Current Affairs Quiz: 16 March 2015

1) Who recently became the first player to score four successive one-day international centuries, setting a new record, during World Cup 2015?

(A) AB de Villers

(B) Mahela Jayawardene

(C) Kumar Sangakkara

(D) Brendon Mccullum

2) Which state recently won Ranji Trophy 2015 beating Tamil Nadu by an innings and 217 runs?

(A) Maharashtra

(B) Karnataka

(C) West Bengal

(D) Delhi

3) Name the Special CBI judge, who recently summoned former PM Manmohan Singh and five other accused in the coal scam?

(A) Ashok Kumar Mathur

(B) K G Balakrishnan

(C) Mukul Mudgal

(D) Bharat Parashar

4) Recently, United States President Barack Obama has nominated veteran diplomat David Hale as the next ambassador to?

(A) India

(B) Pakistan

(C) China

(D) Bangladesh

5) India on 11 March 2015 signed four agreements with the Indian Ocean island nation Seychelles to boost security and maritime partnership. Capital of Seychelles is?

(A) Amman

(B) Port Louis

(C) Victoria

(D) Male 

6) World Kidney Day is observed on?

(A) March 12

(B) March 11

(C) March 13

(D) March 14

7) N. Sakthan was on 12 March 2015 elected as the Speaker of which state's Legislative Assembly?

(A) Tamil Nadu

(B) Telengana

(C) Andhra Pradesh

(D) Kerala

8) Name the Chief Minister of Bihar who on 11 March 2015 won trust vote on the floor of assembly?

(A) Nitish Kumar

(B) Ram Vilas Paswan

(C) Lalu Prasad Yadav

(D) Jithin Ram Manji

9) World Kidney Day was observed on 12 March 2015. The theme for the day this year(2015) was?

(A) STOP Kidney Attack

(B) Kidney Health For All

(C) Chronic Kidney Disease & Aging

(D) Donate- Kidneys for Life

10) Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the chief guest at the 47th National Day celebrations of which country on 12 March 2015?

(A) Sri Lanka

(B) Thailand

(C) Mauritius

(D) Seychelles

Answers

1) Ans. (C) Kumar Sangakkara

2) Ans. (B) Karnataka

3) Ans. (D) Bharat Parashar

4) Ans. (B) Pakistan

5) Ans. (C) Victoria

6) Ans. (A) March 12

7) Ans. (D) Kerala

8) Ans. (A) Nitish Kumar

9) Ans. (B) Kidney Health For All

10) Ans. (C) Mauritius

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15th March 2015 Daily Current Affairs Updates

1) Services beat Punjab 5-4 in tie-breaker to lift Santosh trophy 2015:

--> Services lifted the 69th edition of Santosh Trophy after edging out hosts Punjab 5-4 via tie-breaker in a nail-biting final held at Guru Nanak Stadium in Ludhiana on 15 March 2015.

--> With this, Services won the Santosh trophy for the fourth time.

--> Earlier it had won the trophy in 2013, 2012 and 1961.

--> The tournament first began in 1941 and was named after the late Maharaja Sir Manmatha Nath Roy Chowdhary of Santosh, which is now in Bangladesh.

2) Srikanth won Swiss Grand Prix Gold championship:

--> Young Indian shuttler K. Srikanth clinched the Swiss Grand Prix Gold championship title after overcoming a strong challenge from Viktor Axelson of Denmark in a hard-fought men’s singles final on 15 March 2015.

--> The final was held at Basel in Switzerland.

--> With this, he became the first Indian men to win the 120000 US dollars Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold. 

3) Indian women beat Poland to win Hockey World League Round 2:

--> India scored in three of the four quarters to outplay Poland 3-1 in the final and clinch the FIH Hockey World League Round 2 at Major Dhyan Chan stadium in New Delhi on 15 March 2015.

--> Vandana Kataria (15th minute), Ritu Rani scored two goals (44th and 59th minute) for India which led to victory.

4) World Consumer Rights Day 2015 observed:

--> The World Consumer Rights Day (WCRD) 2015 was observed on 15 March 2015.

--> The theme for the WCRD 2015 is Helping consumers choose healthy diets.

--> The World Consumer Rights Day (WCRD) is observed on 15 March every year to commemorate the historic address given by the then US President John F Kennedy to the US congress in 1962 in which he outlined the definition of consumer rights for the first time.

5) Veteran Gandhian Narayan Desai passed away:

--> One of the country’s noted Gandhians, Narayan Desai, known for his rendition of Gandhi Katha — stories on the Mahatma’s life — passed away on 15 March 2015.

--> He is son of Mahatma Gandhi’s personal secretary and biographer Mahadev Desai.

--> In 2004, Desai started a lecture series on Gandhi called ‘Gandhi Katha’, which he took across the world and received much acclaim for it.

6) Powerful Cyclone Pam hit south Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu:

--> Powerful cyclone Pam on 14 March 2015 hit the south Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu.

--> The cyclone Pam, a category five tropical storm, brought destructive 270 kilometre-per-hour winds and torrential rain along with it.

--> Vanuatu is located north east of Australia to south west of Hawaii Islands.

7) Lewis Hamilton won Australian Grand Prix to start 2015 season:

--> Lewis Hamilton fought off teammate Nico Rosberg to give Mercedes a dominant victory in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on 15 March 2015.

--> Four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel, in his first race drive for Ferrari since switching from Red Bull, finished on the podium in third place just ahead of Felipe Massa in a Williams.

--> Hamilton, 30, has won seven of the last eight GPs though this was his first in Australia since 2008. It was Hamilton's 34th win in his 149th GP.

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Daily Current Affairs Updates: 14 March 2015

1) Statue of Mahatma Gandhi unveiled in Parliament Square:

--> A historic bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi was unveiled on 14 March 2015 at the Parliament Square in London, standing adjacent to iconic leaders like Britain's war-time Prime Minister Winston Churchill and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela.

--> British Prime Minister David Cameron and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley were joined by Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan and the Mahatma Gandhi's grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi at the ceremony to unveil the 9-foot statue of India's Father of the Nation.

--> Gandhi is the first Indian and the only person never to have been in a public office to be honoured with a statue at the Square.

--> The unveiling of the 9ft (2.7m) bronze statue marks 100 years since Gandhi returned to India from South Africa to begin his struggle for independence.

--> British sculptor, Philip Jackson, was commissioned to create the work with his previous pieces including statues of the Queen Mother and Bomber Command.

--> The statue was unveiled jointly by Cameron and Arun Jaitley.

2) Haryana Government to impose complete ban on Beef:

--> The Haryana government will impose a complete ban on the sale of beef in any form in the state, a minister said.

--> The BJP government in Haryana, headed by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, has a majority in the assembly and the proposed bill is all set to be made into law.

3) Pioneer of Israeli cinema Lia van Leer passed away:

--> Lia van Leer, pioneer of Israeli cinema passed away on 13 March 2015 in Jerusalem, Israel. She was 90.

--> She was the founder of Israel Film Archive, Jerusalem Cinematheque, Haifa Cinematheque and the Jerusalem Film Festival.

4) NASA’s Hubble telescope spots ocean on Jupiter’s moon Ganymede:

--> Astronomer's have found the most conclusive evidence yet that a large watery ocean lies beneath the surface of Jupiter's moon Ganymede.

--> Scientists believe that this finding could potentially support life.

--> Hubble Space Telescope’s finding was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics.

5) Mary Kom to be brand ambassador of Northeast:

--> Olympic medal winning boxer MC Mary Kom is being appointed as the brand ambassador of the Northeast to showcase the potential of the region which offers Rs. 2.4 trillion business opportunities across various sectors.

--> An official announcement in this regard would me made soon, Minister of State in the Ministry of Development of North East Region (DoNER) Jitendra Singh said.

--> Hailing from Manipur, one of the eight northeastern States, Mary Kom is a five—time World Amateur Boxing champion, and the only woman boxer to have won a medal in each one of the six world championships.

6) Pi Day observed:

--> Pi Day is an annual celebration of the mathematical constant p (pi).

--> Pi Day is observed on March 14 (3/14 in the month/day date format) since 3, 1, and 4 are the first three significant digits of p.

--> Pi Approximation Day is observed on July 22 (or 22/7 in the day/month date format).

7) Bhaiyyaji Joshi re-elected RSS general secretary:

--> The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha (the highest decision making body) on 14 March 2015 re-elected Bhaiyyaji Joshi as the Sarkaryvaha (general secretary) of the organisation for a third consecutive term till March 2018.

8) Michael White won first ranking title at Indian Open:

--> Michael White thrashed Ricky Walden 5-0 to win his first world ranking title at the Indian Open in Mumbai.

--> The two had met twice before: at the 2013 World Championships and at the 2010 Players’ Championships-II, and Walden had come out on top on both occasions.

9) Sonakshi Sinha, Arjun Kapoor grab top Golden Kela awards:

--> Arjun Kapoor was bestowed with the Worst Actor (Male) award for 'Gunday' at the 7th Annual Golden Kela Awards, actress Sonakshi Sinha won the Worst Actor (Female) award hands down, for 'Action Jackson', 'Lingaa' and 'Holiday'.

--> This was a hat-trick for Sonakshi as she swept the award for the third consecutive year.

--> The Golden Kela awards have been “honouring” the worst offerings of Indian cinema over the past seven years.

10) Facebook bought TheFind:

--> Facebook has waded further into e-commerce with the acquisition of shopping search engine TheFind.com.

--> Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

--> Members of TheFind team are joining Facebook, where they plan to put their technology to work making ads at the leading social network ‘more relevant’, according to the post.

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Current Affairs Questions PDF: February 2015 (Third Week)

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1) Who was on 20 February 2015 appointed as the Chief of ISRO’s Space Applications Centre (SAC) at Ahmedabad, Gujarat? - Tapan Misra

2) US Senate on 12 February 2015 appointed whom as the new Defense Secretary? - Ashton B Carter

3) 35th National Games concluded in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala on 14 February 2015. Which team topped the medals tally with 91 Gold? – Services

4) Name the President of Singapore who was on a State visit of India between 8 and 11 February 2015? - Dr. Tony Tan Keng Yam

5) Name the Kerala-based business group which tied-up with World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature-India for its Friends for Life project? - Muthoot Group

6) Who was on 13 February 2015 appointed as Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) Limited? - Balasubramaniam Venkataramani

7) Which former Indian cricketer was awarded Honorary Life Membership of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in February 2015? - Saurav Ganguly

8) Who was sworn-in as President of Croatia on 15 February 2015? - Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic

Note: She is Croatia’s first female President and overall fourth President since Croatia gained independence from Yugoslavia in 1991.

9) Which E-commerce company recently acquired luxury fashion portal Exclusively.com? – Snapdeal

10) International Mother Language Day 2015 was celebrated across the world on 21 February 2015 with the theme? - Inclusive Education through and with Language - Language Matters.

11) Name the first National Tribal Festival which took place at Indira Gandhi National Center for Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi in February 2015? - Vanaj 2015

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12) Who was on 16 February 2015 appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited's Global Operations with effect from 1 June 2015? - Punit Renjen

Note: Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited is US based accounting giant

13) Who was sworn-in as Chief Information Commissioner of Uttar Pradesh on 17 February 2015? - Jawed Usmani

14) Which Indian telecom company on 18 February 2015 tied-up with United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to provide health, education and youth-focused content to its customers in 17 African countries? - Bharti Airtel

15) Which player on 15 February 2015 became the first Indian cricketer to score a century against Pakistan in the ICC World Cup? - Virat Kohli

16) Name the Film directed by Nagesh Kukunoor which won two awards at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival recently? – Dhanak

17) Rajinder Puri who passed away on 15 February 2015 was a? - Veteran cartoonist, columnist and political activist

18) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 19 February 2015 launched the nationwide Soil Health Card Scheme in Suratgarh town of Sriganganagar district of which state? – Rajasthan

19) Who were jointly named for Dr. Y Nayudamma Memorial Award 2014 on 15 February 2015? - Women scientists Dr. Tessy Thomas and Geeta Varadan

20) Jitan Ram Manjhi on 20 February 2015 resigned as the Chief Minister of? – Bihar

21) Which state government recently decided to grant 35% reservation for women in Non-Gazetted jobs? – Bihar

22) Election Commission (EC) on 14 February 2015 announced to launch Electoral Roll Authentication Mission (ERAM) and Purification Drive. Name the Chief Election Commissioner? - H S Brahma

23) Name the Indian-origin scientist Professor who on 11 February 2015 received Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) given by the National Science Foundation (NSF) of the United States (US)? - Srikanth Jagabathula

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LIC AAO Exam GK Questions: 15 March 2015

Friends.. Here are the GA questions asked in today's (15 March 2015) morning shift LIC AAO exam. These questions were shared by Manish Jadeja. This will be useful for those having exam in coming days. If anybody would like to share more questions, kindly mail us at currentaffairs4examz@gmail.com. We will publish them here. 

1) Currency of Poland? - Polish zloty

2) Capital of Jordan? - Amman

3) World Wildlife Day? - March 3

4) Anant Geete is the Union Minister for? - Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

5) First Double Century was made in World cup by which cricketer? - Chris Gayle

6) 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup will be held at? - India

7) France deal 5.9 billion dollar in which country? - Egypt

8) Which two states has highest sex ratio in India? - Kerala and Puducherry

9) Prime Minister presented the Krishi Karman Awards recently in which state? - Rajasthan

10) World first mangrove zoo in which state? - West Bengal

11) Author of the book Tsunami 2004: The IAF Story - A Few Good Men & The Angry Sea? - Air Commodore Nitin Sathe

12) Pattachitra style of painting is the art form of? - Odisha

13) Dibang Hydropower Project in which state? - Arunachal Pradesh

14) Tarapur Atomic Power Station is located in? - Maharashtra

15) Which is India's first hi-speed rural broadband district? - Idukki

16) Govind Pansare who died recently was a? - Anti-toll activist

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13th March 2015 Daily Current Affairs Updates

1) Modi becomes first Indian PM to visit Sri Lanka in 28 years:

--> Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 13 March 2015 flew into Colombo in the early hours for a historic visit.

--> Modi was received by Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe at the airport after he arrived in Colombo for a two-day visit at 5.25 am. following an overnight journey from Port Louis in Mauritius in a special Air India plane.

--> Sri Lanka is the final stop of his three-nation tour of Indian Ocean island nations that took him to Seychelles and Mauritius.

--> Modi is the first Indian prime minister to visit Lanka in 28 years.

--> His trip to Lanka is also the first standalone prime ministerial visit to the island nation since the 1987 Rajiv Gandhi visit.

--> Modi is accompanied by National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar.

2) Iceland withdraws its application to join the EU:

--> The North Atlantic island of Iceland has withdrawn its bid to join the European Union, with the government saying that its interests are best served outside the 28-nation EU.

--> Iceland started its membership negotiations in 2010 looking to better anchor itself to Europe two years after its economy imploded amid a banking collapse.

--> Iceland’s foreign ministry had announced on 12 March 2015 that the application was withdrawn.

3) INS Alleppey decommissioned:

--> INS Alleppey, one of the six Ponchicherry class coastal minesweepers purchased from the erstwhile USSR in the 1970s, was on 13 March 2015 decommissioned at sunset after nearly 35 years of service under the Western Naval Command.

--> After INS Alleppey’s decommissioning, the Indian Navy will be left with five other operational minesweeper vessels.

--> The ship was decommissioned by Rear Admiral MS Pawar, Flag Officer Commanding, Maharashtra and Gujarat Naval Area, at Mumbai Naval Dockyard.

4) RBI, Sri Lankan central bank agreed on currency swap deal:

--> Reserve Bank of India has agreed for a $1.5-billion currency swap agreement with the Sri Lankan central bank to help the island nation keep its currency stable, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on 13 March 2015.

--> The agreement was announced after a meeting between Modi and Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena.

--> At the current valuation, one Indian rupee is equivalent to 2.12 Sri Lankan rupees. It has lost almost three per cent value in comparison to the Indian rupee so far in 2015.

5) World Sleep Day observed:

--> World Sleep Day is observed on the Friday of the second week of March.

--> This day is being organized by the World Sleep Day Committee of the World Association of Sleep Medicine (WASM) since the year 2008.

--> The aim of this day is to celebrate the benefits of good and healthy sleep and to draw society attention to the burden of sleep problems and their medicine, education and social aspects; to promote sleep disorders prevention and management.

6) UAE to host Asian Cup Football in 2019:

--> United Arab Emirates won a unanimous vote to host the Asian Cup in 2019, the Asian Football Confederation said.

--> It will be the second time that the UAE has organised the continent's showcase tournamnent having previously staged it in 1996, when the hosts lost a penalty shootout in the final to Saudi Arabia.

7) Pakistan tested 1st indigenous armed drone Burraq and laser guided missile Barq:

--> Pakistan on 13 March 2015 successfully tested its first indigenously built all-weather armed drone named Burraq and a laser guided missile named Barq.

--> By successfully testing of Burraq, Pakistan became the 9th country in the World to develop an unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) domestically.

8) Former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed sentenced to 13-year imprisonment:

--> Former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed was on 13 March 2015 sentenced to 13-year imprisonment by a criminal court of Maldives under the anti-terrorism laws.

--> He was charged under the island nation’s Anti-Terrorism Act, 1990 for his order to arrest a Criminal Court judge Abdulla Mohamed in 2012.

9) Dr. Alka Beotra becomes Member of the Executive Board of WAADS:

--> Dr. Alka Beotra, Scientific Director, National Dope Testing Laboratory, Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, has been nominated to the Executive Board of WAADS (World Association of Anti Doping Scientists).

--> Her tenure on the Executive Board of WAADS will be for a period of three years, i.e. from March 2015.

--> The WAADS is an organisation comprising anti doping scientists from all the WADA- accredited labs across the world.

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Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 14 March 2015

1) Mahendra Singh Dhoni on 10 March 2015 registered most wins by an Indian captain in the history of the cricket World Cup. He surpassed whose record?

(A) Mohammad Azharuddin

(B) Kapil Dev

(C) Sourav Ganguly

(D) Anil Kumble

2) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 10 March 2015 left for three-nation tour. Which among the following country is not included in the visit?

(A) Seychelles

(B) Mauritius

(C) Sri Lanka

(D) Maldives

3) On 10 March 2015, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) celebrated its ______ Raising Day?

(A) 50th

(B) 40th

(C) 46th

(D) 75th

4) India and which country recently completed its first ever Friendship Motor Rally successfully at India gate?

(A) Bhutan

(B) Nepal

(C) China

(D) Japan

5) Which is India's largest company with Rs 3.68 lakh cr worth assets as per data compiled by the Corporate Affairs Ministry, which was released recently?

(A) HDFC

(B) Indian Oil Corporation

(C) BSNL

(D) Reliance Industries Ltd

6) United States on 9 March 2015 declared which country a national security threat?

(A) Cuba

(B) Uruguay

(C) Syria

(D) Venezuela 

7) Which High Court recently in its ruling has held that Attorney General of India comes under the ambit of Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005?

(A) Delhi High Court

(B) Kerala High Court

(C) Odisha High Court

(D) Bombay High Court

8) Which Indian IT company was recently named as the top employer in Europe for the third consecutive year by a top employers certification agency?

(A) TCS

(B) Infosys

(C) Wipro

(D) Accenture

9) Indian Railways on 11th March 2015 inked a MoU with ____ for Rs 1.5 lakh crore investments in rail infrastructure?

(A) New India Assurance Co. Ltd

(B) LIC

(C) United India Assurance

(D) State Bank of India

10) Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has on 11 March 2015 approved the appointment of Executive Directors(EDs) in how many Public Sector Banks(PSBs)?

(A) 8

(B) 10

(C) 9

(D) 15

Answers

1) Ans. (B) Kapil Dev

2) Ans. (D) Maldives

3) Ans. (C) 46th

4) Ans. (B) Nepal

5) Ans. (D) Reliance Industries Ltd

6) Ans. (D) Venezuela

7) Ans. (A) Delhi High Court

8) Ans. (A) TCS

9) Ans. (B) LIC

10) Ans. (C) 9

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