CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS FOR IBPS CLERKS
CURRENT AFFAIRS
1. The
2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been jointly won by Jeffrey C.
Hall, Michael W. Young and :
a) Craig
C. Mello b) Michael Rosbash c) Shinya
Yamanaka d) Yoshinori Ohsumi
2. What
is the remittance forecast for India in 2017 made by the World Bank?
a) $45
billion b) $55 billion c) $65
billion d) $75 billion
3. Consider
the following Nobel Prizes and their selectors.
I.
Physiology/Medicine – Karolinska Institutet
II. Literature-Norwegian Nobel Committee
III.
Peace – Swedish Academy
Which of
the above is/are matched correctly?
a) Only I b) Both I and II c) Only III
d) Both III and I
4. Consider
the following Nobel Prizes.
I.
Physics II. Chemistry III. Economic Sciences
Winner
of which of the above is selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences?
a) Only
I b) Both I and II c) Both II and III d) I,
II and III
5. The
2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been won by Barry C. Barish, Kip S. Thorne and
:
a) Michael
Kosterlitz b) Serge Haroche c) Takaaki Kajita d)
Rainer Weiss
6. World
Bank’s KNOMAD is Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and ……….
a) Debt b) Disease
c) Diaspora d) Development
7. World
Habitat Day is observed on the first ……….. of October every year.
a) Monday b) Tuesday
c) Wednesday d) Thursday
8. Which
province of Spain organized a referendum for independence?
a) Navarre b) Asturias
c) Zaragoza d) Catalonia
9. Which
of the following hosted the eighth Conference of SAARC Speakers and Parliamentarians?
a) Male b) Dhaka
c) Colombo d) New Delhi
10. India
and Nepal have decided to launch joint tiger census. Which of the following in
Nepal is adjacent to Dudhwa Tiger Reserve in India?
a) Parsa
Wildlife Reserve b) Bardiya National
Park c) Chitwan National Park
d) Shuklaphant National Park
11. India’s
first ever shipment of crude oil from the United States arrived at which of the
following ports?
a) Kandla b) Haldia
c) Paradip d) Chennai
12. Which
of the following launched a flight connecting Mazar-e-Sharif, a
strategically-important Afghan city, with Delhi?
a) Trujet b) Kam
Air c) Air Deccan d) Alliance Air
13. ‘Origin’
is the latest book by which well-known novelist?
a) James
Patterson b) Suzanne Collins c) Danielle Steel d)
Dan Brown
14. Who
among the following Indians was appointed as the Deputy Director General of the
World Health Organisation (WHO)?
a) Devil
Prasad Shetty b) Naresh Kumar
Trehan c) Vishwa Mohan Katoch
d) Soumya Swaminathan
15. Which
of the following has launched ‘One Planet Academy’ – the first environment
education portal for students and teachers in India?
a) Greenpeace b) Global Wildlife Programme c) World
Wide Fund for Nature
d)
People for Ethical Treatment of Animals
16. World
Bank assisted DRIP scheme for dams in India refers to Dam ……… and Improvement
Project.
a) Rehabilitation b) Reform
c) Restoration d) Rejuvenation
17. President
Ram Nath Kovind has appointed a commission to examine the sub-categorisation of
Other Backward Classes (OBCs). Who among the following is the head of this
Commission?
a) V.
Latha b) G. Rohini c) K.
Saraswati d) N. Manjusha
18. Pooja
Kadian has become the first Indian to win gold medal in World ……. Championship.
a) Jujitsu b) Wushu c) Karate
d) Fencing
19. Who
among the following has been appointed the new Chairman of State Bank of India
(SBI)?
a) B. Sriram b) P.K. Gupta c) Rajnish
Kumar d) Sanjiv Malhotra
20. Consider
the following after RBI’s bi-monthly monetary policy review on October 4, 2017.
I. Repo
rate : 6% II. Reverse Repo Rate :
5.75%
III.
Marginal Standing Facility Rate : 6.25%
Which of
the above is/are correct?
a) Only
I b) Both I and II c) Both II and III d) I,
II and III
21. Kazuo
Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel Literature Prize. He is well-known for which of
the following novels?
a) Moon
Tiger b) The Bone People c) The Line of Beauty d)
The Remains of the Day
22. The
2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been won by Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank
and …… .
a) Eric
Betzig b) Akira Suzuki c) Osamu Shimomura d)
Richard Henderson
23. What
is October 5 observed as ?
a) World
Pilots’ Day b) World Nurses’ Day c) World Doctors’ Day d)
World Teachers’ Day
24. India
has decided to assist ……. In upgrading the Women’s Police Training Centre at
Yamethin.
a) Bhutan b) Nepal
c) Myanmar d) Srilanka
25. What
is the currency of Djibouti?
a) Djiboutian
sol b) Djiboutian birr c) Djiboutian lira d)
Djiboutian franc
26. Consider
the following regarding Ethiopia.
I. Prime
Minister : Hailemariam Desalegn II.
President : Mulatu Teshome
III. Capital
: Ethiopia City
Which of
the above is/are correct?
a) Only
I b)
Both I and II c) Both II and
III d) Both III and I
27. The
Union Government has constituted a high-level committee for the proper
management of the water resources in the North Eastern Region (NERI). The
committee will be headed by:
a) Rajiv Kumar b) Vijay
Goenka c) Aditya Agarwal d) Kalyan Banerjee
28. Who
among the following headed the SEBI-appointed panel on corporate governance
reforms that submitted its report recently?
a) Aditya
Puri b) Uday Kotak c) Rana
Kapoor d) Shikha Sharma
29. Udyamimitra
is a portal for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) launched by:
a) IFCI b) IDFC
c) SIDBI d) HUDCO
30. Which
of the following has been awarded Nobel Peace Prize for the year 2017?
a) International Campaign to
Abolish Nuclear Weapons b) Human Rights Watch
c) Amnesty
International d) International Campaign
to Ban Landmines
31. Niue
is an island nation in:
a) Arctic
Ocean b) Indian Ocean c) Pacific
Ocean d) Atlantic Ocean
32. Who
among the following is the President of the European Council?
a) Donald Tusk b) Mario Draghi c) Jose Manuel Barroso d) Jean-Claude Juncker
33. India’s
Mahtab Bamji has won the Living Legend Award of the International Union of ……..
Sciences.
a) Physical b) Nutritional c) Agricultural d) Astronomical
34. Who
among the following Indian women boxers has been picked as the International
Boxing Association’s (AIBA) representative for the IOC Athletes’ Forum
scheduled in November?
a) Pinki
Jangra b) Sonia Lather c) M.C.
Mary Kom d) Sarjubala Devi
35. Who among
the following won the Women’s Singles title at the 2017 Japan Open Superseries badminton
in Tokyo?
a) Li
Xuerui b) P.V. Sindhu c) Nozomi Okuhara d)
Carolina Martin
36. Who
among the following has won the prestigious Von Hippel Award for contribution
in materials research?
a) Sekhar
Basu b) C.N.R. Rao c) R.A.
Mashelkar d) M.S. Swaminathan
37. Foodgrain
production is estimated to decline by 3.86 million tones to 134.67 mt this
kharif season. Which of the following is not covered in Kharif?
a) Soyabean b) Wheat c) Paddy
d) Cotton
38. The
Prime Minister has launched the Pradhan Mantri …….. Bijli Har Ghar Yojana to
provide electricity connections to over 40 million families in rural and urban
areas by December 2018.
a) Saral b) Sahaj c) Samajik
d) Sulabh
39. State
Bank of India (SBI) has decided to sell shares in its subsidiary SBI DFHI. DFHI
is Discount & Finance …….. of India
a) Hub b) Hall
c) Home d) House
40. Who
among the following Indian actors has been chosen for the Indo-European
Business Forum’s Excellence Award?
a) Allu
Arjun b) Siddarth c) Mahesh Babu d)
Pawan Kalyan
41. Which
of the following became the first Indian financial institution to raise Green
Masala bonds overseas?
a) PFC b) REC
c) SIDBI d) IREDA
42. What
was India’s position in the medals tally at the fifth Asian Indoor and Martial
Arts Games that concluded in Ashgabat?
a) Seventh b) Ninth
c) Eleventh d) Twelfth
43. Who
won the Duleep Trophy Cricket tournament 2017?
a) India Red b) India Blue c) India Green d) India White
44. Which
of the following became the second life insurance company after ICICI
Prudential to have launched an Initial Public Offering (IPO) in India?
a) SBI Life b) HDFC Life c) Kotak Life d) Bajaj Allianz Life
45. Who
among the following was declared winner of the 2017 SASTRA Ramanujan Award
given to young mathematicians in Kumbakonam (TN)?
a) Bruce
Berndt b) Pierre Deligne c) Kaisa Matomaki d)
Maryna Viazovska
46. Which
of the following major ports was renamed as Deendayal Port recently?
a) Kandla b) Haldia
c) Paradip d) Chennai
47.
Which of the following has launched ‘Project Nishchay’ in partnership with
Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to accelerate its turnaround programme for
sustainable growth and profitability?
a) IDBI Bank b) Dena Bank c) United Bank of India d) Central Bank of India
48. Rovio
is famous for which game?
a) Angry Birds b) Temple Run c) Blue Whale Challenge d) Candy Crush
49. What
is India’s rank in the 2017 Global Competitiveness Index of the World Economic
Forum (WEF)?
a) 30th b) 40th c) 50th d) 60th
50. The
government has decided to extend the coverage of Minimum Support Price (MSP)
for MFP to the entire country. What is MFP?
a) Minimum
Forest Price b) Maximum Forest
Price c) Minor Forest Produce
d) Major
Forest Produce
51. Who
among the following is the head of the Economic Advisory Council (EAC)
constituted by the Prime Minister?
a) Rakesh
Mohan b) Vijay Kelkar c) Bimal Jalan d)
Bibek Debroy
52. ‘Pradhan
Mantri LPG Panchayat’ was launched for which of the following?
a) Jan
Dhan Yojana b) Sarva Shiksha
Abhiyan c) Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
d) Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala
Yojana
53. Citibank
and Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) have become shareholders of SWIFT India. ‘I’
in SWIFT stands for:
a) Image b) Interbank c) Indigenous d) International
54. Insolvency
and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has registered National E-Governance
Services Limited (NeSL) as an Information ……. .
a) Bank b) Utility c) Depository d) Repository
55. The
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology were announced in
September 2017. The award is given annually to scientists below the age of ………
.
a) 25 b) 35
c) 45 d) 55
56. Who
among the following Indians is among the three winners of 2017 Right Livelihood
Award announced in Sweden?
a) Kulandei
Francis b) Colin Gonsalves c) Bezwada
Wilson d) Patricia Mukhim
57. Which
of the following book author pairs is matched correctly?
a) The
Living : Stephen Alter b) The Story of
a Brief Marriage : Anjali Joseph
c) The Association of Small
Bombs : Karan Mahajan
d) In
the Jungles of the Night : Anuk Arudpragasam
58. LIGO
is Laser Interferometer …….. – wave Observatory.
a) Generic b) Ground
c) Geological d) Gravitational
59. Whose
death anniversary is observed as the World Rabies Day?
a) Edward
Jenner b) Louis Pasteur c) Jonas
Salk d) Robert Ross
60. Who
among the following is the Secretary-General of the UN World Tourism
Organization (UNWTO)?
a) Francis
Gurry b) Josette Sheeran c) Taleb
Rifai d) Achim Steiner
61. Which
of the following DRDO R&D institutions and their locations is/are correctly
matched?
I. Naval
Physical Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL) – Kochi
II.
Naval Science and Technological Laboratory (NSTL) – Visakhapatnam
III. Naval
Materials Research Laboratory (NMRL) – Ambernath
a) I
only b) Both I and III c) Both I and III d) I,
II and III
62. Palestine
was admitted as Member of which of the following organizations recently?
a) ILO b) OPEC c) WHO
d) Interpol
63. Which
of the following is the Parliament in New Zealand?
a) People
Assembly b) House of Representatives
c) House of Commons
d)
National Assembly
64. The
Bundestag is the lower house of the parliament in which country?
a) Belgium b) France
c) Germany d) Sweden
65. What
is the Australia-China joint military exercise organized recently in China
called?
a) Exercise
Panda Dodo b) Exercise Panda Kangaroo c)
Exercise Panda Marmoset
d)
Exercise Panda Koala
66. ‘DRUZBA
2017’ is the joint military drill organized in Russia with which of the
following countries recently?
a) Turkey b) Pakistan c) China
d) India
67. What
is the Upper House of Parliament in Japan called?
a) Senate b) House of Elders c) National Council d)
House of Councillors
68. Indian
Army commemorates the battle against Ottoman Empire in 1918 every year on …..
as Haifa Day.
a) September
20 b) September 21 c) September 22 d)
September 23
69. The
International Solar Alliance is an initiative jointly launched by the Prime
Minister of India and the President of …… on 30 November, 2015 in ……. .
a) France, Paris b) China, Beijing c) Germany, Berlin d) Russia, Moscow
70. India
and ……. Have signed a Letter of Intent to extend health cooperation, especially
in the areas of reproductive, maternal, new-born, child and adolescent health.
a) Finland b) Norway c) Sweden
d) Belgium
71. Who
among the following is heading the Supreme Court’s e-committee for digitization
of the courts across the country?
a) Justice
J. Chelameswar b) Justice Balbir Singh
Chauhan c) Justice Madan B. Lokur
d)
Justice P. V. Reddi
72. Water
Jet Fast Attack Craft (WJFAC) INS Tarasa was recently commissioned into the
Indian Navy. It was built at:
a) Goa
Shipyard b) Mazagon Dock
Shipbuilders c) Hindustan Shipyard
d) Garden Reach Shipbuilders
& Engineers
73. Who
among the following is the head of an expert committee set up by the Home
Ministry to suggest ways to tackle online hate speech?
a) P. R.
Srinivas b) R. Koteeswaran c) N. Sriram Balaji d) T.
K. Viswanathan
74. Which
of the following are being set up with an aim to provide job-oriented skill
development training to the youth belonging to minority communities?
a) Subah
Nawaz Centres b) Garib Nawaz Centres c) Hunar
Nawaz Centres
d)
Tarakki Nawaz Centres
75. Which
of the following is a platform launched by IGNOU through which interactive
radio counseling programmes are broadcast and webcast?
a) Gyan
Swar b) Gyan Vani c) Gyan
Sarita d) Gyan Bhasha
76. …….
Grameen Kaushalya Yojana is an initiative by the Ministry of Rural Development
to develop skills and productive capacity of the rural youth from poor
families.
a) Jai
Prakash Narayan b) Atal Behari
Vajpayee c) Deendayal Upadhyaya
d)
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
77. CARA
is :
a) Child
Adoption Reform Authority b) Child
Adoption Resource Authority
c) Central
Adoption Reform Authority d) Central Adoption Resource Authority
78. Sardar
Patel Global Centre for Security, Counter Terrorism and Anti-Insurgency is in:
a) Ranchi b) Jaipur c) Dehradun
d) Bhopal
79. The
Election Commission has decided to use Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) fitted
with VVPAT in all future elections. What is VVPAT?
a) Voter
Verifiable Paper Assessment Trail b) Voter
Vision Paper Assessment Trail
c) Voter Verified Paper Audit
Trail d) Voter
Vetted Paper Audit Trail
80. Which
of the following has launched India’s first bond index series for overseas
investors at the London Stock Exchange (LSE)?
a) Axis
Bank b) HDFC Bank c) ICICI Bank d)
State Bank of India
81. According
to government data released few days before, the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)
has declined to ……… per 1000 live births in 2016.
a) 14 b) 24
c) 34 d) 44
82. Which
of the following is a mobile app launched by the government to inform
differently-abled people about schemes of the Department of Empowerment of
Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD)?
a) Divyang
Dost b) Divyang Mitra c) Divyang Raahi d)
Divyang Sarathi
83. Home
Minister Rajnath Singh recently launched portal ‘PENCIL’ to tackle child labour
in the country. ‘P’ in PENCIL refers to :
a) Place b) Process c) Primary
d) Platform
84. “Dre
To Shine” is the slogan of women’s world cup in which of the following sports
in 2019?
a) Basketball b) Hockey
c) Football d) Cricket
85. Who
among the following has become the first batsman to complete a century of sixes
in T20 International matches?
a) Chris Gayle b) Mahendra Singh Dhoni c) Ben Stokes d) Shane Watson
86. Kuldeep
Yadav has become only the third Indian after Kapil Dev and ……. To take a
hat-trick in One Day Internationals (ODIs).
a) Venkatesh
Prasad b) Chetan Sharma c) Javagal
Srinath d) Zaheer Khan
87. Who
among the following won the Women’s Singles title at the 2017 Korea Open Super
Series in Seoul?
a) Li
Xuerui b) P. V. Sindhu c) Nozomi
Okuhara d) Saina Nehwal
88. Prime
Minister Narendra Modi has dedicated Sardar Sarovar Dam to the nation. What is
the height of the gravity dam built on the Narmada river near Navagam, Gujarat?
a) 128.68m b) 138.68m c) 148.68m
d) 158.68m
89. Birth
centenary of Maharashtrian Laxman Madhav Rao Inamdar was observed recently. He
was known for contribution in which field?
a) Power b) Defence
c) Education d) Cooperatives
90. The
RBI has decided to treat peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms on par with:
a) Regional
Rural Banks b) Payments Banks c) Non
Banking Finance Companies
d)
Cooperative banks
91. The
Science & Technology Ministry has launched “Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Vigyan
Gram Sankul Pariyojana” in which state?
a) Uttar
Pradesh b) Uttarakhand c) Chhattisgarh d) Haryana
92. Which
country has world’s largest sovereign wealth fund with assets touching $1
trillion?
a) Sweden b) Kuwait
c) Qatar d) Norway
93. Who
among the following has taken over as CMD of NHPC Ltd, the PSU hydropower
utility?
a) Balraj
Joshi b) Krishna Tyagi c) Ranjit
Sinha d)Mahesh Mittal
94. The
Centre has decided to rationalize/merge 17 Government of India Presses
(GIPs)/Units into 5 Government of India Presses (GIPs). These 5 will be based
at New Delhi, Nashik and ……. .
a) Mysore
b) Kochi c) Mumbai
d) Kolkata
95. Which
of the following is the vendor for implementation of the Goods and Services Tax
Network (GSTN)?
a) Infosys b) Mindtree c) Wipro
d) TCS
96. The
benefits of the Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme (CLSS) on home loans under the
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) have been extended till March 2019. Maximum
subsidy that availed under this scheme is:
a)
1.6 lakh b)
2.6 lakh c)
3.6 lakh d)
4.6 lakh
97. Who
among the following is the Chairman of Indian Banks’ Association (IBA)?
a) Kishor
Kharat b) Rajiv Rishi c) Mahesh
Jain d) Pawan Bajaj
98. The
Reserve Bank has decided to treat rupee-denominated overseas bonds, popularly
known as masala bonds, as:
a) Commercial
Paper b) Treasury Bonds c) Fixed Deposits
d) External Commercial
Borrowings
99. Who
among the following was announced as the winner of UNCHCR’s Nansen Refugee
Award 2017?
a) Zannah Mustapha b) Muhammadu
Buhari c) Rabiu Kwankwaso d) Atiku Abubakar
100. Who
among the following actors received the Global Diversity Award 2017 in the
British Parliament House in London?
a) Shah
Rukh Khan b) Salman Khan c) Amitabh
Bachchan d) Akshay Kumar
ANSWERS
1.(b) 2.(c) 3.(a) 4.(d) 5.(d) 6.(d) 7.(a) 8.(d) 9.(c) 10.(d) 11.(c) 12.(b) 13.(d)
14.(d) 15.(c) 16.(a) 17.(b) 18.(b) 19.(c) 20.(d) 21.(d) 22.(d) 23.(d) 24.(c) 25.(d) 26.(b)
27.(a) 28.(b) 29.(c) 30.(a) 31.(c) 32.(a) 33.(b) 34.(c) 35.(d) 36.(b) 37.(b) 38.(b) 39.(d)
40.(d) 41.(d) 42.(c) 43.(a) 44.(a) 45.(d) 46.(a) 47.(a) 48.(a) 49.(b) 50.(c) 51.(d) 52.(d)
53.(b) 54.(b) 55.(c) 56.(b) 57.(c) 58.(d) 59.(b) 60.(c) 61.(d) 62.(d) 63.(b) 64.(c) 65.(b)
66.(b) 67.(d) 68.(d) 69.(a) 70.(b) 71.(c) 72.(d) 73.(d) 74.(b)
75.(b) 76.(c) 77.(d) 78.(b)
79.(c) 80.(d) 81.(c) 82.(d) 83.(d) 84.(c) 85.(a) 86.(b) 87.(b) 88.(b) 89.(d) 90.(c) 91.(b)
92.(d) 93.(b) 94.(d) 95.(a) 96.(b) 97.(b) 98.(d) 99.(a) 100.(b)
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