Current Affairs Quiz – June, 7 – 2017

Q.1) The Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) under the Ministry of Power is going to retrofit 10 lakh conventional street lights with LED lamp in village panchayats in ______

a) Karnataka

b) Andhra Pradesh

c) Uttar Pradesh

d) Assam

e) Bihar

Q.2) Which among the following signed MoU with CISF to develop skills amongst the retiring/retired personnel of CISF, their families, students and Low Medical Category personnel at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi?

a) National Skill Development Cooperation

b) National Youth Academy

c) Indian Trade Promotion Organisation

d) Ministry of Civil Aviation

e) Ministry of Human Resource Development

Q.3) The __________ Cabinet decided to name the Mughalsarai railway station after RSS ideologue Deen Dayal Upadhyay.

a) Uttar Pradesh

b) Bihar

c) Uttarakhand

d) Haryana

e) Madhya Pradesh

Q.4) Which among the following give 15-day warnings on the likelihood of a malaria or chikungunya outbreak over different regions?

a) Ministry of Health Department

b) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

c) Ministry of Home affair

d) India Meteorological Department

e) None of these

Q.5) Which among the following state set to implement “Green Protocol” for wedding inorder to curb the thermocol, plastics and other non-degradable articles including disposable glasses and plates in the marriage function?

a) Telangana

b) Kerala

c) Haryana

d) Uttar Pradesh

e) Andhra Pradesh

Q.6) Which of the following country tests solid fuel variable ramjet engine which could enhance the real combat ability of the country stealth aircraft and boost firing range of missiles?

a) India

b) China

c) United States

d) Japan

e) France

Q.7) The First UN conference on the health of the oceans and seas held in ____.

a) Geneva

b) New York

c) Manila

d) Paris

e) London

Q.8) Name the satellite which was termed as Mongolia’s first university satellite flies into space from U.S?

a) Mazaalai

b) Mongolian

c) Mongol Sat-1

d) Mongol Sat-2

e) None of these

Q.9) Name the hottest giant planet discovered by Astronomers which is 2.8 times more massive than Jupiter?

a) Kelt-A

b) Kelt-9C

c) Kelt-9b

d) Kelt-7c

e) None of these

Q.10) A deal of how much amount had signed between India and World Bank for the ‘Citizen Centric Service Delivery’ of 5-year project in Assam?

a) USD 36 Million

b) USD 39.2 Million

c) USD 40.4 Million

d) USD 46 Million

e) USD 52 Million

Q.11) Which of the following bank has announced that it plans to develop as many as 100 digital villages in various States across the country as part of its initiative to promote digital banking among the rural population?

a) HDFC Bank

b) ICICI Bank

c) Syndicate Bank

d) Federal Bank

e) Vijaya Bank

Q.12) Which among the following approved the merger of Aadhar Housing Finance and DHFL Vysya Housing Finance?

a) RBI

b) SEBI

c) National Company Law Tribunal

d) National Housing Bank

e) None of these

Q.13) Who among the following was not conferred with the Kalinga awards 2017?

a) Anand Neelakantan

b) Haraprasad Das

c) Paramita Satpathy

d) Trilochan Pradhan

e) None of these

Q.14) Name the veteran Politician from Tamil Nadu who was passed away recently?

a) K.Ramasamy

b) Cho Ramaswamy

c) Era Sezhiyan

d) K Muthuvel

e) Karunas Shukla

Q.15) Veteran writer Juan Goytisolo, one of most celebrated writers of the post-war period passed away at age of 86. He belongs to which of the following country?

a) Italy

b) France

c) Spain

d) U.K

e) China

Q.16) The State unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party launched a month-long campaign called ‘My booth’ the strongest to strengthen the party at the grassroots in which State?

a) Chhattisgarh

b) West Bengal

c) Odisha

d) Jharkhand

e) Madhya Pradesh

Q.17) Japanese technology giant NEC, investing how much dollar for a new Centre of Excellence in India, over a next three years in the country.

a) 5 million

b) 10 million

c) 15 million

d) 20 million

e) 25 million

Q.18) Retirement fund body EPFO has extended the deadline for submitting Aadhaar number to __________, 2017 for it’s over four crore members.

a) November 30^th

b) December 31^st

c) July 31^st

d) June 30^th

e) September 30^th

Q.19) Public sector Canara Bank has cut MCLR rates by _________percentage point for various maturities with effect.

a) 0.01

b) 0.05

c) 0.10

d) 0.15

e) 0.20

Q.20) The human resource development ministry signed an MoU with which bank had set up an agency to fund creation of infrastructure and research facilities at higher education institutes such as IIM and IIT.

a) SBI

b) IDBI

c) PNB

d) Canara Bank

e) Dena Bank

Q.21) Sher Bahadur Deuba, a veteran politician known for his close ties with India, elected the Prime Minister of __________

a) Indonesia

b) Malaysia

c) Bangladesh

d) Bhutan

e) Nepal

Q.22) Which country’s arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, a tycoon known for his lavish billionaire lifestyle and far-reaching international connections, has died at the age of 82?

a) Iran

b) Iraq

c) Saudi

d) Afghanistan

e) Israel

Q.23) Twelve international construction companies, including four Chinese and two Russian firms, have formally expressed interest in building the Rs ________crore Nagpur-Mumbai Super Communication Expressway.

a) 36,000

b) 46,000

c) 56,000

d) 66,000

e) 76,000

Q.24) Which government had set up a five-member committee headed by a retired Bombay High Court judge Dr S Radhakrishnan to plan modernisation of prisons in the state.

a) Maharashtra

b) Gujarat

c) Rajasthan

d) Haryana

e) Madhya Pradesh

Q.25) Virendra Ojha, became the first Indian to complete the Comrades Marathon. It is held in _____.

a) Malaysia

b) Saudi Arabia

c) USA

d) UK

e) South Africa