiving monks c)harsh d)timid d) All monks are felicitated

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Directions (Q. 35-36): In the following 39. 1. Kabir knew that Ramananda got up 41. a)problem b)question questions, out of the four alternatives, very early in the morning and went c)matter d)query choose the one which best expresses the down on the steps of the ‘ghat’ to bathe 42. a)since b)during meaning of the given word and select it in the waters of the sacred Ganges. c)around d)from as your answer. P. As Ramananda came down the 43. a)solution b)novel steps before daybreak for his c)book d)answer 35. GARISH usual bath, he trod on the sleeping 44. a)now b)time a)unusual b)exciting man. c)then d)ago c)confused d)Gaudy Q. Kabir at once jumped up and 45. a)part b)division 36. VAGARY threw himself at the feet of the c)opening d)centre a)lapse of memory preacher. b)companionship R. “Ram, Ram,” he exclaimed in Direction (Q. Nos. 46-47) in the c)gang astonishment. questions given below, sentences are d)maggot S. One dark night Kabir went to the given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word (s). Four alternatives Directions : In question nos. 37-38, a ‘ghat’ and lay down on one of the river steps. are suggested for each question. Choose part of the sentence is bold. Below are the correct alternative out of the four. given alternative to the bold part at (a), 6. He said, “ You have given me the (b) and (c) which may improve the mantra, ‘Ram Ram’ I have become 46. Most people are Influenced by sentence. Choose the correct your disciple.” ______advertisements and tend alternative. In case no improvement is a)PQSR b)PRQS to believe the claims made about the needed your answer is (d). c)RQPS d)SPRQ product. 40. 1. We must also understand that the a)colourful b)aggressive 37. The man whom I thought was fruits of labour are sweeter than the c)efficient d)vigorous thoroughly honest proved to be a gifts of fortune 47. The cost of ______is rising swindler. P. Moreover, too much of thinking rapidly in this city. a) The man whom I thought was is also a disease. a)being b)existing thoroughly honest proved a Q. Indeed, thought and action can be c)surviving d)living swindler. separately analysed but can never b) The man who thought was be separated from each other. Directions (48-49): In the following thoroughly honest proved to be a R. Hence, thought to be complete questions, out of the four alternatives, swindler demands action and action choose the one which can be substituted c) The man to whom I thought was without thought also has no value. for the given words/ sentence. thoroughly honest proved to be a S. It keeps us depressed and gloomy swindler. 6. The best life, therefore, is lived 48. A place where government/public records d) No improvement both in thought and deed. are kept 38. No sooner had the dividend been a)PSRQ b)QRSP a)Archive b)Museum declared, the notices were sent out. c)RQPS d)SPQR c)Shelf d)Cellar a) The company had hardly declared 49. Too much official formality the dividend till the notices were Directions (Q.41-45): in the following a)Bureaucracy sent for mailing. some of the words have been left out. b)Red-Tapism b) They had no sooner declared the Read the passage carefully and choose c)Nepotism dividend then the notices were the correct answer to each question out d)Formalism sent out. of the four alternatives and fill in the blanks. Directions (50): Find out the wrongly c) Hardly had the dividend been spelt word. declared when the notices were The Solar System has been a complicated sent out wonder for the astronomers. This is a (41) 50. a)Consequences d) No improvement to which we may never have the exact b)Specimen answer. Man has wondered about the age c)Recomendation Directions (Q.39-40): In the following of the Earth (42) ancient times. There were d)Instructor questions, the first and the last parts of all kinds of stories that seemed to have the a passage/ sentence are numbered 1 and (43). But man could not begin to think about PART-C 6. The rest of the passage/ sentence is the question scientifically until about 400 QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE split into four parts and named P, Q, R years (44). and S. These four parts are not given in When it was proved that the Earth revolves x  2  x  2 their proper order. Read the sentence/ round the Sun and the Earth was a (45) of 51. If a = , then the passage and find out which of the four our Solar System, then scientists knew x  2  x  2 combinations is correct. Then find the where to begin value of (a2 – ax) is correct answer. a)1 b)2

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c)-1 d)0 59. Find the value of to a leak in the bottom. If the cistern is 52. The present price of a scooter is Rs. full, leak will empty it in time (in hours): 7,290. If its value decreases every year θ 1 a)60 b)84 sin  sin π  θ by 10%, then its value 3 years back 2 2 c)90 d)86 was Directions: (Q.66-68): Study the a)Rs 10, 500 1 1 b)Rs 8, 000 sin 2π  θ sin (3π  θ) following graph carefully and answer c)Rs 10, 000 2 2 the given questions. d)Rs 11, 500 Percentage of different types of employees in a company in two a)cos 900 b)sin 900 53. If the height of a pole is 2 metre and consecutive years. 3 c)cosec 900 d)tan 900 the length of its shadow is 2 metre, 60. A dishonest dealer professes to sell his then the angle of elevation of the sun is goods at C.P. but uses a weight of 875 a)900 b)450 grams for a kilogram weight. Find his c)300 d)600 gain percent? 54. In an examination there are three subjects of 100 marks each. A student scores 2 1 a)14 % b)14 % 60% in the first subject and 80% in the 7 7 second subject. He scored 70% in aggregate. His percentage of marks in 1 2 the third subject is c)12 % d)12 % a)80 b)60 7 7 c)65 d)70 61. A circus artist is climbing from the 55. In a  ABC, if  A = 1200 and AB = ground along a rope stretched from the top of a vertical pole and tied at the AC, then  B is equal to ground. The height of the pole is 12 m a)350 b)600 and the angle made by the rope with c)300 d)800 ground level is 300. The distance 56. What will be the value of an interior covered by the artist in climbing to the angle of any octagonal with equal sides? top of pole is a)57.50 b)67.50 c)75.40 d)63.50 a)12 2 m b)12 m 57. If tan θ – 3 sin θ = 0, then what will be c)24 m d)18 m the value of sin3 θ – cos3 θ - 1 2  2 1 2  a) 16 2 1 62. If x = 1 then 28x + 5 is 9 2  2 1 b) 16 2 1 equal to : 27 a)66 b)71 c)75 d)80 1 c) 16 2 1   1 sin A 66. What was the approximate difference in 9 63. = ? 1 sin A the number of B type of employees 1 during 1997 and 1998? d) 16 2 1 a)sec A – tan A a)2285 b)2325 27 b)sec A – cot A c)2620 d)2085 c)sec A + tan A 4 4 67. If the number of D type employees in (0.87)  (0.13) d)cot A + cosec A 1998 was 5000, what would have been 58. = ? 64. If either 3 men or 4 women can do a its approximate percentage in the 0.870.87  0.130.13 piece of work in 43 days, 7 men and 5 company? a)1 b)0.87 women working together can do the a)10 b)14 c)0.13 d)0.74 work twice as great in : c)12 d)16 a)36 days b)24 days 68. The number of A type employees in c)28 days d)32 days 1998 was approximate what percent 65. A cistern which could be filled in 9 hours takes one hour more to be filled owing

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of the number of A type employees in PART-D c) Tannin d) coffeine 1997? GENERAL AWARENESS 86. Who succeeded Guru Nanank a)140 b)115 a) Guru Angad c)95 d)125 76. Tesla is a unit of magnetic b) Guru Ramdas 69. If the four equal circles of radius 3 cm a) flux b) induction c) Guru Arjun Dev touch each other externally, then the c) moment d) None of these d) Guru Hargobind area of the region bounded by the four 77. The threshold frequency is the frequency 87. The First woman to preside over the circles is below which UN General Assembly a)4( 9 - π ) sq. cm. a) photo current increases with a) Rajkumari Amrit Kaur voltage b)9(4 - π ) sq. cm. b) Vijayalakhmi Pandit b) photo current decreases with c) Kamala Nehru c)5(6 - ) sq. cm. π voltage d) Indira Gandhi d)6(5- π ) sq. cm. c) photo electric emissions is not 88. Match the medieval traveler’s with their 70. The height of a solid right circular possible countries cylinder is 6 metres and three times d) photo current is constant List-I the sum of the areas of its two end 78. Sir C.V. Raman was awarded Nobel prize A) Marco Pole faces is twice the area of its curved for his work on B) Ibn Battuta surface. The radius of its base, in metre, a) light scattering C) Antonio Monserrate is b) Radio activity D) Mahmud wali Balkhi a)4 b)2 c) cryogenics List-II c)8 d)10 d) Sono meter (1) Spain 71. A batsman has a certain average runs for 54. Which devices can be used to detect (2) Balkh 11 innings. In the 12th innings he made radient heat? (3) Italy a score of 90 runs and thereby decreased a) liquid thermometer (4) Morocco his average by 5. His average after 12th b) six’s maximum and minimum A B C D innings is thermometer a) 3 4 1 2 a)127 b)145 c) constant volume air thermometer b) 1 3 2 4 c)150 d)170 d) thermopile c) 4 3 1 2 72. Tickets for all but 100 seats in a 10,000 55. Which is very reactive and kept in d) 3 1 4 2 seat stadium were sold. Of the tickets kerosene 89. Which Articles of the constitution deals sold, 20% were sold at half price and a) sodium b) potassium with the fundamental duties the remaining tickets were sold at the c) lodine d) bromine a) Article 39 full price of Rs. 20. The total revenue 56. The apparatus used to test acidity of b) Article 514 from the ticket sales, in Rs was aqueous solution is c) Article 293 a)158400 b)178200 a) PH meter d) None of these c)180000 d)198000 b) Ammeter 90. Where did the practice of shadow 73. Two circles touch each other externally c) Hygrometer cabinet originate at point A and PQ is a direct common d) Acid meter a) United states of America tangent which touches the circles at P 82. A bronze Statue of Netaji Subash b) Great Britain and Q respectively. Then  PAQ = Chandra bose has been unveiled at the c) Italy a)450 b)900 Indian cultural centre premises in which d) France c)800 d)1000 country 91. In which case did Supreme Court restore a) Canada b) Russia 74. In ABC, PQ is parallel to BC. If AP the primary of the fundamental rights  c) USA d) Malyassia over the directive principle of state : PB = 1 : 2 and AQ = 3 cm; AC is equal 83. Widal test is used for the diagnosis of policy to a) Salmonellosis a) Golaknath case a)6 cm b)9 cm b) Malaria b) Keshavnanda Bharati case c)12 cm d)8 cm c) Cholera c) Minerva mills case 75. If tan2 θ . tan 4 θ = 1, then the value of d) Typhoid d) All the above case 84. Species which has restricted distribution 92. A narrow strip of land that connects tan3 is θ is two larger land masses is called a) Eco species a) 3 b)0 a) Strait b) Peninsula b) Endemic c) Cape d) Isthmus c) Sympatric 93. Which is the Maikal range situated 1 d) Allopatric c)1 d) a) UP b) Rajasthan 3 85. The alkaloid naturally found in coffee, c) Bihar d) Chhattisgarh Cocoa, and cola nut is 94. The latitude passing though the northern a) Cocaine b) Morphine most part of India is

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a) 350 N b) 360 N 5. a) Except life Insurance Corporation, Clearly, Subbu is to the left of Pappu. c) 370 N d) 380 N all others are insurance companies for Note: The answer is given directly in 95. Production refer to general insurance, ie, for vehicles, the question itself- See the first part of a) Destruction of utility property etc. the second statement in the question b) Creation of Utility 6. b) Except remedy, all other terms (Subbu is to the left of Pappu.) c) Exchange value connote loss of something. 15. a) d) Use of a product 7. c) a c d b / d a c b / c d a b / a c d b / d a 96. Capital market deals with 8. a) a  b  c  a < b < c a) Short term fund Option (a): b) Long term fund c) Cash a  b  c  a > b  c or, a < b  c d) Both long and short term funds  a < b < c 97. Jawahar Rozor Yojna was introduced in Option (b): a) Fifth five year plan b) sixth five year plan a  b + c  a  b = c c) Seventh five year plan Option (c): d) Eighths five year plan a o b + c  a > b = c 98. ‘Ranjit Trophy’ is given to the sport Option (d): person in a) Football b) Hockey a o b × c  a > b  c c) Cricket d) Kabadi 9. d) The product of two numbers in a 99. A book entitled “The stories of Malgudi sector is equal to the central number in Days was written by” the previous sector. Clearly, the required distance = (10 – a) K. R. Narayan 3 × 5 = 15, 8 × 3 = 24 6=) 4 km b) R. K. Narayan 7 × 2 = 14, 5 × 3 = 15 16. a) c) P. M. Bajpai 8 × 4 = 32, 9 × 1 = 9 d) Abdul Kalam 9 × 2 = 18, 7 × 4 = 28 100. Ama Jangal Yajna (My forest Scheme) 10. a) Temple and Church are places of a bad to enhance forest cover in the worship. It does not imply that Hindus state was launched in and Christians use the same place for a) Odisha worship. Church is different from 17. c) b) Chhatisgarh temple. Therefore, neither Conclusion c) Jharkahnd I nor II follows. d) Assam 11. a) Growth and development of human organism is a continuous process. Some  changes take place in human body now and then. Therefore, neither conclusion I nor II follows. 12. d) EXPLANATIONS 13. b) 1. a) Eagle swoops down on anything. The movement of eagle is like swooping. Similarly, the movement of duck is 14. a) called waddle. 2. c) We pay rent for accommodation. Similarly, we pay fare for journey. 3. a) 4. b)

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18. c) In the subsequent figures, the arrow 51- 53- moves from left to right and vice- versa, the circle moves one step in anti- clockwise direction and the cross sign moves to the top and changes into a plus sign. 19. c) A is father of B and C. If C is not the son of A, then C is the daughter of A. 20. c) Suppose, the age of Johnny is x yr and that of Rahul is y yr. According to question, Age of Hari = 2x = 5y  2x – 5y = 0...... (i) Again x = 3 + y  x – y = 3 ...... (ii) On solving Eqs. (i) and (ii), we get  Age of Johnny = 3 + y = 3 + 2 = 5 yr 21. d)

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WHO’S WHO LIST OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS Shri Narendra Modi Prime Minister and also in-charge of:  Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions;  Department of Atomic Energy;  Department of Space; and  All important policy issues, and  All other portfolios not allocated to any Minister.

Minister of Home Affairs. Raj Nath Singh Minister of External Affairs. Sushma Swaraj Minister of Finance; and Minister of Corporate Affairs. Arun Jaitley Minister of Urban Development; Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation; M. Venkaiah Naidu and Minister of Information and Broadcasting. Minister of Road Transport and Highways; and Minister of Shipping. Nitin Jairam Gadkari Minister of Defence Manohar Parrikar Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhu Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation. D.V. Sadananda Gowda Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation. Uma Bharati Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ramvilas Paswan Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Minister of Women and Child Development Maneka Sanjay Gandhi Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers; and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Ananthkumar Minister of Law and Justice; and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad Minister of Health and Family Welfare Jagat Prakash Nadda Minister of Civil Aviation Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises. Anant Geete Minister of Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal Minister of Rural Development; Minister of Panchayati Raj; and Minister of Drinking Narendra Singh Tomar Water and Sanitation Minister of Steel Chaudhary Birender Singh Minister of Tribal Affairs Jual Oram Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Radha Mohan Singh Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Thaawar Chand Gehlot Minister of Textiles Smriti Zubin Irani Minister of Science and Technology; and Minister of Earth Sciences Dr. Harsh Vardhan Minister of Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar

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MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE)

Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Planning; Minister of State in the Rao Inderjit Singh Ministry of Urban Development; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Labour and Employment Bandaru Dattatreya Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports; and Vijay Goel Minister of State in the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Shripad Yesso Naik Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministryof Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Power; Minister of State Piyush Goyal (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Coal; Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy; and Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Mines. Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministryof Development of North Eastern Jitendra Singh Region; Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office; Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Minister of State in the Department of Atomic Energy; and Minister of State in the Department of Space Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Culture; and Minister of State Mahesh Sharma (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Tourism Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Communications; and Minister of Manoj Sinha State in the Ministry of Railways Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Anil Madhav Dave Change Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Minority Affairs; and Minister of Mukhtar Abbas State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs Naqvi

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MINISTERS OF STATE

Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development. Ram Kripal Yadav Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athawale Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; and S.S. Ahluwalia Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs. Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs General (Retd.) V.K. Singh Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance Santosh Kumar Gangwar Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Faggan Singh Kulaste Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Giriraj Singh Medium Enterprises Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs Hansraj Gangaram Ahir Minister of State in the Ministry of Drinking Water and Ramesh Chandappa Sanitation Jigajinagi Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways Rajen Gohain Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Parshottam Rupala Farmers Welfare; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs. M. J. Akbar Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development Upendra Kushwaha Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Radhakrishnan Highways; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Shipping Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment Krishan Pal Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs Jaswantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor Minister of State in the Ministry of Water Resources, Dr. Sanjeev Kumar River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Balyan Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel. Vishnu Deo Sai Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Sudarshan Bhagat Minister of State in the Ministry of Science and Y.S. Chowdary Technology; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Earth Sciences Minister of State in the Ministry of Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha Minister of State in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Minister of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Babul Supriyo Minister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment Vijay Sampla Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance; and Arjun Ram Meghwal Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development Mahendra Nath Pandey Minister of State in the Ministry of Textiles Ajay Tamta Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child Development Krishna Raj Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Mansukh L. Highways; Minister of State in the Ministry of Shipping; and Minister of State in the Mandaviya Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers. Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Anupriya Patel Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution C. R. Chaudhary Minister of State in the Ministry of Law and Justice; and Minister of State in the P.P. Chaudhary Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence Subhash Ramrao Bhamre

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GOVERNOR & CHIEF MINISTER OF STATE

S. NO STATE AND U.T. CHIEF MINISTER GOVERNOR 1 Andaman & Nicobar U.T. 2 Andhra Pradesh N.Chandrababu Naidu Shri. E. S. L. Narasimhan 3 Arunachal Pradesh Pema Khandu V. Shanmuganathan 4 Assam Sarbananda Sonowal Banwarilal Purohit 5 Bihar Nitish Kumar 6 Chandigarh U.T. V.P. Singh Badnore (Administrator) 7 Chhattisgarh Dr. Shri Balramji Dass Tandon 8 Goa Laxmikant Parsekar 9 Gujarat Shri Om Prakash Kohli 10 Haryana Manohar Lal Khattar 11 Himachal Pradesh Virbhadra Singh Acharya Dev Vrat 12 Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed 13 Jharkhand Raghubar Das 14 Karnataka Shri K. Siddaramaiah Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala 15 Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan P. Sathasivam 16 Madhya Pradesh Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan O.P. Kohli (Add. Charge) 17 Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao 18 Manipur Shri Okram Ibobi Singh Najma Heptullah 19 Meghalaya Mukul Sangma V Shanmuganathan 20 Mizoram Pu Lalthanhawla 21 Nagaland T R Zeliang Shri Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya 22 New Delhi Arvind Kejriwal (Lieutenant-Governor) 23 Odisha Sh. Naveen Patnaik Shri S. C. Jamir 24 Puducherry V. Narayanasamy Kiran Bedi 25 Punjab Shri Parkash Singh Badal V P Singh Badnore 26 Rajasthan Kalyan Singh 27 Sikkim Shri Pawan Kumar Chamling Shriniwas Dadasaheb Patil 28 Tamil Nadu J. Jayalalithaa C. Vidyasagar Rao (Add. Charge) 29 Telangana K Chandrasekhar Rao ESL Narasimhan 30 Tripura Shri Manik Sarkar Tathagata Roy 31 Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav Shri 32 Uttarakhand Harish Rawat 33 West Bengal Km. Mamata Banerjee 34 Dadra and Nagar Haveli U.T. Vikram Dev Dutt (Administrator) 35 Daman and Diu U.T. Vikram Dev Dutt (Administrator) 36 Lakshadweep U.T. Vijay Kumar

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BUREAUCRATS

Designation Name Designation Name National Security Advisor Ajit Kumar Doval Chairperson, Atomic Energy Shekhar Basu commission Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi Chairperson, 14th Finance Dr. YV Ready Commission Defence Secretary G. Mohan Kumar Chairman, TRAI Ram Sevak Sharma Cabinet Secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha Chairman, NABARD Harsha Kumar Bhanwala Foreign Secretary S. Jaishakar Chairman, CBEC Najib Shah Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa Chairman, FSSAI Ashish Bahuguna Secretary General, Lok Sabha Anoop Mishra Chairman, National Highways Raghav Chandra Authority of India Chief Justice, Supreme Court Tirath Singha Thakur Director, Enforcement Kamal Singh Directorate Speaker, Lok Sabha Sumitra Mahajan Chairman, Central Board of Pahlaj NIhalani Film Deputy Speaker, Lok Sabha M. Thambidurai Chairman, Children’s Film Mukesh Khana Society of India Comptroller and Auditor General of Shashikant Sharma Chairman, CBSE Rajesh Kumar Chaturvedi India Chief Election Commissioner Nassem Zaidi Chairman, Press Council of CK Prasad India Election Commissioner Achal Kumar Jyoti & Chairman, IRDAI TS Vijayan Om Prakash Vice President, NITI Aayog Director General, NSG Sudhir Pratap Singh CEO of NIIT Aayog Amitab Kant Director General, CISF OP Singh Deputy Chairman, PJ Kurien Director General,BSF KK Sharma Chairman, ISRO AS Kiran Kumar Director General,SSB Archana Ramasundaram Governor, RBI Urjit Patel Director General, CRPF K. Durga Prasad Chairman, SEBI UK Sinha Director General,ITBP Krishna Chaudhary Principal Scientific Adviser R. Chidambaram Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar Chairman, Railway Board AK Mittal Attroney General Mukul Rohtagi Director, Central Bureau of Anil Kumar Sinha Chairperson, National Green Justice Swatantra Kumar investigation (CBI) Tribunal Chief, Intelligence Bureau (IB) Dineshwar Sharma Director, NCERT Hrushikesh Senapaty Chief, Research and Analysis Wing Rajendra Khana President, ASSOCHAM Sunil Kanoria (RAW) Director General, NIA Sharad Kumar President, FICCI Harshavardhan Neotia Director,NTRO Alok joshi Chairman, Press Trust of India Hormusji N. Cama Chairman, U P S C Alk Sirohi a Chairperson, Staff Selection Ashim Khurana Commission Chairperson, NHRC HL Dattu Director General, Delhi Metro Mangoo Singh Rail Corporation Chairperson, NCM Nassem Ahmad Chancellor, IGNOU Pranav Mukhrjee,President Chairperson, CBDT Sushil Chandra Vice Chancellor, IGNOU M. Aslam Chairperson, National Commission Rameshwar Oraon President, National Lalitha Kumarmangalam for Scheduled Tribes Commission for Women Chairperson, UGC Ved Prakash President, Institute of Manoj Fadnis Chartered Accountants (ICAI) Chairperson, National Commission Vangal Eswariah Director General, CSIR Girish Sahani for Backward classes Chairperson, National Commission PL Punia CEO, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Anupam Shrivastava for Scheduled Castes Limited

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IMPORTANT INTERNATIONAL OFFICIALS HEAD OF NATIONALISED BANKS Designation - Name Bank CMD  Allahabad Bank Rakesh Sethi  Andhra Bank Suresh N. Patel  Secretary General, United Nations Organisation – Ban Ki-  Bank of Baroda Ps Jayakumar moon  Bank of India MO Rego  Managing Director, International Monetary fund Christine –  Bank of Maharashtra Sushil Muhnot Lagarde  Bharatiya Mahila Bank SM Swathi  President, World Bank – Jim Yong Kim  Canara Bank T.N. Manohar  Vice – President, World Bank – Hiroshi Naka  Central Bank of India Rajeev Rishi  Director-General , World Trade Organisation – Roberto  Corporation Bank J K Garg Azevedo  Dena Bank Ashwini Kumar  President, UN General Assembly - Peter Thomson  IDBI Bank Kishor Karat  Director – General, United Nations Educational, Scientific  Indian Bank Mahesh Kumar Jain and Cultural Organisation – Irina Bokova  Indian Overseas Bank R. Koteeswaran  Oriental Bank of Commerce Animesh Chauhan  Director-General, International Labour Organisation – Guy  Punjab and Sind Bank Jatinderbir Singh Ryder  Punjab National Bank Usha Ananta Subrahmaniam  Executive Director, United Nations Int ernational children’s  State Bank of India Arundhati Bhattacharya Emergency Fund – Antony Lake  State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur Jyoti Ghosh  Director-General World Health Organisation – Margaret Chan  State Bank of Hyderabad Santanu Mukherjee  President, Asian Development Bank – Takehiko Nakao  State Bank of Mysore N.K. Chari  President, International Court of Justice – Peter Tomka  State Bank of Patiala MS Ramesh Rangan  President, International Olympic Committee – Thomas Bach  State Bank of Travancore C.R. Sashi Kumar  Administrator, NASA – Charles F. Boldon  Syndicate Bank Arun Shrivastava  President, UN Human Rights Council – Remigiusz Henczel  UCO Bank RK Takkar  Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency –  United Bank of India P.Srinivas Yukiya amino  Union Bank of India Arun Tiwari  Vijaya Bank Kishore Kumar Sansi  Secretary-General, NATO – Jens Stoltenberg  Secretary – General, ASEAN – Lee Luang Minh MAHARATNA/ NAVARATNA COMPANIES  Secretary – General, SAARC – Arjun Bahadur Thapa Maharatna Chairman/MD  Secretary-General, Commonwealth – Patricia Scotland  Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited Atul Sobti  President, FIFA – Gianni Infantino  Coal India Limited S. Bhattacharya  President, International Cricket Council – Zaheer Abbas  Gas Authority of India Limited BC Tripathi  Chairman, International Cricket Council - Shashank Manohar  Indian Oil Corporation Limited B. Ashok  Oil and Natural Gas Corporation DK Sarraf  President, Internatioanl Paralymic committee – Phillip  Steel Authority of India Limited P.K.Singh Craven  National Thermal Power Corporation Gurdeep Singh  President, IAAF – Sebastian Coe  Secretary-General, OIC – Ekmeleddin Ihasnoglu Navaratna Chairman/ MD  Secretary – General, Gulf Cooperation Council – Adbul  Container Corporation of India Limited Anil Kumar Gupta Rahman ibn Hamad al Attiyan  Engineers India Limited Sanjoy Gupta  Director – General, FAO – Jose Graziano da silva  National Buildings Construction Corporation AK Mittal  Director-General, UNIDO – Kandeh Yumkella  Bharat Electricals Limited SK Sharma  Head, World Food Programme – Ertharin Cousin  Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited D.Rajkumar  Hindustan Aeronautics Limited T. Suvarna Raju  Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited MK Surana  National Mineral Development Corporation Narendra Kothari HEADS OF ARMED FORCES  Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited NK Yadav  Power Finance Corporation Rajeev Sharma Designation Person  Power Grid Corporation IS Jha Air Force Chief Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha  Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited P. Madhusudan Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba  Shipping Corporation of India AK Gupta  Neyvelli Lignite Corporation Limited SK Acharya Army Chief Gen. Dalbir Singh Suhag  Oil India Limited Utpal Bora  Rural Electrification Corporation Limited Rajiv Sharma  National aluminium Company Limited Tapan Kumar Chand

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ABBREVIATION IOB-Indian Overseas Bank. AFS-Annual Financial Statement IPO-Initial Public Offering. AFS-Available For Sale IRBI-Industrial Reconstruction Bank of India. BoP-Balance of Payments KCC-Kisan Credit Card. CR-Capital Receipts KMB-Kotak Mahindra Bank. KVB-Karur Vysya Bank. CRAR-Capital to Risk Weighted Asset KYC-Know Your Customer. Ratio LAB-Local Area Bank. DCCB-District Central Cooperative Bank LAF-Liquidity Adjustment Facility. ECGC-Export Credit and Guarantee Corporation LDB-Land Development Bank. GFD-Gross Fiscal Deficit LIBOR-London Inter Bank Offered Rate. GIC-General Insurance Corporation MIBOR-Mumbai Inter Bank Offer Rate. HUDCO-Housing & Urban Development Corporation NABARD-National Bank for Agricultural and Rural IBRD-International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. NAS-National Account Statistics. Development NAV-Net Asset Value. IBS-International Banking Statistics NBC-Non Banking Companies. OECD-Organisation for Economic Cooperation and NBFC-Non Banking and Finance companies. Development NEFT-National Electronic Funds Transfer System. OLTAS-OnLine Tax Accounting System NFA-No Frills Account. RWA-Risk Weighted Asset NFC-Non Banking Finance Companies. SEBI-Securities and Exchange Board of India NHB-National Housing Bank. NIB-Nordic Investment Bank. UBB-Uniform Balance Book NPA-Non Performing Assets. WPI -Wholesale Price Index NPS-National Pensions Scheme. FDI-Foreign Direct Investment. NSE-National Stock Exchange. FERA-Foreign Exchange Regulation Act. OMO-Open Market Operations. FICCI-Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and OTP-One Time Password. Industry. PGS-Payment Gateway System. FII-Foreign Institutional Investor. RBI-Reserve Bank Of India. FIPB-Foreign Investment Promotion Board. RBS-Royal Bank of Scotland. FPI-Foreign Portfolio Investment. RRB-Regional Rural Bank. FTA-Free Trade Agreement. RTGS-Real Time Gross Settlement System. GDP-Gross Domestic Product. SCB-Scheduled Commercial Bank. GDR-Global Depository Receipt. SCC-Selective Credit Control. GAAR-General Anti Avoidance Rule. SEPA-Single Euro Payment Area. HDFC-Housing Development Finance Corporation. SEBI-Security Exchange Board Of India. IBRD-International Bank For Reconstruction And SHGs-Self Help Groups. Development. SIDBI-Small Industries and Development Bank of India. ICICI-Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of SLR-Statutory Liquidity Ratio. India. SPNS-Shared Payment Network System. IDB-Islamic Development Bank. SWIFT-Society For World Wide Inter Bank Financial IDBI-Industrial Development Bank of India. Telecommunication. IDR-Indian Depository Receipts. ULIP-Unit Linked Insurance Plan. IIB-International Investment Bank. UCB-Urban Cooperative Bank. IIBF- Indian Institute of Banking and Finance. UEBA-Universal Electronic Bank Account. IRR- Internal Rate Of Return. UIDAI-Unique Identification Authority of India. IMD-India Millennium Deposits. ULIP-Unit Linked Insurance Policies. IMF-International Monetary Fund. UPIN-Unique Property Identification Numbers. IMPS-Immediate Mobile Payment System. USB-Ultra Small Branch.

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USD-United States Dollar. OPEC - Organisation for Petroleum Exporting Countries VDBS-Vertically Differentiated Banking System. MCA - Ministry of Corporate Affairs WBCIS-Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme. SMEs - Small and Medium Enterprises WL ATM-White Label ATM. SMO - Special Market Operations WPFI-World Press Freedom Index. WPI-Wholesale Price Index. MFDEF - Micro Finance Development and Equity fund SEBI - Securities and Exchange Board of India E C R - E x p o rt C red it R efin an ce ORFS - Online Returns Filing System E C S - E lectro n ic C learin g S erv ices OSMOS - Off-Site Monitoring and Surveillance S D R - S p ecial D raw ing R ights OTC - Over-the-Counter B R B N M P L - B haratiya R eserve B ank N ote M udran P rivate OTS - One-Time Settlement L i m i t e d BSA - Bilateral Swap Arrangements C D R - C o rp o rate D eb t R estru ctu ring IMF - International Monetary Fund E E A - E xchange E qualisation A ccount MBS - Mortgage Backed Securities N FA - N et F o reign A ssets BSE - Bombay Stock Exchange, Mumbai P D O - P u b lic D eb t O ffice CBDT - Central Board of Direct Taxes R E E R - R eal E ffectiv e E x chan ge R ate CBLO - Collateralised Borrowing and Lending O P E C - O rg an isatio n fo r P etro leu m E x p o rtin g C o un tries

S P M C IL - S ecu rity P rin tin g an d M in tin g  WORD OF THE MONTH

1) Regiment 6) Canon Meaning: Unit, outfit, force Meaning: principle, rule, law, tenet, formula Definition: a permanent unit of an army typically Definition: a general law, rule, principle, or criterion by which commanded by a lieutenant colonel and divided into several something is judged. companies, squadrons, or batteries and often into two Usage: the appointment violated the canons of fair play and battalions equal opportunity Usage: the Royal Highland Regiment 7) Vulnerable 2) Infiltrate Meaning: at risk, in peril, in danger, unsafe, unprotected Meaning: penetrate, invade, intrude on, permeate, enter Definition: exposed to the possibility of being attacked or Definition: enter or gain access to (an organization, place, harmed, either physically or emotionally etc.) surreptitiously and gradually, especially in order to Usage: we were in a vulnerable position acquire secret information.. 8) Thrall Usage: the organization has been infiltrated by informers Meaning: power, control, grip, grasp, yoke 3) Interrogation Definition: the state of being in someone’s power, or of Meaning: questioning, vross-questioning, carechism, having great power over someone. quizzing Usage: she was in thrall to her abusive husband Definition: the action of interrogating or the process of being 9) Trammel interrogated. Meaning: restraint, curb, check, impediment, barrier Usage: would he keep his mouth shut under interrogation ? Definition: restrictions or impediments to freedom of action. 4) Adjunct Usage: we will forge our own future, free from Meaning: Supplement, addition, complement, extra the trammels of materialism Definition: a thing added to something else as a 10) Revere supplementary rather than an essential part. Meaning: respect, admire, prize, treasure, value Usage: computer technology is an adjunct to learning Definition: feel deep respect or admiration for (something) . 5) Armada Usage: Cezanne’s still lifes were revered by his Meaning: fleet, flotilla, navy, squadron contemporaries Definition: a fleet of warships. Usage: an armada of forty-five warships  137 Plot-1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRP Square, Bhubaneswar-751015 Ph. : (0674) 6556677, 8093556677. Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER- 2016

ONE LINER 1. IISER Researchers develop what to scoop out marine oil spills – Gelator 2. Who has been re-elected as Prime Minister of Spain - Mariano Rajoy 3. MoU signed for enabling online submission of applications under - PMAY 4. Who has been appointed as CEO of IBRD & IDA of World Bank - Kristalina Georgieva 5. Sports Ministry tells whom to identify 2020 Olympics Medal Prospects – NSFs 6. PM Modi inaugurated Asian Ministerial Conference on - Disaster Risk Reduction 7. RCEP members worry over market access to - China 8. IFFI to honour Im Kwon-taek with - Lifetime Achievement Award 9. Which country invites India to join fast-neutron reactor project – Russia 10. To achieve a corruption free society which week is observed across India - Vigilance Awareness Week 11. International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against whom is observed globally – Journalists 12. Which two states top Ease of Doing Business list - Andhra Pradesh, Telangana 13. Which joint military exercise Surya Kiran commences - 10th Indo-Nepal 14. Which state tops in 2016 Agricultural Marketing and Farmer Friendly Reforms Index of NITI Aayog – Maharashtra 15. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel remembered on his - 141st Birth Anniversary 16. hich state become second open defecation free state after Sikkim - Himachal Pradesh 17. Name of place which has been declared as World’s largest Marine Protected Area - Ross Sea of Antartica 18. India wins first ever in - International team roller skating medal 19. Sakharov Prize 2016 won by - Nadia Murad and Lamiya Aji 20. Agreement on Trade, Commerce and Transit with Bhutan was approved by - Union Cabinet 21. Daughters of Mother India documentary won first prize at - CAM International Film Festival 22. Who has been appointed as Chairman of GSMA - Sunil Bharti Mittal 23. Union Government launches what to empower farmers - Biotech-KISAN & Cattle Genomics 24. On 27th October which day is observed globally - World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 25. Which two countries ink three agreements including avoidance of double taxation - India, New Zealand 26. World Economic Forum released which report - Global Gender Gap Report 2016 27. Union Government constitutes Munialappa Committee to monitor - Bird Flu Situation 28. Who has been appointed as a Director of Enforcement Directorate - Karnal Singh 29. Justice Reddy committee submits report on – OROP 30. Which country ranks 130th in 2017 Ease of Doing Business index – India 31. 2016 Man Booker Prize won by - Paul Beatty 32. 2016 National Tribal Carnival has been inaugurated by – PM Modi 33. Which legendary footballer died recently - Carlos Alberto Torres 34. Indo-Sri Lanka Joint Military Exercise begins – 2016 Mitra Shakti 35. ECI amends election rules to allow e-transfer of - Postal Ballot 36. CO2 level reaches record high in 2016 - WMO 37. ISRO starts landing tests for - Chandrayaan-2 Mission 38. Urja Ganga in Varanasi launched by - PM Narendra Modi 39. Government to provide higher subsidy for airlines connecting - Two Regional Airports 40. On 24th October 2016 which day is observed across the world - United Nations Day 41. For which award doctors from AIIMS and SGRH have been chosen for - Dr BC Roy Award 42. 54 eminent personalities selected for UP’s - Yash Bharti Awards 2016 43. $650 Million agreement was inked between India and World Bank for - Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor 44. Name of scheme launched by Union Government for Regional Air Connectivity - UDAN 45. Rs 3050 crore penality was recommended by TRAI on - Airtel, Vodafone & Idea 46. Union Government launches which scheme for Regional Air Connectivity - UDAN Scheme

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47. The Adivasi Will Not Dance authored by - Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar 48. ICGS Aryaman and Atulya Commissioned into - Indian Coast Guard 49. Smooth-coated otter sighted for first time in - Krishna Sanctuary 50. Protein-enriched rice variety developed by - IGKV Chattisgarh 51. Milan confers honorary citizenship on - Dalai Lama 52. Who warns India against breaching Indus Water Treaty – Pakistan 53. Who has been elected as a President of International Gymnastics Federation - Japan’s Morinari Watanabe 54. The Sleepwalker’s Dream has been released, which is authored by - Dhrubajyoti Borah 55. IUNC to declare Kashmir’s Red Stag as - Critically Endangered 56. International Prize in Statistics awarded to - Sir David Cox 57. Who has been appointed as Odisha’s CIC - Sunil Mishra 58. India signs pact with which country to lease second nuclear submarine – Russia 59. IUNC to declare Kashmir’s Red Stag as - Critically Endangered 60. International Prize in Statistics awarded to - Sir David Cox 61. Who has been appointed as Odisha’s CIC - Sunil Mishra 62. India signs pact with which country to lease second nuclear submarine – Russia 63. Which two countries signed 3 MoUs including Cooperation in field of Power Sector - India, Myanmar 64. Three mega hydro projects in Himachal Pradesh has been inaugurated by - PM Narendra Modi 65. Who will be be honoured with Chaplin Award by Film Society of Lincoln Center - Robert De Niro 66. India completes nuclear triad by commissioning - INS Arihant 67. Indian wrestlers win four medals at - 2016 TAFISA World Games 68. Ashok Leyland rolls out first India-made - Electric Bus 69. Who has been appointed as India’s Ambassador to UN Conference on Disarmament - Amandeep Singh Gill 70. Longest ever manned mission to space is successfully launched by - China 71. Which summit concluded with adoption of Goa Declaration – BRICS 72. On 16th October 2016 which day is celebrated across the world - World Food Day 73. Historic Global Greenhouse gas emission Agreement signed in – Kigali 74. According to K.S. Valdiya committee report Saraswati River so far considered – Mythical, Existed 75. Rosneft-led consortium buys India’s Essar Oil for - $13 billion 76. Russia, India ink defence deal on - S-400 Air Defence Systems 77. Self-powered UV photodetector for self-charging energy storage devices developed by - IISc researchers 78. Which two countries agreed to elevate their ties to strategic partnership - Bangladesh, China 79. Which day is celebrated on 15th October - International Day of Rural Women 80. Who has been awarded with IAFP Young scientist scholarship award 2016 - Kirtiraj Kundlik Gaikwad 81. hich two countries ink agreement to set up 25 Agro Irradiation Centres - India, Russia 82. World Sight Day 2016 observed with theme - Stronger Together 83. India to eliminate use of HFC-23 by – 2030 84. Who has been appointed as UN Secretary-General - Portugal’s Antonio Guterres 85. Who has been appointed as Director General of Foreign Trade - Ajay Kumar Bhalla 86. Which country ranked 97th in 2016 Global Hunger Index – India 87. National Seismic Programme in Mahanadi Basin is launched by - Dharmendra Pradhan 88. Who won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature - Bob Dylan 89. CCEA approves revision of ethanol price for supply to - Public Sector OMCs 90. First World Tsunami Awareness Day to be celebrated at – AMCDRR 91. Who has been appointed as Ambassador of India to Austria - Renu Pall 92. International Day for Disaster Reduction observed with theme - Live to Tell: Raising Awareness, Reducing Mortality 93. NASA develops which bandage to speed up wound healing - Electroactive Bandage 94. India-Indonesia bilateral maritime exercise commences at - Belawan, Indonesia

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95. Which state government creates 21 new districts – Telangana Government 96. Which country raps US over Asia interventions - China 97. Union Government to adopt three-pronged approach to spur - Internal Trade 98. On 11th October which day has been observed across the world - International Day of the Girl Child 99. Who has been appointed as China’s Ambassador to India - Luo Zhaohui 100. Which two words have been added to Oxford English Dictionary - Aiyoh, Aiyah 101. Oliver Hart, Bengt Holmstrom win 2016 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in - Economic Sciences 102. Which player has been appointed as Brand Ambassador of Vizag Steel - PV Sindhu 103. World Mental Health Day observed with what theme - Psychological First Aid 104. 24th Ekalabya Award is won by - Sprinter Srabani Nanda 105. India’s first international arbitration centre inaugurated in - Mumbai 106. World Post Day 2016 observed with theme - Innovation, Integration and Inclusion 107. Union Government set up which cell - Public Debt Management Cell 108. Which company ranked 19th in Biopharmaceutical Competitiveness & Investment (BCI) Survey - Indian Pharma Company 109. India-Pakistan border to be sealed completely by - 2018 110. What is the name of the new termite species which has been discovered – Chiraharitae 111. On 8th October 2016 which day is observed across India - Air Force Day 112. India to host Asian Ministerial Conference on - Disaster Risk Reduction 113. SC stays commercial release of - GM mustard 114. Maharashtra Government allocates land to - LIGO India Project 115. 2016 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Colombian President - Juan Manuel Santos 116. Name the first Platinum rated green airport terminal building in India - IGIA’s T3 117. India to host 2016 Asian Ministerial Conference for - Disaster Risk Reduction 118. Who has been appointed as Honorary Consul of Germany in Hyderabad - BVR Mohan Reddy 119. Pawan Chamling honoured with which award - Sustainable Development Leadership Award 120. The book titled Modi’s Midas Touch in Foreign Policy has been launched by - Venkaiah Naidu 121. Jean-Pierre Sauvage, J Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L Feringa win 2016 Nobel Prize in – Chemistry 122. Name the Indian mountaineer who scales world’s sixth highest mountain Cho Oyu - Arjun Vajpai 123. Name the former Portuguese PM who has been selected to be UN Secretary-General - Antonio Guterres 124. India’s communication satellite GSAT-18 successfully launched from - French Guiana 125. India, Singapore signed how many agreements – Three 126. 2016 John F Richards Prize won by - Nayanjot Lahiri 127. Name the former ISRO chief who becomes first Indian to be inducted into IAF Hall of Fame - U R Rao 128. Indian Bridge Management System launched by - Union Government 129. Which card will be must for LPG subsidy after November 2016 - Aadhaar Card 130. Japan’s Yoshinori Ohsumi wins 2016 Nobel Prize in – Medicine 131. Urban areas of which two states declared open defecation free - Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh 132. Name the wildlife film-maker, who conferred knighthood by France - Prajna Chowta 133. Who has resigned as CEO of Prasar Bharati Corporation - Jawhar Sircar 134. World Space Week observed with theme - Remote Sensing: Enabling our Future 135. Which state becomes first state to implement DBT in Kerosene – Jharkhand 136. India ratifies which agreement - Paris Climate Agreement 137. On 3rd October which day has been observed across the world - World Habitat Day 138. Indian-origin Kiara Nirghin wins - Google Science Fair prize 2016 139. Abu Dhabi Crown Prince to be Chief Guest on - 2017 Republic Day

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