Current Affairs Questions for SBI PO: 18th March 2017 |

Dear Readers,

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.

Q1. BHEL’s first 800-MW supercritical plant has become operational which of the following Indian State?

(a) Gujarat

(b) Karnataka

(d) Maharashtra

(e) Rajasthan

Q2. State Bank of India and CREDAI have recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly conduct various initiatives towards development of the realty sector. What does ‘E’ stands for in CREDAI?

(a) Export

(b) Expenditure

(d) Estate

(e) Exchange

Q3. The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has tied up with Sentifi, leader in algorithmic-based analysis, for social media updates of 40,000 globally-listed stocks. Sentifi is __________ based company.

(a) Switzerland

(b) Japan

(d) Indonesia

(e) USA

Q4. Name the sports person, who has been appointed as a member of the governing body of Sports Authority of India (SAI), recently.

(a) Saina Nehwal

(b) Sushil Singh

(d) P V Sindhu

(e) Abhinav Bindra

Q5. Name the Bank that has recently signed an agreement with Avenues India Pvt Ltd, a payment solution provider to provide merchants with seamless access to point-of-sales (POS) and payment gateway products.

(a) IDBI Bank

(b) HDFC Bank

(d) Bandhan Bank

(e) Kotak Mahindra Bank

Q6. India with World Health Organization (WHO) has recently signed a ‘call for action’ and pledged to scale up measures to end the Tuberculosis by ____________.

(a) 2025

(b) 2030

(d) 2020

(e) 2023

Q7. Name the regulatory body that has recently allowed celebrities to endorse Mutual Fund products at the industry level.

(a) RBI

(b) NABARD

(d) IRDAI

(e) SEBI

Q8. Name the person, who has been appointed by the central government as a member of the western area local board of Reserve Bank of India.

(a) B P Kanugo

(b) Dilip Shanghvi

(d) Vipin Kunoma

(e) K. Srinivasan

Q9. Name the Indian-American high school student who has won the 2017 Regeneron Science Talent Search bagging the top award of 250,000 dollars.

(a) Indrani Das

(b) Aaron Yeiser

(d) Richa Roy

(e) Anjuma Bhattacharya

Q10. Name the only Institute of India that has been placed in top 30 position in recent Asia University Rankings 2017 of the Times Higher Education.

(a) IIM-Ahmedabad

(b) BITS-Pilani

(d) VIT-Vellore

(e) IIT-Roorkee