Current Affairs Quiz – August, September & October for IBPS Exams August - Current Affairs Quiz: Q.1) The Rajya Sabha passed the Constitution Q.8) Who came up with a spirited effort to beat _____ Bill, 2017 with amendments for setting up Florian Kaczur of Hungary and finish second in of a National Commission for Backward Classes, the Czech International Open Chess tournament was passed after dropping Clause 3. at Pardubidze in Czech Republic? a) 121st b) 122nd c) 123rd a) Humpy Koneru b) Abhijeet Gupta d) 124th e) 125th c) Vishwanathan Anand d) Harika Dronavalli Q.2) From which month of next year onwards e) Tania Sachdev government has ordered state-run oil companies Q.9) Which country will host 2024 summer to raise subsidised cooking gas, LPG, prices by Olympics? four rupees per cylinder every month to eliminate a) Japan b) Australia c) India all the subsidies? d) France e) USA a) January b) February c) March Q.10) Who beats Ryan Harrison to claim fourth d) April e) May ATP Atlanta Open title, he has reached the final in Q.3) Who will inaugurate the two-day Conclave of seven of eight editions of the tournament, added Tax Officers ―Rajaswa Gyansangam‖ scheduled to a fourth title to those he won in 2013, 2014 and be held on 1st and 2nd September, 2017 in New 2015? Delhi? a) Roger Federer b) Nick Kyrgios a) Arun Jaitley b) Narendra Modi c) Andy Murray d) John Isner c) Rajnath Singh d) Nitin Gadkari e) Kevin Anderson e) Narendra Singh Tomar Q.11) Who was the youngest of the famous seven Q.4) The Executive Committee of National Mission ‗Dagar Bandhus‘ and had dedicated his life to for Clean Ganga (4th meeting) approved seven keeping the Dhrupad tradition alive, died projects worth Rs _____ crore in the sector of recently. He was born in Alwar, Rajasthan on sewage infrastructure, Ghat development and April 29, 1939, he started his musical journey at research. the age of six? a) 400 b) 425 c) 450 a) Ustad sultan Sayeeduddin Dagar d) 475 e) 500 b) Ustan Hussain Rashid Khan Q.5) Name the union minister who launched c) Ustad sultan Sayeeduddin Khan ‗Swachh Survekshan-2018‘ to rank all the 4,041 d) Ustad Hussain Sayeeduddin Dagar cities and towns of the country based on e) Ustan Hussain Rashid Sayeeduddin Khan infrastructure development for improved Q.12) The Government has approved sanitation services and their sustainability, establishment of Post Graduate Institutes for outcomes, citizen connect and visible impact on Research in Yoga and Naturopathy at Nagmangla, ground. _____ and Jhajjar, _____ at a total cost of 59.67 a) Arun Jaitley b) Narendra Modi crore and 52.04 crore respectively. c) Rajnath Singh d) Nitin Gadkari a) Kerala and Karnataka e) Narendra Singh Tomar b) Karnataka and Haryana Q.6) Which of the following country gave the first c) Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh Medal of Honor recipient to James McCloughan d) Uttar Pradesh and Bihar after 48 years the selfless acts of bravery, he is e) Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh now nationally recognised? Q.13) Name the portal launched by Ram Vilas a) UK b) Bhutan c) China Paswan which will provide a platform to sell d) USA e) Japan agricultural produce. Q.7) Which country recently got struck by a) e-RaMAK b) e-RaKMA Typhoon ―Haitang‖? c) e-RaAKM d) e-RaMKA a) UK b) Bhutan c) China e) e-RaKAM d) USA e) Japan Current Affairs Quiz – August, September & October for IBPS Exams Q.14) Which country has signed a bilateral 14th National Awards for Excellence in Cost agreement with India for the transfer of Management 2016? sentenced persons, recently? a) Integrated Electric co b) Adani Power a) Somalia b) South Korea c) Syria c) Reliance Power d) Tata Power d) Australia e) Nigeria e) Power Integrated in India Q.15) The 19th round of the Regional Q.22) Which e-commerce major has completed Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) the merge with eBay India‘s operations? Trade Negotiating Committee (TNC) meetings and a) Snapdeal b) Amazon other related meetings were held from 17 to 28 c) Flipkart d) Google July 2017 held at ______. e) Yahoo a) Mumbai b) New Delhi Q.23) Which state Cabinet resolved to declare the c) Hyderabad d) Kolkata e) Chennai ―Coconut Tree‖ as the State tree? Q.16) Who has been appointed as head of the a) Maharashtra b) Madhya Pradesh Army‘s crucial Eastern Command which guards a c) Goa d) Kerala major part of Sino-India border including the e) Punjab Sikkim sector? Q.24) Which country has recently given its ex- a) Abhay Krishna b) J S Cheema post facto approval for a Memorandum of c) Kanwal Kumar d) P K Srivastava Understanding (MoU) signed among various e) Suresh Sharma BRICs countries for establishment of the BRICS Q.17) Non-Cooperation Movement Day was Agriculture Research Platform (BRICS-ARP) ? celebrated on ______. a) Brazil b) India c) Russia a) 1st August b) 2nd August d) China e) South Africa c) 3rd August d) 4th August Q.25) Who has been appointed as the prime e) 5th August minister of Papua New Guinea? Q.18) Two Indian wrestlers, Veer Dev Gulia and a) Peter O'Neill b) Sam Abal Ravinder, made it to the bronze medal round of c) Sir Michael Somare d) Sir Mekere Morauta their respective weight categories at the Junior e) Bill Skate World Wrestling Championships held in _____. Q.26) Which bank has allowed India to construct a) Somalia b) Finland c) England hydroelectric power facilities on tributaries of the d) Australia e) Nigeria Jhelum and Chenab rivers with certain Q.19) Who has been appointed as the head of restrictions? expert group on Data Protection Framework for a) Asian Development Bank India? b) International Monetary Fund a) B N Srikrishna b) Jagdish Singh Khehar c) National Development Bank c) Aziz Mushabber d) T S Thakur d) World Bank e) Adarsh sein Anand e) Reserve Bank India Q.20) Which of the following bank with Samsung Q.27) Which of the following organisation set up a India had announced the availability of payment committee on 'fair market conduct' which will platform Samsung Pay for higher variants of debit suggest measures for improving surveillance of Card? the markets and strengthen rules for algo trades, a) Dena Bank b) Vijaya Bank among other norms? c) State Bank of India a) SEBI b) RBI c) GOI d) Punjab National Bank d) IRDAI e) MEA e) Canara Bank Q.28) American Internet giant, Google India said Q.21) Which largest integrated power company, that it has reached a milestone of 100,000 announced that their Company has been awarded villages with its Internet Saathi programme which for excellence in cost management in the ‗power was launched as a pilot in Rajasthan in July 2015 distribution and transmission‘ category at the along with Tata Trusts. Google will also be Current Affairs Quiz – August, September & October for IBPS Exams expanding the program in two new states _____ c) Mexico d) Chile e) Guatemala and _____. Q.35) Who has taken over as Air Officer-in- a) Gujarat and Utter Pradesh Charge Administration of Indian Air Force at Air b) Madhya Pradesh and Odisha Headquarters, New Delhi? c) Rajasthan and Punjab a) Anil Kumar Browne d) Andhra Pradesh and Telangana b) Pradeep Vasant Naik e) Haryana and Bihar c) Hemant Narayan Bhagwat Q.29) Ahead of the implementation of the d) Arup Raha stringent capital requirements under the Basel-III e) Fali Homi Major regime from _____, the Reserve Bank amended a Q.36) From which month onwards government slew of previous regulations on the same, helping made Aadhaar numbers a pre-requisite for banks shore up their capital buffers and improves issuing death certificates to residents of all States liquidity coverage ratios. barring Jammu & Kashmir, Meghalaya and a) 2018 b) 2019 c) 2020 Assam, in order to establish the identity of the d) 2021 e) 2022 deceased? Q.30) Which state government has decided to a) August 1st b) September 1st compulsory retirement for non performing head c) October 1st d) November 1st masters, teachers and education department e) December 1st officials above the age of 50 years? Q.37) India has signed a loan agreement with a) Bihar b) Maharashtra Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) for c) Madhya Pradesh d) Odisha financing of _____ million US dollar for Gujarat e) Uttar Pradesh Rural Roads Project. Q.31) India along with ASEAN is more attractive a) 319 b) 329 c) 339 to FDIs as compared to other emerging markets d) 349 e) 359 and flows to these nations are expected to surge Q.38) In United States, the Senate has to around $_____ billion by 2025, says a Nomura unanimously confirmed three Indian-Americans to report. key government positions. Who has been a) 200 b) 220 c) 240 confirmed as the Intellectual Property (IP) d) 260 e) 280 Enforcement Coordinator in the Trump Q.32) Who won the bronze medal with a victory administration? over Ilona Prokopevniuk of Ukraine in the Junior a) Vishal Amin b) Neil Chatterjee World Wrestling Championship in Tampere, c) Krishna Urs d) Nikki Haley Finland? e) Mike Pence a) Manju Kumari b) Navjot Kaur Q.39) Who was appointed as Chairman and c) Pooja Devi d) Nandini Salokhe Managing Director in Small Industries e) Divya Tomar Development Bank of India (SIDBI) ? Q.33) Which state Government launched the a) Vatsaraj b) Tushar Buch MahaDBT portal, through which benefits of all c) Arun Kumar Agarwal government schemes will be transferred directly d) Mohammad Mustafa into bank accounts of beneficiaries in the state? e) Dinesh Khara a) Bihar b) Maharashtra Q.40) Who settled for a bronze medal after in the c) Madhya Pradesh semifinals of the WSF World doubles squash d) Punjab e) Uttar Pradesh championship in Manchester? Q.34) From which country‘s Sergio