Current Updates (IN ENGLISH) of 13 Dec.2016

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1. When is NRI Day is celebrated ?

Answer: 09th January

2. Who is the president of SOUTH AFRICA?

Answer: Jacob Zuma

3. Fidel Castro belongs to which field?

Answer: Former Prime Minister of Cuba

4. India defeated which country in Kabbadi World Cup?

Answer: Iran

5.What is the theme of APEC Summit 2016?

Answer: Quality Growth and Human Development

6. Who won the Jnanpith Award 2016?

Answer: Raghuveer Chaudhary

7. In which state Periyar Tiger Reserve is situated ?

Answer: Kerala

8. Who has introduced UPI ?

Answer: NPCI

9. Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom won the Nobel prize in Economics for-

Answer: their contributions to contract theory”

10. What is the currency of JAMBIA?

Answer: Kwacha

11. what is the capital of Lithuania?

Answer: Vilnius

12. Who is the author of the book ‘Cause of Wealth’?

Answer: Adam Smith

13.Who has been awarded the ‘Dada Saheb Phalke’ 2016 Award?

Answer: Manoj Kumar

14. How many bands of tax rates have been fixed at GST

Answer: Four

15. Who is currently the Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation in the Government of India?

Answer: D. V. Sadananda Gowda

16. Which country has topped the Ease of Doing Business rankings in 2016?

Answer: Singapore

17. How much amount for DeenDayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY)?

Answer: 76,000 crore

18. Which country will host the Games in 2018?

Answer: Indonesia

19. PV Sindhu beat Chinese Sun Yu to win the _______Super Series badminton championship.

Answer: China Open

20. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016?

Answer: Bob Dylan.

21. With the Wimbledon win, Serena Williams has now won 22 Grand Slam titles, a record equal to—

Answer: Steffi Graf

22. Airtel Payments Bank has rolled out its pilot in which state?

Answer: Rajasthan

23. The government of India passed controversial legislation that requires large companies to spend at least ——— of their profits every year on corporate social responsibility (CSR).

Answer: 2 per cent

24. The Walt Disney World Resort celebrated its ——- anniversary.

Answer: 45th

25. Who is the present President of Israel

Answer: Reuven Rivlin

26. What is the Repo Rate after the fourth Bi- Monthly Monetary Pilicy?

Answer: 6.25 Per Cent

27. The Pushkar Fair or locally Pushkar ka Mela is an annual five-day camel and livestock fair held in the town of Pushkar in the state of __________

Answer: Rajasthan

28. No 1 ATP Ranking after US Open?

Answer: Andy Murray

29. Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by Which country’s National University of Defense Technology, retains its position as the world’s No. 1 system with a performance?

Answer: China

30. The world’s most famous mouse (Mickey Mouse ) is celebrating his?

Answer: 88th birthday

31. Union Cabinet approves Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission to drive economic, social and infrastructure development in rural areas. The mission aims to create _____ such Rurban growth clusters over the next 3 years, across the country.

Answer: 300

Q31. Name the person, who has named as Business Person of the Year, 2016 by Fortune magazine.
Answer: Mark Zuckerberg

Q32. Which Indian company has joined hands with General Electric Ventures, Microsoft Ventures and others to set up a new technology incubator in Israel?

Answer: Tata Group

Q33. Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) has launched _________________ medical facilities for its beneficiaries of Delhi.

Answer: Kahin Bhi-Kabhi Bhi

Q34. Which Indian city has been termed as the country’s breast cancer capital, with cases at a record high of 40 per lakh of population?

Answer: Thiruvananthapuram

Q35. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has set up a task force under Deputy Governor_________ to oversee the recalibration of ATM machines after the country introduced new banknotes to replace old 500 rupee and 1,000 rupee notes.

Answer: S S Mundra

Q36. The merger between Bharti Airtel Ltd and Robi Axiata Ltd was completed to create the second largest telecom company in which country?

Answer: Bangladesh

Q37. Which state govt recently launched a programme named “Har Ghar Bijli Lagataar” to provide free electricity connection to about 50 lakh households above the poverty line?

Answer: Bihar

Q38. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully tested its unmanned combat aerial vehicle recently which is named

Answer: Rustom-2

Q39. The deadline set by the RBI for banks to clean up their balance sheets is

Answer: March 2017

Q40. Over 20 countries signed the framework agreement of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) at Marrakech, in Morocco recently. The ISA is headquartered in-

Answer: Gurugram, India

Q41. Who has been named Australia’s first female High Court chief justice ending 113 years of men leading the nation’s highest court?
Answer: Susan Kiefel

Q42. Who won the 2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix F1 championship?

Answer: Lewis Hamilton

Q43. Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar kicked off another resolve of his saat nischay (seven resolves) programme with the project to provide a power connection to every household by ……………?

Answer: Bhutan

Q44. Who will be head a committee of Chief Ministers to suggest measures to reduce hardships caused to the common man by demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes by the Modi government?

Answer: Chandrababu Naidu

Q45. __________ village in Sabarkantha district of Gujarat recently has earned the title of becoming the 1st digital village in India.

Answer: Akodara

Q46. Name the actress-turned-author, who has shared the first look of her second book titled ‘The Legend Of Lakshmi Prasad’.
Answer: Twinkle Khanna
Q47. Every Nobel Prize in 2016 will be worth 8 million krona, or about $930,000. Krona is the currency of-
Answer: Sweden
Q48.The Union Cabinet has approved the establishment of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) at…………?
Answer: (a) Jammu, Jammu & Kashmir
Q49. How much amount India has donated to the Nelson Mandela Foundation?
Answer: Rs. 9.3 million
Q50.The Arena by TransStadia in __________, venue of the ongoing Kabaddi World Cup, is India’s first convertible stadium.
Answer: Ahmedabad

 

 

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