Current Affairs Quiz : 7th September 2017

Q.1) Name the person who will head NITI Aayog’s Expert Task Force to provide a major thrust to job creation by enhancing India’s exports.

1. a) Bibek Debroy
2. b) Amitabh Kant
3. c) Nitin Gadkari
4. d) V K saraswat
5. e) Rajiv Kumar

Q.2) Name the person recently inaugurated Jalasiriki Harati and released a ₹2,022 crore for Pedapudi reservoir, under Phase I of the Babu Jagjivanram Uttarandhra Sujala Sravanti.

1. a) N Chandrababu Naidu
2. b) K. Chandrashekar Rao
3. c) Devendra Fadnavis
4. d) Pinarayi Vijayan
5. e) Shivraj Singh Chouhan

Q.3) In which of the following country National Highway Authority of India has awarded its first international project to a joint venture of Punj Lloyd-Varaha?

1. a) Bangladesh
2. b) Myanmar
3. c) Thailand
4. d) Bhutan
5. e) Nepal

Q.4) Which of the following country agrees with India in deepening cooperation in defence and security to enhance exchanges between their forces which is likely to translate into more bilateral exercises?

1. a) Japan
2. b) Germany
3. c) China
4. d) Russia
5. e) USA

Q.5) Which of the following country along with India signed 11 agreements in a range of sectors, including one on maritime security cooperation, to further strengthen their multifaceted partnership?

1. a) Bangladesh
2. b) Myanmar
3. c) Thailand
4. d) Bhutan
5. e) Nepal

Q.6) Who has been appointed as Chief Managing director of state-run National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC)?

1. a) R Baijendra Kumar
2. b) J Baijendra Kumar
3. c) N Baijendra Kumar
4. d) G Baijendra Kumar
5. e) K Baijendra Kumar

Q.7) Which of the following was awarded 2nd prize of “NTPC AWARD- 2016-17” in a prestigious ceremony at New Delhi?

1. a) Bhagirathi Valley Corporation
2. b) Barak Valley Corporation
3. c) Damodar Valley Corporation
4. d) Brahmaputra Valley Corporation
5. e) Araku Valley Corporation

Q.8) With which of the following organisations IIT-Madras is officially collaborating to restore monuments and providing structural inputs as part of a pilot project in Bagan in Myanmar?

1. a) UNICEF
2. b) UNESCO
3. c) ICAO
4. d) IOM
5. e) WTO

Q.9) Which of the following country will host the 2019 edition of the Commonwealth (Youth, Junior and Senior) Weightlifting Championships?

1. a) Sri Lanka
2. b) India
3. c) Singapore
4. d) Malaysia
5. e) Japan

Q.10) Name the noted journalist-activist who recently shot died in her house at Karnataka.

1. a) Gauri Lankesh
2. b) Gour Kishore Ghosh
3. c) B. K. Karanjia
4. d) Ravish Kumar
5. e) Vinod Dua

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