Current Affairs Questions for IBPS Clerk Mains 2017: 24th Dec 2017

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Q1. Name the Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister who was recently in India to attend the meeting of India-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Cooperation (IRIGC-TEC).

(a) Dmitry Medvedev

(b) Alexander Rutskoy

(d) Dmitry Rogozin

(e) Boris Yeltsin

Q2. The government had formally launched the ‘Ganga Gram’ project at the Ganga Gram Swachata Sammelan in New Delhi. The Water Resources and Ganga Rejuvenation Minister of India is
(a) Uma Bharti
(b) Nitin Gadkari
(c) Dharmendra Pradhan
(d) Ananthgeet
(e) Ramvilas Paswan

Q3. With an aim to bring foreign policy to the masses the External Affairs Ministry has come up with an initiative called SAMEEP. SAMEEP stands for _____________.
(a) Students and Ministers Engagement Program
(b) Students and MEA Enrolment Program
(c) Students and MEA Engagement Program
(d) Students and MEA Encouragement Program
(e) Students and MEA Effort Program

Q4. Name the city that will host the seventh edition of the India International Coffee Festival (IICF) in January, 2018.
(a) New Delhi
(b) Chennai
(c) Bhubaneshwar
(d) Pune
(e) Bengaluru

Q5. Name the person who has has been recently announced as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Peru.
(a) Arun Kumar Singh
(b) Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
(c) Navtej Sarna
(d) M. Subbarayudu
(e) Nirupama Rao

Q6. Name the Petroleum Company with which SBI Card, the credit card issuer has announced to launch the most rewarding fuel co-branded credit card in the country.
(a) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited
(b) Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
(c) Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited
(d) Oil and Gas India
(e) GAIL India Ltd

Q7. Name the officer who recently took over the reins of National Cadet Corps as its Director General.
(a) Lieutenant General Praveen Seth
(b) Lieutenant General B S Sahrawat
(c) Lieutenant General Pramod Singh
(d) Lieutenant General Kapil Saraswat
(e) Lieutenant General harish Bhanwal

Q8. India's largest mortgage lender HDFC has sold its realty brokerage business HDFC Realty to ______________.
(a) Snapdeal
(b) Paisabazar
(c) Policymaker
(d) Quikr
(e) None of the given options is true

Q9. Kisan Diwas (Farmer's Day) is observed every year on _______________.
(a) 29 December
(b) 27 December
(c) 23 December
(d) 25 December
(e) 21 December

Q10. Jatileswar Mukhopadhyay had passed away recently in Kolkata aged 82. He was ____________.
(a) Singer
(b) Dancer
(c) Sitar Player
(d) Tabla Player
(e) Flute Player

Q11. Who is the present Governor of Himachal Pradesh?
(a) Kaptan Singh Solanki
(b) Acharya Dev Vrat
(c) V. P. Singh Badnore
(d) Ganga Prasad
(e) S. C. Jamir

Q12. Kisan Diwas (Farmer's Day) is observed every year to celebrate the birth anniversary of _____________.
(a) Madan Mohan Malviya
(b) Avtar Singh
(c) Sohan Singh Bhangu
(d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
(e) Chaudhary Charan Singh

Q13. Who is the present Chairman & Managing Director of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited?
(a) Rajnish Kumar
(b) D. Rajkumar
(c) N. Srinivasa Rao
(d) Mudita Mishra
(e) K. Ramadevi

Q14. Lima is the capital city of _____________.
(a) Israel
(b) Oman
(c) Suva
(d) Peru
(e) Kuwait

Q15. Who is the present President of India Coffee Trust?
(a) Srivatsa Krishna
(b) Vasudevan Sahu
(c) Anil Bhandari
(d) Shubham Aggarwal
(e) Arindam Mukherjee

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