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1. Hyundai partnered with which ride-sharing company to develop electric air taxis?
Didi
Uber
Lyft
Grab
2. Which bank has recently announced the Residential Builder Finance with Buyer Guarantee (RBBG) scheme?
National Housing Bank
State Bank of India
ICICI Bank
Corporation Bank
3. Which bank has recently become the largest issuer of FASTags, at three million FASTags?
State Bank of India
State Bank of India
Paytm Payment Bank
ICICI Bank
4. Which major technology firm recently became the fourth US company to touch $1 trillion valuation?
IBM
Samsung
Alphabet
Facebook
5. Which Indian Public sector bank recently signed an MoU with Care Ratings to assess credit quality of its small and medium enterprises (SME) customers?
State Bank of India
Bank of Baroda
Union Bank of India
Bank of India
6. The Union Cabinet of India recently approved amendments to bring which category of banks under the regulation of Reserve Bank of India?
Multi-state cooperative banks
Land Development Banks
Primary agricultural societies
Nidhi companies
7. The Economist Intelligence Unit has lowered its global growth forecast for 2020 to 2.2%, following which global occurrence?
Trade war
Virus Outbreak
Political instability
Environmental concerns
8. According to latest government data, India is set to harvest a record production of 106.21 million tonne of which rabi crop, in 2019-20?
Barley
Mustard
Wheat
Sesame
9. Which aircraft carrier launched freighter services to assist shrimp farmers?
Alliance Air
IndiGo
SpiceJet
Vistara
10. Food aggregator company Swiggy has partnered with which bank to launch its own digital wallet?
HDFC Bank
State Bank of India
ICICI Bank
Axis Bank
11. India became the second largest source of Foreign Direct Investment of which country in 2019?
United Arab Emirates
Australia
United Kingdom
Singapore
12. What is the corpus of foreign investment attracted by India during Covid lockdown, as stated by the Prime Minister in India Ideas summit?
USD 5 billion
USD 10 billion
USD 20 billion
USD 50 billion
13. What is the modified deadline for filing income tax returns, as announced by the Union Government after July 31?
Aug-31
Sep-30
Oct-31
Dec-31
14. What will be the effective contribution by the employees and employers to the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) from August 2020?
25%
24%
20%
18%
15. National Stock Exchange has developed Platform for Investor Education (PIE) along with which institution?
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Xavier Labour Research Institute
National Institute of Industrial Engineering
16. For the FY 2019-20, which sea food was the largest product to be exported from India?
Prawn
Shrimp
Tuna
Crab
17. Which international financial organization has approved USD 1 billion loan for Delhi-Meerut regional rapid transit system?
Asian Development Bank
New Development Bank
International Monetary Fund
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
18. As per the recent data from NPCI, which mode of payment clocked 1.62 billion transactions in August 2020?
UPI
IMPS
AePS
FASTag
19. Which public sector unit is set to invest Rs.1.22 lakh crore by 2023-24, to achieve 1 billion tonnes of fuel output?
Coal India
ONGC
NHPC
NTPC
20. State Bank of India (SBI) has provided USD 16.20 million for local businesses in which country?
Sri Lanka
Maldives
Mauritius
Myanmar
21. Which fin tech company launched a UPI payment link service that allows transactions from any payment app?
PhonePe
MobiKwik
BharatPe
Freecharge
22. What is the cap imposed by the government on the incentives under Merchandise Export from India Scheme (MEIS)?
Rs.50 lakh
Rs.1 crore
Rs.2 crores
Rs.5 crores
23. Which Technology company is set to acquire US-based product design firm, Kaleidoscope Innovation?
Infosys
Amazon
Accenture
Tata Consultancy Services
24. At what rate, the Funds sent abroad would be subjected to Tax Collection at Source (TCS), from October 1, 2020.
2%
5%
10%
20%
25. Which financial institution has issued guidelines for Product labelling in Mutual Funds?
RBI
SEBI
IRDAI
PFRDA
26. The deadline for filing GST annual return for 2018-19 has been extended till which date, as per the announcement made in October 2020?
31st October, 2020
31st December, 2020
31st March, 2020
1st June, 2020
27. What per cent of the capital expenditure target of CPSEs should be met before December 2020?
25%
50%
75%
80%
28. Depository-Institutions Repo Rate or DR Rate is the benchmark policy rate of which country?
UK
USA
China
India
29. Which organisation announced that the global trade would contract by 7 to 9 per cent in 2019?
World Bank
World Trade Organisation
UNCTAD
World Tourism Organisation
30. Department of Investment and Public Asset Management has signed an agreement with which organisation, for advisory services?
International Monetary Fund
World Economic Forum
World Bank
Asian Development Bank
31. Micro Irrigation Fund (MIF), which was seen in the news recently, is created with which organisation?
NABARD
RBI
SEBI
FCI
32. As per a recent survey conducted by CII and Ernst & Young, which country is the top destination of investors?
China
India
United States
Mauritius
33. What is the limit of annual turnover, to file GST under the new Quarterly Return filing & Monthly Payment of Taxes (QRMP) scheme?
Rs 1 crore
Rs 2 crore
Rs 5 crore
Rs 10 crore
34. What is the new limit of Foreign Direct Investment in the DTH service, as of December 2020?
20%
49%
74%
100%
35. As per UN which country has become the world’s top destination for new foreign direct investment last year?
India
Japan
South Korea
China
36. RBI has appointed an external firm to audit HDFC Bank under the provisions of which act?
RBI Act
Banking Regulation Act
Negotiable Instruments Act
Information Technology Act
37. Which payment major announced that it would add cryptocurrency to its network?
Pay Pal
Mastercard
VISA
Maestro
38. A working group of IRDAI has proposed to reintroduce ILIP. What is its expansion?
Interest- linked Insurance Policy
Inflation- linked Insurance Policy
Index- linked Insurance Policy
Investment- linked Insurance Policy
39. Which Union Ministry announces the Index of Industrial Production (IIP)?
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
Ministry of Finance
Ministry of Corporate Affairs
Ministry of Heavy Industries
40. Which manufacturing group has proposed to set up ?5,000 crore Phone component manufacturing unit in Tamil Nadu
Tata Electronics
TCS
Infotel
Lenovo
41. Which regulator in India has formed a committee to relook its information and security guidelines?
RBI
NABARD
SEBI
IRDAI
42. Which bank has topped the list of the MeitYs Digital Payment Scorecard for 3 consecutive months?
Punjab National Bank
State Bank of India
Bank of Baroda
HDFC Bank
43. Which bank in India has linked a deal for borrowing linked to SOFR (Secured Overnight Financing Rate)?
Indian Bank
PNB
SBI
Bank of Baroda
44. Which institution can sanction the amalgamation of District Central Co-operative Banks (DCCBs) with State Cooperative Banks (StCBs)?
RBI
NABARD
Finance Ministry
State Government
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