Appointments Current Affairs Quiz - September 2017

1. _________ has been elected as chairperson of board of The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) ?

Abanti Sankaranarayanan Nripendra Misra Pradeep Kumar Sinha  Rajinder Khanna None of These

2. Angela Merkel won fourth term as chancellor of __________ ?

France Russia Germany UK None of These

3. ___________ has been appointed as interim Chairman of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) ?

C.K. Mishra Trilochan Mohapatra G. Gurucharan B Sambamurthy None of These

4. ________ has been appointed as Chairman-cum-Managing Director of NHPC (National Hydro Power Corporation) ?

Sekhar Basu Shobhana K Pattanayak Rajiv Nayan Choubey Rajeev Kapoor Balraj Joshi

5. _________ appointed Royana Singh as its first woman Chief Proctor. ?

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

6. Cabinet Changes -

1. New Cabinet Ministers
   1. Nirmala Sitharaman - Ministry of Defence. Sitharaman is first woman after Indira Gandhi to hold portfolio of Defence Minister.
   2. ___________________ - Ministry of Railways (also Minister of State for Coal Ministry (IC))
   3. Dharmendra Pradhan - Ministry of Petroleum and Natural. He will also hold Ministry for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
   4. Muqtar Abbas Naqvi - Ministry of Minority Affairs.
   5. Nitin Gadkari - Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation (also holds Ministry of Road Transport and Highways)
   6. Uma Bharti - Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation
   7. Narendra Singh Tomer - Ministry of Mines (Also Holds Ministry of Rural Development and Minsitry of Panchayati Raj)
   8. Suresh Prabhu -Ministry of Commerce and Industry
2. New Ministers Of State
   1. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat - Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
   2. Krishna Raj - Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
   3. K J Alphons - Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
   4. Satya Pal Singh - Ministry of Human Resource Development AND Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.
   5. Virendra Kumar - Ministry of Women and Child Development AND Ministry of Minority affairs.
   6. Anant Kumar Hegde - Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
   7. Mahesh Sharma - Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
   8. Sudarshan Bhagat - Tribal Affairs
   9. Rao Inderjit Singh - Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
   10. Arjun Ram Meghwal - Minsitry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation AND Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
   11. Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary - Ministry of Coal and Ministry of Mines
   12. Pon Radhakrishna - Ministry of Finance AND Ministy of Shipping
   13. Shiv Pratap Shukla - Ministry of Finance
3. New Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
   1. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore - Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (IC)
   2. Hardeep Puri - Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (IC)
   3. RK Singh- Ministry of Power (IC) and Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (IC)
   4. K J Alphons - Ministry of Tourism (IC)
   5. Mahesh Sharma - Ministry of Culture (IC)
   6. Santosh Kumar Gangwar - Minsitry of Labour & Employment (IC)
   7. Giriraj Singh - Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (IC)
   8. Rao Inderjit Singh - Ministry of Planning (IC)
   9. Piyush Goyal - Ministry of State for Coal Ministry (IC)) ?

Piyush Goyal Dharmendra Pradhan Suresh Prabhu Radha Mohan Singh None of These

7. Devendra Kumar Joshi has been appointed as Lieutenant Governor of UT of ____________ ?

Delhi Andaman and Nicobar Islands Puducherry Daman and Diu None of These

8. ___________ Chairman Abhay Firodia has been elected as president of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) ?

Force Motors Ford Motors Toyota Motors Maruti Suzuki Motors None of These

9. Former UN Secretary-General ___________ has been elected as Chair of Ethics Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for 4 years term ?

Ban Ki-moon Christine Lagrade Shinzo Abe Takehiko Nakao None of These

10. Government extended term of Chief Economic Adviser _________ by one year till October 2018 ?

Sekhar Basu Arvind Mayaram Raghuram Rajan Arvind Subramanian None of These

11. Halimah Yacob has been appointed as 8th President of ___________ (and First female ever) ?

Russia UK USA Singapore None of These

12. _____________ has been appointed as Chairperson of National Authority Chemical Weapons Convention (NACWC) ?

Bharathi Sivaswami Siha Inder Jit Singh Rajiv Nayan Choubey Rajeev Kapoor  None of These

13. _________ Chairman Rajat Sharma elected as President of News Broadcasters Association (NBA) for 2017-18. ?

Aaj tak Zee News NDTV ABP News India TV

14. Indian Person ________ has been appointed as Vice-Chairman of International Egg Commission (Belgium) ?

Suresh Chitturi Ramesh Abhishek  Susheel Kumar Jai Priye Prakash None of These

15. Joao Lourenco appointed as _______ (South African Nation)'s first new President in 38 years ?

South African Chad Zimbabwe Angola None of These

16. KV Rama Moorthy appointed as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ________ ?

SBI KVB Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Kotak Mahindra Bank None of These

17. Kenneth I. Juster has been nominated as next _________ ambassador to India. ?

UK USA Russia France None of These

18. Housing Finance Firm ______________ appointed Harshil Mehta as Joint Managing Director & CEO. ?

Indiabulls DHFL LIC Housing Finance SBI None of These

19. ___________ has been appointed as chairman-cum-managing director (CMD) of United India Insurance Company ?

Navtej Sarna Rita A Teaotia Preeti Sudan M. Nagaraja Sarma None of These

20. _____________ has been appointed as Chairman and Managing Director of Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC). ?

Mahendra Pratap Mall Naveen Verma Ashok Kumar Gupta Rashmi Verma None of These

21. Mercedes Araoz Fernandez has been appointed as new Prime Minister of _______ ?

Peru Netherlands Germany Iran None of These

22. Ministry of Coal appointed ____________ as CMD of Coal India Ltd ?

Naveen Verma  Gopal Singh Parameswaran Iyer M. Nair Rajeevan None of These

23. _________ has been appointed as Chairman-Cum-Managing Director (CMD) of state-run National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC). ?

Ajay Prakash Sahaney Ajay Narayan Jha Rita A Teaotia N Baijendra Kumar None of These

24. New Indian Ambassadors Appointed -

1. Gautam Bambawale - _______
2. Ajay Bisaria - Pakistan
3. Harsh Kumar Jain - Slovakia
4. Vani Sarraju Rao -Estonia
5. Palau - Jaideep Mazumdar

France Russia UK USA China

25. Newly Appointed Governors of Various States -

1. B. D. Mishra - ___________
2. Satya Pal Malik - Bihar
3. Banwarilal Purohit - Tamil Nadu
4. Jagdish Mukhi - Assam
5. Ganga Prasad - Meghalaya

Andhra Pradesh Odisha Arunachal Pradesh Jharkhand None of These

26. Peter Thomson (__________; outgoing president of the UN General Assembly) has been appointed as UN's first Special Envoy for oceans. ?

Fiji Peru Netherlands Malaysia None of These

27. R A Sankara Narayanan has been appointed as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of __________ ?

Bank of Maharashtra Vijaya Bank SBI Axis Bank None of These

28. Rajni Kant Mishra has been appointed as new Director General of _______ ?

BSF CISF SSB RPF None of These

29. Raquel Dodge has been appointed as first woman General Prosecutor of _________ (head of internal security of nation) ?

Uruguay Chile Chad Argentina Brazil

30. ____________ has been appointed as the chairman and managing director of ONGC ?

Devendra Chaudhary Ramesh Abhishek Shashi Shanker Gopal Singh None of These

31. Sjoerd Marijne (_____________) has been named chief coach of Hockey men’s side. Harendra Singh has been appointed as Specialist coach of senior women’s team ?

Spain Poland Germany Netherlands None of These

32. _______ multinational pharmaceutical company Novartis appointed Vasant Narasimhan as its CEO ?

Polish Swiss American Canadian None of These

33. _________ has been appointed as Secretary in Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) ?

T. Jacob Gopal Singh Rajeev Kapoor Jai Priye Prakash None of These

34. Micro-blogging website _______________ appointed Indian-born Sriram Krishnan as Senior Director of Product ?

Google Facebook Linkedin Wordpress Twitter

35._____________ (CEO of A.P. Mahesh Co-operative Urban Bank ) is elected to managing committee of Indian Banks Association (IBA) ?

Upendra Kamath Umesh Chand Asawa P R Seshadri Chanda Kochchar None of These

36. Unique Identification Authority of India’s (UIDAI) CEO ___________ has been appointed interim chairman of Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) ?

A.B. Pandey Rajiv Nayan Choubey Susheel Kumar Rita Teotia None of These

37. __________ Goverment appointed actor Akshay Kumar as brand ambassador of Swachh Bharat Mission in state. Note that that Akshay was also recently appointed as brand ambassador for cleanliness campaign in Uttar Pradesh ?

Jammu and Kashmir Himachal Pradesh Punjab Haryana Uttarakhand

38. ______________ has been elected as Chairman of Press Trust of India (PTI). N. Ravi is elected as Vice Chairman ?

Viveck Goenka Bibek Debroy Ramesh Abhishek Rajiv Nayan Choubey None of These

39. __________ government appointed Binay Tamang as chairman of Gorkha Territorial Administration. ?

Assam West Bengal Sikkim Manipur None of These

40. _______________ has been appointed as new Director General of National Investigation Agency (NIA) ?

Rajeev Kapoor Bharathi Sivaswami Sihag Ramesh Abhishek Susheel Kumar   Y C Modi

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