Current Affairs Quiz

1. President Pranab Mukherjee leaves New Delhi for a two Nation tour to which country?

a) New Zealand

b) New Guinea

c) Singapore

d) Both (a) & (b)

e) None of the above

2. Which country's Government has ordered a two-day working week for public sector workers as a temporary measure to help it overcome a serious energy crisis?

a) Cuba

b) UAE

c) South Sudan

d) Chile

e) Venezuela 

3. India and which of the following country will start negotiations on Economic and Technological Cooperation Agreement(ETCA) in the next few months?

a) USA

b) China

c) Sri Lanka

d) Afghanistan

e) None of the above

4. The Government of India has started the disinvestment process of the current fiscal as the GOI has planned to sell its 11.36% equity shares in the?

a) NHPC

b) NTPC

c) BHEL

d) IOC

e) GAIL

5. Patanjali Ayurved, which is a  Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) venture promoted by yoga guru Ramdev will be investing over how much in the current fiscal for setting up six processing units and one Research and development (R&D) center as it follows a turnover of Rs 10,000 crore this year?

a) 1350 crore

b) 1150 crore

c) 1050 crore

d) 1750 crore

e) 1550 crore 

6. Name the IIT scholar who has won the international award on plant nutrition?

a) Arvind Kejriwal

b) Raghuram Rajan

c) K Ashok Kumar

d) Rajpal S Sirohi 

e) None of the above

7. Which state government has decided to pay 1,272 crore rupees interest on the crop loan taken by farmers from drought-hit areas during 2015-16 Kharif season?

a) Haryana

b) Bihar

c) Tamil Nadu

d) Uttar Pradesh

e) Maharashtra

8. The state owned fuel retailer BPCL has got the environment clearance nod for its 694 crore rupees LPG project in Haldia Dock Complex in?

a) West Bengal

b) Assam

c) Bihar

d) Jharkhand

e) None of the above

9. Posting a huge operating loss of 3,100 million Norwegian Krone (around Rs. 2,530 crore) for its Indian telecom business, which company threatened to exit India if it fails to procure spectrum at reasonable rates?

a) Vodafone

b) Telenor

c) Loop

d) All of the above

e) None of the above

10. Iran has asked Indian refiners like Essar Oil and MRPL to pay interest rate of Libor-plus 0.75 per cent on the how much they owe it in past oil dues, to make up for the foreign exchange losses?

a) USD 1.5 billion 

b) USD 9.5 billion 

c) USD 15.5 billion 

d) USD 10.5 billion

e) USD 6.5 billion