Current Affairs Quiz (26,27,28 July 2010)

Q 1:Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has convened a meeting of “concerned MPs and VIPs'' to evolve a consensus on the controversial ................, 2004, which is coming up for consideration and passage in the upper House during the monsoon session of Parliament.
Water Bill
Seeds Bill
Sugar Bill

Q 2:Nobel laureate .............. on Tuesday said the sense of oneness in every individual should be “dynamic” and not confined within the narrowness of a single identity

MS Swaminathan
Amartya Sen
Venkatraman

Q 3:Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, on Tuesday refuted in the State Assembly the Opposition charge that there was Rs............... crore scam in slum rehabilitation projects and rejected the demand for an enquiry into the allegations.
25,000
50,000
20,000

Q 4:Click the right expansion
City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra Ltd. (CIDCO)
Mumbai Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC)
Mumbai Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA)

Q 5:The decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, here. The commission, to be set up under the Jammu and Kashmir Commission of Inquiry Act, ..........., will consist of Justice (retd.) Syed Basher-ud-Din (Chairman) and Justice (retd.) Y.P. Nargotra (member).
1971
1962
1996

Q 6:Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Dinesh Trivedi has sought action against sale of..........., used by farmers to enhance the growth of fruits and vegetables.
Tryptamine
Serotonin
oxytocin

Q 7:Shrugging off mounting opposition from the local people and objections from the Joint Committee under the Ministry of Environment and Forests, which is overseeing the implementation of the Forest Right Act (FRA), the Orissa government on Tuesday began the land acquisition process for the proposed Posco-India steel project in .............. district.
Jagatsinghpur
Jajpur
Jharsuguda

Q 8:The Departments of Atomic Energy and Biotechnology will sign a memorandum of understanding next week for the takeover of the Bhopal Memorial Trust Hospital for the victims of the 1984 gas tragedy.Indicating this, Union Science and Technology Minister .............. on Tuesday said the takeover would help in providing better health care to the victims.
Kapil Sibal
Prithviraj Chavan
Kamalnath

Q 9:............... has slammed unilateral European Union sanctions against Iran as “unacceptable” and showing “disdain” for the U.N. Security Council.
US
France
Russia

Q 10:Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday maintained that the Reserve Bank's policy decision to hike its short-term lending (repo) and borrowing (reverse repo) rates by ... and .... basis points would help rein in inflation without impacting the growth momentum.
25,50
22,35
25,65