Current Affairs Quiz based on "The Hindu"

1) Name the system of appointment of judges which was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court Of India?

Anwer. National Judicial Appointments Commission Act (NJAC)

2) PM of India will offer worship at the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara at which hill shrine?
Answer. Tirumala

3) Name the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Nepal who visited New Delhi and gave new boost to India-Nepal ties?

Answer. Kamal Thapa

4) Name the Pakistani umpire who has been withdrawn by the International Cricket Council from the India-South Africa ODI series. 

Answer. Aleem Dar 

5) Who is the chairman of Separatist Hurriyat Conference who recently visited Delhi to meet Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit?

Answer. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq

6) Name the artist who is returning the Sangeet Natak Akademi award as it is becoming ‘increasingly difficult’ to speak up in public places without being ‘harangued’.

Answer. Murtaza Danish Hussain

7) Which states of India which recently lifted ban on Maggi with immediate effect?

Answer. Gujarat & Karnataka

8) Which organization has launched a pilot project of a station-based e-catering service allowing passengers to order meals as per their choice, which will be delivered at stations from popular private caterers?

Answer. The Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC)

9) Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi pressing for early grant of special category status for which state of India?

Answer. Andhra Pradesh

10) Who is the U.N. Secretary-General who will make a surprise visit to Israel and the Palestinian in a high-profile gambit to bring an end to the month long wave of violence that has plagued the region?

Answer. Ban Ki-moon

11) What is the monthly average of total foreign exchange reserve of India which is recently published in the Treasury Department report?

Answer. 328 billion

12) Who recently becomes the Canada’s second-youngest Prime Minister?

Answer. Justin Trudeau

13) Name the double-amputee Olympic runner who fatally shot his girlfriend in 2013, but was released in October 2015 from prison and placed under house arrest?

Answer. Oscar Pistorius

14) Who is the President and all time Director of InterGlobe Aviation Ltd?

Answer. Aditya Gosh

15) What is the name of the Mahindra & Mahindra 's digital marketplace for intra¬-city logistics?

Answer. SmartShift