October 14 - Current Affairs for Competitive Exams

Dear champions, Welcome to the Daily Current Affairs Quiz "October 14". Your total score and the points you scored will be displayed at the end of the Quiz or after the time out.

1) What is the Theme of International E-Waste Day 2021?

A) MSME 2021: Key to an inclusive and sustainable recovery

B) Together we heal, learn and shine

C) Ecosystem Restoration

D) Consumer is the key to Circular Economy

E) Strength Beyond All Odds

2) 11th Hockey India Senior Women National Championship will be held in Which place?

A) Agra, Uttar Pradesh

B) Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh

C) Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh

D) Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh

E) Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh

3) What is the rank of Reliance Industries Ltd in the World’s Best Employers rankings 2021 published by Forbes?

A) 34th

B) 52nd

C) 68th

D) 99th

E) 114th

4) Which country topped in the Global Hunger Index?

A) Bosnia

B) Brazil

C) Herzegovina

D) Belarus

E) Papua New Guinea

5) PhonePe in association with NPCI Bharat BillPay Ltd (NBBL) launched ______.

A) PocketPay

B) TouchPay

C) ClickPay

D) Phonpay

E) BillPe

6) India’s annual wholesale prices of food rose at a slower pace of _____ % in September from a year earlier compared with 3.43% in the previous month.

A) 24.81%

B) 11.41%

C) 1.14%

D) 15.31 %

E) 10.66%

7) Which of the following lenders picked up over 12 % stake each in the proposed bad bank NARCL?

A) SBI

B) United Bank of Commerce

C) PNB

D) A & B & C

E) A & C

8) Who has been given the additional charge as the Chairperson of IBBI?

A) MS Sahoo

B) Navrang Saini

C) Greg Barclay

D) Hossain Chowdhury

E) Shrikant Madhav

9) Which country sent its first solar exploration satellite into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center?

A) Australia

B) Denmark

C) Pakistan

D) Bangladesh

E) China

10) Bharti Group-backed OneWeb has launched 36 satellites from _________ ’s Vostochny Cosmodrome.

A) Italy

B) Russia

C) Japan

D) China

E) France

11) AIIMS New Delhi launched bi-lingual app_____ to spread awareness about maintaining the oral hygiene of children right from infancy?

A) Food Safety

B) Healthy Smile

C) Save Lives

D) Wellness

E) Solstice

12) India’s first Atal Community Innovation Center has been launched in which state?

A) Karnataka

B) Chhattisgarh

C) Rajasthan

D) Uttar Pradesh

E) Manipur

13) Giriraj Singh launches Climate Resilience Information System and Planning CRISP-M tool for integration of climate information in which System?

A) Data Monitoring Information System

B) Geographic Information System

C) Statistics Information System

D) Polar Information System

E) Health Information System

14) APEDA MoU with GB Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar for boosting agri-exports from Which State?

A) Uttarakhand

B) Assam

C) Uttara Pradesh

D) Madhya Pradesh

E) Gujarat

15) Adani Group takes over operation of which airport?

A) Varanasi International Airport

B) Mumbai International Airport

C) Thiruvananthapuram International Airport

D) Kolkata International Airport

E) Chennai International Airport

16) Nirmala Sitharaman attends which edition of G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) Meeting in Washington D.C.?

A) 34th

B) 23rd

C) 12nd

D) 8th

E) 4th

17) BPCL as announced the launch of _______ – a digital customer experience?

A) Automated Zero

B) Zero Inconvenience

C) UFill

D) Faster Fill

E) Zero Filled

18) Amit Shah lays foundation stone of National Forensic Sciences University in Which Place?

A) Bicholim, Goa

B) Dharbandora, Goa

C) Mapusa, Goa

D) Tiswadi, Goa

E) Ponda, Goa

19) Who is the CMD of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited?

A) Rajeev Agrawal

B) Pirojsha Godrej

C) Arun Kumar

D) Rajeev Agrawal

E) Roy Rashtrawar

20) Who addresses Ministerial Session of Green Grids Initiative-One Sun, One World, One Grid, Northwest Europe Cooperative Event?

A) Ram Nath Kovind

B) Narendra Modi

C) Nitin Gadkari

D) R. K. Singh

E) Rajeev Chandrasekhar