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Questions for the day.
1. Islam Karimov who died on 3 September
2016 was the President of which country?
Answer: Uzbekistan
Note: He has been Uzbekistan’s sole leader since the collapse of
the Soviet Union in 1992 & winning numerous elections, none of which have
fulfilled international fairness criteria.
2. The first BRICS Film Festival kick
started on 2 September 2016 in which city?
Answer: New Delhi
Note: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore inaugurated the festival. The opening film for the
festival was the world premiere of the Malayalam movie, Veeram.
3. Election Commission of India (ECI) has
recently granted national party status to All India Trinamool Congress (TMC)
Party led by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. With this recognition,
TMC became ___ national party in the country?
Answer: Seventh
Note: The other national parties are Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP), Congress, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP),
Communist Party of India (CPI) and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM).
4. CMD of biopharma Biocon, Kiran Mazumdar
Shaw was given the ‘Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur’
award. It is the highest civilian award of which country?
Answer: France
Note: She was awarded for her contribution to biosciences &
research field globally.
5. Name the Political Party launched by
Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu on 3 September 2016?
Answer: Awaaz-e-Punjab
Note: He launched the party along with Akali Dal MLA Pargat
Singh and some other leaders. Sidhu had resigned in July from his Rajya Sabha
seat from BJP ticket.
6. Which former Indian cricketer was
recently (September 2016) made an honorary life member of the Marylebone
Cricket Club (MCC)?
Answer: Zaheer Khan
Note: He becomes the 24th Indian cricketer to be bestowed the
honour. The list also includes the likes of Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin
Tendulkar, who were inducted in previous years.
7. Which Digital payments platform has
recently launched “M-Gullak” to promote the habit of savings?
Answer: MobiKwik
8. Which country's Province named British
Columbia has recently become the first foreign government entity to issue a
masala bond?
Answer: Canada
Note: Masala Bonds are rupee-denominated
bonds issued to overseas buyers, aimed at investments into India’s infra needs.
In July, HDFC had listed the world’s first masala bond, raising Rs. 3,000
crore.
9. Name the Action movie star, writer,
director who was recently (Sept-2016) given an honorary Oscar for his
extraordinary achievements in the movies?
Answer: Jackie Chan
10. India has been placed at the ___ rank
in the World Bank’s 2016 Logistics Performance Index (LPI) among 160 countries?
Answer: 35th
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