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GK Compendium (CMAT) 2014

1. Who has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of Bharat Electronics Ltd.(BEL)?(a) Anil Kumar (b) Sunil Kumar Sharma(c) Ashwani Kumar Datt (d) C R Prakash

2. Name the Chairman and Managing Director of Bandhan Financial Services Ltd., which got abanking license from the Reserve Bank of India recently.(a) Chandra Sekhar Ghosh (b) Yogesh Chand Nanda(c) Vijay Kumar Chopra (d) Sisir Kumar Chakrabarti

3. To show an improvement in financial status in India, a Financial Inclusix Index 2013 has beenlaunched by:(a) FinIncX (b) S&P (c) Fitch (d) CRISIL

4. Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) have been allowed by Reserve Bank of India to raise stake inKarur Vysya Bank (KVB) to up to:(a) 50 per cent (b) 49 per cent (c) 40 per cent (d) 46 per cent

5. Name the portal, which has been inaugurated by the Indian Railways with an aim to improveenergy efficiency in Indian Railways.(a) RAILSAVER (b) RailPSaver (c) SAVERailP (d) SAVERail

6. Recently, who has been designated as the new Finance Secretary by the Appointments Committeeof the Cabinet (ACC)?(a) Arvind Mayaram (b) Rajiv Takru (c) GS Sandhu (d) D K Mittal

7. Shri S.K. Sharma has been appointed as Chairman and Managing Director of:(a) BEL (b) GAIL (c) BHEL (d) SAIL

8. The South Korean steel maker POSCO has received environmental clearance from Ministry ofEnvironment and Forests (MoEF) for a steel plant worth 52000 crores rupees to be established in:(a) Karnataka (b) Jharkhand (c) Odisha (d) Chhattisgarh

9. TCS has decided to set up the world's largest corporate learning and development centre in whichof the following cities?(a) Bhopal (b) Hyderabad (c) Bengaluru (d) Thiruvananthapuram



10. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh laid the foundation of 2,800 Megawatt nuclear power plant namedas 'Anu Vidyut Pariyojna' recently in which of the following States?(a) Haryana (b) Uttarakhand (c) Himachal Pradesh (d) Rajasthan

11. Who among the following has been appointed as the President of Federation of Indian Chambersof Commerce and Industry (FICCI)?(a) Yogesh Chander Deveshwar (b) Sidharth Birla(c) D Shivakumar (d) Kalpana Morparia

12. Who among the following has been appointed as the new President of National Association ofSoftware and Service Companies (NASSCOM)?(a) D. Shivakumar (b) Cris Gopalan(c) R. Chandrashekaran (d) R. Ramakumar

13. Government of India has allowed British retailer Tesco to invest in brownfield entities in India.What is brown field investment?(a) Investment by a parent company to start a new venture in a foreign country.(b) Investment in a venture which has been abandoned(c) Investment in a company which has declared itself as bankrupt.(d) Investment in an existing asset or company.

14. Which of the following States/Union territory has withdrawn the Foreign Domestic Investment(FDI) in multi-brand retail?(a) Delhi (b) Uttar Pradesh (c) Rajasthan (d) Madhya Pradesh

15. Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the National Mineral Development Corporation(NMDC)?(a) Arup Roy (b) Narendra Kothari (c) Ajay Piramal (d) C.S. Verma

16. Who has been appointed as Chairman of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development(NABARD)?(a) Prakash Bakshi (b) Ashish Bahuguna(c) Snehlata Shrivastava (d) Harsh Kumar Bhanwala

17. Who is the current Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas?(a) Vivek Rai (b) Saurabh Chandra(c) PK Bansal (d) Girish Chandra Chaturvedi

18. To suggest ways to enhance Foreign Domestic Investment (FDI) in insurance intermediaries (otherthan insurance companies) and the Third Party Administrators (TPA), the Insurance Regulatoryand Development Authority (IRDA) has formed a new committee under the chairmanship of:(a) D. K. Mittal (b) Suresh Mathur (c) G. C. Chaturvedi (d) Sumit Bose


19. Who among the following is the richest in UK in the Super-Rich list?(a) Lakshmi Mittal (b) Duke of Westminster(c) Srichand and Gopichand Hinduja (d) Len Blavatnik

20. It has been decided to slash the price of the widely-used fever and pain-relief pill Crocin Advanceby 50%. Crocin is manufactured by(a) GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) (b) Lupin labs(c) Cadilla (d) Biocon

21. The International Monetary Fund board has approved a two-year, $17 billion loan package for:(a) Syria (b) India (c) South Sudan (d) Ukraine

22. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has lowered its 2014 growth forecast for Russia to:(a) 0.5 per cent (b) 1.3 per cent (c) 0.2 per cent (d) 0.4 per cent

23. National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) has projected ________economic growthin 2014-15 for India.(a) 5.1-5.5 per cent (b) 4.5-5.5 per cent (c) 3.5-4.0 per cent (d) 4.1-4.5 per cent

24. CCEA has recently increased foreign investment to 62 percent from 49 percent of which of thefollowing banks?(a) Axis Bank (b) Yes Bank (c) HDFC Bank (d) ICICI Bank

25. Which automobile company has announced that it would recall a total of 31,226 units of selectvariants of Amaze compact sedan and Brio hatchback to inspect them for a possible defect in thebrake system?(a) Maruti Suzuki (b) Honda (c) Force (d) Mahindra

26. Which is the largest mobile operator in Africa in terms of geographical footprint?(a) Vodafone (b) Bharti Airtel (c) Orange (d) Etisalat

27. Who is the present Chairperson of the U.S. Federal Reserve?(a) Janet Yellen (b) Ben Bernanke (c) Alan Greenspan (d) Paul A. Volcker

28. Who has been appointed first woman Managing Director of Life Insurance Corporation?(a) Arundhati Bhattacharya (b) Usha Sangwan(c) Shikha Sharma (d) Chitra Ramkrishna

29. Which among the following banks has launched Boutique Financing, a financing scheme for womenfashion boutique owners?(a) State Bank of India (b) Bank of Baroda(c) Punjab National Bank (d) Union Bank of India


30. Recently in which country Oil India has bought a 50 % stake in an oil block for $85 million?(a) Russia (b) Kazakhstan (c) Turkmenistan (d) Uzbekistan

31. Who has been elected to the board of directors of Qualcomm Incorporated, the San Diego,California-based global leader in wireless telecommunications products and services?(a) Francisco Ros (b) Susan Hockfield (c) Paul E. Jacobs (d) Harish Manwani

32. Which among the following African country's President has declared a state of emergency due toEbola disease recently?(a) Nigeria (b) Liberia (c) Morocco (d) Algeria

33. Reserve Bank of India has allowed the Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) to lend up to______of the value of gold.(a) 75 percent (b) 45 percent (c) 25 percent (d) 50 percent

34. Name the new software app that uses text-to-speech method, has been developed to help theilliterate farmers.(a) Pathak Kisam (b) Kisan Chaupal (c) Sandesh Pathak (d) Kisan Sandesh

35. Who has been appointed as the chairman and managing director of Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited(RINL)?(a) P. Madhusudan (b) A.P. Choudhary (c) S. Narsing Rao (d) Ajay Kumar Mathur

36. Name the first public University in the world which has allowed students to pay their tuition feeswith the digital currency Bitcoin.(a) University of Birmingham (b) University of Cumbria(c) University of Edinburgh (d) University of Brighton

37. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) included which of the following entities in the sensitive list ofcountries along with Pakistan and China recently?(A) Hong Kong (b) Macau (c) Both (a) and (b) (d) None of the above

38. As per RBI study, which state ranks as the best performing state in most of the key fiscal parameters?(a) Bihar (b) Chhattisgarh (c) Madhya Pradesh (d) Goa

39. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued new coins bearing images of goddess Vaishno Devi indenomination of(a) 1 rupee and 2 rupees (b) 2 rupees and 5 rupees(c) 5 rupees and 10 rupees (d) 10 rupees and 50 rupees


40. Name the World's first 3D-printer manufactured by the USA based company Stratasys, which canproduce multi-colour, multi-material objects at the same time.(a) Jet Pro 400 M401dn (b) ML-5512nd(c) Pixma Pro-1 (d) Objet500 Connex3

41. Which of the following has unveiled a smart contact lens that can help diabetics to measure theirglucose level in tears?(a) Microsoft Research Lab (MRL) (b) Google X Lab(c) IBM Humanoid cell (d) Celera Genomics

42. Caparo Group won the International Business of the Year award 2014 at the Asian BusinessAwards Midlands in Birmingham. Caparo Group is founded by:(a) Gopichand Hinduja (b) Ajit Jain(c) Lakshmi Mittal (d) Lord Swaraj Paul

43. Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the 7th Pay Commission?(a) Justice S. Ratnavel Pandian (b) Justice Askhok Kumar Mathur(c) Justice B.N. Srikrishna (d) V. Hari Vasudevan

44. Who is the current Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft?(a) Satya Nadella (b) Steve Ballmer (c) Sundar Pichai (d) Sanjay Jha

45. Name the Managing Director of Tata Motors who died recently after falling from hotel building inBangkok?(a) Ravi Kant (b) Ralf Speth (c) Karl J. Slym (d) Tim Leverton

46. Which is the third largest crude oil importer in the World?(a) Japan (b) USA (c) China (d) India

47. Who has been sworn in as the first woman Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court?(a) Justice G Rohini (b) Justice Manjula Chellur(c) Justice Anna Chandy (d) Justice Leila Seth

48. Six Public Sector Units (PSUs) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) recently toset up the World's largest (4000 MW) ultra solar power project in:(a) Rajasthan (b) Haryana (c) Gujarat (d) Andhra Pradesh

49. Which of the following banks has set a record for blood collection in a single day recently?(a) ICICI (b) HDFC (c) Citi Bank (d) Yes Bank


50. Name the first state of India which has been conferred the United Nations award for creatinginnovative initiatives for sustainable tourism.(a) Rajasthan (b) Goa (c) Kerala (d) Uttarakhand

51. Union Finance Ministry has approved a proposal to provide minimum monthly pension of ________to workers of organized sector, under the Employees Pension Scheme 1995 (EPS-95).(a) 1500 rupees (b) 2500 rupees (c) 3000 rupees (d) 1000 rupees

52. Which of the following has announced to change its name to Mondelez India Foods Limited?(a) Nestle India (b) Heinz foods (c) Frito-lay (d) Cadbury India

53. Who has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of Punjab and Sind Bank(PSB)?(a) Kishore Kumar Sansi (b) Jatinder Bir Singh(c) Mukesh Kumar Jain (d) Pradipta K. Jena

54. Which of the following statements is correct regarding India's performance in the XX CommonwealthGames?(a) India won 20 gold metals and it was ranked 5th in medal table.(b) India won total 64 medals and it was ranked 5th in medal table.(c) India won 15 gold medal and it was ranked 4th in medal table.(d) India won 30 silver medals and it was ranked 6th in medal table.

55. What is the rank of India in the list of ten countries in terms of digital governance released byAccenture recently?(a) 5th (b) 8th (c) 10th (d) 6th

56. Who among the following is the current President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants ofIndia (ICAI)?(a) Jaydeep Narendra Shah (b) Subodh Kumar Agrawal(c) Manoj Fadnis (d) K. Raghu

57. Who has been appointed as the next chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)?(a) Poonam Kishore Saxena (b) R.K.Tiwari(c) Laxman Das (d) O P Srivastava

58. Which among the following stock Exchanges has launched live trading in new interest rate futures(IRF) in the long tenure 10-year government bonds?(a) Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)(b) Bangalore Stock Exchange (BgSE)(c) Calcutta Stock Exchange (CSE)(d) Hyderabad Stock Exchange (HSE)


59. Name the head of the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) who approved the sale of 10 percent government stake in Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) to Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)and Oil India Limited (OIL).(a) A K Antony (b) Veerappa Moily (c) P. Chidambaram (d) Jairam Ramesh

60. Who is the current Chairman & Managing Director of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)?(a) Sudhir Vasudeva (b) Dinesh K Sarraf (c) B C Tripathi (d) Shashi Shanker

61. Name the noted filmmaker of India who has been selected recently for Rajiv Gandhi NationalSadbhavana Award 2014.(a) Basu Bhattacharya (b) Muzaffar Ali (c) Girish Karnad (d) Mani Ratnam

62. Which commodity Exchange has announced to launch of GOLDHEDGE, an innovative gold contractthat will signal the most transparent and straightforward price benchmark of this precious metal tothe consumer?(a) Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd (MCX)(b) Universal Commodity Exchange(c) Indian Commodity Exchange Limited(d) National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange

63. Donabs People's Militia is an armed militant group active in(a) Syria (b) Iraq (c) Gaza (d) Ukraine

64. Which among the following companies has topped the list of 'best company to work for' by FortuneMagazine?(a) SAS (b) Google (c) Edward Jones (d) Goldman Sachs

65. The author of the book 'Hard Choices' is(a) Arundhati Roy (b) Hillary Clinton (c) Chetan Bhagat (d) Vikram Seth

66. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has constituted an expert committee to review governance ofboards of banks under the chairmanship of:(a) Shikha Sharma (b) P. J. Nayak (c) Narayanan Vaghul (d) A C Shah

67. Which pharmaceutical company's plant in Punjab has been banned the import of products by theU.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?(a) Ranbaxy (b) Bharat Remedies Pvt Ltd(c) Surya Pharmaceuticals (d) Sai Pharma

68. As per UN World Economic Situation and Prospects 2014 (WESP) report, Indian economy in2014 is projected to grow at:(a) 4.80% (b) 5.35 % (c) 5.70% (d) 5.10%


69. Among the following, which does not represent financial inclusion?(a) Nationalization of banks.(b) Formation of self-help groups.(c) Ensuring access to financial services to weaker sections of society.(d) Curtailment of branch network of scheduled commercial banks

70. Name the smart card that is launched by the Indian Railways which will enable passengers to payfor tickets for long or short distance journey in reserved and unreserved classes including suburbanservice.(a) Go India (b) Come on India (c) Smile India (d) Great India

71. The expert committee appointed to examine the current monetary policy framework of the ReserveBank of India (RBI) has suggested that the apex bank should adopt the new CPI (Consumer PriceIndex) as the measure of nominal anchor for policy communication. The expert committee headedby:(a) H.R. Khan (b) K.C. Chakrabarty (c) Urjit R. Patel (d) Kiran Karnik

72. As per the Rangarajan Committee, the new poverty line set for rural areas is Rs. 32 and for urbanareas the limit set is Rs:(a) 40 (b) 42 (c) 45 (d) 47

73. The largest 130-MW Solar Power Plant of India has been launched on February 26, 2014 in whichof the following districts of Madhya Pradesh?(a) Mandsaur (b) Ratlam (c) Ujjain (d) Neemuch

74. Union Government and Asian Development Bank (ADB) have signed an agreement for a 300million US dollar loan to improve road connectivity along key corridors in the State of:(a) Chhattisgarh (b) Uttar Pradesh (c) Jharkhand (d) Bihar

75. Who is the present Chairman and Managing Director of Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank)?(a) V Sridhar (b) Yaduvendra Mathur (c) TCA Ranganathan (d) Nayanima Bas

76. According to Forbes magazine's 28th Annual World billionaires list released recently, who is theWorld's top richest Billionaire with worth of 76 billion dollars?(a) Bill Gates (b) Carlos Slim Helu (c) Amancio Ortega (d) Warren Buffett

77. RBI has extended date for exchange of pre-2005 banknotes to:(a) April 31, 2014 (b) December 31, 2014(c) March 31, 2015 (d) January 1, 2015

78. India's first post office savings bank ATM facility has been inaugurated in:(a) New Delhi (b) Chennai (c) Lucknow (d) Kolkata


79. The Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Power Project, is an under construction gravity dam on theSubansiri River. It is located on the border of:(a) Assam and Arunachal Pradesh (b) Assam and West Bengal(c) Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh (d) Assam and Meghalaya

80. NTPC signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop Kajra thermal Power Projectlocated in(a) Himachal Pradesh (b) Bihar (c) Uttarakhand (c) Jammu & Kashmir

81. Name the first woman who took over as the Chairman and Managing Director of HindustanPetroleum Corporation (HPCL)?(a) Arundhati Bhattacharya (b) Usha Ananthasubramanian(c) Nishi Vasudeva (d) Usha Sangwan

82. Recently 'Clean India' campaign was launched to promote which of the following?(a) Tourism (b) Landscaping (c) Sanitation (d) Rural development

83. Japanese electronics firm Panasonic has announced to pay its employees a pollution premium toworkers who are working in(a) China (b) Indonesia (c) India (d) Sri Lanka

84. Who among the following has been appointed as Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) ofAllahabad Bank?(a) Shubhalakshmi Panse (b) Rakesh Sethi(c) J. P. Dua (d) Bhuneshwar Shukla

85. Who has been appointed as the Chairman of Financial Planning Standards Board India (FPSB)?(a) Dhirendra Swarup (b) Shailesh Haribhakti(c) Ranjeet S Mudholkar (d) BN Srikrishna

86. Name the first Indian private sector bank which has set up a branch in China.(a) Yes Bank (b) Axis Bank (c) ICICI Bank (d) IDBI Bank Ltd

87. An area consisting of unused or agricultural land developed to set up new industrial plants isnamed as:(a) Greenspan put (b) Green shoe (c) Green market (d) Greenfield

88. Name the Indian-American engineer who developed Zero Pressure tyres for the US military.(a) Sundar Pichai (b) Abraham Pannikottu(c) Chandrakanth Emani (d) Vamsi Mootha


89. 'Complan' is brand of which of the following Food Processing company?(a) Britannia (b) Nestle India (c) Heinz India (d) Cadbury India

90. Name the Chairman who resigned recently from National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Ltd(NCDEX)?(a) Samir Shah (b) Y. S. P. Thorat(c) Udai Shanker Awasthi (d) S.B Mainak

91. Recently which among the following countries has banned its banks from handling Bitcoins?(a) Thailand (b) Malaysia (c) Singapore (d) Vietnam

92. The full form of IIFCL is:(a) The Indian Islamic Finance Company Ltd.(b) The Indian Investment Finance Company Ltd.(c) The Indian Industrial Finance Company Ltd.(d) The Indian Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd.

93. Who has been appointed as the chairman of the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) by thegovernment of India?(a) A.J. Lokhande (b) S. K. Kaul (c) N. N. Kumar (d) S. N. Maharana

94. Name the first woman who has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director ofHindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL).(a) Nishi Vasudeva (b) Chitra Ramakrishna(c) Vijayalakshmi Iyer (d) Shubhalakshmi Panse

95. For which of the following age group Free education for all children has been made fundamentalright under RTE Act 2009?(a) 6-14 yrs (b) 5-14 yrs (c) 6-16 yrs (d) 7-15 yrs

96. Alternative trading systems (ATS) is a term for a non-exchange trading venue that matches buyersand sellers to find counterparties for transactions. It is in practice in which of the following countries?(a) United States (b) Canada (c) European Union (d) India

97. Telecom subscribers across the country can now register complaints by dialing a special toll freenumber:(a) '1013' (b) '1085' (c) '1014' (d) '1063'

98. Seeking to check gold smuggling, the government of India has tightened baggage rules, noweligible passengers are allowed to import gold up to _____ by paying 10 per cent customs duty inforeign currency.(a) 1 kg (b) 2 kg (c) 1.5 kg (d) 2.5 kg


99. "12 Years A Slave" is written by which of the following authors?(a) Ravinder Singh (b) Kusumanjali Ravindranath(c) Sudeep Nagarkar (d) Solomon Northup Pirates

100. Name the 28-year-old American CEO of a Bitcoin exchange, who has been found dead at thebase of a Singapore apartment block.(a) Tug Nikolay Chiker (b) Autumn Radtke(c) Karl Slym (d) Madeleine McCann

101. The Reserve Bank of India, has hiked the trade related remittance limit for per transaction fromRs.2 lakh to:(a) Rs.4 lakh (b) Rs.3 lakh (c) Rs.5 lakh (d) Rs.3.5 lakh

102. Which of the following was the theme of 2013 International Women's Day?(a) Inspiring Change (b) Aspiring Change(c) Cherishing Change (d) Longing Change

103. Which among the following organisation is responsible for formulation and maintenance of statisticalstandards, work pertaining to national accounts, industrial statistics, and consumer price indicesfor urban non-manual employees?(a) Reserve Bank of India (b) Central Statistical Organisation(c) National Sample Survey Organisation (d) Planning Commission

104. Which Insurance company has been asked by Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority(IRDA) to refund Rs.275.29 crores to the policyholders as the amount was collected from them inviolation of norms?(a) Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance (b) Birla Sun Life Insurance(c) SBI Life Insurance (d) Sahara Life Insurance

105. The Integrated Processing Development Scheme implemented in the 12th Plan in order to addresswhich of the following sectors?(a) Transportation (b) Trade(c) Textile Industry (d) Education

106. Which National Bank is the worst sufferer due to willful bank loan defaulters?(a) Central Bank of India (b) Punjab National Bank(c) Bank of Baroda (d) Union Bank of India

107. As per the UN Comtrade, India has emerged as the second largest textile exporter in the worldafter which of the following country?(a) China (b) Bangladesh (c) Italy (d) Germany


108. Name the public sector general insurer which has announced an exclusive health insurance cover'New India Asha Kiran' for girl child.(a) National Insurance Ltd. (b) New India Assurance Ltd(c) Oriental Insurance Ltd. (d) United India Insurance Ltd.

109. Which airline company has announced an 'On-Time Guarantee' programme wherein the airlineguarantees to compensate passengers in case of a flight delay and cancellation due to reasonsunder its control?(a) Jet Airways (b) IndiGo (c) GoAir (d) SpiceJet

110. Indian Banks Association (IBA) is an association of Indian banks and financial institutions,headquartered at Mumbai. Recently who has elected as the Chairman of Indian Bank association?(a) K.R. Kamath (b) T.M. Bhasin (c) J.P. Dua (d) M. D. Mallya

111. The four-member committee on new bank licenses has submitted its recommendations to theReserve Bank of India (RBI) recently. Committee headed by which of the following former RBIGovernor?(a) C Rangarajan (b) D. Subbarao (c) Y V Reddy (d) Bimal Jalan

112. Which pharmaceutical company has acquired the global rights to develop and commercialize the12-hour extended release analgesic tablets 'Ibuprofen' from U.S.-based ScolorPharma along withthose of pain killer Nuprin trademark?(a) Sun Pharma (b) Astellas Pharma(c) Aurobindo Pharma (d) Shasun Pharmaceutical

113. Which of the following has become the first part of the UK to ban the use of electronic cigarettesin public places?(a) Wales (b) England (c) Scotland (d) Northern Ireland

114. Which private bank has announced to launch of 'Asha Home Loan', a 30-year home loan productfor first time home buyers in the lower income segment, seeking affordable EMIs?(a) HDFC Bank (b) Axis Bank(c) Kotak Mahindra Bank (d) YES Bank

115. What is the name of newly developed smart phone battery called that can recharge a smart phonein just 30 seconds?(a) Supercharge (b) Nano Charge (c) Nano dots (d) NanoBatt

116. Which among the following private Banks has not been allowed by Reserve Bank of India toimport gold under the 80:20 schemes?(a) Axis Bank (b) Kotak Mahindra Bank(c) IndusInd Bank (d) Federal Bank


117. Which among the following countries has topped the list of the Microsoft report for sending maximumnumber of Botnet spam?(a) China (b) USA (c) UK (d) India

118. Which among the following Maharatna PSUs has introduced a voluntary retirement scheme fornon-technical female workers recently?(a) NTPC Limited (b) Coal India limited (CIL)(c) ONGC Limited (d) IOC Limited

119. Which among the following 'Navratna' companies has received the Most Efficient Navratna Awardfor the year 2013?(a) Bharat Electronics Limited (b) Oil India Limited(c) Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (d) Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited

120. Which of the following banks has launched its Twitter handle account?(a) State Bank of India (SBI) (b) ICICI(c) HDFC (d) PNB

121. Which private sector bank has launched portable hand-held machines to avoid inconveniencearound entering secret PIN number for card transactions in hotels?(a) Axis Bank (b) HDFC Bank (c) ICICI Bank (d) Kotak Mahindra Bank

122. Which housing company has announced recently to invest over $400 million (about Rs.2, 400crores) to develop a township project at Colombo in Sri Lanka?(a) Kerala Housing Finance Ltd. (b) Tata Housing Finance Ltd.(c) Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd. (d) HDFC Housing Finance Ltd.

123. Which among the following states is ahead with a solar power commissioned capacity of 860.4MW?(a) Rajasthan (b) Madhya Pradesh (c) Tamil Nadu (d) Gujarat

124. As per the latest data released by the Central Statistics Office(CSO) which among the followingstates is the fastest growing state with its Gross State Domestic Product(GSDP) growing at 15.05per cent during 2012-13?(a) Bihar (b) Haryana (c) Gujarat (d) Madhya Pradesh

125. Which among the following states has been ranked number one in a list of India's 20 largest statesin terms of 'economic freedom'?(a) Haryana (b) Karnataka (c) Gujarat (d) Goa


126. Which among the following public sector banks has launched Instant Money Transfer (IMT) schemethat allows customers to withdraw cash without using either debt card or credit card?(a) Bank of India (b) State Bank of India(c) Union Bank of India (b) Punjab National Bank

127. Tata Communications Payment Solutions Ltd. (TCPSL) has launched the white label AutomatedTeller Machines (ATMs) network recently under the brand name of:(a) TataCash (b) IndiCash (c) BharatCash (d) MoneyCash

128. Which among the following pharmaceutical companies has received tentative approval from theU.S. health regulator to sell generic version of Roche's Tamiflu, used to prevent and treat flu?(a) Natco Pharma (b) Sun Pharmaceutical(c) Piramal (d) Avintis

129. Which among the following public sector Banks has announced to cricket player Shikhar Dhawanas its brand ambassador?(a) State Bank of India (b) Bank of Baroda(c) Canara Bank (d) Punjab National Bank

130. Which among the following Banks is the largest foreign bank operating in India in terms of assetbase?(a) HSBC (b) Barclays Bank(c) Citibank (d) Standard Chartered Bank

131. Axis Bank is the third largest private sector bank of India in which Government of India holds_______ share by assets.(a) 22.7 percent (b) 20.7 percent (c) 19.7 percent (d) 21.7 percent

132. Which bank has become the first state-run lender to allow withdrawal of funds to individuals fromits ATMs without an account in the bank?(a) Bank of India (b) Union Bank of India(c) State Bank of India (d) Bank of Baroda

133. Which feature film has been selected as best feature film in the 61st National Film Awards?(a) 'Shahid' (b) 'Ship of Theseus'(c) 'Gulaabi Gang' (d) 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag'

134. Name the new atomic clock that has been launched by US Department of Commerce's NationalInstitute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to serve the new US civilian time and frequency.(a) NIST-F2 (b) NIST-F1 (c) NIST-F3 (d) NIST-F14


135. What is rank of India on the Social Progress Index (SPI) released by the US-based non-profitorganization, Social Progress Imperative in out of 132 countries?(a) 109th (b) 105th (c) 107th (d) 102th

136. Who among the following Indian-Americans has been nominated as the next US Alternate ExecutiveDirector of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by the President Barack Obama?(a) Ajay Banga (b) Sunil Sabharwal (c) Arvind Panagariya (d) V. V. Chari

137. The Reserve Bank of India adopted the Consumer Price Index (CPI) as the key measure ofInflation. It was adopted on the basis of recommendations of:(a) Urjit R Patel Committee (b) RH Khan Committee(c) UK Sharma Committee (d) YV Reddy Committee

138. A Reserve Bank of India (RBI) panel has recommended cutting its holding in public sector banksto under 50 per cent. The panel is headed by:(a) P. J. Nayak (b) Sanjiv Misra (c) K. N. Prithviraj (d) S. B. Mathur

139. Who is the current President of Computer Society of India (CSI)?(a) H. R. Mohan (b) S.V. Raghavan (c) Satish Babu (d) S. Ramanathan

140. Who has been elected President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for the year 2014-15?(a) S. Gopalakrishnan (b) Ajay S. Shriram (c) Naushad Forbes (d) Sumit Mazumder

141. Which IT company won a global contract from pharmaceuticals major Novartis to provideinfrastructure management services?(a) Wipro (b) HCL Technologies (c) TCS (d) Tech Mahindra

142. Which among the following banks has not been allowed to import gold by the Reserve Bank ofIndia (RBI) under the 80:20 schemes?(a) Axis Bank (b) Kotak Mahindra Bank(c) HDFC Bank (d) ICICI Bank

143. A team of Scientists led by Manu Prakash from Stanford University developed an amazingly cheapmicroscope namely:(a) Foldscope (b) StanScope (c) Indiascope d)Bharatscope

144. Recently DBS bank has agreed to buy the asian private banking business of french lender SocieteGenerale in a deal worth $220 million. Name the country where DBS Bank is based.(a) South Korea (b) Singapore (c) Japan (d) Malaysia


145. Name the first telecom operator to hold pan-India unified license?(a) Tata Teleservices (b) Bharti Airtel(c) Reliance Jio (d) Vodafone

146. Who is the winner of UNESCO Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2014?(a) Reeyot Alemu (b) Eynulla Fatullayev(c) Ahmad Zeidabadi (d) Ahmet Sik

147. After several batches of fruits and vegetables were found to be contaminated by pests such asfruit flies, European Union member states has decided to ban the import of five types of fruits andvegetables from:(a) Pakistan (b) India (c) Sri Lanka (d) Bangladesh

148. Name the India-born poet who won the prestigious 2014 Pulitzer Prize in the poetry category forhis collection of poems entitled '3 Sections'.(a) Vijay Seshadri (b) Jhumpa Lahiri (c) Rajendra Singh (d) All of the above

149. Which company has been ranked 1 among top 406 defaulters against whom banks have initiatedlegal actions?(a) Kingfisher Airlines (b) Surya Vinayak Industries(c) Sterling Bio Tech (d) Winsome Diamond & Jewellery Co.

150. As per the data released by the International Comparison Program hosted by the DevelopmentData Group at the World Bank Group, which of the following countries is the third largest economyof the world?(a) China (b) Japan (c) Indonesia (d) India


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

11 b 12 c 13 d 14 a 15 b 16 d 17 b 18 b 19 c 20 a

21 d 22 c 23 a 24 a 25 b 26 b 27 a 28 b 29 a 30 a

31 d 32 b 33 a 34 c 35 a 36 b 37 c 38 b 39 c 40 d

41 b 42 d 43 b 44 a 45 c 46 d 47 b 48 a 49 b 50 c

51 d 52 d 53 b 54 b 55 b 56 d 57 b 58 a 59 c 60 b

61 b 62 d 63 d 64 b 65 b 66 b 67 a 68 b 69 d 70 a

71 c 72 d 73 d 74 a 75 b 76 a 77 d 78 b 79 a 80 b

81 c 82 a 83 a 84 b 85 d 86 b 87 d 88 b 89 c 90 b

91 d 92 d 93 c 94 a 95 a 96 a 97 d 98 a 99 d 100 b

101 c 102 a 103 b 104 c 105 c 106 b 107 a 108 b 109 d 110 b

111 d 112 d 113 a 114 b 115 c 116 d 117 b 118 b 119 c 120 a

121 c 122 b 123 d 124 a 125 c 126 a 127 b 128 a 129 c 130 c

131 b 132 a 133 b 134 a 135 d 136 b 137 a 138 a 139 a 140 b

141 b 142 d 143 a 144 b 145 c 146 d 147 b 148 a 149 a 150 d

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