Current Affairs MCQ 12th July 2018

Q1. Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has launched ISCF and ISCI program that will provide the youth with an opportunity to experience the aspects of Urban planning and governance. ISCF stands for ____________.
(a) Indian Smart City Followers
(b) India Smart Cities Fellowship
(c) Indian Smart Cities Fund
(d) Indian Smart City Ferro
(e) India Smart City Finance
S1. Ans.(b)

Q2. India and South Korea have recently signed five MoUs in the field of ___________ in New Delhi.
(a) Defence
(b) Health
(c) Arts and Crafts
(d) Science and Technology
(e) None of the given options is true
S2. Ans.(d)

Q3. Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved 503-million US Dollar lining project of the Son canal in which of the following state, that would benefit the agriculture sector immensely in the region?
(a) Uttarakhand
(b) Bihar
(c) Assam
(d) Meghalaya
(e) Punjab
S3. Ans.(b)

Q4. British Prime Minister Theresa May appointed __________ as Foreign Secretary after Boris Johnson resigned from the post in protest at the government’s Brexit plan.
(a) Jeremy Hunt
(b) Davis David
(c) Philip Hammond
(d) David Miliband
(e) William Hague
S4. Ans.(a)

Q5. The Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has organised a two-day International Round Table Conference on ‘Data for New India’ in ___________.
(a) Mumbai
(b) Bangalore
(c) New Delhi
(d) Chennai
(e) Kochin
S5. Ans.(c)

Q6. Name the Ministry/Institution that has recently unveiled the blueprint of ‘National Health Stack’ (NHS), a shared digital healthcare infrastructure in line with the implementation of the Centre’s flagship scheme Ayushman Bharat.
(a) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
(b) NITI Aayog
(c) CRIS
(d) Indian Health Organisation
(e) CSIR
S6. Ans.(b)

Q7. Name the person who has assumed the charge as the 97th President of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU), New Delhi.
(a) Dr. Uttam Dhillon
(b) Vishwas Patel
(c) Adarsh Kumar Goel
(d) Dr. Sandeep Sancheti
(e) Prof. Saraswati Prasad
S7. Ans.(d)

Q8. Indian Railways has recently introduced the first Double Stack Dwarf Container Services. This freight train was flagged off from _____________.
(a) Jaipur
(b) Alwar
(c) Rajkot
(d) Jaisalmer
(e) Ajmer
S8. Ans.(c)

Q9. Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest colours. 1.1 billion-year-old bright pink pigments, extracted from rocks deep beneath which of the following desert?
(a) Atacama Desert
(b) Gobi Desert
(c) Namib deserts
(d) Antarctica
(e) Sahara desert
S9. Ans.(e)

Q10. The Asian Development Bank is a regional development Bank established in 1966. It Headquarters in _______________.
(a) Geneva
(b) New York
(c) Paris
(d) Manila
(e) Berlin
S10. Ans.(d)