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1 What amount has
been allocated for the new Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) scheme in the
Union Budget for 2016-17?
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1) Rs 500 cr
2) Rs 1,000 cr
3) Rs 1,500 cr
4) Rs 2,000 cr
5) Rs 2,500 cr
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2 In the Union
Budget for 2016-17, the excise duty on tobacco products other than beedis has
been raised from 10 per cent to
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1) 12 per cent
2) 14 per cent
3) 15 per cent
4) 18 per cent
5) 20 per cent
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3 The budget for
2016-17 proposes 1 per cent service charge on purchase of luxury cars over Rs
10 lakh and in-cash purchase of goods and services over
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1) Rs 50,000
2) Rs 75,000
3) Rs 1 lakh
4) Rs 1.5 lakh
5) Rs 2 lakh
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4 An additional
exemption of Rs 50,000 has been proposed in the Union Budget for 2016-17 for
housing loans up to Rs 35 lakh, provided cost of house is not above
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1) Rs 40 lakh
2) Rs 45 lakh
3) Rs 50 lakh
4) Rs 60 lakh
5) Rs 75 lakh
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5 What amount has
been allocated for MGNREGA scheme for 2016-17 in the Union Budget for
2016-17?
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1) Rs 30,500 cr
2) Rs 34,500 cr
3) Rs 38,500 cr
4) Rs 40,500 cr
5) Rs 44,500 cr
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6 Hashim Thaci
has been elected as the new president of
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1) Serbia
2) Albania
3) Kosovo
4) Estonia
5) Eretria
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7 The National
Science Day is celebrated in India each year to mark the discovery of the
‘Raman Effect’ by Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman on
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1) 24 Feb
2) 25 Feb
3) 28 Feb
4) 29 Feb
5) 01 Mar
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8 Who among the
following has been appointment as the first chairman of the proposed Banks
Board Bureau (BBB)?
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1) Anjuly Chib
Duggal
2) Roopa Kudwa
3) Anil
Khandelwal
4) HN Sinor
5) Vinod Rai
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9 Which of the
following states is all set to be declared as India’s first digital state by
the President Pranab Mukherjee?
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1) Karnataka
2) Tamil Nadu
3) Andhra Pradesh
4) Telangana
5) Kerala
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10 BK Garudachar
passed away recently. He was India’s oldest
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1) cricketer
2) hockey player
3) tennis player
4) shuttler
5) boxer
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11 The Pandit
Dinanath Mangeshkar award 2016 will be given to
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1) Ranveer Singh
2) Sanjay Leela
Bhansali
3) Ranbir Kapoor
4) Aamir Khan
5) Both 1) and 2)
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12 Who among the
following has been elected as the newFIFA President?
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1) Sheikh Salman
bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa
2) Sepp Blatter
3) Gianni Infantino
4) Diego Maradona
5) Edson Cholbi
Nascimento
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13 Mashrafe Bin
Mortaza, who has been “named nationalgoodwill ambassador for youth” by the
UNDP, is the limited-overs captain of the cricket team of
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1) Pakistan
2) Bangladesh
3) Sri Lanka
4) Zimbabwe
5) Afghanistan
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14 Goverdhan
Mehta has been conferred with Federal Republic of Germany’s prestigious
`Cross of the Order of Merit’.He is a researcher related to
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1) chemical sciences
2) astrology
3) microbiology
4) dermatology
5) economics
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15
Which of the following was declared “Best Company Promoting Sports (Private
Sector)” in the country at the National Sports Awards 2015?
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1) Federal Bank
2) Tata Steel
3) Federal Bank
4) Sahara India
5) YES Bank
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16 The
prestigious Astronautical Society of India's Aryabhata Award 2016 has been
given to
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1) BHVS Narayana
Murthy
2) AS Kiran Kumar
3) R Chidambaram
4) Avinash Chander
5) VK Saraswat
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17 The two-day
G20 Finance Ministers and central bank governors summit was held recently in
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1) Buenos Aires,
Argentina
2) Canberra,
Australia
3) Brasilia,
Brazil
4) Shanghai, China
5) Toronto,
Canada
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18 Vedanta has
bagged the Baghmara (Sonakhan) gold mine,the country’s first gold mine to be
auctioned, in the state of
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1) Jharkhand
2) Chhattisgarh
3) Tamil Nadu
4) West Bengal
5) Karnataka
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19 The Economic
Survey 2015-16 says that spreading the JAM Trinity will reduce leakages in
subsidy distribution. In the term JAM, the letter ‘A’ stands for
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1) Aadhaar
2) Authentication
3) Accreditation
4) Advertisement
5) Announcement
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20 The 13th World
Spice Congress was held recently in
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1) Chennai
2) Bengaluru
3) Ahmedabad
4) Hyderabad
5)
Thiruvananthapuram
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