LIC AAO | IBPS SO | Weekly Current Affairs - 1

1. National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) on 1 January 2016 signed a MoU with which bank for web-based monitoring of watershed management projects?

2. Union Government on 1 January 2016 declared  2016 as the year of_____??

3.  Which law and order agency on 2 January 2016 entered the Limca Book of Records for solving the biggest cash heist case of the country?

4. The Union Government launched LPG-like DBT scheme for which commodity that will be effective from 1 April 2016?

5. Identify the multi barrel rocket launcher system that was successfully test-fired in December 2015 by India at Pokhran in Rajasthan?

6.High Court of which state on 4 January 2016 directed state government to take steps to procure 1843 decibel meters to ensure that there is no violation of noise pollution rules during festivals, public addresses, and processions?

7.Name the Bank that on 6 January 2016 launched Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) across all its branches in association with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).

8.The Competition Commission of India on 5 January 2016 gave nod to Reliance Capital Asset Management to acquire which investment banking company’s mutual fund business in India?

9.Identify the Indian scientist. He was involved in the discovery of the element 117 that was included in the 7th row of the periodic table on 30 December 2015 by the IUPAC.

 10.Who was elected as the General President of the 105th Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) that is scheduled for 2017-18?

11.The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on 6 January 2016 issued a notice to which state government over the reported deplorable conditions prevailing in the prisons of the state?

12.Who on 1 January 2016 took over as the High Commissioner for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR)?

 13.What is the name the initiative of Union Ministry of Home Affairs and Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Government that aims to expose youth from J&K to rest of India?

14.Identify the Indian shooter who on 5 January 2016 grabbed gold medal in the women's 10 metre air rifle event at the Swedish Cup Grand Prix.

15.Union Government decided to implement the Bharat Stage (BS) VI norms to curb vehicular pollution. From which date the implementation will take place?

Sagar!!

Answers:-

1. NABARD
2. LPG Consumers
3. Delhi Police
4. Kerosene
5. Pinaka II
6. Maharashtra
7. Andhra Bank
8. Goldman Sachs
9. Susanta Lahiri
10. Achyuta Samanta
11. Bihar
12. Filippo Grandi
13. Wattan Ko Jano
14. Apurvi Chandela
15. 1 April 2020