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11 JANUARY 2017
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Ques. : 1 _________ was recently named the world's best player at the inaugural Best FIFA Football Awards in Zurich.
1) Antoine Griezmann
2) Lionel Messi
3) Cristiano Ronaldo
4) Ronaldinho
5) Gareth Bale
Answer:- 3) Cristiano Ronaldo
Ques. : 2 An eight-year old boy Abbu Ammaz won gold medal in Thai Boxing Championship at the national level recently. He hails from
1) Haryana
2) Uttar Pradesh
3) Karnataka
4) Andhra Pradesh
5) Jammu and Kashmir
Answer:- 5) Jammu and Kashmir
Ques. : 3 The mobile handset brand ______ has roped in Indian cricketer Virat Kohli as the brand ambassador.
1) Gionee
2) Xiaomi
3) Oppo
4) Lenovo
5) One Plus
Answer:- 1) Gionee
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Ques. : 4 The US fast-food giant McDonald announced to sell its businesses in which country recently for $2.08 bn to Citic and the Carlyle Group?
1) India
2) China
3) Indonesia
4) Malaysia
5) Iran
Answer:- 2) China
Ques. : 5 The World Bank recently decelerated India's growth for 2016-17 fiscal to
1) 7 per cent
2) 7.2 per cent
3) 7.4 per cent
4) 7.6 per cent
5) 7.8 per cent
Answer:- 1) 7 per cent
Ques. : 6 Which country recently launched its first submarine-launched nuclear-capable Babur-3 missile which has a range of 450 km?
1) Iran
2) Iraq
3) Saudi Arabia
4) Turkey
5) Pakistan
Answer:- 5) Pakistan
Ques. : 7 Kalyan Krishnamurthy has been appointed as new chief executive officer of the online marketplace
1) Flipkart
2) Amazon
3) Snapdeal
4) Shopclues
5) Infibeam
Answer:- 1) Flipkart
Ques. : 8 The 11th World Hindi Day was observed recently on
1) 08 Jan
2) 10 Jan
3) 14 Jan
4) 18 Jan
5) 25 Jan
Answer:- 2) 10 Jan
Ques. : 9 Which state govt has launched India’s largest public WiFi service in its capital city?
1) Gujarat
2) Andhra Pradesh
3) Maharashtra
4) Telangana
5) Kerala
Answer:- 3) Maharashtra
Ques. : 10 __________ was given an award by the US Embassy in appreciation for his invaluable contributions to the US-India partnership on tuberculosis.
1) Irrfan Khan
2) Vidya Balan
3) Nana Patekar
4) Deepika Padukone
5) Amitabh Bachchan
Answer:- 5) Amitabh Bachchan
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10 JANUARY 2017
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Ques. : 1 Donald Trump won elected as the 45th president in the recent US presidential elections. He belongs to which of the following parties?
1) Democratic Party
2) Republican Party
3) Libertarian Party
4) Green Party
5) None of these
Answer:- 2) Republican Party
Ques. : 2 The Diamond Jubilee Celebrations of ECGC was held on 8 Nov in New Delhi. What is the full form of ECGC?
1) Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India
2) Export Commodity Guarantee Corporation of India
3) Export Commerce Guarantee Corporation of India
4) Export Collaterals Guarantee Corporation of India
5) None of these
Answer:- 1) Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India
Ques. : 3 Who among the following has been chosen for 2016 Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award?
1) Salman Rushdie
2) Anita Desai
3) Aravind Adiga
4) Vikram Seth
5) Amitav Ghosh
Answer:- 5) Amitav Ghosh
Ques. : 4 The public sector UCO Bank has announced that it would raise Rs 271 cr from Life Insurance Corporation of India. The bank is headquartered at
1) Chennai
2) Hyderabad
3) Mumbai
4) New Delhi
5) Kolkata
Answer:- 5) Kolkata
Ques. : 5 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) issued the second tranche of USD 300 mn for the Power Sector Investment Programme of which of the following states recently?
1) Sikkim
2) Manipur
3) Assam
4) Mizoram
5) Tripura
Answer:- 3) Assam
Ques. : 6 The World Science Day for Peace and Development is observed globally on
1) 2 Nov
2) 5 Nov
3) 6 Nov
4) 10 Nov
5) 14 Nov
Answer:- 4) 10 Nov
Ques. : 7 Who among the following scripted history as he/she won the US Senate seat from California, becoming the first Indian-American to reach the feat?
1) Preet Bharara
2) Rajat Gupta
3) Kamala Harris
4) Ami Bera
5) None of these
Answer:- 3) Kamala Harris
Ques. : 8 The Centre has decided to open PMKVK in every Parliamentary Constituency in the country. The scheme PMKVK is associated with
1) cleanliness
2) skill training
3) village development
4) agriculture
5) Khadi Gramodyog
Answer:- 2) skill training
Ques. : 9 The Reporters without Borders (RSF) has awarded Hadi Abdullah the RSF-TV5 Monde prize, one of the world’s top press awards. He is a freelance journalist from
1) Lebanon
2) Syria
3) Libya
4) Yemen
5) Nigeria
Answer:- 2) Syria
Ques. : 10 Masala bonds, which help Indian firms to raise money, while giving international investors access to higher yields in a zero-yield world, were launched in
1) 2010
2) 2011
3) 2013
4) 2014
5) 2015
Answer:- 5) 2015
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09 JANUARY 2017
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Ques. : 1 Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza won the 2017 Brisbane International women's doubles title recently with her partner
1) Barbora Strycova
2) Elena Vesnina
3) Ekaterina Makarova
4) Bethanie Mattek-Sands
5) None of these
Answer:- 4) Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Ques. : 2 Who among the following won the men’s singles title of the 2017 Chennai Open?
1) Janko Tipsarevic
2) Danill Medvedev
3) Roberto Bautista Agut
4) Pablo Carreno Busta
5) Tomas Berdych
Answer:- 3) Roberto Bautista Agut
Ques. : 3 Who among the following won the men’s singles title of the 2017 Qatar Open tennis tournament?
1) Andy Murray
2) Novak Djokovic
3) Stan Wawrinka
4) Rafael Nadal
5) Roger Federer
Answer:- 2) Novak Djokovic
Ques. : 4 In India, the General Anti-Avoidance Rule (GAAR) will kick in from
1) Feb 1, 2017
2) Mar 1, 2017
3) Apr 1, 2017
4) Jun 1, 2017
5) Sep 1, 2017
Answer:- 3) Apr 1, 2017
Ques. : 5 Who among the following is the present Chief Statistician of India (CSI)?
1) TCA Anant
2) Pronab Sen
3) Sushil Chandra
4) Vinod Rai
5) Shashi Kant Sharma
Answer:- 1) TCA Anant
Ques. : 6 Jean-Marc Ayrault, who met PM Narendra Modi recently, is the present Foreign Minister of
1) Germany
2) France
3) Spain
4) South Korea
5) Canada
Answer:- 2) France
Ques. : 7 The Pravasi Bhartiya Divas (PBD) is an annual event organised by the Ministry of External Affairs. It is being organised since
1) 2001
2) 2003
3) 2004
4) 2005
5) 2006
Answer:- 2) 2003
Ques. : 8 According to growth projection released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), agriculture, forestry and fishing sector is likely to show a growth of ____ during 2016-17.
1) 1.2%
2) 2.2%
3) 3.5%
4) 3.9%
5) 4.1%
Answer:- 5) 4.1%
Ques. : 9 What is the full form of the term IIP, a term we often read in financial newspapers?
1) Index of Indian Production
2) Index of Initial Production
3) Index of Indigenous Production
4) Index of Industrial Production
5) None of these
Answer:- 4) Index of Industrial Production
Ques. : 10 Which country is setting up the world's highest altitude gravitational wave telescopes (located 5,250 meters above sea level) code-named Ngari No 1?
1) Russia
2) South Korea
3) Japan
4) China
5) US
Answer:- 4) China
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Google Launches 'Digital Unlocked' And ‘My Business Website’
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What’s the news?
Aiming to give a technological edge to the small and medium businesses (SMBs) in India, Google announced two initiatives 'Digital Unlocked' and 'My Business Website'.
What is ‘Digital Unlocked’?
Google, along with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), has developed a training programme called 'Digital Unlocked', to empower thousands of Indian SMBs with essential digital skills that would enable them to get online and start using the power of the internet to grow their businesses.The programme would be certified by Google, FICCI and Indian School of Business. It would offer online and mobile courses to SMBs across the country."We plan to impart 5,000 training workshops in 40 cities in three years," Google CEO Sundar Pichai said.
What is 'My Business Website'?
Google also started another initiative 'My Business Website'. It is a free tool, which would help make a website in 10 minutes.It will first start in India, later this year, and then will be launched in other countries.'My Business Website' would be available in English, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Kannada, and Malayalam languages.
What are the statistics?
There are around 51 million small and medium scale businesses in India.Google unveiled a joint research study with KPMG titled "Impact of Internet and Digitization on SMBs in India", which said that 68 per cent of the SMBs were offline.Profits grow twice as fast for those SMBs who have digital business. The micro small and medium entreprises contribute 37 per cent to the Indian GDP.
Additional Info: Further, Google also launched Primer, a free mobile app uniquely designed to teach digital marketing skills in a quick, easy and interactive way. Primer also works offline and is currently available in English and Hindi. Tamil, Telugu and Marathi versions are coming up shortly.
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1)Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) is celebrated on 9 January every year to mark the contribution of Overseas Indian community in the development of India.
2)PBD conventions are being held every year since 2003.
3)The theme of this edition is “Redefining Engagement with the Indian Diaspora”.
Why is it celebrated on January 9th?
January 9 was chosen as the day to celebrate this occasion since it was on this day in 1915 that Mahatma Gandhi, the greatest Pravasi, returned to India from South Africa, led India’s freedom struggle and changed the lives of Indians forever.
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Ques. : 1 PM Narendra Modi held talks with his counterpart Antonio Costa recently in New Delhi. Antonio is the present Prime Minister of
1) Portugal
2) Suriname
3) Trinidad and Tobago
4) Guinea
5) South Africa
Answer:- 1) Portugal
Ques. : 2 The Supreme Court has restrained transfer of 2G spectrum licences from Maxis, originally allotted to Aircel in 2006, to any other telecom company. Maxis is based in
1) Russia
2) Norway
3) Sweden
4) Malaysia
5) Mongolia
Answer:- 4) Malaysia
Ques. : 3 The 14th Pravasi Bhartiya Divas (PBD) convention was held recently in
1) Chennai
2) Bengaluru
3) Hyderabad
4) Ahmedabad
5) Mumbai
Answer:- 2) Bengaluru
Ques. : 4 The SIDBI has tied up with Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) for augmenting capital support to enterprises in the country. SIDBI is headquartered at
1) Mumbai
2) New Delhi
3) Chennai
4) Hyderabad
5) Lucknow
Answer:- 5) Lucknow
Ques. : 5 Japan temporarily withdrew its Ambassador to which of the following countries recently, amid an escalating row over a statue representing wartime sex slaves?
1) China
2) Cambodia
3) South Korea
4) Venezuela
5) Thailand
Answer:- 3) South Korea
Ques. : 6 The govt imposed anti-dumping duty on jute products from which of the following countries for five years?
1) Nepal
2) Bangladesh
3) China
4) All the above
5) Only 1) and 2)
Answer:- 5) Only 1) and 2)
Ques. : 7 The Island Tourism Festival 2017 was held recently at Port Blair in Andaman & Nicobar islands. Who among the following is the present Lt. Governor of Andaman & Nicobar?
1) Farooq Khan
2) Praful Patel
3) Madhup Vyas
4) Kiran Bedi
5) Jagdish Mukhi
Answer:- 5) Jagdish Mukhi
Ques. : 8 The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth is estimated at ________ in 2016-17 as per the data released recently by the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
1) 6.9 per cent
2) 7.1 per cent
3) 7.3 per cent
4) 7.4 per cent
5) 7.6 per cent
Answer:- 2) 7.1 per cent
Ques. : 9 Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan, who passed away recently, was a renowned _______ maestro.
1) sitar
2) flute
3) tabla
4) shehnai
5) guitar
Answer:- 1) sitar
Ques. : 10 India and Kazakhstan have signed five protocols to amend Double Taxation Avoidance Convention (DTAC). The capital city of Kazakhstan is
1) Astana
2) Manama
3) Dushanbe
4) Bishkek
5) Ashgabat
Answer:- 1) Astana
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