Current Affairs Quiz –  June 15, 2017

Q.1) At which rate the Subvention scheme approved by cabinet committee for farmer short term loan up to Rs.3 lakh which effectively reduce the rate for farmers to 4%. The government has earmarked a sum of Rs. 20,339 crore and implement by NABARD and RBI?

a) 2%

b) 3%

c) 4.5%

d) 5%

e) 6%

Q.2) Which of the following sector pact signed between Indian and Palestine, approved by the Union Cabinet, recently?

a) Mutual cooperation in Agriculture

b) Mutual cooperation in Defence

c) Mutual cooperation in Science

d) Mutual cooperation in Youth employment

e) None of these

Q.3) Union Cabinet approved the Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance, Bill 2017. This act will pave the way for setting up which of the following corporation?

a) Financial Corporation

b) Insurance Corporation

c) Resolution Corporation

d) Deposit-Insure Corporation

e) None of these

Q.4) Which among the following country signed an MoU with India for promoting cooperation in the field of Information Technology and Electronics?

a) Srilanka

b) Palestine

c) Nepal

d) Armenia

e) Bangladesh

Q.5) Statistics Minister D V Sadananda Gowda announced that statistics ministry is set to change the base year of national accounts from 2011-12 to ____

a) 2013-14

b) 2014-15

c) 2015-16

d) 2017-18

e) 2018-19

Q.6) Who would represent India at the two-day BRICS foreign ministers’ meeting being held from June 18 where China was expected to unveil its agenda for this year’s Summit of the five-member bloc?

a) Arun Jaitley

b) V K Singh

c) Nirmala Seetharam

d) J P Nadda

e) Venkaiah Naidu

Q.7) Who was Conferred with Exceptional Public Service Medal by NASA?

a) Michael Jordan

b) Michael A’Hearn

c) John William

d) Jason Hales

e) None of these

Q.8) Which among the following country enacted anti terrosim law?

a) France

b) Japan

c) China

d) U.S

e) UK

Q.9) Which among the following bank signed pact with Emkay Global Financial Services for co-branding and distribution of equity research to the latter’s global clients?

a) YES Bank

b) Citi Bank

c) HSBC

d) ICICI Bank

e) DBS Bank

Q.10) Which among the following bank was the only public sector bank that got ‘high (H)’ (85 and above score out of 100) rating in two successive surveys of Code Compliance Rating of banks by Banking Codes and Standards Board of India (BCSBI), 2017 Report?

a) IDBI Bank

b) Canara Bank

c) Bank of India

d) Bank of Baroda

e) State Bank of India

Q.11) Which bank has announced formation of a separate vertical having around 100 dedicated staff to recover their mounting non-performing assets (NPAs), which now stand at around Rs 45,500 crores?

a) Axis Bank

b) Syndicate Bank

c) ICICI Bank

d) IDBI Bank

e) Indian Bank

Q.12) Which bank has partnered with mobile payments switch TerraPay to enable real time money transfer to bank accounts in India?

a) HDFC Bank

b) Yes Bank

c) ICICI Bank

d) Axis Bank

e) RBL Bank

Q.13) Which among the following online retailers are offering special discounts to consumers to ensure that their sellers stock is cleared before the GST tax regime sets in from next month?

a) 1mg

b) Phonepe

c) Paytm

d) Only a and b

e) Only a and c

Q.14) Who has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Belgium?

a) Gaitri Issar Kumar

b) Reenat Sandhu

c) Ajit Vinayak Gupte

d) Amul Thapar

e) None of these

Q.15) Who has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Italy?

a) Ajit Vinayak Gupte

b) Amul Thapar

c) Reenat Sandhu

d) Dr.Kheya Bhattacharya

e) None of these

Q.16) Who has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Denmark?

a) G Mohan Kumar

b) Abhishek Sharma

c) Dr.Kheya Bhattacharya

d) Ajit Vinayak Gupte

e) None of these

Q.17) Boshuslav Sobotka resigned as chairman of his leftist Social Democrats amid falling popularity for the party ahead of parliamentary elections. He belongs to which among the following country?

a) Poland

b) France

c) Italy

d) Czech Republic

e) Denmark

Q.18) Who has been appointed as MD of Kannur International Airport?

a) Bala Kumar

b) Bala Kannan

c) Bala Kiran

d) Bala Subraswamy

e) None of these

Q.19) Senior bureaucrat Kajal Singh has appointed as the Executive Vice President (Services) in Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) with period of ____

a) 1 year

b) 2 years

c) 3 years

d) 4 years

e) 5 years

Q.20) Which among the following player recorded by score his 100^th century in first class and List A cricket across all formats?

a) Wasim Jaffer

b) Kumar Sangakkara

c) Gautam Ghambir

d) Jacques Kallis

e) Richard Jones

Q.21) Name the India-Australia Joint Navy Exercise 2017 held at Freemantle, Australia on June 13-17?

a) AUSINDEX-17

b) SIMBEX-17

c) INDAUS-17

d) Eagle Line

e) Foal Eagle

Q.22) Who inaugurated the first terminal of Gorakhpur Airport, recently?

a) Yogi Adityanath

b) Ram Naik

c) Narendra Modi

d) Pranab Mukherjee

e) Hamid Ansari

Q.23) Which government has announced to launch a campaign to eradicate Kala-azar disease from July 1 to 31, through with patients getting free medicine, treatment and Rs. 200 per day for one month?

a) Uttarakhand

b) Uttar Pradesh

c) Bihar

d) Jharkhand

e) West Bengal

Q.24) With which country India decided to stimulate investments to push infrastructure development and bilateral trade as they sought to ward off threats of rising protectionism?

a) Japan

b) South Korea

c) China

d) Germany

e) USA

Q.25) Who has become the first Indian woman to be elected as a judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Seas (ITLOS)?

a) Anthony Lucky

b) Tomas Haider

c) P. Chandrasekar Rao

d) Neeru Chadha

e) Bibin Chadha

Q.26) Who has launched its first ever space telescope to observe black holes, pulsars and gamma-ray bursts, recently?

a) Japan

b) Germany

c) China

d) USA

e) Australia

Q.27) Name the leader of Britain’s pro-European Union Liberal Democrat Party, resigned after the party failed to significantly increase its support in last week’s election.

a)  Gerry Adams

b)  Nicola Cobryn

c)  Nicola Surgeon

d)  Jeremy Cobryn

e) Tim Farron

 

Q.28) David Bonderman has resigned recently from the company’s board. He is the director of which of the following company?

a) Uber

b) Ola

c) Amazon

d) Flipkart

e) Snapdeal

Q.29) Name the bank in which Reserve Bank of India has put, under prompt corrective action (PCA) due to a sharp increase in bad loans?

a) Allahabad Bank

b) Dena bank

c) Andhra Bank

d) Central Bank of India

e) State Bank of India

Q.30) The Competition Commission imposed a Rs. _________crore penalty on Hyundai Motor India for unfair business ways with respect to discounts for passenger cars.

a) 67

b) 77

c) 87

d) 97

e) 107

Q.31) TRAI recommended that international roaming SIM card and global calling card providers should pay how much amount as compensation to consumers who face service failure during an overseas travel?

a) Rs. 1000

b) Rs. 2000

c) Rs. 3000

d) Rs. 4000

e) Rs. 5000

Q.32) Wholesale inflation slowed sharply in May 2017 to ______from 3.85% in April 2017, as food prices eased.

a) 2.14

b) 2.15

c) 2.16

d) 2.17

e) 2.18

Q.33) In which state, oil firms IOC, BPCL and HPCL signed an agreement to jointly set up the world’s largest refinery and petrochemical complex?

a) Maharashtra

b) Madhya Pradesh

c) Gujarat

d) Karnataka

e) Andhra Pradesh

Q.34) Who has issued a comprehensive framework on margin trading facility (MTF) including disclosure norms and eligibility requirements for brokers to provide it to clients?

a) RBI

b) SEBI

c) GOI

d) IRDAI

e) SIDBI

Q.35) From which country India received the most overseas remittances last year, a report by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)?

a) Russia

b) Germany

c) Australia

d) USA

e) Japan

Q.36) How many Crore that FinTech start-up Lending kart Finance, a low-cost digital platform that lends to small and medium enterprises (SMEs)?

a) 250

b) 500

c) 1,750

d) 1,000

e) 1,500

Q.37) The book named “Hope in a Challenged Democracy: An Indian Narrative” is authored by?

a) Salman Rushdie

b) Ashwani Kumar

c) Harper Lee

d) Arundhati Roy

e) Vikram Seth

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Current Affairs 15, June – 2017 –  Gorakhpur airport terminal inaugurated

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