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GENER L W RENESS WEEKLY POCKET

Q.1. India and US agreed on a joint collaboration in standardisation andimproving quality of AYUSH products. The highlights of the discussions wasfocussed on which disease?

Ans- Cancer

Q.2. Indian Government is planning to digitally connect all Post Offices in ruralareas by which date?

Ans- March 2017

Q.3. Recently Pat Conroy died in south carolina, he was a famous______

Ans- Writer

Q.4. IMF is going to introduce the Chinese Yuan in its Basket from which date?

Ans- 1 October 2016


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Q.1. Recently Maharishi Badrayan Vyas Samman for the year 2015 was honoured by?

Ans- Pranab Mukherjee

Q.2. The Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley and Ms. Christine Lagarde,Managing Director, _______________ signed a Memorandum of Understanding toestablish South Asia Regional Training and Technical Assistance Center in NewDelhi.

Ans- International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Q.3. Who has been appointed as next High Commissioner of India to Fiji?

Ans- Vishvas Vidu

Q.4. Which country has announced that it will invest £7.3 billion to increase itsinvestment quota in the International Monetary Fund (IMF)?

Ans- India

Q.5. Who has been appointed as an Additional Judge of the Manipur High Court for

a period of two years?

Ans- Songkhupchung Serto

Q.6. Which Tamil film and TV serial actor died recently?

Ans- R Selvakumar

Q.7. India and the __ have launched the Fulbright-Kalam Climate Fellowship, in anew initiative to advance bilateral cooperation on climate change?

Ans- USA

Q.8. South Korea and the US carried out their largest-ever landing drill in the portcity of _____

Ans-Pohang


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Q.9. Which Public sector lender Bank announced its tie-up with mobile paymentapp Chillr, to allow its customers transfer money to any contact on their phonebookinstantly?

Ans- Andhra Bank

Q.10. India successfully test-fired nuclear-capable Agni-I ballistic missile from atest range off Odisha coast. This missile is capable of hitting a target ____ kms away.

Ans- 700

Q.11. Who has been appointed the next Vice Chancellor of the prestigiousUniversity of Canberra?

Ans- H Deep Saini

Q.12. Moody's Investors Service has assigned a Baa3 rating to which Bank's USDdenominated senior unsecured notes?

Ans- ICICI

Q.13. NBFC Altico Capital announced the appointment of _____ as an independentnon-executive director on its Board?

Ans- Naina Lal Kidwai

Q.14. Recently who has won the prestigious Maruti Suzuki ESPN Cricinfo awardfor the third year?

Ans- Rohit Shrama

Q.15. Which Sports Brand has appointed Suresh Raina as its brand ambassador?

Ans- Pure Play

Q.16. Who has won one million dollar Global Teacher Prize in a function at Dubai?She was awarded for her outstanding contribution to the profession.

Ans- Hanan Al Hroub

Q.17. What is India's Whole Sale price Index for the month of February 2016?

Ans- -0.91


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Q.18. Who has won the men title of All England Badminton Championship?

Ans- Lin Dan

Q.19. Which private sector lender Bank tied up with marquee sports car makerFerrari to launch co-branded credit card?

Ans- ICICI

Q.20. Who has been elected as the new president of Myanmar?

Ans- U Htin Kyaw

Q.21. Cuban and _____ telecom firms have signed an agreement to establish directinternational voice traffic, basically in incoming and outgoing calls?

Ans- U.S.

Q.22. Who is appointed as the first woman Chief Justice of Nepal?

Ans- Sushila Karki

Q.23. Which leading IT company has appointed technologist and venture capitalist

Patrick J. Ennis as an independent director to its board?

Ans- Wipro

Q.24. According to Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development surveyCorporate giants like RIL, Vedanta, Mahindra & Mahindra, ______ and Wipro areamong the top 10 companies which have emerged as India's most sustainable firms.

Ans- Tata Motors

Q.25. Reserve Bank Governor Atiur Rahman has resigned a $ 80 million cyber theftfrom the Bank's Reserve Fund Account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.He belongs to which country?

Ans- Bangladesh

Q.26. Which Indian-origin Sikh has become the Police Commissioner of Malaysia'scapital Kuala Lumpur, the first Sikh to achieve the top police post in the Muslim-majority country?

Ans- Amar Singh


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Q.27. The Ministry of Tourism, Government of India signed a Memorandum ofUnderstanding (MOU) with the ________ to take its commitments to Responsibleand Sustainable tourism to the next level.

Ans- Ecotourism Society of India (ESOI)

Q.28. Customers with Post Office savings can now operate their accounts from _______ branches as they have been connected with core banking facility.

Ans- 20,106

Q.29. India's which State Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd have agreed to guarantee payments to finance the first phase of Karnalyte Resources Inc's Canadian potashmine project.

Ans- Gujarat

Q.30. Indian women's cricket team thrashed which team by 72 runs in the openinggroup 'B' league fixture of the ICC World T20?

Ans- Bangladesh

Q.31. The 59th Session of Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) was inauguratedin Austria’s capital ______.

Ans- Vienna

Q.32. Whom is to be canonized on September 4 as per Pope Francis, while this willalso mark a special jubilee for workers and volunteers of mercy?

Ans- Mother Teresa

Q.33. Which Bank announced a new mobile payment solution Touch & Pay?

Ans- ICICI

Q.34. United Nations development programme has suspended ________ as itsGoodwill Ambassador.

Ans- Maria Sharapova

Q.35. Which Technology sector consultant under its Corporate social responsibilityhas announced that it shall provide digital infrastructure to government schools?


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Ans- BRILIO

Q.36. Recently Lok Sabha passed Constitution _______ Order (Amendment) Bill,

2016?

Ans- Scheduled Caste

Q.37. Who approved the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill, 2016. The bill seeks to create a set of rights and obligations for both the consumers anddevelopers and encourage both of them to live up to the expectations of each otheras per the agreement entered into by both of them.

Ans- Lok Sabha

Q.38. According to Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), a globalinitiative for the United Nations, what is India's rank in a global list of the happiestnations?

Ans- 118

Q.39. Which Magazine said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is among ‘The 30Most Influential People on the Internet’ for the second year in a row in this year’s

unranked list?

Ans- Times

Q.40. Which Public sector lender has tied-up with taxi-aggregator Uber to provideinstant vehicle finance to 'driver-partners' on the latter's platform?

Ans- SBI

Q.41. Which Private Sector Bank has launched SmartUp Banking Service, a

dedicated solution for startups, to fulfill all their banking needs?

Ans- HDFC

Q.42. Who has been awarded the Abel Prize by the Norwegian Academy of Scienceand Letters for solving a three-century-old mathematical mystery?

Ans- Andrew Wiles

Q.43. IRCTC and _______ have joined hands under an agreement that would allowflyers to book tickets through IRCTC website?


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Ans- Pawan Hans

Q.44. Which Indian IT service company announced that it has launched a peer-to-

peer lending solution 'Vipps' in Norway for its client DNB, the largest financialservices group in that country?

Ans-TCS

Q.45. _____________Ministry of Transportation and an Indonesia-China jointventure firm for the Jakarta-Bandung high speed railway signed a concessionagreement.

Ans- Indonesian

Q.46. India Signs USD 35 Million Loan Agreements with _______ for MadhyaPradesh Citizen Access to Responsive Services Project.

Ans- World Bank

Q.47. Who inaugurated the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation(SAARC) minister level meet at Pokhara?

Ans- KP Sharma Oli

Q.48. The Reserve Bank signed a SAARC currency swap agreement with the RoyalMonetary Authority of ______

Ans- Bhutan

Q.49. North Korea launched which new medium range ballistic missile into the eastsea?

Ans- Rodong

Q.50. Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of NorthEastern Region (DoNER) ______ formally launched the new portal of communityradio network.

Ans- Jitendra Singh

Q.51. Brazillian President Dilma Rousseff appointed Brazil's former president

__________as chief of staff.


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Ans- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Q.52. Recently who was felicitated in the US with the inaugural Asians in America

Award in recognition of his efforts to strengthen Indo-US ties?

Ans- Madhavan Rangaswami

Q.53. Who has picked up the title at the World Airport Awards 2016?

Ans- Changi Airport

Q.54. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the World Sufi Forum in whichcity in India?

Ans- New Delhi

Q.55. _________and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Signed aMemorandum of Understanding (MoU) regarding Effective Use of SpaceTechnology and Remote Sensing.

Ans- Railway Ministry

Q.56. The largest nuclear security centre in the Asia-Pacific region, which wasfinanced by China and the ______ started operations.

Ans- U.S.

Q.57. Who has been appointed as the new chairman of Mahindra & MahindraFinancial Services Ltd (Mahindra Finance)?

Ans- Dhananjay Mungale

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