Must Do Current Affairs for IBPS PO Mains 2017
Q1. Name the platform for property buyers & sellers that has recently announced the launch of India's first online bidding platform for residential and commercial properties and tied-up with developer M3M for the inaugural 'My Bid, My Home' program.
Answer: Magicbricks
Q2. Name the Australian pacer who has recently retired from Test Match and ODIs citing recurring injuries as the reason.
Answer: John Hastings
Q3. In which city, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will set up a research centre for start ups, academicians, environmentalists and entrepreneurs?
Answer: Guwahati
Q4. Name the Former Union minister and socialist leader who passed away recently due to age-related ailments.
Answer: Purushottam Lal Kaushik
Q5. Which is the first law firm to have opened an office at Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT)?
Answer: J Sagar Associates
Q6. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid the foundation stone for Bhadbhut Barrage to be built over ______________ Gujarat.
Answer: Narmada River
Q7. President Ram Nath Kovind has launched 100 crore rupees Mata Amritanandamayi Math Project named ______________ to provide filtration system for cleaning drinking water to 5000 villages across India.
Answer: Jeevamritham
Q8. A group of ministers (GoM) has been set up under Assam Finance Minister _____________ to make the composition scheme more attractive and also revisit GST rates on restaurants.
Answer: Himanta Biswa Sarma
Q9. Name the Indian Snooker Player who has clinched the World Open Under-16 Snooker Championship title at St. Petersburg in Russia.
Answer: Anupama Ramachandran
Q10. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is hosting an international conference on “Dialogue of Civilizations – IV” at Delhi, Gandhinagar and Dholavira. The first conference of this series was inaugurated in ___________ in 2013.
Answer: Guatemala
Q11. The Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh inaugurated the four-day First ‘BIMSTEC Disaster Management Exercise- 2017’ in ___________.
Answer: New Delhi
Q12. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2017 to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). ICAN headquarters in ________________.
Answer: Geneva, Switzerland
Q13. What is the ranking of India among the most valuable nation brand, according to Brand Finance’s Nation Brands list 2017?
Answer: 08th
Q14. Who is the present President of Washington D. C. headquartered World Bank?
Answer: Jim Yong Kim
Q15. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated the third International Conference on Yoga. The theme of this year’s conference is ____________________.
Answer: Yoga for Wellness
