Current Affairs Quiz – June 23, 2017

Q.1) Which among the following operation was launched by Indian Railway to improve the services in the Premium trains such as Rajdhani and Shatabdi?

a) Operation Swarn

b) Operation gold

c) Operation Parichaalan

d) Operation Clean

e) None of these

Q.2) Which among the following has signed an agreement with EPFO to offer housing scheme subsidy and interest subvention under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana?

a) HUDCO

b) PFRDA

c) Ministry of Housing and Urban poverty alleviation

d) Ministry of Urban development

e) None of these

Q.3) Which among the following state has launched the ‘Test and Treat Strategy’ for the improve treatment of HIV affected people in the state?

a) Haryana

b) Assam

c) Mizoram

d) Nagaland

e) Uttar Pradesh

Q.4) Which of the following country set to host the first data embassy to store sensitive data for the Estonia government on servers in the grand duchy?

a) U.K

b) Luxembourg

c) Portugal

d) Norway

e) Australia

Q.5) Which among the following country has launched a research project to compile historical data obtained during expeditions by its teams to the disputed South China Sea since the late 1950s?

a) Taiwan

b) China

c) Chile

d) Uruguay

e) Paraguay

Q.6) Who has been appointed as the head of first counter terrorism office by United Nation?

a) Antony Lake

b) Antonio Guterres

c) Ivan Bokovo

d) Ghassan Salame

e) Vladimir Voronkov

Q.7) Name the Indian-origin doctor in the UK has been appointed as honorary vice-president of the country’s prominent medical body, become the first professional from the community to be appointed to the post?

a) Kailash Chand

b) Amitabh Raj

c) Chandra Bose

d) Ankit Kawatra

e) None of these

Q.8) Who has been appointed as the new UN envoy to Libya by United Nation?

a) Guy Ryder

b) Antonio Guterres

c) Ivan Bokovo

d) Ghassan Salame

e) None of these

Q.9) Who among the following one has bagged the Compassionate Business Award from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India for a line of bags made exclusively of vegan materials?

a) Priyanka Chopra

b) Deepika Padukone

c) Sonam Kapoor

d) Alia Bhatt

e) Disha Patani

Q.10) Name the anti-hunger activist, who has been committed to solving hunger and malnutrition in India, is all set to receive the prestigious Queen’s Young Leaders Award with 60 others from all 53 Commonwealth countries?

a) Ankit Sharma

b) Saurabh Verma

c) Ankit Kawatra

d) G Mohan Das

e) None of these

Q.11) How much amount of loan has approved by World Bank for the Assam State Public Financial Institutional Reforms (ASPIRe) project?

a) $44 million

b) $32 million

c) $52 Million

d) $42 Million

e) None of these

Q.12) Who among the following new member are appointed by RBI to oversight committee (OC) for faster bad loan resolution while Pradeep Kumar appointed as chairman of OC committee?

a) M.B.N Rao

b) Y.M.Deosthalee

c) S.Raman

d) Only a and c

e) All the above

Q.13) Name the presidential nominee for opposition led UPA?

a) Ram Nath Kovind

b) Somnath Chatterjee

c) Meira Kumar

d) L K Advani

e) None of these

Q.14) June 23^rd is observed across the world as _____

a) International Widows’ day

b) International Women day

c) International Father Day

d) World Refugees Day

e) None of these

Q.15) UN Public Service Day is observed every year on ________

a) June 21^st

b) June 22^nd

c) June 23^rd

d) June 24^th

e) None of these

Q.16) Who among the following minister has launched the Start-up India Virtual Hub on June 20^th, 2017 at New Delhi?

a) Venkaiah Naidu

b) Arun Jaitley

c) Suresh Prabhu

d) Harsh Vardhan

e) Nirmala Sitharaman

Q.17) For which river the National Green Tribunal has imposed a complete ban on dumping and burning of all kinds of waste including plastic on the flood plains?

a) Jhelum

b) Sutlej

c) Ravi

d) Indus

e) Beas

Q.18) Which Municipal Corporation launched India’s biggest municipal bonds programme for finance its 24×7 water supply project. The project looks to raise Rs 2,264 crore in five years and inaugurated by union minister Venkaiah Naidu?

a) Pune

b) Mumbai

c) Thane

d) Nagpur

e) Aurangabad

Q.19) Which among the following country approved the sale of 22 guardian drones to India?

a) Israel

b) Iran

c) UAE

d) United States

e) United Kingdom

Q.20) Which among the following radio stations has bagged a gold radio for ‘Five Years of Nirbhaya’ under the Public Service Announcement Promotion category in the event held at New York Festivals International Radio Program in New York City Manhattan Penthouse?

a) Radio One

b) Radio Mantra

c) Radio Mirchi

d) Radio Tadka

e) All India Radio

Q.21) Which among the following Konkani literacy personalities have won the Sahitya Akademi awards?

a) Amey Naik

b) Vincy Quadros

c) Salim Malik

d) Only a and b

e) Only b and c

Q.22) Which among the following film has selected to be screened at 39^th Moscow International Film Festival at Russia?

a) Visaaranai

b) Newton

c) Dhangal

d) Bahubali 2: The Conclusion

e) Sultan

Q.23) Which government has been lined up several ambitious infrastructure projects under the smart city initiative that are likely to transform the way people use the public space?

a) Madhya Pradesh

b) Jharkhand

c) Odisha

d) West Bengal

e) Chhattisgarh

Q.24) Which of the following State’s village become a complete yoga village in India?

a) Karnataka

b) Kerala

c) Andhra Pradesh

d) Telangana

e) Maharashtra

Q.25) Which of the following network aimed at sharing information about terrorists among security agencies, will now be getting access to the Income Tax Department’s PAN records and individual?

a) NATGRID

b) NANGRID

c) NAMGRID

d) NASGRID

e) NALGRID

Q.26) Tata Power offers to sell ________% stake in Mundra for Re 1.

a) 41

b) 45

c) 47

d) 49

e) 51

Q.27) The government will launch India’s maiden National Data Repository (NDR) that will assimilate, preserve and upkeep country’s vast sedimentary data for future use in oil and gas exploration and production on ________.

a) June 26^th

b) June 27^th

c) June 28^th

d) June 29^th

e) June 30^th

Q.28) RBI has asked banks to resolve _______ high value cases of bad loans within six months or face the prospect of being directed to go in for the new insolvency resolution mechanism.

a) 12

b) 15

c) 20

d) 45

e) 55

Q.29) Name the chief who has quit from the Formula One outfit, after reports of major fallout over the treatment of drivers Marcus Ericsson and Pascal Wehrlein?

a) Ron Tauranac

b) Carlos Pace

c) Carlos Reutemann

d) Jack Fairman

e) Monisha Kalteborn

Q.30) For how many games Brazilian Oscar was banned for triggering a mass brawl in the Chinese super league?

a) 5

b) 6

c) 7

d) 8

e) 9

Q.31) How many nano satellites is launched by ISRO along with Cartosat -2 series?

a) 5

b) 10

c) 15

d) 20

e) 30

Q.32) Which government has approved 53 urban projects with a total investment of 5 hundred 38 crore rupees under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT)?

a) Madhya Pradesh

b) Jharkhand

c) Odisha

d) West Bengal

e) Chhattisgarh

Q.33) Which state declares itself as 5th ODF under Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin?

a) Madhya Pradesh

b) Jharkhand

c) Haryana

d) West Bengal

e) Chhattisgarh

Q.34) An e-waybill is an electronic bill documenting any transport of a good of a value of more than ___________

a) 10,000

b) 15,000

c) 25,000

d) 50,000

e) 1,00,000

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