Appointments Current Affairs Quiz - June 2017

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1. ‚ K G Karmakar and Gauri Shankar are appointed as Independent Directors of India Post Payments Bank (IPPB). _________ is current CEO of IPPB ?

Ashok Pal Singh
Nripendra Mishra‚ 
Radhakrishna Kini
Devendra Chaudhary
None of These


2. New Indian Envoys Appointed -

  1. European Union and Belgium - _____________
  2. Italy- Reenat Sandhu.
  3. Denmark - Ajit Vinayak Gupte
  4. Slovania - Param Jit Mann
  5. South Africa - Ruchira Kamboj
  6. Greece - Shamma Jain
Ramesh Abhishek
Jai Priye Prakash
Gaitri Issar Kumar
Preeti Sudan‚ 
None of These


3. 193 Member Nations Body UN General Assembly elected _____________'s Miroslav Lajcak as president of 72nd UN General Assembly (commencing from September 12, 2017) ?

Czech Republic
Lithunia
Slovenia
Slovakia
None of These


4. 38 year old Indian Origin Person Leo Varadkar‚ has been elected as prime minister‚ of ___________ (also called‚ Taoiseach) ?

Switzerland
Somalia
Poland
Scotland
Ireland


5. __________ has been appointed as Director General Medical Services (Navy) ?

Tapan Ray
S.K. Kohli
AA Pawar
S. Christopher
None of These


6. Actress ______________ has been appointed as ambassador for government’s flagship Skill India campaign, implemented by National Skill Development Corporation ?

Priyanka Chopra
Kangana Ranaut
Deepika Padukone
Hema Malini
None of These


7. Aleksandar Vucic has been appointed as President of ___________ and Ana Brnabic has been appointed as Prime Minister ?

Algeria
Serbia
Chad
Chile
None of These


8. Automobile Firm _______________ appointed Girish Wagh as head of its Commercial Vehicle Business Unit. ?

Tata Motors
Hyundai
Honda
Toyota
None of These


9. Ayurveda physician ________ has been appointed as special secretary in Ayush Ministry ?

Rajesh Kotecha
Prabhu Dayal Meena
Sanjay Mitra
M. Nair Rajeevan‚ 
None of These


10. British PM Theresa May appointed ______________ as her first secretary of state (Deputy prime minister of UK). ?

Mike Pence
Steven Mnuchin
Rex Tillersen
Damian Green
None of These


11. ___________ became first Indian to be nominated as a member of Umpires and Referees Committee (URC) by International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). ?

C.K. Mishra
Amarendra Khatua
Ashok Lavasa
Ganeshan Neelakanta Iyer‚ 
None of These


12. Government appointed _________ as Chairperson of National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) ?

Girish Shankar
Rajesh V. Shah
Prabhas Kumar Jha
Suresh Chandra
None of These


13. _________ has been appointed as Registrar of Copyrights for a period of 5 years. ?

Dinesh Singh
Kapil Dev Tripathi‚ 
Rajiv Yadav
Arun Kumar‚ 
Hoshiar Singh


14. ____________ appointed Sunil Kakar as Its Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer for three years ?

IDFC Bank
K. VijayRaghavan
Kaushik Basu
Ashutosh Sharma‚ 
None of These


15. India re-nominated ___________ for another term as Judge of International Court of Justice (ICJ) ?

Rakesh Srivastava
T. C. A. Anant‚ 
K.P. Krishnan
Dalveer Bhandari
None of These


16. Indian Law expert _________ became First Indian and First Woman Judge to be elected to International Tribunal for the Law of the Seas (ITLOS). ?

Amarendra Kumar Dubey‚ 
Leena Nair
Neeru Chaddha
Rashmi Verma
None of These


17. Indian-origin doctor __________ has been appointed honorary vice-president of UK's prominent medical body ?

Injeti Srinivas
Kailash Chand
Rajiv Yadav
Ajay Mittal
None of These


18. International Cricket Council (ICC) has appointed __________ as its deputy chairman.?

Shashank Manohar
Imran Khawaja
David Richardson
David Peever
None of These


19. ______________ has been appointed as Executive Vice President (Services) in Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN). GSTN is a special purpose vehicle set up to provide Information Technology infrastructure for implementation of the GST ?

Ramesh Abhishek
Rita A Teaotia
Ameising Luikham‚ ‚ 
Kajal Singh
None of These


20. ___________ has been appointed as president of International Economic Association (IEA) for 3 years term ?

Kaushik Basu‚ 
Susheel Kumar
Avinash K. Srivastava
Prabhu Dayal Meena
None of These


21. Kenneth Juster has been appointed as new ___________ Ambassador to India ?

USA
UK
Germany
Poland
None of These


22. ___________ appointed‚ B K Manjunath as a part-time chairman‚ for 3 years. ?

ICICI Bank
Lakshmi Vilas Bank
Axis Bank
Karur Vyasa Bank
None of These


23. Loknath Behra has been appointed as Director General of Police (DGP) of ___________ ?

Mizoram
Meghalaya
Karnataka
Kerala
None of These


24. ____________ has been apponted as a member of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). ?

S. Christopher
Tapan Ray
Naveen Verma
Parameswaran Iyer
Manoj Soni


25. Mihai Tudose has been appointed as Prime Minister of _________ ?

Serbia
Cezch Republic
Romania
Slovakia
None of These


26. Narinder Nath Vohra (____________ Governor) has been appointed as President of India International Centre (IIC). ?

Jammu and Kashmir
Kerala
Karnataka
Jharkhand
None of These


27. New Appointments -

  1. Subhash C Garg - Secretary in Department of Economic Affairs Secretary (Finance Ministry).
  2. _____________ - Secretary in Ministry of Home Affairs (Also called Home Secretary of India).
  3. N.K.Sinha - Secretary in Ministry of Information & Broadcasting.
  4. Yudhvir Singh Malik - Secretary in Ministry of Road Transport & Highways.
  5. Jagdish Prasad Meena - Secretary in Ministry of Food Processing Industries.
  6. Durga Shanker Mishra - Secretary in Ministry of Urban Development.
  7. Arun Kumar Panda - Secretary in Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME).
  8. Ravi Kant - Secretary in Ministry of Shipping.
  9. Anand Kumar - Secretary in Ministry of New & Renewable Energy.
  10. Ajay Prakash Sawhney - Secretary in Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology.
  11. Ajay Kumar Bhalla - Secretary in Ministry of Power.
  12. Deepak Kumar - Chairman of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).
M. Nair Rajeevan
Rajiv Gauba
Ajay Prakash Sawhney
S. Jaishankar
None of These


28. ________________ (Former Indian Ambassador to USA) has been appointed as public policy fellow to Wilson Centre's Asia programme - a top American think-tank based in Washington. She would be working on a project on Indo-China relationship ?

Preeti Sudan
Rita S Teotia
Nirupama Rao
Amarendra Khatua
None of These


29. Palbinder Kaur Shergill become first turbaned Sikh woman to be appointed as ___________’s Supreme Court judge ?

USA
UK
Russia
Germany
Canada


30. Preet Kaur Gill became first Sikh to be elected to the _______________ Parliament’s House of Commons and Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi become first turban-wearing Sikh to be elected to House of Commons ?

Canadian
American
British
German
None of These


31. Private Airline _________ appointed Vinay Dube as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) ?

GoAir
SpiceJet
Indigo
Jet Airways
None of These


32. R K Pachnanda took charge as Director General of __________ .?

RPF
ITBP
CISF
CRPF
None of These


33. _____________ has been appointed as head of Atal Innovation Mission Under NITI Aayog ?

Ramanathan Ramanan
Subhash C Garg
Ashok Lavasa
Hasmukh Adhia
None of These


34. Reserve Bank of India has appointed _____________ as Executive Director ?

Soumya Swaminathan
Girish Shankar
Rajjeev Mehrishi
Sanjeevanee Kutty
S. Ganesh Kumar


35. __________ diplomat Vladimir Voronkov has been appointed as head of newly established UN Counter-Terrorism Centre‚ (UNCCT) ?

Poland
Russian
Spain
France
None of These


36. SEBI approved appointment of ___________ as MD and CEO of National Stock Exchange, who was selected for said post In February 2017.‚  ?

Vikram Limaye
Raghuram G Rajan
Arvind Mayaram
Anil Swarup
None of These


37. SN Subrahmanyan‚ has been appointed as CEO and Managing Director of Multi Industry Conglomerate‚  _________ ?

Tata Group
HCL
Wipro
Infosys
Larsen & Toubro


38. _________ appointed as Chairman of Indian Oil Corporation ?

Sanjiv Singh
Jitendra Shankar Mathur
Arun Kumar Panda‚ 
Neeraj Kumar Gupta
None of These


39. ___________ has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Prasar Bharati ?

D.M. Mulay
Shashi Shekar Vempati
Ajay Prakash Sawhney
Jagdish Prasad Meena
None of These


40. Sher Bahadur Deuba has been elected as 40th Prime Minister of ___________, for his 4th term ?

Sri Lanka
Mauritius
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Nepal


41. USA Appointed Indian-American Krishna R Urs as USA Ambassador to __________ ?

India
Peru
UK
Russia
None of These


42. USA Prez Donald Trump nominated ____________ as new Director of FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation). ?

Rex Tillersen
Christopher Wray
Steven Munchin
Damian Green‚ 
None of These


43. United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) appointed 19-year-old education activist and _______________ refugee‚ Muzoon Almellehan‚ as its newest and youngest Goodwill Ambassador. Muzoon is first person with official refugee status to become an Ambassador for UNICEF ?

Syrian
Libyan
Iraqi
Irani
None of These


44. __________________ has been appointed as economic relations secretary in Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). ?

D M Mulay
Ruchi Ghanashyam
Subash C Garg
Amar Sinha
Vijay Keshav Gokhale





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