One liner Current Affairs : 9 Oct 2018
Q1. Assam Government will offer a Wage Compensation for pregnant women working in the tea gardens of the state. Under the scheme, an amount of ________ will be given to the pregnant women.
Ans-Rs 12,000
Q2. Economic Affairs Secretary SC Garg has announced a reduction in gross borrowing estimate for the current fiscal by ______ rupees.
Ans-70,000 crore
Q3. As per the RBI, India’s external debt declined _______to USD 514.4 billion at June-end.
Ans-2.8%
Q4. The Reserve Bank of India has imposed a penalty of Rs 5 crore on which of the following banks for non-compliance of its directives?
Ans-Karur Vysya Bank
Q5. NFRA, an independent regulator for the auditing profession recently got its chairmen recently. What does F stands for in NFRA.
Ans-Financial
Q6. Name the India-born Harvard University professor who has been appointed as the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by IMF’s Managing Director Christine Lagarde.
Ans-Gita Gopinath
Q7. Name the country that has agreed to sign a trade deal with the United States and Mexico, revamping the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) after almost a year of negotiations.
Ans-Canada
Q8. International Monetary Fund (IMF) Headquarters in ____________.
Ans-Washington DC
Q9. State Bank of India has changed the daily withdrawal limit on its classic debit card from Rs. 40,000 to _______.
Ans-Rs 20,000
Q10. Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), had launched a National Level Entrepreneurship Awareness Campaign. What is the name of the campaign?
Micro Credit Scheme
Ans-Udyam Abhilasha
Q11. Which of the following is the leading contributor to Unified Payments Interface (UPI) payments with over 33% of the overall market share?
Ans-Paytm
Q12. Asian Development Bank (ADB) recently approved $240 million loan for providing safe and sustainable drinking water to about 1.65 million people of which of the following state?
Ans-West Bengal
Q13. The private lender ICICI has appointed _______ as managing director and chief executive officer for five years.
Ans-Sandeep Bakhshi
Q14. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has allowed state-owned oil companies to borrow long-term working capital from overseas. RBI relaxed the policy on borrowing up to ________ from the overseas by the state-owned fuel retailers.
Ans-10 billion USD
Q15. Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of India signed a ________ Loan Agreement in New Delhi to establish a Global Skills Park (GSP) in India.
Ans-$150 million