MCQ Current Affairs: 5 June 2015

1) Name the NRI scientist from the United States who has recently created a single molecule device that can be used for nano-scale devices?

(A) Latha Venkataraman

(B) Venkataraman Ramakrishnan

(C) Raja Rajeswari

(D) Vidyut Agarwal 

2) Which state government recently launched ‘Swachhata Saptapadi’ scheme in line with ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’?

(A) Punjab

(B) Gujarat

(C) Rajasthan

(D) Maharashtra

3) Which bank on 29 May 2015 launched an online customer acquisition solution through which one can apply for home, car, education and personal loans online?

(A) ICICI

(B) HDFC

(C) SBI

(D) Punjab National Bank

4) Who was recently appointed as the next Cabinet secretary of the Union government?

(A) Ajith Seth

(B) Pradeep Kumar Sinha

(C) Arun Kumar Singh

(D) Ajith Doval

5) United States (US) in a landmark decision has recently removed which country from its list of State Sponsor of Terrorism?

(A) Syria

(B) Uruguay

(C) Cuba

(D) Iraq

6) Who was on 30 May 2015 re-elected as FIFA President?

(A) Ali bin Hussein

(B) Fabio Capello

(C) Michel François Platini

(D) Sepp Blatter

7) Name the documentary based on music maestro AR Rahman's life which was screened at the White House recently?

(A) Music with life

(B) Jai Ho

(C) Salam Rahman

(D) With Music 24X7

8) Who was the chairman of the Panel on Net neutrality that submitted its report recently?

(A) P D T Achary

(B) Syed Ibrahim

(C) T S R Suramanian

(D) A K Bhargava

9) Who was on 29 May 2015 appointed as the Director General (news) in Doordarshan?

(A) Akshay Rout

(B) Geeta Anandalakshmi

(C) Veena Jain

(D) Manjul Bhargava

10) Alastair Cook has recently surpassed whose record to become England's leading Test run scorer?

(A) Graham Gooch

(B) Nasser Hussain

(C) Chris Lewis

(D) Andrew Strauss

Answers

1) Ans. (A) Latha Venkataraman

2) Ans. (D) Maharashtra

3) Ans. (C) SBI

4) Ans. (B) Pradeep Kumar Sinha

5) Ans. (C) Cuba

6) Ans. (D) Sepp Blatter [Later he resigned during first week of June 2015].

7) Ans. (B) Jai Ho

8) Ans. (D) A K Bhargava

9) Ans. (C) Veena Jain

10) Ans. (A) Graham Gooch
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4 June 2015 Important Current Affairs Updates

1) Nestle withdraws popular instant food Maggi from Indian markets:

--> Nestle withdraws popular instant food Maggi from Indian markets following ban in several states due to reports of harmful contents in its samples, company says the product will be back as soon as it clears the environment of doubt.

--> Gujarat, Uttarakhand and Jammu and Kashmir had already imposed ban on Maggi and the product remains under the scanner in most states with just a couple of them giving it an all clear.

2) Mission Indradhanush to get 4 new vaccines:

--> Health minister J P Nadda on 4 June 2015 said four new vaccines would be added to the recently launched Mission Indradhanush — a flagship programme to immunize children against preventable diseases and improve the infant mortality rate by 2020.

--> The new vaccines, inactivated polio vaccine, adult Japanese Encephalitis vaccine, Rotavirus vaccine and Measles Rubella vaccine, have been made part of the ‘India newborn’ action plan.

3) Nobel Prize Winner Irwin Rose passed away:

--> Irwin Rose, a biochemist who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering a way that cells destroy unwanted proteins the basis for developing new therapies for diseases such as cervical cancer and cystic fibrosis has died.

4) AB De Villiers conferred with South Africa Cricketer of the Year Award for 2015:

--> AB De Villiers was on 3 June 2015 conferred with the South Africa (SA) Cricketer of the Year Award for 2015.

--> The award was presented to him at the 2015 Cricket South Africa Awards presentation ceremony held at Midrand in South Africa.

5) Delhi Metro gets its first driver-less train from Korea:

--> Delhi Metro on 4 June 2015 received its first driver-less train, equipped with several advanced features, from a Korea-based manufacturer, which will ply on sections of Phase-III of the network.

--> A total of 20 such train sets of Hyundai Rotem will be manufactured in South Korea’s Changwan.

6) Sundaram Ravi inducted into ICC Elite Panel of Umpires:

--> The International Cricket Council (ICC) on 4 June 2015 announced the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires for 2015-2016, commencing from 1 July 2015, following the annual review and selection process.

--> Chris Gaffaney and Sundaram Ravi have been promoted from the Emirates International Panel of ICC Umpires to the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires where they have replaced Billy Bowden and the retiring Steve Davis.

--> The Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires for 2015-2016 will be: Aleem Dar, Kumar Dharmasena, Marais Erasmus, Chris Gaffaney, Ian Gould, Richard Illingworth, Richard Kettleborough, Nigel Llong, Sundaram Ravi, Paul Reiffel, Rod Tucker and Bruce Oxenford.

7) International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression observed:

--> International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression is a United Nations observance each year on 4 June.

--> It was established on 19 August 1982.
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Current Affairs Quiz: 4 June 2015

1) Which state government on 27 May 2015 lifted the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, (AFSPA) from the state after 18 years?

(A) Manipur

(B) Tripura

(C) Jammu and Kashmir

(D) Arunachal Pradesh 

2) Trevor Bayliss was recently appointed as the new head coach of which country's cricket team?

(A) Australia

(B) Sri Lanka

(C) England

(D) South Africa

3) Nation on 27 May 2015 remembered Jawaharlal Nehru on his ___ death anniversary?

(A) 61st

(B) 65th

(C) 51st

(D) 105th

4) Who among the following is all set to become India's first transgender college principal?

(A) Manabi Bandhopadhyay

(B) Shekhar Suri

(C) Gayathri Chaudhary

(D) None of these

5) World Health Organization (WHO) on 27 May 2015 announced it was honouring which Indian state for its exemplary campaign against tobacco?

(A) West Bengal

(B) Kerala

(C) Odisha

(D) Punjab

6) S Christopher was on 28 May 2015 appointed as Director General of?

(A) Agni-V

(B) ISRO

(C) DRDO

(D) None of these

7) Who was recently appointed as the new director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thumba?

(A) B Annadurai

(B) S Ramakrishna Rao

(C) K Sivan

(D) M Ayagappan

8) Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar was recently crowned as the new Maharaja of?

(A) Travancore

(B) Tanjavur

(C) Mysuru

(D) None of these

9) Who has recently become the fourth Indian shooter to win a quota place for the 2016 Rio Olympics?

(A) Jithu Rai

(B) Gagan Narang

(C) Ronjan Sodhi

(D) Abhinav Bindra

10) Which club recently won record 4th Europa League trophy?

(A) Sevilla

(B) Chelsea

(C) Tottanham

(D) Liverpool

Answers

1) Ans. (B) Tripura

2) Ans. (C) England

3) Ans. (C) 51st

4) Ans. (A) Manabi Bandhopadhyay

5) Ans. (D) Punjab

6) Ans. (C) DRDO

7) Ans.  (C) K Sivan

8) Ans. (C) Mysuru

9) Ans. (D) Abhinav Bindra

10) Ans. (A) Sevilla
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03 June 2015 Daily Current Affairs Updates

1) Jaipur becomes sixth city to operate Metro:

--> Jaipur has become the sixth city in the country with a metro.

--> Jaipur Metro is one of the fastest built metro systems in the country and was thrown open to public on 3 June 2015.

--> Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje flagged off the inaugural train on 9.6 km long route from Mansarovar to Chandpole. 

2) Suresh Kalmadi conferred with Asian athletics top award:

--> Suresh Kalmadi has been conferred with the Asian Athletics Association President’s award for his contribution towards the development of athletics in the continent.

--> Adille Sumariwala, the President of Athletics Federation of India received the award on behalf of Kalmadi.

--> He has served as the President of Indian Olympic Association from 1996 to 2012.

3) India signed global pact on automatic exchange of information on financial accounts:

-->  India has joined the global pact on exchange of information on financial accounts, a move expected to give a big boost to its fight against black money.

--> This system, when fully implemented, will enable India to receive information from almost every other country in the world including offshore financial centres.

4) Northern Railway rolled out first rail coach lit by solar panels:

--> Delhi division of the Northern Railway on 3 June 2015 rolled out a non-AC coach lit by solar panels installed on its roof.

--> Officials said this is the first time across railways that a solar photovoltaic system for power requirements of light and fan in a broad gauge coach has been provided.

5) Ex-IB chief Ibrahim made Special Envoy on Counter Terror:

--> Syed Asif Ibrahim, former chief of Intelligence Bureau, has been appointed as Special Envoy on Counter Terrorism and Extremism in the Prime Minister Office, five months after he retired from service.

--> The IPS officer of 1977-batch will report to National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and work from the National Security Council Secretariat, official sources said.

--> He had retired as IB Director in December 2014.

6) India and US signed Framework Agreement in defence:

--> India and United States signed a new strategically important 10-year defence framework pact on 3 June 2015, envisaging joint development and manufacture of equipment and technology.

--> Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said that the signing of the Framework Agreement 2015 between India and US will give way to better output.

7) Belarus State University conferred Professor Honoris Causa on President:

--> President Pranab Mukherjee was conferred with the Professor Honoris Causa by the Rector of the University at Sergey Ablameyko.

--> Speaking on the occasion, the President said that the roadmap would further energize the cooperation between the two countries.

--> Indian Ambassador to Belarus, Manoj Kumar Bharti was also present on the occasion.

8) Bust of Mahatma Gandhi unveiled in Belarus:

--> President Pranab Mukherjee unveiled a bust of Mahatma Gandhi at Belarus State University.

--> The President unveiled the bust at the university in the presence of Prof Sergey V Ablameyko, Rector of Belarusian State University and Minister of Education of Republic of Belarus.
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Current Affairs MCQ: 3 June 2015

1) Which bank has recently launched a voice password facility for users, through which customers can make transactions using just their voice, without using other means of authentication like a password?

(A) SBI

(B) HDFC

(C) Axis Bank

(D) ICICI Bank 

2) Indian Banks' Association (IBA) on 25 May 2015 signed a wage agreement with unions and officers' associations. Accordingly, around one million employees of 43 banks, including state-owned ones, will get a ___% hike in salaries?

(A) 5 %

(B) 10 %

(C) 15 %

(D) 20 %

3) Who won the CEAT International Cricketer of the Year award recently?

(A) Kumar Sangakkara

(B) AB De Villers

(C) Ajinkya Rahane

(D) Steve Smith

4) Nirbhay Sharma recently sworn-in as Governor of which state?

(A) Mizoram

(B) Arunchal Pradesh

(C) Sikkim

(D) Assam

5) Which among the following body recently launched a cyber-security task force?

(A) SEBI

(B) NASSCOM

(C) ASSOCHAM

(D) RBI

6) Which E-commerce major has recently acquired Hyderabad-based mobile technology startup named MartMobi?

(A) Paytm

(B) Myntra

(C) Flipkart

(D) Snapdeal

7) Name Doordarshan's farmer-centric channel which was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 26 May 2015?

(A) DD Kashtakar

(B) DD Kisan

(C) DD Mehanath

(D) DD Farmer

8) How many Indian's were there in the Forbes’ annual list of world’s 100 most powerful women released recently?

(A) Four

(B) Five

(C) One

(D) None

9) Union government has constituted a 10-member committee to review and revitalise public private partnership (PPP) mode of infrastructure development. Who will chair the committee?

(A) Y V Reddy

(B) TSR Subramanian

(C) K G Balakrishnan

(D) Vijay Kelkar

10) Who among the following has topped the World’s most powerful women-2015 list?

(A) Janet Yellen

(B) Oprah Winfrey

(C) Angela Merkel

(D) Hillary Clinton

Answers

1) Ans. (D) ICICI Bank

2) Ans. (C) 15 %

3) Ans. (A) Kumar Sangakkara

4) Ans. (A) Mizoram

5) Ans. (B) NASSCOM

6) Ans. (D) Snapdeal

7) Ans. (B) DD Kisan

8) Ans. (A) Four [SBI Chief Arundhati Bhattacharya, ICICI bank head Chanda Kochhar, Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and HT Media Chair Shobhana Bhartia].

9) Ans. (D) Vijay Kelkar

10) Ans. (C) Angela Merkel
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Daily Current Affairs: 2 June 2015

1) Sepp Blatter resigned as FIFA president:

--> Sepp Blatter resigned as FIFA president on 2 June 2015, four days after being re-elected to a fifth term.

--> In announcing his exit, the 79-year-old Swiss has called an extraordinary Fifa congress "as soon as possible" to elect a new president.

--> Blatter was re-elected last week, despite seven top Fifa officials being arrested two days before the vote.

--> FIFA, which Blatter had ruled since 1998, was left reeling this week by the announcement of a U.S. investigation into alleged widespread financial wrongdoing stretching back for more than two decades.

GK Tips- FIFA Headquarters? - Zürich, Switzerland 

2) RBI cuts key policy rate by 0.25 pc:

--> Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan on 2 June 2015 cut the key interest rate by 0.25 percent, third time this year, meeting market and government expectations of boosting growth by lowering borrowing cost.

--> RBI cut the repo rate (short-term lending rate) from 7.5 percent to 7.25, but left all other policy tools like cash reserve requirement unchanged at 4 percent and Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) at 21.5 percent.

Present Bank Rates are as follows:

* Bank Rate - 8.25 % ( from 2nd June 2015)

* Repo Rate - 7.25 % ( from 2nd June 2015)

* Reverse Repo Rate - 6.25% ( 2nd June 2015)

* Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) - 4.00% ( from 9th February 2013)

* Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) - 21.50% ( from 3rd February 2015)

* Marginal Standing Facility (MSF) - 8.25 % ( from 2nd June 2015)

3) Telangana celebrated its formation day:

--> Country's youngest state Telangana celebrated its formation day on 2nd June 2015.

--> Telangana was formed as 29th State of the country on 2 June 2014 after the reorganisation of the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh.

GK Tips- CM of Telangana? - K Chandrasekhar Rao

4) Pawan Munjal named new chairman of Hero MotoCorp:

--> Two-wheeler manufacturer Hero MotoCorp Ltd has appointed Pawan Munjal as the new Chairman of Hero MotoCorp.

--> Brijmohan Lall, Hero MotoCorp’s Chairman since its inception in 1984, will continue to be the guide and mentor of the company in the form of Chairman Emeritus.

5)  'Khoya-Paya' web portal to track missing children launched:

--> A web portal to be used as social medium for people to share information about missing children was launched on 2 June 2015 by the union government.

--> Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad jointly launched the website -- 'Khoya-Paya', a platform for citizens to report children sighted as abandoned, lost or with suspicious person.

6) BSNL to offer free national roaming from June 15:

--> Union telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad announced that state-owned operator BSNL will provide nationwide free roaming service starting June 15.

7) Ravi Shastri to continue as Indian team director for Bangladesh tour:

--> Former captain Ravi Shastri was on 2 June 2015 retained as director of the Indian cricket team for the tour of Bangladesh starting June 10 as the BCCI continued its search for a new permanent coach to succeed Duncan Fletcher.

8) Super computer launched, to improve weather forecasting:

--> Union Minister Harsha Vardhan on 2 June 2015 dedicated to the service of the nation supercomputer 'Bhaskara', which will help meteorologists in research and weather prediction including effective forecast of tropical cyclone, heavy rainfall and cloud burst events.
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1st June 2015 Daily Current Affairs Updates

1) Tendulkar, Ganguly, Laxman inducted in BCCI's advisory panel:

--> Former greats Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, and VVS Laxman on 1 June 2015 joined the BCCI in a newly-constituted advisory panel to guide the board in all matters related to the game.

--> BCCI's advisory panel will advise the BCCI on various progressive steps which are needed to be taken, that will enable Indian Cricket to be better prepared for the challenges of the future. 

2) J. P. Rajkhowa sworn in as Arunachal Pradesh Governor:

--> Former IAS officer Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa was sworn in as the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh on 1 June 2015.

--> Rajkhowa will take over from his duties from Lt. Gen Nirbhay Sharma, who has been shifted to Mizoram.

3) Mauritius designated Ameenah Gurib-Fakim as its first woman president:

--> The government of Mauritius on 1 June 2015 designated Ameenah Gurib-Fakim as the Indian Ocean island nation's new president, making her the first woman to hold the ceremonial position.

--> The appointment of Gurib-Fakim, an internationally renowned scientist and biologist, is subject to parliament approval, due to take place on 4 June 2015.

--> Gurib-Fakim, 56, will be the first female president of the island, which gained independence from Britain in 1968 and which replaced Britain's Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state in 1992.

4) Atal Bihari Vajpayee to be conferred 'Friends of Bangladesh Liberation War Award':

--> Bangladesh is set to honour former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for his outstanding support for the country’s independence from Pakistan in 1971 when he was a Lok Sabha member.

--> Bangladesh will hand over Vajpayee’s “Friends of Bangladesh Liberation War Award” to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his upcoming visit to the country from June 6.

--> The then Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi was the first “foreign friend” to be conferred with the ‘Bangladesh Liberation War Honour Award’.

--> Her daughter-in-law and Congress party president Sonia Gandhi received the honour on her behalf in 2012.

5) Meena Hemchandra appointed as executive director of RBI:

--> Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has appointed Meena Hemchandra as the executive director who would be in charge of department of banking supervision.

--> She will also be in charge of department of non-banking supervision and department of co-operative banking supervision.

--> The appointment of Meena Hemchandra comes as a vacancy for the post was created after G Padmanabhan retired on May 31, 2015.

6) Indian IT industry pioneer Hemant Sonawala passed away:

--> Hemant Sonawala, one of the founders of the country's IT industry and chairman of Hinditron Group, passed away on May 30 at the age of 78.

--> Sonawala was one of the founders of the domestic IT industry, having started Hinditron way back in 1966 and its computer division in 1971.

7) HDFC Bank to stop paper slips after cash withdrawals:

--> The second largest private sector lender HDFC Bank has decided to discontinue issuing slips after cash withdrawals at ATMs and will alert the customer through SMSes.

--> The bank is piloting the initiative at a few ATMs at present and will roll out the same across its network of over 11,700 ATMs by the end of June.

--> Cash withdrawals account for the bulk of transactions at ATMs and the bank witnesses an average of 2 crore cash withdrawals every month at its ATMs.

8) Punjab to observe 2015-16 as 'year of development:

--> As a part of Punjab government’s efforts to give further fillip to the “all round development of the State”, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on 31 May 2015 said the year 2015-16 will be observed as the “year of development“.

9) Increase in service tax came into effect:

--> Increase in service tax from 12.36 per cent to 14 per cent announced in the Union Budget this year, come into force from 1 June 2015.

10) World Milk Day observed:

--> World Milk Day is a day established by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations to recognise the importance of milk as a global food.

--> It has been observed on June 1st each year since 2001.
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