1. The Parliament has passed the Payment of Wages Amendment Bill 2017 which will benefit workers by ensuring fair payment of wages through
1) intermediaries
2) cash counters
3) essential goods supply
4) bank accounts
5) None of these
2. In its monetary policy statement on 8 Feb, the RBI pegged the economic growth of the country in 2017-18 at
1) 7.1%
2) 7.6%
3) 7.4%
4) 7.3%
5) 7.8%
3. Himanta Biswa Sarma is the present Finance Minister of which state? He presented Rs 2,349.79-cr deficit Budget for 2017-18 recently.
1) West Bengal
2) Jharkhand
3) Uttarakhand
4) Assam
5) Odisha
4. India and Austria have signed a protocol to amend the existing treaty for Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion. The currency of Austria is
1) Krone
2) Dong
3) Rand
4) Peso
5) Euro
5. _________ has become the first state in the northeast to implement e-cabinet solution for the state cabinet members.
1) Assam
2) Tripura
3) Mizoram
4) Nagaland
5) Arunachal Pradesh
6. The fourth edition of BIMSTEC Summit-2017 will be held in
1) Sri Lanka
2) Thailand
3) Nepal
4) Myanmar
5) Bangladesh
7. _______ has become the world’s largest producer of solar energy in 2016.
1) China
2) India
3) US
4) Germany
5) France
8. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has entered into four more unilateral APAs. The term APA stands for
1) Advance Procurement Agreement
2) Accurate Pricing Agreement
3) Accredited Pricing Agreement
4) Advance Pricing Agreement
5) None of these
9. The Govt has appointed who among the following as part-time Non-Official Directors on the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India for a four-year term?
1) Rajiv Kumar
2) Manish Sabharwal
3) Ashok Gulati
4) All of them
5) Only 1) and 3)
10. Who among the following is the Parliamentary Affairs Minister in the present Union Cabinet?
1) Ananth Kumar
2) Venkaiah Naidu
3) Narendra Singh Tomar
4) Ravi Shankar Prasad
5) DV Sadananda Gowda
Answers –
- 4
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 5
- 3
- 1
- 4
- 4
- 1