Daily Current Affairs Quiz : 01 July 2017
1. PM Narendra Modi inaugurated various irrigation and water related initiatives at Aji Dam in Rajkot in which state recently?
1) Rajasthan
2) Madhya Pradesh
3) Maharashtra
4) Gujarat
5) Karnataka
2. Takehiko Nakao is the present President of which of the following institutions? It proposed $10-bn loan for India over next five years during recent visit to India by Nakao.
1) ADB
2) World Bank
3) IMF
4) AIIB
5) NDB
3. Any benefit by way of reduction in rate of tax due to introduction of GST shall be passed on to the customers. It is being termed as
1) Profiteering
2) Reversal
3) Anti-profiteering
4) Cascading
5) Provisioning
4. The largest transaction in cement industry and also the largest asset resolution in India took place recently when Aditya Birla Group (UltraTech) announced the acquisition of
1) ACC Ltd
2) Ambuja Cement
3) Binani Cement
4) Emami Cement
5) JP Cement
5. With the GST coming into force on 1 Jul, which of the following taxes has/have NOT been subsumed at the central level?
1) Additional Customs Duty
2) Service Tax
3) Additional Excise Duty
4) Central Excise Duty
5) None of these
6. With the GST coming into force on 1 Jul, which of the following taxes has/have been subsumed at the state level?
1) Luxury tax
2) Purchase Tax
3) Octroi and Entry tax
4) Entertainment Tax
5) All of these
7. The politician, women’s rights champion and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil died recently. He belonged to
1) Spain
2) Sweden
3) Israel
4) France
5) Norway
8. In which country, recently, MPs voted to legalise same-sex marriage?
1) South Korea
2) Cambodia
3) Colombia
4) Germany
5) France
9. As announced by India’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Tanmaya Lal, India has contributed what amount to the UN Peace Building Fund?
1) USD 2 lakh
2) USD 5 lakh
3) USD 8 lakh
4) USD 10 lakh
5) USD 15 lakh
10. _________ tops the list of origin countries of naturalised citizens across the world. In 2015, 1.30 lakh people of this country acquired citizenship of OECD member countries.
1) China
2) Philippines
3) Mexico
4) India
5) Thailand
Answers:
- 4
- 1
- 3
- 5
- 5
- 5
- 4
- 4
- 2
- 4
