Current Affairs Based on "The Hindu"

1. Who will take the oath as the first woman CM of Jammu and Kashmir ending 11 weeks of political uncertainty?

Answer.  Mehbooba Mufti

2. President Pranab Mukherjee has signed an ordinance to authorise expenditure in whic state that is under the central rule?

Answer. Uttarakhand 

3. Who has stepped down as UBHL [United Breweries (Holdings) Ltd.] director recently?

Answer. Sidhartha V Mallya  

4. Pakistan’s Sikh religious body elected whom as its caretaker president after its first chief Sardar Sham Singh, credited with changing the face of Sikh shrines in the Muslim-dominated country, died?

Answer. Sardar Tara Singh 

5. Name the Former German Foreign Minister who has died at the age of 89 recently?

Answer. Hans-Dietrich Genscher 

6. Name the famous TV actress who was known for her role of adult Anandi in the serial “Balika Vadhu”, allegedly committed suicide?

Answer. Pratyusha Banerjee

7. Name the Indian boxer who reached the Asian-Oceania qualifying event final in Quian’an, China, and become the first Indian boxer to book a spot in the Rio Olympics?

Answer. Shiva Thapa 

8. Who will be feted with the ‘Maharashtrian Of The Year 2016’?

Answer. Bollywood star Ranveer Singh

9. Which company has forayed into the global combine harvester business, by agreeing to acquire 35 per cent stake in Finish firm Sampo Rosenlew, a combine harvester company based in Pori, for 18 million Euro?

Answer. Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd (M&M) 

10. Name the Chinese technology firm which has announced that it would set up in-house Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) in 10 cities across India by the end of this year with an investment of over $10 million?

Answer. LeEco 

11. Which country's  National Assembly (NA) elected Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan as the country’s first female house speaker?

Answer. Vietnam

12. ICCR will set up the first Indian Chair in Arab world in which country?

Answer. Ain Shams University (ASU), Cairo, Egypt

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English Quiz

Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.

India is a great book producing nation and has a vibrant world of book publishing spread throughout the vast country in a number of modern languages most of which have their roots in Sanskrit, the mother of Indian languages. In terms of numbers, there are more than 16,000 publishers in India publishing 90,000 titles annually in 24 languages, out of which 18 are highly developed, to fulfill the needs of this multilingual nation. These languages have a galaxy of good authors, their own publishers and readers of books within their own area as well as spread out in the entire country. Today Indian publishing is one of the greatest in the world and can be counted among the first seven publishing nations. We are the third largest publishers of English language Books after the US and UK. India is the third biggest market for English publications with almost 12,000 publishers that publish around 90,000 titles a year in more than 18 languages. India’s main publishing is in the Indian languages. In India, every year a world level Book fair is held in New Delhi, which is India’s oldest book fair Delhi Book Fair is playing a pivotal role in reiterating the might of the pen and the printed word and has come to be recognised as the biggest annual cultural event and book bonanza keenly awaited by students, teachers, scholars, authors, intellectuals, librarians and book lovers. First New Delhi World Book Fair Was held in around 6790 sq. meter area with 200 participants from March 18 to April 4, 1972. It was inaugurated by Sh V.V. Giri President of India. This biennial event takes place in early February, and is organized by the National Book Trust, India (NBT). Delhi Book Fair has evolved over the years as a highly popularconduit to the world of books and publishers and distributors. The ever increasing numbers of visitors and exhibitors speaks volumes of its success. The fair provides a unique platform for business-to-business transactions, establishing new contacts, entering into co-publishing arrangements, translation and copyright arrangements, reprinting of old and rare books. The visitor profile at the fair includes national and International publishers, librarians, researchers, academicians, writers, students and book lovers Publishers also introduced “e-Books” in this fair. This focus is being given especially keeping in mind the increasing number of IT-savvy younger generation with a penchant for internet, mobile phones and other reader-friendly digital gizmos.


E-books and e-publishing both has their obvious advantages though authors in India have only just begun to realize the immense benefits digital technology can be of in this field. Also, with the country being the third biggest publisher — after the US and UK — the potential in this field is immense and the response too has been quite encouraging so far with a lot of publishers already showing interest in e-publishing. E-publishing is a boon for both established and wannabe writers as it is cost effective and cuts down the time it take for a book to reach markets to about a fourth of what it would have taken had it been left to publishers to do the job. Other benefits include authors now have a world wide audience to their book which means better business while debugging or carrying out revisions too is a lot less hazardous. Another interesting development to have occurred in recent times is the launch of Amazon e-book store in the country as well as the availability of the Kindle range of e-book readers. Needless to say, a direct fallout of the renewed push that e-book are getting is increased sale of ebook readers and tablet devices.

1. Who had inaugurated the first New Delhi World Book Fair ?
1) Finance minister of India
2) Prime minister of India
3) Chief of NBT
4) President of India
5) None of these

2. Which is not a feature of Delhi Book fair ?
1) B - 2 - B
2) Co-publishing arrangements
3) Availability of rare books
4) E - Books
5) None of these

3. Which of the following is false in the context of given passage ?
1) People have only craze of variety of Books in the fair not for offer and cash cow.
2) New Delhi book fair has completed more than 40 years of its success.
3) After US and UK, India has maintained its place in the list of largest publishers of English Language Books.
4) All of the above
5) None of these

4. What do you understand by 'E-books' ?
1) An Electronic version of only online magazines and books of foreign writers.
2) An Electronic version of a printed book.
3) A shortened form of a printed book.
4) Both 1 and 2
5) None of these

5. In which of the following language is India's main epic are available ?
1) Hindi
2) Urdu
3) Sanskrit
4) Bilingual i.e in Hindi and English
5) None of these

Directions : Choose the word which is most nearly the SAME in meaning as the word printed in bold as used in the passage.
6. Biennial
1) Annual
2) Sprout
3) Weed
4) Shrub
5) Important

7. Conduit
1) Spout
2) Pass
3) Crucial
4) Cardinal
5) Channel

8. Gizmos
1) Tool
2) Gadgets
3) Device
4) Machine
5) Contrivance

Directions : Choose the word which is most OPPOSITE in meaning of the word printed in bold as used in the passage.

9. Pivotal
1) Unimportant
2) Alive
3) Vine
4) Culvert
5) Windfall

10. Wannabe
1) Strive
2) Postulant
3) Contestant
4) Hopeless
5) Want



Answers

1. 4

2. 5

3. 1

4. 2

5. 3

6. 1

7. 5

8. 2

9. 1

10. 4 

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Banking Pathway: Reasoning Quiz

Direction : Study the following information and answer the questions given below :

Four Maruti Suzuki's cars - Ertigo,Celerio, Swift and Wagon'r and four Hyundai's cars - I-10, Verna, I-20 and Santa Fe are on a display in a circular auto expo centre. two Maruti Suzuki's cars and two Hyundai's cars are not facing the centre of the auto expo centre. Swift is placed second to the left of Verna, which is not placed immediate next to Celerio. I-10 is third to the left of Santa Fe and one of them is not facing centre of the auto expo centre. Ertigo is third to the right of Celerio, which is facing the centre of the auto expo centre. I-20 and Wagon'r are facing each other and both are not placed immediate next to Celerio or Santa Fe. No three Hyundai's car's are placed together.

1. Which of the following Car is placed between Celerio and Wagon'r ?

1) Swift 

2) Verna 

3) Santa Fe 

4) I - 10 

5) None of these

2. How many cars are placed between I-10 and Verna ?

1) Three 

2) Two 

3) One 

4) Can't be determined 

5) None of these

3. Which Car is displayed third to the left of Ertigo ?

1) Celerio 

2) Wagon'r 

3) I-20 

4) I-10 

5) None of these

4. Which of the following groups of four Cars are not facing the centre ?

1) Swift, Wagon'r, Ertigo and Verna 

2) Verna, I-10, Ertigo and Wagon'r

3) Ertigo, Verna. I-10 and Swift 

4) I-20, I-10, Santa Fe and Celerio 

5) None of these

5. Who is placed between I-20 and Santa Fe ?

1) I-10 

2) Ertigo 

3) Swift 

4) Verna 

5) None of these

6. Sumit starts walking 20m. towards North. Then he turns right and walks 30m. Then again, he turns right and walks 28m. Then he turns towards North-East and Walks 10m. How far away and in which direction is Sumit from his original position?

1) 36m. North-East 

2) 32m. South 

3) 30m. East 

4) 32m. South-East 

5) 36m. East

7. Six friends sitting in a row. F is to the left of G but on the right of H, who is to the right of I and J is at the right of K but immediate left of I. Find out the friend, sitting right in the middle ?

1) J and K 

2) H and I 

3) F and G 

4) J and G 

5) G and H

8. If it is given 'P + Q' means that P is the father of Q. 'P - Q' means that 'P is the wife of Q', ' P×Q' means that ' P is brother of Q' and 'P ÷ Q' means that 'P is the daughter of Q'. Then, M + G + C ÷ S refers to-

1) S is daughter of G 

2) C is brother of G 

3) S is wife of G

4) M is the grand father of S 

5) None of these

Direction : Read the information carefully and answer the given questions :

Launched in 2006, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme entitles at least one member of every rural household to 100 days of manual work a year but there was need for parity in MGNREGA wages and the minimum wage, where the former is lower in 14 states.

A) MGNERGA has provided employment to millions households.

B) A notification in hike for MGNREGA wages is expected.

C) The government should make amend in the MGNREGA act to bring the two at par.

D) MGNREGA will pay more wages ahead of elections.

9. Which of the following among (A), (B), (C) and (D) can be an immediate course of action to minimise the difference between minimum wage and MGNREGA wages ?

1) Only A 

2) Both A and B 

3) Only C 

4) Only D 

5) Both B and D

10. Which of the following among (A), (B), (C) and (D) is a possible effect of MGNREGA ?

1) Both C and D 

2) Only A 

3) Only C 

4) Only A, B and D 

5) Both A and C

Answers:

1. 2

2. 5

3. 2

4. 2

5. 1

6. 5

7. 2

8. 3

9. 3; To minimise the difference between MGNREGA and minimum wages amendment in MGNREGA is required.

10. 2; MGNREGA provide employment to million of people in rural households for 100 days.

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Banking Pathway: Quant Quiz

Direction : Following line graph shows the ratio of imports to exports of two companies over the years:

1. In how many of the given years were the imports more than the exports in case of company - A ?
1) 5
2) 3
3) 1
4) 2
5) 4

2. If the imports of company-B in year 2011 were Rs. 51.688 lakh, then what were the exports of company-B in the same year?
1) 64.26 lakh
2) 67.54 lakh
3) 71.36 lakh
4) 73.84 lakh
5) None of these

3. If the exports of company-A and Company-B were equal to 84 lakh in year 2012 then what will be the difference between
imports of company-B and imports of company-A in that year ?
1) 9.6 lakh
2) 8.4 lakh
3) 7.2 lakh
4) 6.8 lakh
5) 5.4 lakh

4. If the exports of company-A in year 2009 and exports of company-B in year 2012 were equal then the imports of company-
B in 2012 is approximately what percentage of imports of company-A in 2009 ?
1) 60%
2) 75%
3) 84%
4) 96%
5) 133.3%

5. In year 2009, If the export of company-B is increased by 100% and import is increased by 200%. Then what will be the new ratio of import to export of company-B in that year ?
1) 0.8
2) 1.0
3) 1.2
4) 0.6
5) 1.5

6. A cycle is sold at a profit of 15%. If both the cost price and selling price is decreased by Rs. 200 the profit would be 5% more what is the original cost price of cycle ?
1) Rs. 1200
2) Rs. 1000
3) Rs. 800
4) Rs. 600
5) None of these

7. A person lends Rs. 4200 to 'A' for 3 years and Rs. 6500 to 'B' for 7 years. If the person gets Rs. 8134 as interest then what is the rate of interest per annum ?
1) 6%
2) 8%
3) 10%
4) 12%
5) 14%

8. A sum amounts to Rs. 98010 in 2 years and to Rs. 107811 in 3 years compounded annually. What is the sum ?
1) Rs. 81000
2) Rs. 84000
3) Rs. 87000
4) Rs. 90000
5) Rs. 94000

9. How many different words can be formed with the letters of the word ''BREAKING". So that the words begin with 'B' and end with 'G' ?
1) 120
2) 720
3) 5040
4) 2520
5) 1440

10. A bag contains 9 white and 7 black balls. Three balls are drawn at random. Find the probability that all the three balls are black ?
1) 1/8
2) 1/12
3) 1/16
4) 1/21
5) None of these

Answers:

1. 4
Imports > Exports
Imports/Exports >1

2. 4
I/E = 0.7
E = I/0.7
= 51.688/0.7
73.84lakh

3. 2
Ia/Ea = 0.8
Ia = 0.8 * 84 = 67.2lakh
Ib/Eb = 0.9
Ib = 0.9 * 84 = 75.6lakh
Diff = 8.4 lakh

4. 2
Ia/Ea = 1.2
Ib/Eb = 0.9
Let export of A and B are X
Ia = 1.2x
Ib = 0.9x
Req% = 0.9x/1.2x * 100 = 75%

5. 3
I/E = 0.8
I1 = I +200I/100 = 3I
E1 = E + 100E/100 = 2E
Ratio = I1/E1 = 3I/2E = 3/2 * 0.8 = 1.2

6. 3
Let the original cost proce is x, so SP is
115x/100 = 23x/20
Now CP = x - 200
SP = 23x/20 - 200
Profit = 23x/20 - 200 - (x - 200) = 23x/20 - x = 3x/20
% Profit = 3x/20 * 1/(x - 200) * 100 = 20
3x/(x - 200) = 4
3x = 4x - 800
x = 800

7. 5
Let the rate of interest is r% p.a.
4200*r*3/100 + 6500*r*7/100 = 8134
126r + 455r = 8134
r = 8134/581 = 14% p.a.

8. 1
P (1 + R/100)^3 = 107811
p(1 + r/100)^2 = 98010

1 + r/100 = 107811/98010
r/100 = 9801/98010
r = 10%

P = (1 + 10/100)^2 = 98010
p = 98010 * 100/121 = 81000

9. 2
B _ _ _ _ _ _ G

Now 6 letters are left for six different place
Req No. of wages = 6P6 = 6! = 720

10. 3
n(S) = Number of ways of selecting 3 balls out of 7 = 7C3 = 7!/3!4! = 35

p(E) = 35/560 = 1/16

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Banking Pathway: English Quiz

Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.

Corruption is a broad term covering a wide range of misuse of entrusted funds and power for personal gain i.e. Theft, fraud, nepotism, abuse of power etc. A corrupt act is often - but not necessarily - illegal. In handling corruption you will often face a Gray zones and dilemmas. In many countries, corruption is everywhere and daily life is riddled with situations in the Gray zone between legal and illegal. Many people accept petty corruption as a fact of life. But the causes might differ, however, whether corruption results from a need, a culture or simply from an opportunity too tempting not to exploit, it influences the way we deal with it - or don’t deal with it. Corruption can occur on different scales. There is corruption that occurs as small favours between a small number of people (petty corruption), corruption that affects the government on a large scale (grand corruption), and corruption that is so prevalent that it is part of the every day structure of society, including corruption as one of the symptoms of organized crime (systemic corruption). 

The main reason for the spread of corruption is that the people in the highest seat of power are corrupt unless the people at the top rung of power are honest and free from corruption; there is absolutely no possibility of eradicating corruption. If there is widespread corruption in India , it is because the people at the top are really corrupt .No subordinate will have to guts to be corrupt if the people at the top of the administration are honest and take stern action against the corrupt people .They can not be harsh to the corrupt people , since it is through the corrupt subordinates that the people at the top get their share of the bribes .If one can make a discrete enquiry with the pavement traders, he can find out how much the police and the corporation councillors collect from the pavement traders .They say that the money so collected is shared by people from the top to the bottom. If the head is corrupt, what will the limbs do? The causes of corruption in India also include excessive regulations, complicated taxes and licensing systems, numerous government departments each with opaque bureaucracy and discretionary powers, monopoly by government controlled institutions on certain goods and services delivery, and the lack of transparent laws and processes. There are significant variations in level of corruption as well as in state government efforts to reduce corruption across India. A 2005 study done by Transparency International in India found that more than 62% of the people had firsthand experience of paying bribe or peddling influence to get a job done in a public office.Taxes and bribes are common between state borders; Transparency International estimates that truckers pay annually 22,200 crores (US$ 4.5 billion) in bribes. Government regulators and police share in bribe money, each to the tune of 43% and 45% respectively. The en route stoppages including those at checkpoints and entry-points take up to 11 hours in a day. About 60% of these (forced) stoppages on road by concerned authorities such as government regulators, police, forest, sales and excise, octroi, weighing and measuring department are for extorting money. The loss in productivity due to these stoppages is an important national concern. The number of truck trips could increase by 40%, if forced delays are avoided. According to a 2007 World Bank published report, the travel time for a Delhi-Mumbai trip can be reduced by about 2 days per trip if the corruption and associated regulatory stoppages to extract bribes was eliminated.

1. How many rupees are paid by truckers annually as per the study of transparency international ?

1) US $ 4.5 billion 

2) Rs. 22, 000 crore

3) Rs. 22, 200 crore 

4) US $ 4 billion 

5) None of these

2. What is the main objective of writer behind writing the passage?

1) It gives an idea of right and wrong judgement.

2) To remove the corruption from top to bottom.

3) To throw light on corruption.

4) Both 1 and 2

5) None of these

3. What is petty corruption ?

1) When corruption doesn't occur in many people.

2) Corruption found from top to bottom in every department.

3) When people of a particular department is corrupt.

4) Where head of the departments are corrupt.

5) None of these

4. Why the corruption is increasing so rapidly ?

1) Because all the employees are interested in it.

2) The people in the highest seat of power our involved in the corruption.

3) Government is unable to control over the corruption.

4) There is a lack of strict laws against it.

5) None of these

5. What do you understand by Gray zones as used in the passage ?

1) Double meaning.

2) A puzzled situation but can be solved.

3) Lack of knowledge.

4) A topic that is not clear or full of ambiguity.

5) None of these

Direction : Choose the word which is most nearly the SAME in meaning as the word printed in bold as used in the passage.

6. RUNG

1) Hierarchy 

2) Step 

3) Grade 

4) Stage 

5) Cross bar

7. ERADICATE

1) Undo 

2) Erase 

3) Massacre 

4) Annihilate 

5) Abate

8. GUTS

1) Stamina 

2) Courage 

3) Heart 

4) Mettle 

5) Spirit

Direction : Choose the word which is most OPPOSITE in meaning of the word printed in bold as used in the passage.

9. PREVALENT

1) Abnormal 

2) Isolated 

3) Infrequent 

4) Limited 

5) Ubiquitous

10. STERN

1) Tough 

2) Easy 

3) Gentle 

4) Flexible 

5) Lenient

Answers:

1. 3 

2. 3 

3. 1 

4. 2 

5. 4

6. 1 

7. 4 

8. 2 

9. 3 

10. 5

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Computer Quiz For Bank Exam

1.Which of the following persons probably has the least amount of technical knowledge?

a)User 

b)Computer operator

c)System Analyst 

d)Programmer

e)None of these

2.Who is credited with the idea of using punch cards to control patterns in a weaving machine?

a)Pascal 

b)Hollerith

c)Babbage 

d)Jacquard

e)None of these

3.The process of starting or restarting a computer system by loading instructions from a secondary storage device into the computer memory is called

a)Duping

b)Booting

c)Padding

d)All of these

e)None of these

4.In analog computer

a)Input is first converted to digital form

b)Input is never converted to digital form

c)output is displayed in digital form

d)All of these

e)None of these

5.In latest generation computers, the instructions are executed

a)parallel only

b)sequentially only

c)both sequentially and parallel

d)All of these

e)None of these

6.Which printer is very commonly used for desk-top publishing?

a)Laser printer

b)Inkjet Printer

c)Daisywheel Printer

d)Dot-matrix Printer

e)None of these

7.A trackball is manipulated by

a)palm 

b)foot

c)fingers 

d)sound

e)None of these

8.Before you stored anything on a disk, it has to be

a)cleansed 

b)formatted

c)initialized 

d)either (a) or (b)

e)None of these

9.What is the size of the optical compact disk which is used for recording high quality music?

a)4.7 inch 

b)3.5 inch

c)5.5 inch 

d)8.7 inch

e)None of these

10.Which access method is used for obtaining a record from a cassette tape?

a)Direct 

b)Sequential

c)Random 

d)All of these

e)None of these

Answers:

1. a
2. d
3. b
4. b
5. c
6. a
7. a
8. b
9. a
10. b

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G.K Pointer Based On G.K Updates

1. Every Year 30th March is observed as which day?

Ans:National Doctors' Day

2. Expand the UNICEF?

Ans:United Nations Children's Emergency Fund

3. Name the singer who has entered into the Guinness World Records recently?

Ans:P Susheela Mohan 

4. Industrial Policy & Promotion Department comes Under which ministry?

Ans:Ministry of Commerce and Industry

5. The government permitted how much FDI percentage in the marketplace format of e-commerce retailing with a view to attract more foreign investers?

Ans:100%

6. Uber Technologies Inc. launched Bike-sharing service UberMOTO in which city?

Ans:Gurgaon

7. Which organisation is all set to launch 22 satellites in a single mission?

Ans:Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) 

8. Who is the chairman of TRAI?

Ans:R S Sharma 

9. Name the person who has launched the 'Make In India' conference recently?

Ans:Finance Minister Arun Jaitley 

10. Reliance Defence Ltd have agreed to set up a JV in the specialized areas of air-to-air missiles to which country?

Ans:Israel

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