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1) Who was crowned Miss Universe 2014 on 25
January 2015? - Paulina
Vega, Miss Colombia
2) Who won the women’s single title of
Australian Open on 31 January 2015? - Serena
Williams
Note: She defeated Maria Sharapova, the world number two from
Russia 6-3, 7-6(5) in Melbourne, Australia.
3) Name
the eminent Cartoonist who died on 26 January 2015? - Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Laxman (RK Laxman)
Note: His Common Man, created in 1957, was the symbol of trials
and tribulations of India's ordinary people.
4) Who was
on 29 January 2015 appointed as the Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi
(SNA)? - Shekhar Sen
5) Who was
appointed as the Foreign Secretary of India on 28 January 2015? - Dr. S Jaishankar
6) Who won
the women’s singles of Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold Badminton Tournament 2015 on
25 January 2015? - Saina
Nehwal
7) Alexis
Tsipras on 26 January 2015 was sworn in as the Prime Minister of? – Greece
8) Who
were on 26 January 2015 posthumously awarded with the highest peacetime
military honour the Ashok Chakra by President Pranab Mukherjee? - Major Mukund Varadarajan and Naik Neeraj Kumar Singh
9) Reserve
Bank of India (RBI) on 30 January 2015 constituted a High Powered Committee to
re-examine and recommend appropriate set of businesses, size, conversion and
licensing terms for the Urban Cooperative Banking (UCB) Sector. Who will chair
the eight-member committee? - R
Gandhi, the Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India.
10) Anti-Leprosy
Day was observed on? - 30
January
11) Which
country will host ICC Twenty20 World Cup in 2016 as announced recently? – India
12) Who
took charge as Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of National Research
Development Corporation (NRDC) recently? - Hanumanthu
Purushotham
13) Name
the Union Minister for Communications & Information Technology who on 30
January 2015 launched commemorative Postage stamps on the theme of Swachh
Bharat Mission? - Ravi
Shankar Prasad
14) Who
won the inaugural Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for Poetry at Jaipur
Literature Festival on 24 January 2015? - Poetess
Arundhathi Subramaniam
15) Who
was appointed as the Special Director General (DG) of the Central Reserve
Police Force (CRPF) on 27 January 2015? - K
Durga Prasad
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16) People
for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) on 29 January 2015 announced to
create India's first fenced elephant sanctuary at? - Bannerghatta Biological Park in Karnataka
17) Who
was appointed as coach of National Men’s Hockey team on 30 January 2015? - Paul van Ass
Note: He succeeded Terry Walsh of Australia.
18) Malaysian
government on 29 January 2015 officially declared the disappearance of which
flight as an accident? - MH370
Note: The Beijing-bound Boeing 777 aircraft carrying 239
passengers and crew on board disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur on 8 March
2014.
19) Who
was appointed as the Director General (DG) of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police
(ITBP) on 30 January 2015? - Krishna
Chaudhary
20) Who
recently won the Allan Border Medal for the Australian Player of the Year? - Steve Smith
21) Who
was on 25 January 2015 appointed as Secretary (Security) in the Union Cabinet
Secretariat? - Divya
Prakash Sinha
22) Who
was on 30 January 2015 sworn in as 44th Chief Justice of Sri Lanka? - Kanagasabapathy J Sripavan
23) India
on 31 January 2015 successfully test-fired indigenously developed canister-based
inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM) Agni-5 from? - Wheeler's Island off Odisha coast
24) Actor
and comedian Mala Aravindan who died on 28 January 2015 was famous in which
film industry? – Malayalam
25) Which
company recorded the highest-ever profit of 18 billion US dollars in corporate
history worldwide recently? - Apple
Inc
26) Name
the President and Founder of Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) who died
on 29 January 2015? - Subhash
Ghising
27) Who
was on 27 January 2015 appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ogilvy
& Mather India with effect from 1 March 2015? - Kunal
Jeswani
28) Who on
25 January 2015 became the first lady officer to lead the Inter-Service Guard
of Honour for a major visiting dignitary at the Rashtrapati Bhavan? - Wing Commander Pooja Thakur
29) Union
Government on 30 January 2015 divested ___ percent of its stake in Maharatna
Coal India Limited (CIL)? - 10
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