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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)

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

Current Affairs PDF October 2015

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. 
Current Affairs Quiz 17 October 2015

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 Cherian
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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.

Current Affairs Quiz 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) Australia
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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. 
Current Affairs 14 October 2015

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. 
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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. 
Man Booker prize 2015 winner

* "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.

* Last year's winner, Australian Richard Flanagan, has sold 800,000 copies of his "The Narrow Road To The Deep North" to date.

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. 
Current Affairs Quiz 14 October 2015


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) Bangladesh
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