Current Affairs Quiz: March 7, 2024
- Who inaugurated the new Administrative & Training building at the Naval War College (NWC), Goa?
A) Piyush Goyal
B) Rajnath Singh
C) Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
D) Sarbananda Sonowal
E) None of the above
- Who launched ‘e-Kisan Upaj Nidhi’ to ease farmers’ warehousing logistics?
A) Narayan Tatu Rane
B) Piyush Goyal
C) Dharmendra Pradhan
D) Giriraj Singh
E)None of the above
- Which organization has directed card issuers not to enter into any arrangement or agreement with card networks that restrain them from availing the services of other card networks?A) Reserve Bank of India
B) NPCI
C) State Bank of India Cards
D) Ministry of finance
E) American Express
- In March 2024, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and which other country’s bank has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Mumbai for establishing a framework to promote the use of local currencies?
A) Bank Indonesia
B) Barclays bank
C) Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait
D) Royal Bank of Scotland
E) None of the above
- Which bank has launched a new loan scheme called ‘Vikas Spoorty’ to strengthen the rural credit delivery system and also to motivate the common man to take up income-generating activities on a smaller scale?
A) Aryavart Bank
B) Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank
C) Prathama UP Gramin Bank
D) Baroda UP Bank
E) None of the above
- Which bank announced a partnership with online travel tech platform EaseMyTrip to launch a co-branded credit card?
A) Punjab National Bank
B) Axis Bank
C) ICICI Bank
D) Kotak Mahindra Bank
E) None of the above
- Bandhan Financial Holdings, the promoter of Bandhan Bank, has successfully acquired which digital life insurance company?
A) Aegon Life
B) NEXT Insurance
C) Liberty logo
D) Oscar Health
E) None of the above
- Reserve Bank of India(RBI) imposed a fine of what amount on State Bank of India (SBI) for deficiencies in regulatory compliance found in the lender’s Depositor Education Awareness Fund Scheme, 2014?
A) Rs 2 crore
B) Rs 4 crore
C) Rs 3 crore
D) Rs 5 crore
E) None of the above
- The National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) with which bank has entered into a strategic alliance by inking a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to support rural women Self-Help Groups (SHGs)?
A) National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
B) Small Industries Development Bank of India
C) Punjab National Bank
D) State Bake of India
E) None of the above
- India’s FY24 GDP growth could be within striking distance of what per cent as the per capita GDP at current prices crossed ₹2 lakh mark in FY24 for the first time as per SBI’s economic research department?
A) 6 percent
B) 9 percent
C) 8 percent
D) 5 percent
E) None of the above
- As announced by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced, the National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) system achieved a historic milestone of processing the highest-ever number of daily transactions of how much worth on February 29, 2024?
A) 3.10 crore
B) 4.10 crore
C) 2.50 crore
D) 1.50 crore
E) None of the above
- UPI Transactions worth ₹18.28-lakh crore were processed during February, nearly 1 per cent lower than the peak of ₹18.41 lakh crore in January 2024. The value of transactions was 48 per cent higher year-on-year, as per data released by which organization?
A) Reserve Bank of India
B) American Express
C) National Payments Corporation of India
D) Ministry of Finance
E) None of the above
- Which Indian shuttler has announced his retirement from International Badminton in march 2024?
A) Nandu Natekar
B) B Sai Praneeth
C)Pullela Gopichand
D) Prakash Padukone
E) None of the above
- Who is the head of Switzerland’s central bank who is set to step down in September 2024?
A) Barber Conable
B) Thomas Jordan
C) George Woods
D) Robert McNamara
E) None of the above
- Slice, the popular mango-flavored drink, has recently announced the appointment of which actress as its latest brand ambassador?
A) Palak Tiwari
B) Nayanthara
C) Manushi Chhillar
D) Bhumi Pednekar
E) None of the above
- Hungary’s parliament is expected to elect whom as new president following the resignation of Katalin Novak?
A) Tamas Sulyok
B) Gyula Kautz
C) István Kendi
D) Sándor Kendi
E) None of the above
- Future Generali India Life Insurance appointed whom as its managing director and chief executive officer?
A) Tapan Singhel
B) Girija Subramanian
C) Alok Rungta
D) Sanjeev Srinivasan
E) None of the above
- President of India Smt. Droupadi Murmu conferred Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards (AkademiPuraskar) for the years 2022 and 2023 to 94 eminent artists (two joint award) in the field of performing arts in the special investiture ceremony held at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. Who won the award in the category Indian theatre?
A) Dulal Roy,
B) .D.P. Sinha
C) SunayanaHazarilal
D) Both (a) And (b)
E) None of the above
- Yatin Bhaskar Duggal won the first prize in National Youth Parliament Festival 2024. He belongs to which state?
A) Haryana
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Punjab
D) Rajasthan
E) None of the above
- Indian Navy commissiond Naval Detachment Minicoy as INS Jatayu in presence of Chief of Naval Staff. Who is the chief of Naval Staff?
A) R Hari Kumar
B) Bipin Rawat
C) Manoj Mukund
D) Manoj Pande
E) None of the above
- India’s FY24 growth is pegged at what percent from earlier projection of 7.3 per cent as per data released by the National Statistical Office (NSO)?
A) 7.5%
B) 8.4%
C) 7.6%
D) 7.8%
E) 8.1%