Appointments Current Affairs Quiz - August 2015

1. Scientist _________ has been appointed as Director General of Indian Council of Medical Research and and Secretary in Department of Health Research. ?

Soumya Swaminathan Swashpawan Singh Rajinder Khanna S. Ayyappan None of These

2. Acharya Dev Vrat has been appointed as 26th Governor of __________ . ?

Haryana Uttar Pradesh Himachal Pradesh Assam Nagaland

3. Actor Amitabh Bachchan became ______'s state ambassador for‚ Save the Tiger‚ campaign ?

Uttar Pradesh Telangana Tripura Maharashtra None of These

4. _____ has been appointed as chairman of‚ Public Enterprises Selection Board ?

Tapan Ray Prabhu Dayal Meena Vijaylaxmi Joshi Sibabrata Tripathi Ajit Kumar Seth

5. Ajit Singh has been appointed as Chief Justice of ______ High Court. ?

Uttar Pradesh Uttaranchal Rajasthan Assam None of These

6. ________ has been appointed as Chairman and Managing Director of Air India Limited for 3 Years. ?

Ashwani Lohani Rajan S. Katoch Anoop Kumar Srivastava Sunil Arora None of These

7. Bollywood actor _______ has been named an advocate for United Nations campaign on gender equality. ?

Amitabh Bachchan Anupam Kher Shahrukh Khan Aamir Khan None of These

8.____________'s Sebastian Coe has been elected as President of International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). India's Adille Sumariwalla has been elected as a member of IAAF. ?

Britain USA Russia Spain Bulgaria

9. Coca-Cola India made cricketer _________ as its social ambassador upto 2017 ?

Sourav Ganguly Sachin Tendulkar VVS Laxman M S Dhoni None of These

10. Former Jammu University VC Amitabh Mattoo has been appointed Advisor to J&K CM ________. ?

Hamid Ansari Harish Rawat Nabam Tuki Mufti Sayeed None of These

11. ________from Indian Railway Services of Electrical Engineering (IRSEE) has been appointed as new Secretary of Railway Board. ?

Surjit Kumar Chaudhary Amitabh Kant J S Deepak‚  Ganga Ram Agarwal None of These

12. _________has been appointed as Director General of Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) ?

Ashok Kumar Gupta Girish Sahni Rajiv Mehrishi Vrinda Sarup None of These

13. Government appointed PS Jayakumar as Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of _________ ?

Allahabad Bank Bank of Maharashtra Central Bank of India UCO Bank Bank of Baroda

14. Government appointed Rakesh Sharma as MD and CEO of ______. ?

Canara Bank UCO Bank Bank of Baroda Central bank of India None of These

15. Government appointed ________ as Director of the Enforcement Directorate replacing Rajan S Katoch ?

R. Vijay kumar S. Jaishankar Nengcha Lhouvum Karnal Singh None of These

16. Indian-American Atul Keshap has been appointed as USA's Ambassador to ______ ?

India Mauritius Sri Lanka and Maldives Vietnam None of Thse

17. Indian-American ________ has been appointed as full-time federal judge of California court in USA ?

Shaktikanta Das Vince Chhabria Ranglal Jamuda Ameising Luikham None of These

18. ______ has been appointed as Chief Justice of Patna High Court (Bihar) ?

Pravir Kumar Iqbal Ahmed Ansari Shankar Agarwal Upendra Tripathy None of These

19. Jayant Manganlal Patel is appointed as Chief Justice of ______ High Court.?

Rajasthan Maharashtra Uttar Pradesh Gujarat Chandigarh

20. K. Vijay Raghavan is appointed as Secretary in Ministry of ______. ?

Earth Sciences Labour and Employment MSME Transport, Road and Highways Education

21. _________ appointed as a New Member Traffic in Railway Board ?

Kundan Sinha Devendra Chaudhary Pradeep Kumar Pujari J.K. Mohapatra None of These

22. Larsen and Toubro appointed _____ as Managing Director and CEO of its IT Arm - L&T Infotech ?

Anita Agnihotri Sanjay Jalona A. S. Kiran Kumar K. Vijayraghavan None of These

23. ______ has been appointed as Member of Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) ?

Arun Jha Shashi Shekhar Rajeev Gupta M.K. Iyer None of These

24. Madanlal Laxmandas Tahaliyani is appointed as Lokayukta of _____ ?

Uttar Pradesh Manipur Uttaranchal Mizoram Maharashtra

25. ______government appointed cricketer Sachin Tendulkar as new ambassador for Tiger Conservation Project along with Actor Amitabh Bachchan who was appointed earlier ?

Mizoram Manipur Maharashtra Tripura None of These

26. _____ has been appointed as Secretary in Ministry of Tourism ?

Narendra Kumar Sinha Rajiv Mehrishi Sanjay Kumar Panda Madhusudhan Prasad None of These

27. ______ has been appointed as a Member of Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC) for Goa & Union Terrirtories ?

Anita Agnihotri Neerja Mathur T. C. A. Anant Sanjay Kumar Panda None of These

28. ______ has been recently appointed as an Election Commissioner of India ?

Nasim Zaidi Anchal Kumar Jyoti Om Prakash Rawat Shashi Shekhar None of These

29. Piraji Kharat is appointed as MD and CEO of _______.?

Bank of Baroda UCO Bank Bank of Maharashtra Central bank of India IDBI Bank

30. ______ government signed memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with several private companies worth Rs 2,452 crore at an investor meet in New Delhi. The Investment will generate over 7000 jobs in the State.?

Gujarat Goa Rajasthan Mizoram None of These

31. Rajiv Mangla has been appointed as Chief Technology Officer of e-Commerce firm ________.?

Flipkart Amazon PayTm Snapdeal None of These

32. ________has been appointed as Union Home Secretary of India replacing L.C.Goyal.?

Ajit Kumar Seth Rajiv Mehrishi Sanjay Kumar Panda Ajit Doval None of These

33. ________has been appointed as 35th Governor of Bihar.?

Ram Nath Kovind T. C. A. Anant Ram Naik Sanjay Kumar Panda Acharya Dev Vrat

34. Rana Kapoor has been re-appointmented as MD and CEO of ______ for 3 years ?

Axis Bank HDFC Bank ICICI Bank SBI Yes Bank

35. Ranil Wickremesinghe has been appointed as Prime Minister of ___ for fourth time following his party's victory in parliamentary polls.?

Vietnam Sri Lanka Bangladesh Myanmar None of These

36. Rekha M Menon has been appointed as chairperson of ____'s India Operations ?

Accenture Microsoft Samsung Xiaomi None of These

37. Sri Lanka appointed former Cricketer ________ as Sri Lanka's ambassador to UK ?

Tilakaratne Dilshan Sanath Jayasuriya Muttiah Muralidharan Marvan Atapattu Kumar Sangakkara

38. ________ has been elected as President of Gymnastics Federation of India ?

Sudhakar Shetty Arun Jha Rajiv Yadav Rajeev Gupta None of These

39. ________ has been appointed as Secretary in Ministry of Information & Broadcasting ?

V. Somasundaran Sunil Arora Rajiv Yadav Sanjay Kumar Panda None of These

40. Telangana Government appointed ___________ as Director of Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) (Hyderabad) ?

Ratan P Watal‚  Anil Wadhwa Shailesh Nayak‚  Arvind Mayaram Kandakatla Manohar

41. Tennis star Novak Djokovic (______) has been made new goodwill ambassador for United Nations Children's Fund, (UNICEF) ?

Switzerland Serbia Soumya Swaminathan Girish Shankar None of These

42. Vassiliki Thanou has been appointed as __________'s First female prime minister. She will lead the country till elections to be held on 20 September ?

Russia Greece Spain Germany None of These

 

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