Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 10 June 2018

1. The Union Minister of State for Defence Subhash Ramrao Bhamre recently inaugurated 578-metre-long Theng Tunnel, the longest in the state of

1) Sikkim

2) Assam

3) Jammu and Kashmir

4) Tripura

5) Himachal Pradesh

2. The govt has earmarked what amount for 2018-19 towards interest subvention for short- term crop loans?

1) Rs 12,000 cr

2) Rs 15,000 cr

3) Rs 18,000 cr

4) Rs 21,000 cr

5) Rs 25,000 cr

3. President Ram Nath Kovind has given Keshari Nath Tripathi additional charge of Tripura Governor, during the absence on leave of Tathagata Roy. Tripathi is the present governor of

1) Bihar

2) Jharkhand

3) West Bengal

4) Odisha

5) Assam

4. Which of the following has become the first large state in the country to be declared as Open Defecation Free recently?

1) Maharashtra

2) Madhya Pradesh

3) West Bengal

4) Bihar

5) Andhra Pradesh

5. The RBI has made changes in the Gold Monetisation Scheme (GMS) to make it more attractive. The govt had launched the GMS in the year

1) 2013

2) 2014

3) 2015

4) 2016

5) 2017

6. The Interest subsidy scheme on short-term crop loans of up to Rs 3 lakh will be implemented through the DBT mode from 2018-19. Here, the term DBT means

1) Direct Beneficiary Transaction

2) Double Benefit Transfer

3) Direct Business Transaction

4) Direct Benefit Transfer

5) None of these

7. President Ram Nath Kovind has declared ‘queen variety pineapple’ as state fruit of which of the following states?

1) Tripura

2) Assam

3) Sikkim

4) Jharkhand

5) Telangana

8. The RBI would set up a public credit registry—an information repository that collates all loan information of individuals and corporate borrowers. The move is based on the recommendations of a committee it set up in 2017,  headed by

1) Duvvuri Subbarao

2) Bimal Jalan

3) C Rangarajan

4) Y Venugopal Reddy

5) YM Deosthalee

9. Indian Navy rescued 38 Indians from the cyclone-hit Socotra island in which country recently in an operation christened “Nistar”?

1) Iraq

2) Saudi Arabia

3) Yemen

4) Indonesia

5) Sri Lanka

10. The World Ocean Day is observe every year on

1) 02 Jun

2) 08 Jun

3) 18 Jun

4) 28 Jun

5) 30 Jun

Answers:

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