Solutions
S1. Ans.(b)
Sol. Sports Minister Mr. Vijay Goel has approved the appointment of two top foreign athletics coaches, one each in race walking and 400m race. 2020 summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo, Japan.
S2. Ans.(d)
Sol. The 64th National Film Awards were announced in which the Directorate of Film Festivals presents its annual National Film Awards to honor the best films of 2016 in the Indian cinema.
S3. Ans.(c)
Sol. HDFC Bank announced its Unified Payments Interface (UPI) will also be available on Chillr, a multi-bank mobile payments app. Currently, UPI is available on HDFC Bank’s own mobile banking app.
S4. Ans.(e)
Sol. Malala Yousafzai, the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize has become the youngest United Nations Messenger of Peace. The United Nations stated that the 19-year-old Pakistani education activist will be appointed by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on April 10, 2017, and it will help to promote girl education around the world.
S5. Ans.(b)
Sol. Canara Bank, a public sector bank, has embarked upon an ambitious project of upgrading the bandwidth at all its branches to 2 Mbps in partnership with BSNL.
S6. Ans.(a)
Sol. National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the umbrella organization for all retail payment systems in the country, has disbursed over Rs. 245 crore worth of prize money to about 18 lakh winners under the NITI Aayog’s Lucky Draw schemes for consumers and merchants which are Lucky Grahak Yojna (LGY) and Digi-Dhan Vyapar Yojna (DVY).
S7. Ans.(d)
Sol. India has jumped 12 places to 40th rank globally in total 136 countries in Travel and Tourism Competitiveness report 2017 by World Economic Forum.
S8. Ans.(c)
Sol. Indian boxer K Shyam Kumar won a gold medal in the 49- kilogram category at the Thailand International Tournament. Bangkok is capital of Thailand
S9. Ans.(b)
Sol. India and Bangladesh have signed 22 agreements in strategic sectors like defense and civil nuclear cooperation during Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to India. Abdul Hamid is the President of Bangladesh.
S10. Ans.(e)
Sol. The National Basketball Association (NBA) announced the setting up of its first basketball school, a network of tuition-based basketball development programmes, in Mumbai.
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