Daily Current Tablet 21st December, 2016

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1. Name the poet, whos’e statue get’s place at haridwar mela bhawan inaugurated by Chief minister Harish Rawat, 2016?

2. With how many countries india have signed Open Skies Agreement at International Civil Aviation Negotiations (ICAN) – 2016?

3. Name the city, where is the 9th World Confluence of Humanity, Power and Spirituality held in 2016?

4. Name the company, which has launched world’s first chat operating system”FlockOS”?

5. Name the ministry, which has won gold in the Web Ratna category in the Digital India awards 2016?

6. Who is the newly appointed CEO of Noida Authority?

7. Name the bank, which has bagged the SKOCH silver award for attaining the position of number1 channel partner of LIC of India?

8. As part of plans to merge some of the tribunals into larger entities to avoid identical functions, Government is looking to converge which two organization ?

9. Name the football team, which has won the Indian Super League title, 2016?

10. Who has won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award 2016?

Daily Current Tablet: 25th August, 2016

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1. Expand the terms NPCI and UPI?

2. __ banks to go live with Unified Payments Interface.

3. Name the state, which has signed Agreement On Godavari Projects with Telangana?

4. Name the app, which has bagged this year’s Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI)’s healthcare excellence award

5. Recently Union Railway minister Suresh Prabhu has commissioned new Indian Railways line in which state?

6. The Union Cabinet has cleared the draft Surrogacy Bill 2016, aimed at regulating commissioning of surrogacy in the country in a proper manner?

7. Name the Institute, which has inks pact with varsity to boost marine life research?

8. Recently Union Cabinet has approved how many railway projects to boost infrastructure sector?

9. Name the country, which has joined hands for Air Services agreement?

10. Name the state, which has announced that Sakshi Malik, India’s bronze medalist at the Rio Olympics, will be the brand ambassador of the Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao campaign?

11. who is the Minster for state (MoS) for Minority Affairs?

Daily Current Tablet: 24th August, 2016

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1. Name the seventh state, which has passed Goods and Service Tax (GST) Constitution Amendment Bill?

2. Name the Indian-American, who have been elected for the prestigious White House Fellow programme?

3. Name the country, which has signed an agreement that aims to foster conditions?

4. Name the Mathrubhumi former editor, who has passed away recently?

5. Name the scientist , who has been appointed as VC of Homi Bhabha National Institute?

6. Name the country. which has 7th placed, according to a report by New World Wealth?

7. Ministry of Civil Aviation, Govt of Maharashtra and ____ sign MOU on Regional Connectivity Scheme.

8. Name the state, which has draft its own internal security act?

9. Name the sixth state, which has passed Goods and Service Tax (GST) Constitution Amendment Bill?

10. Name the Akashvani channel, which has launched by President Pranab Mukherjee?

11. Name the Mahindra Asset Management Company, which has launched an open-ended scheme?

12. Name the country, which has launched its first national language search engine ‘Yongzin’?

Daily Current Tablet: 23th August, 2016

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1. Name the Mahindra Asset Management Company, which has launched an open-ended scheme?

Answer. Mahindra Mutual Fund Kar Bachat Yojana

2. Name the country, which has launched its first national language search engine ‘Yongzin’?

Answer. China

3. Bajaj Finance ties up with which department to facilitate two-wheeler purchase?

Answer. India Post

4. Name the state, which has drafted to create 17 new districts in Oct?

Answer. Telangana

5. Name the person, who has been selected for the Asian Filmmaker of the Year Award at the Busan International Film Festival beginning October 6?

Answer. Abbas Kiarostami

6. Name the state, which will be hosted the Kabaddi World Cup 2016?

Answer. Gujrat

7. GAIL has signed MoU with which company for fuel cell power generation?

Answer. Bloom Energy

Answer. Vikas Anand

8. Who is the Governor of Punjab and Chief minister?

Answer. V P Singh Badnore And Prakash Singh Badal

9. Name the person, who has resigned as the Director Finance and CFO (KMP) of Bharat Electronics Ltd?

Answer. P R Acharya

10. Name the persons, who have appointed as joint Secretaries in PMO as part of massive mid-level reshuffle?

Answer. Brajendra Navnit and V Sheshari

11. Who is the Lieutenant Governor Of Andaman And Nicobar?

Answer. Jagdish Mukhi

12. Name the person, who has won a double to clinch the title in the MRF Formula 1600 category?

Answer. Vikas Anand

Daily Current Tablet: 19th August, 2016

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1. Name the tennis players, who have won the Abierto Mexicano Los Cabos?

Answer. Indian tennis player Purav Raja – Divij Sharan
2. NMCG has signed MoU with which company for industrial use of treated water?

Answer. Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)

3. Expand the term NMCG?

Answer. National mission for Clean Ganga

4. The Government slaps $380 mn additional fine on which company?

Answer. Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL)

5. Name the state, which has as earmarked Rs 10,000 crore for state-run and aided schools for the next 5 years?

Answer. Kerala

6. Name the Bank, which has launched a payment service using a smartphone keyboard named ‘iMobile SmartKeys’.

Answer – ICICI

7. Name the sprinter, who has the men’s 200 metres title?

Answer. Usain Bolt

8. Name the minister, who has launched Portal For E-Auction Of Power Transmission Projects?

Answer. Piyush Goyal

9. Name the person, who has re-elected as President of Zambia?

Answer. Edgar Lungu

10. Name the bank, which has opens its first branch in Kerala?

Answer. Doha Bank, QSC

11. Name the state, which has received the highest number of gallantry medals for police personnel in the country on the eve of Independence Day?

Answer. Telangana

12. Name the cricketer, who has selected Donja village in Osmanabad district of Maharashtra for development under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojna (SAGY)?

Answer – Sachin Tendulkar

Daily Current Tablet: 16th August, 2016

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1. Name the state, which has passed Amusements and Betting Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2016?

Answer. Assam

2. Name the state, which has announced credit card scheme?

Answer. Bihar

3. Name the person, who has bagged the Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Award for meritorious services in the Higher Education Department of Tamil Nadu?

Answer. P Shanmugam

4. Name the state, which has decided to make Aadhaar card mandatory for procurement of paddy in the state?

Answer. Odisha

5. Name the person, who has won Brazil’s first Olympic pole vault gold medal in Rio?

Answer. Da silva

6. Name the company, which accuired a leading global engine cooling supplier?

Answer. Tata Autocomp

7. Name the sprinter, who has won gold in men’s 100 meters in Rio Olympics?

Answer. Usain Bolt

8. Name the company, which has bagged contract to convert Nagpur into integrated smart city?

Answer. L&T

9. Auto component maker Spark Minda group flagship firm, Minda Corporation Ltd has formed a joint venture with which compny for auto components?

Answer. China’s Shandong Beiqi Hai Hua Automobile Parts Co (SBHAP)

10. Name the company, which has secured an order to set up solar photovoltaic (SPV) plants, estimated to cost Rs 169 crore?

Answer. BHEL

11. Name the person, who has won the hammer throw gold?

Answer. Wlodarczyk

Daily Current Tablet: 15th August, 2016

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1. Name the persons, who have won the award best actress and best actor at the Indian Film Festival (IFF) of Melbourne 2016?

Answer. Actress sonam (neeraja),actr(nawazuddin siddique fr raman raghav 2.0) best film kapoor & sons

2. Name the bank, which has announced the launch of a co-branded card called the Times Points Debit Card?

Answer. South Indian Bank

3. Union Minister launches clean cooking fuel scheme for BPL women in which state?

Answer. West Bengal

4. Expand the term PMUY and who is the Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas?

Answer. Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana

5. Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has bagged the how many Medals for Young Scientists award 2016?

Answer. 5 Medals

6. Name the company, which has acquired gaming startup Beam?

Answer. Microsoft

7. Recently, Union Ministers M Venkaiah Naidu and Uma Bharti has jointly launched ‘Smart Ganga City’ programme in how many cities?

Answer. 10 cities

8. Name the player, who has won the Australian Open squash?

Answer. Dipika Pallikal

9. IRDAI has imposed Rs 35 lakh fine on which insurrance company for violation of various norms including outsourcing activities and corporate governance guidelines?

Answer. Bharti AXA General Insurance

10. Name the Bank which has launched USSD based mobile app for basic banking needs with NPCI?

Answer. UNION BANK OF INDIA

11. Expand the term USSD?

Answer. UNSTRUCTURED SUPPLEMENTARY SERVICE DATA

Daily Current Tablet: 12th August, 2016

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1. Name the person who has inaugurated the first ‘Sewa Kendra’ in Punjab?

Answer. Parkash singh badal

2. Total how many Sewa Kendras have been constructed at a cost of Rs 500 crore?

Answer. 2147

3. Name the company. which has recived order from KCT Renewable Energy Pvt Ltd for a 40 MW wind power project located at Molagavalli site in Andhra Pradesh?

Answer. Gamesa spainsh company

4. Name the person who has been rehired by Apple for Health Software Role?

Answer. Evan Doll

5. Total how many news IITs have got the nod to set up by President Pranab Mukherjee?

Answer. 6

6. What will be the new name of Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad?

Answer. Indian Institute of Technology,Dhanbad.

7. Name the person, who has inaugurated the Independence Day Film Festival in Delhi’s Siri Fort Auditorium?

Answer. M Venkaiah Naidu

8. Rajya Sabha has named how many MPs to Joint Committee of Parliament on the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016?

Answer. 10

9. Who is the Minister of state for Home Affairs?

Answer. Hansraj Gangaram

10. Name the state, where is Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary situated?

Answer. Kerala

11. Name the person who has appointed as the MD of Microsoft India’s Research Lab?

Answer. Sriram Rajamani

12. Who has been succeeded by Mr. Rajamani as the MD of Microsoft India’s Research Lab?

Answer. Chandu thikath.

13. Name the state, which has become the first state to ratify the Goods and Services Tax (GST) constitution amendment Bill?

Answer. Assam

14. Name the bank which has announced the availability of Flipkart’s mobile site in its mobile banking app?

Answer. Kotak Mahindra Bank

15. Name the person, who has appointed as next HC to Ghana?

Answer. Birender Singh Yadav

16. Name the company, which has has inaugurated the country’s first facility to produce nickel?

Answer. Hindustan Copper Limited

17. Name the bank, which has sanctions Rs 26.06 crore to Punjab?

Answer. NABARD

18. Name the companies which are going to merge themselves for creating a new entity with combined revenue of Rs. 60,000 crore?

Answer. Aditya Birla Nuvo and Grasim

19. Name the anti-trust authority, which has fined google of $6.8million?

Answer. Russian Antitrust Authority

20. The Reserve Bank of India has transferred how much surplus amount to the government of India?

Answer. Rs. 65,876cr

21. Name the space agency, which has selected 6 United States companies to help develop prototypes and concepts of deep space habitats for future manned missions to Mars?

Answer. NASA

22. India’s first of its kind touch-and-feel garden for visually impaired has been inaugurated at which place?

Answer. Kerala

23. Who has inaugurated the India’s first of its kind touch-and-feel garden for visually impaired?

Answer. Kerala Assembly Speaker P.Sreeramakrishnan

24. The government has spent how much amount to fulfil Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship Swachh Bharat Mission in 2015-16?

Answer. 6500 cr

Daily Current Tablet: 11th August, 2016

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1. Name the person, who is released the book titled Uttarakhand: Fifteen Years of Development, edited by former chief secretary R S Tolia?

Answer. Krishna kant Paul

2. Name the company, which has the purchase of US based machine-learning startup Turi for $200m to boost artificial intelligence?

Answer. Apple

3. Name the person, who is appointed as MD of Dassault Systemes?

Answer. Samson Khaou

4. Name the place where IKYA has laid the foundation for its first store in India?

Answer. Hyderabad

5. Name the company, which has acquired by human resources services provider Randstad Holding?

Answer. Monster

6. Name the artificial intelligence startup which has been bought by the tech giant Intel?

Answer. Nervana systems

7. Name the state, which have have signed the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Power to join the Ujwal Discom Assurance scheme?

Answer. Madhya Pradesh & Puducherry

8. Name the person who has quit Alphabet Inc’s, venture capital arm of Google?

Answer. Bill Maris

9. Who will replace Mr. Bill Maris as the CEO of Alphabet Inc?

Answer. David Krane

10. Name the person, who is appointed as the Director (Power),BHEL?

Answer. Akhil Joshi

11. Name the person who has been appointed as the brand ambassador for Savlon?

Answer. Saina Nehwal

12. Name the department, which has constituted a committee to review the Media Policy for communicating the activities headed by whom?

Answer. Gopal Mukherjee

13. Name the organisation with which IRCTC has signed a MoU to get ready-to-eat food straight out of packet?

Answer. DRDO

14. Name the state which is now going to implement the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana?

Answer. Bihar

15. The Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana has replaced which scheme?

Answer. National corporation insurance scheme

16. The Union Cabinet has approved the extension of maternity leave from 12 weeks to how many weeks?

Answer. 26 Weeks

17. Name the person who has topped the list of ‘100 Richest Tech Billionaires In The World 2016’?

Answer. Bill Gates

18. Name the two Indians who have made their names in ‘100 Richest Tech Billionaires In The World 2016’?
Answer. Azim Premji and Shiv Nadar

19. Name the person who is going to launch a data bank today to gather MSMEs info?

Answer. Arun Jaitley

20. Name the tennis pair, which has decided to end their astonishing partnership?

Answer. Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis

21. Name the app, which has launched at Delhi University for helping women?

Answer. ‘I Feel Safe’

22. Name the person who has been appointed as the MD of Max Hypermarkets India?

Answer. Rajiv Krishan

Daily Current Tablet: 10th August, 2016

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1. Name the person who has been appointed as the Managing Director of SBI?

Answer. Mr. Dinesh Kumar Khara

2. Name the state, which has launched ‘Quit India’ movement’ gainst various social ills?

Answer. Maharashtra

3. Name all the four G Ms who have been appointed as the Executive Directors in various banks recently by the ACC?

Answer. Mr. Ashok Kumar Garg – Bank of Baroda, Mr. Raj Kamal Verma – Union Bank of India, Gopal Murli Bhagat – Corporation Bank and Himanshu Joshi – Oriental Bank of Commerce.

4. Name the State, which has entered into a collaboration with Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research in low emission technologies?

Answer. Alipuraj, Madhya Pradesh

5. Name the place where PM Modi has launched the Yaad Karo Kurbani celebrations?

Answer. NTPC

6. Name the satellite which has been launched by China to get accurate images of the earth?

Answer. Gaofen 3

7. Name the cricketer, who has placed topped in latest MRF player Rankings for Test Bowlers?

Answer. James Anderson

8. Name the Institute, which has signed MOU with NHAI for research project on Laboratory and Field investigations on Paneled Cement Concrete Pavements for Highways?

Answer. IIT Kharagpur

9. Name the place where the commercial operation of 80 MW and 50 MW solar power plants has been started?

Answer. Telangana

10. Name the company which has sold its urea business to Yara?

Answer. Tata Chemicals

11. Name the state, which has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which seeks to provide improved hospitality and tourism services?

Answer. Manipur

12. Name the person who is going to be the head of a committee on reviewing e-commerce rules?

Answer. Mr. Amitabh Kant, NITI Aayog CEO

13. Which nuclear power plant will be dedicated to the nation by Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa, PM Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin?

Answer. Kudankulam plant

14. Name the country, which has top Of Wikipedia’s Priorities’?

Answer. India

15. Name the person who has launched a social media campaign to mark the Daughters Day?

Answer. Maneka Gandhi,Minister of women and child development

16. Name the person, who has appointed as Sri Lanka’s coaching consultant?

Answer. Chaminda Vaas

17. Name the state, which has started to Rescue and Rehabilitation of the missing children, Integrating the activities with Child protection activities in the state?

Answer. Odisha

18. Name the organisation, which has inked a pact with US Energy Information Administration (EIA)?

Answer. NITI Aayog