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1) Recently UAE has launched which type of card system to grant permanent residency to investors and exceptional doctors, engineers, scientists and artists?
a) Bronze card
b) Silver card
c) Golden Card
d) Platinum Card
e) Diamond Card
2) Which city topped the 15-city list of the most vulnerable cities to cyberattacks in 2019?
a) Delhi
b) Bangalore
c) Kolkata
d) Mumbai
e) Hyderabad
3) Based on the Fitch Report, what was the share of Shadow banking assets as a percentage of total financial assets within India?
a) 11.5%
b) 12.8%
c) 13.7%
d) 14.3%
e) 15.1%
4) Name the savings bank product that is launched by Karnataka Bank for salaried class.
a) KBL SB Salary
b) KBL SB Annual
c) KBL SB Monthly
d) KBL SB Daily
e) KBL SB Weekly
5) As per RBI data, Bank credit to infrastructure sector grew by what per cent as of 2018-19, the highest since 2012-13 fiscal.
a) 15.5%
b) 16.5%
c) 17.5%
d) 18.5%
e) 19.5%
6) Pehal Charitable Trust (PCT) has entered into the Guinness Book of World Records for Longest Line of Hunger Relief (Iftar) Package. The trust is operated by which country?
a) Turkey
b) Israel
c) India
d) UAE
e) Russia
7) Which company has received ‘Top Performer Award’ for being one among the largest customer for Hot Rolled Coils on PAN India basis in Financial year 2018-19?
a) Rama Steel Tubes
b) Good Luck Steel Tubes
c) Surya Roshin Limited
d) PSL Ltd
e) Hi-Tech Pipes Ltd
8) Which bank has announced a strategic partnership with the FMCG arm of The Art of Living — Sri Sri Tattva?
a) State Bank of India
b) Punjab National Bank
c) Bank of Baroda
d) ICICI Bank
e) Axis Bank
9) The book titled Coming Round the Mountain is penned by which among the following authors?
a) Ruskin Bond
b) Sashi Thoor
c) RK Narayana
d) Chetan Bhagat
e) Khuswanth Singh
10) Who inauguratedThe 5th Smart Cities India 2019 expo, including Transport India, Solar India, Buildings India and Water India expos?
a) Deepti Gambhir
b) S.K Pal
c) Durga Shanker Mishra
d) Jhanja Tripathy
e) None of these
11) After successfully defending a major title (again), Brooks Koepka is back atop the Official World Golf Ranking. He is a professional golf player from which country?
a) Russia
b) America
c) Canada
d) Germany
e) England
12) Famous personality Sammy Shore passes away. What is his profession?
a) Actor
b) Business Man
c) Politician
d) Sports Person
e) Human Activist
Answers:
1) Answer: C)
The UAE has launched a permanent residency scheme for expatriates dubbed the ‘Golden Card. The country’s Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai said about 6,800 will benefit from the scheme under the first round of applications. A new “Golden Card” system to grant permanent residency to investors and exceptional doctors, engineers, scientists and artists.
2) Answer: D)
Mumbai topped the 15-city list of the most vulnerable cities to cyberattacks in 2019, followed by Delhi, Bengaluru and Kolkata, Quick Heal Security Labs revealed. The ‘Annual Threat Report 2019’ put Maharashtra, Delhi and West Bengal as the top three states at most risk. The report compiled data from several cyberattacks that took place in 2018 on Windows and Android
3) Answer: C)
Shadow banking assets as a percentage of total financial assets within the country were at 14.3 per cent, in line with the global percentage of 13.7 per cent, a Fitch reports.The reports pointed out that India’s shadow banking assets were fairly small by international standards, ranking 17th globally at $571.7 billion as of YE17, according to the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB).
4)Answer: A)
Private sector lender Karnataka Bank launched a new savings bank product called “KBL SB Salary” for salaried class with three variants of Executive, Prime and Classic. All these 3 variants of our KBL SB Salary Scheme are available for the Salaried People with a host of Digitally Powered features and without any Minimum Balance Criteria. No annual charge on Debit Cards, Unlimited free access to Karnataka Bank ATMs, Free Cash Deposit facility across all branches, Free Fund Transfer within the Bank, Free NEFT & RTGS through Internet and Mobile Banking, Free Outstation Cheque Collection, No Annual Fee on Demat & Trading Accounts are some of the major features of these schemes. The bank will provide, free of cost, an insurance coverage of up to Rs. 50,000 against chain snatching, theft and burglary for women employees falling in the top category of the salary scheme
5) Answer: D)
As per RBI data, Bank credit to infrastructure sector grew by 18.5 per cent to Rs. 10.55 lakh crore as of 2018-19, the highest since 2012-13 fiscal.Outstanding bank credit to the sector was Rs. 8.91 lakh crore as at March 2018. Within infrastructure, bank loans to power sector had increased by 9.5 per cent to Rs. 5.69 lakh crore compared to Rs. 5.19 lakh crore in FY18. Roads sector witnessed a credit growth of 12.2 per cent to Rs. 1.86 lakh crore as of end-March 2019.Credit to telecommunications and other infrastructure (excluding roads, power and telecom) rose by 36.7 per cent and 53.5 per cent, respectively over FY18.
6) Answer: C)
A charity run by an Indian in the UAE has entered the Guinness Book of World Records for its hunger relief efforts during the holy month of Ramzan in Abu Dhabi.The charity set the new Guinness World Records for “Longest Line of Hunger Relief Package” in Abu Dhabi. Pehal charitable Trust (PCT) has been founded by Joginder Singh Salaria.
7) Answer: E)
Hi-Tech Pipes Limited company has received ‘Top Performer Award’ for being one among the largest customer for Hot Rolled Coils on PAN India basis in Financial year 2018-19 from Anil Kumar Chaudhary, Chairman, Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL). Hi-Tech Pipes Limited (NSE: HITECH), incorporated in 1985 – Amongst leading steel processing Companies in India providing world class innovative products for nearly three decades with presence in steel pipes, hollow section tubes, cold rolled coils & strips, road crash barriers and variety of other galvanized products
8) Answer: A)
The State Bank of India (SBI) has announced a strategic partnership with the FMCG arm of The Art of Living — Sri Sri Tattva.Under this partnership, YONO users can avail a discount of 15 per cent on the entire range of products offered by Sri Sri Tattva such as food, personal care, healthcare, homecare, BYOGI apparels and Shankara skincare products.
9) Answer: A)
India’s beloved children’s author Ruskin Bond is celebrating his 85th birthday with the release of a new memoir set against the backdrop of the partition. The book titled Coming Round the Mountain, will be released officially by the author at Cambridge bookstores in Mussourie.Coming Round the Mountain is the third installment of Bond’s award-winning memoir series for children that includes Looking for the Rainbow and Till the Clouds Roll By. Now, the third part of the series will deal with Bond’s story as a boy of thirteen during the crucial year of India’s partition.
10) Answer: C)
The 5th Smart Cities India 2019 expo, including Transport India, Solar India, Buildings India and Water India expos, was inaugurated by Durga Shanker Mishra, Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India, at the Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.Organised by India Trade Promotion Organization (ITPO) and Exhibitions India Group, the event builds upon Government of India’s ‘Smart Cities Mission’ through a display of a vast array of products and solutions relevant to building smart cities in India.
11) Answer: B)
After successfully defending a major title (again), Brooks Koepka is back atop the Official World Golf Ranking.Koepka teed off at Bethpage ranked No. 3 in the world, but after retaining the Wanamaker Trophy he moved to the top spot even though former world No. 1 Dustin Johnson finished alone in second. It marks the first time Koepka has held the No. 1 ranking since the start of the year. But now it’s Koepka followed by Johnson, with Rose down one spot to No. 3. The rest of the top 10 remained the same after the second major of the year: Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas, Tiger Woods, Francesco Molinari, Bryson DeChambeau, Xander Schauffele and Rickie Fowler.
12) Answer: A)
Sammy Shore, an actor and standup comedian who co-founded the Comedy Store, has died of natural causes.He was 92.Shore began his career doing standup with Shecky Greene. Elvis Presley chose Shore as the opening act for his comeback tour, and the comedian opened for many others, including Tony Orlando, Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis Jr., Tom Jones, Ann-Margret, Connie Stevens, Bobby Darin and Glen Campbell.
