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Current Affairs Questions for SBI PO: 22nd Feb 2017

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

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Q1. UNESCO celebrates International Mother Language Day (IMLD) on 21 February every year. What was the theme of IMLD 2017?

(a) Lead with Multilingual Education
(b) Lets develope through Multilingual Education
(c) Language A bridge to global success
(d) Towards Sustainable Futures through Multilingual Education
(e) None of the above options are true

Q2. Name the hospital that will provide medical support to forest department employees and local communities in the areas where WWF-India (World Wide Fund for Nature-India) operates for conservation.
(a) Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
(b) Medanta Hospital
(c) Apollo Hospitals
(d) Lilavati Hospital
(e) Hirandani Hospitals

Q3. Bharat QR code was launched recently to make retail e-payments more seamless and help India to get a step ahead towards Cashless Economy. Who among the following launched Bharat QR code?
(a) Shri R. Gandhi
(b) Shri Viral Acharya
(c) Shri S.S. Mundra
(d) Shri N.S. Vishwanathan
(e) Dr. Urjit R. Patel

Q4. Name the country that has committed to start initial deliveries of military helicopters to India in 2018 in order to an agreement signed in October 2016, to manufacture 200 of the KA-226T helicopters for the Indian Armed Forces.
(a) France
(b) Japan
(c) Russia
(d) The USA
(e) China

Q5. The Ahmedabad-based Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), an acknowledged national resource institute for entrepreneurship education, research, training and institution-building, has received the prestigious award for the year 2016-17 for the best overall presentation of its 2015-2016 annual report. Name of that award is _______________.
(a) Make in India Emerging Entrepreneurs Awards
(b) Forbes India Leadership Awards
(c) Entrepreneur of The Year
(d) International Mercury Awards (IMA)
(e) None of the above options are true

Q6. The 13th Agricultural Science Congress being organised in Bengaluru from 21-24 February 2017 by the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) and the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR). Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) was established in _______________.
(a) 1916
(b) 1929
(c) 1956
(d) 1936
(e) 1973

Q7. Karnataka Vikas Grameen Bank (KVGB) has made 13 villages of Karnataka under its jurisdiction as 100 percent digital villages for banking activities. Who is the Chairman of KVGB?
(a) P. Rastogi
(b) Ajay Tyagi
(c) A. Acharya
(d) P. Jayarama Bhat
(e) S. Ravindran

Q8. Country’s largest Public Sector bank State Bank of India (SBI) has rebranded its corporate website as _______________ from the earlier “sbi.co.in”.
(a) bank.in
(b) sbi.bank
(c) bank.sbi
(d) banksbi.in
(e) banksbi.co.in

Q9.Which of the following Tata Steel’s iron mine has been honored with the Best Green Organization of the Year Award at the Global Green Future Leadership Awards in recognition of its environmental protection measures, recently.
(a) Noamundi
(b) Katamati
(c) Joda
(d) Khondbond
(e) Jharia

Q10. Nagaland People’s Front (NPF) president Shurhozelie Liezeitsu will be sworn in as Nagaland’s new Chief Minister. He will be ____________ Chief Minister of Nagaland.
(a) 8th
(b) 11th
(c) 15th
(d) 21st
(e) 22nd

Q11. V. K. Srinivasan passed away recently after a prolonged illness in Hyderabad. He was famous ___________________.
(a) Bureaucrat
(b) Columnist
(c) Director Institute of Economic Studies
(d) All of the above
(e) None of the above

Q12. Name the newly appointed National Security Advisor of The United States of America.
(a) Herbert Raymond McMaste
(b) Michael T. Flynn 
(c) Susan Rice
(d) Thomas E. Donilon
(e) James L. Jones

Q13. Name the famous Pakistani Cricketer who has announced retirement from International Cricket, recently.
(a) Shoab Malik
(b) Misbah Ul Haq
(c) Shahid Afridi
(d) Younus Khan
(e) Wahab Riaz

Q14. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has recently it appointed V Ramakrishnan as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO). He has replaced _______________.
(a) Cyrus Mistry
(b) N Ganapathy Subramaniam
(c) Ratan Tata
(d) V Ramakrishnan
(e) Rajesh Gopinathan

Q15. Ved Prakash Sharma passed away recently. He was famous ______________.
(a) Novelist
(b) Critc
(c) Classical Singer
(d) Painter
(e) Wrestler

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