GK Current Affairs Quiz: June 10, 2017

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Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhu inaugurated Indian Railways first HR Round Table Conference. It was carried out to review Human Resource policy of the railways as most often wrong people have been assigned with the wrong jobs.

Ans. C

The world’s oldest fossil mushroom dating back to about 115 million years has been discovered in Brazil. The mushroom has been named Gondwanagaricites magnificus and belongs to the Agaricales order. It is about five centimetres tall and has gills under its cap, rather than pores or teeth.

Ans. C

European Union has imposed new anti-dumping duties on steel products from China, as it broadens its campaign to protect struggling steel manufacturers in Europe. EU has imposed duties of up to 35.9 per cent on Chinese hot-rolled flat steel used in shipbuilding, gas containers and energy pipelines.

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International Olympic Committee has approved new events for the 2020 Tokyo Games, including a number of mixed-gender competitions. The decision will lead to a net increase of 15 events and the highest representation of female athletes in Olympic history.

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Canara Bank has inked pact with the New India Assurance to sell policies through its branches. The tie-up will offer personal products such as motor insurance, home insurance, health insurance besides commercial policy coverages like fire insurance, marine insurance. 

Ans. C

Miroslav Lajcak, the Slovak foreign minister, has been elected by the UN General Assembly to be the next president of the 193 – member powerful body. He will chair the assembly’s 72nd session in September, 2017 and will succeed Peter Thomson.

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A technology developed by IIT-Kharagpur will monitor the condition of patients before the ambulance reaches the hospital. The institute has devised a life saver technology that can be fitted in an ambulance and is capable of monitoring various psychological parameters like ECG, heart rate, blood pressure and temperature.

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Habibganj in the suburbs of Bhopal will redefine the concept of a railway station in India. The country’s first railway station to be redeveloped as a public-private partnership (PPP), will have amenities like escalators, lifts, parking lot, landscaping, concourse, walkway, travelators, parcel corridor and subways.

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Market regulator SEBI has set up a committee under the Chairmanship of Uday Kotak, Executive Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Kotak Mahindra Bank to help improve the standards of corporate governance of listed companies in India. The panel includes representatives of Corporate India, stock exchanges, professional bodies, investor groups, chambers of commerce, law firms, academicians and research professionals, and Sebi.

Ans. C

The Election Commission of India is announcing the schedule of the upcoming election of the fourteenth President of India. The election will be held on July 17 as the term of the current President Pranab Mukherjee’s expires in July.