Current Affairs Quiz 14 October 2014

1. India has setup which management team to follow through on the $35 bn that Japan has promised to invest in India over a span of five years via PPP and overseas development assistance ?

A. Follow-up Japan
B. Big Circle
C. Handshake
D. Japan Plus

D. Japan Plus

2. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who is on a two-day visit to New Delhi, launched the global Internet project called __________ in the country.

A. Namaste India
B. internet.org
C. internet 2.0
D. dot bharat

B. internet.org

Internet.org is a global partnership between technology leaders, nonprofits, local communities and experts who are working together to bring the internet to the two thirds of the world’s population that doesn’t have it.

3. The Punjab and Haryana High Court disqualified the merger of five which political party MLAs with the Congress in accordance with the anti-defection law ?

A. Punjab Janhit Congress (PJC)
B. Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC)
C. Haryana Congress (HC)
D. Lokdal

B. Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC)

4. Burdwan blast to be probed by National Investigation Agency (NIA). Burdwan is located in which state?

A. Haryana
B. UttarPradesh
C. West Bengal
D. Tamilnadu

C. West Bengal

5. The Minister for Minority Affairs, Najma Heptullah, announced the establishment of a nation level skill development Academy, "Maulana Azad National Academy for Skills" (MANAS) with headquarters in _______.

A. Gandhinagar
B. Delhi
C. Mumbai
D. Mussoorie

B. Delhi

6. The Government has modified the timeline for Cable TV Digitisation. As per the new timeline, Phase III will be over by end of ______.

A. 2014
B. 2015
C. 2016
D. 2017

B. 2015

7. A team of researchers led by Dr. Scott Blanchard of ______________________________ developed a technology that makes visible the dance or movements of HIV proteins on the virus' surface.

A. Africa Genome Education Institute
B. Weill Cornell Medical College of New York, USA
C. Roslin Institute, Scotland
D. Belgian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

B. Weill Cornell Medical College of New York, USA

8. Which Union Ministry launched The Maithreyi International Visiting Professorship in New Delhi?

A. Union Ministry of Science & Technology
B. Union Ministry of Human Resource Development
C. Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
D. Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

A. Union Ministry of Science & Technology

The programme will be jointly supported by Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Department of Science and Technology (DST) of the Union government.

Under the scheme, India will invite 12 leading international science scholars from across the world to visit India as Visiting Professors. Every year the visiting professors will deliver three talks, one each in a school, a college and a research institution.

9. To realise Gram Swaraj which scheme was launched Prime Minister Modi ?

A. Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Adarsh Gram Yojana
B. Adarsh Gram Yojana
C. Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana
D. Pradhanmantri Adarsh Gram Yojana

C. Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana

10. Which High court on 10 October 2014 ruled in favour of Vodafone in 3200 crore rupees tax dispute case arising on account of transfer pricing ?

A. Delhi High court
B. Bombay High court
C. Punjab and Haryana High court
D. Madras High court

B. Bombay High court