GK Current Affair August 17, 2019

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1.0 Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani launched a multilingual Knowledge portal called?
a. Bharat Sholka
b. Bharat Vaani
c. Bharat Bhasha
d. Bharat Darshan

2.0 Which Indian Chief Minister has been selected for the USBC transformation Chief minister (TMC) award?
a. Sarbananda sonowal
b. Nitish kumar
c. N. Chandrababu Naidu
d. Raman singh

3.0 Which institute has topped the 2017 National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranking for higher education institutional?
a. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
b. Indian Institute of technology, Madras
c. Indian Institute of technology, Bombay
d. Indian Institute of technology, Kharagpur

4.0 Which of the following city will host ‘AI for India Summit' organised by Facebook?
a. New Delhi
b. Pune
c. Chennai
d. Bangalore
e. Gandhinagar

5.0 Which of the following country became the first G7 country to sign up the new ‘Silk Route’ project with China?
a. Canada
b. Germany
c. France
d. Italy
e. United Kingdom

6.0 Recently, Which of the following organisation has launched smart garbage bins?
a. Steel Authority of India
b. NTPC Limited
c. GAIL India Limited
d. Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
e. Defence Research and Development Organisation

7.0 Which if the following company has acquired cybersecurity company Aujas?
a. NSEIT
b. CMC Limited
c. Accent Consulting
d. Trendy Solutions
e. CMC Limited

8.0 The salaries and allowances of the Judges of the High Court are charged to the:
a.Consolidated Fund of India
b.Consolidated fund of the State
c.Contingency Fund of India
d.Contingency Fund of the State

9.0 The power to enlarge the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of India with respect to any matter included in the Union List of Legislative Powers rests with:
a.The President of India
b.The Chief Justice of India
c.The parliament
d.The union Ministry of Law, justice and company Affairs

10.0 Which one of the following High Courts has the territorial Jurisdiction over Andaman and Nicobar Island?
a.Andhra Pradesh
b.Kolkata
c.Chennai
d.Orissa

ANSWER KEYS:

1.0 Bharat Vaani
2.0 N. Chandrababu Naidu
3.0 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
4.0 Bangalore
5.0 Italy
6.0 Steel Authority of India
7.0 NSEIT
8.0 Consolidated fund of the State
9.0 The parliament
10.0 Kolkata

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