Current Affairs 9-07-2018

1. Who has become the first from the minority community to contest assembly elections in Pakistan?

[A] Sunita Parmar
[B] Bishnu Chattopadhyay
[C] Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry
[D] Mukesh Kumar Chawla

2. Who has been sworn in as new Chief Justice of the Hyderabad High Court for the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh?

[A] T G Lingappa
[B] R Nagendra Rao
[C] Thottathil B Radhakrishnan
[D] K E Krishna Murthy

3. Who has been appointed the new chairperson of the National Green Tribunal (NGT)?

[A] Umesh Dattatraya Salvi
[B] Adarsh Kumar Goel
[C] Jawad Rahim
[D] Lokeshwar Singh Panta

4. The Civil Aviation Research Organisation (CARO) will be set up at which airport by the Airports Authority of India (AAI)?

[A] Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport
[B] Birsa Munda Airport
[C] Begumpet Airport
[D] Raja Bhoj Airport

5. Who has been appointed as new member of the Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC)?

[A] Arundhati Nag
[B] Mahir Sen
[C] Uday K Varma
[D] Vikramajit Sen

6. Who has become the 3rd Indian cricketer to reach the coveted milestone of playing 500 international matches?

[A] M S Dhoni
[B] Virat Kohli
[C] Rohit Sharma
[D] Ravichandran Ashwin

7. The Union Government has declared the area around Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) as an Eco-Sensitive Zone (ESZ). The MTR is located in which state?

[A] Kerala
[B] Tamil Nadu
[C] Andhra Pradesh
[D] Karnataka

8. Which city is hosting the International Round Table Conference on “Data for New India”?

[A] Hyderabad
[B] Guwahati
[C] Pune
[D] New Delhi

9. J N Sadhu, the Veteran journalist has passed away. He was associated with which newspaper?

[A] The Indian Express
[B] The Hindu
[C] Danik Bhaskar
[D] Times of India

10.Kabutari Devi, the famous folk singer has passed away. She belonged to which state?

[A] Himachal Pradesh
[B] Sikkim
[C] Assam
[D] Uttarakhand

11. Which country is hosting the 8th International Convention of Saurashtra Patel Cultural Samaj 2018?

[A] United States
[B] Brazil
[C] South Africa
[D] India

12. The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has launched ‘GST Verify’ app to protect interest of consumers. The app is developed by whom?

[A] Sanjukta Parashar
[B] Manish Shanker Sharma
[C] B Raghu Kiran
[D] Shivdeep Lande

13. UNESCO has signed pact with which state government to set up Design University for Gaming?

[A] Andhra Pradesh
[B] Karnataka
[C] Punjab
[D] Assam

14. Who has been appointed as new Chairman of Payments Council of India (PCI)?

[A] Naveen Surya
[B] Arif Sheikh
[C] P Sreelekha
[D] Vishwas Patel

15. The Ministry of Coal has launched which mobile app to curb illegal coal mining activity in the coalfield areas of the country?

[A] Khan Dost
[B] Khan Prahari
[C] Khan Saviour
[D] Khan Rakshak