Current Affairs Quiz for Competitive Exams 2017

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1; Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull arrived in New Delhi on a four-day India visit; Australia will start supplying uranium to India "as soon as possible, the visiting Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, said.
2; In his first televised interview, H.R. McMaster, the National Security Adviser to President Donald Trump, pointed to dual U.S. goals of defeating the Islamic State terror group and removing Mr. Assad from power.
1; The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres. The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.
2; A new web portal "nakshe" was launched by the Union Minister for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Dr. Harsh Vardhan in New Delhi, on the occasion of 250th anniversary of Survey of India (Sol).
3; The Supreme Court dismissed a PIL seek-ing declaration of the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 between India and Pakistan as ille-gal and unconstitutional.
2; Among states, Andhra Pradesh tops the chart with largest cumulative solar genera-tion capacity of 1,867 MW as on March 31, 2017 followed by Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu at 1,812 MW and 1&91 MW respectively.
2; Kulbhushan Jadhav is an Indian national arrested in Balochistan, Pakistan, over charges of terrorism and spying for India's intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wng (MAW). The Indian government recognises Yadav as a former naval officer, however denies his links with the government; and maintains that he took premature retirement and was possibly abducted from Iran. On 10 April 2017, Yadav was sentenced to death by a Field General Court Martial (FGCM) In Pakistan.
1; The Lok Sabha passed a constitutional amendment which introduces a National Commission for socially and Educationally Backward Classes in the Constitution, despite opposition parties claiming certain clauses affected the federal structure of the country. The National Commission for Backward Classes Bill 2017 to repeal the 1993 law was also passed.
4; Group of Seven (G7) countries united to isolate the Syrian President Bhashar al-Assad diplomatically and urged Russia to do the same, no agreement was reached on sanctions against Russia for supporting the Syrian regime. The Group of 7 (G7) is a group consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The European Union is also represented within the G7.
3; India raises two spots to become the 4th largest aviation market after US, China and Japan.
2; West Bengal is set to develop the coun-try's largest coal mine in Birbhum district, with the Centre allotting the development rights for the Deocha Pachami coal block to the state under the government route.
3; Agdculture lender NABARD plans to raise Rs.50,000 crore in the current fiscal, up from Rs.40,000 crore it raised in 2016-17 as it aims to achieve the government's Rs.10 lakh crore target lending for agri-culture by the fiscal ending March 2018.
2; The Haldia port of West Bengal has emerged as the cleanest in a first-ever ranking of all major Indian ports on sani-tation parameters.
3; The merger of Cairn India with Vedanta has been completed; the two companies are controlled by billionaire Anil Agarwal.
4; The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given its approval for setting up of Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy (IIPE) at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh as "an Institute of National Importance" through an Act of Parliament.
3; Sri Lanka and China decided to redefine the port city project, now calling it an International Financial City. The largest foreign direct investment in Sri Lanka, the $1.4-billion project will house a financial centre and a host of other facilities, including a marina, a central park, and possibly an international school and hos-pital over the next 30 years.
4; Shijian-13, China's first high-throughput communications satellite, was launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China's southwestern Sichuan Province.
2; The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved signing of Framework of Understanding (FoU) on Cooperation in the Hydrocarbon Sector with Bangladesh.
3; The Finance Ministry has rejected iPhone makerApple's demand for tax exemptions for setting up a manufacturing unit in India saying that the decision will have to be taken up by the GST Council.
2; A short film made by a student from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, has made It to a selection of films to be screened at the film festival in Cannes. Payal Kapadia's 13-minute film, Afternoon Clouds, has been chosen in the Cinefondation category, open to film schools across the world.
3; Veteran Indian off-spimer Harbhajan Shgh was named one of the eight ambassadors for the ICC Champions Trophy scheduled in England from June 1 to 18, 2017.
2; The Supreme Court dismissed yet anoth-er petition filed by a UP resident seeking to pay undisclosed income along with tax and penalty in old notes under the Pradhan Mantri Garth Kalyan Yojana.
2; Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to launch SHIM-Aadhaar, the merchant interface of the Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) mobile application, on the occasion of Ambedkar Jayanti to pave the way for making digital payments by citizens using the Aadhaar platform.
4; Officials of Kheri district in India and Kanchanpur in Nepal have agreed to a joint survey of their boundaries to resolve border dispute.

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Current Affairs Quiz for Competitive Exams 2017

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