1).Department of Posts has decided to open ____ number of Post Office Passport Seva Kendras (POPSK) in various States.
a) 102
b) 75
c) 31
d) 56
e) 64
Answer: d)
Explanation: The External Affairs Ministry and the Department of Posts announced last month their decision to utilize the Head Post Offices in the various States as POPSK. The objective of this partnership is to extend passport services on a larger scale of 56 branch and to ensure wider area coverage. The states include Delhi, Assam, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Telangana and West Bengal.
2). An explosion and fire accident occurred recently in _______ nuclear power plant in France.
a) Penly
b) Superphénix
c) Cattenom
d) Dampierre
e) Flamanville
Answer: e)
Explanation: : An explosion and fire occurred at the Flamanville nuclear plant in France on Thursday and five people suffered minor injuries due to smoke inhalation, reports said. Adding that there is "no nuclear risk" to the locals, authorities said, "It is a significant technical failure but it is not a nuclear accident". Notably, nuclear power provides four-fifths of France's electricity generation.
3). What is the Repo Rate announced by RBI in 6th Bi-monthly meet of 2016-17 FY.
a) 5.75%
b) 6.25%
c) 5.5%
d) 6.75%
e) 6.0%
Answer: b)
Explanation: The Reserve Bank of India today maintained status quo on its key rates in its monetary policy review, today and the repo rate, or the rate at which the RBI lends to banks, stands unchanged at 6(point)25 per cent, and the reverse repo rate, or the rate at which the RBI absorbs excess liquidity, also remains steady at 5(point)75 per cent.
4). Uber has launched a service named _______ which will allow users to hire a cab for up to 12 hours.
a) UberRENT
b) UberTrip
c) UberHIRE
d) UberSHOP
e) UberRENTAL
Answer: c)
Explanation: After Ola, US-based cab aggregator Uber has now launched ‘UberHIRE’ in nine Indian cities, including Delhi, Mumbai and Pune that will allow users to hire a cab for up to 12 hours. UberHIRE is a time-based offering that allows users to make trips punctuated with multiple stop overs, Uber said in a blogpost.
5). Mission-Eleven-Million launched by ministry of sports focus on ______ sports.
a) Tennis
b) Cricket
c) Hockey
d) Football
e) Athletics
Answer: d)
Explanation: Sports Minister Vijay Goel today launched Mission-Eleven-Million, the biggest school sports outreach programme in the country at Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi. The programme aims to instill the passion for football in 11 million children from every part of the country. Speaking on the occasion, Mr Goel said, the key idea of this programme is that every child should have the opportunity to play football. He said, over the past year, his Ministry has made many bold strides towards developing a sporting culture in the country.
6). Tata steel has signed definitive agreements with _____ for sale of its speciality steel business for total consideration of 100 million pounds.
a) Liberty House
b) Firth Brown Steels
c) Lancashire Steel Corporation
d) British Steel Limited
e) Samuel Osborn & Company
Answer: a)
Explanation: Tata Steel has signed definitive agreements with U.K. based Liberty House for sale of its speciality steel business for total consideration of 100 million pounds that covers several South Yorkshire-based assets and service centres in U.K. and China. The speciality steel business employs 1700 people making steel for the aerospace, automotive and oil & gas industries.
7). An important person in UK who has given up his US citizenship ?
a) Theresa May
b) Boris Johnson
c) Amber Rudd
d) Michael Fallon
e) David Mundell
Answer: b)
Explanation: UK Foreign secretary Boris Johnson has given up his US citizenship, according to US Treasury Department documents released on Wednesday. Johnson had US citizenship as well as British citizenship as he was born and lived in New York until the age of five. Notably, Johnson was being pursued by US authorities over tax payments on the sale of his house.
8). ______ has decide to form a advisory committee on financial technology or fintech-related issues.
a) SEBI
b) RBI
c) SBI
d) EXIM
e) NSE
Answer: a)
Explanation: The Securities Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is forming an advisory committee on financial technology or fintech-related issues, which would look at safeguards that can be put in place to facilitate Crowdfunding of ‘genuine’ ventures and mobilise more household savings into the financial markets using technology solutions.
9). Nobel laureate Sir Peter Mansfield who died recently is famous for ______?
a) CT Scanner
b) ECG
c) MRI scanner
d) Ecmo
e) none of these
Answer: c)
Explanation: Nobel laureate Sir Peter Mansfield, who developed Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), has died at the age of 83 on Wednesday. Mansfield, an English physicist born in 1933, was a Professor at the University of Nottingham starting from 1964 until 1994, when he retired. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2003, along with late American chemist Paul Lauterbur, for discovering Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
10). _______ country has started taking fingerprints of all foreign visitors, aged between 14 to 70, at Airport.
a) Japan
b) China
c) Ireland
d) Australia
e) Denmark
Answer: b)
Explanation: China has started taking fingerprints of all foreign visitors, aged between 14 to 70, at the Shenzhen International Airport from Friday to improve border checks, according to China's Ministry of Public Security. Foreigners with diplomatic passports will not have to provide their fingerprints and Chinese citizens from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan will not be considered foreigners, it added.
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