Appointments Current Affairs Quiz - February 2016

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1. Albert Pahimi Padacke is appointed as new prime minster of ______ (Central Africa). ?

Central African Republic
Chad
Niger
Nigeria
None of These


2. Actress Kajol has been appointed as part-time member of Prasar Bharati board. ?

Kajol
Priyanka Chopra
Deepika Padukone
Rekha
None of These


3. _____ will be appointed as new Delhi Police Commissioner. ?

Rajinder Khanna
Nripendra Mishra
S. Ayyappan
Alok Verma
None of These


4. _____ appointed as head of Indian Cost Accounts Service (ICoAS). ?

Ameising Luikham
Ajit M Sharan
Aruna Sethi
Girish Shankar
None of These


5. ______ is Appointed As New Chairman of TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute). ?

Anoop Kumar Srivastava
Shankar Agarwal
V.S. Oberoi
G. Narayana Raju
Ashok Chawla‚ 


6. _____ appointed as Chief of Eastern Naval Command and Bimal Verma appointed as Chief of Andaman and Nicobar Naval Command. ?

V K Singh
Atul Kumar Jain
Bikram Singh
Arup Raha
None of These


7. _-____ has been appointed as Managing Director (MD) of the International Monetary Fund for second five-year term. ?

Christine Lagarde
Jim Yong Kim
Ban Ki Moon
Vinod Rai
None of These


8. ______ is appointed as vice-president and chief investment officer (CIO) of Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. ?

Anil Kumar Agarwal
Sanjay Mitra
D J Pandian
Girish Sahni
None of These


9. ________ has been named as Vice-Chairman of International Chamber of Commerce Commission (ICC) on Corporate Responsibility and Anti- corruption. ?

Vinod Aggarwal
Vinod Rai
Vinod Zutshi
Davinder Singh
None of These


10. ______ is elected as President of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) for 1 year ?

Madhusudhan Prasad
Upendra Tripathy
Rajiv Yadav
Krishan Kumar Jalan
Devaraja Reddy


11. Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela appointed as Chief Justice of _____ High Court. ?

Chennai
Guwahati
Delhi
Bombay
None of These


12. Dinesh Maheshwari sworn-in as chief justice of _____ High Court. ?

Uttar Pradesh
Meghalaya
Madhya Pradesh
Chennai
None of These


13. ______ is elected as Chairperson of International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) (ROME) ?

S. M. Vijayanand
Rajive Kumar
Devendra Chaudhry
A. S. Kiran Kumar
Dinesh Sharma


14. Faustin Archange Touadera won 2016 Presidential election of ______ ?

Central African Republic
Chad
Niger
Nigeria
None of These


15. Former Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG)‚ ________ is appointed as first Chairman of Banks Board Bureau (BBB). ?

V. K. Shunglu
VN Kaul
Shashi Kant Sharma
Vinod Rai‚ 
None of These


16. Four Indian-Americans have been selected to the prestigious US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) - Anil K. Jain, Arati Prabhakar, Ganesh Thakur and _______ . ?

Shyam S Agarwal
Rashmi Verma
K R Sridhar
radeep Kumar Pujari
None of These


17. ____ is appointed as commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan. ?

Jens Stoltenberg
John Nicholson
Ban Ki Moon
Jim Yong Kim
None of These


18. Gianni Infantino of _____ has been elected as new President of F‚©d‚©ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), global governing body of football ?

USA
Switzerland
Poland
Germany
None of These


19. Government appointed Jai Kumar Garg as Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of _________ ?

SBI
Punjab National Bank
Bank of Baroda
Corporation Bank
None of These


20. Government appointed World Bank’s water and sanitation specialist, _______ as Secretary of the Drinking Water and Sanitation Department. He will lookm over Swachh Bharat Mission for 2 years ?

Parameshwaran Iyer
Ashutosh Sharma
Rohit Nandan
Aruna Sundararajan
None of These

 

21. Government appointed ______ as new Chairman of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).?

H L Dattu
Sunil Arora
Naini Jayaseelan
G. Narayana Raju
None of These


22. Government has appointed three Information Commissioners in Central Information Commission - Amitava Bhattacharya, Bimal Julka and ______ ?

Rakesh Garg
Divya Prakash Sinha
Afzal Amanullah
Pradeep Kumar Pujari
None of These


23. _____ appointed Chairman and Managing Director of NTPC. ?

S.M. Vijayanand
Rohit Nandan
Ashutosh Sharma
Gurdeep Singh
None of These


24. Hashim Thaci elected as president of ____ (Southeastern Europe). ?

Albania
Greece
Croatia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kosovo


25. Indian Origin Person _____ appointed President of newly- formed International Grown Diamond Association (IGDA) ?

T. C. A. Anant
Madhusudhan Prasad‚ 
Vishal Mehta
Bobby Jindal
None of These


26. Indian lawyer _____ has been appointed as regional director for South Asia in International Court of Arbitration under International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). ?

Abhinav Bhushan
Rajiv Yadav
‚ V. Somasundaran
Rashmi Verma
None of These


27. Indian-origin Harinder Sidhu has been appointed as _____'s High Commissioner to India. ?

USA
Australia
UK
Russia
None of These


28. Indian-origin Sikh Amar Singh appointed as Police Commissioner of ______’s capital Kuala Lumpur. ?

Thailand
Singapore
Malaysia
Japan
None of These


29. Indian-origin person Ismail Mahomed from South Africa has been honored by Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature by _______ for his lifelong devotion to promotion of arts ?

Spain
Germany
Russia
UK
France


30. _____ has been appointed as Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) ?

Shyam S Agarwal
Rajiv Yadav‚ 
Jai Shanker Menon
Vinod Aggarwal
None of These


31. Japanese Carmaker Nissan has named Indian cricketer ____ as their new global ambassador ?

Virat Kohli
M S Dhoni
Ajinkya Rahane
Rohit Sharma
None of These


32. ______ is appointed as Director General (DG) of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) ?

Aruna Sundararajan
Jayant Misra
Madhusudhan Prasad
Rajeev Gupta
None of These


33. _____ is appointed as Director General (DG) of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) ?

K Durga Prasad
Vinod Aggarwal
Rohit Nandan
Girish Sahni
None of These


34. _______ appointed as Director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) for three years.?

Balvender Kumar
S. M. Vijayanand
Rakesh Garg
Devendra Chaudhry
KN Vyas


35. Kalikho Pul has been appointed as 9th Chief Minister of ____ ?

Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh
Mizoram
Manipur
None of These


36. Mukesh Ambani and Sam Pitroda have been elected to National Academy of Engineering (_______) ?

USA
UK
Russia
Germany
None of These


37. ______ Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik elected as president of Biju Janata Dal (BJD) for 7th consecutive term. ?

Uttar Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
Odisha


38. ___________ appointed as Secretary in Railway Board. ?

R. K. Verma
G. Narayana Raju
Anil Kumar Agarwal
Sanjay Kothari
None of These


39. Ramayyagari Subhash Reddy is appointed as Chief Justice of ______ High Court. ?

Assam
Gujarat
Manipur
Uttar Pradesh
Rajasthan


40. _________________ and Gurudas Dasgupta re-elected as President and General Secretary respectively of the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC). ?

Girish Sahni
S.M. Vijayanand
Kapil Dev Tripathi
Rakesh Garg
Ramendra Kumar


41. Ri Myong Su Appointed New Military Chief Of _____ . ?

South Korea
North Korea
China
Vietnam
None of These


42. ______ is appointed as Senior Director for Fragility, Conflict and Violence Group in World Bank ?

Upendra Tripathy
Saroj Kumar Jha
Ameising Luikham
Naini Jayaseelan
None of These


43. ______ will become first Indian-American Judge of U S Supreme Court. He will replace Justice Antonin Scalia after his passing away. ?

Sri Srinivasan
Afzal Amanullah
Devendra Chaudhry
Vijay Shankar Madan
None of These


44. Subhro Kamal Mukherjee appointed as 28th Chief Justice of High Court of _____ ?

Mizoram
Uttar Pradesh
Kerala
Manipur
Karnataka


45. Tamar Hahn (_____) has been appointed as Director of United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) ?

USA
Israel
UK
Russia
None of These


46. ________ got one year extension as chief of India's capital and commodities market regulator SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) ?

UK Sinha
Anita Agnihotri‚ 
T.S. Vijayan
A. S. Kiran Kumar
None of These


47. UNDP _________ appointed Cricket ODI and T20 Captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza as United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) national goodwill ambassador for youth ?

Pakistan
Nepal
Afghanistan
UAE
Bangladesh


48. ______ appointed as Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Metropolitan Stock Exchange of India (MSEI) ?

Udai Kumar
Rashmi Verma
Vinod Zutshi
Shashi Shekhar
None of These


49. _____ is appointed as Director of Indian Institute of Millets Research (IIMR) ?

Rajiv Yadav
Vilas A. Tonapi
Anil Swarup
Kavery Banerjee
None of These


50. ______ appointed as Managing Director of National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) ?

Malay Kumar Sinha
Pradeep Kumar Sinha
Omita Paul
Rita A Teaotia
Vinay Kumar Singh


51. Vineet Saran is appointed as Chief Justice of ______ High Court ?

Orissa
Punjab
Madhya Pradesh
Mizoram
None of These


52. ______ Finance Minister Amit Mitra appointed as Chairman of Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers on Goods and Services Tax (GST) ?

Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh
West Bengal
Mizoram
None of These


53. Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief ________ is appointed as president of South Asian Wrestling Federation (SAWF) ?

Ashok Kumar Gupta
Kavery Banerjee
Tapan Ray
Brijbhushan Sharan Singh
None of These


54. _____ is appointed as Vice Chancellor of Delhi University (DU) ?

Ashok Lavasa
S. Christopher
Naveen Verma
M. Nair Rajeevan
Yogesh Tyagi


55. ______ appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Honda Cars India ?

Ban Ki Moon
Jim Yong Kim
Yoichiro Ueno
Christina Lagrade
None of These


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