Q1. Name the City in which a two-day North-East Business Summit (NEBS) held, recently.
Q2. Which of the following organization has extended the last date of submission of digital life certificate through Jeevan Pramaan Patra by March 31st, 2017 under Employees' Pension Scheme (EPS)?
(a) OPFO
Q3. Which of the following institutes has recently won the 2017 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society Award for its solar-direct current (DC) inverter system?
Q4. Name the first state to launch web-based portal to showcase the government’s performance and achievements to the citizens of the state.
Q5. Name the country that will host Mobile World Congress (for the first time) to be held in September 2017.
Q6. Shri Arvind Padmanabhan has died recently of cardiac arrest. He was famous ____________.
Q7. Name the country, which has topped the Bribery Rate Index of Asia-Pacific countries, recently.
Q8. Vice President Hamid Ansari was recently on a two-day visit to attend the 21-nation Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Summit (March 2017).
Q9. Name the mega cultural festival of India that started in Egypt, recently.
Q10. Which of the following banks launched “Aadhaar Pay”, the country’s first Aadhaar-linked cashless merchant solution recently following successful pilots across 16 states?
ANSWERS
S1. Ans.(c)
S2. Ans.(b)
S3. Ans.(d)
S4. Ans.(a)
S5. Ans.(b)
S6. Ans.(c)
S7. Ans.(d)
S8. Ans.(e)
S9. Ans.(a)
S10. Ans.(c)
ANSWERS
S1. Ans.(c)
Sol. A two-day North-East Business Summit (NEBS) begun in New Delhi. The summit aims to display the strengths, potentials, and initiatives of the North-East, promote investment the region and also have focused deliberations on strategic areas like healthcare, connectivity, agriculture, food processing and energy.
S2. Ans.(b)
Sol. The Employees' Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) has extended the last date of submission of digital life certificate through Jeevan Pramaan Patra by March 31st, 2017 under Employees' Pension Scheme (EPS).
S3. Ans.(d)
Sol. Indian Institute of Technology-Madras has won the 2017 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society Award for its solar-direct current (DC) inverter system.
S4. Ans.(a)
Sol. Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah launched a comprehensive web-based platform Pratibimba to showcase the government’s performance and achievements to the citizens. After Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka has such dash board which will help to report, track and measure departmental performance on programmes, projects and promises made by the government.
S5. Ans.(b)
Sol. India to host its first mobile congress on 27 September 2017 with a special focus on reaching out to the South East Asian markets at Pragati Maidan, Delhi.
S6. Ans.(c)
Sol. Veteran journalist Arvind Padmanabhan, an Executive Editor at IANS, died of cardiac arrest.
S7. Ans.(d)
Sol. According to the Global Corruption Barometer released by Transparency International (TI), in Berlin for 16 Asia Pacific countries India tops the list for being the most corrupt nation.
S8. Ans.(e)
Sol. Vice President Hamid Ansari was on a two-day visit to Indonesia to attend the 21-nation Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia from March 6-7, 2017.
S9. Ans.(a)
Sol. India has organized the fifth edition of the mega cultural festival 'India by the Nile' in Egypt on 8th March to showcase the diversity of the country's culture, arts and cuisine for building enduring partnership between the two ancient civilizations.
S10. Ans.(c)
Sol. IDFC Bank has launched India’s first biometric-based payment system 'Aadhaar Pay' in New Delhi. The Aadhaar Pay app has been developed by IDFC Bank under the guidance of the Ministry of IT, NITI Aayog, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), and National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).
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