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Showing posts with label January 2015. Show all posts
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Sunday, February 1, 2015
Quiz Questions on Current Affairs: 31 January 2015
1) Who among the following was appointed as
the new chairman of Sangeet Natak Akademi on 29 January 2015?
(A) Shekhar Sen
(B) N Gopalaswami
(C) Leela Samson
(D) S Jayasankar
2) Which country was confirmed as the host
for the 2016 Twenty20 World Cup recently?
(A) Bangladesh
(B) West Indies
(C) Australia
(D) India
3) On 28 January 2015, nation paid tributes
to which national martyr of freedom movement on his 150th birth anniversary?
(A) Mangal Panday
(B) Lala Lajpat Rai
(C) Subhash Chandra Bose
(D) Bhagath Singh
4) Shirani Bhandaranayake, who was
reinstated by the new government led by President Maithiripala Sirisena on 28
January 2015, was the first woman Chief Justice of which country?
(A) Bangladesh
(B) Pakistan
(C) Srilanka
(D) Nepal
5) Who has assumed charge as the new
Chairman and Managing Director of National Research Development Corporation
(NRDC) recently?
(A) Rehman Khan
(B) Hanumanthu Purushotham
(C) DP Sinha
(D) Rohit Upadhyaya
6) Nation on 29 January 2015 paid rich
tributes to ______, who was martyred in an encounter with militants a day after
he got his gallantry award on Republic Day?
(A) Col. MN Rai
(B) Major Mukund Varadarajan
(C) Major Naik Neeraj Kumar Singh
(D) None of these
7) Which Messenger service has recently
rolled out free voice-calling, a month after its first acquisition of a free
calling app - Zip Phone?
(A) Whatsapp
(B) We Chat
(C) Hike
(D) Viber
8) Kalyan Singh took additional charge as
Himachal Governor on 28 January 2015. He was originally the Governor of which
state?
(A) Goa
(B) West Bengal
(C) Punjab
(D) Rajasthan
9) Which company reported quarterly profits
of $18 billion on 27 January 2015 which is the largest profit in global
corporate history?
(A) Microsoft
(B) Facebook
(C) Apple
(D) Google
10) Veteran actor Mala Aravindan who passed
away on 28 January 2015 is from which industry?
(A) Malayalam
(B) Telugu
(C) Tamil
(D) Kannada
Answers
1) Ans. (A) Shekhar Sen
2) Ans. (D) India
3) Ans. (B) Lala Lajpat Rai
4) Ans. (C) Srilanka
5) Ans. (B) Hanumanthu Purushotham
6) Ans. (A) Col. MN Rai
7) Ans. (C) Hike
8) Ans. (D) Rajasthan
9) Ans. (C) Apple
10) Ans. (A) Malayalam
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Daily Current Affairs Review: 30 January 2015
Friends.. from now onwards our daily
Current Affairs Updates will be coming to you in a slightly new format which
has been devised as per the requests received from many. Hope you will like the
change. Further suggestions are welcome.
1) Nation observed death anniversary of the Mahatma Gandhi:
--> Nation observes the death
anniversary of the Father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi as Martyrs' Day on 30
January 2015.
-->The country also observed Martyrs'
day to honour all those who gave their life for the country.
--> Silence observed and work and
movement stopped for two minutes throughout the country at 11 am on Jan 30. The
day marks the 67th death anniversary of the Father of the nation.
--> Mahatma Gandhi, considered as the
pillar of India's freedom struggle movement, was assassinated on the 30 January
1948.
2) Krishna Chaudhary appointed new ITBP chief:
--> Indian Police Service (IPS) officer
Krishna Chaudhary will take over as the new Director General (DG) of the
Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).
--> Chaudhary, who is currently the
Director General of the Railway Protection Force, is a 1979-batch Bihar cadre
officer. He has been appointed for two years.
--> He succeeds Subhas Goswami who
retired on December 31, 2014.
3) Commemorative Postage Stamp on Swachh Bharat released:
--> Department of Posts, Ministry of
Communications & IT has come out with a set of Commemorative Postage Stamps
on the theme Swachh Bharat.
--> The Union Minister of Communications
&IT, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad released a set of Commemorative Postage
stamps on Swachh Bharat on 30 January 2015.
--> The MOC&IT was hopeful that the
stamp on Swachh Bharat will provide impetus and momentum to the Clean India
campaign started by Hon'ble Prime Minister on 2nd October.
4) Union Govt. sold its 10% stake in Coal India Limited
(CIL):
--> Union Govt. has sold its 10% stake
in Coal India Limited (CIL) on 30 January 2015.
--> This stake sale was oversubscribed
1.05 times and fetched about Rs. 22,600 crore.
--> This was the biggest ever share sale
by any private or public sector company in India. It exceeded the previous
record of over Rs. 15,000 crore by CIL itself in 2010.
5) Jayanthi Natarajan quits Congress:
--> Former union minister Jayanthi
Natrajan resigned from the Congress party on 30 January 2015, accusing it of
not being democratic. She was Environment and Forest Minister in previous UPA
government.
--> Natarajan held a press conference in
Chennai and said that there is no internal democracy in the Congress party now.
--> A letter said to have been written
by her to Congress President Sonia Gandhi last November, has been published by
The Hindu newspaper.
--> She disclosed in her letter that
Rahul Gandhi was involved in policy decisions at a micro-level during the
UPA-II regime. Jayanthi Natarajan said that she has become a victim of a false
and motivated media campaign against her by some Congress leaders.
6) Anti-Leprosy Day observed:
--> Anti Leprosy Day is being held on
30th January every year to raise leprosy awareness among people and to offer
help to those affected by the disease.
--> President Pranab Mukherjee has
extended his best wishes to the Indian Leprosy Association on the occasion of
Anti Leprosy Day.
7) India knocked out of tri-series in Australia:
--> India were on 30 January 2015
knocked out of the tri-series cricket tournament after yet another spineless
display as England recovered from a top-order collapse to record a three-wicket
victory and secure a place in the final in Perth.
8) Railway Minister flagged off trains remotely through
Telepresence Service:
--> Minister for Railways Shri Suresh
Prabhakar Prabhu, flagged off four Express trains from Bengaluru remotely
through Telepresence Service of RailTel, a PSU of Railways.
--> All the four flag offs were done
remotely from concourse area of Bangalore City Railway station itself.
--> Telepresence offers a more engaging
video conference with cutting edge technology, so that the parties involved
feel the immersive presence of participants at different locations.
9) RBI constituted high level panel on urban cooperative
banks.
--> Reserve Bank on 30 January 2015
constituted a high-powered panel to re-examine and recommend appropriate set of
businesses, size, conversion and licensing terms for the urban cooperative
banking sector.
--> The committee under the chairmanship
of RBI Deputy Governor R Gandhi has been set up on the recommendation made by
the Standing Advisory Committee (SAC) on UCBs last year.
10) V K Saraswat joined as full-time member of NITI Aayog:
--> Former DRDO chief V K Saraswat on 30
January 2015 assumed charge as a full-time member of the NITI Aayog.
--> Government had announced the
appointment of Saraswat and noted economist Bibek Debroy as full-time members
of (National Institution for Transforming India) NITI Aayog earlier this month.
11) Robert Mugabe appointed African Union chairman:
--> Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe
has been appointed the new chairman of the 54-nation African Union.
--> Announcement was made during the
African Union's two-day heads of state summit at the organisation's
headquarters in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa.
12) Income Tax Department bagged National Award on E-Governance
2014-15:
--> The Income Tax Department has been
awarded GOLD by the Government of India under category Cat-I-Excellence in
Government Process Re-engineering for National Award on e-governance 2014-15.
--> The award has been conferred for TDS
Reconciliation Analysis & Correction Enabling System (TRACES) project
launched by the Department.
Serena Williams won Australian Open 2015
* Serena Williams defeated Maria Sharapova
to win her sixth Australian Open title on January 31,2015.
* Williams, 33, moves past Martina
Navratilova and Chris Evert with a 19th major singles title.
* Williams's sixth title at Melbourne Park
moved her into a tie with fellow American Helen Wills Moody in third on the
all-time list after she joined Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert on 18 at
last year's U.S. Open.
* Only Australia's Margaret Court (24) and
Germany's Steffi Graf (22), who holds the record for the Open era, have more
grand slam singles titles than the 33-year-old American.
* Williams had not lost to Sharapova since
the 2004 WTA Finals, a run of 15 successive victories and was not about to let
the Russian end that streak in this final.
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* A K Mittal - Appointed as the new chairman of Railway board.
* Steven Gerrard - Liverpool captain announced that he was leaving the club
at the end of the season.
* Virat Kohli - Becomes first cricketer to cross 5 million followers
on Twitter, Surpassed Dravid's record for most runs in a series in Australia.
* R Koteeswaran - Took charge as the Managing Director and Chief
Executive Officer of Indian Overseas Bank.
* Vasant Gowarikar - Space veteran and eminent scientist passed away.
* Kumar Sangakkara - Becomes fastest cricketer to score 12,000 Test
runs, Scored his 11th Test double century to move one behind Australia legend
Don Bradman's all-time record, Broke the world record for the most dismissals
by a wicketkeeper in one-day internationals.
* Mashrafe Mortaza - Will lead a 15-member Bangladesh squad in the
ICC World Cup 2015.
* Upendra Trivedi - One of the most renowned Gujarati actors of stage
and cinema, passed away.
* Arvind Panagariya - Indian-American economist, appointed as the first vice chairman of the
Niti Aayog.
* Justice Mohammad Yaqoob Mir - Appointed as acting Chief Justice of the
Jammu and Kashmir High Court.
* Habib Essid - Nominated as the new Prime Minister of Tunisia
* Sindhushree Khullar - Appointed as CEO of the newly formed NITI
Aayog.
* Keshari Nath Tripathi - Sworn in as Meghalaya Governor (Additional
Charge)
* Sutirtha
Bhattacharya - Took charge
as Coal India Limited’s full-time Chairman and Managing Director (CMD).
* Amitabh Bachchan - Appointed brand ambassador for the medical and
health department of Andhra Pradesh.
* Larry Page - Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and co-founder of
Google, emerged as the 'business person of the year' for 2014.
* Dinesh Oraon - Unanimously elected as the Speaker of Jharkhand
Assembly.
* Atul Khare - Indian diplomat, Named head of the UN department that
provides dedicated support to peacekeeping missions around the world.
* Krishna Kant Paul - Sworn in as Uttarakhand Governor.
* Maithripala Sirisena - Sworn in as the sixth president of Sri
Lanka.
* Yu Min - Father of China's H-bomb, won top science award of China.
* Stan Wawrinka - Won Chennai Open Tennis Tournament.
* Thomas Kurian - New president of Oracle company.
* M Y S Prasad - Distinguished scientist, Awarded the Vikram Sarabhai
Memorial Award for 2014-15
* Cristiano Ronaldo - Won FIFA Ballon d'Or award 2014.
* A.S. Kiran Kumar - Appointed as new Chairman of the Indian Space
Research Organisation. (Prepared by: www.currentaffairs4examz.com)
* Justice S K Sinha - Appointed Chief Justice of Bangladesh to become
the first Hindu to hold the highest judicial post in the Muslim-majority
country.
* Anirban Lahiri - Golf Player, Voted the 2014 Players’ Player of the
Year.
* Raghuram Rajan - Named Governor of the Year in Central Banking
Awards 2015.
* Ramesh Abhishek - Government extended his term as, chairman,
Forward Markets Commission (FMC).
* Avinash Chander - Government removed him from the post of DRDO
Chief.
* Air Marshal Anil Khosla -
Took charge as Director General Air Operations.
* H.S. Brahma - Appointed new Chief Election Commissioner of India.
* Giorgio Napolitano - Resigned
as President of Italy.
* Bhakti Sharma - Open water swimmer, Set a world record by swimming
1.4 miles in 52 minutes in one degree temperature at Antarctic Ocean.
* Anupam Shrivastava - Appointed as CMD of BSNL.
* Baba Ramdev - Appointed brand ambassador of Haryana.
* Brett Lee - Australian Cricketer, retired from all formats of
cricket.
* Stephen Constantine - Appointed head coach of Indian men's football
team.
* Leela Samson - She resigned as Chairperson of Central Board of Film
Certification.
* Kiran Bedi - She joined BJP.
* Stephen Hawking - Biopic movie on him named ‘The Theory of
Everything’ released in India.
* Ashok Srinivasan - He won The Hindu Prize 2014 for "Book of
Common Signs".
* Pankaj Advani - He won National Billiards title.
* AB de Villiers - He scored fastest hundred in One Day
Internationals. He also scored fastest half century in ODI in the same match.
* Faten Hamama - Egyptian iconic actress, she passed away.
* Pahlaj Nihalani - Filmmaker, he was appointed chairperson of the
censor board.
* Rajni Kothari - Eminent political scientist and theorist, he passed
away.
* Frank Islam - He won Martin Luther award.
* Krishna Tirath - Ex-Minister in UPA, she joined BJP.
* Bibek Debroy - Joined as full time member of NITI Aayog.
* Jhumpa Lahiri - She won DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2015.
* Sunil Sood - Vodafone named him as India CEO.
* Prof Kaptan Singh Solanki - He took over the additional charge of
Governor of Punjab.
* King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz - Saudi Arabia King, he passed away.
* M.S. Narayana - Telugu comedian, he passed away.
* Yingluck Shinawatra - Former PM of Thailand, Present govt.
impeached her.
* Saraswathi Menon - Appointed member of the UN Advisory Group to
review peace building architecture.
* Arundhathi Subramaniam - She won inaugural Khushwant Singh Memorial
Prize.
* Barack Obama - Arrived in India, Chief Guest of India's Republic
Day Celebrations 2015, First American President to visit Indian twice.
* Pooja Thakur - Wing Commander Pooja Thakur became the first woman
to lead the ceremonial Guard of Honour at Rashtrapti Bhavan.
* Edgar Lungu - New President of Zambia.
* Saina Nehwal - Defeated Carolina Marin to retain Syed Modi Badminton
Grand Prix title. ( Prepared by: www.currentaffairs4examz.com)
* R K Laxman - Eminent cartoonist, he passed away.
* Durga Prasad - He was appointed special DG of CRPF.
* Paulina Vega - She was crowned Miss Universe title.
* Major Mukund Varadarajan & Naik Neeraj Kumar Singh:
Posthumously awarded Ashok Chakra.
* Alexis Tsipras: He was sworn in as new prime minister of Greece.
* Steve Smith - New test captain of Australia, He won Allan Border
Medal 2015 & Australian player of the year.
* Reverend Libby Lane - She was consecrated as first woman bishop by
Church of England.
* Sujatha Singh - Government removed her as foreign secretary.
* S Jaishankar - He was appointed as the new foreign secretary of
India.
* Justice Shirani Bandaranayake - Sri Lanka’s first woman Chief
Justice, new govt. reinstated her.
* Kalyan Singh - He took additional charge as Himachal Governor.
* Mala Aravindan - Veteran Malayalam actor, he passed away.
* Justice Narayanan Nadar Paul Vasanthakumar - He was appointed as
new Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court.
* Shekhar Sen - He was appointed as the new chairman of Sangeet Natak
Akademi.
* Hanumanthu Purushotham - Assumed charge as the new Chairman and
Managing Director of National Research Development Corporation (NRDC).
* Col. MN Rai - He was martyred in an encounter with militants a day
after he got his gallantry award on Republic Day.
* Subhash Ghisingh - Gorkha National Liberation Front founder, he
passed away.
Friday, January 30, 2015
30th January 2015 Current Affairs Quiz for Exams
1) Who was appointed as the new foreign
secretary of India on 28 January 2015?
(A) H S Brahma
(B) Sujatha Singh
(C) S Jaishankar
(D) DP Sinha
2) R K Laxman, the country's best-known
cartoonist, passed away on 26 January 2015. He is best known for creation of
which among the following iconic character?
(A) Common Man
(B) Amul girl
(C) Chacha Chaudhari
(D) Suppandi
3) Alexis Tsipras was recently sworn in as
prime minister of which country?
(A) Brazil
(B) Malaysia
(C) Egypt
(D) Greece
4) Who won the men's singles of Syed Modi
Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament on 25 January 2015?
(A) HS Pranoy
(B) Kidambi Srikanth
(C) Parupalli Kashyap
(D) Lee Chong Wei
5) Who recently won the Allan Border Medal
for the Australian player of the year?
(A) Mitchell Johnson
(B) Steve Smith
(C) Brad Haddin
(D) James Faulkner
6) Which International Airport has recently
emerged as the busiest international airport in the world?
(A) Dubai International Airport
(B) United Kingdom London Heathrow Airport
(C) Hong Kong International Airport
(D) Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport
7) Name the winter snow storm recently hit
the northeastern states of the USA?
(A) Athena
(B) Juno
(C) Brutus
(D) Nemo
8) Tomas Berdych of Czech Republic recently
defeated which top seeded player in the quarterfinals of Australian Open 2015?
(A) Rafael Nadal
(B) Roger Federer
(C) Andy Murray
(D) Novak Djokovic
9) Which cricket player recently pulled out
of West Indies World Cup squad saying he needed more time to work on his
bowling action?
(A) Darren Sammy
(B) Sulaiman Benn
(C) Jerome Taylor
(D) Sunil Narine
10) After deciding to split into three,
which company recently became the first Indian listed company to solely focus
on life insurance?
(A) Max India
(B) Reliance
(C) Bajaj
(D) Aviva
Answers
1) Ans. (C) S Jaishankar
2) Ans. (A) Common Man
3) Ans. (D) Greece
4) Ans. (C) Parupalli Kashyap
5) Ans. (B) Steve Smith
6) Ans. (A) Dubai International Airport
7) Ans. (B) Juno
8) Ans. (A) Rafael Nadal
9) Ans. (D) Sunil Narine
10) Ans. (A) Max India
Daily Current Affairs Updates: 29 January 2015
1) Shekhar
Sen named chairman of Sangeet Natak Akademy: Eminent singer and theatre
director Shekhar Sen was on 29 January 2015 appointed the new chairman of the
Sangeet Natak Akademi, the country's premier institution for the performing
arts. Mr. Sen was recently awarded the Padma Shri on Republic day for his
contribution to the arts. According to an order issued by the Culture Ministry,
Sen has been appointed for a term of five years with immediate effect. The
Akademi has been without a head after earlier chairperson Leela Samson, who was
appointed by the UPA government, quit on September 30 last year.
2) India
to host next edition of ICC Twenty20 WC in 2016: ndia has been confirmed as
host for the 2016 Twenty20 World Cup, scheduled to be held from March 11 to
April 3, the ICC announced after ratifying its decision in the Board meeting in
Dubai on 29 January 2015. This will be the first time that India will be
hosting a World T20 tournament. So far there have been five editions of the
event with India winning the inaugural one in 2007 in South Africa. Bangladesh
had hosted the last edition of the tournament in 2014.
3) Hanumanthu
Purushotham took charge as new NRDC Chairman: Eminent scientist Hanumanthu
Purushotham has assumed charge as the new Chairman and Managing Director of
National Research Development Corporation (NRDC). Prior to this assignment, he
was Scientist-G and Head of Knowledge Management Centre of International
Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI),
Department of Science and Technology at Hyderabad.
4) Col.
MN Rai cremated with full military honours in Delhi: Rich tributes were
paid on 29 January 2015 to Colonel M N Rai, who was martyred in an encounter
with militants a day after he got his gallantry award on Republic Day, in New
Delhi. His body was brought to the capital where his funeral was held with full
military honours. An emotional farewell was given to the Martyred hero Col. M N
Rai. Col. M N Rai was martyred on 27 Jan 2015 in an encounter with terrorists
in the Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir. The colonel was honoured with a
gallantry medal on Republic Day just a day ahead of his fatal encounter that
also claimed the life of a police constable.
5) GNLF
founder Subhash Ghisingh died:
Gorkha National Liberation Front founder Subhash Ghisingh, who
spearheaded the Gorkhaland movement in the 1980s, died on 29 January 2015 at
the age of 78. Ghisingh had founded GNLF in 1980 and was the chairman of the
Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council in West Bengal from 1988 to 2008. He had led the
Gorkhaland movement to demand for a separate state for ethnic Gorkha people
living in Darjeeling district of West Bengal. The GNLF led the movement, which
disrupted the district with massive violence between 1986 and 1988.
6) Maharashtra's
'pilgrimage to wadi' won the best tableaux award in R-Day Parade: In the
tableaux category in this year's Republic Day parade, the first position went
to the Maharashtra tableau, which depicted 'Wari to Pandharpur' (the pilgrimage
to Pandharpur). A total of 25 tableaux, including nine from Union ministries
and departments, had taken part in the parade. While the Jharkhand tableau on
Maluti temples was adjudged second, the third position was won by the Karnataka
tableau on the Channapatna toys.
7) Four-day
long R-Day celebrations concluded with 'Beating Retreat' ceremony: The
four-day long Republic Day celebrations concluded on Thursday with 'Beating
Retreat' ceremony as splendid performances by military bands and musicians from
all the three forces enthralled the gathering. Lilting martial tunes and massed
pipes and drum bands reverberated the air as the majestic Raisina Hills was lit
up as part of the Beating the Retreat ceremony in New Delhi, marking the end of
Republic Day celebrations.
8) S.
Jaishankar took charge as Foreign Secretary: Less than twelve hours after
the government’s official notification appointing him, the new foreign
secretary, Dr. S. Jaishankar took charge on 29 January 2015 morning.
9) Airtel
tied up with Kotak Mahindra to apply for Payments Bank license: Bharti
Airtel, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Airtel M Commerce Services Ltd.
(AMSL), is applying for a Payments Bank licence with Kotak Mahindra Bank as a
partner. AMSL, that offers mobile money services under the brand name Airtel
Money, is proposing to convert the existing pre-paid payment instrument licence
into a Payments Bank license as per the guidelines prescribed by the Reserve
bank of India, Bharti Airtel said.
10) PM
Modi becomes first global leader to tweet audio, video: Prime Minister
Narendra Modi on Thursday became the world's first leader to send out an
audio-video tweet, when he tweeted a conversation between him and US President
Barack Obama during "Mann Ki Baat". The PM's twitter account Prime
Minister @NarendraModi has become a fully audio-video enabled account. Twitter
users heard the special episode on Twitter itself.
11) Kumar
Sangakkara sets new ODI dismissals record: Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara
broke the world record for the most dismissals by a wicketkeeper in one-day
internationals on 29 January 2015. Sangakkara reached 473 dismissals - 377
catches and 96 stumpings - when he caught Corey Anderson off the bowling of
Shaminda Eranga in a 34-run win over New Zealand in Wellington. Retired
Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist had held the earlier record.