Current Affairs Quiz – 8 February 2016

Hi Aspirants..Here is the Current Affairs Quiz for 8 February 2016. This quiz will be very useful for all upcoming exams. Attempt the Quiz& share your score.

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1) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 7 February 2016 dedicated Indian Oil Corporation’s (IOC’s) new state of the art refinery at Paradip in which state to the nation?

(A) Odisha

(B) Maharashtra

(C) Gujarat

(D) Goa

2) Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare J P Nadda has recently launched ____ on for prevention of AIDS specially among people injecting drugs in the 8 North-Eastern states?

(A) Project Arrow

(B) Project Sunrise

(C) Project Reach

(D) Project Aware

3) International Fleet Review (IFR) 2016, an international military exercise hosted and conducted by Indian Navy was inaugurated recently at?

(A) Kochi, Kerala

(B) Panaji, Goa

(C) Gandhinagar, Gujarat

(D) Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh

4) ____ recently became first country in the world to ban supermarket food waste?

(A) Italy

(B) France

(C) Ireland

(D) Denmark

5) Who was on 4 February 2016 was appointed as the President of the newly- formed International Grown Diamond Association (IGDA)?

(A) Vishal Mehta

(B) Sudev Vasudev

(C) Suresh Krishna

(D) Ranjith Sinha

6) International Cricket Council (ICC) on 7 February 2016 suspended Pakistan’s leg-spinner ____ for three months after he tested positive for a banned substance, chlortalidone?

(A) Saed Ajmal

(B) Muhammed Hafiz

(C) Yasir Shah

(D) Mohammad Amir

7) Which state on 8 February 2016 decided to celebrate the birthday of girl students across all state-run schools through the programme 'Kanya Janamdin Utsav'?

(A) Jharkhand

(B) Kerala

(C) Himachal Pradesh

(D) Haryana

8) Name the two cities that topped the National Air Quality Indices (NAQI) with 409 points each for having the ‘severe’ pollution?

(A) Varanasi and Muzzafarpur

(B) Bengaluru and Delhi

(C) Delhi and Kolkata

(D) None of these

9) Who on 7 February 2016 won gold for India in the women Wushu Taulu Competition of the 12th South Asian Games?

(A) Tintu Luka

(B) Deepika Kumari

(C) Sapna Devi

(D) None of these

10) Sudhir Tailang who died on 6 February 2016 was a famous?

(A) Cartoonist

(B) Writer

(C) Singer

(D) Director

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Current Affairs Online Quiz – 6 February 2016

Hi Aspirants..Here is the Current Affairs Quiz for 6 February 2016. Our online quiz questions will be very useful for all upcoming exams. Attempt the quiz and share your score. 

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1) The 12th edition of South Asian Games (SAG) has begun on 5 February 2015 at?

(A) Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

(B) Guwahati, Assam

(C) Pune, Maharashtra

(D) Jaipur, Rajasthan

2) Who was on 4 February 2016 chosen for the prestigious Bharat Ratna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi classical music award for 2015-2016?

(A) Prabha Atre

(B) Kishori Amonkar

(C) Pandit Jasraj

(D) Pandit Ram Narayan

3) Recently India officially became the Associate Member State of European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO). EMBO is headquartered at?

(A) Heidelberg, Germany

(B) Ufa, Russia

(C) Durban, South Africa

(D) Geneva, Switzerland

4) Mahindra Asset Management Company (AMC) on 4 February 2016 received _____ approval to manage the Mahindra Mutual Fund?

(A) SBI

(B) PFRDA

(C) SEBI

(D) None of these

5) Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare on 5 February 2016 decided to set up the National Organic Farming Research Institute in which state?

(A) Kerala

(B) West Bengal

(C) Assam

(D) Sikkim

6) International Cricket Council (ICC) Board on 3 February 2016 constituted Anti-Corruption Unit Oversight Group. Which former Indian captain was included as a member of the said committee?

(A) Anil Kumble

(B) Saurav Ganguly

(C) Rahul Dravid

(D) Sachin Tendulkar

7) Who won Sundance Institute Global Filmmaking Award 2016 on 30 January 2016 for her script of yet-to-be shot film Insha Allah?

(A) Aprana Sen

(B) Farah Khan

(C) Kiran Rao

(D) Geetu Mohandas

8) Which Bollywood actor will feature in the World Health Organisation (WHO) diabetic awareness campaign?

(A) Sharukh Khan

(B) Akshay Kumar

(C) Amitabh Bachchan

(D) Aamir Khan

9) Which private sector bank recently joined hands with Indian Railways to set up 1000 water purifiers on stations across the country by 2019?

(A) Yes Bank

(B) SBI

(C) ICICI Bank

(D) Federal Bank

10) Name the Official mascot of the 12th edition of South Asian Games (SAG) 2016?

(A) Ammu

(B) Pappu

(C) Tikhor

(D) Shera

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Current Affairs MCQ Quiz – 4 February 2016

Hi Aspirants..Here is the Current Affairs Quiz for 4 February 2016 useful for all upcoming exams.

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1) Which Indian was on 3 Feb 2016 appointed vice-president and chief investment officer of the newly-created Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)?

(A) Shaktikanta Das

(B) Rajiv Mehrishi

(C) Basanth Seth

(D) D J Pandian

2) Hyderabad-based vaccines manufacturer ____ has recently announced a breakthrough in developing the world’s first Zika vaccine?

(A) Bharat Biotech

(B) Serum Institute of India

(C) Indovax

(D) Cipla

3) All-women taxicab service She-Taxi of which state on 3 February 2016 received the prestigious Chief Minister's Award for Innovation in Public Policy?

(A) Haryana

(B) Kerala

(C) Punjab

(D) Gujarat

4) Which state has won the 61st National School Athletics championship 2016 which concluded in Kozhikode on 2 February 2016?

(A) Punjab

(B) Maharashtra

(C) Uttar Pradesh

(D) Kerala

5) World Cancer Day (WCD) is observed every year on?

(A) 4 February

(B) 5 February

(C) 2 February

(D) 3 February

6) Who was on 4 Feb. 2016 appointed as first women head of Indian Cost Accounting Service?

(A) Vijay Bahuguna

(B) Priyanka Geet

(C) Aruna Sethi

(D) Pooja Chopra

7) Balram Jakhar who passed away in New Delhi recently was the former?

(A) Chief Justice of India

(B) CAG

(C) Lok Sabha Speaker

(D) Vice President of India

8) Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005  recently completed ___ years of implementation?

(A) 10

(B) 15

(C) 5

(D) 8

9) Alphabet Inc., the parent company of _____ has recently overtaken Apple as s most valuable company in the world?

(A) Microsoft

(B) Google

(C) Facebook

(D) IBM

10) Who was recently appointed as the first woman Director General of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB)?

(A) Archana Ramasundram

(B) Sobha Subramanian

(C) Sapna Pramod

(D) None of these

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Complete list of Australian Open 2016 Winners - PDF Download

*The 2015 Australian Open took place at Melbourne Park, Australia between 18 to 31 January 2016. It was the 104th edition of the Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year.

* Novak Djokovic successfully defended the men's singles title and thus won a record-equaling sixth Australian Open title. Serena Williams was the defending champion in the women's singles but failed to defend her title, losing to Angelique Kerber in the final; by winning, Kerber became the first German player of any gender to win a Grand Slam title since Steffi Graf won her last such title at the 1999 French Open.

Here is the complete list of winners with details 

Men's Singles

Final between: Novak Djokovic (Serbia) vs Andy Murray (UK)

Winner: Novak Djokovic [6–1, 7–5, 7–6(7–3)]

Women's Singles

Final between: Serena Williams (United States) vs Angelique Kerber (Germany)

Winner: Angelique Kerber [6–4, 3–6, 6–4]

Men's Doubles

Final between: Jamie Murray(UK) & Bruno Soares(Brazil) Vs  Daniel Nestor(Canada) & Radek Stepanek(Czech Republic)

Winners: Jamie Murray(UK) & Bruno Soares(Brazil) [2–6, 6–4, 7–5]

Women's Doubles

Fianl between: Martina Hingis(Switzerland) & Sania Mirza(India) Vs Andrea Hlavackova(Czech Republic) & Lucie Hradecká(Czech Republic)

Winners: Martina Hingis(Switzerland) & Sania Mirza(India) [7–6(7–1), 6–3]

Mixed Doubles

Final between: Elena Vesnina(Russia) & Bruno Soares(Brazil) Vs Coco Vandeweghe(USA) & Horia Tecau(Romania)

Winners: Elena Vesnina(Russia) & Bruno Soares(Brazil) [6–4, 4–6, [10–5]]

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Employment News: 30 January 2016 - 05 February 2016

Hi Aspirants..Here is the Employment News for the week ending 5 February 2016.

1. SOUTH CENTRAL RAILWAY

Name of Post –Women Constables in RPF/RPSF 

No. of Vacancies – 2030

Last Date – 01.03.2016

2. DIRECTORATE GENERAL, CRPF

Name of Posts – Assistant Sub-Inspector (Steno)

No. of Vacancies -229

Last Date – 01.03.2016 

3. ATOMIC MINERALS DIRECTORATE FOR EXPLORATION AND RESEARCH    

Name of Posts – Technical Officer –C, Scientific Assistant- B, Draughtsman B-1, etc

No. of Vacancies – 146

Date- 22.02.2016

4. INTELLIGENCE BUREAU

Name of Post –Personal Assistant

No. of Vacancies -69

Last Date: – 20.02.2016

5. BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY

Name of Posts – Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor

No. of Vacancies –60

Last Date – 10.02.2016

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Current Affairs Quiz – 2 February 2016

Hi Aspirants..Here is the Current Affairs Quiz for 2 February 2016. Trending topics for the day include 2016 Syed Modi Badminton Title in Men’s Singles, 2016 Australian Open Tennis Men’s Singles title, Angelique Kerber etc. Attempt the quiz & share your score. 

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Q1. Who among the following has won the 2016 Syed Modi Badminton Title in Men’s Singles?

(A) P Kashyap

(B) Huang Yuxiang

(C) Kidambi Srikanth

(D) Lin Dan

Q2. Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) recently given approval to set up India’s first Defence Industrial Park at Ottappalam in which state?

(A) Kerala

(B) Tamil Nadu

(C) Maharashtra

(D) Goa

Q3. Which player won the 2016 Australian Open Tennis Men’s Singles title?

(A) Andy Murray

(B) Novak Djokovic

(C) Rafael Nadal

(D) Stan Wawrinka

Q4. Angelique Kerber who won 2016 Australian Open women's singles title is from which country?

(A) Serbia

(B) Denmark

(C) Russia

(D) Germany

Q5. Union Government has recently appointed _____ as the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities (CCPD)?

(A) Dr. Kamlesh Kumar Pandey

(B) Dr. Vinod Aggarwal

(C) O.P.Dogra

(D) S.K.Srivastava

Q6. Who on 31 January 2016 won the 83rd Senior National Snooker Championship in Indore, Madhya Pradesh?

(A) Pankaj Advani

(B) Geet Sethi

(C) Aditya Mehta

(D) Brijesh Damani

Q7. Virender Sehwag was on 1 February 2016 appointed as mentor of the which IPL team?

(A) Kings XI Punjab

(B) Delhi Daredevils

(C) Sunrisers Hyderabad

(D) Kolkata Knight Riders

Q8. Muktesh Kumar Pardeshi was on 29 January 2016 appointed as India’s Ambassador to which country?

(A) China

(B) Mexico

(C) Singapore

(D) Chile

Q9. International Swimming Federation (FINA) on 31 January 2016 announced that Fukuoka will host the 2021 World Aquatics Championships. Fukuoka city is in which country?

(A) Indonesia

(B) China

(C) South Korea

(D) Japan

Q10. India recently won the three-match T-20 series against Australia, 3-0. Who was declared as the player of the series?

(A) Rohit Sharma

(B) Shane Watson

(C) Virat Kohli

(D) Steve Smith 

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Daily Current Affairs – 1 February 2016

Hi Aspirants..Here is the daily current affairs updates for 1 February 2016.

1) Kidambi Srikanth won 2016 Syed Modi Badminton Title in Men’s Singles:

--> Ace Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth won the 2016 Syed Modi International Grand prix Gold Championship Title of Badminton in men’s singles category.

--> In the final match played at Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh), he defeated Huang Yuxiang of China by 21-13, 21-14 and 21-14 score.

--> Sayaka Sato (Japan) won the 2016 Syed Modi International Grand prix Gold Championship Title in women’s singles category. 

2) Novak Djokovic won 2016 Australian Open Men’s Singles Title:

--> World Number One tennis player Novak Djokovic from Serbia has won the 2016 Australian Open Title in the men’s singles category.

--> In the final match played at Melbourne, Australia he defeated Andy Murray of Britain in 7 straight sets by 6-1, 7-5, 7-6 score.

--> With this win, Djokovic retained the title and also equalled the record of Roy Emerson’s record of six Australian Open Singles titles. He had earlier won this title in 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2015.

3) Vice Admiral Sunil Lanba takes over as new Commanding-in-chief of WNC:

--> Vice Admiral Sunil Lanba took over as Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief (FOC-in-C) of Mumbai headquartered Western Naval Command (WNC) at a ceremonial parade held at INS Shikra.

4) Datta Padsalgikar appointed as Mumbai Police Commissioner:

--> Senior IPS officer Datta Padsalgikar has been appointed as the Commissioner of Police of Mumbai.

--> He will be 40th Police Commissioner of Mumbai.

5) Former Army Chief General K V Krishna Rao passes away:

--> Former Army Chief General Kotikalapudi Venkata Krishna Rao, passed away in New Delhi.

--> He was the 14th Chief of the Army Staff of Indian Army and had played a key role in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.

6) Angelique Kerber won 2016 Australian Open Title of tennis:

--> Angelique Kerber from Germany has won the 2016 Australian Open Title of Tennis in the women’s singles category.

--> It was her maiden Grand Slam Tennis title.

--> In the final match played at Melbourne, Australia she defeated defending champion Serena Williams (World No. 1) in three sets 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 score.

7) Dr. Kamlesh Kumar Pandey appointed as Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities:

--> Union Government has appointed Dr. Kamlesh Kumar Pandey as the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities (CCPD) for a period of three years.

8) Morton Mower, Michael Marmot win 2015 Prince Mahidol Award:

--> Morton Mower (US), Sir Michael Marmot (UK) have won the prestigious 2015 Prince Mahidol Award for their outstanding achievements in the international healthcare sector.

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