Current Affairs MCQ 30th June 2018
Q1. NITI Aayog’s Women Entrepreneurs Platform has signed five Statements of Intent (SoIs) with how many financial institutions and social organizations to provide assistance to women entrepreneurs and address the finance-related challenges faced by them?
(a) 6
(b) 7
(c) 4
(d) 5
(e) 3
S1. Ans.(d)
Q2. The government has decided to set up two more underground crude oil storages in which of the following two states to increase emergency stockpile cover by 12 days to 22 days?
(a) Kerala and Karnataka
(b) Odisha and Karnataka
(c) Odisha and Tamil Nadu
(d) Kerala and Maharashtra
(e) Kerala and Tamil Nadu
S2. Ans.(b)
Q3. The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) proposed a draft bill to repeal the University Grants Commission (UGC) and set up the HECI. HECI stands for ________________.
(a) Higher Education Committee of India
(b) Higher Education Centre of India
(c) Higher Education Central of India
(d) Higher Education Commission of India
(e) None of the given options is true
S3. Ans.(d)
Q4. Name the Ministry of Shipping’s flagship programme for port-led-prosperity that received the ‘Gold Award’ in infrastructure sector in the recently concluded 52nd Skoch Summit 2018 in New Delhi.
(a) Ocean Mission
(b) Coastal Berth Scheme
(c) Sagarmatha
(d) None of the given options is true
(e) Sagarmala
S4. Ans.(e)
Q5. Name the Tech company that has acquired German IT and engineering services provider H&D International Group.
(a) WIPRO
(b) HCL Technologies
(c) Infosys
(d) TCS
(e) Microsoft
S5. Ans.(b)
Q6. Name the bank that has announced that it has extended $10 million worth of line of credit (LOC) to Seychelles for healthcare and procurement of goods and projects.
(a) ICICI Bank
(b) IDBI Bank
(c) Export-Import Bank of India
(d) HSBC
(e) HDFC Bank
S6. Ans.(c)
Q7. Name the country that has been placed on the grey list by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for failing to curb anti-terror financing despite its diplomatic efforts to avert the decision.
(a) Iran
(b) Syria
(c) Somalia
(d) Afghanistan
(e) Pakistan
S7. Ans.(e)
Q8. Name the company that has inked a pact with South Korean firm NANO Co Ltd for design and manufacture of emission controlling devices for coal-based power plants.
(a) BHEL
(b) DRDO
(c) HPCL
(d) HAL
(e) NALCO
S8. Ans.(a)
Q9. Name the SBI managing director who has resigned from the country’s largest lender after his appointment as chief executive of IDBI Bank.
(a) Vijay Sachan
(b) E Sreedharan
(c) M K Satpal
(d) B Sriram
(e) V K Khetrapal
S9. Ans.(d)
Q10. The FATF is an inter-governmental body to combat money laundering, terrorist financing and other related threats to the integrity of the international financial system. It headquarters in ____________.
(a) New York
(b) Moscow
(c) Paris
(d) Geneva
(e) New Delhi
