Important Current Affairs GK Quiz for Upcoming SBI PO Exams 2017

Important Current Affairs GK Quiz for Upcoming SBI PO Exams (14th March 2017):

Dear Readers, Here we have given the Current Affairs GK questions based on the previous days Daily Current Affairs updates. Candidates those who are preparing for Upcoming Banking exams can use these questions.

1).Which taxi transportation network company in India launched a real-time ID check for its drivers by sharing selfie ?

a) Ola

b) Jagoon

c) Uber

d) Meru Cabs

e) Red Taxi

Answer: c)
Explanation: Uber has launched a real-time ID check for drivers in India that prompts drivers to share a selfie of themselves before going online. The selfie is matched with the driver's picture saved with Uber to ensure that only registered drivers take charge of cabs. The move aims at preventing frauds and stopping the drivers’ accounts from being hacked or misused.

2).In which place does India’s largest floating solar photo voltaic plant of 100kWp capacity, opened by NTPC Ltd ?

a) New Town, West Bengal

b) Panaji , Goa

c) Kayamkulam , Kerala

d) Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh

e) Mangrol, Gujarat

Answer: c)
Explanation: The NTPC Ltd in the second week of March 2017 installed India’s largest floating solar photo voltaic plant at the Rajiv Gandhi Combined Cycle Power Plant (RGCCPP) Kayamkulam in Kerala. The plant was inaugurated by AK Jha, Director (Technical) of the NTPC Ltd. The 100 kWp foating solar photo voltaic plant is the largest of its kind in India as on date. This foating platform has been indigenously developed by the NETRA (NTPC Energy Technology Research Alliance) in collaboration with Central Institute of Plastic Engineering & Technology (CIPET), Chennai.

3).Which digital payments startup has raised a fund of Rs.30 crore from its existing investor Jasper Infotech

a) FlipKart

b) Paytm

c) MobiKwik

d) TalkCharge

e) FreeCharge

Answer: e)
Explanation: Snapdeal-owned digital payments startup FreeCharge on Monday raised Rs.30 crore in funding from its existing investor Jasper Infotech. The investor, which also owns Snapdeal, had invested Rs.390 crore in FreeCharge earlier this year. The funding comes days after FreeCharge CEO Govind Rajan announced his exit from the startup.

4).Who has newly selected as the chief minister of Goa ?

a) Manohar Parrikar

b) Murli Manohar Joshi

c) Yashwant Sinha

d) Pramod Mahajan

e) L.K. Advani

Answer: a)
Explanation: Senior BJP leader Manohar Parrikar will be sworn in as chief minister of Goa today and Governor Mridula Sinha will administer him and other cabinet ministers the oath of office and secrecy at Raj Bhawan this evening. The Governor invited Mr Parrikar to form the next government in the coastal state after he submitted a letter of support from 21 legislators on Sunday. Three MLAs from the Goa Forward Party, three from the MGP and two Independents have pledged their support to Mr Parrikar.

5).Who has been elected as BJP's legislature party leader in Manipur after winning state election?

a) Yashwant Sinha

b) Ram Naresh Yadav

c) N Biren Singh

d) Pramod Mahajan

e) Manohar Parrikar

Answer: c)
Explanation: N Biren Singh has been elected as BJP's legislature party leader in Manipur on Monday and is expected to meet Governor Najma Heptulla soon to stake the party's claim to form the government. Notably, Congress had emerged as the largest party in Manipur after the Assembly elections, but the BJP claims to have gathered enough support to form the government.

6).Name the Andhra Pradesh Telugu Desam Party MLA who recently passed away ?

a) Y. Visweswara reddy

b) Bhuma Nagi Reddy

c) Prabhakar Chowdary. V

d) Attar. Chand basha

e) Balakrishna Nandamuri

Answer: b)
Explanation: Telugu Desam Party MLA Bhuma Nagi Reddy passed away due to a heart attack on Sunday .The budget session of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly was postponed after three-time Telugu. The 53-year-old Kurnool MLA is survived by two daughters and a son. His wife and former MLA Shobha Nagi Reddy died in a road accident during the election campaign in April 2014.

7).How much rupees fund allotted for Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir for its development ?

a) Rs. 151 crore

b) Rs. 193 crore

c) Rs. 127 crore

d) Rs. 169 crore

e) Rs. 233 crore

Answer: d)
Explanation: Jammu and Kashmir government has granted around 169 crore rupees plan outlay for the border district of Kathua for the financial year 2017-18. An official spokesperson said the District Development Board (DDB) of Kathua met in Jammu yesterday under the chairmanship of state Minister for PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control, Sham Lal Choudhary, and approved the plan outlay. Union Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Jitendra Singh, Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh were among those who attended the meeting.

8).Name the former Russian athletic chief who's lifetime ban upheld by Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) recently?

a) Yuliya Stepanova

b) Vladimir Kazarin

c) Sergei Portugalov

d) Sergey Kirdyapkin

e) Vitaly Mutko

Answer: c)
Explanation: The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) today upheld a lifetime ban levied against Sergei Portugalov, former chief of the Russian Athletics Federation's Medical Commission for his role in providing illicit substances to Russian athletes. The Lausanne-based court said in a statement that it had slapped Portugalov with a lifetime period of ineligibility beginning March 10, 2017, for having supplied athletes with banned substances.

9).Who is appointed as the new chairman of the Central Water Commission (CWC) replacing GS Jha?

a) Narendra Kumar

b) Abdul hamid

c) Kiran Rao

d) Vinith chandru

e) Shiva Shundharam

Answer: a)
Explanation: Narendra Kumar was appointed as the new chairman of the Central Water Commission (CWC). He succeeded GS Jha, who retired on superannuation on the same day. He is a Central Water Engineering Service (CWES) officer of 1979 batch.

10).The point of Wholesale inflation which reached 39-month high in the month of February ?

a) 6.12%

b) 6.78%

c) 6.55%

d) 5.74%

e) 7.24%

Answer: c)
Explanation: Wholesale inflation shot up to a 39-month high of 6 point 55 per cent in February this year, on account of costlier food and fuel items. Wholesale price based inflation had stood at 5.25 per cent in January this year, and 3.68 per cent in December last year. According to official data, food inflation jumped to 2.69 per cent in February, from minus 0.56 per cent in January. Inflation in the fuel basket spurted to 21.02 per cent in February, from 18.14 per cent in January.

11).Which Life Insurance Company plans to launch a pure term insurance product, with return of premium ?

a) Birla Sun Life Insurance Company Limited

b) Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance Company

c) PNB MetLife India Insurance Company Limited

d) HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company

e) IndiaFirst Life Insurance Company

Answer: b)
Explanation: Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance Company plans to launch a pure term insurance product, with return of premium, in April in the wake of the insurance regulator coming out with guidelines for the same. The Gurugram (Haryana)-headquartered life insurer will shortly approach the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) to get approval for the product, said a top official.

12).Which country has planned to send its largest warship on a three-month tour through the South China Sea starting from May to test its capability ?

a) USA

b) Germany

c) Russia

d) Japan

e) India

Answer: d)
Explanation: Japan is reportedly planning to dispatch its largest warship on a three-month tour through the South China Sea starting from May to test its capability. It is Japan's biggest show of naval force in the region since the second World War. This comes amid rising tensions between the US and China over freedom of navigation in the sea.