Daily Current Affairs Quiz : 10 July 2017
1. From _________, the price of a packaged good would no longer depend on where you bought it (local kirana store, a mall, etc.) as the Consumer Affairs Ministry has amended the related rules.
1) Sep 01, 2017
2) Dec 01, 2017
3) Jan 01, 2018
4) Mar 31, 2018
5) Apr 01, 2018
2. The Indian govt is setting ambitious targets that include ______ of wind and solar power by 2022, the World Bank said in a news report published recently.
1) 100 gigawatts
2) 120 gigawatts
3) 140 gigawatts
4) 150 gigawatts
5) 160 gigawatts
3. ______ topped the medal tally (with 29 medals) for first time in Asian Athletics Championships history which concluded recently in Bhubaneshwar.
1) India
2) Kazakhstan
3) China
4) Japan
5) Bangladesh
4. Which city was recently declared as a World Heritage City at the 41st session of UNESCO’s world heritage committee held at Krakow in Poland?
1) Bhubaneswar
2) Bhopal
3) Jaipur
4) Ahmedabad
5) Agra
5. Nagaland plunged into a political crisis recently with former CM TR Zeliang staking claim to form a new govt. The present governor of Nagaland is
1) Najma Heptulla
2) Padmanabha Balkrishna Acharya
3) Nirbhay Sharma
4) V Shanmuganathan
5) Banwarilal Purohit
6. The Housing finance regulator NHB is examining the issue of extending the NPA classification period from the current 90-day window. The NHB is headquartered at
1) Mumbai
2) New Delhi
3) Kolkata
4) Bengaluru
5) Hyderabad
7. The World Population Day is observed every year on
1) 01 Jul
2) 05 Jul
3) 09 Jul
4) 11 Jul
5) 21 Jul
8. Which state govt has announced that around 36 lakh farmers in the state, covered under the recently announced farm loan waiver scheme, will have their entire debt waived?
1) Maharashtra
2) Uttar Pradesh
3) Madhya Pradesh
4) Punjab
5) Tamil Nadu
9. The market regulator SEBI has virtually shut the doors on P-Note investments in India. In the term P-Notes, the letter P stands for
1) Promissory
2) Priority
3) Participatory
4) Principal
5) Prescribed
10. The govt is planning to dilute its 51.11 per cent stake in Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) in favour of
1) RIL
2) BP
3) Rosneft
4) Indian Oil
5) ONGC
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