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Current Affairs: Ms. Preeti Sudan, Secretary, Health NATIONAL and Family Welfare launched the Allied and India’s First Digital Online Oncology Tutorial: World Book Fair begins in New Delhi to focus Healthcare Professionals’ database portal. Smt Preeti Sudan, Secretary of Health on environment: The ministry aims to ensure better systems and and Family Welfare has launched the country’s The 26th edition of New Delhi World Book frameworks for the healthcare workforce of the first digital Online Oncology Tutorial Series. Fair is all set to begin in New Delhi. It will be held country. The link to the website portal is It is designed by the Tata Memorial Center in at Pragati Maidan and it is organised by the a2hp.mohfw.gov.in. More than 3000 collaboration with the Health Ministry. The National Book Trust (NBT), India, in association professionals have already registered on the portal tutorial series is aimed at educating doctors in with India Trade Promotion Organization during the testing phase. The portal will help the early detection, prevention, palliation, (ITPO). Government in tracking down the number of rehabilitation and treatment of various forms of Burning environment issues like climate professionals and streams of allied and healthcare cancers. Oncology is a branch of medicine that change, global warming, and water pollution will professions in the country. deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and be the main theme for this year’s New Delhi World treatment of cancer. Book Fair.This year’s book fair will host European Centre Released the Contours of ‘Electoral Union as the Guest of Honour Country. Bonds’ Scheme: The Government launches Swachh • Theme: “Environment and Climate The Centre released the contours of the Survekshan 2018: Change” ‘Electoral Bonds’ scheme, which seeks to The government has announced the ensure the flow of clean money to political launch of largestcleanliness survey for this year Union Minister Maneka Gandhi inaugurates parties. Electoral Bond is a financial instrument as part of Swachh Bharat Mission. The online portal “NARI”: for making donations to political parties. Swachh Survekshan 2018 will rank 500 cities Women and Child Development Electoral bond was announced in the Union Budget on national level which have more than 1 lakh Minister Maneka Gandhi inaugurates an online 2017-18. population, while 3,541 cities with less than 1 lakh portal NARIfor the empowerment of women in As per the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, population will have State and Regional ranking. It New Delhi. It is developed by the Ministry and the the electoral bonds will be a bearer instrument in would be the largest survey impacting more than portal will provide women with easy access to the nature of a Promissory Note and an 40 crore urban population. In Swachh Survekshan information on government schemes and interest-free banking instrument. A citizen of 2017, Indore emerged as the cleanest city in initiatives for women. India or a body incorporated in India will be eligible the country. The portal summarises over 350 to purchase the bond from specified branches of • Housing and Urban Affairs Minister of government schemes and other important the State Bank of India. state (Independent Charge):Hardeep information. To provide a platform for NGOs and The bonds can be purchased for any Singh Puri Civil Societies to interact with the Ministry of value in multiples of Rs1,000; Rs10,000; Rs1 Women & Child Development, e-Samvad lakh; Rs10 lakh; and Rs1 crore. The bonds will Defence Ministry approves projects worth portal has also been developed and inaugurated. not carry the name of the payee and will be valid Rs.2420 crore: • The constituency of Maneka Gandhi is only for 15 days during which it can be used to Defence Ministry has cleared contracts Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh. make a donation only to certain political parties. worth 2,420 crore rupees for Navy and Army which includes the procurement of P-8I Training Insolvency and Bankruptcy code Bill passed Namami Gange Projects worth Rs. 295 crore Solution and Low Intensity Conflict in Rajya Sabha: Approved by NMCG: Electronic Warfare System (LICEWS). The P- The Rajya Sabha passed the Insolvency National Mission for Clean Ganga 8I Training Solution, along with 10-year and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Bill which (NMCG) has approved five projects worth Rs. comprehensive maintenance service, will be aims to reduce the crisis of looming bad loans in 295.01 crore. Three projects related to sewage bought from Boeing for around one thousand 950 the banking sector. It bars persons from management in West Bengal at an estimated crore rupees. misusing the provisions of the Code. cost of Rs 278.6 crore, one relates to sewage The final approval has now been given by According to the government data, top 50 management in Uttarakhand at an estimated Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. defaulters of public sector banks had exposure in cost of Rs 4.68 crore and one project worth Rs excess of Rs 1.21 lakh crore as on December 11.73 crore is related to ghat improvement works IICA join hands with IPPB to Provide 2015. Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh was sanctioned. With Training on Payment Banking announced that the Insolvency and Bankruptcy these approvals, all projects related to sewage The Indian Institute of Corporate Code was transformational and will help the management in high pollution load towns along Affairs (IICA) and India Post Payments Bank country to improve its rankings in the World Bank river Ganga have been sanctioned. (IPPB) signed an agreement for the training the survey on ease of doing business. Water Resources and Ganga Rejuvenation employees of the IPPB in the area of payment Ministry banking. Under the agreement, IICA has been Health Secretary launches the Allied Health • Minister: Nitin Jairam Gadkari entrusted with the key responsibility of capacity Professionals Database Portal: • Constituency: Nagpur, Maharashtra building of IPPB through training of its

|Legend Magazine | January - 2018| 2 officials/employees besides providing research Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore unveils the also in line with the Go Green initiative of the support by instituting Research Chairs in the Khelo India Anthem: government. emerging area of payment banking. The union sports ministry’s ambitious • The constituency of Shri Ananth Kumar: The India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) programme, ‘Khelo India’, an initiative to scout Bengaluru South, Karnataka has been incorporated as a public-sector company for talent at the grassroots and provide it under the Department of Posts with 100% GOI substantial long-term scholarship will be launched PM Modi Inaugurates 1st PIO Parliamentary equity. on January 31. Conference in Delhi: • DG & CEO of IICA: Gyaneshwar Kumar In the run-up to the launch, Union Sports Prime Minister Narendra Modi Singh Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore inaugurates the first Persons of Indian Origin • Corporate Affairs Secretary: Injeti unveiled the mascots (Vijay the tiger and Jaya (PIO) Parliamentary Conference in the 'Pravasi Srinivas the black buck) and launched the anthem at a Bharatiya Kendra'. Pravasi Bharatiya Divas India Post Payments Bank ceremony in Delhi. The anthem is conceptualized or NRI day is observed on January 9 every year. • MD & CEO: Suresh Sethi by Ogilvy, composed by Louis Bank and the film It marks the contribution of overseas persons of has been produced by Nirvana Films. Indian origin (PIO) towards their homeland. Indian Railways HRD and S&T Ministry inks MoU on Technology Mission: Indian Navy signs MoU with Cochin Port Trust: Delhi Government Launches Common Card A memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Indian navy inked a pact with Cochin port for Bus & Metro Rides: Technology Mission for Indian Railways trust for utilising the Port berthing facility at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal (TMIR) was signed by the ministries of Mattancherry wharf for Naval ships. It aims to launched a common card for rides on public railways, human resource development increase the berthing capacity of naval ships buses and the metro. Delhi is the first city in (HRD), and science and technology. It was in Kochi. The MoU was signed between the the country to have a common mobility card, signed at Rail Bhawan, New Delhi for joint Chief Staff Officer (Operations) of Southern which can at present be used on 200 DTC and 50 funding of Technology Mission for Indian Railways. Naval Command Commodore Deepak Kumar cluster buses plying on different routes. The card, The MoU aims to facilitate co-financing of TMIR for and Gautam Gupta, Traffic manager of the Port which will function like a debit card, will be identified railway projects for applied research. Trust, at the Naval Base. This is the first operational from April 1. The funding component of the railways agreement that has been signed between the ministry is 30 percent, the HRD ministry is 25 Navy and CPT. Govt extends deadline for linking Aadhaar per cent and the department of science and with savings scheme: technology (DST) 25 per cent. The Technology Harsh Vardhan dedicates supercomputer Government has extended the deadline Mission will take up research and development 'Pratyush' to Nation: for linking of biometric identification Aadhaar projects in the areas of heavy haul, safety, energy, Union Minister of Earth Sciences Dr to small savings schemes like post office environment and urban railways. It is headed by Harsh Vardhan dedicated India’s fastest and first deposits, Kisan Vikas Patra by three months to Prof. NS Vyas of IIT Kanpur as Chairman and multi-petaflops supercomputer to the nation in March 31, 2018. In October, the government Alok Kumar as Co-chairman. Pune. It is set up at a cost of Rs 450 crore. The made 12-digit Aadhaar mandatory for all small supercomputer named as ‘Pratyush’ meaning savings schemes like post office deposits, PPF, the Akshay Kumar to Promote Survekshan 2018: the Sun and it is established at the Indian National Savings Certificate scheme and Kisan Film actor Akshay Kumar has Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune. The Vikas Patra. Already Government has extended partnered with the Brihanmumbai Municipal setup is for improving weather and climate date for linking Aadhaar with PAN and bank Corporation (BMC) to promote cleanliness in forecasts and services under the Ministry of accounts till March 31, 2018. Mumbai as part of the Swachh Survekshan Earth Sciences (MoES). 2018. The Swachh Survekshan 2018 will rank India will be placed at the 4th position Gujarat Tops Logistics Performance Index urban and rural areas of the country on the basis after Japan, UK and USA for dedicated High Chart of cleanliness. Performance Computing resources for Gujarat has topped the logistics index It will be carried out between January 4 weather/climate community, from its 7th position chart, according to a Report released by Union to March 10 by the Union Ministry of Housing at present. Minister for Commerce & Industry. The report and Urban Affairs. The objective of this survey • The constituency of Shri Harshvardhan: was released by Minister for Commerce & is to create awareness amongst all the sections of Chandni Chowk, Delhi Industry Suresh Prabhu in New Delhi. It is society about working towards making towns and based on indicators such as infrastructure, cities a better place to live in. Union Government launches e-Sansad and e- services, safety of cargo, timeliness, track and Vidhan: trace. Union Sports Minister Rathore Launches The Union Ministry of Parliamentary The second place is occupied by ‘Khelo India’ Logo: Affairs (MoPA) proposed rolling out of e-Sansad Punjab, followed by Andhra Pradesh and The Union Minister of Youth Affairs and in Parliament and e-Vidhan in State Legislatures. Jammu and Kashmir was in last spot. Among 22 Sports, Col. Rajyavardhan Rathore launched It is established under “Digital India” to make states, Gujarat is followed by Punjab, Andhra the simple yet vibrant Khelo India logo at the the functioning of Parliament and State Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra on the Nehru Stadium in New Delhi. The three-stroke Legislatures paperless. It was announced by index. Among the Union Territories, Daman & Diu Khelo India logo was designed by Ogilvy India. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth occupied the top slot followed by Delhi and The twin objectives of Khelo India are mass Kumar. Chandigarh. participation and promotion of excellence in These projects will make the functioning sports. Khelo India School Games will begin from of Parliament and State Legislatures participative, Indian Railways Launches Online Vendor January 31, 2018. responsive, transparent, productive and more Registration System accountable. This environment friendly initiative is Research Designs & Standards Organisation (RDSO), the research arm of Ministry

|Legend Magazine | January - 2018| 3 of Railways, has launched “New Online Vendor India as well as three micro and 25 nano satellites showed an increase of over 25 per cent in Registration System”. Indian Railways has an from six countries -- Canada, Finland, France, December. annual procurement bill of Rs 50,000 crore every Korea, the United Kingdom and United States of year. This new system provides major America. West Bengal has highest number of MSMEs: improvements and big changes in the registration ISRO West Bengal has the highest number system over the earlier system. • Headquarters: Bengaluru of MSMEs in the country with 52,69,814 units. • Research Designs & Standards • Director: M Annadurai Bengal has been accounted for 11.62 percent of Organisation (RDSO) is headquartered micro, small and medium enterprises, the most in Lucknow. Ministry of Railway launches SFOORTI App: among the top 10 states of the country.Uttar • Minister of Railways & Coal: Shri Piyush Ministry of Railways have launched Pradesh ranked second after West Bengal, Goyal Smart Freight Operation Optimisation & Real followed by Maharashtra. Gujarat stood eighth Time Information (SFOORTI) App for Freight with 4.89 percent of the MSME share. Government to raise Territorial Army Managers. It is a major digital initiative to plan the West Bengal also tops the list of the battalion to clean Ganga: traffic flows and optimize freight operations. Department of Industrial Policy and The Central government has sanctioned With this application, movement of freight trains Promotion’s Business Reforms Action Plan the raising of a Territorial Army (TA) battalion on Geographic Information System (GIS) (BRAP) 2017. comprising ex-servicemen of the Army. It is view can be tracked. Both passenger and freight In 2017, West Bengal also recorded the biggest formed as part of Clean Ganga mission by trains can be tracked over through this application. bank credit flow to the MSME sector in the last 2020.It has been named as Composite Ecological five years at USD 15 billion. Task Force (CETF) for National Mission for Clean 4th ASEAN-India Ministerial Meeting on Ganga (NMCG). Agriculture & Forestry: Central Govt sanctions projects over Rs. The CETF battalion will be started in The ASEAN Ministers of Agriculture and 10,000 cr for North East: Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh and the government Forestry and the Union Minister of Agriculture and The Centre has sanctioned projects over has allocated Rs 167 crore under NMCG. Farmers’ Welfare, Government of India, held our 10,000 crore rupees in the North East for Fourth ASEAN-India Ministerial Meeting on better network connectivity. National Anthem Not Mandatory in Cinema Agriculture and Forestry (AIMMAF) in New Telecommunication Minister Manoj Sinha Halls: Supreme Court: Delhi, India. It would help further deepen and announced that the projects will be completed in The Supreme Court announced playing enhance the ASEAN-India cooperation in food, 2018. Two MoUs have been signed to cover the the national anthem before screening movies in agriculture including animal husbandry and uncovered areas in the North East including cinema halls is not mandatory. The bench was fisheries, and forestry. Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. headed by chief justice Dipak Misra. The Meeting was Co-chaired by E. Two nodal officers has been appointed to Grisada Boonrach, Minister of Agriculture and monitor the progress of the work, announced by UIDAI Introduces ‘Virtual ID’ for Aadhaar Cooperatives, Thailand and H. E. Shri Radha Assam IT Minister Keshab Mahanta. Data: Mohan Singh, Union Minister of Agriculture & The Unique Identification Authority Farmers’ Welfare, Government of India.The 5th Ministry of Petroleum Launches Saksham of India (UIDAI) has introduced a concept of ASEAN-India Ministerial Meeting on 2018 Campaign: 'Virtual ID'. It aims to strengthen privacy and agriculture and forestry to be held in Brunei Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas security of Aadhaar number. The aadhar holder Darussalam in 2019. has been launched ‘Saksham 2018’.It is a can generate from UIDAI website and give for vigorous and high intensity one-month mega various purposes, including SIM verification, HM Rajnath Singh inaugurates two-day campaign of Petroleum Conservation Research instead of sharing the actual 12-digit biometric International Workshop on Disaster Resilient Association (PCRA). Saksham aims at creating ID. Infrastructure: focused attention on fuel conservation through The Virtual ID will be a temporary 16 Union Home Minister, Shri Rajnath people centric activities and efficient use of digit random number mapped to a person’s Singh will inaugurate a two-day International petroleum products leading to better health and Aadhaar number. From June 1, 2018 it will be Workshop on Disaster Resilient environment. PCRA plans to observe Cycle Day compulsory for all agencies that undertake Infrastructure (IWDRI) in New Delhi. The on 21st January throughout the country. authentication to accept the Virtual ID from their workshop is organised by the National Disaster users Management Authority (NDMA) in collaboration India Test-Fires Nuclear-Capable ICBM Agni- UIDAI with United Nations Office for Disaster Risk V: • Headquarters: New Delhi Reduction (UNISDR). This workshop aims to India test fired Intercontinental surface • UIDAI Chief Executive Officer take this dialogue on Disaster Resilient to surface nuclear capable ballistic missile Agni- (CEO):Ajay Bhushan Pandey Infrastructure and global cooperation further. V. It was launched from Abdul Kalam Island off the Odisha coast. It can even reach the northern- ISRO successfully launches its 100th India’s exports grow by 12.36 in December most parts of China with its strike range of over satellite: to USD 27.03 billion: 5,000-km.The Strategic Forces Command is Indian space agency ISRO launched The Country’s exports grew by 12.36 responsible for the management and its 100th satellite along with 30 others in a single per cent in December, 2017 to 27.03 billion US administration of the country's tactical and mission. Thirty-one spacecrafts, including dollars on account of strong performance by strategic nuclear weapons stockpile. weather observation Cartosat-2 series sectors like engineering goods and petroleum satellite were launched by PSLV-C40. products. According to data released by Ministry 65th Meeting of CABE Held in New Delhi: Out of the 31, 28 satellites are foreign, of Commerce and Industry, Exports of The second day of the 65th Meeting of while three are from India. The other satellites engineering goods as well as petroleum products the Central Advisory Board of Education comprise one micro and nano satellite each from (CABE) was held in New Delhi. It was held under

|Legend Magazine | January - 2018| 4 the Chairmanship of Union Human Resource The Ministry of Electronics and India-ASEAN Business & Investment Development Minister Shri Prakash Javadekar. Information Technology (MeitY), announced the Conference Held in New Delhi: The Central Advisory Board of Education, the Cyber Surakshit Bharat initiative. It was India-ASEAN oldest and the most important advisory body of launched in association with National e- business and investment conference held the Government of India in education was first Governance Division (NeGD) and industry in New Delhi ahead of the landmark established in 1920. partners. The initiative is to strengthen the cyber commemorative summit. In the security ecosystem in India and it also aims to conference, Commerce Minister Suresh Central Govt and CII Inks pact for 'Digital India'. Cyber Surakshit Bharat aims to Prabhu stresses enhanced connectivity via land Development of Logistics Sector: conduct a series of training programs in the next to strengthen trade ties. Silver jubilee of India- A Memorandum of Understanding was six months across India. ASEAN partnership is being celebrated in New signed with Confederation of Indian Industry • Minister of State for Electronics & Delhi on the 25th January with an unprecedented (CII) in the presence of Commerce and Information Technology and Tourism: summit meet. Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu. To enhance Shri K J Alphons import and export performance, the Centre has • National e-Governance Division (NeGD) Tata Steel to organize 7th Asia Steel Summit: entrusted the task of integrated development of President & CEO: Shri. Sanjeev Gupta The 7th Asia Steel International the logistics sector to the Department of Conference will be held in Bhubaneswar from Commerce. The Centre has decided to reduce the HM Rajnath Singh launches Bharat Ke Veer February 6 to 9. Tata Steel, in association with the logistics cost from current 14 percent of GDP to anthem: Indian Institute of Metals, announced it. The less than 10 percent by 2022. Home Minister Rajnath Singh has last Asia Steel conference was held in 2015 launched Bharat Ke Veer anthem and also a at Yokohama, Japan. This major conference is Govt announces name of nine more smart short film on India’s brave hearts. Bharat Ke held every three years and provides a platform for cities: Veer is a fund to support the families of those exchange of knowledge on various aspects of the Urban Development Minister courageous and brave Indian soldiers belonging to global steel industry. Hardeep Singh Puri announced the name of the eight Central Armed Police Forces, who lost nine more smart cities. Silvassa in Union their lives protecting the nation from terrorists and India to Host 16th International Energy Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli has topped other anti- social elements. The fund is directly Forum Meet: the list of winning cities. Under the scheme, each administered by the Home Ministry and is given The 16th International Energy Forum city will get Rs 500 crore from the Centre for as an annuity or one time grant to the family of (IEF) Ministerial meeting will be held in New implementing various projects. The total proposed the martyred soldier. Delhi in April 2018. According to the investment in 99 Smart Cities will be two lakh Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas three thousand 979 crore rupees. Fourth India International Science Festival to Dharmendra Pradhan, the meeting will be The list of 9 new smart cities: be held in Lucknow: hosted by Government of India in New Delhi and 1. Silvassa The fourth edition of the India co-hosted by the Government of China and South 2. Erode International Science Festival will be held in Korea.

3. Diu Lucknow. It was decided at the first preparatory 4. Biharsharif meeting for the 4th India International Science The Management Information System (MIS) 5. Bareilly Festival (IISF) chaired by Union Minister for portal for Anganwadi Services Training 6. Itanagar Science & Technology, Environment, Forest & Programme launched by WCD Ministry: 7. Moradabad Climate Change and Earth Sciences, Dr. Harsh Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child 8. Saharanpur Vardhan. The 1st IISF was held at Indian Institute Development, Shri Rakesh Srivastava launched 9. Kavaratti of Technology (IIT) New Delhi. the Management Information System (MIS) portal for Anganwadi Services Training Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan 63rd Filmfare Awards 2018: Complete List of Programme in New Delhi. The Ministry of Women crosses 1 crore mark: Winners: and Child Development in collaboration with Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva The 63rd Jio Filmfare Awards 2018, National Informatics Centre (NIC), has developed Abhiyan (PMSMA) has crossed one crore mark was held at the NSCI Dome in Worli, Mumbai. a Management Information System (MIS) in antenatal check-ups. More than one crore Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari won the Best Director portal for submitting applications/estimates by antenatal check-ups have been conducted under award for 'Bareilly Ki Barfi'. 'Hindi Medium' NGOs for carrying out Anganwadi Services (ICDS) the ambitious Pradhan. It was announced by Film bagged the Best Film Award and Irrfan Training through AWTCs/MLTCs. The first phase of Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Khan got in Best Actor (Male) award for 'Hindi the portal will enable NGOs to submit proposal to Shri J P Nadda. Medium' Film. Vidya Balan bagged Best Actor the respective States/UTs. The PMSMA programme was launched in Award (Female) for 'Tumhari Sulu'. 2016 to fulfil his vision and ensure comprehensive and quality antenatal check-ups to pregnant Ramayana festival begins with an aim to RRS for Scheme for Adolescent Girls: women across India. enhance India-ASEAN ties: Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA) Ramayana Festival, marking 25 years of The Secretary of Ministry of Women has provided quality antenatal check-ups to the Indo-ASEAN ties began in New Delhi.The and Child Development Shri Rakesh pregnant women on the 9th of every month. five-day festival is organised by Indian Council Srivastava launched the Phase -1 i.e. the • Shri J P Nadda is the member of the for Cultural Relations.The festival seeks to beneficiary module of the Rapid Reporting Rajya Sabha from Himachal Pradesh. underline the common cultural heritage and System for the Scheme for Adolescent Girls. It India's friendship with ASEAN nations. is a web based online monitoring for the Scheme for Adolescent Girls in New Delhi. MEITY launches Cyber Surakshit Bharat:

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This Portal has been developed in directional Zojila Tunnel in Jammu & Kashmir. The Government Counselor Minister Carmen Walker collaboration with National Informatics Centre total capital cost of the project is Rs 6808.69 crore. Spah for sister state relation (NIC). The URL for the portal is http://sag- This would be India’s longest road The agreement will further strengthen rrs.nic.in. tunnel and the longest bi-directional tunnel in economic and scientific relations between Asia. The construction of this tunnel will provide all the two governments in the areas such as Prime Minister’s Shram Award for 2016: weather connectivity between Srinagar, Kargil and Information and Communication Technology, The GOI announced the Prime Leh. Environmental Technology, Life Sciences and Minister’s Shram Awards for the year 2016.It Urban and Regional Development. will be awarded to the 50 workers. The award Labour Ministry plans to issue UWIN Cards: Andhra Pradesh was given by Ministry of Labour and The labour ministry will begin a drive in • Capital: Hyderabad Employment every year.Shram Awards are given April to register over 47 crore unorganised sector • Chief Minister: N. Chandrababu Naidu in four categories namely ‘Shram Ratna Award’, workers and provide them with Unorganised • Governor: E. S. L. Narasimhan ‘Shram Bhushan Award’ ( Rs. 1,00,000 cash Worker Index Number or UWIN Card. prize), ‘Shram Vir/Shram Virangana’( Rs. It aims to bring them under the social ARUNACHAL PRADESH 60,000 cash prize)and ‘Shram Shree/Shram security net and it also to provide them benefits of Arunachal Pradesh Declared Open Defecation Devi Awards’( Rs. 40,000 cash prize).This year various social security schemes run by Free State: no nomination was given for the ‘Shram Ratna retirement fund body EPFO and state health Arunachal Pradesh emerged as the Award’ category. insurer ESIC. The UWIN Card would have unique second State in the Northeast, after Sikkim, to be number which would be seeded with Aadhaar. declared Open Defecation Free. Arunachal has Govt announces 4 new schemes to promote 21 districts and the national deadline for OPF is young scientist: 10 ASEAN leaders attend India’s Republic October 2, 2019. The government has announced four Day celebration: The milestone was achieved after the new schemes to promote young scientists and The Country celebrates its 69th Republic state announced an incentive of Rs 8,000 (per researchers in the country. The Science and Day on 26th January in Rajpath, New Delhi. toilet) in addition to the Rs 12,000-grant Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan The heads of ten ASEAN countries are chief provided by the Centre for building toilets. In announced the schemes. guests at this Republic Day. The family members October 2017 Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, It includes Teacher Associate ship for of Corporal Jyoti Prakash Nirala Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Haryana were Research Excellence (TARE) Scheme, (Posthumous) of the Indian Air Force (IAF) declared open defecation free states. The project Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship, received India’s highest peacetime gallantry was undertaken under Swachh Bharat Mission Distinguished Investigator Award, award, Ashok Chakra. (Gramin) SBM. Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating India International Seafood Show (IISS) Research (AWSAR). The schemes focus on youth 2018: India’s Second FTII to be set up in Arunachal to empower, recognise and motivate them. The 21st edition of India Pradesh: International Seafood Show begins in Goa. Union Government sets up second Film Sushma Swaraj Inaugurates Bharat-ASEAN India’s best marine products will be showcased for and Television Institute in Arunachal Pradesh Maitri park in Delhi: buyers from around the world. Industry leaders announced by Union Minister of Development The External Affairs Minister Sushma and experts will focus on policies, market trends, of North Eastern Region Jitendra Singh.This Swaraj inaugurated the Bharat-ASEAN Maitri technology and roadmaps to achieve an export was a part of improving the potential of the North Park in the national capital, a day ahead of the target of US$10 billion by 2022. Eastern region. ASEAN-India Commemorative Summit. ASEAN • Theme: “Safe and Sustainable The first Film and Television Institute Secretary General Le Luong Minh attended the Seafood from India” of India (FTII) was set up in Pune.FTII is an event, held at the Tughlaq Crescent, in the heart autonomous institute operating under the of Lutyens' Delhi. STATES/UT Information and Broadcasting Ministry. The ‘Bharat Asean Maitri Park’ is ANDHRA PRADESH developed by the New Delhi Municipal Andhra Pradesh launches Bhoodhar card: Arunachal Pradesh: CM Khandu Inaugurates Corporation (NDMC). Andhra Pradesh government plans to World War II Memorial Museum at Jairampur Association of Southeast Asian Nations - introduce ‘Bhoodhar card’ for a digital record of In Arunachal Pradesh Chief ASEAN each individual’s land holdings with a particular Minister Pema Khandu inaugurated the • Headquarters: Jakarta, Indonesia number. The status of the land could be found out World War II Memorial Museum at Changlang • Members: Thailand, Vietnam, with ease and at the same time there would be District in Jairampur. The war memorial has the Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, safeguards to ensure data security. It was collection of the remnants of World War 2, Singapore, Myanmar (Burma), announced by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. personal belongings of the soldiers and other Cambodia, Laos, Brunei. Chandrababu Naidu. persons involved. The museum also showcases traditional items from local Tangsa community. Ministry of Road Transport & Highways inks Andhra Pradesh-Zurich Sign Sister State The museum is built through funding from Union with IL&FS: Agreement: Ministry of Culture for Rs 2.25 crores and A MoU was signed between National The Andhra Pradesh Government and executed by state PWD. Highways and Infrastructure Development the Canton of Zurich signed a letter of intent, to Arunachal Pradesh Corporation (NHIDCL) under the Ministry of Road promote mutual prosperity and • Capital: Itanagar Transport & Highways, and M/S IL&FS development. The agreement was signed in the • Chief Minister: Pema Khandu Transportation Networks Ltd. It is for the presence of Chief Minister Naidu by Finance • Governor: Brigadier BD Mishra construction of the 14.150 km long, 2-lane bi- Minister Yanamala Ramakrishnudu and ASSAM:

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Assam Gets Rs 1,250 Cr Central Fund for India’s 1st Garbage Festival Organised in The Haryana state government set to Inland Water Transport: Chhattisgarh: implement the integrated solar based micro Union Minister Nitin Gadkari The Raipur Municipal Corporation in irrigation scheme (ISBMI) in all districts of the announced that Rs. 1,250 crore has been Chhattisgarh organised the three-day Kachra State. A committee has been constituted under sanctioned for overall development of inland Mahotsav 2018, India’s first Garbage Festival. the Chairmanship of Haryana Renewable water transport of Assam. Infrastructural The festival aimed to increase awareness, use the Energy Development Agency (HAREDA) development will also be brought about at the waste generated in the city creatively, and to chairman. terminals at Bogibeel, Nematighat, Kamalabari, showcase multiple techniques for reusing things At present, it is implemented on pilot Silghat, Jogighopa, Silchar, Dhubri and Pandu. that are labelled as garbage. basis in 14 different canal outlets spread over 13 Chhattisgarh districts of the state at a cost of Rs 24.65 crore. First Draft of NRC released in Assam: • Capital: Raipur Solar based micro irrigation system would not only The first part draft of the National • Chief Minister: Raman Singh save electricity and water considerably but also Register of Citizens (NRC) for Assam prove to be economical for the farmers. • Governor: Balram Das Tandon recognises 19 million people out of a total 32.9 • Agriculture Minister of Haryana: Om million applicants recognised as Indian citizens. Prakash Dhankar GOA NRC was released by Registrar General of India Haryana launches High Risk Pregnancy Goa set to host third edition of Science Film Sailesh. The NRC is being updated for the first portal: Festival: time after 1951 with the aim of removing those Haryana becomes the first state in the Goa will be hosting the third edition of who may have entered the state from Bangladesh country to launch High Risk Pregnancy (HRP) the Science Film Festival of India. The festival, after March 25, 1971. Assam is the only state in Portal. This portal helps in early identification titled SCI-FFI Goa, is being organised by the India that has an NRC. of high-risk pregnant cases up to the basic state-based Vidnyan Parishad, Goa’s Department Assam level and also ensures their timely referral to of Science and Technology, the Entertainment • Capital: Dispur the civil hospitals for further management Society of Goa and the Goa College of Art. Total • Chief Minister: Sarbananda Sonowal and delivery by specialists. It had been prize money is Rs.1 lakh. It aims to boost the • Governor: Jagdish Mukhi initiated by the Niti Ayog and the Union ministry culture of science films. of health and family welfare. This initiative will Goa BIHAR definitely increase the pace of decline in • Capital: Panaji President to inaugurate International Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR), Infant • Chief Minister: Manohar Parrikar Dharma Dhamma conference: Mortality Rate (IMR). • Governor: Mridula Sinha President Ram NathKovind to • Haryana Health Minister: Anil vij inaugurate 4th International Dharma-Dhamma GUJARAT Conference on the theme"State and Social Panipat to get country's first smart grid Uttarayan festival: Gujarat govt bans bird Order in Dharma-Dhamma Traditions" at project: care NGOs Rajgir in Nalanda district, Bihar. The India’s first smart grid project to be The Animal Husbandry department of conference has been jointly organised by India setup in Panipat, Haryana.The project has been the state government has banned all voluntary Foundation, Nalanda University, Ministry of established in collaboration with a Japanese animal care and non-government organisations External Affairs, Asean-India and Vietnamese company, New Energy Industrial Technology working under the ‘Karuna Abhiyan’ to operate Buddhist Sangha. and Development Organisation (NEDO).It is in residential areas during the Uttarayan It is aimed to facilitate share ideas, planned to build at the cost of about Rs 145 festival. The practice of using abrasive thread for values and foster harmony at the global level.The crore. kite flying during the festival poses a threat to the event is being organised as part of the Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar birds. To curb these injuries, more than 40 commemorative events to celebrate the Silver along with the Japanese Ambassador to India and organisations have been working for the treatment Jubilee year of ASEAN-India Dialogue Yoshi Peru Sato, executive director of NEDO of birds, especially during Uttarayan. Partnership. inaugurated the project.In Total, 14 smart grid Gujarat projects had been allotted across the country and • Capital: Gandhinagar Bihar CM Nitish Kumar launches schemes the first project had been established in Panipat • Chief Minister: Vijay Rupani worth over Rs.200 crore city in collaboration with NEDO. • Governor: Om Prakash Kohli Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Haryana visited Rohtas and Bhojpur districts of the state as • Capital: Chandigarh HARYANA part of his state-wide 'Vikas Samiksha Yatra'. • Chief Minister: Manohar Lal Khattar Haryana Government launches ‘Bhavantar The Chief Minister inaugurated and laid foundation • Governor: Kaptan Singh Solanki Bharpayee Yojana’ for vegetable growers: stones of around 250 schemes, worth over 200 The Haryana government has crore rupees, at a village in Jagdishpur block of launched ‘Bhavantar Bharpayee Yojana’, Bhojpur. Recently, Amethi panchayat of the assuring farmers of fair prices for their produce Sanjhauli block of Rohtas have been declared ODF and emphasising on diversification of crops. A open defecation free. separate fund would be constituted by the state Bihar government for this scheme. The farmers would • Capital: Patna have to get themselves registered on Bhavantar • Chief Minister: Nitish Kumar Bharpayee website or in the office of Haryana • Governor: Satya Pal Malik State Agricultural Marketing Board.

CHHATTISGARH Haryana to implement Integrated Solar Based Micro Irrigation scheme:

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Himachal CM Launches 'Shakti' App: improve the State’s visibility in the tourism • Capital: Tiruvanantapuram Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai market. • Chief Minister: Pinarayi Vijayan Ram Thakur launched ‘Shakthi’ app. The app It is the “largest B2B travel event in • Governor: Sathasivam has been launched for a quick police response India”, and it will provide a platform for over 400 cases of crimes against women. The mobile app registered buyers and media representatives from MADHYA PRADESH linked to police control rooms for ensuring the over 25 countries. The programme will be held at Madhya Pradesh introduces tourism plan safety of women in the state. the Bangalore International Exhibition worth Rs 100 Crore: He also launched the 'GUDDIYA' helpline Centre. Government introduces a scheme number 1515 and the 'Hoshiyar Singh' helpline • Minister for Tourism, IT and BT worth Rs. 100 crore to ensure better facilities for number 1090. It was designed by the National (Karnataka):Priyank Kharge the tourists visiting the state announced by Informatics Centre (NIC), Himachal Pradesh. Madhya Pradesh Tourism Minister Surendra Himachal Pradesh Seventh Edition of Rashtriya Sanskriti Patwa. The plan is aimed at providing better • Capital: Shimla Mahotsav begins in Karnataka: facilities for the people visiting the state. Religious • Chief Minister: Jai Ram Thakur The seventh edition of the Rashtriya tourism is increasing in the state and first priority • Governor: Acharya Dev Vrat Sanskriti Mahotsav, under the Ek Bharat will be given to all the religious places in the state. Shreshtha Bharat matrix, begins in Karnataka. Madhya Pradesh JAMMU AND KASHMIR The event was organised by the Ministry of • Capital: Bhopal Centre & J&K govt agree to use education as Culture. The state paired with Karnataka is • Chief Minister: Shivraj Singh Chouhan tool to bring normalcy to state: Uttarakhand. • Governor: Anandiben Patel Centre and Jammu and The Union Minister of State for Culture

Kashmir Government have resolved to use (I/C) and Environment, Dr. Mahesh Sharma MAHARASHTRA education as a tool to bring normalcy to the inaugurated the event. The Ek Bharat Shreshtha Maharashtra sanctions Rs.14,240 crore for state. The Central and State Governments signed Bharat programme was launched in 2017 to farmloan waiver scheme: a Memorandum of Understanding at the 65th promote engagement among the people of Maharashtra government allocated Central Advisory Board of Education different states to enhance mutual understanding Rs.14,240 crore for the farmloan waiver (CABE) meeting in New Delhi. and bonding. scheme and for repayment to farmers whose The two governments have planned a Karnataka produce was purchased by the State. The state’s number of measures, including an exchange • Capital: Bengaluru cooperation and marketing department issued a programme, setting up ICT and digital • Chief Minister: Siddaramaiah Government Resolution for the allocation of Rs platforms in the state’s schools. • Governor: Vajubhai Vala 14,240 crore for the Chhatrapati Shivaji The roadmap will be implemented in three Maharaj Shetkari Sanman Yojana – the loan years with the goal of bringing a major KERALA waiver scheme. The total outlay of the scheme improvement in learning levels of students by Canal-top solar plant to be commissioned in would be Rs. 34,020 crore. 2020. Kochi Airport:

Jammu and Kashmir In August 2015, the Cochin Maharashtra announced Rs. 500 fine for open Capital: Srinagar International Airport Ltd, which runs the airport • defecation: of Kochi, Kerala, commissioned its 12 MW solar • Chief Minister: Mehbooba Mufti According to the Maharashtra power plant, it earned the distinction of • Governor: NarinderNath Vohra Government Resolution (GR) issued by the urban becoming the world’s first airport to meet all of its development, the state govt has announced a electricity requirements from solar. To retain its KARNATAKA sport fine of Rs. 500 for open defecation. From distinction as a fully solar-powered airport, Karnataka Govt to obtain electric vehicles now on, any person or institutions found guilty of CIAL has alongside been expanding its solar under FAME-India scheme: throwing garbage, dirt or waste material on roads power capacity. Part of the expansion is a 6-MW Karnataka has received the approval for and highways shall have to pay spot fines ranging canal-top solar project, on the Chengaltodu canal purchase of electric vehicles from the from Rs. 150 to Rs. 180. which runs through the airport. Department of Heavy Industries of the Union Anyone found spitting in public places will The project is one of the larger canal- Government under FAME India Scheme. Under have to pay spot fines ranging from Rs 100 to Rs top projects in the country and was built for the scheme, a subsidy is provided to an extent 150 while urinating in public will attract spot fines CIAL by Bosch Energy and Building Solutions, of 60 percent of the purchase cost for electric ranging from 100 to 200 rupees. On 1 October part of Bosch India, for 6.25 crore a MW. buses, Rs 1.24 lakh for every Electric four- 2017, President Ram Nath Kovind had declared wheeler and Rs 61,000 for every electric three- entire urban Maharashtra as open India’s 1st ever International Dam Safety wheeler by the central government. defecation-free. Conference kicked off: FAME-India: Faster Adoption and India’s first ever International Dam Manufacturing of Hybrid & Electric Vehicles in Women leadership summit at IIM: Safety Conference kicked India (FAME-India) India scheme. It aims to The 4th Annual Women Leadership off in Tiruvanantapuram inaugurated by Chief protect the environment, save fossil fuel, ensure Summit will be held at IIM-Bangalore. It is Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Two-day conference public health and achieve sustainability goals. organised by the student-run Women in aims to discuss several issues plaguing dam Management Club (WIM) of IIM-Bangalore. The safety. Challenges in dam safety management Largest B2B Travel Event ‘KITE’ in theme for 2018 is 'Redefining Power for a across the globe, an overview of the centrally- Karnataka: Newer Tomorrow'. Diversity issues prevalent to funded Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement The Karnataka government announced both men and women will be discussed during the Project and World Bank initiatives are some of the that ‘Karnataka International Travel Expo’ summit. issues that will be discussed at the conference. (KITE) will be held from February 28. It aims to Kerala

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Johnson and Johnson partners with Meghalaya will host 39th National Games: The state government launched Odisha e- Maharashtra Govt: Meghalaya signed the Host City Hospital Management Information Johnson and Johnson partners with Contract with the Indian Olympic Association System (OeHMIS) to provide a computerized Maharashtra Govt on health interventions. (IOA) for hosting the 39th National Games in platform for online recording of clinical Maharashtra’s mine workers who face an 2022. A cheque of Rs 4.5 crore was handed over parameters of patients and reporting of increased risk of tuberculosis will be part of to the IOA as bid money for the Games. The state performance criteria of hospitals. According to the awareness programmes. J&J India will organize government had earlier paid Rs 50 lakh. The cost system, patients can be registered online and can skill development programmes for nurses, along of the bid is Rs 5 crore. The tripartite contract view and download their individual electronic with activities including training to provide care to was signed between the IOA, the Meghalaya State health records at their doorstep through web infants in nine disricts. Olympic Association and the state government. portal or mobile application. This system will be Meghalaya had made the bid to host the piloted at Capital Hospital at Bhubaneswar Maharashtra becomes the first state to 39th National Games after successfully co-hosting and SCB Medical College Hospital at Cuttack. launch public cloud policy: the South Asian Games in 2017. The project was launched by the state Maharashtra has come out with a Indian Olympic Association, Secretary government with the technical support of Centre public cloud policy virtually mandating its General: Rajiv Mehta for Development of Advanced departments to shift their data storage onto the Meghalaya Computing(CDAC), Noida. As estimated cost cloud. Under the framework, government will • Capital: Shillong of 14.16 crore has been allocated under the state make it mandatory for the data to be stored within • CM: Mukul Sangma budget for implementation of project. The the country. The policy will be applicable till 2022. • Governor: Ganga Prasad government has set a target to complete the The objectives of the policy are to attract project within two years. Rs.5,000 crore investment in the development ODISHA Odisha of incubation and NABARD provides Rs 10,000 cr assistance to • Capital: Bhubaneswar Start-ups. Odisha: • Chief Minister: Naveen Patnaik The National Bank for Agriculture • Governor: S.C. Jamir Maharashtra gives nod to Rs 4,000-cr climate and Rural Development (NABARD) has resilient agri project: provided financial assistance of Rs 10,000 crore PUDUCHERRY The Maharashtra government has to Odisha till Q3. During the entire previous Inauguration of Post Office Passport Seva approved a Rs 4,000-crore project aimed at fiscal, the total assistance was Rs 14,715 crore. Kendra (POPSK) at Karaikal by EAM: promoting climate-resilient agriculture. The The NABARD has so far extended Rs 4,861 crore The Post Office Passport Seva project has been named as the Nanaji to cooperative banks for production of crops by Kendra (POPSK) at Karaikal in the Union Deshmukh Krishi Sanjivani Yojana. about 3 million farmers in the state. Territory (UT) of Puducherry was inaugurated It will be implemented in 5,142 villages Since inception of the Rural by Smt. Sushma Swaraj, Hon’ble Minister for across 15 districts. In the the total cost of the Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) in External Affairs at a function presided over by Shri project is Rs 4,000 crore, 70 percent of which will 1995-96, the NABARD has sanctioned cumulative V. Narayanaswamy, Hon’ble Chief Minister of be borne by the World Bank while the state will financial assistance of about Rs 19,950 crore to Puducherry. contribute 30 percent over six years. It will roll Odisha resulting in implementation of about 2.24 This POPSK will be under the out in 2018-19 and continue till 2023-24. lakh projects. administrative jurisdiction of the Passport Office at Chennai. The POPSK at Karaikal is the first Maharashtra launches scheme for family NABARD Sanctioned Rs 372.51 crore to POPSK to become operational in the UT of members of martyrs: Odisha: Puducherry. It is the 60th POPSK to have The Maharashtra government has The National Bank for Agriculture become functional since the launch of the scheme launched `Balasaheb Thackeray Shaheed and Rural Development (NABARD) has in January 2017. Sanmaan' scheme. Under the scheme family sanctioned Rs 372.51 crore loan assistance. It Puducherry members of martyrs would be provided jobs with was sanctioned under the Rural Infrastructure • Capital: Puducherry the Maharashtra State Road Transport Development Fund (RIDF) to Odisha towards • Prime Minister: Narayanaswamy Corporation (MSRTC). The wives of martyrs irrigation and rural bridge projects. In Total, • Lieutenant Governor: Kiran Bedi would also be provided with lifetime free bus NABARD has provided financial assistance of Rs passes. 10,000 crore to Odisha by the end of the third PUNJAB The scheme was announced in the quarter of the current financial year. Punjab inks MoU with IOC to set up biogas, presence of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis bio-CNG plants: and Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray. Mukhyamantri Kalakar Sahayata Yojana The Punjab government signed a MSRTC also launched 'Sleeper Shiv-shahi' buses (MMKSY) in Odisha: Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with at the programme held at the ST bus depot in Odisha govt. has launched the Indian Oil Corporation to set up bio-gas Mumbai Central. The MSRTC also launched a Mukhyamantri Kalakar Sahayata Yojana and bio-CNG plants in the state. The MoU with scheme for the youth in the Naxal-affected (MMKSY) for artists. Under this yojana artists IOC was signed by Punjab Bureau of Industrial areas, under which driving training schools would will receive a financial assistance of Rs. 1200 per Promotion (PBIP) and Punjab Energy be started for them. month. Under this scheme, male artists with Development Agency (PEDA) in the presence of Maharashtra minimum 50 years of age and female artists with Chief Minister Amarinder Singh. The project will be • Capital: Mumbai minimum 40 years of age can avail the financial initiated with 42 plants becoming operational • Chief Minister: Devendra Fadnavis assistance under this scheme. in 2018 • Governor: Vidyasagar Rao

Odisha government launches OeHMIS 'Mahatma Gandhi Sarbat Vikas Yojana' MEGHALAYA project: benefits launched in Punjab:

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Punjab chief minister launched the • Chief Minister: Vasundhara Raje • Headquarters: New Delhi release of benefits under 'Mahatma Gandhi • Governor: Kalyan Singh • CEO: B. C. Tripathi Sarbat Vikas Yojana'. The objective was to give the distressed sections the help they need, socially SIKKIM International Balloon Festival begins in TN: or economically or psychologically. It was also AR Rahman Becomes Sikkim’s Brand The fourth edition of the Tamil Nadu launched with the motto “Wipe every tear from Ambassador: International Balloon Festival will be held in every eye” as imagined by Mahatma Gandhi. Music composer AR Rahman became Pollachi near Coimbatore. Twelve hot-air PUNJAB the brand ambassador of Sikkim. The balloons from six countries — the US, Belgium, the • Capital: Chandigarh declaration was made by Sikkim CM Pawan Netherlands, France, Poland and Germany — will • Chief Minister: Amarinder Singh Kumar Chamling.It was announced during an be showcased at the festival. It will also feature inauguration of the 11-day Sikkim Red Panda Tamil Nadu Tourism Department’s ‘2.0’ balloon • Governor: P. Singh Badnore Winter Carnival at Palzor Stadium in and those on angry birds.

Gangtok.The introduction of A R Rahman asBrand It is organised by media company Global RAJASTHAN ambassador is to improve Sikkim tourism.He Media Box and The Slaves, a Pollachi-based PM to commence Barmer refinery project: will now be campaigning for Sikkim to attract restaurant, with the support of the State Tourism Prime Minister would announce tourists and business for the state. Department and Adhiban Fincorp. construction of a refinery at Barmer in Minister of Tourism, Sikkim: Ugen T Gyatso Rajasthan. The project will be started at an Bhutia Boeing to set up P-8I anti-sub aircraft estimated cost of Rs. 43,129 crore project.It will Sikkim training unit in TN: be located in Pachpadra, Barmer in • Capital: Gangtok Boeing will set up a training facility for its P- Rajasthan.The project will be completed by • Chief Minister: Pawan Kumar 8I warfare aircraft at the naval air station INS 2022-23.The equity share of HPCL is 74% and Chamling Rajali, near Arakkonam in Tamil Nadu.The Government of Rajasthan is 26%. • Governor: Shriniwas Dadasaheb Patil 60,000-sq ft facility for P-8I Long Range Maritime

Reconnaissance Anti-Submarine Warfare aircraft Pink City lays the foundation stone for TAMIL NADU will be commissioned by March 2021. The India Homeopathy Research Institute: 171st Araadhanai Music Festival begins in training facility will be the second for Boeing The Minister of State (IC), for AYUSH, Tamil Nadu: globally, the first one being in Australia. Shri Shripad Yesso Naik laid the foundation The 171st Araadhanai Music Festival The P-8I Training Solution, along with 10-year stone for Central Research Institute (CRI) in of one of the Trinities of Carnatic music Saint comprehensive maintenance service, will be Jaipur. This will be the third CRI under the aegis Thyagaraja begins in Thiruvaiyaru, Tamil Nadu. brought from Boeing for Rs.1,949.32 crore. The of Central Council for Research in The festival will be inaugurated by Governor order was cleared by Defence Minister Nirmala Homoeopathy (CCRH), an autonomous body of Banwarilal Purohit. Over 1,000 musicians from Sitharaman. Ministry of AYUSH for undertaking scientific all over the world are expected to pay homage to Tamil Nadu research in Homoeopathy, with 23 institutes Saint Thygaraja during the course of the five-day • Capital: Chennai across the country. festival. • Chief Minister: Edappadi K.

Palaniswami The 2018 Jaipur Literature Festival Begins: Central Govt Releases Rs. 20 crore to Codissia: • Governor: Banwarilal Purohit The annual Jaipur Literature Festival The Union Defence minister Nirmala TELANGANA (JLF) began in Rajasthan.It was inaugurated by Sitharaman has announced the release of Rs. Telangana launches 24-hours free power former Rajasthan governor Margaret Alva and 20 crore to the Coimbatore District Small supply for farmers: British-born American essayist and novelist Pico Industries’ Association (Codissia). It has been The Telangana government launched Iyer.Poetry will be a dominant theme at 2018 JLF. released for setting up a Defence Innovation 24×7 power supply to the state’s 2.3 million The event will be held in Diggi Palace, Amber Fort Centre in Coimbatore. The defence park is to farmers free of cost. The free power supply and Hawa Mahal of Rajasthan. assist small industries in manufacturing scheme was launched at Pothaipalli village in components for the defence sector. The Medchal Malkajgiri districtof Telangana.

establishment comes under make in India Transmission Corporation of Telangana Ltd’s programme for the growth of MSMEs. chairperson and managing director D Prabhakar International spice conference in Jaipur: • Codissia President: V Sundaram Rao and Southern Discom MD Raghuma Reddy formally launched the scheme. The third edition of international India’s second largest rooftop solar plant in spice conference will be held in Jaipur, UP by GAIL: BioAsia to open in Hyderabad: Rajasthan.Arancha Gonzalvez, the Executive State-owned gas utility GAIL India Ltd The 15th edition of BioAsia, the annual Director of International Trade Centre, has commissioned the country’s second largest flagship event of the Government of Telangana, Geneva, will inaugurate the conference.The event rooftop solar power plant in Uttar Pradesh. The will start in Hyderabad.The Theme of the will be jointly hosted by the All India Spices firm has installed a 5.76 MWp (Mega Watt conference is ‘Right Time, Right Now’. Exporters' Forum and Cochin Chamber of peak) solar plant at its petrochemical complex at Ireland, the Netherlands and South Commerce and Industry. The central theme of Pata in Uttar Pradesh. It will generate over 79 Africa will be the international partners while the 2018 conference would be 'Managing lakh kilowatt hour (KWh) of electricity. The Gujarat, Assam and Rajasthan are State Disruptions through Transformation and plant over the roofs of warehouses covers a total partners.BioAsia has emerged as the most Collaboration'. area of 65,000 square meters. Tata Power Solar prominent technology and bio-business • Indian Council of Agricultural Research has commissioned India’s largest solar rooftop convention in Asia for Life sciences, Director General:Trilochan Mohapatra project with 12 MW capacity in Amritsar. pharmaceuticals and healthcare. Rajasthan GAIL • Capital: Jaipur

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Telangana signs MoU with Clean Authority of Adani group to invest Rs. 750 cr in West Tokyo: Bengal US and Japan Joint Military Drill Begins: The government The Adani Group would invest Rs. 750 American and Japanese of Telangana and Clean Authority of Tokyo crore to double the capacity of the company’s militaryforces have launched joint exercises have signed a MoU in the field of municipal solid edible oil refinery at Haldia in West Bengal. “Iron Fist”.The 13th annual Iron Fist exercise waste incineration facilities. And to make an According to Pranav Adani, MD, the Group will begins in the U.S. western state of California.More effort to realize human resource exchanges in view invest in port, agri and power sectors.Adanis have than 500 U.S. Marines and sailors are partnering of technical cooperation in the future. The already doubled the refining capacity from 800 with about 350 members of the Japanese Ground government of Telangana and ISE Foods Inc also tonnes to 1,600 tonnes per day in five years. Self-Defense Force. signed a Letter of Intent in Tokyo. Packaging capacity has also been expanded from Japan Jayesh Ranjan, Principal Secretary, 1,200 tonnes to 1,800 tonnes. • Capital: Tokyo Industries & Commerce (I&C) and Yoshimi • Currency: Yen SATO, Vice President, Clean Authority of Tokyo, First Metro City to Get a Floating Market: • Prime minister: Shinzo Abe signed the MoU in the presence of Rama Rao and Kolkata India’s ambassador in Japan, Sujan R. Kolkata became the first metro city to India contributes $50K to UN Youth Envoy’s Telangana have a floating market. The market was unveiled office: • Capital: Hyderabad by the Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata India has contributed $50,000 to UN • Chief Minister: K. Chandrasekhar Rao Banerjee. The Lake Patuli has been transformed Secretary General Antonio Guterres’s Office of • Governor: E. S. L. Narasimhan into a floating market, which is 500 mts long and Envoy on Youth to help with its mission of 60 mts wide.The aim is to rehabilitate over 200 involving young people in the world body`s goals. UTTARAKHAND shopkeepers from a nearby market that was Paulomi Tripathi, a First Secretary in India`s UN India inks $120 million loan agreement with demolished for the widening of the Eastern Mission, handed over the contribution to the Youth World Bank to fund improved water supply in Metropolitan Bypass. Envoy, Jayathma Wickramanayake. Uttarakhand: West Bengal The Youth Envoy`s mission is to Multilateral lending agency World Bank • Capital: Kolkata promote the engagement of youth and and India inked $ 120 million loan agreement • Chief Minister: Mamata Banerjee advocate for them across all the four pillars of which will help increase access to improved • Governor: Keshari Nath Tripathi the UN`s work – sustainable development, water supply services in peri-urban areas in human rights, peace and security and Uttarakhand. The agreement was signed INTERNATIONAL humanitarian action. between Government of India, Government of Saudi Arabia, UAE introduce VAT for first Uttarakhand and World Bank Board. time: Indian peacekeepers rebuild Akoka Bridge in Uttarakhand Saudi Arabia and the United Arab South Sudan in record time: • Capital: Dehradun Emirates (UAE) introduced the Value Added The bridge in Akoka village in the • Chief Minister: Trivendra Singh Rawat Tax (VAT) for the first time. It is a five percent northern part of the land-locked country in East- tax on most goods and services to boost revenue. Central Africa had been inoperable since last June • Governor: Krishna Kant Paul The VAT will be applied on food, clothes, when heavy rains washed away a 300-metre-long

electronics and gasoline, phone, water and road segment. Rebuilt in record 10 days by the UN WEST BENGAL electricity bills, as well as hotel reservations. Some Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in West Bengal CM unveils State logo with outgoings were exempt from the tax including collaboration with the government, it has greatly Biswa Bangla theme: medical treatment, financial services and public benefited humanitarians, enabling faster aid The West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata transport. delivery as well as security patrol and outreach Banerjee inaugurated its own State symbol.The Analysts project that the two activities by the Mission. logo highlights the Ashoka emblem on the top governments could raise as much as $21 billion with the theme of “Biswa Bangla” at the in 2018, equivalent to 2 percent of GDP. The India attends its first SCO military centre. It was designed by Chief Minister Mamata other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, cooperation meeting: Banerjee herself and it was reviewed by a State Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar have also India for the first time took part in a government committee headed by eminent artist committed to introduce VAT soon. meeting of the international military cooperation Jogen Chowdhury. Many States like Odisha, departments of the Shanghai Cooperation Bihar and Telangana have their own seals and Six Countries Enter UN Security Council: Organisation.An Indian delegation led by Major logos. Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast, General Ajay Seth participated in the

Kuwait, Peru, Poland and the Netherlands meeting.They discussed the issues of practical RIL plans to invest Rs.20,000 crore in West formally joined the ranks of the non-permanent cooperation among SCO nations.The SCO is Bengal: members of the United Nations Security comprised of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Reliance Industries Ltd. chairman and Council. The UN Security Council has fifteen Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India and Pakistan. managing director Mukesh Ambani announced a members, including five with permanent seats SCO investment of Rs.5,000 crore, in addition to the who have the power to reject resolutions – • Headquarters: Beijing, China group’s investments about Rs.15,000 crore made Britain, China, France, Russia and the United • Secretary General: Rashid Alimov in the State.West Bengal figured among the RIL’s States. Recently, six countries left the UN largest investments in India, RIL had also emerged Security Council. The countries are Egypt, Italy, MoS RK Singh Attends ISA Forum in Abu as one of West Bengal’s largest investors. Japan, Senegal, Ukraine and Uruguay. Dhabi: The latest investment is to be made in Jio The International Solar Alliance and the digital ecosystem, retail and petro-retail Forum was held at World Future Energy Summit, over the next few years. Abu Dhabi.Shri Raj Kumar Singh, Minister of

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State (IC) for Power and New & Renewable India’s offering to host the meeting was The seventh edition of Australia India Energy attended the Forum representing India. made after trade ministers from various countries Youth Dialogue with 2018 theme “DIGITAL He announced that $ 350 million Solar including Australia, Japan and Switzerland met in DISRUPTION”. AIYD 2018 will be hosted in Development Fund will be given by the Davos. Ambassador and Permanent Mumbai and Delhi from 21-24 January. Government of India for Solar Projects Financing. Representative to the WTO Deepak Jagdish India would achieve 175 GW target of Saksena attended the informal meeting. India World's largest solar thermal plant to be built installed Renewable Energy capacity well before announced that it will host an informal WTO in South Australia: 2020.The Paris Declaration has established ISA as Ministerial gathering in March. The meeting The world's largest solar-thermal power an alliance dedicated to the promotion of solar would be held in New Delhi. plant has been given development approval by the energy among its member countries. South Australian government. It is a 150- WEF launches Global Centre for megawatt Aurora plant and it will be built by State of emergency extended for another 6 Cybersecurity: utility-scale solar power company Solar months in Turkey In an aim to safeguard the world from Reserve. It will be started in 2018 at an estimated In Turkey, state of emergency has hackers and growing data breaches, the World cost of $509 million. been extended for another six months. According Economic Forum (WEF) announced a new • South Australia's acting energy minister: to Anadolu news agency, Turkey's parliament Global Centre for Cybersecurity. The centre will Chris Picton voted in favour of extending emergency. It is the be headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland and it sixth extension where Turkey has spent a year will become operational from March 2018.It was India becomes member of Australia Group: and a half under emergency rule. announced by Alois Zwinggi, Managing Director India has joined the Australia Group Turkey of WEF. export control regime and has become the 43rd • Capital: Ankara The 48th World Economic Forum Annual Member of that Group. It is an informal forum • Currency: Turkish lira Meeting took place in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, which seeks to ensure that exports do not • Prime Minister: Recep Tayyip Erdogan under the theme “Creating a Shared Future in contribute to the development of chemical or a Fractured World”. biological weapons. India also recently entered PM Modi to leave for Davos, Switzerland to into the Wassenaar Arrangement and the attend 48th annual meeting of the World First India-designed vaccine passes WHO Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR). Economic Forum: test: • Ambassador of Australia to India: Jane Prime Minister Narendra Modi will leave For the first time, rotavac vaccine, Hardy for Davos, Switzerland to attend the 48th entirely developed in India has been “pre- • Australian High Commissioner to India: annual meeting of the World Economic qualified” by the World Health Organisation. Harinder Kaur Sidhu Forum. During the visit, Mr Modi will also hold The Rotavac vaccine protects against childhood Australia bilateral talks with the President of the Swiss diarrhoea caused by the rotavirus. It is developed • Capital: Canberra Confederation, Alain Berset and the Prime by the Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech Limited • Currency: Australian dollar Minister of Sweden Stefan Lofven. Under the and it was included in India’s national • Prime Minister: Malcolm Turnbull theme ‘Creating a shared future in a immunization programme. To be “pre-qualified” Fractured World’, the meeting aims to set an means that the vaccine can be sold internationally BANGLADESH agenda to address political, economic and Social to several countries in Africa and South L&T commissions 360 MW Bheramara power challenges of recent times. It will conclude on America. plant in Bangladesh: January 26th, 2018. Engineering major Larsen & Toubro has The annual meet of the World Economic BBIN pact: India, Bangladesh, Nepal gives commissioned the 360 MW Bheramara power Forum (WEF) takes place every year in January nod for vehicle movement procedure plant in Bangladesh. The Bheramara Combined with an aim to improve the state of the world Bangladesh, India and Nepal have given Cycle Power Plant Development project was economy. WEF is an international organization nod to operating procedures for movement of handed over to North West Power Generation headquartered at Geneva, Switzerland formed passenger vehicles in the sub-region under Company Ltd (NWPGCL), a fully-owned subsidiary in 1971 for public-private cooperation. Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) of Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB). Switzerland motor vehicles agreement. The power plant is based in Bheramara of • Capital: Bern It is a sub-regional agreement to allow Kushtia district in Bangladesh. • Currency: Franc vehicles to enter each other’s territory for • L&T Power CEO & MD: Shailendra Roy passengers, transportation and cargo. The Asian Bangladesh Development Bank (ADB) is providing technical Capital: Dhaka PM Modi holds talks with Thai’s Gen Prayut: • In the India-ASEAN summit, Prime and financial assistance to the BBIN MVA initiative. • Currency: Bangladeshi taka

Minister Narendra Modi held bilateral talks with his counterpart from Thailand Gen Prayut Chan- AUSTRALIA BHUTAN Australia India youth dialogue 2018: India, Bhutan jointly unveil ‘Special logo’: o-cha on strengthening cooperation in strategic areas of trade, defence and security. Modi had also Australia India Youth Dialogue External Affairs Minister (EAM) Sushma (AIYD) is a youth-led dialogue between the young Swaraj and Bhutan’s Minister of Foreign held separate bilateral meetings with Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, Vietnam and emerging leaders of both countries. AIYD Affairs Lyonpo Damcho Dorji jointly unveiled promotes exchange and partnering across the ‘Special logo’ for the Golden Jubilee Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines. organizations by hosting 15 talented young celebrations in New Delhi and Thimphu through minds from each country annually. It also video-conference. The Golden Jubilee of the

India to host informal WTO Ministerial significantly strengthens the Australia-India establishment of formal diplomatic relations bilateral relationship in different arenas. between India and Bhutan is being celebrated in gathering: the year 2018.

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BHUTAN • Chancellor: Angela Merkel building of human resources and collaboration in • Capital: Thimphu the area of Start-ups. • Currencies: Indian rupee, Bhutanese ICELAND ngultrum Iceland Becomes 1st Country to Legalise India, Israel ink nine pacts on cyber security, Equal Pay: other sectors: • Prime Minister: Tshering Tobgay Iceland has stepped up for equality and has To upgrade strategic

become the first country in the world to legalise partnership India and Israel inked nine CAMBODIA equal pay. The country aims to eradicate pacts in key areas. They are India and Cambodia Inks for Bilateral ties gender pay inequality by the year 2022. MoU on Cyber Security Cooperation India and Cambodia signed Four • According to World Economic Forum, Iceland Agreements. They are between India and Israel. already ranks first in terms of global gender • To improve cooperation in prevention, • MoU between the Ministry of Petroleum equality index. In 2017, it bagged the first investigation of crimes and legal and Natural Gas and the Ministry of place for the ninth consecutive year. assistance in criminal matters. Energy on Cooperation in Oil and Gas Iceland • A line of credit from India to fund • Protocol between India and Israel on • Capital: Reykjavik Cambodia’s Stung Sva Hab water Amendments to the Air Transport • Currency: Icelandic krona resources development project for USD Agreement. • Prime Minister: Bjarni Benediktsson 36.92 million. • Agreement on Film-co-production

• On the issues of prevention rescue and between India and Israel. ISRAEL repatriation related to human MoU between the Central Council for India cancels Israel’s $500 million defence • trafficking. Research in Homeopathy, Ministry of deal: • To promote cultural exchange and AYUSH and the Centre for Integrative India cancelled a $500-million deal to strengthen the friendly relations between Complementary Medicine, Shaare Zedek develop Spike anti-tank guided missiles with the two nations. Medical Center on Cooperation in the field Israel. Rafael has received an official notification The documents were exchanged in • of Research in Homeopathic Medicine. from India’s Ministry of Defence concerning the presence of Prime Minister Narendra cancellation of the Spike deal. Rafael Advanced • MoU between Indian Institute of Space Modi and visiting Cambodian PM Hun Defense Systems Ltd., known as RAFAEL or Science and Technology (IIST) and the Sen following delegation-level talks Rafael, is an Israeli defense technology company. Technion- Israel Institute of Technology between the two countries. The company did not give a reason for the for cooperation in the field of Cambodia cancellation of the deal. Spike is an Israeli fourth • Memorandum of Intent between Invest • Capital: Phnom Penh generation man-portable fire-and-forget anti- India and Invest in Israel. • Currency: Cambodian riel tank guided missile and anti-personnel Letter of Intent between IOCL and • missile. Phinergy Ltd. For cooperation in the CHINA Rafael area of metal-air batteries. China Launches World’s largest Air Purifier: • Headquarters: Haifa, Israel The world's largest air purifier is built in • Letter of Intent between IOCL and Yeda • CEO: Yedidya Ya’ari Xian in Shaanxi province of northern China. It is Research and Development Co Ltd for built at a 100 metre high, nearly 328 feet tall air cooperation in the area of concentrated Israel Withdraws from UNESCO: purifier. The preliminary results have shown that solar thermal technologies. Israel has filed notice to withdraw from smog levels have come down and there is some the United Nations Educational, Scientific and improvement in the air quality. According to the Digital launch of ‘I4Fund call for proposal’ Cultural Organization (UNESCO) alongside the Lancet report, air pollution in China killed about website at India-Israel Business Summit: United States. Israel has blasted UNESCO in 1.8 million people. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his recent years over the organisation’s criticism of China Israeli counterpart Benjamin Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem and its • Capital: Beijing Netanyahu launched the maiden call for joint decision to grant full membership to Palestine in • Currency: Renminbi R&D projects under the ‘India-Israel Industrial 2011. Israel was the member of UNESCO since • President: Xi Jinping R&D and Technological Innovation 1949. Both Israel and the US have filed its own Fund (I4F)’ during the India-Israel Business withdrawal notice in October 2017. GERMANY Summit in New Delhi. Under this, the Department UNESCO: 10th Global Forum for Food & Agriculture of Science and Technology, India and the National • Director General: Audrey Azoulay held in Berlin: Innovation Authority of Israel have established • Headquarters: Paris, France The 10th Global Forum for Food & a 40 million US dollar Fund.

Agriculture begins in Berlin, Germany. India ties up with Israel on Cooperation in Oil Union Minister of State for Agriculture & Farmers Israeli PM Netanyahu Inaugurates Geo- and Gas Sector: Welfare, Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat is Political Conference Raisina Dialogue: The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime leading the Indian delegation. The theme of this Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the year’s event is “Shaping the future of livestock Netanyahu inaugurated the third edition of the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding – sustainably, responsibly, efficiently”. The geo-political conference, ‘Raisina Dialogue’, (MoU) between Indiaand Israelon cooperation discussions will focus on sustainable and in New Delhi. The event, jointly organised by the in the Oil and Gas Sector. The MoU is expected productive animal production among other Ministry of External Affairs and Observer Research to boost India – Israel ties in the energy sector. issues. Foundation (ORF). The agreement will facilitate promotion of Germany The conference is a multilateral investments in each other’s countries, technology • Capital: Berlin conference aimed at addressing challenging issues transfer, R&D, conducting joint studies, capacity • Currency: Euro globally. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and

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External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will also Valletta, the capital of Malta, was strategic CPEC projects. According to Pakistan, be a part of the inaugural session. The theme of officially named European Capital of Culture external affairs ministry, both public and private the dialogue this year is ‘Managing Disruptive 2018. Valletta will share the title sector enterprises of Pakistan and China are free Transitions: Ideas, Institutions and Idioms’. with Leeuwarden, a city in the Netherlands. to choose Yuan for bilateral trade and investment Israel Malta activities. • Capital: Jerusalem • Currency: Euro Now, yuan is an approved currency for • Currency: New shekel • Capital: Valletta denominating foreign currency transactions • Prime minister: Benjamin Netanyahu and the central bank has allowed banks to accept deposits and give trade loans in yuan. NEPAL MALAYSIA Nepal bans Solo Climbing on Mount Everest: 5th Bilateral Meeting between India and Malaysia: India and Pakistan exchange the list of Nepal has banned solo climbers from th The 5 Bilateral Technical Meeting on scaling its mountains, including Mount Everest, Nuclear Installations: cooperation in the field of Traditional Systems of India and Pakistan exchanged the list in a bid to reduce accidents. The new safety Medicine between Government of India and regulations also prohibit double amputee and blind of nuclear installations and facilities through Malaysia was held at New Delhi. It was a part of diplomatic channels simultaneously at New Delhi climbers from attempting to reach the summit of agreement signed between both countries in the world’s highest peak without a valid medical and Islamabad under a three-decade old bilateral 2010. pact. As per the press release of External Affairs certificate. The law had been revised to make The Meeting was presided by Sh. mountaineering safer and to decrease deaths. Ministry, the lists were exchanged under the Pramod Kumar Pathak, Joint Secretary, and Agreement on the Prohibition of Attack World-renowned Swiss climber Ueli Ministry of AYUSH from Indian side and Deputy Steck, who was known as the “Swiss Machine”, against Nuclear Installations between India Director General Health (Medical), Ministry of and Pakistan. This is the twenty seventh also died during a solo climb to a peak Health Malaysia. Ministry intends to enhance neighbouring Everest. Avtar Singh Cheema was consecutive exchange of such a list between the cooperation for designing and developing the two countries, the first one took place on January the first Indian to climb Mount Everest policies and strategies in the field of Traditional 1, 1992. successfully. Medicine in Malaysia. Pakistan Himalayan Hydro Expo 2018 Kicked off at AYUSH Minister: Shripad Yesso Naik Capital: Islamabad • Kathmandu: • The Himalayan Hydro Expo 2018 begins at • Currency: Pakistani rupee NSIC inks pact with Malaysia's SME Prime Minister: Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Kathmandu, Nepal. The President of Nepal • Corporation: Bidya Devi Bhandari inaugurated the exhibition. National Small Industries SAUDI ARABIA The Delegates from various countries including Corporation (NSIC) signed a MoU with SME India, China, Austria, Czech Republic and Norway Saudi Arabia agreed India’s plan to Haj Corporation Malaysia for exchange of pilgrims: are participating in the expo. The basic objective information and cooperation. The two entities will of Expo is to unleash massive hydro power Saudi Arabia approved India’s plan to also work together for improving competitiveness allow Haj pilgrims to travel via sea route to potential of Nepal and bring all stakeholders under of Indian and Malaysian MSMEs in global markets. one roof. Jeddah. Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Another agreement was also signed between and Saudi Arabia’s Haj and Umrah minister Nepal Orchid Life (Malaysia) and Vimta Labs Dr Mohammad Saleh bin Taher Benten signed the • Capital: Kathmandu (India). agreement in Mecca. The transport of Haj • Currency: Nepalese rupee Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises pilgrims between Mumbai and Jeddah by • • Prime Minister: Sher Bahadur Deuba (MSME) Minister: Giriraj Singh waterways existed earlier but was stopped

Malaysia PAKISTAN from 1995. Currency: Malaysian ringgit Saudi Arabia • India excludes Pakistan from a SAARC • Capital: Kuala Lumpur initiative: • Capital: Riyadh Currency: Saudi riyal India has excluded Pakistan from the list of • MYANMAR SAARC member countries with which it will be India-Myanmar Land Border Crossing SOUTH KOREA connecting its state-of-the art National Agreement Approved: Knowledge Network (NKN) for sharing South Korea inks pact with GCCI for Business The Cabinet has approved the Agreement Cooperation: scientific databases and remote access to between India and Myanmar on Land Border advanced research facilities. The government has South Korea and the Gujarat Crossing. The Agreement would give a boost to Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) started the process of appointing a telecom the economy of the north-east region. The company that will connect and extend the NKN to signed a memorandum of understanding for co- agreement will also facilitate movement of people operation between industries. The main objective research and education networks in six South on the basis of valid passports and visas. It will Asian Association of Regional Cooperation member of the MoU is to help Gujarat-based small and safeguard the traditional rights of the tribal medium enterprises (SMEs) to explore states — Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, communities residing along the border. Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Pakistan is the opportunities through joint ventures with South Myanmar Korean firms. It mainly focuses on automobile, only SAARC nation that has been left out of • Capital: Naypyidaw this initiative. defence and textiles sectors. Currency: Burmese kyat GCCI president: Shailesh Patwari • • • Prime Minister: Aung San Suu Kyi Pakistan Allows Yuan for Bilateral Trade: • South Korea Consul General: Kim Soungeun Pakistan’s central bank has allowed MALTA the Chinese yuan or Renminbi to be used for South Korea Valletta city is crowned Capital of Culture: Capital: Seoul bilateral trade and investment activities. It would • replace the US dollar for transactions in the • Currency: South Korean won

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• President: Moon Jae-in UK has consistently raised the issue of return of note as legal tender soon. The new Rs 10 note illegal migrants with India. is chocolate brown in colour, and it will bear the SRI LANKA UK signature of RBI Governor Urjit Patel. India, Sri Lanka sign four agreements for • Capital: London The back of the note features motif of Sun collaboration in ICT sector: • Currency: Pound sterling Temple in Konark, ‘depicting the country’s India and Sri Lanka signed four • Prime minister: Theresa May cultural heritage’. Dimensions of the note are agreements for collaboration in ICT sector, 63mmx123mm, as opposed to the older notes setting up of e-office system and connecting United States of America 63mmx137mm. of National Knowledge network (NKN) for Vajra Prahar: Indo-US joint military exercise RBI collaboration among universities and academics. to be held in Seattle • Headquarters: Mumbai The MoU for cooperation was signed by Union ‘Vajra Prahar’ will be held at Joint Base • Governor: Urjit Patel minister for Information Technology Shri Ravi Lewis-McChord (JBLM) in Seattle. Indian Army Shankar Prasad with his Sri Lankan counterpart with 45 members team from the Pune- RBI Begins PCA Against Allahabad Bank: in Colombo. headquartered Southern Command will The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has Prasad said that Sri Lanka has become participate in this exercise. ‘Vajra Prahar’ is a initiated prompt corrective action (PCA) the first country to be connected to NKN through Indo-US Special Forces joint training exercise against public sector lender Allahabad Bank. The a Gigabyte optical fibre network. This will conducted alternately in India and the US. bank has high net non-performing assets connect NKN to Lanka education & research The aim of the exercise is to promote (NPAs) and negative return on assets (RoA) network (LEARN) through which universities on military relations between the two countries by for two consecutive years. both sides can share best practices and research enhancing interoperability and mutual exchange of The recently added banks under PCA are ideas. tactics between Special Forces. The last edition BoI, IOB, United Bank of India, Corporation Bank, • The constituency of Shri Ravi Shankar was held in 2017 at Jodhpur. OBC, Dena Bank, Central Bank, IDBI Bank and Prasad is Bihar, Rajya Sabha Bank of Maharashtra. Trump administration to open US embassy in PCA: The RBI has put in place some trigger points Sri Lanka bans import of non-airbag Jerusalem by end of 2019: to assess, monitor, control and take corrective equipped vehicles from July 1: The Trump administration plans actions on banks which are weak and troubled. The government’s decision to ban the to open the US embassy in Jerusalem by The process or mechanism under which such import of vehicles which are not equipped with the end of 2019. Trump said that the US actions are taken is known as Prompt air bags and seat belts and below the emission recognises Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and Corrective Action, or PCA. There are total 11 levels or its equivalent as prescribed by Euro IV, announced to move the embassy from Tel Aviv to banks on which RBI has initiated PCA till date. has been postponed to July 1. the historic city. Allahabad Bank SRI LANKA USA • Headquarters: Kolkata • Capitals: Colombo, Sri • Capital: Washington, D.C. • MD & CEO: Usha Jayawardenepura Kotte • Currency: Dollar Ananthasubramanian • Currency: Sri Lankan rupee • President: Donald Trump • Tagline: A Tradition of Trust

• Prime Minister: Ranil Wickremesinghe VIETNAM IDBI Bank Gets Rs. 2,729 Crore from

India, Vietnam Release First-Ever Government: UNITED KINGDOM Commemorative Stamps: Public sector IDBI Bank has received India and UK inks Pact to Improve Public India and Vietnam released first ever the capital infusion of Rs 2,729 crore from the Transport: set of commemorative postage stamps. It is to government of India. The government had The government approved a mark the long term friendly bilateral relationships unveiled a Rs 2.11 lakh crore two-year roadmap Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between between the two countries. It is on the theme of for strengthening NPA-hit public sector banks India and UK to improve public transport in ancient architecture which is a symbol of strong earlier in Oct2017. The help includes re- the country. The MoU was signed by Ministry of friendship between the two countries. The two set capitalisation bonds, budgetary support, and Road Transport and Highways(India) and of stamps released carry picture of Sanchi Stupa equity dilution. The stock of the bank closed ‘Transport for London’, a statutory body in Madhya Pradesh, India and Thien Mu 0.83% down at Rs 59.85 on the BSE. established under the Greater London Authority Pagoda in Hue, Vietnam. IDBI Bank Act, 1999 (UK). • Vietnam IT and Communications • MD and CEO: Mahesh Kumar Jain The MoU is aimed at improving the Minister: Truong Monh Tuan • Headquarter: Mumbai overall public transport system, improve Vietnam passenger services and promote the use of high • Capital: Hanoi Soil Health Cards help save urea usage 10%: capacity buses in India. It also strengthens the • Currency: Vietnamese dong Around 10 crore soil health cards integrated public transport for all. • President: Tran Dai Quang have been issued, and farmers who use these

have managed to save use of urea by 8-10 per India Signs Pact with UK on Illegal Migrants: cent announced by Union Agriculture Minister India has signed an MoU with the United BANKING & BUSINESS Radha Mohan Singh. This also led to increase in Kingdomto enable the return of illegal Indian RBI Introduces New Rs 10 Banknote in productivity of cultivable land, he said while migrants within a month of their detection by Mahatma Gandhi Series: addressing 117th Annual General Meeting of authorities abroad. Minister of State for Home The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Bharat Chamber of Commerce. Kiren Rijiju and UK Minister of State for presented the new Rs 10 banknote under the Immigration Caroline Nokes in Britain signed the Mahatma Gandhi (New) series. The central bank SBI, NABARD ties up to promote JLG in West agreement. The Memorandum of Understanding, has announced that it will launch the new currency Bengal: which would affect hundreds of Indians, but also

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State Bank of India and NABARD have – Branch Banking, Government Business and TIHCL Gets RBI Nod to Operate as NBFC signed an agreement with five NGOs in Bengal Ecommerce at HDFC Bank. The Telangana Industrial Health for the promotion of 2,500 joint liability groups HDFC Bank Clinic Limited (TIHCL) has secured the RBI (JLGs). JLGs are informal groups of 4-10 • Headquarters: Mumbai approval for becoming a non-banking finance members engaged in similar economic activities • CEO: Aditya Puri company (NBFC). It had won the SKOCH and willing to jointly undertake the responsibility • Tagline: We understand your world Platinum Award in September 2017 under the to repay loans taken by the group from a bank. smart governance category in the MSME segment. NABARD has fixed a target of credit A non-bank financial institution is a linking 80,000 JLGs in West Bengal in 2017- APGVB Introduces Desktop ATMs in Rural financial institution which is registered under 18. It has sanctioned assistance for the promotion India Companies act, 1956 that does not have a full of 60,000 JLGs by various NGOs in the State The Andhra Pradesh Grameena Vikas banking license or is not supervised by a national through 339 projects in different districts. Bank (APGVB) has operationalised its first or international banking regulatory agency. SBI desktop ATM in Telangana. The mini-ATM within NBFCs lend and make investments and • Headquarters: Mumbai the branch premises will facilitate customers to hence their activities are akin to that of banks; • Chairman: Rajnish Kumar withdraw small amounts. At the same time, however, there are a few differences as given NABARD regular bank account holders can withdraw money below: • Headquarters: Mumbai and do other banking activities. With these ATMs, i. NBFC cannot accept demand deposits; • Chairman: Harsh Kumar Bhanwala there will be no need for separate ATM rooms, so ii. NBFCs do not form part of the payment and there is no security issue. settlement system and cannot issue cheques No Charges on Debit Card Transactions upto It plans to install 100 desktop ATMs drawn on itself; Rs 2,000: including 60 branches in Telangana and 40 iii. Deposit insurance facility of Deposit Insurance The Customers will not have to pay branches in Andhra Pradesh. and Credit Guarantee Corporation is not any transaction charges for payments through Andhra Pradesh Grameena Vikas Bank available to depositors of NBFCs, unlike in case debit card, BHIM app and other payment made • Headquarters: Warangal, Telangana of banks. for up to Rs 2,000. To promote digital • Chairman: Narasi Reddy transactions, union cabinet approved a proposal • Tagline: We are with you Paytm Payments Bank ties up with IndusInd that government will bear the merchant for FD facility: discount rate (MDR) charges on transactions The Government launches 7.75% savings Paytm Payments Bank has partnered with up to Rs 2,000 made through debit cards, BHIM bonds scheme: Induslnd Bank to introduce a facility to create a UPI or Aadhaar-enabled payment systems. The The Government of India has announced fixed deposit when the customer balance exceeds merchant discount rate (MDR) will be borne by the launch of 7.75 per cent Savings (Taxable) Rs 1 lakh at the end of day. Paytm Payments the government for two years with effect from Bonds, 2018, commencing from January 10, Bank customers can redeem their deposits January 1, 2018 by reimbursing the same to 2018. It enables resident citizens and Hindu instantly, anytime without paying any pre-closure banks. Undivided Family (HUF) to invest in a taxable or miscellaneous charges. They can also earn up bond, without any monetary ceiling. These bonds to 6.85 percent annual interest. India’s GDP growth at 6.5% in FY18: HSBC with seven-year maturity will open for If a customer becomes a senior citizen before India’s growth rate is expected to subscription from the 10th of this month. The the maturity period, the account will be auto accelerate in 2018 and it will improve further to bonds will be issued in Demat form only. The renewed under the senior citizen scheme with high 7.6 per cent by 2019-20 as key sectors would minimum investment is Rs 1,000 and in multiples interest rate. regain from disruptions related to the thereof. • Paytm Payments Bank MD and CEO: implementation of GST and demonetisation. The saving bonds scheme will replace the Renu Satti HSBC expects India’s’ growth at around 6.5 previous 8 percent Scheme. The interest will be percent in 2017-18, 7.0 per cent in 2018-19 payable half-yearly and the cumulative value of SBI to raise up to $2 bn via overseas bonds: and 7.6 in 2019-20, respectively. HSBC Holdings 1,000 rupees at maturity will be 1,703 rupees. India’s largest lender State Bank of India plc is a British multinational banking and financial plans to raise upto USD 2 billion (over Rs 12,600 services holding company. India GDP growth will be 6.5% in 2017-18, crore) by issuing bonds in US dollar or other HSBC down from 7.1% last fiscal: CSO: convertible currency. The bonds could be • Headquarters: London, United The Indian economy is expected to decelerate issued in single or multiple tranches of up to Kingdom to 6.5% in 2017-18 from 7.1% in the $2 billion. The fund-raising will take place • CEO: Stuart Gulliver previous year, because of demonetisation and through a public or private offer. goods and services tax (GST).Data released by the HDFC Bank ties up with Rajasthan Central Statistics Office (CSO) showed that the TCS gets $690 million deal from M&G Government: agriculture sector is expected to grow at 2.1% in Prudential: HDFC Bank has announced a partnership FY18, slower than 4.9% in the previous year, while Tata Consultancy Services has signed a with Rajasthan Government to promote manufacturing is likely to grow at 4.6%, compared $690-million (Rs 4,400-crore), 10-year deal startups in the state. Under this partnership, with 7.9% a year ago. Electricity and trade, hotels with M&G Prudential, the UK and European HDFC Bank will join with the state government to sectors are the only sectors that will grow at a savings and investments business unit of provide end-to-end solutions like current faster rate of 7.5% and 8.7% in FY18 than in Prudential. This is the third largest insurance accounts, credit cards and other solutions to FY17.The annual growth rate for the fiscal 2016- contract won by India's top IT services company startups. 17 was 7.1 per cent. in the past four months.TCS will digitally transform The MoU was signed between Akhil Arora, • Economic affairs secretary: Subhash M&G Prudential's business and deliver enhanced principal Secretary – IT and Communication, Chandra Garg. service to its customers in the UK. Government of Rajasthan and Smita Bhagat, Head

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• Chief Executive of M&G: Prudential application. For the driver partners, the bank will John Foley offer a ‘Pay Direct’ card to help them get their TN’s LoomWorld ties up with Amazon India: • Chief Executive of TCS: Rajesh daily earnings directly into their ‘Pay Direct’ card Amazon India has partnered with Gopinathan accounts. LoomWorld to offer handwoven products from Ola Tamil Nadu on Amazons platform. The tie-up is PNB inks pact with NSFDC: • Headquarters: Bengaluru expected to promote goods produced by the 800 Punjab National Bank (PNB) has tied • CEO: Bhavish Aggarwal Weavers’ Cooperative Societies. It also supports up with National Scheduled Castes Finance ICICI Bank 1.89 lakh households across the State. It was and Development Corporation (NSFDC). The • Headquarters: Mumbai announced by Minister for Handlooms and agreement is to provide financial assistance for • CEO: Chanda Kochhar Textiles, OS Manian. economic empowerment of persons belonging to • Tagline: Hum hai na, Khayal Apka Scheduled Caste (SC) families living below Double Reliance Jio plans its own cryptocurrency: Poverty Line (DPL). PhonePe inks pact with FreeCharge: JioCoin They will be setting up self-employment Flipkart’s payments arm PhonePe has Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd plans to projects and skill-training grants to unemployed partnered with mobile wallet company create its own crypto currency, JioCoin. Mukesh SC persons living below Double the Poverty Line. FreeCharge to allow the Free charge customers Ambani’s elder son Akash Ambani leads the Under this tie-up, PNB would also act as a to pay for transactions at PhonePe’s partner JioCoin project. Reliance Jio plans to build a 50- channelising agent for the loan schemes of NSFDC. merchants. PhonePe customers will be able to member team of young professionals to work on It was signed by BM Padha, Corporate General spend their FreeCharge wallet balance at all block chain technology. Manager, PNB, and Devanand, General Manager, online and offline merchant outlets that accept Meanwhile, the government has warned NSFDC. payments via PhonePe. the public against investing in crypto PNB currencies, terming them as "Ponzi schemes". • Headquarters: New Delhi Ministry of housing and urban affairs ties up Bitcoins or any such crypto currency are not legal • CEO:Sunil Mehta with Allahabad Bank: tender and those indulging in such transactions • Tagline: The name you can bank upon Ministry of housing and urban affairs are doing it at their own risk, announced by Arun and Allahabad Bank hassigned a memorandum Jaitley recently. World Bank predicts 7.3% growth in 2018 for of understanding to provide a centralised platform India: for processing interest subsidy under Deendayal India Grants Rs.288 crore for Sri Lankan The World Bank has upgraded India's Antyodaya Yojana - National Urban Kankesanthurai Harbour: estimated GDP growth this fiscal year to 6.7% Livelihood Mission. The web-portal will provide India gives a financial assistance of instead of the 6.5% estimate by the Indian an end-to-end solution for processing interest Rs.288 crore (USD 45.27 million) for government. In 2018-19,it will rise to 7.3%, subsidy for NULM schemes. Kankesanthurai (KKS) Harbour.It is to making India the world's fastest growing economy The subsidy will be credited to Aadhaar- transform northern Sri Lanka into a commercial again. It also projected India’s growth rate at 7.5 linked beneficiary account through Direct Benefit port and strengthening the country's efforts to % for next two years. It was announced by Transfer (DBT) mode. The move is aimed at become a regional maritime hub.David World Bank's Development Prospects Group faster payment of subsidy to the people and Rasquinha, Managing Director, Export-Import Director, Ayhan Kose. enhanced monitoring system. Bank of India and RHS Samaratunga, Secretary to The World Bank is an international Treasury of Sri Lanka signed the agreement. financial institution that provides loans to Amazon's Jeff Bezos becomes richest person countries of the world for capital programs. It in history: BSE Lists IRFC's First Green Bond: comprises two institutions: the International According to Bloomberg's billionaire The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Bank for Reconstruction and Development tracker, Amazon's Chief Operating officer Jeff has listed Indian Railways Finance (IBRD), and the International Development Bezos($105.1 billion) is now the richest person Corporation’s (IRFC) first green bond on its Association (IDA). in history with net worth more than Bill Gates global securities market. According to India Inx, World Bank ($93.3 billion).Warren Buffett who has net worth the 10 year $500 million worth bonds issued by • Headquarters: Washington, D.C. $87.3 billion was third on the list. Facebook's Mark IRFC is one of the highest credit rated bonds • Motto: Working for a World Free of Zuckerberg was fourth in the list with a net worth issued by an Indian corporate. Poverty of $77.3 billion. IRFC green bond is a commitment to • President: Jim Yong Kim sustainable development and to serve the financial Paytm launches new Investment Arm: needs of India's rail transport infrastructure. Ola ties up with ICICI Bank for integrated One97 Communications Ltd, that runs BSE's India Inx is the country's first capital offers: Paytm, has set up a new entity called Paytm raising platform for international investors in Ola, the taxi hailing app has tied up with Money Ltd. The new company will be headed by any currency. It is an initiative to enable both ICICI Bank to provide a range of integrated Pravin Jadhav as senior vice-president. It will Indian and foreign issuers to raise funds from offers, including micro-credit to their offer investment and wealth management global investors on our listing platform. customers and digital payment facilities to products and it will invest nearly $10 million in IRFC driver partners respectively. ICICI Bank the new entity. • Headquarters: Mumbai customers can now book and pay for Ola on the Paytm Money is the fourth product from • Managing Director of IRFC:S K bank’s mobile app and wallet itself and they can One97’s stable after Paytm Mall, Paytm Payments Pattanayak use the credit for 3-4 rides and then repay later. Bank and Paytm wallet. It will be available as a ICICI Bank customers will get the dual separate mobile application to users. India is Top Borrower from AIIB in 2017: benefit of booking a cab and making payments • CEO of One97 Communications Ltd: India has emerged as a top borrower directly through their ‘iMobile’ and ‘Pockets’ Vijay Shekar Sharma from the China-sponsored Asian Infrastructure

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Investment Bank (AIIB) with $1.5 billion IDFC Bank and Capital First announce merger Shares of Housing Development worth of loans in 2017.Next to India, Indonesia via share swap deal: Finance Corp. Ltd (HDFC) crossed Rs 5 trillion has emerged as the second largest borrower with The boards of the IDFC Bank market capitalisation. Reliance Industries Ltd is about $600 million loans. Ltd. and Capital First Ltd., approved a merger India’s most valued company with a market China is the largest shareholder with between themselves. The merged entity will have capitalization of Rs 6 trillion, followed by TCS 26.06 per cent voting shares in the bank. India is a diversified portfolio across large corporate and HDFC Bank at Rs 5.28 trillion and Rs.4.92 the second largest shareholder with 7.5 per cent lending, small and medium enterprise (SME) loans trillion. According to 7 Bloomberg analysts’ followed by Russia 5.93 per cent and Germany and retail credit. estimates, it may report a net profit of with 4.5 per cent. IDFC BANK Rs4,434.80 crore. AIIB • Headquarters: Mumbai • Headquarters: Beijing, china • CEO: Rajiv Lall AU Small Finance Bank inks MoU with LIC: • President: Jin Liqun Banking finance company AU Small

Finance Bank has signed an MoU with LIC to Delhi and Punjab richest states, Jain WEF ranks India 30th on Global wealthiest community: National survey offer Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Manufacturing Index: Yojana (PMJJBY). Under the MoU, LIC will give According to wealth index released on The World Economic Forum (WEF) has basis of data from fourth round of National a life cover of Rs. 2 lakh in case of death to the ranked India at 30th position on a Global customer at a nominal premium of Rs. 330 per Family and Health Survey (NFHS-4) recently Manufacturing Index. Japan tops the list and is released by the Ministry Of Health And Family annum. followed by South Korea, Germany. Among BRICS The company will also offer loans under Welfare. Delhi is richest state and Jain wealthiest nations, Russia is ranked 35th, Brazil 41st and community in the country. The NFHS-4 was government’s affordable housing and subsidy South Africa at 45th place. It has categorized 100 schemes such as Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana conducted among more than 6 lakh households in countries into four groups - Leading, High 2015-16. and the customers can avail loans up to Rs.1 Potential, Legacy, Nascent. India has been placed crore. The product will be targeted for both Delhi and Punjab are richest states with in the ‘Legacy’ group. salaried and self- employed customers in urban, over 60% of their households in the top wealth semi-urban and rural areas. quintile. They are followed by Goa with 54.5% WEF AU Small Finance Bank households in top wealth quintile. They are followed by Goa with 54.5% households in the top • Headquarters: Jaipur, Rajasthan • Headquarters: Cologny, Switzerland MD and CEO: Sanjay Agarwal bracket. Bihar is poorest state half of its • • Executive Chairman: Klaus Schwab households in the bottom quintile Rajasthan has Mauritius, the largest source of FDI in India: most equitable wealth distribution with a similar SEBI permits voluntary exit of two number of households in all quintiles. Mauritius was the largest source of exchanges: FDI in India, followed by the US and the UK in

Bank of Baroda partners with Invoice mart 2016-17. The census was taken by the Reserve Regulator SEBI has allowed India Pepper Bank of India. In India, Mauritius has 21.8 percent Invoice Mart has tied up with state-run and Spice Trade Association (IPSTA) and Rajkot lender Bank of Baroda to discount invoices for share at market value. Commodity Exchange (RCX) to cease operations. Total sales, including exports of foreign MSMEs. Buyers and sellers registered on the The boards of the two respective exchanges had marketplace will now be able to access funding subsidiaries in India increased by 18.7 percent resolved to take formal voluntary exit as during 2016-17 whereas their purchases, from Bank of Baroda. Bank of Baroda had recently recognised commodity exchanges. announced that it will provide loans to MSMEs including imports, increased by 20.1 percent. The Securities and Exchange Board of MAURITIUS associated with large corporates. India is the regulator for the securities market in The scheme of facilitating the financing of • Capital: Port Louis India. It was established in the year 1988 and Currency: Mauritian rupee trade receivables of MSMEs from corporate buyers • given statutory powers on 30 January 1992 through multiple financiers is known as Trade • Prime Minister: Pravind Jugnauth through the SEBI Act, 1992. Receivables Discounting System (TReDS). SEBI Indian equity market to become 5th largest • Headquarters: Mumbai in the world in 2018 Yes Bank Ties up with Amplus Energy • Chairman: Ajay Tyagi Solutions: India will overtake China to be the fastest growing large economy in 2018 and The Gurgaon-based Amplus Energy Federal Bank ties up with Hedge Equities: Solutions has signed a MoU with India's leading the country’s equity market will become the fifth Federal Bank has entered into a largest in the world. According to a Sanctum bank Yes Bank for a strategic tie-up to co-finance strategic partnership with Hedge Equities projects in the solar energy sector in India. It will Wealth Management report other countries Ltd for providing Portfolio Investment offers low growth and insufficient structural mobilise USD one billion by 2023 for financing Scheme (PIS) services to NRIs. A formal solar energy projects in India and USD five billion change, but India is seeing a reforming economy agreement was executed in which Jose K with the prospects of strong long-term growth. till 2030. Mathew (EVP & Head Retail Business, Federal The memorandum of understanding The developed economies are at 2-3 per cent Bank) and Alex Babu (MD, Hedge Equities Ltd) growth but India is focused on 7.5 per cent (MoU) was signed at International Solar exchanged the MoU announcing the tie-up. Alliance Forum at the World Future Energy growth. FEDERAL BANK Summit, Abu Dhabi. • Headquarters: Aluva, Kerala Under the partnership, the total projects capacity Apple named the world's most admired company for 2018: • CEO: Shyam Srinivasan is likely to be up to 1,000 mw. The annual list of the World’s Most • Tagline: Your Perfect Banking Partner Admired Companies for 2018 is released by HDFC Bank Crosses Rs.5 trillion Market Capitalisation: Fortune. Technology giant Apple topped

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Fortune magazine's list of the 'World's Most following last year’s slowdown due to scheme is 3 percent for a loan amount of Rs.2 Admired Companies' for 2018.E-commerce giant demonetisation and the implementation of goods lakh for 20-year tenure. Amazon has retained its second spot. It is and services tax (GST). Indian Overseas Bank followed by Google's parent Alphabet. Google's In its latest World Economic Outlook • Headquarters: Chennai parent Alphabet got third spot and social media update released ahead of the World Economic • CEO: R. Subramania Kumar giant Facebook was ranked 12th on the list. Forum in Davos, the IMF projected India’s GDP National Housing Bank The list includes 50 companies. growth rate at 7.4% in 2018 and 7.8% in 2019. • Headquarters: New Delhi Apple • CEO: Shri Sriram Kalyanaraman • Headquarters: California, United Last date for filing GSTR-3B return for Dec • Parent agency: Reserve Bank of India States. extended to 22nd Jan: • CEO:Tim Cook The revenue department said the last Government will infuse Rs 88,139 crore into date for GSTR-3B return filing for December has 20 PSBs: SBI, four more banks suspend accounts of been extended by two days to January 22. The government will infuse Rs 88,139 major Bitcoin exchanges in India: GSTR-3B is a simple return form introduced by the crore into 20 public sector banks through The top banks of the country CBEC after the roll out of the goods and services recapitalization bonds and budgetary including State Bank of India (SBI), HDFC Bank, tax (GST) from July 1. It is meant to capture support in this financial year. A total of Rs Axis Bank, ICICI Bank and YES Bankhave details of outward and inward supplies. The 35,828 crore will be infused into nine banks that suspended some accounts of major Bitcoin deadline to file the return for December in Form haven't triggered prompt corrective action exchanges in India on suspicious transactions. GSTR-3B was January 20. (PCA), including State Bank of India (SBI), Punjab The legal action has been initiated against top National Bank and Bank of Baroda, among others. ten crypto currency exchanges in the country, India, 5th Most Attractive Market for While Rs 52,311 crore will be pumped including - Zebpay, Unocoin, CoinSecure and Investments: PwC Survey into 11 banks that have been added under BtcxIndia. India has emerged as the fifth most PCA, including IDBI, Central Bank of India, and attractive market for investments and the UCO Bank. The total estimated revenue of these optimism over global economic growth is at a IDBI Bank will get the most- Rs.10,610 crore exchanges in India stands at Rs 400 billion. A record level, a survey of CEOs by global and State Bank of India will get 8,800 crore nationwide survey showed that more consultancy PwC. The US remains the top spot rupees. At Present, NPAs held by Indian banks than$3.5 billion worth transactions were for global investment. stand at around Rs 10 lakh crores. conducted over a seventeen-month period. Around 46 per cent of global CEOs consider the US as one of the three most India Ranks 81st on Global Talent important countries for growth, followed by China Competitiveness Index: Paytm introduces business application: (33 per cent) and Germany (20 per India has moved up on a global index of Digital payments platform Paytm has cent) at second and third places, respectively. talent competitiveness to the 81st position. unveiled an application called ‘Paytm for At the fourth spot is the UK (15 per cent). India Switzerland continues to top the list and it is Business’ to enable small and medium (9 per cent) bumps Japan (8 per cent) as the fifth followed by Singapore and the US. It is released businesses to accept digital payments. The most attractive market in 2018. every year on the first day of the World Economic application, available on Android Play Store, would Forum (WEF) annual meeting. enable merchants to sign up quickly and get a NIIF Makes its First Investment Partnered India has improved its position from Paytm QR code to start accepting digital with DP World: 92nd last year. Among BRICS nations China was payments, the company said. The application, NIIF has partnered with DP World to ranked 54th, Russian Federation was placed at available in 10 regional languages, would allow create an investment platform for ports, 56th, followed by South Africa (67) and Brazil merchants to track payments, navigate past terminals, transportation and logistics (81). collections and trace settlements made to their businesses in India. The venture will invest in bank accounts. opportunities in the ports sector as well as river The Coconut body approves 23 projects: ports and transportation, freight corridors, port- The Coconut Development Board under WEF ranks India at 62nd place on Inclusive led special economic zones, inland container Technology Mission on Coconut has approved Development Index: terminals and logistics infrastructure, including 23 projects with an outlay of Rs. 22.69 crore India was ranked at the 62nd cold storages. and financial assistance of Rs. 4.75 crore with place among emerging economies on an Inclusive annual processing capacity of 521 lakh coconuts Development Index, much below China’s 26th IOB and NHB tie up for RHISS: and 4200 tonnes production of coconut shell position and Pakistan’s 47th. Norway remains Indian Overseas Bank has signed a charcoal. In the 23 projects, there were 3 research the world’s most inclusive advanced MoU with National Housing Bank for the Rural projects and 19 projects on Processing of coconuts economy, while Lithuania again tops the Housing Interest Subsidy Scheme (RHISS) of for value addition and one project for market list of emerging economies, the World Economic the Ministry of Rural Development. The agreement promotion. Forum (WEF) said. was signed by R Subramaniakumar, MD and CEO of Indian Overseas Bank, and Sriram WhatsApp Unveils New Business App: India to Grow at 7.4% in 2018: International Kalyanaraman, MD and CEO of the National The messaging platform WhatsApp has Monetary Fund: Housing Bank. unveiled a new 'WhatsApp Business' app, India is projected to grow at 7.4% of The aim of the RHISS is to provide aimed at small and medium enterprises. The its gross domestic product (GDP) in 2018 as subsidy for housing loans taken by those living in Android app will make it easier for companies to against China’s 6.8%, the International rural areas for construction and modifications of connect with customers, as well as its 1.3 billion Monetary Fund (IMF), making it the fastest their dwelling units. The interest subsidy under the users to chat with businesses. growing economy among emerging economies

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Using the business app, SMEs can help plans to boost its last mile capabilities and also offers low growth and insufficient structural customers with useful information such as a offer state-of-the-art solutions to its e-commerce change, India, by contrast, is seen as a reforming business description, email or store addresses and and retail clients. economy with the prospect of strong long-term website.It is currently available in Indonesia, Italy, • Future Group founder and chairman: growth. Sanctum is a Delhi-based professional Mexico, the UK and the US. Kishore Biyani wealth management company. • Snapdeal chief Strategy and Investment India Ranks 177 in EPI 2018: officer: Jason Kothari APPOINTMENTS India ranks 177th position among 180 NC Goel appointed as new Chief Secretary of countries in the Environmental Performance Payments and Small finance banks can offer Rajasthan: Index 2018.The list was released by Yale and Atal Pension Yojana Senior IAS officer N C Goel was Columbia universities along with the world The social security scheme, the Atal appointed the new Chief Secretary of economic forum.The report was released during Pension Yojana (APY) will now also be available Rajasthan. Goel, a 1982-batch IAS officer, earlier the ongoing world economic forum inDavos, at small finance and payments banks. It will held the charge of Additional Chief Secretary of Switzerland. provide a boost to the outreach of subscribers Forest and Environment, Tourism, Art and Culture The top five countries in the list are: under APY. The APY was launched by PM Narendra Department, Mines and Petroleum departments. 1. Switzerland Modi on May 9, 2015, open to all citizens between 2. France the ages of 18 and 40 years. Vijay Keshav Gokhale is the Next Foreign 3. Denmark It provides a minimum guaranteed Secretary: 4. Malta pension of Rs.1,000 to Rs.5,000 per month, Senior diplomat Vijay Keshav Gokhale 5. Sweden after the age of 60 years, depending on the has been appointed as the foreign secretary for a monthly contribution made by a subscriber. two-year fixed term. He will succeed S Vodafone and Flipkart Tie up for 4G Jaishankar on January 28, 2018. Mr. Gokhale, a Smartphones: IndusInd Bank to Introduce India’s First 1981-batch officer, currently Secretary (Economic Vodafone India has partnered with e- Battery-Powered Payment Card: Relations) in the Ministry of External Affairs. commerce marketplace Flipkart to provide a IndusInd Bank and Dynamics Inc range of entry-level 4G smartphones. It has plans to introduce the first battery-powered, Pankaj Jain Appointed as IIFCL Managing been planned to sell at an effective price of ₹999. interactive payment cards in the Indian market in Director: Vodafone has rolled out cash-back offers 2018.The new IndusInd Bank card from Pankaj Jain has assumed charge as the on a select range of entry-level 4G smartphone Pennsylvania-based Dynamics designs and Managing Director of India Infrastructure models available under Flipkart’s manufactures intelligent battery-powered Finance Company Ltd (IIFCL). He is the Joint #MyFirst4GSmartphone campaign. payment cards. Secretary in the Department of Financial • Associate Director (Consumer Business), It has multiple buttons that let the Services (DFS).He will be holding additional Vodafone India: Avneesh Khosla consumer use a single card to pay in multiple charge of IIFCL along with his present position as ways. Consumers can pay using points or via Joint Secretary at DFS. India to grow at 7.4 percent in 2018: IMF instalment method wherever MasterCard is According to the International accepted. Salil Parekh to take charge as Infosys CEO: Monetary Fund (IMF) India is projected to grow IndusInd Bank Salil Parekh who was a group executive at 7.4 percent in 2018 and China at 6.8 • Chairman: R. Seshasayee board member with global consulting firm percent. It makes India as the fastest growing • Headquarter: Mumbai Capgemini will formally join the $10-billion IT country among the emerging economies. • MD &CEO: Romesh Sobti giant, Infosys.UB Pravin Rao will step down as Due to demonetisation and the interim CEO and Managing Director effective implementation of the Goods and Services Tax India, second cheapest country to live in the January 2 and will continue as Chief Operating (GST), India’s economy slowed down a little bit to World Officer and a whole-time Director of the 6.7 percent in 2016. The IMF has projected a India has ranked second after South company. 7.8 per cent growth rate for India in 2019. It Africa as the cheapest country to live or retire, is released on the sidelines of the World Economic according to a recent survey of 112 countries. The Maiga appointed as the new PM of Mali: Forum, in Davos, Switzerland. survey was taken by GoBankingRates on the Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar bases of four key affordability metrics, provided by Keita has appointed Soumeylou Boubeye Govt collects Rs 86,703 cr under GST in online pricing database Numbeo. The metrics are Maiga as new Prime Minister. He is a former December: local purchasing powerindex, rent index, Groceries defense and foreign minister and intelligence chief The total revenue collection under index, and Consumer price index. as the new Prime Minister. He replaces Abdoulaye GST for December 2017 (received up to January Among the most expensive countries in Idrissa Maiga after his resignation. Soumeylou 24) was Rs.86,703 crore. Nearly one crore the survey are Bermuda (ranked 112), Bahamas Boubeye Maiga is the fifth Prime Minister taxpayers have been registered under GST till (111), Hong Kong (110), Switzerland (109) and appointed by President Keita. January 24, 2018, announced by Finance Ghana (108). MALI Ministry. Average monthly collection in past five India to become fastest growing large • Capital: Bamako months is about Rs.74,000 crore. economy in 2018 • Currency: West African franc India will become the fastest growing • President: Ibrahim Boubacar Keita Future acquires Snapdeal’s logistics arm large economy in the world, eclipsing China, in Kishore Biyani’s Future Supply Chain 2018 and the country's equity market will jump to Rajinder Khanna appointed as deputy NSA Solutions has fully acquired Snapdeal’s logistics become the fifth largest in the world. Rajinder Khanna, former chief of the service provider Vulcan Express Pvt Ltd. It has According to a Sanctum Wealth country’s external intelligence agency RAW,has been acquired for Rs.35 crore. Vulcan Company Management report, when the rest of the world been appointed as Deputy National Security

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Adviser. He replaced Arvind Gupta who has became the first woman to be appointed as a • Capital: Bucharest completed his tenure in August 2017.The NSC, judge of the apex court. • Currency: Romanian leu headed by Modi with national security adviser

(NSA) Ajit Doval as secretary, is the apex body VJ Mathew appointed as Maritime Board Vijay Kumar Appointed as MD & CEO of on internal and external security matters. Chairman NCDEX: Mathew is the legal consultant of Market regulator SEBI has approved Dilip Asbe has been appointed as MD & CEO Vizhinjam International container terminal appointment of Vijay Kumar as Managing of NPCI company and Indian Maritime Association Co- Director and CEO of NCDEX. He is a former chief National Payments Corporation of President.He was appointed by the Kerala business officer at NCDEX and also an agro- India (NPCI) has appointed Dilip Asbe as Maritime Board constituted by the government for industry veteran, having worked for Cargill and Managing Director and CEO of the organization. He the administration, control, and management of National Bulk Handling Corporation. He replaces will replace Hota who retired last year (2017). minor ports in the State. Samir Shah as his tenure ends with January, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is 2018. established for all retail payments in India. It was Anil Khanna appointed as Chairman of IOA set up with the guidance and support of the Finance Commission S Selvakumar Appointed CMD of SPMCIL: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Indian Anil Khanna was appointed as The government has appointed senior Banks Association (IBA). It is established under Chairman of the Finance Commission of the IAS officer S Selvakumar as Chairman and Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007. Indian Olympic Association, which also formed Managing Director (CMD) of Security Printing a four-member advisory committee. The advisory and Minting Corporation of India Ltd K Sivan appointed as new ISRO Chairman committee comprises Tarlochan Singh, GS (SPMCIL). S Selvakumar, Joint Secretary, K Sivan has been appointed as the new Mander, S Regunathan and BS Landge. Department of Economic Affairs in the Chairman of the Indian Space Research The IOA also formed a Medical Ministry of Finance has been assigned additional Organisation (ISRO).He is at present Director of Commission and Games Technical Conduct charge of the post of CMD, SPMCIL. S Selvakumar Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Committee and nominated office bearers of IOA replaces Anurag Agarwal. Thiruvananthapuram. He would replace current and National Sports Federations (NSFs) to the

ISRO chief AS Kiran Kumar and will have tenure of Committees. Om Prakash Rawat Appointed New Chief three years. The Headquarters of ISRO is located Election Commissioner: at Bengaluru. UN Environment and WHO agree major Om Prakash Rawat has been appointed collaboration on environmental health risks: as the next Chief Election Commissioner, the Harjinder Singh appointed as Chef de Mission UN Environment and the World Health law ministry said. Mr Rawat, who is currently an for Winter Olympics Organization have agreed a new, wide-ranging Election Commissioner, will succeed the The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has collaboration. It is to accelerate action to curb outgoing Achal Kumar Joti. And Former Finance appointed Harjinder Singh as the Chef De Mission environmental health risks that cause an Secretary Ashok Lavasawas appointed as for the 23rd Winter Olympic Games. The 23rd estimated 12.6 million deaths a year. Mr. Erik Election Commissioner to fill the vacancy created winter olympics will be held in February 2018 in Solheim, head of UN Environment, and Dr. by Mr Rawat’s elevation. Pyeongchang. Pyeongchang is in Gangwon Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director- province a region in South Korea. It was General of WHO, signed the agreement in Nairobi. Sudeep Lakhtakia appointed new NSG DG: announced IOA President Narinder Dhruv Batra. The collaboration also includes joint IPS officer Sudeep Lakhtakia was He currently holds the post of General Secretary management of the Breathe Life advocacy appointed as the new director general of National in the Ice Hockey Association of India. campaign to reduce air pollution for multiple Security Guard (NSG). Lakhtakia is a 1984- Indian Olympic Association climate, environment and health benefits. batch IPS officer of Telangana cadre. He is Headquarters: New Delhi, India • currently serving as a special DG of Central • Secretary General: Mr. Rajeev Mehta Former Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel to be Reserve Police Force (CRPF).He will take over next MP Governor incumbent SP Singh, who will retire from the post Indian-origin businessman appointed Former Gujarat chief minister on January end. WBCSD Chairman: Anandiben Patel will be the new Governor of

Singapore-based Indian-origin Madhya Pradesh. The appointment was made by FICCI hires Dilip Chenoy as Director General: businessman Sunny Verghese has been the President of India. She was the chief Industry body Federation of Indian appointed as the Chairman of the World minister of Gujarat from 2014 to 2016.She Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Business Council for Sustainable replaces O P Kohli, who was given the additional said it had appointed Dilip Chenoy as Development. He is the Co-Founder and the CEO charge as the Governor of Madhya Pradesh in its director general. Chenoy had been the of Singapore's agri-business group Olam September, 2016, when the tenure of incumbent managing director and CEO of the National Skill International Limited. He succeeded Paul Ram Naresh Yadav ended. Development Corporation (NSDC), director Polman, the CEO of Unilever and will serve a two- general of Society of Indian Automobile year term. Romania’s PM resigns after he loses support Manufactures (Siam) as well as deputy director from party: general of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). First woman lawyer directly promoted as SC Romania’s Prime Minister Mihai judge Tudose resigned after his Social Democrat Srikumar Menon appointed as the next The senior advocate Indu Malhotra is Party (PSD) leaders withdrew backing for him in Ambassador of India to the Republic of the first woman lawyer to be directly appointed as an overwhelming vote, making him the second Angola: a judge of the apex court. Indu is a senior counsel premier ousted by the party in less than seven Shri Srikumar Menon, presently practising in the Supreme Court for the past 30 months. Ambassador of India to South Sudan has been years. In 1989, Justice M Fathima Beevi ROMANIA

|Legend Magazine | January - 2018| 21 appointed as the next Ambassador of India to director of Singapore’s central bank Monetary Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. The four the Republic of Angola. Authority of Singapore (MAS).The award was Fellowships (Akademi Ratnas) this year will be ANGOLA given by UK-based magazine ‘The Banker’ for his conferred on Arvind Parikh, R Vedavalli, Ram • Capital: Luanda contribution in the makeover of Singapore’s Gopal Bajaj and Sunil Kothari. • Currency: Angolan kwanza financial system. Singapore’s Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat was also named the best banker CU confers D. Litt degree on Pranab in 2011. He was then as MAS’s managing director. Mukherjee: Somanath takes charge as VSSC director: ISRO’s Liquid Propulsion Systems The Chittagong University Golden Globe Awards 2018: (Bangladesh) honored former president Pranab Centre (LPSC) director S Somanath has taken charge as the new director of Vikram Sarabhai The 75th Golden Globe Award ceremony Mukherjee with the Doctor of Literature (D.Litt.) was held in Los Angeles, the USA. Three degree. It has been given for his "outstanding Space Centre (VSSC), which is ISRO’s lead centre for launch vehicles. Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri won the “Best contributions to society and for being a genuine Motion Picture, drama” award. Best friend of Bangladesh".

US Senate confirms Powell as next Chairman performance by an actress in a motion The university’s Vice-Chancellor Prof. picture, drama is Frances McDormand. Best Iftekhar Uddin Chowdhury conferred the of Federal Reserve: The US Senate confirmed former performance by an actor in a motion picture, degree to Mr. Mukherjee at the university campus. drama is Gary Oldman. Pranab Mukherjee was the 13th president of India. investment banker Jerome Powell as head of the Federal Reserve. Mr Powell, a current Fed French honour to be conferred on actor Andhra Pradesh Minister Nara Lokesh gets governor, was confirmed by a vote of 85-12, paving the way for him to replace current Chair Soumitra Chattopadhyay Dr. Kalam Innovation in Governance Award: France will confer its highest order of Recognising the contribution of Andhra Janet Yellen when she steps down next month. merit, the 'Legion of Honour', on legendary film Pradesh in the field of Panchayat Raj & Rural and theatre actor Soumitra Chattopadhyay at Development, Young cabinet Minister Nara

Usha Ananthasubramanian Becomes 1st Woman the 42nd International Kolkata Book Fair. It Lokesh was conferred with the Dr. Kalam IBA Chief: will be honoured by French culture and Innovation in Governance Award 2018. The communication minister Francoise Nyssen award was given away by Rajya Sabha Secretary-

Usha Ananthasubramanian, MD and and it was announced by French Ambassador General Desh Deepak Verma during the second CEO of Allahabad Bank has been elected the (to India) Alexandre Ziegler. edition of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Summit on first woman chairman of Indian Banks’ The Dadasaheb Phalke Award winner innovation in governance in New Delhi. Association (IBA).Usha was elected as IBA Chattopadhyay acted in several of Ray's films, Chairman for the year 2017-18 by its Managing including Apur Sansar, Abhijan, Charulata, Shah Rukh Khan receives Crystal Award in Committee. Aranyer Din Ratri and Sonar Kella. Davos: She replaces after the retirement of France is the focal theme country of the Global icon Shah Rukh Khan received Jatinder Bir Singh, who was Chairman and international Kolkata Book fair 2018. the 24th Crystal Award, here in Davos for “his Managing Director of Punjab & Sind Bank. leadership in championing children’s and IBA Matunga station enters Limca Book for all- women’s rights in India“. English singer Sir • Headquarters: Mumbai woman staff Elton John and Australian actress Cate • CEO: Mohan V Tanksale The Matunga suburban station on the Blanchett were also honoured at the Summit. Central Railway (CR) entered Limca Book of Past winners of Crystal Award from India include Records for having an all-woman staff. The Amitabh Bachchan, A R Rahman, Shabana Azmi, AWARDS AND HONOURS unique initiative was taken by CR General Manager and Amjad Ali Khan among others. JNPT wins Samudra Manthan Award 2017: DK Sharma in July 2017 with the aim of The Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust has empowering women. Matunga is a railway station Delhi LG felicitates National Bravery Award won the “Samudra Manthan – Caring on the Central line of the Mumbai Suburban winners: Organisation of the Year” award. The award Railway network. Lt Governor Anil Baijal felicitated was organised by Bhandarkar Shipping, which children who have been conferred the National is a leading publication of the maritime industry. Actor Sudhir Dalvi gets Janakavi P Sawlaram Bravery Award 2017 at a function held at the From the total 14 categories of Samudra award: Raj Niwas. Among the 18 brave hearts, including Manthan award, JNPT was the winner in the Actor Sudhir Dalvi was honoured with seven girls and 11 boys, two girls and one boy “Caring Organization of the Year” category. the Janakavi P Sawlaram award at a glittering have been given the award posthumously. The Samudra Manthan Award is a significant function in Thane. The award is jointly given by Coveted Bharat Award Nazia of Uttar Pradesh initiative instituted with an objective to fuel the Thane Municipal Corporation and the Janakavi Prestigious Geeta Chopra Award Late Netravati M Chavan of Karnataka P Savlaram Kala Samiti. Well-known healthy competition in the maritime Sanjay Chopra Award Master Karanbeer Singh of Punjab sector.Jawaharlal Nehru Port, also known as dancer Jaishree T was given the Ganga Jamuna Bapu Gaidhani Award Master Betshwajohn Peinlang of Meghalaya Nhava Sheva, is the largest container port in award. Bapu Gaidhani Award Mamata Dalai of Odisha India. Located east of Mumbai in Maharashtra, the port on the Arabian Sea. President Kovind to confer Sangeet Natak Bapu Gaidhani Award Master Sebastian Vincent of Kerala Awards for 2016

President Ram Nath Kovind will confer Ravi Menon named best governor of Asia Tamil Nadu CM Palanichamy received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships and Pacific: UNESCO Award Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards for 2016 to An Indian-origin banker in Singapore has The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister an eminent group of musicians, dancers, and been named as the best central bank governor Edappadi K Palanisamy has received UNESCO theatre artists. The function will be held at in Asia-Pacific for 2018.Ravi Menon, managing Award of Merit. It has been awarded to the

|Legend Magazine | January - 2018| 22 iconic Srirangam Ranganathaswamy temple Sathiyan: India’s highest-ranked player in in Tiruchirapalli. ITTF rankings: Gilles Simon wins inaugural Tata Open title: The award of merit was awarded by G Sathiyan has become India’s Gilles Simon of France has clinched the UNESCO Asia Pacific region for the cultural highest- ranked player in the latest inaugural Tata Open Maharashtra Tennis heritage conservation activities taken up at International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) trophy. The event held at Balewadi Sports the temple without altering its original splendour. rankings. He surpasses Sharath Kamal. Complex in Pune. He defeated Kevin Anderson Sathiyan is at the 49th rank, pushing Kamal to to clinch the title. Simon’s ranking is 89 in the Govt announces Padma Awards 2018: the second spot at 51.They are followed by world, while Anderson is ranked Fourteen. It The Centre has announced the list of Soumyajit Ghosh ranked 58th, Harmeet Desai is the first title for Simon, since his win at 2018 Padma awardees.The awards — Padma ranked 60th, Sanil Shetty ranked 68th and Marseille in February 2015.This tournament Vibhushan (3), Padma Bhushan (9) and Anthony Amalraj ranked 87th. is India’s only ATP event. Padma Shri (73) — are announced on the eve of As for the women, Manika Batra is the Republic Day every year. Here some of the topping the world chart among Indians at 62, Federer-Bencic Lead Switzerland to Hopman Cup famous people who conferred with this awards are while Mouma Das is ranked 74th and Title: listed: Madhurika Patkar is ranked 81th. Switzerland won their third Hopman Cup Padma Vibhushan: as Roger Federer and Belinda Bencic by • Ilayaraja: Art (Music), Tamil Nadu Arab player of the year 2017: MohamedSalah defeating Germany’s Alexander Zverev and • Ghulam Mustafa Khan: Art (Music), Liverpool and Egypt striker Mohamed Angelique Kerber. It was Federer’s second Uttar Pradesh Salah was named Arab Player of the Year for Hopman Cup triumph after victory in 2001 • P Parameswaran: Literature & 2017.Syrian winner Omar Khribin is second and when teamed with Martina Hingis. The Education, Kerala another Syrian player, Omar Al- Soma is at third Hopman Cup is an annual international eight- Padma Bhusan: spot. Salah also wins African Player of the Year team indoor hardcourt tennis tournament • Pankaj Advani: Sports - title which will be announced in the Ghanaian held in Perth, Western Australia. Billiards/Snooker, Karnataka capital Accra. Liverpool is a professional football • Philipose Mar Chrysostom: Others- club in Liverpool, England. Ashes Test Series: Australia beat England: Spiritualism, Kerala Australia beat England by innings and • Mahendra Singh Dhoni: Sports- India-South Africa Test series named as 123 runs in Ashes Test Series. The Ashes is a Test Cricket, Jharkhand “Freedom Series”: cricket series played between England and Padma Shri: The upcoming three-Test series between Australia. An Ashes series is traditionally of five • Saikhom Mirabai Chanu: Sports- India and hosts South Africa has been named as Tests, hosted in turn by England and Weightlifting, Manipur “Freedom Series.” A specially designed Australia at least once every two years. • Somdev Devvarman: Sports-Tennis, Freedom Series Trophy Podium will also The player of the series is Steve Smith, Tripura commemorate the landmark series. The Freedom Captain of Australian Team. The five venues for • Murlikant Petkar: Sports-Swimming, Series was felt by both nations to be a more fitting 2018 series were the Gabba, Adelaide Oval, the Maharashtra name in recognition of South Africa’s and India’s WACA Ground, the Melbourne Cricket Ground • Kidambi Srikanth: Sports-Badminton, shared history of winning freedom through non- and the Sydney Cricket Ground. Andhra Pradesh violence. BCCI suspends Yusuf Pathan for five months: Brisbane International 2018: The Board of Control for Cricket in India SPORTS Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina secured her first (BCCI), has suspended Indian all-rounder Yusuf Indian golfer Shiv Kapur wins Royal Cup at WTA title in women’s singles by defeating Pathan for 5 months on doping violation. He Pattay: Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich. This is her had ingested a prohibited substance Terbutaline, Indian golfer Shiv Kapur won the Royal 10th title on the women’s elite tour. Australian commonly found in cough syrups. The substance Cup at Pattaya, which is his third Asian Tour title Nick Kyrgios won in Men’s single by defeating ‘Terbutaline’ is prohibited both in and out of of 2017. Kapur first won on Asian Tour in his debut American Ryan Harrison. Competition in the World Anti-Doping Agency's season in December 2005. • Men’s Doubles winner: Henri Prohibited List of Substances. Kapur, the only multiple winner on Kontinen and John Peers. World Anti-Doping Agency Asian Tour this year, is also the only Indian to • Women’s Doubles winner: Kiki • Headquarters: Montreal, Canada have won three times on Asian Tour. Now he has Bertens and Demi Schuurs. • President: Craig Reedie won three times in eight months. This latest win • It was played on outdoor hard courts marks Kapur’s fourth Asian Tour win and sixth in Brisbane, Queensland, Bhuvneshwar Kumar jumps eight places in international title as he won twice on European Australia. latest ICC test ranking: Challenge Tour also. India's swing bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar has jumped eight places to 22nd rank in the Vidarbha Defeats Delhi to win Ranji Trophy latest ICC ranking. In the rankings for the Test for the First Time: batsmen, Australia's Steve Smith remains on Vidarbha won the Ranji Trophy title 947 points in first position. India skipper Virat for the first time by defeating Delhi in nine wickets. Kohli moved to third spot from second. England The event held at Holkar Stadium in Indore. counterpart Joe Root is in second rank. Rajneesh Gurbani was declared player of the India continued to be the top-ranked Match. The team represents the Vidarbha region Test team with 124 points. They are followed of eastern Maharashtra. by South Africa (111 points), Australia (104

|Legend Magazine | January - 2018| 23 points), New Zealand (100 points) and England Yuki Bhambri qualifies for Australian Open Yuzvendra Chahal was awarded the (99 points). tennis tournament: T20 Performance of the Year.Rohit and Kohli In Melbourne, the 25-year old Indian Yuki are part of the ICC ODI team of the Year while Anchal Thakur Bags bronze Medal in Skiing: Bhambri overcame Canadian Peter Polansky and Ashwin, Pujara and Kohli are part of the ICC Test Aanchal Thakur wins bronze medal in has qualified for the Australian Open tennis Team of the Year. Alpine Ejder 3200 Cup in Turkey. She is the tournament. first Indian to win a medal at an international India Rise Three Places in Latest FIFA skiing event. She won the medal in the slalom Indian boxers claim 11 gold medals in Rankings: race category. The Championship was organized 7th edition of Nation’s Cup tournament in India jumped three places to get 102nd by the Federation Internationale de Ski (skiing's Sombor, Serbia: rank in the first FIFA rankings of the year. international governing body) in Erzurum, Indian boxers have claimed 11 gold India is ranked 14th among Asian countries. Turkey. medals and both the team championship trophies The top 14 spots remained unchanged with in the Nation’s Cup tournament for junior and reigning World Champions Germany at the top Aditya Mehta Wins Kolkata Open 2018: youth women in Sombor, Serbia. The junior followed by Brazil, Portugal, Argentina and Aditya Mehta clinched the Kolkata Open team won 13 medals, nine gold, two silver and Belgium. Iran are the top-ranked Asian team at International Invitation Snooker Championship at two bronze medals, while the youth the 34th position. The captain of Indian Team is the Hindustan Club in Kolkata, West Bengal. team clinched four medals 3 gold (60, 64 and 81 Sunil Chhetri. He defeated Englishman Professional Player Alfie kilogram)and one bronze (54 kilogram). FIFA: The Federation Internationale de Burden to clinch the title. SERBIA Football Association • Capital: Belgrade • President: Gianni Infantino Wang Jiali has been banned for 8 years: CAA • Currency: Serbian dinar • Headquarters: Zurich, Switzerland China's national marathon champion and Olympian Wang Jiali has been banned for Manav Thakkar World No.2, Diya Chitale No.5 Premier Badminton League: Hyderabad eight years after failing a drugs test. The CAA in TT rankings Hunters Claim Maiden Title also fined Wang 40,000 yuan ($6,000) and Indian players, Manav Thakkar Hyderabad Hunters overcame a banned her coach Lyu Qiang for life. It was climbed to World Number 2 in the boys' under- fighting Bengaluru Blasters in a thrilling summit announced by China's Anti-Doping Agency clash to claim their maiden title at the third 18 category while Diya Chitale rose to Number (CHINADA). 5 in the girls' under-15 category in the Premier Badminton League (PBL)at the She had recently won gold at the 2017 Gachibowli Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad. Mixed International Table Tennis Federation rankings. National Games. Wang, who came 57th in the National Champion Payas Jain has climbed to the Doubles pair of Satwiksairaj marathon at the 2012 London Olympics was Rankireddy and Pia Bernadet put up a 11th spot, and behind him is Jeho H at No. 12. banned for two years in 2013 for a previous Selena Selvakumar is now at No. 37. dominant display in the last match to clinch the violation. title and the winners’ prize purse for the Hunters. International Table Tennis Federation Headquarters: Lausanne, Switzerland •

Assam wins 8th Sub-junior National Hockey • President: Thomas Weikert

C’ship: Rabada is the youngest No. 1 Test bowler: Hosts Assam Hockey rallied back in the India clinched Blind Cricket World Cup 2018 India have clinched the 5th World Cup first half to beat Hockey Rajasthan in the final of South African player Kagiso Rabada has the 8th Hockey India Sub Junior Men National for the Blind 2018 and Sunil Ramesh was recently became the top-ranked bowler in Test declared as the man of the match. India defeated Championship 2018 (B Division), at the Hojai cricket. He is the youngest bowler ever to top Hockey stadium, Assam. Pakistan by two wickets to clinch the title. It has the ICC Test rankings for bowlers. 40 overs in each match. The event was held at

Rabada became only the seventh South Ronaldinho Retires From Professional Sharjah Cricket Stadium in UAE. The hosting African bowler to top the latest rankings countries are UAE and Pakistan. It was organised Football: released following his contribution in the 72-run Brazilian World Cup winner by World Blind Cricket Council head. India had win against India in the first Test match at previously won the tournament in 2014, which was Ronaldinho has formally confirmed his Newlands. retirement from football. He played last in 2015 held in Cape Town. World Blind Cricket Council with Fluminense. He has been awarded the Ballon

D’Or in 2005. For Brazil, Ronaldinho made 97 • Headquarters: Bengaluru President: Syed Sultan Shah appearances, scoring 33 goals, including two in • Sarjubala Devi clinched gold in National Women’s the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea. Boxing Championship: Shuttler Siddharth Singh Wins Swedish Open Ronaldinho’s career began with Gremio football club in Porto Alegre before he emerged as a star Junior Badminton Title: Former world silver-medallist Sarjubala Young Indian shuttler Siddharth with French giants PSG. Devi (48kg), representing Manipur, claimed the Pratap Singh secured his maiden international gold National Women’s Boxing title, bagging the Swedish Open Junior ICC Awards 2017 Complete List of Winners Championships. He also clinched the best boxer The Indian captain was named the International Series with a straight-game trophy in the National Women’s Boxing victory over Denmark’s Mads Christophersen in Cricketer of the Year and also Sir Garfield Championships. The event was held in Rohtak, Sobers Trophy for his performances during the the finals in Uppsala in Sweden. Haryana. Former world and Asian champion L ICC cutoff year of September 2016 to October Sarita Devi (60kg), representing the All India 2017.Kohli also wins the ICC ODI Cricketer of West Indies to Host 2018 Women’s World Police (AIP) clinched gold medal. T20: the Year.

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The International Cricket Council January, 2006, as a specialised force capable of beautifully traces the evolution of the Indian (ICC) has announced, the 2018 edition of responding to any type of disaster in the country capital over the centuries. The book is published the Women’s World T20 will be hosted by and abroad. by Palimpsest Publishers. It focus various subjects West Indies in November 2018. Hosts Windies like heritage, culture, law, gender equality, urban will defend the title they won over Australia in Nation pays homage to Netaji Subhash environment, education, sports and transport. Kolkata in 2016. Chandra Bose on his 121st birth anniversary The Nation pays homage to India’s OBITUARY Rakhi Halder creates new national record in great freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Eminent Poet Anwar Jalalpuri Passes Away: Women Senior National Weightlifting Chandra Bose on his 121st(23rd January) birth Noted Urdu poet Anwar Jalalpuri Championships: anniversary. It was on this day in 1897, Netaji was passed away in Lucknow. Anwar Jalalpuri is best Rakhi Halder created a new national born in Cuttack, Odisha. known for his translation of shlokas of Bhagwat record and en route to a gold medal in the 63kg Gita into Urdu verses. Anwar Jalalpuri was a Yash women’s category in the 33rd Women Senior National Girl Child Day: January 24 Bharti recipient. National Weightlifting Championships, in Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Mangaluru, Kerala. Rakhi lifted 128kgs for a that the nation is proud of the accomplishments of Carnatic vocalist Radha Viswanathan passes total of 230kgs to create a new national record, girls in various fields. In a tweet on the occasion away: bettering Karnam Malleswari’s feat (127kg) of National Girl Child Day, Mr Modi said, India Carnatic singer, Radha Viswanathan created in Athens in 1999. salutes the skills, strengths and fortitude of the girl passed away in Bengaluru. Radha Viswanathan is The silver in this category went to S child. the daughter of famous classical singer M S Thasana Chanu of Karnataka (202kg) while Subbulakshmi. She had performed in concerts the bronze was clinched by AIPSCB’s Amandeep UP Diwas Day- January 24 along with her mother M S Subbulakshmi. Kaur (191kg). The Yogi Adityanath government has decided to celebrate 'UP Diwas' on January Former WTO Director General Peter Sutherland Delhi wins Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy: 24.The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting passed away: Delhi won their first Syed Mushtaq Ali chaired by the chief minister Yogi Adityanath. The Former World Trade Organization Trophy by beating Rajasthan. It was held at Eden United Provinces unit was renamed as Uttar Director General Peter Sutherland passed away. Gardens stadium, Kolkata. The 2017–18 Syed Pradesh on on January 24, 1950. He also held top posts in the European Union and Mushtaq Ali Trophy is the ninth edition of Syed the United Nations. Sutherland became founding Mushtaq Ali Trophy, a Twenty20 competition in National Voters' Day - January 25 director-general of the WTO in 1993, and in 2006 India. The National Voters' Day or was named the U.N. envoy on international Rashtriya Matdata Diwas is observed on migration. IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE DAY January 25 every year. The significance of Non-resident Indian Day - January 9 National Voters' Day is to encourage more young World champion powerlifter Saksham Yadav Non-resident Indian Day (Pravasi voters to take part in the political process. This will passed away: Bharatiya Divas) is observed on January 9. It aims be eighth National Voters' Day (NVD). Powerlifting world champion Saksham to recognize the contribution of the overseas Yadav passes away in an accident in New Delhi. Indian community to the country's development. BOOK & AUTHOR He has won a gold medal for India at powerlifting India has the second-largest overseas community President Kovind unveiled 'The Heartfulness world championship held in Moscow in in the world after China. Way' book: December 2017.Saksham had also won a gold President Ram Nath Kovind unveiled a medal in the junior category in 2016. National Youth Day - January 12 book on heartfulness techniques and principles National youth day (Yuva Diwas or titled 'The Heartfulness Way'. It is authored by NASA’s Astronaut John Young Passed Away: Swami Vivekananda Birthday) 2018 will be Kamlesh Patel, widely known as Daaji and Legendary American astronaut John celebrated all over India on 12th of January. It is Joshua Pollock. The Heartfulness Way Young, passed away. He is America’s ‘most celebrated in order to inspire all the youths of encapsulates a seeker's journey while examining experienced astronaut’ who walked on the Moon country towards the philosophy of Swami the nature of spiritual search within and around during the Apollo programme and commanded the Vivekananda and his ideals. us. It was launched by Commerce and first space shuttle mission. The theme of 2018 is ‘Sankalp Se Siddhi’ Industries Minister Suresh Prabhu. Former Bollywood actor Shrivallabh Vyas Indian Army celebrates 70th Army Day: Vice President releases the book ‘Staniya passes away: Army Day is celebrated on January Svasasan Mei Addhi Aabadhi’ Bollywood actor Shrivallabh Vyas 15 every year. The Indian Army celebrates Vice President releases the book passed away in Jaipur. He has done films like the 70th Army Day, with parades and shows at ‘Staniya Svasasan Mei Addhi Aabadhi’ has 'Sarfarosh', 'Lagaan', 'Abhay', 'Aan: Men at Work' its major locations across the country. The been authored by Dr. Sadhana Pandey in New 'Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero' celebration marks the day Field Marshal KM Delhi. It is a study that captures the voices of the and 'Sankat City'. Cariappa took over as the first Indian chief of the rural women who are occupying positions of nation’s Army in 1949. General Bipin authority at the local level. NIAS Director Baldev Raj Passes Away: Rawat reviews parade in New Delhi. Atomic scientist and NIAS Director Baldev A Book by Sheila Dixit “Dilli Meri Dilli: Before Raj passed away. He had been director of the Raising Day - January 19 and After 1998” National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), National Disaster Response Force, The former Chief Minister of Delhi, Sheila Bengaluru since 2014. NDRF is celebrating its 13th Raising Day on Dixit’s pictorial book framed a book named “Dilli January 19, 2018. The Force was raised on 19th Meri Dilli: Before and After 1998”.The book

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Veteran journalist and writer Gnani Sankaran Distinguished Contribution to American letters. e) Kalyan Singh passes away: Her first novel, "Rocannon's World” and she had Q.9) Recently Saudi Arabia and which country Veteran Tamil writer, journalist and wrote more than 20 novels and over 100 short introduced the Value Added Tax (VAT) for the first theatre personality, Gnani Sankaran, died. He stories. time? was the editor of a Tamil a) Yemen b) United Arab Emirates magazine ‘Dheemtharikida’, which was first Bengali actor Supriya Choudhury passed c) Italy d) Israel published in printed form and then in electronic away: e) Oman form Famous actress Supriya Devi passed Q.10) Senior diplomat Vijay Keshav Gokhale has away. She hails from West Bengal. Supriya Devi been appointed as the next______. Former Union minister Raghunath Jha passes acted in 45 Bengali films till 2006 with her last film a) Finance Secretary away: being The Namesake. She is a Padma Shri award b) Commerce Secretary Raghunath Jha (78) was former Union winner. c) Foreign Secretary minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public d) Home Secretary Enterprise in UPA government led by former Prime Kannada actor Chandrashekhar passes away: e) Defence Secretary Minister Manmohan Singh, passed away at a Noted Kannada actor Chandrashekhar Q.11) Vidarbha won the Ranji Trophy title for the Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital. popularly known as ‘Edakallu Guddada Mele’ first time by defeating which team? Chandrashekhar passed away. He had acted in a) Chattisgarh b) Delhi Jo Jo White, Basketball player Passed Away: over 40 films to date and his last film ‘3 ghante, c) Baroda d) Hyderabad American Basketball player Jo Jo white 30 dina, 30 second’. e) Tripura has passed away. Jo Jo was a key member of two Q.12) Anwar Jalalpuri passed away recently is best championship teams, an NBA Finals MVP, a gold Current Affairs Quiz: known for which language poetry? medal-winning Olympian, and a Hall of Famer. Q.1) Which of the following Indian state has a) Urdu b) Malayalam recently declared as an Open Defecation Free state c) Tamil d) Hindi Kashinath, Kannada actor passed away: in North East Region of India? e) Kannada Veteran Kannada actor Kashinath a) Nagaland b) Assam Q.13) Who is the Minister of state for finance? passed away. Kashinath hails from Kundapura in c) Mizoram d) Arunachal Pradesh a) Manoj Sinha b) Jayant Sinha Udupi district. Kashinath began his career in films e) Manipur c) Balram Kumar d) HasmukhAdhia as a director and the first movie he directed was Q.2) Maharashtra sanctions, how much amount e) Ashok varma Aparoopada Athithigalu. for farm loan waiver Scheme? Q.14) Who launched the Allied and Healthcare a) Rs.17,240 crore b) Rs.14,340 crore Professionals’ database portal? Eminent Cartoonist Chandi Lahiri Passed c) Rs.15,140 crore d) Rs.14,240 crore a) Prime Minister b) Health Secretary Away: e) Rs.24,240 crore c) Health and Family Welfare Minister The Famous Cartoonist Chandi Lahiri Q.3) With easy access to information on d) President has passed away. He belongs to West Bengal. He government Schemes and initiatives for women, e) Ministry of Consumer Affairs began his career in 1952 at the 'Dainik Loksevak' Union Minister Maneka Gandhi inaugurates online Q.15)Uttarayan festival is celebrated in which of newspaper as a reporter and took to drawing portal named ______. the following state? cartoons in 1961. a) MNAI b) MARN a) Kerala b) Karnataka c) RNAI d) MNRI c) Gujarat d) Jammu and Kashmir Longest living Indian Army veteran Major e) NARI e) Andhra Pradesh FKK Sircar passes away at 101: Q.4) What is the constituency of Women and Child Q.16) Telangana launches 24-hours free power Major FKK Sircar (Retd.), the longest Development Minister Maneka Gandhi? supply for which category of people? living army veteran, at 101 years of age. He was a) Vidisha b) Nagpur a) Below poverty line people from 2nd battalion of the ASSAM Regiment and c) Jhansi d) Vizianagaram b) Farmers had the distinction of participating in three wars e) Pilibhit c) Self-help group viz World War II, Indo-Pak War of 1947 -48 and Q.5) Which state government has obtained d) Small scale industry people Indo-China War of 1962. approval to get electric vehicles under FAME-India e) None of these Scheme? Q.17) Which of the following country has allowed Hugh Masekela, ‘Father of South African Jazz’ a) Tamil Nadu b) Karnataka the Chinese yuan or Renminbi to be used for Passes Away: c) Kerala d) Maharashtra bilateral trade and investment activities? ‘Father of South African jazz’, who e) Rajasthan a) Iran b) India had career spanning more than five decades, dies Q.6)India's second largest rooftop solar plant in c) Pakistan d) Turkmenistan aged 78. South Africans have paid tribute Uttar Pradesh generated how much electricity? e) Tajikistan to Hugh Masekela, the legendary jazz a) 59 lakh KWh b) 79 lakh KWh Q.18) India and Pakistan exchanged the list of musician and activist, who died at the age of 78. c) 89 lakh KWh d) 70 lakh KWh nuclear installations and facilities through e) 69 lakh KWh diplomatic channels since______. Author Ursula K. Le Guin Passed Away: Q.7) National Register of Citizens (NRC) was a) 1989 b) 1993 c) 1992 The Award-winning science fiction and released in which of the following state? d) 1990 e) 1991 fantasy author Ursula K Le Guin has passed a) Tamil Nadu b) Jammu & Kashmir Q.19) State Bank of India and NABARD have away. She hails from Oregon, US. She has won a c) Assam d) Sikkim signed an agreement for the promotion of 2,500 number of Nebula and Hugo science fiction and e) Nagaland joint liability groups (JLGs) in which Indian state? fantasy awards. She also received the Newbery Q.8) Who is the Registrar General of India? a) Bihar b) Odisha Medal, the top honour for US children's literature a) Mithun Raj b) Kiran c) Jharkhand d) West Bengal and the National Book Foundation Medal for c) Sailesh d) Praveen Raj e) Assam

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Q.20) What is the abbreviation of MDR? a) Odisha b) Rajasthan Q.43) Who is the Director General of UNESCO? a) Money Discount Rate c) Karnataka d) Kerala a) Roberto Azevedo b) Mortgage Discount Rate e) Andhra Pradesh b) Irina Bokova c) Merchant Discount Rate Q.33) Which state government has set to c) Audrey Azoulay d) Marginal Discount Rate implement the integrated solar based micro d) Peter Maurer e) Market Discount Rate irrigation Scheme? e) Guy Ryder Q.21) Who is the Chairman of NABARD? a) Karnataka b) Assam Q.44) NC Goel has been appointed as new Chief a) Ajay Tyagi c) Haryana d) Chhattisgarh Secretary of which Indian state? b) Aravind Subramanian e) Bihar a) Maharashtra b) Rajasthan c) Harish Kumar Q.34) The Headquarters of Rafael is in which of the c) Assam d) Nagaland d) Harsh Kumar Bhanwala following? e) Bihar e) Ashok Raja a) Israel b) Moscow Q.45)The Public sector IDBI Bank has received the Q.22) HSBC expects India’s’ growth at around how c) London d) Paris capital infusion of how much amount from the much percentage in the fiscal 2017-18? e) Lisbon government of India? a) 6.5 percent b) 7.5 percent Q.35) The MoU was signed by the Ministry of Road a) Rs.2729 crore b) Rs.2721 crore c) 7 percent d) 6.8 percent Transport and Highways (India) and which c) Rs.2719 Lakh d) Rs.2279 crore e) 7.3 percent country’s Transport department to improve public e) Rs.2529 Lakh Q.23) Where is the Headquarters of HSBC located? transport in India? Q.46) Who is the MD and CEO of IDBI bank? a) Singapore b) Paris c) Brussels a) Japan b) UK a) Aditya Puri d) London e) Tokyo c) Spain d) Australia e) Poland b) Shikha Sharma Q.24) What is the capital of Mali? Q.36) Recently, the HDFC bank had tied up with c) Mahesh Kumar Jain a) Dili b) Beirut the Rajasthan Government to promote? d) Shyam Srinivasan c) Bamako d) Bujumbura a) Industrialist b) SHG e) Rana Kapoor e) Caracas c) Farmers d) Startups Q.47) Shiv Kapur is related to which of the Q.25) Samudra Manthan – Caring Organization of e) None of these following sport? the Year award is received by which port? Q.37) Who has been recently appointed as deputy a) Cricketer b) Golfer a) Paradip Port Trust, Odisha national security adviser? c) Football d) Hockey b) Mormugao Port Trust, Goa a) Arvind Gupta b) AjitDoval e) Table Tennis c) Mundra Port Trust, Gujarat c) Rajinder Khanna Q.48) Where is the headquarters of UNESCO d) Jawaharlal Nehru PortTrust, Maharashtra d) Manoj Kumar e) Sarath Singh located? e) Haldia PortTrust, West Bengal Q.38) Which two country test series has been a) Hague b) London Q.26) Which player has become India’s highest- named as “Freedom Series” in cricket? c) Brussels d) Vienna e) Paris ranked player(49th rank) in the latest a) Sri Lanka and Pakistan Q.49) Recently National Mission for Clean Ganga International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF)? b) India and England (NMCG) has approved five projects for sewage a) Anthony Amalraj b) Sathiyan c) Pakistan and Zimbabwe management of worth Rs.______. c) Sharath Kamal d) Balan d) India and South Africa a) 289 crores b) 293 crores e) Sanil Shetty e) Australia and England c) 292 crores d) 295 crores e) 291 crores Q.27) Mohamed Salah tops the Arab player of the Q.39) Which state government has launched Q.50) Who is the Minister of Water Resources and year 2017. He plays for which country? ‘BhavantarBharpayee Yojana’ for vegetable Ganga Rejuvenation? a) Algeria b) Egypt c) Morocco growers? a) Uma Bharati b) Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi d) Nigeria e) Tunisia a) Kerala b) Maharashtra c) Chaudhary Birender Singh Q.28) Recently Madhya Pradesh has introduced c) Haryana d) Odisha d) Nitin Jiram Gadkari tourism plan to ensure better facilities for the e) Tamil Nadu e) Harsimrat Kaur Badal tourists visiting the state for how much amount? Q.40) Assam gets how much amount of Central Q.51) India's First Digital Online Oncology Tutorial a) Rs. 150 Crore b) Rs. 110 Crore Fund for Inland water transport? was launched by c) Rs. 120 Crore d) Rs. 100 Crore a) Rs.250 crore a) Jagat Prakash Nadda e) Rs. 130 Crore b) Rs.5250 crore b) Preeti Sudan Q.29) Who is the Tourism Minister of Madhya c) Rs.1250 crore c) Radha Mohan Singh Pradesh? d) Rs.3250 crore d) Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti a) Lal Singh Arya b) Sharad Jain e) Rs.2250 crore e) Anupriya Patel c) Surendra Patwa d) Harsh Singh Q.41) Who is the Prime Minister of Nepal? Q.52) The government has launched the largest e) Sanjay Satyendra Pathak a) Abdullah Yameen cleanliness survey named______. Q.30) Who has provided financial assistance of Rs. b) Bidhya Devi Bhandari a) Swachh Survekshan 10,000 crore to Odisha till Q3? c) Sher Bahadur Dueba b) Swachh Bharat a) RBI b) NABARD d) AmeenahGurib c) Swachh Abhiyan c) Central Government d) AIIB e) Yingluck Shinawatra d) Swachh India e) World Bank Q.42) Canal-top solar plant to be commissioned in e) None of these Q.31) The Electoral Bonds are valid for how many which Airport? Q.53) Under Rural Infrastructure Development days? a) Kempegowda International Airport Fund (RIDF) NABARD has Sanctioned how much a) 25 b) 20 c) 15 b) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport amount? d) 10 e) 30 c) Cochin International Airport a) Rs. 142.56 crore b) Rs. 372.51 crore Q.32) The largest B2B travel event ‘KITE’ will be d) Biju Patnaik International Airport c) Rs. 162.58 crore d) Rs. 472.50 crore held in which of the following state? e) Tulihal Airport e) Rs. 272.52 crore

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Q.54) In RIDF, what is the abbreviation of ‘I’? c) Karnataka d) Kerala Q.77)In which stadium Union Sports Minister a) Independent b) Influential e) Assam Rathore Launches ‘Khelo India’ Logo? c) Infrastructure d) Infused Q.65) Boeing will set up a training facility for its P- a) Feroz Shah Kotla e) Irrigation 8I warfare aircraft at which air station? b) Thyagaraj Sports Complex Q.55) Which state is going to host 39th National a) INS Shibpur b) INS Baaz c) Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Games in India? c) INS Rajali d) INHS Dhanvantri d) Ambedkar Stadium a) Maharashtra b) Assam e) INS Kadamba e) Chhatrasal Stadium c) Karnataka d) Meghalaya Q.66) The Himalayan Hydro Expo 2018 begins Q.78) The Union DefenceMinister Nirmala e) Kerala at______. Sitharaman has announced the release of Rs. 20 Q.56) Who is the Secretary General of Indian a) Paris b) Goa crores to establish a defence park in______. Olympic Association? c) Kathmandu d) Male e) Lucknow a) Pune b) Kochi a) Priyanka Rajan b) Ashok Chawla Q.67) What is the abbreviation of second “N” in c) Coimbatore d) Lucknow c) Suresh Babu d) Rajeev Mehta the term NKN? e) Kolkata e) Rajesh Shetty a) Nutrition b) Network Q.79) Who is the Health Minister of Haryana? Q.57) The Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs c) Net d) Negotiable a) Sanjay Lal b) Anil vij (IICA) and which bank has signed an agreement e) National c) Suresh Varma d) Arvind Rakesh for the training the employees of the bank? Q.68) What is the currency of Iceland? e) Vimal Kannan a) Andhra Pradesh Grameena Vikas Bank a) Dram b) Krone c) Dinar Q.80) India’s largest lender State Bank of India b) Airtel Payments Bank d) Krona e) Franc plans to raise upto how much billion by issuing c) IPPB Q.69) According to CSO, India’s GDP growth will bonds in US dollar or other convertible currency? d) SBI be how much percentage in 2017-18? a) 2 b) 1 c) 3 e) ICICI a) 8.5% b) 4.5% c) 6.5% d) 4 e) 5 Q.58) What is the currency of Myanmar? d) 5.5% e) 7.5% Q.81) In 75thGolden Globe Awards 2018 Best a) Lev b) Ngultrum Q.70)The Telangana Industrial Health Clinic Motion Picture, drama was clinched by______. c) Manat d) Krone Limited (TIHCL) has secured the RBI approval for a) Lady Bird b) La La Land e) Kyat becoming______. c) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Q.59) Which bank has operationalized its first a) Bank b) Payment Bank d) A Fantastic Woman desktop ATM in Telangana? c) NBFC d) Chit Fund Institution e) First they Killed my Father a) MalwaGramin Bank e) None of these Q.82) Elina Svitolina secured her first WTA title in b) Andhra Pradesh Grameena Vikas Bank Q.71)Paytm Payments Bank ties up with which women’s singles in Brisbane International belongs c) Assam Gramin Vikash Bank bank for Fixed Deposit Facility? to which country? d) Gramin Bank ofAryavart a) Axis Bank b) Bank of India a) Spain b) America e) Nagaland Rural Bank c) IndusInd Bank d) Bank of Baroda c) Ukraine d) Turkey Q.60) The Government launches what Scheme in e) ICICI Bank e) Australia replacement of ______8% savings scheme. Q.72) What is the name of SingaporeCentral Q.83)Balewadi Sports Complex is situated in which a) 8.5% savings bonds scheme Bank? of the following city? b) 8.1% savings bonds scheme a) Bank of Singapore a) Patna b) Pune c) 7.50% savings bonds scheme b) Federal bank of Singapore c) Hyderabad d) Chennai d) 7.25% savings bonds scheme c) Singapore Reserve Bank e) Lucknow e) 7.75% savings bonds scheme d) Monetary Authority of Singapore Q.84) Peter Sutherland, who passed away recently Q.61) What is the dimension of new Rs.10 note? e) People’s Bank is a former DG of ______. a) 62mmx133mm Q.73) Radha Viswanathan, who passed away a) WHO b) WTO b) 63mmx123mm recently is related to which field? c) UNESCO d) IMF c) 61mmx123mm a) Sports b) Politician e) WLO d) 65mmx113mm c) Actor d) Singer Q.85) Saksham Yadav is related to which sports? e) 61mmx143mm e) None of these a) Wrestling b) Powerlifting Q.62) Who is the Chief Secretary of West Bengal? Q.74) Indian Railways, HRD and S&T Ministry inks c) Boxing d) Cricket a) Sushma Kiran MoU for Technology Mission which is headed e) Weightlifting b) Jogen Chowdhury by_____. Q.86) NASA’s astronaut John young passed away c) Malay De a) Graha Vishnu b) Rajesh Kumaran recently belongs to which country? d) Shittu Priyan c) Keerthi PS d) NS Vyas a) Australia b) France e) Ashok Sharma e) Vindhya Krishnan c) America d) England Q.63) The 26thedition of New Delhi World Book Fair Q.75) The Railway Ministry will co-finance how e) Canada is all set to begin in New Delhi. The theme of the much percent for Technology Mission? Q.87) Union Minister of Earth Sciences, Dr. Harsh event______. a) 40 percent b) 20 percent Vardhan dedicated India’s fastest and first multi- a) Global change c) 25 percent d) 30 percent petaflops supercomputer to the nation. What is the b) Environment and Climate Change e) 60 percent name of the supercomputer? c) Environmental change Q.76) Recently which actor has been partnered a) SahasraT b) Pratyush d) Global Warming: “Threat” with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation c) Aaditya d) TIFR - Cray XC30 e) Fresh World Fresh Air (BMC) to promote cleanliness in Mumbai? e) HP Apollo Q.64) The 26thedition of International Balloon a) Salman Khan b) Vidhya Balan Q.88) What is the constituency of Union Minister Festival begins in which Indian state? c) Akshay Kumar d) Shahrukh Khan of Earth Sciences? a) Gujarat b) Tamil Nadu e) Amitabh Bachchan a) Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh

|Legend Magazine | January - 2018| 28 b) PurviChamparan, Bihar e) Canada Q.112)Phonepe belongs to which of the following c) Chandni Chowk, Delhi Q.100)DilipAsbe has been appointed as the MD & commerce company? d) Deogarh, Uttar Pradesh CEO of ______. a) Myntra b) Snapdeal e) Raigad, Maharashtra a) IBA b) Bank of India c) Flipkart d) Amazon Q.89) The first Film and Television Institute of c) NPCI d) IOC e) NPCL e) Paytm India (FTII) was established in which city? Q.101) Which State Government has launched Q.113) The Board of Control for Cricket in India a) Chennai b) Hyderabad common card for Bus & Metro Rides? (BCCI),has suspended Indian all-rounder Yusuf c) Mumbai d) Pune a) Haryana b) Rajasthan Pathan for how many months on doping violation? e) Ranchi c) Delhi d) Gujarat a) 8 months b) 7 months Q.90) Who is the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh? e) Uttar Pradesh c) 6 months d) 5 months a) Nirbhay Sharma Q.102)The third edition of the International Spice e) 4 months b) BD Mishra conference will be held in _____. Q.114) National Youth day is observed on which c) Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa a) Gujarat b) Rajasthan c) Kerala day? d) V. Shanmuganathan d) Assam e) Uttar Pradesh a) January 8 b) January 10 e) Padmanabha Acharya Q.103)Palzor stadium is in which city? c) January 11 d) January 12 Q.91)PravasiBharatiya Divas or NRI day is a) Bengaluru b) Rajkot c) Gangtok e) January 9 observed on_____. d) Mizoram e) New Delhi Q.115)Barmer refinery project to be commenced a) January 8 b) January 9 Q.104) Which state tops logistics performance in which of the following state? c) January 7 d) January 5 index chart in India? a) Gujarat b) Rajasthan e) January 10 a) Kerala b) Gujarat c) Uttar Pradesh d) West Bengal Q.92) Kailash Gahlot is the Transport Minister of c) Tamil Nadu d) Jharkhand e) Karnataka ______. e) Uttar Pradesh Q.116) What is the theme of the 4thInternational a) Bihar b) Delhi Q.105) Tops Logistics Performance Index Chart Dharma-Dhamma Conference? c) Andhra Pradesh d) Arunachal Pradesh was released by which Ministry? a) State Order in Dharma-Dhamma Traditions e) Rajasthan a) Ministry of Electronics and Information b) Peace and Order in Dharma-Dhamma Traditions Q.93) What is the deadline for linking Aadhaar Technology c) State and Health Order in Dharma-Dhamma with savings scheme which has been recently b) Ministry of Commerce and Industry Traditions extended by the Government? c) Ministry of Finance d) State and Social Order in Dharma-Dhamma a) March 1,2018 b) March 31, 2018 d) Ministry of Human Resource Development Traditions c) April 1,2018 d) May 1,2018 e) Ministry of Women & Child Development e) None of these e) May 31,2018 Q.106) Bhoodhar card is launched by which of the Q.117) UIDAI Introduces ‘Virtual ID’ which consist Q.94) Which bank has tied up with National following Indian state? of how many digits? Scheduled Castes Finance and Development a) Nagaland a) 12 b) 16 Corporation(NSFDC) to provide financial b) Arunachal Pradesh c) 10 d) 15 assistance for economic empowerment of persons c) Andhra Pradesh e) 8 belonging to Scheduled Caste (SC) families? d) Karnataka Q.118) Ajay Bhushan Pandey is the CEO of _____. a) Bank of India e) Kerala a) NSE b) Paytm c) UIDAI b) Bank of Maharashtra Q.107) Research Designs & Standards d) PhonePe e) Paytm Mall c) Punjab National Bank Organization (RDSO) headquarters is in which of Q.119) World's largest Solar thermal plant to be d) Bank of Baroda the following city? built in South Australia at the cost of______. e) Punjab and Sind Bank a) Panaji b) Lucknow a) $105.1 million b) $431 million Q.95) In which of the following year Payment and c) Hyderabad d) Gangtok c) $509 million d) $93.3 million Settlement Systems Act was implemented? e) Aizawl e) $77.5 million a) 2000 b) 2002 c) 2007 Q.108) What is the constituency of Nitin Q.120) K Sivan has been appointed as the new d) 2005 e) 2008 JairamGadkari? ISRO Chairman for a tenure of______. Q.96) Which country is the focal theme country of a) Vizianagaram b) Nagpur a) 2 years b) 3 years the international Kolkata Book fair 2018? c) Vidisha d) Pune c) 1 year d) 5 years e) 6 years a) Russia b) France c) Spain e) Patna Q.121) 23rdWinter Olympic Games are to be held d) Italy e) Germany Q.109) Who is the General Manager of Central in______. Q.97) Australia beat England in 2017-18 Ashes Railway? a) North Korea b) South Korea test series. Who is the player of the series? a) ArunVerma b) DK Sharma c) China d) Japan e) Australia a) Dawid Malan b) Steve Smith c) Ram Vishwa d) Mohammad Syed Q.122)The 8thRashtriyaMatdataDiwas 2018 is c) Joe Root d) James Anderson e) Priya Sridhar observed on ______. e) Pat Cummins Q.110)The World Bank predicts how much a) January 24 b) January 20 Q.98)Soumitra Chattopadhyay is related to which percentage of growth rate in India in 2018-19? c) January 26 d) January 25 of the following profession? a) 7.2% b) 7.3% e) January 27 a) Politician b) Actor c) 7.4% d) 7.1% Q.123) Sunny Verghese has been appointed as the c) Gymnastics d) Sand Artist e) 7.0% Chairman of the World Business Council for e) Doctor Q.111) Ola ties up with which of the private sector Sustainable Development is currently CEO Q.99) Alexandre Ziegler is the Ambassador of banks for providing integrated offers? of______. which country to India? a) Axis Bank b) ICICI bank a) VG International Limited a) Poland b) France c) Federal bank d) City Union bank b) Olam International Limited c) Germany d) Egypt e) HDFC bank c) Newton International Limited

|Legend Magazine | January - 2018| 29 d) XS International Limited Q.134) The Seventh edition of Australia India Q.146) Who has been appointed as the Maritime e) None of these Youth Dialogue with 2018 theme______. Board Chairman? Q.124) According to Bloomberg's billionaire a) Digital Realty a) Kiran Shetty b) VJ Mathew tracker, Amazon's Chief Operating officer Jeff b) Next Generation c) Paul NM d) Suresh Kanna Bezos is now the richest person with the net worth c) Digital Disruption e) None of these of______. d) Digital Value Q.147)Baldev Raj is related to which of the a) $125.1 billion b) $105.1 billion e) None of these following fields? c) $115.1 billion d) $111.1 billion Q.135) What is the currency of Israel? a) Scientist b) Actor e) $93.1 billion a) Ngultrum b) Manat c) Politician d) Sportsman Q.125) Recently, One97 Communications Ltd has c) Euro d) Lev e) Shekel e) None of these set up a new entity called______. Q.136) Reliance JioInfocomm Ltd plans to create Q.148) Kagiso Rabada has recently become the a) Paytm Payments Bank its own cryptocurrency, JioCoin lead by______. top-ranked bowler in Test cricket belongs to which b) Paytm Mall a) Anil Ambani b) Mukesh Amban country? c) Paytm Money c) Akash Ambani d) Shreejesh Ambani a) Sri Lanka b) New Zealand d) Paytm wallet e) None of these c) Australia d) South Africa e) None of these Q.137) Name the first woman lawyer directly e) England Q.126)Anchal Thakur bagged bronze Medal at an promoted as Supreme Court judge? Q.149) Anil Khanna was appointed as the ______International skiing event which is held a) Banumathi b) Indu Malhotra of the Finance Commission of the Indian Olympic in______. c) Fathima Beevi d) Priya Shankar Association. a) Mongolia b) Turkmenistan e) None of these a) Managing Director b) CEO c) Turkey d) Uzbekistan Q.138) National marathon Champion and c) Chairman d) Head e) Egypt Olympian Wang Jiali has been banned for how e) None of these Q.127) Aditya Mehta is related to which of the many years? Q.150) Dr. TedrosAdhanom Ghebreyesus is the following sports? a) 10 years b) 8 years Director-General of which organization? a) Chess b) Carrom c) 5 years d) 11 years a) UN b) WHO c) Squash d) Snooker e) 7 years c) WTO d) IMF e) Table Tennis Q.139) Ursula K Le Guin, who has passed away e) ILO Q.128) Where is the headquarters of UIDAI recently belongs to which category? Q.151) The joint exercise “Iron fist 2018” has located? a) Musician b) Author started between ______. a) Hyderabad b) New Delhi c) Politician d) Freedom Fighter a) India and Japan b) America and India c) Mumbai d) Lucknow e) None of these c) US and Japan e) Kolkata Q.140) Wang Jiali has been banned by China's d) US and China Q.129) Who is the CEO of One97 Communications Anti-Doping Agency belongs to which country? e) None of these Ltd? a) Japan b) China c) Philippines Q.152) India ranked at _____ position on the a) Diva Reddy NS d) India e) Japan Global Manufacturing Index released by World b) Vijay Shekhar Sharma Q.141) R. Seshasayee is the Chairman of which Economic Forum c) Anil Sekar KG Bank? a) 8th b) 30th c) 2nd d) Priya Kumaran a) Canara Bank b) Bank of Baroda d) 31st e) None of these e) Vishwa Pandey c) IndusInd Bank d) Syndicate Bank Q.153) ______claimed the Gold Medal in Q.130) The 4thAnnual Women Leadership Summit e) Axis Bank National Women’s boxing Championship. will be held at______. Q.142) India has signed an MoU with which a) Sarjubala Devi b) Sarita devi L a) IIT b) IIM c) NIT country to enable the return of illegal Indian c) Mary Kom d) Kavita Goyat d) IMI e) None of these migrants? e) Pinki Rani Q.131) ISRO successfully launches its a) USA b) Canada Q.154) ______voluntarily exited from SEBI? 100thsatellite by______. c) United Kingdom d) Germany a) Rajkot Commodity Exchange (RCX) a) PSLV-C38 b) PSLV-C42 e) France b) India Pepper and Spice Trade Association c) PSLV-C40 d) PSLV-C39 Q.143) The 5th ASEAN-India Ministerial Meeting on c) Both A and B d) None of these e) PSLV-C41 Agriculture and Forestry to be held in______. e) INSTC Q.132) Which Ministry has launched SFOORTI App a) Jordan b) Brunei Q.155) Which country has listed as topped recently? c) Turkey d) Andorra borrower from AIIB in 2017? a) Ministry of Finance e) Egypt a) Indonesia b) China b) Ministry of Corporate Affairs Q.144) The 5th Bilateral Technical meeting on c) Germany d) India c) Ministry of Human Resource Development cooperation in the field of Traditional Systems of e) None of these d) Ministry of Commerce and Industry Medicine between Government of India and which Q.156) ______green bonds have become the e) Ministry of Railways country? first debt security to be listed on an exchange at Q.133) What is the constituency of Railway a) Japan b) Indonesia the International Financial Services Centre. Minister Piyush Goyal? c) Malaysia d) China a) Indian Railway Financial Corporation a) Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh e) Singapore b) Industrial Finance Corporation of India Ltd b) Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh Q.145) Who is the Minister of AYUSH? c) Life Insurance Corporation Housing Finance c) Deoria, Uttar Pradesh a) Nirmala Sitharaman b) Uma Bharati Limited d) Nagpur, Maharashtra c) JualOram d) Shripad Yesso Naik d) Sahara India Financial Corporation Limited e) Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh e) Dr. Harsh Vardhan e) None of these

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Q.157) As part of ‘VikasSamiksha Yatra’, _____ a) Delhi b) Punjab e) Nimule Govt. launches Schemes over 200 crore rupees. c) Goa d) Both a and b Q.175) India and which country has signed four a) Bihar b) Maharashtra e) Both b and c agreements for collaboration in ICT sector, setting c) Madhya Pradesh d) Odisha Q.167) India with which country jointly unveiled up of the e-office system and connecting of NKN e) None of these the ‘Special logo’ for their Golden Jubilee for collaboration among universities and Q.158) Karnataka state paired with ______celebrations in New Delhi? academics? state for the “7th edition of ‘RashtriyaSanskriti a) Japan b) Bhutan a) United Kingdom Mahotsav-2018” c) China d) Australia b) France a) Uttar Pradesh b) Rajasthan e) Canada c) Sri Lanka c) Uttarakhand d) Tamil Nadu Q.168) According to wealth index released on the d) Israel e) None of these basis of data from the fourth round of the National e) Cuba Q.159) Which of the following private sector bank Family and Health Survey (NFHS-4), which of the Q.176) India contributes how much amount to UN has entered into a strategic partnership with following State/UT become a Wealthiest Youth Envoy’s office, to help with its mission of Hedge Equities Ltd for providing Portfolio Community in the list? involving young people in the world body’s goals? Investment Scheme (PIS) services to NRIs? a) Buddhism b) Jain a) $100K a) Yes Bank b) HDFC Bank c) Hindu d) Christian b) $50K c) Axis Bank d) Federal Bank e) Muslim c) $30K e) ICICI Bank Q.169) Which of the following state clinched the d) $40K Q.160) Which of the following private sector bank title of 8thHockey India Sub Junior Men National e) $25K has tied up with Capital First Ltd to have a Championship 2018? Q.177) Who launched with his Israeli counterpart diversified portfolio across large corporate lending, a) Assam b) Rajasthan Benjamin Netanyahu for joint R&D projects under small and medium enterprise (SME) loans and c) Karnataka d) Andhra Pradesh the ‘India-Israel Industrial R&D and Technological retail credit? e) Maharashtra Innovation Fund (I4F)’ during the India-Israel a) Federal Bank b) HDFC Bank Q.170) India claimed how many gold medals in Business Summit in New Delhi? c) IDFC Bank d) Axis Bank theNation’s Cup tournament for junior and youth a) Venkaiah Naidu e) ICICI Bank women in Sombor, Serbia? b) Sushma Swaraj Q.161) Which of the following Indian player a) 10 b) 15 c) Narendra Modi overcame Canadian Peter Polansky and has c) 11 d) 12 d) Rajnath Singh qualified for the Australian Open tennis e) 16 e) ArunJaitley tournament? Q.171) Which of the following team to claim their Q.178) Recently, India signed a nine pact MoU a) Leander Peas maiden title at the third Premier Badminton with which countryto upgrade their strategic b) Mahesh Bhupathi League (PBL)at the Gachibowli Indoor Stadium, partnership between them on various fields such c) Rohan Bopanna Hyderabad? as cyber security, Oil and Gas, Film-co-production d) SakethMyneni a) Jaipur Hunters etc.? e) Yuki Bhambri b) Chennai Blasters a) Israel Q.162) Every Year in India, January 15th is c) Bengaluru Blasters b) France celebrated as ______. d) Hyderabad Hunters c) Sri Lanka a) National Youth Day e) Mumbai Bosters d) United Kingdom b) Army Day Q.172) Who got the Janakavi P Sawlaram award, e) Cuba c) National Voters Day jointly given by the Thane Municipal Corporation Q.179) Which of the following state govt.signed a d) Navy Day and the Janakavi P Savlaram Kala Samiti? Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the e) Air Force Day a) Sowmiya Singh Indian Oil Corporation to set up bio-gas and bio- Q.163)GnaniSankaran had passed away, recently. b) Sudhir Dalvi CNG plants in the state? He is related to which fields? c) Jaishree T a) Assam a) Journalist b) Writer d) Sundar Singh b) Rajasthan c) Actor d) Both a and b e) Jaibala Kumar c) Punjab e) Both b and c Q.173) Prime Minister Mihai Tudose resigned after d) Andhra Pradesh Q.164) Who was the former Union minister of his Social Democrat Party (PSD) leaders withdrew e) Maharashtra State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise in backing for him in an overwhelming vote. He is the Q.180) Who unveiled the “Khelo India Anthem”at UPA government, died at the age of 78? PM of which country? a ceremony in Delhi. The anthem is conceptualized a) Rakesh Jha b) Krishnan Jha a) Turkey by Ogilvy, composed by Louis Bank and the film c) Raghunath Jha d) Ram Kumar Jha b) Ukraine has been produced by Nirvana Films? e) Raguram Jha c) Romania a) PranabMukerjee Q.165) Who inaugurated a two-day International d) Monaco b) Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Workshop on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure e) Cyprus c) Vijay Goel (IWDRI) in New Delhi, recently? Q.174) Name the bridge in South Sudan, which d) Rajnath Singh a) Rajnath Singh b) Venkaiah Naidu was rebuilt by the Indian Peacekeepers in the e) Venkaiah Naidu c) Narendra Modi d) Sushma Swaraj record time, for enabling faster aid delivery as well Q.181) 65thCentral Advisory Board of Education e) Nirmala Sitharaman as security patrol. (CABE) meeting was held in which of the following Q.166) According to wealth index released based a) Nile city? on data from the fourth round of the National b) Juba a) Bangalore Family and Health Survey (NFHS-4), which of the c) Akoka b) New Delhi following State/UT become richest in the list? d) Annoka c) Mumbai

|Legend Magazine | January - 2018| 31 d) Hyderabad e) Tata Groups e) Govt Employees e) Chennai Q.190) ‘Vajra Prahar’ is an Indo-US Special Forces Q.200) India Test-Fires Nuclear-Capable ICBM Q.182) According to data released by the Ministry joint training exercise conducted alternately in Agni-V which has a strike range of how many of Commerce and Industry, the Country’s exports India and the US. This year the joint training kilometers? grew by 12.36 per cent in December 2017 to exercise is held in ______. a) 2000 kms b) 500 kms _____ US dollars because of strong performance a) Washington D.C b) Mumbai c) 1000 kms d) 800 kms by sectors like engineering goods and petroleum c) Boston d) New Delhi e) 5000 kms products. e) Seattle Q.201) The Punjab government today signed a a) 23.03 billion Q.191) Which of the following company has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with which b) 28.03 billion a $690-million, 10-year deal with M&G Prudential, of the oil company to set up bio-gas and bio-CNG c) 29.03 billion the UK and European savings and investment plants in the state? d) 25.03 billion business unit of Prudential? a) Shell India Market Pvt. Ltd e) 27.03 billion a) Tata Motors b) TCS b) Oil India Limited Q.183) India and Sri Lanka signed four c) Wipro d) Reliance Industries Ltd c) Total Lubricants India Limited agreements for collaboration in ICT sector, setting e) Infosys d) TechnipFMC India Limited up of the e-office system and connecting of NKN Q.192) Sanjay Manjrekar launched his e) Indian Oil Corporation for collaboration among universities and autobiography ‘Imperfect’. He belongs to which Q.202) The 65thMeeting of the Central Advisory academics. What is the full form of NKN? sports? Board of Education (CABE) was held under the a) Nutrition Knowledge Network a) Boxing b) Cricket championship of______. b) Nationalized Knowledge Network c) Wrestling d) Football a) Nitin JairamGadkari c) National Knowledge Network e) Hockey b) Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi d) National Keyword Network Q.193)In the Global Index of talent c) Ram Vilas Paswan e) Nation Knowledge Network competitiveness, the US has been placed in which d) Prakash Javadekar Q.184) Ronaldinho retires from professional rank? e) Anant Geete football. He belongs to which country? a) First b) Fourth c) Second Q.203) Which organization gives financial a) Brazil b) Australia d) Third e) Fifth assistance for Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal c) New Zealand d) Argentina Q.194)The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K (BBIN) motor vehicles plan? e) Austria Palanisamy received the UNESCO Award under a) NDB b) AIIB c) ADB Q.185) Who will confer the SangeetNatakAkademi which category? d) World Bank e) None of these Fellowships and SangeetNatakAkademi Awards for a) Awards of Distinction Q.204) Which of the following country has installed 2016, in New Delhi? b) Award of Excellence World’s largest Air Purifier? a) Rajnath Singh b) Narendra Modi c) Award for New Design in Heritage Context a) Japan b) China c) Germany c) Ram Nath Kovind d) Pranab Mukherjee d) Award for Cleanliness d) France e) Portugal e) Venkaiah Naidu e) Awards of Merit Q.205) Which of the following University has Q.186) Which of the following state has the Q.195) Keshab Mahanta is IT Minister of which honored former president Pranab Mukherjee with highest number of MSMEs in the country and tops state? the Doctor of Literature (D.Litt.) degree in the list of the Department of Industrial Policy and a) West Bengal b) Karnataka Bangladesh? Promotion’s Business Reforms Action Plan (BRAP) c) Assam d) Arunachal Pradesh a) University of Rajshahi 2017? e) Karnataka b) Shanghai International University a) Uttar Pradesh b) Bihar Q.196) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu c) Chittagong University c) West Bengal d) Maharashtra inaugurated the third edition of the geo-political d) Jahangirnagar University e) Gujarat conference, ‘Raisina Dialogue’, in New Delhi. The e) Khulna University Q.187) The Centre has sanctioned projects over event was organized by which ministry? Q.206) What is the abbreviation of “D” in TReDS? how much amount in the North East for better a) Ministry of Shipping a) Direct b) Discard network connectivity. And it will be completed in b) Ministry of Atomic Energy c) Discounting d) Diversity 2018? c) Ministry of Commerce and Industry e) None of these a) Rs. 50,000 crores b) Rs. 20,000 crores d) Ministry of Law and Justice Q.207) Vijay Kumar has been appointed as the MD c) Rs. 45,000 crores d) Rs. 10,000 crores e) Ministry of External Affairs & CEO of NCDEX replacing______. e) Rs. 15,000 crores Q.197) Former Union Minister Raghunath Jha a) Vishal Rajkumar b) Samir Shah Q.188) RIL plans to invest Rs. 20,000crores in passed away recently belongs to which state? c) Suresh Mehta d) Neeta Raj which state, for exploring possibilities to make the a) Karnataka b) Assam e) Ashok kumar state an innovation and technology hub for the c) Arunachal Pradesh d) Bihar Q.208) The 15thedition of BioAsia, the annual group? e) Gujarat flagship event of the Government of Telangana, a) West Bengal b) Bihar Q.198) Who has been appointed as the MD & CEO will start in Hyderabad with the theme c) Uttar Pradesh d) Maharashtra of NCDEX? of______. e) Gujarat a) Vinay Raj b) Vijay Kumar a) Towards BioWorld Q.189) Which of the following company would c) Sharath Kumar d) Vishwa KS b) Right Time, Right Now invest Rs. 750 crores to double the capacity of the e) None of these c) Life sciences Values company’s edible oil refinery at Haldia in West Q.199)MukhyamantriKalakarSahayata Yojana d) BioBusiness 2018 Bengal? (MMKSY) has been launched in Odisha for the e) None of these a) Hindustan Group b) Alibaba benefit of______. Q.209) Which state has become the first state to c) Adani Group a) Self Help Group b) Farmers launch public cloud policy? d) Reliance Industries Ltd c) Artists d) Doctors a) Mizoram

|Legend Magazine | January - 2018| 32 b) Assam Q.220) What is the abbreviation of “S” in PMSMA? Q.232) The fourth edition of the India c) Maharashtra a) Social b) Sarkari c) Surakshit International Science Festival will be held d) Madhya Pradesh d) Suraksha e) Sadak in______. e) Kerala Q.221) India has joined the Australia Group export a) New Delhi b) Lucknow Q.210) The Centre has decided to reduce the control regime and has become the c) Hyderabad d) Chennai logistics cost from the current 14 percent of GDP ______Member of that Group. e) Mumbai to less than 10 percent by______. a) 27th b) 44th c) 56th Q.233) Balasaheb Thackeray Shaheed a) 2022 b) 2021 c) 2023 d) 23rd e) 43rd SanmaanScheme was launched in which state? d) 2019 e) 2025 Q.222) Jane Hardy is the ambassador to India a) Gujarat Q.211) The 10th Global Forum for Food & from which country? b) Madhya Pradesh c) Karnataka Agriculture begins in Berlin, Germany. Who led the a) Russia b) Germany c) Australia d) Assam e) Maharashtra Indian Delegation? d) Poland e) England Q.234) In 63rdFilmfare Awards 2018 which film got a) Vishnu Deo Sai Q.223) Where is the headquarters of AU small the best film award? b) Inderjit Singh Rao finance Bank located? a) Bareilly Ki Barfi b) Secret Superstar c) Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat a) Ajmer b) Udaipur c) Juice d) Hindi Medium d) Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan c) Jaipur d) Bikaner e) Newton e) Kiren Rijiju e) Pushkar Q.235) According to a Sanctum Wealth Q.212) Shri R.K. Singh announced how much Q.224) Who is the author of 'The Heartfulness Management, the equity market will become the amount allocated in Solar Development Fund that Way' book? ______largest in the world. will be given by the Government of India? a) Ganesh Devy b) Yasser Usman a) Fifth b) Fourth c) Third a) $ 320 million b) $ 310 million c) Jairam Ramesh d) Joshua Pollock d) Second e) First c) $ 350 million d) $ 340 million e) Ram Kamal Mukherjee Q.236) India defeated which country to clinch the e) $ 360 million Q.225) What is the rank of India in recent FIFA 5thWorld Cup for the Blind 2018 cricket? Q.213) The Gurgaon-based Amplus Energy rankings? a) Pakistan b) England Solutions has signed an MoU with which private a) 103 b) 102 c) 105 c) Australia d) China sector bank for a strategic tie-up to co-finance d) 110 e) 116 e) Sri Lanka projects in the solar energy sector in India? Q.226) Manav Thakkar is related to which of the Q.237) The Ministry of Electronics and Information a) HDFC Bank b) Federal Bank following fields? Technology (MeitY), announced the Cyber c) Axis Bank d) Yes Bank a) Politics b) Film c) Sports Surakshit Bharat initiative in association e) None of these d) Sand Art e) Music with______. Q.214) In India, which company is the most Q.227) Where is the headquarters of International a) NeKD b) NeLD c) NeGD valued company with a market capitalization of Rs. Table Tennis Federation located? d) NeFD e) NeND 6 trillion? a) London b) Lausanne Q.238) The annual list of the World’s Most Admired a) TCS b) RIL c) Geneva d) Paris Companies for 2018 is released by______. c) Adani Groups d) HDFC e) New York a) Times Now b) Business Standard e) None of these Q.228) The eminent cartoonist Chandilahiri, c) Fortune d) Economic Times Q.215) What is the abbreviation of “P” in SPMCIL? passed away belongs to which state? e) Business India a) Presiding b) Project a) Rajasthan b) Uttar Pradesh Q.239) CoinSecure is a_____. c) Printing d) Paperless c) Bihar d) West Bengal a) Mutual Fund b) Finance Bank e) Process e) Goa c) Cryptocurrency exchange Q.216) Who has been awarded as the T20 Q.229) The Maharashtra government has d) Scheme by Govt e) Stock exchange Performance of the Year? approved how much amount for the projects Q.240) Who inaugurated Post Office Passport Seva a) CheteshwarPujara aimed at promoting climate-resilient agriculture? Kendra (POPSK) at Karaikal, recently? b) YuzvendraChahal a) Rs. 2,000-crore b) Rs. 3,000-crore a) Smriti Irani b) Rajnath Singh c) Virat Kohli c) Rs. 4,000-crore d) Rs. 6,000-crore c) Venkaiah Naidu d) Narendra Modi d) Ravindran Ashwin e) Rs. 5,000-crore e) Sushma Swaraj e) None of these Q.230) The five-day Ramayana festival is Q.241) Which of the following state government Q.217) Jo Jo White basketball player has passed organized by Indian Council for Cultural Relations have signed anMoU with Clean Authority of Tokyo away recently belongs to which Country? is to enhance the relationship between India and in the field of municipal solid waste incineration a) Germany b) Canada which organization? facilities? c) America d) England e) Spain a) UN b) ASEAN a) Madhya Pradesh b) Maharashtra Q.218) Who announced the name of nine more c) UNESCO d) UNICEF e) AIIB c) Andhra Pradesh d) Telangana smart cities recently? Q.231) Bharat Ke Veer fund that supports family e) Uttar Pradesh a) Hardeep Singh Puri of the martyred soldier is an initiative comes Q.242) What is the estimated cost of the Odisha b) Anant Geete under which Ministry? e-Hospital Management Information System c) Jagat Prakash Nadda a) Ministry of Finance (OeHMIS), which provide a computerized platform d) Ananthkumar b) Ministry of Statistics and Programme for online recording of clinical parameters of e) Thawar Chand Gehlot Implementation patients and reporting of performance criteria of Q.219) Former Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel to be c) Ministry of Corporate Affairs hospitals? the next Governor of which state? d) Ministry of Women & Child Development a) 14.16 Crore b) 18.16 Crore a) Karnataka b) Madhya Pradesh e) Ministry of Home Affairs c) 10.16 Crore d) 15.16 Crore c) Maharashtra d) Andhra Pradesh e) 12.16 Crore e) Uttar Pradesh

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Q.243) Which of the following Chief Minister has Q.253) The Trump administration plans to open Q.265) The 16thInternational Energy Forum (IEF) inaugurated the World War II Memorial Museum at the US embassy in Jerusalem by the end of Ministerial meeting will be held in ______. Changlang District in Jairampur? ______. a) New Delhi b) Jaipur a) Manohar Parrikar b) Nitish Kumar a) 2018 b) 2019 c) Bhubaneswar d) Thiruvananthapuram c) N. Chandrababu Naidu d) Naveen Patnaik c) 2020 d) 2021 e) Dehradun e) Pema Khandu e) 2022 Q.266) Who launched the Management Q.244) Digital payments platform Paytm has Q.254) India is projected to grow at ______of its Information System (MIS) portal for the unveiled an application called ‘Paytm for Business’ gross domestic product (GDP) in 2018 as per the Anganwadi Services Training Programme in New to enable which type of business? recent report by the IMF. Delhi? a) Large Scale Industries a) 7.2 % b) 7.3% a) Rajesh Srivastava b) Micro and Small Businesses c) 7.4% d) 7.5% b) Ravnesh Srivastava c) Small and Medium Businesses e) 7.6% c) Rishi Srivastava d) Medium Scale Industries Q.255) GSTR-3B return filing in December has d) Rakesh Srivastava e) None of these been extended to January ______. e) Ramesh Srivastava Q.245) What is the theme of the 48thannual a) 19 b) 20 Q.267) India’s first ever International Dam Safety meeting of the World Economic Forum held in c) 21 d) 22 Conference inaugurated in ______. Switzerland? e) 23 a) New Delhi b) Jaipur a) The Reshaping of the World: Consequences for Q.256) Who was appointed as the Director General c) Bhubaneswar d) Thiruvananthapuram Society, Politics and Business of FICCI? e) Dehradun b) Creating a shared future in a Fractured World a) DilipChenoy b) Deepak Chenoy Q.268) Shri Shripad Yesso Naik laid the foundation c) Responsive Leadership c) Diwan Chenoy d) Darshan Chenoy stone for Central Research Institute (CRI) in d) Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution e) Diwakar Chenoy ______. e) The New Global Context Q.257)Srikumar Menon appointed as the next a) New Delhi b) Jaipur Q.246) Who has been appointed as the next Chief Ambassador of India to the Republic of ______. c) Bhubaneswar d) Thiruvananthapuram Election Commissioner of India? a) Somalia b) Dominica e) Dehradun a) V. S. Sampath b) Om Prakash Rawat c) Cyprus d) Congo Q.269) How many million-loanagreements signed c) Ashok Lavasa d) Nasim Zaidi e) Angola between India and World Bank to fund improved e) B. B. Tandon Q.258) Who received Crystal Award in Davos? water supply in Uttarakhand? Q.247) According to the World Economic Forum, a) A R Rahman b) Shabana Azmi a) $ 110 million b) $ 120 million India was ranked at which place among emerging c) Amitabh Bachchan d) Shah Rukh Khan c) $ 130 million d) $ 140 million economies in an Inclusive Development Index e) Sir Elton John e) $ 150 million 2018? Q.259) Who felicitates National Bravery Award Q.270) Which of the following state government a) 62nd b) 60th c) 114th winners,recently? signed a letter with the Canton of Zurich, to d) 67th e) 108th a) Narendra Modi b) Ram Nath Kovind promote mutual prosperity and development? Q.248) Who was appointed as the new Director c) Anil Baijal d) Venkaiah Naidu a) Karnataka b) Andhra Pradesh General of National Security Guard (NSG), e) Arun Jaitley c) Kerala d) Tamil Nadu recently? Q.260) Who wins Swedish Open Junior Badminton e) Gujarat a) Arvind Ranjan b) J N Choudhury Title? Q.271) Which of the following country emerged as c) Sudeep Lakhtakia d) SP Singh a) Siddharth Pratap Singh b) Sameer Verma the fifth most attractive market for investments e) R C Tayal c) Ajay Jayaram d) Sourabh Verma and the optimism over global economic growth is Q.249) Who among the following was the Young e) Parupalli Kashyap at a record level, a survey of CEOs by global Cabinet Minister conferred with the Dr. Kalam Q.261) Name the longest living army veteran, at consultancy PwC? Innovation in Governance Award 2018? 101 years of age proceeded to his heavenly abode a) US b) China a) Nara Lokesh b) Jyoti Krishan Dutt and breathed his last. c) India d) Germany c) Rajan K Medhekar d) NPS Aulakh a) SKK Sircar b) BKK Sircar e) Japan e) Nikhil Kumar c) FKK Sircar d) VKK Sircar Q.272) Who has partnered with DP World to create Q.250) Which of the following state organized the e) RKK Sircar an investment platform for ports, terminals, three-day Kachra Mahotsav 2018? Q.262) Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose birth transportation and logistics businesses in India? a) Odisha b) Gujarat anniversary is celebrated on ______January. a) AIIF b) VIIF c) Chhattisgarh d) Bihar a) 21st b) 22nd c) MIIF d) SIIF e) Uttar Pradesh c) 23rd d) 24th e) NIIF Q.251) Which country was Officially named e) 25th Q.273) Who has taken charge as the new Director European Capital of Culture 2018? Q.263) India-ASEAN Business & Investment of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC)? a) Italy b) Spain Conference were held in ______. a) M Somnath b) L Somnath c) France d) United Kingdom a) New Delhi b) Jaipur c) K Somnath d) S Somnath e) Malta c) Bhubaneswar d) Thiruvananthapuram e) N Somnath Q.252) Which country bans import of non-airbag e) Dehradun Q.274) The US Senate confirmed former equipped vehicles from July 1? Q.264) The 7th Asia Steel International Conference investment banker ______as head of the Federal a) Maldives b) Sri Lanka will be held in ______. Reserve. c) Singapore d) Malaysia a) New Delhi b) Jaipur a) Jerome Power b) Jerome Powell e) China c) Bhubaneswar d) Thiruvananthapuram c) Jerome Punch d) Jeremy Powell e) Dehradun e) Jerume Power

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Q.275) Which country will host the 2018 edition of recapitalization bonds and budgetary support in c) Chattisgarh d) Rajastan the Women’s World T20? this financial year______. e) None of these a) West Indies b) Australia a) Rs.88139crores b) Rs. 88239crores Q.296) The Country’s first smart grid project will c) Pakistan d) Sri Lanka c) Rs. 88149crores d) Rs.88519crores be established at ______. e) New Zealand e) Rs. 88929crores a) Sonipat b) Patiala Q.276) Who created a new national record and Q.286) A total of how much amount will be infused c) Panipat d) Noida won a gold medal in the 63kg women’s category into nine banks that haven't triggered prompt e) None of these in the 33rd Women Senior National Weightlifting corrective action (PCA) in this financial year? Q.297) The first ever joint commemorative Championships, Mangaluru? a) Rs. 14,818 crore b) Rs. 25,928 crore postage stamps were issued between ______on a) Ragasya Halder c) Rs. 36,858 crore d) Rs. 66,698 crore the theme of ancient architecture. b) Rithika Halder e) Rs. 35,828 crore a) India and Japan b) India and US c) Ragavi Halder Q.287)Ministry of Road Transport & Highways inks c) Nepal and India d) India and Vietnam d) Rakhi Halder with IL&FS for the construction of the Zojila Tunnel e) None of these e) Rithi Halder in______. Q.298) The Informal WTO Ministerial gathering to Q.277) National Girl Child Day is celebrated on a) Karnataka b) Jammu & Kashmir be held in India at ______. January ______. c) Andhra Pradesh d) Assam a) New Delhi b) Kolkata a) 21st b) 22nd c) 23rd e) Rajasthan c) Mumbai d) Gandhi Nagar d) 24th e) 25th Q.288) National Small Industries Corporation e) None of these Q.278) Who is the Secretary of Ministry of Women (NSIC) signed an MoU with SME Corporation of Q.299) ______become the first woman to and Child Development? which country? become IBA’s chief a) Ravinesh Srivastava a) Indonesia b) Singapore a) Shikha Sharma b) Chanda Kochhar b) Rakesh Srivastava c) Malaysia d) Thailand c) Arundhati Bhattacharya c) Rahul Srivastava e) Philippines d) Usha Ananthasubramanian d) Rajesh Srivastava Q.289)Which country ranked third in the e) None of these e) Ranveer Srivastava Environmental Performance Index 2018? Q.300) ______became the first metro city to Q.279) Prime Minister’s Shram Award is given by a) India b) France have a floating market. which Ministry? c) Germany d) Denmark a) Chennai b) Mumbai a) Ministry of Corporate Affairs e) Malta c) Cochin d) Kolkata b) Ministry of Commerce and Industry Q.290) According to the International Monetary e) None of these c) Ministry of Labour and Employment Fund (IMF) India is projected to grow at how much Answer Key: d) Ministry of Human Resource Development percent in 2018? 1. (d) 2. (d) 3. (e) 4. (e) 5. (b) 6. (b) 7. (c) 8. (c) e) Ministry of Railways a) 7.2 b) 7.4 9. (b) 10. (c) 11. (b) 12. (a) 13. (b) 14. (b) 15. Q.280) TARE Scheme has been recently launched c) 7.1 d) 7.5 (c) 16. (b) 17. (c) 18. (c) 19. (d) 20. (c) 21. (d) for the promotion of ______. e) 7.9 22. (a) 23. (d) 24. (c) 25. (d) 26. ( b) 27. (b) 28. a) Farmers Q.291)The total revenue collection under GST for (d) 29. (c) 30. (b) 31. (c) 32. (c) 33. (c) 34. (a) b) Govt Employees December 2017 (received up to January 24) 35. (b) 36. (d) 37. (c) 38. (d) 39. (c) 40. (c) 41. c) Entrepreneurs was______. (c) 42. (c) 43. (c) 44. (b) 45. (a) 46. (c) 47. (b) d) Scientists a) ₹85,703 crores b) ₹81,703 crores 48. (e) 49. (d) 50. (d) 51. (b) 52. (a) 53. (b) 54. e) Sportspersons c) ₹89,703 crores d) ₹86,703 crores (c) 55. (d) 56. (d) 57. (c) 58. (e) 59. (b) 60. (e) Q.281) Sushma Swaraj inaugurates Bharat- e) ₹88,703 crores 61. (b) 62. (c) 63. (b) 64. (b) 65. (c) 66. (c) 67. ASEAN MaitriPark in______. Q.292) Ghulam Mustafa Khan from Uttar Pradesh (b) 68. (d) 69. (c) 70. (c) 71. (c) 72. (d) 73. (d) a) Agra b) Mathura is a recipient of 2018 Padma Vibhushan belongs to 74. (d) 75. (d) 76. (c) 77. (c) 78. (c) 79. (b) 80. c) Chandigarh d) Delhi which field? (a) 81. (c) 82. (c) 83. (b) 84. (b) 85. (b) 86. (c) e) Jaipur a) Social work b) Music 87. (b) 88. (c) 89. (d) 90. (b) 91. (b) 92. (b) 93. Q.282) Who is the Secretary General of ASEAN? c) Medicine d) Science (b) 94. (c) 95. (c) 96. (b) 97. (b) 98. (b) 99. (b) a) S. Rajaratnam e) Sports 100. (c) 101. (c) 102. (b) 103. (c) 104. (b) 105. b) Abdul Razak Hussein Q.293) Famous actress Supriya Devi hails from (b) 106. (c) 107. (b) 108. (b) 109. (b) 110. (b) c) Le Luong Minh which state? 111. (b) 112. (c) 113. (d) 114. (d) 115. (b) 116. d) Adam Malik a) Nagaland b) Jharkhand (d) 117. (b) 118. (c) 119. (c) 120. (b) 121. (b) e) Narciso Ramos c) West Bengal d) Kerala 122. (d) 123. (b) 124. (b) 125. (c) 126. (c) 127. Q.283) Nguyen Xuan Phuc is the Prime Minister e) Tamil Nadu (d) 128. (b) 129. (b) 130. (b) 131. (c) 132. (e) of______. Q.294) Which company has fully acquired 133. (d) 134. (c) 135. (e) 136. (c) 137. (b) 138. a) Myanmar b) Philippines Snapdeal’s logistics service provider Vulcan (b) 139. (b) 140. (b) 141. (c) 142. (c) 143. (b) c) Vietnam d) Thailand Express Pvt. Ltd for Rs.35 crore? 144. (c) 145. (d) 146. (b) 147. (a) 148. (d) 149. e) Cambodia a) Foster Supply Chain Solutions (c) 150. (b) 151. (c) 152. (b) 153. (a) 154. (c) Q.284) What is the interest subsidy for a loan b) Manus Supply Chain Solutions 155. (d) 156. (a) 157. (a) 158. (c) 159. (d) 160. amount of Rs.2 lakh under RHISS? c) Future Supply Chain Solutions (c) 161. (e) 162. (b) 163. (d) 164. (c) 165. (a) a) 3 percent b) 4 percent d) Fast Supply Chain Solutions 166. (d) 167. (b) 168. (b) 169. (a) 170. (c) 171. c) 2 percent d) 5.75 percent e) Asian Supply Chain Solutions (d) 172. (b) 173. (c) 174. (c) 175. (c) 176. (b) e) 6.25 percent Q.295) The ______Govt. has launched 177. (c) 178. (a) 179. (c) 180. (b) 181. (b) 182. Q.285) The government will infuse how much ‘Mahatma Gandhi SarbatVikas Yojana’ with the (e) 183. (c) 184. (a) 185. (c) 186. (c) 187. (d) crore into 20 public sector banks through motto “Wipe every tear from every eye”. 188. (a) 189. (c) 190. (e) 191. (b) 192. (b) 193. a) Haryana b) Punjab (d) 194. (e) 195. (c) 196. 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199. (c) 200. (e) 201. (e) 202. (d) 203. (c) 204. Q.13) (1.96)4 ÷ (2744 ÷ 1000)3 × (0.14 × 10)3 = (1.4)? a) 800 b) 600 c) 900 (b) 205. (c) 206. (c) 207. (b) 208. (b) 209. (c) a) -1 b) 0 c) 1 d) 950 e) 650 210. (a) 211. (c) 212. (c) 213. (d) 214. (a) 215. d) 2 e) -2 Q.32)푥 = √784 × √16 표푓 30% 표푓 50 + 20 (c) 216. (b) 217. (c) 218. (a) 219. (b) 220. (c) Q.14) 표푓 576 ÷ 60 + (343 × 2) ÷ 14 − 49 = ? 306 표푓 20% 표푓 325 ÷ √81 24 221. (e) 222. (c) 223. (c) 224. (d) 225. (b) 226. a) 9 b) 8 c) 7 a) 3480 b) 3780 c) 3152 (c) 227. (b) 228. (d) 229. (c) 230. (b) 231. (e) d) 6 e) 10 d) 3960 e) 3890 1 232. (b) 233. (e) 234. (d) 235. (a) 236. (a) 237. 3 Q.33) 푥2 = 25% 표푓 표푓 324 − 8 ÷ 2 × 3√27 + √196 × 2 Q.15) 2 + (54 ÷ 3) + 8 (7 − 4) + 15 = √216+ ? 9 (c) 238. (c) 239. (c) 240. (e) 241. (d) 242. (a) a) 55 b) 54 c) 53 a) 9 b) 8 c) 6 243. (e) 244. (c) 245. (b) 246. (b) 247. (a) 248. d) 56 e) 57 d) 5 e) 7 (c) 249. (a) 250. (c) 251. (e) 252. (b) 253. (b) Q.16) √576 × 25 + 19 × (4)2 – 609 ÷ 29 =? 254. (c) 255. (d) 256. (a) 257. (e) 258. (d) 259. √ a) 720 b) 750 c) 740 Q.34) 930 + √931 + √850 + √2450 + √2500 = 푥 (c) 260. (a) 261. (c) 262. (c) 263. (a) 264. (c) d) 731 e) 700 265. (a) 266. (d) 267. (d) 268. (b) 269. (b) 270. 4 2 5 2 7 2 a) 34 b) 35 c) 31 Q.17) 32 × {( ) ( ) ( ) } =? 5 7 8 (b) 271. (c) 272. (e) 273. (d) 274. (b) 275. (a) d) 25 e) None of these 276. (d) 277. (d) 278. (b) 279. (c) 280. (d) 281. a) 5 b) 6 c) 7 Q.35) 푥 = 25% 표푓 244 + 32 × [25 × 44 ÷ 55] − 343 − 72 (d) 282. (c) 283. (c) 284. (a) 285. (a) 286. (e) d) 8 e) 9 a) 346 b) 309 c) 246 287. (b) 288. (c) 289. (d) 290. (b) 291. (d) 292. Q.18) 50% 표푓 {186 ÷ 3 × 30 ÷ 6 × 60 ÷ 12 + (34 × d) 248 e) 348 (b) 293. (c) 294. (c) 295. (b) 296. (c) 297. (d) 64)} =? 13 Q.36) (128 ÷ 8) × (240 ÷ (6 × 20 ÷ 5)) + 44 × × 1456 298. (a) 299. (d) 300. (d) a) 1750 b) 1754 c) 1863 112 = 2푥 d) 1850 e) 1650 1 1 23 36 3 a) 302 b) 202 c) 102 Simplification: Q.19) 4 × 4 ÷ 20 × 1 × 1 × 푥 = 16 9 2 16 111 4 d) 404 e) None of these D.1-100) What should come in place of the a) 8 b) 9 c) 10 Q.37) 푥 = 446 × 224 × 245 ÷ 1561 + 45% 표푓 360 question mark (?) in the following questions? d) 11 e) 12 28 35 16 1 a) 163 b) 172 c) 164 Q.1) 20% 표푓 표푓 25% 표푓 10! = ? 7 5 1 1 3 3 5! Q.20) 1 + 2 + 3 − 5 = × 푥 8 4 8 4 8 d) 148 e) None of these a) 1512 b) 1482 c) 1962 a) 3 b) 2 c) 4 2 2 4 6 2 3 Q.38) 4 ×6 + 5 ×2 + (6 +4 ) = 푥 − 110 d) 1872 e) 1562 d) 5 e) 6 23 100 10 a) 572 b) 592 c) 582 Q.21) 5 표푓 2 표푓 3 6 표푓 1 5 표푓 푥 = 1960 11 17 15 17 Q.2) √599 + √651 + √589 + 30 + √36 =? d) 528 e) None of these a) 8550 b) 8440 c) 8330 Q.39)푥3 = (675) ÷ (9 × 15) + √484 + (1058 ÷ 46 + 98) a) 24 b) 18 c) 20 d) 8660 e) 8770 a) 27 b) 81 c) 9 d) 25 e) 19 Q.22) (3 + 2) + ( 3 + 2) = 5 2 × 푥 5 7 9 5 3 7 d) 5 e) None of these Q.3) 55% 표푓 7820 – ? % 표푓 6250 = 585 + 60% 표푓 1960 a) 5 b) 4 c) 3 Q.40) 120% 표푓 950 + 75% 표푓 120 = 75% 표푓 240 + 10푥 a) 50 b) 10 c) 20 d) 2 e) 6 a) 161 b) 163 c) 158 d) 30 e) 40 2 3 4 9 2 5 Q.23) 2 × 2 × 1 ÷ 12 × 3 = × ? d) 159 e) 105 Q.4) (203 ÷ 7) × (119 ÷ 7) − (133 ÷ 7) × (91 ÷ 7) = 3 × 7 6 5 35 3 13 2 4 3 2 ? a) 8 b) 9 c) 7 Q.41) (7 × 3) × (√7) ÷ (7) − 6 = (5) + 푥 a) 92 b) 82 c) 72 d) 6 e) 5 a) 32 b) 20 c) 19 ( )2 Q.24) 82−62 + 5 of 푥 =60 d) 18 e) 21 d) 52 e) 62 23 7 125 7 3 Q.5) (0.64 ÷ 0.8) + 19.2 + (2.7 ÷ 0.03) = 11 ×? Q.42)푥 = 40% 표푓 1200 + 표푓 40 − 표푓 72 + a) 1650 b) 1750 c) 1850 5 8 a) 8 b) 9 c) 20 d) 1900 e) 1800 60% 표푓 625 d) 10 e) 11 Q.25) 2 − 23 ÷ 115 ÷ 138 = ? − 2 a) 650 b) 884 c) 710 25 125 150 23 Q.6) (161 ÷ 23)3 + (203 ÷ 7)2 − (892 ÷ 4) = (? )2 a) -1 b) 0 c) 2 d) 670 e) None of these ( )2 ( )3 2 a) 20 b) 26 c) 33 Q.43) 푥 = 18 – 4 + 10 + (196 ÷ 7 × 38 ÷ 19) d) 3 e) 1 (3)2−(2)2 d) 31 e) 32 Q.26)푥 = 20% 표푓 400 + 35% 표푓 540 + 40% 표푓 1600 − a) 64 b) 74 c) 128 Q.7) 1 × [1 2 − (3 + 2) − 1] = ? 9 7 7 7 7 20% 표푓 200 d) 78 e) 80 a) 8/21 b) 5/21 c) 4/21 a) 869 b) 839 c) 891 190 360 Q.44) 10% 표푓 50 푥 = ( ) ÷ ( ) × 240 5 60 d) 2/21 e) 1/21 d) 849 e) None of these a) 304 b) 344 c) 302 1 1 2 4 6 4 Q.8) 962 × 2 + 5 ÷ 8 =? ((3×√64) ) ×((6 ×√16 ) 2) 5 5 3 푥 Q.27) 24 = 8 d) 298 e) None of these (√576) a) 2118 b) 2119 c) 2117 Q.45)(30% 표푓 740) + 푥 + (15% 표푓 280) = a) 26 b) 34 c) 24 d) 2120 e) 2121 140% 표푓 340 36 4 d) 28 e) 22 − 144 81 a) 335 b) 187 c) 235 Q.9) 6 2 × (18 ÷ 5)=? 3 2 3 3 + 12 9 Q.28) 푥 = 2 + 4 + 6 + 7 15 5 4 20 d) 212 e) None of these a) -1 b) 0 c) 2 a) 14.5 b) 30 c) 12.5 푥 32 Q.46) = 표푓 2√256 + (15% 표푓 380) d) 1 e) 3 d) 20.5 e) 25 8 4

5 6 8 3 3 1 7 1 a) 1649 b) 1480 c) 8123 Q.10) ÷ × ? − ÷ 1 + × 3 = 2 2 3 6 7 9 5 4 3 9 Q.29) 푥 = (4 + 64 ÷ 4 − √64) × (1024)5 d) 36 3 e) None of these a) 8 b) 4 c) 5 a) 36 b) 64 c) 112 Q.47) 5 1 + 25% 표푓 160 − 7 = 푥 − 15% 표푓 120 d) 7 e) 6 d) 4 e) 24 3 9 9 1 푥 −8 −3 −2 11 a) 18 b) 36 c) 32 Q.11) √13² × 12 ÷ 5 + (5)3 + 45.4 = (? )2 Q.30) 0.7 = 0.7 × 0. 7 × (0.07 × 10) × 0.49 × 3 d) 27 e) None of these. a) 576 b) 625 c) 729 0.343 Q.48) 푥% 표푓 25 = 12% 표푓 550 + 40% 표푓 80 d) 529 e) 824 a) 18 b) 81 c) 27 a) 422 b) 346 c) 392 5 5 4 3 1 2 2 2 d) 49 e) 9 Q.12) ÷ of (2 + 2 ) + ÷ 1 − − =? 20 14 20 10 10 10 10 60 d) 490 e) None of these Q.31) 50% 표푓 400 + 20% 표푓 150 = 5 ? − 40% 표푓 100 − a) 4 b) 3 c) 5 4 √ √ d) 6 e) 7 80% 표푓 600 Q.49) 3550 + 2455 + √2025 = 푥 Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

|Legend Magazine | January - 2018| 36 a) 60 b) 70 c) 80 a) 7/9 b) 8/9 c) 5/9 d) 23 e) 24 d) 50 e) None of these d) 4/9 e) 2/9 Q.85) (217 ÷ 7) × (154 ÷ 7) − (119 ÷ 7) × (84 ÷ 7) = Q.50) 45% 표푓 400 + 35% 표푓 440 + 30% 표푓 9000 + Q.67) 7 1 + 91 + 85 − 261 =? 2 × ? 15 20 12 30 4 표푓 550 = 푥 a) 292 b) 239 c) 272 5 a) 8 b) 9 c) 6 d) 252 e) 262 a) 58150 b) 5770 c) 5620 d) 10 e) None of these 3 2 2 2 3 2 3 Q.86) (3.24 ÷ 0.8) + 19.2 + (8.1 ÷ 0.03) + =? d) 5750 e) 3474 Q.68) 29 + 59 −? = 7 + 19 + 246 + 2 4 Q.51) 3 2 표푓 2 표푓 3 표푓 4 표푓 1860 =? a) 58 b) 85 c) 89 a) 320 b) 296 c) 294 12 16 15 19 d) 448 e) 325 a) 31 b) 32 c) 33 d) 105 e) None of these Q.69) 25% of 4/5 of 50% of 720+4/5 of 6/7 of Q.87) 7 × 11 4 × ? − 8 ÷ 1 3 + 3 × 3 1 = 27 d) 34 e) 35 9 7 9 5 4 3 9 8 5 3 5 1 350=? Q.52) 2 + 4 + 5 − 9 = 표푓 푥 a) 1/9 b) 9/184 c) -1/192 9 6 4 12 9 a) 354 b) 312 c) 289 d) 11/162 e) 13/172 a) 35 b) 36.5 c) 34.5 d) 225 e) 221 5 5 3 3 1 12 Q.88) ÷ 표푓 (2 + 2 ) + ÷ =? d) 33.5 e) None of these 14 7 10 5 5 5 Q.70) 80% 표푓 1320 + 60% 표푓 1960 − 2% 표푓 1000 = Q.53) 740 ÷ (10{7 × 3 + 2(75 − 4 × (13 × 12 ÷ 6) )}) = a) 11/12 b) 17/19 c) 14/15 ? % 표푓 8400 2푥 d) 23/15 e) None of these a) 25.8 b) 23.6 c) 26.33 a) 1 b) 0 c) -1 Q.89) 640 × 3 1 + 3 1 ÷ 2 1 = 3 1 ×? d) 27.8 e) 29.2 5 2 3 2 d) 2 e) -2 Q.71) 13 × 15 − 579 ÷ 3+? = 322 a) 4099/7 b) 5043/7 c) 6442/7 a) 575 b) 634 c) 765 d) 5259/7 e) 4356/7 √ √ √ Q.54) 0.5 + 0.25 + 3.82 + √0.0324 =? 196 256 − d) 876 e) None of these 225 729 1 Q.90) 14 16 = ×? + 255 a) 2 b) 3 c) 4 1 4 1 15 17 Q.72) 표푓 20% 표푓 표푓 3600 + 표푓 65700 =? 2 5 4 a) -5 b) -3 c) -2 d) 5 e) √2 a) 16713 b) 19676 c) 39645 d) -1 e) None of these

d) 25445 e) 34225 1 1 1 1 5 6 7 2 Q.91) [(3 + 2 ) ÷ (4 × 3 )] × 20% 표푓 120 =? Q.55) √3 + √2 − √(2 + ) = (? ) 1 1 2 3 2 3 25 9 9 Q.73) √95 + 26 + 표푓 표푓 360 =? 3 5 a) 9.67 b) 8.56 c) 9.33 a) 23 b) 35 c) 38 a) 5.6 b) 4.2 c) 7.2 d) 6.64 e) None of these d) 43 e) 54 d) 6.4 e) None of these Q.92) 16 × 9 × 1 4 ÷ 6 9 = 1 4 × ? 2 7 6 5 7 5 1 1 Q.74) 40% 표푓 350 + 30% 표푓 720 + 20% 표푓 640 = (? ) Q.56) (4√3 × 3√12) × (2197 ÷ 169) × (1 ) × =? a) 8/17 b) 7/16 c) 5/19 6 7 a) 20 b) 10 c) 22 a) 140 b) 136 c) 156 d) 4/21 e) None of these d) 25 e) 18 2 1 1 d) 175 e) 196 1 1 Q.93) 5 × 3 × 20% 표푓 465 표푓 140 = 18 ×? Q.75) √0.64 + 표푓 2.4 + 표푓 2 =? 7 2 2 3 5 ( ) Q.57) √ 15+24×0.5 = 3 a) 21550 b) 13020 c) 32545 √10.8÷? a) 3 b) 0 c) 1 d) 42425 e) 25424 a) 1 b) 1.5 c) 2 d) 2 e) 2.8 9 2 12 2 7 2 1 31 51 21 21 11 ? Q.94) 242 × {( ) ( ) ( ) } =? d) 1.2 e) 2.4 Q.76) 4 + + − − − = 11 14 9 2 3 4 3 4 2 12 3 4 Q.58) 표푓329 + 표푓2530 = x2 + 37 a) 64 b) 56 c) 72 7 11 a) 113 b) 114 c) 118 a) 16 b) 32 c) 18 d) 116 e) 117 d) 81 e) 42 d) 36 e) None of these Q.77) 3.9 × 1.5 + 25% 표푓 940 + 2.4 × 1.2 =? Q.95) 24 ÷ (3 1 + 2 4) + (3 6 ÷ 5 2) + 1 =? 5 5 7 5 1 49 27 a) 278.86 b) 243.73 c) 262.73 Q.59) √(2 + ) ÷ √(1 + ) × =?÷ 25 a) 20/7 b) 23/7 c) 46/7 144 576 34 d) 268.12 e) 262.45 d) 43/7 e) 40/7 a) 9 b) 18 c) 27 80.25 79.2 581.25 Q.78) ( ) + ( ) + ( ) = 1989 +? Q.96) (√196 × √625) ÷ (3√125 × 3√343) × d) 81 e) None of these 0.03 0.9 0.75 a) 1560 b) 1544 c) 2645 1 표푓 3 표푓 640 =? Q.60) [(5√7 + √7) × (4√7 + 8√7)] − (19)2 =? 2 4 d) 3163 e) 1549 a) 143 b) 154 c) 166 a) 2800 b) 3200 c) 3600 Q.79) 25% 표푓 500 + 30% 표푓 240 + 35% 표푓 5 표푓 860 = d) 128 e) 165 7 d) 2400 e) 54

1 3 12 2 − 표푓 ? Q.97) (3√48 + 4√108) ÷ 6√48 × (4√48 × 3√12) =? 3 2 9 1 Q.61) 5 1 3 1 = 4 ÷ −( +2 ) 푥 7 7 2 2 a) 241 b) 416 c) 412 a) 432 b) 486 c) 492 a) 90 b) 87 c) 91 d) 242 e) 254 d) 578 e) 645 20 30 8 d) 92 e) 93 Q.80) × × × 28725 − 1530 = ? Q.98) 10% of 20% of 30% of 40% of 50% of 60% 25 72 50 Q.62) 12 – [9 1 + {7 − (6 − 1 1 + 5)}] = x of 500= (?)2 2 2 a) 1 b) 0 c) -1 a) 7 b) 6 c) 5 d) 2 e) -2 a) 2/5 b) 1/5 c) 3/5 d) 8 e) 9 Q.81) 7 1 + 40% 표푓 160 − 1 1 = 푥 − 20% 표푓 120 d) 4/5 e) None of these 3 9 9 1 2 4 5 1 2 16 21.5 21 13.5 (?)3 9 Q.99) 1 + 3 + 2 − 7 − 6 =? − Q.63) + − = [ ] + a) 37.33 b) 34.55 c) 32.56 3 5 6 2 3 30 5 6 15 4 10 d) 33.67 e) None of these a) 6.75 b) -5.33 c) 0 a) 12564 b) 12865 c) 14664 Q.82) 25% 표푓 1 표푓 44 표푓 350 + 20% 표푓 1 표푓 640 = ? d) -5.33 e) -6.33 2 4 d) 13824 e) None of these 225 1 3 4 Q.100) ( × √625) × ( + ) =? − 3 1 3 a) 1984 b) 1948 c) 1996 √9 2 5 5 ÷ × 2 2 2 1 Q.64) 3 1 3 ÷ =? ÷ × 8 d) 1957 e) 1956 a) 2063.3 b) 2466.7 c) 5365.78 2 2 2 a) 2 b) 16 c) 24 d) 4678.43 e) 2345.65 √ √ √ d) 32 e) 8 Q.83) 112 − 992 − 991 − √180 × 5 =? 1 1 What approximate value should come in Q.65) 10 + [8 + {6 − (7 − (6 − 4) )}] 2 2 a) 5 b) 6 c) 9 place of (?) in the following question: a) 10 b) 20 c) 30 d) 7 e) 10 Q.1) 24.76 × 18.4 + 564.81 =? d) 40 e) 35 Q.84) 55% 표푓 6520 + 25% 표푓 63500 − 푥% 표푓 1640 =

|Legend Magazine | January - 2018| 37 a) 14 b) 19 c) 14 Q.22)12121.21 − 1212.12 + 121.212 + 212.12 = d) 5238 e) -5879

2 d) 11 e) 17 ? +12.1212 Q.42) ( 3 % 표푓 1123) × √3567 = (?2 ) 9 386 Q.3) √1550 ÷ =? −516.901 a) 11230 b) 14156 c) 12230 18 a) 78 b) 89 c) 32 d) 11504 e) 11543 a) 591 b) 589 c) 534 d) 91 e) 47 Q.23) 23% 표푓 1628 + (95% 표푓 1432.39) × 166 d) 524 e) 519 √ √ Q.43) (98.67% 표푓 679) ÷ (76.28% 표푓 881) + Q.4) 2087 ÷ 208.87 + (? )2 = 73.08 a) 17690 b) 17896 c) 17543 89.67 표푓 14.76 =? a) 8 b) 4 c) 12 d) 17409 e) 17430 a) 1768 b) 1429 c) 1351 d) 7 e) 5 Q.24) √968.18 × 4.09 ÷ 14.97 =? d) 1409 e) 1256 a) 3 b) 10 c) 8 Q.5) √12000 × 56.80 + 251.08 =? 5 Q.44) √ 표푓 √2411 − 58.98 + 40 =? 7 a) 6759 b) 6389 c) 6521 d) 21 e) 1 a) 4 b) 9 c) 21 d) 6537 e) 6620 Q.25) (2398.54 + 429.43 − 325.98) ÷ √749 =? d) 19 e) 11 Q.6) (5.24)2 + (12.35)2 + (4.72)2 + (9.49)2 =? a) 54 b) 79 c) 31 Q.45) 398.45 + 902.9 ÷ (13.86 ÷ 2.4) × 34.17 =? a) 254 b) 265 c) 238 d) 65 e) 93 3 a) 4890 b) 4785 c) 4903 d) 275 e) 284 Q.26) √4761.24 × √5831.91 =? +√289.65 2 a) 1232 b) 1298 c) 1276 d) 4190 e) 4389 Q.7) ((14 × 15) ÷ (4.5 − 0.9)) =? 12 3 d) 1225 e) 1209 Q.46)√(5673.86 + 5669.46 + 5636.87 − a) 3.4 b) 2.6 c) 1.8 Q.27) 243.43 × 38.78% 표푓 128.93 − 34.76=? √65.98 × 87 + 735 − 857 =? d) 3.1 e) 2.9 a) 12879 b) 12187 c) 12115 a) 98 b) 87 c) 55 Q.8) 5.81 + 281.15 + 12.89 × 51.49 =? d) 12280 e) 12143 d) 76 e) 65 a) 915 b) 890 c) 876 564.57+7846.65 Q.28) 198.65 × 126.45 ÷ 13.87 + 178.44 − 294.77 =? Q.47) =?2 456.43−321.90 d) 950 e) 987 a) 1674 b) 1789 c) 1635 a) 22 b) 4 c) 14 Q.9) 24.68% 표푓 594.81 × 15.18% 표푓 864 − 22 =? d) 1712 e) 1699 d) 8 e) 18 a) 19050 b) 20178 c) 19400 69.4 134.32 Q.29) × =? 267.81 23.03 Q.48) 0.7% 표푓 286 × 0.9%표푓 732 × 0.4% 표푓 556 =? d) 21050 e) 22009 a) 4.5 b) 2.4 c) 3.7 a) 45 b) 88 c) 31 Q.10) 784.777 + 93.642 × 55.971 − 84.101 =? d) 1.5 e) 4.1 d) 21 e) 28 a) 5690 b) 6211 c) 5289 3 289× 354 √19469.59 2 √ Q.30) 3 =? −17.2 Q.49) 3 =? −654.45 d) 5965 e) 6457 √2748 701÷ √354 Q.11) 3√50753 + (54.95)2 =? a) 249 b) 291 c) 213 a) 789 b) 694 c) 745 a) 3093 b) 3062 c) 3129 d) 209 e) 275 d) 699 e) 710 d) 3211 e) 3021 Q.31) 15.782 + 19.092 − 29.452 + 17.22 =? Q.50) (38% 표푓 378.98) ÷ (12.76% 표푓 219.09) × a) 78 b) 99 c) 65 2 4 표푓 335.3 =? Q.12) 40% 표푓 252 + 90% 표푓 881 =? 7 a) 895 b) 862 c) 843 d) 44 e) 28 a) 4320 b) 4225 c) 4258 d) 811 e) 940 Q.32) √299 × 19 × 22.58 =? d) 4209 e) 4370 Q.13) 65.2% 표푓 241.42+? 표푓 392.86 = 4521.81 a) 7894 b) 7509 c) 7321 Q.51) 27383.83 + 84922.32 + 8491.53 − 8911.94 = a) 32 b) 25 c) 11 d) 7198 e) 7429 ? −7482.73 d) 43 e) 54 Q.33) (7486.748 + 8479.58 + 7589.39) ÷ √4347 =? a) 1196752 b) 119476 c) 119368 Q.14) 4 × 5112 + 9 × 6414.21 =? a) 390 b) 418 c) 357 d) 118905 e) 119213 7 13 a) 7490 b) 7509 c) 7360 d) 518 e) 389 Q.52) 738.43 × 12.34 × 153.94 ÷ 21.21 =? 3 d) 7487 e) 7794 Q.34) √4100 − √251 − 16.34 =? a) 69084 b) 53210 c) 50932 a) -16 b) 21 c) 19 d) 64392 e) 61992 Q.15) 2424 ÷ 424 × √138 =? a) 38 b) 61 c) 46 d) -18 e) 9 Q.53) √345.32 × 673 ÷ 9.8 =? ( ) d) 89 e) 72 Q.35) 3894.78 − 1993 − 1900.9 표푓 349.55 ×? = a) 98 b) 48 c) 32 32452.32 d) 56 e) 66 Q.16) √8867 × √984 ÷ 14.78+? = 19867.89 a) 87 b) 75 c) 53 a) 19843 b) 19680 c) 18796 Q.54) 539.89 ÷ 15.02 + 238.08 ÷ 24.01 − 16.01 =? d) 93 e) 81 d) 18475 e) 19307 a) 22 b) 18 c) 45 3 Q.36) 679.7× √6859 =? d) 30 e) 55 Q.17) (12171.69 + 1284.8 + 2471.621) - √13000 Q.55) 40% 표푓 893 + 89.9 ÷ 8.7 − 365.09 =? (3742.11 + 2525.36 + 526.7) =? a) 165 b) 113 c) 189 a) 2 b) 9 c) 11 a) 9154 b) 9253 c) 9183 d) 148 e) 129 d) 13 e) 6 d) 9134 e) 9231 Q.37) 777777 ÷ √5930 ÷ √51 =? 4 2 11 ×4 1 2 7 3 Q.18) ( % 표푓 2305) × 표푓 488 =? −11% 표푓 301 a) 2717 b) 2707 c) 1443 Q.56) 9 9 =? 5 7 4 +9 11 13 d) 1017 e) 1107 a) 603 b) 751 c) 680 a) 18 b) 9 c) 4 3 Q.38) 9 표푓 186 + (√1299 ÷ 4.2)−? =414.41 d) 764 e) 700 4 d) 11 e) 17 Q.19) √2212×√1860 =? a) 1544 b) 1455 c) 1366 Q.57) ? % 표푓 ( 189 × 8.99 − 678.89) = 548.09 408 a) 11 b) 18 c) 9 d) 1633 e) 1489 a) 89 b) 30 c) 92 d) 15 e) 5 Q.39) √√863.46 + √2387.97 =? d) 47 e) 54 1 ( ) Q.20) √7396 + 576.54 =? +√287 − 181.87 a) 12 b) 11 c) 9 Q.58) (7.04)3 × (847) 2 × (27.87)2 ÷ (83 − 16.452) =? a) 893 b) 828 c) 834 d) 5 e) 19 a) 23897 b) 24789 c) 21487 d) 861 e) 819 Q.40) √(29.88% 표푓 783) × (24.8% 표푓 156) = √? d) 29841 e) 28791 4 4 2 3 5 Q.21) 표푓341 + 1 표푓118 = 241+? −√1512 a) 9165 b) 9158 c) 8675 Q.59) 15 + 9 − 3 =? 13 9 5 4 8 a) 90 b) 102 c) 53 d) 9240 e) 9265 a) 65 b) 45 c) 22 Q.41) 2 표푓 228 + 54.8% 표푓 1098 − (23 표푓 1990) =? d) 71 e) 21 5 8 d) 34 e) 77 a) -5908 b) 5687 c) -5275 Q.60) 4 표푓 347.38 + 7 표푓 467 =?× (1.99 + 1.07) 7 12 Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

|Legend Magazine | January - 2018| 38 a) 198 b) 157 c) 143 Q.79) 9 ÷ 108 × 327.987 − 5 + 6.90 =? d) 5799 e) 5983 42 63.32 6.6 5 ( ) d) 120 e) 113 a) 49 b) 28 c) 57 Q.99) 8.7% 표푓 360 ÷ 0.4% 표푓 320 =? −15.2 × 4 2 Q.61) √3237.37 ÷ 7.98 × 14.03 + 47.009 =? d) 42 e) 33 a) 54 b) 85 c) 32 a) 1328 b) 1298 c) 1187 Q.80) 18% of 256+35% of 290+15% of 385=? d) 45 e) 97 2 d) 1419 e) 1387 7 72 a) 268 b) 257 c) 243 Q.100) (( × ) ÷ (6.7 − 0.9)) =? 3 9 2 Q.62) √7742 × √9265 + 328.23 =? +65.85 d) 299 e) 205 a) 23 b) 65 c) 54 a) 2155 b) 2243 c) 2110 Q.81) (95% 표푓 8784.34) ÷? = (134% 표푓 45.6)2 × 2.4 d) 43 e) 32 d) 2287 e) 2170 a) 6 b) 8 c) 5

2 Q.63) (4398.33 + 9749.89 + 132.65) ÷ 9.4 + 7.46 =? d) 1 e) 7 D.1-50) Find the missing number in the a) 40 b) 83 c) 32 Q.82) 1 2 + 4 11 − 3 8.076 + 11 7 =? 3 √238 9 18 following series d) 67 e) 71 a) 19 b) 14 c) 25 Q.1) 3, 11, 31, 69, ? Q.64) √67543 ÷ 32.34 × 542.09 + 383.78 − 143.26 =? d) 22 e) 31 a) 142 b) 98 c) 131 a) 4398 b) 4577 c) 4323 Q.83) √567.656 + 3√4876 × √1187 − 4√6560.87 =? d) 111 e) None of these d) 4231 e) 4501 a) 623 b) 732 c) 580 Q.2) 5, 16, 34, 71, 145, ? Q.65) 4? × √226 = 455.991 ÷ 8.001 + 930.345 d) 593 e) 684 a) 220 b) 280 c) 270 a) 9 b) 5 c) 3 Q.84) (3927.57 ÷ √4533) =?2− 68.43% 표푓 587 d) 240 e) 190 d) 13 e) 17 a) 73 b) 24 c) 21 Q.3) 2, 4, 20, 74, 202, ? Q.66) (7237.438 + 3874.34 + 3437.95 − 4273.349) =?× d) 32 e) 19 a) 384 b) 468 c) 442 274.89 Q.85) (√3809.001 ÷ 7.98 × (13.044)2) ÷ 67.004 =? d) 452 e) 352 a) 28 b) 32 c) 17 a) 16 b) 20 c) 29 Q.4) 7, 128, 272, 441, 637, ? d) 45 e) 37 d) 18 e) 31 a) 762 b) 862 c) 842 Q.67) 32.76% 표푓 543+? % 표푓 3201 = 7474.38 ÷ Q.86) 5.87 × (216)4 × (35.56)2 ÷ (1296)3 = 6? d) 742 e) None of these 343.38 × 17.43 a) 9 b) 5 c) 2 Q.5) 10, 14, 32, 80, 180, ? a) 3 b) 1 c) 16 d) 10 e) 3 a) 320 b) 340 c) 360 d) 6 e) 9 Q.87) 7238.387 + 3676.26 − 1298.32 − 2356.33 − d) 380 e) 350 Q.68) 56.352 + 413 ÷ 46.687 − √4656.56 =? 2134 =? Q.6) 6, 7, 29, 262, ? a) 4278 b) 4534 c) 4473 a) 5126 b) 5839 c) 5390 a) 4193 b) 5342 c) 6639 d) 4144 e) 4311 d) 5295 e) 5322 d) 3769 e) None of these Q.69) 4 표푓 3764 − 6 표푓 438 =?÷ (131 − 26.8 × 3.2) 9 13 Q.88) 34% 표푓 985 − 122.31% 표푓 376 + 5 표푓 4834 =?2 Q.7) 1999, 1992, 1973, 1936, ? 9 a) 76390 b) 73922 c) 72311 a) 1895 b) 1995 c) 1885 a) 66 b) 58 c) 48 d) 73550 e) 72421 d) 1875 e) 1855 d) 50 e) 39 Q.70) 489.887 ÷ 14.82 + 208.08 ÷ 8.01 − 16.09 =? 373.3 256.41 Q.8) 15, 14, 13, 18, 41, ? × Q.89) 32 1865 =? a) 54 b) 32 c) 43 52.34÷69.86 a) 85 b) 97 c) 100 d) 66 e) 71 a) 5 b) 18 c) 22 d) 73 e) None of these Q.71) 2 표푓 578 ÷ (7 % 표푓 12002) =?× 168.78 − 457.87 d) 6 e) 2 Q.9) 21, 29, 93, 309, 821, ? 3 8 a) 1 b) 3 c) 7 Q.90) 3333.33 + 3232.32 − 323.22 + 3322 =?× 32.32 a) 1293 b) 1821 c) 1857 d) 11 e) 15 a) 238 b) 299 c) 278 d) 1647 e) None of these Q.72) 5276.28 ÷ 34.82 × 27.87 × 712.93 ÷ 23.65 =?2 d) 232 e) 211 Q.10) 8, 9, 18, 67, 236, ? 2 3 2 a) 356 b) 472 c) 388 Q.91) 67% 표푓 369 + 67 − 19 ÷ 3.56 =? a) 677 b) 599 c) 634 d) 498 e) 312 a) 4279 b) 4809 c) 4307 d) 577 e) 667 Q.73) d) 4879 e) 4233 Q.11) 250, 432, 686, 1024, 1458, ? Q.92) (46.43)2 ÷ [(32.75)2 ÷ (23.41)2] + (13.98)3 =?2 a) 1820 b) 2000 c) 2120 2 √54.58% 표푓 3432 × 3√832.83 − ( 표푓 819 + 34.98% 832) 5 a) 34 b) 61 c) 88 d) 2400 e) None of these =? d) 28 e) 78 Q.12) 8, 9, 11, 14, 18, ? a) 128 b) 188 c) 145 Q.93) 8278+322.22+2333.43-3343.43-323.12=? a) 24 b) 25 c) 26 d) 176 e) 155 a) 7267 b) 7143 c) 7323 d) 23 e) 27 Q.74) √√5456.434 × √2476.243 =? d) 7209 e) 7199 Q.13) 25, 72, 147, 256, ? a) 45 b) 32 c) 87 152 168 3 a) 450 b) 409 c) 390 Q.94) √( × × √542)=? 226 12 d) 97 e) 61 d) 405 e) None of these a) 10 b) 8 c) 6 Q.75) (4657.576 + 54657.66 − 3546.5 − 2123.55) ÷ Q.14) 0, 8, 54, 192, ? d) 2 e) 4 (2348.56 − 5543.6 + 3213) =? a) 700 b) 600 c) 500 Q.95) √5345.54 ÷ √342.32 =?÷ 61.2 a) 2867 b) 2781 c) 2980 d) 400 e) 350 a) 266 b) 298 c) 211 d) 2879 e) 2819 Q.15) 5, 2, 135, 16, 625, ? d) 247 e) 271 Q.76) ?÷ 1564.67 ÷ 27.089 = ( 34.44 × 139.76) a) 48 b) 54 c) 64 245.09 136 Q.96) 55.55% 표푓 608 + 66% 표푓 891 × 34.44 =? d) 124 e) None of these a) 8 b) 32 c) 2 a) 20330 b) 22399 c) 21999 Q.16) 2, 5, 8, 13, 18, ? d) 19 e) 21 d) 22185 e) 25641 5786+8868.78 2 a) 16 b) 23 c) 25 Q.77) =? 3 28 45 21 46 5467.67÷90.76 Q.97) ÷ × ÷ × =? 6 43 32 14 25 d) 20 e) None of these a) 21 b) 34 c) 16 a) 2.5 b) 3.3 c) 1.3 Q.17) 0.5, 4, 13.5, 32, 62.5, ? d) 29 e) 24 d) 4.4 e) 6.4 a) 112 b) 144 c) 72 65679÷34.78 Q.78) = 768.78 − 56.87−? 3 3 54.645×7.67 Q.98) 8 × 726−? = 8 d) 108 e) None of these 13 4 a) 687 b) 708 c) 878 a) 5357 b) 5123 c) 5787 Q.18) 500, 729, 768, 686, 540, ? d) 764 e) 673 a) 375 b) 1125 c) 1390 Chennai | Bengaluru | Chandigarh | Trivandrum | Puducherry 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore

|Legend Magazine | January - 2018| 39 d) 1425 e) 475 d) 40115 e) 42565 68. (b) 69. (d) 70. (c) 71. (b) 72. (a) 73. (a) 74. Q.19) 107, 214, 642, 2568, ? Q.40) 360360, 72072, 10296, 1144, 104, ? (e) 75. (c) 76. (a) 77. (c) 78. (b) 79. (d) 80. (e) a) 11440 b) 12660 c) 10880 a) 12 b) 18 c) 24 81. (d) 82. (b) 83. (d) 84. (c) 85. (b) 86. (b) 87. d) 12840 e) None of these d) 8 e) None of these (a) 88. (d) 89. (e) 90. (b) 91. (c) 92. (b) 93. (a) Q.20) 9450, 3780, 1260, 360, 90, ? Q.41) 200, 242, 288, 338, 392, ? 94. (b) 95. (d) 96. (a) 97. (c) 98. (e) 99. (b) 100. a) 80 b) 20 c) 50 a) 450 b) 485 c) 460 (a) d) 40 e) 30 d) 455 e) 490 Q.21) 675, 1350, 1350, 900, 450, ? Q.42) 51, 104, 159, 216, 275, ? 1. (c) 2. (b) 3. (d) 4. (b) 5. (c) 6. (a) 7. (d) 8. (c) a) 170 b) 150 c) 180 a) 349 b) 236 c) 336 9. (b) 10. (a) 11. (b) 12. (d) 13. (d) 14. (c) 15. d) 210 e) 320 d) 386 e) None of these (b) 16. (c) 17. (d) 18. (a) 19. (d) 20. (b) 21. (c) Q.22) 20000, 4000, 1600, 960, 768, ? Q.43) 5, 14, 51, 280, 2009, ? 22. (b) 23. (a) 24. (b) 25. (d) 26. (b) 27. (d) 28. a) 628 b) 768 c) 818 a) 23420 b) 22220 c) 12220 (c) 29. (c) 30. (d) 31. (b) 32. (d) 33. (b) 34. (d) d) 334 e) None of these d) 22000 e) 20220 35. (a) 36. (c) 37. (c) 38. (b) 39. (b) 40. (d) 41. Q.23) 800, 401, 202.5, 104.25, ? Q.44) 6, 30, 300, 4500, 90000, ? (a) 42. (c) 43. (b) 44. (c) 45. (a) 46. (d) 47. (a) a) 56.125 b) 55.125 c) 46.125 a) 2525000 b) 2220000 c) 2250000 48. (c) 49. (b) 50. (d) d) 52.125 e) None of these d) 2550000 e) None of these Q.24) 11, 15, 21, 29, 39, ? Q.45) 11, 88, 297, 704, 1375, 2376, ? Computer: a) 61 b) 51 c) 71 a) 3773 b) 2773 c) 2473 Q.1) Encryption and Decryption are the functions d) 41 e) 50 d) 3643 e) 2887 of Q.25) 1, 1, 4, 36, 576, ? Q.46) 8, 4, 6, 15, 52.5, ? a) Transport layer b) Session layer a) 14500 b) 11400 c) 13300 a) 254.50 b) 246.75 c) 256.25 c) Application layer d) Physical layer d) 14400 e) None of these d) 236.25 e) None of these e) Presentation layer Q.26) 5, 7, 13, 25, 45, ? Q.47) 9, 49, 239, 949, 2839, ? Q.2) Which of the following is the key example of a) 65 b) 75 c) 60 a) 5669 b) 5349 c) 5699 Toggle key? d) 70 e) 80 d) 5449 e) 5329 a) Alt b) Shift Q.27) 3, 7, 16, 41, 90, 211, ? Q.48) 1112, 788, 1044, 848, 992, ? c) Caps Lock d) Home a) 360 b) 270 c) 420 a) 1092 b) 982 c) 892 e) Control d) 380 e) 390 d) 782 e) None of these Q.3) Which of the following categories do Q.28) 15, 29, 85, 337, 1681, ? Q.49) 446, 224, 113, 57.5, 29.75, ? operating systems and debuggers belongs to? a) 10810 b) 10801 c) 10081 a) 14.675 b) 15.875 c) 16.875 a) System software b) Application software d) 18001 e) None of these d) 12.675 e) 18.125 c) Utilities Q.29) 11, 12, 39, 164, 507, ? Q.50) 1, 9, 64, 343, 1296, 3125, ? d) Programming Language a) 1286 b) 1246 c) 1236 a) 5186 b) 4086 c) 5346 e) All the above d) 1256 e) 1336 d) 4096 e) 4156 Q.4) How many rows are there in the latest version Q.30) 80, 81, 91, 191, 1191, ? of MS Excel? a) 2191 b) 391 c) 11291 Answer Key: a) 65536 b) 16,384 d) 11191 e) None of these 1. (a) 2. (d) 3. (a) 4. (b) 5. (d) 6. (d) 7. (e) 8. (c) c) 1,048,576 d) 1,050,000 Q.31) 6944, 3472, 1736, 868, 434, ? 9. (d) 10. (e) 11. (a) 12. (b) 13. (d) 14. (b) 15. e) 2,001,000 a) 317 b) 217 c) 257 (c) 16. (d) 17. (d) 18. (c) 19. (a) 20. (b) 21. (c) Q.5) Which of the following device used ‘set of d) 271 e) None of these 22. (d) 23. (a) 24. (b) 25. (e) 26. (a) 27. (c) 28. beads’ to represent the unit of data? Q.32) 16, 40, 100, 250, 625, ? (d) 29. (c) 30. (a) 31. (b) 32. (e) 33. (d) 34. (c) a) ENIAC b) EDVAC a) 1575.5 b) 1552.5 c) 1526.5 35. (b) 36. (c) 37. (a) 38. (b) 39. (d) 40. (e) 41. c) Abacus d) MARK-I d) 1562.5 e) 1532.5 (a) 42. (b) 43. (c) 44. (a) 45. (d) 46. (b) 47. (d) e) None of these Q.33) 13, 14, 30, 93, 376, ? 48. (c) 49. (a) 50. (e) 51. (a) 52. (b) 53. (c) 54. Q.6) The program, a personal computer's a) 1985 b) 1885 c) 1775 (e) 55. (b) 56. (c) 57. (d) 58. (b) 59. (c) 60. (a) microprocessor uses to get the computer system d) 1785 e) None of these 61. (b) 62. (c) 63. (d) 64. (e) 65. (b) 66. (a) 67. started after you turn it on is Q.34) 17, 9, 10, 16.5, 35, 90, ? (d) 68. (a) 69. (b) 70. (c) 71. (e) 72. (a) 73. (b) a) BIOS b) Java a) 287 b) 237 c) 243 74. (c) 75. (d) 76. (c) 77. (b) 78. (e) 79. (c) 80. c) I/O d) c d) 273 e) 247 (d) 81. (a) 82. (d) 83. (c) 84. (a) 85. (b) 86. (c) e) Booting Q.35) 5600, 560, 5040, 630, 4410, 735, ? 87. (d) 88. (e) 89. (a) 90. (c) 91. (c) 92. (a) 93. Q.7) An Application software installed on the a) 3675 b) 3875 c) 4225 (b) 94. (c) 95. (e) 96. (d) 97. (a) 98. (c) 99. (d) user’s computer help, him to communicate or send d) 3770 e) None of these 100. (a) a request to the network is Q.36) 812, 824, 846, 878, 920, 972, ? a) Paint b) File Manager a) 1124 b) 1028 c) 1034 1. (b) 2. (d) 3. (e) 4. (a) 5. (c) 6. (d) 7. (b) 8. (d) c) Browser d) Word d) 1074 e) 1244 9. (c) 10. (d) 11. (b) 12. (a) 13. (c) 14. (c) 15. (e) e) Power point Q.37) 942, 870, 778, 666, 534, ? 16. (b) 17. (d) 18. (c) 19. (e) 20. (b) 21. (d) 22. Q.8) A tuple is a a) 482 b) 362 c) 382 (a) 23. (a) 24. (c) 25. (e) 26. (d) 27. (c) 28. (a) a) Row b) Projection d) 472 e) 372 29. (d) 30. (b) 31. (c) 32. (e) 33. (c) 34. (a) 35. c) Field d) Union Q.38) 27, 29, 62, 192, 776, ? (d) 36. (b) 37. (c) 38. (b) 39. (c) 40. (a) 41. (c) e) None of these a) 2460 b) 3890 c) 3180 42. (e) 43. (c) 44. (a) 45. (b) 46. (c) 47. (d) 48. Q.9) WORM stands for? d) 3870 e) None of these (e) 49. (e) 50. (a) 51. (c) 52. (e) 53. (b) 54. (d) a) Write Once Read Many Q.39) 1, 5, 35, 315, 3465, ? 55. (a) 56. (c) 57. (e) 58. (d) 59. (c) 60. (b) 61. b) Wanted Once Read Memory a) 42565 b) 45045 c) 43685 (d) 62. (c) 63. (a) 64. (b) 65. (c) 66. (e) 67. (d) c) Wanted Original Read Memory

|Legend Magazine | January - 2018| 40 d) Write Original Read Memory a) 1st Generation b) 2nd Generation Q.35) Routers are operated at which layer of the e) None of the above c) 3rd Generation d) 4th Generation OSI model? Q.10) Which of the following are valid minimum & e) 5th Generation a) Presentation layer b) Application layer maximum zoom sizes in MS word? Q.23) Software that is actively utilized by end- c) Network control layer d) Data link layer a) 0, 100 b) 0, 1000 users are called e) Session layer c) 10, 500 d) 10, 100 a) System utilities b) Operating system Q.36) A commonly used graphic format for the e) None of these c) System software d) Driver Web buttons, charts and text headings is Q.11) A collection of unprocessed items is e) Application software a) GIF b) BMP c) TXT a) Information b) Data Q.24) Which of the following network topology, d) LMP e) TIF c) Memory d) Reports where all devices on a network are connected to a Q.37) Which of the following is not a type of e) None of these single continuous cable? database? Q.12) The QWERTY keyboard was invented by a) Star b) Ring c) Bus a) Hierarchical b) Relational a) Carl Sholes b) Karl Sholes d) Tree e) Mesh c) Network d) Transition c) Christopher Latham Sholes Q.25) To open Save As dialog box, press e) Object-oriented d) Henry Mill e) None of these a) F2 b) F4 c) F6 Q.38) What should be used if a company wants to Q.13) An adhoc network that works on the d) F10 e) F12 include its company name and logo at the bottom Bluetooth technology and connects to eight Q.26) The first public code name of the Android of every page of a brochure? devices is Operating System is a) Header b) Macro a) client server b) point to point a) Cupcake b) Alpha c) Footer d) Footnote c) firewall d) Piconet c) Gingerbread d) Doughnut e) None of the above e) none of these e) Oreo Q.39) The computer network that usually spans a Q.14) The first graphical web browser is Q.27) What type of computers are client city or a large campus is a) Mosaic b) WAIS computers in a client-server system? a) PAN b) WAN c) LAN c) CERN d) Gopher a) Mainframe b) Super Computer d) MAN e) TAN e) None of the above c) Microcomputer d) CPU Q.40) The software which posts unwanted Q.15) The line that describes the contents of the e) None of these advertisements on client’s computer is message while sending an e-mail is Q.28) Which of the following is commonly used to a) Virus b) Scare ware c) Worm a) BCC b) to track website activity? d) Adware e) Spyware c) subject d) cc a) Cookies b) Plug-ins Q.41) A nibble is e) None of these c) Scripts d) ASPs a) 1 bit b) 2 bits c) 3 bits Q.16) The key which is used to indent the first e) HTTP d) 4 bits e) 8 bits paragraph of your report is Q.29) An error in software or hardware is called a Q.42) Which one of the following allows a user at a) Tab key b) Return key bug. What is the alternative computer jargon for one site to establish a connection to another site c) Space bar d) Shift key it? and then pass keystrokes from local host to e) None of these a) Leech b) Squid remote host? Q.17) The technology that allows you to use your c) Slug d) Glitch e) Code a) HTTP b) FTP c) Telnet finger, eye, or voice print to secure your Q.30) The icon represents an e-mail message that d) POP3 e) None of these information resources is has not been read is Q.43) Which of the following keys is a key used to a) Haptics b) Caves a) Question Mark b) Closed envelope link two tables together? c) RFID d) Biometrics c) Highlighted envelope a) Primary key b) Foreign key e) All the above d) Flashing letter e) None of these c) Candidate key d) Identity key Q.18) Which layer of the OSI model defines the Q.31) The network security device that monitors e) None of these language and syntax for programs? incoming and outgoing network traffic and decides Q.44) What is the maximum number of lines you a) Data link layer b) Presentation layer whether to allow or block specific traffic based on can set for a Drop Cap? c) Application layer d) Session layer a defined set of security rules is a) 6 b) 10 c) 15 e) Transport layer a) Antivirus b) Bug d) 20 e) 25 Q.19) The working of Bluetooth devices depends c) Firewall d) All the above Q.45) If you wish to extend the length of the on which model? e) None of these network without having the signal degrade, you a) Client/server b) Peer-to-peer Q.32) The protocol which allows an e-mail client to can use a _____. c) Master/slave d) Analogue/digital access an e-mail to a remote mail server is a) Router b) Repeater e) None of these a) SMTP b) POP3 c) Gateway d) Switch Q.20) The feature in database language that c) SNMP d) TCP e) Bridge allows us to access certain records in the e) IMAP Q.46) The diagrams graphically represent an inter- database is Q.33) A search tool that uses other search relationship among entities in a database is a) Query b) Forms engine's data to produce their own results from a) Entity-relationship diagram c) Reports d) Tables the Internet is b) Data flow diagram e) None of these a) Dependent b) Independent c) Control flow diagram Q.21) The smallest storage unit is c) Meta Search d) Individual search d) Sequence diagram a) Megabyte b) Gigabyte e) none of these e) None of these c) Terabyte d) Kilobyte Q.34) In Excel, a new workbook contains how Q.47) The program that appears or pretends to be e) Bit many worksheets by default? a genuine application, but causes damage to the Q.22) Vacuum Tubes were used in which a) One b) Three executable files on the computer is generation of Computers? c) Five d) Ten e) Six a) Trojan horse b) Adware

|Legend Magazine | January - 2018| 41 c) Scare ware d) Worm c) Online reservation e) Printing device e) Virus d) M-reservation e) None of these Q.71) An example of a telecommunications device Q.48) Which among the following is used to begin Q.60) An object embedded in a web page or email, is a formula in MS Excel? which unobtrusively allows checking that a user a) Keyboard b) Mouse a) % b) = c) + has accessed the content. c) Printer d) @ e) # a) e-mail b) virus d) Modem Q.49) The standard protocol for transferring web c) web beacon d) spam e) None of these pages and their contents across the Internet is e) firewall Q.72) The smallest and largest font size available a) FTP b) SMTP c) SNMP Q.61) In MS Word Spelling Check is a feature in the Font Size tool of MS Word is d) HTTP e) DHCP available in which tab? a) 8 and 72 b) 8 and 68 Q.50) The program that visits Web sites and reads a) File b) Home c) 6 and 72 d) 6 and 68 their pages and other information in order to c) Insert d) Review e) 9 and 90 create entries for a search engine index e) References Q.73) The number of function keys on a keyboard a) Bing b) MSN c) Spider Q.62) Who contributed to the idea of a stored is d) Google e) None of these program? a) 15 b) 12 Q.51) What is the diagnostic testing sequence of a a) John von Neumann c) 11 d) 16 computer called that determines if all input and b) Charles Babbage e) 10 output devices are properly working? c) Howard Aiken Q.74) The technology used to read pencil or pen a) Rebooting b) POST d) Daniel Thomas marks on a multiple-choice answer sheet is c) scanning d) Defragmentation e) Dennis Ritchie a) OMR b) MICR e) booting Q.63) Who among the following is known as the c) OCR d) BCR Q.52) The computers that exhibit the features of Father of The Internet? e) ALU both analogue and digital computers is a) Tim Berners-Lee Q.75) Which communication mode allows both the a) Hybrid computer b) Minicomputer b) Raymond Tomilson sender and the receiver to transmit data at the c) Laptop c) Douglas Engelbart same time over a single communication channel? d) Mainframe computer d) Charles Babbage a) Simplex b) Half-duplex e) Super computer e) Vint Cerf c) Full-duplex d) Multiplex Q.53) Which of the following is a type of margin at Q.64) In the first generation of computers, they e) De-Multiplex the time of printing and binding printouts? used Q.76) Which of the following are machine- a) Portrait b) Gutter margin a) Batch processing b) Multithreading independent languages? c) Page setup d) Next Page c) Multiprogramming d) Networking a) High-level languages b) Low-level languages e) None of these e) All the above c) Assembly languages d) Machine languages Q.54) The base of the octal number system is Q.65) The blinking symbol on the screen that e) None of these a) 2 b) 8 shows where the next character will appear is Q.77) Which of the following is a computer input c) 10 d) 12 a) Cursor b) Delete key device? e) 16 c) Arrow key d) Return key a) Monitor b) Plotter Q.55) FORTRAN is used for e) None of these c) Printer d) Light pen a) business applications Q.66) To justify the selected text, the shortcut key e) Speaker b) marketing applications is: Q.78) Which of the following is a loopback c) scientific applications a) Ctrl + I b) Ctrl + J address? d) statically calculative applications c) Ctrl + U d) Ctrl + K a) 125.0.0.0 b) 127.0.0.1 e) commercial purposes e) Ctrl + H c) 255.0.0.0 d) 255.0.0.1 Q.56) Bits are packaged into frames at which layer Q.67) A networking device which is used to direct e) 1.0.0.0 of the OSI model? and dispatch data packets between different Q.79) The protocol used to exchange files between a) Data link b) Transport networks is computers over a TCP/IP network is c) Physical d) Presentation a) Connection b) Bridge a) UDP b) DHCP e) Application c) Gateway d) Hub c) SMNP d) SMTP Q.57) ENIAC is e) Router e) FTP (a) Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer Q.68) A key is a set or one of more columns Q.80) Linux is an example of (b) Electrical Numerical Integer and Category (attributes) to uniquely identify rows in a table? a) Freeware b) Open source software (c) Electrical Numerical Integer and Computation a) Substitute Key b) Sub key c) Shareware d) Demo software (d) Efficient Numerical Integrator and Computer c) Super key d) Foreign key e) Retail software (e) Electronic numbers Integer and Calculator e) None of these Q.81) Which of the following is not an example of Q.58) The smallest unit of a display screen is Q.69) The shortcut key used to select the entire web-browser? a) bit b) pixel document is a) Mozilla Firefox b) Google Chrome c) img d) byte a) Ctrl + L b) Alt + A c) Internet Explorer d) Safari e) none of these c) Ctrl + A d) Shift + A e) Avast Q.59) Which of the following is the activity of e) Ctrl + K Q.82) Copying a process from memory to disk to purchasing items and products from different Q.70) Trackball is an example of allow space for other processes is called websites on the internet and using online modes, a) Programming device a) Swapping b) Deadlock such as credit cards and debit cards, to make the b) Pointing device c) Demand Paging d) Page Fault payments? c) Output device e) Cloud Computing a) E-banking b) Online shopping d) Software device Q.83) ECG is an example of

|Legend Magazine | January - 2018| 42 a) analog computer b) digital computer c) Array d) Resolution Q.106) …………….. involves getting a user to c) hybrid computer d) supercomputer e) Clip enter personal information via a fake website. e) mainframe Q.95) ……………….. is a process by which a) Phishing b) Sniffing Q.84) In which types of network are all the fragmented files that are stored on a disk are c) Data diddling computers considered equal? rearranged to occupy contiguous storage locations d) Pharming a) Peer-to-peer b) Client/server allowing for both space and performance e) Spoofing c) Backbone d) Hybrid optimization. Q.107) The amount of time required by a e) Hierarchy a) Rebooting b) POST storage device to retrieve data and programs Q.85) Who coined the term computer virus? c) Scanning d) Defragmentation is its a) MC Fee b) Smiths e) None of these a) Retrieval speed b) Access speed c) Frederick Cohen d) Norton Q.96) Unix operating system was developed by c) Memory d) Storage e) None of the above a) Walter Baatain b) John Burdeen e) None of these Q.86) The key combination used to reverse the c) Ken Thompson d) All the above Q.108) A device or computer program capable of last Undo is e) None of these encoding or decoding a digital data stream or a) Ctrl+A b) Ctrl+C Q.97) The key which is used to search any data in signal c) Ctrl+W d) Ctrl+Y a computer is a) Codec b) Modem e) Ctrl+Z a) F1 b) F2 c) Digitizer d) All the above Q.87) What is referred to as the organization of c) F3 d) F4 e) None of these data as a blueprint of how the database is e) F5 Q.109) …………… topology is a type of constructed? Q.98) The non-volatile memory chip used for networking where all nodes cooperate to a) Primary Key b) Candidate Key storage and for transferring data between a distribute data amongst each other? c) Schema d) Tuple personal computer and digital devices is a) bus b) mesh e) Cardinality a) Flash memory b) RAM c) tree d) ring Q.88) ……………. is a piece of code intentionally c) Cache memory d) Registers e) star inserted into a software system that will set off a e) None of the above Q.110) If you want to share a broadband malicious function when specified conditions are Q.99) Which of the following character set Internet connection, you must install met? supports Japanese and Chinese font? a) node b) modem a) Malware b) Spyware a) EBCDIC b) ASCII c) router d) cable c) Logic Bomb d) Adware c) BCD d) EDCBI e) none of these e) Trojan Horse e) Unicode Q.111) Which of the following is not a Q.89) Which among the following is a web server Q.100) ……………. is the industry standard name for computer programming language? that collects data from other web servers and puts a computer virus that was released in its first form a) UNIX b) FORTRAN it into a database, it provides links to pages that in January 1986. c) BASIC d) COBOL contain the object of your search? a) Creeper b) Brain e) PASCAL a) Search Engine b) Browser c) Winery d) All the above c) FTP d) HTTP e) None of these Q.112) A ……………… is the part of a computer that e) Hyperlink Q.101) The type of memory improves interprets commands and performs the processes Q.90) The software that controls the internal processing by action as a temporary high- the user has requested. operations in the computer and controls how the speed holding area between the memory and a) Primary memory b) Input device computer works with all its parts is the CPU is c) RAM d) ROM a) Shareware a) RAM b) ROM e) Processor b) Public domain software c) EEPROM d) Flash Memory Q.113) ………….. is a communications mode in c) Application software e) Cache Memory which only one signal is transmitted, and it d) Operating system software Q.102) Which of the following layer of the OSI always goes in the same direction. e) Demo software model is also called as end-to-end layer? a) Simplex b) Half Duplex Q.91) Which is of the following terms is used for a) Network b) Session c) Full Duplex d) Multiplex unsolicited e-mail? c) Presentation d) Application e) De-Multiplex a) News Group b) Usenet e) Transport Q.114) The Operating system is a c) Backbone d) Spam Q.103) The father of super computer is a) System software b) Application software e) Phishing a) Alan Turing b) Charles Babbage c) Web browser d) translator software Q.92) A pathway inside a computer that carries c) Vint Cerf d) Ray Tomlinson e) None of these data between hardware components is e) Seymour Cray Q.115) Which of the following holds the ROM, a) Control bus b) Data bus Q.104) E-mail addresses separate the user RAM, CPU? c) Digital signal d) Address bus name from the ISP using e) Switching a) CU b) ALU a) # b) % Q.93) Which among the following command is an c) CU d) Hard disk c) & d) @ example of a Data Manipulation Command in SQL? e) Motherboard e) $ (a) SELECT (b) GRANT Q.116) ………….. is a small packet of information Q.105) The most common tool used to restrict (c) CREATE (d) PROVOKE sent by a web host to a your computer when access to a computer system is (e) DROP you visit a website. a) Keys b) Firewall Q.94) A/An ………. is a container object that holds a) Spyware b) Key logger c) Password d) User login a fixed number of values of a single type. c) Identity theft d) Cookies e) None of these a) Unit b) Pixel e) Blended threat

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Q.117) The device that can change images into e) Windows key + E data in a separate tiny capacitor within an codes for the computer is Q.128) An organized collection of data about a integrated circuit. a) Scanner b) MICR single entity is a) DRAM b) SRAM c) Keyboard d) Joystick a) Data b) Information c) ROM d) EEPROM e) Mouse c) File d) Folder e) PROM Q.118) The Web page code is written using e) Directory Q.142) The software which is used to keep track a) C b) C++ Q.129) Storing same data in many places is of a billing account is c) HTML d) HTTP a) Restoring b) Repetition a) word processing b) spread sheet e) Telnet c) Concurrency d) Iteration c) presentation software d) access Q.119) Large transaction processing systems e) Redundancy e) outlook in automated organization use Q.130) The smallest unit of the display screen is Q.143) The modifier keys are a) Online processing a) pixel b) pel a) ctrl, alt, del b) shift, ctrl, end b) End of day processing c) picture element d) all the above c) ctrl, alt, home d) ctrl, alt, shift c) E-processing e) none of these e) alt, enter, home d) Batch processing Q.131) Which of the following is translators? Q.144) Fence register is used for e) None of these a) compiler b) interpreter a) Memory protection b) CPU protection Q. 120) The base of Hexadecimal is c) assembler d) all the above c) Input protection d) File protection a) 2 b) 4 e) none of these e) all the above c) 8 d) 12 Q.132) The brain of the computer is Q.145) The computer which is used for weather e) 16 a) CPU b) CU c) ALU forecasting is Q.121) ……….. is an online platform that people d) registers e) accumulator a) Analog computer b) Digital computer use to build social networks or social relations Q.133) The first electronic general-purpose c) Super computer d) Mainframe with other people who share similar personal computer is e) Mini computer or career interests, activities, backgrounds or a) ENIAC b) UNIVAC c) EDSAC Q.146) By default, on which page the header or real-life connections. d) Abacus e) Intel footer is printed? a) e-commerce b) Online shopping Q.134) To remove paragraph formatting, press a) on the first page b) on the last page c) Social networking d) Net banking a) Ctrl+H b) Ctrl+K c) Ctrl+D c) on the alternative page d) on every page e) Blog d) Ctrl+F e) Ctrl+Q e) none of these Q.122) The alternative name for a pre- Q.135) …………… is a component of a computer's Q.147) Which of the following is the file extension programmed formula in Excel is central processing unit (CPU) that directs the of power point 2007? a) graph b) function operation of the processor. a) .ppt b) .pptt c) cell d) range a) Accumulator b) ALU c) .pptx d) .ppttx e) all the above c) CU d) Registers e) Flip-flop e) .ppts Q.123) It keeps track of the instruction which Q.136) ………….. is copyrighted computer Q.148) The diagonal distance between two is to be executed next, after the execution of software which is made available for use free coloured pixels on a display screen is an on-going instruction. of charge, for an unlimited time. a) double pitch b) pixel b) Data Register c) Address Register a) demo software b) shareware c) pel d) picture element d) Program counter e) Accumulator c) freeware d) open source software e) dot pitch Q.124) …………. is a file that is used to perform e) all the above Q.149) Thesaurus is available in which tab? various functions or operations on a Q.137) The largest Market share web browser a) Insert b) Layout computer. is c) References d) View a) Data b) Instruction a) Opera Mini b) IE e) Review c) Executable file d) Processor c) Mozilla Firefox d) Google chrome Q.150) ……………. is the protocol layer in a e) none of these e) Safari program that handles the moving of data in Q.125) Create Table in ------will allow you to Q.138) ………….. is a computer printer for printing and out across a physical link in a network. create the fields of the table. It allows you to vector graphics? a) Presentation b) Session define the fields in the table before adding any a) printer b) monitor c) Network d) Transport data to the data sheet. c) plotter d) projector e) Data link a) Design view b) Data view e) light pen Q.151) In computer programming, a …………… is a c) Datasheet view d) Dictionary view Q.139) The scrambling of code is basic unit of programming that an operating e) Define view a) firewall b) decryption system controls. Q.126) Network cabling scheme in which all c) encryption d) passwords a) task b) work computers and devices (nodes) are connected e) none of these c) process d) program to a single cable so that all nodes receive the Q.140) …………… is a step by step method of e) none of the above same message at the same time. solving a problem. It is commonly used for Q.152) The host attached in class A IP address is a) Bus topology b) Star topology data processing, calculation and other related a) 16767212 b) 16778214 c) Mesh topology d) Tree topology computer and mathematical operations. c) 16777214 d) 16777206 e) Ring topology a) Program b) algorithm e) 16777216 c) flowchart d) all the above Q.153) Flipkart is an example for Q.127) The key combination used to minimize e) none of these a) B2B e-commerce b) B2C e-commerce all open windows and displays in the screen is Q.141) ………….. is a type of random access c) C2C e-commerce d) all the above a) Windows key + A b) Windows key + B semiconductor memory that stores each bit of e) none of these c) Windows key + C d) Windows key + D

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Q.154) A ………….. virus is a computer virus that e) .com a) Webmail b) Weblog stores itself in a file that is named like another Q.166) ………….. are used on the motherboard in c) Webcam d) Webserver program file that is commonly executed. desktop and server computers. Because they allow e) none of these a) boot sector virus b) blended threat easy swapping of components, they are also used Q.178) …………… is a power-saving state that saves c) spyware d) worm for prototyping new circuits. your work to your hard disk, puts your computer e) companion virus a) buffer b) registers into a low-power state, and then turns off your Q.155) Which of the following act as a cross- c) bus d) CPU sockets computer. reference between tables? e) none of these a) sleep b) hibernate a) Primary key b) Secondary key Q.167) Computer mouse was invented by c) snooze d) logoff c) Alternate key d) Candidate key a) Douglas Engel Bart e) none of these e) Foreign key b) Christopher L. Sholes Q.179) Which key moves the cursor one space Q.156) To print a document, press c) Alan Turing to the right or puts spaces in between words? a) Ctrl+P b) Ctrl+Alt+P d) Joseph Jacquard a) tab b) spacebar c) Ctrl+R d) Alt+P e) Ray Tomlinson c) delete d) backspace e) Shift+P Q.168) The Decimal equivalent of the binary e) enter Q.157) In hexadecimal number system 'B' stands number 110100 Q.180) The father of JQuery is for a) 51 b) 52 a) Ray Tomilson b) Vint Cerf a) 10 b) 11 c) 53 d) 54 c) John Resig d) Alan Turing c) 7 d) 9 e) 55 e) John Von Neuman e) 13 Q.169) The browser which is used for small mobile Q.181) UNIVAC is Q.158) The deleted files and folders are devices is a) Unique Automatic Computer temporarily stored in a) WAP browser b) VOIP b) United Automatic Computer a) desktop b) folders c) DHCP d) FTP c) Uniform Automatic Computer c) recycle bin d) taskbar e) Telnet d) Union Automatic Computer e) none of these Q.170) The key which is used to move to start of e) Universal Automatic Computer Q.159) The network IP addresses ranging from the line is Q.182) MS-DOS is a ………….. Operating system. 128.0.0.0 to 191.0.0.0 belongs to which class? a) start b) home a) GUI b) Real time a) class A b) class B c) ctrl + home d) shift + home c) User friendly d) single-user c) class C d) Class D e) all the above e) Multi-user e) class E Q.171) In CPU, the word ‘P’ stands for Q.183) In Computer programs the human- Q.160) The program which interprets commands a) power b) processing readable version of a program is called given by the user is c) pointing d) product a) object code b) source code a) translator b) compiler e) performance c) instruction sets d) word size c) interpreter d) kernel Q.172) To end the presentation, press e) all the above e) shell a) Esc b) E Q.184) …………….. is an application protocol used Q.161) A ………….. is a network node that connects c) Hyphen d) W for transporting Usenet news articles (net news) two networks using different protocols together. e) R between news servers and for reading and posting a) bridge b) gateway Q.173) 1 YB is equal to articles by end user client applications. c) repeater d) modem a) 1024 ZB b) 1024 GB a) SNMP b) SMTP e) NIC c) 1024 EB d) 1024 PB c) FTP d) Telnet Q.162) The first-generation computer was e) 1024 TB e) NNTP programmed using Q.174) A ………….. is a collection of computers, Q.185) A button that makes character either a) Machine-level language servers, mainframes, network devices, upper or lower case and numbers to symbols b) Assembly language peripherals, or other devices connected to one is c) High level language another to allow the sharing of data. a) Shift b) Alt d) Natural Language a) hub b) bridge c) Ctrl d) Caps lock e) Fourth generation Language c) client d) network e) Num lock Q.163) …………. are computers used primarily by e) router Q.186) A program designed to destroy data on large organizations for critical applications; bulk Q.175) A ……………. is a column, or set of columns, your computer which can travel to "infect" data processing, such as census, industry and in a table that can uniquely identify any database other computers is called a consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning; record without referring to any other data. a) virus b) virus hoax and transaction processing.? a) super key b) candidate key c) spam d) all the above a) super computer b) analogue computer c) alternate key d) primary key e) none of these c) hybrid computer d) mini computer e) foreign key Q.187) Who introduced Punch cards? e) mainframe Q.176) ……………. shows the relationships of entity a) Charles Babbage b) Vint Cerf Q.164) In database Student Name is called sets stored in a database. An entity in this context c) James Pascal d) Herman Hollerith a) field b) row is a component of data. e) John Von Neuman c) tuple d) record a) Flowchart b) organizational model Q.188) By default, HTTP uses the port e) none of these c) programming model a) 75 b) 80 c) 84 Q.165) The domain which is used for organizations d) ER diagram e) none of these d) 85 e) 90 is Q.177) ……………….. is any email client Q.189) The software which is distributed free a) .edu b) .gov implemented as a web application running on a for trail period but requires the users to pay c) .org d) .net web server. amount for further use is

|Legend Magazine | January - 2018| 45 a) Domain software b) Retail software Q.201) ………….. is a computer programming people who share similar personal or career c) Demo software d) Shareware language used for adding (inserting), deleting, and interests, activities is e) Freeware modifying (updating) data in a database? a) Online shopping b) Social networking Q.190) Plastic Cards implanted with a) Data Definition Language c) Blogging d) Net banking the computer chip to the data are known as b) Data Manipulation Language e) All the above a) Credit card b) ATM card c) Data Control Language Q.213) A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that is c) Smart card d) all the above d) all the above stored for later retrieval in any of various storage e) none of these e) none of these formats. Q.191) Word processing, spread sheet and Q.202) Which of the following is an Optical Input a) Bookmarks b) Trash photo-editing are an example of device? c) Inbox d) Field a) system software b) application software a) Scanner b) OCR e) None of these c) linker d) loader c) OMR d) All the above Q.214) A pictogram displayed on a computer e) none of these e) None of these screen to help the user navigate a computer Q.192) The domain name .net represents Q.203) The devices used to transmit data over system or mobile device is a) a non-profit organization telecommunications lines is a) Keys b) Pointer b) commercial purposes a) Modem b) Scanner c) Cursor d) icon c) education c) NIC d) Bridge e) All the above d) network related domains e) Gateway Q.215) The operation of combining two cells e) none of these Q.204) The medium which permits transmission into a single cell in Excel is Q.193) A private network that contained within an over longer distances and at higher bandwidths a) Connect cells b) join cells enterprise is than wire cables are c) merge cells d) all the above a) Internet b) Intranet a) Twisted pair b) Coaxial cable e) none of these c) Extranet d) All the above c) Optical fibre d) All the above Q.216) A software facility used for short term data e) None of these e) None of these storage and data transfer between documents via Q.194) The web browser developed by Microsoft is Q.205) Storing same data in many places is copy and paste operations a) Internet explorer b) Mozilla Firefox data a) RAM b) Clipboard c) Safari d) Google chrome a) accuracy b) integrity c) ROM d) SRAM e) Opera mini c) consistency d) redundancy e) DRAM Q.195) The size of MAC address is e) concurrency Q.217) Convert the binary number a) 16 bits b) 32 bits Q.206) The device that connects two LANs that (11110011001) in to its equivalent Hexadecimal c) 48 bits d) 64 bits use the same protocol number? e) 128 bits a) gateway b) bridge a) 8AA b) 7AA

Q.196) The programs that search documents for c) repeater d) NIC c) 899 d) 799 specified keywords and return a list of the e) Router e) 79A documents where the keywords were found is Q.207) Which of the following is the primary Q.218) Convert the octal number 573 into its a) Resource locator b) Web browsers output device? equivalent binary number? c) Information engines d) Search engines a) Monitor b) Printer a) 111101011 b) 101110001 e) None of these c) Plotter d) Projector c) 110011001 d) 101010101 Q.197) ……………… is a hierarchical decentralized e) Speaker e) 101111011 naming system for computers, services, or other Q.208) The input device used for the clearance of Q.219) Convert hex value 6AD into its equivalent resources connected to the Internet or a private cheques octal? network. a) OCR b) MICR a) 2155 b) 3255 a) Network server b) DHCP c) OMR d) Scanner c) 3155 d) 2255 c) DNS d) ICMP e) plotter e) 2355 e) MIDI Q.209) How many dots are there in each pixel on Q.220) The database object used to display Q.198) The computer language used for colour monitor information in a printable page format is artificial intelligence is a) 1 dot b) 2 dots a) query b) display a) C b) JAVA c) 3 dots d) 4 dots c) printout d) report c) HTML d) PROLOG e) 5 dots e) form e) all the above Q.210) The keys used to delete characters to Q.221) ……………. is a form of URI and is a Q.199) ………… are small electronic devices that the left of the cursor are standardized naming convention for addressing join multiple computer networks together via a) Backspace b) Delete documents accessible over the Internet or either wired or wireless connections. c) Tab d) Space bar Intranet. a) Server b) Receiver e) Enter a) Domain Name Server b) World Wide Web c) Router d) NIC Q.211) A ………………. device allows data items c) Uniform Resource Locator e) Repeater to be read or written in almost the same d) DHCP e) IMAP Q.200) ……………….first released by Sun amount of time irrespective of the physical Q.222) The application of information and Microsystem in 1995 and later acquired by Oracle location of data inside the memory. communication technology for delivering Corporation. a) RAM b) ROM government services a) C b) COBOL c) CD d) FDD a) Online Shopping b) E-commerce c) FORTRAN d) BASIC e) DVD c) E-governance d) E-services e) JAVA Q.212) An online networking platform that is used e) none of these by people to build social relations with other

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Q.223) A technology that allows the operating e) SRAM Q.248) The initial program called the Bootstrap system to detect and configure internal and Q.236) A kind of semiconductor-based non- loader is stores in external peripherals is volatile, rewritable computer memory is a) RAM b) ROM a) Configuring b) plug-n-play a) ROM b) RAM c) PROM d) SRAM c) USB swapping d) all the above c) DRAM d) PROM e) DRAM e) None of these e) Flash memory Q.249) The input device which converts analog Q.224) The main directory of a disk is Q.237) The computer user interacts with the information into digital form is a) sub directory b) super directory computer via a) Scanner b) Digitizer c) first directory d) top directory a) Memory unit b) CPU c) OCR d) OMR e) root directory c) I/O unit d) Control unit e) Barcode reader Q.225) Which of the following is Toggle key? e) ALU Q.250) The first computer architecture was a) Caps Lock b) Enter Q.238) Which of the following is Write Once Read introduced by c) Ctrl d) Alt Many disk? a) Versa Tec b) John Von Neumann e) Shift a) CD-RW b) DVD-R c) Alan Turing d) Charles Babbage Q.226) The worm that infects a computer c) CD-R d) DVD-W e) Joseph Jacquard running Microsoft IIS server is e) none of these a) Melisa b) Nimba Q.239) Which generation of computer was Answer Key: c) SirCam d) Ripper enormous in size and required a large room for 1. (e) 2. (c) 3. (a) 4. (c) 5. (c) 6. (a) 7. (c) 8. (a) e) Code Red installation? 9. (a) 10. (c) 11. (b) 12. (c) 13. (d) 14. (a) 15. (c) Q.227) The shortcut for hyperlink is a) First b) Second 16. (a) 17. (c) 18. (c) 19. (c) 20. (a) 21. (e) 22. a) Ctrl+A b) Ctrl+H c) Third d) Fourth (a) 23. (e) 24. (c) 25. (e) 26. (b) 27. (c) 28. (a) c) Ctrl+R d) Ctrl+K e) Fifth 29. (d) 30. (b) 31. (c) 32. (e) 33. (c) 34. (b) 35. e) Ctrl+F Q.240) Which is the first computer to store (c) 36. (a) 37. (d) 38. (c) 39. (d) 40. (d) 41. (d) Q.228) Primary storage device used in the first program? 42. (c) 43. (b) 44. (b) 45. (b) 46. (a) 47. (a) 48. generation of computer is a) EDVAC b) ENIAC (b) 49. (d) 50. (c) 51. (b) 52. (a) 53. (b) 54. (b) a) Magnetic core b) Magnetic drum c) UNIVAC -1 d) ABC 55. (c) 56. (a) 57. (a) 58. (b) 59. (b) 60. (c) 61. c) Magnetic tape e) EDSAC (d) 62. (a) 63. (e) 64. (a) 65. (a) 66. (b) 67. (e) d) main storage memory Q.241) The monitor and keyboard together are 68. (c) 69. (c) 70. (b) 71. (d) 72. (a) 73. (b) 74. e) none of these known as (a) 75. (c) 76. (a) 77. (d) 78. (b) 79. (e) 80. (b) Q.229) Computer users are also known as a) Cathode ray tube b) liquid crystal display 81. (e) 82. (a) 83. (c) 84. (a) 85. (c) 86. (d) 87. a) skinware b) liveware c) visual display terminal d) light emitting diode (c) 88. (c) 89. (a) 90. (d) 91. (d) 92. (b) 93. (a) c) humanware d) peopleware e) none of these 94. (c) 95. (d) 96. (c) 97. (c) 98. (a) 99. (e) 100. e) all the above Q.242) Forms that are used to organize business (a) 101. (e) 102. (e) 103. (e) 104. (d) 105. (c) Q.230) 1PB is equal to data into rows and columns are called 106. (c) 107. (b) 108. (a) 109. (b) 110. (c) 111. a) 1024 EB b) 1024 PB a) Charts wizard b) Spread sheets (a) 112. (e) 113. (a) 114. (a) 115. (e) 116. (d) c) 1024 TB d) 1024 GB c) Registers d) Business forms 117. (a) 118. (c) 119. (d) 120. (e) 121. (c) 122. e) 1024 ZB e) Transactions sheet (b) 123. (d) 124. (c) 125. (a) 126. (a) 127. (d) Q.231) A ………….. is a computer bus that is used Q.243) The address of IPV6 is 128. (c) 129. (e) 130. (d) 131. (d) 132. (a) 133. by the CPU to communicate with devices that are a) 16 bits b) 32 bits (a) 134. (e) 135. (c) 136. (c) 137. (d) 138. (c) contained within the computer. c) 64 bits d) 128 bits 139. (c) 140. (b) 141. (a) 142. (b) 143. (d) 144. a) data bus b) address bus e) 256 bits (a) 145. (c) 146. (d) 147. (c) 148. (e) 149. (e) c) control bus d) instruction bus Q.244) The electronic devices that join multiple 150. (e) 151. (c) 152. (c) 153. (b) 154. (e) 155. e) peripheral bus networks together via wired or wireless connection (e) 156. (a) 157. (b) 158. (c) 159. (b) 160. (e) Q.232) The first microprocessor is is 161. (b) 162. (a) 163. (e) 164. (a) 165. (c) 166. a) Intel 3080 b) Intel 4040 a) Switch b) Bridge (d) 167. (a) 168. (b) 169. (a) 170. (b) 171. (b) c) Intel 3090 d) Intel 4004 c) Router d) Gateway 172. (a) 173. (a) 174. (d) 175. (b) 176. (d) 177. e) Intel 8085 e) Hub (a) 178. (b) 179. (b) 180. (c) 181. (e) 182. (d) Q.233) SMPS stands for Q.245) Which of following is a sequential storage 183. (b) 184. (e) 185. (a) 186. (a) 187. (d) 188. a) simple mode power supply medium? (b) 189. (d) 190. (c) 191. (b) 192. (d) 193. (b) b) small mode power supply a) Magnetic tape b) HDD 194. (a) 195. (c) 196. (d) 197. (c) 198. (d) 199. c) single mode power supply c) FDD d) CD (c) 200. (e) 201. (b) 202. (d) 203. (a) 204. (c) d) switched mode power supply e) BRD 205. (d) 206. (b) 207. (a) 208. (b) 209. (c) 210. e) same mode power supply Q.246) The button that reduces the window to an (a) 211. (a) 212. (b) 213. (a) 214. (d) 215. (c) Q.234) A …………. is comprised of a set of tracks icon, but the word remains active is 216. (b) 217. (d) 218. (e) 219. (b) 220. (d) 221. that lie at the same distance from the spindle on a) minimize b) close (c) 222. (c) 223. (b) 224. (e) 225. (a) 226. (e) all sides of all the platters. c) maximize d) restore 227. (d) 228. (b) 229. (e) 230. (c) 231. (c) 232. a) platter b) cluster e) none of the above (d) 233. (d) 234. (c) 235. (d) 236. (e) 237. (c) c) cylinder d) sector Q.247) Which of the following printer does not hit 238. (c) 239. (a) 240. (e) 241. (c) 242. (b) 243. e) all the above or impact a ribbon to print? (d) 244. (c) 245. (a) 246. (a) 247. (d) 248. (b) Q.235) ………….. are often referred to as the CPU's a) Daisy wheel b) Dot-matrix 249. (b) 250. (b) working memory. c) Drum d) Ink-jet a) Cache memory b) RAM e) All the above Banking Awareness: c) ROM d) Register

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Q.1) MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural d) Pay a higher rate of interest on deposits as e) None of the above Employment Guarantee Act), 2005 was initially compared to Banks Q.16) Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) called as ______. e) None of the Above started in April 1st, 2008 that denotes a) Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Q.8) Which of the following organization acts as a) To provide health insurance coverage to the Act, 2005 Regulators for Credit rating agencies in India? unrecognized sector workers belonging to the BPL b) National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, a) RBI b) NSDL category 2005 c) SEBI d) SIDBI b) To provide Agricultural loan to the farmers c) Nation Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 e) None of the above c) To enhance the skill development to the BPL d) National Rural Employees Guarantee Act, 2005 Q.9) To restrict expansion of credit, the Reserve sector e) National Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 Bank: - d) All the above Q.2) An open-ended fund means a) Raises the bank rate e) None of these a) The fund exists for perpetuity. There is no b) Reduces the bank rate Q.17) A close-ended fund means ceiling on the amount to be collected or raised c) Raises the base rate a) The corpus is of fixed size with a definite b) Investors are assured of dividends, capital d) None of these redemption period appreciation and safety of their investments e) All of these b) Listing on stock exchanges provides easy c) A repurchase facility close to Net Asset Value Q.10) The following are the main objectives of the liquidity (NAV) SEBI :- c) The market price is always below the Net Asset d) All of the above a) To protect interest of investors Value e) none of the above b) To promote the development of security d) All of the above Q.3) The main functions of mutual funds are market e) None of the above a) Collection of funds from a larger of investors c) To regulate the security market Q.18) Similar to a Bank Account wherein actual b) Investment of funds so collected in capital d) All the above money is being replaced by shares markets e) None of the above a) Capital market Account c) Holding investment in trust and to diversify the Q.11) Capital market can be divided into: - b) Demat Account risk in the investment, proper management of a) Personal securities market c) Stock Account portfolios with an object to optimize the returns b) Gilt edged market d) Forex Account d) All of the above c) Industrial securities market e) None of these e) None of the above d) Both b and c Q.19) Swavalamban Yojana was a government- Q.4) Which of the following Statements about e) None of the above backed pension scheme targeted at the Kisan Credit Cards is/are correct? Q.12) Which of the following is the correct unorganized sector in India.The benefit was a) Banks may provide Kisan Credit Cards to statement in respect of debit cards: - available only to people who joined the NPS with a farmers who are eligible for sanction of production a) Debit card facility is provided to those having minimum and maximum contribution of _____. credit without any floor limit savings bank account/current account accounts of a) Rs.1,000 and Rs.12,000 b) Credit would be available to the farmers under individuals, firms and cooperates b) Rs.1,000 and Rs.10,000 the scheme in the form of revolving cash credit b) This facility is not extended to cash credit/loan c) Rs.1,500 and Rs.12,000 normally valid for three years, subject to an account holders d) Rs.2,000 and Rs.10,000 annual review c) Debit card is issued to all the persons who visit e) Rs.1,000 and Rs.11,000 c) The Scheme covers term credit as also working the branch Q.20) Who is the head of the Committee that deals capital for agriculture and allied activities, in d) Both a and b with the study credit needs of industry and trade addition to short term credit limit for crop/s e) All of the above likely to be inflated? d) All of the above Q.13) MGNREGA is an Indian labour law and social a) Usha Thorat b) VT Dehejia e) None of these security measure that aims to enhance livelihood c) WS Saraf d) Vipin Malik Q.5) The Kisan Credit Card Scheme is being security in rural areas. In the term MGNREGA, e) UK Sharma implemented by all second G stands for _____. Q.21) Who is the head of the committee that deals a) Public Sector Commercial Banks a) Gross with the review of Rural Financing System? b) Regional Rural Banks b) Gandhi a) Usha Thorat c) State Cooperative Banks/DCCBs/PACS and c) Guarantee b) VT Dehejia Scheduled Primary Cooperative Banks d) Gram c) WS Saraf d) All of the above e) Grievance d) Venketaiya e) None of the above Q.14) To control the inflationary situation in the e) UK Sharma Q.6) The Negotiable Instruments act deals with economy, which rates, RBI can increase one/more Q.22) Payment Banks are licensed under which ______. of these monetary tools? act? a) Cheques, demand drafts, banker’s cheques a) CRR-SLR-Repo Rate a) Banking Companies (Regulation) Rules, 1985 b) Promissory notes, bills of exchange and b) SLR-CRR-Base Rate b) Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer cheques c) CRR-SLR-Bank Rate of Undertaking) Act, 1969 c) Bills of exchange, cheques and demand drafts d) CRR-SLR-Reverse Repo Rate c) Banking Regulation Act, 1949 d) Cheques, demand drafts and saving bank e) CRR-SLR-Benchmarking PLR d) Customs Act, 1962 withdrawal forms Q.15) What do you mean by Intangible assets? e) Societies Registration Act, 1860 e) None of the above a) Preliminary expenses Q.23) The minimum capital requirement to open a Q.7) A NBFC is prohibited to offer ______. b) Patents, copyright, goodwill Payments Bank in India? a) Accept demand deposits c) Losses which cannot be reduced from share a) Rs. 100 crores b) Rs. 200 crores b) Accept time deposits capital c) Rs. 500 crores d) Rs. 250 crores c) Lend long term loans d) All the above e) Rs. 150 crores

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Q.24) Which of the following sentence is true Q.32) ASBA is a process developed by the India's c) Urjit Patel about Payments Bank? Stock Market Regulator SEBI for applying to IPO. d) Vinod Rai a) Acceptance of DD (Maximum balance of Rs.1 In the term ASBA, second ‘A’ stands for ______. e) Arvind Mayaram lakh per customer) a) Agreement Q.40) The Kisan Credit Card (KCC) Scheme is a b) Issuance of ATM/Debit cards (not credit cards) b) Applicant Credit Scheme introduced in August 1998 by c) Payments/ Remittance services c) Access Indian banks. This model Scheme was prepared d) Both a and b d) Account by- e) All the above e) Amount a) NABARD b) RBI Q.25) According to the RBI, Payment Banks should Q.33) SWIFT provides a network that enables c) SEBI d) FICCI have at least _____% access points in rural areas. financial institutions worldwide to send and receive e) SIDBI a) 15% b) 20% information about financial transactions in a Q.41) The Government of India has launched the c) 25% d) 10% secure, standardized and reliable environment. AMRUT with the aim of providing basic civic e) 30% What is the meaning of "I" in SWIFT? amenities. What is the meaning of "M" in AMRUT? Q.26) Which of the following is true about Prompt a) International a) Mission b) Market Corrective Action (PCA)? b) Intercommunication c) Money d) Maturity a) It is a system under which RBI can initiate a c) Intellectual e) Mobile corrective action in case of a bank which is found d) Information Q.42) India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) is the to be having low CAR or profits or high NPAs. e) Interbank second payments bank to start operations after b) It is implemented under authority from Board Q.34) Bandhan Bank Limited is an Indian banking Airtel Payments Banks. What is the maximum limit for financial Supervision and the GOI. and financial services company headquartered in for saving accounts in IPPB? c) It is used to reduce the NPAs in Banks Kolkata, West Bengal. Bandhan, which started as a) Rs 5 lakh b) Rs 4 lakh d) Both a and c a ______company in 2001. c) Rs 3 lakh d) Rs 2 lakh e) All the above a) micro-finance e) Rs 1 lakh Q.27) To enhance the financial inclusion, PMJDY b) small-finance Q.43) Banking Correspondents (BCs) are was launched. What is the minimum balance c) medium-finance individuals/entities engaged by a bank in India required to open this accounts in bank? d) industry-finance (commercial banks, Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) a) Zero Balance b) Rs. 100 e) rural-finance and Local Area Banks (LABs)) for providing c) Rs. 1000 d) Rs. 500 Q.35) The SEAC's function on the principle of banking services in unbanked/under-banked e) Rs. 150 collective responsibility. What is the meaning of geographical territories. BCs are paid by- Q.28) Which of the following terms denotes Money "A" in SEAC? a) Third Party Market? a) Agriculture b) Bank which appoints BCs a) It is a short-term financial asset b) Authority c) RBI b) Maturity Period less than one year c) Applicant d) NABARD c) Regulated by RBI d) Appraisal e) RRBs d) Both a and b e) Approval Q.44) RBI has constituted a 10-member ‘High e) All the above Q.36) The United Bank of India is an Indian bank. Level Task Force on Public Credit Registry (PCR) Q.29) Which of the following terms denotes Capital Where is the headquarters of United Bank of for India’, which will, among other things, suggest Market? India? a roadmap for developing a transparent, a) It is a long-term financial asset a) Uttar Pradesh comprehensive and near-real-time PCR for India. b) Maturity Period beyond one year b) West Bengal Who is the head of Public Credit Registry (PCR) c) Regulated by SEBI c) Kerala Committee? d) All the above d) Tamil Nadu a) Sekar Karnam e) Both b and c e) Maharashtra b) Sriram Kalyanaraman Q.30) Which of the statements is/are true about Q.37) The LTV ratio is a lending risk assessment c) Rashesh Shah Treasury Bills? ratio that financial institutions and other lenders d) VishakaMulye a) Its maturity days are 91 days, 182 days and examine before approving a mortgage. What is the e) YM Deosthalee 364 days meaning of "V" in LTV? Q.45) Taxpayers who are earning between _____ b) Minimum amount of face value Rs.1 lakh and a) Voucher have to pay an additional surcharge of 10% on in multiples there of b) Variable their total income which was not the case earlier. c) It can be purchased by one (including c) Validate a) Rs.05 lacs to Rs.1 crore individuals) except state govt d) Vehicles b) Rs.60 lacs to Rs.3 crore d) Both a and b e) Value c) Rs.40 lacs to Rs.5 crore e) All the above Q.38) The World Economic Outlook (WEO) d) Rs.50 lacs to Rs.1 crore Q.31) What is meant by IDR (Indian Depository database contains selected macroeconomic data e) Rs.10 lacs to Rs.2 crore Receipt)? series from the statistical appendix of the World Q.46) ______is a written commitment by a a) It is a financial instrument denominated in Economic Outlook report. It is published by- bank issued after a request by an importer Indian Rupees in the form of a depository receipt. a) IMF b) World Bank (foreign buyer) that payment will be made to the b) It requires approval from SEBI and application c) UNCTAD d) WTO beneficiary (exporter) provided that the terms and can be made 90 days before the issuing date. e) United Nations conditions. c) It requires approval from RBI and application Q.39) Who was the Committee head of merger of a) Line of Credit can be made 90 days before the issuing date. public sector banks? b) shares and debentures d) Both a and b a) Raghuram Rajan c) Letter of Credit e) Both b and c b) Arun Jaitley d) Working Capital

|Legend Magazine | January - 2018| 49 e) None of the given options is true e) Board commercial banks has less funds for Short Term, Q.47) ______is a market form wherein a Q.55) How many member countries are there in is/are known as which of the following? market or industry is dominated by a small Asian Development Bank? a) Repo Rate number of sellers. a) 66 b) 50 b) Repurchase Rate a) Capitalization c) 86 d) 67 c) Policy Rate b) Vendor e) 77 d) Only a and b c) Group Q.56) ALM is the practice of managing risks that e) All of these d) Cartel arise due to mismatches between the assets and Q.64) Which of the following banks first introduce e) Oligopoly liabilities. What is the full form of ALM? voice biometric in banking system? Q.48) Slowdown in the rate of increase of price of a) Asset and Liability Management a) HDFC b) HSBC goods and service in national GDP over a time b) Asset and Liquidity Management c) ICICI d) SBI called? c) Asset and Liability Maturity e) Citi Bank a) Deflation d) Asset and Liability Market Q.65) Which of the following is not an advantage b) Reflection e) Allocation and Liability Management of Bitcoins? c) Stagflation Q.57) The IFC is a member of the World Bank a) It cannot be stolen d) Disinflation Group and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. b) No transaction cost is required e) Recession It was established in the year _____. c) No central Bank has authorized Bitcoin Q.49) Which among the following is NOT a function a) 1994 b) 1956 d) It cannot be tracked of the RBI? c) 1968 d) 1996 e) All are advantages a) To work as monetary authority and implement e) 1988 Q.66) PARA stands for which of the following? its Monetary Policy Q.58) Fiscal policy is related with which of the a) Private Sector Asset Rehabilitation Agency b) To serve as issuer of bank notes following? b) Public Associated Rehabilitation Agency c) Working to foster global monetary cooperation, a) Public Revenue and Expenditure c) Public Sector Asset Rehabilitation Agency secure financial stability for member countries b) Education for all d) Private Acquired Rehabilitation Agency d) Serve as banker to central and state c) Import and Export e) Private Assets Rehabilitation Agency governments d) Issue of Currency Q.67) The head Office of UCO Bank is located at e) None of the given options is true e) None of these which city? Q.50) To make the payments process easier the Q.59) What do you mean by Stagflation? a) New Delhi b) Mumbai Government of India has launched the a) Inflation with recession c) Hyderabad d) Kolkata ______payments transfer mechanism for b) Inflation with deflation e) Pune cashless electronics payments. c) Inflation with growth Q.68) The economic growth of a country can be a) UPI d) Deflation with growth measured by which of the following? b) Bharat QR Code e) None of these a) Net National Product c) IMPS Q.60) To whom the "Sub Prime Lending" is b) Net Domestic Product d) Quick Pay made? c) Per Capita Real Income e) Bhim app a) The borrowers who want to take loan d) Gross Domestic Product Q.51) ______is a trade and economic policy against mortgage of tangible assets. e) None of these which advocates replacing imports with domestic b) The preferred customers of Bank. Q.69) Which of the following statements is/are production. c) The borrowers with bad credit true about Bitcoins? a) Import substitution history. a) It is a virtual currency b) Reduction in import d) The borrowers with a good credit b) It is a crypt-currency and a payment system c) Decrease in export history. c) It is a software protocol d) Boost of Economy e) None of these d) Two Types of keys are required to use Bitcoin e) Increase in trade Q.61) The Co-operative bank is governed by the e) All of these Q.52) The Bank of Calcutta, Bank of Bombay and banking regulation Act 1949 and co-operative Q.70) Which of the following statements is not true Bank of Madras were merged in 1921 to form societies Act of about the upcoming Rs. 500 currency notes? a) Reserve Bank of India a) 1963 b) 1965 a) Its dimension is 66mm x 145 mm with stone b) Imperial Bank of India c) 197 d) 1961 grey colored c) Bank of India e) 1998 b) It will have the signature of Dr. Urjit K Patel d) Union Bank of India Q.62) Which of the following statements is/are c) Number panel with numerals growing from e) None of these true about Marginal Standing Funding? small to big on the top left side and bottom right Q.53) BPLR is the rate at which commercial banks a) Banks can avail funds on overnight basis below side. charge their customers who are most credit the stipulated SLR up to two per cent of their d) The reverse side features a motif of the Indian worthy. In the term BPLR, P stands for ______. respective Net Demand heritage site of Red Fort a) Prime b) Paper b) Banks can avail funds from the RBI on e) None of these c) Product d) Priority overnight basis against their excess SLR holdings Q.71) Which of the following steps has been taken e) Purchase c) Bank can meet the liquidity requirements of by the RBI to tackle bad loans? Q.54) BCSBI is an independent banking industry mutual funds a) It proposes to include some members to watchdog that protects consumers of banking d) Bank can get loans from RBI for their constitute requisite benches services in India. In the term BCSBI, second ‘B’ emergency needs b) It works on a framework to facilitate consistent stands for ______. e) All of these decision making in bankruptcy a) Basel b) Banking Q.63) The rate, at which RBI lends money to c) It reconstitutes an Oversight Committee to c) Basic d) Benchmark commercial banks against securities when operate banking ordinance

|Legend Magazine | January - 2018| 50 d) It works on a framework to facilitate consistent c) Co-Existence of agricultural and industrial c) It is a corporation or company incorporated by decision making in insolvency Sectors the law in force in India e) All of these d) Co-Existence of Small and Large Industries d) It is included in the Second Schedule of Reserve Q.72) Fiscal Policy is concerned about which of the e) None of these Bank of India Act, 1934. following? Q.80) Credit History of the Borrower is provided e) All of these a) Export and Import by which Organization? Q.90) The Bank that begins with “U” is the tagline b) Issue of currency a) SEBI b) IRDA of which of the following bank? c) Population Control c) FRBI d) CII a) Union Bank of India d) Public Revenue and Expenditure e) CIBIL b) UCO Bank e) None of these Q.81) What do you mean by 'Fiat Money'? c) United Commercial Bank Q.73) The first Paytm Payment Bank is located at a) It is the currency backed by tangible assets d) United Bank of India which city? b) It is the currency backed by Government e) None of these a) New Delhi b) Gurugram Guarantee Q.91) The major stakes of NABARD is owned by c) Noida d) Lucknow c) It is the currency backed by gold reserves whom? e) Chandigarh d) It is the currency backed by NPA a) Central Government Q.74) Which of the following statements is true e) It is the currency backed by budgetary support b) SBI about Deflation? Q.82) Core banking infrastructure for rural bank is c) Ministry of Finance a) It is an increase of price of goods and services done by which of the following? d) RBI that projects Indian Economy a) IBA b) SIDBI e) None of these b) It happens when goods are fewer and buyers c) NABARD d) RBI Q.92) Who issues the Sovereign Gold Bond? are more e) SEBI a) Ministry of Finance c) It happens when there is more demand and less Q.83) Human Development Index is indicated by b) GOI supply which of the following? c) State Governments d) It is a continuous decrease in prices of goods a) Total area of Agricultural Land with family d) RBI and services b) Life Expectancy at Birth e) None of these e) None of these c) Nature of Employment Q.93) 'Your Perfect Banking Partner' is the Tag line Q.75) Which of the following is not a feature of d) Total Cost of Agricultural Land of which bank? Paytm Payment Bank? e) None of these a) Dena Bank b) Federal Bank a) It accepts deposits upto 1 Lakh per customer in Q.84) An example of Optional Money is ______. c) UCO Bank d) SBI savings/ current account and wallet a) Cheque e) Vijaya Bank b) It offers the services like Debit card, online b) Bills of exchange Q.94) The head Office of Bank of Maharashtra is banking and mobile banking c) Promissory Notes situated in which of the following cities? c) It offers the facility of online fund transfer to its d) All of these a) Pune b) Mumbai customer at free of cost e) None of these c) Nasik d) Aurangabad d) It will be allowed to lend to customers Q.85) Which of the following is associated to e) Nagpur e) None of these teaser rates? Q.95) To open a new Branch, a Bank must have Q.76) What is the main feature of MUDRA Bank? a) Personal Loan b) Home Loan the permit from RBI under which of the following a) It will provide loan to buy house c) Auto Loan d) Education Loan acts? b) It will give loans to small entrepreneurs up to e) None of these a) Section 23 of RBI Act 10 Lakh Q.86) FCEB stands for which of the following? b) Section 23 of SEBI c) It will provide education loan to the students a) Foreign Currency Exchangeable Bond c) Section 23 of NABARD d) It will sanction loan to buy land for agriculture b) Foreign Currency External Bond d) Section 23 of BR Act e) None of these c) Foreign Currency Export Bond e) None of these Q.77) What is the full form of SIDBI? d) Foreign Currency Exchange Bond Q.96) The bank where the majority (more than a) Software Industries Development Bank of India e) Foreign Currency Executive Bond 50%) stake is hold by Govt. is known as which of b) State Industries Development Bank of India Q.87) Which among the following is called as Non- the following? c) Small Industries Development Bank of India Legal Tender Money? a) Commercial Banks d) Steel Industries Development Bank of India a) Commodity Money b) Government Banks e) Security Industries Development Bank of India b) Full Bodied Money c) Public Sector Banks Q.78) Which of the following statements is not true c) Optional Money d) Nationalized Banks about bankruptcy? d) Paper Money e) None of these a) It is a condition in which a firm is unable to meet e) None of these Q.97) Which of the following terms signifies the its obligations Q.88) Crossing applies to which of the following difference between the import and export of a b) It is a condition in which a person cannot meet instruments? country? his/her liabilities a) Bills a) Balance of payment c) In bankruptcy, all the assets of a company are b) Cheques b) Trade Sheet surrendered to the court for administrator c) Fixed Deposit Receipts c) Credit Balance d) It is the state of being completely penny less d) Promissory Notes d) Balance of Trade e) None of these e) None of these e) Balance of Profit Q.79) What do mean by Mixed Economy? Q.89) Which of the following statements is/are Q.98) The head Office of Vijaya Bank is situated in a) Co-Existence of Rich and Poor true about Scheduled Bank? which city? b) Co-Existence of Public and Private Sectors a) It is an institution which is notified by GOI a) Mumbai b) It is a company defined by companies act, 2013 b) Pune

|Legend Magazine | January - 2018| 51 c) Bengaluru b) Section 5 Q.118) "Where Every Individual is Committed" is d) Chennai c) Section 6 the tagline of which bank? e) Hyderabad d) Section 10 a) Dena Bank Q.99) 'Together We Can' is the Tagline of which e) Section 12 b) Oriental Bank of Commerce bank? Q.109) GSTN creates a platform for which of the c) Vijaya Bank a) Dena Bank following? d) Allahabad Bank b) Vijaya Bank a) Stake Holders e) Andhra Bank c) Canara Bank b) Government Q.119) Who is appointed as the MD and CEO of d) IDBI Bank c) Tax Payers IFCI (Industrial Finance Corporation of India)? e) UCO Bank d) All of these a) Raghuram Swamy Q.100) Which of the following is known as the e) Only A and B b) E Shankara Rao Money loaned by a bank or other institution which Q.110) Who governs the purchases of securities? c) Vijay Prakash is repayable on demand? a) Transaction Tax d) Balbir Sindhu a) Demand Loan b) Securities Tax e) None of them b) Cash Credit c) Purchase Tax Q.120) "Trusted Family Bank" is the tagline of c) Call Money d) Securities Transaction Tax which of the following banks? d) Short Term Loan e) None of these a) Vijaya Bank e) Long Term Loan Q.111) FEDAI stands for which of the following? b) Yes Bank Q.101) Which of the following is/ are the a) Foreign External Dealers Association of India c) Dena Bank advantage(s) that are offered to a SEZ? b) Foreign Enabled Dealers Association of India d) HDFC Bank a) Exemption from Central Sales Tax c) Foreign Export Dealers Association of India e) United Bank of India b) Exemption from Service Tax d) Foreign Exchange Dealers Association of India Q.121) The account for which the bank acts as the c) Exemption from minimum alternate tax e) Foreign Export Dealing Assets of India uninterested third party is termed as which of the d) Full Income Tax exemption on export Q.112) Which of the following banks has launched following? e) All of these Met Loan and Life Surakhsha (MLLS) in association a) Fixed Account Q.102) SEBI was set up in which year? with PNB Metlife? b) Savings Account a) 1988 b) 1984 a) HDFC Bank c) Escrow Account c) 1992 d) 1996 b) South Indian Bank d) Current Account e) 1993 c) Karnataka Bank e) Reserve Account Q.103) NUUP stands for which of the following? d) Axis Bank Q.122) The National Income of India is measured a) Nationalized Uniform USSD Platform e) None of these based on which of the following? b) New Universal USSD Platform Q.113) Which of the following assets can easily be a) Number of employed youths c) National Unified USSD Platform converted into cash? b) Flow of Goods d) New Unified USSD Platform a) Current Assets c) Volume of tax collected per annum e) New Uniform USSD Platform b) Intangible assets d) Income of Govt. and PSU employees Q.104) Which of the following statements shows c) Fixed Asset e) All of the above the assets and liabilities of a business at a certain d) All of these Q.123) What will be the effect of the service date? e) None of these charge on the bank statement? a) Account Sheet Q.114) Which of the following has started the a) Lower Balance b) Accounts Payable Merchant Banking Operation? b) Interest deduction from the account c) Balance Sheet a) RBI b) NABARD c) Fixed Charge incurred d) Accounts Receivable c) SIDBI d) SBI d) All of these e) None of these e) IRDA e) None of these Q.105) GSTN stands for which of the following? Q.115) In which year the Indian Bank was Q.124) FICCI stands for which of the following? a) Goods and Sales Tax Network established? a) Foundation of Indian Chambers of Commerce b) Goods and Service Tax Network a) 1908 b) 1907 and Industry c) Good and Simple Tax Network c) 1906 d) 1905 b) Federation of Indian Committees of Commerce d) Good and Systematic Tax Network e) 1904 and Industry e) Goods and System Tax Network Q.116) Which Bank has unveiled two digital c) Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce Q.106) Which of the payment Services is available services for online payment i.e. Bharat QR and and Investment 24*7? Bharat Bill Payment System? d) Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce a) NEFT b) IMPS a) United Bank of India and Industry c) RTGS d) UPI b) Canara Bank e) Federation of Indian Commodity of Commerce e) None of these c) Union Bank of India and Industry Q.107) QSAM stands for which of the following? d) Andhra Bank Q.125) Which of the following is/are the feature(s) a) Quick Service on Aadhaar Mapper e) None of these of the new Rs. 50 currency notes? b) Quick Systematic on Aadhaar Mapper Q.117) Zeta App has partnered with which of the a) It will bear the signature of RBI Governor Urjit c) Query Service on Aadhaar Mapper following banks? Patel. d) Queued Service on Aadhaar Mapper a) Dena Bank b) Its base colour will be Fluorescent Blue. e) Queued System on Aadhaar Mapper b) Vijaya Bank c) It will have the motif of "Hampi With Chariot". Q.108) Which section of Negotiable Instruments c) IDFC Bank d) It will be a legal tender. Act, 1881 deals with the Cheque? d) Punjab National Bank e) All of these a) Section 4 e) HSBC Bank

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Q.126) In which place the first regional center of Q.136) Who is the CEO and MD of IDFC Bank? a) 66 mm × 146 mm b) 66 mm ×135 mm New Development Bank was opened? a) Urjit Patel c) 66mm × 150 mm d) 66 mm× 166 mm a) New York b) London b) Vikram Limaye e) 66 mm × 156 mm c) Johannesburg d) Paris c) Sunil Kakar Q.145) Government launched e-RAKAM portal for- e) New Delhi d) Vikram Mehta a) Online income-tax return Q.127) GIC was established in which year? e) None of them b) Online storage of e-currency a) 1971 b) 1972 Q.137) "Relationships beyond Banking" is the c) Online storage of Property paper c) 1973 d) 1974 tagline of which bank? d) Agriculture Business e) 1978 a) Bank of Baroda e) Dairy Business Q.128) What is known as a Banker's Cheque? b) Canara Bank Q.146) According to the RBI, the Non-Banking a) Credit Card c) Bank of India Finance Companies (NBFCs) cannot lend more b) Demand Draft d) Dena Bank than how much amount in cash against gold? c) Debit Card e) SBI a) Rs.25,000 b) Rs.28,000 d) Banker's Draft Q.138) In which year Deposit Insurance and Credit c) Rs.22,000 d) Rs.26,000 e) Pay Order Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) was set up? e) Rs.28,000 Q.129) Which of the following can be called as an a) 1977 Q.147) Hedging is a _____ mechanism to cut the inter-bank application? b) 1978 Risk of Adverse price movements in an asset. a) Transactions of Government c) 1979 a) Saving b) Automatic Clearing House d) 1972 b) Security c) Delivery Vs Payment e) 1975 c) Investment d) RTGS Q.139) If a currency note is demonetized, it takes d) Financial e) All of these away the ______of that currency. e) Online Q.130) Which of the following Committees a) Legal tender character Q.148) What is the full form of ‘CORE’ in core recommended to set up Reserve Bank of India? b) Exchange rate banking services? a) Royal Commission c) Value a) Channel of Rupee Exchange b) Dantwala Committee d) All of the above b) Customer Online Realtime Exchange c) D R Mehta Commission e) Other than the given options c) Centralized Online Rupee Exchange d) Hilton Young Commission Q.140) ASBA is a process developed by the India's d) Centralized Online Realtime Exchange e) Simon Commission Stock Market Regulator SEBI for applying to IPO. e) Customer Online Rupee Exchange Q.131) As per the instruction of the RBI, in case of In ASBA Stands for Q.149) What does the letter second ‘P’ denotes in any unauthorized online banking transaction, a) Applications Supported by Balance Amount the term “PPI” in economics? within how many days customers must report? b) Apex Supported by Blocked Amount a) Profit a) 4 days b) 7 days c) Applications Supported by Blocked Account b) Price c) 5 days d) 3 days d) Applications Supported by Blocked Amount c) Producer e) 10 days e) Apex Supported by Balance Amount d) Provident Q.132) Increase in which of the following can Q.141) BHIM (Bharath Interface for Money) is a e) Private increase the cost of borrowing and lending of the mobile app to facilitate e-payments directly Q.150) Human Development Index was banks? through banks as part of the 2016 Indian propounded by ______. a) Base Rate banknote demonetization and drive towards a) Amartya Sen b) C. Rangarajan b) Reverse Repo Rate cashless transactions. It is developed by which c) Mahbub-ul-Haq d) Sudhir Anand c) MCLR organization? e) None of The Above d) Repo Rate a) NBFC b) CCEA Q.151) MICR code consists of how many digits? e) None of these c) NPCI d) ECGC a) 12 digits b) 9 digits Q.133) Wholesale banking is also called as which e) IRDAI c) 8 digits d) 4 digits of the following? Q.142) Under which section & act, the RBI was e) 7 digits a) Corporate Banking given final guidelines for small finance bank to Q.152) How much overdraft facility to be provided b) Commercial Banking start its operations? in 'Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana' scheme? c) Retail Banking a) Sec 23 and Banking Regulation Act, 1934 a) Rs. 2,500 b) Rs. 25,000 d) Both a and b b) Sec 22 and Banking Regulation Act, 1949 c) Rs. 10,000 d) Rs. 5,000 e) None of these c) Sec 2 and Banking Regulation Act, 1935 e) Rs. 15,000 Q.134) Who is the CEO of Bandhan Bank? d) Sec 13 and Banking Regulation Act, 1881 Q.153) Who is the appellate authority in Banking a) Aditya Puri e) None of these Ombusdsman? b) Urjit Patel Q.143) Currently how many banks are listed under a) Finance Minister c) Chandra Sekhar Ghosh the Domestic Systemically Important Banks (D- b) President of India d) G Sreeram SIBs) by RBI? c) Deputy Governor of RBI e) None of them a) Five b) Four d) Governor of RBI Q.135) Section 5 of Negotiable Instruments Act c) Three d) Two e) Vice President of India 1881 deals with which of the following? e) Six Q.154) ATMs or Cash Dispensing machine which a) Promissory Note Q.144) The Reserve bank of India has issued the are owned and operated by Non-Banking Financial b) Negotiable Instruments new denomination of 200 rupees note. The new Companies are called as ______. c) Reserve Fund denomination has Motif of Sanchi Stupa on the a) Offsite ATMs d) Cheque reverse. Dimension of this banknote to b) Onsite ATMs e) Bill of Exchange be ______. c) Brown Label ATMs

|Legend Magazine | January - 2018| 53 d) White Label ATMs e) Rs. 15,000 b) Union Bank of India e) Pink Label ATMs Q.164) The seed capital of Bhartiya Mahila Bank c) State Bank of India Q.155) A NBFCs cannot offer interest rates higher is: d) Bank of India than the ceiling rate prescribed by RBI? What is a) Rs.1000 crore e) Central Bank of India the present ceiling? b) Rs.1500 crore Q.173) What is the full form of MTSS? a) 9.5 per cent per annum c) Rs.100 crore a) Money Transfer Service Scheme b) 12.5 per cent per annum d) Rs.2000 crore b) Mobile Transfer Service Scheme c) 10.5 per cent per annum e) Rs.2500 crore c) Money Transform Service Scheme d) 13.5 per cent per annum Q.165) The holidays for the banks are declared as d) Money Transfer Service System e) 11.5 per cent per annum per: e) Money Transform Service System Q.156) How much amount RBI allows in 'Tap and a) Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Q.174) In which year does the Differential Rate of pay' transactions without PIN? b) Companies Act,1956 Interest Scheme was introduced? a)Rs. 1000 c) Banking Regulation act, 1949 a) 1972 b) 1982 c) 1978 b)Rs. 2500 d) RBI Act, 1934 d) 1988 e) 1993 c)Rs. 2000 e) None of these Q.175)______is currency that a government has d)Rs. 3000 Q.166) In banking business, when the borrowers declared to be legal tender, but it is not backed by e)Rs. 5000 avail a term Loan, initially they are given a a physical commodity. Q.157) CVV is an anti-fraud security feature to repayment holiday, and this is referred as: a) Fluid Money b) Fiat Money help verify that you are in possession of your credit a) Amortization c) Gold Money d) Either a or c card/Debit card/ Master card. What is the full form b) Arbitrage e) None of these of CVV? c) Moratorium Q.176) Which state became the first state in the a) Cost Verification Value d) Diversification country to have implemented Public Fund b) Cash Verification Value e) Speculation Management System (PFMS)? c) Card Vendor Value Q.167) A worldwide financial messaging network a) Tamil Nadu b) Chattisgarh d) Card Verification Value which exchanges between banks and financial c) Jharkhand d) Maharashtra e) Card Verified Value institutions is known as SFMS. Expanded form of e) Odisha Q.158) How much amount of money can RBI lend SFMS is ______. Q.177) Who Chaired the External Advisory to a bank? a) Structured Forfeit Messaging System Committee to evaluate application received for a) 7% of NDTL b) 5% of NDTL b) Stressed Financial Messaging System small finance bank? c) 2% of NDTL d) 1% of NDTL c) Structured Functional Messaging System a) Usha Thorat e) 2.5% of NDTL d) Structured Financial Messaging System b) Nachiket Mor Q.159) After completion of 15 years, Public e) Statutory Financial Messaging System c) Raghuram Rajan Provident Fund (PPF) can be extended up to how Q.168) By increasing repo rate, the economy may d) R Gandhi many years? observe the following effects: e) None of these a) 5 years a) Rate of interest on loans and advances will be Q.178) The minimum maturity period for Rupee b) 3 years cheaper denominated bonds will be ______. c) 2years b) Rate of interest on loans will be costlier a) 2 Years d) 6 years c) Rate of interest on deposits will be cheaper b) 3 Years e) 10 years d) Either b or c c) 4 Years Q.160) Prime Lending Rate is replaced by: e) Rate of interest on loans and advances will be d) 5 Years a) Bank rate b) Base rate costlier e) None of these c) CRR rate d) SLR rate Q.169) Increased interest rates, as is existing in Q.179) Recently ICRA and IIFCL together has e) None of these the economy at present will: launched the rating system for- Q.161) The term ‘pre – shipment’ finance relates a) mean higher cost of electronics a) MSME to: b) mean higher cost of raw materials b) Infrastructure Project a) Export credit c) mean lower cost of raw materials c) Banks b) Import credit d) Both a and b d) Skill India Mission c) Goods credit e) None of these e) SHGs d) Both a and b Q.170) ASBA scheme is related to the purchase of: Q.180) Increase in the value of one currency in e) Both b and c a) Commercial Paper terms of another currency according to the floating Q.162) A receipt listed in India and traded in b) Initial Public Offering rate is called rupees declaring ownership of shares of a foreign c) Balance Sheet a) Depreciation company. It is called as ______. d) Treasury Bills b) Appreciation a) Indian Depository Rate (IDR) e) None of these c) Cheap currency b) Indian Deposit Receipt (IDR) Q.171) The most powerful tool used by the d) Mixed currency c) Indian Depository Receipt (IDR) Reserve Bank of India to control inflation is to: e) None of these d) Industry Depository Receipt (IDR) a) Raise currency supply Q.181) How many months validity for the payment e) Indian Deposition Receipt (IDR) b) Reduce interest rates bank to grant in-principle approved by the RBI. Q.163) Mobile banking fund transfer limit in a day: c) Raise interest rates During this time the applicants have to comply a) Rs. 2,500 d) Reduce currency supply with the requirements under the Guidelines and b) Rs. 25,000 e) Both a and b fulfill the other conditions? c) Rs. 10,000 Q.172) First Indian Bank to introduce credit card: a) 20 months d) Rs. 50,000 a) United Bank of India b) 22 months

|Legend Magazine | January - 2018| 54 c) 18 months Q.190) A bailment of goods as security for Q.198) ______is defined as the risk of loss d) 36 months payment of a debt or performance of a promise. It resulting from inadequate or failed internal e) 16 months is termed as processes, people and systems or from external Q.182) Which of the following are the a) Arbitrage b) Pledge events. Development Banks of India? c) Hedge d) Hypothecation a) Operational risk b) Credit risk a) Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI) e) Diversification c) Liquidity risk d) Business risk b) State Finance Corporations (SFCs) Q.191) A document issued by importers bank to e) Market risk c) Small Industries Development Bank of India its branch or agent abroad authorizing the Q.199) ______is the risk that doesn’t affect a (SIDBI) payment of a specified sum to a person named as single bank or financial institution, but it affects d) All of the above ______. the whole industry. e) Other than the given options a) Underwriting b) Line of Credit a) Operational risk b) Credit risk Q.183) Scheduled Banks of India are those banks, c) Redemption Value d) Letter of Credit c)Liquidity risk d)Systemic risk which are? e) None of these e)Market risk a) Included in First Schedule of RBI Act, 1934 Q.192) Financial ratios that measure the amount Q.200) ______is defined as the risk stemming b) Not included in First Schedule of RBI Act, 1934 of debt being used to support operations and the from the lack of marketability of an investment c) Included in Second Schedule of RBI Act, 1934 ability of the firm to service its debt. It is called as that cannot be bought or sold quickly enough to d) Not included in Second Schedule of RBI Act, ______. prevent or minimize a loss. 1934 a) Equity Ratio b) Cash Ratio a) Operational risk b) Credit risk e) Other than the given options c) Leverage Ratio d) Debt Ratio c) Liquidity risk d) Systemic risk Q.184) Balances in deposit accounts which are not e) None of these e) Market risk operated for at least ____ are to be transferred to Q.193)______is also called internet banking, Q.201) FATF is an intergovernmental organization the RBI. through which financial and banking services are founded in 1989 on the initiative of the G7 to a) 2 years b) 7 years accessed via internet's World Wide Web. develop policies to combat money laundering. c) 12 years d) 5 years a) Merchant Banking What does “A” stand for in FATF? e) 10 years b) Mobile Banking a) Asset b) Agreement Q.185) Industrial Reconstruction Bank of India c) Virtual Banking c) Action d) Automatic (IRBI) was established in the year _____. d) E- Banking e) Annual a) 1975 b) 1971 e)Both c and d Q.202) Who is heading the Committee for China c) 1990 d) 1992 Q.194)The process of buying investment vehicles relationship? e) 1985 in which the future value and level of expected a) Usha Thorat Q.186) Who Chaired the External Advisory earnings are highly uncertain. It is called as b) Nachiket Mor Committee to evaluate application received for ______. c) Raghuram Rajan payment banks? a) Amortization d) R Gandhi a) Usha Thorat b) Arbitrage e) Shashi Tharoor b) Nachiket Mor c) Moratorium Q.203) CAGR is a business and investing specific c) Raghuram Rajan d) Diversification term for the geometric progression ratio that d) R Gandhi e) Speculation provides a constant rate of return over the time e) None of these Q.195) ______is a certificate issued by a period. Full form of CAGR- Q.187) The process of reducing debt through depository bank, which purchases shares of a) Commercial Annual Growth Rate regular installment payments of principal and foreign companies and deposits it on the account. b) Compound Annual Gross Rate interest that will result in the payoff of a loan at its a) European Depository Receipt (EDR) c) Compound Annual Growth Rate maturity. It is called as______. b) Indian Depositary Receipt (IDR) d)Computed Annual Growth Rate a) Amortization c) Global Depositary Receipt (GDR) e) Compound Asset Growth Rate b) Arbitrage d) American Depositary Receipt (ADR) Q.204) Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran c) Moratorium e) Luxembourg Depositary Receipt (LDR) press located in which city? d) Diversification Q.196)______is defined as the potential that a a)Salboni e) Speculation bank borrower or counterparty will fail to meet its b) Mysore Q.188) A combination of two or more securities obligations in accordance with agreed terms. c) Nasik into a single investment position for reducing or a) Operational risk d) Both a and b eliminating risk. b) Credit risk e) Both b and c a) Arbitrage b) Pledge c) Liquidity risk Q.205) ______is a type of macroeconomic policy c) Hedge d)Hypothecation d) Business risk by which our government makes a strategic e) Diversification e) Reputational risk change to its spending and tax rates to influence Q.189) Charge against property for an amount of Q.197) ______is defined as the risk of losses in a nation’s economy. debt where neither ownership nor possession are the bank’s trading book due to changes in equity a) Customer Policy passed to the creditor. It is called as prices, interest rates, credit spreads, foreign- b) Monetary Policy a) Arbitrage exchange rates, commodity prices, and other c)Fiscal Policy b) Pledge indicators whose values are set in a public market. d) Redressal Policy c) Hedge a) Operational risk e) None of these d) Hypothecation b) Credit risk Q.206) First bank to introduce saving account is e) Diversification c) Liquidity risk ______. d) Business risk a) State Bank of India e) Market risk b) Prathama Bank

|Legend Magazine | January - 2018| 55 c) Oudh Commercial Bank Q.216) According to RBI’s new guidelines, banks b) India PostPayment Bank d) Allahabad Bank must set their lending rates according to Marginal c) Paytm Payment Bank e) Presidency Bank Cost of Funds based Lending Rate (MCLR), d) AirtelPayment Bank Q.207) First bank to get ISO certificate is ______. effective from? e) None of these a) State Bank of India a) Dec 1, 2016 b) August 1, 2016 Q.225) Young Stars and Smart star b) Prathama Bank c) March 1, 2016 d) April 1, 2016 account opened by which bank? c) Oudh Commercial Bank e) June 1, 2016 a) South Indian Bank d) Allahabad Bank Q.217) How many digits are there in Mobile Money b) HDFC Bank c) ICICI Bank e) Canara Bank Identifier (MMID)? d) Yes Bank e) Axis Bank Q.208) First Bank with Indian capital is ______. a) 8 digits b) 9 digits Q.226) What does “A” stands for in WMA? a) State Bank of India c) 7 digits d) 12 digits a) Action b) Asset b) Prathama Bank e) 10 digits c) Advance d) Assignment c) Oudh Commercial Bank Q.218) Currency risk is the potential risk of loss e) Agreement d)Punjab National Bank from fluctuating foreign exchange rates when an Q.227) What is the full form of RERA? e) Presidency Bank investor has exposure to foreign currency or in a) Real Extinction Regulation Act Q.209) First Foreign Bank in India is _____. foreign-currency-traded investments. Currency b) Register Estate Regulation Act a) Deutsche Bank risk is sometimes referred to as- c) Real Estate Register Act b) Bank of America a) Monetary Rate b) Export Rate d) Real Estimate Regulation Act c) HSBC c) Trade Rate d) Exchange Rate e) Real Estate Regulation Act d) Citi Bank e) None of the above Q.228) Loans provided to women self-help groups e) Royal Bank of Scotland Q.219) MasterCard is rolling out its Identity Check at what percent? Q.210) First Universal bank in India is _____. service, popularly known as ______to a) 9.5% b) 12.5% a) State Bank of India customers in Europe through a new mobile app. c) 7% d) 10% b) HDFC Bank a) Selfie pay b) Voice Record e) 5% c)ICICI Bank c) Finger print d) Video play Q.229) Global Trust Bank merged with which of d) Allahabad Bank e) None of the above the following? e) Presidency Bank Q.220) Branch on Wheel drive is launched by a) United Bank of India Q.211) ______is an account in which deposit can which of the following bank? b) Syndicate Bank be kept only in the form of term deposits, for a) State Bank of India c) Oriental Bank of Commerce period ranging from 6 months to 3 years. b) HDFC Bank d) State Bank of India a) NRE c)ICICI Bank e) Canara Bank b) FCNR(B) d) Allahabad Bank Q.230) What does “P” stands for in PAC? c) NRO e) Axis Bank a) Payment b) Process d) Both a and b Q.221) Which of the following bank launched c) Prompt d) Product e) None of these “SIMsePAY” service that allows any account holder e) Price Q.212) What is meant by Repatriable Accounts? to do money transfers, pay utility bills and other Q.231) The Banking Codes and Standards Board a) Indian rupees cannot be transferred back to mobile banking services, without need for smart of India (BCSBI) was registered as a society under foreign currency phones or internet, based on simsleeve which act – b) Indian rupees can be transferred back to foreign technology? a) Banking Companies (Regulation) Rules, 1985 currency a) State Bank of India b) Customs Act, 1962 c) Indian rupees can be transferred back to Dollar b) HDFC Bank c) RBI Regulation Act, 1934 d) Indian rupees cannot be transferred back to c) ICICI Bank d) Societies Registration Act, 1860 Dollar d) Yes Bank e) Banking Regulation Act, 1949 e) Indian rupees can be transferred back to only e) Axis Bank Q.232) Where is the headquarter of National Dollar & Euro Q.222) Which of the following bank launched Insurance Company Limited (NICL)? Q.213) In which of the following account, money “EazyPay” mobile application for merchants that a) Kolkata, West Bengal is non-repatriable? allows all in one acceptance payments platform? b) Mumbai, Maharashtra a) NRE a) South Indian Bank c) Jaipur, Rajasthan b) FCNR(B) b) HDFC Bank d) Bangalore, Karnataka c) NRO c)ICICI Bank e) Hyderabad, Telangana d) Both a and b d) Yes Bank Q.233) A VVPAT allows voters the possibility to e) None of these e) Axis Bank verify that their votes are cast as intended and can Q.214) Antwerp Diamond Bank is headquartered Q.223) Which of the following bank launched serve as an additional barrier to changing or in which country? “Chatbot Eva” for customer services, recently? destroying votes. What does P stand for in VVPAT? a) Australia b) Austria a) South Indian Bank a) Payment b) Paper c) Belgium d) China b) HDFC Bank c) Prompt d) Product e) Japan c) ICICI Bank e) Price Q.215) Rs 10,000 currency notes were first d) Yes Bank Q.234) Saubhagya Scheme completed by – introduced in 1938. They were demonetized in the e) Axis Bank a) November 2018 year? Q.224) Which of the following Payment bank b) March 2018 a) 1992 b) 1986 launched “BPay app” that enables agents to accept c) June 2018 c) 1983 d) 1973 cashless payments from Customers, recently? d) April 2018 e) 1978 a) Fino Payment Bank e) December 2018

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Q.235) Under the aegis of Pradhan Mantri Mudra e) 7 times 139. (a) 140. (d) 141. (c) 142. (b) 143. (c) 144. Yojana (PMMY), MUDRA has created as CGFMU. In Q.245) Airtel payment bank is in which Indian (a) 145. (d) 146. (a) 147. (c) 148. (d) 149. (b) the term CGFMU, G stands for – state? 150. (c) 151. (b) 152. (d) 153. (c) 154. (d) 155. a) Gain b) General a) Andhra Pradesh (b) 156. (c) 157. (d) 158. (c) 159. (a) 160. (b) c) Gramin d) Guarantee b) Uttar Pradesh 161. (a) 162. (c) 163. (d) 164. (a) 165. (a) 166. e) Gross c) Chhattisgarh (c) 167. (d) 168. (e) 169. (b) 170. (b) 171. (c) Q.236) GST on export committee head? d) Rajasthan 172. (e) 173. (a) 174. (a) 175. (b) 176. (c) 177. a) R Gandhi e) Gujarat (a) 178. (b) 179. (b) 180. (b) 181. (c) 182. (d) b) Hasmukh Adhiya Q.246) IFSC last six digit need to identify what? 183. (c) 184. (e) 185. (b) 186. (b) 187. (a) 188. c) Raghuram Rajan a) Bank Branch (c) 189. (d) 190. (b) 191. (d) 192. (c) 193. (e) d) Nachiket Mor b) Bank Code 194. (e) 195. (c) 196. (b) 197. (e) 198. (a) 199. e) Usha Thorat c) City Code (d) 200. (c) 201. (c) 202. (e) 203. (c) 204. (d) Q.237) USSD is a communications protocol used d) Country Name 205. (c) 206. (e) 207. (e) 208. (d) 209. (c) 210. by GSM cellular telephones to communicate with e) Location Code (c) 211. (b) 212. (b) 213. (c) 214. (c) 215. (e) the mobile network operator's computers. In Q.247) Deaf fund associated with 216. (d) 217. (c) 218. (d) 219. (a) 220. (c) 221. USSD – U stands for a) Banking Companies (Regulation) Rules, 1985 (d) 222. (c) 223. (b) 224. (a) 225. (c) 226. (c) a) United b) Universal b) Customs Act, 1962 227. (e) 228. (c) 229. (c) 230. (c) 231. (d) 232. ( c) Unstructured d) Uniform c) RBI Regulation Act, 1934 a) 233. (b) 234. (e) 235. (d) 236. (b) 237. (c) 238. e) Unified d) Societies Registration Act, 1860 (e) 239. (e) 240. (c) 241. (d) 242. (c) 243. (c) Q.238) Where is the Headquarter of J.P Morgan e) Banking Regulation Act, 1949 244. (a) 245. (e) 246. (a) 247. (e) 248. (d) 249. Chase Bank located – Q.248)In NACH, ‘A’ stands for? (c) 250. (b) a) Bern, Switzerland a) Annual b) New Dehi, India b) Asset c) Vienna, Austria c) Agreement d) Brussels, Belgium d) Automated e) New York, USA e) Authority Q.239) No transactions in the bank account for Q.249) The oldest asset reconstruction company – over a period of two years known as – a) Edelweiss Asset Reconstruction a) Dormant Account b) UV Asset Reconstruction Company b) Demat Account c) ACRIL c) Inoperative Account d) ACRE d) Both a and b e) ISARC e) Both a and c Q.250) Committee form to curb poverty is under Q.240) SMERA is a credit rating agency for which the head of _____. of the following organization? a) R Gandhi a) Large Industries b) SME b) Arvind Panagariya c) MSME d) Both a and b c) Raghuram Rajan e) None of these d) Urjit Patel Q.241) Pan card is mandatory for prepaid cards e) Chandrababu Naidu transaction above a) Rs. 2,50,000 b) Rs. 1,00,000 Answer Key: c) Rs. 1,50,000 d) Rs. 50,000 1. (b) 2. (d) 3. (b) 4. (d) 5. (d) 6. (b) 7. (a) 8. (c) e) Rs. 30,000 9. (a) 10. (d) 11. (d) 12. (a) 13. (c) 14. (c) 15. (b) Q.242) Which is the First state to adopt resolution 16. (a) 17. (d) 18. (b) 19. (a) 20. (b) 21. (d) 22. to support Demonetization? (c) 23. (a) 24. (d) 25. (c) 26. (e) 27. (a) 28. (e) a) Andhra Pradesh 29. (d) 30. (e) 31. (d) 32. (e) 33. (e) 34. (a) 35. b) Uttar Pradesh (d) 36. (b) 37. (e) 38. (a) 39. (b) 40. (a) 41. (a) c) Chhattisgarh 42. (e) 43. (b) 44. (e) 45. (d) 46. (c) 47. (e) 48. d) Rajasthan (d) 49. (c) 50. (b) 51. (a) 52. (b) 53. (a) 54. (b) e) Gujarat 55. (d) 56. (a) 57. (b) 58. (a) 59. (a) 60. (c) 61. Q.243) The 12-member committee to boost digital (b) 62. (e) 63. (a) 64. (c) 65. (e) 66. (c) 67. (d) payment headed by whom? 68. (d) 69. (b) 70. (a) 71. (e) 72. (a) 73. (c) 74. a) Raghuram Rajan (d) 75. (d) 76. (b) 77. (c) 78. (e) 79. (b) 80. (e) b) R Gandhi 81. (b) 82. (c) 83. (b) 84. (d) 85. (b) 86. (a) 87. c) Chandrababu Naidu (c) 88. (b) 89. (e) 90. (d) 91. (a) 92. (d) 93. (b) d) Urjit Patel 94. (a) 95. (d) 96. (c) 97. (d) 98. (c) 99. (c) 100. e) Y M Deosthalee (c) 101. (e) 102. (c) 103. (c) 104. (c) 105. (b) Q.244) How many times demonetization has taken 106. (b) 107. (c) 108. (c) 109. (d) 110. (d) 111. place in the country? (d) 112. (c) 113. (a) 114. (c) 115. (b) 116. (b) a) 3 times 117. (c) 118. (b) 119. (b) 120. (c) 121. (c) 122. b) 4 times (e) 123. (a) 124. (d) 125. (e) 126. (c) 127. (b) c) 5 times 128. (d) 129. (c) 130. (d) 131. (d) 132. (d) 133. d) 2 times (d) 134. (c) 135. (e) 136. (c) 137. (c) 138. (b)