1. The Indian women’s basketball team defeated which of the following teams to win Division B of the FIBA Asia Cup 2017 held in Bengaluru?
1) Kazakhstan 2) Lebanon 3) New Zealand 4) Philippines 5) Jordan
2. India’s foreign exchange reserves recently touched a new record high of USD 391.33 bn. Which of the following is NOT a component of India’s foreign exchange reserves?
1) Foreign Currency Assets (FCAs) 2) India’s reserve position with the IMF
3) Special Drawing Rights with the IMF 4) Gold reserves
5) None of these
3. Which of the following insurers is all set to take over Sahara India Life Insurance with effect from Jul 31, 2017?
1) Bajaj Allianz 2) SBI Life 3) ICICI Prudential 4) IDBI Federal 5) HDFC Life
4. South Korea will deploy four additional units of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) anti-missile defence system which are being offered from
1) Japan 2) US 3) Russia 4) Sweden 5) UK
5. Who among the following is the present Governor of Maharashtra with the additional charge of Tamil Nadu?
1) Keshari Nath Tripathi 2) Senayangba Chubatoshi Jamir 3) Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala
4) C Vidyasagar Rao 5) ESL Narasimhan
6. The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) has said that search for new uranium deposits in the country would be intensified. The present Chairman of AEC is
1) Sekhar Basu 2) Shashi Shanker 3) Gurdeep Singh 4) ýKN Vyas 5) T Suvarna Raju
7. India is the world’s third-biggest exporter of beef according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the OECD. The world’s biggest exporter of beef is
1) Australia 2) US 3) Brazil 4) China 5) Malaysia
8. Twenty-nine Indian cities and towns fall under “severe” to “very severe” seismic zones, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS). Which of the following is NOT one of them?
1) Shimla 2) Puducherry 3) Kohima 4) Patna 5) None of these
9. India and which of the following countries are pushing for the development of the Asia Africa Growth Corridor (AAGC), an alternative to China’s OBOR?
1) South Korea 2) Japan 3) US 4) Australia 5) South Africa
10. Four payments bank have been launched so far in India. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
1) India Post Payments Bank 2) Paytm Payments Bank 3) Airtel Payment Bank
4) Fino Payments Bank 5) None of these
11. The IBBI, in the seven months since the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) became operational, has started resolution process for 200 companies. The term IBBI means
1) Insolvency and Bundling Board of India 2) Insolvency and Binding Board of India
3) Insolvency and Borrowing Board of India 4) Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India
5) None of these
12. PM Narendra Modi, in his recent Mann Ki Baat programme, called for launching a mega campaign from 9 Aug to be fulfilled by 2022. The campaign is
1) Sankalp Se Siddhi 2) Clean and Corruption free India 3) Swaraj Se Suraj 4) Self Employment Best Employment 5) Sabka Sath Sabka Vikash
13. Who among the following is the present chairman of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI)?
1) Ramesh Abhishek 2) Ashok Lavasa 3) MS Sahoo 4) Rajeev Rishi 5) M Balachandran
14. Ravi Mittal has been appointed as a part-time member of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India
(IRDAI) board. The headquarters of IRDAI is located in
1) Chennai 2) Hyderabad 3) Bengaluru 4) Lucknow 5) Mumbai
15. The govt has ordered oil companies to raise subsidised cooking gas (LPG) prices by ____ per cylinder every month to eliminate all the subsidies by Mar 2018.
1) Rs 02 2) Rs 04 3) Rs 06 4) Rs 08 5) Rs 10
16. ________ is issued by registered foreign portfolio investors to overseas players who wish to be a part of the Indian stock markets without registering themselves directly.
1) Hundi 2) Bankers’ cheque 3) P-note 4) Commercial Paper 5) Assignment
17. The two-day conclave of tax officers entitled ‘Rajaswa Gyansangam’ will be held soon (Sep 1 and 2) in
1) Mumbai 2) Chandigarh 3) Hyderabad 4) New Delhi 5) Gurugram
18. Which of the following banks recently introduced a two-tier interest rate structure - an interest rate of 3.5% p.a. on balance up to Rs 1 cr and 4% on above Rs 1 cr?
1) Axis Bank 2) HDFC Bank 3) ICICI Bank 4) PNB 5) SBI
19. The RBI imposed a monetary penalty of Rs 10 mn on Union Bank of India for non-compliance with Know Your Customer
(KYC) norms. The UBI is headquartered at
1) Mumbai 2) New Delhi 3) Bengaluru 4) Chennai 5) Hyderabad
20. Who among the following is the Minister for Steel in the present Union Cabinet? He has said that first time India has
become a net export country in Steel.
1) Radha Mohan Singh 2) Chaudhary Birender Singh 3) Rao Inderjit Singh
4) Jual Oram 5) Narendra Singh Tomar
21. What is the new marginal standing facility (MSF) rate and the Bank Rate after the third bi-monthly monetary policy
review by the RBI on 7 Aug 2017?
1) 6 per cent 2) 6.25 per cent 3) 6.50 per cent 4) 6.75 per cent 5) 7 per cent
22. The High Court in which of the following states recently ordered to seize the powers of 11 Parliamentary secretaries
appointed by the state govt?
1) Delhi 2) Goa 3) Chhattisgarh 4) Jharkhand 5) Odisha
23. The govt sold 3.70 cr equity shares (4% stake) in Hindustan Copper at a floor price of Rs 64.75 apiece through a two-day
OFS. Here, the term OFS stands for
1) Offer-For-Sale 2) Offer-For-Subscription 3) Offer-For-Surrender 4) Offer-For-Stock 5) None of these
24. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the RBI, in its third bi-monthly monetary policy review, reduced the policy
repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) by 25 basis points to
1) 5 per cent 2) 5.50 per cent 3) 5.75 per cent 4) 6 per cent 5) 6.25 per cent
25. India and which country recently signed three contracts for constructing Units 5 and 6 for the Kudankulam Nuclear
Power Plant in Tamil Nadu?
1) Canada 2) US 3) Japan 4) Germany 5) Russia
26. What is the theme of the World breastfeeding week 2017 (1 to 7 Aug 2017)?
1) Healthy Mother, Healthy Child 2) Breastfeeding for Better Childhood
3) Nourishing Children Together 4) Sustaining Breastfeeding Together 5) None of these
27. CP Gurnani was re-appointed as the Managing Director and CEO of which of the following leading IT firms recently?
1) TCS 2) Tech Mahindra 3) HCL 4) Infosys 5) Wipro
28. What is the currency of Djibouti?
1) Franc 2) Pound 3) Dollar 4) Peso 5) Rand
29. Ustad Hussain Sayeeduddin Dagar passed away recently. He was a classical vocalist and one of the leading exponents of
1) Hindustani music tradition 2) Carnatic music tradition 3) Dhrupad music tradition 4) Vaidic music tradition 5) None of these
30. The Aadi Perukku festival was celebrated in which of the following states recently? It is the thanksgiving festival to rivers.
1) Karnataka 2) Andhra Pradesh 3) Telangana 4) Kerala 5) Tamil Nadu
31. The Army chief General Bipin Rawat recently visited Kazakhstan. The capital city of Kazakhstan is
1) Dushanbe 2) Ashgabat 3) Manama 4) Astana 5) Tashkent
32. The core sector industries grew by 0.4 per cent in Jun. Which of the following is NOT one of the India’s eight core sector
industries?
1) Refinery Products 2) Natural Gas 3) Coal 4) Crude Oil 5) None of these
33. Who among the following resigned as vice-chairman of the NITI Aayog recently?
1) Arvind Subramanian 2) Arvind Panagariya 3) Bibek Debroy 4) Amitabh Kant 5) Jagdish Bhagwati
34. ______ is soon to launch a messaging service to counter Facebook’s WhatsApp.
1) Paytm 2) Flipkart 3) Snapdeal 4) Amazon 5) Infibeam
35. Who among the following has been appointment as the new chairman of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)?
1) Ajay Tyagi 2) Vikram Limaye 3) Dhirendra Swarup 4) TSVijayan 5) Hemant Contractor
36. ________ has entered into a pact with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) to enable its customers to avail
banking services at HPCL’s 14,000 fuel stations.
1) Airtel Payments Bank 2) Paytm Payments Bank 3) India Post Payments Bank
4) Fino Payments Bank 5) None of these
37. PM Narendra Modi recently announced a package of Rs 2,350 cr for mitigating the impact of floods on short-and long-
term basis for
1) Gujarat 2) West Bengal 3) Madhya Pradesh 4) North-Eastern states 5) None of these
38. The Indian Bank recently revised its interest rates on FCNR (banking) term deposits effective Aug 1. In the term FCNR
the letter ‘C’ denotes
1) Country 2) Commodity 3) Currency 4) Company 5) Certificate
39. The marketplace eBay and which of the following e-commerce firms recently successfully concluded the merger
transaction?
1) Snapdeal 2) Flipkart 3) Infibeam 4) Shopclues 5) Amazon
40. Pushpa Mitra Bhargava passed away recently. He was an eminent
1) politician 2) singer 3) classical dancer 4) human rights activist 5) scientist
41. Devendra Jhajharia has become the first paralympian to be recommended for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award. He is
associated with
1) Discus Throw 2) Javelin Throw 3) Triple Jump 4) Pole Vault 5) Weightlifting
42. What is the new reverse repo rate under the LAF after the third bi-monthly policy review by the RBI?
1) 6.75 per cent 2) 6.50 per cent 3) 5.25 per cent 4) 5.50 per cent 5) 5.75 per cent
43. The Congress leader and former Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Santosh Mohan Dev passed away
recently. The Ministry is presently held by
1) Anant Geete 2) Kalraj Mishra 3) Narendra Singh Tomar 4) Ashok Gajapathi Raju 5) Jual Oram
44. Peter O’Neill was recently re-elected as the Prime Minister of
1) Suriname 2) Trinidad and Tobago 3) Papua New Guinea 4) Fiji 5) South Sudan
45. Who among the following has been appointed as the Secretary General of the Federation of Indian Chambers of
Commerce and Industry (FICCI)?
1) Pankaj Patel 2) Sunil Kanoria 3) Naushad Forbes 4) Sanjaya Baru 5) Rakesh Bharti Mittal
46. The 10-member panel set up by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to study issues relating
to data protection in the country is headed by
1) BN Srikrishna 2) Dalveer Bhandari 3) RV Raveendran 4) KG Balakrishnan 5) RM Lodha
47. The World Bank allowed India to construct hydroelectric power facilities on tributaries of the Jhelum and Chenab rivers
recently. The headquarters of the World Bank is situated in
1) Paris 2) New York 3) Washington DC 4) London 5) Geneva
48. Who among the following led the six-member Indian delegation at the 7th Meeting of BRICS Trade Ministers held in
Shanghai, China?
1) Sushma Swaraj 2) Arun Jaitley 3) Piyush Goyal 4) Venkaiah Naidu 5) Nirmala Sitharaman
49. The SEBI has set up a committee on ‘fair market conduct’ to suggest measures for improving surveillance of the markets
and strengthen rules for trades which is headed by
1) Ajay Tyagi 2) TK Viswanathan 3) Arvind Mayaram 4) Rajiv Mehrishi 5) Ashok Lavasa
50. India and Somalia signed a bilateral agreement for the transfer of sentenced persons recently. The capital city of Somalia
is
1) Dodoma 2) Addis Ababa 3) Khartoum 4) Mogadishu 5) Juba
51. The Lok Sabha recently cleared a bill to enable exit of RBI from Nabard and increase its authorised capital to
1) Rs 10,000 cr 2) Rs 15,000 cr 3) Rs 20,000 cr 4) Rs 25,000 cr 5) Rs 30,000 cr
52. Who among the following has been appointed as the new Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of the Small
Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI)?
1) Mohammad Mustafa 2) Sunil Kanoria 3) Naushad Forbes
4) Harsh Kumar Bhanwala 5) Rajiv Aggarwal
53. The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) recently approved the proposed merger of Telenor India with which of the
following firms?
1) Idea 2) Vodafone 3) Bharti Airtel 4) Jio Infocomm 5) Aircel
54. Which state govt is in process of inducting Indian women team cricketer Harmanpreet Kaur as a DSP in the state police?
1) Jammu and Kashmir 2) Punjab 3) Haryana
4) Madhya Pradesh 5) Uttar Pradesh
55. The Agriculture Ministry signed an MoA for setting up a regional centre of the global rice research institute IRRI to
develop high-yielding rice varieties in
1) Bengaluru 2) Hyderabad 3) Chennai 4) Varanasi 5) Patna
56. Neymar has become the world’s most expensive footballer, with Paris Saint-Germain signing him for a five-year deal for
a fee of Rs1,680 cr. He hails from
1) Argentina 2) Mexico 3) Spain 4) Brazil 5) France
57. India has signed a loan agreement with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) for financing of USD 329 mn for
the rural roads project in
1) Rajasthan 2) Gujarat 3) Maharashtra 4) Karnataka 5) Odisha
58. Paul Kagame won the recent Presidential elections in which of the following countries?
1) Rwanda 2) Uganda 3) Chile 4) Colombia 5) Nigeria
59. The names of Joshna Chinappa and Dipika Pallikal are associated with which of the following games?
1) Tennis 2) Badminton 3) Squash 4) Table tennis 5) Chess
60. Which of the following has become the first state to implement coal utilisation between power units in the country? The
power developers will receive cheap coal for selling coal-based power at less than Rs 2.82 a unit.
1) Uttar Pradesh 2) Rajasthan 3) Madhya Pradesh 4) Gujarat 5) Jharkhand
61. Panaya probe was in news recently which is associated with which of the following IT majors?
1) Wipro 2) TCS 3) Infosys 4) HCL 5) Microsoft
62. Which of the following is the capital city of Papua New Guinea?
1) Porto-Novo 2) Bridgetown 3) Port Louis 4) Sarajevo 5) Port Moresby
63. India is trying to expedite the completion of Chabahar Port and proposed rail link between Chabahar and Zahedan in
which of the following countries?
1) Iraq 2) Iran 3) Afghanistan 4) Bangladesh 5) Sri Lanka
64. Who among the following has been appointed as the new Vice-Chairman of the NITI Aayog?
1) Vinod Paul 2) Ramesh Chand 3) VK Saraswat 4) Rajiv Kumar 5) Bibek Debroy
65. Bharat 22 is an ETF that will track the performance of 22 stocks the govt plans to pare its stake in. The full form of the term
ETF is
1) Exchange Transferred Fund 2) Externally Traded Fund 3) Exchange Traded Fund
4) Exchange Tailored Fund 5) None of these
66. The High-Level Committee set up to review the Institutionalization of Arbitration Mechanism in India submitted its
report to the Union Law Ministry. It was headed by
1) Altamas Kabir 2) Rajendra Mal Lodha 3) HL Dattu 4) TS Thakur 5) BN Srikrishna
67. Venkaiah Naidu won the Vice Presidential elections recently. He has become the ____ Vice President of India.
1) 09th 2) 10th 3) 11th 4) 13th 5) 15th
68. The National Handloom Day is celebrated every year on
1) 07 Aug 2) 09 Aug 3) 10 Aug 4) 11 Aug 5) 12 Aug
69. Indian professional boxer Vijender Singh outslugged Zulpikar Maimaitiali to retain the WBO Asia Pacific Super Middleweight title. Zulpikar belongs to
1) China 2) Mongolia 3) Malaysia 4) Indonesia 5) North Korea
70. The Punjab National Bank (PNB) will revise the non-credit related charges with effect from Sep 1, 2017, for cash deposit
above Rs 5,000. The headquarters of PNB is located in
1) Mumbai 2) Chennai 3) New Delhi 4) Amritsar 5) Chandigarh
71. Who among the following has been appointed as the next Chief Justice of India?
1) Dipak Misra 2) Arjan Kumar Sikri 3) Kurian Joseph 4) Madan Bhimarao Lokur 5) Ranjan Gogoi
72. The BJP National President Amit Shah, Union Minister Smriti Irani and Congress leader Ahmed Patel won the Rajya Sabha elections from which state recently?
1) Uttar Pradesh 2) Maharashtra 3) Gujarat 4) Rajasthan 5) Bihar
73. India recently called for expanding the areas of cooperation among the member countries of the Mekong Ganga Cooperation
(MGC) bloc. Which of the following countries is NOT a member of the MGC initiative?
1) Thailand 2) Myanmar 3) Laos 4) Cambodia 5) None of these
74. Justin Gatlin won the 100m World Championships recently while Usain Bolt was left with only a bronze in his final
individual 100m race. Gatlin hails from
1) Jamaica 2) Kenya 3) South Africa 4) US 5) Australia
75. The govt has launched the second phase of its measles-rubella (MR) vaccination campaign. The campaign will cover children across eight states and union territories excluding
1) Dadra and Nagar Haveli 2) Telangana 3) Kerala 4) Chandigarh 5) None of these
76. The Sardar Sarovar Dam, a gravity dam on the Narmada river, is situated in which of the following states?
1) Maharashtra 2) Gujarat 3) Madhya Pradesh 4) Punjab 5) None of these
77. The Legislative Assembly in which of the following states recently passed a bill which reclassifies coconut as a ‘tree’?
1) Kerala 2) Tamil Nadu 3) Telangana 4) Karnataka 5) Goa
78. The 75th anniversary of the Quit India Movement was observed recently on
1) 01 Aug 2) 02 Aug 3) 05 Aug 4) 07 Aug 5) 09 Aug
79. Two Iranian companies recently signed the country’s biggest-ever car deal with which of the following multinational
automobile manufacturers to produce 150,000 cars?
1) General Motors 2) Renault 3) Ford 4) SAIC 5) Jaguar Land Rover
80. The 2030 Water Resources Group (2030WRG) will help which of the following state govts raise $270 mn from the Green
Climate Fund, a new fund under the UN?
1) Bihar 2) Haryana 3) Maharashtra 4) Odisha 5) Jharkhand
81. The composition and terms of reference (TOR) of the 15th Finance Commission are expected by the end of 2017.
The chairman of the 14th Finance Commission was
1) Sudipto Mundle 2) Abhijit Sen 3) Sushma Nath 4) M Govindha Rao 5) YV Reddy
82. Which of the following firms recently announced the launch of Virtual Customer Service (VCS) model for the talent who
might not be able to physically attend regular office?
1) Infosys 2) Amazon 3) Flipkart 4) Microsoft 5) TCS
83. The name of Neeraj Chopra is associated with which of the following games?
1) Javelin Throw 2) Discus Throw 3) Table Tennis 4) Basketball 5) Chess
84. The eighth meeting of the Regional Technical Group of Confidence Building Measure on Trade, Commerce & Investment
Opportunities under the Heart of Asia – Istanbul Process was hosted by India recently in
1) Mumbai 2) Amritsar 3) Bengaluru 4) New Delhi 5) Hyderabad
85. The Centre declared the entire area of which of the following states as a “disturbed” area under the Armed Forces
(Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) for one more month recently?
1) Assam 2) Sikkim 3) West Bengal 4) Kerala 5) Manipur
86. The senior bureaucrat S Aparna has been appointed as an Executive Director in the World Bank in the US. She was the
Principal Secretary of the Chief Minister of
1) Maharashtra 2) Gujarat 3) Rajasthan 4) Odisha 5) Madhya Pradesh
87. The Syndicate Bank has pared its marginal cost of funds based lending rate (MCLR) by 5-10 basis points in certain
maturity buckets. The headquarter of Syndicate Bank is located in
1) Chennai, Tamil Nadu 2) Hyderabad, Telangana 3) Manipal, Karnataka 4) Kochi, Kerala 5) Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
88. The navy of which of the following countries recently commissioned the new advance offshore patrol vessel “SLNS
Sayurala” built by India?
1) Sri Lanka 2) Bangladesh 3) Vietnam 4) Mauritius 5) Suriname
89. Which of the following firms in India has launched ‘Budding Star Programme’ to help its employees achieve their dreams
by providing them financial assistance and paid leave?
1) Snapdeal 2) Flipkart 3) Infibeam 4) Shopclues 5) HCL
90. Qatar has announced the scrapping of visa requirements for visitors from 80 countries including India. The capital city
of Qatar is
1) Abu Dhabi 2) Riyadh 3) Baghdad 4) Doha 5) Manama
91. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is set to begin its final ultra-close orbits around which planet before the probe plunges into
the atmosphere of the planet and ends its journey?
1) Mercury 2) Saturn 3) Jupiter 4) Mars 5) Venus
92. What is India’s ranking in 2017 Global Retirement Index (GRI) published by the French asset management company
Natixis Global?
1) 43rd 2) 41st 3) 42nd 4) 40th 5) 38th
93. Davinder Singh Kang recently became the first Indian to qualify for the final round of the World Championships of which
of the following games?
1) Discus throw 2) Shooting 3) Javelin throw 4) Archery 5) Boxing
94. The National Deworming Day (NDD) is observed every year on
1) 01 Aug 2) 04 Aug 3) 06 Aug 4) 08 Aug 5) 10 Aug
95. The former Union Minister of State for Water Resources Sanwar Lal Jat passed away recently. He was a BJP MP from
1) Bhopal 2) Udaipur 3) Ahmedabad 4) Ajmer 5) Vidisha
96. As per the survey by the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation conducted between May and Jun 2017, almost all rural households in ________ had access to a toilet.
1) Haryana 2) Kerala 3) Gujarat 4) All the above 5) Only 1) and 2)
97. Which country has topped the 2017 Global Retirement Index (GRI) published by the French asset management company
Natixis Global?
1) Norway 2) Sweden 3) Switzerland 4) Japan 5) Australia
98. The External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj recently participated in the 15th BIMSTEC Ministerial Meeting held in
1) Colombo, Sri Lanka 2) Kathmandu, Nepal 3) Islamabad, Pakistan 4) Thimphu, Bhutan 5) Naypyidaw, Myanmar
99. The Sri Rama Sagar Project, also known as the Pochampadu Project, is a flood-flow project on the Godavari River located in the state of
1) Tamil Nadu 2) Odisha 3) Karnataka 4) Telangana 5) Gujarat
100. India has ratified the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol that commits countries to contain greenhouse
gases emission. The Kyoto Protocol entered into force in
1) 2008 2) 1992 3) 2005 4) 1996 5) 2002
Answer
1. 1 2. 5 3. 3 4. 2 5. 4
6. 1 7. 3 8. 5 9. 2 10. 5
11. 4 12. 1 13. 3 14. 2 15. 2
16. 3 17. 4 18. 5 19. 1 20. 2
21. 2 22. 3 23. 1 24. 4 25. 5
26. 4 27. 2 28. 1 29. 3 30. 5
31. 4 32. 5 33. 2 34. 1 35. 3
36. 1 37. 4 38. 3 39. 2 40. 5
41. 2 42. 5 43. 1 44. 3 45. 4
46. 1 47. 3 48. 5 49. 2 50. 4
51. 5 52. 1 53. 3 54. 2 55. 4
56. 4 57. 2 58. 1 59. 3 60. 4
61. 3 62. 5 63. 2 64. 4 65. 3
66. 5 67. 4 68. 1 69. 1 70. 3
71. 1 72. 3 73. 5 74. 4 75. 5
76. 2 77. 5 78. 5 79. 2 80. 3
81. 5 82. 2 83. 1 84. 4 85. 1
86. 2 87. 3 88. 1 89. 2 90. 4
91. 2 92. 1 93. 3 94. 5 95. 4
96. 5 97. 1 98. 2 99. 4 100. 3
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