General Awareness Question Asked In IBPS-RRBs-OFFICE ASSISTANT Exam

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1. United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) decided to proclaim ----- , the day of the adoption of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), as World Wildlife Day. - 3 March

2. Who is the current Chairman of the International Cricket Council? - Narayanaswami Srinivasan

3. The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi received the Award of Bangladesh Liberation War Honour on behalf of former Prime Minister, ------ by the President of Bangladesh, Mr. Abdul Hamid, in Dhaka, Bangladesh on June 07, 2015. Atal Bihari Vajpayee

4. Who has been roped in as the brand ambassador of Edelweiss Financial Services in a multi-crore deal initiated by IOS Sports & Entertainment? - Saina Nehwal

5. The sixth and final trial for ------ , the first semi high-speed train service between Delhi and Agra, was completed, during which the train covered the 195-km journey in 115 minutes, clocking a maximum speed of 160-plus kmph. - Gatimaan Express

6. The Union HRD Minister, Smt Smriti Irani introduced ------- , the winner of the logo competition for the New Education Policy at the Press Briefing held in New Delhi. - Nawaj Shaikh

7. Base rate is the minimum rate set by the ------- below which banks are not allowed to lend to its customers. - Reserve Bank of India

8. The ------ covers over 12,500 sq. kilometers in northern India and ranks among the largest in the world in drainage basin area and length. - Ganga River Basin

9. --------, creator of the iconic Rock Garden who has amazed people for decades with his unique sculptures made from waste, died. - Nek Chand

10. Who was the Paramount Chief and later King of Swaziland for 82 years, the longest verifiable reign of any monarch in recorded history? - Sobhuza II

11. After a long gap of ----- years, India is hosting 10th World Hindi conference at Bhopal from September 10-12 this year. - thirty-two

12. Shane Watson, the muscular but fragile ----- all-rounder, has retired from Test cricket at the age of 34 . - Australia

13. Who gave nursing a highly favourable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of "The Lady with the Lamp" making rounds of wounded soldiers at night. - Florence Nightingale

14.The objectives of setting up of payments banks will be to further financial inclusion by providing (i) ------- and (ii) payments/remittance services to migrant labour workforce, low income households, small businesses, other unorganised sector entities and other users. - small savings accounts

15. The CIBIL TransUnion Score is a 3-digit number ranging from ------. - 300-900

16. China's foreign exchange reserves dropped ----- month-on-month in August, the largest single month drop in the central bank's history. - US$93.929 billion

17. Multiple state authorities in India found an unacceptable amount of ----- and it has been banned in more than 5 other states in India. - lead

18. Former Supreme Court Justice, ------ was appointed as the Chairman of the 7th Pay Commission. - Ashok Kumar Mathur

19. Which bank launched contactless multi-currency forex cards in partnership with Visa - the payments gateway company? - Axis Bank

20 Which country became the first country in the world formally to legalise euthanasia? - Netherlands

21. The annual Pongala festival of Attukal Bhagavathi temple at ------, has been entered in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest congregation of women in the world. - Kerala

22. Raas or Dandiya Raas is the traditional folk dance form of -------, India. - Gujarat

23. Payments bank will initially be restricted to holding a maximum balance of ----- per individual customer. - Rs. 100,000

24. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a new campaign ‘Start-up India; Stand up India’ to promote bank financing for start-ups and offer incentives to boost ----- and job creation. - entrepreneurship

25. The God of Small Things is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy. Whe was born in -----, India. - Shillong, Meghalaya

26. India’s largest private sector bank, ---- has launched a new facility named ‘Smart Vault’, which provides automated access to lockers from its safe vault. - ICICI

27. The Government has announced the One Rank One Pension scheme for the Ex-Servicemen. An estimated ---- provided for OROP in the budget presented in February 2014 by the then government was not based on any thorough analysis. - Rs. 500 crore

28. Under the Jan Dhan Yojna anyone who is India citizen above age of 10 years and does not have a bank account, can open the account with ----- balance. - zero

29. The Union government’s Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) has approved a proposal from the Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (Kinfra) to set up the country’s first defence industrial park at ------. - Ottappalam

30. India's first satellite controlled Single Axis Tracking East West Tilt Technology based solar power plant has come up at village Lalpur of District Hoshiarpur. ------. Punjab