CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

(13th to 19th June 2016) GNXX CAQA X24A EN16

1. Which of the following was not in the itinerary of President of India during June 2016?
1) Ghana 2) Ivory Coast 3) Namibia 4) Nigeria
2. For undertaking financial transactions using Mobile phone, Mobile Money Identifier (MMID) is used. It is _____ digit number.
1) 8 2) 6 3) 7 4) 10
3. As per the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, IPs will be created. IP stands for ____________.
1) Insolvency Professional 2) Insolvency Practitioner 3) Insolvency Person 4) Insolvency Project
4. Name the Country in Asia, which became the first to eliminate mother to child HIV?
1) Thailand 2) China 3) Kuwait 4) India
Cuba was the first in the World.
Thailand is the first in Asia.
This was made possible with ARV therapy.
Without treatment, it will transmit in 15% to 45% of the cases.
Now with access to ARV therapy, it reduced to less than 2%.
5. World Blood Donor Day was observed on ____________.
1) 12th June 2) 17th June 3) 14th June 4) 18th June
6. Cherrapunji, Mawsynram, Hulikal, Agumbe, Walakkad are some of the wettest places on Earth. Cherrapunji & Mawsynram are in
Meghalaya, Agumbe & Hulikal are in Karnataka. Walakkad is in_____.
1) Kerala 2) Andhra Pradesh 3) Telangana 4) Goa
Mawsynram is the wettest place on Earth. However, some countries do not agree with this.
Average annual rainfall is 11,861 mm (467 inches).
It is in Khasi Hills of Meghalaya.
7. Name the State Govt., which will undertake Smart Pulse Survey through its employees to get feedback from people about its welfare
programmes?
1) Maharashtra 2) Telangana 3) Andhra Pradesh 4) Kerala
The revenue officials with tablets will collect information from public about various welfare schemes and compile socio-economic data
covering about 20 aspects.
The survey also integrates Aadhaar details and mobile numbers.
8. Renovated Duraiappah stadium was inaugurated in __________.
1) Jaffna 2) Nallur 3) Vavuniya 4) Inuvil
Named after former Mayor of Jaffna, Alfred Thambirajah
Duraiappah. OTHER PROJECTS BY INDIA
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena inaugurated it. 45,100 houses for the civil war affected families.
Indian PM Narendra Modi joined through video conference. Completion of Northern Railway Project at a cost of $
Indian Government renovated it at a cost of over Rs. 7 cr (Sri 800 million to link Jaffna with Colombo.
Lankan Rs. 146 million). 200 bed hospital in Vavuniya.
It is situated in Tamil dominated Jaffna city and was Cultural Centre in Jaffna.
abandoned since 1997.
9. Government opened Tatkal window to expedite examination of patent applications. These are looked after by ______________.
1) CGPDTM 2) CSO 3) Ministry of Power 4) PMO
At present, 2.37 lakh patent applications are pending.
10. Former cricketer Chetan Chauhan was appointed as the Chairman of ______________.
1) NIRD 2) NID 3) NIDM 4) NIFT
NIFT has got several institutions across the country.
It is statutory body under the Ministry of Textiles.
As per NIFT Act, 2006, the Chairperson should be an eminent academic, scientist, technologist or professional to be nominated by the
Visitor.
Visitor is the President of India.
GAJENDRA SINGH CHAUHAN, Chairman, Governing Council. FTII - It is an autonomous body under the Ministry of I&B
YELLAPRAGADA SUDERSHAN RAO, Chairperson, ICHR. It is an autonomous body under the Ministry of HRD
PAHLAJ NIHALANI, Chairman, CBFC. It is a statutory body under the Ministry of I&B
11. Old HistoryNew Geography Bifurcating Andhra Pradesh was written by ___________.
1) Jairam Ramesh 2) Kapil Sibal 3) P. Chidambaram 4) Ambika Soni
12. Regional Connectivity Fund (RCF) pertains to __________.
1) Road transport 2) Navy sector 3) Airline sector 4) None of these
Under the Regional Connectivity Scheme, the charges to the airports in the hinterland of the country kept at Rs. 2,500 per one hour.
13. 11 persons were sentenced to life by the special SIT trial court in Gulberg Society case. Gulberg Society is situated in ___________.
1) Rajkot 2) Ahmedabad 3) Vadodara 4) Bhavnagar
14. Hindustan Turbo-prop Trainer Aircraft (HTT-40) was recently tested in Bengaluru, with 80% indigenous content. It was built by _____.
1) ISRO 2) HAL 3) NAL 4) ADE
15. During May 2016, exports have fallen by 0.79%. This is continuous fall in exports since _____________.
1) November, 2015 2) January, 2015 3) October, 2014 4) December, 2014

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 In 2015-16, exports have fallen by 16% in value terms.
16. SEBI proposed to relax norms governing REITs. E in REIT stands for _____________.
1) Engineering 2) Estate 3) Equity 4) Establishment
17. The President visited Namibia. It is the 5th largest producer of __________.
1) Uranium 2) Gold 3) Sugar 4) Rice
Namibia signed an agreement with India in 2009 for uranium supply.
As Namibia is a member of the African Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty (ANWFZT), it is barred from trading uranium with India as
India is non signatory of NPT.
18. The first official transit to Indias North-East via Bangladesh took place recently, when 1,000 tonnes of Iron rods reached ________ port
in Bangladesh, from Kolkata for onward journey to North East.
1) Chittagong 2) Ashuganj 3) Mongla 4) Chalna
This is port of the Indo-Bangladesh protocol on Inland Water Transit and Trade signed by both the countries last year.
Through Ashuganj port, distance to North East will be reduced substantially.
19. Axis Bank and Kasikorn Bank signed an MoU to help facilitate and enhance cooperation in the areas of trade, investment and other
businesses. Kasikorn Bank belongs to ____________.
1) Malaysia 2) Laos 3) Myanmar 4) Thailand
20. Rajasva Gyan Sangam, an annual conference for tax administrators was held recently in _______________.
1) New Delhi 2) Noida 3) Bengaluru 4) Mumbai
Prime Minister called upon the taxmen to increase taxpayer base to 10 crore from around 5.43 crore. However, no time frame was
given.
India has nearly 25 crore households.
PM identified 5 pillars for taxmen i.e., RAPID.
Revenue
Accountability
Probity
Information
Digitisation
21. Name the Bank, which has set up Rs. 200 cr fund for start-ups in the Financial Technology (FINTECH) Space?
1) ICICI 2) BOB 3) SBI 4) HDFC
22. Udta Punjab was released recently. The director is____________.
1) Abhishek Chaubey 2) Rohit Shetty 3) Hriday Shetty 4) Omung Kumar
Actor : Shahid Kapoor
Actresses : Alia Bhatt
Kareena Kapoor
Director : Abhishek Chaubey
Languages : Hindi, Punjabi
23. Which of the following is associated with the construction of 500 MW Sampur power project in Sri Lanka?
1) BHEL 2) NTPC 3) BEL 4) NHPC
24. As per the Countrys first National Civil Aviation Policy (NCAP), 5/20 rule was liberalised. 5/20 rule was brought in ____________.
1) 2004 2) 2008 3) 2010 4) 2006
Now airlines can fly abroad after operating at least 20 planes or 20% of their total flying capacity, whichever is higher, on their
domestic routes.
At present number of tickets sold are 8 crore per annum and they will go up to 30 crore by 2022.
25. Name the State Govt. which banned sale (including online) and use of e-cigarettes in the State?
1) Maharashtra 2) Karnataka 3) Kerala 4) Haryana
Battery powered cartridges are used in e-cigarettes to produce a nicotine-laced vapour.
This decision was taken as large number of youngsters are being addicted to e-cigarettes.
e-cigarettes mimic the size and shape of cigarettes and contain a cartridge containing liquid, which include nicotine among other
chemicals like propylene glycol or glycerol.
26. India-US-Japan joint naval exercises are being held off the Okinawa Coast in Japan in the Western Pacific. These are named ________.
1) Malabar exercises 2) INDRA exercises 3) Varuna exercises 4) Konkan exercises
It is leading to rising of tensions between China and USA and India is being dragged into the controversy.
27. SEBI recently proposed additional disclosure norms for InvITs. InvITs stands for ______________.
1) Infrastructure Investment Trusts 2) Investment India Trusts
3) Industries Investment Trusts 4) Investment Individual Trusts
InvITs are mutual fund like institutions that enable investments into the infrastructure sector by pooling small sums of money from
multitude of individual investors.

28. Name the City, where the Walt Disney Co opened amusement park with the largest overseas investment of $ 5.5 billion?
1) Shanghai 2) Beijing 3) Dongguan 4) Jinan
29. CCEA approved disinvestment of 10% paid up equity in HUDCO. It is under the Ministry of ________________.
1) Rural Development 2) Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
3) Road Transport and Highways 4) Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
Housing and Urban Development Corporation provides long-term finance for construction of houses for residential purposes.
It also finances and undertakes housing and urban developing projects in the country.
30. India is likely to impose anti-dumping duty at $ 1.22 per kg on import of a chemical used by Refrigerant industry. Who is the final
authority to impose it?
1) Ministry of Finance 2) Ministry of Commerce and Industry
3) Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers 4) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Anti-Dumping Duty is the measure to ensure fair trade.

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 Domestic Industry should not suffer due to below market rate imports.
31. Name the Country, which presented the President of India with its highest honour Grand Cross National Order of the Republic?
1) Ghana 2) Ivory Coast 3) Burkina Faso 4) Liberia
ALASSANE OUATTARA, President of Ivory Coast
32. In Champions Trophy Hockey, India got silver medal. They lost to _______ in final.
1) Australia 2) Pakistan 3) Bangladesh 4) Sri Lanka
PR Sreejesh, Captain for Champions Trophy
33. Name the Indian Bank, which has been named in a Hall of Shame list of 158 banking and financial institutions globally that have
invested billions of dollars in companies making cluster bombs?
1) BOB 2) HDFC Bank 3) SBI 4) ICICI Bank
34. In its biggest ever buy, Microsoft purchased LinkedIn for _______.
1) $ 26.2 billion 2) $ 25.8 billion 3) $ 28.9 billion 4) $ 24.6 billion
Microsoft:
Started in 1975 by Bill Gates & Paul Allen.
It is now betting big on cloud services.
LinkedIn
It is worlds most valuable professional network with 433 million professionals with 105 million active users per month
Shares are valued @ $ 196 per share.
35. RBI unveiled a new policy of Scheme for Sustainable Structuring of Stressed Assets popularly known as S4A to solve the problem of
large stressed assets with banks. This is applicable when lenders aggregate exposure to the individual account is more than _________.
1) Rs. 400 cr 2) Rs. 500 cr 3) Rs. 1,000 cr 4) Rs. 800 cr
It bifurcates outstanding debt into sustainable debt and equity / quasi equity instruments.
Sustainable debt should not be less than 50%.
36. During Presidents visit to Ghana, ___________ agreements were signed.
1) 5 2) 4 3) 6 4) 3
President undertook tour of Ghana, Ivory Coast & Namibia.
This is the first-ever visit of a President to Ghana and Ivory Coast and to Namibia after a gap of 2 decades.
India is the largest foreign investor in Ghana in more than 700 projects and 222 of these are in manufacturing.
Bilateral trade increased to $ 1.2 bn from $ 538 million in 2010.
37. NDB plans to issue bonds in __________ currency initially, with plans to release bonds in local currencies of its member nations.
1) Rupee 2) Dollar 3) Yuan 4) Ruble
NDB was established with initial authorised capital of $ 50 bn and with total paid-in capital of $10 bn.
INITIAL LOANS GRANTED BY NDB
Brazil $ 300 million
India $ 250 million
South Africa $ 180 million
China $ 81 million
38. DCB Bank launched Aadhaar based ATM in Bengaluru. Which of the following is the main component of these ATMs?
1) PIN 2) ATM Debit card 3) ATM Credit card 4) Aadhaar Fingerprint
It is card-less and pin-less ATM.
Works on Aadhaar number and fingerprints (biometrics).

39. FASTags pertain to ________________.

1) National Highways 2) Indian Railways 3) Airlines Sector 4) Shipping Sector
It promotes cashless payments at toll plazas on National Highways.
40. Scientists from the University of East Anglia (UK) & India have launched a ______ million project to predict monsoon rainfall by
studying ocean processes in the Bay of Bengal.
1) 10 2) 8 3) 5 4) 4
University of East Anglia will release underwater robots in Bay of Bengal to monitor how ocean conditions influence monsoon rainfall.
41. International Tennis Federation (ITF) banned Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova for a period of _______ years.
1) 10 2) 2 3) 5 4) 4
World Anti-Doping Agency Headquarters: Montreal, Canada
WADA added Meldonium in the forbidden list on 1st Jan, 2016.
Its use lead to production of more RBCs in the body in order to increase oxygen supply to muscles enhancing endurance.
It is effective from 26 January, 2016.
In Jan, during the Australian Open, she was tested positive for Meldonium.
Meldonium (Mildronate) is given to patients suffering from heart problems.
It also enhances physical capacity and mental function.

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