Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 28 August 2017

Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 28 August 2017

1. Who among the following won the women’s singles title of the World Badminton Championship 2017?

1) Saina Nehwal

2) Nozomi Okuhara

3) PV Sindhu

4) Wang Shixian

5) Carolina Marin

2. The Insuranace Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) launched a Central Database of all Insurance Sales Persons in India. The IRDAI’s headquarters is in

1) Mumbai

2) New Delhi

3) Kolkata

4) Hyderabad

5) Bengaluru

3. The CBI has taken over the probe into the Srijan scam of which state? The govt funds worth about Rs 1,000 cr were allegedly diverted to the accounts of an NGO.

1) Uttar Pradesh

2) Maharashtra

3) Karnataka

4) Odisha

5) Bihar

4. What is the full form of the term AePS as used in banking parlance?

1) Aadhar Enabled Payment System

2) Aadhar Embedded Processing System

3) Aadhar Empowered Procurement System

4) Aadhar Enabled Processing System

5) None of these

5. Which of the following banks has launched an all-in- one offering, DigiPoS Machine, that offers a complete suite of digital payment solutions?

1) ICICI Bank

2) Axis Bank

3) HDFC Bank

4) Federal Bank

5) IndusInd Bank

6. The NITI Aayog has favoured conducting synchronised two-phase Lok Sabha and assembly elections from

1) 2018

2) 2019

3) 2020

4) 2022

5) 2024

7. Who has become the first football player to score 350 La Liga goals?

1) Gareth Bale

2) Ronaldinho

3) Lionel Messi

4) Luis Suarez

5) Neymar

8. The Biju Patnaik Award for Scientific Excellence for the year 2016 has been conferred on

1) Digambar Behera

2) Swati Agarwal

3) Mahiuddin Baidya

4) Priyoneel Basu

5) Sanchari Phattacharyya

9. Who among the following has been appointed as the new Director General of the Railway Protection Force (RPF)?

1) Sudhir Pratap Singh

2) Dharmendra Kumar

3) Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar

4) OP Singh

5) Krishan Kumar Sharma

10. Banks importing gold and precious metals will have to pay what per cent tax under the GST which can be claimed as input tax credit?

1) 4 per cent

2) 1 per cent

3) 8 per cent

4) 3 per cent

5) 6 per cent

Answers:

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