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Q1081.

Recently, the Indian Banks Association (IBA) has signed a wage agreement with employee unions and officer's associations for 15 % hike in salaries of bank employees where around 10 lakh employees of 43 banks, including public sector banks, will get the benefit. How much crore rupees extra burden would be taken by government as incremental salary and allowances in a year ?

1)	Rs. 4,425 crore a	2)	Rs. 4,625 crore a
3)	Rs. 4,725 crore a	4)	Rs. 8,370 crore
5)	None of these

Q1082.

The trade ministers of about 15 countries including India, the US, EU, Australia, Brazil, South Africa and China are expected to attend the crucial meeting of WTO with the sidelines of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD) meet which is to be held on June 4 or 5, 2015. The international meet to be held in which city ?

1)	Geneva	2)	Washington D.C
3)	Kyoto	4)	Paris
5)	None of these

Q1083.

Which of following financial lender of India has launched 'password' facility service for its customers,so that customers can make transactions using just their voice without using other means of authentication like a password ?

1)	State Bank of India	2)	HDFC Bank
3)	Corporation Bank	4)	ICICI Bank
5)	None of these

Q1084.

Recently,the National Security Advisor (NSA), Ajit Doval has given the security clearance for opening of the reputed foreign bank.,What is the name of foreign bank ?

1)	Bank of China	2)	Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank Ltd.
3)	State Bank of Mauritius Ltd.	4)	DBS Bank Ltd
5)	None of these

Q1085.

Recently,Japan has identified how many sites to set up industrial townships in India which would serve as hubs for investments into the country and doubled its investment $3 billion in India ?

1)	Seven	2)	Ten
3)	Eleven	4)	Fifteen
5)	None of these

Q1086.

Recently, the Union Government has appointed five new members body of Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), the apex body for indirect tax policy becoming now full strength. At present ,who is the chairman of the body ?

1)	Mr. Najib Shah	2)	Vanaja Narayan Sarna
3)	Kaushal Srivastava	4)	Joy Kumari Chande
5)	None of these

Q1087.

The High level Parliamentary panel recently meet on "Net Neutrality" has decided to call drops. Who is the Chairman of the committee ?

1)	Arun Jaitly	2)	Mr.Ravi Shankar Prasad
3)	Anurag Singh Thakur	4)	Rahul Khullar
5)	None of these

Q1088.

Recently, Maria Sharapova of Russia regained second place in the WTA world rankings after winning the Rome Masters after defeating Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain. At present which tennis player (Woman) is World number one rank ?

1)	Carla Suarez	2)	Serena Williams
3)	Petra Kvitova	4)	Simona Halep
5)	None of these

Q1089.

Recently,former Union minister and BJP MP SS Ahluwalia was selected and appointed as the chairman of the 30-member Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC).The chairman of the JPC is appointed by whom ?

1)	President	2)	Prime Minister
3)	Lok Shaba Speaker	4)	Chief Justice of India
5)	None of these

Q1090.

The 2015 Man International Booker prize was awarded to the Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai in London on May 20 ,2015.The 61-year old writer was among a shortlist of 10 writers including an India-born prolific writer. Who was the writer ?

1)	Amitav Ghosh	2)	Salman Rushdie
3)	Gita Meheta	4)	Anurag Anand
5)	None of these