Current Affairs Questions

Q1. Government is making all efforts to boost the Housing Finance Sector to ensure the goal of affordable Housing for all by which year?
a) 2019
b) 2022
c) 2020
d) 2030
e) 2025
(Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu has said, government is making all efforts to boost the Housing Finance Sector to ensure that the goal of affordable Housing for all by 2022 is met.)

Q2. Which of the following Indian organizations has called for restarting negotiations for India's Free Trade Agreements with UK and European Union (EU)?
a) NABARD
b) RBI
c) SEBI
d) DRDO
e) FICCI
(The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has called for restarting negotiations for India's Free Trade Agreements with UK and European Union (EU). Addressing the South Asian Diaspora Convention in Singapore last night, FICCI Secretary General A Didar Singh said, India-EU FTA has been on the anvil for 10 years. He said, India is a very strong and important economy that other countries want to associate with.)


Q3. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised downward its global economic growth forecast for next year after the British people voted to leave the European Union. By how much percent will the world economy expand in 2017 as told by the Fund?
a) 2.1 percent
b) 1.3 percent
c) 3.4 percent
d) 5.8 percent
e) 7.5 percent
(The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised downward its global economic growth forecast for next year after the British people voted to leave the European Union. The fund said, the world economy will expand by 3.4 percent in 2017, down 0.1 percentage point from their April report.)

Q4. Name the noted Indian hockey player who passed away at the age of 56 due to multiple organ failure.
a) Mohammad Shahid
b) Kishan Lal
c) Lal Bokhari
d) Charanjit Singh
e) MM Somaya
(Noted Indian hockey player Mohammad Shahid passed away aged 56 this morning (20th July 2016) due to multiple organ failure. He was being treated at a hospital in Gurugram. Mohammad Shahid was a member of the V Baskaran-led Indian team that won a Gold medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.)

Q5. India is all set to host the BRICS Policy Planning Dialogue on 26th July 2016 at.........?
a) Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
b) Mumbai, Maharashtra
c) Kolkata, West Bengal
d) Patna, Bihar
e) Guwahati, Assam
(India is all set to host the BRICS Policy Planning Dialogue on 26th of this month at Patna in Bihar. The BRICS discussion will take forward the Policy Planning talks initiated under Russia's Chairmanship last year. So in line with this year's the theme of BRICS Policy Planning dialogue is Building Responsive, Inclusive and Collective Solutions.)

Q6. Which of the following state governments will celebrate the bicentenary of the 1817 Paika revolt next year, which many historians claim to be the first war of India's Independence?
a) Kerala
b) Maharashtra
c) Tamil Nadu
d) Odisha
e) West Bengal
(Odisha government will celebrate next year the bicentenary of the 1817 Paika revolt, which many historians claim to be the first war of India's Independence. Paikas had first raised the banner of revolt against the British Raj in 1817 at Barunei near Khurda.)

Q7. Which of the following Banks along with The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) have signed the MoU to hammer out a detailed plan for promotion of rail ticketing activities including Internet ticketing and the unreserved ticketing system?
a) State Bank of India
b) IDBI Bank
c) ICICI Bank
d) Punjab National Bank
e) Bandhan Bank
(Under the MoU signed the signatories “will jointly explore areas of cooperation and draw up a detailed plan for promotion of rail ticketing activities.”)

Q8. By which of the following state governments, the Central Water Commission has rejected Odisha’s objection against the construction of barrages on the Mahanadi upper catchment?
a) Madhya Pradesh
b) Andhra Pradesh
c) Telangana
d) Maharashtra
e) Chhattisgarh
(Offcial sources in Odisha said the Commission gave the green signal to the neighbouring State Chhattisgarh to continue the construction work of the projects in the Mahanadi)

Q9. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, CCEA has approved construction of a new dry dock within which of the following Shipyards Limited at a cost of 1 thousand 7 hundred 99 crore rupees recently?
a) Naval Dockyard
b) Hindustan Shipyard Limited
c) Cochin Shipyard Limited
d) Goa Shipyard Limited
e) Mazagon Dock Limited
(The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, CCEA has approved construction of a new dry dock within Cochin Shipyard Limited at a cost of 1 thousand 7 hundred 99 crore rupees.The objective is to augment the shipbuilding and repair capacity of the country)

Q10. Global rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) removed ratings on senior bonds issued by the Bahrain branch of which Bank from the negative watch list and also affirmed the BBB- rating on the instrument?
a) ICICI Bank
b) HDFC Bank
c) Axis Bank
d) SBI
e) BOB
(S&P affirms its ‘BBB-’ long-term issue rating on the senior unsecured bonds issued by the Bahrain branch of the bank. “We also remove the ratings from credit watch, wherein they were placed with negative implications on February 22, 2016,” S&P said in a statement issued in Singapore)