Current Affairs Questions (based on The Hindu) for IBPS Clerk Mains 2016

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Q1. Who has been appointed as the chairman of LIC after the Successor of SK Roy?

(a) Ishant Somal

(b) Aditya Singh

(d) Kundan Powar

(e) VK Sharma

Q2. Which of the following e-commerce website has partnership with National Highway Authority of India (NHAI)?

(a) Airtel Money

(d) MobiKwik

(e) None of the above

Q3. The Government of India informed that it has extended the e-Tourist Visa facility to citizens of ________ countries.

Q4. Which city has entered into the UN’s list of world heritage sites recently?

(a) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

(b) Novosibirsk, Russia

(d) Kyoto, Japan

(e) Manchester, UK

Q5. Who has taken charge as Chief Executive of the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA)?

(a) C B Bhave

(b) Rajendra Kumar

(d) Pulkit Trivedi

(e) None of the above

Q6. The World Bank Group (WBG) has halted the two concurrent processes initiated by ________________ under the Indus Water Treaty.

(a) India and Pakistan

(b) India and China

(d) India and Nepal

(e) India and Bhutan

Q7. WPI based inflation for November 2016 came in at a five-month low of 3.15 %, lower than 3.39 % in the october month, 2016. WPI stands for?

(a) Wholesale Price Input

(b) Wholesale Price Index

(d) Wheather Price Index

(e) None of the above

Q8. A biopic titled “Blond Ambition” has been named the most admired unproduced film script currently in the Hollywood system. It is the biopic of-

(a) Jennifer Aniston

(b) Sandra Bullock

(d) Johnny Depp

(e) Angelina Jolie

Q9. Indo-Russian Bilateral Naval Exercise Indra Navy-2016 was held in December 2016. The first edition of this maritime exercise was held in?

Q10. Which company has launched ‘Each one, teach one’ to increase digital inclusion?

(a) MobiKwik

(b) Snapdeal

(d) Freecharge

Q11. Name the Gujarat-born activist, who led a campaign against low pay for women workers at a UK factory in the 1970s has made it the BBC's most influential women of the past 70 years list released.

(a) Preeti Chauhan

(b) Jayaben Desai

(d) Yasoda Patel

(e) None of the above

Q12. Name the economist, who won a Nobel Prize for using game theory to explain nuclear strategy had passed away recently?

(a) Smith Steve

(b) Zelda M Ayres

(d) Thomas Schelling

(e) None of the above

Q13. Sahaj International School in _________ will be the first residential transgender school in the country.

(a) Kochi, Kerala

(b) Surat, Gujarat

(d) Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh

(e) Mangaluru, Karnataka

Q14. Which of the following state government has approved an ordinance proposing stringent action against bootleggers, tipplers and unscrupulous officials who help criminals escape raids on liquor dens in the dry state recently?

(a) Punjab

(b) Kerala

(d) Maharashtra

(e) Gujarat

Q15. Pakistan has successfully test-fired an enhanced version of an indigenously-designed cruise missile that can hit targets at __________ with all kinds of warheads, bringing many Indian cities within its range.

(a) 1500km

(b) 1100km

(d) 300km

(e) 100km

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