Quiz 567: Current Affairs Bank PO Bank Clerical and other exams

1. Who among the following is the current head of National Innovation Council?
[A]Manmohan Singh
[B]Sam Pitroda
[C]Amartya Sen
[D]Kaushik Basu


2. Who among the following is NOT a member of the three-member team of Interlocutors appointed by Central Government for Jammu and Kashmir problems ?
[A]Dileep Padgaonkar
[B]Prof Radha Kumar
[C]M M Ansari
[D]K M Vohra


3. Shri Rajan K Medhekar is the chief of which among the following currently?
[A]National Cadet Corps
[B]National Security Guard
[C]Indo-Tibetan Border Police
[D]Border Security Force


4. Who among the following is heading the Central Government-appointed inquiry (Goa) commission on mining?
[A]Justice MB Shah
[B]Justice K Jagannatha Shetty
[C]Justice Santosh Hegde
[D]Justice Aftab Alam


5. Which among the following Indian / India-born Economist has been a member of Copenhagen Consensus?
[A]Amartya Sen
[B]C Rangrajan
[C]Jagdish Bhagwati
[D]Bimal Jalan


6. Who among the following is the new Kalon Tripa (Prime Minister) of the Tibetan Government in Exile in India?
[A]Tenzin Talka
[B]Lobsang Sangay
[C]Gedun Cheoky Nyiggma
[D]Norbu Gyaltsen


7. 7, Race Course Road, the official residence of Indian Prime Minister is commonly known as ___?
[A]Anugraha
[B]Chitrakoot
[C]Panchavati
[D]PM Niwas


8. Currently, we read in the newspapers that G-4 nations are trying to give a fresh momentum to the bid for United Nations Security Council reforms during their meeting on the sidelines of the 66th UN General Assembly Session. Which among the following countries make G-4?
[A]India, South Korea, Brazil and South America
[B]India, Russia, Brazil and South America
[C]India, Russia, Japan and Brazil
[D]India, Japan, Germany and Brazil


9. Planning Commission that recently made it clear that it will aim to achieve an average economic growth of _____ over the Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012-17)?
[A]11%
[B]8%
[C]9%
[D]10%


10. Garo Hills is a part of which among the following states of India?
[A]Nagaland
[B]Meghalaya
[C]Manipur
[D]Mizoram


11. Tiangong 1, which was recently launched by China is a part of it's _____?
[A]Missile Programme
[B]GPS Programme
[C]Space Station Programme
[D]Moon Probe


12. Who among the following is currently heading the Transitional National Council of Libya ?
[A]Mustafa Abdel Jalil
[B]Mahmoud Jibril
[C]Abdul Hafiz Ghoga
[D]Baghdadi Mahmudi


13. The crop insurance scheme is being implemented at which among the following levels under the National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS)?
[A]Village
[B]Panchayat
[C]District
[D]State


14. What the average life of the Red Blood corpuscles?
[A] 100-120 days
[B] 120-140 days
[C] 80-95 days
[D] 70-85 days


15. Which among the following states leads in Handloom and Handicrafts clusters in India?
[A]Uttar Pradesh
[B]Maharastra
[C]Odisha
[D]West Bengal