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Monday, February 2, 2015
Current Affairs Quiz Questions: 02 February 2015
1) Novak Djokovic won his fifth Australian
Open title on 1 February 2015 defeating whom?
(A) Stan Wawrinka
(B) Tomas Berdych
(C) Andy Murray
(D) Rafael Nadal
2) Nation observed the death anniversary of
the Father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi, on 30 January 2015 as?
(A) Non Violence Day
(B) Martyrs' Day
(C) Anti-Leprosy Day
(D) Ant-Terrorism Day
3) Which Department was recently awarded
GOLD in National Award on e-governance 2014-15?
(A) Department of Posts
(B) Department of Food Processing
(C) Department of Space
(D) Income Tax Department
4) Krishna Chaudhary was on 30 January 2015
appointed as the Director General (DG) of?
(A) Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)
(B) Border Security Force (BSF)
(C) Central Vigilance Commission (CVC)
(D) Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
5) Name the Union Minister of
Communications & IT who on 30 January 2015 released a set of Commemorative
Postage stamps on Swachh Bharat?
(A) Sadananda Gowda
(B) Arun Jaitley
(C) J P Nanda
(D) Ravi Shankar Prasad
6) Union Govt. recently sold its 10% stake
in which company, becoming the biggest ever share sale by any private or public
sector company in India?
(A) Bharat Earth Movers (BEML)
(B) Indian Oil Corporation
(C) National Insurance Company
(D) Coal India Limited (CIL)
7) Jayanthi Natarajan who quitted Congress
Party on 30 January 2015 was the Union Minister of _____ in previous UPA
government?
(A) Information & Broadcasting
(B) Environment and Forest
(C) Water Resources
(D) Chemical & Fertilizers
8) Anti-Leprosy Day was observed recently
on?
(A) 28 January
(B) 29 January
(C) 30 January
(D) 31 January
9) Minister for Railways Shri Suresh
Prabhakar Prabhu, recently flagged off four Express trains from Bengaluru
remotely through which service of RailTel, a PSU of Railways?
(A) Telepresence
(B) Multiflagger
(C) Symbolgic
(D) Train Connect
10) Reserve Bank on 30 January 2015
constituted a high-powered panel to re-examine and recommend appropriate set of
businesses, size, conversion and licensing terms for the urban cooperative
banking sector. Who is the chairman of the committee?
(A) V K Saraswat
(B) R Gandhi
(C) Bimal Jalan
(D) Shyamala Gopinath
Answers
1) Ans. (C) Andy Murray
2) Ans. (B) Martyrs' Day
3) Ans. (D) Income Tax Department [Awarded
for for TDS Reconciliation Analysis & Correction Enabling System (TRACES)]
4) Ans. (A) Indo-Tibetan Border Police
(ITBP)
5) Ans. (D) Ravi Shankar Prasad
6) Ans. (D) Coal India Limited (CIL)
7) Ans. (B) Environment and Forest
8) Ans. (C) 30 January
9) Ans. (A) Telepresence
10) Ans. (B) R Gandhi [He is the RBI deputy
Governor]
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Employment News: 31 January - 06 February 2015
1. NHPC
LTD. FARIDABAD, HARYANA
Name of Post –Trainee Engineer (Civil),
Mechanical), (E&C), Trainee Officer, etc.
No. of Vacancies - 144
Last Date - 23Feb 2015
2. ICAR-
CENTRAL ISLAND AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Name of Post –Jr. Library Assistant, Jr.
Librarian, Computer Assistant, etc.
No. of Vacancies –12
Last Date – Within 30 days from the date of
Publication in Employment News
3. NATIONAL
JUDICIAL ACADEMY, M.P.
Post – Deputy Librarian, Research Fellow,
Computer System Administrator, Asst. Maintenance Engineer and Maintenance
Supervisor
No. of Vacancies - 12
Last Date - 20 Feb 2015
4. MIRANDA
HOUSE UNIVERSITY OF DELHI
Name of Post – Assistant Professor in
various Departments.
No. of Vacancies - 37
Last Date – 23 Feb 2015
5. FOOD
CRAFT INSTITUTE (KARNATAKA) SOCIETY
Name of Post – Principal, Asst. Lectures,
Accountant, U.D.C AND L.D.C
No. of Vacancies – 8
Last Date – 31 days from the date of
Publication
6. JAWAHARLAL
NEHRU UNIVERSITY
Name of Post – Admission Announcement for
Various Courses.
Admissions open from 6 Feb. to 25 Feb.
Source:
http://employmentnews.gov.in/
Daily Current Affairs Updates: 1 February 2015
1) Novak Djokovic defeated Andy Murray to win Australian
Open 2015:
--> Serbia's world number one Novak
Djokovic won a fifth Australian Open title on 1 February 2015, beating
Britain's Andy Murray in four sets in the final.
--> Djokovic won 7-6 (7/5), 6-7 (4/7),
6-3, 6-0 in 3hr 39min for his eighth Grand Slam title to stretch his formidable
record on the Melbourne hardcourts to winning five from five finals in eight
years.
--> Only Australian Roy Emerson has won
more Australian Opens with six in the 1960s.
--> The victory means Djokovic stays at
world number one on the next ATP rankings when they are released.
2) Leander Paes and Martina Hingis won Australian Open mixed
doubles:
--> Five times grand slam singles winner
Martina Hingis from Switzerland won her second Australian Open mixed doubles
title on 1 February 2015 as she teamed with India’s Leander Paes to beat last year’s winners France’s Kristina
Mladenovic and Canada’s Daniel Nestor 6-4 6-3.
--> While the 41-year-old Paes clinched
his seventh mixed doubles crown, Hingis, who came out of retirement for the
second time a couple of years back, collected her tenth doubles Slam apart from
her five singles titles.
3) Carl Djerassi, father of birth control pill passed away:
--> Carl Djerassi, 91, the chemist
widely considered the father of the birth control pill, died on 31 January
2015.
--> Djerassi, a professor emeritus of
chemistry at Stanford, was most famous for leading a research team in Mexico
City that in 1951 developed norethindrone, a synthetic molecule that became a
key component of the first birth control pill.
--> “The pill,” as it came to be known,
radically transformed sexual practices.
4) Sri Lankan President appointed K Sripavan as Chief
Justice:
--> Sri Lanka on 1 February 2015
appointed Justice K Sripavan, an ethnic-Tamil, its new Chief Justice.
--> Justice Sripavan, 63, took oath as
the 44th Chief Justice before President Maithripala Sirisena, the President’s
office said in a statement.
--> Mr. Sripavan replaced Chief Justice
Shirani Bandaranayake, who resigned on 29 Jan 2015, only a day after she was
reinstated to the position by Sirisena government.
--> He is second Tamil to hold be Chief
Justice. The last Tamil chief justice was Herbert Thambiah, who left the
position in 1991.
5) Bharat Rang Mahotsav, Asia’s biggest theatre festival,
began:
--> War play 'Ghazab Teri Adaa', the
latest creation by National School of Drama (NSD), opened the 17th edition of
Bharat Rang Mahotsav at New Delhi.
--> The theatre festival was inaugurated
by Mahesh Sharma, Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Tourism
and Culture and Civil Aviation and National Award-winning actor and an NSD
alumnus Om Puri.
6) Country's first fenced elephant park to come up near
Bengaluru:
--> The People for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals (PETA) -an international animal rights and conservation group -and
the Bannerghatta Biological Park, Karnataka, have joined hands to create
India's first `fenced' elephant sanctuary in a forested space that will allow
elephants to move around freely within the secure area.
--> This 49.5-hectare sanctuary within
the biological park -which is an extension of the Bannerghatta National Park
-near Bengaluru will allow the herd to roam and bathe in ponds freely without
being restricted by chains or any human interference.
7) Australia won tri-series title:
--> An all-round show by Glenn Maxwell
and a devastating pace-bowling spell by Mitchell Johnson helped Australia crush
England by 112 runs in a lopsided summit clash to clinch the cricket tri-series
title.
--> Australia will now go into the
upcoming World Cup at home with more confidence as they wrapped up their
preparations on a high by winning the three-team tournament which also featured
India.
--> Mitchell Starc was named Man of the
Series.
8) Marans transfer ownership of SpiceJet to Ajay Singh:
--> SpiceJet has finally changed hands
with the airline’s promoters deciding to sell and transfer their entire holding
of 58.46 per cent in the airline to co-founder Ajay Singh.
--> The share sale and purchase
agreement between the promoters Kalanithi Maran, Chairman of the Sun group, his
company Kal Airways and Mr. Singh was signed on 29 January 2015.
--> The Ministry of Civil Aviation had
recently cleared the proposal of the Marans for change in ownership and
management control.
9) Kangana Ranaut, Shahid Kapoor bagged the best actor
awards at 60th Filmfare Awards:
--> The 60th Filmfare Awards ceremony
was held on January 31, 2015, at the Yash Raj Studios in Mumbai.
--> Shahid Kapoor won the Filmfare award
for Best Actor (Male) for his performance in the film “Haider”, while Kangna
Ranaut received the Best Actor (Female) award for “Queen”.
--> Best Film (Queen), Best Director
(Vikas Bahl - Queen)
--> The Filmfare Awards are presented
annually by The Times Group to honour both artistic and technical excellence of
professionals in the Indian film industry.
--> The awards were first introduced in
1954, the same year as the National Film Awards.
31st January 2015 Current Affairs Updates
1) Canister-based nuclear capable Agni-V missile test fired
successfully:
--> India on 31 January 2015
successfully carried out the maiden canister-based trial of its most potent
missile Agni-V.
--> It has a strike range of over 5000
kms and can carry a nuclear warhead of over one tonne.
--> The missile was launched from a
canister mounted on a road-mobile launcher at Wheeler's Island off Odisha
coast.
2) T Suvarna Raju took charge as Chairman of HAL:
--> T Suvarna Raju on 31 January 2015
took charge as chairman of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), replacing R K
Tyagi.
--> Raju, 56, is credited with securing
the first patent for HAL, in January 2002.
--> He will be 17th chairman of HAL.
3) Serena won Australian Open women's singles title 2015:
--> Serena Williams beat Maria Sharapova
in straight sets in the women's singles final to win her sixth Australian Open
title at Melbourne on January 31, 2015.
--> The No.1-seeded Williams recorded a
6-3, 7-6(5) over the No.2-seeded Russian for the 19th Grand Slam title of her
illustrious career, separating herself from Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova
for second-most Grand Slam titles in the Open Era.
--> She is now just three titles away
from Steffi Graf’s record of 22 Grand Slam titles.
4) Sergio Mattarella elected as new Italian president:
--> Sergio Mattarella, a constitutional
court judge from Sicily who is seen as a symbol of Italy's battle against
organised crime, was elected Italy's new president on 31 January 2015.
--> He will Italy’s 12th president and
succeed Giorgio Napolitano who had resigned earlier in January 2015 citing
reason of poor health before his 2020 expiry term.
--> He has tenure of 7 years.
5) 35th National Games began in Kerala:
--> 35th National Games got underway at
Thiruvananthapuram, Capital of Kerala on January 31, 2015 at the brand new
state-of-the-art Greenfield Stadium with more than 40,000 spectators cheering
every moment.
--> The biggest cheers as always were
reserved for cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar who was the goodwill ambassador for
the Games and one of the chief guests at the opening ceremony of the 35th
National Games.
--> Union Urban Development Minister M
Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated the 35th National Games.
--> It is the second time that Kerala is
hosting the national games (earlier it hosted the 27th National Games in the
year 1987).
--> The mascot of the National Games
2015 is'''Ammu'' (Great Indian Hornbill, the State bird of Kerala).
Sunday, February 1, 2015
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1) Who won the 2014 FIFA Ballon d’Or award
for the best footballer of the year in the world on 12 January 2015? - Cristiano Ronaldo
2) Who was
on 12 January 2015 appointed as Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation
(ISRO)? - Alur Seelin Kiran
Kumar
3) Who has
received the Governor of the Year Award for 2015 in the Central Banking Awards
announced on 12 January 2015? - Raghuram
Rajan, RBI Governor
4) Who
took charge as Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog on 13 January 2015? - Arvind Panagariya
5) Which
district in Kerala became first District of India to have Complete Rural
Broadband Coverage, as Union Minister for Communications and Information
Technology on 12 January 2015 linked this district to the National Optic Fiber
Network (NOFN)? – Idukki
6) Which
club on 11 January 2015 lifted their maiden football Federation Cup defeating
Goa's Dempo Sports Club 2-1? - Bengaluru
FC
7) Name
the Indian open water swimmer who on 14 January 2015 set a world record by
swimming 1.4 miles in 52 minutes in one degree temperature in the Antarctic
Ocean? - Bhakti Sharma
8) Who was
appointed as the new Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) by President Pranab
Mukherjee on 15 January 2016? - Hari
Shankar Bramha
Note: He succeeds V.S. Sampath who has retired from service.
9) Baba
Ramdev was on 15 January 2015 appointed as state brand ambassador of? – Haryana
10) Who
was appointed as the head coach of Indian men’s football team on 16 January
2015? - Stephen
Constantine
11) Who
won the Chennai Open Tennis title on 11 January 2015? - Stanislas Wawrinka
12) Which
Pakistan cricket player recently announced his retirement from One Day
International (ODI) and T20 after the Cricket World Cup 2015? - Misbah-ul-Haq
13) Who
won the Brisbane International Tennis title on 11 January 2015? - Roger Federer
14) Who
was on 10 January 2015 selected for the Vikram Sarabhai memorial award 2015? - MYS Prasad
Note: He is the director of Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC),
Sriharikota Range (SHAR).
15) 13th
Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas (PBD) 2015 concluded on 9 January 2015 in Gujarat. What
was the theme of 2015 PBD? - Bharat
ko jano and Bharat ko mano
16) Which
mission of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) was on 12 January 2015 won
the 2015 Space Pioneer Award in the Science and Engineering category? - Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM)
17) Reserve
Bank of India (RBI) on 15 January 2015 announced sixth Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy
Statement. RBI has cut its main lending rate (Repo Rate) by ___ per cent? - 0.25 (Present Repo Rate - 7.75)
18) Who
was on 13 January 2015 presented with the Social Media Person of the Year Award
2015 by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI)? - Amitabh Bachchan
19) Which
Australian cricketer on 14 January 2015 announced his retirement from all forms
of cricket after a 20-year career? -
Brett Lee
20) Reserve
Bank of India on 15 January 2015 issued final guidelines for banks to act as? -
Insurance Brokers
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21) The
Red Sari, an unauthorized biography of Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi,
was released by Roli Books in India on 16 January 2015. Book was written by? - Javier Moro
22) Who
was on 16 January 2015 appointed as Nepal's ambassador to India? - Deep Kumar Upadhyay
23) National
Youth Day was observed across India on 12 January every year to mark the birth
anniversary of? -
Swami Vivekananda
24) Who
was on 12 January 2015 appointed as the 21st chief justice of Bangladesh,
becoming the first non-Muslim to take charge of the office of Chief Justice of
Bangladesh? - Justice
Surendra Kumar Sinha
25) Name
the Union Minister for Railways who on 13 January 2015 inaugurated India’s
first compressed natural gas (CNG)-powered train on the Rewari – Rohtak link of
Northern Zone? - Suresh
Prabhu
26) Which
search engine on 13 January 2015 launched its Flight Search Tool in India? – Google
27) Seventh
Vibrant Gujarat Summit was held from 11 January to 13 January 2015 at? - Gandhinagar, Gujarat
28) Who
was appointed as CMD (Chairman and Managing Director) of Bharat Sanchar Nigam
Limited (BSNL) on 14 January 2015? - Anupam
Shrivastava
29) Who
was named as the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award 2014 for Sanskrit on 14
January 2015? - Prabhu
Nath Dwivedi
30) Who
has resigned as Chairperson of Central Board of Film Certification, (CBFC) on
16 January 2015? - Leela
Samson
31) Who
has resigned as member of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on 14
January 2015? - A
P Singh
32) Who
was on 16 January 2015 conferred with the JGBS-Top Rankers' Excellence Award
for CEO of the year 2014? - R.K.
Tyagi, HAL Chairman
33) Which
state was on 16 January 2015 selected for the National Award for e-Governance
for the best district-level initiative in Citizen-Centric Service Delivery
through ICT? - Jammu
and Kashmir (J&K)
34) Sania
Mirza and her partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands of which country on 16 January 2015
won the women’s doubles title of the Sydney International Tennis Tournament? – USA
35) India
on 15 January 2015 observed the ___th Army Day? –
67
36) Pope
Francis on 14 January 2015 cannonised Joseph Vaz as the first saint of which
country? - Sri
Lanka
37) Union
Government on 13 January 2015 removed whom as the Chairman of Defence Research
and Development Organization (DRDO)? - Avinash
Chander
38) Australia
on 10 January 2015 won the 4-match Border-Gavaskar Test series played against
India by 2-0. Who was named Player of the series? - Steven
Smith
39) Which
Indian professional golfer was on 12 January 2015 voted as the 2014 Players’
Player of the year in Asian Tour? - Anirban
Lahiri
Daily GK Updates: 1 February 2015
1) How many judges are there in Supreme
Court of India? - 30
2) Which article empowers the President to
appoint the Prime Minister of India? - Article 75
3) Who is the first woman cricketer to win
the Arjuna Award? - Shanta Rangaswamy
4) The world’s largest island Greenland is
an autonomous region within the kingdom of which country? - Denmark
5) Garba is a dance form to which state? -
Gujarat
6) The black hole theory was discovered by?
- S. Chandrashekhar
7) ELISA test is used to detect? - HIV
Infection
8) 'Malkhamb' is the state sport of? - Madhya Pradesh
9) Gangotri Village which is the source of
river Ganga is situated on the banks of? - Bhagirathi
10) The original name of Mahabharata is? -
Jai Samhita
Quiz Questions on Current Affairs: 31 January 2015
1) Who among the following was appointed as
the new chairman of Sangeet Natak Akademi on 29 January 2015?
(A) Shekhar Sen
(B) N Gopalaswami
(C) Leela Samson
(D) S Jayasankar
2) Which country was confirmed as the host
for the 2016 Twenty20 World Cup recently?
(A) Bangladesh
(B) West Indies
(C) Australia
(D) India
3) On 28 January 2015, nation paid tributes
to which national martyr of freedom movement on his 150th birth anniversary?
(A) Mangal Panday
(B) Lala Lajpat Rai
(C) Subhash Chandra Bose
(D) Bhagath Singh
4) Shirani Bhandaranayake, who was
reinstated by the new government led by President Maithiripala Sirisena on 28
January 2015, was the first woman Chief Justice of which country?
(A) Bangladesh
(B) Pakistan
(C) Srilanka
(D) Nepal
5) Who has assumed charge as the new
Chairman and Managing Director of National Research Development Corporation
(NRDC) recently?
(A) Rehman Khan
(B) Hanumanthu Purushotham
(C) DP Sinha
(D) Rohit Upadhyaya
6) Nation on 29 January 2015 paid rich
tributes to ______, who was martyred in an encounter with militants a day after
he got his gallantry award on Republic Day?
(A) Col. MN Rai
(B) Major Mukund Varadarajan
(C) Major Naik Neeraj Kumar Singh
(D) None of these
7) Which Messenger service has recently
rolled out free voice-calling, a month after its first acquisition of a free
calling app - Zip Phone?
(A) Whatsapp
(B) We Chat
(C) Hike
(D) Viber
8) Kalyan Singh took additional charge as
Himachal Governor on 28 January 2015. He was originally the Governor of which
state?
(A) Goa
(B) West Bengal
(C) Punjab
(D) Rajasthan
9) Which company reported quarterly profits
of $18 billion on 27 January 2015 which is the largest profit in global
corporate history?
(A) Microsoft
(B) Facebook
(C) Apple
(D) Google
10) Veteran actor Mala Aravindan who passed
away on 28 January 2015 is from which industry?
(A) Malayalam
(B) Telugu
(C) Tamil
(D) Kannada
Answers
1) Ans. (A) Shekhar Sen
2) Ans. (D) India
3) Ans. (B) Lala Lajpat Rai
4) Ans. (C) Srilanka
5) Ans. (B) Hanumanthu Purushotham
6) Ans. (A) Col. MN Rai
7) Ans. (C) Hike
8) Ans. (D) Rajasthan
9) Ans. (C) Apple
10) Ans. (A) Malayalam