1. The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council has decided that businesses in rest of India (excluding those in Northeastern and hill states) with annual turnover below _______ would be out of the GST net.
1) Rs 10 lakh
2) Rs 15 lakh
3) Rs 20 lakh
4) Rs 25 lakh
5) Rs 30 lakh
2. The six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) made India’s first collective interest rate decision on 4 Oct. What is the new repo rate?
1) 7.25 per cent
2) 7 per cent
3) 6.75 per cent
4) 6.50 per cent
5) 6.25 per cent
3. As decided by the RBI, the statutory liquidity ratio (SLR) of banks will come down 0.25 per cent every quarter till Jan 2017. What is the present SLR?
1) 20.50 per cent
2) 20.75 per cent
3) 21.25 per cent
4) 21.50 per cent
5) 21.75 per cent
4. Who among the following has/have received the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2016 for their discovery of a mathematical framework in the field of topography?
1) David J Thouless
2) Duncan M Haldane
3) J Michael Kosterlitz
4) All the above
5) Only 2) and 3)
5. The week 4-10 Oct every year is observed as
1) World Space Week
2) World Wildlife Week
3) World Refugee Week
4) World Charity Week
5) World Maritime Week
6. Which of the following Indian banks has announced its entry into Myanmar by opening a branch in the capital city of Yangon, the first domestic lender to do so?
1) Punjab National Bank
2) Indian Overseas Bank
3) Central Bank of India
4) Bank of Baroda
5) State Bank of India
7. __________ has been appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite (Knight in the National Order of Merit), one of the highest civilian recognitions of the French govt.
1) Rajendra Singh
2) Prajna Chowta
3) Irom Chanu Sharmila
4) Arundhati Roy
5) Medha Patkar
8. Dassault Aviation of France has entered into a partnership with which of the following Indian firms to execute offsets for the recently concluded deal for 36 Rafale fighter jets?
1) L&T
2) Reliance
3) Tata
4) Mahindra
5) Godrej
9. The playback singer KJ Yesudas has been roped in by which of the following state govts as the brand ambassador of its ambitious project envisaged for a garbage-free and clean state?
1) Tamil Nadu
2) Kerala
3) Karnataka
4) Maharashtra
5) Andhra Pradesh
10. Fiscal deficit in the first five months of the current fiscal stood at Rs 4.08 lakh cr, which was _______ of Budget estimates for 2016-17.
1) 55.3 per cent
2) 65.6 per cent
3) 72.6 per cent
4) 76.4 per cent
5) 87.2 per cent
