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07 Current Affairs CURRENT AFFAIRS JUNEJUNE -- 20192019 VOLUME - VI ADITYA COLLEGE OF COMPETITIVE EXAMS Santhinagar, KAKINADA Ph : 0884 - 2376662 ADITYA COLLEGE OF COMPETITIVE EXAMS Santhinagar, KAKINADA, Ph : 0884 2376662 CURRENT AFFAIRS - JUNE 2019 VOLUME - VI 1. 1) How much of monthly pension has been approved by cabinet to small traders, businessmen, and shopkeepers under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Pension Yojana (PM-KPY) on 31st May 2019? 1) 2000 2) 2500 3) 3000 4) 3500 5) None of these Ans – 3 2. Under which scheme Union Cabinet has approved the extension from earlier two hectares of land to all eligible farmer families, irrespective of the size of their landholding? 1) Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana 2) Pradhan Mantri Kisan Pension Yojana 3) Pradhan Mantri Gramin Awaas Yojana 4) Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana 5) None of these Ans – 1 3. Cabinet approved new initiative to control Foot & Mouth Disease (FMD) and __________to support livestock rearing farmers. 1) Encephalitis 2) Brucellosis 3) Cowpox 4) Syphilis 5) None of these Ans – 2 4. Name the Chile city which became the southernmost city in the world. 1) Puerto Varas 2) Puerto Natales 3) Puerto Montt 4) Puerto Williams5) None of these Ans – 4 5. Who has became the first IAF woman pilot to become fully operational by day on Hawk advanced jet aircraft? 1) Padmavathy Bandopadhyay 2) Priya Jhingan 3) Mohana Singh 4) Nivedita Choudhary 5) None of these Ans – 3 6. Name the Indian who has been appointed Deputy Executive Director of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). 1) Anita Bhatia 2) Kiran Bedi 3) Urmila Singh 4) Kamla Beniwal 5) None of these Ans – 1 7. Sachin Bansal to join Ujjivan Small Finance banks as its independent director.He is a co-founder of which e- commerce company? 1) Flipkart 2) Amazon 3) Snapdeal 4) CricBuzz 5) None of these Ans – 1 8. What was the unemployment rate in India for the year 2017-2018 as per the survey conducted by National Sample Survey Office (NSSO)? 1) 6.1% 2) 6.2% 3) 6.3% 4) 6.4% 5) None of these Ans – 1 9. Find the name of three countries along with India join together to support ASEAN-ledarchitecture mechanism to promote free, open, prosperous and inclusive Indo-Pacific region. 1) Vietnam,Cambodia and Japan 2) Myanmar,Indonesia and Bangladesh 3) US,Fiji and Australia 4) US, Japan, and Australia 5) None of these Ans – 4 10. To which Indian state, Asian Development Bank(ADB) has approved $350 million loan to rehabilitate two state highways and other road improvement project? 1) Kerala 2) Bihar 3) Tamilnadu 4) Chattisgarh 5) None of these Ans – 4 11. Government has met the fiscal deficit target of ___________for the Financial Year 2018-19. 1) 3.1% 2) 3.2% 3) 3.3% 4) 3.4% 5) None of these Ans – 4 12. Which state’s Health Department was conferred with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Tobacco Control Award for 2019 during World No Tobacco Day(WNTD) ? 1) TamilNadu 2) Rajasthan 3) Andhra Pradesh 4) Gujarat 5) None of these Ans – 2 13. What will be the theme of the International Day of Yoga (IDY) 2019 in India ? 1) Theme – “Yoga for Heart” 2) Theme – “Yoga for peace” 3) Theme – “Yoga for Health” 4) Theme – “Yoga for Stability” 5) None of these Ans – 1 ADITYA COLLEGE OF COMPETITIVE EXAMS Santhinagar, KAKINADA, Ph : 0884 2376662 2 14. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) observed Financial Literacy (FL) Week on _______________ ? 1) June 2-6, 2019 2) June 1-5, 2019 3) June 4-8, 2019 4) June 3-7, 2019 5) None of these Ans – 4 15. Name the Indian Politician, who was awarded with “Orden Mexicana del Aguila Azteca” (Order of the Aztec Eagle). 1) Pratibha Patil 2) Narendra Modi 3) Ram Nath Kovind 4) Venkaiah Naidu 5) None of these Ans – 1 16 Who was elected as the President of El Salvador ? 1) Antonio Saca 2) Salvador Sánchez Cerén 3) Carlos Calleja 4) Nayib Bukele 5) None of these Ans – 4 17. Name the long-range maritime surveillance aircraft launched by Indian Navy from Salalah in Oman to patrol the Gulf of Aden . 1) P-8 India(P-8I) 2) MiG-29 3) HAL Kiran 4) HAL Chetak 5) None of these Ans – 1 18. Name the Indian aircraft, which went missing with 13 people in Assam. 1) C-130J Super Hercules 2) Boeing 73 3) Antonov AN-32 Aircraft 4) Embraer Legacy 600 5) None of these Ans – 3 19. What is the rank of India in new SDG(Sustainable Development Goals) Gender Equality Index? 1) 90th 2) 95th 3) 88th 4) 85th 5) None of these Ans – 2 20. Who received the first permanent residency – Golden Card, in Abu Dhabi ? 1) Hussain Sajwani 2) M.A.Yusuffali 3) Saif Ahmad Al Ghurair 4) Mohamed Alabbar 5) None of these Ans – 2 21. Who lead the 5-member panel constituted by Reserve Bank of India(RBI), which suggests 24×7 RTGS, NEFT, elimination of all charges in order to promote digital payments in India ? 1) H R Khan 2) Kishore Sansi 3) Nandan Nilekani 4) Aruna Sharma 5) None of these Ans – 3 22. Which country was terminated by U.S. from availing benefits of Generalized System of Preferences(GSP) scheme recently ? 1) China 2) India 3) Srilanka 4) Pakistan 5) None of these Ans – 2 23. Name the head of the committee, which submitted draft national education policy 2019 in New Delhi recently. 1) Mohammad Saadulla 2) N. Gopalaswami 3) Dr. Kasturirangan 4) Alladi Krishnaswami Ayyar 5) None of these Ans – 3 24. Name the joint Indian Army & Indian Air force exercise that concluded in Punjab recently . 1) Desert Eagle 2) Vajra Prahar 3) Kharga Prahar 4) Maitree 5) None of these Ans – 3 25. Name the scheme for which the ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship waived fee for SC/ST candidates who join vocational training . 1) Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana 2) Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana 3) Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana 4) Jan Shikshan Sansthans (JSS) 5) None of these Ans – 4 26. Which state government has signed a loan agreement worth $287 million with World Bank for promoting the state’s health system reform programme in New Delhi ? 1) West Bengal 2) Maharashtra 3) Tamil Nadu 4) Karnataka 5) None of these Ans – 3 27. As per the World Bank report “Global Economic Prospect (GEP)”, India’s growth is forecasted to ______ percent for the next two Fiscal years , FY2019 and FY2020 ? 1) 7.2% 2) 7.3% 3) 7.4% 4) 7.5% 5) None of these Ans – 4 28. Name the Cyclone Man, who was appointed as the chief of India Meteorological Department (IMD) for a period of five years . 1) Madhavan Nair Rajeevan 2) Laxman Singh Rathore 3) K.J. Ramesh 4) Mrutyunjay Mohapatra 5) None of these Ans – 4 ADITYA COLLEGE OF COMPETITIVE EXAMS Santhinagar, KAKINADA, Ph : 0884 2376662 3 29. Name the Supersonic cruise missile, which was test-fired from Complex-3 of the Integrated Test Range(ITR) at Chandipur in Odisha with a strike range of around 290 km . 1) Prahaar 2) BrahMos 3) Nirbhay 4) Shaurya 5) None of these Ans – 2 30. Which country has selected to host World Environment Day 2019 ? 1) Japan 2) India 3) China 4) U.S. 5) None of these Ans – 3 31. How many cabinet Committees were reconstituted by the government recently under the transaction of business rules ? 1) Seven 2) Six 3) Eight 4) Nine 5) None of these Ans – 3 32. Who will head the newly constituted Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs ? 1) Rajnath Singh 2) Nirmala Sitharaman 3) Ramvilas Paswan 4) Narendra Singh Tomar 5) None of these Ans – 1 33. Which country has signed an Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) with India on 18th March 2016? 1) Marshall Islands 2) Solomon Islands 3) Nauru 4) Fiji 5) None of these Ans – 1 34. Which Indian city topped the “Traffic Index 2018” and becomes congested city among 403 cities in 56 countries ? 1) Chennai 2) New Delhi 3) Mumbai 4) Bengaluru 5) None of these Ans – 3 35. What is the revised Repo rate as per the second bi-monthly monetary policy rates 2019-20? 1) 6.00% 2) 5.25% 3) 5.50% 4) 5.75% 5) None of these Ans – 4 36. What is GDP growth of India forecasted by RBI’s monetary policy committee (MPC)? 1) 7.5% 2) 7% 3) 7.2% 4) 7.1% 5) None of these Ans – 2 37. Name the Indian metro, which became India’s first ever project to receive power from a waste-to-energy plant . 1) Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation(KMRC) 2) Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation(MMRC) 3) Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) 4) Chennai Metro Rail Corporation (CMRC) 5) None of these Ans – 3 38. Who was elected as the President of Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)? 1) Gianni Infantino 2) Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa 3) Praful Patel 4) Kohzo Tashima 5) None of these Ans – 1 39. Which country has signed with Indian Air Force(IAF) worth Rs 300-crore deal for the supply of more than 100 SPICE bombs (Balakot bombs) ? 1) U.S. 2) Bangladesh 3) Russia 4) Israel 5) None of these Ans – 4 40. Name the Telangana based NGO, which bagged the United Nation’s Equator Prize for 2019. 1) Rural Health Care Foundation 2) Deccan Development Society (DDS) 3) Desire Society 4) Rural Development Society 5) None of these Ans – 2 41.
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