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1. 2016 Empathy Global Index 2016 of 170 Top Companies has been topped by - _____________________ ?

Facebook
Google
Microsoft
TCS
None of These


2. 2016 Global Terrorism Index (GTI) by Sydney‚­based think‚­tank Institute for Economics & Peace ‚­ India is ranked _____________ among 163 countries in list of most impacted nations by terrorism. Iraq is worst hit by terror in 2015, followed by Afghanistan and Nigeria ?

12th
4th
8th
6th
None of These


3. 2016 World Power Language Index (PLI) by World Economic Forum (WEF) ‚­ ___________ is ranked as most powerful languages in world. Over 6,000 languages spoken in world. Hindi is ranked at 10th ?

German
French
Urdu
English
None of These


4. Black List named A biopic of American Artist ____________, named Blond Ambition (written by Elyse Hollander) as most admired unproduced film script currently in Hollywood ?

Adele
Shakira
Pitbull
Rihanna
Madonna


5. A Powerful 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck off coast of Sumatra (__________) ?

Malaysia
Thailand
Indonesia
Sri Lanka
None of These


6. A deep water port built in ____________’s Sittwe by India is will be started soon. It will open Kolkata‚­Mizoram trade route via __________ ?

Myanmar
Thailand
Indonesia
Sri Lanka
None of These


7. According to Forbes magazine's Report ‚­ India has surpassed ___________________ to become world’s sixth‚­largest economy in GDP terms, for the first time. It is mainly due to Consistent (Around 7 % Growth) in India's GDP ?

USA
United Kingdom
Russia
Spain
None of These


8. According to IHS Jane’s Defence Budgets report 2016 ‚­ India surpassed Russia, France, Japan and Saudi Arabia to become world’s fourth largest defence spender. India spent ______________ Billion USD on defence in 2016 (up from 46.6 Billion USD in 2015). Top 3 ‚­ United States (662 Billion USD), China (192 Billion USD), UK (53.81 Billion USD) ?

50.67
52.67
54.67
56.67
None of These


9. As per report Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) by International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, _____________ students are world’s best in Mathematics and Science ?

Singapore
USA
UK
Russia
None of These


10. MOU between Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and ____________ Geological Survey approved for Cooperation in exchange and use of Land Remote Sensing Satellite Data ?

UK
Russia
France
USA
None of These


11. Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India (ALIMCO) signed MoU with ___________ based Motivation Charitable trust to produce affordable wheel chairs in India ?

Russia
USA
France
UK
None of These


12. _____________ Government inaugurated a Solar Battery Station at Bindhakata Tengapukhuri village in Dibrugarh, which will help in fulfilling power requirements of 4 villages of area ?

Nagaland
Assam
Mizoram
Manipur
None of These


13. Bank of ______________ issued new 5 Euro Note that contains controversial substance tallow, derived from animal fat ?

Russia
USA
Spain
France
England


14. _________, Co‚­founder and CEO of China’s largest ride‚­sharing service provider Didi Chuxing (Didi) is named as Forbes Asia’s Businessman of the Year for 2016 ?

Cheng Wei
Jack Ma
Kwon Oh-hyun
Jong-Kyun Shin
None of These


15. ____________ and Pakistan launched direct rail and sea freight service with first cargo train departing from Yunnan province. ?

Japan
Vietnam
Myanmar
China
None of These


16. ___________ commissioned its Heaviest (seven‚­tonne) helicopter ‚­ AC352. Meant for civil search and rescue operations specially ?

Japan
Myanmar
China
Vietnam
None of These


17. ______________ has provided 15.80 billion Rupees to Nepal for post‚­quake reconstruction activities ?

Japan
China
Myanmar
India
None of These


18. ________ launched a new cargo service linking Tibet and Nepal as part of its One Belt and One Road (OBOR) initiative, to boost trade with South Asian neighbours ?

Japan
China
Myanmar
India
None of These


19. _________ launched global carbon dioxide (CO2) monitoring satellite TanSat, to understand effects of climate change. It became 3rd country after Japan and United States to have its own satellite to monitor greenhouse gases (GHGs) ?

USA
Japan
Russia
China
None of These


20. _________ launched its first fully‚­owned overseas satellite ground station located about 200 kms north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden. It will enable it to collect satellite data anywhere on Earth at fastest speed in world ?

China
Japan
USA
Russia
None of These

 

21. __________ passed a new law to levy environment tax on polluters, especially on heavy industries. Tax rate will be 1.2 yuan ($0.17) per unit of atmospheric pollution, 1.4 yuan per unit of water pollution, 5 yuan per tonne of coal waste and 1,000 yuan per tonne of hazardous waste ?

China
Japan
Vietnam
Myanmar
None of These


22. _________ successfully launched Fengyun‚­4 satellite, first of its new generation weather satellites into geostationary orbit. It is also nation‚„s first quantitative remote‚­sensing satellite in highest orbit. ?

Russia
China
Japan
Vietnam
None of These


23. _________ ‚­ administered special territory of Hong Kong will withdraw visa‚­free facility for Indians from January 23, 2017, in view of preventing rising illegal immigration of Indian asylum seekers ?

Myanmar
Vietnam
Japan
China
None of These


24. _____________’s Congress passed law granting amnesty (excusing) to Marxist FARC rebels as part of historic peace deal reached between rebels and Government ?

Russia
Italy
Lithunia
Romania
Colombia


25. __________ government signed deal with Google to provide faster access to Google’s data. It will allow Google to install servers in to store most popular data for giving quick access. ?

Italy
Iran
Cuban
Kuwait
None of These


26. Economic Times Asian Business Leaders ’ Conclave 2016 held in Kualalampur (___________) ?

Malaysia
New Zealand
Indonesia
Myanmar
None of These


27. European Union (EU) and ___________ signed deal to normalise ties, whicb was previously only Latin American country not to have a cooperation deal with EU ?

Chad
Cuba
Brazil
Argentina
None of These


28. European Union (EU) approved ____________’s USD 26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn Corporation. ?

Yahoo
Google
Microsoft
TCS
None of These


29. European Union extended sanctions on ______________for another six months, that were put after it's annexation of Ukraine’s Black Sea peninsula of Crimea in 2014 ?

Lithunia
Italy
Romania
USA
Russia


30. European Union signed agreement with ___________ to return back its migrants who reached Europe and whose asylum requests were refused ?

Syria
Iraq
Mali
Iran
None of These


31. ______________ CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed Home Manager AI System - Jarvis, that he hs deployed in his house. It is voiced by Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman. Zuckerberg developed Jarvis as part of his personal challenge for 2016 ?

Google
Microsoft
LinkedIn
Facebook
None of These


32. ___________’s virtual reality-focused division Oculus acquired eye-tracking technology startup‚ Denmark‚ based The Eye Tribe. ?

Google
Facebook
LinkedIn
Microsoft
None of These


33. Forbes' Most Powerful People List 2016 ranked Indian PM Narendra Modi at _____________ among 74 people in List. Other Indians in list are Mukesh Ambani (38) and Satya Nadella (51).

Top 5 - Vladimir Putin (President of Russia), Donald Trump (President of US), Angela Merkel (Chancellor of Germany), Xi Jinping (President of China), Pope Francis (Pope of Roman Catholic Church) ?

9th
8th
7th
6th
None of These


34. ___________ became first country to use drones for national mail service. ?

Spain
Germany
Italy
Russia
France


35. ____________ Government will levy‚ terror tax‚ on property insurance policies of citizens to help finance a fund for victims of the recent extremist attacks ?

German
French
Italian
Russian
None of These


36. _____________ Based Food Delivery‚ Firm Hero acquired competitor‚ Foodpanda for‚ an undisclosed amount ?

Germany
Russia
Lithunia
Romania
None of These


37. Global Wage Report 2016-17 released by International Labour Organisation (ILO) -

  1. India has huge gender pay gap (____________). In India, women formed 60% of the lowest paid wage labour, but only 15% of the highest wage-earners.
  2. Singapore is among lowest gender wage gap at 3%. Among major economies, South Korea only fared worse than India, with a gap of 37% ?
40 %
15 %
50 %
60 %
30 %


38. Global e - commerce firm _____________ launched its global startup program ‘Launchpad’ in India, enabling Indian startups to sell products overseas ?

Amazon
Snapdeal
Flipkart
Paytm
None of These


39. ___________ parent Company Alphabet is named as Company Of The Year by Fortune magazine in its annual Blue Ribbon ranking ?

Yahoo
Google
Microsoft
TCS
None of These


40. Gotthard Base Tunnel (_______________) began commercial rail services as world’s longest and deepest railway tunnel with length of 57 kilometers, overtaking Japan’s Seikan tunnel (53.9 KMs). GBT is first flat low-level route through Alps Mountains and is situated 2.3 km deep ?

Sweden
Italy
Romania
Lithunia
Switzerland


41. Government has extended e-Tourist Visa facility to citizens of ___________ countries ?

151
161
171
181
None of These


42. Government ratified International Solar Alliance (ISA) Framework Agreement, that was opened for signature during 22nd Conference of Parties (CoP) meeting United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at Marrakesh (Morocco). ISA was jointly by Indian PM Narendra Modi and ______________ President Fran§ois Hollande in November 2015 in Paris, during 21st CoP meet.

Russia
French
Germany
Italy
None of These


43. India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIIDEM) ___________ conducted training on Election Management‚ of SAARC Countries ?

Delhi
Ahmedabad
Chennai
Kolkata
None of These


44. India and ASEAN Group have set a target of trading at 100 billion dollar to be achieved by 2020 (Up from currently ________ ) ?

$27 Billion
$37 Billion
$30 Billion
$21 Billion
$57 Billion


45. India eased Visa Procurement Process for _________ visitors to India ?

Sri Lankan
Bangladeshi
Nepali
Burmese
None of These


46. India signed MoU with __________ for providing technical cooperation in infrastructure engineering in green and sustainable construction ?

Bhutan
Myanmar
Nepal
Bangladesh
None of These


47. India will contribute ___________ to United Nations’ Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for 2016-17. CERF allocates approx 45 crore US Dollars annually for humanitarian operations in about 50 countries. So far India has contributed 60 Lakh Dollars to the fund ?

$35 lakh
$25 lakh
$15 lakh
$50 lakh
$5 lakh


48. India will establish a Center of Excellence in Information Technology at ___________’s oldest and prestigious Al-Azhar University ?

Egypt
Russia
Italy
Vietnam
None of These


49. India will export additional 240 MW of electricity to ________, through NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam (NVVN). India's Joint Folk Crafts Festival with ________ also held in Kathmandu ?

Myanmar
Nepal
Bhutan
Sri Lanka
None of These


50. India’s largest‚ LNG‚ importer‚ Petronet‚ signed MoU with‚ ______________'s Petrobangla‚  to set up‚ $950 million liquefied natural gas‚ import project of 7.5 million tonnes a year in‚ Bangladesh ?

Myanmar
Sri Lanka
Neppal
Myanmar
Bangladesh


51. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry approvd names for elements 113(Nihonium), 115(Moscovium), 117( Tennessine) and 118(Oganesson).

  1. Nihonium (Nh - 113) becme first ever element to be discovered by an Asian country (______________) ?
Japan
China
India
Vietnam
None of These


52. ______________ passed a landmark bill of rights, guaranteeing freedom of speech, protest, fair trials and privacy. Note that _______________ is considered one of biggest human rights violator with an unprecedented number of executions in past three decades ?

Iraq
Pakistan
Iran
Bangladesh
None of These


53. ___________ signed agreement to buy 80 planes from US firm aerospace Boeing and 100 jetliners from Airbus ?

Italy
Russia
Spain
Iran
None of These


54. ______________ Aerospace Exploration Agency launched a solid fuel rocket named Epsilon-2, carrying a satellite (elliptical) for studying radiation belts around the earth . A Space Junk Coollector - Kounotori 6 (HTV-6) spacecraft was also launched to perform Kounotori Integrated Tether Experiments (KITE) ?

China
Vietnam
Myanmar
Chile
Japan


55. _______________ Complained against India at World Trade Organisation (WTO) against certain measures taken by India on imports of 173 iron and steel products.

India imposed minimum import price (MIP) on imports of certain iron and steel products in February 2016 for six months and later extended twice for 2 months to overcome issue of cheap imports of commodities hurting domestic industry ?

China
Pakistan
Japan
Israel
None of These


56. ______________ approved 5.13 trillion yen ($43.6 billion) defence spending for fiscal year starting April 2017. It is ______________’s highest annual defence budget announced so far. ?

Japan
China
Vietnam
Myanmar
None of These


57. ____________ surpassed China to emerge as largest foreign US debt owner, with holding of US debt $1.13 trillion (compared to China's $1.12 trillion) ?

India
Japan
Iran
Russia
None of These


58. Mahindra Agri Solutions acquired __________ -based OFD Holding BV for 5 million euros ?

Netherlands
Poland
Sweden
Switzerland
None of These


59. Merriam-Webster's dictionary named‚ __________ as its Word of Year 2016. ?

Surreal‚ 
Selfie
Brexit
Extraordinary
None of These


60. __________ launched constellation of eight mini-satellites as part Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) into space to improve hurricane forecasting ?

CENS
ROSCOMOS
ISRO
NASA
None of These


61. National Bank of Abu Dhabi and First Gulf Bank will be merged to creare biggest bank of all Gulf Nations, with an asset of ___________. It will be called NBAD ?

$ 18 billion
$ 78 billion
$ 800 billion
$ 178 billion
None of These


62. National library of _____________ will digitise 4000 early printed Bengali books, as part of Year of Culture plans for 2017 and wider project titled ‘Two Centuries of Indian Print’ ?

USA
United Kingdom
Russia
Germany
None of These


63. ___________________ rejected India’s ‘open sky’ proposal, meant to allow unlimited flights between two countries, stating that it was not ready for agreement as of now ?

USA
Russia
Iran
Pakistan
Nepal


64. ______________ will hold its first ever joint military exercise named Pratikar-1 with China in February 2017 ?

Nepal
China
Myanmar
Bhutan
None of These


65. New Approved MOUs -

  1. Vietnam - Information Technology (IT)
  2. _____________ - Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
  3. Thailand - Controlling narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances
  4. United Kingdom - Intellectual Property and Ease of Doing Business in India
Sri Lanka
Nepal
Bangladesh
Afghanistan
None of These


66. New Development Bank (NDB) approved $75 million (525 Million Yuan) loan for Shanghai Lingang Distributed Solar Power Project in ______________, with maturity length of 17 years. The project is a solar photo-voltaic power plant with total capacity of 100 MW ?

Japan
Myanmar
China
India
None of These


67. OAG's 2016 Megahubs Index Report -

  1. Chicago Airport (USA) is most connected. Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi is ______________ most connected airport in world, while Mumbai Airport is ranked 28th.
2nd
22nd
33rd
25th
None of These


68. Oil-producing nations struck a deal to cut output along with Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). It is meant to reduce global oversupply of crude oil by approx ______________

  1. OPEC - Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has 13 member nations and it was founded in 1960. It is headquartered since 1965 in Vienna. 13 OPEC members account for 42 % of global oil production and have 73 % of world's oil reserves.
  2. Members - Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Gabon, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela
4 %
2 %
6 %
8 %
None of These


69. _______________ test fired enhanced version of an indigenously-designed Babur cruise missile. (700 KM) ?




Pakistan
None of These


70. _____________ inaugurated China-backed 340 MW Chashma-III Nuclear power plant in Punjab Province ?

Pakistan
Bangladesh
Myanmar
Nepal
None of These


71. ___________ lifted an undeclared ban on import of ginned cotton from India ?

Pakistan
Afghanistan
Myanmar
Nepal
None of These


72. _________________‚„s Senate approved withdraw high denomination Rs 5,000 currency notes to curb flow of black money in country ?

USA
Pakistan
Nepal
Bangladesh
None of These


73. ______________ announced end of controversial‚ kafala‚ labour system, that required all foreign workers to have a local sponsor. Workers needed sponsor's permission to switch jobs or leave country. It was compared to modern-day slavery ?

Syria
Kuwait
Iran
Qatar
None of These


74. ___________________ expelled 35 American diplomats from country, in asnwer to USA earlier expelling its 35 Diplomats ?

Israel
North Korea
South Korea
Turkmenistan
Russia


75. _______________ ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov killed by a gunman in a Ankara Museum, during an exhibition. ?

Syria
Iran
Russian
USA
None of These


76. Scientists from University of Waterloo in _________ discovered world‚„s first polluted river, contaminated about 7,000 years ago by Neolithic humans who may have been producing copper metals from ores. It is now a dry riverbed in Wadi Faynan region of southern Jordan ?

Canada
UAE
USA
Russia
None of These


77. South American economic bloc‚ Mercosur‚ suspended ___________'s membership, after it failed to adopt certain standards and rules required for membership of the bloc ?

Chad
Brazil
Venezuela
Chile
None of These


78. _____________ city‚ Palma de Mallorc‚ changed its name for third time in a decade, now to‚ Palma. ?

Russian
Italian
German
Spanish
None of These


79. __________ unveiled world's tallest artificial Christmas tree with Height of 73-meters (238-foot) in Colombo ?

USA
Nepal
Russia
Italy
Sri Lanka


80. Super Typhoon Nock-ten made landfall on eastern province of ___________, Known as‚ Nina ?

Japan
China
Philippines
Myanmar
None of These


81. __________-based Women's Legal Service in collaboration with TRS Law Offices (India) launched a website (www.Girlsgottaknow.In) for women in India to educate them about their legal rights ?

Tasmania
Afghanistan
Turkmenistan
Kyrgyzstan
None of These


82. Times Higher Education’s‚  BRICS‚ and Emerging Economies University‚ Rankings‚ 2017 (Top 300 BRICS Universities) -

  1. ____________ became first Indian institute to ‚ be placed in the top 15 universities.
  2. India has 27 universities Universities in List, Second only to china (52 universities)
IIT Delhi
Indian Institute of Science (IISc)‚ Bangalore
IIT Bombay
IIT Guwahati
None of These


83.To tackle world’s worst inflation, ____________________ Government announced demonetisation of Bolivar Fuerte 100 banknotes, giving 10 days time for exchanging old notes at central bank of country ?

Venezuela
Brazil
Chad
Chile
None of These


84. Two Indian - origin person named in Forbes’ 2nd list of wealthiest entrepreneurs under age of 40 - Vivek Ramaswamy and Apoorva Mehta. List topped by ___________ founder Mark Zuckeberg.

Facebook
Microsoft
Yahoo
Google
None of These


85. UN Security Council adopted a ________ drafted resolution to quickly deploy UN observers to Aleppo (Syria) to monitor evacuations of civilians who remain in city terrorised by ISIS ?

Turkey
Spain
Germany
French
None of These


86. UNESCO accorded world heritage status to __________ city of Rio de Janeiro (nicknamed‚ Marvelous City). It has been registered as‚ Carioca Landscapes between Mountain and Sea ?

Venezuelan
Argentinian
Chilean
Brazilian
None of These


87. US Federal Reserve raised benchmark interest rate by __________, for second time in a decade and first in 2016 ?

0.75%
0.25%
0.50%
1.25%
None of These


88. US President Barack Obama approved USD _____________ defence budget for 2017. He also signed National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA) 2017 that recognises India as America’s‚ major defence partner ?

418 billion
18 billion
68 billion
818 billion
618 billion


89. ____________ nationalised country’s largest bank PrivatBank in an attempt to avert a financial meltdown ?

Ukraine
Russia
Italy
Spain
None of These


90. United Nations Security Council (UNSC) extended its peacekeeping mission in _________ for a year till December 2017 ?

Iraq
Syria
Yemen
South Sudan
None of These


91. United Nations officially apologized for its role in 2010 cholera outbreak in Carribea Nation ______ ?

Trindidad and Tobago
Guyana
Haiti
Jamaica
None of These


92. Viola Desmond became first woman to appear on face of a $10 ________ banknote ?

American
Canadian
Swiss
Spanish
None of These


93. _________ government announced to set up special panel to stop child trafficking ?

Mizoram
West Bengal
Manipur
Assam
None of These


94. World Bank Group halted processes initiated by India and ________________ to save Indus Water Treaty. India had earlier planned to construct Kishanganga and Ratle hydroelectric power plants on Indus River System in Jammu Kashmir ?

Nepal
China
Bangladesh
Pakistan
None of These


95. World Bank cancelled $100 million loan to _____________, meant for a natural gas efficiency project. It was cancelled as gas distribution company responsible for project failed to make any progress in achieving its developmental objectives ?

Pakistan
Nepal
Bangladesh
Myanmar
None of These


96. World's largest non-permanent indoor ice rink (2,700 square meters), opened in Paris (__________) ?

France
Germany
Lithunia
Romania
None of These


97. World’s first solar road opened in small ____________ village of Tourouvre-au-Perche in Normandy. This 1 K long solar road is made with 30,000 square feet of solar panels ?

German
French
Spanish
Italian
None of These


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