GK Current Affairs Quiz: June 13, 2017

Ans. B

According to the report Uttar Pradesh has the highest number of 2,50,672 children engaged in labour, followed by Bihar and Maharashtra.

Ans. D

Reserve Bank of India will issue new batch of 500 rupee banknotes with inset letter “A” in both the number panels.

Ans. A

The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India has appointed one of its officials, R K Sharma as administrator for managing the affairs of Sahara India Life Insurance Company with immediate effect.

Ans. C

Panama has cut long-standing diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favour of establishing relations with China.

Ans. C

Central Government has set up an expert committee to examine the rules which allow free movement of Indian and Myanmarese citizens within 16 kms of the border.

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.