1.RBI cuts repo rate by 25 basis points to ________.
a) 7.5%
b) 6.5%
c) 6.0%
d) 5.5%
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Answer b) 6.5%. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut its key policy rate, the repo rate — the rate at which it lends to banks — by 25 basis points to a five-year low of 6.50 per cent while indicating a further cut in the offing.
2. In which state sanctuary for white tigers will be opened?
a) Madhya Pradesh
b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Mahrashtra
d) Rajasthan
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Answer a) Madhya Pradesh.Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan inaugurated the world’s maiden ‘White Tiger Safari‘ at Mukundpur in Satna district in the state’s Vindhya region where the feline was first discovered more than 100 years ago. The first of its kind safari has cost Rs. 50 crore and is spread over an area of 25 hectares.
3. India’s fastest train launched. Name it.
a) Fast n Tez express
b) Speed Express
c) Gati Express
d) Gatimaan Express
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Answer d) Gatimaan Express. India has launched its “fastest train” capable of running at a maximum speed of 160km (100 miles) an hour. Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu flagged off the Gatimaan Express, which connects Nizamuddin station in the capital, Delhi, with the northern town of Agra. .
4. Snapdeal launches donation program. Name it.
a) Sunshine
b) DonateIt
c) Donatea Life
d) Jovline
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Answer a) Sunshine. Snapdeal has partnered with 9 non governmental organisations (NGOs) to launch Snapdeal Sunshine, a platform where users can make donations to causes under education, health, sports, women empowerment, disaster relief and old age care. These organisations include Magic Bus, Akshaya Patra, Care India, Teach For India and HelpAge India, which will list required products for ongoing projects.
5. _______becomes largest freight loading railway zone?
a) South Coast Railway
b) North Coast Railway
c) East Coast Railway
d) West Coast Railway
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Answer c) East Coast Railway. East Coast Railway (ECoR) has emerged as the largest freight loading railway zone of Indian Railways in 2015-16. ECoR loaded 173.49 million tonnes of freight compared to 161.91 million tonnes achieved in the corresponding period previous year and registered an increase of 7.1 per cent.
6.Third phase of Mission__________ begins.
a) Aryan
b) Indradhanush
c) Vijay
d) None of the above
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Answer b) Indradhanush. The third phase of Health Ministry’s vaccination drive Mission Indradhanush has began. A total of 216 Districts across several States including Bihar, Gujarat, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh will be covered in this phase.
7.National Summit on Family Planning 2016 concluded in ______.
a) Hyderabad
b) New Delhi
c) Mumbai
d) Ahamedabad
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Answer b) New Delhi. The National Summit on Family Planning concluded in New Delhi. The summit was held for two days with the theme New Choices, New Horizons.
8. Which Government imposes complete ban on alcohol?
a) Rajasthan
b) Punjab
c) Bihar
d) Uttar Pradesh
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Answer c) Bihar.The Nitish Kumar government declared Bihar a dry State while imposing total prohibition on the sale and consumption of liquor, both country-made and Indian-Made Foreign Liquor, with immediate effect. Earlier, following an excise amendment law, the ban on country-made liquor had become effective across the State from April 1.
9. Who has been sworn in as 9th President of Vietnam?
a) Daisham Quzng
b) Tranoi Quing
c) Mathew Perry
d) Tran Dai Quang
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Answer d) Tran Dai Quang. Tran Dai Quang, Minister of Public Security, sworn in as the 9th President of Vietnam. Among the 481 valid votes, 452 out of the total 494 members of the unicameral house, elected Quang, as the president. A resolution approving Quang’s presidency was also backed 93.12 per cent of the NA deputies at the plenary session. Truong Tan Sang was the 8th President of Vietnam.
10.World’s first public dengue vaccination programme launched in_______.
a) India
b) Philippines
c) Vietnam
d) USA
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Answer b) Philippines. The world’s first public dengue vaccination programme was launched in the Philippines as nurses began injecting the first batch of a million children with a French drug to combat the sometimes deadly disease .
11.Google launches Android Auto in ________.
a) India
b) Philippines
c) Vietnam
d) USA
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Answer a) India. Android Auto, Google’s in-car operating system, is now available in eighteen new countries, including Brazil and India. It is launched in Puerto Rico. This is Android Auto’s biggest international roll out so far and increases the number of countries it is available in from 11 to 29.
12. _______ unveils world’s thinnest laptop?
a) Dell
b) HP
c) Lenovo
d) Samsung
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Answer b) HP. Personal computers and printing major HP Inc launched eight new personal products including the world’s thinnest laptop at 10.4 mm thickness, a calling device and a business notebook. According to the company ‘Spectre’ is the world’s thinnest laptop and has a battery life of up to nine and a half hours.
13. Future Group acquires_______.
a) Decor
b) FabFurnish
c) Furnishing
d) None of the above
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Answer b) FabFurnish. Marking its first buyout of an internet store, Kishore Biyani-led Future Group is set to buy online furniture store, FabFurnish.com. The Group may pay anywhere between Rs 15 and Rs 20 crore in cash and will be largely doing so for the brand FabFurnish, the report adds, citing two people aware of the development.
14. Gato Barbieri who passed away was a/an________.
a) Actor
b) saxophonist
c) Tennis Player
d) Writer
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Answer b) saxophonist. Latin Jazz saxophonist Leandro “Gato” Barbieri, who composed the Grammy-winning music for the steamy Marlon Brando film Last Tango in Paris and recorded dozens of albums over a career spanning more than seven decades, has died at age 83.
