General Awareness For IBPS-Clerks Main Exam : 02.01.2016

Bankers Guru

As per the data published by the 2011 census India has managed to achieve an effective literacy rate of ------ per cent in 2011. - 74.04
Noted author ------ received the Mahatma Phule Equality Award 2015. - Arundhati Roy
Atal Pension Yojana (APY) scheme replaced the UPA government's --------. - Swavalamban Yojana
The Finance Ministry is planning to introduce a bill in the Budget session to give statutory status to ------- which will act as a regulator for micro finance institutions. - MUDRA Bank
What is the full form of CRAR? - Capital to Risk Weighted Assets Ratio
Who is shutting its private banking unit in India, marking the exit of another foreign bank from the cut-throat wealth management business in Asia’s third-largest economy? - HSBC Holdings Plc
Sunil Philip Narine is a Trinidadian cricketer who plays for the ------ in all forms of the game. - West Indies
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) declared State Bank of India and ICICI Bank as -------. - Domestic Systemically Important Banks (D-SIBs)
IDFC Bank Ltd. is an Indian banking company with headquarters in --------. - Mumbai
Which country has taken the initiative for creating an alternative media platform for the emerging economies by hosting the first media summit of countries belonging to the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) grouping? - China
Who was selected Commonwealth Secretary-General at the Commonwealth summit in Malta? - Baroness Patricia Scotland
In order to encourage more young voters to take part in the political process, GOI has decided to celebrate January 25 every year as -------. - 'National Voters' Day'.
What does UNU stand for? - United Nations University
Dachigam National Park is located 22 kilometers from -------. - Jammu and Kashmir
Mount Abu is a popular hill station in the Aravalli Range in Sirohi district of ----- state in western India. - Rajasthan
Which bank has become the first micro-finance company in India to start operation as full-fledged scheduled commercial bank? - Bandhan Bank
Which is India's first Credit Information Company (CIC) founded in August 2000. - Credit Information Bureau (India) Limited
The scheme “Nai Manzil” scheme will address educational and livelihood needs of minority communities in general and ----- in particular as it lags behind other minority communities in terms of educational attainments. - muslims
Who have named their provisional five-man squad for their first Davis Cup final in 37 years? - Great Britain
What is the currency of Nigeria? - Nigerian naira
--------, a wholly owned subsidiary of Reserve Bank of India (RBI), was set up on 9 July 1988. - National Housing Bank (NHB)
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) decided to grant “in-principle” approval to the 10 applicants to set up small finance banks. The “in-principle” approval granted will be valid for ------. - 18 months
The IMF has included the ---- in its exclusive currency basket. - Yuan
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 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
In a one of its kind achievement, ------- village in Karnataka has become India's first smokeless village. - Vyachakurahalli
The rate of interest of Gold Monetisation Scheme deposit will be decided by Central Government and notified by ----- from time to time.- Reserve Bank of India
Who is the 24th president of France, and a member of the Socialist Party? - François Hollande
P. T. Usha is an Indian ----- from the state of Kerala. - athlete