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FEBRUARY 2016
1.

As per the new revision, the voting rights of India in IMF is

increased from 2.3% to how much? - 2.6 per cent
2. What is the name of the party which was announced by V.
Ponraj, who was scientific adviser to Kalam? 3. The Union Cabinet has approved signing of Agreement for
collaboration in Traditional Medicine between Ministry of
AYUSH and which organization? World Health
Organisation
4. Who will head the Parliamentary panel which will
undertake field visits to sites where industrial corridors
are to be established and prepare a report in a bid expedite
the projects? Chandan Mitra
5. Which railway station became the first station of the
countrys 100 railway stations to be equipped with a highspeed wi-fi service, a collaboration between RailTel, the
Indian Railways telecom arm, and the US-headquartered
software firm Google? Mumbai Central
6. Maharashtra Government has signed a memorandum of
understanding (MoU) with which company for a skill
training programme for the youth in the state? Tata Trust
7. Nai Manzil scheme was launched for the first time in which
state? Jammu and Kashmir
8. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, hosted Indias largest
tricolour atop the tallest pole at? Pahari Mandir in
Ranchi
9. Name the app which is launched by Lt Governor of
Puducherry AK Singh to ensure safety and security of
women in the Union Territory. MITRA mobile
application
10. What is the name of the project which was launched by
Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare J P Nadda for
prevention of AIDS especially among people injecting
drugs in the 8 North-Eastern states? Project Sunrise

11. India with which country have started talks on exchanging

prisoners that are of mutual interest? Thailand
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12. India and with which country signed nine agreements

covering cooperation in the fields of currency swap,
culture, investments in the infrastructure sector,
renewable energy, space research, insurance supervision,
cyber security, skill development and commercial
information sharing? - The United Arab Emirates (UAE)
13. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) with
which organization signed an agreement to improve
cooperation in cyber defense? European Union (EU)
14. India with which country signed 3 Memorandums of
Understanding (MoUs) to deepen bilateral cooperation?
Brunei
15. India with which country inked a pact for visa-free travel
by their diplomats? Afghanistan
16. The Ministry of Railways inked a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with which country on technical
cooperation in rail sector? Sweden
17. India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed loan
agreement of how much amount for improving the
infrastructure in the two North-Eastern cities of Agartala
and Aizawl? $80 million
18. Who took charge as the Director General of the Sashastra
Seema Bal (SSB) recently?- Archana Ramasundaram
19. Who has been appointed as the head of Head of Mission
and Force Commander of the United Nations
Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF)?-Major General
Jai Shanker Menon of the Indian Army
20. The government has appointed whom as the next
Secretary to the Department of Industrial Policy and
Promotion (DIPP) in the Commerce and Industry Ministry
that spearheads the Make In India and Startup India
programmes? - Ramesh Abhishek
21. IT major Infosys has appointed whom as the Chief
Executive Officer of Infosys Consulting Holding AG
(formerly Infosys Lodestone) with effect from April 1? Michael Pesch
22. Indias second largest IT service provider Infosys said the
company has extended the tenure of its CEO and MD for
another two years. Name the MD & CEO. - Vishal Sikka
23. Name the persons who have been appointed as the
Information Commissioners at the Central Information
Commission (CIC) recently. - Amitava Bhattacharyya,
Bimal Julka and Divya Prakash Sinha
24. Who has been appointed as the Director General (DG) of
Coast Guard, the countrys coastal protection force? Rajendra Singh
25. Who has resigned as the non-executive chairman of United
Spirits Limited (USL) with immediate effect? - Vijay
Mallya

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26. Who has been appointed as the first Chairman of the Banks
Board Bureau, which will advise the government on toplevel appointments at public sector lenders and ways to
address the bad loans problem among other issues? Former CAG Vinod Rai
27. Who will remain the Securities and Exchange Board of
India (SEBI) Chairman till March 1, 2017? U.K. Sinha
28. Name the Army Lieutenant General who was appointed as
the commander of the NATO forces in Afghanistan. John
Nicholson
29. Name the Former chief secretary of Gujarat who was
appointed vice-president and chief investment officer of
the newly-created Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
(AIIB). DJ Pandian
30. Who was appointed as the Director General of the
Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) that guards India's frontiers
with Nepal and Bhutan? Archana Ramasundram
31. Who was Indias new Permanent Representative to the
United Nations? Syed Akbaruddin
32. Who have been elected to the prestigious National
Academy of Engineering (NAE), a non-profit organisation
based in the US? Mukesh Ambani and Sam Pitroda
33. Who was named as the new chairman of the Empowered
Committee of State Finance Ministers on Goods and
Services Tax (GST)? Amit Mitra
34. Name the Afghanistans Chief Executive Officer and Head
of the Council of Ministers who was on a visit to India
recently? - Abdullah Abdullah
35. In an upshot of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the
UAE, home to 2.6 million expatriate Indians, Abu Dhabi's
Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE
Armed Forces, who will arrive in New Delhi on February
10. Name the king? - Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al
Nahyan
36. The government announced it will be divesting five per
cent of its stake in which company through the offer-forsale route? NTPC
37. Retirement fund body EPFO has tightened norms on
withdrawal of provident fund as the subscribers will be
able to claim withdrawal of their provident fund after
attaining age of how many years? - 57 years
38. Name the Former Army chief General who was cremated
with full military honours in Delhi recently?- K.V. Krishna
Rao
39. Name the Former Pakistani cricketer, who was the
countrys oldest living Test cricketer, who passed away at
the age of 88. - Israr Ali
40. Name the Cartoonist who was suffering from a brain
tumour, passed away at a private city hospital. - Sudhir
Tailang
41. Name the Arjuna awardee Assistant Commandant of the
India Reserve Battalion, who allegedly committed suicide
by hanging from a ceiling fan? - Narinder Singh
42. Name the noted Hindi and Urdu poet who died recently. Nida Fazli

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43. Name the Former Prime Minister of Nepal and Nepali

Congress President who passed away due to Pneumonia at
his residence. - Sushil Koirala
44. Name the soldier who died, after being buried under snow
in the Siachen for six days recently? - Lance Naik
Hanumanthappa Koppad
45. Name the Eminent Hindustani classical vocalist passed
away at a private hospital following old-age related
ailments? - Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan
46. Name the former United Nations Secretary-General who
passed away in Cairo, Egypt at the age of 93. Boutros
Boutros-Ghali
47. Name the NASA Astronaut, who was the sixth man to walk
on the Moon, died in West Palm Beach, Florida. Edgar
Mitchell
48. Name the former Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of
India (RBI), who passed away at the age of 80. S.S.
Tarapore
49. Which country will host the first-ever global maritime
summit in April this year? - India
50. The Make in India Week was held in ? Mumbai
51. The two-day long 19th National e-governance Conference
with the title Transforming India was concluded in?
Nagpur, Maharashtra
52. PM Narendra Modi inaugurated the Rs. 10,000-crore
petrochemical plant that will make raw material for
manufacturing plastic and a wax making unit at?
Dibrugarh
53. The Bharat Electronics Limited will set up a Rs.250-crore
plant in state in India to make IR seekers, night vision
devices and thermal imaging cameras? - Nimmakuru in
Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh
54. Which city has been ranked first in terms of cleanliness
again after 2014, followed by Chandigarh, Tiruchirappalli
and NDMC area of the national capital, according to a QCI
survey? Mysuru

55. Which city has emerged as the top among the cities in the
Smart City Mission? Bhubaneswar
56. Apple has confirmed its 1st technology centre in India at?
HyderabadMaharashtra ranked top in terms of
Internet readiness Index
57. What is the name of the welfare scheme for schooldropouts which was launched by West Bengal
government? Utkarsh Bangla Scheme

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58. International Radio Fair 2016 is to be held at?

Bhubaneswar
59. Name the Former India opener who was appointed as the
mentor of the Kings XI Punjab team for the upcoming
Indian Premier League (IPL). - Virender Sehwag
60. Name the national captain of Indian Hockey team against
whom a 21-year-old British woman filed an assault case. Sardar Singh
61. Who became the most expensive player in the auctioned of
IPL 2016 this year? - Shane Watson
62. Who became the most expensive Indian player in the
auctioned of IPL 2016 this year? - Pawan Negi
63. Name the Star player of India who clinched the gold in
womens individual squash in SAG 2016 after beating
Maria Toorpaki Wazir of Pakistan. - Joshna Chinappa
64. Out of the total 16 Gold medals in Wrestling, India won
how many Gold medals in the 12th South Asian Games? 14 Gold Medals
65. Name the Barcelona forward who has been named La
Liga's player of the month for January, the first time he has
won the award since its introduction in 2013? - Lionel
Messi
66. The disciplinary committee of the Board of Control for
Cricket in India (BCCI) banned which Pakistan umpire for
five years on charges of corruption and misconduct in
relation to the Indian Premier League betting and spotfixing scandal of 2013? - Asad Rauf
67. Name the New Zealand player who retired from
International Cricket after playing his last match against
Australia? - Brendon McCullum
68. In the 2016 South Asian Games, officially known as 12th
SAG held at Guwahati, India how many medals won by
team India? 308 medals
69. Name the Veteran West Indies batsman, the seventh
highest Test match run maker in history, who announced
his international retirement. Shivnarine Chanderpaul
70. Who clinch the Malaysia Masters Grand Prix Gold 2016
title with a straight-game win over Scotlands Kristy
Gilmour? Indian shuttler P V Sindhu
71. What is the name of the NASAs most powerful rocket ever
that will launch an uncrewed Orion spacecraft to a stable
orbit beyond the Moon in 2018 will also carry 13 tiny
satellites to test innovative ideas? - The Space Launch
System (SLS)

72. Name the NASA astronaut who will return after nearly a
year aboard the International Space Station. - Scott Kelly
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73. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration

(NASA) successfully launched which rocket from
Californias Vandenberg Air Force Base in the USA which
carried the ocean monitoring satellite Jason-3 on board?
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket
74. Which country launched the Kwangmyongsong-4 satellite?
North Korea
75. Which bank, which is a 90-year-old private sector bank, is
shedding its brick-and-mortar model by introducing digital
technology to shore-up its customer base? - Lakshmi Vilas
Bank (LVB)
76. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has directed commercial
banks to accelerate provisioning requirement by how
much percent every quarter so that by March 31, 2017,
provisioning reached the optimum level in line with substandard accounts? - 2.5 per cent
77. The RBI signed a pact with which country Central Bank to
enter into a Currency Swap Agreement, which is aimed at
strengthening economic ties with the Gulf nation? Central Bank of the UAE
78. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the
umbrella organisation for all retail payment systems in
India, has launched what in partnership with software
industry body Indian Software Product Industry Round
Table (iSPIRT)? UPI (Unified Payment Interface)
79. Which bank raised Rs 3,000 crores by issuing 30,000,
Basel III compliant, Tier-ll bonds, in the nature of
debentures, of face value of Rs 10 lakh each at par? State
Bank of India
80. Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan has joined a task
force of which organization to study the future of global
financial system, whose members include bankers and
policymakers from across the world? World Economic
Forum (WEF)
81. What is the name of the NASAs most powerful rocket ever
that will launch an uncrewed Orion spacecraft to a stable
orbit beyond the Moon in 2018 will also carry 13 tiny
satellites to test innovative ideas? - The Space Launch
System (SLS)
82. Name the NASA astronaut who will return after nearly a
year aboard the International Space Station. - Scott Kelly
83. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) successfully launched which rocket from
Californias Vandenberg Air Force Base in the USA which
carried the ocean monitoring satellite Jason-3 on board?
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket
84. Which country launched the Kwangmyongsong-4 satellite?
North Korea
85. Who is the author of A Kingdom For His Love? Vani
Mahesh and Shinie Antony
86. Who is the author of Nathuram Godse - The Story of an
Assassin? Anup Ashok Sardesai
87. The Z Factor: My Journey as the Wrong Man at the Right
Time is the autobiography of? Subhash Chandra
88. Objective Railway Engineering-Track, Works & Others is
authored by? MM Agarwal

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89. Name the company which the technology giant Microsoft is

all set to buy which is a software keyboard and SDK
application maker. SwiftKey
90. Reliance Group Chairman Anil Ambani announced the
establishment of Dhirubhai Ambani Centre for Innovation
and Research in Aerospace at Whitefield in which city?
Bengaluru

91. Cisco Systems Inc said it was buying which company,

which is a start-up that connects devices such as cars and
medical devices to the Internet, for $1.4 billion in cash and
equity awards, its largest acquisition since 2013? - Jasper
Technologies Inc.
92. Which airlines has suspended five crew members who
were part of a chartered flight after aviation watchdog
DGCA took serious note of an episode in which singer Sonu
Nigam was allowed to belt out Bollywood numbers using
the in-flight announcement system? - Jet Airways
93. Which company now comes before Apple in the list of the
worlds most valuable companies? - Alphabet
94. Name the head of Flipkarts Commerce and Advertising
business who quit recently? - Mukesh Bansal
95. Name the Chief Executive Officerof Lupin Ltd. who have
been chosen the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2015? Vinita Gupta
96. Which company stated that it plans to invest between Rs
2,000 crore and 2,500 crore for development of
infrastructure at Gopalpur in Odisha in the near-term? Tata Steel SEZ
97. Name the company which is the owner of the world's
biggest refining complex, is preparing to lift oil from Iran
next month after a gap of about five years? - India's
Reliance Industries Ltd
98. Indias fourth largest IT services company HCL
Technologies has acquired which company? Volvo
99. Name the leading Indian e-commerce company which said
that its mobile application on Google Android Playstore is
the first Indian app to clock 50 million installations?
Flipkart
100. According to Hurun Global Rich List 2016, India added
how many new billionaires with Mukesh Ambani,
Chairman of Reliance Industries (RIL), emerging at the top
with a personal wealth of $26 billion? 27
101. Who will chair the Tax Policy Research Unit (TPRU) and
Tax Policy Council which is created by the government
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which will help the Government in identifying key policy

decisions for taxation? Union Finance Minister
102. Top industrialist Ratan Tata has invested in which
specialty tea firm? Teabox
103. The U.S. Air Force launched which missile from Californias
central coast in the latest test of the intercontinental
system? - Minute man 3 missile
104. India successfully test fired which indigenously developed
from the Chandipur, off Odisha coast which is capable of
carrying 500 kg to 1000 kg of warheads and is thrusted by
liquid propulsion twin engines? Prithvi-II missile
105. LAMITYE 2016 is the 7th joint military training exercise
between the Indian Army and which country? Seychelles
Peoples Defence Forces (SPDF)
106. The 9th Indo-Nepal Combined Battalion level Military
Training Exercise is named as? Surya Kiran
107. Sino India 2016 is the first joint tactical military exercise
between India and which country? China
108. Indian Navy with which country Navy signed Standard
Operating Procedure (SOP)? Myanmar Navy
109. The government announced it will be divesting five per
cent of its stake in which company through the offer-forsale route? NTPC
110. Retirement fund body EPFO has tightened norms on
withdrawal of provident fund as the subscribers will be
able to claim withdrawal of their provident fund after
attaining age of how many years? - 57 years
111. The World Radio Day was observed globally on? 13
February
112. World Cancer Day (WCD) 2016 was observed across the
world on? 4 February
113. The World Wetlands Day was observed on? 2 February
114. Who is the Indias Permanent Representative to the IAEA,
who recenlty delivered the instrument of ratification to
Juan Carlos Lentijo, the acting Director General of the IAEA
and other officials? - Rajiva Misra
115. Name the person who will become the first U.S. President
to make a historic trip to Cuba after a gap of 80 years? Barack Obama
116. Which country PMs said that the ties between India and
their country should be based on the principle of
sovereign equality? - Nepals Prime Minister K.P.
Sharma Oli
117. Which capital is the new Billionaire Capital of the World?
Beijing
118. Which university has established a professorship in
Sanskrit studies from $3.5-million donated by an IndianAmerican couple to help the varsity advance its study of
the Indian subcontinent? - The University of Chicago
119. Name the college which stated that it has achieved 100 per
cent final placement for its 30th batch of 446 students in a
record time of just over three days?Answer. The Indian
Institute of Management Lucknow
120. Which Railway Corporation will seek the help of the Indian
Railways and all its state shareholders to raise additional
equity in near future to fund its expansion? - The Konkan
Railway corporation Ltd. (KRCL)

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