Current Affairs Questions - 9

1. Who among the following has been appointed by the govt as the PM’s ‘Special Envoy on Countering Terrorism and Extremism’ recently?
  • 1) Ajit Doval 
  • 2) Asif Ibrahim
  • 3) Alok Joshi 
  • 4) Dineshwar Sharma
  • 5) None of these
Ans: (2) 

2. Who among the following will lead the events at the United Nations on the International Yoga Day on Jun 21?
  • 1) Sushma Swaraj 
  • 2) Narendra Modi
  • 3) Rajnath Singh 
  • 4) VK Singh
  • 5) None of these
Ans: (1) 

3. Mark Rutte, who visited India, recently, is the present Prime Minster of which of the
following countries?
  • 1) Netherlands 
  • 2) Hungry
  • 3) Sweden 
  • 4) Norway
  • 5) None of these
Ans: (1) 

4. India and which of the following countries have agreed on a 17-point road map aimed at strengthening mutual trust and confidence during President Pranab Mukherjee visit to this country recently?
  • 1) Belarus 
  • 2) Sweden
  • 3) Lithuania 
  • 4) Latvia
  • 5) None of these
Ans: (1) 

5. The govt has decided to go for third phase of coal auction. Which of the following is NOT
correct in this regard?
  • 1) 10 mines, 8 producing and 2 about to produce, to be on sale.
  • 2) In this phase of auction, there will be no coal mine for power generators.
  • 3) The bidding will run from Aug 11 to 17.
  • 4) The ministry of coal will auction linkages to Coal India’s production for five years.
  • 5) None of these
Ans: (5) 

6. The govt has launched IAP HealthPhone programme, world’s largest digital mass education programme to address malnutrition in women and children. The brand ambassador of the programme is
  • 1) Anushka Sharma 
  • 2) Salman Khan
  • 3) Aamir Khan 
  • 4) Shah Rukh Khan
  • 5) None of these
Ans: (3) 

7. Bangladesh has granted permission to which of the following Indian insurance firms, recently, to do business in the country which will start its operations as a joint venture (JV) entity?
  • 1) LIC of India 
  • 2) SBI Life
  • 3) ICICI Prudential 
  • 4) HDFC Life
  • 5) None of these
Ans: (1) 

8. The FMC will have to complete all pending investigations before its merger with the
securities market regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi). The term FMC stands for
  • 1) Future Markets Commission 
  • 2) Food Markets Commission
  • 3) Foreign Markets Commission 
  • 4) Forward Markets Commission
  • 5) None of these
Ans: (4)

9. The WTO, recently, ruled that the Indian ban on import of poultry meat, eggs and live pigs from ________ is inconsistent with the international norms and now India will have to allow these
products.
  • 1) Pakistan 
  • 2) Bangladesh
  • 3) US 
  • 4) China
  • 5) None of these
Ans: (3) 

10. The employees of five associate banks of State Bank of India (SBI) went on a strike on 4 Jun to protest against their merger with it. Which of the following is NOT an associate bank of the SBI as of now?
  • 1) State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur 
  • 2) State Bank of Travancore
  • 3) State Bank of Mysore 
  • 4) State Bank of Hyderabad
  • 5) State Bank of Surastra
Ans: (5)