Current Affairs Quiz (Aug 1,2 2010)

Q 1:The present Chief Justice of India is?
S.H.Kapadia
K.G.Balkrishna
B.N.Srikrishna

Q 2:No one with a tainted reputation can become a judge, once the Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill, 2010 comes into force, Union Minister for Law and Justice ................. said on Saturday.

P Chidambaram
M. Veerappa Moily
S.S.Menon

Q 3:............., the country's first browser launched recently in Bangalore, is the brainchild of Alok Bhardwaj, CEO, and Tejas Vyas, Chief Tech Lead, Hidden Reflex.
Bingo
JustDial
Epic

Q 4:The first reactor of the Koodankulam nuclear power project is expected to go critical by the year-end, Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Chairman ................ said on Friday.
Srikumar Banerjee
Anil Kakodkar
Madhavan Nair

Q 5:The Supreme Court on Friday declined to interfere with a judgment of the Bombay High Court directing a probe by the ............. into the Hari Masjid firing in Mumbai during the 1993 Mumbai riots.
CID
CBI
SIT

Q 6:Union Minister for Steel .....................said on Saturday that the Government was “considering” a ban on iron ore exports. “The other option is to consider taxes on exports as a deterrent,” he added.
Jyotirao Scindia
Naveen Jindal
Virbhadra Singh

Q 7:The Human Resource Development Ministry is organising a round-table on August 28 to discuss the Innovation for................., 2010.
Universities Bill
Right to Education Bill
Child Labour Bill

Q 8:Sports Minister ................. promised on Saturday to take “prompt and appropriate” action in cases of corruption in the Commonwealth Games and said all deals for the games should be tabled in Parliament.
Suresh Kalmadi
M.S. Gill
Arun Jaitley

Q 9:In a new twist to the Commonwealth Games ‘scam', India's Deputy High Commissioner in London said on Saturday that the High Commission had not recommended the name of ..........., as claimed by OC chairman Suresh Kalmadi.
BAG Films
Endemol Films
AM Films

Q 10:Pressure is mounting on Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to call off his visit to the U.K. next week in the wake of British Prime Minister David Cameron's statement in India that Pakistan was exporting terror. While the Inter Services Intelligence chief .............. is reported to have cancelled his visit to the U.K. as a mark of protest, the presidential tour is on the cards as of now.
Shuja Pasha
Shah Qureshi
Rehman Malik

Q 11:..................was awarded this year's Lokmanya Tilak award here on Sunday, on the 90th death anniversary of Bal Gangadhar Lokmanya Tilak.
Sheila Dixit
Sushma Swaraj
Mamata Banerjee

Q 12:As per Monday's agreement to end the parliamentary deadlock, in each of the two Houses, a resolution will be moved by the Chair — on Tuesday in the Lok Sabha and Wednesday in the Rajya Sabha — expressing concern over inflationary pressure on the economy and calling upon the Centre to take steps to reduce its adverse impact on the common man.Who is the present Parliamentary Affairs Minister?

Prithviraj Chauhan
Pawan Kumar Bansal
Milind Deora

Q 13:Amid continuing debate over whether death penalty should be abolished in India, NHRC chairperson ..................... has favoured continuance of the provision which has a “deterrent effect” in a country where various types of crimes are on the rise.
Renukha Choudhary
Kapil Sibal
K.G. Balakrishnan

Q 14:Uttar Pradesh has high infant mortality with high levels of under-nutrition and extremely low level of breastfeeding. It was keeping these factors in mind that a project ‘Baby Friendly Community Health Initiative' (BFCHI) was initiated in.......... and implemented in Lalitpur by the Department of Paediatrics BRD Medical College at Gorakhpur, UNICEF and the State government.
2006
2007
2008

Q 15:The U.S. on Sunday said the Taliban did not have American Stinger missiles as revealed by ................... on Afghan war, even as it expressed concern over Pakistan's ISI maintaining links with extremist elements.
BBC Report
Wikileaks
CNN Report

Q 16:Citing security concerns, the .......... has decided to bar some services of Blackberry — messenger, e-mail and web browsing — from October 11.
US
UK
UAE

Q 17:Ms. Gandhi's letter to her fellow Congress workers, which appeared in the July issue of the party mouthpiece ..........., was significantly released on a day when the Central and State governments were grappling with the spurt in violence in the valley.
Sandesh
Pratigya
Sankalp

Q 18:A CBI court on Saturday issued the non-bailable arrest warrant to ..............., former senior vice-president of SNC Lavalin, in the SNC Lavalin case and directed the CBI to serve on him through proper channel.
Nicholas Fernandes
Claus Trendl
Hammond Pereira

Q 19:At a time when serious questions are being raised over the alleged wrong doings in the allotment of contracts for development of infrastructure for the coming Commonwealth Games resulting in huge financial losses, Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry claims to have saved Rs. 700 crore by re-tendering contracts for setting up ......... AIIMS-like institutions across the country.
10
12
6

Q 20:A landmark international treaty to ban cluster munitions took effect on Sunday, requiring signatories to stop the use, production and transfer of the deadly weapons.International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) chief .........................said Sunday's milestone “stigmatises the use of cluster munitions”.
Jakob Kellenberger
Jacob Zuma
Joseph Anthony