24 January 2014 Current Affairs Questions Answers Quiz

1. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration took an action against which drug company of India on Thursday, 23 Jan 2014, prohibiting it from making or selling drug ingredients from its Toansa, India, plant for the U.S. market?
[Category: Business Current Affairs]
[A] Dr Reddy's Lab
[B] Cipla
[C] Biocon
[D] Ranbaxy Laboratories


2. Union Finance Ministry on 23 January 2014 approved a proposal, which will be in effect from 1 April 2014, to provide minimum monthly pension of how much rupees to workers of organised sector, under the Employees Pension Scheme 1995 (EPS-95)?
[Category: Economy India Current Affairs]
[A] 800
[B] 900
[C] 1000
[D] 1200


3. An Indian-American lady, the first-ever US special representative to Muslim communities, is leaving her position at the State Department to join the Institute of Politics at Harvard University on 24th Jan 2014. Can you name her?
[Category: World Current Affairs]
[A] Farah Pandith
[B] Norah Kerry
[C] Sarah Rukhsar
[D] Merry J Keyan


4. Which university became the first public university to accept fees in digital currency, Bitcoin (However the payment of fees through Bitcoin will be only applicable to two new courses on the roles of complimentary currencies in economic systems)?
[Category: International | World Current Affairs]
[A] Cumbria University, UK
[B] Oxford University, UK
[C] National University of Singapore
[D] Nanyang Technological University, Singapore


5. Micromax, India’s leading and world’s 11th largest handset maker on Thursday, 23rd January 2014, launched its operations in which country?
[Category: MBA Current Affairs]
[A] China
[B] Germany
[C] Russia
[D] Bangladesh