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Current Affairs Quiz

1. Name the two new franchises in the Indian Premier League (IPL), replacing the suspended teams of Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals for a period of two years?
Answer. Pune and Rajkot

2. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj reached which city to participate in the ministerial session of the Heart of Asia conference on Afghanistan?
Answer. Islamabad,Pakistan

3. India is set to sign a deal with which country on the country’s first bullet train project between Mumbai and Ahmedabad through a $8 billion loan?
Answer. Japan

4. Letters exchanged between the Indian and Russian governments between 1991 and 1995 re-affirm that Subhash Chandra Bose, founder of the Indian National Army, did not visit the Soviet Union from which year?
Answer. 1945 or after

5. Refugees of minority communities from which countries, who have entered India on or before December 31, 2014, can stay in the country on humanitarian grounds, even without valid travel documents according to Lok Sabha recently?
Answer. Pakistan and Bangladesh

6. Name the Union Environment Minister who said at a CoP21 media interaction that India had no problem with freezing the world’s carbon emissions at the current level, to avoid any further man-made rise in global temperatures over 0.8 degrees C?
Answer. Prakash Javadekar 

7. What is the full form of I-LTEO?
Answer. Indian Long Term Ecological Observatories

8. Who recently became India’s highest-ranked Test batsman recently by storming up 14 places to claim a career-high 12th spot?
Answer. Ajinkya Rahane 

9. Who became the new number-one ranked Test all-rounder?
Answer. Ravichandran Ashwin

10. Who were the costliest buys, fetching the maximum prize of $100,000 at the rechristened Premier badminton League (PBL) players’ auction in New Delhi recently?
Answer. Top stars Saina Nehwal and Lee Chong Wei

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