SBI PO Mains 2017: Current Affairs Quiz – Set 4 | Financial News Focused | Detailed Explanations

1. 3) ICICI Bank has launched the
Mera iMobile app, which is designed as a multilingual one stop shop for a range
of digital services for rural customers.

2. 1) To provide housing loan and
educational loan at subsidised interest rates to the employees of the state
government, a MoU was signed on between the Assam government and State Bank of
India.

3. 4) The Union Cabinet on 22
March 2017 approved the proposal to establish the Fund of Funds of Startups
(FFS). The Union Cabinet in 2016 approved the proposal to establish a Fund of
Funds for Start-ups (FFS) with a total corpus of Rs 10000 crore.

4. 5) Bill Gates topped the list
with fortune of USD 86 billion. He is not only the Number 1 in the list for the
fourth year in a row, but also is the richest person in the world for 18 out of
the past 23 years.

5. 3) In the report, while Norway
was adjudged as the happiest country in the world, India was ranked 122, much
behind most of the SAARC nations including Pakistan and Nepal.

6. 2) The International Day for
the Elimination of Racial Discrimination was observed globally on 21 March 2017
with the theme ‘Racial profiling and incitement to hatred, including in the
context of migration’.

7. 5) The World Bank on 23 March
2017 signed a USD 100 million credit agreement with the Union Government and
Uttarakhand to improve quality of healthcare services in all 13 districts of
Uttarakhand.

8. 1) Bharti Airtel on 23 March
2017 acquired 4G business of Tikona Networks including the Broadband Wireless
Access (BWA) business and 350 sites across 5 circles of Tikona Digital for Rs
1600 crore.

9. 2) Tamil Nadu on 20 March 2017
won the Vijay Hazare Trophy of Cricket, for the fifth time. In the Final played
at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in Delhi, they defeated Bengal by 37 runs

10. 4) The Union Cabinet, chaired
by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on 22 March 2017 approved the proposal for
Amendments to the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)
Act, 1981. Amendments to National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
Act, 1981 include provisions that enable Union Government to increase the
authorized capital of NABARD from Rs 5000 crore to Rs 30000 crore.

11. 5) The Union Ministry of
Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation on 22 March 2017 sanctioned 3128 more
affordable houses for the benefit of urban poor in Puducherry, 924 for
Telangana and 2655 for Himachal Pradesh under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana
(PMAY).

12. 5) The Union Government on 22
March 2017 informed that five Indian cities were included in the Tentative List
of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The cities were Ahmedabad, Delhi, Jaipur, Bhubaneswar,
Mumbai.

13. 2) India has slipped to rank
131in the 2016 Human Development Report (HDR) that was released by the United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on 21 March 2017.

14. 1) The World Water Day (WWD)
was observed globally on 22 March 2017 with theme Why Wastewater?

15. 4) Ankur Mittal is associated
with Shooting. He was in news since he won gold in mens Double Trap with a
world recordequalling effort at the ongoing Shotgun World Cup.