Current affairs quiz

1. India is ranked at what position in crony-capitalism with crony sector wealth accounting for 3.4 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP)?

Answer: Ninth Position  

2. India and Bangladesh conducted a five-day dialogue in which place over a host of security issues, including drug trafficking and cattle smuggling across the border between the two neighbors?

Answer: Dhaka

3. Name the Apple CEO who recently visited India.

Answer: Tim Cook

4. President Pranab Mukherjee has inaugurated an Intelligent Operations Centre (IOC) in?

Answer:  Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi

5. Which state Chief Minister has inaugurated the World’s largest Single Rooftop Solar Power Plant with capacity of 11.5 MegaWatt (MW)?

Answer: Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal 

6. State run Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has successfully commissioned the first 800 MW super critical thermal unit in?

Answer: Karnataka

7. Who took charge as the Information and Broadcasting Secretary?

Answer: Ajay Mittal

8. Name the Indian American Sikh woman from California who has been elected as the newest national committee woman of the Republican National Committee. 

Answer: Harmeet Kaur Dhillon 

9. Who was elected unopposed as the ICC's first independent Chairman for two years?

Answer: Shashank Manohar

10. Name the Brazil President who was suspended for at least six months after the country's Senate voted 55-22 to impeach and put her on trial.

Answer: Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff