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