1). TRAI Telecom regulator has forced penalty of rupees ______ for companies including BSNL, Airtel, and Vodafone, for poor service.
a) 13 crore
b) 11 crore
c) 9.5 crore
d) 12 crore
e) 17 crore
Answer: b)
Explanation: Telecom regulator TRAI has imposed over Rs.11 crore as penalty on telecom operators, including BSNL, Airtel, and Vodafone, for poor service quality including call drops, Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha said on Friday. Of this, the highest penalty has been imposed on Aircel of Rs.3 crore for not meeting quality parameters for 2G service and Rs.1.56 crore for poor 3G service.
2). Theme of world cancer day 2017 ?
a) Together , We Can
b) We can, only We can
c) Together , We fight for it.
d) We can. I can.
e) Fight against odds
Answer: d)
Explanation: : World Cancer Day is celebrated every year on 4th of February all over the world to commemorate all the efforts done by the WHO, United Nations, governmental and nongovernmental health organizations towards making the strategy to fight against cancer as well as distributing the real message about this epidemic disease and its treatments including its precautionary measures by uniting all the people a day on global basis. The theme of the World Cancer Day 2016, 2017 and 2018 is “We can. I can.”
3). ___________ has been appointed as the managing director and chief executive officer of National Stock Exchange (NSE)
a) Vikram Limaye
b) Anshu Jain
c) Azim Premji
d) G. V. Prasad
e) Sanjiv Mehta
Answer: a)
Explanation: The National Stock Exchange (NSE) board has approved the appointment of current IDFC MD and CEO Vikram Limaye as its next managing director and chief executive officer. The appointment is pending markets regulator SEBI's approval. Notably, Limaye has also been appointed as one of the four members of the governing body of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
4). Odisha state got sanctioned Rs. ________ for railway industrial projects and rail infrastructure development from central government.
a) 6,024 crore
b) 3,342 crore
c) 5,102 crore
d) 4,316 crore
e) 4,373 crore
Answer: c)
Explanation: The Centre has sanctioned Rs.5,102 crore for railway industrial projects and rail infrastructure development in Odisha, East Coast Railway General Manager Umesh Singh said today. This includes Rs.700 crore and Rs.275 crore for the Khurda-Bolangir and Jeypore-Nabarangpur rail projects respectively. Funds have also been allocated for the Talcher-Bimlagarh and Lanjigarh Road-Junagarh rail projects.
5).In which state assembly election has set up pink polling booths in the state to encourage women voters to cast their votes?
a) Punjab
b) Assam
c) Bihar
d) Goa
e) Karnataka
Answer: d)
Explanation: As Goa goes to poll on Saturday, the authorities have set up pink polling booths in the state to encourage women voters to cast their votes. Notably, the state has 32,354 first-time voters, which include 18,172 female voters. However, out of the total 251 candidates fielded this year, only 19 are women.
6). Negotiations on free trade agreement were held between Mexico and _______
a) Spain
b) Colombia
c) Cuba
d) Morocco
e) Turkey
Answer: e)
Explanation: Mexico and Turkey have agreed to speed up negotiations for a free trade agreement in the wake of protectionist threats from US President Donald Trump. Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray and his visiting Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu yesterday said the two governments have held seven rounds of talks and will meet again in the coming weeks.
7). The former Central Bureau of Investigation director who recently passed away ?
a) Alok Verma
b) Joginder Singh
c) D. P. Kohli
d) Sunil Kumar Jha
e) Rajiv Singh
Answer: b)
Explanation: Former Central Bureau of Investigation director Joginder Singh passed away earlier on Friday after a prolonged illness. His cremation will happen on Saturday at the Lodhi Crematorium in New Delhi. Singh, who was an Indian Police Service officer and served as the CBI director between 1996-97, has been serving as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Sunil Healthcare Ltd since 2000.
8). _________ Airlines company in India has started a service from New Delhi to Dulles International Airport in suburb of Washington DC which is of non-stop journey.
a) IndiGo
b) Jet Airways
c) Air India
d) Spicejet
e) AirAsia
Answer: c)
Explanation: Air India will start three flights a week non-stop from New Delhi to Dulles International Airport in suburb of Washington DC this summer. Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe said, the move will bring 30,000 people from India to America every year for economic, commercial and family purposes. He said, the direct flights will also attract students from India to come and study at universities in Virginia and other parts of the United States.
9). 10th edition of Sula Festival held in ________
a) Nagpur , Maharashtra
b) Jabalpur , Madhya Pradesh
c) Cuttack, Odisha
d) Nashik, Maharashtra.
e) e)Gaya , Bihar
Answer: d)
Explanation: The tenth edition of Sula Fest began on Friday at the Sula Vineyards in Nashik, Maharashtra. The line-up for the three-day festival, which will also feature professional wine tastings and grape stomping, includes artists Infected Mushroom and Nucleya. Tickets for Sula Fest, which is offering a camping stay facility, range from Rs.1500 to Rs.4900.
10). ________ has become the Principal Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Finance.
a) M. M. Sachdeva
b) Pankaj Gupta
c) Om Dutt Sharma
d) Sanjeev Sanyal
e) Rajiv Kumar
Answer: d)
Explanation: The government on Friday appointed noted economist and former Deutsche Bank Managing Director Sanjeev Sanyal as the Principal Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Finance. He has been appointed on contract for a period of three years. Sanyal is an alum of Delhi’s Shri Ram College of Commerce as well as the University of Oxford.
11).World Cancer Day is celebrated on ?
a) February 12th
b) February 15th
c) February 4th
d) January 28th
e) February 2nd
Answer: c)
Explanation: World Cancer Day is celebrated every year on 4th of February all over the world to commemorate all the efforts done by the WHO, United Nations, governmental and nongovernmental health organizations towards making the strategy to fight against cancer as well as distributing the real message about this epidemic disease and its treatments including its precautionary measures by uniting all the people a day on global basis. It is celebrated to plan some new strategies as well as implement some new programs which help to aware more people about this disease.
12).Sheela Balakrishnan who resigned as _____ state government administrative advisor .
a) Tamil Nadu
b) Karnataka
c) Bihar
d) Assam
e) uttrakhand
Answer: a)
Explanation: Former Chief Secretary Sheela Balakrishnan on Friday quit as adviser to the Tamil Nadu Government, a post to which she was appointed by the then Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in March 2014, after her superannuation from civil services. In a parallel development, K.N. Venkataramanan and A. Ramalingam, the Secretary I and IV respectively in the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO), were removed from their posts. Mr. Venkataramanan, a retired civil servant, and Mr, Ramalingam, a serving officer, were also key members of Jayalalithaa’s team of trusted officials.
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