Current Affairs Last 6 Months

1. The 43rd G7 summit was held on May 26-27, 2017 in…..
1) Taormina, Sicily, Italy
2) Shima, Japan
3) Schloss Elmau, Germany
4) Brussels, Belgium
ANSWER :  1

2. Which of the following statement is/are Correct about 43rd G7 summit?
A. The mission of 43rd G7 summit is "Building the Foundations of Renewed Trust".
B. The summit attended by the leaders of USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Japan.
1) A only
2) B only
3) Both A & B
4) None of these
ANSWER :  3

3. Who is Jens Stoltenberg?
1) The Secretary General of UNO
2) The Secretary General of NATO
3) The Secretary General of SAARC
4) None of these
ANSWER :  2

4. Who has been bestowed with the 2016 Sangeet Natak Akademi Puraskar?
1) Satyabrata Rout
2) Shankha Ghosh
3) Mahabaleshwar Sail
4) None of these
ANSWER :  1

5. Name the Prime Minister of Mauritius visited India recently?
1) Pravind Kumar Jugnauth
2) Abdulla Yameen
3) Bidhya Devi Bhandari
4) Ranil Wickremesinghe
ANSWER :  1

6. Who is Ram Shankar Katheria?
1) The chairperson for the National
Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC)
2) The chairperson for the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST)
3) The chairperson for the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC)
4) None of these
ANSWER :  1

7. World No Tobacco Day is observed every year on
1) May 31
2) June 5
3) July 11
4) None of these
ANSWER :  1

8. Which Indian bank has got $ 100 million Asian Development Bank (ADB) loan to finance solar rooftop projects in India?
1) State Bank of India (SBI)
2) Punjab National Bank (PNB)
3) Bank of Baroda (BoB)
4) None of these
ANSWER :  2

9. Match the following?
A. State Bank of India           (i) Pure Banking Nothing Else
B. Bank of India                    (ii) Relation ships Beyond Banking
C. Allahabad Bank               (iii) A Tradition of Trust
D. Canara Bank                     (iv) Together We Can
1) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
2) (i) (iv) (ii) (iii)
3) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
4) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
ANSWER :  4

10. Which country has won the 2017 Sudirman Cup?
1) South Korea
2) China
3) Australia
4) None of these
ANSWER :  1

11. Which of the following Cup/Trophy is NOT associated with Badminton?
1) Thomas Cup
2) Uber Cup
3) Sudirman Cup
4) Davis Cup
ANSWER :  4

12. Ashwini Ponnappa is associated with which sports?
1) Cricket
2) Football
3) Chess
4) Badminton
ANSWER :  4 

13. Who is the Present Governor of Jammu & Kashmir?
1) Narinder Nath Vohra
2) P. Sathasivam
3) Keshari Nath Tripathi
4) Ram Naik
ANSWER :  1

14. Who is the present Chief Minister of Gujarat?
1) Pinarayi Vijayan
2) Amarinder Singh
3) Yogi Adityanath
4) None of these
ANSWER :  4

15. 'Varuna' is the….
1) Bilateral naval exercise between India and USA
2) Bilateral naval exercise between India and Russia
3) Bilateral naval exercise between India and UK
4) Bilateral naval exercise between India and France
ANSWER :  4

16. Which among the following is the most attractive employer in India by the Randstad Employer Brand Research 2017?
1) Google
2) Mercedes Benz India
3) Amazon India
4) ITC Limited
ANSWER :  1

17. Which country occupied first position in 2017 World Press Freedom Index?
1) Norway
2) Sweden
3) Finland
4) Denmark
ANSWER :  1

18. India's rank in World Happiness Report 2016 & 2017?
1) 118 & 122
2) 130 & 131
3) 133 & 136
4) None of these
ANSWER :  1

19. Consider the following sentences with reference to the 'Human Development Report (HDR) 2016.
A. India slipped down one place from 130 to 131 among the 188 countries ranked in terms of human development.
B. India puts in the "medium human development" category in this report. Which of the above sentence(s) is/are true?
1) A only
2) B only
3) Both A & B
4) None of the above
ANSWER :  3

20. Which public sector company has overtaken Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) to become India's most profitable state-owned company?
1) Indian Oil Corporation
2) National Thermal Power Corporation
3) Steel Authority of India Ltd
4) None of these
ANSWER :  1

21. India's most profitable company?
1) Reliance Industries Limited
2) Tata Consultancy Services
3) Indian Oil Corporation
4) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
ANSWER :  1

22. The USA President Donald Trump visited which of the following country in his maiden foreign trip on 20 May 2017?
1) Saudi Arabia
2) Israel
3) Palestine
4) Italy
ANSWER :  1

23. Who has been appointed as the new Economic Affairs Secretary?
1) Shaktikanta Das
2) Tapan Ray
3) S. Jaishankar
4) None of these
ANSWER :  2

24. Which country to host Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit 2017?
1) Uzbekistan
2) Tajikistan
3) Kyrgyzstan
4) Kazakhstan
ANSWER :  4

25. The World Book and Copyright Day is observed every year on…….
1) 23 January
2) 23 February
3) 23 March
4) 23 April
ANSWER :  4

26. Who among the following is NOT a deputy governor of RBI at present?
1) N.S.Vishwanathan
2) Dr. Viral V. Acharya
3) B.P.Kanungo
4) Sanjeev Sanyal
ANSWER :  4

27. Who among the following is the Union Minister of Women and Child Development at present?
1) Smriti Irani
2) Harsimrat Kaur Badal
3) Maneka Gandhi
4) Nirmala Sitharaman
ANSWER :  3

28. Which city is to host G20 summit 2017?
1) Serik, Turkey
2) Hangzhou, China
3) Hamburg, Germany
4) Buenos Aires, Argentina
ANSWER :  3

29. Who is Moon Jae-in?
1) The new President of Russia
2) The new President of China
3) The new President of South Korea
4) The new President of North Korea
ANSWER :  3

30. The current Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) rate?
1) 3%
2) 4%
3) 5%
4) None of these
ANSWER :  2

31. Which of the following is NOT a Public Sector Bank in India?
1) Corporation Bank
2) Allahabad Bank
3) Karnataka Bank
4) Indian Bank
ANSWER :  3

32. Which of the following is NOT a Maharatna Company at present?
1) National Thermal Power Corporation
2) Steel Authority of India Limited
3) Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
4) Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited
ANSWER :  4

33. In the Union Budget 2017-18, the Government of India has announced to build how many houses by 2019?
1) 25 lakh
2) 50 lakh
3) 75 lakh
4) 1 Crore
ANSWER :  4

34. Which firm became the first US firm to top the $800 billion mark in market capitalization?
1) Microsoft
2) Google
3) Apple Inc
4) None of these
ANSWER :  3

35. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated India's longest river bridge - the Dhola-Sadia Bridge in Assam on 26 May 2017. This bridge named as….
1) Bhupen Hazarika Bridge
2) Mahatma Gandhi Setu
3) Mahasweta Devi Bridge
4) None of these
ANSWER :  1