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Page 1: February 2015 GK and current affairs

 

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Current Affairs February 2015 SET  V    

 

     

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1)  First  ever  World  Ocean  Science  Congress  (WOSC)  was  recently  held  at?    (A)  Tuticorin  (B)  Visakhapatnam  (C)  Mormugao  (D)  Kochi      2)  Who  was  recently  appointed  as  Chairman  of  Indraprastha  Gas  Limited?    (A)  M  Ravindran  (B)  KK  Gupta  (B)  PiyushGoyal  (D)  MahendraPradhan      3)  PM  chaired  first  meeting  of  Governing  Council  of  NITI  Aayog  on  8  February  2015.  PM  used   to   the   term  “Team   India”   in   this  meeting   for  describing  a  combination  of  three  vital   teams   in   the  structure  of  NITI  Aayog.  Which  among   the   following   is  not  among  them?    (A)  The  Prime  Minister  and  Chief  Ministers  (B)  Special  Invitees  of  NITI  Aayog  (C)  The  Union  Council  of  Ministers  (D)  the  bureaucracy  at  the  Centre  and  in  States      4)  Damyant  Singh  was  recently  appointed  as  the  Brand  Director  of?    (A)  Puma  India  (B)  Adidas  India  (C)  Yonex  India  (D)  Max  India      5)  Which  state  is  set  to  roll  out  Information  Technology  Mass  Literacy  Scheme  or  “Digital  SakshartaAbhiyaan”,  to  make  the  people  of  the  state  digitally  literate?    (A)  Haryana  (B)  Gujarat  (C)  Andhra  Pradesh  (D)  West  Bengal    

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6)  First  meeting  of  the  newly  formed  NITI  Aayog  was  held  on  6  February  2015.  In  the  meeting,  PM  Modi  took  views  of  _____  to  boost  growth?    (A)  Chief  Ministers  (B)  Bureaucrats  (C)  Economists  (D)  Governors      7)  Microblogging  site  Twitter  Inc  has  recently  reached  a  deal  with  which  search  engine  to  make  its  tweets  more  searchable  online,  according  to  reports?    (A)  Yahoo  (B)  Bing  (C)  Ask  (D)  Google      8)  The  10th  edition  of  India-­‐Mongolia  Joint  Military  Training  Exercise  concluded  on  6  February  2015.  This  exercise  was  held  at?    (A)  Gwalior  (B)  Kochi  (C)  Dehradun  (D)  Pune      9)  Congress  leader  GhulamNabi  Azad  was  on  7  February  2015  re-­‐elected  as  a  RajyaSabha  member  from  which  state?    (A)  Uttar  Pradesh  (B)  Rajasthan  (C)  Maharashtra  (D)  Jammu  and  Kashmir      10)  Which  space  agency  has  recently  launched  Soil  Moisture  Active  Passive  (SMAP)  satellite  to  observe  soil  moisture?    (A)  European  Union  (B)  ISRO  (C)  NASA  (D)  China  National  Space  Administration  

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11)   BhalchandraNemade   who   has   been   selected   for   the   50th   Jnanpith   Award   for  2014,  on  6  February  2015,  is  a  famous  writer  in  which  language?    (A)  Marathi  (B)  Oriya  (C)  Malayalam  (D)  Urdu      12)  Who  was  on  5  February  2015  named  Ernst  &  Young  Entrepreneur  Of  The  Year  2014,  who  pioneered  the  development  of  affordable  life-­‐saving  vaccines?    (A)  UdayKotak  (B)  Arundhati  Bhattacharya  (C)  K.  Radhakrishnan  (D)  Cyrus  S.  Poonawalla      13)  R.K.  Gupta  was  recently  moved  out  by  government  as  the  director  of?    (A)  Agni  5  Project  (B)  DRDO  (C)  Home  Ministry  (D)  Tejas  Project      14)  Who  was  appointed  as  the  Director  General  of  the  Council  of  Scientific  &  Industrial  Research  (CSIR)  on  5  January  2015?    (A)  Raghunath  A.  Mashelkar  (B)  M.  K.  Bhan  (C)  M.O.  Garg  (D)  Samir  K.  Brahmachari      15)  RoopaKudva,  the  managing  director  of  ratings  company  CRISIL  was  recently  appointed  as  an  independent  board  member  of?    (A)  Wipro  (B)  Accenture  (C)  TCS  (D)  Infosys    

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16)  Alibaba,  the  world's  biggest  and  most  valuable  ecommerce  firm,  recently  entered  India's  e-­‐commerce  space  with  25%  stake  in?    (A)  Myntra  (B)  Paytm  (C)  Shopclues  (D)  Flipkart      17)  World  Cancer  Day  was  recently  observed  on?    (A)  February  4  (B)  January  27  (C)  February  3  (D)  February  5      18)  Name  the  Journalist-­‐writer  Hindol  Sengupta's  book  on  entrepreneurial  ventures  in  India  which  has  been  shortlisted  for  the  US'  prestigious  Hayek  Prize  this  year?    (A)  Recasting  India:  How  Entrepreneurship  is  Revolutionizing  the  World's  Largest  Democracy  (B)  The  Forgotten  Depression:  The  Crash  that  Cured  Itself  (C)  The  Rule  of  Nobody:  Saving  India  from  Dead  Laws  and  Broken  Government  (D)  None  of  these      19)  Reliance  Industries  has  recently  teamed  up  with  which  nationalized  bank  to  apply  for  a  payments  bank  license?    (A)  Punjab  National  Bank  (B)  Union  Bank  of  India  (C)  Indian  Bank  (D)  State  Bank  of  India      20)   India  was   ranked  second   last   in   the   intellectual  property   (IP)   index   released  by  the  US  Chamber  of  Commerce  on  4  February  2015.  Which  country  was  ranked  No.1  ?    (A)  Singapore  (B)  USA  (C)  Thailand  (D)  Russia