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Who has been appointed as the new Director

General of National Cadet Corps (NCC) succeeding Lt Gen A Chakravarty ?

a) Samarth Sareen b) Bipin Rawat

c) Vinod Vashisht d) Shivam Ahuja


Free Wifi was recently enabled at which station by Google recently making it the 100th WiFi enabled

railway station in India.

a) Mysuru b) Udhagamandalam

c) Chennai d) Beas


The 8th edition of Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit will be held in which city from January 10th to 13th, 2017 with the central focus “Sustainable

Economic and Social Development”? a) Gandhinagar b) Ahmadabad c) Bhavnagar d) Jamnagar


Prafulla Haldankar died recently, he was

associated with which sport ? a) Tennis

b) Wrestling

c) Boxing d) Table Tennis


Debbie Reynolds died recently, she was associated

with which field ? a) Sports b) Cinema

c) Journalism d) Painting


Haryana governement recently set up India’s first

centre for digital investigation and training in collaboration with National Technical Research

Organisation (NTRO) in which city ? a) Faridabad

b) Sonipat c) Gurugram d) Rohtak


Barbara Tarbuck recently passed away , she was

related to which field ? a) Sports b) Cinema

c) Journalism d) Art


2016 National Trust Foundation Day was recently observed on which day ?

a) December 30 b) December 29 c) December 31

d) December 28


The Department of Posts under the Union Ministry of Communications has released a special stamp to commemorate which freedom fighter ?

a) Lokmanya Tilak b) Gaya Prasad Katiyar

c) Bhagat Singh d) Chandrasekhar Azad


Which famous jail in India has been declared as a

cashless society ? a) Rajhmundry Central Jail

b) Yerwada Jail

c) Cellular Jail d) Tihar Jail


India Economy grew by what percentage in the

first half of financial year 2016-17 as announced by the Finance Ministry?

a) 7.2% b) 7.6% c) 7.7% d) 7.1%


What is the name of the web site for the Digi

Dhan Abhiyan ? a) Digidhan India

b) Digishala

c) Digital Jagriti d) Digital Awakening


Which bank has tied up with Niki.ai, the artificial

intelligence firm,to bring in 'conversational banking' — chatbots that facilitate commerce

and banking transactions without getting out of the chat window ?

a) Yes bank b) Axis Bank

c) HDFC Bank d) HSBC


Which state is the 4th state in India to have

Airtel Payments Bank commencing their services in it ?

a) Rajasthan b) Andhra Pradesh

c) Telangana d) Karnataka


India Post payment bank is opening its first bank

branch in which state ? a) Haryana

b) Jharkhand

c) Rajasthan d) Andhra Pardesh


The RBI stopped withdrawal from and freezed 52,000 accounts of which bank on the ground that the it is not covered under the Banking Regulation

Act a) State Bank of Travancore b) State Bank of Hyderabad

c) State Bank of Jaipur and Bikaner d) State Bank of Sikkim


Who sold his 1% in One97 Communications for

Rs325 crore recently ? a) Upasana Taku

b) Vijay Shekhar Sharma

c) Bipin Preet Singh d) Ratan Tata


Which mobile wallet company tied-up with the

IIT Delhi and JNU to make their campuses cashless ?

a) Freecharge b) Pay U c) PayTm

d) Mobikwik


Which digital payment firm announced its association with HPCL, aimed at making the

delivery of LPG Gas Cylinders smart and cashless. a) Freecharge

b) Citrus c) PayTm

d) Mobikwik


Khandalavadi has been declared as the first

cashless village in the Tamil Nadu. It has been made cashless by which bank ?

a) SBI b) ICICI c) BOB d) BOM


Chatonguri village in Morigaon district has been declared as the first cashless village in which

state ?

a) Maharashtra b) Assam

c) Telangana d) J & K


Who was named the World's Best Playmaker for the second consecutive year by International Federation of Football History & Statistics

(IFFHS) ? a) Cristiano Ronaldo

b) Lionel Messi c) Andreas Iniesta

d) Tony Kroos


Students from which institute have developed a first-aid app in collaboration with the Indian Red

Cross Society that contains instructions and information regarding medical emergencies ?

a) IISC b) BITS

c) IIT Delhi d) IIT Kharagpur


Who is that first transgender principal of an Indian college, who submitted her resignation,

ending her 19 month-long tenure as the head of Krishnagar Women’s College in West Bengal.

a) Kavya Chatterjee b) Saubhik Majumdar

c) Prasenjit Saha d) Manabi Bandopadhyay


Who was unveiled as the official face of the 2nd International Kite Festival to be held from 12th to

17th January in Hyderabad ?

a) Geeta Phogat b) Saina Nehwal

c) Mary Kom d) PV Sindhu


Which Seven-year-old prodigy created history after winning three gold medals in the 1st

Western Asia Youth Chess Championship in Al Ain Chess Club in UAE ? a) Charu Saini

b) Kush Bhagat c) Abhijeet Gupta d) Manish Kunte


Which committee has been consituted to review the institutionalization of Arbitration Mechanism

in India ?

a) SS Mundhra Committee b) Harish Chandra Committee

c) Lodha Committee d) BN Srikrishna Committee


In a bid to tackle the call drop menace, government has launched an (IVRS) system at

multiple locations including Delhi and Mumbai to obtain direct feedback from subscribers on call

quality. what is the full form of IVRS ?

a) Integrated Voice Response System b) Integrated Voice Relay System

c) Internal Voice Response System d) Integrated Voice Report System


Shapath Bharadwaj became the first junior to qualify for the senior national team. She plays

which sport?

a)   Chess b)   Shooting c) Squash

d) Wrestling


Which Indian airport’s staff has been directed to carry Aadhaar cards to work along with their entry

pass from January 1 2017 ?

a)   Chhatrapati Shivaji Airport b)   Rajiv Gandhi Airport

c) Indira Gandhi Airport d) Subhash Chandra Bose Airport


Which senior lawyer was appointed as the government’s arbitrator in a $1.55 billion dispute

with Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) over alleged extraction of gas from a reservoir connected to

ONGC ?

a) Soli Sorabjee b) Mukul Tyagi c) G S Singhvi

d) Meenakshi Lekhi


India has eased the process of procurement of tourist visas by allowing those with confirmed travel tickets to submit their visa applications directly without prior appointment starting

January 1, 2017 for which country ?

a) Russia b) Nepal

c) Bhutan d) Bangladesh


Which Indian hospital achieved 100% "cashless'' transactions by using its self devised hospital-

specific pre-paid 'smartcard'?

a) Medanta, Gurgaon b) Narayana Hrudyalaya, Bengaluru

c) Tata memorial cancer hospital, Mumbai d) Max Hospital, Saket,New Delhi


Which state launched an integrated tiger habitat conservation project around M.M. Hills and

Cauvery wildlife sanctuaries in Chamarajanagar district in association with IUCN ?

a) Karnataka b) Uttar Pradesh c) Uttarakhand d) West Bengal


The health ministry has rolled out door-to-door TB screening campaign in how many states with an aim to decrease TB Cases by 50% within next

2 years ? a) 2 b) 3 c) 4 d) 5

“BeingInTouch”app was launched by which actor on his 51st birthday on 27th December ?

a) SRK b) Salman Khan c) Aamir Khan

d) Saif Ali Khan


PM Modi laid the foundation stone for the Char

Dham Mahamarg Vikas Pariyojna in which state at a total cost of Rs. 12000 Crore ?

a) Tamilnadu b) Uttar Pradesh c) Uttarakhand d) West Bengal


India’s first Bio-Diesel Buses were recently

launched by the road transport corporation of which state ?

a) Telangana b) Uttar Pradesh

c) Madhya Pradesh d) Karnataka


Vera Rubin died recently, he was related to which

field ? a) Astronaut b) Dancing

c) Painting d) Singing


Which country successfully tested its Fifth

Generation twin-engine radar-evading stealth fighter, FC-31 Gyrfalcon ?

a) North Korea b) Russia c) Japan d) China


Sagarmala project which has been in news is

under the administrative control of which ministry ?

a) Ministry of Health b) Ministry of Water resources

c) Ministry of Defence d) Ministry of Shipping


Which public sector bank wil make the village

of Malangaon completely cashless ? a) Indian overseas bank

b) Union Bank

c) Bank of Maharashtra d) Bank of Baroda


What is the name of the one of the

universe’s biggest super clusters of galaxies that was detected by the research team of

astronomers from Australia, South Africa, and Europe recently

a) Variola b) Viola c) Vela

d) Varicella


Samit Gohel made history by scoring 359

runs not out during his team’s Ranji Trophy quarter-final against Odisha ,highest

unbeaten score by an opening batsman in first-class cricket. He plays for which team ?

a) Mumbai b) Railways c) Gujarat

d) Vidarbha


Which state government organized India’s first Digi Dhan Mela to promote cashless

economy ?

a) Haryana b) Uttar Pradesh

c) Punjab d) Andhra Pardesh


Who has been named as the captain of Cricket

Australia recently declared their team of the year for ODI, who is the captain of the team ?

a) Ravichandra Ashwin b) Virat Kohli

c) Steve Smith d) Joe Root


Kush Bhagat is associated with which sport ?

a) Table-Tennis b) Squash c) Chess d) Luge


The Union Ministry of Sports suspended

the Indian Olympic Association . Who is the minister of state for sports with independent

charge ? a) Jayant Sinha

b) Vijay Goel c) Uma Bharti

d) Nirmala Sitharaman


Eknathrao , also known as ‘Balasaheb’ Vikhe Patil

died recently, he was a politician from which party ?

a) Shiv Sena b) NCP c) BJP

d) Congress


Which former Tour De France winner announced

his retirement recently? a) Vincenzo Nibali

b) Chris Froome

c) Bradley Wiggins d) Lance Armstrong


As per the data released by the Ministry for Petroleum & Natural Gas, the government

achieved its target of providing 1.5 crore free LPG connections to the BPL families in less than 8

months as part of which scheme ? a) AMRUT

b) Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana c) Pradhan Mantri Kaushala Yojana

d) PAHAL Scheme


Which state Government signed a Memorandum of

Understanding with the Indian Railways for setting up a Joint Venture in which at least 21 railway stations would be built in the state ?

a) Andhra Pradesh b) Telagana

c) Madhya Pradesh d) Uttarakhand


Recently, the Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) of Indian Air Force which had been abandoned after

the 1962 Sino-India War become operational. Where is it located ?

a) Ita Nagar b) Tawang c) Lohit d) Siang


The Centre sanctioned Rs. 200 crores to the Tirupur Dyeing Industry that was on the verge

of closure due to severe financial crisis on recommendation of the Ministry of Textiles ,

Where is it located ?

a) Jharkhand b) Uttar Pradesh

c) Tamil Nadu d) West Bengal


World’s heighest bridge called Beipanjiang

Bridge at a height of 1,854 feet(565 metres) above the sea level was recently opened

in which country ? a) Japan b) China c) India

d) South Korea


Which country passed a law to grant amnesty to

FARC guerrillas as part of the country’s peace deal ending five decades of conflict ?

a) Mexico b) Peru

c) Venezuela d) Colombia


Real estate portal magicbricks.com did a tie-up

with which bank for online home loan-approval solutions ?

a) India post payments bank b) Axis Bank

c) State Bank of India d) Bandhan Bank


Which state/UT registered the highest increase in per capita income among all the states and Union

territory of India for 2015-16 ?

a) Maharashtra b) Delhi

c) Madhya Pradesh d) Odisha


BJP government was installed in which state after 33, out of 43 MLAs of (PPA) party joined the

party in a strong political upheaval in the state ?

a) Sikkim b) Andhra Pardesh

c) Arunachal Pradesh d) Kerala


Who was sworn in as the new prime minister of

Romania ? a) Adrian Mutu

b) Klaus Iohannis

c) Sorin Grindeanu d) Klikkov Swarenu


PM launched UPI based mobile payment application called at the Digi Dhan Mela

event in Talkatora stadium in New Delhi. What is the full from of BHIM ?

a) Bharat Interface for Money b) Basic Interface for Money

c) Bharat Initiative for Money d) Bharat Infrastructure for Money


Which Fast Patrol Vessel was delivered to the Indian Coast Guard by the Cochin Shipyard, set to

operate from the Coast Guard Station at Krishnapatanam in Andhra Pardesh ?

a) ICGS Samarth b) ICGS Gaidinliu c) ICGS Ayush d) ICGS Aamir


Which company launched a book recently about the fifty years of India’s history ?

a) TATA b) AMUL

c) Mahindra

d) Maanyavar


Who won the gold for the sixth consecutive year in

the men’s 77kg category at the 69th men weightlifting championships at Nagercoil in

Tamilnadu ? a) Mirabai

b) Sharath Krishnan c) Sivalingam Sathish Kumar

d) Shiva Krishnan


Who has been appointed as the new Director General of Police (DGP), Jammu & Kashmir ?

a) Shabab Ansari b) Sarwar Baig

c) S.P. Vaid d) Mohammad Kaif


Imtiaz Ahmed died recently, he was a sportsman

in which sport ? a) Sprint racing

b) Cricket

c) Marathon racing d) Football


Which Indian-origin British professor received

Knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for his contribution to the field of science and medicine ?

a) Shankar Balasubramanian b) Vignesh Unnikrishnan

c) Ajith Paul d) Srinivas Vemula


An NRI-focused mobile banking application called SIB Mirror+ was recently launched by which

bank ?

a) State Bank of India b) South Indian Bank

c) Andhra Bank d) Allahabad Bank


Which city recently hosted the four-day World

Bhojpuri Conference ? a) Patna

b) Port Louis

c) Gaya d) Varanasi


The state Government of Haryana signed a Memorandum of Understanding with which state

to assist the state in compiling a centralised database of its population to ensure efficient and effective implementation of welfare

programmes ? a) Tamilnadu

b) Uttar Pradesh c) Andhra Pradesh

d) Punjab


Former French Open winner Ana Ivanovic announced her retirement from Tennis . She

belonged to which country ?

a) Russia b) Serbia

c) Ukraine d) Switzerland


Which country ingurated 340 MegaWatt

Chashma-III nuclear power plant ? a) China b) India

c) Pakistan d) Iran


Who won the gold medal in the finals of junior men’s 50M Rifle Prone event at the National

Shooting Championship in Pune ?

a) Pruthviraj Ayachi b) Sushil Ghaley c) Himish Patel

d) Neeraj Rajpurohit


The virtual reality company of, Oculus has acquired The eye-tracking software company The Eye Tribe has been acquired by the virtual reality

frim Oculus, who owns Oculus ? a) IBM

b) Microsoft c) Facebook d) Google


The central government launched which initiative to strengthen community health centres in 708 open defecation free blocks across the country and also to spread awareness about health and

hygiene?

a) Sarvatra Swacchta Abhiyaan b) Swachh Swasth Sarvatra c) Swachhta Apnao Yojana

d) Swachh Tan Swachh Mann


Who has been appointed as the brand Ambassador For Thumbs Up replacing Salman Khan ?

a) Akshay Kumar b) Virat Kohli c) MS Dhoni

d) Ranveer Singh


Which state government approved an overall reservation of 50% in both, subordinate and

superior judicial services, in the state ?

a) Uttar Pardesh b) Bihar

c) Chattisgarh d) West Bengal


Who will be the White House homeland security and counter-terrorism adviser as appointed by ,

Donald Trump ?

a) Thomas Bossert b) Jason D. Greenblatt

c) Rex Tillerson d) Michael Flynn


Who was appointed as the new Lieutenant Governor of Delhi by the President Pranab

Mukherjee replacing Najeeb Jung ?

a) Kanwar Singh Suhag b) Suhel Lakkadwala

c) Anil Baijal d) Sunil Seth


In which city is Alibaba setting up first Indian office to boost its prospects for E-Commerce in

Indian ecosystem ?

a) Mumbai b) Pune c) Surat

d) Bengaluru


Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (Bhel) has commissioned its second 600 MW coal-based

thermal power plant in which state ?

a) Andhra Pardesh b) Uttar Pradesh

c) Madhya Pradesh d) Telangana


Which bank has financed USD 235 million credit for the Bihar Rural Roads Project to construct

2,500 km of rural roads in Bihar under the Mukhiya Mantri Gram Sampark

Yojana (MMGSY) ?

a) ADB b) AIIB

c) BRICS d) World Bank


Who won the Best Player of the Year along with Goodwill Award at the seventh edition of the

2016 Globe Soccer Awards held in Dubai ?

a) Cristiano Ronaldo b) Lionel Messi

c) Antoine Griezman d) Gareth Bale


As per the report of ‘Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations 2008-2015′ released

by Congressional Research Service (CRS), India has been ranked at which position as

the largest purchaser of arms ?

a) 1st b) 2nd c) 3rd d) 4th


Which state Government has decided to set up a pilot corridor for an innovative concept of

“Caterpillar Train” that will fly over city’s traffic ?

a) Tamilnadu b) Punjab

c) Haryana d) Telangana


Ashwani Kumar Upadhyaya and Emil Jacob, from MIT, USA were in news recently related to which

project ?

a) Golden Quadrilateral b) Green corridor

c) Sagar Mala project d) C-Train


Which State Government is set to create a new ministry for welfare of Vimukta Jati and Nomadic

Tribes (VJNT) OBCs and Special Backward classes ?

a) Sikkim b) Maharashtra

c) Himachal Pradesh d) West Bengal


Which city hosted the 24th National Children’s Science Congress (NCSC) that was jointly

organised by Vidya Pratisthan and Environmental Forum of India a) New Delhi

b) Mumbai c) Pune

d) Warangal


Which company received final approval of the Reserve Bank of India to start operations as

Small Finance Bank in India ?

a) Airtel b) Bajaj Capital c) Au Financiers d) Tata capital


India has signed an agreement for bilateral technical cooperation in infrastructure

engineering with which country ?

a) Bhutan b) Nepal

c) Bangladesh d) Sri Lanka


In which city is the Film Television and Liberal Arts Institute being built in India ?

a) New Delhi b) Lucknow c) Varanasi

d) Kanpur


The Ministry of Human Resource Development is setting up a new Regional Institute of Education

(NIE) at which place in Andhra Pradesh ?

a) Nellore b) Guntur

c) Vishakhapatnam d) Vijaywada


Which bank has become the first bank in India to implement the Twitter based customer services ?

a) Axis Bank b) SBI

c) ICICI Bank

d) Yes Bank


Which state in the country has got the honour of having the first fully-digital and cashless tribal

colony in the country ?

a) Tamilnadu b) Himachal Pardesh c) Madhya Pradesh

d) Kerala


Which mobile wallet firm received in-principle approval from the RBI to set up a Bharat Bill

Payments Operating Unit ?

a) MobiKwik b) PayTm

c) Freecharge d) Oxigen


Who was appointed for the post of Reserve Bank of India’s deputy governor for a term of three

years ?

a) S S Mundra b) N S Vishwanathan

c) R Gandhi d) Viral Acharya


Who was elected president of the India International Centre (IIC) for a second consecutive

term by the board of directors of IIC ?

a) Rohinton Nariman b) Fali Nariman c) Soli Sorabjee

d) Abhishek Singhvi


Carrie Fisher died recently, she was related to

which field ? a) Sports

b) Journalism

c) Cinema d) Polity


Which Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and two-times Madhya Pradesh chief minister passed

away recently ?

a) Digvijay Singh b) Sunderlal Patwa

c) Rajiv Dixit d) Prashant Agnihotri


Which state will hos the National Games 2022 as announced recently ?

a) Assam b) Mizoram c) Sikkim

d) Meghalaya


Which country successfully launched two High-

Resolution Remote Sensing Satellites called SuperView-1 01/02 ?

a) India b) China c) Japan d) USA


Which state’s Chief Minister inaugurated the Digital Investigation, Training and Analysis Centre (DIATC) to enhance cyber crime solving

capabilities ? a) Uttar Pardesh

b) Madhya Pradesh c) Haryana d) Kerala


Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable Pvt Ltd introduced which payment service in its booths

and ‘Safal’ retail stores in association with CSC e-Governance Service India Ltd under the aegis of

Department of Electronics and Information Technology (Deity) ?

a) UPI b) USSD c) AEPS

d) PayTm


India recently signed a Third Protocol for amending the Double Taxation Avoidance

Agreement (DTAA) for the avoidance of double taxation and prevention of fiscal evasion with

respect to taxes on income with which country ?

a) Bangladesh b) Nepal

c) Sri Lanka d) Singapore


Which state launched School Management Information System (SMIS) to provide a

complete database of all the government schools present in the state ?

a) J & K b) MP c) HP

d) Haryana


Which city hosted the 77th Indian History

Congress that was inaugurated by President Pranab Mukherjee ?

a) Chennai b) Thiruvananthapuram

c) Coimbatore d) Kolkata


The President Shri Pranab Mukherjee approved the promulgation of the Specified Bank Notes (Cessation of Liabilities) Ordinance, 2016 on 30th December, 2016 that aims to extinguish the liability of the

Reserve Bank of India and the Government of India towards the demonetized Bank Notes. According to the Ordinance, holding of old 1,000 and 500 rupee

notes after which date will be considered as an offence and attract a fine of Rs. 10,000 or 5 times

the cash held, whichever is higher? a) 31st March 2017

b) 1st June 2017 c) 1st April 2017

d) 1st February 2017


What is the name of village in Andhra Pradesh, that has become the first 100 per cent digitally literate village in the country besides already

being a cashless village and open defecation free (ODF) village ?

a) Iruram b) Puttamrajuvari Kandriga

c) Golpally d) Mori


RBI has relaxed the daily ATM withdrawal limit

to how much from the present limit of Rs 2500 ? a) 3500 b) 4000

c) 4500 d) 5000


Which country’s Government has put a ‘terror tax’ on property insurance policies after a series

of terror attacks in 2015 and 2016 to help finance a fund for terror victims

a) Germany b) Turkey c) France

d) Switzerland


Which 2 times former Sri Lankan Prime Minister, passed away recently after a brief

illness ?

a) Ranish Bhandarnayke b) Amritha Kulasekhara

c) Ratnasiri Wickremanayake d) Mahindra Rajpakshe


Which state government introduced the ‘Biotechnology Policy-2016‘ to establish the state

as a preferred destination for manufacturing of biotechnology products?

a) Rajasthan b) Gujarat c) Punjab

d) Haryana


Which state recently launched Nagar Uday Abhiyan for appraisal of services being provided

to citizens and enhance their standard

a) Telangana b) Uttar Pradesh

c) Madhya Pradesh d) Himachal Pardesh


Which writer has been chosen for the 26th Bihari Puraskar, 2016 by the K K Birla Foundation for his

Hindi book titled ‘Yeh Ek Dunia’ ?

a) Satya Narayan b) Bhagwati Lal Vyas

c) Sudhir Mishra d) Rewati Bakshi


Indian Army has signed an agreement with which IIT to set up a research and development (R&D)

cell at its campus to identify problems and possible solutions for the Indian Army ?

a) IIT Mumbai b) IIT Gandhinagar

c) IIT Delhi d) IIT Guwahati


Who has been chosen as the brand ambassador for Tata Motor’s commercial vehicle (CV) business

unit ?

a) Akshay Kumar b) Salman Khan c) Virat Kohli d) MS Dhoni


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