Appointments Current Affairs Quiz - November 2016

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1. Bank of Baroda Capital Markets appointed _________ as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer ?

Ratnesh Kumar
Sanjay Kumar Srivastava
Rajinder Khanna
Swashpawan Singh
None of These


2. Bollywood Actor _________ named as Indian ambassador for Switzerland Tourism campaign for 2017 Nature wants you back ?

Ranbir Kapoor
Aamir Khan
Ranveer Singh
Salman Khan
None of These


3. Former CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General) Vinod Rai has been appointed as Chairman of Fund Trustee and Advisory Commission of ________ ?

Andhra Pradesh
Goa
Gujarat
Kerala
None of These


4. Government appointed ______________ as Central Registrar (CR), Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Central Registry of Securitisation Asset Reconstruction and Security Interest of India (CERSAI). ?

Vijay Shankar Pandey
Trilochan Mohapatra
Shobhana K Pattanayak
Anil Swarup
Praveen Kumar Sharma


5. Guy Ryder from _________ has been re‚­elected Director‚­General of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) for a second five‚­year term. ?

USA
Russia
United Kingdom
Spain
None of These


6. Indian lawyer _________ elected as a member International Law Commission (ILC), a top body of legal experts of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) ?

Aniruddha Rajput
J S Deepak
Tapan Ray
Kamala Harris
None of These


7. Ishaat Hussain appointed as Chairman IT Firm __________ ?

Infosys
TCS
HCL
WIPRO
None of These


8. Kim Byong‚­joon has been appointed as the new Prime Minister of ____________. Yim Jong‚­yong is appointed new Finance Minister ?

South Korea
Vietnam
China
Myanmar
None of These


9. ___________ elected as 41st president of Sikhs' single largest representative body ‚­ Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee ?

Kirpal Singh Badungar
Narendra Kumar Sinha
Ajit M. Sharan
Swashpawan Singh
None of These


10. __________ Group appointed Pawan Goenka as Managing Director ?

Tata Sons
Reliance
Adani
Mahindra and Mahindra
None of These


11. Meng Hongwei became first __________ citizen to be elected as President of International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), for 4 years. ?

Japanese
Vietnamese
Cambodian
Chinese
None of These


12. Ministry of Railways Creates 3 New Director General Level Posts At Apex Scale ‚­ Director General (Signal & Telecommunications) ‚­ Akhil Agarwal, Director General (Railway Stores) ‚­ AK Goel, Director General (Personnel) ‚­ ______________ ?

Jai Priye Prakash
Anand Mathur
Vijay Shankar Pandey
Rajiv Nayan Choubey
None of These


13. ________ became first Indian to be elected President of the International Hockey Federation (FIH). He succeeded Spaniard Leandro Negre ?

Vidya Stokes
Tapan Das
Mariamma Koshy
Mushtaque Ahmad
Narinder Batra


14. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) appointed ___________ as Executive Director (ED) following voluntary retirement of G Mahalingam. Gurumoorthy Mahalingam will now take over as a Full time member in SEBI (Search Results Securities and Exchange Board of India) ?

M Rajeshwar Rao
Subir Gokarn
Rakesh Mohan
H R Khan
None of These


15. S.K. Sinha appointed as Special Director in ______ ?

BSF
CRPF
CISF
Intelligence Bureau
None of These


16. Sanjiv Arora appointed as India's Ambassador to _______ ?

Iran
Israel
Lebanon
Iraq
None of These


17. __________ appointed as Chief of Integrated Defence Staff to the Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee (CISC) ?

Ramesh Abhishek
Satish Dua
Hem Kumar Pande
G Mohan Kumar
None of These


18. United Nations re‚­appointed ___________ Tennis Player Maria Sharapova as goodwill ambassador. Her doping ban expires in April 2017 ?

French
Russian
British
Polish
None of These


19. __________ appointed Amresh Acharya as Group President and Head of Global Indian Banking ?

ICICI Bank
AXIS Bank
HDFC Bank
YES Bank
None of These


20. ________ has been appointed as India's new director-general of military operations (DGMO) ?

A K Bhatt
Devendra Chaudhary
Asha Ram Sihag
Ajit M. Sharan
None of These

 

21. Ami Bera re-elected to US House of Representatives for ________ consecutive term ?

3rd
2nd
4th
5th
None of These


22. _______ appointed as Chairman of National Authority Chemical Weapons Convention?

Ajit M Sharan
Asha Ram Sihag
Nripendra Mishra
Jai Priye Prakash
None of These


23. C.V.R. Rajendran appointed as Managing Director & CEO of _______ for 3 years ?

ICICI Bank
HDFC Bank
SBI
Catholic Syrian Bank
None of These


24. Debbie Hockley elected as president of __________ Cricket. She has become first woman to hold this role in 122-year history of Nations's Cricket History ?

South Africa
Australia
England
Zimbabwe
New Zealand


25. ________ has been appointed as Hockey India's president. ?

V R Raghunath
Bharat Chetri
Mariamma Koshy
Sandeep Singh
None of These


26. ____________ is appointed as new Executive Chairman of National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) ?

Jagdish Singh Khehar
Boyapati V. Sudhakar
Rita A Teaotia
Narendra Kumar Sinha
None of These


27. __________ has been appointed as Delhi chief secretary. ?

Prabhu Dayal Meena
MM Kutty
M. Nair Rajeevan
Amar Sinha
None of These


28. ___________ elected as National President of Indo-American Chamber of Commerce for 2016-17 ?

D.M. Mulay
Ajit M. Sharan
N V Srinivasan
Susheel Kumar
None of These


29. New Appointments -

  1. Rajiv Yadav - Secretary in Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs.
  2. Raghav Chandra - Secretary in National Commission for‚ Scheduled Tribes.
  3. Susheel Kumar - Secretary in Ministry of Coal‚ 
  4. Rajeev Kapoor - Secretary in Ministry of New & Renewable Energy.
  5. _________________ - Chairman in National Highways Authority of India.
  6. K.P. Krishnan - Secretary in Ministry of Skill Development &‚ Entrepreneurship.
S. Christopher
Narendra Kumar Sinha
Boyapati V. Sudhakar
Aruna Sundararajan
Yudhvir Singh Malik


30. New President-elect of USA, Donald Trump nominated Indian ___________ to post of Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. ?

S. Jaishankar
Ami Berra
Seema Verma
Sekhar Basu
None of These


31. ___________ elected as President of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) for 2017 ?

Shaktikanta Das
Anuj Kumar Bishnoi
G. Gurucharan
Pankaj Patel
None of These


32. Qamar Javed Bajwa appointed as _________ Pak Army Chief. He will replace Raheel Sharif. ?

17th
16th
15th
18th
None of These


33. ______________ appointed as Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) in Oil India Limited (OIL) ?

Rajiv Kumar Gupta
Hasmukh Adhia
Sanjeevanee Kutty
Nandita Chartterjee
None of These


34. ________ launched contactless debit cards, using Near Field Communication (NFC) technology that makes transaction safe and fast ?

HDFC Bank
ICICI Bank
SBI
IDBI Bank
South Indian Bank


35. State Bank of ___________ appointed Siby Sebastian as Chief Executive for its India operations. ?

Myanmar
Mauritius
Nepal
Bangladesh
None of These


36. Susan Kiefel named _______________'s first female chief justice ?

Australia
Germany
Russia
Spain
None of These


37. Times Internet appointed former Twitter India head _______________ as chief executive officer (CEO) of Times Global Partners, that supports expansion of emerging global digital companies in India. ?

Cyruis Mistry
Ajim Premji
Satya Nadella
Sundar Pichai
Rishi Jaitly


38. Two officials of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) elected as chairpersons of two committees set up by IOSCO (International Organisation of Securities Commissions). Parmod Kumar Nagpal will chair Committee on Issuer Accounting, Audit and Disclosure while ___________ will chair Assessment Committee (AC) ?

Amarjeet Singh
Snehlata Shrivastava
Ajay Mittal
Suresh Chandra
None of These


39. ____________ appointed as Director General in National Mission for Clean Ganga. ?

Balvender Kumar
U.P. Singh
C. Viswanath
Rajiv Yadav‚ 
None of These


40. US President - elect Donald Trump named Indian-American __________ for high-profile post of USA's ambassador to United Nations (UN).?

Ami Berra
Meera Verma
Sekhar Basu
Bobby Jindal
Nikki Haley


41. United States president elect Donald Trump named _________ as USA's National security adviser. ?

Nikki Haley
Michael Flynn
Ami Berra
Meera Verma
None of These


42. ___________ became first woman to be appointed as new (23rd) Director of Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) at Mussoorie ?

Omita Paul
Upma Chowdhary
Vrinda Sarup
Rita A Teaotia
None of These


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