OBJECTIVE G..A.2 jan 2017 to 6th Jan 2017 FOR PO EXAMS IN INDIAN BANK, SYNDICATE BANK AND IDBI BANK

2 JANUARY 2017

Ques. : 1 The govt has announced that under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana it will provide ______ interest relief on home loan up to Rs 9 lakh.
1) 2 per cent 
2) 3 per cent
3) 4 per cent 
4) 6 per cent
5) 8 per cent 
Answer:- 3) 4 per cent

Ques. : 2 The NRI citizens of India, who were abroad from Nov 9 to Dec 30, can exchange their defunct notes up to
1) Jan 31, 2017 
2) Mar 31, 2017
3) Apr 30, 2017 
4) Jun 30, 2017
5) Sep 30, 2017 
Answer:- 4) Jun 30, 2017

Ques. : 3 In rural areas, now you can get 3 per cent interest subvention on loan of up to ______ for the construction, renovation and expansion of home.
1) Rs 1 lakh 
2) Rs 2 lakh
3) Rs 4 lakh 
4) Rs 5 lakh
5) Rs 8 lakh 
Answer:- 2) Rs 2 lakh

Ques. : 4 _______ has become India’s first fully organic state in 2016.
1) Gujarat 
2) Kerala
3) Mizoram 
4) Manipur
5) Sikkim 
Answer:- 5) Sikkim

Ques. : 5 The govt has announced to pay interest for ______ on loans taken by farmers for rabi season from district cooperative banks and primary societies.
1) 30 days 
2) 60 days
3) 90 days 
4) 100 days
5) 120 days 
Answer:- 2) 60 days

Ques. : 6 What additional fund has been given by the govt recently to NABARD to give loans to farmers?
1) Rs 12,000 cr 
2) Rs 20,000 cr
3) Rs 22,000 cr 
4) Rs 30,000 cr
5) Rs 32,000 cr 
Answer:- 2) Rs 20,000 cr

Ques. : 7 For small entrepreneurs, the govt has raised the credit guarantee from Rs 1 cr to
1) Rs 2 cr 
2) Rs 2.5 cr
3) Rs 3 cr 
4) Rs 3.5 cr
5) Rs 5 cr 
Answer:- 1) Rs 2 cr

Ques. : 8 Under a scheme for pregnant women, the would-be mothers will get ______ for their delivery, vaccination, and nutritious meals directly in their accounts.
1) Rs 2,000 
2) Rs 4,000
3) Rs 6,000 
4) Rs 8,000
5) Rs 12,000 
Answer:- 3) Rs 6,000

Ques. : 9 Senior citizens will now be assured what per cent interest on their deposits up to Rs 7.5 lakh which will remain the same for next 10 years?
1) 7 per cent 
2) 7.5 per cent
3) 8 per cent 
4) 8.5 per cent
5) 9 per cent 
Answer:- 3) 8 per cent

Ques. : 10 A gunman opened fire at a nightclub, killing at least 39 people including two Indians in the city of Istanbul in
1) Greece 
2) Turkey
3) Brazil 
4) Indonesia
5) Malaysia 
Answer:- 2) Turkey

03 JANUARY 2017

Ques. : 1 CM Vijay Rupani dedicated India’s first laser technology-based advanced AVMS RTO check-post recently at Shamlaji of Aravalli district in the state of
1) Tamil Nadu 
2) Maharashtra
3) Gujarat 
4) Karnataka
5) Telangana 
Answer:- 3) Gujarat

Ques. : 2 India's largest LNG importer Petronet has signed an agreement to set up a $950-mn liquefied natural gas import project in
1) Maldives 
2) Bangladesh
3) Myanmar 
4) Vietnam
5) Venezuela 
Answer:- 2) Bangladesh

Ques. : 3 The SBI has reduced MCLR by 0.9 per cent from 8.90 per cent to 8 per cent for 1-year tenure. In the term MCLR, the letter ‘M’ stands for
1) Marginal 
2) Mortgage
3) Minimum 
4) Maximum
5) Maintenance 
Answer:- 1) Marginal

Ques. : 4 Who among the following has/have been chosen for Bharatiya Jnanpith Navlekhan Award for the year 2016?
1) Ghyansham Kumar Devansh 
2) Shraddha
3) Gyan Chaturvedi 
4) All the above
5) Only 1) and 2) 
Answer:- 5) Only 1) and 2)

Ques. : 5 KM Singh was conferred the 'Power & Energy Persona's Award for Individual Excellence' at the 10th ENERTIA Awards 2016. He is the present CMD of
1) IOC 
2) NTPC
3) BHEL 
4) NHPC
5) ISA 
Answer:- 4) NHPC

Ques. : 6 The Indian-origin entrepreneur Shaikh Rafik Mohammed was recently appointed Major General in which of the following countries?
1) Kyrgyzstan 
2) Tajikistan
3) Uzbekistan 
4) Turkmenistan
5) Kazakhstan 
Answer:- 1) Kyrgyzstan

Ques. : 7 The World famous 11-day gala festival Bargarh Dhanua Jatra was observed in which of the following states recently?
1) Jharkhand 
2) Chhattisgarh
3) Uttarakhand 
4) Sikkim
5) Odisha 
Answer:- 5) Odisha

Ques. : 8 The term “teaser rate” is associated with which of the following type of loans?
1) Auto loan 
2) Home loan
3) Personal loan 
4) Loan against property
5) Education loan 
Answer:- 2) Home loan

Ques. : 9 Who among the following won the Mubadala World Tennis Championships 2016 recently in Abu Dhabi?
1) Andy Murray 
2) David Goffin
3) Rafael Nadal 
4) Stan Wawrinka
5) Roger Federer 
Answer:- 3) Rafael Nadal

Ques. : 10 Somdev Devvarman announced his retirement recently from the professional
1) snooker 
2) boxing
3) golf
4) badminton
5) tennis 
Answer:- 5) tennis

04 JANUARY 2017

Ques. : 1 According to HSBC Holdings’ data, India is 3rd among nations offering highest salaries to expats. Which country tops in this regard?
1) UAE 
2) Bahrain
3) Switzerland 
4) US
5) Canada 
Answer:- 3) Switzerland

Ques. : 2 Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar was sworn-in recently as the ______ Chief Justice of India (CJI).
1) 41st 
2) 43rd
3) 44th 
4) 45th
5) 47th 
Answer:- 3) 44th

Ques. : 3 ________ has launched a health scheme, Arogya Raksha Scheme Tummalapalli Kalakshetram for the people of the Above Poverty Line at Rs 1200 premium per annum.
1) Andhra Pradesh 
2) Telangana
3) Karnataka 
4) Tamil Nadu
5) Kerala 
Answer:- 1) Andhra Pradesh

Ques. : 4 The 104th Indian Science Congress was held recently in Sri Venkateswara University in
1) Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh 
2) Chennai, Tamil Nadu
3) Bengaluru, Karnataka 
4) Kochi, Kerala
5) Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Answer:- 1) Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh

Ques. : 5 Li Xiaoxia, who announced retirement recently, is the former Olympic champion of
1) table tennis 
2) tennis
3) badminton 
4) squash
5) snooker 
Answer:- 1) table tennis

Ques. : 6 The online payments app, BHIM, launched by the govt is now the number one free app on Google Play Store. The term BHIM stands for
1) Bharat Initiative for Money 
2) Bharat Interconnection for Money
3) Bharat Interface for Money 
4) Bharat Interchange for Money
5) None of these 
Answer:- 3) Bharat Interface for Money

Ques. : 7 Russia recently delivered four Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets to which of the following countries after a delay of two years?
1) Saudi Arabia 
2) Iran
3) Syria 
4) India
5) China 
Answer:- 5) China

Ques. : 8 The birth anniversary of Savitribai Phule was observed on 3 Jan. She is hailed as the country's first woman
1) bureaucrat 
2) scientist
3) astronaut 
4) teacher
5) governor 
Answer:- 4) teacher

Ques. : 9 Who among the following has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)?
1) P Kilemsungla 
2) Vinay Mittal
3) David R Syiemlieh 
4) DK Dewan
5) Manbir Singh 
Answer:- 3) David R Syiemlieh

Ques. : 10 In an effort to safeguard the fingerlings fish species and its eggs, which state govt has banned the use of Purse Seine Nets for fishing across the state?
1) Gujarat 
2) Maharashtra
3) Tamil Nadu 
4) Andhra Pradesh
5) West Bengal 
Answer:- 2) Maharashtra

05 JANUARY 2017

Ques. : 1 Mithali Raj is associated with which of the following games?
1) Hockey 
2) Cricket
3) Football 
4) Basketball
5) Billiards 
Answer:- 2) Cricket

Ques. : 2 The Supreme Court recently removed Anurag Thakur and Ajay Shirke as President and Secretary respectively of which of the following sports bodies?
1) BCCI 
2) AIFF
3) IOA 
4) Hockey India
5) BAI 
Answer:- 1) BCCI

Ques. : 3 __________ has become the first country in the world to pay a basic income to randomly picked citizens on a national level.
1) Switzerland 
2) Singapore
3) Sweden 
4) Denmark
5) Finland 
Answer:- 5) Finland

Ques. : 4 The Union Cabinet approved ratifying an agreement between India and Uruguay regarding cooperation in customs matters. The capital city of Uruguay is
1) Copenhagen 
2) Stockholm
3) Montevideo 
4) Manama
5) Helsinki 
Answer:- 3) Montevideo

Ques. : 5 The 13th edition of five-day Chitwan Elephant Festival was held recently in
1) Kathmandu, Nepal 
2) Kolkata, India
3) Colombo, Sri Lanka 
4) Dhaka, Bangladesh
5) None of these 
Answer:- 1) Kathmandu, Nepal

Ques. : 6 Jovenel Moise was officially declared winner of the recent presidential election in which of the following countries?
1) Nigeria 
2) Haiti
3) Algeria 
4) Estonia
5) Eretria 
Answer:- 2) Haiti

Ques. : 7 Who among the following is the new President of the European Union?
1) Alexis Tsipras 
2) Mariano Rajoy
3) Juha Sipila 
4) Lars Lokke Rasmussen
5) Joseph Muscat
Answer:- 5) Joseph Muscat

Ques. : 8 Which of the following teams won the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Women's Football Championship title in Siliguri recently?
1) Pakistan 
2) Sri Lanka
3) Bangladesh 
4) India
5) Nepal 
Answer:- 4) India

Ques. : 9 The Pravasi Bharatiya Divas is celebrated in India on
1) 2 Jan 
2) 4 Jan
3) 7 Jan 
4) 9 Jan
5) 10 Jan 
Answer:- 4) 9 Jan

Ques. : 10 The Election Commission announced poll dates for five states recently. Which of the following states is/are going to poll in 2017?
1) Goa 
2) Manipur
3) Punjab 
4) Uttarakhand
5) All of these 
Answer:- 5) All of these

06 JANUARY 2017

Ques. : 1 The Munich Re is opening a composite branch office in Mumbai. This world’s leading reinsurer is based in
1) Germany 
2) Switzerland
3) Singapore 
4) France
5) Hongkong 
Answer:- 1) Germany

Ques. : 2 Mobile commerce and payments company Paytm has got the final permission to open a payments bank by RBI. Paytm is promoted by
1) Kunal Bahl 
2) Naveen Tewari
3) Sachin Bansal 
4) Bhavish Aggarwal
5) Vijay Shekhar Sharma 
Answer:- 5) Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Ques. : 3 Arthur Morris has been inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame posthumously. He was an __________ cricketer.
1) English 
2) Kiwi
3) Australian 
4) Caribbean
5) South African 
Answer:- 3) Australian

Ques. : 4 The Reserve Bank of India has appointed who among the following as its Executive Director (ED)?
1) US Paliwal 
2) Deepali Pant Joshi
3) Surekha Marandi 
4) DK Mohanty
5) NS Vishwanathan 
Answer:- 3) Surekha Marandi

Ques. : 5 The United Nations 70th General Assembly has recognised the year 2017 as the International Year of
1) Elimination of Terrorism 
2) Elimination of Chemical and Nuclear Weapons
3) Conservation of Water 
4) Sustainable Tourism for Development
5) None of these 
Answer:- 4) Sustainable Tourism for Development

Ques. : 6 Who among the following is the present chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC)?
1) Anurag Thakur 
2) Shashank Manohar
3) Sharad Pawar 
4) Ajay Shirke
5) Zaheer Abbas 
Answer:- 2) Shashank Manohar

Ques. : 7 Telangana and Assam signed MoUs to join the UDAY scheme recently. The UDAY scheme is associated with
1) debt restructuring of power distribution firms 
2) debt restructuring of state enterprises
3) turnaround of co-operative banks 
4) financial inclusion
5) None of these 
Answer:- 1) debt restructuring of power distribution firms

Ques. : 8 Five Indian Americans took oath as members of US Congress recently. Who among the following is one of them?
1) Pramila Jayapal 
2) Raja Krishnamoorthi
3) Ro Khanna 
4) Ami Bera
5) All the above 
Answer:- 5) All the above

Ques. : 9 The state-owned fuel retailers, IOC, BPCL and HPCL will offer an upfront discount of ______ on every LPG refill to all LPG customers who will book and pay for it online.
1) Rs 5 
2) Rs 10
3) Rs 20 
4) Rs 25
5) Rs 50 
Answer:- 1) Rs 5

Ques. : 10 The Election Commission of India has issued a limitation for campaign expense per candidate for Assembly polls. In Goa and Manipur, the limit per candidate is
1) Rs 18 lakh 
2) Rs 20 lakh
3) Rs 24 lakh 
4) Rs 26 lakh
5) Rs 28 lakh 
Answer:- 2) Rs 20 lakh

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