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Current Affairs Questions (based on The Hindu) for NIACL Mains Exams 2017

Current Affairs Questions (based on The Hindu) for NIACL Mains Exams 2017 |_2.1


Q1. The 14th Pravasi Bhartiya Divas (PBD) convention has begun in Bengaluru, Karnataka. The three-day event has kicked start with the Youth PBD, the theme of 14th PBD is-

(a) Every Year to Commemorate the Return of Mahatma Gandhi
(b) NRIs and Overseas Indian Community Students in India
(c) Three Plenary Sessions are scheduled to be Held
(d) Role of Diaspora Youth in the Transformation of India
(e) None of the given options is true

Q2. Name the Company, which have signed a three-year global strategic partnership with TaTa Motors, recently?
(a) Wallmart
(b) Castrol
(c) ONGC
(d) Facebook
(e) None of the given options is true

Q3. Which among the following countries has launched the longest high-speed train service named ‘Shangri-la of the World’?
(a) Canada
(b) France
(c) South Korea
(d) Russia
(e) China

Q4. Which country has decided to development of Chennai, Ahmedabad and Varanasi as smart cities recently?
(a) Germany
(b) Turkey
(c) Japan
(d) USA
(e) Italy

Q5. In which among the following cities the All India Conference of Chairpersons and Chief Executive Officers of States and Union Territories’ Waqf Boards has held? 
(a) New Delhi
(b) Bengaluru
(c) Kolkata
(d) Lucknow
(e) Hyderabad

Q6. 09-day New Delhi World Book Fair begins in Pragati Maidan. The theme for this year’s event is __________ which will focus on writings on and by women.
(a) Manushi
(b) Kurash
(c) Hanushi
(d) Bibeki
(e) None of the given options is true

Q7. India’s per capita income, a gauge for measuring living standard, is estimated to cross Rs 1 lakh in 2016-17, up from Rs 93,293 in the previous fiscal (2015-16). Which among the following organisation has released the India’s per capita income?
(a) Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) 
(b) Central Statistics Office (CSO)
(c) Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
(d) Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
(e) National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)

Q8. The Budget session of Parliament convened to start from January 31 2017, a day before the Union Budget is likely to be presented. Who is present Union Finance Minister of India? 
(a) Rajnath Singh
(b) Sushma Swaraj
(c) Arun Jaitley
(d) Suresh Prabhu
(e) Ravi Shankar Prasad

Q9. Name the country, which is setting up the world’s highest altitude gravitational wave telescopes in a Tibet prefecture close to Line of Actual Control with India with a budget of $18.8 million to detect faintest echoes resonating from the universe which may reveal more about the Big Bang theory.
(a) USA
(b) Bhutan
(c) Pakistan
(d) China
(e) Russia

Q10. Droom has tied up with ____________ India’s third-largest private sector bank, to provide quick sanction of loans on both new as well as used cars.
(a) South Indian Bank
(b) HDFC Bank
(c) Kotak Mahindra Bank
(d) ICICI Bank
(e) Axis Bank

Q11. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Portuguese counterpart ________________ has inaugurated the main convention of Pravasi Bhartiya Divas (PBD) in Bengaluru.
(a) Mauricio Macri
(b) Dr Antonio Costa
(c) Mariano Rajoy
(d) Francois Hollande
(e) None of the given options is true

Q12. China’s Central Bank has says, the country’s foreign currency reserves shrank last year, marking large annual losses for the 02nd year in a row. Which among the following is the Central Bank of China?
(a) People’s Bank of China
(b) Bank of China
(c) Agricultural Bank of China
(d) Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
(e) None of the given options is true

Q13. US President-elect Donald Trump has named ____________ as his National Intelligence Director. 
(a) Vivian Chris
(b) Jones Boney
(c) Mack Gayle
(d) Dan Coats
(e) Steve Jack

Q14. Who has won the Qatar Open tennis title. In an epic final in Doha, the Serbian defeated Andy Murray of UK by 6-3 5-7 6-4 recently? 
(a) Stan Wawrinka
(b) Roger Federer
(c) Novak Djokovic
(d) Rafael Nadal
(e) None of the given options are true

Q15. The GAAR, will kick in from April 1, 2017 said the Central Board for Direct Taxes (CBDT). What is GAAR stands for?
(a) General Anti-Avoidance Regulation
(b) General Anti-Avoidance Revised
(c) General Anti-Agreement Rule
(d) General Action-Avoidance Rule

(e) General Anti-Avoidance Rule

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