Monday, 21 November 2016

Current Affair OCTOBER 2016 PART 6

The 2016 Women of India Festival has started in which of the following cities? 
a)-New Delhi 
b)-Jaipur 
c)-Dehradun 
d)-Allahabad 


 What is the theme of 2016 World Standards Day (WSD)? 
a)-Creating confidence globally 
b)-Standards level the playing field 
c)-Standards Build Trust 
d)-Standards – the world’s common language 


  Who won Shanghai Masters final 2016 ? 
a)-Andy Murray 
b)- Novak Djokovic 
c)-Roger Federer 
d)-Rafael Nadal 


   Who was appointed as the Director General of Foreign Trade recently? 
a) Anup Wadhawan 
b) Ajay Kumar Bhalla 
c) Jai Kumar Jha 
d) Anoop Kapoor 

 Who of the following is the author of the book, Jihad in My Saffron Garden? 
a) -Roxy Arora 
b) -Rahul Pandita 
c) -Tavleen Kaur 
d) -Arundhati Roy 

 Who was awarded with the prestigious IAFP Young scientist scholarship award 2016? 
a) Khalid Mohamed Sharif 
b) Md Yuhaan Ali 
c) Kirtiraj Kundlik Gaikwad 
d) Dashmesh Kumar 

 India recently signed a bilateral agreement for development of a network of Agro irradiation centers with which country? 
a) Russia 
b) Japan 
c) Hungary 
d) Egypt 

 Which state is observing Safe Motherhood Week to provide all necessary medical aid to expecting mothers? 
a)- Rajasthan 
b)- Punjab 
c)- Uttar Pradesh 
d)- Bihar 


 Who has been appointed new head of ICICI bank’s retail division? 
a)- Shilpa Kumar 
b)-Anup Bagchi 
c)-Rajiv Khandelwal 
d)-Abhinav Sen 

What is the theme for the 2016 International Day of Rural Women? 
a)-Moving from humiliation and exclusion to participation: Ending poverty in all its forms
 b)-Pledge for Parity 
c)- Step It Up for Gender Equality 
d)-Climate is changing. Food and agriculture must too. 


What was the theme for World Food Day that was observed on 16 October 2016? 
a)-Climate is changing. Food and agriculture must too. 
 b)-Feeding the world, caring for the earth 
 c)-Ending poverty in all its forms 
 d)-Sustainable Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition 


 Which committee has submitted its report on existence of Saraswati River to the Union Government? 
a)-Justice Sharma committee 
b)-Bhagya Shree committee 
c)-Bhaumik committee 
d)-K S Valdiya committee 

Which Indian boxer has recently won the 2016 WBC Asia welterweight title? 
 a)- Neeraj Goyat 
b)-Shiva Thapa 
c)-Manoj Kumar 
d)-Akhil Kumar 

The World Student Day (WSD) is observed on which date? 
 a)-October 16 
b)-October 17
 c)-October 15 
d)-October 14 


 “Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav-2016” has been started in which of the following cities? 
 a)-Kolkata  
 b)-New Delhi 
 c)-Jaipur 
 d)-Shimla 

 The 2016 India International Knit Fair was held in which of the following states? 
a)-Sikkim 
b)-Gujarat 
c)-Meghalaya 
d)-Tamil Nadu 

 Smriti Irani,inaugurated India international silk fair in which city? 
a)-New Delhi 
b)-Mumbai 
c)-Surat 
d)-Varanasi 



The Union Government has decided to use the Postal network for distribution of what? 
a)-Pulses 
b)-Rice 
c)-Sugar 
d)-Salt 


Kumar Poornima festival was celebrated in ? 
a)-Bihar 
b)-Rajasthan 
c)-Odisha 
d)-Maharashtra 


According to World Economic Forum (WEF), which is the safest country of the world? 
a)-Finland 
b)-Bhutan 
c)-Japan 
d)-Austria 

Which Public sector bank has appointed P.V Sindhu and K.Shrikanth as brand ambassador? 

a)-Bank of Baroda 
b)-Indus Ind Bank 
c)-Jammu and Kashmir Bank 
d)-Punjab National bank


Which Malayali writer has been awarded Mathrubhumi Literary Award 2016? 

a) Acharya Ramamurthi 
b) P V Chandran 
c) N Shriniwasan 
d) C Radhakrishnan  


What was the theme for 2016 BRICS Summit? 

a) Global Development: Goal for all 
b) Building Responsive, Inclusive and Collective Solutions 
c) Partnership for Development, Integration and Industrialization 
d) Inclusive Growth: Sustainable Solutions 


On which date International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is observed? 
a)-15th October 
b)-14th October 
c)-16th October 
d)-17th October 

 With which country, India signed an agreement for water resources and for promotion of co-operation between Indian Council of World Affairs and the country’s Council of World Affairs? 
a) Pakistan 
b) Bangladesh 
c) Russia 
d) Hungary 

Which Indian shuttler clinched the men's singles title at the Chinese Taipei Open badminton? 

a)-Saurabh Verma 
b)-Ajay Jayaram 
c)-Jishnu Sanyal 
d)-Arjun Sachdev 


Which company recently launched India’s first indigenous electric bus? 
a)   Maruti Suzuki 
b)   Tata Motors 
c)   Ashok Leyland 
d)   Hindustan Motors 

 Who of the following was appointed as member of IOC's Athletes' Commission? 
 a)   Deepa Karmakar 
 b)   Saina Nehwal 
 c)   Babita Kumari 
 d)    Pullela Gopichand 


 Name the actor who will be awarded with the 44th Chaplin Award for the year 2016 by Film Society of Lincoln Center? 
a)   Morgan Freeman 
b)   Robert De Niro 
c)   Arnold Schwarzenegger 
d)   Robert Downey 

Jr. India completed its nuclear triad by inducting which of the following submarine into service? 
a)   INS Sindhughosh 
b)   INS Shishumar 
c)   INS Chakra 
d)   INS Arihant Kigeli 

V Ndahindurwa, who passed away recently, was the king of which country? 

a)-Thailand 
b)-Rwanda 
c)-Egypt 
d)-Bhutan 


 Shenzhou-11 a manned spacecraft has been successfully launched by China 

 Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor has been bestowed with the 2016 ET Panache Trendsetter Award 

The 2017 Indian Science Congress (ISC) will be held in Andhra Pradesh  

 Indian  Cricket team recently became the world first team to play 900 ODIs

Name the grappler from India who clinched gold medal in 60kg category at the sixth edition of the TAFISA World Games in Jakarta, Indonesia? 

a)   Naveen Kumar 
b)   Muhammad Alim 
c)   Luv Singh 
d)   Dalmiya 



Name the city in which prime minister Narendra Modi launched the national SC/ST hub and zero effect on environment scheme for MSME sector in__________?

 a)   Pune 
b)   Jaipur 
c)   Ludhiana 
d)   New Delhi 


Which state has decided to roll out biometrics authentication for receiving food grains for beneficiaries of National Food Security Act (NFSA) from January 2017 in the state? 

a)-Jharkhand 
b)-Rajasthan 
c)-Kerala 
d)-Odisha 

 Who has been conferred with the V Krishnamurthy Award for excellence by Centre for Organization Development (COD)? 

a)-Vinayak Rajshekhar   b)-N.Shrinivasan 
c)- R A Mashelkar           d)-Kashi Balachandran 



 ‘Farm Tourism’ scheme has been started by which state government of India? 

a)-Tamilnadu b)-Kerala c)-Punjab d)-Haryana 



  National Summit on Fortification of Food inaugurated in New Delhi

 The first National Tribal Carnival will be launched in New Delhi 


  Who has been appointed as the Ambassador of India to the United Nations Conference on Disarmament (CD)? 

 a)-Amandeep Singh Gill 
b)-Rajiv Prajapati 
c)-Aadarsh Jain 
d)-Ravi Kumar 


 Who is the writer of the book “Jinnah Often Came To Our House”? 
a)-Rahul Pandita b)-ravish Kumar 
c)-Kiran Doshi d)-Anil Gupta  


Also Read :- 

Current Affairs Oct 2016 part 5 


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