Current Affairs Practice Paper for Upcoming Bank Tests

Current Affairs Practice Paper for Upcoming Bank Tests

1) Which prestigious award was given in 2013 to Aparajita Datta for her outstanding contribution for the conservation of hornbills.

1. Magsaysay Award
2. Right Livelihood Award
3. Whitley Award
4. Rajiv Gandhi Ecology Award

2) Who was re-elected to a third term as Prime Minister of Hungary on 6 April 2014?

1. Robert Frost
2. Emily Dickinson
3. Viktor Orban
4. John Keats

3) Which of the Following countries/ regions was recently making news for "Sunflower Student Movement" ?

1. Hong Kong
2. Taiwan
3. Tibet
4. Mongolia

4) Which country on 3 April 2014 agreed to provide transit for a 6000 megawatt Indian power transmission line ?

1. Iran
2. Nepal
3. China
4. Bangladesh

5) The Sixth Indian-China Strategic Dialogue was held at which place on 14 April 2014 ?

1. New Delhi
2. Mumbai
3. Beijing
4. Shanghai

6) India's Supreme Court in a Landmark judgment in which of the following date created the "third gender" status for transgenders ?

1. 5 April 2014
2. 15 April 2014
3. 25 April 2014
4. 10 April 2014

7) Name the portal was launched by Indian Railways on 15 April 2014 with an aim to improve energy efficiency in Indian Railways ?

1. Rail Safety
2. Rail Samachar
3. Rail Saver
4. Rail Mart

8) What is the date for providing permanent or universal account number (UAN) to subscribers of retirement fund body Employees' Provident Fund Organisation's (EPFO) as stated by the body recently ?

1. 15 November 2014
2. 15 December 2014
3. 15 October 2014
4. 20 October 2014

9) Asia's largest Tulip garden on the banks of Dal Lake in which state was thrown open for visitors on 5 April 2014 ?

1. West Bengal
2. Orissa
3. Jammu & Kashmir
4. Punjab

10) Recently which among the following state is the first to issue "Soil Health Cards" for every land farmers ?

1. Karnataka
2. Gujarat
3. Rajasthan
4. Kerala

11) Which country will host the 18th SAARC Summit on 14 November 2014 as decided recently ?

1. India
2. Nepal
3. Bhutan
4. Maldives

12) Name the British-American Physicist has won the 2014 Millennium Technology Prize on 9 April 2014 ?

1. Surat Parkin
2. David Alter
3. Charles Bartley
4. Helen M. Berman

13) Which among the following has been named 2014 world car of the year /

1. Hyundai i20
2. BMW
3. Audi A3
4. Duster 720

14) Which Country won the ICC T-20 Women's World Cup 2014, final of which was played on 6 April 2014 ?

1. Sri Lanka
2. England
3. Australia
4. India 

15) Who won the F1 Bahrain Grand Prix 2014 title on 6 April 2014 ?

1. Nico Rosberg
2. Lewis Hamilton
3. Sergio Perez
4. Giancarlo Fisichella

16) On 1 April 2014 Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its first Bi-monthly Monetary Policy statement for Financial Year 2014-15 has kept the policy repo rate unchanged at what percentage ?

1. 7.25%
2. 7.5%
3. 7.75%
4. 8.0%

17) RBI in consultation with Union Government on 1 April 2014 capped the Ways and Means Advances (WMA) limits for the first half of the new financial year 2014-15 (April 2014-Sep 2014) at what amount ?

1. 25000 crore rupees
2. 15000 crore rupees
3. 35000 crore rupees
4. 45000 crore rupees

18) How much amount was collected by India's largest banking group the State Bank of India (SBI) recently in overseas debt sale through a dual tranche bond programme, which make it the largest ever offering from a domestic issuer ?

1. $ 3.25 billion
2. $ 2.35 billion
3. $ 1.25 billion
4. $ 4.25 billion

19) Indian Space Research Organization on 4 April 2014 launched which satellite, which will be second navigation satellite among the seven satellites, which will eventually constitute the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) ?

1. IRNSS-1A
2. IRNSS-1B
3. IRNSS-1C
4. IRNSS-1D

20) Who was appointed as the new Director General of the border Security Force (BSF) on 2 April 2014 ?

1. Subrata Mitra
2. D.K. Pathak
3. Vijay C. Kumar
4. P.S. Nivas

Important Links:

• General Awareness Practice Paper Set 1
• General Awareness Practice Paper Set 2
• Data Interpretation Practice Paper