Current Affairs Quiz Set 54

  1. Which of the following releases the Ease of Doing Business annually?

 

  1. World Bank
  2. World Economic Forum (WEF)
  3. International Monetary Fund (IMF)
  4. RBI

S-a

E-

  • World Bank releases the Ease of Doing Business annually. India was ranked 77thrank among 190 countries assessed by the World Bank in latest rankings.

 

  1. Who among the following signs the one rupee note?

 

  1. RBI Governor
  2. Finance Secretary
  3. SEBI Chief
  4. Chief Economic Adviser

S-b

E-

  • Under Section 22 of the Reserve Bank of India Act, RBI has sole right to issue currency notes of various denominations except one rupee notes. The One Rupee note is issued by Ministry of Finance and it bears the signatures of Finance Secretary, while other notes bear the signature of Governor RBI.    

    

  1. Which of the following is the Finance market regulator of India?

 

  1. SEBI
  2. RBI
  3. Finance Ministry
  4. NABARD

S-b

E-

  • RBI is the finance market regulator of India and the governor of RBI is Shaktikanta Das.

 

  1. How many countries are members of ASEAN?

 

  1. 10
  2. 11
  3. 12
  4. 14

S: a

E:

  • The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration) by the Founding Fathers of ASEAN, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
  • The ten member countries are: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

 

  1. Where are the headquarters of International Court of Justice (ICJ) Situated?

 

  1. Hague
  2. New York
  3. Washington DC
  4. Paris
  5.  

S-a

E-   

  • Established ICJ in 1945, ICJ has its headquarters at The Hague, Netherlands.
  • It is the main judicial organ or branch of the United Nations.

 

    6. Who among the following has been appointed as the governor of Gujarat?

 

  1. Kalraj Mishra
  2. Acharya Devvrat
  3. Anusuiya Uikey
  4. Biswa Bhushan

S: b

 

    7. Who among the following has been appointed as the governor of Himachal Pradesh?

 

  1. Kalraj Mishra
  2. Acharya Devvrat
  3. Anusuiya Uikey
  4. Biswa Bhushan

S: a

 

    8. Who among the following has been appointed as the governor of Andhra Pradesh?

  1. Kalraj Mishra
  2. Acharya Devvrat
  3. Anusuiya Uikey
  4. Biswa Bhushan Harichandan

S: d

 

    9. Who among the following has been appointed as the governor of Chhattisgarh?

 

  1. Kalraj Mishra
  2. Acharya Devvrat
  3. Anusuiya Uikey
  4. Biswa Bhushan Harichandan

S: c

 

    10. Who among the following has been appointed as an International Judge of the                    Singapore International Commercial Court?

 

  1. Justice AK Sikri
  2. Justice TS Thakur
  3. Justice HL Dattu
  4. Justice JS Khehar

S: a

E:

  • Former Supreme Court judge Justice A K Sikri has been appointed as an International Judge of the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC).
  • The SICC is a division of the Singapore High Court and part of the Supreme Court of that country, designed to deal with transnational commercial disputes.
  • He retired as a Supreme Court judge on March 6 this year, after serving for nearly six years following his elevation in April 2013. It currently has 16 international judges as part of its panel. He also served as Chief Justice of the Punjab & Haryana High Court, and Acting Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court. He was appointed as a judge of the Delhi High Court in 1999.

 

   11. Who among the following has been elected as the first female European                               Commission President?

 

  1. Christine Lagarde
  2. Ursula von der Leyen
  3. Alaska Davidson
  4. Laura Ricchardson

 

S: b

E:

  • Germany's Ursula von der Leyen has been elected as the European Commission's first female president. Her nomination was approved by 383 votes in a secret ballot at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France.
  • She will succeed Jean-Claude Juncker, who has served as president since 2014 and will step down on October 31.

 

   12. Which of the following is India’s largest telecom operator?

 

  1. Vodafone-Idea Ltd
  2. Jio
  3. Airtel
  4. BSNL

S: a

E:

  • Vodafone Idea, the company born out of a merger between Vodafone India and Idea Cellular, continues to retain the top position with 387.55 million users and a 33.36% subscriber market share.
  • India’s youngest and only profitable telecom operator Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd has overtaken rival Bharti Airtel to become the second largest operator in terms of subscribers to its mobile phone services, according to data from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India made public.
  • Jio, which entered the sector in September 2016, had 322.98 million users and 27.8% subscriber market share, against Airtel’s 320.38 million users and 27.6% market share as of end-May.

  13. Which is India’s first state to have water policy?

 

  1. Meghalaya
  2. Assam
  3. Haryana
  4. Rajasthan

S: a

E:  

  • Amid the water crisis in the country, the Meghalaya cabinet became the first state to approve a draft water policy to address water issues, conservation, and protection of water sources in the state.
  • The policy intends to achieve sustainable development, management and use of water resources with community participation.
  • This will improve health and livelihood and reduce vulnerability among the people

 

  14. Consider the following for National Investigation Agency (Amendment) Bill, 2019.

 

  1. The bill proposes three major amendments to the NIA Bill of 2008.
  2. The bill also seeks to expand the agency’s jurisdiction to investigate offences committed outside India.
  3. It proposes to allow the central government to constitute special courts for NIA trials.
  1. Only I
  2. Only II
  3. Both I & II
  4. I, II & III

S: d

E:

  • The National Investigation Agency (Amendment) Bill, 2019 proposed three major amendments to the NIA Bill of 2008.
  • The first focuses on providing the NIA with more teeth to investigate cases pertaining to human trafficking, counterfeit currency, manufacture or sale of prohibited arms, cyber-terrorism, and offences under the Explosive Substances Act, 1908.
  • The bill also seeks to expand the agency’s jurisdiction to investigate offences committed outside India, such as the Easter day bombings in Sri Lanka.
  • Finally, it proposes to allow the central government to constitute special courts for NIA trials.

 

   15. The Supreme Court has constituted a committee in order to urgently frame and                   implement an emergency response plan for the protection of which of the following           species?

 

  1. Great Indian Bustard
  2. Lesser Florican
  3. Both (a) & (b)
  4. Blackbuck

S-c

E-

  • Taking serious note of alarming extinction of two Indian birds -- Great Indian Bustard and the Lesser Florican -- the Supreme Court constituted a high powered committee to urgently frame and implement an emergency response plan for the protection of these species.
  • The top court constituted a three member panel comprising Director of Bombay Natural History Society; Dr Asad R Rahmani former Director of Bombay Natural History Society and member of governing body of Wetlands International South Asia and Dr Dhananjai Mohan, Chief Conservator of Forests of Uttarakhand.
  • A bench of Justices S A Bobde and B R Gavai also sought responses from the Centre and state governments, where these two species of birds are prominently found, on a plea of wildlife activists.