Current Affairs Quiz

1. Who was elected as President of Board of Control for Cricket in India after the death of Jagmohan Dalmiya?

Answer. Shashank Manohar

2. Which High Court ruled that the provisions under Article 370 are beyond amendment, repeal or abrogation?

Answer. Jammu and Kashmir HC

3. Name the body which had made it mandatory for mobile service providers to compensate consumers call drops with effect from 1 January 2016. 

Answer. Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

4. Which country announced on 22 October 2015 that it will permanently station a military unit in the Arctic by 2018?

Answer. Russia

5. Pakistan with which country signed an agreement to build a 1100-km gas pipeline stretching from Karachi on Arabian Sea to the eastern city of Lahore?

Answer.  and Russia

6. Who became the first European country to sign MoU on the establishment of Nalanda University?

Answer. Portugal

7. Name the hydropower station which China has operationalised on the Brahmaputra River in Tibet Autonomous Region, which is also considered to be the highest-altitude hydropower station in the world.

Answer. The Zam hydropower station

8. India signed a deal, worth 105.5 crore rupees, with which Slovenian firm, for 194 micro-light aircraft to be used by Indian Air Force, the Navy and the National Cadet Corps (NCC)?

Answer. Pipistrel

9. The first BRICS Ministerial meeting on Migration was held in?

Answer. Sochi, Russia

10. Government of India with which country signed two loan agreements worth 125 million Euros for financing two projects under the Green Energy Corridor programme. These two projects are in Himachal Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh.

Answer. Federal Republic of Germany