latest current affairs questions of february
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Who took charge as Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development in New
Delhi?
Ans: Dr. Shashi Tharoor.
Former MP and ex-Union Minister for Rural Development _______ died in Andhra Pradesh.
Ans: K. Yerran Naidu.
Who addressed colorful cultural; extravaganza called SONABYSS-2012?
Ans: Paban Singh Ghatowar.
Who has received the 27th
Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration?
Ans: Gulzar.
Who is the current Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra?
Ans: Ajit Pawar.
Kaziranga University tied up with which university recently?
Ans: Cardiff Metropolitan University of United Kingdom.
Who is the current military chief of China?
Ans: Xi Jinping.
Which Indian-American named US Professor of the year recently?
Ans: Autar Kaw.
Who has been appointed as the new CEO of Cipla?
Ans: Subhanu Saxena.
Who has been re-elected as the Chairman of United Nations Panel of External Auditors?
Ans: Vinod Rai.
What is the name of 2014 Fifa World Cup Mascot?
Ans: Fuleco.
Which country won the T20 World Cup for the Blind?
Ans: India.
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In which year Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) was launched?
Ans: 2008.
Dinar is the currency of which country?
Ans: Iraq.
Who has assumed charge as Executive Director on the Board of the International Monetary
Fund?
Ans: Dr. Rakesh Mohan.
Who has been honored with the Hoover Medal at the Global Humanitarian Technology
Conference in Seattle in Washington?
Ans: V. Narayan Murthy.
Who was Keith Campbell, who died at the age of 58?
Ans: Scientist.
Former _______ all-rounder Kevin Curran has died.
Ans: Zimbabwe.
The former King of Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk has died in ______.
Ans: China.
Who was Margaret Osborne DuPont, who has died at the age of 94?
Ans: Tennis Player.
Who was T. Samuel, who has died at the age of 86?
Ans: Cartoonist.
Who is the President of Mauritania?
Ans: Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.
Who has been appointed as the Chairman of ICCs Cricket Committee?
Ans: Anil Kumble.
The first International Day of Rural Women was observed on ______.
Ans: 15th
October, 2008.
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Recently which day was celebrated as the first International Day of the Girl Child by the United
Nations?
Ans: 11th
October.
In which country the 12
th
summit of Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) was held?
Ans: Azerbaijan.
Which organization has been awarded the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize?
Ans: European Union.
Austere Challenge 2012 is the joint military exercise of USA and ______.
Ans: Israel.
Womens Twenty20 Asia Cup 2012 was held in which country?
Ans: China.
Rupesh Saha is a famous _______ player.
Ans: Billiards.
Who is the founder & Chairman of Virgin Group?
Ans: Richard Branson.
Which day is celebrated as the Navy Day in India?
Ans: 4th
December.
In which country the 5th
Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction was held?
Ans: Indonesia.
Who assumed charge as the Union Minister of Culture?
Ans: Chandresh Kumari Katoch.
Who has won the F1 title of 2012?
Ans: Sebastian Vettel.
Who has taken charge as the Chairperson & Managing Director of Bank of India?
Ans: Vijayalakshmi Iyer.
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Who has been conferred the membership of Order of Australia?
Ans: Sachin Tendulkar.
Who is the Prime Minister of Canada?
Ans: Stephen Harper.
Who has been re-elected as the President of United States?
Ans: Barack Obama.
Which film has won the Best Film Award in the 14th Mumbai Film Festival?
Ans: Miss Lovely.
A total of ______ trains have been identified for providing OBHS services.
Ans: 535.
Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA)?
Ans: Deep Joshi.
In which state the 28th
National Junior Athletic Championships were held?
Ans: Uttar Pradesh.
Mahesh Bhupathi and ________ clinched the Paris Master.
Ans: Rohan Bopanna.
Which country has won the Asian Kabaddi Championship?
Ans: Pakistan.
Peter Gade has announced his retirement from International ________.
Ans: Badminton.
Who has won the Golden Boot Award as Europes top Scorer?
Ans: Lionel Messi.
Which day is observed as World AIDS Day every year?
Ans: 1st
December.
Who is the Foreign Secretary of Britain?
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Ans: William Hague.
Who dedicated to the nation a new Integrated Terminal Building of Swami Vivekananda Airport
at Raipur?
Ans: Pranab Mukherjee.
Union Cabinet approved levy of about Rs. _______ crore one-time spectrum fees on all existing
telecom companies.
Ans: 31,000.
Who took over as the new Minister of Minority Affairs?
Ans: K. Rahman Khan.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court termed the life-ban imposed on Indian cricketer ___________,
illegal.
Ans: Muhammad Azharuddin.
Who took charge as the new Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs Minister?
Ans: Kamal Nath.
Who was conferred the Great Cross of Civil Merit by Government of Spain?
Ans: Dr. Farooq Abdullah.
Who assumed office as the new Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas?
Ans: Dr. M. Veerappa Moily.
Who has been appointed as the Director General, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)?
Ans: Pranay Sahay.
Who assumed charge as the Union Minister of Railways on October 29, 2012?
Ans: Pawan Kumar Bansal.
Who has been appointed as Director General (Investigation), National Human Rights
Commission?
Ans: Kanwaljit Deol.
Who assumed charge as the Minister for Science & Technology and Earth Science?
Ans: Jaipal Reddy.
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India and ______ will explore the possibilities of joint venture investment in the field of hotel
industry and infrastructural development.
Ans: Brunei.
Who assumed charge as the Minister of States for Tribal Affairs?
Ans: Rance Narah.
India and which country discussed Bilateral Cooperation in Transport Sector?
Ans: Switzerland.
Who assumed charge as the Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing Industries?
Ans: Tariq Anwar.
Who assumed charge as the Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry of YouthAffairs and Sports?
Ans: Jitendra Singh.
Who assumed charge as the Union Minister for Social Justice & Empowerment?
Ans: Kumari Selja.
India and which country signed and Audi Visual Coproduction Agreement?
Ans: Spain.
Who is Rakesh Misra?
Ans: Director General, Central Public Works Department, Ministry opf Urban
Development.
Who is the chairman of SAIL?
Ans: C.S Verma.
Who has taken over as the new Corporate Affairs Minister in Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi?
Ans: Sachin Pilot.
Department of Posts has been involved in rural development for the last _____ years.
Ans: 150.
Who took charge as the Minister of Information & Broadcasting?
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Ans: Manish Tewari.
With which country India has agreed to Explore Cooperation in Tourism Sector recently?
Ans: Bulgaria.
Arrangement for Cooperation on Civil Aviation has been signed recently between India &
which country?
Ans: New Zealand.
How many pacts have been signed between India & New Zealand to cooperate in the field of
education?
Ans: Five.
Two companies RENFE-Operadora and ADIF have signed an agreement with Indian Railway
for technical cooperation. Which country these companies belong to?
Ans: Spain.
The Centre has decided to provide ________ subsidy per Kg on the import of pulses to the states.
Ans: 20 rupees.
Who was the first black President of Supreme Court of Brazil?
Ans: Joaquim Barbosa.
Whose bronze statue was unveiled in Florida town by former President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam?
Ans: Mahatma Gandhi.
Which country successfully launched two experimental satellites to test its domestically
developed components?
Ans: China.
The global urban population is estimated to be 6.3 billion by which year?
Ans: 2050.
Recently which country test-fired two nuclear-capable ballistic missiles?
Ans: Russia.
Who has received a Special Recognition Award from the Sikh community in London for his
outstanding contribution in setting up a USD 4 billion JV refinery in Punjab?
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Which city of India has figured among the 10 most attractive cities for international travel
shoppers in the Asia-Pacific region?
Ans: Delhi.
India has signed a Protocol amending the Convention on avoidance of double taxation withwhich country?
Ans: United Kingdom.
Who is the current MD and CE of BSE?
Ans: Ashish Kumar Chauhan.
SAIL has appointed around _______ rural dealers in the first six months of 2012-13.
Ans: 450.
India is the ______ largest producer of fruits and vegetables in the world.
Ans: Second.
Which construction major has bagged an order worth Rs 1,252 crore from the Delhi Metro?
Ans: L & T.