General Awareness Questions | NIACL Assistant 2017 | 18.04.2017

1. Who of the following was honoured with Young Scientist Award of the National Geoscience Awards 2016?

a) Dr. Pratima Mohan Kessarkar

b) Prof. Javed Husain N. Malik

c) Aradhi Keshava Krishna

d) Dr. Abhishek Saha

e) None of these

2. The Union Cabinet recently approved signing of Framework of Understanding on Cooperation in the Hydrocarbon Sector. The Framework is signed with which of the following countries?

a) Japan

b) Bangladesh

c) Sri Lanka

d) Maldives

e) None of these

3. The Union Cabinet gave its approval for setting up of Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy. The institute will be set up in which of the following cities?

a) Visakhapatnam

b) Vijayawada

c) Kakinada

d) Guntur

e) None of these

4. Who was appointed as the Ambassador of India to Germany? 

a) Shashi Girdhar

b) Gurjit Singh 

c) Mukta Dutta Tomar 

d) Yash Singhal .

e) None of these

5. NBFC Manappuram Finance launched its own prepaid cards in tie-up with which private sector bank?

a) Axis Bank

b) Yes Bank

c) HDFC Bank

d) ICICI Bank

e) None of these

6. Nokia signed MoU with which two Indian telecom companies to bring 5G network in India?

a) Idea and Airtel

b) Vodafone and Airtel

c) Idea and BSNL

d) Airtel and BSNL 

e) None of these

7. In which category, SCOPE Excellence Awards are presented?

a) Excellence and Outstanding Contribution to the Public Sector Management

b) Excellence and Outstanding contribution in the field of Medical Science

c) Excellence and Outstanding contribution in the field of Journalism

d) Excellence and Outstanding Contribution in the field of Computer Science

e) None of these

8. Youngest Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai became the sixth person to receive honorary citizenship of this country. 

a) Canada

b) Britain

c) Germany

d) Egypt

e) None of these

9. He was named as the new administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) by the UN chief Antonio Guterres.

a) Segolene Royal 

b) Timothy Ball

c) Achim Steiner

d) Erik Solheim

e) None of these

10. EC has thrown an open challenge to people to hack its EVM's. The challaange will be open for people in 

a) Last week of April 2017 

b) First week of May 2017

c) Last week of May 2017

d) Before the Delhi MCD elections

e) None of these 

ANSWER

1. (d) Dr. Abhishek Saha

2. (b) Bangladesh

3. (a) Visakhapatnam

4. (c) Mukta Dutta Tomar

5. (b) Yes Bank

6. (d) Airtel and BSNL

7. (a) Excellence and Outstanding Contribution to the Public Sector Management

8. (a) Canada 

9. (c) Achim Steiner

10. (b) First week of May 2017