CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 23RD SEP 2019
1.
Which organization
has partnered with National Skills Development Corporation (NSDC) and Skill
India to introduce the job-centric Spot codes to offline locations and NSDC
centres?
A) Microsoft
B) IBM
C) Facebook
D) Google
E) None of these
2.
Name the integrated
exercise conducted by Indian army in the Eastern Ladakh region in order to test
and improve its capabilities in war fighting?
A) Ekuverin
B) Ajeya Warrior
C) Chang Thang
D) Vajra Prahar
E) None of these
3.
What is the revised
corporate tax rate for domestic companies that is reduced from earlier 30%, for
those not availing tax incentives/exemptions?
A) 20%
B) 22%
C) 15%
D) 25%
E) None of these
4.
The reduced tax
rate for the new domestic manufacturing companies was 15%, what was the
previous tax rate for those companies?
A) 18%
B) 22%
C) 25 %
D) 27%
E) None of these
5.
Who won the Young
Scientist Award for the year 2018 for the significant work in the fields of
petrology, volcanology and geochemistry?
A) M.S. Dayanand
B) Nandkumar Mekoth
C) Annapurna Sakhardande
D) Sohini Ganguly
E) None of these
6.
Name the first
Indian defence minister, who fly (for 30 minutes) in the indigenously-built
light combat aircraft (LCA) Tejas?
A) Manohar Parrikar
B) Rajnath Singh
C) Chidambaram Subramaniam
D) Nirmala Sitharaman
E) None of these