For August Current Affairs Part I;Part II;Part III
As announced by the ICC recently, India will host which of the following tournaments?
1) T20 Cup in 2016 2) World Test Championship in 2021 3) Word Cup (50-over format) in 2023 4) All the above
Ans.) 4
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced to start World Test Championship. Its inaugural edition will be played in England in:
1) 2014 2) 2015 3) 2016 4) 2017
Ans.) 4
The latest findings by the analysis firm CRISIL has pointed out that only ___of Indians have a simple savings bank account at present.
1) half 2) one-third 3) one-fourth 4) one-fifth
Ans.) 1
The project to develop Astra missiles is finally back on track after a long delay due to technical glitches. This is India’s first __________missile.
1) Air-to-air 2) Submarine launched 3) UAV launched 4) Reusable
Ans.) 1
Which of the following countries has become the first country in South Asia to ban cosmetic testing on animals?
1) China 2) Japan 3) India 4) Thailand
Ans.) 3
The US space agency NASA has launched Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft recently aimed at studying
1) The Mars 2) The Sun 3) The Jupiter 4) The Moo
Ans.) 2
Who is the vice-chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) at present? The Prime Minister is the chairman of the authority.
1) KM Singh 2) JK SINHA 3) B Bhattacharjee 4) Shashidhar Reddy
Ans.) 4
Name the Indian woman entrepreneur, who has received UAE’s prestigious ‘Emirates Woman Award 2013’.
1) Naina Lal Kidwai 2) Vandana Gandhi 3) Indira Nooyi 4) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Ans.) 2
The UN has urged nations to step up efforts to achieve the eight anti-poverty targets named Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). What is the deadline set to achieve these goals?
1) 2013 2) 2014 3) 2015 4) 2020
Ans.) 3
Who among the following has been sworn in as an interim president in Egypt after the military ousted the incumbent Mohammed Morsi recently?
1) Adly Mahmoud Mansour 2) Gehad El-Haddad 3) Mahdi Aakef 4) Mohammed Badie
Ans.) 1
Who among the following has been named as the next president of the $100-billion IT industry’s apex body Nasscom?
1) Ganesh Natarajan 2) Ravi Venkatesan 3) R Chandrasekhar 4) S Ramadorai
Ans.) 3
The new UN Millennium Development Goals report for 2013 has revealed that the poverty rate in India declined from 49 per cent in 1994 to ____in 2010.
1) 25 2) 33 3) 35 4) 43
Ans.) 2
As per the provisions of the new National Food Security Act, the pregnant women and lactating mothers will receive maternity benefit of
1) Rs 2000 2) Rs 4000 3) Rs 6000 4) Rs 8000
Ans.) 3
MS Raghavan has taken charge as the Chairman and Managing Director of which of the following banks recently?
1) Bank of Baroda 2) IDBI Bank 3) Canara Bank 4) Allahabad Bank
Ans.) 2
India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC), which is set to be launched into water soon and is slated to become operational by 2018, will be rechristened as
1) INS Vikrant 2) INS Viraat 3) INS Vikramaditya 4) INS Veer
Ans.) 1
Shiv Thapa, who won a gold medal in Asian Championships in Amman, recently, is associated with which of the following games?
1) Weightlifting 2) Boxing 3) Archery 4) Shooting
Ans.) 2
Recently, India has signed an agreement for avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income and on capital with which of the following countries?
1) Sweden 2) Albania 3) Norway 4) Poland
Ans.) 2
India was the world’s largest importer of arms last year and is trying hard to reverse this reality. India aims to procure _____per cent of defence supplies locally in a decade.
1) 25 2) 50 3) 75 4) 100
Ans.) 3
The first-ever national Aviation University of the Country, Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University, would come up at which of the following places?
1) Lucknow 2) Bhopal 3) Rae Bareli 4) Udaipur
Ans.) 3
Which of the following oil-rich gulf nations has offered three discovered oilfields to India on nomination basis and has agreed to renegotiate an oil block that has been pending since 2000?
1) Iran 2) Iraq 3) Kuwait 4) Jordan
Ans.) 2
The telegram service in the country, the harbinger of good and bad news for generations, has been discontinued recently by BSNL. It remained in service for _____years.
1) 160 2) 161 3) 162 4) 163
Ans.) 4
The finance ministry has finalised who among the following to be the chief executive of Bhartiya Mahila Bank, which will launch its operations from November with six branches?
1) Vijayalakshmi R Iyer 2) Usha Ananthasubramanian 3) Usha Thorat 4) Shyamala Gopinath
Ans.) 2
Which of the following communities belonging to India celebrated 100 years of its immigration to US recently?
1) Jain 2) Sikh 3) Sindhi 4) Gujarati
Ans.) 2
The two-day G20 ministerial meeting was held in which of the following cities recently?
1) Moscow 2) London 3) Washington 4) Toronto
Ans.) 1
Which of the following leading industrial cities based in US has filed for bankruptcy recently?
1) Los Angeles 2) Chicago 3) Detroit 4) Houston
Ans.) 3
The finance ministers of BRICS’ member countries met as a follow up of the Durban Summit in which of the following cities recently?
1) Moscow 2) New Delhi 3) Beijing 4) BrasÃlia
Ans.) 1
Who among the following is the Bhutan's Prime Minister-elect after the recent parliamentary elections held in the country?
1) Tshering Tobgay 2) Lyonpo Zangley Drukpa 3) Khandu Wangchuk 4) Jigme Thinley
Ans.) 1
As per the recent data released by the Planning Commission, poverty ratio in India has declined to _____in 2011-12.
1) 21.9 per cent 2) 33.2 per cent 3) 37.2 per cent 4) 38.9 per cent
Ans.) 1
For Sept Current Affairs Part II
As announced by the ICC recently, India will host which of the following tournaments?
1) T20 Cup in 2016 2) World Test Championship in 2021 3) Word Cup (50-over format) in 2023 4) All the above
Ans.) 4
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced to start World Test Championship. Its inaugural edition will be played in England in:
1) 2014 2) 2015 3) 2016 4) 2017
Ans.) 4
The latest findings by the analysis firm CRISIL has pointed out that only ___of Indians have a simple savings bank account at present.
1) half 2) one-third 3) one-fourth 4) one-fifth
Ans.) 1
The project to develop Astra missiles is finally back on track after a long delay due to technical glitches. This is India’s first __________missile.
1) Air-to-air 2) Submarine launched 3) UAV launched 4) Reusable
Ans.) 1
Which of the following countries has become the first country in South Asia to ban cosmetic testing on animals?
1) China 2) Japan 3) India 4) Thailand
Ans.) 3
The US space agency NASA has launched Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft recently aimed at studying
1) The Mars 2) The Sun 3) The Jupiter 4) The Moo
Ans.) 2
Who is the vice-chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) at present? The Prime Minister is the chairman of the authority.
1) KM Singh 2) JK SINHA 3) B Bhattacharjee 4) Shashidhar Reddy
Ans.) 4
Name the Indian woman entrepreneur, who has received UAE’s prestigious ‘Emirates Woman Award 2013’.
1) Naina Lal Kidwai 2) Vandana Gandhi 3) Indira Nooyi 4) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Ans.) 2
The UN has urged nations to step up efforts to achieve the eight anti-poverty targets named Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). What is the deadline set to achieve these goals?
1) 2013 2) 2014 3) 2015 4) 2020
Ans.) 3
Who among the following has been sworn in as an interim president in Egypt after the military ousted the incumbent Mohammed Morsi recently?
1) Adly Mahmoud Mansour 2) Gehad El-Haddad 3) Mahdi Aakef 4) Mohammed Badie
Ans.) 1
Who among the following has been named as the next president of the $100-billion IT industry’s apex body Nasscom?
1) Ganesh Natarajan 2) Ravi Venkatesan 3) R Chandrasekhar 4) S Ramadorai
Ans.) 3
The new UN Millennium Development Goals report for 2013 has revealed that the poverty rate in India declined from 49 per cent in 1994 to ____in 2010.
1) 25 2) 33 3) 35 4) 43
Ans.) 2
As per the provisions of the new National Food Security Act, the pregnant women and lactating mothers will receive maternity benefit of
1) Rs 2000 2) Rs 4000 3) Rs 6000 4) Rs 8000
Ans.) 3
MS Raghavan has taken charge as the Chairman and Managing Director of which of the following banks recently?
1) Bank of Baroda 2) IDBI Bank 3) Canara Bank 4) Allahabad Bank
Ans.) 2
India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC), which is set to be launched into water soon and is slated to become operational by 2018, will be rechristened as
1) INS Vikrant 2) INS Viraat 3) INS Vikramaditya 4) INS Veer
Ans.) 1
Shiv Thapa, who won a gold medal in Asian Championships in Amman, recently, is associated with which of the following games?
1) Weightlifting 2) Boxing 3) Archery 4) Shooting
Ans.) 2
Recently, India has signed an agreement for avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income and on capital with which of the following countries?
1) Sweden 2) Albania 3) Norway 4) Poland
Ans.) 2
India was the world’s largest importer of arms last year and is trying hard to reverse this reality. India aims to procure _____per cent of defence supplies locally in a decade.
1) 25 2) 50 3) 75 4) 100
Ans.) 3
The first-ever national Aviation University of the Country, Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University, would come up at which of the following places?
1) Lucknow 2) Bhopal 3) Rae Bareli 4) Udaipur
Ans.) 3
Which of the following oil-rich gulf nations has offered three discovered oilfields to India on nomination basis and has agreed to renegotiate an oil block that has been pending since 2000?
1) Iran 2) Iraq 3) Kuwait 4) Jordan
Ans.) 2
The telegram service in the country, the harbinger of good and bad news for generations, has been discontinued recently by BSNL. It remained in service for _____years.
1) 160 2) 161 3) 162 4) 163
Ans.) 4
The finance ministry has finalised who among the following to be the chief executive of Bhartiya Mahila Bank, which will launch its operations from November with six branches?
1) Vijayalakshmi R Iyer 2) Usha Ananthasubramanian 3) Usha Thorat 4) Shyamala Gopinath
Ans.) 2
Which of the following communities belonging to India celebrated 100 years of its immigration to US recently?
1) Jain 2) Sikh 3) Sindhi 4) Gujarati
Ans.) 2
The two-day G20 ministerial meeting was held in which of the following cities recently?
1) Moscow 2) London 3) Washington 4) Toronto
Ans.) 1
Which of the following leading industrial cities based in US has filed for bankruptcy recently?
1) Los Angeles 2) Chicago 3) Detroit 4) Houston
Ans.) 3
The finance ministers of BRICS’ member countries met as a follow up of the Durban Summit in which of the following cities recently?
1) Moscow 2) New Delhi 3) Beijing 4) BrasÃlia
Ans.) 1
Who among the following is the Bhutan's Prime Minister-elect after the recent parliamentary elections held in the country?
1) Tshering Tobgay 2) Lyonpo Zangley Drukpa 3) Khandu Wangchuk 4) Jigme Thinley
Ans.) 1
As per the recent data released by the Planning Commission, poverty ratio in India has declined to _____in 2011-12.
1) 21.9 per cent 2) 33.2 per cent 3) 37.2 per cent 4) 38.9 per cent
Ans.) 1
For Sept Current Affairs Part II
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