Current Affairs Revision “TIT- BITS”

Current Affairs Revision “TIT- BITS” Set-12:

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1).The government permitted how much percent Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the market place format of e-commerce retailing in order to attract more foreign investments?

Answer: 100 percent

2).SoftBank Ventures Korea has invested an undisclosed amount in which India-based app, that helps keep track of the balance available on prepaid mobile accounts?

Answer: True Balance App

3).Which bank will lend India €450 million (approximately Rs. 3,300 crore) towards constructing a 23-km long Lucknow Metro rail line and a purchasing a fleet of new trains?

Answer: The European Investment Bank

4).Indian citizens in distress will soon be able to get help using a single number, for all emergency services in the country, including the police, fire brigade and ambulance. What is the number?

Answer: 112

5).Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd, with which company of Israel have decided to set up a joint venture company in India in the highly specialized areas of air-to-air missiles, air defence systems and large aerostats, that will oversee projects worth USD 10 billion (over Rs 65,000 crore) in ten years?

Answer: Rafael Advanced Defence Systems Ltd

6).State-run Bank of India said that the government has approved a capital infusion of how much amount in lieu of preferential allotment of shares?

Answer: Rs.1150 crores

7).Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid his respects to the victims of the March 22 terror attacks in which country by laying a wreath at the entrance to the Maalbeek metro station?

Answer: Brussels

8).Finance Minister Arun Jaitley launched ‘Make in India’ conference in which country recently?

Answer: Sydney, Australia

9).Which company has signed a pact with Elbit-ISTAR and Alpha Design Technologies to work in the field of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in India?

Answer: Adani Aero Defence

10).Name the Hungarian writer who won the 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature for fiction largely drawn from his experience as a teenage prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, died at the age of 86.

Answer: Imre Kertesz

11).Which country's government has committed a loan of Around Rs.14,251 crores for various projects across India, including Jharkhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and the North East?

Answer: Japan

12).The 13th India-EU Summit concluded in which country without a consensus on a bilateral free trade deal known as the BTIA (Broadbased Trade and Investment Agreement)?

Answer: Brussels

13).South Africa’s top court ordered the President to pay back some of the $16 million of state money spent for upgrading his private home, in a stinging rebuke that hits the scandal-plagued leader financially and politically. Name the President.

Answer: Jocob Zuma

14).Who will take the oath as the first woman CM of Jammu and Kashmir ending 11 weeks of political uncertainty?

Answer: Mehbooba Mufti

15).Who has stepped down as UBHL [United Breweries (Holdings) Ltd.] director recently?

Answer: Sidhartha V Mallya

16).Pakistan’s Sikh religious body elected whom as its caretaker president after its first chief Sardar Sham Singh, credited with changing the face of Sikh shrines in the Muslim-dominated country, died?

Answer: Sardar Tara Singh

17).Name the Former German Foreign Minister who has died at the age of 89 recently.

Answer: Hans-Dietrich Genscher

18).Name the famous TV actress who was known for her role of adult Anandi in the serial “Balika Vadhu”, allegedly committed suicide.

Answer: Pratyusha Banerjee

19).Name the Indian boxer who reached the Asian-Oceania qualifying event final in Quian’an, China, and become the first Indian boxer to book a spot in the Rio Olympics.

Answer: Shiva Thapa

20).Who will be feted with the ‘Maharashtrian Of The Year 2016’?

Answer: Ranveer Singh