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

Current Affairs Quiz (26,27,28 July 2010)

Q 1:Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has convened a meeting of “concerned MPs and VIPs'' to evolve a consensus on the controversial ................, 2004, which is coming up for consideration and passage in the upper House during the monsoon session of Parliament.
Water Bill
Seeds Bill
Sugar Bill

Q 2:Nobel laureate .............. on Tuesday said the sense of oneness in every individual should be “dynamic” and not confined within the narrowness of a single identity

MS Swaminathan
Amartya Sen
Venkatraman

Q 3:Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, on Tuesday refuted in the State Assembly the Opposition charge that there was Rs............... crore scam in slum rehabilitation projects and rejected the demand for an enquiry into the allegations.
25,000
50,000
20,000

Q 4:Click the right expansion
City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra Ltd. (CIDCO)
Mumbai Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC)
Mumbai Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA)

Q 5:The decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, here. The commission, to be set up under the Jammu and Kashmir Commission of Inquiry Act, ..........., will consist of Justice (retd.) Syed Basher-ud-Din (Chairman) and Justice (retd.) Y.P. Nargotra (member).
1971
1962
1996

Q 6:Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Dinesh Trivedi has sought action against sale of..........., used by farmers to enhance the growth of fruits and vegetables.
Tryptamine
Serotonin
oxytocin

Q 7:Shrugging off mounting opposition from the local people and objections from the Joint Committee under the Ministry of Environment and Forests, which is overseeing the implementation of the Forest Right Act (FRA), the Orissa government on Tuesday began the land acquisition process for the proposed Posco-India steel project in .............. district.
Jagatsinghpur
Jajpur
Jharsuguda

Q 8:The Departments of Atomic Energy and Biotechnology will sign a memorandum of understanding next week for the takeover of the Bhopal Memorial Trust Hospital for the victims of the 1984 gas tragedy.Indicating this, Union Science and Technology Minister .............. on Tuesday said the takeover would help in providing better health care to the victims.
Kapil Sibal
Prithviraj Chavan
Kamalnath

Q 9:............... has slammed unilateral European Union sanctions against Iran as “unacceptable” and showing “disdain” for the U.N. Security Council.
US
France
Russia

Q 10:Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday maintained that the Reserve Bank's policy decision to hike its short-term lending (repo) and borrowing (reverse repo) rates by ... and .... basis points would help rein in inflation without impacting the growth momentum.
25,50
22,35
25,65

Current Affairs Quiz (25,26,27 July 2010)

Q 1:Parliament adjourned on Monday, opening day of the monsoon session, after both Houses paid tributes to the former Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, and two sitting and two former members who died during the inter-session period.Paying glowing tributes to Shekhawat, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar and Rajya Sabha Chairman ..............described him as a sagacious statesman, a distinguished legislator and a committed votary of humanitarian values.
Sh. K.R. Narayanan
Hamid Ansari
Sh. Krishan Kant

Q 2:Human Resource Development Minister .................'s comments on the Uttar Pradesh government's stand on the Right to Education (RTE) Act has drawn flak from Chief Minister Mayawati.

Ambika Soni
Kapil Sibal
Girija Vyas

Q 3:British Prime Minister..............., along with a large delegation comprising Cabinet Ministers and businessmen, arrived in Bangalore on Tuesday to reinvigorate bilateral ties.
Nick Klegg
David Cameron
Gordon Brown

Q 4:The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to spell out whether there was any proposal to set up a tribunal to adjudicate the river water dispute between ........... and ........... on construction of a project across the Mandovi river
Goa,Karnataka
Goa,Maharashtra
Maharashtra,Karnataka

Q 5:An Additional Sessions Court in Margao in south Goa on Monday granted bail to the former Goa Tourism Minister, Mickky Pacheco, the prime accused in the .............. unnatural death case.
Scarlett Keeling
Nadia Torrado
Fiona MacKeown

Q 6:According to the prosecution, over 250 people lost their lives and 713 sustained injuries in 13 blasts in Mumbai on March 12, 1993. The special TADA (Terrorist and Disruptive Activities [Prevention] Act) court had convicted 100 people, including ......... death sentences and ...... life imprisonments.
8,25
11,18
8,20

Q 7:The NDFB (Ranjan Daimary) militants showered heavy fire on SSB patrol party recently. The incident site is located along the border line that demarcates Manas National Park in India and Royal Manas National Park in ..........
Bhutan
Bangladesh
Nepal

Q 8:The Prime Minister's Media Adviser has denied a report carried by the Indian Express on Sunday that suggested that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh took up with External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna his public criticism of Home Secretary .............
Nirupama Rao
G.K. Pillai
S.S. Menon

Q 9:It would go down as the irony of the 2010 Sri Lankan presidential election. Much to the disbelief and amusement of the people, just an hour before the polling was to close it was discovered that common opposition candidate ................... is not registered as a voter.
Prasanna Vithanage
D. M. Jayaratne
General Sarath Fonseka

Q 10:We want to further develop its ties with India to promote security and economic stability in the Gulf, South Asia and beyond, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the ............said
UAE
Iran
Lebanon

Current Affairs Quiz (dated 25 July2010)

 




Q 1:Villagers opposing the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project in the ............ region of Maharashtra have refused the enhanced compensation package announced by State Power Minister Ajit Pawar in the Legislative Council last week
Khandesh
Konkan
Vidharbha

Q 2:A committee of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF) on Saturday found that the green signal for land acquisition for the proposed .................... project in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district was given, ignoring implementation of the Forest Rights Act, 2006.

Gangadhara Steels P Ltd
Posco-India steel plant
Aryam Steels P Ltd

Q 3:The four-member panel, which holds the fate of Vedanta's bauxite mining project in the Niyamgiri Hills of .............., has been given an expanded mandate.
Andhra Pradesh
Orissa
Karnataka

Q 4:T. Rajkumar, Head of Department of Molecular Oncology, Cancer Institute (WIA),..........., has been chosen for the `Kobayashi Foundation Award' for cancer research.
Chennai
Hyderabad
Bangalore

Q 5:The Congress celebrated the launch of Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY) in ..............'s Sriganganagar district
Rajasthan
Uttar Pradesh
Maharashtra

Q 6:Mr. Amorim arrives in Turkey after Iran and the European Union's foreign policy chief, ............... have exchanged letters for reviving talks between Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council as well as Germany.
Catherine Ashton
Julia Gillard
Angela Merkel

Q 7:The ............. has decided to expand the East Asia Summit (EAS) to include the United States and Russia.
APO
SAARC
ASEAN

Q 8:What started out as a war of words between President Hugo Chavez of ........... and President Álvaro Uribe of ..........., even as far back as 2007, has now become an open diplomatic conflict in a multilateral forum and threatens to escalate into something worse.
Brazil,Cuba
Venezuela,Paraguay
Venezuela,Colombia

Q 9:Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on a war-crimes warrant, won't attend an African Union (AU) summit due to get under way in ........... on Sunday
Kenya
South Africa
Uganda

Q 10:While .......... has for the most part been careful not to stray into any sensitive areas of the United States' foreign policy engagements with third parties, its recent overtures to the heads of the military junta in Myanmar could prove to be a stress point in the its relationship with US.
India
Israel
HongKong

Current Affairs Quiz (July 18-24)

Q 1:The National Commission for Women (NCW) is a statutory body for women, set up in 1992, by Government of India, under specific provisions, National Commission for Women Act, 1990 (Act No. 20 of 1990 of Govt.of India.), of the Indian Constitution . The present head of the Commission is ?
Brinda Karat
Girija Vyas
Renukha Choudhary

Q 2:In a bid to establish the reliability of India's fledgling Ballistic Missile Defence shield, an interceptor missile test will take place at Balasore, .........., on July 26.

Andhra Pradesh
Orissa
Karnataka

Q 3:The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) (Hindi: रक्षा अनुसंधान एवं विकास संगठन, Rakṣā Anusandhān evaṃ Vikās Sangaṭhan) is an agency of the Republic of India, responsible for the development of technology for use by the military, headquartered in?
Pune
New Delhi
Kanpur

Q 4:The ............... on Friday said the government, instead of proceeding with the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill, should bring in the Women's Reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha for adoption.
CPI(M)
BJP
Trinamool Congress

Q 5:Women's Reservation Bill or the The Constitution (........th Amendment) Bill, is a pending bill in India which proposes to provide '33 per cent of all seats in the Lower house of Parliament of India the Lok Sabha and state legislative assemblies shall be reserved for women. The Upper House Rajya Sabha passed it on 9 Mar 2010.
107
108
109

Q 6:A national conference attended by academics, policymakers, legal experts and activists here on Friday arrived at the consensus that enumeration of caste in the 2011 census is imperative to generate reliable data on social and economic conditions of various castes and provide a sound base for formulating policies.
The Present Chairperson of the National Backward Classes Commission is?
Justice KG Balakrishnan
Justice Dinakaran
Justice M.N. Rao

Q 7:Leading Muslim ulema, representatives from the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board and the All-India Milli Council, educational and legal experts, including Vice-Chancellors of universities, will discuss the ..................... at a conference to be held here on August 5.
Right to Education Act
Right to choice of religion Act
Right to Freedom of Expression Act

Q 8:Women constables of the ........take part in the ‘Beating Retreat Ceremony' at the India-Pakistan Attari-Wagah border near Amritsar on Thursday evening. For the first time they have been made part of the routine ceremony.
CISF
BSF
CRPF

Q 9:National Security Advisor ...................... on Friday refuted the conventional wisdom among peace activists by pointing out that an easier visa regime among the eight SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) nations would be the most difficult to achieve.
Nirupama Rao
GK Pillai
Shivshankar Menon

Q 10:Coming November, India will mount its first scientific expedition to the South Pole to mark the centenary of the first successful expedition to the southern end of the world by the Norwegian explorer, .................
Roald Amundsen
Ernest Shackleton
Edward Wilson

Current Affairs Quiz (July2010 Part -X)

Q 1:Nepal's second largest political party, Nepali Congress, which has been claiming the leadership of the next government, has picked up its parliamentary party leader .................... as the prime ministerial candidate recently.
Ram Chandra Paudel
Madhav Kumar
Bijay Kumar Gachchhadar

Q 2:Canara Bank net zooms to Rs. 1,013 crore.Who is the present Chairman and Managing Director of the Canara Bank?

Subbarao Pai
A. C. Mahajan
K.Y. Patil

Q 3:Solar Stone plans to set up a number of solar farms at rooftop locations and vacant land also. It has submitted its initial proposal of setting up a one MW plant in West Bengal, for pre-registration under the ....................... which encourages ‘Rooftop SPV' systems.
Rajeev Gandhi National Solar Mission Scheme
State Electricity Regulatory Commissions (SERCs)
Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission Scheme

Q 4:American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) in India has announced its 2010 objective – liberalisation will be in several areas including retail, alternative energy, defence production and finance sector-also there will concerns about the slow flow of US capital –said chairman ...............
Dinesh Keskar
Sabeer Bhatia
Vinod Dham

Q 5:PSLV-C15 launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in ..............?
Thumba
Sriharikota
Bangalore

Q 6:External affairs minister S.M.Krishna and Pakistan foreign minister ..................called on in Islamabad and discussed especially about the cross-border conflicts.
Raza Khan
Mahmud Geelani
Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Quershi

Q 7:The Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, ....................... suggested the consideration of people Above the Poverty Line (APL)- Below Poverty Line beneficiaries to get 30kg instead of 35 kg and APL families will get 15 kg.
C.Rangarajan
M.S.Swaminathan
Sam Pitroda

Q 8:Tathagat Avtar Tulsi (age22) become the youngest faculty in IIT.(...........)
Kanpur
Mumbai
Guwahati

Q 9:.................leaked from a cylinder in a Mumbai Port Trust godown recently.
Germane
Cyanogen
Liquid Chlorine

Q 10:World’s largest aircraft ............... had its inaugural flight from Dubai to Delhi- landed in the new terminal of the Indira Gandhi International airport.
Airbus A-380
Antonov An-225
Airbus Beluga

Current Affairs Quiz Part 1 (June,July 2010)

Q 1:‘Give subsidy to schools, hospitals, not oil firms' says Planning Commission Deputy Chairman ......................
Abhishek Singhvi
Montek Singh Ahluwalia
Manoj Tiwari

Q 2:With the Supreme Court lifting the ban on James Laine's controversial book on Maratha king ..........., Maharashtra government on Sunday set up a three-member committee to explore options to stop its printing and circulation in the State.

Sambhaji
Shivaji
Bajirao Peshwa

Q 3:The former Governor of Maharashtra, S.C. Jamir, who had also been the Chief Minister of ................, left Imphal on Sunday after a two-day visit without gaining much ground in his mission to improve the relations between Nagaland and Manipur.
Arunchal Pradesh
Manipur
Nagaland

Q 4:The American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) in India has announced its 2010 objective of enhancing economic and social partnership with India.Responsible business leadership is about pursuing business interests while making a difference to India,” AMCHAM chairman ................. said in a statement here on Sunday.
Archana Patchirajan
Dinesh Keskar
Puneet Mehta

Q 5:“Football can create chances where there is no hope, and this will remain our mission into the future,” said FIFA President ................ at the meeting.
IRVIN KHOZA
Sepp Blatter
LORD TRIESMAN

Q 6:The ............ spacecraft Rosetta performed a fly-by of a massive asteroid on Saturday, taking images that could one day help Earth defend itself from destruction.
Chinese
Japanese
European

Q 7:.................is a campaign seizing the power of football to ensure that education for all is a lasting impact of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Raising our voices all over the world we believe that, together, we can make education a reality for the millions of boys and girls who remain out of school.Name it
Action for Children
GOAL1
Save the Children Alliance

Q 8:World record holder Ronjan Sodhi won the double trap gold in the shotgun World Cup in Lonato, ............ recently.
France
Italy
Cuba

Q 9:Saina Nehwal won the $1, 20,000 Yonex Sunrise-India Open Grand Prix gold badminton championships in Chennai defeating Choo Wong Mew of .......... last month.
China
Indonesia
Malaysia

Q 10:Saina Nehwal won the.......................... defeating Tzu Ying Tai of Chinese Taipei in the final last month.
Indonesia Open Super Series
Singapore Open badminton Super Series
Yonex Sunrise-India Open Grand Prix gold badminton championships

Q 11:Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal won the Indonesia Open Super Series defeating ............'s Sayaka Sato. This was Saina's third successive title, having won the Indian Open Grand Prix and the Singapore Open Super Series tournament last month.
Japan
Singapore
Chinese Taipei

Q 12:India defeated .............. in the final of the Asia Cup cricket championship 2010 by 81 runs.


Pakistan
Srilanka
Bangladesh

Q 13:Last month,Taiwan and China signed a historic trade pact “........”, hailed by both sides as a milestone and the culmination of a Beijing-friendly policy introduced by Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou after assuming power in 2008.
HELP
EurMex
ECFA

Q 14:The two-day G-20 summit or the meeting of the heads of the world's major industrialised powers was held in ............. recently
Toronto, Canada
Washington,US
London,UK

Q 15:India has joined the Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT) project,the next generation astronomical observatory that will be located on Mauna Kea, ......... recently
Haiti
Hawaii
Honduras

Q 16:Vice President M. Hamid Ansari presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to ................, former Governor of Bihar, West Bengal,Haryana and former Chairman of UPSC, organised by the Institute of Objective Studies in New Delhi.

M.K. Narayanan
Devanand Konwar
Dr A.R, Kidwai

Q 17:.................., founder of pharmaceutical major Vitabiotics in Britain, has been awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in London recently.
Kartar Singh Lalvani
Sardar Beer Singh Johal
Harinder Takhar

Q 18:The first World Classical Tamil Conference was held in ................. President Pratibha Devisingh Patil presented the Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi Classical Tamil Award to Asko Parpola for his work on the Dravidian hypothesis in the interpretation of the Indus script.

Chennai
Coimbatore
Thanjavur

Q 19:The Group of Ministers (GoM) submitted their report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressing the legal, medical, humanitarian,environmental and other aspects of the Bhopal gas leak disaster. The GoM recommended Rs. ......... package for the victims.
20,000-crore
5,000-crore
1,500-crore

Q 20:The 75th conference of presiding officers of legislatives bodies
from different parts of the country was held in .......recently in June.
Srinagar
Coimbatore
Mumbai

Q 21:The Planning Commission estimated ...... percent growth in the agriculture sector during the XII Plan (2012-17).
4
1
9

Q 22:Jharkhand came under Central rule with President Pratibha Patil accepting a recommendation of the Union Cabinet after the Congress and the BJP gave up efforts to form an alternative government following the resignation of Chief Minister .................

Arjun Munda
Shibu Soren
Madhu Koda

Q 23:The Representation of the People's (Amendment) Bill aimed at NRIs for voting rights in India was cleared by a GoM headed by Defence Minister ..........and is likely to be presented soon before the Cabinet.

P Chidambaram
Pranab Mukherjee
A.K. Antony

Q 24:India and Pakistan have resolved at the meeting of the Permanent Indus Water Commission in Delhi, the issue of water flows in the Chenab River being affected during the initial filling of the ............. dam. Pakistan has decided not to raise the matter further.
Baglihar
Rabwah
Tarbela

Q 25:The joint exercises are conducted by the air forces of India, France
and Singapore by the name The Garuda 2010 at Istres air base in ..........
Singapore
France
India