Simply Questions and Answers For Upcoming Exams ====================================== 1. Supreme Court recently appointed one man commission to probe 2006 Meerut fire tragedy. The one man commission will be headed by? Ans: Justice (retd) S B Sinha 2. Which Bollywood star was appointed as horticulture ambassador by the Maharashtra government? Ans: Amitabh Bachchan 3. Narendra Modi led government on 26 July 2014 launched the MyGov web platform to facilitate--- Ans: Citizen engagement in good governance 4. World Hepatitis Day was observed on Ans: 28 July 5. Who is the author of the book The Vijaya Mallya Story published recently? Ans: K Giriprakash 6. Which Indian author has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 recently? Ans: Neel Mukherjee 7. Indian Air Force on 28 July 2014 received its sixth C-17 Globemaster III aircraft. Name the country from which India has procured these aircraft? Ans: The USA 8. Who was recently elected as the seventh President of Iraq? Ans: Fuad Masum 9. Who took over as the Chairman of the Chief of Staff Committee on 30 July 2014? Ans: Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha 10. Who became the fourth Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India on 30 July 2014? Ans: S S Mundra LikeLike · · Share Ca Keshav Mahajan and Sayandip De like this. Deshpande Susandhi-Koutilya Fellowship Program Write a comment... IBPS Clerk Exam Interview 38 minutes ago Recent 10 Appointments : =========================== 1. Ramesh Chand Tayal appointed as CRPF Special Director-General 2. Finance Minister Ahmet Davutoglu named as Prime Minister of Turkey 3. Thai coup leader Prayuth Chan-ocha elected as Prime Minister of Thailand 4. Rajni Razdan became UPSC Chairperson 5. K.V. Chowdary appointed as new Chairman of... See More 1 ShareLikeLike · · Share Sayandip De and Ca Keshav Mahajan like this. Deshpande Susandhi-Koutilya Fellowship Program Write a comment... IBPS Clerk Exam Interview Yesterday Current Affairs : Banking ====================================== 1) The Reserve Bank of India on 14 August 2014 announced its decision to reduce the number of mandated free transactions for savings bank account holders at other bank ATMs located in six metro cities from five to three per month. This reduction would come into effect from which date? – 1 November 2014 2) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 6 August 2014 issued guidelines for asset reconstruction companies (ARCs) to increase their investments in security receipts (SRs) with the objective of strengthening the asset recovery sector. What is the minimum prescribed percentage of funds that ARCs would now have to invest in SRs as directed in this RBI guideline? – 15% 3) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) presented its bi-monthly policy review on 5 August 2014. It kept the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) unchanged at 8.0%. It also left the cash reserve ratio (CRR) of scheduled banks unchanged at 4.0% of net demand and time liabilities (NDTL). However, which was the only major rate to be changed in this policy review? – The Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) 4) Indian Parliament on 12 August 2014 passed the bill to empower SEBI to act against ponzi operators and market manipulators more effectively. What is the name of this bill? – The Securities Law (Amendment) Bill, 2014 5) India’s capital market regulator SEBI cleared final guidelines for creation and listing of business trusts for key sectors of real estate and infrastructure on 10 August 2014. These guidelines have been cleared to help attract greater foreign and domestic investments into these sectors. What are the names of business trusts associated with real estate and infrastructure which would be created and listed with these SEBI guidelines? – Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs) 6) In order to solve the ongoing tussle between India and the WTO (World Trade Organisation), India during August 2014 suggested fixing of the base year for food subsidies on the basis of average of last three years. What is the year proposed by the WTO to be taken as the base year? – 1986-87 7) SEBI gave its approval to single registration for stock brokers during August 2014. What would be the main benefit for brokers with this approval? – Now the brokers would not need to obtain multiple certificates from SEBI for operating in the different segments of equity, equity derivatives, currency derivative and debt 8) Petroleum Ministry during August 2014 accorded its in-principle approval for stake-sale in ONGC which may fetch the government about Rs. 18,000 crore to meet disinvestment target for the current fiscal. For this how much stake- sale in the company is proposed? – 5% 9) Indian Railways during August 2014 launched a contact-less smart card enabling passengers to pay for reserved as well as unreserved travelling train tickets as part of a pilot project. What is the name of this smart card with lifetime validity? – ‘Go-India’ 10) What is the name of the proposed airline of Tata-SIA Airlines Limited (TSAL), a joint- venture between Tata Group and Singapore International Airlines (SIA)? – ‘Vistara’
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