1. What is ICRA’s revised estimate for bank credit growth in FY24?
(a) 13.0%
(b) 14.9-15.3%
(c) 12.5%
(d) 15.8%
2. Who signed the green ammonia supply agreement on behalf of ACME Group and IHI Corporation?
(a) Manoj Upadhyay and Hiroshi Ide
(b) R. K. Singh and Bhupinder Singh Bhalla
(c) Ashwani Dudeja and Jun Kobayashi
(d) Manoj Upadhyay and Jun Kobayashi
3. What is the planned capacity of the green hydrogen and ammonia project in Gopalpur, Odisha?
(a) 0.8 MMTPA
(b) 1.0 MMTPA
(c) 1.2 MMTPA
(d) 1.4 MMTPA
4. Who has been designated as the nodal agency for the Pradhan Mantri Suryoday Yojana?
(a) NTPC
(b) SECI
(c) NHPC
(d) PowerGrid
5. Who released guidelines on the ethical use of Large Multi-Modal Models (LMM) in healthcare?
(a) UNESCO
(b) IBM
(c) FDA
(d) WHO
6. Who recently obtained the payment aggregator license from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)?
(a) Swiggy Payments
(b) Zomato Payments Private Limited
(c) Uber Eats Finance
(d) FoodPanda Transactions
7. Zomato terminated its co-branded credit card partnership with which bank in May last year?
(a) HDFC Bank
(b) Punjab National Bank (PNB)
(c) Axis Bank
(d) State Bank of India (SBI)
8. Who has received approval from RBI to acquire a 9.99% stake in HDFC Bank?
(a) SBI
(b) Axis Bank
(c) ICICI Bank
(d) LIC
9. Which bank recently raised Rs 5,000 crore through the issuance of 10-year infrastructure bonds?
(a) State Bank of India
(b) ICICI Bank
(c) Punjab National Bank
(d) Bank of Baroda
10. Which aerospace company is collaborating with Tata to establish a final assembly line for helicopters in India?
(a) Airbus
(b) Boeing
(c) Lockheed Martin
(d) Embraer
11. What is the name of Bhavish Aggarwal’s AI start-up that recently achieved unicorn status?
(a) TechSphere
(b) Krutrim
(c) NeuralCraft
(d) QuantumMind
12. Who recently became the oldest player to claim the No. 1 spot in the men’s doubles rankings at the age of 43?
(a) Rohan Bopanna
(b) Leander Paes
(c) Mahesh Bhupathi
(d) Sania Mirza
13. In which Indian state was the rare golden tiger recently spotted?
(a) Karnataka
(b) Maharashtra
(c) Assam
(d) Kerala
14. When is International Customs Day observed?
(a) January 26
(b) February 15
(c) March 10
(d) January 28
15. In which city did the 63rd Central Geological Programming Board (CGPB) meeting take place?
(a) Jaipur
(b) Kolkata
(c) Lucknow
(d) Bhopal
16. In a recent development, which bank has received approval from the Reserve Bank of India for the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) to acquire up to 9.99% aggregate holding?
(a) Axis Bank
(b) HDFC Bank
(c) State Bank of India
(d) ICICI Bank
17. On which date is the International Day of Clean Energy observed?
(a) January 15
(b) February 2
(c) January 26
(d) March 8
18. Which organization has been appointed as the nodal agency for the Pradhan Mantri Suryoday Yojana, with plans to lend Rs 1,20,000 crore for the installation of rooftop solar panels?
(a) REC
(b) PFC
(c) NTPC
(d) NHPC
19. Which Indian table tennis player clinched her first International title at WTT Feeder Corpus Christi 2024?
(a) Manika Batra
(b) Mouma Das
(c) Sreeja Akula
(d) Madhurika Patkar
20. Which state has unveiled plans for the world’s first ‘black tiger Safari’?
(a) West Bengal
(b) Madhya Pradesh
(c) Odisha
(d) Karnataka
21. Which state is set to get India’s second Very Low Frequency (VLF) communication station by 2027?
(a) Andhra Pradesh
(b) Telangana
(c) Tamil Nadu
(d) Kerala
22. Who is leading the first human trials for the Nipah virus vaccine?
(a) Harvard Medical School Scientists
(b) Oxford Scientists
(c) Johns Hopkins University Scientists
(d) Stanford University Scientists
23. The Thirty Meter Telescope project is situated on which volcano?
(a) Mount Fuji, Japan
(b) Mount Etna, Italy
(c) Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA
(d) Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
24. The Indian Army has recently adopted which village in J&K as a model village under Operation Sadbhavana?
(a) Gulmarg
(b) Pahalgam
(c) Topa Pir
(d) Dras
25. Which country recently overtook Mauritius as India’s third-largest Foreign Portfolio Investment (FPI) region?
(a) Singapore
(b) Luxembourg
(c) Switzerland
(d) United States
26. The Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation (IICF) plans to build the ‘Masjid Muhammed Bin Abdullati’ mosque in which city?
(a) Lucknow
(b) New Delhi
(c) Ayodhya
(d) Hyderabad
27. Which country’s startup ‘Betavoltaic’ unveiled a nuclear battery claiming 50 years of maintenance-free power?
(a) USA
(b) South Korea
(c) Germany
(d) Russia
28. Which maritime giant recently unveiled the world’s largest container ship fueled by green methanol?
(a) CMA CGM
(b) Maersk
(c) Evergreen
(d) MSC
29. In which U.S. state did Kenneth Smith become the first person to undergo execution by nitrogen gas, departing from the prevalent lethal injection method?
(a) Texas
(b) California
(c) Florida
(d) Alabama
30. Which organization has been appointed as the nodal agency for the Pradhan Mantri Suryoday Yojana, with plans to lend Rs 1,20,000 crore for the installation of rooftop solar panels?
(a) REC
(b) PFC
(c) NTPC
(d) NHPC
Answer Keys:
1. (b) 14.9-15.3%
2. (d) Manoj Upadhyay and Jun Kobayashi
3. (a) 0.8 MMTPA
4. (b) SECI
5. (d) WHO
6. (b) Zomato Payments Private Limited
7. (c) Axis Bank
8. (d) LIC
9. (d) Bank of Baroda
10. (a) Airbus
11. (c) NeuralCraft
12. (a) Rohan Bopanna
13. (c) Assam
14. (d) January 28
15. (b) Kolkata
16. (b) HDFC Bank
17. (a) January 15
18. (a) REC
19. (c) Sreeja Akula
20. (c) Odisha
21. (b) Telangana
22. (b) Oxford Scientists
23. (c) Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA
24. (c) Topa Pir
25. (b) Luxembourg
26. (c) Ayodhya
27. (a) USA
28. (b) Maersk
29. (d) Alabama
30. (a) REC
