Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 16 March 2018
1. Turkey’s parliament has approved changes to the electoral laws aimed at helping President Recep Tayyip Erdogan consolidate power. The capital city of Turkey is
1) Manama
2) Nassau
3) Baku
4) Ankara
5) Tallinn
2. The US-Bangla Airlines crash-landed and exploded into a ball of flame at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) killing 49 passengers recently in
1) Bhutan
2) Nepal
3) Sri Lanka
4) Bangladesh
5) Maldives
3. The govt is divesting 10 per cent of its stake in the public sector Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd for which the firm has brought an IPO worth
1) Rs 38.42 bn
2) Rs 40.20 bn
3) Rs 42.30 bn
4) Rs 44.30 bn
5) Rs 46.42 bn
4. Chandra Shekhar Ghosh is the founder as well as MD and CEO of which of the following banks?
1) IDFC Bank
2) RBL Bank
3) IndusInd Bank
4) YES Bank
5) Bandhan Bank
5. A White Label ATMs (WLAs) is owned and operated by
1) private sector banks
2) foreign banks
3) non-bank entities
4) state govt
5) Foreign Institutional Investors
6. The Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) was set up jointly by the Ministry of Commerce, and private trade and industry in the year 1965. It is headquartered in
1) Hyderabad
2) Bengaluru
3) Mumbai
4) Kolkata
5) New Delhi
7. Which city has emerged as the top city to show improvement in quality of governance, according to the survey conducted by Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy?
1) Surat
2) Bhubaneswar
3) Thiruvananthapuram
4) Kolkata
5) Pune
8. The World Consumer Rights Day is celebrated every year on
1) 01 Mar
2) 05 Mar
3) 15 Mar
4) 25 Mar
5) 31 Mar
9. As forecasted by the World Bank recently, India’s GDP will grow at the rate of _______ in 2018-19.
1) 7.1 per cent
2) 7.3 per cent
3) 7.6 per cent
4) 7.9 per cent
5) 8.1 per cent
10. According to the annual survey issued by the World Bank recently, which of the following is the world’s happiest country?
1) Switzerland
2) Iceland
3) Denmark
4) Norway
5) Finland
Answers:
- 4
- 2
- 3
- 5
- 3
- 5
- 5
- 3
- 2
- 5
