Current affairs II

1. What is the capital of Guyana? - Georgetown
2. National Journalism Day is observed on which day
every year? - 17 November
3. Apollo Hospitals tied up with Pharma firm - Sanofi
4. Mohammad Ghouse, passed away in Chennai. He
was associated with which sports? - Cricket
5. Expand COMPAT - Competition Appellate Tribunal
6. Indian men hockey team clinched gold after how
many years in Asian Games? - 16 years
7. India won how many gold medals in 17th Asian
games? - 11
8. Expand TS GENCO – Telangana State Power
Generation Corporation
9. Who is Michael Phelps? - US swimmer
10. Indian Railways on 10 October 2014 celebrated its
……… Annual Railway National Awards - 59th
11. PM Narendra Modi addressed Indian-Americans
at world famous Madison Square Garden.Madison
Square Garden is situated in which city? - New York
12. J. Jayalalithaa became first incumbent chief
minister to be convicted for corruption and was
sentenced for 4 years in Jail .She was the chief
minister of ____________ state? - Tamil Nadu
13. The Vision Statement is issued by - India and US
14. Kailash Satyarthi is associated with
_______movement? - Bachpan Bachao Andolan
15. Who is the author of the Book " The shadow
lines"? - Amitav Ghosh
16. According to Union Budget 2014-15, how many
IIMs to be opened? - 5
17. In railway budget 2014-15, Cleanliness budget up
by how many per cent over last year? - 40%
18. FDI limit in Civil Aviation - 49%.
19. Census 2011, was the 15th Census of India and
…… Census after Independence. - 7th
20. Headquarter of Indian bank is situated in
__________ city? - Chennai
21. Who is the current road, transport, highways and
shipping minister? - Nitin Gadkari
22. ECB stands for-External Commercial Borrowings
23. Wimbledon Cup is related to _______ game ? -
Lawn tennis
24. Currency of Malaysia is - Ringgit
25. EPS in share market stands for - Earnings Per
Share
26. Who is authorized to permit premature closure of
PPF A/c? - Chairman of concerning Bank
27. The objective of Government to appoint
Narasimham Committee is - to strengthen the
banking system
28. When was NABARD established? - July 12, 1982
29. _________ cities in India has become the world's
second most populous city in 2014 after Tokyo,
according to a UN report released recently? - Delhi
30. Recently who has become the first player of
Indian origin to be a part of the National Basketball
Association (NBA)? - Sim Bhullar
31. Who is the present Global Goodwill Ambassador
of UNICEF? - Sachin Tendulkar
32. ___________ is an e-Commerce solution of
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)? -
RuPay Debit Cards
33. Recently SBI signed _______ line of credit with
Export Import Bank of India. - 500 million dollars
34. _________ highest urban population? -
Maharashtra
35. Japan has sea-conflict with _________ country? -
China
36. ________ signed an agreement with the Kochi
Metro Rail Ltd. for a loan of Rs. 1,170 crore? -
Canara Bank
37. Recently former President of the United States of
America Bill Clinton visited Jabrouli village, near
Lucknow, on an awareness mission on - diarrhea
38. India has inked a loan agreement with World Bank
for an assistance of ____for the Odisha Disaster
Recovery Project. - $153 million
39. For the safety and welfare of women how much
money has been provided for Beti Bachao Beti
Padhao Yojana to generate awareness on the
issues? - Rs. 100 crores
40. ___was conferred "Best Bank – Public Sector"
award in BFSI Awards-2014 by World HRD Congress,
recently? - Bank of Maharashtra
41. What is Current Repo Rate? - 8%
42. Recently Priyanka Chopra played a role of Mary
Kom in a movie, who is Mary kom? - Boxer
43. Expand DBT - Direct Benefit Transfer
44. Lisbon is the capital of – Portugal
45. Currency of Saudi Arabia - Riyal
46. What is 'C' in KYC? - Customer
47. What is 'I' in REIT? - Investment
48. Mary Barra who recently visited India is the CEO
of – General Motors
49. According to RBI norms, what is minimum capital
required for foriegn banks to open subsidar
ised as completion of 100 years
of which war ? - World War - I