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)