Current Affairs Important Questions for SBI (Part- 1)

1. The government permitted how much percent Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the market place format of e-commerce retailing in order to attract more foreign investments? – 100 per cent. 

2. SoftBank Ventures Korea has invested an undisclosed amount in which India-based app, that helps keep track of the balance available on prepaid mobile accounts? – True Balance App.

3. Which bank will lend India €450 million (approximately Rs. 3,300 crore) towards constructing a 23-km long Lucknow Metro rail line and a purchasing a fleet of new trains? – The European Investment Bank (EIB)


4. Indian citizens in distress will soon be able to get help using a single number, for all emergency services in the country, including the police, fire brigade and ambulance. What is the number? – ‘112’

5. Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Ltd, with which company of Israel have decided to set up a joint venture company in India in the highly specialized areas of air-to-air missiles, air defence systems and large aerostats, that will oversee projects worth USD 10 billion (over Rs 65,000 crore) in ten years? – Rafael Advanced Defence Systems Ltd

6. State-run Bank of India said that the government has approved a capital infusion of how much amount in lieu of preferential allotment of shares? – Rs. 1,150 crores

7. Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid his respects to the victims of the March 22 terror attacks in which country by laying a wreath at the entrance to the Maalbeek metro station? – Brussels

8. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley launched ‘Make in India’ conference in which country recently? – Sydney, Australia

9. Which company has signed a pact with Elbit-ISTAR and Alpha Design Technologies to work in the field of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in India? – Adani Aero Defence

10. Name the Hungarian writer who won the 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature for fiction largely drawn from his experience as a teenage prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, died at the age of 86. – Imre Kertesz

11. Which country's government has committed a loan of Around Rs.14,251 crores for various projects across India, including Jharkhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and the North East? – Japan

12. The 13th India-EU Summit concluded in which country without a consensus on a bilateral free trade deal known as the BTIA (Broadbased Trade and Investment Agreement)? –Brussels

13. South Africa’s top court ordered the President to pay back some of the $16 million of state money spent for upgrading his private home, in a stinging rebuke that hits the scandal-plagued leader financially and politically. Name the President. – Jacob Zuma

14. Who will take the oath as the first woman CM of Jammu and Kashmir ending 11 weeks of political uncertainty? –Mehbooba Mufti

15. Who has stepped down as UBHL [United Breweries (Holdings) Ltd.] director recently? - Sidhartha V Mallya 

16. Pakistan’s Sikh religious body elected whom as its caretaker president after its first chief Sardar Sham Singh, credited with changing the face of Sikh shrines in the Muslim- dominated country, died? – Sardar Tara Singh

17. Name the Former German Foreign Minister who has died at the age of 89 recently. – Hans-Dietrich Genscher

18. Name the famous TV actress who was known for her role of adult Anandi in the serial “Balika Vadhu”, allegedly committed suicide. – Pratyusha Banerjee

19. Name the Indian boxer who reached the Asian-Oceania qualifying event final in Quian’an, China, and become the first Indian boxer to book a spot in the Rio Olympics. – Shiva Thapa

20. Who will be feted with the ‘Maharashtrian Of The Year 2016’? – Bollywood star Ranveer Singh

21. Which company has forayed into the global combine harvester business, by agreeing to acquire 35 per cent stake in Finish firm Sampo Rosenlew, a combine harvester company based in Pori, for 18 million Euro? – Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd (M&M) 

22. Which country's National Assembly (NA) elected Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan as the country’s first female house speaker? –
Vietnam

23. ICCR will set up the first Indian Chair in Arab world in which country? – Ain Shams University (ASU), Cairo, Egypt

24. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently cut the benchmark repo rate by how many basis points? – 25 basis points

25. Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and others launched the Stand Up India Programme in which city? – Noida, Uttar Pradesh

26. Which app is now using a powerful form of encryption to protect the security of photos, videos, group chats and voice calls in addition to the text messages sent by its more than a billion users around the globe? – WhatsApp

27. RBI retained its GDP growth forecast for the year 2016-17 at how much percent, on the assumption of a normal monsoon and a boost to consumption through the implementation of the Seventh Pay panel recommendations? – 7.6 per cent

28. A federal judge in New Orleans granted final approval to an estimated how much amount settlement over the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, resolving years of litigation over the worst offshore spill in the nation’s history? – $20 billion

29. Name the organization which will provide grant of Rs 24 crore to Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), to establish the Center for Artificial Intelligence. – Infosys Foundation

30. The government of which country promised India assistance in investigating those who figure on the latest list of the rich and the influential who have parked money in secretive tax havens? – Panama

31. Name the fastest train of the country which was recently launched and covered, the nearly 200 km distance between Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station and Agra Cantonment station in exactly 100 minutes. – Gatimaan Express

32. Name the Myanmar's new President who recently take charge of his office. – Htin Kyaw

33. Which country's President refused a request from its Prime Minister Sigmunder David Gunlaugsson to dissolve parliament and call a new election amid a dispute over the premier’s offshore tax affairs? – Iceland

34. On which veteran Mathematician, an encyclopedia is being launched by Springer recently? – Srinivasa Ramanujan

35. Name the Veteran U.S. astronaut who said goodbye to NASA. – Scott Kelly 

36. Which country recently launched a retrievable scientific research satellite in a bid to aid scientists to study microgravity and space life science? – China

37. Who was named as the Man of the Tournament in the ICC Men's T-20 World Cup 2016? – Virat Kohli

38. Name the former Bombay Ranji Trophy allrounder who passed away at the age of 60. – Ranjan Baindoor

39. The Unique Identification Authority of
India (UIDAI) had generated how many Aadhaar numbers in five-and half years since the first Aadhaar was issued in 2010? – 100 crores

40. Name the U.S. Defence Secretary who begins his India visit from Goa, home state of his Indian counterpart Manohar Parrikar.- Ash Carter

41. Who is appointed as the new UP's BJP Chief? - Keshav Prasad Maurya

42. India is in talks with which country to purchase 40 Predator surveillance drones? – United States of America

43. Bharti Airtel will pay Rs.3,500 crore to acquire 4G spectrum in eight telecom circles from which company? – Aircel

44. Sri Lanka with which country are now defining a new blueprint, based on rapid infrastructure development, to rail their growing ties for the future? – China

45. Name the country which is the sixth largest military spender in 2015 having spent $51.3 billion even as the world spent
$1,676 billion reversing a global trend which was on the decline since 2011., as per the latest report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). - India

46. Name the wife of senior BJP leader L K Advani who died at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) due to cardiac arrest. - Kamla Advani

47. Who hav been appointed as the new PM of Iceland? –Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson

48. Who will be appointed as the new director of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) Academy for a period of two years?– D. Vasu 

49. The Labour Ministry has proposed a minimum monthly income of how much amount for contract workers, evoking
strong reactions from the industry? – Rs.10,000

50. Who has topped the list of Forbes’ “Asia 50 Power Businesswomen 2016” list, which acknowledges the inroads women are making in the business world, despite gender inequalities? – Reliance Industries director Nita Ambani

51. Which company plans to invest $2 billion (over Rs. 13,000 crores) in India? – American Tower Corporation (ATC)

52. In which temple, a fire tragedy took place resulting in the injury to a last number of people? – Kollam temple, Kerala

53. A crucial counter-terror pact is likely to signed between India and which country? – Maldives