GK Current Affairs Quiz: June 16, 2017

Ans. D

Tamil Nadu Government has announced free education for the transgender community in the Manonmaniam Sundaranar University in Tirunelveli. One seat in every course of all the colleges affiliated to the university has been reserved for the transgenders.

Ans. A

Former Chief Justice of India of India Justice P.N.Bhagwati passed away. He introduced the concepts of PIL and absolute liability to the Indian judicial system. In 2007 Bhagwati was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in public affairs, India’s second highest civilian award.

Ans. C

Virat Kohli has became the fastest cricketer to score 8000 runs in ODIs. He reached the 8000-run mark in his 175th innings to go ahead of A B de Villiers who had taken 182 innings to reach to the milestone.

Ans. B

India continued to climb on the Global Innovation Index 2017, emerging as the highest ranked economy in Central and South Asia. India moved up six places to 60th among 130 nations.

Ans. B

USD 150 million equity investment loan has been granted to the India Infrastructure Fund by Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.This is bank’s first such loan to fund private projects.

Ans. C

The European Union has slapped anti-dumping duties on more steel products from China to stop them flooding Europe’s struggling steel market. The European Commission has imposed duties of up to 35.9 percent on Chinese hot-rolled flat steel used in shipbuilding, gas containers, pressure vessels, tubes and energy pipelines.

Ans. B

Maharashtra government has announced a sweeping farm loan waiver foe farmers who fulfill certain conditions to ensure the scheme benefits only marginal famers and “genuine farmers” who have been paying off their loans. The government waived the farm loans of marginal farmers—3.1 million out of the total 13.6 million registered farmers—with immediate effect.

Ans. A

Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu inaugurated Indian Railways’ 1st HR Round Table Conference in New Delhi. The three main themes of the conference were, Stakeholders Expectations from HR, The Future of Work – HR Role and Creativity within Constraints

Ans. D

The Telangana government has launched a website to facilitate the service of selling and purchasing cattle online The online sale or purchase of cattle through pashubazar.telangana.gov.in website will help farmers as the cattle need not be brought to shandies every time and farmers can save on transportation cost on cattle.

Ans. C

Bologna will host the Environment Ministerial Meeting of the G7 on 11-12th June. The meeting will be attended by the Environment Ministers of the seven countries and the Commissioners of the European Union for Environment and Climate.