Current Affairs Questions

Q1. Name the City in which a two-day North-East Business Summit (NEBS) held, recently.

(a) Bengaluru

(b) Chennai

(c) New Delhi

(d) Mumbai

(e) Chandigarh

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Q2. Which of the following organization has extended the last date of submission of digital life certificate through Jeevan Pramaan Patra by March 31st, 2017 under Employees' Pension Scheme (EPS)?

(a) OPFO

(b) EPFO

(c) EPSO

(d) UPSO

(e) None of the above options are true

Q3. Which of the following institutes has recently won the 2017 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society Award for its solar-direct current (DC) inverter system?

(a) IISC- Bangalore

(b) IIT- Bombay

(c) IIT- BHU

(d) IIT- Madras

(e) IIT- Roorkee

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Q4. Name the first state to launch web-based portal to showcase the government’s performance and achievements to the citizens of the state.

(a) Andhra Pradesh

(b) Karnataka

(c) Assam

(d) Kerala

(e) Madhya Pradesh

Q5. Name the country that will host Mobile World Congress (for the first time) to be held in September 2017.

(a) Barcelona

(b) India

(c) Indonesia

(d) China

(e) Japan

Q6. Shri Arvind Padmanabhan has died recently of cardiac arrest. He was famous ____________.

(a) Politician

(b) Nuclear Scientist

(c) Journalist

(d) Kathak Dancer

(e) Both (a) and (c)

Q7. Name the country, which has topped the Bribery Rate Index of Asia-Pacific countries, recently.

(a) Pakistan

(b) Japan

(c) China

(d) India

(e) Bangladesh

Q8. Vice President Hamid Ansari was recently on a two-day visit to attend the 21-nation Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Summit (March 2017).

(a) Barcelona

(b) China

(c) Austria

(d) Oman

(e) Indonesia

Q9. Name the mega cultural festival of India that started in Egypt, recently.

(a) India by the Nile

(b) Fest of India

(c) Colors of India

(d) India at a glance

(e) India at Giza

Q10. Which of the following banks launched “Aadhaar Pay”, the country’s first Aadhaar-linked cashless merchant solution recently following successful pilots across 16 states?

(a) HDFC Bank

(b) ICICI Bank

(c) IDFC Bank

(d) Axis Bank

(e) IDBI Bank

Answers :

S1. Ans.(c)

S2. Ans.(b)

S3. Ans.(d)

S4. Ans.(a)

S5. Ans.(b)

S6. Ans.(c)

S8. Ans.(e)

S9. Ans.(a)

S10. Ans.(c)