Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 27 September 2017

Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 27 September 2017

1. The RBI announced that Masala bonds will be treated as ECBs from 3 Oct 2017. The term ECB stands for

1) Estimated Commercial Borrowings

2) External Corporate Borrowings

3) Extra Corporate Borrowings

4) External Commercial Borrowings

5) None of these

2. PM Narendra Modi launched Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (Saubhagya) to supply 24/7 electricity to poor households. The states will have to complete the household electrification by 31 Mar

1) 2017

2) 2018

3) 2019

4) 2020

5) 2021

3. Which state has launched Sampurna (Sishu Abond Matru Mrityuhara Purna Nirakaran Abhijan) Yojna for pregnant women?

1) Odisha

2) Jharkhand

3) Chhattisgarh

4) Maharashtra

5) Telangana

4. Which state has launched ‘Vision-2025’ project across the state aimed at evolving a draft policy for the development of the state in next seven years?

1) Gujarat

2) Kerala

3) Tamil Nadu

4) West Bengal

5) Karnataka

5. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has downgraded India’s growth projection to ________ for the current fiscal?

1) 7.1 per cent

2) 7 per cent

3) 6.9 per cent

4) 6.4 per cent

5) 6 per cent

6. Shashi Shankar has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of

1) GAIL

2) ONGC

3) IOC

4) NTPC

5) SAIL

7. India’s Chanda Kochhar and Shikha Sharma have featured on Fortune’s list of Most Powerful Women in business outside the US which is topped by

1) Isabelle Kocher

2) Emma Walmsley

3) Sheryl Sandberg

4) Ana Botín

5) Mary T Barra

8. The artificial intelligence banking platform Payjo has launched an AI-powered chat assistant named ‘Intelligent Assistant’ for which bank?

1) SBI

2) HDFC Bank

3) PNB

4) ICICI Bank

5) Bank of Baroda

9. The Chief Executive of Afghanistan, Dr Abdullah Abdullah, visited India to inaugurate the India-Afghanistan Trade and Investment Show which is also supported by

1) Japan

2) China

3) US

4) UK

5) Russia

10. The govt has set up the Dairy Processing and Infrastructure Development Fund (DPIDF) to boost the dairy sector. The fund is worth

1) Rs 1,881 cr

2) Rs 3,108 cr

3) Rs 5,881 cr

4) Rs 8,118 cr

5) Rs 10,881 cr

Answers:

1. 4
2. 3
3. 1
4. 5
5. 2
6. 2
7. 4
8. 1
9. 3
10. 5