Current Affairs Quiz 12 May 2017
Current Affairs Quiz 12 May 2017. This Quiz is divided into two parts. First part contains questions from Current Affairs of 11 May 2017. The Second Part contains Current Affairs Questions from various newspaper of today i.e 12 May 2017. Read our Current Affairs and Newspaper daily to excel in General Awareness section of competitive exams.
Quiz from Current Affairs 11 May 2017 of A2Z – Click Here to Read Current Affairs of May 11, 2017
- Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) has launched a new Investor Facilitation Platform. The platform will provide information about stocks of ______ .
A) private sector units
B) public sector units
C) healthcare sector
D) all of these
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Option B
Explanation: Investor Facilitation Platform will provide information about stocks of public sector units. The main objective is to give an idea to the user about PSU disinvestment issues.
Points to remember– Full form of DIPAM. Which department has launched Investor Facilitation Platform.
- Which company maintains the database of the recently launched Investor Facilitation Platform of DIPAM?
A) TCS
B) Infosys
C) IBM
D) PRIME Database
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Option D
Explanation: Developed and maintained by PRIME Database, all users will have to register on the platform, which will then be authorised by DIPAM.
- Indian Government has launched a new initiative to link PAN Card and Aadhaar card online. The two cards can be linked by visiting the website of which of the following authority?
A) UIDAI
B) NSDL
C) Income Tax Department
D) UTITSL India
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Option C
Explanation: The users can now link their Aadhaar card with the PAN from the Income Tax Department’s website, giving the exact details of the name printed on both the cards. Taxpayers can go to http://www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in.
Points to remember: (i)Which two cards are being linked?
(ii)Which department is responsible?
(iii) The government, under the Finance Act 2017, has made it mandatory for taxpayers to quote Aadhaar or enrolment ID of the Aadhaar application form for filing income tax returns (ITR).
(iv) PAN is a 10-digit alphanumeric number
(v) Aadhaar is a 12 digit numeric series.
(vi) Aadhaar has been made mandatory for applying for permanent account number with effect from July 1, 2017.
- MHA Mobile Application has been launched for?
A) For 24*7 security on highways
B) grievance redressal of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) personnel
C) For digitization in Maharashtra
D) For live updates of recently signed agreements with various country
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Option B
Explanation: The Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh launched the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Mobile Application for grievance redressal of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs)
Points to remember: (i) Name of the app.
(ii) Launched by whom?- Ministry of Home Affairs
(iii) Purpose.
- Name the app launched by Ministry of Home Affairs for Grievance Redressal of BSF personnel.
A) MHA Mobile Application
B) BSFMyApp
C) My BSF- Our BSF
D) BSFLifeLine
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Option B
Explanation: The BSFMyApp launched on the occasion has been developed to cater to the requirement of BSF personnel regarding Grievance Redressal as well as various other service and welfare related issues of the Force personnel.
Points to remember: (i) Name of the app.
(ii) Launched by whom?- Ministry of Home Affairs
(iii) Purpose.
- Name the online interface launched by Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Ministry that will provide direct and effective solutions to the problems faced by farmers and stakeholders in the agriculture sector.
A) i-Krishi Suvidha
B) e-Krishi Suvidha
C) e- Krishi Solution
D) e-Krishi Samvad
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Option D
Explanation: Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister launch e-Krishi Samvad, an online interface.
Points to remember: Which department launched it? – Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Ministry
(ii) Name of the portal
(iii) Type?- Web Portal- Appropriate solutions from specialists will be provided via SMS and Web
(iv) Purpose
- As per Savills Tech Cities Index, which city has been ranked the world’s most affordable tech city?
A) San Francisco
B) Cape Town
C) Buenos Aires
D) Bengaluru
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Option D
Explanation: India’s silicon city tops a list of 22 tech cities across the world in affordable living.
Points to remember: (i) Name of Index- Savills Tech Cities Index
(ii) Which city topped?
- Which city is set to host biggest ever International Yoga Day event on June 21, 2017?
A) Surat
B) Mumbai
C) Ahmedabad
D) Bengaluru
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Option C
Explanation: Ahmedabad will host biggest ever International Yoga Day event on the 21st of June, this was announced by Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev in Ahmedabad.
Points to remember: Which city and state?- Ahmedabad/Gujarat
International Yoga Day?- 21 June
- Who among the following has won the Woodrow Wilson Award for Global Corporate Citizenship?
A) Shikha Sharma
B) Naina Lal Kidwai
C) Chanda Kochhar
D) Arundhati Bhattacharya
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Option C
Explanation: ICICI Bank CEO and Managing Director Chanda Kochhar has become the first Indian woman to receive the Woodrow Wilson Award for Global Corporate Citizenship.
Points to remember: (i) Who has won?
(ii) She is the CEO of which bank?- ICICI
(iii) She is the first woman to win this award
- Name the bilateral naval exercise between India and Australia.
A) AUSINDEX
B) INDAUSNAV
C) IANAVY
D) AUSINDNAV
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Option A
Explanation: Points to remember: (i) Name of the exercise: AUSINDEX
(ii) Type of exercise- Navy
(iii) Edition- second. (first held in 2015 in the Bay of Bengal). This one will be held in June
(iv) Place: off the coast of Western Australia
- Who has been elected as the Prime Minister of The Bahamas?
A) Marguerite Pindling
B) Perry Christie
C) Hubert Minnis
D) Jerome Fitzgerald
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Option C
Explanation: Points to remember: (i) Who has become PM of The Bahamas?
(ii) Capital and Currency of The Bahamas- Nassau/ Bahamian dollar
- When is National Technology Day observed in India?
A) May 9
B) May 10
C) May 11
D) May 12
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Option C
Explanation: 11 May
Points to remember: (i) When?
(ii) Why?- to mark the historic feat of test-firing its very first nuclear-capable missile Shakti-1 nuclear missile at Rajasthan’s Pokhran test range back in 1998. It is so significant because India achieved a huge technological advancement on the day. The first, indigenous aircraft “Hansa-3” was test flown at Bangalore on this day. Not only this, India also performed successful test firing of the Trishul missile on the same day. India also executed three successful nuclear tests, carried out at Pokhran, in Rajasthan May 11.
Current Affairs Quiz from Today’s Newspaper (12 May 2017) – The Indian Express
- Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary is located in which state?
A) Gujarat
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Kerala
D) Jharkhand
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Option D
Explanation: Jharkhand
- “Bishu Parv” was observed in which state?
A) Chhattisgarh
B) Jharkhand
C) Madhya Pradesh
D) Odisha
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Option B
Explanation: The hunting festival ‘Bishu Parv’ or ‘Sendra’ was observed in Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary, Jharkhand.
- Aadhaar has been made mandatory for applying for permanent account number with effect from _______ .
A) April 1, 2017
B) June 1, 2017
C) July 1, 2017
D) August 1, 2017
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Option C
Explanation: July 1, 2017
- Harpreet Singh is related to which sports?
A) Shooting
B) Boxing
C) Wrestling
D) Tennis
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Option C
Explanation: Wrestling. He won a bronze medal in Greco-Roman weight divisions in the Asian Wrestling Championship.
- Who has been appointed as the Chairman of FIFA Governance Committee?
A) Olli Rehn
B) Justice Mukul Mudgal
C) Miguel Maduro
D) Nilay Dutta
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Option B
Explanation: Points to remember: (i) Who has been appointed? – Justice Mukul Mudgal
(ii) Where was the 67th FIFA Congress held?- Manama, Bahrain
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(i)Which two cards are being linked?
(ii)Which department is responsible?
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