current affairs 18 NOVEMBER 2015

Ques. : 1 Zarin Daruwala was named as new India CEO of which of the following foreign banks recently?
1) Standard Chartered
2) HSBC
3) Barclays
4) Citi Bank
5) Other than those given as options
Answer:- 1) Standard Chartered

Ques. : 2 Kamala Laxman, who died, recently, was a well-known
1) classical music composer
2) Bharatanatyam exponent
3) child rights activist
4) children’s books writer
5) None of these
Answer:- 4) children’s books writer

Ques. : 3 Which of the following states marked its statehood day on 15 Nov and introduced ‘Mobile Governance’?
1) Chhattisgarh
2) Telangana
3) Goa
4) Jharkhand
5) Odisha
Answer:- 4) Jharkhand

Ques. : 4 India's first retail facility at AIIMS to provide drugs for cancer and cardiovascular diseases at highly discounted rates was inaugurated recently. The pharmacy is named
1) SANJIVANI
2) AMRIT
3) SAMARTH
4) JEEVAN JYOTI
5) AAROGYA
Answer:- 2) AMRIT

Ques. : 5 Mitchell Starc bowled the fastest delivery ever measured at a test match clocked at 160.4 kmph recently. He plays for
1) New Zealand
2) Australia
3) England
4) South Africa
5) Zimbabwe
Answer:- 2) Australia

Ques. : 6 The overdraft under Jan Dhan scheme has reached near Rs 120-cr mark. The overdraft facility of Rs 5,000 is given to one of the earning (preferably a woman) account holders in each family after ________ of satisfactory transactions.
1) one month
2) three months
3) six months
4) nine months
5) twelve months
Answer:- 3) six months

Ques. : 7 The Parliament of which country ratified a nuke deal with India recently and India will be the first country to buy Uranium from it despite not being a signatory to the NPT?
1) Japan
2) US
3) Australia
4) UK
5) Japan
Answer:- 3) Australia

Ques. : 8 The committee set up to look into the ways to revive Public Private Partnership (PPP) model is headed by
1) Nachiket Mor
2) Bimal Jalan
3) Vijay Kelkar
4) Y Venugopal Reddy
5) C Rangarajan
Answer:- 3) Vijay Kelkar

Ques. : 9 During the recent G20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey, PM Narendra Modi pledged to quadruple India’s renewable power capacity to 175 gigawatt by
1) 2016
2) 2018
3) 2020
4) 2022
5) 2024
Answer:- 4) 2022

Ques. : 10 India and which country signed the standard operating procedure (SOP) in New Delhi recently to operationalise the Agreement on Coastal Shipping, signed earlier?
1) Myanmar
2) Sri Lanka
3) Maldives
4) Japan
5) Bangladesh
Answer:- 5) Bangladesh