Daily Current Affairs Quiz : 17 August 2018

1. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has launched Unified Payments Interface (UPI) 2.0, which allows customers to link to UPI their

1) loan account

2) NRE account

3) NRO account

4) overdraft account

5) All the above

2. The former Prime Minister and Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee passed away recently. The three time Prime Minister of India was first sworn in for the post in May

1) 1996

2) 1998

3) 1999

4) 2001

5) 2004

3. President Ram Nath Kovind recently greeted which of the following communities on the eve of Navroz, their New Year?

1) Jain

2) Parsi

3) Buddhist

4) Wahabi

5) Sikh

4. The navies of ________ and India are going to conduct joint exercises to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the maritime bilateral relations between the two countries.

1) Japan

2) Sri Lanka

3) Indonesia

4) South Korea

5) Singapore

5. Mario Abdo Benítez was sworn in as the new President in which of the following countries recently?

1) Uruguay

2) Ghana

3) Paraguay

4) Colombia

5) Peru

6. India’s Nihal Sarin is associated with which of the following games? The 14-year-old was in news recently.

1) Polo

2) Golf

3) Shooting

4) Archery

5) Chess

7. Which of the following telecom firms has launched ‘WINGS’, a VOIP based service?

1) BSNL

2) MTNL

3) Bharti Airtel

4) Idea

5) Reliance Jio

8. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has launched ‘RUCO’ initiative for collection and conversion of used cooking oil to bio-diesel. Letter ‘R’ in RUCO means

1) Recreate

2) Restoration

3) Refining

4) Repurpose

5) Reprocess

9. The Indian Govt recently released additional fund for the Postal Highway being constructed in Southern Plains of

1) Sri Lanka

2) Myanmar

3) Nepal

4) Bangladesh

5) Afghanistan

10. The 24th World Congress of Philosophy (WCP) was held recently in which of the following cities?

1) New Delhi

2) Beijing

3) Tokyo

4) Manila

5) Rome

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Daily Current Affairs Quiz : 17 August 2018