Awareness

ISBT Awareness for all banking PO,Clerk,IBPS PO,Railway,SSC,IAS,OAS Exams

Q611.

Which former World No.1 tennis player of Russia has been inducted in the International Tennis Hall of Fame, recently announced by Russian Tennis Federation and will be formally inducted in the official ceremony scheduled on July 16, 2016 ?

1)	Maria Sharapova	2)	Andrei Cherkasov
3)	Marat Safin	4)	Andrei Cherkasov
5)	None of these

Q612.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the new "Start-Up India" scheme to promote and nurse entrepreneurship in the country which has ensured minimum interference from the government with attractive tax incentives. What is the PM announced corpus,fund to boost start-ups ?

1)	Rs 5,000-crore	2)	Rs 8,000-crore
3)	Rs 10,000-crore	4)	Rs 12,000-crore
5)	None of these

Q613.

Veteran actor Alan Rickman passed away at the age of 69 after suffering from cancer who was one of best-loved acting stars especially for his complex antagonist acting in films like Harry Potter, Die Hard and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. He was the citizen of ---------.

1)	USA	2)	Britain
3)	Canada	4)	Australia
5)	None of these

Q614.

Which two actor-director are new members included in the recently constituted Shyam Benegal Committee which is to look holistically into the functioning of the controversy-ridden Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) ?

1)	Kamal Haasan and Rajanikant	2)	Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and Gautam Ghosh
3)	Amitav Bachan and Gautam Ghosh	4)	Kamal Haasan and Gautam Ghosh
5)	None of these

Q615.

Which Indian private sector bank have become the first private sector bank in India to cross Rs. 1 lakh crore mark in mortgage disbursal at a growth rate at 25% ?

1)	ICICI Bank	2)	HDFC Bank
3)	Federal Bank	4)	South Indian Bank
5)	None of these

Q616.

India's largest Insurance company Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) launched “Jeevan  Shikhar" , a closed-ended plan which has been offered for sale by LIC from 11 January,2016  till 31 March 2016. The plan is available from ages --------.

1)	5 - 40 years	2)	6 - 45 years
3)	12 - 50 years	4)	12 - 60 years
5)	None of these

Q617.

Which cricketer became the fastest player to register 24 hundreds and pile up 7,000 runs in one-day international cricket history ?

1)	AB de Villers	2)	Hasim Amla
3)	Virat Kohli	4)	Steve Smith
5)	Joe Root

Q618.

Northern India’s first permanent exhibition on nuclear power  ‘Hall of Nuclear Power’, recently inaugurated on 16 January 2016 at ----------.

1)	Silchar	2)	Guwahati
3)	Dibrugargh	4)	New Delhi
5)	None of these

Q619.

The Union cabinet has approved to set- up of an empowered committee of secretaries to devise a process for the implementation of the 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC) recommendations. Who will head this committee ?

1)	Y.V.Reddy	2)	D.K.Jain
3)	P.K. Sinha	4)	Vijay Kelkar
5)	None of these

Q620.

Senior IAS officer Sailesh has been appointed as Registrar General and Census Commissioner  (RGCC) of India by Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The department is under the ministry of --------- .

1)	Union Ministry of Home Affairs	2)	Union Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
3)	Union Ministry of Health and Education Affairs	4)	Union Ministry of Human Resource Development
5)	None of these