Biz Quizzard 170

Presenting the current affairs quiz for the week June 25-30. Hope you enjoy it.

1. Software major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) last week entered into an agreement with which automobile brand to provide entire software requirement for its Formula One (F1) cars?

2. Which company recently bought a 25% stake in Malaysian telecom company Maxis?

3. Mr Ganesh Lakshminarayanan will be taking over as the MD of Indian operations of which MNC?

4. In a revision of his succession policy, Mr Basant Kumar Birla lasted week handed over the reins of which group company to his grandson Kumar Mangalam Birla?

5. SkodaIndia last week revealed its plans to launch its first small car in India. Name the brand?

6. Nokia last week launched its most advanced smart phone in the latest communicator series. What has it been sub branded as?

7. Which country will become the 151st member of World Trade Organization (WTO) next month?

8. Which business group, according to a report last week, intends to kick start its apparel retail foray by converting two little-known group-owned stores in Kolkata - '85 Lansdowne ' on Sarat Bose Road and 'Rose Bird' in Park Street - into a fashion garments outlet and mid-range apparel store respectively?

9. Which new television channel is being advertised in the print medium with the baseline 'live the game'?

10. Which Indian film celebrity has been appointed worldwide brand ambassador for luxury watch brand 'Timond'?

Please mail your answers before Friday to rajeevkondapalli@gmail.com with Biz Quizzard 170 as the subject.

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