Current Affairs Quiz

1. Which of the following countries have inducted its largest indigenously-built transport aircraft, which is named as Y-20?

 Japan

 Thailand

 South Korea

 Germany

 China

2. The government has constituted a four-member committee to examine the desirability and feasibility of having a new financial year. The committee, headed by former Chief Economic Adviser .............?

 Arvind Subramanian

 Dr Shankar Acharya

 P V Rajaraman

 K M Chandrasekhar

 None of the above

3. The Union cabinet approved an outlay of how much for providing apprenticeship training to over 5 million youngsters in the next four years in its quest to create more jobs recently?

 Rs 30,000 crore

 Rs 15,000 crore

 Rs 60,000 crore

 Rs 10,000 crore

 Rs 50,000 crore

4. The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved signing of an MoU between India and which of the following countries in the field of Traditional Systems of Medicine and Homeopathy recently?

 Tanzania

 South Africa

 Mozambique

 Singapore

 Russia

5. India has slipped by two places to ________ position in the recently released 2016 Networked Readiness Index (NRI) by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum (WEF).

 65th

 72nd

 91st

 59th

 10th

6. India’s economy may grow at a slightly slower pace of ____________ this fiscal amid weaker global demand and risk aversion, says an HSBC report.

 7.4 per cent

 7.7 per cent

 7.3 per cent

 7.0 per cent

 7.1 per cent

7. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has launched a mobile application called ________ for measuring real-time mobile Internet speed that consumers get.

 GoGrow

 MYMobile

 Higher

 MySpeed

 None of the above

8. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh is going to inaugurate the second anti-drug working group meeting of heads of Drug Control Agencies of BRICS countries in?

 Kolkata

 New Delhi

 Mumbai

 Chennai

 Hyderabad

9. Coinciding with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Mozambique, India completed the delivery of how much US dollar grant assistance as part of supporting the institutions of this African country?

 34.5 million

 14.5 million

 24.5 million

 8.5 million

 4.5 million

10. The Supreme Court-appointed green panel EPCA has recommended high pollution cess, of up to what per cent on the cost of diesel cars with engine above 2,000 cc?

 15 per cent

 20 per cent

 25 per cent

 10 per cent

 50 per cent