Current Affairs Questions (based on The Hindu) for RRB Mains 2016 |

Q1. President Pranab Mukherjee has inaugurated the first ever International Gita Mahotsav in………?

(a) Kochin, Kerala

(b) Kurukshetra, Haryana

(d) Darbhanga, Bihar

(e) Haridwar, Uttarakhand

Q2. John Key unexpectedly announced his resignation recently as the Prime Minister of-

(a) Italy

(b) Canada

(d) Australia

(e) New Zealand

Q3. Who has been appointed as a Senior Vice-President of Asian Football Confederation?

(a) Praful Patel

(b) Sunil Taldar

(d) MM Kutty

(e) KK Sharma

Q4. Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal have been jointly named “Asian of the Year 2016” by Singapore-based newspaper The Straits Times. They are the founders of

(a) Food Panda

(b) Swiggy

(d) Mobikwik

(e) Paytm

Q5. Name the Prime Minister of France, who has resigned from Prime minister shaft and to declare himself a candidate for the presidency?

(a) Julie Gayet

(b) Nicolas Sarkozy

(d) Manuel Valls

(e) None of the above

Q6. In order to mop up extra liquidity from the system in view of demonetisation, govt and the RBI have raised the Market Stabilisation Scheme (MSS) ceiling to

(a) Rs 6 lakh cr

(b) Rs 2 lakh cr

(d) Rs 80,000 cr

(e) Rs 30,000 cr

Q7. With which Bank, Metals and Minerals Trading gold Corporation (MMTC) has tied-up to sell government-minted Indian Gold Coin?

(a) ICICI Bank

(b) State Bank of India

(d) Bank of Baroda

(e) Indian Bank

Q8. India received over __________ US dollar Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) milestone between April 2000 and September 2016.

(a) 1500 billion US dollar

(b) 700 billion US dollar

(d) 1200 billion US dollar

(e) 100 billion US dollar

Q9. The govt has extended the MIP on 19 products for two months to protect domestic steel industry. The term MIP stands for

(a) Maximum Import Price

(b) Mortgaged Import Price

(d) Minimum Import Price

(e) None of the above

Q10. The Russian-Indian _______ NAVY-2016 naval exercise will be held on December 14-21, 2016 in the southeastern Indian coastal city of Visakhapatnam and in the Bay of Bengal.

(a) Sourya

(b) Baani

(d) Garud

(e) Indra