Saturday, February 21, 2015

Must read Current Affairs Questions for IB ACIO Exam 2015

1) Who was appointed as the new CBI Director in December 2014? - Anil Kumar Sinha
2) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh in January 2015 launched integrated women safety mobile app called? – Himmat
3) World AIDS Day 2014 theme? - Focus, Partner, Achieve: An AIDS-free generation
4) Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi was recently named as the Asian of the Year 2014 by? - The Straits Times, Singapore daily
5) Who became the first Indian Footballer to be conferred with Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Hall of Fame Award recently? - Baichung Bhutia
6) Union Government during January 2015 accepted the recommendations of the Bezbaruah committee on? - Safety of North East people
7) Union Government recently renamed the Department of Disability Affairs (Nishaktata Karya Vibhag) as? - Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Viklangjan Sashaktikaran Vibhag)
8) Which film won the Golden Peacock Award at the 45th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) which concluded in Goa recently? - Leviathan, Russian Film
9) Mahendra Singh Dhoni in December 2014 announced retirement from which format of International cricket? - Test Cricket
10) National Good Governance Day was observed recently observed for the first time on? - December 25 (birthday of the former Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee)
11) Union Government launched Operation All Out against Bodo militants in which state? – Assam
12) 102nd Indian Science Congress (ISC) was recently held at? - Mumbai
13) Who was nominated as the next defence secretary of US Department of Defence by the President Barack Obama? - Ashton Carter
14) Recently American geologists discovered the most abundant mineral on earth's lower mantle known as? - Bridgmanite
15) Name the French satirical weekly magazine in Paris which was attacked by three masked gunmen during January 2015? - Charlie Hebdo
16) Name the joint venture of Tata-SIA which started its flight operation in India in January 2015? - Vistara Airline
17) The book "2014: The Election That Changed India" that was released in November 2014 was penned by? - Rajdeep Sardesai.
18) Who was named as the TIME’s Person of the Year 2014 by the TIME’s magazine? - Ebola fighters
19) Which country won the fourth edition of the Blind Cricket World Cup (BCWC) 2014? - India
20) Who is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog? - Sindhushree Khullar
21) Who recently became the first Indian-American to be appointed as US Ambassador to India? - Richard Rahul Verma
22) Name the new antibiotic discovered by scientists nearly after two decades? – Teixobactin
23) Who won the 2014 FIFA Ballon d’Or award? - Cristiano Ronaldo
24) Union Home Ministry recently removed which section of Indian Penal Code (IPC) decriminalizing attempt to suicide? - Section 309
25) Name the new Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)? - AS Kiran Kumar
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