Current Affairs Quiz: 24 August 2016

1. Who has launched Kolkata Akashvani Kendra’s Moitree Service in Bangla ?

(a) Arun Jaitley

(b) Piyush Goyal

(c) Pranab Mukerjee 

(d) Nitish Kumar

2. A Bronze statue of B R Ambedkar (350-feet tall) will be installed at the Ambedkar memorial at Indu Mill land in __________
(a) Ahmadabad
(b) Gandhinagar
(c) Pune

(d) Mumbai

3. Which government has proposed a draft notification to create 17 new districts in the state ?

(a) Telangana

(b) Jharkhand

(c) Arunchal Pradesh

(d) Jammu and Kashmir

4. Which Government has signed a (MOU) with the Civil Aviation Ministry and (AAI) to develop 10 airports ?

(a) Maharashtra

(b) Gujrat

(c) Haryana

(d) Uttar Pradesh

5. Which Indian state to host 2016 Kabaddi World Cup ?

(a) Punjab

(b) Haryana

(c) Gujarat

(d) Uttar Pradesh

6.Who became world's number one tennis player in women's doubles category according to WTA  ?

(a) Martina Hingis

(b) Sania Mirza
(c) Coco Vandeweghe
(d) Barbora Strycova

7. __________conferred with Vyas Samman award 2015 ?

(a) Sunita Jain

(b) Barbora Strycova

(c) Anita Desai

(d) Rohinton Mistry