GK Current Affairs Quiz: May 7, 2017

Ans. C

India’s first private sector small arms manufacturing plant was today inaugurated at Malanpur in Madhya Pradesh, which will supply world class weapons to the armed forces in line with the country’s defence indigenisation programme. The plant, a joint venture between India’s Punj Lloyd and Israel Weapon Systems, will produce four products — X95 carbine and assault rifle, Galil sniper rifle,

Tavor assault rifle and Negev Light Machine Gun (LMG)

Ans. B

Noted tea planter from Assam Prabhat Kamal Bezboruah, who was once a banker in the US, has been appointed the new chairman of the Tea Board of India by the Commerce ministry. With this, Bezboruah becomes the first non-IAS and an industry insider to be at the helm of the Kolkata-headquartered Tea Board, the governing body of the industry. Renowned coffee grower M S Boje Gowda was appointed as chairman of the Coffee Board. Santiago Sarangi, an IAS officer, was looking after the affairs of Tea Board as its acting chairman.

Ans. A

Azim Premji led Wipro’s logo since 1998 was a multi coloured Sunflower. They replaced it after almost two decades with a contemporary logo consisting of colourful dots, showing the philosophy of the way it “connects the dots” for its clients. Wipro today has over 1.7 lakh employees on its payrolls. It posted gross revenue of USD 8.5 billion for the financial year which ended on 31 March, 2017.

Ans. C

In around two years from now, the Chenab River in Jammu and Kashmir will be spanned by the world’s tallest railway bridge that is expected to be 35 metres taller than the Eiffel Tower. The massive arch-shaped structure, being constructed at a cost of around Rs 1,100 crore in a hostile terrain, will use over 24,000 tonnes of steel and rise 359 m above the river bed. Designed to withstand wind speeds of up to 260 km per hour, the 1.315 km-long “engineering marvel” will connect Bakkal (Katra) and Kauri (Srinagar). Since the area is in a high seismic, special care is being taken by the DRDO to equip the Rs 12,000-crore bridge to withstand any major blast in the militancy-affected region. Currently, 1,400 men are working day and night to complete the behemoth structure by March, 2019.

The bridge forms a crucial link in the 111-km stretch between Katra and Banihal, which is a part of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla rail link project.