Current Affairs : February quiz 2016 ( Multiple choice questions) - 31(LIC AAO , IBPS , SSC , Railways)

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Akbar Kakkattil

1) Centre has approved nomination of which officer of the NITI Aayog as the part time member of Telecom Commission on 17th February 2016?

1) CEO 2) CFO 3) CIO 4) Chairman

2) Space Applications Centre of ISRO and SFL of University of Toronto are collaborating for the development of the NEMO-AM satellite. What does NEMO-AM stand for?

1) Next Generation Earth Monitoring and Observing and Aerosol Monitoring 2) Next Generation Earth Monitoring and Observation and Aerosol Monitoring 3) New Generation Earth Monitor and Observer and Aerosol Monitor 4) None of the above

3) Aston Martin has set up a JV with which Chinese group for developing its first electric vehicle?

) LeEco 2) Baidu 3) Redme 4) None of the above

4) Which telecom company has inked an agreement with communication technology MNC Ericsson to deploy 4G network across specific Indian telecom circles?

1) Idea Cellular 2) Vodafone 3) Airtel 4) BT

5) Which special photoelectrode has been developed by Korea’s scientists to boost ability of solar water splitting to generate hydrogen?

1) Ar NPs/TiO2/Au 2) Ap NPs/TiO2/Au 3) Aq NPs/TiO2/Au 4) Au NPs/TiO2/Au

6) Scientists have discovered the first fossil specimens of which family of flowering plants?

1) Asterid 2) Asparagusceae 3) Adoxaceae 4) Akaniaceae

7) Which renowned writer recently passed away in Kerala and was vice president of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi?

1) Arundhati Roy 2) Akbar Kakkattil 3) V. S. Naipaul 4) None of the above

8) National Day of which nation was celebrated on February 18, 2016?

1) Zambia 2) Gambia 3) Tanzania 4) Liberia

9) Which e-commerce major has appointed Nitin Seth as its new Chief People Officer?

1) Snapdeal 2) Myntra 3) Amazon 4) Flipkart

10) GoI has just launched the ENVIS portal. What does ENVIS stand for?

1) Environment Informational Schedule 2) Environmental Information System 3) Ecological Information System 4) Ecology India System

11 The Make in India week was held in Mumbai recently in an effort to boost manufacturing in India. What is the share of manufacturing in the gross domestic product (GDP)?

1) 11 per cent 2) 15 per cent 3) 17 per cent 4) 25 per cent

12 The Marshall Islands is in process to sue India and others in International Court of Justice. Capital city of the tiny island country is

1) Majuro 2) Bridgetown 3) Nassau 4) Luanda

13 Faustin Archange Touadera has won the 2016 Presidential election of

1) Chad 2) Nigeria 3) Yemen 4) Central African Republic

14 The Union Minister Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal inaugurated the Vibrant North-East 2016 Summit and Exhibition recently in

1) Aizawl 2) Guwahati 3) Itanagar 4) Agartala

15 What is India’s ranking in terms of how its domestic policies support worldwide innovation, as per report by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)?

1) 34th 2) 46th 3) 54th 4) 62nd

16 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 21 Feb launched the ambitious Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban (rural-urban) Mission from Dongargarh block of

1) Jharkhand 2) Haryana 3) Madhya Pradesh 4) Chhattisgarh

17 The cumulative gross NPAs of 24 listed public sector banks, including market leader SBI and its associates, stood at __________ as on Dec 31, 2015.

1) Rs 2 lakh cr 2) Rs 3 lakh cr 3) Rs 4 lakh cr 4) Rs 5 lakh cr

18 What is the non-life penetration of the gross domestic product (GDP)?

1) 0.4 per cent 2) 0.7 per cent 3) 0.8 per cent 4) 2.1 per cent

19 Post office savings of 1, 2 and 3 year term deposits, Kisan Vikas Patra as well as 5-year Recurring Deposits till now earned 0.25 per cent higher interest than the _______ of similar tenures.

1) bank deposits 2) commercial paper 3) employee provident fund 4) govt securities

20 __________ is a form of securitization through which a bank buys other’s assets for a stipulated period, taking the credit risk of the folio.

1) repo 2) IBPC 3) SLR 4) MSF