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Image: Two MiG-21 fighter aircraft were sent from the Jodhpur air base to investigate airlines
Photographs: Ajay Verma/Reuters

How plugged are you into news? And how much of it has stayed lodged in that grey matter? Take our weekly news quiz that gives you a whip-round of what's been going on last week. Good luck!

1. Last Sunday, Indian Air Force scrambled fighter jets after two passenger aircraft sought to enter the Indian territory from the Pakistan side? What airlines did the planes belong to?

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Image: ICC chief N Srinivasan, who also heads the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association Club, has said he is ready to lift the ban on dhotis
Photographs: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters

2. The Tamil Nadu Cricket Association Club in Chennai came under fire for

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Tamil Nadu Cricket Association Club Jayalalithaa Hariparanthaman Chennai

Image: Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes a stopover before he heads for Brazil
Photographs: Press Information Bureau

3: On his way to Fortaleza, Brazil to attend the BRICS Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had an overnight stopover at

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Narendra Modi Berlin Modi Angela Merkel Frankfurt Di Janerio

Image: An interceptor rocket in fired the southern Israeli city of Ashdod
Photographs: Baz Ratner/Reuters

4. What is Israel’s missile defence system called?

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Image: Journalist Ved Pratap Vaidik in a meeting with 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed

5. Journalist Ved Pratap Vaidik who stirred a storm after his meeting with Lashkar’s Hafiz Saeed is an aide of…

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Baba Ramdev Hafiz Saeed Pratap Vaidik Mohan Bhagwat Anna Hazare

A pro-Russian separatist stands at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, near the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.

Image: A pro-Russian separatist stands at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, near the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.
Photographs: Maxim Zmeyev/Reuters

6. Flight MH17, which was shot down over Ukraine’s Donetsk on Thursday, was headed to…

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Kuala Lumpur Amsterdam MH17 Donetsk Ukraine

Image: Former US president Bill Clinton waves to students

7. Former United States president Bill Clinton visited a school kitchen in which Indian city?

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Bill Clinton Jaipur NGO Jodhpur Delhi

8. Which Nobel-prize winning author died last week?

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Image: Schoolgirls pray to pay homage to a rape victim who was assaulted in New Delhi

9. "Treat juvenile rape accused at par with adults." Which NDA minister made this remark?

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Maneka Gandhi NDA Rajnath Singh Harsh Vardhan Irani

Image: PM Narendra Modi with his principal secretary desiganate

10. Which official’s appointment saw an amendment being passed in Parliament?
A. Nripendra Misra
B. Ajit Doval
C. M K Narayanan
D. Shiv Shankar Menon