Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 09 June 2017
1. The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council recently cleared the pending rules for the rollout of the new indirect tax regime from Jul 1. The GST on all biscuits will be levied at
1) 05 per cent
2) 10 per cent
3) 12 per cent
4) 18 per cent
5) 28 per cent
2. The World Oceans Day is observed every year on
1) 01 Jun
2) 03 Jun
3) 05 Jun
4) 06 Jun
5) 08 Jun
3. The Reserve Bank of India, in its second bi-monthly monetary policy review of FY18, cut the statutory liquidity ratio (SLR) by 50 bps (starting Jun 24) to
1) 19.5 per cent
2) 20.5 per cent
3) 20 per cent
4) 21.5 per cent
5) 22 per cent
4. The Centre has approved the modifications to the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Amendment) Bill 2017 to pave way for organizing ‘kambala’ in the coming season in
1) Kerala
2) Karnataka
3) Tamil Nadu
4) Andhra Pradesh
5) Odisha
5. The govt recently gave its nod for Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to enter into two separate MoUs with securities market regulators of the European Union and
1) Iran
2) Saudi Arabia
3) Mongolia
4) Mexico
5) Chad
6. The govt has approved the proposed MoU between EXIM Bank (India) and Export-Import Bank of Korea (KEXIM) for export credit (for infrastructural development in India) worth
1) USD 2 bn
2) USD 5 bn
3) USD 7 bn
4) USD 9 bn
5) USD 10 bn
7. A National Human Milk Bank and Lactation Counselling Centre –‘Vatsalya – Maatri Amrit Kosh – was inaugurated recently in New Delhi in collaboration with the govt of
1) Norway
2) Denmark
3) Sweden
4) Poland
5) New Zealand
8. KG Karmakar and Gauri Shankar were appointed as Independent Directors of IPPB recently. The term IPPB stands for
1) India Post Private Bank
2) India Private Payments Bank
3) India Post Payments Bank
4) India Post Postal Bank
5) None of these
9. Rohan Bopanna clinched his maiden French Open mixed doubles title in Paris recently with his partner
1) Sania Mirza
2) Yang Zhaoxuan
3) Alicja Rosolska
4) Anna-Lena Grönefeld
5) Gabriela Dabrowski
10. Basudev Chatterji, who passed away recently, was an eminent
1) historian
2) biologist
3) physicist
4) chemist
5) biographer
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