Current Affairs Multiple Choice Quiz: 14 July 2015

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Questions for the day:

1) Which country recently won FIFA Women’s World Cup 2015?

(A) Japan

(B) USA

(C) Brazil

(D) Argentina

2) India on 5 July 2015 retained the South Asian Basketball Championship (SABA) title defeating which country?

(A) Pakistan

(B) Bangladesh

(C) China

(D) Sri Lanka

3) National Doctor’s Day is celebrated in India on 1 July 2015, in memory of which of the following doctor?

(A) Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy

(B) Dr. Dwarkanth Kotnis

(C) Dr. Deepak Chopra

(C) Dr. J.C.Bose

4) Reserve Bank on 3 July 2015 announced that the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in manufacturing of ____ products is prohibited?

(A) Plastic

(B) Petroleum Products

(C) Tobacoo

(D) Food

5) Who recently won 2015 Birtish Grand Prix of F1?

(A) Sebastian Vettel

(B) Nico Roserberg

(C) Kimi Raikkonen

(D) Lewis Hamilton

6) First MUDRA card under the Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY) scheme was launched by which bank on 4 July 2015?

(A) State Bank of India

(B) Corporation Bank

(C) Central Bank of India

(D) Union Bank of India

7) Which country on 5 July 2015 won Copa America football title 2015?

(A) Brazil

(B) Argentina

(C) Coloumbia

(D) Chile

8) Union Government on 4 July 2015 released the first ever Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) after ___ years?

(A) 80

(B) 50

(C) 25

(D) 125

9) Y K Sabharwal who passed away on 6 July 2015 was the former?

(A) CAG

(B) Chief Justice of Supreme Court

(C) Chief Election Commissioner

(D) Vice President of India

10) Union government  recently launched a mobile application “m-asset” to know assets of ____?

(A) State Government

(B) Income Tax Department

(C) Corporations

(D) Gram Panchayat

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Employment News: 11th July - 17th July 2015

Dear friends.. Here is the Employment News for the week ending 17 July 2015.

1. Haryana Power Utilities.

Name of Post –Junior Engineers (Electrical, IT & Civil)

No. of Vacancies -288

Date – 10.08.2015

2. Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited.

Name of Post –Supervisor Trainees (Finance)

No. of Vacancies -50

Date – 31.07.2015 

3. Institute of Banking Personnel Selection.

Name of Post –Officer (Scale-I, II & III) & Office Assistants (Multipurpose)

No. of Vacancies –Depending on the Vacancies as per the business needs of the Regional Rural Banks.

Date – 28.07.2015

4. Exim Bank.

Name of Post –Manager & Administrative Officers.

No. of Vacancies –78

Date – 22.07.2015

5. Staff Selection Commission.

Name of Post –Junior Engineers Group-B Non Gazetted

No. of Vacancies –1,000

Date – 10.08.2015

6. National Mineral Development Corporation Limited

Name of Post –unior Officers, HEM Operator Gr-I, Mechanic-cum-operator, Quality Control Assistant, Jr. Assistant, Stenographer, etc.

No. of Vacancies – 262

Date – 25.07.2015

7. National Institute of Open Schooling, Noida

Name of Post – Director (Vocational Education), Deputy Director (Accounts), Assistant Director, Section Officer, Assistant, etc.

No. of Vacancies – 72

 Last Date - 04.08.2015

8. Utkal University, Bhubaneswar

Name of Post – Professor, Reader, Lecturer

No. of Vacancies - 77

Last Date - 20.07.2015

9. Pondicherry Society of Higher Education, Puducherry

Name of Post-Assistant Professor

No. of Vacancies - 38

Last Date –06.07.2015

10. Directorate General Border Security Force, New Delhi

Name of Post – Assistant Sub Inspector (Steno) and

Head Constabl(Ministerial).

No. of Vacancies - 136

Last Date–before 45 days from the date of publication

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Novak Djokovic won Wimbledon title 2015

* Defending champion Novak Djokovic won a third Wimbledon title and a ninth Grand Slam crown on 12 July 2015.

* World number one Djokovic won 7-6 (7/1), 6-7 (10/12), 6-4, 6-3 the title defeating world number two Roger Federer. 

* For 33-year-old Federer, it was a bitterly disappointing end to his bid to become the oldest Wimbledon champion of the Open Era.

* The 17-time major winner has now gone three years since his last Grand Slam triumph.

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Daily Current Affairs: 12 July 2015

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1) Leander Paes, Martina Hingis won mixed doubles title at Wimbledon 2015:

--> India's Leander Paes and Switzerland's Martina Hingis defeated Alexander Peya of Austria and Timea Babos of Hungary 6-1, 6-1 to win the Wimbledon mixed doubles title at The 2015 All England Lawn Tennis Club on 12 July 2015.

--> The win gave Paes his 16th Grand Slam trophy and Hingis her second title at Wimbledon in two days, having won the women's doubles title with India's Sania Mirza on 11 July 2015.

--> It was Paes' eighth mixed doubles title and second with Hingis.

--> They won the Australian Open earlier this year. 42-year-old Paes also has eight men's doubles crowns in his Grand Slam collection.

--> Sumit Nagal won the junior boys' doubles trophy with Vietnam's Nam Hoang Ly. 

2) Djokovic beats Federer to win his third Wimbledon title:

--> Novak Djokovic beat Roger Federer for the second successive year in the Wimbledon final to capture his third title at the All England Club with a 7-6(1) 6-7(10) 6-4 6-3 win on 12 July 2015.

--> The Serbian world number one became the first man since 2007 to retain the Wimbledon men's title and in the process took his grand slam tally to nine.

3) Sunil Chhetri is highest paid player in ISL Auction 2015:

--> India national football captain Sunil Chhetri was the biggest earner at the inaugural Indian Super League (ISL) auction in Mumbai on 11 July 2015.

--> He was selected by Mumbai City FC for Rs 1.20 crore.

--> Chhetri's team-mate at Bengaluru FC, central midfielder Eugeneson Lyngdoh, was purchased by Pune FC for 1.05 crore from a base price of Rs 27 lakh.

--> A total of Rs 7.22 crore was spent on the ten players at the auction, with FC Goa and Kerala Blasters the only teams not to buy any player.

4) Indian-American Astronaut Sunita Williams Selected in NASA's First Commercial Crew:

--> Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams is among four astronauts who have been selected by NASA for commercial flights to the International Space Station (ISS) from US soil.

--> They will work closely with company-led teams to understand their designs and operations as they finalise their Boeing CST-100 and SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and operational strategies.

5) ‘Buddha In A Traffic Jam’ wins best original screenplay award at the Madrid Film Festival:

--> ‘Buddha In A Traffic Jam’ film has won the best original screenplay in a Foreign Language award at the Madrid International Film Festival.

--> The film is a political satire directed by filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri.

--> It stars Arunoday Singh and Mahi Gill in a lead role along with Anupam Kher, Pallavi Joshi and introduces Anchal Dwivedi.

6) Police verification for passports to go online:

--> Police verification for issue/renewal of passports will soon be an online affair, allowing its timeframe to be cut from the existing 20 days to less than a week.

--> The home ministry is set to allow all SP-level police officers access to databases such as National Population Register (NPR), Aadhaar and Electoral Photo I-Card via the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System (CCTNS) to enable online verification of identity, address and criminal record, if any, of the passport applicant.

--> Though the online check, for now, will be backed up with the usual physical verification by the local police, the ultimate aim is to fully eliminate the need for a doorstep check for all categories of passports.

7) Website of Isro's commercial arm Antrix hacked:

--> Two days after proving its commercial satellite launch capabilities, the Indian Space Research Organization (Isro) on 12 July 2015 found the website of its commercial arm, Antrix, defaced by hackers.

--> The home page of the Antrix website was replaced with parts of an article talking about 300 kids from Cape Town getting American Major League jerseys at cheap prices from China.

--> By evening, the homepage was restored.
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11th July 2015 Important Current Affairs Updates

Friends..Here are the Important Current Affairs Updates for 11 July 2015. This will be useful for all upcoming exams. Hope you are following our Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2015 also daily.

1) ‘World Population Day’ observed:

--> World Population Day was observed on 11 July 2015 with theme Vulnerable Populations in Emergencies.

--> The theme focuses on the record number of people displaced by crises – some 60 million according to the latest UN figures.

--> The event was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 1989. 

2) Kagiso Rabada became second bowler to claim hat-trick on ODI debut:

--> South Africa debutant Kagiso Rabada on 10 July 2015 became only the second cricketer in the history of One Day International (ODI) cricket to claim a hat-trick on ODI debut.

--> Rabada, 20, became only the second player in history to claim a hat-trick on ODI debut, joining Taijul Islam, the Bangladesh left-arm spinner, who had achieved the feat against Zimbabwe in December 2014.

3) Serena Williams won sixth Wimbledon Women’s Single title:

--> Serena Williams (USA) won 2015 Women’s Singles Wimbledon title.

--> In the final match played at London she defeated Garbine Muguruza of Spain by 6-4, 6-4 score.

--> It is her sixth Women’s Singles Wimbledon title and overall 21th Grand Slam title.

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4) Typhoon Linfa hits Southern Chinese province of Guangdong:

--> The powerful Typhoon Linfa has hit the southern China after it made landfall on southern province of Guangdong.

--> Typhoon Linfa has hit the southern province by bringing winds of up to 126 km/hr along with heavy rain.

--> However after it had made landfall, the typhoon has lost strength rapidly after it passed near Hong Kong due to weakened low pressure area.

5) Legendary Egyptian actor Omar Sharif passed away:

--> Egyptian-born actor Omar Sharif, best known for his part in David Lean's ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ and the lead role in ‘Doctor Zhivago’, died of cardiac arrest on 11 July 2015.

--> Sharif started his career in Egyptian films in 1953 with "Sira Fi al-Wadi" ("The Blazing Sun") opposite Faten Hamama, whom he later married.

--> He worked in over 20 films before being approached for the role of Sharif Ali in "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) which was his first Hollywood movie.

6) England beat Australia by 169 runs to win first Ashes test:

--> Stuart Broad and Moeen Ali led England's charge to a 169-run victory over Australia with a day to spare in the first test on 11 July 2015 to make a flying start in their bid to regain the Ashes.

--> England will head to Lord's for the second test knowing that of the last 17 Ashes series, the team that has eventually won first test has won the opening test 15 times.

7) Sania Mirza-Martina Hingis won Wimbledon women's doubles title:

--> Sania Mirza and her partner Martina Hingis produced a stirring fightback to claim the Wimbledon women's doubles title 2015.

--> This is Sania Mirza's first-ever women's doubles Grand Slam title.

--> Sania's partner Hingis held her serve to seal a 5-7 7-6(4) 7-5 win over Russians Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina.

--> For Sania Mirza, it was a maiden women's doubles title at a Grand Slam although she has won three mixed doubles titles at the majors.

--> She won Australian Open (2009) and French Open (2012) with compatriot Mahesh Bhupathi and the US Open with Bruno Soares last year.
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Current Affairs July 2015 PDF Capsule- First Week

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1) Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on 10 July 2015 successfully launched five British satellites into space using? - PSLV-C28

Note: This was the heaviest commercial luggage carried by a PSLV rocket to date. It was also the biggest commercial launch of ANTRIX/ISRO.

2) Seventh BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit was held from 8 to 9 July 2015 in which city? - Ufa, Russia

3) Which country on 5 July 2015 won the FIFA Women’s World Cup? - United States of America (USA)

Note: They defeated Japan. This was third world cup title for the USA and first since 1999.

4) Which country on 4 July 2015 won its first Copa America Cup football tournament? - Chile

Note: In the final played at the Estadio Nacional (national stadium) in Santiago, Chile defeated Argentina 4-1 through penalties shootout.

5) Who won World Food Prize 2015? - Fazle Hasan Abed

6) Name the man responsible for conceiving the idea of short messaging service (SMS) technology, who died on 30 June 2015? - Matti Makkonen

7) World Population Day was observed on 11 July 2015 with the theme? - Vulnerable Populations in Emergencies

8) Which player on 10 July 2015 became only the second cricketer in the history of One Day International (ODI) cricket to claim a hat-trick on ODI debut? - Kagiso Rabada

Note: South African player claimed a hat-trick against Bangladesh.

9) Which city will be hosting the 8th BRICS summit in 2016? - New Delhi, India

10) India’s 1st Earthquake Warning System was on 10 July 2015 successfully installed in which state? – Uttarakhand

11) Which state will host the fifth Youth Delphic Games in February 2016? - Goa

Note: The motto of the 2016 Games is Celebrating Arts and Cultures.

12) Who won British Grand Prix 2015 recently? - Lewis Hamilton

13) Name the founding Chairman of Kerala State Electronics Development Corporation Limited (Keltron) who died on 1 July 2015? - K P P Nambiar

14) Name the initiative to provide doorstep services and expedite Home Loan Application (HLA) process launched on 3 July 2015 by State Bank of India (SBI)? - Project Tatkal

15) Anisa Rasouli was on 30 June 2015 nominated as the first ever female Supreme Court judge of which country? – Afghanistan

16) Who recently became the first British-Asian appointee to England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Management Board? - Lord Kamlesh Patel

17) India and which other country on 10 July 2015 were accepted as the full members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a six-member regional grouping? – Pakistan

18) Bandhan Bank Ltd on 9 July 2015 appointed whom as its Chairman? - Ashok Kumar Lahiri, former Chief Economic Adviser

19) India and which country on 9 July 2015 signed Inter Governmental Agreement (IGA) to implement the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)? - United States (US)

20) Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in first week of July 2015 extended the ‘disturbed area’ status of which state? – Nagaland

21) Who was on 8 July 2015 appointed as Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of National Housing Bank (NHB)? - Sriram Kalyanaraman

Note: He became the first person form the Private Sector to head a Public Sector Financial Institution.

22) World Boxing Organization (WBO) on 7 July 2015 stripped whom of the Welterweight title which he won by defeating Manny Pacquiao in May 2015? - Floyd Mayweather Jr

23) India on 5 July 2015 won the South Asian Basketball (SABA) Championship title defeating which country? - Sri Lanka

24) Which country recently became the first country to eliminate mother-to-child (vertical) transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and syphilis in the World? – Cuba

25) Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit 2015 was recently held at? - Ufa, Russia

26) Bashar Navaaz who passed away on 9 July 2015 was a famous writer in which language? – Urdu

27) Who recently became first Indian to win a Gold Medal at World University Games held in Gwangju? - Inderjit Singh (shot-put)

28) What was announced as the theme of 2015 Science Express? - Climate Change

29) ____ on 7 July 2015 released the State of Safety Nets 2015 report? - World Bank

30) Which bank launched Watch Banking application for Apple Watch in the first week of July 2015? – HDFC

31) Which bank on 4 July 2015 launched country’s first MUDRA (Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency) card under the Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY) in Mangalore, Karnataka? - Corporation Bank

32) Mahindra Defence on 3 July 2015 tied-up with which European aerospace giant to form a Joint Venture to manufacture defence choppers? - Airbus Helicopters

33) Name the Russian cosmonaut who recently entered Guinness World Records for spending most number of days in the space? - Gennady Padalka

Note: He achieved the feat by spending 804 days on the International Space Station (ISS) and surpassed record of cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev.

34) Which country on 30 June 2015 became the first developed nation to default on International Monetary Fund (IMF) debt? – Greece

35) Who was recently selected for G D Birla Award for Scientific Research for 2014? - Sanjeev Galande

36) University Grants Commission (UGC) on 2 July 2015 accorded special Heritage Status on ___ Colleges across the country? – 19

37) Who was nominated by China to be the first president of the Beijing-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)? - Liqun, Former Finance Minster of China

38) Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan (RAA) scheme was on 9 July 2015 launched in New Delhi recently by? - Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

39) Union Government in June 2015 increased the national floor-level minimum wage (NFLMW) to ___ rupees per day? – 160

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Serena Williams won Wimbledon Crown 2015

* Serena Williams made Wimbledon history as the world number one became the oldest woman to win a Grand Slam title with a 6-4, 6-4 victory against Garbine Muguruza of Spain in the final played on 11 July 2015.

* At 33 years and 289 days, Serena surpasses Martina Navratilova as the oldest player to win Wimbledon, and any of the other three Grand Slams, in the Open era.

* Serena's sixth Wimbledon crown brought with it a slew of other remarkable landmarks that underline her credentials as one of the greatest female athletes of all time. 

* The American's 21st Grand Slam crown and 68th tour-level title earned her a cheque for £1.8 million ($2.7 million, 2.5 million euros)

* She now holds all four Grand Slam titles at the same time a rare record she earlier held during 2002-03.

* Serena is the first woman to land the French Open and Wimbledon back-to-back since she last won that difficult double in 2002.

* It now leaves Serena needing only to defend the US Open to become the first woman since Steffi Graf in 1988 to claim a calendar Grand Slam.

* She is just one major title behind Graf on the Open era leaderboard and within three of all-time record holder Margaret Court's tally of 24.

* She is the first player since Graf in 1988 to win Wimbledon and the Australian and French Opens in the same year.

* Regardless of her defeat, Muguruza, 21, has emerged as one of the brightest young stars on the Wimbledon 2015 after a bravura display in her first Grand Slam final appearance.  

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