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1. Think - tank of Government of India that

replaces Planning Commission of India is...
1) NITI Vakya
2) NITI Vajpayee
3) NITI Prasasthi
4) NITI Dharma
5) NITI Aayog
2. NITI Aayog stands for......
1) National Institution for Transition India
2) National Information for Transforming
India
3) National Institution for Take India
4) National Institution for Transforming India
5) None
3. NITI Aayog come into effect from....
1) 1 April 2015
2) 1 April 2016
3) 1 March 2015
4) 1 January 2015
5) 25 Dec 2014
4. The NITI Aayog headed by....
1) President of India
2) Finance Minister
3) Minister for Planning
4) RBI Governor
5) Prime Minister
5. To reflect changes required in India's governance structures and provide a more active
role for the state governments in achieving
national objectives, NITI Aayog initiated. Its
Vice Chairman appointed by .....
1) President of India
2) Vice President of India
3) Finance Minister
4) Home Minister
5) Prime Minister
6. Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog is...
1) Montek Singh Ahluwalia
2) Arvind Panagariya
3) Abhijith Sen
4) Amartya Sen
5) None
A. Veera
7. NITI Aayog has been tasked with
a role of formulating policies and
direction for the government and serving as
a think-tank, which will have Chief Executive
Officer (CEO). Present CEO is....
1) Arvind Mayaram
2) Rajiv Meharshi
3) Sudha Pillai
4) Sindhushree Khullar 5) None
8. NITI Aayog will have full time members. It will
have how many part time members selected
from leading universities research organizations and other relevant institutions in an exofficio capacity?
1) 4
2) 6
3) 8
4) 2
5) None
9. An
Economist
Bibek
Debroy
and
V.K.Saraswat were appointed as full-time
members of NITI Aayog. Who is
V.K.Saraswat ?
1) former DRDO Chief
2) former ISRO Chairman
3) former Finance Secretary
4) former Defence Minister
5) None of above
10. Maximum of how many Ex-officio members
selected from the Union Council of
Ministers to be nominated by the Prime
Minister in NITI Ayog?
1) 12
2) 7
3) 4
4) 10 5) None
11. Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Union
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Railways
Minister Suresh Prabhu and ........... were
made ex-officio members of NITI ayog.
1) Tribal Affaris Minister Jula Oram
2) Rural Development Minister Chaudary
Birender Singh
3) Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh
4) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj
5) None
12. Roads and National Highways Minister
Nitin
Gadkari,
Human
Resource
Development Minister Smriti Irani and ......
were made Special invitees to the NITI
Aayog?
1) Law and Justice Minister D. V.
Sadananda Gowda
2) Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar
3) Social Justice and Empowerment
Minister Thawar Chand Gehlot
4) Urban Development, Housing and Urban
Poverty Alleviation and Parliamentary

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The new President of Tunisia is ......

Ans: 5
1) Abdelaziz Bouteflika 2) Abdel Fattah el-Sisi 3) Mulatu Teshome
4) Uhuru Kenyatta
5) Beji Caid Essebsi
Tunisia Capital ....
Ans: 5
1) Algiers 2) Cairo
3) Addis Ababa
4) Nairobi
5) Tunis
The currency of Tunisia is .....
Ans: 5
1) Dollar
2) Pound
3) Birr
4) Shilling
5) Dinar

'The Red Sari' written by...?

General Awareness
Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu
5) None
13. Planning Commission was the centre-tostate one-way flow of policy, where as NITI
Ayog is a genuine and continuing partnership of states. NITI Ayog depends on
how many pillars of Effective governance?
1) 7
2) 5
3) 10 4) 8 5) 12
14. NITI Ayog will have .......... comprising the Chief Ministers of all
the States and Lt. Governors of
Union Territories.
Swamy 1) Presidium
2) Co-ordination committee
3) General Committee
4) Governing Council
5) Administrative Council
15. Regional Councils will be formed to
address specific issues and contingencies
impacting more than one state or a region.
They are headed by......
1) Governor of the state or Finance Minister
of India
2) Chief Minister
3) Chairperson of the NITI Aayog or his
nominee
4) President of India and Governor of state
5) None of above
16. Digital Village project launched by ....... in
Akodara Village in Gujarat recently.
1)Yes Bank
2) RBI
3) Corporation Bank
4) ICICI Bank
5) SBI
17. On 19 January 2015, based on the cost of
funds, RBI asked banks to review minimum
lending rate for every .........
1) two months
2) four months
3) two months
4) six months
5) three months
18. On 19 January 2015, ICICI Bank introduced
'icicibankpay'. It is it's.........
1) face book handle
2) credit card
3) new financial intermediary
4) new CBS module
5) twitter service
19. In the list of the Top 50 Most Valued Global
Banks (in terms of market capitalization)
released by Bloomberg on 17 January
2015, which bank got first rank?
1) SBI
2) ICICI
3) BOB
4) HDFC
5) SBH
20. Union Government on 19 January 2015
prohibited imports of all kind of mobile
handsets with fake or duplicate IMEI. IMEI
stands for ..........
1) International Mobile Equipment Identity
2) Indian Mobile Equipment Identity
3) Internal Mobile Equipment Identity
4) Interest Mobile Equipment Identity
5) None
21. Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission on
Teachers and Teaching launched by PM on

25 December 2014 at ......

1) New Delhi
2) Allahabad
3) Varanasi
4) Gwalior
5) Jammu
22. International borders dividing the nations
given. Pick the wrong combination.
1) India and China - McMahon Line
2) India and Pakistan - Radcliffe Line
3) India and Sri Lanka - Palk Strait and Gulf
of Mannar
4) India and Bangladesh - Durand Line
5) None
23. Baba Ramdev was appointed as the
ambassador of ........
1) Uttarakhand
2) Haryana
3) Tamilnadu
4) AP
5) Telangana
24. Due to decrease in oil prices and fall of
demand for gold, the Trade deficit in
December 2014 narrowed to .......
1) 7.25 billion dollars
2) 11.20 billion US dollars
3) 7.50 billion US dollars
4) 9.43 billion US dollars 5) None
25. In 'AEBAS', 'B' stands for......
1) Benefit
2) Branded
3) Bombay
4) Biometric
5) Bi-monthly
26. DeitY stands for .....
1) Department of electrical & information
technology
2) Department of electronics & information
trade
3) Division of electronics & information technology
4) Department of electronics & information
technology
5) None
27. GIAN is a short term teaching programme
under which scholars abroad will be invited
to teach in India. GIAN stands for....
1) Global Invite of Academic Network
2) Global Initiative of Academic Network
3) Grand Initiative of Academic Network
4) Global Initiative of Academic Nation
5) None
28. Jal Kranti Varsh is.....
1) 2014-15
2) 2020-21
3) 2013-14
4) 2017-18
5) 2015-16

29. Which software service provider declared

to spend over Rs.1,500 crore to fund innovations in software and services in India?
1) TCS
2) Tech Mahindra
3) Infosys
4) Wipro
5) HCL
30. e-voting allowed recently for.....
1) Illeterates
2) Old age people
3) Physically handicapped persons
4) Soft ware professionals 5) NRIs
31. First woman IPS officer is ......
1) Kiran Bedi
2) Bachendri Pal
3) Sarojini Naidu
4) Sucheta Kripalani
5) Isha Basant Joshi
32. First Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) powered train would run between Rewari Rohtak. Rewari - Rohtak are in.....
1) Haryana
2) Jammu Kashmir
3) Kerala
4) UP
5) Tamilnadu
33. Republic day 2015 guest is.......
1) Putin
2) Shianzo Abe
3) Obama
4) Xi Jinping
5) Nawaz Sharif
34. Armed forces for the first time will have allwomen marching contingent in the
Republic Day parade. Modi named it as ......
1) Naari Shakti
2) Stree Bheri
3) Narri Nichay
4) Nirbhaya Patham
5) None
35. First USA President to visit India twice in
office is ....
1) Barack Obama
2) Bill Clinton
3) Geroge Bush
4) Dwight Eisenhower
5) John Fitzgerald Kennedy
36. The Red Sari, the book on Sonia Gandhi
written by .......
1) Avinash Kumar
2) Pranab Mukarjee
3) Javier Moro
4) Maneka Gandhi
5) None
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