Daily Current Affairs Quiz : 31 August 2018

1. Which international organisation has approved financial package of $245 million to implement project for providing safe, sustainable drinking water service to million people in three districts of West Bengal affected by arsenic, fluoride and salinity?

1) World Bank

2) NDB

3) ADB

4) IMF

5) AIIB

2. Union govt has recently signed loan agreement of what amount with ADB for Madhya Pradesh irrigation efficiency improvement project?

1) $300 million

2) $325 million

3) $350 million

4) $375 million

5) $400 million

3. Which Indian athletes has won the first men’s triple jump gold at 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games?

1) Nihal Sarkar

2) Arpinder Singh

3) Shivpal Singh

4) Murlikant Petkar

5) Vijay Pal Singh

4. Which state legislative assembly has passed a bill for the creation of three new districts, Pakke-Kesang, Lepa Rada and Shi Yomi in the state?

1) Telangana

2) Kerala

3) Himachal Pradesh

4) Odisha

5) Arunachal Pradesh

5. Which state has recently extended application of Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA) in the entire state for six more months?

1) Assam

2) Jammu & Kashmir

3) Manipur

4) Nagaland

5) Mizoram

6. RBI in its annual report mentioned that due to the evolving economic conditions, real GDP growth for 2018-19 is expected to increase to

1) 6.7%

2) 6.9%

3) 7.2%

4) 7.4%

5) 7.5%

7. Which country is going to conduct Vostok-2018 (East-2018) military exercise?

1) India

2) France

3) Russia

4) US

5) Myanmar

8. CCEA approved an umbrella scheme ‘Ocean Services, Technology, Observations, Resources Modelling and Science (O-SMART)’ for implementation during the period from 2017-18 to 2019-20 at an overall cost of

1) Rs 1550 crore

2) Rs 1600 crore

3) Rs 1623 crore

4) Rs 1650 crore

5) Rs 1675 crore

9. Who among the following has been appointed India’s new High Commissioner to United Kingdom (UK)?

1) Ruchi Ghanashyam

2) Y K Sinha

3) Pankaj Saran

4) Sandeep Arya

5) Gaurav Sobti

10. Who among the following has become the first Indian heptathlete to win an Asian games gold?

1) Pramila Aiyappa

2) Hima Das

3) Manju Bala

4) VS Surekha

5) Swapna Barman

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Daily Current Affairs Quiz : 31 August 2018