Current Affairs Recap- 60 Current Affairs Questions (Based on Appointments) for SBI PO, NIACL

1. Adani Group appointed Jennifer Purdie as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for its renewable energy business unit in __________ ?
 Australia 
 USA
 Russia
 Spain
 None of These 

( Ans - 1)


2. _________ appointed as new chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), replacing U K Sinha. He will initially serve for 3 years. ?
 Arvind Mayaram
 Nripendra Misra
 Ajay Tyagi 
 C Rajgopalachari
 None of These 
( Ans - 3)


3. Amina J Mohammed (__________) appointed as Deputy Secretary General of United Nations (UN). ?
 Qatar
 Kuwait
 UAE
 Nigeria
 None of These 
( Ans - 4)


4. Anand Kumar Gupta appointed as Director (Commercial) of __________ ?
 GAIL
 BEL
 BHEL
 SAIL 
 NTPC
( Ans - 5)

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5. Arun Kumar is appointed as Secretary in Ministry of ___________ ?
 Renewable Energy
 Road Transport and Highways
 Mines
 Home Affairs
 None of These 
( Ans - 3)


6. Arun M Kumar has been appointed as Head of consulting and accounting major ___________'s India operations ?
 KPMG
 IBM
 TCS
 Google
 None of These 
( Ans - 1)


7. Asian Hockey Federation (based in ____________) appointed India's Abhijit Sarkar as Vice President and Chief of AHF commercial and TV Committee ?
 Thailand
 Malaysia
 Indonesia
 UAE 
 None of These 
( Ans - 2)


8. BJP leader from _______________, Nanda Kumar Sai been appointed as Chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) ?
 Chhattisgarh
 Bihar
 Jharkhand
 Odisha
 None of These 
( Ans - 1)


9. Cressida Dick became first female to be appointed head of _____________’s Metropolitan Police Service (known as Scotland Yard ?
 London
 Manhatten
 Manchester
 Durban
 None of These 
( Ans - 1)


10. D. R. Doley Barman is appointed as Director of Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel National Police Academy _____________ ?

 Delhi
 Guwahati
 Lucknow
 Hyderabad 
 None of These 
( Ans - 4)


11. Edappadi K Palaniswamy appointed as 13th chief minister of _______________ ?
 Manipur
 Mizoram 
 Telangana
 Tamil Nadu
 None of These 
( Ans - 4)


12. England and wales cricket Board named _______________ as England’s Test Cricket Captain, after Alastair Cook stepped down from post ?
 Ben Stokes
 Joe Root 
 Matt Prior
 Mitchell Starc 
 None of These 
( Ans - 2)


13. Former _____________ CM T R Zeliang has been appointed as Finance Advisor to state government. ?
 Odisha
 Meghalaya
 Manipur
 Mizoram
 Nagaland 
( Ans - 5)


14. Former chief executive of Exxon Mobil, Rex Tillerson appointed as Secretary of State of ___________________ ?
 USA 
 UK
 Russia
 Spain
 None of These 
( Ans - 1)


15.___________________’s Jean­Pierre Lacroix appointed as Under­Secretary­General for United Nations peacekeeping operations ?
 Russia
 Portugal
 Poland
 France
 None of These 
( Ans - 4)


16. Frank Walter Steinmeier elected 12th President of ____________. He will replace Joachim Gauck for this role ?
 Portugal
 Poland
 Germany
 Switzerland
 None of These 
( Ans - 3)


17. _________________________ appointed as External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson. While Ruchi Ghanashyam is appointed as Secretary (West) in Ministry of External Affairs (MEA ) ?
 Nripendra Misra
 Gopal Baglay 
 Arvind Mayaram
 Raghuram Rajan 
 None of These 
( Ans - 2)

18. Government appointed 3 part­time non­official directors on Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) Central Board for four years ­ _________________, Manish Sabharwal and Rajiv Kumar. Besides, Prasanna Kumar Mohanty (Southern), Sunil Mitra (Eastern) and Vallabh Roopchand Bhanshali (West) are appointed on Local RBI Boards ?
 H R Khan
 Ashok Gulati
 Arvind Mayaram
 Raghuram Rajan
 None of These 
( Ans - 2)


19. Government appointed 8 Executive Directors in various Public Sector Banks, on Recommendations of Bank Board Bureau ­
Neelam Damodaran and Atanu Kumar Das ­ _______________
K Swaminathan ­ Indian Overseas Bank
Ashok Kumar Pradhan ­ United Bank of India
P Ramana Murthy ­ Central Bank of India
Fareed Ahmed Khan ­ Punjab and Sind Bank
M K Bhattacharya ­ Indian Bank
S Harishankar ­ Allahabad Bank
 UCO Bank
 Dena Bank
 Bank of Maharashtra
 Bank of India
 None of These 
( Ans - 4)

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20. Government appointed _______________ as chairman of Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal ?
 Abhay Manohar Sapre 
 Raghuram Rajan
 Arvind Mayaram
 N K Sinha
 None of These 
( Ans - 1)


21. _______________ appointed Managing Director of LIC (Life Insurance Corporation of India) ?
 Hemant Bhargava
 Suman Saxena
 Mukulita Vijaywargiya
 Navrang Saini
 None of These 
( Ans - 1)


22. Herbert Raymond McMaster appointed as new National Security Advisor of ________________. He took this post after Michael Flynn resigned ?
 UK
 USA
 Russia
 Spain
 None of These 
( Ans - 2)


23. Indian Actress _______________ has been appointed as Brand Ambassador of cleanliness initiative Swachh Bharat Mission by Government ?
 Kangana Ranaut 
 Priyanka Chopra
 Deepika Padukone
 Shilpa Shetty 
 None of These 
( Ans - 4)


24. _____________ appointed as India’s Ambassador to World Trade Organisation (WTO) ?
 Abhay Manohar Sapre
 P Ramana Murthy
 M K Bhattacharya
 S Harishankar
 J S Deepak 
( Ans - 5)


25. Jeff Sessions appointed as Attorney General of ____________ ?
 UK
 Russia
 USA 
 France
 None of These 
( Ans - 3)


26. ____________ appointed as Director of Enforcement Directorate ?
 Karnal Singh 
 N K Sinha
 Raghuram Rajan
 Abhay Manohar Sapre
 None of These 
( Ans - 1)


27. Khursheed A Ganai appointed as Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) of _____________ ?

 Jharkhand
 Jammu & Kashmir
 Chhattisgarh
 Meghalaya
 None of These
( Ans - 2)


28. Ministry of Urban Development appointed Actress Anushka Sharma as ambassador of Swachh Bharat Campaign ?
 Nripendra Misra
 Karnal Singh
 Anushka Sharma
 N K Sinha
 None of These
( Ans - 3)


29. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed elected as new President Of ______________ (Africa) ?
 Niger
 Nigeria
 Uganda
 Rwanda
 Somalia
( Ans - 5)

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30. ____________ appointed as chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) ?
 Narinder Chauhan
 U K Sinha
 Nand Kuamr Sai
 Khursheed A Ganai
 None of These 
( Ans - 3)


31. ____________ appointed as Ambassador of India to Philippines ?
 Nand Kumar Sai
 Karnal Singh 
 J S Deepak
 Narinder Chauhan 
 None of These 
( Ans - 4)


32. Neelu Rohmetra appointed as director of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Sirmaur (_______________). With this, she became first woman to head an IIM ?
 Jharkhand
 Himachal Pradesh
 Chhattisgarh
 Meghalaya
 None of These 
( Ans - 2)


33. New Secretaries Appointed ­> Ministry of _____________ ­ N. K. Sinha , Ministry of Tribal Affairs ­ G. Latha Krishna Rao ?

 Tourism
 Road Transport and Highways
 Finance
 Human Resource Development
 None of These
( Ans - 1)


34. _______________ appointed as new President of Institute of Chartered Accountant of India (ICAI) for 2017­18. ?
 Narinder Chauhan
 Fareed Ahmed Khan
 Khursheed A Ganai
 Nripendra Misra
 Nilesh Shivji Vikamsey 
( Ans - 5)


35. _____________ became first Indian to be promoted by International Basketball Federation (FIBA) as Technical Delegate ?
 Ashok Kumar Pradhan
 Norman Isaac
 P Ramana Murthy
 S Harishankar
None of These 
( Ans - 2)


36. Noted actor ____________ appointed as honorary brand ambassador of Sight savers, global Organisation working to prevent avoidable blindness ?
 Kabir Bedi
 Aamir Khan
 Shahrukh Khan
 Akshay Kumar
 None of These
( Ans - 1)


37. ______________ appointed as Director General (Investigation) in National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) ?
 Anand Kumar Gupta
 G. Latha Krishna Rao 
 Arun Kuma
 D. R. Doley Barman
 PVK Reddy
( Ans - 5)


38. __________ appointed Tehmina Janjua as Foreign Secretary to United Nations (UN). She is first Woman to hold this post ?
 Pakistan
 UAE 
 Russia 
 Bangladesh
 None of These 
( Ans - 1)


39. ______________’s Luis Norton de Matos appointed as head coach of India’s Under­17 team for FIFA Under­17 World Cup to be held in India in October 2017 ?
 Spain
 Portugal
 France
 Russia
 None of These 
( Ans - 2)



40. President Pranab Mukherjee appointed 5 new judges to Supreme Court as per Article 124 of constitution. New judges are ­ Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Shantanagoudar Mohan Mallikarjunagouda, Navin Sinha, Deepak Gupta and S. Abdul Nazeer. Current Strength of SC Judges has now become ______________ (max allowed is 31 Judges) ?
 30
 27
 25
 27
 28 
( Ans - 5)

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41. ________________ appointed as Director General in National Archives of India (Ministry of Culture) ?
 Rupak Kumar Dutta
 Raghvendra Singh 
 N K Sinha
 S. Abdul Nazeer
 None of These 
( Ans - 2)


42. Ravi Shankar appointed as India's ambassador to ______________. While Renu Pall is appointed as Indian Ambassador to Montenegro ?
 Uganda
 Rwanda
 Uruguay
 Paraguay
 None of These 
( Ans - 2)


43. Rupak Kumar Dutta appointed as Director General of Police (DGP) of ___________ ?
 Karnataka
 Kerala
 Andhra Pradesh
 Assam
 None of These 
( Ans - 1)


44. _____________ was appointed as the new President of industry chamber ASSOCHAM (Associated Chambers of Commerce of India) ?
 Rupak Kumar Dutta
 Raghvendra Singh
 Nik Khanna
 PVK Reddy
 Sandeep Jajodia
( Ans - 5)


45. ______________ appointed as 25th Director General of Border Roads (DGBR) ?
 Sanjeev Sanyal
 Sanjeev Kumar Shrivastava
 V. Ramakrishnan
 Nripendra Misra
 None of These 
( Ans - 2)


46. _____________ appointed as principal economic adviser in department of economic affairs in Finance Ministry ?

 Sanjeev Sanyal
 Ravi Shankar
 N K Sinha
 Raghvendra Singh 
 None of These
( Ans - 1)


47. Shürhozelie Liezietsu elected as new Chief Minister of ______________ ?
 Meghalaya
 Manipur
 Mizoram
 Assam
 Nagaland
( Ans - 5)


48. Software Firm ___________ appointed V. Ramakrishnan as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) ?
 TCS 
 HCL
 Infosys
 Wipro
 None of These 
( Ans - 1)


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49. Sudeep Lakhtakia appointed as Director General in ___________________ ?
 CISF
 CRPF
 BSF
 Indian Army
 None of These 
( Ans - 2)


50. Sumit Mullick appointed as Chief Secretary of state of __________ ?
 Assam 
 Nagaland
 Manipur
 Mizoram
 Maharashtra
( Ans - 5)


51. Sunil Mehta has been appointed as Non Executive Chairman in _______________ ?

 Punjab National Bank
 Bank of India
 Punjab and Sind Bank
 State Bank of India
 None of These
( Ans - 1)


52. _______________ appointed as Engineer­in­Chief of Indian Army. Besides, Jagbir Singh Cheema appointed as Deputy Chief of Indian Army (Information Systems and Training) ?
 Bikram Singh
 Bipin Rawat
 Suresh Sharma 
 Ram Naik
 None of These
( Ans - 3)


53. T C A Ranganathan and Sunil Mehta were appointed as Non­Official Directors in Indian Overseas Bank and ___________ respectively ?
 Dena Bank
 BOI
 SBI
 Punjab National Bank
 None of These 
( Ans - 4)

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54. Tata Sons Chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran will also hold chairmanship of ______________ ?
 TATA Chemicals
 TATA Steel
 TATA Power
 TATA Cliq
 TCS
( Ans - 5)


55. UN General Assembly re­appointed Indian _______________ to Joint Inspection Unit (JIU), only independent external oversight body in UN ?
 Nripendra Mishra
 Vinod Rai
 Achamkulangare Gopinathan 
 N K Sinha
 None of These 
( Ans - 3)


56. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) appointed Neil Gaiman (_______________) as global Goodwill Ambassador ?
 UK
 Russia
 Spain
 France
 None of These 
( Ans - 1)


57. Vikas Swarup appointed India’s High Commissioner to __________ ?
 USA
 Canada 
 Russia
 Spain
 None of These 
( Ans - 2)


58. Vikram Limaye appointed as new Managing Director and CEO of ______________ ?
 National Stock Exchange 
 SAIL
 GAIL
 BHEL
 None of These 
( Ans - 1)



59. Vikramjit Sen appointed as chief of _____________ Cricket Association ?
 Delhi and Districts 
 Himachal 
 Uttarakhand
 Rajasthan 
 None of These 
( Ans - 1)

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