Current Affair For Banking Exam 2015

Q. : 1   Rajasthan plans to emulate Maharashtra's 'Jal Yukt Shivar Abhiyan.' This mission is about

1) water conservation and management

2) water camps

3) laying water pipelines

4) reuse of water

5) None of these

Q. : 2   Rosneft has signed a preliminary deal with Essar Group about acquiring up to 49 per cent of the Vadinar oil refinery in India. Rosneft is the biggest oil producer of

1) Kazakhstan

2) Tajikistan

3) Uzbekistan

4) Russia

5) Ukraine

Q. : 3   Fergusson College, founded in 1885, has been accorded the special heritage status by the University Grants Commission (UGC). The college is situated in

1) Mumbai

2) Nasik

3) Pune

4) Aurangabad

5) Nagpur

Q. : 4   The Unesco has decided to grant world heritage status to 23 Meiji period (1868-1912) sites which include coalmines and shipyards. These sites are situated in

1) South Korea

2) North Korea

3) Japan

4) Vietnam

5) Indonesia

Q. : 5   Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his counterpart Karim Massimov jointly launched the first exploratory drilling of the Satpayev oil block, recently, in

1) Tajikistan

2) Kyrgyzstan

3) Turkmenistan

4) Uzbekistan

5) Kazakhstan

Q. : 6   Which of the following schemes of India has been ranked as the world's largest public works programme by the World Bank?

1) PAHAL

2) MGNREGA

3) Bharat Nirman

4) Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana

5) Other than those given as options

Q. : 7   The Union home ministry has declared whole of __________ as a "disturbed area" for a further period of one year from Jun 30, 2015.

1) Nagaland

2) Manipur

3) Tripura

4) Meghalaya

5) Mizoram

Q. : 8   Yanis Varoufakis resigned as the Finance Minister of which of the following countries amid financial crisis in the country?

1) Italy

2) Spain

3) Turkey

4) Greece

5) Sweden

Q. : 9   The process of India's accession into the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) has begun. Presently, which of the following is NOT a member of SCO group founded in Shanghai, China, on Jun 15, 2001?

1) Uzbekistan

2) Tajikistan

3) Kyrgyzstan

4) Kazakhstan

5) Belarus

Q. : 10   The World Bank, in its ‘The State of Social Safety Nets 2015’ report, has ranked which Indian scheme as the top-most social security programme with conditional cash transfers?

1) Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao

2) Janani Suraksha Yojna

3) Atal Pension Yojana

4) Indira Awaas Yojana

5) Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme

Answer:- 

1. (1) water conservation and management
2. (4) Russia
3. (3) Pune
4. (3) Japan
5. (5) Kazakhstan
6. (2) MGNREGA
7. (1) Nagaland
8. (4) Greece
9. (5) Belarus
10. (2) Janani Suraksha Yojna