Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 14 March 2018

1. India announced a new Line of Credit of USD 100 mn for defence procurement to which of the following countries recently?

1) Djibouti

2) Yemen

3) Seychelles

4) Mauritius

5) Suriname

2. India and France jointly inaugurated the International Solar Alliance recently. The ISA was officially announced during the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris on 30 Nov in

1) 2011

2) 2012

3) 2013

4) 2014

5) 2015

3. Tejaswin Shankar won gold medal and broke the national record recently in the game of

1) triple jump

2) pole vault

3) high jump

4) javelin

5) discuss throw

4. The SBI has slashed non-maintenance of an average monthly balance (AMB) charges in savings accounts and is offering customers to shift to BSBD account. BSBDA means

1) Broad Savings Bank Deposit Account

2) Balance Savings Bank Deposit Account

3) Borrowed Savings Bank Deposit Account

4) Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account

5) None of these

5. A yellow-white- and-red flag with the state’s symbol “Gandaberunda” at the centre was formally unveiled by which state govt recently?

1) Kerala

2) Sikkim

3) Jammu and Kashmir

4) Nagaland

5) Karnataka

6. Which bank has launched instant overdraft ‘InstaOD’ facility for MSME (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) customers in an online and paperless manner?

1) HDFC Bank

2) ICICI Bank

3) Axis Bank

4) Federal Bank

5) RBL Bank

7. The central govt has constituted the Mahanadi Water Dispute Tribunal for adjudication of longstanding disputes between Odisha and

1) Jharkhand

2) Madhya Pradesh

3) Karnataka

4) Chhattisgarh

5) Maharashtra

8. The four-day biennial event ‘WINGS INDIA 2018’ was jointly organized by Ministry of Civil Aviation, Airport Authority of India and FICCI recently in

1) Bengaluru

2) Hyderabad

3) Bhopal

4) New Delhi

5) Jaipur

9. PM Narendra Modi has set deadline of 2025 to free India from tuberculosis (TB). The global deadline set by World Health Organization (WHO) for the same is

1) 2025

2) 2028

3) 2030

4) 2032

5) 2035

10. Which of the following private sector banks is all set to bring its IPO to raise about Rs 45 bn? The bank has valued itself at about Rs 450 bn.

1) IDFC Bank

2) IndusInd Bank

3) Federal Bank

4) Bandhan Bank

5) RBL Bank

Answers:

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