Daily gk Doze : 7th May

1. Jai Kumar Garg is the present Managing Director and CEO of which of the following PSBs? The bank won ‘excellence award on empowering MSMEs’ recently.

a) PNB

b) SBI

c) Dena Bank

d) Indian Bank

e) Corporation Bank.....................E

2. The state-run IREDA might be converted into a Green Bank to enable it to access funding from overseas banks. It is associated with

a) rural development

b) insurance sector

c) renewable energy

d) asset restructuring

e) rural irrigation...................C

3. Kotak Mahindra Bank opened its IFSC banking unit at GIFT City in Gujarat recently. Here, the term IFSC stands for

a) Indian Financial Services Centre

b) International Financial Services Centre

c) Institutional Financial Services Centre

d) Integrated Financial Services Centre

e) None of these...................B

4. The annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) was held recently in

a) New Delhi

b) Tokyo

c) Manila

d) Frankfurt

e) Bangkok...............D

5. _________ was honoured with a special statue by the Switzerland govt recently.

a) Late Yash Chopra

b) Shubhash Ghai

c) Sanjay Leela Bhansali

d) Late Raj Kapoor

e) SS Rajamouli...................A

6. Name the Indian author who in May 2016 won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for 2016, for the Asia region for unpublished short fiction 'Cow and Company'.

a) Parashar Kulkarni

b) Kritika Pandey

c) Sumit Ray

d) Vinayak Varma................A

7. Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu on 5 May 2016 dedicated to the nation a high speed Wi-Fi hotspot at three Railway Stations. These railways stations are

a) Vijayawada, Allahabad and Raipur

b) Vijayawada, Kachiguda and Raipur

c) Vijayawada, Kachiguda and Adilabad

d) Ahmednagar, Kachiguda and Adilabad..............B

8. Name the manufacturing company that commissioned 600 mega watts (MW) coal-based thermal power plant in Madhya Pradesh in May 2016.

a) Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL)

b) Bharat Electricals Limited (BEL)

c) Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL)

d) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL)..............A

9. Name the organization whose fundamental principles of official statistics got the approval of Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 4 May 2016.

a) United Nations Organisation (UNO)

b) World Health Organisation (WHO)

c) North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

d) World Trade Organisation (WTO)...........A

10. As announced by the govt recently, phones without facility of panic button cannot be sold in the country starting

a) Sep 2016

b) Dec 2016

c) Jan 2017

d) Apr 2017

e) Jan 2018..................C