CURRENT AFFAIRS(15-08-2024) 1 / 10 Who is the leader of the Opposition in Sri Lanka? Anura Kumara Dissanayake Sajith Premadasa Ranil Wickremesinghe Namal Rajapaksa Three main contenders, President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Leader of Opposition Sajith Premadasa, and opposition parliamentarian leading a third force Anura Kumara Dissanayake are vying for the country’s top office. Read More 2 / 10 In which city is the first phase of Tarang Shakti, a multilateral air exercise hosted by the Indian Air Force, taking place? Sulur Jodhpur Bidar Ghaziabad “We will definitely take up the case of having this exercise once in every alternate year. We will take a call later on how many nations we can accommodate. But definitely this is not going to be the last one,” the IAF chief said, addressing the media at Sulur, where the first phase is being held from August 6 to 14. Read More 3 / 10 Anwar Ibrahim is the Prime Minister of which nation? Malaysia Singapore Cambodia Indonesia Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim will visit New Delhi next week, in a visit that is expected to strengthen India-Malaysia ties in strategic, trade and defence cooperation, and discuss major developments in Bangladesh, Gaza, and Iran as well. Read More 4 / 10 Who was the oldest athlete who participated at the Paris Summer Olympics? Juan Antonio Jimenez Cobo, Spain Laura Kraut, USA Mijaín López, Cuba Zheng Haohao, China The oldest athlete to participate, 65-year-old Juan Antonio Jimenez Cobo, represented Spain in the equestrian event. Read More 5 / 10 Which of the following panchayats was among the greatest hit during the landslides in Wayanad in July this year? Olavanna Meppadi Valapattanam Kavalappara Nearly a fortnight after two landslides gouged out the face of the Vellarimala hill in Wayanad’s Meppadi panchayat, killing more than 230 people in the foothills, the search continues for the missing, estimated to be more than 130 people. Read More 6 / 10 Which of the following is an emergency contraceptive included in the National Family Planning Programme in 2003? Clindamycin 0.75 mg Atorvastatin 0.50 mg Ifosfamide 0.1 mg Levonorgestrel 0.75 mg The emergency contraceptive pill Levonorgestrel 0.75 mg tablet was included in the National Family Planning Programme in 2003 but was later replaced by Levonorgestrel 1.5 mg tablet to be made available free of cost across the public health system. Read More 7 / 10 Who became the first woman to win three consecutive 1,500m titles at the Olympics, the latest being at Paris? Tigst Assefa Hellen Obiri Faith Kipyegon Sifan Hassan This was best exemplified by the Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan, the first since Emil Zatopek in 1952 to collect medals in 5,000m, 10,000m and marathon, Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon, the first woman to win three consecutive 1,500m titles…. Read More 8 / 10 How much funding has the Anusandhan National Research Foundation been granted, which it will receive over five years? ₹5 lakh crore ₹500 crore ₹50,000 crore ₹50 crore The ANRF will receive ₹50,000 crore over five years, 72% of which is expected to be from the private sector. Read More 9 / 10 In which year was the Securities and Exchange Board of India established as a statutory body? 1954 1976 1992 1988 The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), which was established as a statutory body that year (1992) — it was constituted as a non-statutory body in April 1988 through a resolution of the Government of India — now faces allegations of bias and conflict of interest right at the top. Read More 10 / 10 In which of the following towns in Bangladesh is an Indian consulate not located? Khulna Chittagong Sylhet Mymensingh India’s presence in Bangladesh, with four consulates in Chittagong, Rajshahi, Khulna and Sylhet, apart from the High Commission in Dhaka and a slew of agencies working on various projects there, should have ensured that the groundswell of anger against the Hasina government was well documented and relayed to Delhi — not just in the past few months, but over the past few years. Read More Your score isThe average score is 0% 0% Restart quiz
