General Awareness Asked In CWE - PO/ MT-V Main Examination

General Awareness Asked In CWE - PO/ MT-V Main Examination

The ------ scheme will address educational and livelihood needs of minority communities in general and muslims in particular as it lags behind other minority communities in terms of educational attainments. - “Nai Manzil”
Betla National Park is a national park located in the Chota Nagpur Plateau of the Latehar district of the Indian state of ----- , in India. - Jharkhand
In MICR, C stands for – Character
Veteran ------ , Ravindra Jain passed away in Mumbai. - Music Composer
Mamnoon Hussain has served as the President of ------? - Pakistan
The Federal Reserve System (also known as the Federal Reserve, and informally as the Fed) is the central banking system of the ------. - United States.
The Banks Board Bureau will recommend appointment of directors in ---- and advise on ways of raising funds and dealing with issues of stressed assets because banks have a requirement for Rs.180,000 crore over the next four years. - public sector banks (PSBs)
8. Book titled India: The Future is Now was edited by ------. - Shashi Tharoor
9. The Regional Rural Bank were owned by the Central Government, the State Government and the -----. - Sponsor Bank
Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation ( DICGC) is a subsidiary of -------. - Reserve Bank of India
Bandhan Bank is an Indian banking and financial services company headquartered in -----, West Bengal. - Kolkata
Lima is the capital city of -------. - Peru.
The ------ is observed globally every year on December 1. - World AIDS Day
What is the currency of Egypt? - Egyptian pound
The Head Office of the Central Bank of India is situated in -------. - Mumbai
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is based in ------, with representative offices in Hong Kong and Mexico City. - Basel, Switzerland
The idea behind the launch of SMILE scheme is to provide soft loans in the nature of quasi-equity and term loans on relatively soft terms to ---- to meet the required debt-equity ratio norm. - MSMEs
In a move to increase penetration of RuPay Cards, soon ------- will roll out a new credit card that will be co-branded with Mudra Bank. - National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)
The ---- on rural credit recommended the establishment of Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) on the ground that they would be much better suited than the commercial banks or co-operative banks in meeting the needs of rural areas. - Narasimham committee
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2015 is awarded to the Belarusian author ---- "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time". - Svetlana Alexievich
The Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the construction of a National War Memorial and a National War Museum at Princess Park, near India Gate, New Delhi. The project, estimated to cost around ------. - Rs.500 crore.
Which yojana has made its way into the Guinness World Records for opening the highest number of bank accounts in the least time? - Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna (PMJDY)
Nitin Jairam Gadkari contested 2014 Loksabha election successfully from ----- constituency and won. - Nagpur
Keeping in with the spirit of 'Make in India' drive of GOI, the Small Industries Development Bank of India SIDBI has set up a ----- 'Make in India' fund for MSMEs. - Rs 1000 crore
Who announced the Bi-monthly Monetary Policy in India? - Reserve Bank of India
Who was the first person to be posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, and a memorial "Vijay Ghat" was built for him in Delhi? - Lal Bahadur Shastri
The World Customs Organization (WCO) is an intergovernmental organization headquartered in -----. - Brussels, Belgium
As per details from Census 2011, which state has highest number of people living in rural areas? - Uttar Pradesh
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 was awarded jointly to ------ "for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass". - Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald
Who is the CEO of the Better Business Bureau (BBB)? - Mary E. Power
----- is a book written by Indian social activist-turned-politician,Arvind Kejriwal. - Swaraj
Who received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award from the President? - Sania Mirza
Indian Bank is an Indian state-owned financial services company established in 1907 and headquartered in -----, India. - Chennai
The Reserve Bank of India announced the designation of State Bank of India and ----- as Domestic Systemically Important Banks (D-SIBs). - ICICI Bank Ltd.
Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana provides accidental insurance cover upto Rs. 1 lac without any charge to the customer provided by -------. - New India Assurance Co. Ltd.
What is the currency of Egypt? - Egyptian pound
What is the capital of Syria? - Damascus
A Web-Based Portal VIZ. ----- launched for Students Seeking Educational Loans; First Portal of Its Kind Providing Single Window for Students to Access Information and Make Application for Educational Loans Provided by Banks as well as for Government Scholarships. - Vidya Lakshmi (www.vidyalakshmi.co.in)
Who was an Indian civil servant and the first Indian to be appointed as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India in 1943 by the British Raj authorities? - Sir Chintaman Dwarakanath Deshmukh
The government's decision to allow ----- foreign direct investment (FDI) under the automatic route for white-label ATM companies. - 100 per cent
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, gave its approval for introduction of Gold Monetization Schemes (GMS), as announced in the Union Budget 2015-16.The deposits under the revamped scheme can be made for a short-term period of ---- (with a roll out in multiples of one year). - 1-3 years and interest rate fixed by bank
The compensation as specified in an award of Banking Ombudsman Scheme - upto Rs 10 lakhs
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) granted ---- entities in-principle licences to open so-called small finance banks—another move towards expanding access to financial services in rural and semi-urban areas. - 10
The Reserve Bank of India has decided to grant “in-principle” approval to the following ---- applicants to set up payments banks under the Guidelines for Licensing of Payments Banks issued on November 27, 2014 (Guidelines). - 11
Kisan Vikas Patra certificates can be encashed after a lock-in period of -------. - 30 months or 2 years and 6 months
Bandhan Bank began operations as a full-fledged bank with the maximum number of 200 branches in ------. - West Bengal
Indo-Nepal Remittance Facility is a cross-border remittance scheme to transfer funds from India to Nepal, enabled under the NEFT Scheme. Under the Scheme, even a walk-in customer can transfer funds upto ----- by depositing the cash at the remitting bank branch. - Rs 50,000
The initial products and schemes under ------- have already been created and the interventions have been named ‘Shishu’, ‘Kishor’ and ‘Tarun’. - Mudra Bank
The IBRD is the first of five member institutions that compose the World Bank Group and is headquartered in -------. - Washington, D.C., United States
The DRDO inaugurated an Extreme Altitude Research Centre at ---- in Jammu and Kashmir at 17,600 ft above mean sea level, the world’s highest terrestrial R&D centre. - Chang La
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its approval for launch of “Housing for All by ------. - 2022
The Government of India has declared that 25 December, the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, will be celebrated as --------. - Good Governance Day.
NPS aims to institute ----- and to inculcate the habit of saving for retirement amongst the citizens. - pension reforms
The Buxa Tiger Reserve is a 760-square-kilometre tiger reserve located inside the Buxa National Park in ----. - West Bengal
Smaller UCBs with business size of less than ---- willing to convert to SFBs can apply to the Reserve Bank for conversion provided they fulfil all the eligibility criteria and selection processes prescribed by the Reserve Bank and further provided that the licensing window for SFBs is open. - ₹ 20,000 crore
The Banking Ombudsman Scheme is introduced under Section 35 A of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 by ----with effect from 1995. - RBI
Former ---- paceman Frank Tyson, hailed as the quickest bowler of his era, has died at the age of 85. - England
In Indian general election, 2014, Sushma Swaraj won from ----- constituency in Madhya Pradesh for a second term. - Vidisha
-------, Chairman and Managing Director of Bharatiya Mahila Bank has been appointed as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Punjab National Bank with effect from 14.08.2015. - Usha Ananthasubramanian
According to Census 2011, India's literacy rate is ------per cent . - 74.04
Who was one of the first recipients of India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna? - Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated India's first solar-powered court in ---- Khunti district. - Jharkhand's
Who is the author of the book "Dare to Do"? - Kiran Bedi
National Housing Bank (NHB), a wholly owned subsidiary of ----- , was set up on 9 July 1988 under the National Housing Bank Act, 1987. - Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
Which is an integrated bill payment system in India offering interoperable and accessible bill payment service to customers through a network of agents, enabling multiple payment modes, and providing instant confirmation of payment? - Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS)
Indian Banks' Association (IBA), formed on 26 September 1946 as a representative body of management of banking in India operating in India - an association of Indian banks and financial institutions based in ----. - Mumbai
Chetan Anand Buradagunta is a ------ player from India. - Badminton
The International Development Association (IDA) is a member of the ----- and is headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States. - World Bank Group