Current Affairs 2016 May 26
Current Affairs is an important part of competitive exam. WBCS STUDY gives current affairs as MCQ. So the candidates can easily remember the Current Affairs. In banking exam IBPS generally asked very recent current Affairs and in SSC exams the commission generally asked the current Affairs related to the Nation and Sports.
Ques. : 1 Who among the following has been sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Assam?
1) Prafulla Kumar Mahanta
2) Badruddin Ajmal
3) Tarun Gogoi
4) Himanta Biswa Sarma
5) Sarbananda Sonowal
Answer:- 5) Sarbananda Sonowal
Ques. : 2 Pinarayi Vijayan is the new Chief Minister of which of the following states?
1) Tamil Nadu
2) Kerala
3) West Bengal
4) Puducherry
5) None of these
Answer:- 2) Kerala
Ques. : 3 The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities will now be known as ‘_________’ Sashaktikaran Vibhag in Hindi.
1) Divyangjan
2) Viklangjan
3) Bhinnangjan
4) Sarvangjan
5) Visheshangjan
Answer:- 1) Divyangjan
Ques. : 4 India and World Bank have signed a loan agreement for assistance of USD 100 mn for the urban water supply modernization project of
1) Tamil Nadu
2) Karnataka
3) Maharashtra
4) Madhya Pradesh
5) Rajasthan
Answer:- 2) Karnataka
Ques. : 5 The Odisha governor promulgated Odisha Official Language (Amendment) Ordinance, 2016 to ensure use of Odia in all govt systems recently. The present governor of Odisha is
1) K Rosaiah
2) Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya
3) SC Jamir
4) Keshari Nath Tripathi
5) K Sathasivam
Answer:- 3) SC Jamir
Ques. : 6 The Union Ministry of Urban Development has shortlisted 13 cities from 13 States/UTs in the list of second batch of Smart Cities Mission. These cities do not include
1) Dehradun
2) Ranchi
3) Bhagalpur
4) Chandigarh
5) Dharmashala
Answer:- 1) Dehradun
Ques. : 7 The govt has decided to launch ASMITA system which is a
1) missing children tracking system
2) women tracking system
3) distressed tracking system
4) endangered animals tracking system
5) student tracking system
Answer:- 5) student tracking system
Ques. : 8 The BHEL, recently, commissioned the first 800 MW supercricital thermal unit in Yeramarus thermal power station (TPS) located in Raichur district of
1) Andhra Pradesh
2) Telangana
3) Kerala
4) Tamil Nadu
5) Karnataka
Answer:- 5) Karnataka
Ques. : 9 The first-ever World Humanitarian Summit was held recently in
1) Manila
2) Bangkok
3) Berlin
4) Istanbul
5) London
Answer:- 4) Istanbul
Ques. : 10 Name the US engineer who won the Millennium Technology Prize for his/her work ‘directed evolution’ in Finland recently.
1) Syamantak Payra
2) Christopher Voigt
3) Huimin Zhao
4) Frances Arnold
5) None of these
Answer:- 4) Frances Arnold
