Current Affairs Quiz

1.After eight years of intense negotiations, bureaucratic hurdles and a shifting nuclear policy, the Australian government has finally given the green signal to the export of uranium to which country?

Answer. India

2.Name the Indian banker who has been appointed head of Dubai-based Mashreq's retail banking group, third-biggest bank by assets.?
Answer. Som Subroto

3.The BCCI president Shashank Manohar has junked which committees recently?
Answer. The museum committee as well as the Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU)

4.Which team won the first ever day-night Test by 3 wickets against New Zealand?
Answer. Australia

5.Who won the women’s singles title at the $ 120,000 Macau Open Grand Prix Gold after defeating Japan’s Minatsu Mitani in the finals?
Answer. P. V. Sindhu 

6.Pharmaceutical major Cipla Ltd., its wholly-owned subsidiary Cipla Health, with which firm signed an investment agreement concerning the Cipla’s consumer healthcare business?
Answer. FIL Capital Investments (Mauritius) II Ltd.

7.India needs to grow at how much percent for decades so as to create the required amount of employment for the country’s working-age population, according to the Minister of State for Finance, Jayant Sinha?
Answer. 8 per cent

8.Which company runs the Indicash brand of white-label ATMs?
Answer. Tata Communications Payment Solutions

9.Which Multiplex chain operator expects to add at least 23 screens in the current financial year to take the total to 500 in the same fiscal ?
Answer. PVR

10.Army Chief Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag left on a four-day visit to which country during which he will review the bilateral defence ties and discuss new avenues of cooperation?
Answer. Sri Lanka