february 2015 gk and current affairs
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current affairs for february month for IAS and SSC-CGLTRANSCRIPT
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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