Current Affairs Quiz - March, 2019

11. How many science and technology missions have been identified under PM-STIAC?
[A] 9
[B] 8
[C] 7
[D] 5

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12. What would be the funding pattern between Centre & North Eastern States for the newly approved Flood Management and Border Areas Programme (FMBAP) scheme?
[A] 80:20
[B] 70:30
[C] 90:10
[D] 60:40

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13. Who has become the first-ever Thari Hindu woman to be elected to the Senate of Pakistan?
[A] Taniya Bhatia
[B] Krishna Kumari Kohli
[C] Ravi Kalpana
[D] Ekta Bisht

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14. Who has been designated as the new Finance Secretary (FS) of India?
[A] Atanu Chakraborty
[B] Ajay Bhushan Pandey
[C] Subhash Chandra Garg
[D] Rajiv Kumar

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15. Kavinder Singh Bisht is associated with which sports?
[A] Wrestling
[B] Hockey
[C] Football
[D] Boxing

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16. The students of which IIT have devised solution to detect fake notes at Smart India Hackathon 2019?
[A] IIT Bombay
[B] IIT Kanpur
[C] IIT Kharagpur
[D] IIT Indore

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17. Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which sometimes seen in news, is associated to which of the following organizations?
[A] CERN
[B] ISRO
[C] NASA
[D] JAXA

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18. Which state government has recently approved 27% quota for OBCs?
[A] Jharkhand
[B] Uttar Pradesh
[C] Rajasthan
[D] Madhya Pradesh

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19. The researchers of which institute have developed optical imaging system ‘DOLPHIN’ for finding tiny tumours?
[A] Massachusetts Institute of Technology
[B] Harvard University
[C] University of Oxford
[D] Stanford University

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20. Erode turmeric, which recently got GI tag, is associated to which of the following states?
[A] Karnataka
[B] Tamil Nadu
[C] Andhra Pradesh
[D] Maharashtra

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