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- Who was appointed Chairman of a Joint Committee of Parliament that will go into the provisions of the land acquisition bill on May 18, 2015?
1) K.V. Thomas
2) Jairam Ramesh
3) Sharad Pawar
4) Sharad Yadav
5) S.S. Ahluwalia - Which bank’s first branch in China was inaugurated by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 16, 2015?
1) Axis Bank
2) ICICI Bank
3) HDFC Bank
4) Bank of India
5) Bank of Baroda - Draupadi Murmu was sworn in as the first woman Governor of which of the following States on May 18, 2015?
1) Odisha
2) Manipur
3) Jharkhand
4) Uttarakhand
5) Bihar - Which country won the Sudirman Cup badminton tournament on May 17, 2015?
1) Japan
2) Malaysia
3) India
4) China
5) Indonesia - How many persons were given Padma Bhushan awards this year?
1) 9
2) 11
3) 20
4) 15
5) 22 - According to Fortune magazine which company’s Chief Executive Officer emerged as the Business Person of the Year for 2014?
1) Facebook
2) Alibaba
3) Apple
4) Google
5) Fedex - The 102nd Indian Science Congress was held in January 2015 in?
1) Srinagar
2) Kolkata
3) Mumbai
4) Bhubaneswar
5) Jammu - Which is the largest party in the Jammu & Kashmir assembly?
1) Bharatiya Janata Party
2) Indian National Congress
3) National Conference
4) Jammu People Conference
5) People’s Democratic Party - India’s first contactless debit and credit cards were launched in January 2015 by?
1) Axis Bank
2) SBI
3) ICICI Bank
4) SBH
5) None of these - Who was appointed the CEO of NITI Aayog in January 2015?
1) Saraswathi Menon
2) Sujatha Singh
3) Nirupama Rao
4) Sindhushree Khullar
5) None of these - Who is the author of the book ‘Convenient Action’?
1) R.K. Pachauri
2) Al Gore
3) L.K. Advani
4) Narendra Modi
5) Arvind Kejriwal - India sold its first warship CGS Barracuda offshore patrol vessel (OPV) to?
1) Mauritius
2) Sri Lanka
3) Bangladesh
4) Singapore
5) Malaysia - Who is one of the 2014 top ten scientists chosen by the journal ‘Nature’?
1) CNR Rao
2) K. Radhakrishnan
3) V.K. Saraswat
4) M.R. Srinivasan
5) Tessy Thomas - Which of the following statements is not true regarding NITI Aayog?
1) Planning Commission was replaced by National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog on January 1, 2015
2) Arvind Panagariya is the first Vice Chairperson
3) Bibek Debroy and V.K. Saraswat are the two permanent members
4) The Prime Minister is the Chairperson
5) The Governing Council will comprise all Chief Ministers and Governors - Who among the following Union Ministers is not an ex-officio member of NITI Aayog?
1) Rajnath Singh
2) Arun Jaitley
3) Suresh Prabhu
4) Radha Mohan Singh
5) Nitin Gadkari - The Finance Ministry has set up a high level committee to interact with trade and industry on tax related issues on a regular basis. This committee is headed by?
1) Ashok Lahiri
2) Sidhartha Pradhan
3) Gautam Ray
4) Kaushik Basu
5) Parthasarathi Shome - Which team won the inaugural Indian Super League football title in Mumbai on December 20, 2014?
1) Atletico de Kolkata
2) Kerala Blasters
3) Chennaiyin FC
4) FC Goa
5) None of these - Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching on December 25, 2014 in?
1) New Delhi
2) Varanasi
3) Gandhinagar
4) Panipat
5) Jaipur - Mission Indradhanush has been launched by the Union Ministry of?
1) External Affairs
2) Home
3) Human Resources Development
4) Health and Family Welfare
5) Agriculture - The global Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) that lays down international rules for the $85 billion global arms trade came into effect on?
1) December 24, 2014
2) January 1, 2015
3) October 24, 2014
4) May 1, 2015
5) March 8, 2015 - Which two countries recently restored ties by ending 50 years of hostility?
1) USA & Panama
2) Israel & Jordan
3) USA & Cuba
4) Israel & Syria
5) North Korea & South Korea - Which State government appointed yoga guru Baba Ramdev its brand ambassador?
1) Uttarakhand
2) Haryana
3) Uttar Pradesh
4) Punjab
5) Gujarat - Jean Ravelonarivo became the Prime Minister of which of the following countries in January 2015?
1) Rwanda
2) Uganda
3) Madagascar
4) Lesotho
5) Liberia - Who won the men’s singles title at the Syed Modi International Badminton Championships in Lucknow in January 2015?
1) Kidambi Srikanth
2) Sai Praneeth
3) H. S. Prannoy
4) Parupalli Kashyap
5) None of these - Surendra Kumar Sinha is the first Hindu to become the Chief Justice of?
1) Pakistan
2) Malaysia
3) Singapore
4) Maldives
5) Bangladesh - Veteran director K. Balachander passed away on December 23, 2014. He was the recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke award in?
1) 2009
2) 2010
3) 2008
4) 2007
5) 2012 - Which of the following is the 19th Eurozone member?
1) Latvia
2) Estonia
3) Lithuania
4) Croatia
5) Slovakia - The 13th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas (PBD) was held in January 2015 in?
1) New Delhi
2) Jaipur
3) Lucknow
4) Gandhinagar
5) Kochi - The Chief Guest for the 13th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas was?
1) Anerood Jugnauth
2) Navin Ramgoolam
3) G. Palanivel
4) Kamla Persad
5) Donald Ramotar - How many cities are selected for the National Heritage Development and Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY)?
1) 10
2) 11
3) 12
4) 8
5) None of these - Who is the present Chairperson of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC)?
1) Sharmila Tagore
2) Pahlaj Nihalani
3) Nafisa Ali
4) Amol Palekar
5) Anupam Kher
KEY:
| 1) 5 | 2) 2 | 3) 3 | 4) 4 | 5) 3 | 6) 4 | 7) 3 | 8) 5 |
| 9) 3 | 10) 4 | 11) 4 | 12) 1 | 13) 2 | 14) 5 | 15) 5 | 16) 1 |
| 17) 1 | 18) 2 | 19) 4 | 20) 1 | 21) 3 | 22) 2 | 23) 3 | 24) 4 |
| 25) 5 | 26) 2 | 27) 3 | 28) 4 | 29) 5 | 30) 3 | 31) 2 |
Published date : 09 Dec 2015 10:56AM
