Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 25 October 2018

1. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) plans to create an industry body to draw up best practices for PMS. Here, the term PMS stands for

1) Prescription Management Service

2) Purchase Management Service

3) Portfolio Management Service

4) Platform Management Service

5) None of these

2. An overseeing committee is being set up for resolution of stressed assets which will have six members. The OC is being formed under the aegis of the

1) IBA

2) SIDBI

3) Nabard

4) NHB

5) SEBI

3. European and Japanese space agencies, recently, launched two probes for a joint mission to

1) Sun

2) Moon

3) Jupiter

4) Venus

5) Mercury

4. The present chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes said that the govt can reduce tax rates further if the number of taxpayers keeps on increasing. Present CBDT chief is

1) S Ramesh

2) Hasmukh Adhia

3) Pradeep Kumar Sinha

4) Sushil Chandra

5) Rajiv Mehrishi

5. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu addressed the keynote at the Sagar Discourse 2 conference held recently in

1) Maharashtra

2) Goa

3) Gujarat

4) Tamil Nadu

5) Odisha

6. Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and PM Narendra Modi have resolved to further strengthen their strategic and bilateral relations. Sheikh Mohamed is the present Crown Prince of

1) Saudi Arabia

2) UAE

3) Kuwait

4) Bahrain

5) Qatar

7. ______ has been appointed the interim Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) after Director Alok Verma and Special Director Rakesh Asthana were sent on leave.

1) M Nageswar Rao

2) Rajiv Jain

3) Anil Dhasmana

4) Rajinder Khanna

5) Pankaj Saran

8. Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) is testing its payments bank services among its employees. The Jio Payments Bank was formed in Apr 2018 as a 70 : 30 joint venture between RIL and

1) ICICI Bank

2) HDFC Bank

3) Bank of Baroda

4) Punjab National Bank

5) State Bank of India

9. India and which country recently signed an agreement on internal security cooperation, the first such agreement to be signed between the two countries?

1) North Korea

2) Mongolia

3) China

4) Afghanistan

5) Iran

10. The United Nations Day is observed every year on which date?

1) 02 Oct

2) 04 Oct

3) 14 Oct

4) 24 Oct

5) 31 Oct

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Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 25 October 2018