Important Current Affairs Quiz for Bank Mains Exams 2021- 14th September

Q1. Federal Bank shareholders have approved the motion to re-appoint ____________as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer.
(a) Sandeep Bakhshi
(b) Rakesh Sharma
(c) Chandra Shekhar Ghosh
(d) Shyam Srinivasan
(e) None of the above

Q2. Which of the following international company has named Vinay Prakash as the Resident Grievance Officer (RGO) for India?
(a) Facebook
(b) WhatsApp
(c) Twitter
(d) Google
(e) None of the above

Q3. Name the Indian-American who has been appointed as the CEO of Waze, a crowd-sourced GPS navigation app and a subsidiary of tech giant Google?
(a) Neha Parikh
(b) Tina Patel
(c) Neera Tondon
(d) Grishma Shah
(e) None of the above

Q4. Who has been given additional charge of the Chairman of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)?
(a) Sukhbir Singh Sandhu
(b) Aramane Giridhar
(c) Rasmi Ranjan Das
(d) Nasir Aggrawal
(e) None of the above

Q5. For how many years the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has extended the tenure of NITI Aayog Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Amitabh Kant?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) Four
(e) None of the above

Q6. Give the name of an Indian Information Service who took charge as Director General of All India Radio.
(a) Mayank Kumar Agrawal
(b) Ajay Gupta
(c) Shashi Shekhar Vempati
(d) N Venudhar Reddy
(e) None of the above

Q7. Who has been appointed as the Director-General of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS)?
(a) M A Ganapathy
(b) Nasir Kamal
(c) Kuldeip Singh
(d) Sudhir Kumar Saxena
(e) None of the above

Q8. Border Security Force (BSF) Director General (DG), Rakesh Asthana has been appointed as the Police Commissioner for which state/UT?
(a) Delhi
(b) Uttar Pradesh
(c) Leh
(d) Bihar
(e) None of the above

Q9. The Indian Army has named one of its firing ranges in Kashmir after which bollywood actress?
(a) Madhuri Dixit
(b) Deepika Padukone
(c) Vidya Balan
(d) Hema Malini
(e) None of the above

Q10. Name the Air Marshal who will be the new Vice Chief of Indian Air Force succeeding Air Marshal Harjit Singh Arora?
(a) Pramod Vasant Athawale
(b) Vivek Ram Chaudhari
(c) Sandeep Singh
(d) Indrajit Kumar Saxena
(e) None of the above

Solutions

S1.Ans(d)
Sol. Federal Bank shareholders have approved the motion to re-appoint Shyam Srinivasan as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the lender for a period of three years.

S2.Ans(c)
Sol. Twitter has named Vinay Prakash as the Resident Grievance Officer (RGO) for India, as per the information updated on its website.

S3.Ans(a)
Sol. Indian-American, Neha Parikh, has been appointed as the CEO of Waze, a crowd-sourced GPS navigation app and a subsidiary of tech giant Google.

S4.Ans(b)
Sol. Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) Secretary, Aramane Giridhar (IAS) has been given additional charge of the Chairman of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).

S5.Ans(a)
Sol. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has extended the tenure of NITI Aayog Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Amitabh Kant, by one year till June 30, 2022.

S6.Ans(d)
Sol. N Venudhar Reddy, an Indian Information Service, IIS Officer of 1988 batch took charge as Director General of All India Radio.

S7.Ans(b)
Sol. Senior IPS officer Nasir Kamal has been appointed the Director-General of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS).

S8.Ans(a)
Sol. Border Security Force (BSF) Director General (DG), Rakesh Asthana has been appointed as the Delhi Police Commissioner.

S9.Ans(c)
Sol. The Indian Army has named one of its firing ranges in Kashmir after Bollywood actress Vidya Balan. The Vidya Balan firing range is situated at Gulmarg in the Baramulla district of Jammu & Kashmir.

S10.Ans(b)
Sol. Air Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari will be the new Vice Chief of Indian Air Force succeeding Air Marshal Harjit Singh Arora.