Important Current Affairs Quiz for Bank Mains Exams 2022- 10th February

Q1. Name the State-owned bank which has signed cricketer Shafali Verma as its brand endorser recently.
(a) Canara Bank
(b) Bank of Baroda
(c) Punjab National Bank
(d) Bank of India
(e) None of the above

Q2. Who has been appointed as new Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Railway Board?
(a) Vinit Kumar Saxena
(b) Ashok Lavasa
(c) Pramod Kumar Tiwari
(d) Vinay Kumar Tripathi
(e) None of the above

Q3. Who has been appointed as India’s next permanent representative to the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva?
(a) Vimal Sharma
(b) Vinod Gupta
(c) Anupam Ray
(d) Soniya Arora
(e) None of the above

Q4. Which of the following airline has appointed Vinod Kannan as the chief executive officer?
(a) Emirates
(b) Vistara
(c) Indigo
(d) AirAsia
(e) None of the above

Q5. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has launched a 100-day Reading Campaign named __________.
(a) Padhe Bharat
(b) Padhe India
(c) Padhe Padhe
(d) Padhe Bharat Badhe Bharat
(e) None of the above

Q6. Which electric vehicle company’s autopilot team was hired Indian-origin Ashok Elluswamy as its first employee?
(a) Rivian
(b) Lucid Motors
(c) NIO
(d) Tesla
(e) None of the above

Q7. Who has been appointed as the President of the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC)?
(a) Milind Pant
(b) Nisha Biswal
(c) Vijay Advani
(d) Atul Keshap
(e) None of the above

Q8. Who has taken charge as the new Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)?
(a) Zhang Ming
(b) Bolat Nurgaliyev
(c) Muratbek Imanaliyev
(d) Dmitry Mezentsev
(e) None of the above

Q9. ONGC has roped in first ever female as the CMD of the company on an interim basis. Name the new interim CMD?
(a) Deepa Chadha
(b) Reena Jaitly
(c) Alka Mittal
(d) Manisha Pathak
(e) None of the above

Q10. Who has been appointed as new Indian Space Research Organisation chief?
(a) Kailasavadivoo Sivan
(b) Dr S Somanath
(c) Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan
(d) G.Madhavan Nair
(e) None of the above

Solutions

S1.Ans(b)
Sol. State-owned Bank of Baroda has signed cricketer Shafali Verma as its brand endorser.

S2.Ans (d)
Sol. 1983 Batch of Indian Railway Service, Vinay Kumar Tripathi has been appointed as new Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Railway Board.

S3.Ans(c)
Sol. Anupam Ray has been appointed as India’s next permanent representative to the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.

S4.Ans (b)
Sol. Vinod Kannan took over as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Vistara Airlines.

S5.Ans(a)
Sol. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has launched a 100-day Reading Campaign named ‘Padhe Bharat’.

S6.Ans(d)
Sol. Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk, who has been using social media to recruit people, has disclosed that Indian-origin Ashok Elluswamy was the first employee to be hired for his electric vehicle company’s Autopilot team.

S7.Ans(d)
Sol. Indian-origin American diplomat Atul Keshap has been appointed as the President of the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC) by the US Chambers of Commerce.

S8.Ans(a)
Sol. Zhang Ming has taken charge as the new Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).

S9.Ans(c)
Sol. Director HR in ONGC, Alka Mittal has been given the additional charge as the new interim chairman and managing director (CMD) of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), the largest oil and gas producer in India.

S10.Ans(b)
Sol. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has announced the appointment of the eminent rocket scientist Dr S Somanath as its new chairman and Space Secretary.