Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 05 May 2018

1. The Human Resource Development Ministry has launched a major and unique initiative of online professional development using the online courses platform

1) SANKALP

2) SAMADHAN

3) SWAYAM

4) SAATHI

5) SUGAM

2. The market regulator Sebi has tightened know your client norms for FPIs. The term FPI stands for

1) Fresh Portfolio Investors

2) Fragmented Portfolio Investors

3) Forward Portfolio Investors

4) Foreign Portfolio Investors

5) None of these

3. Radhakrishnan Nair was recently appointed as an independent director of which of the following banks?

1) ICICI Bank

2) HDFC Bank

3) Axis Bank

4) Federal Bank

5) RBL Bank

4. Justin Langer was recently named as the new head coach of the national cricket team of which of the following countries?

1) New Zealand

2) Australia

3) South Africa

4) England

5) Sri Lanka

5. India entered the club of the world’s five biggest military spenders in 2017. What was India’s position in the global military spending as per SIPRI?

1) Third

2) Fourth

3) Fifth

4) Sixth

5) Seventh

6. Which of the following has become the first state to provide digitally-signed land record receipts (also known as 7/12 receipts) in the country?

1) Maharashtra

2) Gujarat

3) Andhra Pradesh

4) Tamil Nadu

5) Karnataka

7. Which of the following countries has topped the AT Kearney Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index for 2018?

1) Singapore

2) UK

3) US

4) Japan

5) Indonesia

8. What was the theme of the World Press Freedom Day (3 May) observed recently? 

1) Keeping Media in Check: Journalism, Justice and The Rule of Law

2) Keeping Rumour in Check: Media, Justice and The Rule of Law

3) Keeping Favourism in Check: Media, Accountability and The Rule of Law

4) Keeping Power in Check: Media, Justice and The Rule of Law

5) None of these

9. India’s manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose to ______ in Apr 2018.

1) 49.4

2) 49.8

3) 50.5

4) 50.7

5) 51.6

10. The NITI Aayog and which of the following IT giants have signed a Statement of Intent to develop a crop yield prediction model using Artificial Intelligence?

1) TCS

2) IBM

3) Infosys

4) Wipro

5) Microsoft

Answers:

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