Current Affairs, General and Banking Knowledge Thread For Bank Aspirants

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Quiz 23


1) which indian-origin woman is selected for order of Australia Medal on

30 june 2013 ???


A) Krishna Arora

B) Joyce westrip

C) Vettath Rajkumar

D) Mala mehta


2) What is the name of actress who is splitting from her husband Dario

Franchitti recently ?


A) Emilie Fracois

B) Ashley judd

C) katie holmes

D) judie shekoni


3) which country announced that it would stop importing all US meat and

pork products from 11th february 2013 ?


A) srilanka

B) japan

C) russia

D) UK


4) who won his 75th PGA tour title in the farmers insurance open at torrey

pines on 29th january 2013?


A) rickie flower

B) nick watney

C) brandt snedeker

D) tiger woods


5) who announced One nation, One rate offer which allow users one rate

in home circle and roaming?


A) Reliance

B) aircel

C) vodafone

D) airtel


6) who is reprimanded by election commission for model code violation

during gujarat polls?


A) narendra modi

B) keshubhai patel

C) navjot singh sidhu

D) akhilesh yadav


7) which asteroid will have a close encounter with the earth on 16th february 2013?


A) 2012 DA14

B) 3753 cruithne

C) 2002 AA

D) 951 Gaspra


8) which day was observed on 30th january to focus on disease ?


A) world science day

B) world anti leprosy day

C) world ozone day

D) world blood day


9) who has been named as the new CEO of infosys BPO on 30th january 2013?


A) sanjay jalona

B) swami swaminathan

C) gautam thakkar

D) ayan chakrabarty


10) which country has sent a live monkey into space onboard the

indigenous pishgam rocket ?


A) iran

B) iraq

C) pakistan

D) china


11) what is the name of egyptian president who declares emergency in

3 cities as 48 died in riots?


A) Mohamed hussein tantawi

B) sufi abu taleb

C) hosni mubarak

D) muhammed mursi


12) what is the name of pakistan anti-graft watchdog chief who

resigned on 27th january 2013 ?


A) rehman malik

B) kamran faisal

C) iftikhar chaudhry

D) fasih bokhari


13) what is the rank of india in the latest worls press freedom index?


A) 140th

B) 150th

C) 173rd

D) 100th


14) what is the name of harbhajan singh's new film production company??


A) madan production

B) bhajji production

C) Bhajji and madan production

D) harbhajan production


15) which team has won the ranji trophy final 28th january 2013?


A) karnataka

B) railways

C) saurashtra

D) mumbai


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Who topped UPSC civil services exam for 2012, results of which were announced on 3rd May 2013 ??

who won french open (Lawn tennis) 2013 for men's and women's singles title respectively ???

who won Thailand Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament for men's singles ???

Name the two states from where the Election Commission of India has planned to launch its driving license like-hard plastic voter ID cards and replace the long existing laminated voter identity cards.

India Post in the last week of March 2013 decided to establish third Automated Mail Processing Centre in which city by April 2013.

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# Senior BJP leader L K Advani has resigned from all party posts today a day after Narendra Modi was chosen to head the party's campaign in elections due next year


# Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has penalized India's top three private banks today – ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank and Axis Bank for violating its instructions on know your customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) guidelines. Axis Bank, HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank have been penalized Rs 5 crore, Rs 4.5 crore and Rs 1 crore. Earlier RBI had launched the investigation into the working of banks following the expose by Cobrapost which showed some bankers of these banks giving suggestions to customers on how to bypass regulatory norms.


# Upadhyayula Suryanarayana Murty, Chief Scientist and Head-Biology Division of CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad has been awarded with the ICMR prize for biomedical research conducted in underdeveloped areas for the year 2010.


# Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel won his maiden Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal yesterday. This is his 29th victory. Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton came second and third respectively in the same race.

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General Knowledge Preparation Demystified : Part 2

Quiz-24


1) how much percent, the union government of india increased import duty

on gold and platinum on 21th january ??


A) 2%

B) 4%

C) 6%

D) 8%


2) _______have a single communication channel that is shared by all the

users on the network ?


A) point to point

B) broadcast network

C) protocol

D) PAN


3) who is elected as the leader of indian delegation for world economic

forum 2013?


A) kamal nath

B) rahul gandhi

C) anand sharma

D) A.K.antony


4) with which country india signed MoU to strengthen Micro, Small and

Medium Enterprises on 15th jan 2013?


A) qatar

B) iraq

C) vietnam

D) indonesia


5) which stock exchange launched country's first dedicated debt trading

platform on 13th may 2013?


A) Multi commodity exchange

B) national stock exchange

C) bombay stock exchange

D) bangalore stock exchange


6) small magnetic disk enclosed in a plastic cover used to store data for

micro computer.what it is ??


A) floppy disk

B) compact disc

C) optical disc

D) zip disc


7) who was appointed as the new director general of defence research

and development organization ?


A) avinash chander

B) V.K.saraswat

C) amardeep ranaut

D) shashi kant sharma


8) union health minister ghulam nabi azad cleared a proposal to ban

which commonly used pain killer?


A) vanquish

B) analgin

C) motrin 800

D) advil motrin nuprin


9) what is the name of Mr.narayan murthy's son who was included

in the reconstituted board of infosys ??


A) Rohan murthy

B) ajay murthy

C) shankar murthy

D) krishna murthy


10) what was the original name of jiah khan, the film actress who committed

suicide on 3rd june 2013 ?


A) nafisa khan

B) sana khan

C) nilofar khan

D) farah khan


11) in which state highest krishi vigyan kendra (kvk) of india will be set up??


A) jammu and kashmir

B) punjab

C) west bengal

D) assam


12) who is the new secretary of BCCI as announced on 6th june 2013 ?


A) sanjay jagdale

B) sanjay patel

C) sanjay dutt

D) sanjay dhawan


13) who was reelected as chairman of indian banks' association on 6th

june 2013 for 2013-14 tenure ?


A) sanjay jagdale

B) pratip chaudhuri

C) aditya puri

D) K.R.kamath


14) which pune politician wears a rs.1.25 crore shirt made of gold to

get a ticket for lok sabha election ?


A) datta phuge

B) ramesh wanjale

C) navnirman sena

D) samrat moze


15) which underwater ballistic missile was successfully test fired by india

on 26th jan 2013?


A) k-14

B) k-15

C) k-16

D) k-17


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United States has exempted India from importing oil from Iran

Correct or incorrect?

Who refused to accept padma bhushan award announced for her on the eve of 64th republic day ??

what is the theme of 2013 world economic forum which begins in Davos, switzerland on 23rd 2013 ?

where will the world's largest optical telescope be developed by five nation consortium ?

which country still recruits child soldiers despite embracing democratic reforms and UN agreement ?


Inflation is ?

who won the 2013 ice hockey world championships on 19th May 2013 ?

Global Financial Centre index has placed Mumbai at which rank in the list of world 's leading financial institutions ?