General Awareness Bits for SBI PO and Clerks Exams
●On 17th February 2014 Matteo Renzi appointed
as youngest ever prime minister of a country.
Name the country ?
Ans : Italy
●The 101st edition of Indian Science Congress was held from 3rd February 2014 to 8th
February 2014 in ?
Ans : Jammu
●Justice Rajesh Kumar Agrawal and Justice
Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana were sworn in the judges of the Supreme Court on 17th February 2014. Now the strength of supreme court is
__________ judges ?
Ans : 31 judges
●The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) launched high performance computing system on 25th January 2014. Name it ?
Ans : Dhruva-3
●Subhash Goswami is the Director General of the?
Ans : Indo-Tibetan Border Police
●Zloty is the currency of?
Ans : Poland
●The Jadugada Mine commenced operation in
1967 and is the first Uranium mine in India. It is located in?
Ans : Jharkhand
●Which country faced the first Government shutdown in seventeen years in October 2013?
Ans : USA
●Recently Ex. Union Railway and Social Justice Minister Mallikarjun Kharge has inaugurated the Swavalamban scheme for safai karmacharis.
This scheme was inaugurated on ?
Ans : 1st March 2014
●South Africa won the Under-19 Cricket World
Cup 2014. Who is the player of the tourney ?
Ans : Corbin Bosch
●Who is the winner of Dubai Open 2014 ?
Ans : Roger Federe
●Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on 27th
February 2014 has inaugurated India’s first post
office savings bank ATM at which state ?
Ans : Chennai
●Exporters in India get insurance cover and risk
cover from?
Ans : ECGC (Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India)
●What does the letter F denote in the term NBFC?
Ans : Financial (Non-Banking Financial Company)
●OTEC stands for?
Ans : Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
●Gurdial Singh Sandhu is the?
Ans : Financial Services Secretary
●Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin
has recently presented the prestigious ‘Order of
Friendship’ award to BrahMos chief for his contribution towards Indo-Russian friendship.Who is he ?
Ans : A Sivathanu Pillai
●Who is the new Chairman and Managing Director
of Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), the nation’s most profitable company ?
Ans : Dinesh K Sarraf
●Who is the highest run maker (660 runs) and
winner of the Orange Cap in the Indian Premier League VII?
Ans : Robin Uthappa
●BioAsia summit 2014 was held for three days from 17th February 2014 at ?
Ans : Hyderabad