Current Affairs Quiz – 18, June – 2017

Q.1) The Cabinet Secretary’s directions a GST facilitation cell has been set up in the Department with a view to facilitate the rollout of GST. The GST facilitation cell is headed by whom?

a) Raghuram Rajan

b) Ashok K Lahiri

c) Arvind Subramanian

d) Sudhansu Sekhar Das

e) Kaushik Basu

Q.2) Which country ratified Automatic Exchange of Account Information (AEOI) with India, the first set of data should be exchanged in 2019?

a) China

b) Nepal

c) Germany

d) Switzerland

e) Srilanka

Q.3) Which bank has entered into a tie-up with Tirumala Milk Products, a South- based company which was acquired by Group Lactalis in 2014, to provide loans to dairy farmers supply milk to the latter?

a) Dena

b) PNB

c) SBI

d) IOB

e) Vijaya

Q.4) Name the Oscar-Winning Director of ‘Rocky’ And ‘Karate Kid,’ who died at 81.

a) Carrie Fisher

b) Anton Yelchin

c) Alexander Lewis

d) Jonathan Demme

e) John Avildsen

Q.5) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj announced the launch of how many new Post Office Passport Seva Kendras?

a) 129

b) 139

c) 149

d) 159

e) 169

Q.6) Which of the following city breaks Guinness World Record for maximum number of light installations in Australia?

a) Sydney

b) Perth

c) Gold Coast

d) Brisbane

e) Melbourne

Q.7) Which Organisation has progressed to the testing of subsystems in the development of a semi-cryogenic engine for rockets with heavier payload capacity?

a) ISRO

b) DRDO

c) NDRI

d) IIT-Kharagpur

e) NASA

Q.8) Which country and India will operationalise a dedicated air cargo link over Pakistan in the next couple of days?

a) Afghanistan

b) Iraq

c) Iran

d) Sri Lanka

e) UAE

Q.9) Who won the doubles title in the $60,000 ITF women’s tennis tournament 2017?

a) Halep and Muguruza

b) Hobgaski and Zampieri

c) Andreescu and Hobgarski

d) Prarthana Thombare and Kotomi Takahata

e) Angelique Kerber and Maria Sharapova

Q.10) The Reserve Bank has initiated Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) against which bank in view of the high level of bad loans and negative return on assets?

a) Dena

b) PNB

c) IOB

d) SBI

e) BoM

Q.11) Tata Motors said a committee of the board will meet to consider raising _______ crore through non-convertible debentures (NCDs).

a) 100

b) 200

c) 300

d) 400

e) 500

Q.12) Name the Social activist, a British nationalist, Who has been awarded with the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) for her service to the underprivileged.

a) Kailash Satyarthi

b) Annabel Mehta

c) Manasi Pradhan

d) Narendra Dabholkar

e) Pramila Nesargi

Q.13) Who is the chief guest of 200th anniversary of Kerala’s ‘Magna Carta of education’?

a) Rajnath Singh

b) Venkaiah Naidu

c) Narendra Modi

d) Arun Jaitley

e) Hamid Ansari

Q.14) Name the place were first start-up incubation centre for Dakshina Kannada will come up at Mallikatta in the city.

a) Mangalore

b) Mysuru

c) Bangalore

d) Hyderabad

e) Amaravathi

Q.15) The government is planning to set up an academy to promote Braj Bhasha, Name the region which is not in the Braj region?

a) Agra

b) Mathura

c) Etah

d) Aligarh

e) Etawah

Q.16) Which state government that has set the target to provide skill development training to 1.5 lakh youths during current financial year, recently?

a) Chhattisgarh

b) West Bengal

c) Odisha

d) Assam

e) Madhya Pradesh

Q.17) Sukant Kadam attained a new high by breaking into the top three of the BWF Para-Badminton World Rankings. Sukant belongs to which state?

a) Chhattisgarh

b) West Bengal

c) Odisha

d) Maharashtra

e) Madhya Pradesh

Q.18) Which state has received the maximum awards for execution of the Prime Minister Awas Yojana (PMAY), for its technology-driven processes for registration, geo-tagging and sanctioning of houses under PMAY (Gramin)?

a) Chhattisgarh

b) West Bengal

c) Odisha

d) Maharashtra

e) Madhya Pradesh

Q.19) 200th anniversary of Kerala’s ‘Magna Carta of education’ held at _______.

a) Maharashtra

b) Delhi

c) Kerala

d) Uttar Pradesh

e) Goa

Q.20) International Cricket Council, the next edition of ICC World T2O will only be held in _______.

a) 2018

b) 2019

c) 2020

d) 2022

e) 2024

Q.21) Compensation for paramilitary personnel, injured in action leading to 100 per cent disability, has been increased from Rs 9 lakh to Rs ______ lakh.

a) 10

b) 12

c) 15

d) 20

e) 25

Q.21) The enhanced compensation will be applicable to all central paramilitary personnel whose disability is attributed to or aggravated in service on or after January 1 _____.

a) 2015

b) 2016

c) 2017

d) 2018

e) 2019

Q.22) Which state has bagged the gold medal for its impressive performance in overall implementation of PMAY (Gramin)?

a) Chhattisgarh

b) West Bengal

c) Odisha

d) Maharashtra

e) Madhya Pradesh

Q.23) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has directed its lead lender _____ Bank to initiate insolvency proceedings for the company under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) for Lanco Infratech.

a) IDBI

b) PNB

c) IOB

d) SBI

e) BoM