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Current Affairs for SBI PO 2017

January current affairs

As we all know SBI PO is here and we are ready with the 80 days plan in which we provide you daily quizzes on new pattern questions with different topics that will help you to go through this exam.
So, here we are with the Current affair question of February that will help you in SBI PO mains.


Q1. National Science Day is celebrated all over India with great enthusiasm on 28th of February in order to commemorate the invention of the Raman Effect in India by the Indian physicist, Sir C V Raman. What was the theme of ‘National Science day, 2017’?
Answer: Science and Technology for specially abled persons

Q2. The Haryana government has recently set up an online system for Panipat district to monitor the sex-ratio as part of the which of the following scheme?
Answer: Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao


Q3. An expert committee set up by SIDBI recently has sanctioned Rs 300 crore to fund managers who would invest in startups, taking the total sanctions so far this fiscal 2016-2017 to over Rs 1,100 crore. Name of that committee is __________.
Answer: Venture Capital Investment Committee


Q4. Paytm E-Commerce launched Paytm Mall recently, a mobile app and online shopping portal. Paytm Mall is the new avatar of Paytm’s three year-old e-commerce business. Paytm is arm of which companies?
Answer: One97 Communications Pvt. Ltd


Q5. Name the company, with which Tata Communications has tied up recently to support the roll-out of the former’s Internet of Things platform, the LoRa (Long Range) network.
Answer: Hewlett Packard Enterprise


Q6. Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) signed an agreement with CSFB to enable it to provide loans at a concessional rate to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), recently. What does ‘F’ stands for in CSFB? 
Answer: Finance


Q7. Name the former Indian women cricket team Captain who has been nominated for BCCI ‘the Lifetime Achievement Award’ for the first time.
Answer: Shanta Rangaswamy


Q8. Indian Badminton Duo Tarun Kona and Alwin Francis Won Uganda International Series Doubles Title, 2017, recently. What is the capital and currency of Uganda, respectively? 
Answer: Kampala, Ugandan Shilling


Q9. IAS officer Ajay Tyagi took charge as the chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), recently. He has replaced ___________.
Answer: U.K Sinha


Q10. A techno social business incubator, Incube Ventures Pvt Ltd had signed an MoU with the Jharkhand government’s Department of Information Technology and e-Governance (DoIT) to establish an incubation center for start-ups in the state. Incube Ventures Pvt Ltd is _________ based company.
Answer: Gujarat


Q11. State-run gas company Gas Authority of India Ltd. (GAIL) has signed a time-swap deal with a trader company Gunvor to sell some of its US Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) as the Indian firm tries to ease the burden of its costly foreign LNG supplies. Gunvor is ______________ based company.
Answer: Switzerland


Q12. The Indian navy has successfully test-fired an anti-ship missile for the first time from an indigenously built ______________, recently.
Answer: Kalvari class submarine


Q13. Name the disrict of Himachal Pradesh that has recently got approval to be its second capital. 
Answer: Dharamshala


Q14. Angel Gurria is the present Secretary General of which international organisations?
Answer: OECD


Q15. Name the Indian University that has won the annual Visitor’s Award for the ‘Best University’ 2017, recently.
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru University

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