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• A Digital Investigation Training and Analysis Centre (DITAC) has been set up in Gurugram, Haryana. It aimed at improving the capabilities of Haryana Police in solving cyber crime cases.
• Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar  was sworn in as the 44th Chief Justice of India (CJI). He will retire from his office on 27 August 2017.
• Air Marshal SB Deo taking over as Vice Chief of the Air Staff (VCAS) at the Air Headquarters (Vayu Bhawan) on January 2, 2017.
• The Reserve Bank of India has appointed Surekha Marandi as its Executive Director (ED) in place of U S Paliwal, who retired on December 31 last year.
• Shri Sanjiv Ranjan (IFS: 1993), presently Ambassador of India to Argentina, has been concurrently accredited as the Ambassador of India to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, with residence in Buenos Aires (Argentina).
• Incumbent Chief Minister and former Congress rebel Pema Khandu and six other lawmakers were suspended from the People’s Party of Arunachal (PPA) for allegedly breaking party discipline.
• HDFC has tied-up with artificial intelligence firm Niki.ai to launch a chatbot
  called OnChat on Facebook’s Messenger platform, that will allow users to recharge phones, pay utility bills, book cabs from Ola or Uber etc., through a chat.
• Chinese e-retail giant Alibaba, which has made investments in India’s Snapdeal and Paytm, is setting up its first office in India in Mumbai. 

 Objective Type Questions with Answers

1.    What was the theme of 2016 International Mountain Day (IMD)? 

a) Mountain minorities and indigenous peoples 

b) Mountain cultures: Celebrating diversity and strengthening identity 

c) Managing mountain biodiversity for better lives 

d) None of the above

Answer :  Mountain cultures: Celebrating diversity and strengthening identity

2.     Identify the country that abolished the controversial Kafala Labour System.

a) Qatar

b) Kuwait

c) Saudi Arabia

d) Oman

Answer : Qatar

3.    Which footballer won the 2016 Ballon D’OR award?

a) Lionel Messi

b) Luis Suárez 

c) Neymar

d) Christiano Ronaldo

Answer : Christiano Ronaldo

4.    The Indian Oil Corporation recently announced how much discount on petrol and diesel fuel purchases, if the payment is made using digital means?

a) 0.25 percent

b) 0.50 percent

c) 0.75 percent

d) 1 percent

Answer : 0.75 percent

5.    Who topped the 2016 Forbes World’s Most Powerful People List?

a) Donald Trump

b) Angela Merkel

c) Vladimir Putin

d) Barack Obama

Answer : Vladimir Putin

6.    Who was conferred with the Golden Jubilee Lifetime Achievement Award by the Sports Journalists’ Association of Mumbai (SJAM)? 

a) Kapil Dev 

b) Sunil Gavaskar 

c) Ajit Wadekar 

d) Virendra Sehwag

Answer : Sunil Gavaskar 

7.    A biopic, titled Blond Ambition, was named as the most admired unproduced film script available at present in the Hollywood system. It is a biopic of whom of the following?

a) Madonna

b) Nicolas Cage

c) John Travolta

d) Bruce Willis

 Answer: Madonna

8.    India’s Prime Minster Narendra Modi’s position in the 2016 Forbes World’s Most Powerful People List is

a) 6th position

b) 7th position

c) 8th position

d) 9th position

Answer : 9th position

9.    Name the legendary horse jockey who died recently and was the rider of the Shergar?

a) Frankie Dettori

b) Mick Fitzgerald

c) Michael Stoute

d) Walter Swinburn

Answer : Walter Swinburn

10. Which multilateral agency halted two concurrent processes initiated by India and Pakistan under the Indus Water Treaty?

a) World Bank Group

b) International Monetary Fund

c) Asian Development Bank

d) Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank

Answer : World Bank Group