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Current Affairs-December 2014 1

Raghubar Das to Take Oath as Jharkhand Chief Minister

Indias largest nuclear reactor at Kudankulam started generating electricity on a


commercial basis

Mahendra Singh Dhoni retires from Test cricket

Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Madan Mohan Malviya chosen for Bharat Ratna

The Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha released A Few Good Men
and the Angry Sea a book penned by Air Commodore Nitin Sathe.

PM Modi releases the book Vande Bharatam by Pt. Prabodh Kumar Mishra

ICC Named Sachin Tendulkar as 2015 World Cup ambassador

GK Questions Asked in IBPS Clerk Exam 21 December 2014 Evening Shift

1] Currency of Bhutan - Ngultrum

2] Capital of Afghanistan- Kabul

3] Book name authored by Yashwardhan Shukla - Gods of Antarctica

4] What dose URL stand for - Uniform Resource Locator

5] America developing which cities in to Smart cities Allahabad,Ajmer and


Vishakhapatnam

6] What dose RTGS stand for - Real Time Gross Settlement

7] What dose ISDN stand for - Integrated Services Digital Network

8] Personal accident cover in Jan Dhan Yojana 1 lakh

9] Shortcut key to make characters italics Ctrl + I

10] Shortcut key to undo last step in word Ctrl + Z

11] What dose EMV stand for EuroPay, MasterCard, Visa

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12] In MICR middle 3 digits represent - Bank

13] What dose MMID stand for Mobile Money Identifier

14] International Day of Persons with Disabilities 3rd December

15] Validity of Kisan Vikas Patra 100 months

16] Which is the largest public sector insurance company LIC

GK Questions Asked in IBPS Clerk Exam 21 December 2014 Morning Shift

1] WHO headquarters Geneva

2] Capital of Australia Canberra

3] Currency of Argentina Argentine peso

4] Nandivada and Nandi hills are in which state Karnataka

5] The Prize in Economic Sciences 2014 Jean Tirole

6] What does E stand for in EBT Electronic

7] The Lowland Written by Jhumpa Lahiri

8] Sarjubala Devi related to which sport Boxing

9] NASA mission name Mariner 4

10] What dose ULIP Stand for Unit Linked Insurance Plan

11] Minimum age required to open minor ac 10 Years

12] President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff

13] Lucknow city is banked on which river Gomti

14] Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Physical Sciences Dr Pratap Raychaudhuri

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15] What dose AQB stand for - Average Quarterly Balance

16] Constituency of sushma swaraj - Vidisha (Madhya Pradesh)

17] What dose CBS stand for Core Banking Solution

18] Payment bank working capital - 100 Crore

19] Shortcut to find TEXT in MS Word Ctrl + F

20] Tapan Raychaudhri who died recently was a Historian

21] Antyoday Divas is celebrated in whose memory Pandit Deen Dayal


Upadhyaya.

22] Kisan Vikas Patra validity 100 months

23] Venue of next G20 Summit Turkey

Atletico de Kolkata beat Kerala Blasters 1-0 to win ISL 2014 title

Viswanathan Anand won London Classic title

Indian men and women team win World Cup Kabaddi 2014 titles

GK Questions Asked in IBPS Clerk Exam 20 December 2014 Evening Shift

1] Which Day celebrated on 19 November World Toilet Day

2] World AIDS Day is 1 December

3] Currency of Saudi Arabia Saudi riyal

4] First three digit in MICR represents City

5] What dose IFSC stand for Indian Financial System Code

6] What does SEZ stand for Special Economic Zone

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8] Dronacharya award is related to which field - Sports

9] Capital of Iraq Baghdad

10] National Science centre is established in which state Delhi

11] UN Goodwill ambassador for South east Asia Sania Mirza

12] What does GST stand for Goods and Services Tax

13] What does PDA stand for Personal Digital Assistant

14] Shortcut key of Find Ctrl+F

15] Who won Noble prize for Economics Jean Tirole

16] UNEP headquaters Nairobi Kenya

17] What dose C stand for in MICR- Character

18] Rupay card is developed by - NPCI

19] Share of state government in RRB 15%

GK Questions Asked in IBPS Clerk Exam 20 December 2014 Morning Shift

1] Viswanathan Anand is related to which sport Chess

2] Capital of Austria Vienna

3] Mars mission budget of India US$73 million/450 Crore

4] International Day of Non-Violence 2 October

5] The Dramatic Decade author Pranab Mukherjee

6] Next SAARC Summit will held in Islamabad Pakistan

7] Dongfeng missile - China

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8] Insurance regulator in India - IRDA

9] IRDA headquarters at - Hyderabad

10] Currency of Sri Lanka - Sri Lankan rupee

11] Next Hockey World Cup will be held in -

12] Crusader or Conspirator authored by PC Parakh

13] Indias largest solar power plant inaugurated in Madhya Pradesh

14] Ryder Cup related to which sport Golf

15] Biggest Nuclear plant in the world -

16] May-Britt Moser and Edvard, I. Moser given Nobel prize in which field
Medicine

17] International Court of Justice headquarter- Hague Netherlands

18] Darjeeling Makaibiri is A Tea estate

19] Which is output device Printer

Ritesh Batras much lauded epistolary romance drama The Lunchbox has been
named best first feature by Toronto Film Critics.

Ending months of speculation regarding her career, troubled Indian female boxer
L. Sarita Devi was on Wednesday banned for one year and fined Swiss francs
1,000 by the International Boxing Association (AIBA) for refusing to accept her
2014 Asian Games bronze medal.

Indias GDP is expected to rise to 5.5 percent in the current fiscal from 4.7
percent last year on back of improving macro-economic situation, says the
Finance Ministrys Mid-Year economic review which also flagged fiscal challenges
like subdued revenue collections.

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Two railway stations, Baiyyappanahalli (Bengaluru) and Bhubaneswar/New


Bhubaneswar are identified for undertaking prefeasibility studies by the Chinese
Railways at their cost under a Memorandum of Understanding dated 18.9.2014.

Taking its baby steps towards realising Indias ambition to send humans into
space, ISRO on Thursday, December 18, 2014 successfully tested the atmospheric
re-entry of a crew module after its heaviest launch vehicle GSLV Mk-III blasted
off from Sriharikota.

Indian-American Amit Priyavadan Mehta has been confirmed by the US Senate


as a Federal judge in the District of Columbia, becoming the first Asian Pacific
American to occupy this vital position.

War veterans and serving officers of the Indian and Bangladeshi Armed Forces
came together on the occasion of the 43rd Vijay Diwas to commemorate the
sacrifices of Indian soldiers in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.

37-year-old Indian-American physician Vivek Hallegere Murthy has been


confirmed as the 19th Surgeon General of America by US Senate. He is youngest
person and first person of Indian-origin to hold the post.

South African beauty Rolene Strauss was crowned Miss World 2014 on sunday at
a glittering ceremony in London as Indias Koyal Rana lost out, finishing in the top
10. Miss Hungary Edina Kulcsr was the runner up and Miss United States
Elizabeth Safrit came in third place.

Indian Navy Wins Admirals Cup 2014

GK Questions Asked in IBPS Clerk Exam 14 December 2014 Evening Shift

1] Currency of Oman - Omani rial

2] What dose WWW stand for World Wide Web

3] UNICEF headquarters - New York City

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4] Capital of Kuwait Kuwait City

5] International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women November


25

6] Minister Of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Rajiv Pratap Rudy

7] What does RTGS stand for Real Time Gross Settlement

8] Anirban lahiri related to which sport Golf

9] What does MICR stand for Magnetic Ink Character Recognition

10] 18th SAARC Summit was held at - Kathmandu Nepal

11] What does ISP stand for -

12] Rajnath Singh constituency Lucknow

13] Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojna started on whose birthday Jayaprakash Narayan

14] 2016 Olympics venue RIO Brazil

15] Target under PMJDY Opening of 10 Crore Bank Accounts by 26th January,
2015

16] Sardar Patels birth anniversary celebrated as National Unity Day

17] What dose HTTP stand for Hyper Text Markup Language

GK Questions Asked in IBPS Clerk Exam 14 December 2014 Morning Shift

1] CHINA currency Renminbi

2] Maximum investment limit in Kisan Vikas Patra No maximum limit

3] Human Rights Day December 10

4] What does WAN stand for Wide Area Network

5] Capital of Bhutan Thimphu

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6] What does NEFT stand for National Electronic Funds Transfer

7] UNIDO Headquarters Vienna

8] In FFII Rajinikanth awarded by whom -

9] Bhaichung Bhutia related to which sport Football

10] ISRO Headquarters -

11] What is EBOLA Virus disease

12] Which of the following river is in MP -

13] Half Girlfriend, Author Chetan Bhagat

14] Sitara devi related with which Dance - Kathak

15] IFSC stand for Indian Financial System Code

16] PMJDY overdraft amount

17] Maximum amount in Savings account

18] What does VAT stand for Value Added Tax

19] Who owned BALCO Government of India

20] How many public sector banks in India -

21] Rate of interest decided by what

22] Nalanda University situated in which state Bihar

23] Ghoomar dance Rajasthan

24] Track Asia cycling championship Astana, Kazakhstan

25] What dose NCR Stand for -

26] Keys used to reverse the undo -

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27] Youngest Noble prize winner - Malala Yousafzai

28] Hardware Device Terminal

29] Bangkok capital of which country Thailand

Three Indian-Americans Honoured by The Indus Entrepreneurs, Ken Bajaj, Frank


Islam and Sharad Tak have been presented with the award which is to
acknowledge their risk-taking, mentoring of young entrepreneurs, philanthropy
and dedicated years of service to the local community.

Dineshwar Sharma has been appointed as the next chief of Intelligence


Bureau(IB).

Noted Indian playback singer Asha Bhosle was honoured with the Lifetime
Achievement Award at the 11th Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF).

National energy conservation day is celebrated every year by the people all over
the India on 14th of December.

Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), has been once again
awarded the prestigious Thomson Reuters India Innovation Award- 2014 in
category of Research Institutions. Shri Avinash Kumar, Additional Director (IPR),
DRDO HQ received the award on behalf of DRDO at a function held in Mumbai

GK Questions Asked in IBPS Clerk Exam 13 December 2014 Evening Shift

1] Swachh bharat logo designed by Anant Khasbardar

2] The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Author Richard Flanagan

3] What does FCCB stand for Foreign Currency Convertible Bond

4] Capital of Canada Ottawa

5] Currency of Indonesia Rupiah

6] Unbreakable is the autobiography of whom MC. Marykom

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7] Pankaj Advani related to which sports Snooker player

8] Who received Euromoney Award for Best Central Bank Governor of the Year
2014 Raghuram Rajan

9] John Okeefe got Nobel prize 2014 in which stream Medicine

10] What does PDF stand for Portable Document Format

11] KB, MB, GB, TB which one is big TB

12] What does RTGS stand for Real Time Gross Settlement

13] MS-word, shortkey of italic font Ctrl+I

14] UNIDO headquarters Vienna

15] What does FTZ stand for Free-Trade Zone

16] Docx is which file MS word

17] Nashik is situated on the bank of the river Godavari river

18] According to 2011 Census most of the slums in which city Mumbai

19] New chief justice of India -

20] Minimum validity of KVP?- 2 years and 6 months

21] Where is NANGA Mountain

22] Which one is an input device Joystick

23] National dairy Development Board is located in Anand in Gujrat

24] Which players are inducted in Bradman Hall of fame Sachin Tendulkar and
Steve Waugh

25] Who won Shanti Swarup award in medicine Anurag Aggarwal

GK Questions Asked in IBPS Clerk Exam 13 December 2014 Morning Shift

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1] Richard Miller Flanagan (Won Man Booker Prize 2014) belongs to which
country Australia

2] Capital of Saudi Arabia - Riyadh

3] ING Vysya Bank to merge with Kotak Mahindra Bank

4] Before PM Narendra Modi who gave speech in Hindi in UN Atal Bihari


Vajpayee

5] Nitin Gadkaris Constituency Nagpur

6] Verse email provided by which company IBM

7] What does NPA stand for Non-Performing Asset

8] What is the BIOS full form Basic Input Output System

9] Currency of Brazil Brazilian real

10] What does IPO stand for Initial Public Offer

11] Sience and Technology Minister - Harsh Vardhan

12] Air force day is 8th October

13] The Nobel Prize in Literature 2014 Patrick Modiano

14] Who top in Asian games China

15] KYC purpose - Anti Money Laundering

16] United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) headquarter New York


City

17] Gujarat declared Vadodara as -

18] What does NAV stand for Net Asset Value

19] CASA is which type of deposits -

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20] What does VOIP stand for - Voice Over Internet Protocol

21] PPF maximum amount limit 1.5 lakh

22] Seema Punia belongs to which sports Discus thrower

23] Tinku Luka related to which Sports Relay Race (Athlete)

24] Uptatiya solar plant Gujarat

25] In MICR code The middle 3 digit represent -

26] Interest on Saving Account is given on Daily basis

27] What dose ECS stand for Electronic Clearing System

28] What is the theme of SAARC smmit 2014 Deeper Integration for Peace and
Prosperity

29] Which one is not a monetary tool Base Rate

30] GIGO stand for - Garbage In, Garbage Out

India and World Bank Sign $1100 million Agreement for the Eastern Dedicated
Freight Corridor Project

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today launched Born Again on the
Mountain, a book by Ms Arunima Sinha, the first female amputee and first
Indian amputee to climb Mount Everest.

Indias economic growth is expected to improve to 6.3 percent in 2016 with the
country leading economic recovery in South Asia, according to a United Nations
report.

Russia will build at least 12 nuclear reactors in India by 2035 and agreed to
manufacture advanced helicopters as both countries on Thursday signed 20 pacts
in oil, gas, defence, investment and other key sectors to further ramp up their
strategic cooperation.

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Richard Rahul Verma unanimously confirmed as the next US Ambassador to


India by the Senate, making him the first-ever Indian-American to hold the post.

`Druzhba-Dosti: A Vision for strengthening the Indian-Russian Partnership over


the next decade`

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who did not make it to the final eight selected by
TIME for the annual Person of the Year title, has been hailed as one by its
readers in an online poll conducted by the publication

India win blind Cricket World Cup, India beat Pakistan by five wickets in the final
of the Blind Cricket World Cup (BCWC) at the Wally Wilson Cricket Ground in
Cape Town, South Africa

GK Questions Asked in IBPS Clerk Exam 7 December 2014 Evening Shift

1] Currency of New Zealand New Zealand dollar

2] Asian Development Bank Headquarters Manila

3] Kalraj Mishra Constituency Deoria

4] What dose NEFT stand for National Electronic Funds Transfer

5] What dose GST stand for Goods and Services Tax

6] Capital of Fiji Suva

7] WHO headquarters Geneva

8] Sardar related to which sport Hockey

9] Rural Minister of India -

10] 14th finance commission headed by

11] National Disaster Management Authority head -

12] Hudhud operation name Operation Lehar

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13] 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics Jean Tirole

14] What dose HTML stand for HyperText Markup Language

15] What does ISDN stand for - Integrated Services for Digital Network

16] What does WAN stand for Wide Area Network

17] Linux is Open Source OS

18] Who will be hold next Asian Games Jakarta Indonesia

19] IRNSS 1C is of which country India

20] Kisan Vikas Patra is what type of scheme -

GK Questions Asked in IBPS Clerk Exam 7 December 2014 Morning Shift

1] Capital of Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur

2] Currency of Japan Japanese Yen

3] What does GDP stand for Gross Domestic Product

4] Ritu Rani related to which sport - Hockey

5] What is full form of DVD Digital Versatile disk

6] What does GUI stand for Graphical User Interface

7] What does EPROM stand for Erasable programmable read only memory.

8] Environment Minister of India Prakash Javadekar

9] ICC ODI captain of the year Mahendra Singh Dhoni

10] Vikram Sarabhai space centre is located at Thiruvananthapuram Kerala

11] 1 million bytes = 1MB

12] NBFC under control of -

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13] Childrens Peace Prize 2014 Neha Gupta

14] Gaofen-2 satellite of China

15] Regional Rural Banks are sponsored by Public Sector Banks

16] Which game held in Incheon Asian Games

17] Mortgage are which type of property -

18] KIRAN scheme is made for Women Scientists

19] Credit given by one corporate to another -

20] National education day is 11th November

21] Indian army helped for Jammu & kashmir known as Operation MEGH RAHAT

22] UNICEF headquarter New York City

23] Full Form of VDU Video Display Unit or Visual Display Unit

24] What is balance sheet -

25] What does PNG stand for Portable Network Graphics

26] What is S&P - International rating agency

27] Bold the selected text bold Ctrl+B

28] Java is what language Programming

Indias communication satellite, GSAT-16, was successfully launched at 0210 hrs


IST today (December 7, 2014) by the Ariane-5 launch vehicle VA221 of
Arianespace from Kourou, French Guiana.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been named Asian of the Year for being
development-focused leader of India by editors of Singapores leading daily, The
Straits Times.

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Government plans to introduce regular passenger bus services to Dhaka from


Guwahati in Assam via Shillong in Meghalaya.

The Government has instructed Public Sector Banks (PSBs) to install those ATM
machines which can produce receipts in both Hindi and English languages. PSBs
have been advised to ensure that all ATM machines have facility of doing
transactions/printing in Hindi as well as in English. However, no time frame has
been prescribed for installation of such ATM machines.

Navy Day is being celebrated on December 4, 2014.

India has showed some improvement in addressing corruption this year, ranking
85th among 175 countries as against 94th last year, graft watchdog Transparency
International India (TII)

Hero MotoCorp Signs Tiger Woods for Record Rs 250 Crore as Global Brand
Ambassador.

Anil Kumar Sinha appointed as new CBI Director.

The Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Youth Affairs and Sports Shri
Sarbananda Sonowal has said that since the 35th National Games are being
hosted by the Government of Kerala.

Former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayees birthday on 25th December would
be observed as national Good Governance Day.

UN summit on climate change begins in Lima Peru

PM Modi announces 28000 cr for new rail projects in Northeast

PV Sindhu won Macau Open Grand Prix Gold Badminton 2014 Title

List of Important International Days in November 2014

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5 December International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social


Development
5 December World Soil Day
7 December International Civil Aviation Day
9 December International Anti-Corruption Day
10 December Human Rights Day
11 December International Mountain Day
18 December International Migrants Day
20 December International Human Solidarity Day

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