Current Affairs Quiz (dated 25 July2010)

 




Q 1:Villagers opposing the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project in the ............ region of Maharashtra have refused the enhanced compensation package announced by State Power Minister Ajit Pawar in the Legislative Council last week
Khandesh
Konkan
Vidharbha

Q 2:A committee of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF) on Saturday found that the green signal for land acquisition for the proposed .................... project in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district was given, ignoring implementation of the Forest Rights Act, 2006.

Gangadhara Steels P Ltd
Posco-India steel plant
Aryam Steels P Ltd

Q 3:The four-member panel, which holds the fate of Vedanta's bauxite mining project in the Niyamgiri Hills of .............., has been given an expanded mandate.
Andhra Pradesh
Orissa
Karnataka

Q 4:T. Rajkumar, Head of Department of Molecular Oncology, Cancer Institute (WIA),..........., has been chosen for the `Kobayashi Foundation Award' for cancer research.
Chennai
Hyderabad
Bangalore

Q 5:The Congress celebrated the launch of Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY) in ..............'s Sriganganagar district
Rajasthan
Uttar Pradesh
Maharashtra

Q 6:Mr. Amorim arrives in Turkey after Iran and the European Union's foreign policy chief, ............... have exchanged letters for reviving talks between Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council as well as Germany.
Catherine Ashton
Julia Gillard
Angela Merkel

Q 7:The ............. has decided to expand the East Asia Summit (EAS) to include the United States and Russia.
APO
SAARC
ASEAN

Q 8:What started out as a war of words between President Hugo Chavez of ........... and President Álvaro Uribe of ..........., even as far back as 2007, has now become an open diplomatic conflict in a multilateral forum and threatens to escalate into something worse.
Brazil,Cuba
Venezuela,Paraguay
Venezuela,Colombia

Q 9:Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on a war-crimes warrant, won't attend an African Union (AU) summit due to get under way in ........... on Sunday
Kenya
South Africa
Uganda

Q 10:While .......... has for the most part been careful not to stray into any sensitive areas of the United States' foreign policy engagements with third parties, its recent overtures to the heads of the military junta in Myanmar could prove to be a stress point in the its relationship with US.
India
Israel
HongKong