GK Current Affairs Quiz: June 14, 2017

Ans: C

World Blood Donor Day is celebrated in countries around the world every year on 14 June. The event, established in 2004, serves to raise awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products, and to thank blood donors for their voluntary, life-saving gifts of blood. Theme of 2017 World Blood Donor Day – Give Blood. Give Now. Give Often

Ans: C

The book named ‘Yug Purush, Bharat Ratna, Atal ji’ has been written by former Uttarakhand chief minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank.

Ans: B

The Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs and Defence, Arun Jaitley, is in Korea to participate in the India-Korea Strategic Economic Dialogue and the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of AIIB

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An MOU Signed between India and Armenia in April 2017 has been approved by the Indian Government.The MOU is for the co operation of youth matters and shall remain in force for a period of five years.

Ans: A

The BrandZ top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands list has been released and the technology giant, Google has topped it with a brand value of over 245 billion USD.

Ans. C

The Health and Family welfare ministry has launched a National Human Milk Bank and Lactation Counselling Centre at the Lady Hardinge Medical College in the national capital. This will be called ‘Vatsalya – Maatri Amrit Kosh’ .

Ans. B

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has launched the country’s heaviest rocket – Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark III (GSLV-Mk III) – along with a communications satellite GSAT-19 . GSLV Mark-III is built to lift the heaviest Indian communications satellites to space. It can carry satellites weighing 4 tonnes, double the weight that the current GSLV-Mark-II can lift.

Ans. A

Abohar Wildlife Sanctuary, located at a distance of 15 kilometres from the city Abohar in the Fazilka district of Punjab, is a unique open sanctuary which encompasses 13 revenue villages. The provisional notification for sanctuary was given in the year 1975 while in the year 2000 it was declared a wildlife sanctuary under the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972. It is private sanctuary and spread in an area of 186.5 square kilometres.

Ans. D

Sher Bahadur Deuba has been elected Prime Minister of Nepal. He is the 40 th Prime Minister to be elected. He was elected to the post that had fallen vacant following the resignation of Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal two weeks ago.

Ans. C

The government has clarified that post the abolition of the FIPB, ministries will have to decide on FDI proposals within 60 days of the application and any rejection will need concurrence of the DIPP.