Current Affairs Questions for IBPS RRB PO and Clerk 2017: 08th August 2017

Welcome to the world of Current Affairs 2017. With IBPS RRB PO and Clerk Mains round the corner, it should be your priority to cover every aspect of Current Affairs on a daily basis for IBPS RRB PO and Clerk Mains so that you can do well in the exam. These current affairs are based on current news. Let us see how many questions you attempt accurately.

Q1. Who has been taken over as Air Officer-in-Charge Administration (AOA) of Indian Air Force at Air Headquarters in New Delhi?
(a) Mohammad Mustafa
(b) Hemant Narayan Bhagwat
(c) Rajiv Kumar
(d) Ushanath Banerjee
(e) Prabhat Kumar

Q2. Mobile wallet major _________ has entered into a strategic partnership with Bajaj Finance to transform itself into a financial services app from a payments app at present.
(a) Freecharge
(b) Citrus Pay
(c) Airtel Money
(d) Paytm
(e) MobiKwik

Q3. As a part of Government of India’s initiative to develop green airports, two airports in Tirupati and Vijayawada are going to go completely green. These two cities located in-? 
(a) Tamil Nadu
(b) Kerala
(c) Andhra Pradesh
(d) Telangana
(e) Karnataka

Q4. India signed a loan agreement with ___________ for financing of USD 329 million for Gujarat Rural Roads Project.
(a) Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
(b) World Bank Group
(c) International Monetary Fund (IMF)
(d) Asian Development Bank (ADB)
(e) New Development Bank (NDB)

Q5. Name the Veteran actress and national award winner, who has been selected for this year’s Prem Nazir Award?
(a) Sakshi Singh
(b) Hemlata Shastri
(c) Yahair Shabana
(d) Sharada
(e) None of the given options is true

Q6. Who has been named the world’s most highly-paid author with earnings of £72.2m ($95m)?
(a) Emma Watson
(b) Chetan Bhagat
(c) Toni Morrison
(d) Stephen King
(e) JK Rowling

Q7. The All India Football Federation (AIFF) has appointed senior advocate Ushanath Banerjee as the chairman of a special committee. It will deal with the players’ transfer disputes’. Who is the present President of AIFF?
(a) VP Narayan
(b) Anurag Thakur
(c) Sharad Pawar
(d) Praful Patel
(e) None of the given options is true

Q8. India’s first private sector missile sub-systems manufacturing facility, a joint venture between the $2.5 billion Kalyani Group and Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defence Systems Limited was inaugurated near-
(a) Ahmedabad
(b) New Delhi
(c) Hyderabad
(d) Chennai
(e) Nagpur

Q9. Who has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Kazakhstan?
(a) Rajeev Singh
(b) Prabhat Kumar
(c) Achal Sachdeva
(d) Swati Malhotra
(e) Harmanpreet Kaur

Q10. Which among the following state goverment has launched two online portals MahaDBT and MahaVASTU to streamline the process of direct benefit transfer (DBT) and to bring in more transparency in construction sector?
(a) Maharashtra
(b) Gujarat
(c) Kerala
(d) Rajasthan
(e) West Bengal

Q11. The Centre has approved the Adityanath-led UP government’s proposal to rename the __________ railway station after the Jan Sangh leader as Deen Dayal Upadhyaya (DDU) station.
(a) Mughalsarai railway station
(b) Kanpur railway station
(c) Lucknow railway station
(d) Allahabad railway station
(e) Mathura railway station

Q12. Who has been appointed as the brand ambassador of the Swachh Bharat Mission in Uttar Pradesh?
(a) Suresh Raina
(b) Akshay Kumar
(c) Javed Akhtar
(d) Sachin Tendulkar
(e) Amitabh Bachchan

Q13. Name the person who has been elected as 13th Vice President of India?
(a) Manmohan Singh
(b) Gopalkrishna Gandhi
(c) M Venkaiah Naidu
(d) SK Sheriff
(e) Hamid Ansari

Q14. A High-Level Committee set up to review the Institutionalization of Arbitration Mechanism in India has submitted its report to the Union Law Ministry. It was headed by-?
(a) Bhupen Sinha
(b) Ajay Tyagi
(c) T K Viswanathan
(d) BN Srikrishna
(e) None of the given options is true

Q15. Noted economist __________ will be the next Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog, which is a think-tank that replaced the Planning Commission.
(a) Anshika Motwani
(b) Prabhat Kumar
(c) Hemant Narayan Bhagwat
(d) Shikha Ahuja
(e) Rajiv Kumar