Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Wishes Luck to Special Olympics Participants
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NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today wished luck to the ten-member contingent from government-run Asha Kiran Home selected for 2015 Special Olympics to be held in Los Angeles, and expressed optimism that they will win gold medals at the sporting event.
"I wish you the best, do well and come back with gold. You have to hold the flag high at the games," Mr Kejriwal told the players while welcoming them at Delhi Secretariat.
The ten-member contingent from Asha Kiran Home for mentally-challenged is part of the Indian team to participate in the 2015 Special Olympics.
The team will participate in cycling, handball, power lifting, softball and volleyball events.
The 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games will begin on July 25 in Los Angeles, California where more than 7,000 Special Olympics athletes from 170 nations are going to compete in 25 Olympic-type sports.
The team would be back on August 4 after the event gets over, according to officials with the contingent.
The players also gifted the Chief Minister with a painting made by the inmates of Asha Kiran.
The meeting was also attended by Delhi Social Welfare Minister Sandeep Kumar.
NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today wished luck to the ten-member contingent from government-run Asha Kiran Home selected for 2015 Special Olympics to be held in Los Angeles, and expressed optimism that they will win gold medals at the sporting event."I wish you the best, do well and come back with gold. You have to hold the flag high at the games," Mr Kejriwal told the players while welcoming them at Delhi Secretariat.
The ten-member contingent from Asha Kiran Home for mentally-challenged is part of the Indian team to participate in the 2015 Special Olympics.
The team will participate in cycling, handball, power lifting, softball and volleyball events.
The 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games will begin on July 25 in Los Angeles, California where more than 7,000 Special Olympics athletes from 170 nations are going to compete in 25 Olympic-type sports.
The team would be back on August 4 after the event gets over, according to officials with the contingent.
The players also gifted the Chief Minister with a painting made by the inmates of Asha Kiran.
The meeting was also attended by Delhi Social Welfare Minister Sandeep Kumar.
India's Clean Energy Targets Way Ahead of Others: UN Official
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NEW DELHI: India can lead the world in the area of sustainable energy from renewable sources, as its clean energy target is way ahead of the UN global goal, senior official of the United Nations said today.
"We believe that India can lead the world. Your (India's) targets here and some of the progress you are making here is way ahead of UN global targets. But of course, there is a lot more work to do," United Nations Under Secretary General and CEO for 'SE4ALL' initiative, Kandeh K Yumkella, said.
He was speaking with reporters after a round-table discussion on sustainable energy with Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy Minister Piyush Goyal in New Delhi.
India targets 175 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2022, which includes 100 GW of solar, 60 GW of wind power, 10 GW of biomass-fired power and 5 GW of small hydro power.
Mr Yumkella, who is also special representative of the UN Secretary General, said, "We used India over the past decade as a laboratory to bring convergence between energy access and climate change recognising still 2.7 billion people around the world rely on charcoal, cow dung and firewood to meet their primary energy needs."
"This, we believe, is unfair and inequitable giving that technologies are known."
The UN's 'SEE4ALL or Sustainable Energy for All' envisages making sustainable energy a reality for all by 2030.
Commenting on the ties with UN on clean energy, Mr Goyal said, "I think this partnership of UN with India will certainly lead India to become world leader in the sphere of clean and affordable energy for all."
"UN's initiative SE4ALL aims that by 2030, entire world and every citizen of the world should have affordable energy access. All countries in the world should feel energy secure (by 2030) while at the same time ensuring that our consciousness to cleaner energy to climate change is also taken care of," the minister said.
NEW DELHI: India can lead the world in the area of sustainable energy from renewable sources, as its clean energy target is way ahead of the UN global goal, senior official of the United Nations said today."We believe that India can lead the world. Your (India's) targets here and some of the progress you are making here is way ahead of UN global targets. But of course, there is a lot more work to do," United Nations Under Secretary General and CEO for 'SE4ALL' initiative, Kandeh K Yumkella, said.
He was speaking with reporters after a round-table discussion on sustainable energy with Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy Minister Piyush Goyal in New Delhi.
India targets 175 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2022, which includes 100 GW of solar, 60 GW of wind power, 10 GW of biomass-fired power and 5 GW of small hydro power.
Mr Yumkella, who is also special representative of the UN Secretary General, said, "We used India over the past decade as a laboratory to bring convergence between energy access and climate change recognising still 2.7 billion people around the world rely on charcoal, cow dung and firewood to meet their primary energy needs."
"This, we believe, is unfair and inequitable giving that technologies are known."
The UN's 'SEE4ALL or Sustainable Energy for All' envisages making sustainable energy a reality for all by 2030.
Commenting on the ties with UN on clean energy, Mr Goyal said, "I think this partnership of UN with India will certainly lead India to become world leader in the sphere of clean and affordable energy for all."
"UN's initiative SE4ALL aims that by 2030, entire world and every citizen of the world should have affordable energy access. All countries in the world should feel energy secure (by 2030) while at the same time ensuring that our consciousness to cleaner energy to climate change is also taken care of," the minister said.
Woman Held for Trying to Smuggle Out Rs. 22 Crore Ephedrine
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KOCHI: A South African woman has been arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle out 14 kg of white powder-- suspected to be Ephedrine-- worth Rs. 22 crore at the international airport at Nedumbassery in Kochi.
Customs Commissioner K N Raghavan said officers of Air Intelligence Unit intercepted Dorcas Dolly at the departure wing of the airport last evening on suspicion that she had contraband drugs/psychotropic substances, conducted a detailed examination of her baggage and detected the drugs.
"The search resulted in the recovery and seizure of approximately 14 kg of Ephedrine cleverly concealed in ladies vanity bags found in her two checked-in baggage," he said.
The woman, a native of South Africa, was attempting to depart to Malawi via Doha by a Jet Airways Flight.
The seized Ephedrine, a controlled substance under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 is valued at about Rs. 22 crore in the international market, Mr Raghavan said.
Customs officials said further investigation is in progress to find out whether she was part of a racket involved in smuggling drugs out of the country.
In a report filed before the Kerala High Court in March this year, the state government had said that the global drug mafia was making Kochi, the bustling business centre of the state, a hub for their activities.
KOCHI: A South African woman has been arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle out 14 kg of white powder-- suspected to be Ephedrine-- worth Rs. 22 crore at the international airport at Nedumbassery in Kochi.Customs Commissioner K N Raghavan said officers of Air Intelligence Unit intercepted Dorcas Dolly at the departure wing of the airport last evening on suspicion that she had contraband drugs/psychotropic substances, conducted a detailed examination of her baggage and detected the drugs.
"The search resulted in the recovery and seizure of approximately 14 kg of Ephedrine cleverly concealed in ladies vanity bags found in her two checked-in baggage," he said.
The woman, a native of South Africa, was attempting to depart to Malawi via Doha by a Jet Airways Flight.
The seized Ephedrine, a controlled substance under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 is valued at about Rs. 22 crore in the international market, Mr Raghavan said.
Customs officials said further investigation is in progress to find out whether she was part of a racket involved in smuggling drugs out of the country.
In a report filed before the Kerala High Court in March this year, the state government had said that the global drug mafia was making Kochi, the bustling business centre of the state, a hub for their activities.
In Big Leap, Scientists Test India's Most Powerful Cryogenic Engine
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NEW DELHI: Mastering a complex technology once denied to India, the Indian Space Research Organisation or ISRO crossed an important milestone today when it successfully tested the country's latest and most powerful cryogenic engine for 800 seconds.
The cryogenic engine will power ISRO's next generation monster rocket, the Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III, capable of carrying the 8 ton class of satellites to space.
Today's full duration test gives ISRO the confidence to start planning for the first full flight of GSLV Mk III slated for 2016.
Under pressure from America, India was denied this cryogenic engine technology and it has taken Indian scientists 20 years to master the technology, which uses liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen as fuel.
Last year on December 18, 2014, India had successfully flight-tested a mock-up of GSLV Mk III without the cryogenic engine.
ISRO already uses a smaller version of the cryogenic engine on its GSLV MK II rockets. The smaller engine was first tested successfully on January 5, 2014, but is not as powerful as the cryogenic engine tested today.
When the country does finally fulfil the long cherished dream of launching Indian astronauts from Indian soil using Indian rockets, the GSLV is expected to be rocket that will be used.
Scientists at ISRO say they will take seven years from the time that they get a go-ahead from the government, to make that possible.
NEW DELHI: Mastering a complex technology once denied to India, the Indian Space Research Organisation or ISRO crossed an important milestone today when it successfully tested the country's latest and most powerful cryogenic engine for 800 seconds.The cryogenic engine will power ISRO's next generation monster rocket, the Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III, capable of carrying the 8 ton class of satellites to space.
Today's full duration test gives ISRO the confidence to start planning for the first full flight of GSLV Mk III slated for 2016.
Under pressure from America, India was denied this cryogenic engine technology and it has taken Indian scientists 20 years to master the technology, which uses liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen as fuel.
Last year on December 18, 2014, India had successfully flight-tested a mock-up of GSLV Mk III without the cryogenic engine.
ISRO already uses a smaller version of the cryogenic engine on its GSLV MK II rockets. The smaller engine was first tested successfully on January 5, 2014, but is not as powerful as the cryogenic engine tested today.
When the country does finally fulfil the long cherished dream of launching Indian astronauts from Indian soil using Indian rockets, the GSLV is expected to be rocket that will be used.
Scientists at ISRO say they will take seven years from the time that they get a go-ahead from the government, to make that possible.
MP Tiruchi Siva Calls for End to Stigma on Transgenders
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Batting for equal rights to the transgenders, Rajya Sabha MP Tiruchi Siva, who introduced the private memer's bill in support of the community, today said the centuries old stigma attached with them must stop now.
"Transgenders must be provided constitutional rights like all other citizens and time has come to stop centuries of oppression and stigma faced by gender minorities," said Mr Siva during a programme in Thiruvanthapuram today.
Over 200 transgenders participated at the third Transgender Habba - a 'Big Push for Transgender Welfare initiatives in Kerala' - organised by Sangama Pehchan project that reaches out to over 27,000 gender minorities in Kerala.
Mr Siva, who had last year introduced the private member's 'Rights of Transgender Persons Bill, 2014' in Parliament, urged everyone to support the Bill.
"Many members of parliament have expressed solidarity and I am expecting more support to the Bill. The historic law will be passed in support of transgender very soon," a press release quoting him said.
The Rajya Sabha has already passed the bill. Rajesh Umadevi, Director, Sangama, an NGO working for the human rights of sexual minorities since 1999, said the organisation is involved in national advocacy for the last one month to promote passage of the Transgender Bill in the winter session (of Parliament) "to stop the centuries of injustices, discrimination and persecution faced by gender minorities of LGBTQI in India."
CPI(M) politburo member and former state minister M A Baby said transgenders deserve equal rights like any other citizen. "I support the bill and we should make sure it is not diluted," he said.
Sangama's programme manager Shiji Alfred said that under the Pehchan Project they are reaching out with HIV services to 90,000 community members in Karnataka and Kerala since 2010.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Batting for equal rights to the transgenders, Rajya Sabha MP Tiruchi Siva, who introduced the private memer's bill in support of the community, today said the centuries old stigma attached with them must stop now."Transgenders must be provided constitutional rights like all other citizens and time has come to stop centuries of oppression and stigma faced by gender minorities," said Mr Siva during a programme in Thiruvanthapuram today.
Over 200 transgenders participated at the third Transgender Habba - a 'Big Push for Transgender Welfare initiatives in Kerala' - organised by Sangama Pehchan project that reaches out to over 27,000 gender minorities in Kerala.
Mr Siva, who had last year introduced the private member's 'Rights of Transgender Persons Bill, 2014' in Parliament, urged everyone to support the Bill.
"Many members of parliament have expressed solidarity and I am expecting more support to the Bill. The historic law will be passed in support of transgender very soon," a press release quoting him said.
The Rajya Sabha has already passed the bill. Rajesh Umadevi, Director, Sangama, an NGO working for the human rights of sexual minorities since 1999, said the organisation is involved in national advocacy for the last one month to promote passage of the Transgender Bill in the winter session (of Parliament) "to stop the centuries of injustices, discrimination and persecution faced by gender minorities of LGBTQI in India."
CPI(M) politburo member and former state minister M A Baby said transgenders deserve equal rights like any other citizen. "I support the bill and we should make sure it is not diluted," he said.
Sangama's programme manager Shiji Alfred said that under the Pehchan Project they are reaching out with HIV services to 90,000 community members in Karnataka and Kerala since 2010.
9 Killed, 8 Injured As Bus Collides With Autorickshaw in Andra Pradesh
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VISAKHAPATNAM: Nine persons were today killed and eight others injured when a government bus rammed into a stationary autorickshaw in Visakhapatnam, police said.
On its way to Rajahmundry from Rajam, the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation bus dashed into the rear-end of an autorickshaw while overtaking a car at Marikivalasa junction of Madhurawada mandal in Visakhapatnam, senior Police officer M Srinivas said.
Six persons, including three women, died on the spot in the mishap while three others succumbed on way to hospital, he said.
There were 12 passengers in the autorickshaw at the time of accident. Some other persons, standing on the roadside where the mishap took place, also sustained injuries.
The injured were admitted to a local hospital, where the condition of four of them was stated to be critical, police said.
The bus driver surrendered before the police.
An irate mob damaged the bus after the accident.
VISAKHAPATNAM: Nine persons were today killed and eight others injured when a government bus rammed into a stationary autorickshaw in Visakhapatnam, police said.On its way to Rajahmundry from Rajam, the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation bus dashed into the rear-end of an autorickshaw while overtaking a car at Marikivalasa junction of Madhurawada mandal in Visakhapatnam, senior Police officer M Srinivas said.
Six persons, including three women, died on the spot in the mishap while three others succumbed on way to hospital, he said.
There were 12 passengers in the autorickshaw at the time of accident. Some other persons, standing on the roadside where the mishap took place, also sustained injuries.
The injured were admitted to a local hospital, where the condition of four of them was stated to be critical, police said.
The bus driver surrendered before the police.
An irate mob damaged the bus after the accident.
Boat Capsizes in Ganga, Villagers Save 12 From Drowning
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PATNA: A sand-laden boat capsized in the Ganga in Patna district today with villagers saving all 12 on board from drowning.
Danapur Sub-divisional Officer Arvind Kumar Verma said the incident happened near Bramhachari Tola under Maner police station in the district.
The engine-fitted boat was going from Maner to Pahleja Ghat in Sonepur in Saran district across the river when the accident took place.
"The water level is high in the Ganga due to the rainy season. It seems the boat loaded with sand lost its balance due to waves and sank. Villagers living along the banks rescued all the 12 persons who had fallen into the swirling waters," Mr Verma said.
The SDO said all the saved persons are natives of Saran district and were going on the boat to their villages.
The district administration is now trying to take out the boat which is still under water. Investigations are being conducted whether the mishap occurred due to overloading of sand.
PATNA: A sand-laden boat capsized in the Ganga in Patna district today with villagers saving all 12 on board from drowning.Danapur Sub-divisional Officer Arvind Kumar Verma said the incident happened near Bramhachari Tola under Maner police station in the district.
The engine-fitted boat was going from Maner to Pahleja Ghat in Sonepur in Saran district across the river when the accident took place.
The SDO said all the saved persons are natives of Saran district and were going on the boat to their villages.
The district administration is now trying to take out the boat which is still under water. Investigations are being conducted whether the mishap occurred due to overloading of sand.
STATE BANK OF INDIA PROBATIONARY OFFICERS MAIN EXAM GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS
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1. Which micro finance Company got license from RBI on 2 April 2014 along with IDFC?
1) Muthoot Finance LTD
2) South India Bank
3) Bandhan Financial Services
4) Manappuram Finance LTD
5) Margadarsi Chit Fund Private Limited
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2. Bandhan Financial Services got a license to start a bank working from....
1) Chennai
2) Kolkata
3) Pune
4) Mumbai
5) Ahmadabad
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3. Who is the Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of Bandhan Financial Services Limited, the first micro finance company to receive banking license in India?
1) Dr. Rajiv B.Lal
2) K.V. Kamath
3) Chandra Shekhar Ghosh
4) Nikesh Arora
5) Sunil Sabharwal
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4. In which year Bandhan Financial Services Limited was formed to address the dual objective of poverty alleviation and women empowerment?
1) 1994
2) 1985
3) 1982
4) 2001
5) 2011
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5. The Stake holder in Bandhan Bank is.....
1) International Finance Corporation (IFC) the wing of World Bank Group
2) Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC
3) SIDBI
4) RBI
5) 1, 2 and 3
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6. Who was appointed as the Chairman of newly established Bandhan Bank? (He is the former Chief Economic Advisor in the Union Ministry of Finance, Government of India).
1) Aravind Mayaram
2) Aravind Subramanyam
3) Ashok Kumar Lahiri
4) Ila Patnaik
5) Raghuram Rajan
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7. Finance Ministry appointed a high level committee to interact with trade and industry on tax related issues headed by ........ on 3 December 2014.
1) Ashok Kumar Lahiri
2) D. Subba Rao
3) Pranjul Bhandari
4) Arvind Virmani
5) Kaushik Basu
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8. Who was appointed as the new MD and CEO of housing finance sector regulator, National Housing Bank (NHB)?
1) Aditya Puri
2) Chanda Kocchar
3) Sriram Kalyanaraman
4) Deepak Parekh
5) Mrs. Shyamala Gopinath
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9. Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) permitted which bank on 3 July 2015 to raise foreign investment limit to 55 %?
1) Kotak Mahindra Bank
2) ING Vysya Bank
3) IndusInd Bank
4) YES Bank
5) Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Limited
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10. In order to improve credit discipline and reduce NPA level, on 2 July 2015 RBI asked lenders to make use of credit information available with CRILC for opening of current accounts. CRILC stands for....
1) Control Repository of Information on Large Credits
2) Central Response of Information on Large Credits
3) Central Repository of Information on Long Credits
4) Central Repository of Information on Large Credits
5) None
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11. InTouch and InTouch Light, the two formats of branches are part of .......... digital banking strategy
1) Kotak Mahindra bank
2) HDFC Bank
3) YES Bank
4) SBI
5) ICICI
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12. The InTouch and InTouch Light formats of SBI branch offer .....
1) instant account opening
2) instant issuance of debit card
3) live interaction with experts
4) opportunity to buy financial products and home loans under a single roof
5) All of above
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13. Which state government has decided to form a non-banking financial services (NBFS) institution to utilize the surplus money with state-run corporations in form of bank deposits on 30 June 2015?
1) Assam
2) Kerala
3) Maharashtra
4) Haryana
5) Delhi
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14. Money which is frequently transferred between financial institutions in an attempt to maximize interest or capital gain is called ............
1) Fiat Money
2) Zero Money
3) Hot money
4) No Money
5) None of above
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15. Near money means ...........
1) The money exchanged with Dollars
2) Money with lower denomination
3) Money in the NRI Account, access by Online Banking
4) Highly liquid assets that can easily be converted into cash
5) None of above
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16. Money declared as legal tender by government is called .....
1) Role Money
2) Key Money
3) Fiat Money
4) Deemed Money
5) Near Money
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17. If money borrowed or lent for a day or overnight, that money is called .......
1) Hot money
2) Soft money
3) Near money
4) Call Money
5) Dear money
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18. A hike in the price of money due to general fall in the price level is called .....
1) Appreciation of Money
2) Depreciation of Money
3) Cancellation of Money
4) True Money
5) Falling Money
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19. A loan or credit available with a low interest rate is called ..........
1) Cheap Money
2) Easy Money
3) Fool Money
4) Call Money
5) None of above
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20. The money available at high rate of interest is called ......
1) Near money
2) Hot money
3) Optional money
4) Fiat money
5) Dear money
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21. MMID stands for.......
1) Mobile Mint Identifier
2) Mobile Mind Identifier
3) Mobile Money Identifier
4) Most Money Identifier
5) None
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22. 'One rank One Pension' scheme relates to.....
1) Bank Employees
2) NRIs
3) Unorganised sector Employees
4) Anganwadi Workers
5) Ex-service men
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23. National Institute of Ayurveda located at......
1) Hyderabad
2) Nagpur
3) Chennai
4) Jaipur
5) None of above
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24. National Institute of Naturopathy located at.....
1) Chennai
2) Tiruvananthapuram
3) Kollam
4) Pune
5) Coimbatore
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25. World Food Prize 2015 conferred on Sir Fazle Hasan Abed. He belongs to.....
1) Iran
2) UK
3) Bangladesh
4) UAE
5) USA
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26. G D Birla Award for Scientific Research for 2014 conferred on .....
1) Ramam Saha Upadhyayi
2) Sanjeev Galande
3) Trinath Kaushik
4) Chandra Kumar Bhanvathi
5) None of above
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27. Operation Shiva relates to......
1) rescue of Uttarakhand debris
2) rescue of Indian workers from Yemen
3) bringing back the criminals to normal society by Mumbai Police
4) bringing back black money from Switzerland
5) provide security for Amarnath Yatra
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28. National Green Tribunal (NGT) on 2 July 2015 imposed a complete ban on plastic bags in the pilgrimage towns of ........
1) Haridwar and Varanasi
2) Varanasi and Rishikesh
3) Tirupathi and Rishikesh
4) Haridwar and Rishikesh
5) None of above
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29. Which of the following non-Asian country has decided to join Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as a founding member?
1) USA
2) Germany
3) Australia
4) South Korea
5) France
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30. India will be the partner country for Russian Industrial Trade Fair INNOPROM 2016 to be held in....
1) Moscow
2) Saint Petersburg
3) Novosibirsk
4) Yekaterinburg
5) Nizhny Novgorod
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31. FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) 2014 foot ball cup won by......
1) Germany
2) Italy
3) France
4) USA
5) Uruguay
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32. In FIFA 2014, Golden Ball award conferred on ......
1) James Rodriguez
2) Manuel Neuer
3) Ferndadz Amla
4) Lionel Messi
5) None
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33. FIFA 2014 host Brazil. FIFA 2018 host is....
1) Russia
2) Qatar
3) Brazil
4) South Africa
5) Germany
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34. FIFA 2022 host is .....
1) Qatar
2) Russia
3) Brazil
4) South Africa
5) Argentina
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35. FIFA 2014 Runner is.......
1) Argentina
2) Netherlands
3) Brazil
4) UK
5) Russia
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36. FIFA 2015 U-17 World Cup host by.....
1) Chile
2) USA
3) Argentina
4) France
5) Italy
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37. The list of coming major Sports events in 2015 given. Locate the correct option.
1) World Archery Championships - Copenhagen - Denmark
2) Military World Games - Mungyeong - South Korea
3) International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) world Championship - Beijing - China
4) World Weightlifting Championships - Houston - USA
5) All of above
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38. The COPA AMERICA 2015 details given. Identify the correct statement.
1) COPA AMERICA is an international football tournament for national teams in South America
2) 2015 Championship is the 44th in series
3) Host is Chile
4) Winner Chile and Runner Argentina
5) All of above
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39. On 2 July 2015 Central Government gave its approval to the Central Sector Scheme for Promotion of National Agricultural Market through ATIF. ATIF stands for....
1) Agri - Tech Initial Fund
2) Agri - Tech Industrial Fund
3) Agri - Tech Indian Fund
4) Arid - Tech Infrastructure Fund
5) Agri - Tech Infrastructure Fund
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40. Government of India on 1 July 2015 approved the setting up of an Online National Agriculture Market to.....
1) provide more options to sellers for selling their produce.
2) provide more options to farmers for selling their produce.
3) provide more options to buyers for reselling their produce.
4) provide more options to farmers for storing their produce
5) None
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41. Matti Makkonen, the man responsible for conceiving the idea of short messaging service
(SMS) technology, died on 30 June 2015. He belongs to.....
1) UK
2) Netherlands
3) Finland
4) Australia
5) New Zeeland
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42. Who was appointed as Executive Director of Amnesty International India on 18 June 2015?
1) Arjun Patel
2) Aakshay Patel
3) Aakar Patel
4) Ramanujam Vatsava
5) Chandana Swamy
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43. 'Satantango', 'The Melancholy of Resistance' written by.....?
1) Magda Szabo
2) Gyula Illyes
3) Imre Kertesz
4) Laszlo Krasznahorkai
5) None
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44. India slapped anti-dumping duty on ......imports from China, Malaysia and South Korea on 6 June 2015
1) Rice
2) Meat
3) Soft Ware Services
4) Steel
5) Coal
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45. One-day International Conference on Nepal's Reconstruction (ICNR) concluded on 25 June 2015 at .....
1) New Delhi
2) Geneva
3) Rome
4) Washington
5) Kathmandu
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ANSWEWRS:
1-3, 2-2, 3-3, 4-4, 5-5, 6-3, 7-1, 8-3, 9-1, 10-4
11-4, 12-5, 13-3, 14-3, 15-4, 16-3, 17-4, 18-1, 19-1, 20-5
21-3, 22-5, 23-4, 24-4, 25-3, 26-2, 27-5, 28-4, 29-3, 30-4
31-1, 32-4, 33-1, 34-1, 35-1, 36-1, 37-5, 38-5, 39-5, 40-2
41-3, 42-3, 43-4, 44-4, 45-5
1) Muthoot Finance LTD
2) South India Bank
3) Bandhan Financial Services
4) Manappuram Finance LTD
5) Margadarsi Chit Fund Private Limited
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2. Bandhan Financial Services got a license to start a bank working from....
1) Chennai
2) Kolkata
3) Pune
4) Mumbai
5) Ahmadabad
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3. Who is the Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of Bandhan Financial Services Limited, the first micro finance company to receive banking license in India?
1) Dr. Rajiv B.Lal
2) K.V. Kamath
3) Chandra Shekhar Ghosh
4) Nikesh Arora
5) Sunil Sabharwal
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4. In which year Bandhan Financial Services Limited was formed to address the dual objective of poverty alleviation and women empowerment?
1) 1994
2) 1985
3) 1982
4) 2001
5) 2011
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5. The Stake holder in Bandhan Bank is.....
1) International Finance Corporation (IFC) the wing of World Bank Group
2) Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC
3) SIDBI
4) RBI
5) 1, 2 and 3
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6. Who was appointed as the Chairman of newly established Bandhan Bank? (He is the former Chief Economic Advisor in the Union Ministry of Finance, Government of India).
1) Aravind Mayaram
2) Aravind Subramanyam
3) Ashok Kumar Lahiri
4) Ila Patnaik
5) Raghuram Rajan
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7. Finance Ministry appointed a high level committee to interact with trade and industry on tax related issues headed by ........ on 3 December 2014.
1) Ashok Kumar Lahiri
2) D. Subba Rao
3) Pranjul Bhandari
4) Arvind Virmani
5) Kaushik Basu
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8. Who was appointed as the new MD and CEO of housing finance sector regulator, National Housing Bank (NHB)?
1) Aditya Puri
2) Chanda Kocchar
3) Sriram Kalyanaraman
4) Deepak Parekh
5) Mrs. Shyamala Gopinath
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9. Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) permitted which bank on 3 July 2015 to raise foreign investment limit to 55 %?
1) Kotak Mahindra Bank
2) ING Vysya Bank
3) IndusInd Bank
4) YES Bank
5) Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Limited
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10. In order to improve credit discipline and reduce NPA level, on 2 July 2015 RBI asked lenders to make use of credit information available with CRILC for opening of current accounts. CRILC stands for....
1) Control Repository of Information on Large Credits
2) Central Response of Information on Large Credits
3) Central Repository of Information on Long Credits
4) Central Repository of Information on Large Credits
5) None
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11. InTouch and InTouch Light, the two formats of branches are part of .......... digital banking strategy
1) Kotak Mahindra bank
2) HDFC Bank
3) YES Bank
4) SBI
5) ICICI
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12. The InTouch and InTouch Light formats of SBI branch offer .....
1) instant account opening
2) instant issuance of debit card
3) live interaction with experts
4) opportunity to buy financial products and home loans under a single roof
5) All of above
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13. Which state government has decided to form a non-banking financial services (NBFS) institution to utilize the surplus money with state-run corporations in form of bank deposits on 30 June 2015?
1) Assam
2) Kerala
3) Maharashtra
4) Haryana
5) Delhi
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14. Money which is frequently transferred between financial institutions in an attempt to maximize interest or capital gain is called ............
1) Fiat Money
2) Zero Money
3) Hot money
4) No Money
5) None of above
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15. Near money means ...........
1) The money exchanged with Dollars
2) Money with lower denomination
3) Money in the NRI Account, access by Online Banking
4) Highly liquid assets that can easily be converted into cash
5) None of above
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16. Money declared as legal tender by government is called .....
1) Role Money
2) Key Money
3) Fiat Money
4) Deemed Money
5) Near Money
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17. If money borrowed or lent for a day or overnight, that money is called .......
1) Hot money
2) Soft money
3) Near money
4) Call Money
5) Dear money
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18. A hike in the price of money due to general fall in the price level is called .....
1) Appreciation of Money
2) Depreciation of Money
3) Cancellation of Money
4) True Money
5) Falling Money
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19. A loan or credit available with a low interest rate is called ..........
1) Cheap Money
2) Easy Money
3) Fool Money
4) Call Money
5) None of above
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20. The money available at high rate of interest is called ......
1) Near money
2) Hot money
3) Optional money
4) Fiat money
5) Dear money
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21. MMID stands for.......
1) Mobile Mint Identifier
2) Mobile Mind Identifier
3) Mobile Money Identifier
4) Most Money Identifier
5) None
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22. 'One rank One Pension' scheme relates to.....
1) Bank Employees
2) NRIs
3) Unorganised sector Employees
4) Anganwadi Workers
5) Ex-service men
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23. National Institute of Ayurveda located at......
1) Hyderabad
2) Nagpur
3) Chennai
4) Jaipur
5) None of above
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24. National Institute of Naturopathy located at.....
1) Chennai
2) Tiruvananthapuram
3) Kollam
4) Pune
5) Coimbatore
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25. World Food Prize 2015 conferred on Sir Fazle Hasan Abed. He belongs to.....
1) Iran
2) UK
3) Bangladesh
4) UAE
5) USA
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26. G D Birla Award for Scientific Research for 2014 conferred on .....
1) Ramam Saha Upadhyayi
2) Sanjeev Galande
3) Trinath Kaushik
4) Chandra Kumar Bhanvathi
5) None of above
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27. Operation Shiva relates to......
1) rescue of Uttarakhand debris
2) rescue of Indian workers from Yemen
3) bringing back the criminals to normal society by Mumbai Police
4) bringing back black money from Switzerland
5) provide security for Amarnath Yatra
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28. National Green Tribunal (NGT) on 2 July 2015 imposed a complete ban on plastic bags in the pilgrimage towns of ........
1) Haridwar and Varanasi
2) Varanasi and Rishikesh
3) Tirupathi and Rishikesh
4) Haridwar and Rishikesh
5) None of above
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29. Which of the following non-Asian country has decided to join Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as a founding member?
1) USA
2) Germany
3) Australia
4) South Korea
5) France
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30. India will be the partner country for Russian Industrial Trade Fair INNOPROM 2016 to be held in....
1) Moscow
2) Saint Petersburg
3) Novosibirsk
4) Yekaterinburg
5) Nizhny Novgorod
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31. FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) 2014 foot ball cup won by......
1) Germany
2) Italy
3) France
4) USA
5) Uruguay
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32. In FIFA 2014, Golden Ball award conferred on ......
1) James Rodriguez
2) Manuel Neuer
3) Ferndadz Amla
4) Lionel Messi
5) None
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33. FIFA 2014 host Brazil. FIFA 2018 host is....
1) Russia
2) Qatar
3) Brazil
4) South Africa
5) Germany
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34. FIFA 2022 host is .....
1) Qatar
2) Russia
3) Brazil
4) South Africa
5) Argentina
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35. FIFA 2014 Runner is.......
1) Argentina
2) Netherlands
3) Brazil
4) UK
5) Russia
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36. FIFA 2015 U-17 World Cup host by.....
1) Chile
2) USA
3) Argentina
4) France
5) Italy
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37. The list of coming major Sports events in 2015 given. Locate the correct option.
1) World Archery Championships - Copenhagen - Denmark
2) Military World Games - Mungyeong - South Korea
3) International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) world Championship - Beijing - China
4) World Weightlifting Championships - Houston - USA
5) All of above
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38. The COPA AMERICA 2015 details given. Identify the correct statement.
1) COPA AMERICA is an international football tournament for national teams in South America
2) 2015 Championship is the 44th in series
3) Host is Chile
4) Winner Chile and Runner Argentina
5) All of above
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39. On 2 July 2015 Central Government gave its approval to the Central Sector Scheme for Promotion of National Agricultural Market through ATIF. ATIF stands for....
1) Agri - Tech Initial Fund
2) Agri - Tech Industrial Fund
3) Agri - Tech Indian Fund
4) Arid - Tech Infrastructure Fund
5) Agri - Tech Infrastructure Fund
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40. Government of India on 1 July 2015 approved the setting up of an Online National Agriculture Market to.....
1) provide more options to sellers for selling their produce.
2) provide more options to farmers for selling their produce.
3) provide more options to buyers for reselling their produce.
4) provide more options to farmers for storing their produce
5) None
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41. Matti Makkonen, the man responsible for conceiving the idea of short messaging service
(SMS) technology, died on 30 June 2015. He belongs to.....
1) UK
2) Netherlands
3) Finland
4) Australia
5) New Zeeland
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42. Who was appointed as Executive Director of Amnesty International India on 18 June 2015?
1) Arjun Patel
2) Aakshay Patel
3) Aakar Patel
4) Ramanujam Vatsava
5) Chandana Swamy
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43. 'Satantango', 'The Melancholy of Resistance' written by.....?
1) Magda Szabo
2) Gyula Illyes
3) Imre Kertesz
4) Laszlo Krasznahorkai
5) None
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44. India slapped anti-dumping duty on ......imports from China, Malaysia and South Korea on 6 June 2015
1) Rice
2) Meat
3) Soft Ware Services
4) Steel
5) Coal
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45. One-day International Conference on Nepal's Reconstruction (ICNR) concluded on 25 June 2015 at .....
1) New Delhi
2) Geneva
3) Rome
4) Washington
5) Kathmandu
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ANSWEWRS:
1-3, 2-2, 3-3, 4-4, 5-5, 6-3, 7-1, 8-3, 9-1, 10-4
11-4, 12-5, 13-3, 14-3, 15-4, 16-3, 17-4, 18-1, 19-1, 20-5
21-3, 22-5, 23-4, 24-4, 25-3, 26-2, 27-5, 28-4, 29-3, 30-4
31-1, 32-4, 33-1, 34-1, 35-1, 36-1, 37-5, 38-5, 39-5, 40-2
41-3, 42-3, 43-4, 44-4, 45-5
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