A) Prof. Kolakaluri Enoch
B) Prof. Kancha Ilaiah
C) Prof. K Siva Reddy
D) Prof. S V Satyanarayana
E) Prof. N. Gopi
2. Moortidevi Award is given in the field of .......
A) Arts
B) Theatre
C) Literature
D) Social Service
E) Journalism
3. The World Maritime Day is observed across the world on ........
A) September 9
B) September 19
C) September 29
D) August 9
E) October 19
4. Theme of the World Maritime Day for the year 2016 is .........
A) Shipping: Indispensable to the World
B) Shipping: Economics of the Sea
C) Shipping - Linking the Countries
D) Shipping and Global Society
E) Shiping: Global Opportunities
5. Which of the following countries hosts 2016 Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR)?
A) Myanmar
B) Vietnam
C) Pakisthan
D) Sri Lanka
E) India
6. What is India's position in the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) 2016-17? (The list has been topped by Switzerland, followed by Singapore, United States, the Netherlands and Germany.)
A) 66th
B) 47th
C) 39th
D) 88th
E) 139th
7. Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) is released by which of the following organisations?
A) United Nations
B) World Bank
C) International Monetary Fund
D) World Economic Forum
E) None of the above
8. What is the rank of India in World Economic Freedom Index (WEFI) 2016?
A) 112
B) 159
C) 132
D) 98
E) 118
9. World Economic Freedom Index (WEFI) was published by .........
A) Centre for Civil Society, Canada
B) International Monetary Fund
C) Centre for World Economy, Britain
D) The World Bank
E) CSDS, India
10.The Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) has appointed three economists as the external appointees on the Monetary Policy Committee. They are Pami Dua, Chetan Ghate and ..........
A) C. Rangarajan
B) Urijit Patel
C) Ravindra Dholakia
D) Raghuram Rajan
E) None of the above
11.Identify the right option among the following with regard to Software Robotics in banking industry.
A) The software robots help to bring operational efficiency, higher accuracy and a massive reduction in processing time for customer services in banks.
B) They can execute activities including data entry and validation, automated formatting, workflow acceleration, multi-format message creation, text mining, reconciliations and currency exchange rate processing among others.
C) ICICI Bank is the first bank to successfully deploy Software Robotics for power banking operations.
D) The software robots can perform over 10 lakh banking transactions every working day.
E) All the above
12.Which team has won gold medal in beach kabaddi event of the 5th Asian Beach Games held in Danang, Vietnam recently?
A) Thailand
B) India
C) Pakistan
D) Sri Lanka
E) Nepal
13.India has conducted Joint Military Training Exercise Yudh Abhyas 2016 at the Chaubattia Military Station in Ranikhet, Uttarakhand with which of the following countries?
A) Germany
B) France
C) United States
D) South Korea
E) Russia
14. The world's first three-parent baby boy was born in which of the following countries to a Jordanian couple with the help a controversial new fertility technique that incorporates DNA from three people in the embryo.
A) Canada
B) Mexico
C) United States
D) Switzerland
E) Italy
15. Identify India's largest civilian research and development agency which celebrated its platinum jubilee recently.
A) Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.
B) Indian Institute of Immunology.
C) Defence Research and Development Organisation.
D) Indian Institute of Science Education and Research.
E) Defence Research and Development Laboratory.
16. Who is the President of CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research)?
A) President Pranab Mukherjee
B) Vice President Hamid Ansari
C) Prime Minister Narendra Modi
D) Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar
E) None of the above
17. The World Tourism Day (WTD) is observed on .........
A) 27th September
B) 17th September
C) 27th October
D) 27th August
E) 17th November
18. The theme of World Tourism Day (WTD) 2016 is .......
A) Tourism - Promoting Equality
B) Tourism for All - Promoting Universal Accessibility
C) Tourism - Cleanliness and Divinity
D) Tourism For All - Reaching the Unreached
E) None of the above
19. The Guinness World Records has officially designated Majuli as the largest river island in the world. It is situated in the Brahmaputra River in the state of .........
A) Meghalaya
B) Assom
C) Uttarakhand
D) Mizoram
E) Arunachal Pradesh
20. Two Indian forest officials, Ritesh Sarothiya of Madhya Pradesh and Sanjay Dutta of West Bengal have been selected for the Clark R. Bavin Wildlife Law Enforcement Awards 2016, which will be presented at the 17th Conference of the Parties (CoP) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to be held in October 2016 in .........
A) France
B) United States
C) Singapore
D) South Africa
E) Canada
21. Identify the correct statement with regard to Project SAKSHAM.
A) The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved 'Project SAKSHAM' on 29th September 2016.
B) Project SAKSHAM is a New Indirect Tax Network (Systems Integration) of the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC).
C) It seeks to bolster the information technology network for the new Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime that the Central Government intends to roll out from 1st April 2017.
D) The Project SAKSHAM will help in Integration of CBEC IT systems with the Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN).
E) All the above
22. Rate of interest on small savings schemes have been revised by the Central Government on 30th September 2016.Identify the correct option.
A) The interest on small savings schemes have been cut marginally by 0.1%. The popular National Savings Certificate and Public Provident Fund (PPF) will see their interest rates come down to 8.0% in October - December quarter from 8.1% in April - July quarter.
B) The Kisan Vikas Patra will now pay out 7.7% instead of 7.8% and mature in 112 months instead of 110.
C) Senior citizens deposit scheme will now fetch 8.5%. Interest rate on MonthlyIncome Account scheme will come down to 7.7% from 7.8% in the previous quarter.
D) The new rates will come into effect from October 1, 2016 and will remain in forcetill December 31, 2016. Interest rate for savings deposit remains unchanged at 4%, according to the notification issued by the finance ministry late Thursday.
E) All the above
23. India's fiscal deficit during the five months to August 2016 was... of the budgeted target for the fiscal year ending in March 2017, as per the government data showed on 30th September 2016.
A) 76.4 percent
B) 72.4 percent
C) 67.2 percent
D) 81.6 percent
E) 78.3 percent
24. The Union labour ministry on 29th September 2016 decided to hike the exposure of the 'Employees Provident Fund's incremental corpus in equity markets from five percent to ... for the current financial year, without consulting the Central Board of Trustees (CBT).
A) 8%
B) 9%
C) 10%
D) 11%
E) 15%
25. Data released by the Commerce and Industry Ministry shows that eight core industries - coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, fertilisers, steel, cement and electricity comprise nearly ......... of India's total industrial production.
A) 35%
B) 41%
C) 38%
D) 46%
E) 29%
26. According to the recent publication titled 'Endmic Vascular Plants of India', released by the Botanical Survey of India (BSI), which state accounts for the highest number flowering plants in the country.
A) West Bengal
B) Punjab
C) Telangana
D) Tamilnadu
E) Karnataka
27. The Government of India has appointed which mutual fund to manage the second CPSE exchange traded fund (ETF) comprising stocks of PSUs in the current fiscal with an estimated corpus of Rs 6,000 crore.
A) ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund
B) HDFC Mutual Fund
C) SBI Mutual Fund
D) Birla Sunlife Mutual Fund
E) UTI Mutual Fund
28. The book 'Kunjamma Ode to a Nightingale: M.S. Subbulakshmi' has been authored by ........
A) Shiva Pillai
B) Anna Mani
C) Alamelu Das
D) Lakshmi Vishwanathan
E) Rangarajan
