Current Affairs Quiz – March 23 2016
1. Who is all set to be appointed as a member of the International Coordinating Committee of NHRIs (ICC) Bureau in Geneva?
a) Bhuvan Kumar Mishra
b) HL Dattu
c) L Sathasivam
d) Mukund Tripathy
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b) HL Dattu. The ICC Bureau is an important human rights body, which serves as the Management Committee of the International Coordinating Committee of National Human Rights Institutions (ICC).
2. Who has been appointed as new editor of The Hindu?
a) Mukund Padmanabhan
b) Praveen Chandran
c) Shankar Raman
d) Kumareeshwaran
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Answer a) Mukund Padmanabhan. Mukund Padmanabhan will be the new Editor for the The Hindu, one of the largest English dailies in the country. He will be the second non family member who hold this position in the 125-year old Newspaper.
3. Government has hiked Dearness Allowance by ______% for central government employees and pensioners.
a) 3
b) 4
c) 5
d) 6
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Answer d) 6. The hike, which will cost the exchequer an additional Rs 14,724.74 crore annually, will take effect from January 1, 2016, telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters after the meeting of the Union Cabinet which took the decision.
4. The Agasthyamalai Biosphere Reserve (ABR) was established in 2001 and is spread across the two states of __________ and _________.
a) Tamil Nadu and Kerala
b) Karnataka and Kerala
c) Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu
d) Tamil Nadu and Karnataka
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Answer a) Tamil Nadu and Kerala. India’s “unique” Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve is among 20 new sites added by the UN’s top cultural body UNESCO to its World Network of Biosphere Reserves.
5. __________ is entering the Rs 20,000-crore life care segment.
a) SBI Insurance
b) LIC
c) Bajaj Finance
d) Kotak Mahindra
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Answer c) Bajaj Finance. Bajaj Finance is entering the Rs 20,000-crore life care segment under which it will finance expenses for stem cells storage units, cosmetics-based hair treatment, dental and eye care, IVF & maternity care, laproscopic cure for a dozen ailments, and elective medical/paramedical care for many other issues.
6. CCEA has given its approval for extension of time period of the “Special Industry Initiative for Jammu & Kashmir” Udaan scheme till ________
a) 2017-18
b) 2018-19
c) 2019-20
d) 2021-21
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Answer c) 2019-20. Udaan provides exposure to the youth of Jammu and Kashmir to the best of corporate India and corporate India to the rich talent pool available in the State.
7. ________ has become a dialogue partner of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a Beijing-based regional security grouping.
a) Bhutan
b) Nepal
c) Myanmar
d) Maldives
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Answer b) Nepal. Nepal was officially made a dialogue partner after a memorandum was signed by SCO secretary-general Rashid Olimov and visiting Nepalese Foreign Secretary Shanker Das Bairagi.
8. The World Meteorological Day is observed on _________.
a) March 22
b) March 23
c) March 24
d) March 25
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Answer b) March 23. The World Meteorological Day (WMD) 2016 was observed across the world on 23 March 2016. The theme for the WMD 2016 was Hotter, Drier, Wetter. Face the Future. WMO became the UN’s specialized agency for meteorology, operational hydrology and related geophysical sciences in 1951.
9. Primer Ministers of India and __________ commissioned international gateway of internet service in Agartala and supply of 100 MW power to Bangladesh from Tripura.
a) Nepal
b) Bhutan
c) Bangladesh
d) Myanmar
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Answer c) Bangladesh. Chief Minister Manik Sarkar also graced the cross border occasion connected through video conference.
10. BPO transport service provider Wings Travels has closed the acquisition of taxi aggregator
a) Bookmycab
b) Ola
c) Uber
d) Fasttrack
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Answer a) Bookmycab. The acquisition is part of Wings Travels’ plan to strengthen its technology and expand business to 47 more cities in India, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and Sri Lanka.
