Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 30 Jan 2018

1. The Economic Survey 2017-18, tabled in Parliament recently, forecasts gross domestic product growth for 2018-19 at

1) 6-6.5 per cent

2) 6.5-7 per cent

3) 7-7.5 per cent

4) 7.5-8 per cent

5) 8-8.5 per cent

2. Who among the following is the present Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) to the Govt of India? The CEA prepares the Economic Survey every year.

1) Arvind Subramanian

2) Bibek Debroy

3) Hasmukh Adhia

4) Duvvuri Subbarao

5) Subramanian Swamy

3. The Exim Bank of India raised $1 bn through overseas bonds recently. The present Managing Director of the Exim Bank of India is

1) KV Kamath

2) Ravi Kanbur

3) Kaushik Basu

4) NK Singh

5) David Rasquinha

4. As per the recently tabled Economic Survey, resolutions under IBC has not been significant so far. Here, the term IBC means

1) Insurance and Banking Code

2) Intermediaries and Brokerage Code

3) Initiation of Bankruptcy Code

4) Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code

5) None of these

5. Usha Ananthasubramanian is the present MD and CEO of which of the following banks?

1) UCO Bank

2) Allahabad Bank

3) Bank of Baroda

4) Punjab National Bank

5) Canara Bank

6. The Central Govt has announced that it would infuse over Rs 88,000 cr as capital in public sector banks in FY18 in which _______ will come through recapitalisation bonds.

1) Rs 85,000 cr

2) Rs 80,000 cr

3) Rs 75,000 cr

4) Rs 70,000 cr

5) Rs 50,000 cr

7. In order to encourage more young voters to take part in the political process, every year which of the following days is celebrated as ‘National Voters’ Day’?

1) 05 Jan

2) 10 Jan

3) 15 Jan

4) 25 Jan

5) 30 Jan

8. Sandeep Lamichhane has become the first cricketer from which country to get an IPL contract as he was picked by Delhi Daredevils recently?

1) Bangladesh

2) Bhutan

3) Nepal

4) Sri Lanka

5) Thailand

9. Jai Ram Thakur launched the ‘Shakti’ app for women’s safety recently. He is the present Chief Minister of

1) Uttarakhand

2) Punjab

3) Haryana

4) Gujarat

5) Himachal Pradesh

10. The capital city of Cambodia is

1) Phnom Penh

2) Bogota

3) Manama

4) Minsk

5) Yerevan

Answers:

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