New Solicitor General of India?

New Solicitor General of India?

SBI POs, Clerks
General Awareness
 
1.    Who will take over from S.D. Shibulal as the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Infosys on August 1, 2014?
     1) U.B. Pravin Rao
     2) K.V. Kamath
     3) Srinath Batni  4) Vishal Sikka
     5) Rohan Murthy
 
 2.    Petro Poroshenko became the President of which of the follo-wing countries on June 7, 2014?
     1) Belarus    2) Ukraine
     3) Georgia    4) Latvia
     5) Czech Republic
 
 3.    FIFA World Cup was started on June 12, 2014. Which two teams played the first match in Sao Paulo, Brazil?
     1) Brazil, Mexico
     2) Brazil, Cameroon
     3) Brazil, Croatia
     4) Spain, Netherlands
     5) Spain, Chile
 
 4.    Who was appointed as the Solicitor General of India on June 7, 2014?
     1) Maninder Singh
     2) Tushar Mehta
     3) L. Nageshwar Rao
     4) Ranjit Kumar
     5) P.S. Narasimha
 
 5.    Which city will host the world chess championship from Nove-mber 7 to 28, 2014?
     1) Oslo, Norway
     2) Madrid, Spain
     3) Sofia, Bulgaria
     4) Helsinki, Finland
     5) Sochi, Russia
 
 6.    Reuven Rivlin was elected as the President of which of the following countries on June 10, 2014? (He will take office on July 24, 2014)
     1) Hungary    2) Iceland
     3) Israel    4) Italy
     5) Macedonia
 
 7.    Identify the mismatched pair?
     1) Bank rate - 8%
     2) Repo rate - 8%
     3) Reverse repo rate -7 %
     4) Cash reserve ratio - 4%
     5) Statutory LiquidityRatio-22.5%
 
 8.    Identify the mismatched pair?  
     Cabinet Minister Portfolio
     1)    Sadananda Gowda: Railways
     2)    Harsh Vardhan: Health and Family Welfare
     3)    Nitin Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways
     4)    Ananth Kumar: Chemicals and Fertilizers
     5)    Radha Mohan Singh:    Food Processing Industries
 
 9.    N.R. Narayana Murthy stepped down as Executive Chairman of which of the following com-panies on June 14, 2014?
     1) TCS    2) Cognizant
     3) Infosys    4) Wipro
     5) None of these
 
 10.    Which country's parliament passed a bill allowing euthanasia for terminally ill children with-out any age limit in February 2014? (It is the first country to remove any age limit on mercy killing)
     1) Portugal    2) UK    
     3) Belgium    4) Denmark
     5) Netherlands
 
 11.    Taishan Station was opened on February 8, 2014. It is the fourth Antarctic research station of?
     1) South Korea    2) Japan
     3) China    4)  Russia
     5) North Korea
 
 12.    Which of the following is not the name of a station in Antarctica?
     1) Dakshin Gangotri
     2) Maitri    3) Bharti    
     4) Great Wall    5) Prithvi
 
 13.    Who became the first Indian squash player to win the IMET Open in Bratislava, Slovakia in December 2013?
     1) Ravi Dixit
     2) Mahesh Mangaonkar    
     3) Harinder Pal Sandhu    
     4) Ramit Tandon    
     5) None of these
 
 14.    Which of the following Indian airlines tied up with Tigerair to increase connectivity between flights operated by both carriers?  1) GoAir    2) IndiGo
     3) Jetkonnect    4) Kingfisher
     5) SpiceJet
 
 15.    Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed is the Prime Minister of?
     1) Sudan    2) South Sudan
     3)  Somalia    4) Egypt
     5) Ethiopia
 
 16.    The 27th South East Asian Ga-mes were held in December 2013 in?
     1) Vietnam    2) Philippines
     3) Thailand    4) Myanmar
     5) Indonesia
 
 17.    The South East Asian Games is a biennial multi sporting event involving participants from the countries of South East Asia. Which country will host the 2015 South East Asian Games?
     1) Singapore    2) Cambodia    
     3) Malaysia    4) Philippines
     5) Brunei
 
 18.    India's first supersonic jet fighter was decommissioned after 50 years of service in December 2013. What is its name?
     1) Boeing P-12      2) MIG-21 FL
     3) Tejas
     4) Hawker Hunter 5) IAR-15
 
 19.    The cabinet approved a free trade agreement (FTA) in trade and services with which of the follo-wing organizations in December 2013?
     1) SAARC     2) APEC
     3) ASEAN    4) SCO
     5) BRICS
 
 20.    Which of the following has launched the world's most powerful star-surveying satellite Gaia into space from Kourou in French Guiana?
     1) Mexican Space Agency
     2) Iranian Space Agency
     3) Israeli Space Agency
     4) European Space Agency
     5) South African National Space Agency
 
 21.    Tigerair is a low-cost airline headquartered in?
     1) Singapore
     2) Kuala Lumpur 3) Jakarta    4) Riyadh       5) Manama
 
 22.    European Space Agency is an in-ter governmental organization of 20 member States. It is head-quartered in?
     1) London    2) Paris
     3) Lisbon    4) Madrid
     5) Berlin
 
 23.    The Centre has ruled out    im-position of the Inner-Line Permit (ILP) system in which of the following States in December 2013?
     1) Meghalaya    2) Assam
     3) Tripura    4) Manipur
     5) West Bengal
 
 24.    Inner Line Permit (ILP) is an official travel document issued by an empowered State government to allow inward travel of an Indian citizen into a protected or restricted area for a limited period. Currently ILP is in force in?
     1) Arunachal Pradesh
     2) Nagaland    3) Mizoram
     4) Both 1 and 2    
     5) All 1, 2 and 3
 
 25.    The government has approved a proposal to increase foreign holding in which of the following banks to 62 percent from the current 49 percent?
     1) ICICI Bank    2) Axis Bank
     3) HDFC Bank    4) Yes Bank
     5) IndusInd Bank
 
 26.    A committee, set up by the SEBI for reviewing insider trading norms, has submitted its report. The committee was headed by?  
     1) N.K. Sodhi    2) Nirmal Jain
     3) Motilal Oswal
     4) Milind Barve 5) None of these
 
 27.    Noted writer and journalist Kh-ushwant Singh passed away on March 20, 2014. Which one of the following books was not written by him?
     1)    Train to Pakistan
     2)    Truth, Love and a Little Malice    
     3) A History of the Sikhs
     4) Delhi: a Novel
     5) The Mountain of Light
 
 28.    The Asian Development Bank will provide $350 million loan for improving power transmission and distribution system in?
     1) Bihar    2) Jharkhand
     3) Chhattisgarh    4) M.P
     5) None of these
 
 29.    The Reserve Bank of India has advised banks to treat a credit card account as a non performing asset if the customer fails to pay the minimum due amount within?
     1) 30 days    2) 60 days
     3) 90 days     4) 100 days
     5) None of these
 
 30.    Which of the following would set up a Central Repository of Infor-mation on Large Credits (CRI-LC) to collect, store and diss-eminate credit data to lenders?
     1) NHB    2) CRISIL
     3) RBI    4) CARE
     5) SEBI
 
 31.    According to the Motilal Oswal annual wealth creation study, which Indian company is the biggest wealth creator during the 2008-2013 period?
     1) Tata Consultancy Services
     2) ITC     3) HDFC Bank
     4) Infosys     5) ICICI Bank
 
 32.    JIMEX is a bilateral maritime exercise between India and?
     1) Germany     2) Jamaica
     3) Jordan    4) Japan
     5) None of these
 
 33.    Who became the Chief Executive of India unit of the world's largest retailer Wal-Mart in Janu ary 2014?
     1) Ajay Nihalani
     2) B.S. Nagesh        
     3) Krish Iyer
     4) Aditya Nadkarni
     5) None of these
 
 34.    M.V. Tanksale is the Chief Exe-cutive of the Indian Banks' Association. He is the former CMD of?
     1) Bank of India
     2) Union Bank of India
     3) Indian Bank
     4) Indian Overseas Bank
     5) Central Bank of India
 
 35.    Which of the following is a step towards enhancing
 customer convenience through Anywhere Banking?
     1) RTGS     2) NEFT
     3) DICGC     4) CBS
     5) BPLR
 
 
 KEY
 1) 4     2) 2     3) 3    4) 4
 5) 5    6) 3    7) 1    8) 5
 9) 3    10) 3    11) 3    12) 5
 13) 2    14) 5    15) 3    16) 4
 17) 1    18) 2    19) 3    20) 4
 21) 1    22) 2    23) 1    24) 5
 25) 2    26) 1    27) 5    28) 4
 29) 3    30) 3    31) 1    32) 4
 33) 3       34) 5    35) 4