• The country that was recently removed from the South America’s trade group Mercosur is ?
    Venezuela
  • The theme of the 2016 World Soil Day is ?
    Soils and pulses, a symbiosis for life
  • This nation’s Prime Minister announced his surprise resignation on 5 December 2016, unwilling to sit through his fourth consecutive term in office ?
    New Zealand
  • This district in Assam is the first to pay wages to tea garden workers through bank accounts ?
    Hailakandi
  • A 10,500 year-old camping site has been discovered by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in ?
    Ladakh
  • India on 3 December 2016 signed four agreements to boost the bilateral relations between the two nations ?
    Qatar
  • The 6th Ministerial Conference of the Heart of Asia - Istanbul Process (HoA-IP) concluded on 4 December 2016 after adopting ?
    the Amritsar Declaration
  • Phulel Singh Sujlana, who passed away recently, was the former international umpire of ?
    Hockey
  • The Abhiyan that was launched by Union IT Minister Ravishankar Prasad to enable every citizen, small traders and merchants to adopt digital payments in their everyday financial transactions is ?
    Digidhan Abhiyan
  • The two day India-UK Conference on Ease of Doing Business was jointly inaugurated on 9 December 2016 in ?
    New Delhi
  • Reserve Bank has directed all Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs) to upload the Know Your Customer or KYC data pertaining to new individual accounts opened on or after January 1, with ?
    Central KYC Records Registry
  • The Assam government has mooted allocating at least 5 percent of development funds of every department for tea garden areas from ?
    The next annual state budget
  • The Rajasthan High Court has struck down Special Backward Classes reservation given to ?
    Gujjars and five other communities of the state
  • The UN General Assembly has demanded an immediate ceasefire in Syria and urgent aid deliveries in a resolution adopted by a strong majority as Syrian forces launched another assault on ?
    Aleppo
  • A Japanese capsule blasted off with much-needed supplies for the International Space Station, a week after ?
    a Russian shipment was destroyed shortly after liftoff
  • India was recently designated as a Major Defence Partner of the United States during the visit of US Secretary of Defence to New Delhi. The US Secretary of Defence is ?
    Ashton Carter
  • The first American astronaut to Orbit Earth who passed away recently is ?
    John Glenn
  • The Chief Minister of Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan recently launched Haritha Keralam Mission to ?
    make the state clean, protect its water sources and soil
  • He was recently appointed as the Chief Justice of Pakistan ?
    Justice Saqib Nisar
  • The theme of the 2016 International Anti-Corruption Day is ?
    United against corruption for development, peace and security
  • Most powerful language as per the 2016 World Power Language Index ?
    English
  • Bank that was considered as the Best Bank for SME Lending by Assocham ?
    Vijaya Bank
  • State that launched the Purse mobile app to promote digital transactions ?
    Andhra Pradesh
  • Person named as the Asian of the Year 2016 by The Straits Times ?
    Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal
  • Indian organisation that announced to provide financial support to eligible banks for deployment of 2 POS devices each in 1 Lakh villages with population of less than 10000 ?
    NABARD
  • This Indian Airlines faces a summoning from the Enforcement Directorate for violating FEMA regulations ?
    Air Asia India
  • This South Indian Temple has brought back its strict dress norms ?
    Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple


  • This president faces an impeachment vote ?
    Park Geun-hye
  • This country was denied $100 million loan from the World Bank ?
    Pakistan
  • This Indian State’s High Court has ordered a liquor and tobacco ban in three of its districts ?
    Uttarakhand
  • The court that declared the process of Triple Talaq as unconstitutional is ?
    Allahabad High Court
  • Arunachal Pradesh State Co-operative Apex Bank 2016 launched Mobile Banking Service named SIMsePaY in collaboration with ?
    Yes Bank Ltd.
  • He was named as Person of the Year 2016 by Time magazine ?
    US President-elect Donald Trump
  • Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight PK-661 crashed with 47 people, including five crew members and 42 passengers, on board into a mountain near the town of ?
    Havelian, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan
  • Armed Forces Flag Day is celebrated in India on ?
    7 December
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