GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE MCQs FOR BANK EXAMINATIONS

1. The Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a package of Rs 1.25 lakh crore for which of the following States on 18th August 2015?
1) Odisha 
2) Andhra Pradesh
3) Bihar 
4) Jharkhand
5) West Bengal

2. Which of the following banks has launched 'Smart Vault', the first of its kind fully automated digital locker? 
1) SBI 
2) ICICI Bank
3) Axis Bank 
4) HDFC Bank
5) SBH

3. Kishor Piraji Kharat is the new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of?
1) Union Bank of India
2) Canara Bank 
3) IDBI Bank
4) Bank of India
5) Bank of Baroda

4. Who is the new Chief Executive Officer of the technology giant Google?
1) Satya Nadella 
2) Ajay Banga
3) Nikesh Arora
4) Sundar Pichai
5) Shantanu Narayan

5. Pedro Cateriano assumed office as the Prime Minister of which of the following countries on April 2, 2015?
1) Chile 
2) Uruguay
3) Bolivia 
4) Argentina
5) Peru

6. Who is the head of a new innovative council of Indian Railways called 'Kaya Kalp',
formed to turnaround the ailing railways?
1) Shiv Gopal Mishra
2) M. Raghuvaiah
3) Ratan Tata 
4) Suresh Prabhu
5) Sunil Mittal

7. Who has been appointed the brand ambassador of the Northeastern region?
1) Saina Nehwal
2) Sushil Kumar
3) Saurav Ganguly
4) Mary Kom 
5) None of these

8. Northeast India's first Kisan call centre was opened in?
1) Agartala 
2) Shillong
3) Kohima 
4) Imphal
5) Gangtok

9. Who is the Chairman of the NITI Aayog task force on Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS)?
1) Naveen Patnaik
2) Shivraj Singh Chouhan
3) Raman Singh
4) K. Chandrasekhar Rao
5) None of these

10. Who is the Chairman of the NITI Aayog's sub-group on Skill Development?
1) Siddaramaiah
2) Akhilesh Yadav
3) Manik Sarkar
4) Nitish Kumar
5) Manoharlal Khattar

11. Malwa Trophy is associated with which of the following sports?
1) Hockey 
2) Cricket
3) Football 
4) Kabaddi
5) Chess

12. Which of the following is the capital of Cambodia?
1) Battambaug
2) Kampong Chan 
3) Putrajaya
4) Phnom Penh 
5) Hanoi

13. Which is the only country where the Prime Minister, Parliament Speaker and Leader of the Opposition are all women?
1) Argentina 
2) Liberia
3) Chile 
4) Lithuania
5) Bangladesh

14. Identify the mismatched pair with regard to the 62nd National Film Awards?
1) Best Direction - Srijit Mukherjee
2) Best Actor - Vijay Sanchari
3) Best Actress - Kangana Ranaut
4) Best Popular Film - Queen
5) Best Music Director - Vishal Bharadwaj

15. Abel Prize is given by which of the following countries?
1) Sweden 
2) Norway
3) USA 
4) Germany
5) Finland

16. The Dibang Wildlife Sanctuary is located in which of the following States?
1) Sikkim 
2) Assam
3) Nagaland
4) Jammu and Kashmir
5) Arunachal Pradesh

17. The Gobi desert covers parts of southern Mongolia and the northern parts of?
1) Kazakhstan 
2) China
3) Russia 
4) Myanmar
5) Afghanistan

18. Who is the author of the book "Modi-Incredible Emergence of a Star"?
1) Lokesh Chandra
2) S.K. Sopory 
3) Tarun Vijay
4) Arnab Goswami
5) Rajat Sharma

19. The Rashtriya Kavi Pradeep Samman was introduced by which of the following States?
1) Uttar Pradesh
2) West Bengal
3) Jharkhand
4) Madhya Pradesh
5) Rajasthan

20. Who was awarded with the first Rashtriya Kavi Pradeep Samman on 24th March 2015?
1) Kamal Kishore Goyanka
2) Kedarnath Singh
3) Gopaldas Neeraj
4) Viswanath Tripathi
5) None of these

21. Which country has won the prestigious Women in Parliaments (WIP) Award for regional leadership in the South and Southeast Asia category for reducing the gender gap in politics?
1) India 
2) Sri Lanka
3) Myanmar 
4) Bangladesh
5) Thailand

22. Who topped the Fortune magazine's list of the World's 50 Greatest Leaders?
1) Tim Cook 
2) Mario Draghi
3) Xi Jinping 
4) Pope Francis
5) Mary Barra

23. Fortune magazine's list of the World's 50 Greatest Leaders include?
1) Narendra Modi
2) Kailash Satyarthi
3) Chanda Kochchar
4) Both 1 and 2
5) All 1, 2 and 3

24. The inaugural Major Dhyan Chand Lifetime Achievement Award was given on March 28, 2015 to?
1) V. Bhaskaran
2) Balbir Singh senior
3) Mukesh Kumar
4) Sardar Singh
5) Harendra Singh

25. Asia, Africa and Latin America belong to the?
1) First world
2) Second World
3) Third World
4) Developed World
5) None of these

26. The first session of the Indian National Congress was held in?
1) Calcutta 
2) Madras
3) New Delhi 
4) Bombay
5) Nagpur

27. The International Day of Cooperatives is observed every year on
the first Saturday of?
1) June 
2) July
3) August 
4) September
5) October

28. Which is the first State in India to present a paperless budget?
1) Punjab 
2) Haryana
3) Himachal Pradesh
4) Jharkhand 
5) None of these

29. Which country suspended work on the construction of a controversial Chinese port city project?
1) India 
2) Sri Lanka
3) Pakistan 
4) Afghanistan
5) Maldives

30. Burraq is an unmanned combat aerial vehicle developed by?
1) Pakistan 
2) Afghanistan
3) Iran 
4) Syria
5) Yemen

31. Ashu Suyash is the MD and CEO of?
1) NSE 
2) CRISIL
3) IndusInd Bank 
4) BSE
5) CARE

32. Who was voted as the greatest ODI cricketer in an online poll conducted by ESPNcricinfo's magazine Cricket Monthly?
1) Sachin Tendulkar
2) Wasim Akram
3) Viv Richards
4) Adam Gilchrist
5) Mahendra Singh Dhoni

33. Who was appointed the Chairman of the Indian Premier League's governing council by the BCCI?
1) Anurag Thakur
2) Jagmohan Dalmiya
3) Rajeev Shukla
4) N. Sreenivasan
5) Saurav Ganguly

34. Kudremukh National Park has been declared a tiger reserve. It is in?
1) Maharashtra 
2) Goa
3) Tamil Nadu 
4) Karnataka
5) None of these

35. The Government resumed the printing of one rupee currency notes recently. Printing of these notes was discontinued in?
1) 1994 
2) 1995
3) 2004 
4) 2005
5) 2001

36. Which team won the Irani Cup Cricket in March 2015?
1) Rest of India
2) Mumbai 
3) Karnataka
4) Tamil Nadu 
5) Uttar Pradesh

37. The IntelCenter's "Top 10 Most Dangerous Countries" list is topped by?
1) Iraq 
2) Syria
3) Nigeria 
4) Somalia
5) Afghanistan

38. Jaitapur nuclear power plant is being set up in?
1) Gujarat 
2) Rajasthan
3) Maharashtra
4) West Bengal 
5) Odisha

39. The United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) was held in March 2015 in?
1) South Korea 
2) China
3) Malaysia 
4) Japan
5) Philippines

40. IDBI Bank is a?
1) Public sector bank
2) Private sector bank
3) Foreign bank
4) Cooperative bank
5) None of these

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CURRENT AFFAIRS AT A GLANCE 2015

❖ Lithuania adopted the Euro currency on January 1, 2015 and became the 19th member of the Eurozone.

❖ A.B. de Villiers of South Africa scored the fastest century in One Day International cricket history on January 18, 2015. He scored a hundred in just 31 deliveries against the West Indies. He broke
the previous record of 100 off 36 balls set by Corey Anderson of New Zealand in 2014.

❖ Alexis Tsipras was sworn in on January 26, 2015 as the Prime Minister of Greece.

❖ S. Jaishankar was appointed as India's new Foreign Secretary on January 28, 2015. He replaced Sujatha Singh.

❖ NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India Aayog) replaced Planning Commission
on January 1, 2015. Its Chairperson is the Prime Minister. Arvind Panagariya is the first Vice Chairman. Sindhushree Khullar is the Chief Executive officer. Economist Bibek Debroy and former DRDO Chief V.K. Saraswat are the two full time members.

❖ A.S. Kiran Kumar was appointed the Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on January 12, 2015. He succeeded K. Radhakrishnan.

❖ Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha was appointed the first Hindu Chief Justice of Bangladesh on January 12, 2015.

❖ Maithripala Sirisena was sworn in as the President of Sri Lanka on January 9, 2015. He succeeded Mahinda Rajapaksa. Ranil Wikramasinghe is the new Prime Minister.

❖ Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe took over the post of African Union Chairman on January 30, 2015.

❖ Dineshwar Sharma is the new Intelligence Bureau (IB) Chief and Krishna Chaudhary is the new
Director General of the Indo- Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).

❖ The first canister-based Agni V trial was successful. It was launched from Wheeler Island off Odisha coast on January 31, 2015. It has a strike range of 5,000 km.

❖ The first indigenously-built Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) was handed over by Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar to the Indian Air Force on January 17, 2015.

❖ Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) entered the Guinness World Records for opening the highest number of bank accounts in the least time. 11.5 crore new bank accounts have been opened under PMJDY as on January 17, 2015. It was launched by the Prime Minister on August 28, 2014.

❖ ICICI Bank launched India's first contactless debit and credit cards on January 7, 2015 that use the near field communication (NFC) technology.

❖ The government announced the names of 104 recipients of Padma Awards on January 25, 2015. This year's list comprises 9 Padma Vibhushan, 20 Padma Bhushan and 75 Padma Shree awardees. L.K. Advani, Amitabh Bachchan, Dilip Kumar and Prakash Singh Badal are among the Padma Vibhushan winners.

❖ The President conferred Ashok Chakra on the occasion of the 66th Republic Day to Major Mukund
Varadarajan (posthumous) and Naik Neeraj Kumar Singh (posthumous). Ashok Chakra is the highest gallantry award given during peacetime.

❖ Eminent Hindi scholar Kamal Kishore Goenka has been selected for Vyas Samman for 2014 for his research work "Premchand Kee Kahaniyo aa Kaalkramanusar Adhyapan".

❖ Paulina Vega of Colombia was crowned 63rd Miss Universe on January 25, 2015 in Miami, USA.

❖ Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri won the prestigious DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2015 for her book "The Lowland". This prize was announced at the Jaipur Literature Festival on January 23, 2015.

❖ Arundhathi Subramaniam won the inaugural Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for Poetry for her work "When God is a Traveller" on January 24, 2015.

❖ Periyar Tiger Reserve in Kerala won the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) biennial award on January 22, 2015.

❖ M.Y.S. Prasad, Director of Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC), Sriharikota, was selected for the
Vikram Sarabhai Memorial Award 2015.

❖ RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan won the Governor of the Year Award in the Central Banking Awards for 2015.

❖ Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched "Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao" programme in Panipat, Haryana on January 22, 2015 in a bid to encourage birth and education of girls. Actress Madhuri Dixit is the brand ambassador. On the same day Sukanya Samriddhi Account was launched for the girls aged below 10.

❖ Saina Nehwal clinched the women's singles crown of the Syed Modi International Masters Badminton Tournament on January 25, 2015. She defeated Carolina Marin of Spain in the final in Lucknow. In the men's singles final Parupalli Kashyap of India beat compatriot K.Srikanth.

❖ Portugal footballer Cristiano Ronaldo won the FIFA Ballon d'Or 2014 Award. It is his second year running and third overall award.

❖ Legendary cartoonist R.K. Laxman died on January 26, 2015. He created "Common Man" cartoon.

❖ Wing Commander Pooja Thakur became the first lady
officer on January 25, 2015 to lead the Inter- Service Guard of Honor for the visiting US President Barack Obama at the Rashtrapathi Bhavan. Barack Obama is the first US President to be the Chief Guest for India's Republic Day.

❖ The French satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo's Paris office was attacked by gunmen on January 7, 2015. In the attack 12 persons were killed.

❖ The 13th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas (PBD) was celebrated between January 7-9, 2015 in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. It marked the 100th year of Mahatma Gandhi's return to India from South Africa. The Chief Guest was Guyana President Donald Ramotar. The theme of the 13th PBD was Bharat ko jano, Bharat ko mano. The Vice President Hamid Ansari presented the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman awards to 15 persons on January 9. The awardees include plant scientist Sanjay Rajaram and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

❖ The 102nd Indian Science Congress (ISC) was held from January 3 - 7, 2015 in Mumbai. The theme was Science and Technology for Human Development.

❖ The 60th Filmfare Awards were presented on February 1, 2015. "Queen" bagged highest number of awards i.e. 6. "Shahid Kapoor" is the best actor for the film "Haider" and "Kangana Ranaut" best actress for "Queen".

❖ Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic was sworn in as the first female President of Croatia on February 15, 2015.

❖ Sergio Mattarella took over as the President of Italy on February 3, 2015.

❖ Ashton Carter replaced Chuck Hagel as the Defense Secretary of the United States.

❖ Arvind Kejriwal of Aam Aadmi Party became the Chief Minister of Delhi on February 14, 2015.
Manish Sisodia is the Deputy Chief Minister.

❖ Nitish Kumar of Janata Dal (United) took oath as the Chief Minister of Bihar on February 22,
2015. He succeeded Jitan Ram Manjhi.

❖ L.C. Goyal replaced Anil Goswami as the Union Home Secretary.

❖ Dr.Y. Nayudamma Memorial Award 2014 was conferred on two women scientists- Tessy Thomas (DRDO) and Geeta Varadan (ISRO).

❖ Eminent Marathi writer Bhalachandra Nemade was chosen for the Jnanpith Award 2014. He is the 50th recipient of Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary honor.

❖ Nobel Economics laureate Amartya Sen has been awarded the inaugural Charleston-EFG John Maynard Keynes Prize 2015.

❖ Ricky Kej of India won the Grammy award for his album "Winds of Samsara" in the Best New Age Album category.

❖ ICICI Bank launched first digital bank in India "Pockets" on a mobile phone.

❖ Novak Djokovic of Serbia and Serena Williams of USA won the men's and women's singles titles respectively, in the 2015 Australian Open tennis championship. Indo-Swiss pair Leander Paes and Martina Hingis won the Mixed Doubles title.

❖ Virat Kohli became the first Indian batsman to score a century in a World Cup game against Pakistan on February 15, 2015.

❖ Kerala hosted the 35th National Games from January 31 to February 14, 2015. Sachin Tendulkar was the brand ambassador. Ammu, the Great Hornbill, was the mascot. Services Sports Control Board (SSCB)
won 159 medals with 91 gold, 33 silver and 35 bronze and topped the medals tally.

❖ Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu presented Railway budget on February 26, 2015 that did not announce any passenger fare hike.

❖ Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the Economic Survey 2014- 15 on February 27, 2015. He presented the Union Budget for 2015- 16 on February 28, 2015.

❖ The 87th Academy Awards ceremony was held on February 22, 2015. The Best Picture Award was given to "Birdman". Its director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu won the Best Director Award. Eddie Redmayne was given the Best Actor Award for "The Theory of Everything" and the Best Actress Award was given to Julianne Moore for "Still Alice".

❖ Nobel laureate Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan was named as the President of Britain's prestigious Royal Society. He will take up the post on December 1, 2015. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009.

❖ IFS officer Vikas Swarup was appointed as the official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on March 25, 2015. He is the author of the novel "Q & A" on which the Oscar winning film Slumdog Millionaire was based.

❖ Kerala Finance Minister K.M. Mani was appointed as the Chairman of the Empowered Committee
of State Finance Ministers on Goods and Services Tax (GST) on March 24, 2015.

❖ Mufti Mohammad Sayeed of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir on March 1, 2015. Nirmal Singh of BJP is the Deputy Chief Minister.

❖ Aditi Arya of Chandigarh was crowned Miss India 2015. She will represent
India at the Miss World pageant.

❖ The 3rd World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) took place in Sendai, Japan from March 14 to 18, 2015.

❖ According to a report released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on March 16, 2015, India is the world’s largest importer of weapons and military equipment.

❖ Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar undertook SAARC Yatra and visited four SAARC nations Bhutan, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan from March 1 to 4, 2015.

❖ India banned dreaded terror group The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

❖ The Supreme Court struck down the centre's controversial decision to grant reservation to the Jat community in jobs and educational institutions.

❖ The government has launched a new National Action Plan for Skill Training of Persons with Disabilities on March 21, 2015. National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) will be the implementing agency for this Plan.

❖ Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar launched a scheme for girl child "Aap ki Beti Humari Beti" with an aim to combat the problem of declining child sex ratio in the state on March 8, 2015. March 8 is International Women’s Day.

❖ Maharashtra government launched "Bhagyashree" scheme for girls on March 8, 2015. Bollywood actress
Bhagyashree is the brand ambassador.

❖ The indigenously developed Beyond Visual Range (BVR) air-to-air missile, Astra, was launched from
Sukhoi-30 fighter aircraft on March 18, 2015.

❖ The 8th edition of India-Nepal combined exercise Surya Kiran VIII was held at Salijhandi in Nepal.

❖ India launched its fourth navigation satellite on March 28, 2015. The PSLV-C27 ejected the 1,425 kg IRNSS-1D.

❖ Prime Minister Narendra Modi undertook a five-day tour of three Indian Ocean countries Seychelles,
Mauritius and Sri Lanka from March 10 to 14, 2015.

❖ As per the IntelCenter's "Top 10 Most Dangerous Countries" list released in March 2015, Pakistan is the eight most dangerous country. The list is topped by Iraq.

❖ The President Pranab Mukherjee conferred country's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna on former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on March 27, 2015. Educationist and freedom fighter Madan Mohan Malviya was honored with Bharat Ratna posthumously on March 30, 2015.

❖ Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has been selected for the Gandhi Peace Prize for the
year 2014.

❖ Veteran actor and film producer Shashi Kapoor has been named
for the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2014. He is the 46th film
personality to receive India's highest award in cinema.

❖ Former Union Minister Veerappa Moily was selected for the Saraswati Samman for 2014 for his
Kannada book "Ramayana Mahanveshanam".

❖ John Nash and Louis Nirenberg of USA shared the 2015 Abel Prize for Mathematics. The prize was announced by the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters.

❖ Rajendra Singh of India won the 2015 Stockholm Water Prize. He is popularly known as
"Waterman of India". He is an eminent water conservationist from Rajasthan.

❖ Indian ecologist Madhav Gadgil has won the Tyler Prize 2015 for environmental achievement. He shared the prize with American marine ecologist Jane Lubchenco.

❖ National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has linked 15 crore Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT)
accounts with the Aadhaar numbers.

❖ Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth won women's and men's singles titles in the Indian Open Badminton
Championship in New Delhi on March 29, 2015.

❖ K. Srikanth of India won the Swiss Grand Prix Gold Badminton Championship title in Basel on
March 15, 2015. He beat Viktor Axelson of Denmark in the final.

❖ Carolina Marin of Spain won the All England Badminton Championship women's singles title by defeating Saina Nehwal in the final on March 8, 2015. Saina is the first Indian woman to reach the final.
Men's singles title was won by Chen Long of China.

❖ Services beat Punjab to win the Santosh Trophy football championship in Ludhiana on March 15, 2015.

❖ Karnataka clinched their eighth Ranji Trophy cricket title by defeating Tamil Nadu in the final in
Mumbai on March 12, 2015. Karnataka retained the Irani Cup also by beating Rest of India on March 20, 2015.

❖ Former Sri Lankan Army Chief Sarath Fonseka was conferred the highest military rank of Field
Marshal by the Government of Sri Lanka.

❖ Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's first Prime Minister, passed away on March 23, 2015.

❖ India launched a massive air and sea operation-"Operation Raahat"- to evacuate over 4,000 Indian
nationals from Yemen in April 2015.

❖ Tennis star Novak Djokovic and athlete Genzebe Dibaba were named Laureus Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year on April 15, 2015. The German football team was named "World Team of the Year".

❖ Sachin Tendulkar was inducted as a Laureus World Sports Academy member.

❖ Former Chief Minister of Odisha J.B. Patnaik died on April 21, 2015. He was also the former Governor
of Assam.

❖ Former Nepal Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa passed away on April 15, 2015.

❖ German Nobel laureate Gunter Grass died on April 13, 2015. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999. His most famous book is "The Tin Drum".

❖ Former Australia Cricket captain and renowned commentator Richie Benaud died on April 10, 2015.

❖ Ace Indian mountaineer Malli Mastan Babu who went missing in the Andes Mountains on March 24 was
found dead on April 4, 2015.

❖ Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency (MUDRA Bank) on April 8, 2015. It is set up with a corpus of Rs. 20,000 crore.

❖ RBI approved the merger deal between Kotak Mahindra Bank and ING Vysya Bank.

❖ Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy was won by Gujarat on April 7, 2015. It beat Punjab in the final.

❖ New Zealand lifted the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup Hockey tournament after defeating Australia in the final in Malaysia.

❖ Chris Gayle of West Indies became the first batsman to make double century in ICC World Cup history on February 24, 2015. He scored 215 runs against Zimbabwe. New Zealand's Martin Guptill hit the highest score of 237 in ICC World Cup. He achieved this feat against the West Indies on March 21, 2015.

❖ Kumar Sangakkara of Sri Lanka became the first batsman to score four consecutive One Day International centuries. He created this record in the 11th ICC World Cup.

❖ Viswanathan Anand was granted the honor of having a minor planet named after him on April 1, 2015.
It is called 4538 Vishyanand.

❖ Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai won the Man Booker International Prize for 2015. This prize is given every two years. Indian author Amitav Ghosh is one of the ten short listed authors.

❖ David Cameron became the Prime Minister of United Kingdom for the second term on May 8, 2015. David Cameron-led Conservative Party won 331 seats out of total 650 seats in House of Commons.

❖ J. Jayalalithaa was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for the fifth time on May 23, 2015.

❖ Actor Mukesh Khanna was appointed as the Chairperson of the Children's Film Society of India (CFSI).
He is known for his iconic role as Shaktimaan on Television.

❖ Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev won his fifth successive term in the Presidential election. Karim Masimov is the Prime Minister.

❖ Indian-American Vivek Murthy was sworn in as the US Surgeon General. He is the youngest ever in-charge of America's public health.

❖ Neel Mukherjee's "The Lives of Others" won the UK's Encore Award for the best second novel on May 12, 2015.

❖ UNESCO Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize for 2015 was awarded to Mazen Darwish, a Syrian journalist.

❖ Two Indians Ananda Kumar and Pramod Patil were awarded the Whitley Awards, dubbed "Green Oscar", for their contribution to wildlife conservation.

❖ Siddhartha Gigoo won the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Asian region for "Umbrella Man".

❖ Aruna Shanbaug, a former hospital nurse, brutally raped in 1973, died on May 18, 2015. She was at the centre of euthanasia or mercy killing issue.

❖ The World Health Organization (WHO) declared Liberia Ebolafree on May 9, 2015.

❖ Francois Hollande visited Havana on May 10, 2015, the first French President to visit Cuba in more than a century.

❖ Seychelles became the 161st member of World Trade Organization (WTO) on April 26, 2015.

❖ India ranked at a low 100th position on global Human Capital Index 2015. Finland topped the 124 nation list.

❖ Switzerland topped the World Happiness Index 2015 and India ranked 117 out of 158 countries.

❖ India signed an agreement with Iran for the development of Chabahar Port on May 6, 2015. It will give India sea-land access route to Afghanistan bypassing Pakistan.

❖ Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani visited India from April 27 to April 29, 2015.

❖ India assumed Presidency of the 68th session of the World Health Assembly (WHA), the top decision making body of the World Health Organization (WHO).

❖ The Union Cabinet cleared the "Namami Gange" integrated conservation mission to clean river Ganga on May 13, 2015. Budget allocated is Rs. 20,000 crore for the next 5 years.

❖ The Lok Sabha passed the Goods and Services Tax Constitutional (122nd Amendment) Bill on May 6, 2015. GST is proposed to be implemented from April 1, 2016. It will subsume excise, service tax, state
VAT, entry tax, octroi, etc.

❖ Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda launched "Kayakalp" –an initiative for awards to public health facilities.

❖ Nadia in West Bengal became the first Open Defecation Free (ODF) district in India. Nadia has more than 3.47 lakh toilets.

❖ Bharatiya Mahila Bank (BMB) won the Asian Banker Achievement Award 2015 for Technology Implementation in the category of Best Outsourcing Project (New Bank). The award was received by Usha Ananthasubramanian, CMD of BMB in Hong Kong.

❖ Bilateral naval exercise SIMBEX- 15 between India and Singapore was held from May 23 to 26, 2015 in Singapore.

❖ The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was presented with the 2015 Freedom of Expression Courage Award of the PEN American Centre at the American Museum of Natural History.

❖ Four Indians have been named in Forbes magazine's 12th annual list of World's 100 Most Powerful
Women. They are- Arundhati Bhattacharya (SBI Chairperson), Chanda Kochchar (MD and CEO of ICICI
Bank), Kiran Mazumdar Shaw (MD of Biocon) and Shobhana Bhartia (Chairperson of Hindustan Times
Group). The list is topped by Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany.

❖ China defeated Japan in the final of the Sudirman Cup badminton tournament in Dongguan, China on May 17, 2015.

❖ Mohun Bagan won the I-League football title on May 31, 2015. Bengaluru FC ended as runners-up.

❖ The trial of Pinaka Mark-II missile cum multi barrel rocket launcher system was successfully conducted at Pokhran on May 30, 2015.

❖ The Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited three Asian nations i.e. China, Mongolia and South Korea
from May 14 to 19, 2015.

❖ Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley inaugurated the New Bank Note Paper Line unit of 6,000 metric tonne capacity at Security Paper Mill in Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh.

❖ India topped in World Hunger List with around 194 million people according to a UN report.

❖ Maharashtra Government has launched Swachhata Saptapadi Scheme on the lines of Union Government's Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.

❖ Former Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo succeeded Amartya Sen as the Chancellor of Nalanda University in Bihar.

❖ S. Christopher is the new Director General of the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO). G. Sateesh Reddy is the new Scientific Advisor to the Defense Minister.

❖ Veteran actor Michael Douglas received the Genesis Prize on June 18, 2015. This prize is nicknamed "Jewish Nobel Prize".

❖ Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar of Aam Aadmi Party was arrested for possessing fake academic documents on June 9, 2015. Later he resigned.

❖ Sepp Blatter resigned as the President of FIFA on June 2, 2015, four days after being elected to a fifth term.

❖ Sister Nirmal Joshi, who succeeded Mother Teresa as the head of the Missionaries of Charity, died on June 23, 2015.

❖ K.V. Chowdary, former Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), was appointed the
new Central Vigilance Commissioner on June 8, 2015. He is the first
non IAS to head the Central Vigilance Commission. Indian Bank CMD T.M. Bhasin was appointed the Vigilance Commissioner.

❖ Repo Rate: 7.25% Reverse Repo Rate: 6.25% Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR): 4% Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR): 21.5%

❖ Britain celebrated the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta accord on June15, 2015.

❖ China unveiled the world's first facial recognition ATM on June 1, 2015.

❖ The first International Yoga Day was celebrated on June 21, 2015. 192 countries celebrated.

❖ The 41st G7 Summit was held in June 2015 in Krun city in Germany.

❖ Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland beat Novak Djokovic of Serbia to win his first French Open singles title. Serena Williams of USA defeated Lucie Safarova of Czech Republic to win the women's singles title of French open.

❖ Australia won the ICC World Cup for the fifth time beating New Zealand by seven wickets in the final in Melbourne on March 29, 2015. James Faulkner of Australia was declared the Man of the Final and Mitchell Starc of Australia the Player of the Tournament.

❖ IPL 8 Mumbai Indians clinched their second Indian Premier League (IPL) title defeating ChennaiSuper Kings by 41 runs in the final at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on May 24, 2015.

APPOINTMENTS IN 2015

Achal Kumar Jyoti : Election Commissioner
G. Mohan Kumar : Defence Secretary
Surender Singh : Director General of CISF
Loretta Lynch : USAAttorney General
P. Kunhikrishnan : Director, Satish Dhawan Space Centre
Pawan Munjal : Chairman, CEO and MD of Hero Moto-Corp
Sharad Pawar : President of Mumbai Cricket Association
Pradeep Kumar Sinha : Cabinet Secretary
Vijai Sharma : Chief Information Commissioner
R.C. Tayal : Director General of National Security Guards
R.Seshasayee : Non executive Chairman of Infosys
Benjamin Netanyahu : Israel Prime Minister
Jagmohan Dalmiya : BCCI President
Anurag Thakur : BCCI Secretary
David Hale : US Ambassador to Pakistan
Nasim Zaidi : Chief Election Commissioner
Sitaram Yechury : CPI (M) General Secretary
Mohan Kumar : Indian Ambassador to France
Sumit Mazuimdar : President of CII
Rajeev Shukla : Chairman of IPL governing council

62nd National Film Awards

Best Feature Film – Court (Marathi, Guajarati, Hindi and English)
Best Actor -Vijay Sanchari (Nanu Avanalla Avalu, Kannada)
Best Actress – Kangana Ranaut (Queen)
Best Direction – Srijit Mukherjee (Chotushkone, Bengali)
Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment –Mary Kom Haider, a Hindi film bagged most awards (5)

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR ALL BANK EXAMS

1. The Centre will over the next four years infuse how many crore rupees into the state-owned banks?
1) Rs. 80,000 crore
2) Rs. 60,000 crore
3) Rs. 70,000 crore
4) Rs. 1,00,000 crore
5) None of these

2. Who was appointed Chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on July 27, 2015?
1) Sudheer Gupta
2) Ram Sevak Sharma
3) Pankaj Chandra
4) A.K. Kaushal
5) None of these

3. Clive Rice passed away on 28th July 2015. He was an international cricketer from?
1) Australia
2) New Zealand
3) South Africa
4) West Indies
5) England

4. Which city has been chosen to host the 2022 Winter Olympics?
1) Almaty
2) Turin
3) Vancouver
4) Beijing
5) Tokyo

5. K.M. Mani was appointed as the Chairman of the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers on Goods and Services Tax (GST) in March 2015. He is the Finance Minister of?
1) Tamil Nadu
2) Odisha
3) Bihar
4) Gujarat
5) Kerala

6. Which of the following organizations has been selected for the 2014 Gandhi Peace Prize?
1) TERI
2) Bachpan Bachao Andolan
3) ISRO
4) DRDO
5) BARC

7. Who won the All England Badminton Championship for India?
1) P. Gopichand
2) Prakash Padukone
3) Saina Nehwal
4) Both 1 and 2
5) 1, 2 and 3

8. Which of the following teams won the Ranji Trophy cricket in March 2015?
1) Karnataka
2) Tamil Nadu
3) Kerala
4) Mumbai
5) Delhi

9. Which State government launched Bhagyashree scheme for girls on 8th March 2015?
1) Uttar Pradesh
2) Maharashtra
3) Karnataka
4) Goa
5) West Bengal

10. Hukam Singh passed away recently. He was the Chief Minister of?
1) Punjab
2) Rajasthan
3) Uttarakhand
4) Uttar Pradesh
5) Haryana

11. Ajaypal Singh Banga is the President and CEO of?
1) Deutsche Bank
2) Citibank
3) Google
4) Master Card
5) SoftBank

12. Benetton Group is a global fashion brand based in?
1) France
2) Italy
3) Spain
4) UK
5) USA

13. Who is the author of the book "2014: The Election that Changed India"?
1) Prannoy Roy
2) Vinod Mehta
3) Rajdeep Sardesai
4) Shekar Gupta
5) Yashwant Sinha

14. Which of the following is not a team name in the Indian Super League (ISL) football tournament?
1) Delhi Dynamos
2) Mumbai City
3) FC Goa
4) Kerala Blasters
5) North West United

15. Which one of the following countries is not a member of the European Union?
1) Austria
2) Estonia
3) Slovakia
4) Slovenia
5) Serbia

16. Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) consists of how many countries?
1) 27
2) 30
3) 33
4) 37
5) 38

17. Which of the following is not a Maharatna company?
1) BHEL
2) GAIL
3) NTPC
4) ONGC
5) BPCL

18. Euro 2016 football championship will be played in?
1) Poland
2) France
3) Ukraine
4) Spain
5) Germany

19. The 10th Aero India show was held in February 2015 in?
1) Bangalore
2) Hyderabad
3) Mumbai
4) New Delhi
5) Kochi

20. Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has been named the President of Britain's prestigious Royal Society.
He won the Nobel Prize in 2009 in?
1) Physics
2) Chemistry
3) Medicine
4) Economics
5) Literature

21. David Hale has been appointed as US ambassador to?
1) India
2) Russia
3) China
4) Pakistan
5) Syria

22. Who took over as the new Director General of the Sports Authority of India (SAI) in March 2015?
1) Ajit Sharan
2) Injeti Srinivas
3) N.K. Sahoo
4) R.C. Lodha
5) None of these

23. The central bank of Canada is called the?
1) Reserve Bank of Canada
2) Federal Reserve of Canada
3) Bank of Canada
4) Royal Bank of Canada
5) None of these

24. The principal financial institution for the promotion, financing and development of the MSME
sector in India is?
1) NABARD
2) DICGC
3) SIDBI
4) EXIM Bank
5) RBI

25. Which of the following is not a regulatory authority?
1) RBI
2) FMC
3) IBA
4) SEBI
5) IRDA

26. Who made the highest individual score in cricket world cup history?
1) Rohit Sharma
2) Martin Guptill
3) Chris Gayle
4) Virender Sehwag
5) Sachin Tendulkar

27. Which bank has launched Chillr, a mobile app that allows users to instantly transfer money to any contact in their phonebook?
1) SBI
2) ICICI Bank
3) Axis Bank
4) SBH
5) HDFC Bank

28. Santiago is the capital of which of the following countries?
1) Paraguay
2) Poland
3) Austria
4) Chile
5) Suriname

29. Which of the following is the currency of Spain?
1) Krone
2) Lira
3) Euro
4) Rial
5) Ruble

30. Rajendra Pachauri stepped down as the Chairman of which of the following organizations following allegation of sexual harassment?
1) WEF
2) UNEP
3) WMO
4) IPCC
5) None of these

31. Who is the Union Cabinet Minister for Steel and Mines?
1) Narendra Singh Tomar
2) Ram Vilas Paswan
3) J.P. Nadda
4) Anant Kumar
5) Anant Geethe

32. TOPIX is a stock market index for the?
1) Toronto Stock Exchange
2) Tokyo Stock Exchange
3) Singapore Stock Exchange
4) Shanghai Stock Exchange
5) None of these

33. Zhao Xintong of China is a renowned player in which of the following sports?
1) Table Tennis
2) Badminton
3) Snooker
4) Archery
5) Shooting

34. The modified Direct Benefit Transfer of LPG (DBTL) scheme is renamed as?
1) PARAS
2) BADTA
3) PRAYAS
4) PAHAL
5) None of these

35. Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary is located in?
1) Goa
2) Karnataka
3) Madhya Pradesh
4) Assam
5) Gujarat

36. The National Energy Conservation Day is celebrated every year on?
1) October 14
2) November 14
3) December 14
4) November 24
5) October 24

37. Norman Gordon of South Africa died recently. He played?
1) Football
2) Cricket
3) Badminton
4) Rugby
5) Hockey

38. Which country conferred the highest military rank of field marshal to former Army Chief Sarath Fonseka?
1) Mauritius
2) Nepal
3) Bangladesh
4) Sri Lanka
5) Bhutan

39. Who is the official spokesperson of the Ministry of External affairs?
1) Mohan Kumar
2) Arun Kumar Singh
3) Sujatha Singh
4) Shiv Shankar Menon
5) Vikas Swarup

40. Benjamin Netanyahu is the current Prime Minister of?
1) Syria
2) Jordan
3) Lebanon
4) Israel
5) Libya

ANSWERS:
1) 3; 2) 2; 3) 3; 4) 4; 5) 5; 6) 3; 7) 4; 8) 1; 9) 2; 10) 5;
11) 4; 12) 2; 13) 3; 14) 5; 15) 5; 16) 3; 17) 5; 18) 2; 19) 1; 20) 2;
21) 4; 22) 2; 23) 3; 24) 3; 25) 3; 26) 2; 27) 5; 28) 4; 29) 3; 30) 4;
31) 1; 32) 2; 33) 3; 34) 4; 35) 1; 36) 3; 37) 2; 38) 4; 39) 5; 40) 4.

RBI Assistant Exam (1st Shift) General Awareness Solved Questions (Exam Held On: 08-08-2015)

1. Doctors day -July 1 
2. Currency of South Korea-South Korean Won 
3. Maximum limit of investment in kisan vikas patra- no limit
4. Where is Sanjay Gandhi National Park- Borivali East, Mumbai
5. Bricks 2016, in which country-India
6. One question related to PMJDY
7. Ex RBI Governor- Dr. D. Subbarao
8. Wimbeldon womens Champion 2015- Serena Williams
9. India Bangladesh land agreement which states share large area-West Bengal , Tripura, Assam, Meghalaya
10. Who is Matti Makkonen who died recently-Father of SMS
11. Scheme named after APJ Abdul Kalam- skill scheme for students (Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan (RAA))
12. Currency of Kazakhstan-Kazakh Tenge
13. Home minister-Rajnath Singh
14. President of Bhutan? – Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
15. Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit was held on 9-10 July 2015? Ufa, Russia
16. Hrishikesh Kanitkar and Ajay Ratra are related to which sport? – Cricket
17. PNB headquarters – New Delhi
18. UNICEF HQ – New York 
19. Rastriya Aviskaar Yojana inaugrated by?- Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam
20. NHB full form?-National Housing Bank
21. VSAT ,Msdn full form?Very Small aperture terminal and Microsoft developer Network.
22. mutual fund regulator?SEBI
23. 37 bridges book writer?Aamer Hussein
24. ISRO launched which country's satellites(5)?United Kingdom
25. Sukanya samriddhi max years to operate?10 years of age to 21 years
26. The Centre approved an interest-free loan to sugar mills to enable them to clear cane arrears payable to farmers. - Rs. 6,000 crore
27. womens winner of wta 2015- Maria Sharapova
28. Barabati Stadium-cuttack
29. ASCII Full Form- American Standard Code for Information Interchange
30. IP Full Form- Internet Protocol
31. CRTL + U = View source code in firefox
32. Nawabganj Bird Sanctuary in Unnao recently renamed after – Nawab Wajid Ali Shah and freedom fighter Chandrashekhar Azad
33. Financial Intelligence unit related to – Suspect financial transactions
34. Retail Banking is also know as – Consumer Banking
35. Rank of India in World Happiness Report 2015- 117
36. According to World Economic Forum report worlds biggest employer is – US Department of Defence
37. Which is Indian Govt Owned Bank – IDBI Bank
38. Pravda, a daily newspaper published from – Russia
39. IAEA Promotes What – promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy
40. Project Tatkal Launched by SBI for which Purpose – Expediting the Home Loan in 10 Days
41. Pravda as the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the - Soviet Union
42. Retail banking refers to the division of a bank that deals directly with retail customers.Also known as- consumer banking
43. According to a research published by the World Economic Forum, who is the world's biggest employer? - US Department of Defense

RBI Assistant Exam (2nd Shift) General Awareness Solved Questions (Exam Held On: 08-08-2015)

1. Kumbh Mela is celebrated at Trimbakeshwar on which river-godavari in nashik, maharashtra
2. Nelson mandela day- 18 July
3. Mundra power plant: Mudra in Kutch district
4. Book related to jhumpa lahiri-The Lowland
5. Uzbekistan capital- Tashkent
6. Soft bank CEO -N arora 
7. Max no of tiger present in which state - Karnataka
8. Currency of Bangladesh - Taka 
9. As per 2011 coinage act RBI can produce how much amount coin ?-1000rs.
10. womens football world cup won by - USA
11. Atal pension yojana minimum age limit - 18
12. Deepak Mohanthy related to which committee - Financial inclusion 
13. Uniki book written by - Vidaya Sagar Roy
14. India's contribution in bricks bank ?- $18 billion
15. Who chair Kolkata based Bandhan Bank? - Ashok Lahiri
16. The Potala Palace is located in which country? - China

Important Committees

1. Finance Ministry constituted a Task on Financial Redress Agency (FRA) under ________ to begin work for FRA as recommended by Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission to act as a unified financial redressal agency? – Dhirendra Swarup

2. Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has set up an Expert Group under ___________ to examine impact of Foods with High in Fat, Sugar and Salt (HFSS) (also called Junk Food) on the health of consumers? – D Prabhakaran

3. International Boxing Association (AIBA) constituted a five member committee under _________ to manage the process of finding a group to organise and run boxing in India. – Kishan Narsi

4. Committee on Railway traffic optimization led by ___________ submitted its report to Ministry of Railways? – Mohd. Jamshed

5. For Revisiting & Revitalizing the PPP Model of Infrastructure Development submitted its Report. ? –Vijay Kelkar

6. Finance Ministry appointed committee under chairmanship of ________ (head of 20th Law Commission of India) to look into issue of Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) on Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) to resolve the contentious issue of MAT between the tax authorities and the foreign investor? - Ajit Prakash Shah.

7. Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority 's Committee headed by _______ in its report suggested changing wordings of disclaimer in advertisements of insurance companies from Insurance is a subject matter of solicitation to Before buying, know the conditions and exclusions, to make a well-informed decision. ? – M Ramaprasad

8. __________Government constituted Special Investigation Team (SIT) under Ravishankar Ayyanar to probe Chittoor firing Case? – Andhra Pradesh

9. ___________for recommending restructuring and strengthening of UGC (University Grants Commission) submitted report to Ministry of Human Resource Development. – Hari Gautam

10.___________ to examine the possibility of replacing multiple prior permissions with pre-existing regulatory mechanism. ? – Ajay Shankar

11. Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation constituted a 'Task Force' chaired by ____ on Interlinking of Rivers to look into the issues relating to Interlinking of Rivers ( ILR) in the country ? – BN Navalawala

12. National Transport Development Policy Committee (NTDPC), under chairmanship of _____ submitted its report suggesting reforms for development of various modes of transport categorized as immediate reforms and long run goals. ? – Rakesh Mohan Prakash Shah

13. ____ Government constituted committee headed by its Chief Secretary Anjani Kumar Singh to consider demand of hike in pay for fixed pay teachers in the state ? – Bihar

14. ____ to suggest a framework to assess Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities undertaken by companies. – Anil Baijal

15. Government created three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by _____for re-investigation of 1984 anti-Sikh riot cases ? – Pramod Asthana

16. Committee headed by _____on Road Safety submitted its report to supreme court and recommended ban of sale of alcohol on National and State highways to minimize road accidents along with other recommendations. ? – KS Radhakrishnan

17. Ministry of Railways constituted a Committee under ____ to identify factors and issues affecting growth of traffic (Freight & Passenger) and suggest a plan of action for Traffic Optimization ? – Mohd. Jamshed

18. Odisha Government has appointed ____ as Chairman of committee for Inquiring of multi-crore chit fund scam in Odisha ? – Madan Mohan Das

19. 20th Law Commission of India headed by ______ submitted 253rd report Commercial Division and Commercial Appellate Division of High Courts and Commercial Courts Bill, 2015 ? – A P Shah

20. Committee headed by _____ submitted report on restructuring of Food Corporation of India (FCI) ? – Shanta Kumar

21. Government accepted recommendations of ______ committee to look into concerns of people of the the North East states living in other parts of the country ? – M P Bezbaruah

22. Government reconstituted Empowered Committee for setting up of Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication (FAB) manufacturing facilities in the country under NITI Aayog member _____ ? – V K Saraswat

23. Government reconstituted Pollution Control Board Working Group to simplify procedures to get consent certificates and categorisation of industries. The Working Group comprising of 11 members will be headed by _____ ? – Ayi Vaman N Acharya

24. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) constituted a Committee under RBI Deputy Governor ____, to reexamine appropriate set of businesses and licensing terms for Urban Cooperative Banks (UCB) – R Gandhi

GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE MCQs FOR SBI PO MAIN EXAM

1. World's oldest international financial organization is the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). It was established on 17 May ........
1) 1919
2) 1966
3) 1930
4) 1945
5) 2014

2. By 31 March 2015, the BIS has membership of how many central banks, representing countries from around the world that together make up about 95% of world GDP?
1) 100 member
2) 60 member
3) 28 member
4) 160 member
5) None of above

3. Bank for International Settlements (BIS) head office located at Basel in .........
1) Sweden
2) Switzerland
3) France
4) Italy
5) USA

4. BIS has representative office for Asia and the Pacific in .........
1) India
2) Hong kong
3) China
4) Japan
5) Switzerland

5. BIS has representative office for American nations in .........
1) USA
2) Mexico
3) Canada
4) Chile
5) Peru

6. Which of the following options reflects the Mission of BIS (Bank for International Settlements)?
1) It fosters discussion and facilitating collaboration among central banks.
2) It carries out research and policy analysis on issues of relevance for monetary and financial stability.
3) It serves as an agent or trustee in connection with international financial operations.
4) It is acting as a prime counterparty for central banks in their financial transactions.
5) All of the above options reflect the Mission of BIS.

7. Which of the following banking activity not discharged by BIS?
1) It accepts deposits from individuals.
2) It provide loans to individuals.
3) It provide financial services to private individuals and corporate entities.
4) It provide locker facilities to all citizens of the member nations.
5) All of the above banking activities not discharged by BIS.

8. BIS board of Directors meet continuously for the smooth working of BIS. BIS chairman is ............
1) Christine Legarde
2) Christian Noyer
3) Stephen S Poloz
4) Ignazio Visco
5) None

9. Which Indian is one of the Board of Directors in BIS (Bank for International Settlements)?
1) Narendra Modi
2) Arun Jaitley
3) Raghuram Rajan
4) Arvind Subramanyam
5) Rajiv Meharshi

10. 85th Annual General Meeting of BIS held on 28th June 2015 at .........
1) Berlin
2) Tokyo
3) Basel
4) New Delhi
5) Mexico

11. BCBS provides a forum for regular cooperation on banking supervisory matters. Its objective is to enhance understanding of key supervisory issues and improve the quality of banking supervision worldwide. BCBS stands for ..........
1) Basel Committee on Bar code Supervision
2) Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
3) Basel Commission on Banking Supervision
4) Basel Committee on Banking Statistics
5) None of above

12. Who heads Basel Committee on Banking Supervision?
1) Mervyn King of England
2) Fabio Panetta of Italy
3) Stefan Ingves of Swedan
4) Alexandre Tombini of Brazil
5) None of above

13. The BASEL II committee recommendations given below. Pick up correct one.
1) BASEL II committee combined all the types of banking risks into three categories.
2) They are Credit risk, market risk and operations risk
3) The committee identified three pillars of risk management
4) The pillars are Minimum capital requirement (also called Capital Adequacy Ratio), Supervisory review process and Market discipline.
5) All of above

14. Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) means .......
1) a ratio of bank's Profits to its risk
2) a ratio of central bank's deposits to its risk
3) a ratio of a bank's capital to its risk
4) a ratio of bank's capital to its total deposits
5) None

15. CAR also known as CRAR. CRAR stands for ........
1) Capital to Round Weighted Assets Ratio
2) Core to Risk Weighted Assets Ratio
3) Capital to Risk Weighted Assets Ratio
4) Capital to Risk Weighted Average Ratio
5) None of above

16. World Day against Child Labour observed on .........
1) 1 May
2) 25 Nov
3) 12 June
4) 14 Nov
5) 24 Jan

17. Tier I capital and Tier II capital details are given. Pick up correct one.
1) Tier I capital includes equity capital and disclosed reserves also.
2) Usually the stock under Tier I capital is not irredeemable and Non - Cumulative.
3) Tier II capital is a Secondary bank capital that includes items such as undisclosed reserves, general loss reserves.
4) Tier II capital includes subordinated term debt also.
5) All of above

18. Basel III norms fully implemented by 1 January 2019 by the member nations banks, but RBI said it is giving little bit relaxation to Indian banks, which must fully implement the BASEL III norms by?
1) 31 March 2020
2) 31 March 2019
3) 31 March 2025
4) 30 September 2014
5) None

19. As per Basel III, banks would be required to maintain Capital Adequacy Ratio of .............. including Capital Conservation Buffer (CCB)?
1) 11.5%
2) 10.5%
3) 9.5%
4) 8.5%
5) 12.5%

20. As per Basel III norms, total Tier I Capital Ratio would be ..........
1) 9.5 percent
2) 4.0 percent
3) 10.5 percent
4) 11.75 percent
5) 14.5 percent

21. Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) launched to develop infrastructure in how many cities and towns?
1) 500
2) 1000
3) 150
4) 200
5) 300

22. AMRUT to be introduced in the cities and towns, where the population is?
1) One lakh and above
2) One thousand and above
3) One million and above
4) One hundred and above
5) Two million and above

23. AMRUT scheme will have an outlay of ........
1) Rs.50,000 crores
2) Rs.25,000 crores
3) Rs.75,000 crores
4) Rs.10,000 crores
5) Rs.1,000 crores

24. Hungarian Grand Prix of Formula One (F1) Title 2015 won by ..........
1) Lewis Carl Hamilton (Britain) (Mercedes)
2) Fernando Alonso (Spain) (McLaren-Honda)
3) Sebastian Vettel (Germany) (Scuderia Ferrari)
4) Daniel Ricciardo (Australia) (Red Bull)
5) Valtteri Bottas (Finland) (Williams)

25. In the International Women's Wrestling Tournament, India finishes second place concluded on 26 July 2015. The event concluded at .........
1) Baku
2) Tallinn
3) Riga
4) Astana
5) Vilnius

26. Who is the winner of Tour De France 2015?
1) Vincenzo Nibali (Italy)
2) Alejandro Belmonte (Spain)
3) Chris Froome (Kenyan born British)
4) Philippe Gilbert (Belgium)
5) Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland)

27. Trophy and sport/game event given. Pick the correct combination.
1) Cricket - ICC world cup, Ashes cup, Ranji Trophy, Deodhar Trophy , Duleep Trophy, Irani Trophy.
2) Football - FIFA cup, Durand Cup, Rovers Cup, Santosh Trophy, Subroto Cup.
3) Hockey - Agha Khan Cup, Beighton Cup, Dhyan Chand Trophy , Murugappa Gold Cup.
4) Tennis - Davis Cup, Wimbledon Cup, Hopman Cup, Fed Cup, ATP Tournament Cup.
5) All of above

28. The ICC World Twenty 20 cup 2016 hosts by .........
1) England
2) West Indies
3) Sri Lanka
4) Bangladesh
5) India

29. On 25 July 2015, to ensure round the clock electricity supply to farmers and rural households, 'Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana' launched at .........
1) New Delhi
2) Suratgarh
3) Kolkata
4) Varanasi
5) Patna

30. The list of Important days given. Locate the correct option?
1) National Broadcasting Day - 23 July
2) Kargil Vijay Diwas - 26 July
3) National Doctor's Day - 1 July
4) World Blood Donors Day - 14 June
5) All of above

31. 'Father of Indian Missile Science' is .........
1) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
2) P.K. Iyengar
3) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
4) Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose
5) C.V. Raman

32. ISRO achieved a huge milestone as it successfully tested latest and most powerful cryogenic engine for 800 seconds on 20 July 2015. This full duration test was performed successfully at .........
1) Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh
2) Thumba, Kerala
3) Panaji, Goa
4) Mahendragiri, Tamilnadu
5) Chandipur, Odisha

33. New TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) Chairman .........
1) K.V. Chowdary
2) Vijai Sharma
3) Prashant Pathrabe
4) R.S. Sharma
5) Prof Sanghmitra Bandyopadhayay

34. Commercial arm of ISRO is .........
1) ANTRAX
2) ANTRO
3) ANTRIX
4) PANTRIX
5) ANDROID

35. Union Minister of State for Atomic Energy and Space is ........
1) Dr. Jitendra Singh
2) V.K. Singh
3) Maneka Gandhi
4) Sujana Chaudary
5) Piyush Goyal


Answers:
1-3, 2-2, 3-2, 4-2, 5-2, 6-5, 7-5, 8-2, 9-3, 10-3
11-2, 12-3, 13-5, 14-3, 15-3, 16-3, 17-5, 18-2, 19-1, 20-1
21-1, 22-1, 23-1, 24-3, 25-4, 26-3, 27-5, 28-5, 29-5, 30-5
31-1, 32-4, 33-4, 34-3, 35-1

RBI Assistants Exam Test of General Awareness Solved Paper (Exam Held On: 01-08-2015 Second Shift)

1. Longest dam in India - Hira Kund
2. Headquarters of world maritime - London
3. Ceat cricketer of the year - Ajinkya Rahane
4. Bhutan capital - Thimpu
5. Health minister - J P Nadda 
6. Estonia currency - Euro
7. Dispur is the Capital of - Assam
8. What is the currency of Estonia - Euro
9. 29 July - World Tiger Day
10. Y K Sabharwal who died recently in New Delhi at the age of 73? Who was he - Former Chief Justice of India
11. Bradley James Haddin is related to which sport - Cricket
12. Where is Asian Development Bank's (ADB) headquarters located - Manila
13. The New Development Bank (NDB) is headquartered in - Shanghai, China.
14. When new Service Tax Rate of 14 % came into effect - June 1
15. Ctrl + c for - Copy
16. In SLR what does R stand for - Ratio
17. Questions From 1st Shift of RBI Assistant Exam - 1st August
18. Kamakhya temple is a famous pilgrimage situated at which state - Assam
19. Gautam Budha Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary located in Gaya district of - Bihar
20. World Tourism Day (WTD) is commemorated each year on - 27 September
21. Who is the author of the book 'Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years' - A. S. Dulat
22. Minimum age for joining Atal Pension Yojana is 18 years and maximum age is - 40 years
23. A bit over 18 years which state has decided to withdraw the Armed Forces Special Powers Act or AFSPA, a controversial law that gives the army sweeping emergency powers in troubled areas - Tripura
24. The total coverage is for Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana - Rs. 2 Lakh
25. Biggest life insurer in India - Life Insurance Corporation (LIC)

RBI Assistants Exam Test of General Awareness Solved Paper (Exam Held On: 01-08-2015 First Shift)

1. Dadra and Nagar Haveli capital - Silvassa
2. IMF headquarter - Washington DC
3. National Teachers Day - 5th September
4. AIIB hq - BEIJING
5. Recently appointed Deputy governor of RBI - S.S.Mundra
6. Swiss Currency - Franc
7. Keoladeo National Park in which state - RAJASTHAN
8. Age limit in sukanya samridhi - 10years
9. Information Broadcasting Minister - Arun Jaitley
10. RRBs AUTHORIZED capital limit - 5 CRORE
11. In which year, Cooperative Societies Act was enacted - 1912
12. Charles Correa was an Indian Architect, urban planner and activist. Who died recently on 26 june 2015
13. Which of the following bodies regulates the Regional Rural Banks - NABARD
14. Bibek Debroy committee is associated with - restructuring - Indian Railways
15. For the regional rural banks, which among the following is the correct share of Central, State and Sponsor Bank - 50%, 15%, 35%
16. Longest river in the world - River Nile
17. Which of the following gives maximum employment in India - Indian Railways
18. Bank with a corpus of - Rs. 20000 crores
19. Atal pension yojna age limit - 18 to 40 years
20. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched - MUDRA
21. authorised capital of Regional Rural Banks - Rs. 5 crore
22. ‘Test of my life’ is the auto biography of  - Yuvraj Singh
23. WHO related to -
24. According to World Investment Report which of the following countries became the highest recipient of FDI in 2014 – China
25. RBI will take back pre 2005 series notes by - 31 dec 2015
26. Half yearly financial stability report by whom - RBI
27. Who is Nazim Zaidi – Chief Election Commissioner of India
28. India's uranium Deal with which country for next five years - CANADA
29. Vienna is capital of - Austria
30. NASA FOUND SOMETHING ON WHICH PLANET
31. ICC PRESIDENT - ZAHEER ABBAS
32. WHICH BANK VOICE RECOGNIZED PASSWORD IN ATMS –ICICI
33. SBI INSURANCE WITH WHICH INSURANCE COMPANY - BNP PARIBAS
34. Kaiga atomic power plant in which state - KARNATAKA
35. Kalinga stadium situated in - BHUBNESHWAR, ODISSA
36. Floyd Joy Mayweather is related to which sport? - Boxing
37. India-Africa 2015 summit held in - NEW DELH
38. What was the name of State Bank of India (SBI) before it was created by SBI Act - Imperial Bank of India
39. President of the New Development Bank being set up by BRICS? -  K V Kamath

BANKING AWARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR BANK EXAMS

1. The payment of a lost demand draft is made to the ______?
a) Purchaser
b) Payee
c) Nominee
d) Any of the above
e) None of these

2. In the case of granting loan against a life insurance policy, the banker should see ______?
a) The existence of insurable interest
b) The surrender value
c) The admission of age
d) All of the above
e) None of the above

3. When a debtor owes several debts to a banker and makes a payment, the right to appropriation lies with ______?
a) The banker
b) The debtor
c) The court
d) All of the above
e) None of the above

4. in terms of Section 31 of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 a demand draft payable to bearer may be issued only by ______?
a) Nationalized Banks
b) Scheduled Commercial Banks
c) Reserve Bank of India
d) Foreign Banks
e) None of the Above

5. Unsigned demand draft is presented for payment, the drawee branch will ______?
a) Honour it
b) Dishonour it since it does not have a mandate of the drawer bank to pay it.
c) Honour it after seeking confirmation from the collecting bank
d) Honour it if it is for small amount
e) None of the above

6. When was SBI established?
a) 1st April 1935
b) 31st July 1969
c) 5th May 1955
d) 1st July 1955
e) None of the above

7. The maximum number of partners in a non-banking partnership firm is ______?
a) 20
b) 10
c) 25
d) 11
e) None of the above

8. Which of the following agencies /organizations has recently decided that all the Stock Exchanges
would introduce physical settlement of Equity Derivatives?
a) Reserve Bank of India
b) Bombay Stock Exchange
c) Registrar of Companies
d) Securities & Exchange Board of India
e) All of the above

9. How much bad loans was accumulated with the public sector banks as on 31st March 2015 as
disclosed by the Finance Ministry on 21st July 2015?
a) Rs. 2.76 lakh crore
b) Rs. 2.54 lakh crore
c) Rs. 2.67 lakh crore
d) Rs. 2.27 lakh crore
e) None of the above

10. In Mutual Funds, NAV is the price of ______?
a) Entire fund value
b) One unit of a fund
c) Surrender value
d) Average value of shares
e) Dividends paid in a year

11. Presently which Indian Bank has the largest number of foreign branches?
a) SBI
b) Canara Bank
c) Bank of Baroda
d) Bank of India
e) None of the above

12. Cash deposit ratio means____ ?
a) The percentage of cash-in-hand- balance with the Central Bank to the aggregate deposits
b) The percentage of total deposits received by Banks
c) The percentage of total cash money received as deposits by banks
d) All the above
e) None of the above

13. Central Government has appointed Sriram Kalyanaraman as the Managing Director (MD) and
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of which of the following organisations:
a) NABARD
b) National Housing Bank (NHB)
c) I.F.C
d) IDRBT
e) B.I.R.D

14. In case of a usance bill a grace period of........ Will be allowed to calculate due date of payment.
a) 3 days
b) 2 days
c) 1 day
d) 4 days
e) None of the above

15. In the case of FCNR accounts the payment of interest is effected in ____?
a) Indian Rupee
b) Only in Pound (£)
c) Same currency in which deposit stands
d) Yen
e) None

16. Working capital requirement depends upon ______?
a) Level of activity
b) Types of business carried
c) Nature of Production cycle
d) All the above
e) None

17. In which of the Acts, specimen of the cheque, bill, promissory note is given?
a) Negotiable Instruments Act
b) Banking Regulation Act
c) Mercantile Law
d) All of the above
e) None

18. RBI permitted CBS-enabled Cooperative Banks to issue ATM cards in tie-up with:
a) State Bank of India
b) Any Nationalised Bank
c) a sponsor bank.
d) NABARD
e) b &c

19. Who headed the RBI panel that has submitted its report titled 'Data Format for Furnishing of
Credit Information to Credit Information Companies'.
a) Urjit Patel
b) A.K.Sharma
c) Aditya Puri
d) R.Gandhi
e) None of these

20. India's first post office savings bank ATM facility has been recently inaugurated in which of
the following places?
a) Chennai
b) Bengaluru
c) Mumbai
d) Delhi
e) None of these

21. The main function of an Asset Management Company is to:
a) hold the securities of various schemes
b) manage the funds by making investments in various types of securities
c) hold its property for the benefit of the unit holders
d) act on behalf of SEBI
e) All the above

22. Which country on 30 June 2015 became the first-ever developed economy to default on a loan
with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)?
a) Afganisthan
b) Australia
c) Bangaladesh
d) Greece
e) Canada

23. The minimum period under which a term deposit under Reinvestment Plan can be issued is____?
a) 24 months
b) 12 months
c) 6 months
d) 9 months
e) None

24. A minor is admitted to the partnership firm as ______?
a) Agent
b) Partner
c) Minor
d) Beneficiary
e) None

25. Which bank on 4th July 2015 became the first in the country to launch the MUDRA Card, under
the Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY) scheme?
a) Andhra Bank
b) Bank of Baroda
c) Central Bank
d) Corporation Bank
e) Union Bank of India

26. Who was named as the first Chairman of the to be opened Bandhan Bank, which announced its
Board of Directors on 9th July 2015?
a) Ashok K. Lahiri
b) Subir Gokaran
c) S.S.Mundra
d) Pratik Choudhary
e) T.S.Vijayan

27. What is the limitation of the number of persons in a joint savings bank account?
a) Two
b) Four
c) Five
d) Twenty
e) No limit

28. After acceptance of a bill, the primary liability on a Bill of Exchange is that of ______?
a) Payee
b) Acceptor
c) Drawee
d) Endorsee
e) All of the above

29. The full form of SREP used in Basel framework is :
a) Standard Review and Evaluation Process
b) Supervisory Review and evaluation Process
c) Standardised Revision and Evaluation Practice
d) Supervisory Review and Electronic Process
e) None

30. In order to enable private sector banks to attract and retain professional directors, the Reserve Bank
has issued guidelines on compensation for non-executive Directors for implementation by private sector banks, that will reflect market realities and will be within the parameters specified in the:
a) Banking Regulation Act, 1949
b) The Indian Companies Act, 2013 (Amended)
c) RBI Act 1934
d) As per the directives of Indian Banks Association
e) Both a&b

31. An executor of deceased account is appointed under ______?
a) Trust
b) Court
c) Will
d) Family tradition
e) None of the above

32. Relationship between the RBI and the bank maintaining currency chest will be of ______?
a) Trustee and beneficiary
b) Principal and agent
c) Licensor and licensee
d) Creditor and debtor
e) None of the above

33. The Reserve Bank has advised all public sector banks and select private sector and foreign banks
to appoint an internal Ombudsman. The internal Ombudsman would be designated as ______:
a) Chief Ombudsman Service Officer
b) Chief Customer Ombudsman Officer
c) Internal Ombudsman Customer Service Officer
d) Chief Customer Service Officer
e) Chief Transaction Audit Officer

Answers
1) a; 2) d; 3) b; 4) c; 5) b; 6) d; 7) a; 8) d; 9) c; 10) b;
11) a; 12) a; 13) b; 14) a; 15) c; 16) d; 17) e; 18) c; 19) c; 20) a;
21) b; 22) d; 23) c; 24) d; 25) d; 26) a; 27) e; 28) b; 29) b; 30) e;
31) c; 32) b; 33) d.