CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 29TH JUNE 2019

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 29^TH JUNE 2019

1.        Which govt scheme has benefitted 2.22 crore villagers with Digital Education and now working towards the goal of making one lakh digital villages?

A) Pradhan Mantri Digital Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMDKVY)

B) Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Digital Saksharta Yojana (PMSDSY)

C) Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA)

D) Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (DDUDSA)

E) None of these

2.        Who was appointed as the head of newly constituted committee for ensuring inter-ministerial coordination on resolving issues related to e-commerce?

A) Sanjay Kothari

B) Ramesh Abhishek

C) Pradeep Kumar Sinha

D) Nripendra Misra

E) None of these

3.        Name the minister, who formed the Group of Secretaries (GoS) for ensuring inter-ministerial coordination on resolving issues related to e-commerce.

A) Piyush Goyal

B) Suresh Prabhu

C) D. V. Sadananda Gowda

D) Pralhad Joshi

E) None of these

4.        Which state celebrated the 23rd Sindhu Darshan Festival 2019?

A) Assam

B) Odisha

C) West Bengal

D) Jammu and Kashmir

E) None of these

5.        Which organization has issued a framework for setting up of financial benchmark administrator (FBA) for administering ‘significant benchmarks’ in the markets for financial instruments?

A) Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India(IRDAI)

B) National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development(NABARD)

C) Reserve Bank of India (RBI)

D) Securities and Exchange Board of India(SEBI)

E) None of these

6.        Who won the ‘world’s best coder’ award in 6th Edition of TechGig Code Gladiators 2019?

A) Himanshu Singh

B) Jaspreet Singh

C) Sameer Gulati

D) Surya Kiran Adury

E) None of these

7.        Who was appointed as the chief of Research and Analysis Wing(RAW) for a fixed two-year term?

A) Alok Joshi

B) Rajinder Khanna

C) Anil K Dhasmana

D) Samant Kumar Goel

E) None of these

8.        Name the IPS Officer from Assam- Meghalaya cadre, who has been appointed as the chief of Intelligence Bureau (IB) for the tenure of two years.

A) Mukesh Kumar

B) Arvind Kumar

C) Gyanesh Kumar

D) Vivek Bhardwaj

E) None of these

9.        Who was appointed as the Director of Nehru Centre in London, which comes under the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR)?

A) Amish Tripathi

B) Salman Rushdie

C) Anita Desai

D) Vikram Seth

E) None of these

10.    Name the author of the novel titled ‘The New Delhi Conspiracy’.

A) Kiran Desai

B) Mulk Raj Anand

C) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

D) Meenakshi Lekhi

E) None of these

11.    International Micro, Small and Medium-sized (MSME) Enterprises Day is observed annually on ______________?

A) June 24

B) June 26

C) June 27

D) June 25

E) None of these

12.    The Indian Air Force (IAF) has marked the 20th anniversary of Kargil War at which air base?

A) Agra

B) Bikaner

C) Gwalior

D) Jhansi

E) None of these