Latest Current Affairs for IBPS

Special Current Affairs for IBPS Exam

1. In which country the tallest communication tower named ‘skruty’ is suituated ? 
Ans. Tokyo (Japan)

2.   Who is the worlds shortest women who is still alive ? 
Ans.  Jyothi Amge

3.   Who is the new leader of North Korea who has been recently elected ? 
Ans.  Kim Jong Un



4.   How many years have been completed by African National Congress recently ? 
Ans.  100 yrs .

5.  Who is the first Indian American person who had been elected as governor for Lousiana in states of U.K.? 
Ans.  Bobby Jindal .

6.  Which year is called as ‘International Year Of Cooperative’ according to UNO ? 
Ans.  2012 year

7.   Worlds oldest yoga teacher who had been entered in Guinnes Book of Records for yoga recently ? 
Ans.  Bernice Bates .

8.   After how many years America had totaly set back his millitary army from Irak ? 
Ans.  9yrs

9.   Shoedar ‘ cruze missile was launched and tested by by which country ? 
Ans.  Iran

10. Who is the American Ambassidor to India in 2011? 
Ans.  Timothy J.Reomer.

11.   For how many yrs the great leader of North Korea has headed the country ? 
Ans.  17 yrs

12.   Which is the Worlds first Hydrogen based three wheeler vehicle ? 
Ans.  High Alpha

13.   Who is the person who had won the election in US Republican in Florida Primary results recently ? 

Ans.  Mitt Romney 

14. According to the new census Jan 2012 , what is the % population of China ? 

Ans.  51.27 % 

15.   Who’s name had been kept for the fly over bridge constructed in Islamabad recently? 

Ans.  Yousaf Raja Gillani . 

16   Who is the President who had signed on millitary spending bills twice recently ? 

Ans.   Barack Obama 

17.   Which is the nation which joined UNO organisation recently ? 

Ans.   Pakistan 

18.   A credit Standard and Poor’s , due to which reasons it had reduced the rating of France , Italy and other   9 countries recently ? 

Ans.   Debt crices. 

19.   According to the   fortune magazine ‘s annual ranking for 100 besr companies to work for 2012,which company stood first ? 

Ans.   Google. 

20.   Who inagurated the new mission control centre the SHAR ? 

Ans.   Prathiba Patil 

21.   Who is the Managing director for the International Monetary Fund ( I M F )? 

Ans.   Christine Legaude . 

22.   Which was the protest movement that begain against financial greed & curruption   in America 

recently ? 

Ans.   Occupy wall street 

 23.   On 20 Jan 2012, Russia had leased which nuclear powered submarine to India   recently ? 

Ans.   K-152 Nerpa 

24.   Which country has got the deal of 126 fighters to India recently ? 

Ans.   French 

25.   In American International affairs website which state of Indian borders have been wrongly 

mapped ? 

Ans.      Jammu Kashmir 

26.   How many countries have signed the multilateral agreement to check tax evasion and   avoidence recently ? 

Ans.   three 

27.   Which two countries agreed to establish a working mechanism on consultation and coordination on border affairs ? 

Ans.   India & China 

28.   In which feild India and Japan had made agreement to enhance their cooperation ? 

Ans.  Infrastructure sector 

29.   What is the place of India in a global press freedom index in the past years ? 

Ans.   131 

30.   On which issue India & USA signed recently ? 

Ans.   Labuor & employment 

31.   How many agreements India had signed with Trinidad & Tobago ? 

Ans.   5 

32.   Name the new pact which was signed by the countries recently ? 

Ans.   shade 

33.   The birthday of the great mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujam was declared as ? 

Ans.   National Mathematics Day 

34.   Where will be the first cooperative university will set up ? 

Ans.   Sibsagar (Assam ) 

35.   Which year is celebrated as National Mathematics day ? 

Ans.   2012 

36.   What is the Total per capital income of all states in India ? 

Ans.  Rs.54,835 /- 

37.   Which ministry had been given to Mr. Ajit singh by the U P A government ? 

Ans Civil Aviation minister 

38.   How many news paper companies have been registered under the ‘Register of News paper’s for India ‘ according to the authority in 2010-2011? 

Ans.  4853 

39.   What is the mascot name for national youth festival ? 

Ans.  Yakhi 

40.   On which day our national anthem ‘Janaganamana ‘ has completed its hundred years ? 

Ans.  27-12-2011 

41.   Who is the first women who had been selected as Javan in Indian Army ? 

Ans.  Santhi Tigga 

42.   Who is the 19th Director General of Indian coast guard ? 

Ans.  M.P.Muralidharan 

43.   To whom was the Review commite on the Delhi School Education Act &Rules 1973 (DSEAR-79) report was submitted? 

Ans.  Sheila Dikshit 

44.   According to the survey   done by the ‘ Brand Trust Report ‘ who is the person who had won the confidence of peoplein the country ? 

Ans.  Anna Hazare 

45.   In which five years plan the national slum development programme will be launched by the 

government ? 

Ans.  12th five years plan 

46.   Who had launched the Interanet ‘Prahari Project ‘ worth of 299 crore recently? 

Ans.  P.Chidambaram 

47.   The ISRO chief Madhavan   Nair and other three who were blacklisted in which deal, the 

government quit them away? 

Ans.  Antrix – Devas 

48.   From which year the implementation of common medical entrance test will be conducted 

according to the medical council of India ? 

Ans.  2013 

49.   Which is the nodel agency for all anti -terror activities in the country, for which the government gave approval recently? 

38.   How many news paper companies have been registered under the ‘Register of News paper’s for India ‘ according to the authority in 2010-2011? 

Ans.  4853 

39.   What is the mascot name for national youth festival ? 

Ans.  Yakhi 

40.   On which day our national anthem ‘Janaganamana ‘ has completed its hundred years ? 

Ans.  27-12-2011 

41.   Who is the first women who had been selected as Javan in Indian Army ? 

Ans.   Santhi Tigga 

42.   Who is the 19th Director General of Indian coast guard ? 

Ans.  M.P.Muralidharan 

43.   To whom was the Review commite on the Delhi School Education Act &Rules 1973 (DSEAR-79) report was submitted? 

Ans.  Sheila Dikshit 

44.   According to the survey   done by the ‘ Brand Trust Report ‘ who is the person who had won the confidence of peoplein the country ? 

Ans.  Anna Hazare 

45.   In which five years plan the national slum development programme will be launched by the 

government ? 

Ans.  12th five years plan 

46.   Who had launched the Interanet ‘Prahari Project ‘ worth of 299 crore recently? 

Ans.  P.Chidambaram 

47.   The ISRO chief Madhavan   Nair and other three who were blacklisted in which deal, the 

government quit them away? 

Ans.   Antrix – Devas 

48.   From which year the implementation of common medical entrance test will be conducted 

according to the medical council of India ? 

Ans.: 2013 

49.   Which is the nodel agency for all anti -terror activities in the country, for which the government 

gave approval recently? 

Ans. National counter Terrorism Centre 

50.   Who is the chief guest for the ‘ Pravasi Bharathiya Devas ‘ conference held at Jaipur on Jan 7th 2012 ? 

Ans. Kamal PerseBissesor 

51.   Where was the United Nation Research center for the North-East set up recently ? 

Ans. Guwahati

52.   From which year the implementation of common medical entrance test will be conducted 

according to the medical council of India ? 

Ans. 2013 

53.   Name the project which was inagurated by Mr.Chidambaram recently worth of 299 crore ? 

Ans. Interanet Prahari projet 

54.  The Panch Parmeshwar scheme was launched by which state government ? 

Ans. Madhya Pradesh 

55.   In 2010-2011 ,what is the per capital income of Andhra pradesh ? 

Ans. Rs.60,458/- 

56.   Name the chief minister who had won the award for great vaccine innovation ? 

Ans.Nitish Kumar 

57.   According to the report presented by the central government our state debt in the year 2010- 

2011 is ? 

Ans. Rs.1,32,805 crore 

58.   Which Indian company is going launch a new diesel plant in Gurgoan recently ? 

Ans.    Maruthi 

59.   The bullet train between which two states will announced in railway budget 2012? 

Ans. Ahmedabad-Mumbai 

60. For the year 2012 in which place Andhra pradesh stood in urbunisation? 

Ans. 17th 

61.   For how many Assembly seats election have been held in Uttarakhand on 30th Jan 2012 recently? 

Ans. 70 

62.   Which state governor’s period has been extended by one year by the government recently ? 

Ans. Andhra pradesh 

63.   Which state had agreed for the establishment of internal state board for pranahita- chevella sujatha sravanti project ? 

Ans. Maharashtra 

64.   Who is the person replaced in the place of E.Sridharan for Delhi Metro Rail M D on 31st Dac 2011? 

Ans. Mangu singh 

65.   In which state the 10th Pravasi Bharathi Divas event inagurated from Jan 7th to 9th 2012 ? 

Ans. Jaipur 

66. What is the total strentgh of Muncipalities in the state A .P ? 

Ans. 161 

67.   Who is the governor of Tamilnadu who has been appointed recently ? 

Ans. K.Rosaiah 

68.   Which are the two states where assembly elections had been held on 30 th Jan 2012 ? 

Ans.   Punjab ,Uttarkhand 

69.   The assembly polling were held on 28th Jan 2012 for how many seats in Manipur ? 

Ans. 60 

70.   In which place our state warangal NIT stands according to the survey done by the country ? 

Ans. 8th 

71.   According to the national election commision which state minister had been ordered to cover the status of elephants which are election symbol of the party recently ? 

Ans. Uttar Pradesh 

72.   For many seats the assembly election had been held in Punjab ? 

Ans.    117 

73.   Which state University had given Dr. to the Bangladesh P.M Shaik Hassina recently ? 

Ans. Tripura 

4.   In which state the united nation research center for north -east set up ? 

Ans. Assam 

75.   Which is the first state to issue e-stamp papers in all denominations in India ? 

Ans.    Delhi 

76.   According to the National child Right which state stood in top one position ? 

Ans. Kerala 

77.   Which state topped in the list in utilizing the fund for minorities according to the minority affairs ministry? 

Ans.: Jammu & kashmir 

78.   How many new tourism projects have been sanctioned for Jammukashmir by the union 

government? 

Ans. 7 

79. In which city the geospatail world forum 2012 conference was held recently ? 

Ans. Hyderabad 

80.   Which is the forum which had conference on the current & relavent issues on global problems 

recently? 

Ans. World Economic Forum (WEF) 

81.   On which issue the conference is being organized by International Advanced Research centre for powder metallurgy and new materials (ARCI) recently ? 

Ans. Nano science technology 

82.   On which issue President Pratibha Paatil constituted a committee recently ? 

Ans.: Production of Agriculture sector 

 83.   Who had been awarded Sialedra Kumar singh award by the (UPA) chair person Sonia Gandhi? 

Ans. D.Balavenkatatesh verma 

84.   To whom the Guljarilal Nanda ‘Bharat Sevak Samaj has been awardedby Kerala government? 

Ans.T.K.Nair 

85.   The prestegious International sports Association ‘Fair play’ is awarded to which player? 

Ans. Mahendrasingh Dhoni 

86.   How many people have been awarded the prestegious Man Asia award from India ? 

Ans.3 persons 

87.   The Mahatma Gandhi International Award for peace & Reconsilation award has been presented to whom ? 

Ans. Dalai Lama 

88. Who had given the 2011 FIFA Best player award on 9th Jan 2012? 

Ans. Lionel Messi 

89.   Who has been shortlisted for UK’s Biggest contemporary Art Prize , Artes mundi recently? 

Ans. Sheela Gowda 

90.   Who is the person who had conferred the Ashoka Chakra on 63rd Republic Day by the president Pratibha Patil ? 

Ans. Lt.Navdeep singh 

91.   To which award the Indian American sciencetist Venkataram Ramakrishna has been selected by the Britan ? 

Ans. Knight hood 

92.   On which date the Infosis 2011 awards have been awarded recently at Banglore ? 

Ans. Jan 9th 

93.   Which university has honoured ‘Dr’ to Bangladesh P.M Shaik Hassina recently ? 

Ans. Tripura university 

94.   For the yr2011 who had won the perstegious (CNR ) sahitya puraskaram recently? 

Ans. Ratna Markandapuram Srinivas 

95.   Who has been presented with pride of India award by the Indian -American community in 

Washinton? 

Ans. Mallikarjuna Kharge 

96.   Which university had got the honour ‘Universities with potecial for excellence’? 

Ans. Ossamania university 

97.   Who is the Bollywood actor who had received a green globe award from Arnold Schwaizenegger recently ? 

Ans.    Abishek Bachan 

98.   How many researchers got Infosis prize for the year 2011, which was presented by the former 

president A.P.J Abdul Kalam? 

Ans. 6 

99.   Who had won the best steel company of India for the year 2009-2010 ? 

Ans. Steel Authority of India 

100.   Where was the 69th golden globe awards been presented on 15 th Jan 2012 ? 

Ans. Los angeles 

101.   Which award has been given to the famous music director A.R Rahamn for the muisc composing for the song ‘If I Rise ‘ ? 

Ans. Critics choice movie 

102.   Name the person Who had run barefoot 150 km in 24 hours and made a new world record ? 

Ans. Abhijeet Buruah 

103.   Who is the first Indian women to have received an International Grand Master tittle in the game of chess championship to get gold medal ? 

Ans. Koneru Humpy 

104.   Who has been selected for ‘ player of the year award given by all India football assocaition ? 

Ans. Sunil chhetri 

105.   Who had won the world super series batmintton tittle ? 

Ans. Wang-Yihan (china) 

106.   In which country the women’s team chess championship tournament held ? 

Ans. Turkey 

107.   For the year 2011, who had been selected for International Tennis Federation Woeld champion award? 

Ans. Novak djikovic 

108.   Which country had won the Hopman cup tennis tittle which held on Jan 7th 2012? 

Ans.Czech republic 

109.   Where will the Assia criket cup matches 2012 will be conducted ? 

Ans. Bangladesh 

110.   For which game Abinav Bindra won gold medal ? 

Ans. Air rifle shooting 

111.   In which place the South Central Asian Gymnastics championships event held recently ? 

Ans.Dhaka 

112.   Who is the person who had won the FIFA Ballond’or award recently ? 

Ans. Lionel Messi 

113.   International player for batmiton Sina Nehal has ranked which place recently? 

Ans. 4th 

114.   Who are the two Indian shooters who got selected for the London olympic games ? 

Ans. Manavjeet singh sidhu & Imran Hassankhan 

115.   Who is the first Indian tennis player who won the carier men’s doubles grand slam 2012? 

Ans.: Leander paes 

116.   In the Archery championship from AP Jyothi surekha got which medal ? 

Ans. Gold medal 

117.   In which place India stood in the International test series ranking ? 

Ans.3rd place 

118.   In which country the 2012 Olympic Hockey tournament is going to be held ? 

Ans. London 

119.   Who is the Indian criket player who stood in top ten positions according to ICCranking ? 

Ans. Sachin tendulkar 

120.   Which is the country who had invited the sand artist Sudharshan Pattnaik from Odisha to 

parcipate at the International Sand Championship recently? 

Ans. Japan 

121. What is the revised economic GDP growth rate for 2011-2012 financial year ? 

Ans. 8.4 % 

122.   Which are the two countries where female infant mortality is higher than male infant mortality? 

Ans. India & China 

123.   India had signed a TIEA agreement with which country ? 

Ans. Guernsey 

124.   What is the national infant mortality rate reduced from ? 

Ans. 50 % to 47 % 

125.   What is industrial growth rate in Dec 2011 ? 

Ans. 3.1 % 

126.   How much can a customer transact per day by way of mobile banking ? 

Ans. Rs.50,000/- 

127.   How much money is government going to spend on economic census for the year 2012? 

Ans. 800 crore 

128.   Name the bank which has been opened by SBI, which is exclusively for women customers ? 

Ans. Vasundhara Jubilee Senoritia 

129.   What is the minimum investment amount per client managed by portfolio manages decided by SEBI ? 

Ans. Rs.25,000 to 5,00,000 

130.   How much of fund is spent on improving quality education by all states in 2009-2010 in a survey ? 

Ans. 1% 

131.   Which country had successfully launched an observation satellite into orbit above earth recently? 

Ans.    Iran 

132.   Who will audit the performance of the schemes under the ministers of rural development ? 

Ans. Comptroller & Auditor General of India 

133.   Regarding to check tax evasion & avoidance India had signed a multilateral agreement with 

which countries recently ? 

Ans. France &German 

134.   What is the gross national income grew in the year 2010-2011 ? 

Ans. 7.9 % 

135.   Which powered ATM’s are going to be installed in the rural areas by the government ? 

Ans. Solar power 

136.   What is the GDP growth percentage for the year 2011-2012 according to the government 

estimation ? 

Ans. 6.9 % 

 137.   Scientists had produced a artificial human semen which will help in what? 

Ans. Infertile men 

138.   Which beverage can be treat tremors in humans recently ? 

Ans. Alcohol 

139.   High speed bullet train was launched by which country at Quingdao ? 

Ans. China 

140.   Which missile was successfully test fired by India recently ? 

Ans. Agni-1 

141.   From which place the Interceptor missile was launched successfully? 

 Ans.  Orissa 

142.   The earth observation satellite from where it was launched recently ? 

Ans. Sriharikota 

143.   Which country has invented the worlds fastest K-computor recently ? 

Ans. Japan 

144.   Which is the earth -size planet orbiting in space discovered by the NASA’s kepler? 

Ans. kepler- 20e & 20f 

145.   Who has been appointed as microfinance ombudsman for the SKS microfinance ? 

 Ans.  Virghese Jacob 

146.   Who is the 19th Director general of Indian coast Guard ? 

Ans. M.P.Muralidharan 

147.   Who is the new 7th chief minister of Arunachal pradesh ? 

Ans. Naban tukisworn 

148.   Who is the new advocate general who was appointed by state government ? 

Ans. D.Sundharam reddy 

149.   Who is the independent Director of Infotec enterprises for the year 2012 ? 

Ans. Vikas sehgal 

150.   Who is the person who is US ambassador to India resigned in the year 2011 ? 

Ans. Timothy Roemer 

151.   Which state minister had resigned recently after indictment in illegal mining scan ? 

Ans. Karnataka 

152.   Who is the women general secretary for SAARC who resigned recently? 

Ans. Fathima Dhiyana Saeed 

153.   M.B.Hussan Farook who died recently was the governor of which state ? 

Ans. Kerala 

154.   The former deputy chief minister P.Jaganath rao who died recently worked in which year cabinet ? 

Ans. 1982 

155. Freedom fighter of Indian diplomacy who was an architect of Indo-soviet treaty passed away in New Delhi on 31st Jan 2012 ? 

Ans. A.K.Damodharam 

156.   Who is the P.M of Thailand who visited India and has been the chief guest for the 63rd Republic Day ? 

Ans. Yingluck Shina Watra 

157.   Who is the president of Mali who visited India recently ? 

Ans.Amadou Toumani Toure 

158.   Kamla persad Bissesar is Prime minister for which country who visited India recently ? 

Ans. Trindad &Tobago 

159.   Which countries P.M is Sheik Hasina who visited India on 12th Jan 2012 ? 

Ans.Bangladesh 

160.   Who is the Myanmar oposition leader who is standing for parliment on 1st April by election in 2012? 

Ans. Aung San Suu Kyi 

161.   What did the pakistan supreme court said against its P.M Yousaf Raza Gilani recently ? 

Ans.     Not an honest man 

162.   Who had been Jailed more than 20 years for charging against secretly filming T.V documentery ? 

Ans. Sarah Ferguson 

163. What is the magnitude of earth quake on rickter scale which took place in Japan recently ? 

Ans. 7 

164.   Who is the author of the book who wrote “20 great personalities of India” ? 

Ans. Gopalkrishna Gandhi 

165.   Who wrote the book ‘ Pharaoh & the King ‘ ? 

Viswanath Venkat Dasari 

166.   Which is the book writen by MarkTuly recently ? 

Ans.     Non stop India 

167.   Who wrote the book’ The sence of an ending ‘? 

Ans. Julian Barnes 

168.   Who is the author who had recieved’ Business Book of the year award’ 2010 for his book ‘ Fault lines’? 

Ans. Raghuraman rajan 

169.   Who had constituted a committee to increase the productivity of agriculture sector? 

Ans. Pratibha Patil 

170.   Where was the 19th ASEAN summit took place ? 

Ans. Bali ( Indonesia) 

171.   To whom the review committee on the Delhi Education Act & Rules 1973 submitted its report ? 

Ans. Sheila Dikshit 

172. . Who had won the US Republic         Florida Primary election held recently ? 

Ans. Mitt Romney 

173. By the end of which year the American military is going to end the combat operations in 

Afghanistan? 

Ans. 2013yr 

174.   What is the mechanism policy of EU to double their renewable energy? 

Ans. Rio+20 

175. In which place the National Australia Bank was opened its Maiden Branch in India recently ? 

Ans.  Mumbai 

176. Which country is going to grant India the MFN status by the end of 2012 ? 

Ans. Pakistan 

177. Who is new US abbassador to India ? 

Ans. Nancy J.Powell 

178. What is the bilateral trade target set up by India & China recently 

Ans. $100b 

179. China wants to work with India  in which issue recently ? 

Ans. piracy fight 

180.   Between which two countries the 12th defence policy group meeting was held in New delhi ? 

Ans.India & US 

181 .Which disease had been included in lifestyle other than diabetes and hypertension ? 

Ans.  cancer 

182.  Which are the three most happiest countries where people reside ? 

Ans. Indonesia,India &Mexico 

183.. From which place India is going to test its most ambitious missile Agni- V ? 

Ans. Odisha 

184.   According to researchers which country is losing its forests more rapidly ? 

Ans.: India 

185. Samsung had launched which type of note book into the market recently ? 

Ans. series 5 ultra 

186. From which date the implementation of Matatma Gandhi Rural Employment, Guarantee Act will start ? 

Ans. 4/1/2012 

187.   Who inaugurated the 12th polio summit 2012 which was held in NewDelhi recently ? 

Ans. Manmohan singh 

188. How many people died of malaria worldwide in 2010-2011 according to the world malaria report ? 

Ans. 46800 

189.. Name the maths social net work in face book called ? 

Ans. Teaching Tomorrow 

190. Which city in A.P had decided to become cycle proud and introduced ‘no Motor vehicle’ zones across 20km of roads ? 

Ans.Vishakapatnam 

191.   Which state Government had shortlisted for the two companies for setting up the E-waste 

dismantlity facilities ? 

Ans. West Bengal 

192.   Who had launched a major state wide de- warming campaign in Delhi recently ? 

Ans. Sheila Dikshit 

193. Which state ranked top in investment proposal in the year 2011 ? 

Ans. Gujarat 

194. .Where was the’ National Conference on Governance’ meeting organised on Jan 29 2012 ? 

Ans. New Delhi 

195. . Where was the 58th annual meeting of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular & Thoracic 

Surgeons held at ? 

Ans. Kolkata 

196. On which date the Indian -Asean summit was held for two days in NewDelhi recently ? 

Ans. 12 th Feb 

197. Who inaugurated the 15th National conference on e-governance held for two days ? 

Ans. Mr.M.Naveen Patnaik 

198. The P.M of Mauritius Navinchandra Ramloolam had been honoured with which Dr. recently? 

Ans. Doctor of law 

199. Who had been awarded as sports women of the year 2012 recently at Laureus sports awards ? 

Ans. Vivian Chruiyot 

200. Who is the Indian to receive the pretigious honour, Manager of the Year 2011 award recently  

Ans  Siva ram krishna prasad