General Awareness Quiz for IBPS PO Mains 2016 |

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General Awareness section is of 40 marks and you’ll be given 20 minutes in IBPS PO Mains exam 2016, which are quite sufficient but don’t be tempted to take chances by compromising your accuracy and marking wrong answers. To prepare general awareness you can follow the quizzes we’ll be giving you in these 25 Days along with preparing from Capsules and Study Notes. In these 25 Days you’ll get daily quizzes for Banking Awareness, Financial Awareness,Economics, Current Affairs and Static on Bankersadda which will help you practice daily and prepare General Awareness for IBPS PO Mains.

Q1. Which among the following states has officially launched AIR Regional News Unit (RNU)’s Facebook page at a function recently?

(a) Odisha

(b) Punjab

(d) Chhatisgarh

(e) Kerala

Q2. Government has approved subsidized helicopter services in ten sectors of ________ and _____________.

(a) Jammu & Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh

(b) Assam and Bihar

(d) Punjab and Maharashtra

(e) Odisha and Andhra Pradesh

Q3. Which among the following states govt has rolled out 122 Twitter handles and service would help the police to strengthen its primary relationship with the citizens?

(a) Telangana

(b) Rajasthan

(d) Karnataka

(e) Uttar Pradesh

Q4. Which state has been adjudged the cleanest state while Jharkhand comes last in the list of 26 states?

(a) Kerala

(b) Assam

(d) Gujarat

(e) Jharkhand

Q5. Centre has sanctioned nearly how much amount to 18 states, so far, for the welfare of dalits as part of its special assistance scheme recently?

(a) 1050 crore rupees

(b) 360 crore rupees

(d) 1600 crore rupees

(e) 2540 crore rupees

Q6. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded in Baghdad, Iraq, with the signing of an agreement in …..?

(a) September 1960

(b) July 1948

(d) June 1913

(e) February 1956

Q7. Okram Ibobi Singh is the Chief Minister of which of the following state?

(a) Assam

(b) Mizoram

(d) Tripura

(e) Nagaland

Q8. Iran is an Islamic republic on the Persian (Arabian) Gulf with historical sites dating to the Persian Empire. What is the currency of Iran?

(a) Dinar

(b) Som

(d) Dirham

(e) Rial

Q9. Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency Bank (or MUDRA Bank) is a public sector financial institution in India. It provides loans at low rates to micro-finance institutions and non-banking financial institutions which then provide credit to MSMEs. It was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 8 April 2015. Where is the Headquartered of MUDRA Bank?

(a) Mumbai

(b) Hyderabad

(d) New Delhi

(e) Chennai

Q10. United Bank of India (UBI) is one of the 14 major banks which were nationalized on July 19, 1969. Its predecessor the United Bank of India Ltd., was formed in 1950 with the amalgamation of four banks viz. Comilla Banking Corporation Ltd. (1914), Bengal Central Bank Ltd. (1918), Comilla Union Bank Ltd. (1922) and Hooghly Bank Ltd. (1932). What is the tagline of UBI?

(a) The name you can bank upon

(b) The bank that begins with ‘U’

(d) Tradition of trust

(e) Ham hai naa, khayal apka

Q11. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh commissioned the offshore patrolling (OPV) vessel _________ at Goa Shipyard Ltd (GSL), the defence shipyard in south Goa.

(a) Savari

(b) Margshish

(d) Avatar

(e) Sarathi

Q12. Which among the following states has signed MoU with educational institutes, which will adopt 50 Adarsh and Utkarsh Vidyalaya in the state for developing education sector infrastructure?

(a) Madhya Pradesh

(b) Assam

(d) Rajasthan

(e) Gujarat

Q13. For maintaining the records and database of Indian students studying abroad, Government of India has launched a Student Registration module in MADAD portal. The portal adress is………?

(a) help.gov.in

(b) sahayata.gov.in

(d) easy.gov.in

(e) madad.ind.com

Q14. Tata Power and ____________ have jointly set up an investment company that will acquire power projects in India.

(a) SBI Securities

(b) ICICI Venture

(d) RIL

(e) Adani Group

Q15. Which of the following international organisation and the New Development Bank, NDB, set up by five emerging economies have agreed to strengthen cooperation, especially in infrastructure?

(a) IMF

(b) World Bank

(d) IDA

(e) OPEC