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April 2015 Current Affairs Banking

INTERNATIONAL
1) Which country carried out its first air strikes in Syria, as part of the US-led coalition fighting Islamic State militants?
Ans:- Canada
2) Name the political party of Pakistan that decided to join parliament after almost seven months of absence from the National Assembly and provincial assemblies of Punjab and Sindh?
Ans:- Tehreek-e-Insaf
3) Which country’s president condemned psychiatric therapies designed to repair gay, lesbian and transgender youth?
Ans:- United States
4) China is planning to build a 540-kilometre strategic high-speed rail link between Tibet and ____ passing through a tunnel under Mount Everest?

5 Banking and SSC : August 2015 INTERNATIONAL 1) Which country carried out its first air strikes in Syria, as part of the US-led coalition fighting Islamic State milita...

January 2015 Current Affairs Banking

INTERNATIONAL
1) Which Asian country celebrated its 67th Independence Day on 4 January 2015?
Ans:- Myanmar
2) Recently in news, “Charlie Hebdo” magazine belongs to which country?
Ans:- France
3) Maithripala Sirisena, has been elected as new President of which country?
Ans:- Sri Lanka
4) Who was elected as the first female President of Croatia on 11 January 2015?
Ans:- Grabar Kitarovic
5) Historic “Paris unity rally” was organized in support of ?
Ans:- Anti-terrorism
INDIA & WORLD
1) Name the train that has now started running from Kolkata to Dhaka with its own rake from 4 January 2015?
Ans:- Maitree Express

5 Banking and SSC : August 2015 INTERNATIONAL 1) Which Asian country celebrated its 67th Independence Day on 4 January 2015? Ans:- Myanmar 2) Recently in news, “Char...

March 2015 Current Affairs Banking

INTERNATIONAL
1) Which country’s government has proposed a prisoner swap with Indonesia in a last ditch effort to save the lives of two drug traffickers of its country, who are expected to face a firing squad within days?
Ans:-  Australia
2) Which country’s Professor was in news as on 9 March 2015 as she rejected an Indian student’s internship request citing rape problem in India?
Ans:- Germany
3) Which country has imposed sanctions on another group of individuals and entities in Ukraine and Russia accused of undermining Ukraine’s sovereignty and misappropriating Ukrainian state assets?
Ans:-  United States of America
4) The North-South Rail link in Srilanka connects which two locations in the island nation?
Ans:- Talaimannar to Madhu Road
5) Which country’s government has announced plans to build a new capital to the east of the present one?
Ans:- Egypt
INDIA & WORLD
1) With which country has India collaborated to study the global Climate Change?
Ans:- Norway
2) Name the warship that has been exported by India to Mauritius and commissioned on 12 March 2015?
Ans:- Barracuda
3) With which country has India inked five Memoranda of Understanding to give new impetus to bilateral co-operation on 11 March 2015?
Ans:- Mauritius
4) India and which country recently completed its first ever Friendship Motor Rally successfully at India gate?
Ans:- Nepal
5) With which country, Textiles Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed by India on 17 March 2015?
Ans:- Kyrgyzstan
NATIONAL
1) Which organisation has launched “National Electoral Roll Purification and Authentication Programme” (NERPAP) throughout the country from 3rd Mar’15 with the prime objective of bringing a totally error free and authenticated electoral roll?
Ans:-  Election Commission of India
2) National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) on 1 March 2015 celebrated its ___th foundation day?
Ans:- 25th
3) How many Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) accounts does the NPCI aim to link to the corresponding Aadhar Numbers by June 2015?
Ans:- 17 crore
4) Name the scheme that has been launched by the government for redressal of grievances of consumers relating to pricing and availability of medicines?
Ans:- PRASAD and Swadesh Darshan
5) The Supreme Court of India (SC) on 17 March 2015 cancelled the Union Government’s decision to include which category/community in the Central Other Backward Classes (OBC) list?
Ans:- Jaat
STATES
1) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 5 March 2015 inaugurated two units each of 600 MW of Shree Singaji Thermal Power Plant in which state?
Ans:- Madhya Pradesh
2) Which state government is contemplating on framing a law under which registration of pregnancy would be made compulsory within first three months of pregnancy? Ans:- Haryana
3) Which State’s Archives body is publishing three volumes of rare documents on Shaheed Bhagat Singh?
Ans:- Bihar
4) Government of India has recently decided to establish a National Marine Police Training Institute in which state?
Ans:- Gujarat
5) In which state First Kisan Call Centre (KCC) of North-East was opened on 9 March 2015?
Ans:- Tripura
CONFERENCES
1) The International Conference on Global Environment Issues was held from March 14 -15 March 2015 in —-?
Ans:-  New Delhi
AWARDS & HONOURS
1) Hifikepunye Pohamba has recently won the world’s most valuable individual award, the Mo Ibrahim prize for African leadership. Hifikepunye Pohamba is the President of which African country?
Ans:- Namibia
2) Which University recently honored Ratan Tata with Doctorate of Automotive Engineering?
Ans:-  Clemson University
3) Name the former union minister who has been awarded with the prestigious Saraswati Samman 2014 for his Kannada poem Ramayana Mahanveshanam?
Ans:- M.Veerapa Moily
4) Who has won KwazuluNatal 2015 National Teachers Award in South Africa?
Ans:- Ganasen Reddy
5) Name the Indian researcher has been named as New South Wales (NSW) “Woman of the year 2015″ award recently?
Ans:- Minoti Apate
SPORTS & GAMES
1) Who is the batsman who has scored the fastest 150 runs in ODI’s?
Ans:- AB de Villiers
2) Mahendra Singh Dhoni on 10 March 2015 registered most wins by an Indian captain in the history of the cricket World Cup. He surpassed whose record?
Ans:- Sourav Ganguly
3) Which football club recently won League Cup?
Ans:- Chelsea
4) New Zealand cricketer Martin Crowe was recently inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame as the ___th member?
Ans:- 79
5) Which New Zealand bowler joined cricket’s exclusive 300 ODI wickets club by claiming his 300th victim on 8 March 2015?
Ans:- Daniel Vettori
ECONOMY
1) As per the latest Forbes ranking of the richest people in the world, who is the richest person in India?
Ans:- Dilip Sanghvi
2) Which bank became the first major bank to announce rate cut after RBI’s second Repo rate cut of the year was announced on March 2015?
Ans:- State Bank of Travancore (SBT)
3) Which Indian mobile company has recently entered into a partnership with China Mobile, for jointly sourcing devices and equipment as well as developing 4G technology and standards?
Ans:- Airtel
4) Upto what limit Reserve Bank of India eased the norms for home loans by allowing banks to include stamp duty and registration charges to the cost of a unit?
Ans:- 10 Lakh
5) Which is India’s largest company with Rs 3.68 lakh cr worth assets as per data compiled by the Corporate Affairs Ministry, which was released recently?
Ans:- Reliance Industries Ltd
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
1) Name the aircraft that becomes the first to fly day and night without a drop of fuel, propelled solely by the sun’s energy?
Ans:-  Solar Impulse-2
2) Rotavirus vaccine “Rotavac” will be used for prevention of which disease?
Ans:-  Diarrhea
3) Indian Naval Ship (INS) Alleppey, which was decommissioned from the Indian Navy on 13 March 2015, was which category of naval vessel?
Ans:- Minesweeper
4) Name the surface to surface missile successfully tested by Pakistan during March 2015?
Ans:- Shaheen-III
5) Burraq and Barq are an all weather armed drone and a laser guided missile respectively. These were recently test fired by which country?
Ans:- Pakistan
PERSONS IN NEWS
A) APPOINTMENTS
1) Who was appointed as the new Chairman of the National Book Trust (NBT) on 2 March 2015?
Ans:- Baldev Sharma
B) RESIGNS
1) Which noted scientist resigned as the Chairman of Board of Governors of IIT Bombay recently as reported on 18 March 2015?
Ans:-  Anil Kakodkar
C) DEATHS
1) Name the person known as Noted Gandhian and son of Mahatma Gandhi’s personal secretary who passed away on 15 March 2015?
Ans:- Narayan Desai
D) VISITORS
1) In which region of Sri Lanka, PM Narendra Modi handed over 27,000 new homes on 14 March 2015 to Tamils who became homeless during the civil war?
Ans:- Jaffna
E) MISCELLANEOUS
1) Which Indian IT company was recently named as the top employer in Europe for the third consecutive year by a top employers certification agency?
Ans:- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
PLACES IN NEWS
1) As per the Mercer’s Quality of Living Report 2015, which city has the world’s best quality of living?
Ans:- Vienna
ABBREVIATIONS IN NEWS
1) What is the full form of ‘ BCCI ‘?
Ans:- Board of Control for Cricket in India
BOOKS IN NEWS
1) “The Modi Effect : Inside Narendra Modi’s Campaign to Transform India” was authored by ——-?
Ans:- Lance Price
COMMITTEES IN NEWS
1) Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) as announced on 25 March 2015?
Ans:- K M Mani
DAYS & DATES
1) When is World Water Day?
Ans:- March 22


5 Banking and SSC : August 2015 INTERNATIONAL 1) Which country’s government has proposed a prisoner swap with Indonesia in a last ditch effort to save the lives of two ...

February 2015 Current Affairs Banking

INTERNATIONAL
1)Name the first country to Introduce Law for the Creation of Baby from Two Women and One Man?
Ans:- United Kingdom
2)The 5th General Assembly of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) was held in which city?
Ans:- Abu Dhabi
3)How many SAARC countries met on 2 – 3 February 2015 to finalize Motor Vehicles Agreement this year?
Ans:- Four
4)Rui Araujo, has been chosen as the new prime minister of ____?
Ans:- East Timor
5)According to latest survey, which country has largest area planted under GM (Genetically Modified) crops?
Ans:- USA
INDIA & WORLD
1) What is India’s ranking in the recently released international intellectual property (IP) index?
Ans:- 29
2) In which region, has Gujarat government decided to set up ‘Plast India International University’ in partnership with University of Massachusetts Lowell?
5 Banking and SSC : August 2015 INTERNATIONAL 1)Name the first country to Introduce Law for the Creation of Baby from Two Women and One Man? Ans:- United Kingdom 2)T...

June 2015 Current Affairs Banking

INTERNATIONAL
1) As per OPCW, how much of the global chemical weapons stockpile has been achieved so far –?
Ans:- 90%
2) A court of which country recently ordered three tobacco companies to pay fines worth around $12 billion for damages, which is the largest award in country’s history?
Ans:- Canada
3) Which prominent European country’s Parliament on 9 June 2015 voted overwhelmingly in favour of a bill that seeks to hold a referendum to gauge the mood of its citizens on the issue of remaining part of the European Union (EU)?
Ans:- Britain
4) Which bird was nominated as United Kingdom’s first-ever national bird
5 Banking and SSC : August 2015 INTERNATIONAL 1) As per OPCW, how much of the global chemical weapons stockpile has been achieved so far –? Ans:- 90% 2) A court of w...

RBI gives licence for 11 payments banks

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This includes telecom companies Vodafone and Airtel; non-banking financial company Cholamandalam Distribution Services Ltd; large conglomerates Reliance Industries and Aditya Birla Nuvo; and individuals Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder of Paytm, and Dilip Shanghvi, Managing Director of Sun Pharmaceuticals.
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