Current Affairs Quiz – June 3, 2017

Q.1) The Haryana government has renamed HUDA (Haryana Urban Development Authority) as it sounds similar to the name of the former chief minister of the state Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Name the new name of HUDA?

a) Haryana Shahari Vikash Pradhikaran

b) HUDA Vikash Pradhikaran

c) Haryana Vikash Pradhikaran

d) Shahari Vikash Pradhikaran

e) None of these

Q.2) Which of the following company signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) to setup two new Samsung Technical Schools in Bangalore and Jamshedpur?

a) Nokia

b) Google

c) Microsoft

d) Samsung

e) IBM

Q.3) Name the second Scorpene class submarines has sailed out from Mumbai harbour for its maiden sea sortie in a step closer to its induction into the Indian Navy which was built under project 75?

a) INS Viraat

b) INS Khanderi

c) INS Kalvari

d) INS Ganga

e) INS Vikrant

Q.4) Who has become the youngest person to hold the office and also one of the world’s youngest prime ministers. He was Ireland first openly gay minister?

a) Enda Kenny

b) Michael John

c) Michael D.Higgins

d) Leo Varadkar

e) Aleksandar Vucic

Q.5) To improve the standards of corporate governance of listed company’s markets regulator SEBI to set up a committee under the chairmanship of ______

a) R Gandhi

b) S S Mundra

c) Rana Kapoor

d) Shyam Srinivasan

e) Uday Kotak

Q.6) Which of the following ministry launched the INAM PRO+ an e-commerce platform for construction and infrastructure raw material for government and private procurement.

a) Ministry of Urban development

b) Ministry of E-commerce

c) Ministry of road transport and highways

d) Ministry of Finance

e) Ministry of Agriculture

Q.7) Name the person who has got the additional charges as new economic affairs secretary after the retirement of Shaktikanta Das?

a) S S Mundra

b) Tapan Ray

c) Shikha Sharma

d) Rakesh Sethi

e) Vishwavir Ahuja

Q.8) Which regulatory body has proposed to the finance ministry and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) the introduction of the concept of joint audit in private banks to enhance the quality of audit?

a) NSSO

b) ICAI

c) SEBI

d) FSSAI

e) Ernst & Young

Q.9) Which bank has conducted a “Star Mahotsav” across its branch network in the country to contact every customer at their door step either for recovery of bad loans, disbursement of retail loans etc?

a) State Bank of India

b) Reserve Bank of India

c) Bank of India

d) HDFC Bank

e) ICICI Bank

Q.10) Reliance Communication Head Anil Ambani announced the merged entity of Reliance Communications and Aircel will be called as _____

a) Rlive

b) Recel

c) Aircom

d) AirRel

e) RelAir

Q.11) Name the Tamil poet, popularly known as ‘Kavikko’, passed away recently?

a) S. Abdul Rahman

b) S. Mani

c) N. Muthukumar

d) S. Ravi Bharathi

e) None of these

Q.12) Mo Farah has completed the fastest winning time of the year in the 5,000m to win the event at the Diamond League in Oregon, US State. He belongs to _____

a) France

b) Kenya

c) British

d) Jamaica

e) Libya

Q.13) Manika Batraand and Mouma Das became the first Indian pair to reach the quarterfinals of the World Table Tennis Championships held in ______

a) Italy

b) India

c) China

d) Malaysia

e) Germany

Q.14) Which city to get India’s First Infrastructure Platform ‘Freight Village’?

a) Varanasi

b) Lucknow

c) Noida

d) Kanpur

e) Allahabad

Q.15) Which state Government and the UK in principle decided to join hands to impart skill development and technical education to the youth.

a) Jammu Kashmir

b) Uttar Pradesh

c) Uttarakhand

d) Haryana

e) Punjab

Q.16) The first regiment of 18 Dhanush artillery guns, the indigenously upgraded variant of the Swedish Bofors guns, is scheduled to be inducted into the Army by the end of__________.

a) 2017

b) 2018

c) 2019

d) 2020

e) 2022

Q.17) According to Niti Aayog India’s economic growth is expected to pick up to ________percent in the fiscal year that ends in March 2018.

a) 7.2

b) 7.3

c) 7.4

d) 7.5

e) 7.6

Q.18) The State Bank of India (SBI) announced financing of rooftop solar projects worth Rs _______ crore to private developers.

a) 100

b) 200

c) 300

d) 400

e) 500

Q.19) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed certain restrictions on __________Bank after it reported negative return on assets (ROA) for two years and net NPA breaching the risk threshold level.

a) SBI

b) Allahabad

c) Dena

d) Andhra

e) Indian

Q.20) The Reserve Bank has appointed _________as Executive Director (ED) after the voluntary retirement of Chandan Sinha.

a) Deepak Mohanty

b) Ganesh Kumar

c) Meena Hemchandra

d) Sudarshan Sen

e) Malvika Sinha

Q.21) Name the former managing director and chief executive officer of the National Stock Exchange resigned as the vice-chairman?

a) Ravi Narain

b) Chitra Ramkrishna

c) D.K. Mehrotra

d) J. Ravichandran

e) T.T. Srinivasaraghavan

Q.22) Name the former principal architect of Infosys Technologies, has been appointed the new chief executive officer (CEO) of public broadcaster Prasar Bharati?

a) Jayashree Mukherjee

b) Shri Muzaffar Ali

c) Rajeev Singh

d) Shashi Shekhar Vempati

e) A. Surya Prakash

Q.23) West Indies cricket team’s official name changed to___________.

a) WINDEIS

b) WINDEES

c) WINDIES

d) WIINDIES

e) None of the above

Q.24) Who won the European Junior title with a stroke margin win over USA’s Jaivir Pande at Scotland?

a) Kshitij Naveed KAUL

b) Vignesh THAKUR

c) Devansh CHADHA

d) Shubham JAGLAN

e) Hardik S CHAWDA

Q.25) Name the World junior record-holder, who clinched the men’s javelin gold with a throw in the 21st Federation Cup athletics championship?

a) Gopal Saini

b) Bahadur Prasad

c) Mohammad Anas

d) Neeraj Chopra

e) Vikas Gowda