Appointments Current Affairs Quiz - February 2018

1. ___________ has been appointed as new Financial Commissioner (Railways) ?

A.K.Prasad Bhaskar Khulbe Sanjay Kothari  Pradeep Kumar Sinha None of These

2. Abdul Hamid has been re-elected as President of _______________ for 2nd term.

Afghanistan Nepal Banlgadesh Sri Lanka None of These

3. Abhilasha Kumari is appointed as Chief Justice of _____________ High Court.

Gangtok  Guwahati Kolkata Manipur None of These

4. ___________ took charge as Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) of Indian Army, succeeding A K Bhatt.

S. K. Sinha Nripendra Mishra Bhaskar Khulbe Pradeep Kumar Sinha Anil Chauhan

5. Antony Dominic is appointed as Chief Justice of ______________.

Karnataka Telangana Kerala Andhra Pradesh None of These

6. _____________ is appointed as New Chairman of Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR).

Arvind P. Jamkhedkar Shobhana K Pattanayak Sekhar Basu Arun Srivastava None of These

7. B A Chopade has been appointed as the vice-chancellor of ___________________.

Aligarh Muslim University Banaras Hindu University Delhi University University of Mumbai None of These

8. Cyril Ramaphosa of African National Congress (ANC) has been appointed as new President of ____________. He was elected after previous Prez Jacob Zuma was forced to resign recently.

South Africa Zimbabwe Kenya Nigeria None of These

9. _______________ has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC).

Dinesh Srivastava Arvind Mayaram Bibek Debroy Rajiv Kumar None of These

10. __________'s Parent Comany Alphabet appointed John L. Hennessy as new board chairman of company, replacing Eric Schmidt.

Verizon Yahoo Microsoft Google None of These

11. __________ is appointed as Managing Director (MD) & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of India's second-largest credit card issuer SBI Card.

Kaushik Basu Sunder Pichai Arvind Mayaram Hardayal Prasad None of These

12. Infosys cofounder AND former Chairman of UIDAI, _____________ has been entrusted by Governmemt for developing IT infrastructure for National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS).

N. R. Narayana Murthy Nandan Nilekani Arvind Mayaram Sunder Pichai None of These

13. Jnanpith recipient and _______________ litetrateur Chandrashekhar Kambar is elected as President of Sahitya Akademi. Hindi poet Madhav Kaushik was elected as vice president of the Sahitya Akademi.

Odia Telugu Tamil Malayalam Kannada

14. KP Sharma Oli has become Prime Minister of ___________ for his second term, after Sher Bahadur Deuba resigned as PM.

Nepal Sri Lanka Bangladesh Myanmar None of These

15. KS Dwivedi has been appointed as new Director General of Police (DGP) of ____________.

West Bengal Jharkhand Chhattisgarh Bihar None of These

16. Michael McCormack has been elected as new Deputy Prime Minister of _____________.

Norway Sweden Australia Spain None of These

17. Misc. Recent Govt. Appointments -

1. Vinod Kumar Jain - Vice Chancellor of Tezpur University (Assam).
2. Debashish Mukherjee - Executive director in Canara Bank
3. Murali Ramaswami - Executive director in Vijaya Bank
4. ___________ - editor-in-chief of television channel Rajya Sabha TV.

Arvind Mayaram Rahul Mahajan Kaushik Basu Nripendra Misra None of These

18. Mountaineer Samina Baig is appointed National Goodwill Ambassador for ___________ by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Afghanistan Pakistan Syria UAE None of These

19. Mukul Asthana is been appointed as Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Air). Also, Philipose George Pynumootil is appointed as Flag Officer Naval Aviation (FONA) and RB pandit appointed as Commandant of Indian Naval Academy Ezhimala (___________________).

Andhra Pradesh Telangana Karnataka Kerala None of These

20. NITI Aayog CEO ___________________ has been given extension till 30th June 2019. He was appointed on 17th February 2016 for a two-year term.

Amitabh Kant Arvind Pangariya Rajiv Kumar Bibek Debroy None of These

21. Naba Kumar Nayak has been appointed as the State Election Commissioner in ____________.

Odisha Jharkhand Chhattisgarh Bihar None of These

22. National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) appointed ______________ as non-executive chairman for 2 years.

Pradeep Kumar Sinha Biswamohan Mahapatra Shobhana K Pattanayak Nripendra Mishra  None of These

23. _____________________ has been appointed as Director General (DG) of Sports Authority of India (SAI).

Rajeev Kapoor Arun Srivastava Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha  Neelam Kapoor None of These

24. New Brand Ambassadors (Feb 2018) -

1. Bata’s new sport wears brand Power - Indian female ____________ Smriti Mandhana.
2. All India Chess Federation for the Blind (AICFB) - Grand Master Vidit Gujrathi.
3. Muthoot Group - Actor Amitabh Bachchan.
4. First T20 Mumbai League - Sachin Tendulkar.
5. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) - Shoaib Akhtar.

Wrestler Badminton player Chess Tennis Player Cricketer

25. New Indian Ambassadors (Feb 2018) -

1. Ashok Das - _____________
2. Pradeep Kumar Rawat - Timor-Leste.
3. Thanglura Darlong - Romania.
4. M. Subbarayudu - Bolivia.

USA UK Brazil Russia None of These

26. Nicos Anastasiades won re-election for a second term as President of Mediterranean Nation _____________.

Cyprus Estonia Germany Armenia None of These

27. PepsiCo Chairman and CEO ___________ is appointed as International Cricket Council’s (ICC) first-ever independent female director.

Chanda Kochchar Indra Nooyi Shikha Sharma Pratibha Patil None of These

28. Rakesh Singh has been appointed as private banking head of ___________ .

ICICI Bank AXIS Bank HDFC Bank Yes Bank None of These

29. Sudhir Tripathi has been made appointed as new chief secretary of __________.

West Bengal Odisha Bihar Chhattisgarh Jharkhand

30. Syed Mahmud Hossain has been appointed as new Chief Justice of Neighboring Nation ______________.

Nepal Myanmar Bangladesh Sri Lanka None of These

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