CB Current Affair

1. Who is the new PM of Australia?

Answer. Malcolm Turnbull

2. Who has been appointed as the Mayor of German city of Bonn?

Answer. Ashok-Alexander Sridharan

3. Name the person who has been invited to the United Nations’
High Level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport (HLAG-ST)

Answer. Metro Man Elattuvalapil Sreedharan

4. Who is appointed as the new PM of Egypt?

Answer. Sherif Ismail

5. Who is the new PM of Trinidad and Tobago?

Answer. Keith Rowley

6. Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has decided to recognize which sport as a sports discipline and place it in the Priority category?

Answer. Yoga

7. With which country, India have set the bilateral trade target of one billion dollar by 2018?

Answer. Belarus

8.Who has become the first political leader to have a mobile app, developed for him to digitally connect with the citizens of the country?

Answer. Narendra Modi launched the 'Narendra Modi Mobile App'

9.The road transport and highways ministry will add nearly how much kilometres of roads to the National Highways (NH) network in the country in the next six months?

Answer. 50,000 km

10. Where will be the Indian Sign Language Research and Training Centre (ISLRTC) located?

Answer. New Delhi

11. Against which country, India has lost solar case at the World Trade Organisation (WTO)?

Answer. United States

12. Name the system which is launched by India for Foreign Employers, under which foreign employers (FEs) who wants to recruit Indian workers, including nurses, will have to register in the system.

Answer. E-Migrate system

13. What is the new name given to the Highest mountain of North America Mt McKinley?

Answer. Denali

14. Name the Indian-origin driver in Australia, who was named as Australian of the Day by Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Answer. Tejinder Pal Singh

15. Who has been appointed as the Australia's ambassador to India - for education?

Answer. Adam Gilchrist

16. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with which country have signed an agreement to create the world's first internationally-controlled bank of low-enriched uranium to ensure fuel supplies for power stations and prevent nuclear proliferation?

Answer. Kazakhstan

17. Which is the first country in the World to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and Syphilis?

Answer. Cuba

18. Where is the Disaster Mitigation conference of member counties of South Asian Association on Regional Cooperation (SAARC) held?

Answer. New Delhi

19. Where is the India-US Ministerial Energy Dialogue held?
Answer. US Department of Energy, Washington

20. Call To Action Summit 2015 on ending preventable child and maternal deaths was held in?

Answer. New Delhi

21. Second Australia-India Defence Minister’s dialogue concluded in which city of India?

Answer. New Delhi

1. The Supreme Court allowed its panel which was headed by whom, to access the visitors’ diary of the premier investigating agency’s former chief Ranjit Sinha?

Answer. Former CBI official M.L. Sharma

2. The Bharatiya Janata Party declared that it had received how much amount in the form of donations between 2014-15?

Answer. Rs. 437 crore

3. India which country exploring the possibility of setting up a joint venture in India to improve supply of spares for the Sukhoi-30 frontline fighter aircraft?

Answer. Russia

4. Name the Yemen's President who told the United Nations that he has asked the Saudi-led coalition to begin a 7-day ceasefire on Dec. 15 to coincide with U.N.-sponsored peace talks aimed at ending months of fighting that has killed nearly 6,000 people?

Answer. Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi

5. Which country has launched a new counterterrorism unit in an air of secrecy recently?

Answer. Japan

6. Name the country which has gifted France a new puppy to replace Diesel, the seven-year-old police dog who was killed during a raid linked to the Paris terror attacks?

Answer. Russia

7. Name the Titan Managing Director who recently appointed, on the board of its new joint venture (JV) with Maison Montblanc which will carry out single brand retail trading of Montblanc’s products in India?

Answer. Bhaskar Bhat

8. IDFC Bank has inked a pact with which IT services major for its core banking solutions?

Answer. Tata Consultancy Services

9. Name the noted industrialist and Chairman of the Mahindra Group, who has joined the newly created Sustainability Committee of Formula E Championship, an initiative of FIA (Federation Internationale de I’Automobile) and the world’s first fully-electric racing series?

Answer. Anand Mahindra

10. General Motors India has appointed whom as President and Managing Director of the company with effect from January 1, 2016?

Answer. Kaher Kazem

1. Which country has approved the human consumption of a genetically engineered (GE) Salmon?

United States

2. Which among the following countries are playing the first day-night Test cricket match?

Australia and New Zealand

3. The World Robot Olympiad 2016 will be held in which city?

New Delhi

4. In which country, a new form gold that is as light as air was created by scientists?

Switzerland

5. Noboru Karashima, who passed away recently, related to which among the following fields?

Historian

6. Who has been declared the IAAF’s male athlete of the year for 2015?

Ashton Eaton

7. Which banking major is shutting down its private banking operations in India?

HSBC .

8. The Bhavishya online system was launched for what purpose?

Online Insurance tracking system

9. Who among the following has been awarded the Freedom of the City of Cape Town?

Ahmed Kathrada

10. Which among the following birds spotted in India is under ‘Critically Endangered’ category of IUCN?

White-rumped Vulture

1. Which day is celebrated as National Legal Services Day (NLSD) in India?

Ans:-9 November

2. What is the range of India’s strategic missile – Agni-IV?

Ans:-4000 KM

3. Who is appointed as the first Ombudsman at BCCI?

Ans:-A P Shah

4. Who is the author of the book titled – ‘To the Brink and Back: India’s 1991 Story’?

Ans:-Jairam Ramesh

5. Recently, which partially recognized states’s proposal for membership was rejected by UNESCO?

Ans:-Kosovo
6. Which among the following countries will host the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016?

Ans:-Turkey

7. First Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav was held in which city?

Ans:-New Delhi

8. What is the name of India’s maiden indigenous massive online open courseware for students?

Ans:-Swayam

9. Which of the following global companies bagged the contracts for setting up of locomotive factories in Bihar?

Ans:-GE and Alstom

10. Which of the following holds the sobriquet “City of Letters”? Ans:-Kottayam

UN Climate Change Conference 2015
Dear Readers,

UN Climate Change Conference has started in Paris on 30th November 2015 and will continue till 11th December 2015 where Heads of The State/Representatives will participate and will work towards saving the environment. This problem might need more dedication and firm determination and all of this should go beyond just a meeting. Hoping that The World will stick to the vows being made at the Conference. Above all, our PM also gave a speech in the conference. Let us read everything that one should know about the conference.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned the focus of the Paris Climate Conference to the historic high carbon emissions of rich nations and asked them to ratify the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol which major emitters have not done.

Addressing the Leaders Event at the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, Mr. Modi said the developed world should ratify Kyoto's second commitment in the period up to 2020, after which developing countries have pledged to begin their own voluntary actions. The Indian Prime Minister's reference to the Protocol stood out at the COP21 conference, where the discussions were mostly future-focussed, for the post-2020 era. The first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol ended in 2012 and many advanced nations have baulked at engaging in mitigation actions, looking at domestic political compulsions. In a clear message that the onus of mitigation fell on the West, Mr. Modi said in an equitable system emissions reduction should be consistent with the carbon space that nations occupy.

1. Who was appointed as the next Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations at New York?
Answer. Syed Akbaruddin

2. Name the Former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court who was appointed as the ethics offic (ombudsman) at Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)?
Answer. Justice Ajit Prakash Shah

3. Who was appointed as the Chair of the Inter-Governmental Negotiations (IGN) on UN Security Council (UNSC) reforms?
Answer. Sylvie Lucas

4. Name the person who was awarded with an honorary doctorate of Arts by the University of East London recently?
Answer. Ashok Amritraj

5.Name the youngest son of NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul who died in November 2015?
Answer. Angad Paul

6. Who ranked first the World Bank Ease of Doing Business 2016 report?
Answer. Singapore

7. The 10th East Asia Summit (EAS) was held in ?
Answer. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Note: The theme was Our People, Our Community, Our Vision.

8. What is the minimum gold deposit limit under the gold monetisation scheme?
Answer. 30 grams

9. Who was recently elected as the country’s first woman President after the adoption of Constitution?
Answer. Bidhya Bhandari

10. With which country, Nepal signed its first fuel agreement to supply petroleum to ease a crippling shortage after protests blocked imports from sole supplier India?

Answer. China

1.Name the one of the world’s biggest Android application development companies which has floated a fund in India with an initial corpus of Rs 300 crore that would invest in startups that are working on mobile internet innovation projects in the country?
Answer. China’s Apus Group

2.Which company agreed to sell its telecom tower assets and related infrastructure to Tillman Global Holdings, LLC and TPG Asia Inc. (TPG)?
Answer. Reliance Communications (RCom)

3. Who headed the committee which submits its report to finance minister on GST recently?
Answer. Arvind Subramanian

4. Name the Governor of Yemen’s Aden province who was killed along with six bodyguards after a bomb struck his vehicle in the country’s temporary capital?
Answer. Major General Jafar Mohammed Saad, the newly appointed governor of Aden, was killed while passing through Tawahi district towards his workplace, Xinhua quoted a military official as saying.

5.Which country has expressed interest in acquiring Pakistan’s multi-role JF—17 Thunder fighter jets, which the country has manufactured in collaboration with China?
Answer. Egypt

6.Name the country Which broke a 33-year-old medal jinx after winning bronze medal in the Hockey World League 2015(HWL)?
Answer. India

7. Who is the former president of Peru’s soccer federation who recently arrested amid an ongoing US-led investigation into corruption at the sport’s world governing body FIFA?
Answer. Manuel Burga

8. Which country is likely to ratify the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), aimed at easing customs rules to expedite trade flows, during the Nairobi meeting of the global trade body from December 15 to 18?
Answer. India

9.Name the comapny which the Japan’s securities watchdog will recommend, should be fined 7.37 billion yen ($59.84 million) for accounting violations?
Answer. Toshiba Corp

10.Name the company which recently launched its movie premiere service ‘Miniplex’ on cable and online after partnering with two DTH players?
Answer. Shemaroo Entertainment

1. Indian Army on 7 November 2015 successfully test-fired which supersonic cruise missile at the Pokhran Test Range in Rajasthan?
Answer. BrahMos

2. The 21st International Conference on Frontiers in Yoga Research and its Applications (INCOFYRA) will be held from 3 to 7 January 2016 in which city?
Answer. Bengaluru

3. NAme the country which has been declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organisation?
Answer. Sierra Leone

4. President Xi Jinping of China met which country's President in the first ever encounter between the leaders of the neighbors and longtime rivals, an act both sides described as a breakthrough gesture meant to promote peace and mutual prosperity?
Answer. Ma Ying-jeou, the president of Taiwan

5. Who won the gold medal in the 10m air pistol women’s event at the 13th Asian Shooting Championship?
Answer. India’s Heena Sindhu

6. Who won the 2015 Swiss Indoors men’s singles title by defeating Rafael Nadal?
Answer. Roger Federer

7. Name the Former West Bengal assembly speaker who died recently.
Answer. Hashim Abdul Halim

8. Who is appointed Executive Director of Reserve Bank of India?
Answer. Deepak Singhal

9. With which country, India signed MoUs on Energy & Culture Exchange?
Answer. Indonesia

10. 2015 Paragliding World Cup which recently concluded in which city of India.
Answer. Bir village of Himachal Pradesh

1) Who was elected as the fifth general secretary of the Marxist Communist Party of India in April 2015?
a) Prakash Karat
b) Sitaram Yechury
c) Pinarayi Vijayan
d) Ramachandran Pillai
e) None of these

2) In April 2015 Supreme Court appointed _________ as the head of the new investigating team to probe into the IPL-6 spot fixing and betting?
a) Ranjib Biswal
b) Vivek Murthy
c) Vivek Priyadarshi
d) Sunil Kumar Sinha
e) None of these

3) Six political parties namely Samajwadi Janata Party, Janata Dal United, Rashtriya Janata Dal, Samajwadi Party, Janata Dal Secular and Indian National Lok Dal together announced the formation of a new party by merging themselves. Who was announced as the head of the newly formed party?
a) Sharad Yadav
b) Deve Gowda
c) Nitish Kumar
d) Mulayam Singh Yadav
e) None of these

4) Who resigned from the post of President of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in April 2015?
a) Mahbubul Anman
b) N Sreenivasan
c) Mustafa Kamal
d) David Richardson
e) None of these

5) Who has been appointed as the new Chief Election Commissioner of India in April 2015?
a) Nasim Zaidi
b) S Jaishankar
c) H. S. Barhma
d) V. S. Sampath
e) None of these

6) Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation has constituted a ‘task force’ on interlinking the rivers which will be headed by ________.
a) Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
b) T. S. R. Subramanian
c) B. N. Navalwala
d) Madav Gadgi
e) None of these

7) Who took charge as India’s 1st cyber security chief under the Prime Minister’s Office in April 2015?
a) Ramesh Negi
b) Ram Sewak Sharma
c) Nasim Zaidi
d) Gulshan Rai
e) None of these

8) Who among the following cricketers has been reappointed as the chairman of the IPL Governing Council?
a) Sunil Gavaskar
b) Saurav Ganguly
c) Rajeev Shukla
d) Sandeep Patil
e) None of these

9) Who was appointed as the Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly in April 2015?
a) Vijender Gupta
b) Jagdish Pradhan
c) Syed Akbaruddin
d) Om Prakash Sharma
e) None of these

10) Who among the following was elected as the President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for the year 2015-16?
a) Sumit Mazumder
b) Rana Kapoor
c) Shobana Kaminent
d) Ajay Shriram
e) None of these

11) Who took charge as the new spokesperson of External Affairs Ministry in 2015?
a) S Jaishankar
b) Arun Kumar Singh
c) Syed Akbaruddin
d) Vikas Swarup
e) None of these

12) Name the Indian-American who was recently sworn in as the US Surgeon-General?
a) John Davis
b) Raja Rajeshwari
c) Vivek Murthy
d) Krishna Krishnakumar
e) None of these

13) Who was appointed as the Director General of Railway Protection Force (RPF)?
a) Rajiva Ranjan Verma
b) P. K. Mehta
c) Ranjit Sinha
d) Krishna Choudhary
e) None of these

14) Who among the following is the Satyam founder who was sentenced to 7 years in jail after he was proved guilty of criminal cheating and conspiracy?
a) Mahindra Satyam
b) Raju Vegesna
c) Ramalinga Raju
d) All of the above
e) None of these

15) Who was appointed as the Chief advisor of the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s Anti Corruption & Security Unit (ACSU) in April 2015?
a) Vikrant Raju
b) Karun Sebastain
c) Vivek Murthy
d) Neeraj Kumar
e) None of these

Answers..
1). b
2). c
3). d
4). c
5). a
6). c
7). d
8). c
9). a
10). a
11). d
12). c
13). a
14). c

15). d

Current Affairs Quiz based on "The Hindu"
Ques.1 Who stepped down as the Network18 Business Editor?

Ques.2 Which PSU bank cuts its base rate by 0.4% after the RBI cut the the repo rate by 50 basis points?

Ques.3 Which e-commerce company is planning to launch its sale event under the name “Big Billion Sale”?

Ques.4 Who has been named as the Hero Indian Super League football tournament’s brand ambassador for Tamil Nadu?

Ques.5 RailTel Corporation of India, a PSU under the Ministry of Railways, has partnered with which company to set up a high-speed Wi-Fi network at 400 stations across the country?

Ques.6 Indo-U.S. bilateral trade can touch upto how much amount by 2025, according to a recent survey?

Ques.7 Name the famous footballer who is planning to open 30 soccer schools in China?

Ques.8 In the recently FIFA rankings, who is on the no.1 spot in the ranking?

Ques.9 The Modi government’s declaration window under the new Black Money Act, saw all of 638 declarations worth how much amount, according to an official release?

Ques.10 Recently, Special Correspondent Officers of the Indian and Chinese armies held meetings along the Line of Actual Control on the 67th anniversary of China’s National Day. Name the place where the meeting took place.

Ques.11 Who is the interim CEO of Twitter?

Answers -

Answer 1. Senthil Chengalvarayan
Answer 2. State Bank of India (SBI)
Anwser 3. FLIPKART
Answer 4. Tamil actor Dhanush
Answer 5. Google
Answer 6. $500 bn
Answer 7. Ronaldo
Answer 8. Belgium
Answer 9. Rs.4,147 crore
Answer 10. Chinese Border Personnel Meeting huts at Chushul and at Daulat Beg Oldie in eastern Ladakh.
Answer 11. Jack Dorsey

1. Which of the following is the disadvantage of going for public issue?
(a) Better pricing and placement with new investors
(b) Need to make continuous disclosures
(c) Increase in visibility and reputation to the company
(d) Liquidity to existing shares
(e) None of these

2. Which of the following is not an asset of a bank?
(a) Notes and Small coins
(b) Short Term Loans
(c) Staff Advances
(d) Overdue Recurring Deposits
(e) None of these

3. The Base rate is set by which of the following organizations/ institution?
(a) Individual Bank
(b) Government of India
(c) Reserve Bank of India
(d) RBI in constitution with Government
(e) State Bank of India

4. Which of the following is not a criterion to select the Investment Banking?
(a) Good rapport with market intermediaries
(b) General reputation in the market
(c) Distribution net work of the organization
(d) No professional memberships or incorporation
(e) None of these

5. The banking company has restriction to sanction loan to
(a) Staff working in the bank
(b) Directors of the bank
(c) Students going abroad
(d) Professionals
(e) None of these

6. Which of the following business is prohibited as per Section 8 of Banking Regulations Act 1949?
(a) Retail Trading
(b) Executing the trust
(c) Leasing
(d) Underwriting
(e) None of these

7. Which of the following is a non-depository institution?
(a) Regional Rural Bank
(b) Mutual Funds
(c) Credits Unions
(d) Commercial Banks
(e) None of these

8. State Bank of India's new floating rate of deposit is a directly linked to?
(a) Base Rate
(b) BPLR
(c) Bank Rate
(d) Inflation Rate
(e) CRR

9. Issuing of credit cards is a component of
(a) Corporate Banking
(b) Micro Finance
(c) Retail Banking
(d) Rural Banking
(e) None of these

10. The credit policy of a bank does not deal with?
(a) Documentation Standard
(b) Outstanding Balance in deposit account
(c) Credit risk management
(d) Review and renewal of advances
(e) None of these

ANSWERS:
1. b
2. d
3. a
4. d
5. b
6. a
7. b
8. a
9. c
10. b