CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ - 3

1). Which is the Third state to ratify the GST Bill?

a) Uttarakhand

b) Andhra Pradesh

c) Jharkhand

d) Bihar

e) Assam

   

2). National Green Highways Mission (NGHM) under NHAI has collaborated with which company for plantations work on NH 7 in Nagpur region?

a) Tata Power Company Ltd

b) Power Finance Corporation Ltd. (PFC)

c) Reliance Power Limited

d) Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited

e) None of the above

    

3). Name the state which has approved the implementation of the recommendations of 7th Pay Commission, raising salaries of over 8.5 lakh state employees and pensioners, in a move that would cost Rs 8,513 crore annually to the exchequer.

a) Gujarat

b) Rajasthan

c) Maharashtra

d) Telangana

e) Tamil Nadu

   

4). Name the country which has joined the ranks of the world’s 25 most-innovative economies, while Switzerland, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Finland and Singapore lead the 2016 rankings in the Global Innovation Index.

a) Japan

b) South Korea

c) India

d) Nepal

e) China

   

5). Theme of Global Innovation Index (GII) 2016 is

a) Human Factor in Innovation

b) Winning with Global Innovation

c) Effective Innovation Policies for Development

d) The Local Dynamics of Innovation

e) None of these

   

6). Indian Overseas Bank will be conducting an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) of shareholders of the Bank to issue equity shares to the Government of India to raise_______, as part of Centre's plans to infuse funds into the public sector lender.

a) Rs 5,551 crore

b) Rs 3,551 crore

c) Rs 1,351 crore

d) Rs 2,551 crore

e) Rs 1,551 crore

   

7). The Reserve Bank has imposed penalties of up to Rs ___ lakh on four cooperative banks for violation of various norms.

a) 4

b) 5

c) 6

d) 7

e) 2

   

8). Tata Power Solar commissions 100 MW project for NTPC in which among the following states?

a) Karnataka

b) Madhya Pradesh

c) Andhra Pradesh

d) Telangana

e) None of these

   

9). Who among the following has been appointed as the Governor of Manipur recently?

a) Najma A. Heptulla

b) V. Shanmuganthan

c) Banwarilal Purohit

d) Balakrishna Acharya

e) Kaptan Singh Solanki

   

10). Which country launched the first-ever quantum satellite to help develop an unhackable communications system?

a) Russia

b) USA

c) India

d) China

e) France

   

11). Who won against world number two Wang Yihan of China in the badminton women’s singles quarter-finals to enter the semi-finals of the Rio 2016 Olympics?

a) Carolina Marin

b) Saina Nehwal

c) Li Xuerui

d) PV Sindhu

e) Jwala Gutta

12). Which state’s government will call an Assembly session to pass the Constitution Amendment Bill on Goods and Services Tax?

a) Gujarat

b) Telangana

c) West Bengal

d) Delhi

e) Madhya Pradesh

   

13). The Uttar Pradesh government has approved a Metro Rail project recently for which city?

a) Allahabad

b) Ghaziabad

c) Noida

d) Meerut

e) None of the above

   

14). Shri Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy and Mines launched e-bidding web portals to enhance transparency in power transmission sector of the country. Which is/are not one of them?

a) TARANG Mobile App

b) e-Trans

c) DEEP

d) 1 and 3

e) All are correct

   

15). India and Bangladesh has agreed to jointly produce a documentary on the ____________war which led to independence for Bangladesh.

a) 1937

b) 1971

c) 1970

d) 1936

e) None of the above

   

16). Which bank is planning to tap retail investors to issue additional tier I bonds (AT1) to strengthen capital adequacy ratio?

a) Bank of India

b) Indian Overseas Bank

c) Yes Bank

d) ICICI

e) Bank of Baroda

   

17). Name the Indian private banks which have been occupied the top six slots amongst global banks along with their Chinese peers China Construction Bank Corp (CCB), Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) and Agricultural Bank of China (ABC).

a. HDFC Bank

b. Axis Bank

c. Yes Bank

d. ICICI Bank

a) Only a, b and d

b) Only b, c and d

c) Only a, b and c

d) All are true

e) None

   

18). The Telangana Drinking Water Supply Project (Mission Bhagiratha) has got approval for sanction of ________loans by a consortium of eight banks, led by Andhra Bank.

a) Rs. 7,750 crore

b) Rs. 6,750 crore

c) Rs. 6,850 crore

d) Rs. 9,450 crore

e) Rs. 3,780 crore

   

19). Which smartphone seller will start manufacturing handsets in India soon announced by the company recently?

a) Xiaomi

b) Oppo

c) Lenovo

d) Huawei

e) Yulong

   

20). Which organisation has developed a simple, user friendly, quick and cost effective kit for onsite determination of Cr (VI), which meets IS10500 as well as EPA criterion?

a) BARC

b) ISRO

c) IISC Bangalore

d) Lupin

e) Dabur