SBI Clerk Important General Awareness Questions

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• A new purple mineral with a unique makeup discovered from a remote part of Australia recently – Putnisite
• Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh – Nabam Tuki
• Chief Minister of Bihar – Jitan Ram Manjhi
• Chief Minister of Odisha – Naveen Patnaik
• Chief Minister of Sikkim – Pawan Chamling
• Earth Day – 22 April
• India’s first indigenously developed Beyond Visual Range missile – Astra
• India’s own payment gateway launched recently – Ru Pay
• India’s ranking in the State of World’s Mothers’ Index 2014 – 137^th
• Insurance Day is celebrated in India on – April 19
• International Jazz Day – 30 April
• International Nurses Day (IND) – 12 May
• Number of Parliamentary and Assembly seats respectively in the new state of Telangana – 17 and 119
• The 2014 World Car of the Year – Audi A3
• The annual exercise conducted between the US and the Philippines – Balikatan
• The automaker in the US which will pay a record $35 mn fine over faulty ignition switches – General Motors
• The best paid player in the world playing with Barcelona team – Lionel Messi
• The candidate who won the election with a margin of 5.7 lakh votes recently – Narendra Modi, Vadodara
• The car model which has became only the second in India to cross 25 lakh unit sales mark inn domestic market – Alto
• The chairman of the RBI panel on credit information which submitted its report recently – Aditya Puri
• The chairman of the RBI panel which released Draft Report on ‘Pricing of Credit’ recently – Anand Sinha
• The chairman of the RBI’s committee constituted to review the governance of boards of banks in India – P J Nayak
• The chairman of the SIT appointed by the SC to probe black money – MB Shah
• The city declared the most polluted city in the 2014 version of the Ambient Air Pollution (AAP) by the WHO – Delhi
• The city where the fourth meet of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia  (CICA) was held recently – Shanghai
• The company which topped the Forbes list of the world’s 2000 largest and most powerful public companies – Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
• The country from which India’s first aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant, was sourced in 1957 – UK
• The country that successfully test-fired a short-range ballistic missile Hatf-III (Ghaznavi) recently – Pakistan
• The country to which the former Chief of the Air Staff NAK Browne has been appointed India’s Ambassador – UK
• The country where a recent massive landslide claimed hundreds of lives – Afghanistan
• The country where at least 300 people were killed in a coal mine explosion and fire recently – Turkey
• The country where Boko Haram militants abducted more than 200 school girls recently – Nigeria
• The country where citizens rejected adopting world’s highest minimum wage (25 dollars an hour) in a referendum recently – Switzerland
• The country where paleontologists have discovered fossils of the largest dinosaur ever to roam the earth – Argentina
• The country where the military has imposed martial law amid a political crisis – Thailand
• The country where the world’s biggest bio-bank imaging study is being conducted – UK
• The country where the world’s highest tunnel for high-speed trains became operational at an altitude of 3,607.4 metres recently – China
• The country which announced to abolish its controversial sponsorship system for foreign workers – Qatar      
• The country which has become Africa’s biggest economy – Nigeria
• The country which has set up a Special Police Force to handle religious disputes – Sri Lanka
• The country which signed a 10 year pact with the US to allow a bigger US military presence in its territory – Philippines
• The country with which Russia signed a major gas deal recently – China
• The Earth-sized planet discovered by the US space agency NASA which may sustain life – Kepler-186f
• The economies of the world declared world’s most expensive economies in a recent ranking by the World Bank – Switzerland and Norway
• The embattled premier of Thailand dismissed from the office by a court recently – Yingluck Shinawatra
• The film which won the Best Picture Award at the IIFA Award 2014 – Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
• The firm which leads the list of 54 Indian firms in the recently released Forbes ‘Global 2000’ list – Reliance Industries
• The first woman to command a UN peacekeeping force – Kristin Lund
• The flying test bed (FTB) aircraft developed by HAL and handed over to DRDO recently – Nabhratna
• The game Shiv Chowrasia is associated with – Golf
• The group with which India is negotiating the Broad-based Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA) – EU
• The headquarters of the IMF – Washington
• The Indian satellite that retired after remaining 10 years in orbit – INSAT-3E
• The institution which is co-terminus with the Union Govt. – Planning Commission
• The International Commonwealth Championships 2014 was held recently in – Perth
• The internet browser whose vulnerability is referred by ‘Operation Clandestine Fox’ – Internet Explorer (IE)
• The island which became the first island in the world fully energy self-sufficient through combined water and wind power – El Hierro
• The issue of fresh securities by an unlisted company for the first time – Initial Public Offering
• The largest milk-producing state in India as of now – Uttar Pradesh
• The militant group on which the Union Home Ministry extended the ban for five year – LTTE
• The new airline granted the flying licence by aviation regulator DGCA recently – Air Asia India
• The new CEO of Ford Motors – Mark Fields
• The new Deputy Chief of the Air Staff – SBP Sinha
• The new name of the ING Vysya Life Insurance Company Limited – Exide Life Insurance
• The new President and CEO of Nokia – Rajeev Suri
• The new President of Panama – Juan Carlos Varela
• The newly elected President of Rajasthan Cricket Association – Lalit Modi
• The newly elected President of South Africa – Jacob Zuma
• The next Army Chief appointed recently – Dalbir Singh Suhag
• The outstanding Asian Men’s Player of the Year 2013 adjudged by the Asian Squash Federation – Saurav Ghosal
• The person who replaced Anand Sinha as the new RBI deputy governor – R Gandhi
• The persons who have topped the recent list of UK billionaires – Srichand and Gopichand Hinduja
• The present secretary General of the ASEAN group – Le Luong Minh
• The Prime Minister of South Korea who tendered his resignation over ferry accident – Chung Hong-won
• The professional Footballers Association player of the year for 2013-14 – Luis Suarez
• The project associated with submarine programme of the Indian Navy – Project- 75 India
• The province of Aghanistan where a devastating landslide buried a village recently – Badakhshan
• The RBI has announced to launch much-awaited plastic currency notes of Rs.10 from – 2015
• The scientists who first theorized the technique to turn light into matter in 1934 – Gregory Breit and John Wheeler
• The space agency from which AFGHANSAT 1 – Eutelsat, EU
• The state where a major field exercise by the Army, codenamed ‘Sarvada Vijay’ was conducted recently – Rajasthan
• The state where the High Court cancelled the appointment of 10,323 teachers recently – Tripura
• The state where the SC banned ‘jallikattu’ (bull fighting) and bullock cart racing, recently – Tamil Nadu
• The state which topped in creation of new jobs during the six years between 2004 and 2011 as per the latest NSSO data – West Bengal
• The state which was adjudged to have the best land acquisition model in the report prepared by consultancy firm Accenture on behalf of DIPP – Gujarat
• The state whose co-operative bank became the first cooperative bank of the country to launch its own ‘Ru Pay’ ATM-cum-debit card recently – Himachal Pradesh
• The Steel Man of India and former chief of Tisco (now Tata Steel) who passed away recently – Russi Mody
• The stock exchange which ceased to exist from May 30 – Madras Stock Exchange
• The surface-to-air missile successfully test-fired by India recently – Akash
• The team which clinched the 20^th Senior National Women’s Football Championships – Manipur
• The three time Formula One champion who passed away recently – Sir Jack Brabham
• The top export destination for India’s mangoes – UAE
• The two states which together account for about half of the total mango production in India – Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh
• The winner of the 2014 Indonesian Masters gold tournament – Anirban Lahiri
• The winner of the inaugural I-League football championships – Bengaluru FC
• The winner of the prestigious Goldman Environment Prize called the Green Nobel for 2014 – Ramesh Agrawal
• The winner of the Spanish Grand Prix 2014 – Lewis Hamilton
• The winner of the women’s singles title at the Rome Masters tennis tournament – Serena Williams
• The winners of the WTA Portugal Open 2014 women’s doubles title – Sania Mirza and Cara Black
• The world’s biggest military spender – US
• The world’s third-largest economy by PPP as per a World Bank report – India
• Thomas cup is associated with – Men’s Badminton
• Uber cup is associated with – Women’s Badminton
• Winner of the World Women’s Senior Snooker Championship 2014 – Chitra Magimairaj
• World Intellectual Property Day – 26 April
• World Press Freedom Day – 3 May
• World’s largest steel producer – China

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