Current Affairs Based on "The Hindu" for SBI/IBPS Exams |

Q1. Government is making all efforts to boost the Housing Finance Sector to ensure the goal of affordable Housing for all by which year?

a) 2019

b) 2022

c) 2020

d) 2030

e) 2025

Q2. Which of the following Indian organizations has called for restarting negotiations for India’s Free Trade Agreements with UK and European Union (EU)?

a) NABARD

b) RBI

c) SEBI

d) DRDO

e) FICCI

Q3. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised downward its global economic growth forecast for next year after the British people voted to leave the European Union. By how much percent will the world economy expand in 2017 as told by the Fund?

a) 2.1 percent

b) 1.3 percent

c) 3.4 percent

d) 5.8 percent

e) 7.5 percent

Q4. Name the noted Indian hockey player who passed away at the age of 56 due to multiple organ failure.

a) Mohammad Shahid

b) Kishan Lal

c) Lal Bokhari

d) Charanjit Singh

e) MM Somaya

Q5. India is all set to host the BRICS Policy Planning Dialogue on 26th July 2016 at………?

a) Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

b) Mumbai, Maharashtra

c) Kolkata, West Bengal

d) Patna, Bihar

e) Guwahati, Assam

Q6. Which of the following state governments will celebrate the bicentenary of the 1817 Paika revolt next year, which many historians claim to be the first war of India’s Independence?

a) Kerala

b) Maharashtra

c) Tamil Nadu

d) Odisha

e) West Bengal

Q7. Which of the following Banks along with The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) have signed the MoU to hammer out a detailed plan for promotion of rail ticketing activities including Internet ticketing and the unreserved ticketing system?

a) State Bank of India

b) IDBI Bank

c) ICICI Bank

d) Punjab National Bank

e) Bandhan Bank

Q8. By which of the following state governments, the Central Water Commission has rejected Odisha’s objection against the construction of barrages on the Mahanadi upper catchment?

a) Madhya Pradesh

b) Andhra Pradesh

c) Telangana

d) Maharashtra

e) Chhattisgarh

Q9. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, CCEA has approved construction of a new dry dock within which of the following Shipyards Limited at a cost of 1 thousand 7 hundred 99 crore rupees recently?

a) Naval Dockyard

b) Hindustan Shipyard Limited

c) Cochin Shipyard Limited

d) Goa Shipyard Limited

e) Mazagon Dock Limited

Q10. Global rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) removed ratings on senior bonds issued by the Bahrain branch of which Bank from the negative watch list and also affirmed the BBB- rating on the instrument?

a) ICICI Bank

b) HDFC Bank

c) Axis Bank

d) SBI

e) BOB