This document contains 33 multiple choice questions related to current affairs. It provides information on topics like mergers and acquisitions in technology companies, CEOs of major companies, happiness indexes of different countries, changes in FDI policies in India, winners of tennis grand slams and rankings, heads of international organizations like the World Bank, OPEC, and winners of the Man Booker prize. It also ranks countries by size, GDP, and GDP based on purchasing power parity.

1. IIFT – 2016
General Awareness III
I

2. Q1.M& A
• Difference between Merger and
Acquisition
• Microsoft: LinkedIn (26.2), Skype (8.5) and
Nokia (7.2)
• Facebook: Whatsapp (19), Instagram (1)
• Flipkart: Myntra(300Mn), Jabong (70Mn)

4. Q3. Companies & CEOs
• Adobe………………..Shantanu Narayen
• Hewlett Packard/ HP inc…..Meg Whitman
• Oracle………………………....Larry Ellison
• GE………………………Jeffrey R. Immelt
• Yahoo…………………..Marissa Mayer
• TCS…………Natarajan Chandrasekaran
• Cisco Systems…………..Chuck Robbins

5. Q5.UN Happiness Index
• Denmark
• Switzerland
• Iceland
• Norway
• Finland
• Canada
• Netherlands

6. Happiness Index around India
• China-83
• Pakistan-92
• Iran-105
• Palestine-108
• Bangladesh- 110
• Sri Lanka-117
• India-118

7. Q6.The Draft Port
• A draft port is a deep port ensuring
enough water depth below the hull of large
ships.
• Krishnapatnam Port is now
the deepest draft port in India.
• The port located on India's East coast
now boasts a draft of 18.5 meters,to
overtake Mundhra Port as India's
deepest.

8. Major ports of India
.
Western Coast Eastern Coast
Kandla (child of partition) Kolkata-Haldia (riverine port)
Mumbai (busiest and biggest) Paradip (exports raw iron to Japan)
Jawahar Lal Nehru (fastest growing) Vishakjapatnam (deepest port)
Marmugao (naval base also) Chennai (oldest and artificial)
Mangalore (exports Kudremukh iron-
ore)
Ennore (most modern-in private
hands)
Cochin (natural Harbour) Tuticorin (southernmost )

9. Q8.Sports Leagues in India.
• IPKL: managed by Mashal Sports ( Charu
Sharma ), sponsorers; Mahindra Group
• IPL : managed by ICA
• Hockey League: managed by Hockey
Federation
• Indian Super League: sponsrers are Hero
Group.

10. Q9. Changes in FDI
• Mining-------------100%.Automatic
• Mining Titanium---100%,Government
• Petroleum &natural gas refining-49%,Auto
• Defence Manufacturing-- automatic,100%,
Govt.
• Broadcasting-------------49% Automatic
• Print Media----------------26% Government
• Multi Brand Retail--------51%

11. Some major categories that still
do not have 100% FDI
• Banking 74%
• Broadcast content 49%
• Indurance 49%
• Print 26%
• Multi-Brand Retail 51%

12. Q10. Rank as per FDI inflow
• USA—------- $380 billion
• Hong Kong---$175 billion
• China-------$136 billion
• Ireland------ $101 billion
• Netherlands-$ 73 billion
• Switzerland--$69 billion
• Brazil---------$ 65 billion
• Canada------$ 49 billion
• India----------$ 44billion

13. Q.Foreign Investments Received
• 1. Singapore
• 2. Mauritius
• 3. USA
• 4. Netherlands
• 5.Japan

14. Q11.One Rank One Pension scheme
• 1973, Drastic reduction in soldiers pension from
70% to 37 %
• Demand for same pension at same rank, for
same duration of service AND automatic scale
revision as and when it happens.
• In 2008 OROP was offered to all civil servants
and about 1.3% of Army top-Brass;most retire at
scale of 80,0000pm
• 10 member ‘Kashyari Committee’ suggested
automatic pension revision

15. Q12.Major Imports-India, 2016
• Mineral fuels including oil: US$104.6
billion
• Gems, precious metals: $59.6 billion
• Electrical machinery, equipment: $35.9
billion
• Machinery including computers: $32 billion
• Nuclear goods
• Top Partners China, USA, Saudi-
Arabia,UAE

17. Strait/Canal Land masses divided
Water Bodies
joined
Suez Canal Runs through Egypt
Mediterranean and
Red Sea
Bering Strait Alaska and Siberia Pacific and Arctic
Palk Strait India and Sri Lanka
Bay of Bengal and
Gulf of Mannar
Strait of Gibraltar Africa and Europe
Atlantic Ocean and
Mediterranean Sea
Strait of Malacca
Indonesia (Sumatra)
and Malaysia (Malay)
Pacific Ocean and
Indian Ocean
Panama Canal
Runs through
Republic of Panama
Pacific and Atlantic
Oceans
Ten Degree
Channel
Andaman Islands and
Nicobar Islands
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18. Q8.2016,Grand Slam winners-
Women’s Singles
• Australian Open-Angelique Kerber
• French Open- Garbine Muguruza
• Wimbledon- Serena Williams
• US Open- Angelique Kerber

19. 2016Rankings, Tennis
• ATP Nov 21 WTA Nov21
• Andy Murray Angelique Kerber
• Novak Djokovic Serena Williams
• Milos Raonik Agnieszka Radwanska
• Stan Wawrinka Simona Helep

20. Q 15
• Stanley Fisher-Vice Chair of US Federal
(Holds dual citizenship of Israel & US )
• Kaushik Basu-Senior VP to World Bank
( was economic advisor to UPA Govt, till 2012)
• Joseph E Stieglitz- Former VP of World bank,
strong critic of globalization ,IMF and WB
• Robert Azvedo- Brazilian Diplomat;
Director general of WTO; has authored-
“Great Divide, Unequal Societies & what we can
do about Them”

21. Q17.Persons In News,2015
• Pope Francis- hails from Argentina, 266th Pope.
In news for progressive views
• Jeff Bezos- CEO of Amazon .com; net worth
$46.7 billion
• Ebola fighters
• Hassan Rouhani-7th President of Iran;
progressive, liberal. He has improved
international relations and revived the economy.
• Angela Merkel-Leadership of EU in challenging
circumstances

22. Q18.OECD
• Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development
• Founded 1961 with 20 members
• Now 34 members
• India, Russia, China, Brazil,Singapore are
not its members,

23. Q20.Change of guard at WB
• Jim Yong Kim is the 12th
president of The world bank
• A physician and anthropologist by training
• Has announced the target of ending
extreme poverty by 2030 and boosting
shared prosperity across Developing world

24. Q21.The OPEC
• What is OPEC?
• Origin 1960, Vienna
• What happened in 1972 & 1979
• Role in Oil Price
• Why Oil Price is falling

25. Q22.The EU
• Established 1993 under treaty of
Maastricht, a monetary union of 28
states,19 use euro as currency
• GDP in 2015-18.50 trillion
• 26 out of 28 countries have high HDI
• Russia, Norway, Turkey,
Albania,Iceland,Serbia,Macedonia,Monten
egro are not members

26. Q26.THE Man-Booker
• Sponsored by Man Group since 2002
• Launched in1969;Prize- 50000 pounds.
• 2016: Paul Beatty –The Sellout
• 2015: Marlon James – A brief history of
seven killings
• 2014: Richard Flanagan – The narrow
road to deep north

27. Q33.Ranking of countries size-wise
SIZE:1.Russia,2.Canada, 3. China, 4.U.S.A,
5. Brazil, 6. Australia, 7.India, 8.Argentina,
9.Kazakhstan, 10.Algeria
GDP:1.U.S.A,2.China,3.Japan,4.Germany,5.U.K,
6.France,7.India, 8.Italy, 9.Brazil,10.Canada
PPP: 1.China, 2.U.S.A, 3.India, 4.Japan, 5.
Germany, 6.Russia, 7.Indonesia