Current Affairs Progress Test – Set 58

Current Affairs Progress Test - Set 58
Progress Test is an initiative from ByScoop to help candidates in revising the Current Affairs for upcoming banking exams. The questions covered are selected from last 1 week current events and will be extremely helpful in upcoming competitive exams like SBI PO mains, SBI Clerk mains, RBI Grade B and various other exams.
Instructions:
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No. of Questions: 10
Time Limit: 02 minutes
  1. Based upon a study by Cisco and International Data Corporation (IDC), India will add over 1.4 million new IT jobs by which year?
    2022
    2027
    2025
    2030
    2021
    Option B
    India is likely to add over 1.4 million new IT jobs by 2027 finds a joint study by Cisco and International Data Corporation (IDC).

     

  2. Which Section of the RBI Act 1934, provides authority to the Central Government to give directions to the central bank in public interest from time-to-time with the consultation of the RBI governor?
    Section 16
    Section 9
    Section 7
    Section 5
    Section 12
    Option C
    The Central Government may from time to time give such directions to the Bank as it may, after consultation with the Governor of the Bank, consider necessary in the public interest.

     

  3. Name the CEO of Flipkart owned Myntra who resigned from the post after Binny Bansal stepped down as CEO of Flipkart group
    Dipanjan Basu
    Kalyan Krishnamurthy
    Rishi Vasudev
    Ananth Narayanan
    Mukesh Bansal
    Option D

     

  4. Which among the given words has been selected as the ‘Word of the Year 2018’ by Oxford Dictionaries?
    Orbiting
    Toxic
    Hashtag
    Youthquake
    Tourism
    Option B
    Oxford Dictionaries named “toxic” its 2018 word of the year. The British publisher said “toxic” was chosen over words like “techlash” and “gaslighting”

     

  5. According to the recent announcement of the Ministry of Women and Child Development, government will pay salaries for 7 out of the 26 weeks of maternity leave to the employers of the female workers earning more than _____ per month
    Rs 10,000
    Rs 30,000
    Rs 25,000
    Rs 15,000
    Rs 20,000
    Option D
    The Women and Child Development Ministry on Thursday announced the government will give employers the salaries for seven of the 26 weeks of maternity leave for women earning more than ₹15,000 a month

     

  6. Jayesh Sanghrajka has been appointed as the interim chief financial officer (CFO) of which company?
    IBM
    HCL Technologies
    Wipro
    TCS
    Infosys
    Option E
    Infosys said it has appointed Jayesh Sanghrajka as the interim chief financial officer of the company and a key managerial personnel with effect from November 17. Sanghrajka is currently the deputy CFO of the bengaluru-headquartered IT services exporter.

     

  7. Which state has proposed to build a 125-foot tall statue of Mother Cauvery?
    Kerala
    Odisha
    Andhra Pradesh
    Tamil Nadu
    Karnataka
    Option E
    The Karnataka state government has proposed a 350 feet tall statue of Mother Cauvery at an estimated cost of Rs 1200 cr at the Krishnaraja Sagar (KRS) reservoir in Mandya district.

     

  8. The 4th International Congress on Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine has been organised in which city?
    New Delhi
    Ahmedabad
    Mumbai
    Hyderabad
    Jaipur
    Option A
    4th International Congress on Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine was organized along with the Asia Pacific Geriatric Medicine Network Conference at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.

     

  9. Who is the Chief Minister of Meghalaya?
    Lal Thanhawla
    Pawan Kumar Chamling
    Conrad K Sangma
    N. Biren Singh
    Tathagata Roy
    Option C

     

  10. The International Energy Agency (IEA) projects that natural gas is expected to surpass coal and become world’s largest energy source by which year?
    2022
    2025
    2030
    2023
    2020
    Option C
    According to report by International Energy Agency (IEA) titled World Energy Outlook 2018, natural gas is expected to overtake coal as the world’s second largest energy source after oil by 2030.

     


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