Current Affairs Quiz - June, 2020

1. What was the real fiscal deficit of India, as a percentage of GDP, for the previous financial year 2019-20?

[A] 3.8%
[B] 4.0%
[C] 4.25%
[D] 4.59%

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2. Which global organisation has adopted a new voting procedure involving secret ballots for its elections, amidst Covid-19 pandemic?

[A] European Union
[B] United Nations
[C] World Health Organisation
[D] North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

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3. Who has been nominated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award?

[A] Shikhar Dhawan
[B] Rohit Sharma
[C] Jasprit Bumrah
[D] Ravindra Jadeja

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4. What is the name of the programme launched by the Ministry of Electronics and IT, in collaboration with Intel India?

[A] Responsible AI for Youth
[B] Sustainable AI for Youth
[C] Artificial Intelligence for India
[D] Bharat AI

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5. Who has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom?

[A] Gaitri I. Kumar
[B] Ruchi Ghanshyam
[C] Vinay Kumar
[D] Alok Kumar Sinha

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6. Where are Pharmacopoeia Laboratory for Indian Medicine (PLIM) and Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia Laboratory (HPL) located?

[A] Mumbai
[B] New Delhi
[C] Ghaziabad
[D] Chandigarh

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7. Which Indian writer won the regional award for Asia of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, 2020?
[A] Kritika Pandey
[B] Madhuri Vijay
[C] Aravind Adiga
[D] Vikram Seth

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8. Basu Chatterjee, who recently passed away, was associated with which profession?

[A] Sportsperson
[B] Film maker
[C] Businessperson
[D] Politician

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9. When is the ‘International Day for the fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing’ observed?

[A] June 5
[B] June 6
[C] June 7
[D] June 8

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10. Which language day is celebrated by the United Nations on June 6, the birthday of famous poet Alexander Pushkin?

[A] Spanish Day
[B] Russian Day
[C] English Day
[D] French Day

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