Daily GK 16th Feb, 2018

1. India’s Biggest Global Pharma Conference Begins In Bengaluru

i. India’s biggest Global Conference on Pharma Industry and Medical Devices began in Bengaluru With
the theme, ‘Driving NextGen Pharmaceuticals’. Union Minister for Chemicals & Fertilisers Ananth
Kumar inaugurated the three-day event.

2. India’s Aadhaar And Umang App Win Award In Dubai

i. India’s Umang App was named winner of the Best M-Government Service award in the Accessible
Government category while Aadhar won the best emerging technology award at the recently concluded
World Government Summit 2018 in Dubai, where India had the status of ‘Guest of Honour’ country.

News Related to Banking and Finance

International News

5. Cyril Ramaphosa Sworn In As New President Of South Africa

News Related to Appointment

6. Haruhiko Kuroda Reappointed As Bank Of Japan Chief
Quiz-:
Q1. Reserve Bank of India has made banks' priority sector norms lenient by saying that all loans
to _______________ will henceforth qualify as priority sector lending.
(a) NBFC
(b) MSME
(c) Payment Banks
(d) Small Finance Banks
(e) None of the given option is true

Q2. India-Russia Agriculture Business Summit 2018 was held recently in _____________.
(a) Pune
(b) Bengaluru
(c) New Delhi
(d) Pune
(e) Chennai

Q3. India's first Online Radio Station named ___________ was launched recently in India.
(a) Radio Tara
(b) Radio Sampark
(c) Radio Vihar
(d) Radio Tarang
(e) Radio Umang

Q5. State-owned Bank of Baroda has decided to exit by March-end its ___________ operations
after 21 years amid a probe into alleged compliance lapses by the bank there.
(a) Russia
(b) South Africa
(c) Indonesia
(d) France
(e) Oman

Q4. Name the Kannada litterateur who has been recently elected as president of the Sahitya
Akademi.
(a) Chandrashekar Kambar
(b) Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari
(c) Madhav Koushik
(d) Vinayak Krishna Gokak
(e) U.R. Ananthamurthy

Q5. Radha Mohan Singh is the present Union Minister of _______________.

(a) Commerce and Industry
(b) Drinking Water and Sanitation
(c) Health and Family Welfare
(d) Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
(e) Food Processing Industries