Current Affairs Quiz

1. Information and Broadcasting ministry framed a New Print Media Advertisement Policy for Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP) with the objective to promote transparency and accountability in issuing of advertisements in print media. Who is the present union minister of Information and Broadcasting?

a) Prakash Javadekar

b) Ravi Shankar Prasad

c) Jitendra Singh

d) M. Venkaiah Naidu 

e) None of the above

2. 15th edition of Europe's biggest football extravaganza, Euro 2016 begins in which of the following places recently?

a) Berlin, Germany

b) Athens, Greece

c) London, England

d) Geneva, Switzerland

e) Paris, France 

3. Which organization has been appointed as the national partner for the upcoming Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2017 organised by iNDEXTb recently?

a) NABARD

b) RBI

c) FICCI 

d) SEBI

e) ASSOCHAM

4. MS Krishna Bhat, former Chairman of which of the following Bank, passed away at the age of 78 in Mangaluru recently?

a) Karnataka Bank Ltd 

b) South Indian Bank

c) State Bank of India

d) ICICI Bank

e) Kotak Mahindra Bank

5. State Bank of India (SBI), India's largest bank, and CaixaBank, a leading bank based in ________ , have signed a Memorandum of Agreement to expand their guarantee transaction businesses by jointly providing credit to Indian local enterprises.

a) Germany

b) Spain 

c) France

d) Singapore

e) Hong Kong

6. Asian Development Bank has approved a USD 100 million (around Rs. 660 crores) loan to strengthen a key irrigation system and improve water management in the Vennar sub-basin of Cauvery Delta in which state?

a) Kerala

b) Madhya Pradesh

c) Maharashtra

d) Gujarat

e) Tamil Nadu 

7. The International Monetary Fund(IMF) approved 1.5 billion US dollar loan to which of the following countries. IMF has already transferred 168 million US dollars as the first Installment with immediate effect to support the country’s economy?

a) Greece

b) Jordan

c) Bulgaria

d) Sri Lanka 

e) Qatar

8. The Union Government has decided to introduce International Yoga Award Scheme. The award will be introduced with an aim to promote yoga. Who is the present minister of State for AYUSH?

a) Dharmendra Pradhan

b) Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

c) Shripad Yesso Naik 

d) Jitendra Singh

e) None of the above

9. Thailand-based agro-industrial conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited (CP Foods) has forayed into the packaged foods business in India with a new chicken processing plant in which of the following states?

a) Karnataka

b) Andhra Pradesh 

c) Kerala

d) Gujarat

e) Maharashtra

10. The government under the Chief Minister’s Nagarothana scheme will take up a slew of projects worth how much to revamp the IT City’s (Bengaluru) infrastructure?

a) Rs 7,300 crore 

b) Rs 28,100 crore 

c) Rs 17,400 crore 

d) Rs 95,200 crore 

e) Rs 55,300 crore