Current Affairs Quiz (Aug 5,6 2010)

Q 1:The special CBI court on Wednesday rejected an application for remand of the former Gujarat Minister of State for Home, ............., in the Soharabuddin fake encounter case, stating the investigating agency did not properly avail itself of the opportunities it had to question him.
Amit Shah
Vanzara
Raghuvansi

Q 2:The Lok Sabha on Wednesday adopted a motion, urging the government to take further effective action to contain the adverse impact of ........... on the common man.

naxalism
inflation
crimes

Q 3:The United Naga Council (UNC), ignoring an appeal from the ............government, reimposed its blockade from Wednesday morning.
Nagaland
Arunachal Pradesh
Manipur

Q 4:A one-member Tribunal, headed by a ............... Judge, on Wednesday confirmed the extension of the ban on the Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) for two more years.
Delhi High Court
Bombay High Court
Supreme Court

Q 5:Niranjan Hiranandani, who has a look-out notice against him from the........, was on Wednesday granted interim bail till August 13 on a personal bond of Rs. 1 lakh
SIT
CBI
CID

Q 6:Union Law Minister ..................., on Wednesday, asked women's groups fighting for justice for marginalised women not to aim for utopia but to direct their movement towards procuring vehicles for getting the various laws implemented.
The Minister was addressing a three-day conference of women leaders from marginalised communities organized by the National Alliance of Women (NAWO).
Pranab Mukherjee
Chidambaram
Veerappa Moily

Q 7:The Supreme Court Wednesday issued notice to Ghaziabad District Judge ................., taking a serious view of the allegation that he was interfering in the Provident Fund scam case.After hearing Attorney-General G.E. Vahanvati, a Bench of Justices D.K. Jain, V.S. Sirpurkar and G.S. Singhvi sought his explanation in four weeks.
Vishnu Chandra Gupta
Dinakaran
R.K. Sharma

Q 8:The Maharashtra government on Wednesday decided to levy environment tax on commercial vehicles which are over ....... years’ old and private vehicles which are over 15 years.
9
8
7

Q 9:Days after Union Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh lauded the ................government for imposing a ban on iron ore export, Union Mines Minister B.K. Handique came down strongly on the State government for failing to get its act together on checking illegal mining.
Chhatisgarh
Jharkhand
Karnataka

Q 10:Cricketer Anil Kumble adopted a ............... at Adopt an Animal, a two-month-long animal adoption awareness drive organised by the Samhita Academy, Green Matrix and Bannerghatta Biological Park here on Wednesday.
king cobra
dog
turtle

Q 11:U.S. President Barack Obama has asked young leaders of Africa to follow .............. to bring the changes they want in the continent.
Mahatma Gandhi
Martin Luther KIng
Abrham Lincoln

Q 12:With the row over Prime Minister ...............'s remarks about Pakistan “exporting terror'' still simmering, fresh tensions were reported on Wednesday ahead of his talks with President Asif Ali Zardari after the latter said that NATO forces were “losing the war'' in Afghanistan.

Nick Klegg
David Cameron
Gordon Brown

Q 13:......... has urged the Union government to increase the retirement age of Supreme Court Judges too from 65 to 68 years and that of the judicial officers in courts below the High Courts from 60 to 62 years. It welcomed the decision to increase the retirement age of High Court judges from 62 to 65 years.

ATS
AIDWA
AIBA

Q 14:Even as the Supreme Court has decided to examine the validity of the ................. Committee constituted by the Human Resource Development Ministry, senior counsel Fali Nariman argued that the Centre's threatened action of withdrawal of recognition to 44 deemed universities, on the recommendations of the panel, is invalid in law.
Tandon
Mukherjee
Kelkar

Q 15:Union Minister for Human Resource Development ........... on Thursday held out the categorical assurance that madrasas would be kept out of the purview of the Right to Education (RTE) Act.
Jayram Ramesh
Kapil Sibal
Prithviraj Chauhan

Q 16:Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari has asked Chief Ministers of all BJP-ruled States to take urgent steps to end encroachment or illegal occupation of ............. property renetly
forest
temple
wakf

Q 17:The former Prime Minister and Janata Dal (Secular) president, ...................., on Thursday met President Pratibha Patil here along with a delegation of party MPs, MLAs, MLCs, former Ministers and senior leaders and urged her to “consider and determine whether it is reasonable and justifiable” to give assent to the “Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Bill, 2010” in the larger interests of Karnataka and the nation.
H.D. Deve Gowda
Yedurappa
JaganMohun

Q 18:Rajya Sabha Chairman has extended till October 5 the tenure of the Justice ...................... Committee, which is probing charges of “misappropriation” against Calcutta High Court Judge Soumitra Sen in the removal proceedings initiated by Parliament.
Dinakaran
B. Sudershan Reddy
B.N.Srikrishna

Q 19:A “totally new missile,” called Agni II – is to be tested in September from the Wheeler Island, off the .................... coast.
West Bengal
Andhra Pradesh
Orissa

Q 20:Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday voiced support for ..............'s bid to join the BRIC group, which unites Brazil, Russia, India and China.
South Africa
Cuba
Argentina

Current Affairs Quiz (Aug 3,4 2010)

Q 1:Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on Monday, described the former Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) leader Syed Mohammedali Shihab Thangal as a “great son of ...............” and said he had contributed to the first successful experiment of coalition politics in the country.
Kerala
Uttar Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh

Q 2:International Atomic Energy Agency's Director General ............ on Monday acknowledged that India was continuing to abide by its commitments under its 2008 safeguards accord with the IAEA.

Ban ki moon
Yukiya Amano
Sargao Jose

Q 3:.............'s Parliament failed to elect a Prime Minister for the third time in less than a fortnight as neither candidate succeeded in obtaining a simple majority to form a government.
New Guinea
Ethiopia
Nepal

Q 4:Pranab Mukherjee on Monday allayed the apprehensions of some Opposition members that the government was trying to compromise the independence of regulators like the Securities and Exchange Board of India,, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA), PFRDA, the Reserve Bank of India by setting up a joint committee headed by the ............... as the authority to whom the dispute could be referred.
Finance Minister
Prime Minister
President

Q 5:BHEL is pursuing joint ventures with utilities run by State governments to boost sales. The public sector company has signed several joint venture agreements with utilities to “leverage sale of equipment,” said BHEL Chairman and Managing Director ........................
Dinesh Kesaria
B. Prasada Rao
Manoj Tirodkar

Q 6:The Ministry of External Affairs and the United Nations Secretary-General's office have locked horns over Kashmir.While the Ministry says the U.N. Secretary-General made no comments about the ongoing unrest in Kashmir, .................'s office maintained that such an observation was indeed made.
Al Badrei
Yukiya Amano
Mr. Ban ki-Moon

Q 7: The Central Bureau of Investigation has issued a look-out notice for builders Niranjan Hiranandani and Surendra Hiranandani in a case of evasion of .................
provident fund
illegal tenders
kidnapping

Q 8:The All India Bar Association (AIBA) has urged the Union government to increase the retirement age of Supreme Court Judges too from 65 to .... years and that of the judicial officers in courts below the High Courts from 60 to ..... years. It welcomed the decision to increase the retirement age of High Court judges from 62 to ....... years.
67,65,66
68,62,65
67,66,65

Q 9:The Centre has appointed two full-time and seven part-time members to the 19 {+t} {+h} Law Commission of India, which was reconstituted in September 2009.
Retired Supreme Court Judge ............ was appointed Chairman of the Commission in March this year.
B.N.SriKrishna
Dinakaran
P.V. Reddy

Q 10:Quoting figures available on the Commonwealth Games website, CPI (M) parliamentary party leader ........................... said the cost of renovating the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium was Rs. 961 crore; the Indira Gandhi stadium Rs. 669 crore; the Dhyan Chand hockey stadium Rs. 262 crore; and the Karni Singh shooting ranges Rs. 149 crore. A total sum of Rs. 44,459.48 crore was spent on renovations.
Sitaram Yechury
Prakash Karat
Buddhadev Bhattacharya

Q 11:The ............... on Tuesday directed the Jharkhand government to file a First Information Report against the MLAs allegedly involved in the ‘cash-for-Rajya Sabha vote' sting carried out by a television channel.
Election Commission
CBI
Supreme Court

Q 12:An embarrassed Congress distanced itself from Commonwealth Games (CWG) Organising Committee Chairman ..................., even as allegations of massive corruption — and even diversion of funds — rocked Parliament on Tuesday.

MS Gill
Suresh Kalmadi
HD Nambiar

Q 13:China's military on Tuesday launched a major air defence exercise along the country's eastern coast bordering the ..........., in the wake of heightened tensions over China's territorial claims in the region.
Huang He River
Pearl River
Yellow Sea

Q 14:Public perceptions in India will always be “coloured” by how China treated India's “core interests,” Indian Ambassador to China ................said on Tuesday.
S. Jaishankar
K. Shivshankar
M. Bharadwaj

Q 15:Over 40 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in Karachi and surrounding areas since Monday evening's assassination of the Sindh Assembly member from the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Raza Haider, with members of his party allegedly turning their ire at the ...................
Peoples Party of Pakistan
Awami National Party
National Conference

Q 16:The IAF is the .............-largest in the world, yet it is just beginning to use full flight simulators, which have long become a must in civil aviation.India has a large fleet of Mikoyan helicopters, and four years ago, signed a new contract to buy 80 Mi-17IV helicopters.
fifth
third
fourth

Q 17:Was it ignorance, oversight or bigotry? This is the question doing the rounds on the Internet as young Pakistanis come to terms with the coffin of ............... — one of the 152 passengers killed in last week's plane crash in Islamabad – being labelled ‘kafir' (non-believer).
Premchand
Naseer
Munaaf

Q 18:Even as the November elections loom on the horizon and Democrats grow fearful of losing seats in both Congressional chambers, President Barack Obama is becoming increasingly strident in defending his top domestic priority — ................
education
job creation
crime control

Q 19:...............is planning to introduce a Visa Facilitation System (VFS) for tourists from India and China. This follows a decision to revoke the Visa on Arrival (VOA) scheme for visitors to the cuntry from several countries. The VOA scheme was discontinued in respect of Indian nationals in 2008.
Indonesia
Thailand
Malaysia

Q 20:India and Russia have reiterated their shared positions on Afghanistan and agreed to step up cooperation in the region.The two sides “agreed to coordinate our policies more closely on Afghanistan,” Foreign Secretary ................ told journalists after talks in Moscow.
Nirupama Rao
Shiv Shankar Menon
GK Pillai

Current Affairs Quiz (Aug 1,2 2010)

Q 1:The present Chief Justice of India is?
S.H.Kapadia
K.G.Balkrishna
B.N.Srikrishna

Q 2:No one with a tainted reputation can become a judge, once the Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill, 2010 comes into force, Union Minister for Law and Justice ................. said on Saturday.

P Chidambaram
M. Veerappa Moily
S.S.Menon

Q 3:............., the country's first browser launched recently in Bangalore, is the brainchild of Alok Bhardwaj, CEO, and Tejas Vyas, Chief Tech Lead, Hidden Reflex.
Bingo
JustDial
Epic

Q 4:The first reactor of the Koodankulam nuclear power project is expected to go critical by the year-end, Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Chairman ................ said on Friday.
Srikumar Banerjee
Anil Kakodkar
Madhavan Nair

Q 5:The Supreme Court on Friday declined to interfere with a judgment of the Bombay High Court directing a probe by the ............. into the Hari Masjid firing in Mumbai during the 1993 Mumbai riots.
CID
CBI
SIT

Q 6:Union Minister for Steel .....................said on Saturday that the Government was “considering” a ban on iron ore exports. “The other option is to consider taxes on exports as a deterrent,” he added.
Jyotirao Scindia
Naveen Jindal
Virbhadra Singh

Q 7:The Human Resource Development Ministry is organising a round-table on August 28 to discuss the Innovation for................., 2010.
Universities Bill
Right to Education Bill
Child Labour Bill

Q 8:Sports Minister ................. promised on Saturday to take “prompt and appropriate” action in cases of corruption in the Commonwealth Games and said all deals for the games should be tabled in Parliament.
Suresh Kalmadi
M.S. Gill
Arun Jaitley

Q 9:In a new twist to the Commonwealth Games ‘scam', India's Deputy High Commissioner in London said on Saturday that the High Commission had not recommended the name of ..........., as claimed by OC chairman Suresh Kalmadi.
BAG Films
Endemol Films
AM Films

Q 10:Pressure is mounting on Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to call off his visit to the U.K. next week in the wake of British Prime Minister David Cameron's statement in India that Pakistan was exporting terror. While the Inter Services Intelligence chief .............. is reported to have cancelled his visit to the U.K. as a mark of protest, the presidential tour is on the cards as of now.
Shuja Pasha
Shah Qureshi
Rehman Malik

Q 11:..................was awarded this year's Lokmanya Tilak award here on Sunday, on the 90th death anniversary of Bal Gangadhar Lokmanya Tilak.
Sheila Dixit
Sushma Swaraj
Mamata Banerjee

Q 12:As per Monday's agreement to end the parliamentary deadlock, in each of the two Houses, a resolution will be moved by the Chair — on Tuesday in the Lok Sabha and Wednesday in the Rajya Sabha — expressing concern over inflationary pressure on the economy and calling upon the Centre to take steps to reduce its adverse impact on the common man.Who is the present Parliamentary Affairs Minister?

Prithviraj Chauhan
Pawan Kumar Bansal
Milind Deora

Q 13:Amid continuing debate over whether death penalty should be abolished in India, NHRC chairperson ..................... has favoured continuance of the provision which has a “deterrent effect” in a country where various types of crimes are on the rise.
Renukha Choudhary
Kapil Sibal
K.G. Balakrishnan

Q 14:Uttar Pradesh has high infant mortality with high levels of under-nutrition and extremely low level of breastfeeding. It was keeping these factors in mind that a project ‘Baby Friendly Community Health Initiative' (BFCHI) was initiated in.......... and implemented in Lalitpur by the Department of Paediatrics BRD Medical College at Gorakhpur, UNICEF and the State government.
2006
2007
2008

Q 15:The U.S. on Sunday said the Taliban did not have American Stinger missiles as revealed by ................... on Afghan war, even as it expressed concern over Pakistan's ISI maintaining links with extremist elements.
BBC Report
Wikileaks
CNN Report

Q 16:Citing security concerns, the .......... has decided to bar some services of Blackberry — messenger, e-mail and web browsing — from October 11.
US
UK
UAE

Q 17:Ms. Gandhi's letter to her fellow Congress workers, which appeared in the July issue of the party mouthpiece ..........., was significantly released on a day when the Central and State governments were grappling with the spurt in violence in the valley.
Sandesh
Pratigya
Sankalp

Q 18:A CBI court on Saturday issued the non-bailable arrest warrant to ..............., former senior vice-president of SNC Lavalin, in the SNC Lavalin case and directed the CBI to serve on him through proper channel.
Nicholas Fernandes
Claus Trendl
Hammond Pereira

Q 19:At a time when serious questions are being raised over the alleged wrong doings in the allotment of contracts for development of infrastructure for the coming Commonwealth Games resulting in huge financial losses, Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry claims to have saved Rs. 700 crore by re-tendering contracts for setting up ......... AIIMS-like institutions across the country.
10
12
6

Q 20:A landmark international treaty to ban cluster munitions took effect on Sunday, requiring signatories to stop the use, production and transfer of the deadly weapons.International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) chief .........................said Sunday's milestone “stigmatises the use of cluster munitions”.
Jakob Kellenberger
Jacob Zuma
Joseph Anthony