Current Affairs Quiz – 10 October 2015

Friends.. Here is the Current Affairs Quiz for 10 October 2015. Practice and improve your knowledge. 

Questions for the day. Click the ‘START QUIZ’ button to start the quiz.

1) Who among the following was recently elected as the new Chairman of Inter-governmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC)?

(A) Hoesung Lee

(B) R.K. Pachauri

(C) Ismail El Gizouli

(D) Youyoung Than

2) Name the India-China Joint Military Training Exercise which will be conducted at Kunming Military Academy of Yunnan province in China from 12 to 23 October 2015?

(A) Surya Kiran

(B) HAND-IN-HAND

(C) Mitra Sakhti

(D) None of these

3) 83rd Indian Air Force Day was recently celebrated on?

(A) 5 October 2015

(B) 7 October 2015

(C) 8 October 2015

(D) 9 October 2015

4) Who among the following won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature?

(A) Svetlana Alexievich

(B) Patrick Modiano

(C) Mo Yan

(D) Jhumpa Lahiri

5) World Egg Day was observed on?

(A) 1 Ocotober

(B) 3 October

(C) 6 October

(D) 9 October

6) World Post Day is observed globally on?

(A) 9 October

(B) 10 October

(C) 7 October

(D) 6 October

7) Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) recently approved World Bank assisted National Watershed Management Project named?

(A) Varsha

(B) Meghraat

(C) Neeranchal

(D) Jal

8) Who among the following was recently named as the Cultural Ambassador for Seychelles?

(A) Sachin Tendulkar

(B) Amitabh Bachchan

(C) A.R. Rahman

(D) Aishwarya Rai

9) Tomas Lindahl (United Kingdom), Paul Modrich (US) and Aziz Sancar (US) have jointly won 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work in?

(A) G-protein-coupled receptors

(B) DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) repair

(C) Multiscale models for complex chemical systems

(D) Super-resolved fluorescence microscopy

10) Name the Indian Navy’s first totally indigenously-designed and built Torpedo launch and recovery vessel (TRV) which was was commissioned on 7 October 2015?

(A) INS Kochi

(B) INS Varahamihira

(C) INS Kalapani

(D) INS Astravahini
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RBI Grade-B Officer Recruitment 2015 Notification Out

Hi friends..Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has published notification for the recruitment of 134 Officer in Grade-’B’ (General) vacancies by direct recruitment. Eligible candidates may apply online from 05-10-2015 to 23-10-2015. Details are as follows:

Important Dates:

Starting Date to Apply Online & for Payment of Fee: 05.10.2015

Last Date to Apply Online for & for Payment of Fee: 23.10.2015

Date of Phase-I Online Examination: 21 & 22.11.2015

Date of Phase-II Online Examination: 07.12.2015

RBI Vacancy Details:

Total No.of Posts: 134

Name of the Posts: Officer in Grade-’B’ (General)

1. General: 67 Posts

2. SC: 15 Posts

3. ST: 13 Posts

4. OBC: 39 Posts

Educational Qualifications (as on 01/10/2015) : A minimum of 60% marks (50% in case of SC/ST/PWD) or an equivalent grade in Bachelor’s degree as well as in 12th and 10th standard examinations. The minimum qualifying percentage or an equivalent grade for the Bachelor's Degree will be in aggregate for all semesters / years.

Age (as on 01/10/2015): Between 21 and 30 years (candidates must have been born not earlier than 02/10/1985 and not later than 01/10/1994). For candidates possessing M.Phil. and Ph.D. qualification, upper age limit will be 32 and 34years respectively. For candidates having experience as an officer in Commercial Bank/Financial Institution in Public Sector as also prior experience in Reserve Bank of India, upper age limit is relaxed to the extent of number of years of such experience subject to a maximum of three years. For such candidates, upper age limit should not exceed 33 years including experience. For experience, probationary period will not be reckoned. Refer item 8 below for relaxation in upper age limit for specified categories.

Number of attempts: Candidates belonging to unreserved i.e. General Category, who had already appeared Six times for Phase-I Examination for this post in the past, are not eligible to apply. No such restriction applies to candidates belonging to SC/ST/OBC/PWD, if the posts are reserved for them.

Selection Process: Candidates will be selected based on online examinations & interview.

Phase-I online Examination (Objective Type) : This Paper for 200 marks will be held on November 21/22, 2015. Depending on the number of candidates, the examination may be held on some other days also. A candidate, however, has to appear for examination in only one shift on any day. The date, time and venue on which a candidate has to appear for examination will be specified in the Admission Letter (AL) to be downloaded by the candidate. The ‘corrected-scores’ obtained by each of the candidates in different sessions (if held) will be normalized using equipercentile method. The Paper consists tests of (i) General Awareness (ii) English Language (iii) Quantitative Aptitude and (iv)Reasoning, with composite time of 120 minutes. Other detailed information regarding the examination will be given in an Information Handout, which will be made available for the candidates to download along with the Admission letter for examination from the RBI website.

Application Fee: Candidates have to pay Rs. 850/- (Rs.100/- for SC/ ST/ PwD candidates) through online by using Debit Cards (RuPay/ Visa/ MasterCard/ Maestro), Credit Cards, Internet Banking, IMPS, Cash Cards/ Mobile Wallets. No fee for RBI Staff.

How to Apply: Eligible candidates may apply online through the website www.rbi.org.in from 05-10-2015 to 23-10-2015.

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Official Notification of RBI Grade-B Officer 2015

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Nobel Prize in Physics 2015

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2015 to

Takaaki Kajita

Super-Kamiokande Collaboration

University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan

and

Arthur B. McDonald

Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration

Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

“for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass”

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* The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the two researchers had made key contributions to experiments showing that neutrinos change identities.

* Neutrinos are particles that whiz through the universe at nearly the speed of light. They are created in nuclear reactions, such as in the sun and the stars, or in nuclear power plants.

* The winners will split the 8 million Swedish kronor (about $960,000) prize money. Each winner also gets a diploma and a gold medal at the prize ceremony on Dec. 10.

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award

the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

with one half jointly to

William C. Campbell and Satoshi Omura

for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites

and the other half to

Youyou Tu

for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria.  

Here are the details:

* The Nobel judges in Stockholm awarded the prestigious prize to Irish-born William Campbell, Satoshi Omura and of Japan and Tu Youyou, the first ever Chinese medicine laureate.

* Campbell and Omura were cited for discovering a drug that has helped lower the incidence of river blindness and lymphatic filariasis, two diseases caused by parasitic worms.

* Tu discovered a drug that has helped significantly reduce the mortality rates of malaria patients.

* Campbell is a research fellow emeritus at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. Omura, 80, is a professor emeritus at Kitasato University in Japan and is from the central prefecture of Yamanashi. Tu is chief professor at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

* The winners will share the 8 million Swedish kronor (about $960,000) prize money with one half going to Campbell and Omura, and the other to Tu. Each winner will also get a diploma and a gold medal at the annual award ceremony on Dec. 10, the anniversary of the death of prize founder Alfred Nobel.

* Last year's medicine award went to three scientists who discovered the brain's inner navigation system.

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Current Affairs Quiz – 6 October 2015

Friends.. Here is the Multiple Choice (MCQ) Current Affairs Quiz for 6 october 2015 useful for all upcoming exams including IBPS PO Mains 2015, BPS Clerk Exam 2015, RBI Grade B officer Exam 2015 etc. 

Questions for the day. Click the ‘START QUIZ’ button to start the quiz.

1) Who was elected unopposed as President of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on 4 Oct. 2015?

(A) Sunil Gavaskar

(B) Shashank Manohar

(C) Rajiv Shukla

(D) N Sreenivasan

2) Internet Search engine giant Google recently officially converted into new parent company named?

(A) Alphabet Inc.

(B) Digit Inc.

(C) Systema Inc.

(D) Numeric Inc.

3) Which bank has recently become the first institution worldwide to launch mVisa - a card-less and device-less solution?

(A) Axis Bank

(B) Federal Bank

(C) HDFC Bank

(D) ICICI Bank

4) DRDO has recently established the world’s Highest Terrestrial Research Centre near Pengong Lake at Changla in?

(A) Leh

(B) Ladakh

(C) Kargil

(D) Kashmir

5) Which pair recently won the 2015 Wuhan Open Women’s Tennis Doubles Trophy?

(A) Sania Mirza-Martina Hingis

(B) Irina-Amelia Begu and Monica Niculescu

(C) Cara Black - Flavia Penneta

(D) None of these

6) Film producer Edida Nageswara Rao who died recently belongs to which film industry?

(A) Telugu

(B) Malayalam

(C) Kannada

(D) Marathi

7) Which country has recently decided to move to a six-hour working day in a bid to increase productivity and make people happier?

(A) Japan

(B) Switzerland

(C) Sweden

(D) Russia

8) IDFC Bank recently become the ____ scheduled commercial bank in the country?

(A) 75th

(B) 99th

(C) 91st

(D) 93rd

9) Who recently won the Lata Mangeshkar Award for Lifetime Achievement?

(A) Sonu Nigam

(B) Prabhakar Jog

(C) Gulsar

(D) A R Rahman

10) Which Indian was recently honoured by UK city of Coventry?

(A) Ratan Tata

(B) E Sreedharan

(C) Mukesh Ambani

(D) Arun Jaitley
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Question Paper of North Zone FCI Assistant Exam - 4 October 2015 [PDF Download]

Friends.. Here is the Question Paper of FCI Junior Engineer (JE), Assistant Grade-II and Assistant Grade-III (General / Accounts / Technical / Depot) Exam held in North Zone on 4 October 2015. You can download the Question Paper as PDF from the below link. The Answer Key will be uploaded by FCI soon. To download the answer key, go to the official website and select your zone, then put your Roll No and DOB and download your question paper with answer key. You can download the question paper of North Zone from the below link.  

Download Question Paper of North Zone (17 MB)

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Employment News this week: 03 October - 09 October 2015

Friends..Here is the Employment News for the week ending 9 October 2015. Check your opportunities and apply now.

1. INDIAN OIL CORPORATION

Name of Post – Jr Business Assistant, Jr Attendant, Jr Chargeman, Jr Operator. 

No. of Vacancies – 35

Last Date –02.11.2015

2. CENTRAL SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS ORGANISATION

Name of Posts –Senior Scientist, Scientist

No. of Vacancies - 28

Last Date – 12.10.2015 

3. EMPLOYEES STATE INSURANCE CORPORATION

Name of Posts – Staff Nurse, Pharmacist, Nursing orderly, Stenographer, UDC, etc.

No. of Vacancies – 17

Date- 31.10.2015

4. OFFICE OF THE CANTONMENT BOARD JALANDHAR

Name of Posts – Pharmacist, JBT Teacher, Master/Mistress, etc

No. of Vacancies –29

Last Date – -30.10.2015

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Current Affairs October 2015 - First Week (PDF Download)

Friends..Here is the Current Affairs for the first week of October 2015 (28 September 2015 to 4 October 2015) in PDF Download format. Download the Current Affairs as PDF in your mobile, tab or desktop and read & revise wherever you go.

1) International Day of Non-Violence was observed on? - 2 October 2015

2) Indian Space Research Orgnaisation (ISRO) on 28 September 2015 launched India’s first dedicated satellite for astronomy research, named ASTROSAT using? - Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C30)

Note: PSLV-C30 also carried six small satellites from different countries. This launch also marked the first ever commercial flight of US Satellites from India. 

3) Union Government recently formed a committee to revisit civil services examination pattern. Who will head the committee? - B S Baswan

4) Which country's flag was raised for the first time at United Nations headquarters in New York on 30 September 2015? – Palestine

5) What was India's rank in Global Competitiveness Report 2015-2016 released by World Economic Forum recently? - 55^th

6) Which player on 30 September 2015 won the gold medal in women's 10 meter air pistol event at the 8th Asian Air Gun Championships in New Delhi? - Heena Sidhu

7) Name the largest warship built so far in India dedicated to the nation on 30 September 2015? - INS Kochi

Note: It was dedicated to the nation by Union Defence Minister Manohar Parikkar at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai.

8) Fourth bi-monthly monetary policy statement 2015-16 was announced on 29 September 2015 by RBI governor Raghuram Rajan. What is the new repo rate? - 6.75 percent

9) World Heart Day was recently celebrated on? - 29 September 2015

10) Google on 27 September 2015 announced its tie-up with Indian Railways that will provide free Wi-Fi facilities to 400 stations, under which project? - Project Nilgiri

11) Who won the 2015 Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix? - Lewis Hamilton

12) Which Indian was recently honoured by UK city of Coventry? - Ratan Tata

13) Which country topped Global Competitiveness Report 2015-2016? – Switzerland

14) Union Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on 30 September 2015 released a commemorative postal stamp on? - Dr.B.R.Ambedkar

15) World Tourism Day is observed every year on? - September 27

16) Fast Bowler Frank Tyson who died recently is from which country? -  England

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17) Name the Laureates of 2015 Right Livelihood Awards which were announced on 1 October 2015? - Tony de Brum & the People of the Marshall Islands, Sheila Watt-Cloutier (Canada), Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera (Uganda) and Gino Strada & his organisation ‘Emergency’ (Italy).

Note: Right Livelihood Award is also known as Alternative Nobel Prize.

18) Name the Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways and Shipping who on 29 September 2015 launched Green Highways (Plantation, Transplantation, Beautification and Maintenance) Policy, 2015? - Nitin Gadkari

19) Syed Ahmed who died on 27 September 2015 was the governor of? – Manipur

20) World Tourism Day was observed across the world on 27 September 2015 with the theme? - One Billion Tourists, One Billion Opportunities.

21) Sania Mirza and along with whom on 26 September 2015 won the Guangzhou Open title? - Martina Hingis

22) Praveen Dixit was on 29 September 2015 appointed as the DGP of which state? – Maharashtra

23) World Vegetarian Day was observed on? - 1 October 2015

24) Union Government on 30 September 2015 notified Mid Day Meal Rules, 2015 under? - National Food Security Act, 2013

25) Name the Indian-American associate professor who was named a 2015 MacArthur Fellow? - Kartik Chandran

26) International Day of Older Persons (IDOP) was on 1 October 2015 observed across the world with the theme? - Sustainability and Age Inclusiveness in the Urban Environment

27) International Translation Day was recently observed across the world on? - 30 September

Note: Theme for this year is The Changing Face of Translation and Interpreting

28) Who was on 1 October 2015 assumed office as Chairman and Managing Director of Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited (NLC)? - Sarat Kumar Acharya

29) International Day of Older Persons (IDOP) was on 1 October 2015 observed across the world with the theme? - Sustainability and Age Inclusiveness in the Urban Environment

30) Who was appointed as the Governor of Manipur on 28 September 2015? -  V. Shanmuganathan

31) Who was chosen for the prestigious 2015 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize on 28 September 2015? - Mathematician Jacob Tsimerman of the University of Toronto, Canada 
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