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Showing posts with label October 2015. Show all posts
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Sunday, October 18, 2015
Current Affairs October 2015 PDF - Third Week (Free Download)
18.10.15
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Friends..Here is the Current Affairs for the Third week of October 2015 (12 October 2015 to 18 October 2015) in PDF Download format. Download the Current Affairs as PDF in your mobile, tab or desktop and read & revise wherever you go. This will be very useful for all upcoming Exams. You can download PDF from the below link.
1) Name the Indian player who on 15 October
2015 retired from all forms of international and first-class Cricket? - Zaheer Khan
2) Who on 13 October 2015 won the 2015 Man
Booker Prize for Fiction? - Marlon
James
3) Name the third India-Sri Lanka joint
training exercise, which culminated on 12 October 2015 at Aundh Military Camp,
Pune? - Mitra Shakti-2015
4) Who recently defeated Rafael Nadal to
win 2015 China Open Men’s Singles title? - Novak
Djokovic
5) Who was on 12 October 2015 elected as
the new Prime Minister of Nepal? - KP
Sharma Oli
6) Telecom Regulatory Authority of Indian
(TRAI) on 16 October 2015 made it mandatory for mobile service providers (MSPs)
to compensate consumers call drops with effect from? - 1 January 2016
7) World Food Day (WFD) was observed across
the world on 16 October 2015 with the theme? - Social
Protection and Agriculture
8) The five-judge Constitutional Bench of
Supreme Court (SC) in a collective order on 16 October 2015 ruled that ____th
Constitutional Amendment Act and the National Judicial Appointments Commission
(NJAC) Act, 2014 is unconstitutional and void? - 99th
9) Country’s prestigious DRDO Missile
Complex in which city was on 15 October 2015 renamed as Dr APJ Abdul Kalam
Missile Complex? – Hyderabad
10) India, United States and Japan on 14
October 2015 began the five-day ____ exercise 2015 on the Eastern Coast in
which several warships, aircraft carriers and fast attack submarine will be
participating? – Malabar
11) Marlon James on 13 October 2015 won the
2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his book? - A
Brief History of Seven Killings
12) Who was chosen as 'Finance Minister of
the Year, Asia' by London-based publication Emerging Markets in October 2015? -
Arun Jaitley, Finance Minister
of India
13) Name the joint military exercise
between India and China which started at Kunming Military Academy, Yunnan
Province, China on 12 October 2015? - Hand-in-Hand
2015
14) Who won the 2015 Formula 1 Russian
Grand Prix title? - Lewis
Hamilton
15) Name the Indian badminton player who on
11 October 2015 won the 2015 Dutch Open Men’s Singles badminton title? - Ajay Jayaram
16) Who won women’s singles title of China
Open 2015? - Garbine
Muguruza of Spain
17) Sania Mirza and along with whom on 10
October 2015 won women's doubles title of the China Tennis Open 2015? - Martina Hingis
18) International Day for the Eradication
of Poverty was observed globally on 17 October 2015 with the theme? - Building a sustainable future: Coming together to
end poverty and discrimination
19) Aditya Birla Group on 16 October 2015
launched a new online fashion store named? - Abof.com
20) Name the birthplace of Dr. Abdul Kalam,
which was included as the 498th town under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and
Urban Transformation (AMRUT)? – Rameswaram
21) Which state on 13 October 2015 launched
the mobile app mSehat for health workers to record maternal and infant data in
real-time? - Uttar
Pradesh
22) Who on 13 October 2015 took over the
charge of Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of
state-owned Bank of Baroda? - PS
Jayakumar
23) Which state government recently banned
drug Ketoprofen to save vultures? - Tamil
Nadu
24) Who recently became first Indian female
bodybuilder to win silver in Asian body building championship? - Shweta Rathore
25) Which team on 11 October 2015 claimed
the Beighton Cup hockey tournament? - Punjab
National Bank (PNB)
26) Who was recently elected as Fiji's
President? - Jioji
Konrote
27) Who was on 16 October 2015 appointed as
the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of state-run oil marketer Hindustan
Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL) with effect from April 2016? - MK Surana
28) President Pranab Mukherjee on 15
October 2015 concluded his 3-nation tour to? - Jordan,
Palestine and Israel
29) Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 15
October 2015 formed a single Financial Inclusion Fund (FIF) with a corpus of
____ crore rupees? - 2000
crore
30) Who was on 16 October 2015 unanimously
elected as the House speaker of Nepal? - Onsari
Gharti Magar
31) Who was on 14 October 2015 appointed as
Executive Chairman of Twitter? - Omid
Kordestani
32) Name the Indian national who was on 14
October 2015 appointed as the Assistant Director of the United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Regional Representative for Asia and the
Pacific? - Kundhavi
Kadiresan
33) Marlon James on 13 October 2015 won the
2015 Man Booker Prize belongs to which country? – Jamaica
34) Who was on 12 October 2015 appointed as
the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Infosys? - Ranganath
Dwarakanath Mavinakere
35) Who on 11 October 2015 won Belarusian
presidential elections? - Alexander
Lukashenko
36) Name the legendary Tamil actress who popularly
known by her stage name Manorama who died on 10 October 2015? – Gopishantha
37) Fourth International Day of the Girl
Child (IDGC) was observed across the world on 11 October 2015 with the theme? -
The Power of Adolescent Girl:
Vision for 2030
38) Reliance Power on 13 October 2015
appointed ______ as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO)? - N Venugopala Rao
39) Which country on 13 October 2015
operationalised the Zam hydropower station on the Brahmaputra River in Tibet
Autonomous Region? – China
40) Name the Special train launched by
Union Government on 15 October 2015 from Safderjung Railway Station in New
Delhi? - Science Express
Climate Action Special (SECAS)
41) Name the renowned Malayalam filmmaker
who was on 12 October 2015 was awarded with the prestigious J.C. Daniel Award
for the year 2014? - I.V. Sasi
42) Which state government on 13 October
2015 launched Bill Banvao, Inaam Pao scheme to encourage people to receive or
demand proper bills for purchases? - Delhi
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Current Affairs Quiz: 17 October 2015
Friends..Here is the Current Affairs Online
Quiz for 17 October 2015. Some of the important topic includes World Food Day
2015, SC judgment on National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC), retirement
of Zaheer Khan etc. This MCQ will be very useful for all upcoming exams.
Questions for the day. Click the ‘START QUIZ’ button to start the quiz.
1) World Food Day (WFD) was recently
observed on?
(A) 12 October
(B) 17 October
(C) 15 October
(D) 16 October
2) Five-judge Constitutional Bench of
Supreme Court (SC) in a collective order on 16 October 2015 ruled that ___th
Constitutional Amendment Act regarding Constitution of National Judicial
Appointments Commission (NJAC) is unconstitutional and void?
(A) 99
(B) 100
(C) 98
(D) 95
3) Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has recently
established Financial Inclusion Fund (FIF) with Rs. ____crore corpus expanding
reach of banking services?
(A) 1000 crore
(B) 2000 crore
(C) 3000 crore
(D) 4000 crore
4) TRAI on 16 October 2015 made it
mandatory for mobile service providers (MSPs) to compensate consumers call
drops with effect from?
(A) 1 November 2015
(B) 1 April 2016
(C) 1 January 2016
(D) 1 December 2015
5) What was the theme of World Food Day
2015?
(A) Social Protection and Agriculture
(B) Fighting Hunger and Malnutrition
(C)
Food Comes First
(D) Eat, Think and Save
6) Marlon James won the Man Booker Prize
2015 for his book?
(A) The Book of Night Women
(B) A Brief History of Seven Killings
(C) John Crow's Devil
(D) The Narrow Road to the Deep North
7) Name the Indian fast bowler who
announced retirement from all forms of international cricket on 15 October
2015?
(A) Ashish Nehra
(B) Ajith Agarkar
(C) S Sreesanth
(D) Zaheer Khan
8) Name the birthplace of former President
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam which was on 15 October 2015 included as the 498th town
under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT)?
(A) Salem
(B) Coimbatore
(C) Rameswaram
(D) Thoothukudi
9) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 15
October 2015 released the commemorative postal stamps on the which former
President of India?
(A) K R Narayanan
(B) Shankar Dayal Sharma
(C) R Venkataraman
(D) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
10) Which Indian was appointed as Assistant
Director of UN FAO and Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific on 14th
October 2015?
(A) Shantha Kumari
(B) Susanna M. Salter
(C) Kundhavi Kadiresan
(D) Tara CherianAttempt Quiz to check the right answers.
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Thursday, October 15, 2015
16 October 2015 Current Affairs Quiz
Friends..Here is the Current Affairs
Multiple Choice Quiz for 16 October 2015.
Questions for the day. Click the ‘START QUIZ’ button to start the quiz.
1) Which Indian was recently selected for
the prestigious 2015 Harvard Humanitarian of the Year Award?
(A) Kailash Satyarthi
(B) Narendra Modi
(C) Amartya Sen
(D) AB Vajpayee
2) India, United States and which other
country's navies have started 2015 Malabar Naval Exercise of the eastern coast
in Bay of Bengal and India Ocean?
(A) China
(B) Russia
(C) Japan
(D) South Korea
3) Pranab Mukherjee became the first Indian
President to address ____ country's Parliament Knesset on 14 October 2015?
(A) Nepal
(B) Israel
(C) Canada
(D) Egypt
4) Which company has recently appointed
Ranganath D Mavinakere as new Chief Financial Officer (CFO)?
(A) Flipkart
(B) TCS
(C) Amazon
(D) Infosys
5) Government has recently decided to
rename the prestigious missile complex in which city as 'Dr APJ Abdul Kalam
Missile Complex' in honour of the late President?
(A) Hyderabad
(B) Kochi
(C) New Delhi
(D) Mumbai
6) PS Jayakumar was on 13 October 2015 took
over the charge of Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of?
(A) Federal Bank
(B) Union Bank of India
(C) Bank of Baroda
(D) Punjab National Bank
Ans. (C) Bank of Baroda
7) Who won the prestigious Man Booker Prize
2015?
(A) Richard Flanangan
(B) Sunjeev Sahota
(C) Anne Tyler
(D) Marlon James
8) Cristiano Ronaldo has received a record
___ Golden Boot recently?
(A) Fourth
(B) Third
(C) Fifth
(D) Sixth
9) Which state government on 13 October
2015 launched Bill Banvao, Inaam Pao scheme to encourage people to receive or
demand proper bills for purchases?
(A) Haryana
(B) Delhi
(C) Rajasthan
(D) Jharkhand
10) Marlon James who won the Man Booker
Prize 2015 is from which country?
(A) New Zealand
(B) Canada
(C) Jamaica
(D) AustraliaAttempt Quiz to check the right answers.
Check our Previous Current Affairs Quiz 2015
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Daily Current Affairs PDF Download- 14 October 2015
Friends..Here is the Important Daily
Current Affairs updates for 14 October 2015. You can download PDF of this
article from the link below.
1) Infosys appoints Ranganath D Mavinakere as new CFO:
--> India’s second largest software
services firm, Infosys has appointed Ranganath D Mavinakere as new Chief
Financial Officer (CFO).
--> He will succeed Rajiv Bansal who was
Executive Vice President (EVP) and the CFO of Infosys and had resigned from the
company.
--> Prior to this appointment,
Mavinakere was EVP and head of strategic operations and CEO’s office of
Infosys.
2) Govt to rename missile complex after Kalam:
--> The government has decided to rename
the prestigious missile complex in Hyderabad 'Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Missile
Complex' in honour of the late President.
--> Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar
will attend the renaming ceremony at the Research Centre Imarat on 15 Oct.
2015, the 84th birth anniversary of the former President, also known as the
'Missile Man'.
--> Kalam had joined the missile complex
in 1982 and was a part of it for nearly two decades.
3) PS Jayakumar appointed as MD and CEO of Bank of Baroda:
--> PS Jayakumar on 13 October 2015 took
over the charge of Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of
state-owned Bank of Baroda.
4) Cristiano Ronaldo gets record fourth Golden Boot:
--> Cristiano Ronaldo has received a
record fourth Golden Boot after topping Europe's goal scoring charts for the
2014-15 season.
--> The Real Madrid star scored 48 goals
in 35 La Liga appearances last term and becomes the first player in the awards'
illustrious 47-year history to win the accolade four times.
5) India beat SA by 22 runs and level series 1-1 in Indore
ODI:
--> South Africa were all out for 225
runs after Team India set a 248 runs target in the second cricket one-dayer in
Indore on Wednesday.
--> India suffered a close five-run
defeat in the first ODI at Kanpur.
6) Jamaican writer Marlon James won the 2015 Man Booker
Prize for Fiction:
--> Jamaican writer Marlon James on 13
October 2015 won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel A Brief
History of Seven Killings.
--> With this, James became the first
Jamaican author to win the prize in its 47-years of history.
--> James’s name was shortlisted from a
list of writers including Sunjeev Sahota, Chigozie Obioma, Hanya Yanagihara,
Anne Tyler, Tom McCarthy and Marlon James.
7) Arun Jaitley chosen 'Finance Minister of the Year, Asia'
by Emerging Markets:
--> Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
was chosen as 'Finance Minister of the Year, Asia' by London-based publication
Emerging Markets in October 2015.
--> Apart from this, Atiur Rahman, the
Governor of Bangladesh Bank was named as the Central Bank Governor of the Year,
Asia 2015.
8) Delhi government launched Bill Banvao, Inaam Pao scheme:
--> Delhi Government on 13 October 2015
launched Bill Banvao, Inaam Pao scheme to encourage people to receive or demand
proper bills for purchases.
--> Citizens will be eligible for the
scheme only on a bill or cash memo/retail invoice of not less than 100 rupees
for purchases made from a registered dealer in Delhi. Download this current affairs as PDF here
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Jamaican novelist Marlon James won Man Booker Prize 2015
* Jamaican author Marlon James on 14
October 2015 won the Man Booker Prize for "A Brief History of Seven
Killings", a re-telling of the attempted assassination of musician Bob
Marley.
* James, 44, is the first Jamaican to win
the award in its 47-year history.
* One of the world's most prestigious
literary awards, Man Booker Prize carries a £50,000 (67,000 euro, $77,000)
prize and winners enjoy a boost in sales and a global readership.
* "A Brief History of Seven
Killings" was chosen unanimously by the judges after less than two hours
of deliberation.
* It beat bookmaker's favourite, US author
Hanya Yanagihara's "A Little Life", a disturbing tale of male
friendship with graphic details of child sex abuse, which had been the 6/4
favourite to win.
* Also shortlisted were Briton Sunjeev
Sahota's "The Year of the Runaways", "The Fishermen" by
Nigeria's Chigozie Obioma, American author Anne Tyler's "A Spool of Blue
Thread" and British writer Tom McCarthy's "Satin Island".
* The Man Booker Prize was previously open
only to fiction written in English by authors from Britain, Ireland, the
Commonwealth and Zimbabwe but this is the second year it has been open to all
nationalities.
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Current Affairs Quiz – 14 October 2015
Friends..Here is the Current Affairs Quiz
for 14 October 2015 covering important happenings from 12 & 13 October
2015. This will be very useful for SSC, IBPS, UPSC Exams etc.
Questions for the day. Click the ‘START QUIZ’ button to start the quiz.
1) Who among the following won the 2015
Nobel Prize in Economics?
(A) Jean Tirole
(B) Angus Deaton
(C) Eugene Fama
(D) Peter Diamond
2) Union Government has recently decided to
observe _____ as Constitution Day?
(A) December 25
(B) January 26
(C) November 26
(D) October 16
3) K P Sharma Oli was recently elected as
the new Prime Minister of?
(A) Sri Lanka
(B) Bhutan
(C) Mauritius
(D) Nepal
4) Who won the 2015 Russian Grand Prix
title of Formula One?
(A) Kimi Raikonen
(B) Sebastian Vettel
(C) Lewis Hamilton
(D) Nico Rosberg
5) International Day of Girl Child was
recently celebrated on?
(A) 11 October
(B) 9 October
(C) 10 October
(D) 13 October
6) Jioji Konrote was on 12 October 2015
elected as the President of?
(A) Cuba
(B) Greece
(C) Spain
(D) Fiji
7) Legendary actress Gopishantha, popularly
known by her stage name Manorama, died on 10 October 2015. She was famous in
which film industry?
(A) Malayalam
(B) Hindi
(C) Tamil
(D) Telugu
8) Novak Djokovic recently won the China
Open Men’s Singles title by defeating?
(A) Rafael Nadal
(B) Roger Federer
(C) Andy Murray
(D) Stan Wawrinka
9) Name the Indian shuttler who recently
won Dutch Open Badminton Grand Prix?
(A) P Kashyap
(B) H S Pranoy
(C) Srikanth Kidambi
(D) Ajay Jayaram
10) Mitra Shakti-2015 which recently
concluded at Aundh Military Camp in Pune, Maharashtra is the Joint Training
Exercise between India and?
(A) Nepal
(B) Sri Lanka
(C) China
(D) BangladeshAttempt Quiz to check the right answers.
Check our Previous Current Affairs Quiz 2015