Current Affairs Quiz Questions and Answers 2020 || 25 Jul 2020 ||

Current Affairs Quiz Questions and Answers 2020

25 JUL 2020

(Q.01) India and Southern African Customs Union (SACU) revived the initiative for Preferential Trade Agreement recently. Where is the HQ of SACU located?
1) Gaborone
2) Maseru
3) Lobamba
4) Windhoek 

Ans. :-(4)Windhoek

The Indian side was led by Srikar Reddy, Joint Secretary, Department of Commerce while SACU was led by Amb. Steve Katjiuanjo, Executive Director, Ministry of Industrialization, Trade, and SME (small and medium enterprises) Development of Namibia.

About the Southern African Customs Union (SACU):
It is a customs union among five countries i.e. South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini
Headquarter– Windhoek, Namibia
Executive Secretary– Paulina Mbala Elago

(Q.02) The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) launched its 1st footwear training center in which city?
1) Agra
2) Bhopal
3) Chennai
4) Delhi

Ans. :-(4) Delhi

Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has opened the first-of-its-kind footwear training center in Delhi to train the marginalized community of leather artisans. The center has been established with the technical know-how of Central Footwear Training Institute (CFTI) in Agra which is a unit of the Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises.

(Q.03) According to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)’s 7th edition of “ITUC Global Rights Index 2020”, India ranked among 10 worst countries for working people. Where is the HQ of ITUC located?
1) New Delhi
2) Geneva
3) Brussels
4) Vienna

Ans. :-(3) Brussels

About International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC):
General Secretary– Sharan Leslie Burrow
President– Ayuba Philibus Wabba
Headquarter– Brussels, Belgium

(Q.04) Which country signed EPC agreement with Pakistan for 700 MW Azad Pattan hydel power project on Jhelum river.
1) Russia
2) China
3) United States
4) North Korea

Ans. :-(2) China

About Pakistan:
Prime Minister– Imran Ahmad Khan Niazi
President– Dr. Arif Alvi 
Capital– Islamabad
Currency– Pakistani Rupee

(Q.05) Name the public sector bank which signed corporate agency pact with Life Insurance Corporation of India.
1) Union Bank of India
2) Bank of Baroda
3) Oriental Bank of Commerce
4) Bank of Maharashtra

Ans. :-(1) Union Bank of India

About Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC):
Chairman– MR Kumar
Headquarter– Mumbai, Maharashtra
Virtual Assistant– LIC Mitra
About Union Bank of India (UBI):
Managing Director (MD) & Chief Executive Officer (CEO)– Rajkiran Rai G.
Headquarter– Mumbai, Maharashtra
Virtual Assistant– UVA
Tagline– Good People to Bank with

(Q.06) India’s GDP to contract by _______ in FY21 as per estimation of Nomura.
1) 6.1%
2) 4.2%
3) 5.3%
4) 7.8%

Ans. :-(1) 6.1%

As per the report of Nomura Holdings, Inc, a Japanese brokerage firm, India’s Gross Domestic Product(GDP) is likely to contract by 6.1%(-6.1%) in FY21 as economic activity continues to be weak due to COVID-19 pandemic.

(Q.07) Which Indian PSU has supplied 20.60 MT of DDT 75 % WP to South Africa for Malaria control?
1) GAIL
2) NTPC
3) DRDO
4) HIL

Ans. :-(4) HIL

About HIL:
Chairman and Managing Director (CMD)– Dr. SP Mohanty
Headquarter– New Delhi
About South Africa:
Capitals– Cape Town, Pretoria, Bloemfontein
Currency– South African Rand
President– Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa

(Q.08) India signed MoU with which country for the establishment of the ‘Emergency Medical Services Unit’?
1) Bangladesh
2) Maldives
3) Nepal
4) Myanmar

Ans. :- (2) Maldives

About the Maldives:
President– Ibrahim Mohamed Solih
Capital – Male

(Q.09) Name the state which signed MoU with AMUL to help women self-help groups and to encourage the cooperatives in government sectors.
1) Telangana
2) Karnataka
3) Tamil Nadu
4) Andhra Pradesh

Ans. :-(4) Andhra Pradesh

About Andhra Pradesh:
Chief Minister– YS Jagan Mohan Reddy
Governor– Biswa Bhushan Harichandan
Capital– Amaravati

(Q.10) Name the person who has been appointed as the Chair of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) of the National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA).
1) S. Subramanian
2) Vidya Rajaram
3) Anantha Narayanan
4) R. Narayanaswamy

Ans. :-(4) R. Narayanaswamy

R. Narayanaswamy, Professor of Finance and Accounting in Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) was appointed as the Chair of the Technical Advisory Committee(TAC) of the National Financial Reporting Authority(NFRA), independent accounting and auditing regulator set up by the Government of India.

(Q.11) Who has been appointed as the MD&CEO of the SBI general insurance company?
1) Prakash Chandra Kandpal
2) Pushan Mahapatra
3) Devesh Srivastava
4) V Ramasamy

Ans. :-(1) Prakash Chandra Kandpal

About SBI General Insurance Company Limited
Headquarters– Mumbai, Maharashtra
Tagline– ‘Suraksha aur Bharosa Dono’

(Q.12) Find the person who got a 1-year extension in service as acting President of National Company of Law Tribunal (NCLT).
1) Acharya Dev Bhat
2) AB Pandey
3) Mahesh Kumar
4) BSV Prakash Kumar

Ans. :-(4) BSV Prakash Kumar

About National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT):
NCLT was set up under section 408 of the Companies Act, 2013, on June 1, 2016.
Former President: Justice Shri Mahesh Mittal Kumar
Principal Bench: New Delhi

(Q.13) Barry Jarman, who passed away recently is associated with which sport?
1) Hockey
2) Tennis
3) Badminton
4) Cricket

Ans. :-(4) Cricket

Former Australian test wicketkeeper, an ex-International Cricket Council match referee Barry Jarman passed away at the age of 84 years, who played in 19 tests and scored two half-centuries among his 400 runs at an average of 14.81 and made a test debut in 1959.

(Q.14) Who has received the 2019 National award of excellence for outstanding research in forestry from the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE)?
1) Kannan CS Warrier
2) V.Sivakumar
3) K. Ravichandran
4) C Buvaneswaran

Ans. :-(1) Kannan CS Warrier

About Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE):
Director-General– Arun Singh Rawat(appointed after the repatriation of the previous DG SC Gairola to his parent cadre of Maharashtra on March 16, 2020)
Location–  Dehradun, Uttarakhand

(Q.15) Which lab of DRDO developed World’s most agile and lightest surveillance drone named ‘Bharat’?
1) High Energy Materials Research Laboratory, Pune
2) Defence Electronics Research Laboratory, Hyderabad
3) Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory, Chandigarh
4) Defence Electronics Applications Laboratory, Dehradun

Ans. :-(3) Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory, Chandigarh