Indian Current Affairs Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. A traditional craftsperson is seeking skills training, a toolkit incentive, credit support, and help reaching markets. Which central initiative launched in 2023 most directly fits those needs?
Production Linked Incentive Scheme
Startup India Seed Fund Scheme
PM Gati Shakti
PM Vishwakarma
2. A policy analyst says the 2023 women’s reservation law immediately reserved one-third of the seats in the next Lok Sabha election. Which correction is accurate?
The law applies only to seats in municipal corporations
The reservation began immediately but applies only to the Rajya Sabha
Each political party must reserve one-third of its nominations, without any constituency changes
Its seat reservation is linked to a future census and delimitation exercise before implementation
3. Which statement best summarizes the outcome of India’s 2024 Lok Sabha election?
The BJP remained the largest party, and the NDA formed the government with coalition support
The Bharatiya Janata Party won an outright majority without coalition support
The Indian National Congress won an outright majority and formed a single-party government
No alliance obtained enough seats to form a government
4. A police officer needs the law that replaced the Code of Criminal Procedure from 1 July 2024. Which law should the officer consult?
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita
Jan Vishwas Act
Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam
5. An Indian app collects customers’ names and phone numbers online. Which subject is most directly addressed by the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023?
The processing of digital personal data and related rights and duties
The taxation of online marketplace transactions
The licensing of mobile telecommunications spectrum
The regulation of cryptocurrency exchanges
6. A proposal seeks public support for producing low-emission hydrogen using renewable electricity and building India into a major producer and exporter. Which initiative best matches it?
National Solar Mission
National Green Hydrogen Mission
FAME India Scheme
PM-KUSUM
7. Uttarakhand’s 2024 Uniform Civil Code legislation primarily concerns which area of law?
Personal civil matters such as marriage, divorce, and inheritance
Criminal sentencing and police investigations
Corporate taxation and securities trading
Interstate river-water allocation
8. The January 2024 ceremony widely described as the Ram Mandir pran pratishtha took place in which city?
Varanasi
Ayodhya
Prayagraj
Mathura
9. The Citizenship (Amendment) Rules notified in March 2024 implemented provisions aimed at which group?
Every refugee from a neighboring country regardless of community or arrival date
All foreign nationals who had studied at an Indian university for at least one year
Specified Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, and Christian migrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan who entered India by the statutory cutoff
Overseas Citizens of India seeking automatic voting rights in national elections
10. At the 2023 G20 summit in New Delhi, which organization was admitted as a permanent G20 member?
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
African Union
11. At its June 2024 monetary-policy meeting, what repo rate did the Reserve Bank of India retain?
6.50%
6.00%
5.50%
7.25%
12. A lawyer is updating a criminal charge filed after 1 July 2024. Which new law replaced the Indian Penal Code?
Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita
Digital Personal Data Protection Act
13. Aditya-L1 was placed in a halo orbit in January 2024. Around which location does that orbit operate?
The Earth–Moon L2 point beyond the Moon
The Sun–Mars L1 point between the Sun and Mars
A low orbit around the Sun’s visible surface
The Sun–Earth L1 point, positioned sunward of Earth
14. A logistics planner is studying the India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor announced during the 2023 G20 summit. What route concept is central to the project?
Building a direct undersea railway between Mumbai and southern Europe
Creating a road-only corridor from India through Myanmar to Japan
Linking India with Europe through maritime and rail connections across the Arabian Peninsula
Connecting India to Europe solely through the Northern Sea Route
15. Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander touched down on the Moon in August 2023. Why was the landing site especially significant?
It was the first landing within the Moon’s permanently shadowed interior
It made India the first country to land successfully near the lunar south polar region
It was the first crewed landing on the Moon since the Apollo program
It placed the first spacecraft on the Moon’s far side
16. What was the central effect of the Supreme Court of India’s February 2024 electoral-bonds judgment?
It required every political donation to be made through electoral bonds
It transferred responsibility for political funding rules to state election commissions
It struck down the electoral-bonds scheme and led to disclosure of bond-related information
It limited electoral bonds to donations made by individual citizens