1.

__________ retained its number one position in the annual city governance ranking,
according to the Annual Survey of India's City-System (ASICS).

1) Chandigarh

2) Bengaluru

3) Bhubaneswar

4) Kolkata

5) Thiruvananthapuram

2. The Gross domestic product (GDP) of India registered _______ growth in Oct-Dec quarter
of 2016-17.

1) 7 per cent

2) 7.1 per cent

3) 7.2 per cent

4) 7.4 per cent

5) 7.6 per cent

3. The Parliament in which country recently expelled MP Mohammed Anwar Sadat, an

outspoken critic of the govt’s human rights record?

1) Egypt

2) Greece

3) Turkey

4) Iran

5) Iraq

4. ________ has announced collaboration with Cisco to further expand its existing multi-
terabit capacity with the first All-IP converged network in India.

1) Airtel

2) Reliance Jio

3) Vodafone

4) Idea

5) Reliance Communication
5. Developing economies of Asia and the Pacific region will need infrastructure investments
worth ________ from now until 2030, according to an ADB report issued recently.

1) $6 trillion

2) $12 trillion

3) $16 trillion

4) $22 trillion

5) $26 trillion

6. The Tata Steel has announced that it has commenced ferro chrome production at its
recently commissioned unit at Gopalpur in the state of

1) Jharkhand

2) Karnataka

3) Odisha

4) Tamil Nadu

5) Andhra Pradesh

7. The sovereign wealth fund of ________, the world's largest, notched up huge gains in
2016.

1) Sweden

2) Norway

3) US

4) Switzerland

5) Singapore

8. The growth of eight core sectors slowed down to a five-month low of ______ in Jan 2017,
mainly due to contraction in output of refinery products, fertiliser and cement.

1) 2.8%

2) 3.2%

3) 3.4%

4) 3.6%

5) 3.8%
9. ________ took charge as the new chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India
(Sebi) on Mar 1, 2017.

1) Sriram Kalyanaraman

2) Yogesh Aggarwal

3) TS Vijayan

4) Ajay Tyagi

5) Harsh Kumar Bhanwala

10. What is the fiscal deficit target for the financial year 2016-17?

1) 3% of GDP

2) 3.2% of GDP

3) 3.3% of GDP

4) 3.5% of GDP

5) 3.9% of GDP