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| Government of India signed a loan agreement of USD 200 million with which International Organization for its ambitious POSHAN Abhiyaan (National Nutrition Mission) | World Bank |
| Government of India has signed an MoU with which International Organization for its ambitious National Biopharma Mission, a total assistance of USD 250 million (USD 125 loan component) will be provided by the organization | World Bank |
| Government of India has signed a loan agreement of USD 48 million with which of the following international organizations for “Meghalaya Community – Led Landscape Management Project” | World Bank |
| Government of India signed a loan agreement of USD 420 Million with which International Organization for the benefit of farmers in Maharashtra | World Bank |
| International Organization which has approved a loan of USD 140 million for improving rural connectivity in Madhya Pradesh | AIIB |
| Which International Organization has extended USD 375 million loan assistance for improving irrigation and boosting farmers’ income in the state of Madhya Pradesh | Asian Development Bank |
| International Organization which has approved a loan of Rs 1700 Crore for infrastructure development in urban areas of the Uttarakhand | Asian Development Bank |
| Government of India recently launched first tranche of sovereign gold bonds scheme, which organizations issues bonds on behalf of government of India | Reserve Bank of India |
| Bank which has launched Interactive Robotic Assistant 2.0 at its branch in Karnataka | HDFC Bank |
| Facebook has tied up with which banks for launching WhatsApp Pay services in India | HDFC, Axis, ICICI and SBI |
| Bank which has introduced pilot whatsapp enterprise solution | Indus Ind Bank |
| Bank which has launched Bharat QR, a mobile payment solution and PFMS recently | Indian Bank |
| Jio Payments Bank which started operations in April 2013 is a joint venture between Reliance Industries Limited and which bank | State Bank of India |
| Indian Bank which has announced to invest Rs 80 billion in a hydropower project in Nepal | State Bank of India |
| Bank which has become first in India to receive new cross border payment service | ICICI Bank |
| Indian Bank which has launched an innovation lab for better digital banking experience | ICICI Bank |
| Reserve bank of India has recently imposed fresh restrictions on which bank from taking fresh credit exposure and hiring | Dena Bank |
| Bank which has launched initiative Agenda 25 × 25 aimed at creating a favorable startup environment for upcoming women entrepreneurs in India | Yes Bank |
| Bank which has launched a water security campaign under its CSR for farmers in Haryana and Rajasthan to promote sustainable agricultural practices and digital literacy | Yes Bank |
| Bank which has been empaneled as “Settlement Bank” by National Stock Exchange for National Securities Clearing Corporation | Yes Bank |
| Bank which has announced to offer digital loans against mutual funds, the bank has signed a partnership agreement with CAMS – transfer agent | HDFC Bank |
| Bank which is extending direct funding facility to village level entrepreneurs in CSCs with minimum one year of operation | SIDBI |
| Indian Bank which has started major operations in Gift City, Gujarat recently by obtaining 20,000 sq ft of office space | Bank of Baroda |
| Bank which has signed an MoU with CDSL commodity repository for offering pledge finance to warehouse dealers in the country | Bank of Baroda |
| Payments bank which has launched an app – Digital Suite which is a one stop platform for all its digital payment solutions | Finotech Payments Bank |
| Payments bank which introduced “My Payments” an automatic recurring payments facility for its users | Paytm Payments Bank |
| Payments Bank which has registered 100 Million KYC wallets in April 2018 | Paytm Payments Bank |
| Chinese Bank which has launched a India dedicated publicly offered investment fund – ICBC Credit Suisse India Market Fund | Industrial and Commercial Bank of China |
| PFMS portal of government of India has processed record transactions worth how much amount on a single day in April 2018 | Rs 71,633.45 Crore |
| Reserve Bank of India has announced to purchase how much worth government bonds from Open Market Operations | Rs 10000 Crore |
| NABARDs authorized capital has been raised from existing Rs 5000 Crore to what amount as per the recent amendment to NABARD Bill 2017 | Rs 30,000 Crore |
| NABARD has announced to raise its long term finance portfolio to what amount in 2018-19 | Rs 80,000 Crore |
| NABARD has approved how much amount of loan to the state of Rajasthan in 2017-18 for various rural road and irrigation projects | Rs 14,690 Crore |
| World Bank has sanctioned how much amount to Energy Efficiency Services of India for developing the energy efficiency programme in India | USD 300 Million |
| Government of India has signed a loan agreement of how much amount with world bank for improving rural road network in the state of Madhya Pradesh | USD 210 million |
| World Bank has signed a loan agreement of how much amount with government of India for the Innovate in India for Inclusiveness Project | USD 125 million |
| Reserve Bank of India has revised norms for setting up International Financial Services Centers – Banking Units by Banks, as per the new rules, the parent bank has to provide and maintain a minimum capital of how much amount in its IBU on an ongoing basis | USD 20 million |
| Reserve Bank of India has prescribed what percentage of the net stable funding ratio for banks aimed at maintaining adequate liquidity for more resilience | 100% of NSFR |
| SEBI has issued new KYC norms for Foreign Portfolio Investors, as per the new norms a person owning how much stake in the FPI structured company would be considered as the Beneficial Owner. | 25% stake in the company |
| SEBI has issued new KYC norms for Foreign Portfolio Investors, as per the new norms a person owning how much stake in the FPI structured company that belongs to HIGH RISK JURISDICTION, would be considered as the Beneficial Owner. |
10% stake in the company |
| As per the recent data released by Reserve Bank of India, banks’ credit and deposits have grown by what percentage compared Year on Year | Credit – 12.64% (Rs 85,51,099 Crore)Deposits – 7.61% (1,13,92,165 Crore) |
| As per the ratings agency FITCH, India’s economic growth rate for the financial year 2018-19 is estimated at | 7.3% |
| As per the ratings agency FITCH, India’s economic growth rate for the financial year 2019-20 is estimated at | 7.5% |
| India’s economic growth rate has been projected at what rate for 2018-19 by Asian Development Bank in its recent Asian Development Outlook Report 2018 | 7.3% – 2018-19 7.6% – 2019-20 |
| As per the IMF’s – Asia Pacific Regional Economic Outlook Report 2018, India’s economic growth rate for 2018-19 is projected at | 7.4% |
| As per the recently published UN World Economic Situation and Prospects 2018, India’s economic growth rate is estimated at what percentage in 2018-19 | 7.6% |
| Growth rate of Indian economy for the year 2017-18 as per the recent report from Ministry of Statistics and Implementation has been | 6.7% – 2017-18 7.7% – Q4 of 2017-18 |
| Reserve Bank of India has recently hiked Foreign Portfolio Investment Limit in Central Government Securities by what percent of the outstanding stock from existing 5% for financial year 2018-19 | 5.5% – 2018-19
6% – 2019-20 |
| Reserve Bank of India has eased ECB (External Commercial Borrowing Norms) by increasing the ECB liability to Equity to what ratio from direct foreign equity holder under the Automatic Route | 7 : 1 |
| Parliamentary panel headed by whom was constituted by government of India for looking into issues relating to black money recovery and performance of public sector banks | Murali Manohar Joshi |
| Reserve Bank of India has directed banks dealing with foreign exchange to share data with which of the following organizations | Directorate of Revenue Intellligence |
| NABARD has recently sanctioned funds of Rs 87.83 lakhs for solar street lighting system in which state | Arunachal Pradesh |
| Government of India has signed a loan agreement of USD 21.7 with world bank for strengthening the public finance management project of which state | Rajasthan |
| NABARD has given a financial aid of Rs 10012 Crore in 2017-18 to which state for various development projects in the state | Uttar Pradesh |
| BRICS Bank has launched regional office of America in which of the following countries | Brazil |
| As per the recent report by REMITSCOPE, which country has emerged as the largest remittance receiving country in the world in 2017 at USD 69 Billion | India |
| Country which has banned banks and financial institutions from using cryptocurrencies as a measure to curb money laundering and terror financing | Iran |
| Stock Exchange which has become first in the country to be recognized as designated off shore securities market by US Securities and Exchange Commission | Bombay Stock Exchange |
| Commodity Exchange which became first in the country to launch options in Copper | Multi Commodity Exchange of India |
| Nifty Equity Savings Index has been launched by which of the following organizations recently which will be a benchmark for various equity savings funds | India Index and Services Products Ltd |
| Company which has tied up with BSNL to jointly launch Swadeshi Samriddhi Sim Cards | Patanjali |
| Indian Meteorological Department tied up with which telecom operator to send extreme weather warnings to the public in New Delhi | BSNL |
| Multinational Company which has acquired Flipkart for USD 16 billion considered to be world’s largest e-commerce deal | Walmart |
| Indian Public Sector Company which has emerged as the most profitable company for the third consecutive year | Indian Oil Corporation |
| Reserve Bank of India has announced to shift from existing GVA model of measuring economy to which model | GDP |
| Reserve Bank of India has revised norms of reporting transactions undertaken by Individuals under which scheme on a daily basis for more monitoring purpose | Liberalized Remittance Scheme |
| Government of India has signed a loan agreement of USD 500 million with World Bank for which project | Rural Road Project of PM Gram Sadak Yojana |
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