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Current Affairs February 2015 SET  VIII  

 

 

     

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1)  Who  won  the  Best  Actor  (Female)  award  at  the  60th  Filmfare  Awards  announced  recently?    (A)  Anushka  Sharma  (B)  Alia  Bhatt  (C)  Kareena  Kapoor  (D)  Kangana  Ranaut      2)  RBI  on  3  February  2015  doubled  the  amount  of  foreign  exchange  that  an  individual  can   remit   in   a   year   under   a   scheme   that   allows   asset   purchase   outside   India.   An  individual   can   now   remit   up   to   ____   a   year   under   the   Liberalised   Remittance  Scheme?    (A)  $250,000  (B)  $250,00  (C)  $250,0  (D)  $250      3)  Who  will  chair  the  RBI  External  Advisory  Committee  (EAC)  to  evaluate  applications  received  for  payment  banks  as  announced  on  3  Feb  2015?    (A)  Raghuram  Rajan  (B)  D  Subbarao  (C)  Y  V  Reddy  (D)  Nachiket  Mor      4)  Reserve  Bank  of  India  (RBI)  on  3  February  2014  released  its  6th  Bi-­‐monthly  Monetary  Review.  RBI  reduced  the  statutory  liquidity  ratio  (SLR)  of  scheduled  commercial  banks  by  50  basis  points  to?    (A)  21.5%  (B)  7.75%  (C)  22.0%  (D)  6.75%      5)  Mrinalini  Mukherjee  passed  away  in  New  Delhi  on  2  February  2015  was  noted?    (A)  Academician  (B)  Bureaucrat  

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(C)  Historian  (D)  Sculptor      6)  Which  private  airlines  co-­‐owner  Kal  Airways  recently  decided  to  sell  and  transfer  their  entire  holding  of  58.46  per  cent  in  the  airline  to  co-­‐founder  Ajay  Singh?    (A)  Indigo  (B)  Vistara  (C)  Deccan  Charters  (D)  SpiceJet      7)  PETA  -­‐an  international  animal  rights  and  conservation  group  and  the  Bannerghatta  Biological   Park   in   which   state,   have   joined   hands   to   create   India's   first   `fenced'  elephant  sanctuary  in  a  forested  space?    (A)  Karnataka  (B)  Kerala  (C)  Assam  (D)  Madhya  Pradesh      8)  Leander  Paes  along  with  whom  recently  won  the  Australian  Open  2015  mixed  doubles  title?    (A)  Martina  Hingis  (B)  SaniaMirza  (C)  Cara  Black  (D)  Elena  Vesnina      9)  Second  Phase  of  JNNURM  Project  is  set  to  be  named  after  which  former  Prime  Minister  of  India  as  reports  suggested  recently?    (A)  Rajiv  Gandhi  (B)  Moraji  Desai  (C)  AtalBihari  Vajpayee  (D)  LalBahadurShastri      10)  World  wetland  day  (WWD)  was  observed  every  year  on?  

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(A)  31  January  (B)  4  February  (C)  1  February  (D)  2  February      11)   Robert   Mugabe   who   was   appointed   as   the   new   chairman   of   the   54-­‐nation  African  Union  on  30  January  2015  is  the  president  of  which  African  Nation?    (A)  Kenya  (B)  South  Africa  (C)  Zimbabwe  (D)  Nigeria      12)  Sergio  Mattarella  was  recently  elected  as  the  new  President  of?    (A)  Greece  (B)  Italy  (C)  France  (D)  Canada      13)  Who  among  the  following  on  31  January  2015  took  charge  as  chairman  of  Hindustan  Aeronautics  Ltd  (HAL)?    (A)  R  K  Tyagi  (B)  Jiji  Thomson  (C)  T  SuvarnaRaju  (D)  None  of  these      14)  India  on  31  January  2015  successfully  carried  out  the  maiden  canister-­‐based  trial  of  its  most  potent  missile  Agni-­‐V  from?    (A)  Wheeler  Island,  Odisha  (B)  Sreeharikota,  Andhra  Pradesh  (C)  Tanjavur,  Tamil  Nadu  (D)  Thumba,  Kerala      15)  Carl  Djerassi,  91,  the  chemist  widely  considered  the  father  of  the  ______,  died  on  31  January  2015?  

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(A)  Anti-­‐Biotics  (B)  Birth  control  pill  (C)  Band  Aid  (D)  Injection  Needle      16)  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      17)  Krishna  Chaudhary  was  on  30  January  2015  appointed  as  Director  General  of?    (A)  Indo-­‐Tibetan  Border  Police  (ITBP)  (B)  Border  Security  Force  (BSF)  (C)  Central  Vigilance  Commission  (CVC)  (D)  Central  Bureau  of  Investigation  (CBI)      18)  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)      19)  Anti-­‐Leprosy  Day  was  observed  recently  on?    (A)  28  January  (B)  29  January  (C)  30  January  (D)  31  January      20)   Reserve   Bank   on   30   January   2015   constituted   a   high-­‐powered   panel   to  reexamine  and  recommend  appropriate  set  of  businesses,  size,  conversion  and  licensing  terms  for  the  urban  cooperative  banking  sector.  Who  is  the  chairman  of  

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the  committee?    (A)  V  K  Saraswat  (B)  R  Gandhi  (C)  BimalJalan  (D)  ShyamalaGopinath